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Zanu-PF will be a different creature in next elections
If you grew up in the village as Bishop Lazi did, you learned to trust your instincts and nature.You also learned to appreciate that human beings have an innate biological alarm that is trigge...Published: 08 Dec 2024 at 09:27hrs | 180 | by Staff reporter
Slough is Britain's most miserable place to live
BRITAIN'S most miserable places to live have been named in a new shortlist - but does your hometown make the cut? A yearly happiness study by property website Rightmove has revealed that Slough in Ber...Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 16:44hrs | 455 | by Staff reporter
Colourful place names of Rhodesia and their origin
THE TRACING of place names in a country in Africa can be both fascinating and frustrating. One must know – or quickly learn – something about history, about geography and the origins of word...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 17:59hrs | 56 | by Phillippa Berlyn with some amendments by Tony Tanser
Zimbabwean dad and daughter (5) among victims of petrol station blast
A ZIMBABWEAN dad and his five-year-old daughter were among the 10 people killed by an explosion at a petrol station in County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland.The victims of Friday's disaste...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 19:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Opposition: Politics and Pisgah sight fallacy
A student of CultureAT heart and at soul, I am a student of culture.This is why I opted to read Literature at college, much of it drawn from the Western World.But that was to g...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 07:15hrs | 15 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Dynamics of anti-Chinese crusade in Zimbabwe
In recent times, a steady stream of anti-Chinese propaganda in Zimbabwe - driven mostly by Western-sponsored media, civil society and the opposition - has grown into a huge tide.On January 20,...Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Chin'ono card cloner toady of the West'
Political activist Hopewell Chin'ono fraudulently made some money and is always sullying the country's image to get funding and curry favour with his Western handlers, Norton legislator Mr Temba Mlisw...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Trump pardons 15, commutes 5 sentences, including GOP allies
President Donald Trump has pardoned 15 people, including a pair of congressional Republicans who were strong and early supporters, a 2016 campaign official ensnared in the Russia probe and former gove...Published: 24 Dec 2020 at 05:10hrs | 2 | by AP
Chamisa turned down Mnangagwa offer?
Embattled opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has sensationally claimed that after rigging the 2018 presidential poll, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government dangled lucrative perks to hi...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Thomas Mapfumo, Winky D to headline Zimfest Live in August
Chimurenga musician Thomas Mapfumo and Zimdancehall star, Winky D will headline a top line-up of performers at Zimfest Live when it returns in August, it has been announced.ExQ, DJ Tamuka and ...Published: 28 May 2019 at 11:13hrs | 1 | by Tidi Kwidini
Mugabe should be grateful and rest
Former President Robert Mugabe celebrated his 95th birthday last week, a befitting occasion indeed for a man whom God granted the gifts of not only good life as a President of Zimbabwe for 37 years an...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 09:15hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mnangagwa strategy for Zimbabwe's recovery
The multiple initiatives that President Emerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa's administration has launched may be confusing to a citizenry already buffeted by years of debility and decline.It is thus im...Published: 08 Apr 2018 at 09:16hrs | | by George Charamba
Most Zimbabwean men in UK suffer domestic violence in silence
Zimbabwean men have suffered in silence in the UK as they bleed under the cruel squeeze of their wives. The most painful thing is that nobody believes that a man can be violated by a woman or that a m...Published: 01 Sep 2017 at 10:37hrs | 28 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mugabe's non-stop party
You must hand it to the Mugabes - they know how to party. No expense spared. No distance too far to travel. No diamond ring too big. No guilt. No conscience. In fact, no hypocrisy because they don't u...Published: 23 Jul 2017 at 14:48hrs | | by ZimVigil
Zim Diaspora demand second independence #Take2Zimbabwe
Leicester, UK_The Zimbabwean diaspora kicked off the UK Refugee week with their #Take2Zimbabwe protest (demanding a second independence) last Saturday. They have held similar protests in London, Birmi...Published: 22 Jun 2017 at 13:38hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Blackdiamond change music direction with the release of new house track
UK based duo Blackdiamond are back and have released their highly anticipated new single and music video Lahl'umlenze.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6Lg38QogAcThe summer single, rele...Published: 05 Jun 2017 at 00:29hrs | | by Arts Correspondent
Zimbabwean ativist to cycling through England for 7 days to raise funds
Supporters of Restoration of Human Rights gathered at the Vigil to give a send-off to ROHR activist Sipho Ndlovu who will be cycling through England for seven days to raise funds for the Zimbabwe Peac...Published: 14 May 2017 at 17:28hrs | 1 | by ZimVigil
South Africans wake up to the horror of white interests in the rainbow
My deepest, heartfelt condolences to the Chidyausiku family on the loss of Godfrey, our recently retired Chief Justice. He was a fine character, an enormous lawyer by any measure.Above all, he served ...Published: 06 May 2017 at 12:27hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
'I will not concede defeat,' said Tsvangirai - but why contest flawed elections in the first place!
