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Teacher under fire for collecting learners' saliva
A teacher at Mushavhi Secondary School in Bikita has sparked outrage among parents and learners after allegedly asking an entire class to spit on sheets of paper during a lesson, raising serious conce...Published: 21 Jul 2025 at 12:10hrs | 154 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe suspends livestock imports from South Africa over FMD outbreak
Zimbabwe has suspended, with immediate effect, all imports of live cloven-hoofed animals and their related products from South Africa following a confirmed outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in ...Published: 26 May 2025 at 19:40hrs | 351 | by Staff reporter
Cowards must stop quacking, come out of the closet and fight like man! - VAAZ
While known state functionaries and regime enablers have been waging a protracted onslaught on the persona of Advocate Nelson Chamisa, we the advocates of change have unmasked the grand plot by regime...Published: 27 Aug 2024 at 19:24hrs | 1135 | by Mandava Blessing - Veterans Activists Association Zimbabwe (VAAZ) National Spokespers on
Mutsvangwas are dummy sucking cry babies!
It is intriguing to see how loud the cruel and oppressive wail when they are given the taste of their own medicine.We have seen the tears of the savagery late President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mug...Published: 27 May 2024 at 20:03hrs | 8 | by Israel Dube
Suspected donkey thief tortured to death
CLOSE to 20 residents of Dumba village near Beitbridge allegedly kidnapped and tortured to death a fellow villager accused of stealing a neighbour's donkey.A police report indicated that Austin Siband...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 12:43hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Drama-filled 2023 ends in tears for CCC
POLITICS, according to social scientists, is loosely translated as a battle to control resources with man putting political contestation as a means to ensure equitable distribution of whatever is foun...Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 18:22hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Sengezo Tshabangu and his handlers have lost the plot big time
ZIMBABWE'S political history has been littered with opposition malcontents for a very long time, which has caused the weakening and splitting of the main opposition political party in the country....Published: 26 Nov 2023 at 08:31hrs | 20 | by Leonard Koni
An opposition within an opposition
The Zimbabwean political history has been littered with opposition malcontents within itself for a very long time which has caused the weakening and splitting of the main opposition political party in...Published: 08 Nov 2023 at 14:27hrs | 12 | by Leonard Koni
Mumps outbreak hits Harare
Harare has been hit by an outbreak of mumps, a contagious viral infection mostly common in children that affects the salivary glands.Mumps is most recognisable by the painful swellings in the ...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 08:35hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
'Stop abusing Joshua Nkomo's name'
ZAPU leader Sibangilizwe Nkomo has called on the ruling Zanu-PF party and its proxies to stop abusing the late former Vice-President Joshua Nkomo's name through galas saying his father never participa...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 14:21hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Hwange's graveyard a tourism hanging fruit!
Rutendo Mapfumo is one of the few scribes who deserve special mention in a Hall of Fame of Zimbabwean journalists because of her doggedness, which leaves latter day fundis salivating with awe in terms...Published: 07 May 2023 at 07:47hrs | 2 | by Burzil Dube
Mnangagwa says, 'Only friendly nations will observe Zimbabwe polls in future'
ZIMBABWE will not be dictated to on who to invite to observe its elections and, in future, only those countries that invite Harare to observe their own elections will be invited in return, President M...Published: 03 Apr 2023 at 06:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF loses plot on parastatals
Zanu-PF never ceases to amaze to a point that many of us end up wondering whether it really understands what it means or entails to be a ruling party. At every turn it increasingly makes it super diff...Published: 25 Oct 2022 at 06:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZTN Prime goes live today
Following its official launch at a glitzy ceremony last week, local news and entertainment television channel Zimpapers Television Network Prime goes live today on DStv Channel 294ZTN Prime is...Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:18hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Teachers accuse unions of selling out
DISGRUNTLED teachers, who have not been reporting for duty since last week citing incapacitation, have accused the Zimbabwe Teachers Union (Zimta) and the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ)...Published: 15 Feb 2022 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
5 amazing CBD products you didn't know existed
Cannabidiol (CBD) products are getting very popular. We need more research, but CBD has proven to be a helpful and non-toxic option for managing chronic pain, anxiety, insomnia, and so on. ...Published: 12 Feb 2022 at 16:35hrs | 10 | by Staff writer
Mwonzora halfway digging his political career
MDC-T leader Mr Douglas Mwonzora who calls himself a democratic constitutionalist advocating for politics of rational disputation is at it again, salivating to by-pass and mutilate the pillars of the ...Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 14:02hrs | 10 | by Leonard Koni
