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Man arrested for labelling Mnangagwa a 'Scud'
GOKWE resident, Mark Mandiki has landed himself in trouble after he allegedly labelled President Emmerson Mnangagwa a "Scud".Mandiki, who appeared in court last week charged with undermining a...Published: 19 Mar 2024 at 12:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa labelled a 'SCUD'
GOKWE resident Mark Mandiki has landed himself in trouble after he allegedly labelled President Emmerson Mnangagwa a "SCUD".Mandiki allegedly made the remarks on February 25, 2023, during a he...Published: 15 Mar 2024 at 19:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Maradona vs. Messi: Who Is Better?
Debate rages over who's better between Maradona or Messi, both famed for their skills, number 10 jerseys, and left-footed play. Read our blog to find the answer. In the world of soccer, two...Published: 30 Jun 2023 at 10:31hrs | 23 | by Staff Reporter
Scud to be revived
LISTED beverages producer, Delta Corporation Limited has said it is planning to revive its Scud beer brand to cover supply gaps on the market."There are ongoing efforts to optimise the availab...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimra implements strategic plan
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority is in the process of implementing various projects that are part of its five-year strategy to transform service delivery, ease of doing business as well as plugging reve...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 08:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Men 'find' used condoms in Scud
SIX Karoi men were left shocked when they discovered used condoms at the bottom of a sorghum beer container, popularly known as a ‘scud', on Wednesday last week.Garikayi Musakambeva, Sheppar...Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 05:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chibuku Super drives Delta Q3 performance
CHIBUKU Super spurred Delta Corporation's third-quarter performance, after the product contributed 77 percent to total sorghum beer sales volumes in the nine months to December 2021.Sorghum be...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told that patriotism is a virtue
GOVERNMENT has been urged to desist from forcing citizens to give positive narratives about the country by enactment of laws but allow patriotism to develop naturally out of good governance.Th...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Photo of ZRP officer drinking Chibuku in uniform goes viral
The Zimbabwe Republic Police is investigating the authenticity of a photograph of a man, in ZRP uniform, holding what appears to be a Chibuku scud."We are currently investigating the authentic...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans turn to vinyu to drown sorrows
A locally brewed crude wine (vinyu) has become part of life for most people in Zimbabwe, following a sharp hike in beer prices.It is believed that this type of wine can send someone into a dru...Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is not the worst country on earth!
At the beginning of this new weekly column, more of which is going to come in the next months and years Inshallah, let me make this humble appeal to the authorities on behalf of the suffering resident...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 06:26hrs | 9 | by Baffour Ankomah
Delta urged to explore export market
INDUSTRY and Commerce Deputy Minister Raj Modi says Delta Corporation Limited should consider exploring and fortifying export markets to enable it to boost its foreign currency coffers in the wake of ...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:19hrs | 8 | by Staff rpeorter
Mukanya will retire when he dies
IN a tiny changing room at the back of the Large City Hall stage in Bulawayo, timeless Chimurenga music icon, Thomas Mapfumo,was a calm and collected fellow before stunning all and sundry with a non-s...Published: 15 Dec 2018 at 09:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Japajapa lived up to comical antics yesterday
NOTORIOUS attention-seeker Mr Paddington Japajapa lived up to comical antics yesterday when he told the Commission of Inquiry into the August 1 shootings that he was an independent observer during the...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 05:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's political demise: the best thing to happen to us women!