There is a time and place for everything; there is a time to plough, time to sow and a time to tender crops. The richness of your harvest will be a measure of your diligence in keeping the rhythm of t...Published: 02 May 2017 at 17:59hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Tsvangirai won't accept an election result that doesn't confirm him as outright winner
OPPOSITION MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday scaled up the political stakes and declared that he would not concede defeat to President Robert Mugabe's "fragmented" Zanu-PF party in next year's ...Published: 02 May 2017 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
'I am in politics for money (not reforms)' confess MDC-T VP Khupe and blissful ignorant applauded
"The MDC-T VP Thokozani Khupe has come clean and said she is in politics because of money," reported Ray Nkosa in Zimeye. "Addressing MDC supporters in Slough in the UK she declared that every...Published: 30 Apr 2017 at 16:03hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
WATCH: 'I'M in politics for money' -- Thokozani Khupe says
MDC-T vice President Thokozani Khupe on Saturday disclosed that she is in politics for money, Bulawayo24.com can reveal.Khupe was speaking in Slough, United Kingdom to party members....Published: 30 Apr 2017 at 09:11hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
South Africa hardly recovered from the race sentiment of apartheid
It is very easy to think it is the flash, not the flame; that burns big logs. The local media excitedly reported on the resignation of an aide of Mujuru's Nats, in the process missing the actual burni...Published: 08 Apr 2017 at 11:54hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru
It's the Zimdollar, stupid!
Gentle reader, I think it is a sheer waste of national time to focus on the collapse of ZimPF, spectacular though that may be. There was nothing unexpected about ZimPF's dramatic finale, especiall...Published: 11 Feb 2017 at 20:52hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
I am not going anywhere now, Cdes?
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I think you all have seen the huge crowds that have turned out in solidarity with the leadership in the recent days whenever there has been idle tal...Published: 04 Aug 2016 at 09:54hrs | 1 | by CZ
Zahara to headline Mofaya Summer Festival UK
Bulelwa Mkutukana best known by her stage name Zahara is set to perform in the United Kingdom at the Mofaya Summer Festival. The songstress released her debut album “loliwe” in 2011 which went...Published: 01 Aug 2016 at 12:06hrs | 2 | by Agencies
ROHR Zimbabwe (Restoration of Human Rights) vows to fight for Zim freedom
ROHR Zimbabwe (Restoration of Human Rights) has vowed to fight for Zimbabwe's freedom until it is achieved."ROHR Slough branch outreach followed by general branch meeting.As a human right grou...Published: 12 Oct 2015 at 07:36hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwean student in the UK rakes up impressive 8A's for her GCSE
Sixteen-year-old Fadzai Ramwi, originally from Zimbabwe, is the toast of Baylis Court School in Slough after racking up an impressive 8A's and 1B for her GCSEs (General Certificate of Secondary Educat...Published: 22 Aug 2015 at 10:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
I owe no one any apology about Obama, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I notice that my detractors and their local handlers have decided to mislead our people into believing that because I decided not to be in Addis Ab...Published: 30 Jul 2015 at 07:34hrs | | by CZ
Why are Africans to the north of us still unable to own the means of production?
He always puts me to shame each time he writes, this Ghanaian. I am talking about Baffour Ankomah. As always, his latest Beefs pass for a gem. Adorned with well-chosen quotes from our African icons, B...Published: 19 Apr 2015 at 10:31hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
When the bitch is back in heat!
