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I am suffocating and sick of crying
I am suffocating and sick of crying and dying for fresher air. I died in May, June and July, last year, and died forever in a shallow swamp on April 18, 1983. Later on, I died in a river full of class...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 09:17hrs | 28 | by Tafi Mhaka
Zanu-PF's pyrrhic victory
The by-elections were held in Seke, Goromonzi South, Zvimba East, Pelandaba-Tshabalala, Chegutu West and Mkoba North constituencies.THE ruling Zanu-PF has secured the much coveted two-thirds m...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar exchange rate bolts
MARKET watchers have predicted a gloomy 2024 outlook amid a galloping exchange rate, steep taxation and an ever tanking economy, NewsDay reported.As usual, this is heavily impacting on ordinar...Published: 08 Jan 2024 at 05:36hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hopeful Zimbabwe economy will turn around in 2024
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has predicted Zimbabwe's moribund economy will turn around this year following the recent discovery of oil and gas near the country's border with Mozambique and Zambia and...Published: 03 Jan 2024 at 05:31hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Brig-Gen Mabenge
President Mnangagwa has described national hero Brigadier-General Benjamin Mabenge (Retired) as an intelligent and principled cadre who never deviated from the cause of the revolution from the time of...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:41hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Europe cannot beat a bitterly cold winter through fire from faggots
They can't make fire from faggotsAS I write, for the short month of conflict in Eastern Europe, global food prices have risen by an average 17 percent.Energy costs have gone through th...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 08:19hrs | 1 | by @ Jamwanda2
Russia-Ukraine war tremors rock Zimbabwe economy
TREMORS from the Russian invasion of Ukraine are spreading across the world as well as in Zimbabwe as record-high oil prices, excessive spending during forthcoming elections and disruptions of wheat s...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 18:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
People living with albinism need help
Tinevimbo is an outgoing bubbling sixth-grader who finds it difficult to make friends. Most girls look at her mockingly and sometimes with utter disdain. During break time at school, no one wa...Published: 21 Dec 2021 at 11:56hrs | 7 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Some churches may soon get listed on Stock Exchanges
The practice and tradition of assembling for worship and fellowshipping in furtherance and spreading of the Gospel is an act every believer must do. Hebrews 10 verses 23-25 is very loud and clear on t...Published: 17 Dec 2021 at 12:20hrs | 10 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
When South Africa sneezes Zimbabwe catches a cold
HISTORY tells us we owe it to Klemens von Metternich, the distinguished 19th-century Austrian statesman and diplomat, one of the most famous phrases about the global economy and its dynamics.I...Published: 17 Jul 2021 at 15:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
'I sneeze Zapu, I eat Zapu,' says Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo's son
THE late Vice President for Zimbabwe Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo's son Sibangilizwe has defended his position to contest for Zapu's presidency insisting that he wants to lead a reformed party dedicated to ta...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe artistes face a bleak 2021
TOMORROW we celebrate the New Year as we wave goodbye to the disastrous 2020.The year 2020 will be remembered as a painful one after the world was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.Caught u...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 10:38hrs | | by Plot Mhako
Mthuli Ncube, Chiwenga sued over prison conditions
INHUMAN conditions at the country's prisons have been exposed in a court application by human rights lobby group, the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum and a former inmate, Taurai Mbewe who are seeking ...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 virus 'survives on phones and cash for 28 days'
The virus responsible for Covid-19 can remain infectious on surfaces such as banknotes, phone screens and stainless steel for 28 days, researchers say.The findings from Australia's national sc...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 17:34hrs | 2 | by BBC
Sadc must shepherd Zanu-PF dialogue
ALTHOUGH Zimbabwe is a sovereign nation, there is nothing wrong in having its neighbours, particularly the regional powerhouse South Africa, stepping in to assist in resolving the multifaceted crisis ...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Barbara Gonzalez ready to make Simba roar across Africa
In her world, 'I can' certainly sounds better than 'I can't'. In fact, Barbara Gonzalez has no talent for bowing to the inevitable, neither does the word impossible exist in her vocabulary.It ...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 08:12hrs | 2 | by Mthokozisi Dube
Chamisa's statement on South Africa's Afrophobia
WE MUST BUILD A NEW AFRICA!The attacks against fellow Africans in South Africa are appalling and heartbreaking. We call upon our African brothers and sisters to show a full sense of brotherhoo...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 15:17hrs | | by Nelson Chamisa
Tendai Biti calls on Ramaphosa to intervene in Zimbabwe's crisis
MDC Vice President Tendai Biti has invited South Africa's President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa to intervene in the Zimbabwe's crisis by mediating in the national dialogue. Biti who was addressin...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 10:34hrs | 6 | by Mandla Ndlovu
We are like the morning dew that dries up before midday
Honestly some people love lies with a passion and propagating them is to them the icing on the 'evil cake'. Perceived animosity between otherwise 'getting on well' government leadership is compactly p...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 15:55hrs | 2 | by Tondo Murisa
A yawn, a cough and the shaking of heads
It would be a noble idea for NSSA pensioners to form or have a representative body or committee to 'ring fence' their interests and push for a living pension payout. As of now these elders 'have no vo...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 15:05hrs | | by Gabarinocheka
Chamisa calls Mnangagwa a brother
OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has made an impassionate plea to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, to take charge of Zimbabwe's national dialogue process and bring President Emmerson Mnang...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 16:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa begs Ramaphosa for talks
OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has made an impassionate plea to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, to take charge of Zimbabwe's national dialogue process and bring President Emmerson Mnang...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: We rise and fall together
The prophets of 'scorched earth politics are at it again. Suddenly, according to their reading Zimbabwe is back to year 2008. What utter nonsense! The scenarios could never be more different. If we ar...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 18:23hrs | 2 | by Lloyd Msipa
To introduce or not to introduce domestic currency in the short run, that is the question!