Chamisa was big-headed: he knew it all, apparently never listened to advice because he thought whatever advice came from himself. He lacked foresight, he lacked leadership qualities, his words were un...Published: 03 Aug 2018 at 21:37hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Chamisa: don't play with fire in a village so full of thatched roundavels
Where I come from you don't begrudge a child for darning clay into a mighty 'bull'. That is called creative play, for clay hurts no living being, and does not add one beast more into the kraal. So you...Published: 14 Jul 2018 at 11:33hrs | | by Igomombe
Die hard with a Zimbo
Fresh from saving America from Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Thomas Sankara, communist North Vietnam and the Middle-East machinations of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Soviet Union, ex-Green Beret ...Published: 30 Mar 2018 at 07:47hrs | 1 | by Tafi Mhaka
Cable cars for Harare CBD
Yesteryears, the late former Minister of Transport Hon. Enos Chikowore had suggested digging a canal to Chitungwiza to ease the transport problems associated with commuting from the dormitory town. ...Published: 21 Feb 2018 at 07:27hrs | | by Thomas Murisa
Man, grandson attack, burn man over beer
A man from Bulawayo will never look at opaque beer the same way after being assaulted and scalded by an elderly man and his grandson over a scud.Godknows Matika and Joseph Matika had been drin...Published: 06 Oct 2017 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
$100 fines for litterbugs, says Muchinguri
ENVIRONMENT, Water and Climate minister Oppah Muchinguri has warned litter bugs, particularly those that drink a popular opaque beer referred to as "scud" and wantonly discard the empty containers tha...Published: 06 Oct 2017 at 06:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cops crash into house, injure 2
TWO siblings aged 6 and 11 years from Nkulumane were rushed to Mpilo Central Hospital with serious injuries yesterday when a police officer, suspected to have been drunk, rammed his vehicle into a hou...Published: 30 Jun 2017 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Cops crash, throw out beer from car
FOUR police officers - two of them in uniform - caused a stir yesterday when they threw opaque beer from their private vehicle after being involved in an accident in the Bulawayo city centre.T...Published: 27 Jun 2017 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF defeats opposition at ideas - analyst
A political analyst Pedzisai Ruhanya has said the ruling Zanu-PF has defeated the opposition at the level of ideas and advised the opposition that they should know that their constituencies are ...Published: 23 Jun 2017 at 07:21hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
PHOTOS: Esportini Bar in Entumbane - tonight
Esportini bar Entumbane - People have no money watching soccer. Very few people can be seen drinking 2 litre scud or soft drink for 50c. Watching Real Madrid and Atlentico Madrid....Published: 02 May 2017 at 21:22hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole and Isaih Nyamukapa
More lies exposed in Masarira saga
Makomborero Haruzivishe, the Zimbabwe National Students Union secretary-general says he was never abducted by state security agents and was never missing as he spent last weekend at his parents' home ...Published: 20 Jan 2017 at 05:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Changing cultural political mind set is required for Africa: the Zimbabwe case
BRIEF PREVIEW Apparently Africa is not conscious of the global political change processes transitioning in the world. Similarly, just as North America is blind to people behavioural change manifes...Published: 02 Nov 2016 at 12:13hrs | | by Andrew M Manyevere
Changing cultural political mind set is required for Africa: The Zimbabwe Case
BRIEF PREVIEW Apparently Africa is not conscious of the global political change processes transitioning in the world. Similarly, just as North America is blind to people behavioural change manifes...Published: 31 Oct 2016 at 22:18hrs | | by Andrew M Manyevere
WATCH: Filmmaker fires president Mugabe
Zimbabwean born filmmaker and activist Rufaro Kaseke has criticised Zanu-PF "youthies" for trying to stop the people of Zimbabwe from protesting against the "dying Zanu regime".In a footage po...Published: 30 Aug 2016 at 10:15hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Mugabe's vultures descend on London
Mugabe's Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa has admitted that Zimbabwe is broke. 'Right now we have nothing', he said on a visit to France to beg for money. Asked in an interview with Radio France Int...Published: 03 Jul 2016 at 16:47hrs | | by Zimbabwe Vigil
Econet acquires English Premier League free-to-air rights in Africa
The Premier League is pleased to announce that Econet Media has acquired the package of free-to-air broadcasting rights that it makes available in sub-Saharan Africa.The agreement is for the t...Published: 18 Mar 2016 at 07:40hrs | | by Sports reporter
Prostitution, the phenomenon of pushing volumes
Back in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, the ageless village autochthons - the original people who saw the virginity of the sun - say one should not question a blind man for...Published: 23 Oct 2015 at 11:00hrs | 1 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Former cop found dead with a beer bottle in his hand
A FORMER police officer was found dead on Saturday night in a disused telephone booth while still clutching onto a bottle of beer he was earlier seen drinking. Andrew Ncube, 45, who was nickna...Published: 22 Jul 2015 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man mistakes boy for goblin, hits him with gun
