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Zanu-PF, ANC were publicly sworn enemies
Zimbabwe's Zanu-PF and South Africa's old National Party government were publicly sworn enemies. Privately, their relationship was a bit more complicated.On 7 and 8 February, 1983, for instanc...Published: 27 Sep 2024 at 10:42hrs | 1264 | by Peter Fabricius
SA stolen cars recovered along Limpopo River
Police and their South African counterparts have launched a manhunt for criminals who recently dumped three top-of-the-range vehicles, believed to have been stolen, along Limpopo River.It is s...Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: SA govt sets up massive roadblocks, catches undocumented Zimbabweans
The South African Department of Home Affairs, SAPS and SADF have reportedly set up a massive roadblock between Hammanskraal and Kranshop in preparation for mass deportation of undocumented Zimbab...Published: 02 Jan 2022 at 16:44hrs | 15 | by Staff Reporter
Edgar Lungu's last words: Are you an African?
Journalist Simba Chikanza telephones Zambian government spokesperson to the President Edgar Lungu over the deployment of the Zambian army by the PF government during the counting of the ballot votes: ...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 13:53hrs | 8 | by Nomazulu Thata
Young business women get windfall
A shot in the arm. This best describes the story of seven Zimbabwean young women entrepreneurs after each received a US$25 000 grant to capitalise their businesses.This is part of a US$10 mill...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:51hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Russia double-crossed ZIPRA with ZANLA?
Regarding a joint Zimbabwe-Rhodesian and South African military strike in Mozambique against ZANLA / FRELIMO in September 1979 (Operation URIC - ZRSF / Operation Bootlace - SADF), queries have been as...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 16:57hrs | 6 | by John Frame
Botswana Defence Forces foiled coup attempt against Masisi?
The Commander of Botswana Defence Force Lt. General Placid Segokgo last week deployed military assets including armoured tanks and personnel in key strategic in anticipation of a coup against Presiden...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 08:51hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa is the honourable leader that Zimbabwe needs
Emmerson Mnangagwa, the new President of Zimbabwe, is not an ogre with evil intent as his detractors make him out to be. He is a courteous, amiable, honest to goodness person, who is now on a ...Published: 08 Jan 2018 at 11:13hrs | | by Jacky Seroke
USADF calls for applications for Grants
The U.S. African Development Foundation (USADF) has invited proposals for grant financing and local support, from African enterprises, cooperatives, and producer groups with innovative solutions that ...Published: 27 Nov 2017 at 06:57hrs | | by Agencies
Mnangagwa and the theft of history
IT is with indecent haste that Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa has of late been seeking to flag his increasingly questionable presidential credentials and ambitions before Zimbabwe and the world. Th...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 06:21hrs | 3 | by Dinizulu Macaphulana
U.S. provides over $100K for Lupane Women’s Development Trust
HARARE - The United States, through the United States African Development Foundation (USADF), is providing $100,000 over two years to assist the Lupane Women's Development Trust (Lupane Women). The fu...Published: 25 Oct 2017 at 07:14hrs | | by APO
US officials forced to pull down American flag in Zimbabwe
Officials from a United States development agency were last week forced to pull down an American flag in Marozva Village in rural Murewa, in Mashonaland East, following protests from their hosts....Published: 21 Oct 2017 at 15:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
US not looking back in assisting Zim in development programmes
The United States of America (USA) has vowed to continue its support for Zimbabwe in its development programmes despite the alleged sour relations as portrayed by the Zimbabwe government in relati...Published: 27 Jul 2015 at 07:23hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
How Joshua Nkomo survived three assassination attempts after independence
When I was growing up in my dusty village in Ward Five of Tsholotsho district, villagers there, including my grand mother worshipped Joshua Nkomo. The superstitious ones even believed Nkomo was ...Published: 04 Jun 2015 at 09:54hrs | | by Thabo Kunene
Book on Matabeleland Killing fields will leave readers in tears
Johannesburg - A former Rhodesian policeman says the mass murder of civilians in Matabeleland by the Fifth Brigade forced him to quit the force and emigrate to South Africa saying he did not sign up f...Published: 09 Apr 2015 at 14:00hrs | 2 | by Thabo Kunene
How Rhodesians forced Zapu to abandon its 'Operation Zero Hour'
A top Zipra intelligence officer who turned Rhodesian spy after his capture by the Selous Scouts allegedly gave the enemy vital information that forced Zapu to abandon its plans to invade the cou...Published: 15 Jan 2015 at 11:27hrs | 51 | by Thabo Kunene
How the people of Mat'land survived four armed groups
JOHANNESBURG - After independence the people of Matabeleland found themselves at the mercy of three hostile armed groups-government sponsored dissidents, Super-Zapu dissidents trained and armed by...Published: 11 Sep 2014 at 13:18hrs | | by Thabo Kunene
How the people of Matabeleland survived four armed groups
JOHANNESBURG- After independence the people of Matabeleland found themselves at the mercy of three hostile armed groups-government sponsored dissidents, Super-Zapu dissidents trained and armed by Sout...Published: 10 Sep 2014 at 15:12hrs | | by Thabo Kunene
AWB a threat to SA security
CAPE TOWN- South Africa is in danger of becoming Mexico or Colombia of Africa because of its failure to reign in extremist groups such as the right-wing Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), a neo-Nazi...Published: 05 Jun 2012 at 13:30hrs | | by Thabo Kunene
Flying President off to Maputo
PRESIDENT Mugabe arrived in Maputo yesterday to attend commemorations marking the 25th anniversary of the death of Mozambique's founding President Samora Moises Machel.Machel died in a mysteri...Published: 18 Oct 2011 at 04:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
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