By "To be or not to be" is the manner the literary genius William Shakespeare chose to employ as an opening of a soliloquy for Prince Hamlet in the play Hamlet. "To re-introduce or not to re-introduce...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 16:08hrs | 5 | by Prosper Munyedza
Zimbabwe Stock Exchange sneeze before elections
The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) closed slightly lower during the last few days of official trade before the general elections set for tomorrow.After close on Thursday, the All Share Index fe...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 09:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dynamos looks like relegation candidates
THERE were times when Biggie Zuze looked clueless as Dynamos drew 1-all with Black Rhinos at Rufaro on Wednesday.The Dynamos interim coach epitomised the misery that one of the country's most ...Published: 27 May 2018 at 10:06hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Chamisa and Biti: Hubris personified
HUBRIS is defined as excessive pride or over-confidence. It is epitomised by arrogance. It often indicates a disconnection with reality and overestimating one's own competence. It is a disease that af...Published: 15 May 2018 at 06:52hrs | | by Nick Mangwana
Zimbabwe Xhosa community rubbishes Inxeba
TO hell with it!The Xhosa community in Zimbabwe is not happy with the controversial South African feature film Inxeba; The Wound because the movie undermines their culture.The local Xh...Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
One revolutionary bullet and a tank full of commandos for my mother
I am suffocating and sick of crying and dying for fresher air. I died in May, June and July, last year, and died forever in a shallow swamp on April 18, 1983. Later on, I died in a river full of class...Published: 24 Nov 2017 at 07:01hrs | 3 | by Tafi Mhaka
A $1.4 billion game changer for Zimbabwe
GOVERNMENT says the sealing of two mega investment deals by the National Railways of Zimbabwe and Ziscosteel will have a far-reaching impact on the broader national economy.The deals have a co...Published: 29 Oct 2017 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
People urged not to let Zanu PF confused them
Mthwakazi Liberation Front has urged people in the country to stop panicking over the current skirmishes in Zanu PF, police and the soldiers which give an impression of the possibility of a state of e...Published: 04 Aug 2017 at 08:11hrs | | by Stephen
Latest pyramid scheme to hit Bulawayo
On Saturday morning, a horde of well-dressed young men and women turned their backs on the glass doors of a three-star city hotel in disappointment.The man who they had dressed up for had not ...Published: 25 Jul 2017 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe introduces new TB drug
Zimbabwe has become the latest and one of the few countries in the region to roll out the latest tuberculosis (TB) drug called Delamanid, which is taken once a day.This comes as drug-resistant...Published: 29 Mar 2017 at 20:05hrs | | by Staff Reporter
ShutZimbabweDown on the day of issuing of bond notes
#Tajamuka / #Sesijikile pressure group is organising a mass demonstration to be conducted on the day of the issuing of the bond notes which are expected to start being used on November 30#Taja...Published: 22 Nov 2016 at 05:42hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zapu Update: Molife joins the National Executive Committee
Zapu's Arthur Molife has vacated the hot seat of being chairperson of Europe Provincial Executive Committee (PEC) for a hotter seat elsewhere. This paves way for the results-driven Ms Susan Ndlovu to ...Published: 25 Oct 2016 at 10:47hrs | 1 | by Zapu Europe
Mujuru's impending trip to Chatham House where she hopes to impress her British benefactors
THE Tongas have a good saying: Hearts are not far from concord when noses have already fraternised. Let me open my gonamombe, pull out the lid of the cow-horn canister, so you the reader and me, c...Published: 17 Sep 2016 at 12:29hrs | 6 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo: marking his death on the 1st of July