Govt dangles carrot to school heads
GOVERNMENT has pledged to increase salaries for heads ranging from 10% to 25% depending on the number of pupils per school, a development teachers unions described as a tool to clamp down on restive t...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 05:34hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Show us criminals that surrounded Gushungo
My People,Ignatius Chombo, the man who was branded the biggest criminal around Gushungo, is now a free man.Chombo was seized by soldiers on the night of the infamous coup while sleepin...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:55hrs | 3 | by Dr Stop It
Address motives behind Mugabe exhumation
THE case by the now late Chief Zvimba to have the remains of the late former President Robert Mugabe exhumed from his rural graveyard in Kutama village in Zvimba and be interred at the National Heroes...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Women should be careful not to be emaciated from being subjects of men, but turned into objects of men
As the world commemorates International Women's Day, it is always an important time for humanity to evaluate, and take stock, of just how far the struggle for women's rights, equality, parity, and the...Published: 08 Mar 2021 at 17:40hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Women should be careful not to be emancipated from being subjects of men, but turned into objects of men
As the world commemorates International Women's Day, it is always an important time for humanity to evaluate, and take stock, of just how far the struggle for women's rights, equality, parity, and the...Published: 08 Mar 2021 at 14:44hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Snake bites require urgent medical attention
WHEN summer comes, many animals that have been in hibernation or rarely seen during the winter, come out. These include snakes. As a result, cases of snake bites are often high during summertime....Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:05hrs | 13 | by Cimas iGo
MDC veterans reject Mwonzora
THE MDC Veteran Activists Association (VAA) yesterday pledged its allegiance to MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa.This was announced by the VAA leader Felix Magalela Sibanda in a statement a...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 05:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Old habits that will kill Zimbabweans
ZIMBABWEANS are masking, and that's good! But a look at the masks will reveal the futility of the effort. The surgical masks which are generally made of a thin paperlike material are supposed ...Published: 24 Dec 2020 at 16:56hrs | 5 | by Muckrakers
Mnangagwa's bad friends
In its short years as the Zimbabwean first family, the Mnangagwas have fared quite sorely in one area: Choosing good friends.You will naturally remember Draxgate, the scandal that rocked the r...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 08:03hrs | 2 | by Tawanda Majoni
'Mgodoyi' is Jonathan Moyo's predicate he used to express disgust!
It is one of Professor Moyo's terms to express anything disgusting him.Umgodoyi is an overly thin malnourished dog whose mouth unendingly oozies slummy saliva, a sign of obvious illness relate...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 06:39hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
The inscrutable Mr Trump!
*This letter uses American jargonIt took me sometime to figure out why the inscrutable, rascally US President Donald J Trump drives so many elites into a lunatic frenzy until I read a post fro...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 11:09hrs | 1 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Mnangagwa thinks white people are stupid!
The former Vauxhall Labour MP Hon. Kate Hoey said: Mnangagwa is Mugabe mark two. This week has been spectacular by proving this statement as more or less correct but in reverse. In a feat of rage, Mug...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 13:48hrs | 104 | by Nomazulu Thata
Lack of star-studded heavyweight clashes gives lower weight classes chance to shine
In many ways, 2019 has been a sort of stop-gap year for heavyweight boxing. The major players of Anthony Joshua, Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury have avoided each other for the time being, content to ta...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 11:24hrs | | by Staff Writer
Beer prices have reduced cases of domestic violence
'Wine that gladdens the heart of man'. Beer prices are ever climbing up far away from the hands of many would be imbibers let alone mouths of merry-makers and pub crawlers. Paying tribute to Bacchus t...Published: 05 May 2019 at 11:55hrs | 1 | by Thomas Murisa
UZ students grill Prophet Magaya
UNIVERSITY of Zimbabwe students had an opportunity to grill Prophetic Healing and Deliverance founder, Prophet Walter Magaya in a question and answer session at the campus' Great Hall on Tuesday....Published: 02 May 2019 at 19:08hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
A vote for anyone other than Chamisa at the MDC congress is a vote for political oblivion
Last night I posted an MDC rally video on my social media platforms and I asked whether the MDC elective congress campaigning was already in full swing.Many of my social media contacts respond...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 15:28hrs | 1 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Drunk cops in trouble