AN intoxicated Mberengwa man struck and seriously injured a five-year-old boy with the nozzle of a pellet gun alleging that he had mistaken the boy for a grown up goblin.The boy - Francis Nyau...Published: 19 Jul 2015 at 10:38hrs | | by Vincent Gono
ZUNDE will work with every sector including security and the diaspora
Zimbabweans United for Democracy (ZUNDE) has come onto the political platform when the nation is utterly broken. Our people have lost everything they ever hoped for; their souls, hopes and aspirat...Published: 14 Jun 2015 at 09:04hrs | | by Benjamin Paradza Vice President - ZUNDE
Mliswa bribing traditional leaders to buy allegiance
FORMER Hurungwe West Member of Parliament Mr Temba Mliswa is bribing traditional leaders to buy allegiance ahead of the June 10 by-elections, Chief Nyamhunga of Hurungwe has alleged.Chief Nyam...Published: 19 Apr 2015 at 09:33hrs | 1 | by Noah Pito
Zanu-PF is here to stay
Zanu-PF yesterday described as the "summit of bankruptcy" assertions by MDC-T spokesperson Mr Obert Gutu that the revolutionary party should quit and make way for an administrative Government before ...Published: 25 Mar 2015 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man kills brother in dispute over beer
A MAGWE man allegedly killed his drunken brother during a quarrel over why their friends were drinking their beer without contributing to the purchase of the "scud". According to the State out...Published: 01 Mar 2015 at 11:28hrs | | by Thulani Ndlovu
Delta Beverages to commission new Chibuku plant in Bulawayo
BEER manufacturing giant Delta Beverages will commission a new Chibuku Super production plant in Bulawayo at the end May as consumption of the refined opaque brew continues to soar.The plant, ...Published: 22 Feb 2015 at 09:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Delta cuts down Chibuku production
DELTA CORPORATION has stopped production of standard Chibuku beer at six breweries across the country, as plant rationalization continues after the introduction of its new product brand Chibuku Super....Published: 31 Oct 2014 at 05:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man finds rotting lizard in Scud
A normal outing turned into a nightmare for a Pumula South man after he saw a dead lizard floating in an opaque beer container from which he was drinking at a bar in Pumula South.Combola Saine...Published: 26 Oct 2014 at 11:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Liquidity crunch: more people turn to opaque beer
A group of neatly dressed men in designer suits are playing pool at an open joint in Glen Norah High Density Surburb, Harare.This being a Friday, the group is killing time after a long working...Published: 02 Aug 2014 at 10:55hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Varsity student in court over a stolen scud
A NATIONAL University of Science and Technology (Nust) first-year student yesterday appeared in the Zvishavane Magistrates' Court for stealing opaque beer popularly known as a scud from TM supermarke...Published: 13 Jul 2014 at 11:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man nearly swallows dead lizard in beer
A normal outing turned into a nightmare for a Bulawayo man after he saw a rotten lizard floating in an opaque beer container from which he was drinking at a bar in Emganwini on Monday night.Am...Published: 05 Jun 2014 at 05:29hrs | | by Pamela Shumba
Russian woman resorts to prostitution in Zimbabwe, hubby takes kids away
Residents of Gwanda in particular the night club goers are complaining of a foreign white woman "umlungu" who is reported to be a nuisance in the town's drinking places.The woman (name sup...Published: 04 Jun 2014 at 11:52hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
'Cheating' wives die in crash
TWO people died while five others were injured when the vehicle they were travelling in veered off the road and overturned on the 430km peg along the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls Highway on Saturday af...Published: 03 Mar 2014 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs an exit strategy from self-imposed catastrophe
Following revelation of part of its interim leadership, Zimbabweans United for Democracy (ZUNDE), has been inundated with enquiries, comments, suggestions as well as isolated criticism from across the...Published: 20 Nov 2013 at 03:45hrs | | by Moses Chamboko
Man chews off brother's tongue over an empty scud container
THE love for alcohol has proved calamitous for a Binga man after he chewed off a chunk of his elder brother's tongue following a misunderstanding over beer.Dumisani Mugande (28) of Jameson Mu...Published: 22 Sep 2013 at 04:12hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Used condom found in a scud
A Heroes Day holiday outing for three Gweru men was spoiled after they reportedly discovered a used condom floating in their scud.Trynos Magaba, Ernest Hungwe and Ronald Takavarasha all of Mko...Published: 15 Aug 2013 at 09:10hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zimra's continuous system failure affects car importers
CAR importers using Beitbridge Border Post continue to encounter delays in clearing their vehicles due to a continuous system failure of the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra)'s, newly introduced clea...Published: 25 Apr 2013 at 10:21hrs | | by Beitbridge Reporter
Liquor licences issuance set to be decentralised from Harare
The acquisition of liquor licences will be decentralised starting next month, with operators of beer outlets able to make applications online.Operators have in the past complained that the iss...Published: 27 Feb 2013 at 04:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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