I WILL share this one with you my reader. After all, my performance in the past weeks has been culpably erratic.So this other day a friend taps my shoulder, a sure sign aida kundibatisa (to co...Published: 21 Mar 2015 at 08:38hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Zimbabwe Vigil slams Zanu-PF arrogance
Anyone really hoping for a turnaround in the Zimbabwean economy will be dismayed by the comment by local government minister Ignatius Chombo. Speaking after a meeting with a 19-strong British investor...Published: 17 Feb 2015 at 09:14hrs | | by Zimbabwe Vigil
'We only look for opinions that belittle Mugabe'
I have just been reading Didymus Mutasa's interview with the South African Mail and Guardian newspaper, and two things stand out in the welter of words he spewed.First, the pronominal "we" is ...Published: 07 Feb 2015 at 07:25hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Cde Teurai stretched my patience to the limit, Cdes
Dear Cabinet andPolitburo membersComrades, it was with much sadness that this week I had to take a drastic move to make wholesale dismissals from my Cabinet. I last took such a painful dec...Published: 11 Dec 2014 at 09:46hrs | | by CZ
UK HIV+ rapist flees to Zimbabwe
A CONVICTED rapist who knowingly infected a woman with HIV in the UK is believed to have absconded to Zimbabwe.Brian Tatenda Shayanowako, 54, of Lower Adelaide Street, Northampton was sentence...Published: 22 Nov 2014 at 14:20hrs | 1 | by BBC
The Youth who Obama the Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth
Dear reader, kindly google the British Guardian issue of yesterday, Friday, 8th August, 2014. You should be able to find an article titled, "Childcare funding could be cut off for failure to promote B...Published: 09 Aug 2014 at 09:23hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Zim man to appear in a UK court for using someone's driving licence
A Zimbabwean driver will appear in a UK court after he was caught driving using someone else's driving licence in the UK.Owen Mukotekwa, of Carmarthen Road, Baylis, Slough, was stopped by pol...Published: 19 Sep 2013 at 15:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Ndebeles who succumbed to a manipulator
It is both funny and irritating. I am referring to current spirited attempts by strange people who had nothing to do with Zanu-PF, nay, who worked against Zanu-PF in its bid for re-election, to now s...Published: 11 Aug 2013 at 09:10hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Elections - dangling the mascot of reforms
In the absence of a big, permeating idea, the two MDC formations shall continue to play round and round with the two Rs: reforms and registration. This is the more reason Zanu-PF will have to be force...Published: 01 Jun 2013 at 06:57hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Mukanya refuse to perform without being paid
The UK tour which featured young Nox and Chimurenga maestro, Thomas 'Mukanya' 'Tafirenyika' Mapfumo has been dogged by fights over money. Thomas is known for fighting his corner and has been in the b...Published: 28 May 2013 at 03:25hrs | | by Arts reporter
'I'm not a renegade,' says Mukanya
Chimurenga legend Thomas Mapfumo has denied that he is on the run, nor does he have any outstanding issues, criminal or otherwise, in the country. Speaking from his American base, Mapfumo said...Published: 12 May 2013 at 05:55hrs | | by Garikai Mazara
Zanu-PF should brace itself for a battle against a reunited MDC
Zanu-PF should brace itself for a battle that pits it against the reunited MDC factions. That is coming, and the sooner the revolutionary party gears itself up for that, the better for the cause of ...Published: 18 Feb 2013 at 05:19hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Senior MDC-T official dies in UK
A SENIOR member of the MDC-T United Kingdom branch - Khama Matambanadzo - has died in Britain, officials announced.He was the district chairman for MDC-UK south-east district and was reported ...Published: 10 Jul 2012 at 08:35hrs | | by Staff Reporter
DJ Cleo and Oskido set to make a comeback in the UK
The renowned South African spin-master duo of DJ Cleo and Oskido is set to make a comeback in the UK.Cleophas Monyepao, better known as DJ Cleo and Oscar 'Oskido' Mdlongwa are primed to bring...Published: 26 Apr 2012 at 05:20hrs | 1 | by Henry Makiwa
SA BlackBerry users could claim refund
South Africa - BlackBerry users affected by the recent outage should seek recourse from the National Consumer Commission, SA Business Day reported on Thursday....Published: 13 Oct 2011 at 09:13hrs | | by -
Zimbabwean found guilty of murdering Nigerian love rival in the UK
A BRITISH JURY has found a 44-year-old Zimbabwean man, Eddington Chigora, guilty of murder.Chigora, of Buttermere Avenue, Slough, was found guilty of stabbing love rival Nigerian Omobolaji Adi...Published: 05 Oct 2011 at 07:05hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF: Keeping eye of the ball
MY piece last week on Libya has elicited quite a volume of responses, including, surprisingly, one from Costa Rica. I thank the writer for hearing me from so far away. Indeed, we must continue to buil...Published: 02 Apr 2011 at 12:30hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
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