POLICE have instituted disciplinary proceedings against three Buhera constables facing charges of unprofessional conduct emanating from an incident in which they allegedly quarrelled with members of t...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:30hrs | 18 | by STaff reporter
Falling In Love - Part 1
Her desire is deepest in the morning. She is too much woman for me, at sunrise. But I sip eagerly from her cup and inhale her essence. She is my thick cup of creamy coffee.We both wake up earl...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 22:40hrs | 14 | by JerÃ
Cremations 'threaten' Zimbabwe's ancestral spirits
Cremation is provoking a huge debate in Zimbabwe, bringing cultural and religious beliefs to the fore, journalist-turned-barrister Brian Hungwe writes from Harare."For you were made from dust,...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 06:12hrs | 2 | by Brian Hungwe
Shock as Charm appears Live at Prophet's Service
A shocking raw demonstration of spiritual power was experienced yesterday at a Prophetic Service where Imperial City Church Leader Prophet Isaiah Brian Sovi commanded a charm that was torm...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 17:12hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe has no option other than a change of govt in order to progress
Let me begin this series of write ups with preamble that governance is not machine management but a human driven process responsive to good decision that minimizes corruption and give eminence to the ...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 07:24hrs | 4 | by Andrew M Manyevere
Shame on you MDC MPs
Dear, Madness! Nothing but total madness. That is the only suitable description of MDC's MPs (read mad people) behaviour. Its now crystal clear that MDC is a movement for super greedy egocentr...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 10:07hrs | 2 | by Munya Shumba
Power hunger Zimbabwe's die hard challenge
The moment Zimbabweans and the global community had anxiously awaited came in the early hours of yesterday when Justice Priscilla Makanyara Chigumba announced that Mnangagwa had triumphed in the presi...Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 09:21hrs | 1 | by Stephen Mpofu
We know who you are
Interrupting my social media break to say how grateful I am to MDC members and their leaders and fellow travelling analysts for their hideous abuse and hounding of Priscilla Chigumba. You have proved ...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 08:32hrs | 1 | by Petina Gappah
Chamisa broke, as his funders withdraw handouts because of abuse of public funds
In a twitter message the US indicated that "Earlier this year as a result of regular internal oversight USAID became aware of the possible misuse of US assistance funding in Zimbabwe. "They went furth...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 11:11hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Do not underestimate Chamisa's resolve to boycott elections,' says MDC - only if his life was on the line
"Hupenzi enyama yegakava!" (Idiots are stubborn and there is no one more stubborn than the certified insane!) so goes the Shona adage. Insanity comes and goes, it is triggered by the full moon in wild...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 22:19hrs | 3 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Macheso releases 'Dzinosvitsa Kure'
"Handei mberi tipe vanhu kudya kwenzeveIsu hazvisi zvedu, isu chedu hubvonga cheteKana tabvonga togadzika vanodya vodyaKushata kana nhapitapi vachadudzira ivo"This stan...Published: 06 Jun 2018 at 07:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The continuous aggression in the unmaking of African religion
African religion continues to suffer violence and aggression in the post-colonial era in the hands of its own target beneficiaries! (Matthew 11:12). And it is them that must rise and save it by force ...Published: 28 May 2018 at 15:58hrs | 28 | by Reginald T. Gola
Baby dies from induced vomiting prescribed by prophet
A 10-MONTH-OLD baby from Hope Fountain in Umguza district on the outskirts of Bulawayo choked to death after salt water was forcibly administered on him to induce vomiting as prescribed by a prophet....Published: 19 May 2018 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Muridzo, Katsvairo attend Bev, Zoey party
THE double birthday party for Beverly Sibanda and Zoey Sifelani Wednesday night was filled with tension as celebrities linked to both dancers attended the event.The party, which was held at Ci...Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 22:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
The political middle finger we love - good read
You will know that they have given you a middle finger when they conduct their rallies in the center of your poorest business district. The distance to the venue will tire even your strongest donkey. ...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 15:00hrs | 1 | by Bhekumusa Moyo
Democracy and Democrats: Who is Who?
In our culture there cannot be an heir to the throne before the throne is laid to rest. Fellow citizens, the question that begs a million answers is "How can Advocate Chamisa, a lawyer by training, an...Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 07:07hrs | | by Dr Panganai Kahuni
Chiwenga should revoke firing of nurses, negotiate
There are a number of events in the past few weeks that flew under the radar, which I feel deserve more scrutiny, as they could have a telling effect on the route Zimbabwe takes in the not so distant ...Published: 19 Apr 2018 at 07:18hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
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