If I was at home I would be drinking utshwala bamabele, but I am here in Germany where our party Zapu sent us to acquire that education which was to fight economic independence, you said. However, I a...Published: 02 Jul 2016 at 15:33hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Ghost town status stalks Hwange
The sun appears to be setting for Hwange Town, an urban settlement whose origins and growth are anchored on coal mining activities in Hwange District. Hwange Colliery Company Limited, for decades the ...Published: 20 Jun 2016 at 06:59hrs | | by Kamangeni Phiri
Gwanda residents' position on the proposed Local Government Amendment Bill 2016
Gwanda Residents Association being a legal representative of the residents of Gwanda here by joins the majority of Zimbabwean residents and indeed parliamentarians across political divides to condemn ...Published: 14 Jun 2016 at 11:12hrs | 1 | by Bekezela Maduma Fuzwayo
$200 fine for self-styled undertaker
A MAN from Njube suburb in Bulawayo has been fined $200 for burying the body of his day-old niece in a bush in Old Pumula suburb without a burial order or the baby's mother's consent. Jacob Gatsi, 26,...Published: 31 May 2016 at 06:42hrs | | by Melody Baya
Self-styled undertaker buries niece in Pumula
A MAN from Bulawayo's Njube suburb has been arrested for allegedly burying the body of his day-old niece in a bush in Old Pumula suburb without a burial order or the baby's mother's consent. Jacob Gat...Published: 27 May 2016 at 06:33hrs | | by Melody Baya
Chiyangwa calls for Silva's axing from Dembare
ZIFA president Philip Chiyangwa has, once again, questioned the credentials of Paulo Jorge Silva and believes the Portuguese gaffer — who became the first DeMbare coach to lose the Harare Derby in s...Published: 02 May 2016 at 11:51hrs | | by Sports Reporter
Mugabe moves into the 'Hastings Kamuzu Banda phase'
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe appears to have entered what can be termed the "Hastings Kamuzu Banda phase" at this stage of his long career, what with the frequent stumbling in public and - by his own admis...Published: 06 Nov 2015 at 07:15hrs | | by Herbert Moyo
Swine Flue hits KZN, fears that it will spill into Zim rife
Swine Flue is reported to have broke out at KwaZulu Natali amid fears that the diseases would spill into Zimbabwe as there are many travelers who get into Zimbabwe from KZN who might have contract...Published: 19 Jun 2015 at 11:17hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Motion moved by senator Tholakele Khumalo in the Zimbabwean upper house
MOTION ON THE NEED FOR GOVERNMENT TO COME UP WITH STRATEGY TO BAIL UP THE VARIOUS BANKS' AND LENDING INSTITUTIONS' DEBTORS: MOVED BY SENATOR: DORO...Published: 23 Feb 2015 at 15:19hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Death in Zimbabwe is used as a tool
The bodies of the Botswana accident victims have arrived back in the country. The nine are Menson Ncube, Davison Sibanda, Eunice Moyo, Sharon Moyo, Liston Mlilo, Nozithelo Sibanda, Langelihle phiri, B...Published: 22 Jan 2015 at 14:40hrs | | by Juice Juicey
Baboon urine a hit with Zimbabwean women
Mutare's side-walk herb vendors are cashing in on crystallised baboon urine as married women seek remedy to contain their restive husbands.With baboons only urinating on a single spot for...Published: 20 Jul 2014 at 15:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Laughter the best medicine'
Zimbabweans are a happy lot. Being educated and innovative as we are, we always find our own 'home-based solutions' to our predicament.Faced with the unrelenting economic malaise and the liqui...Published: 19 Jul 2014 at 09:13hrs | | by Problem Masau
Mugabe's threats damaging
ALTHOUGH President Robert Mugabe has cemented his reputation for empty rhetoric following his speeches about weeding out corruption and getting rid of so-called "weevils" within his ruling Zanu-PF pa...Published: 11 Jul 2014 at 09:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF fights spill into Parliament
The vicious factionalism within Zanu-PF has spilled into Parliament - disguised as a fight against corruption - as the battle to succeed President Robert Mugabe intensifies.While factional fig...Published: 04 Apr 2014 at 12:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
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