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War collaborators played significant role during liberation war
IT is totally hogwash to say war collaborators did not help during the war of liberation.This is said by armchair critics who were in towns during the war.The war collaborators would d...Published: 27 May 2022 at 06:48hrs | 97 | by Alexio Rashirai
'We'll get him dead or alive': Reid's Mpiranya trail to Zimbabwe
A BESPECTACLED white man of medium height probably in his early 60s walks into the hotel restaurant where I am seated outside on patio couches basking in the sunshine while surfing social media platfo...Published: 22 May 2022 at 11:20hrs | 2783 | by Dumisani Muleya
Zanu-PF leadership snubs hero Maunganidze's burial
President of the Chiefs' Council Chief Fortune Charumbira has breathed fire after Zanu-PF Masvingo provincial leadership snubbed the burial of late top civil servant Dr Sylvester Maunganidze at the la...Published: 21 May 2022 at 18:35hrs | 1572 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers have guns, teachers and nurses have empty threats, so government will always favor the military!
It is common knowledge that rights and freedoms are seldom given or awarded - but, always need to be demanded and taken.That is why it is virtually unheard of to come across a country that was...Published: 19 May 2022 at 15:59hrs | 1849 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chegutu villagers relive night of terror
"THEY must rot in jail!" Selma Modi (38) of Kalembo Farm in Chegutu yelled as she narrated her harrowing ordeal of last Tuesday night at the hands of armed Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) personnel....Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:23hrs | 1041 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt jittery
GOVERNMENT is in panic mode and fears an uprising hence resorting to using the police, military and other security organs as a section of Zimbabweans push for economic order, with analysts predicting ...Published: 15 May 2022 at 17:56hrs | 3110 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe Airport 'now a human trafficking hub'
"A lot of things happen here at the airport. It all depends on the money on offer," an immigration official at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport said.In October 2021, Roselyn Dun...Published: 15 May 2022 at 06:14hrs | 1729 | by Staff reporter
There is no my vote is my secret, 'Death leaves no track record, voters do!' boasted Mnangagwa
"SaBuku pamberi, (Zanu PF) district chairman shure navanhu, councillor aripovo. Kwava kunovota." (Village headman will be in front, (Zanu PF) district chairman behind with the people and the local cou...Published: 14 May 2022 at 11:16hrs | 1791 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zimbabwe army recruits asked for opinion about Chamisa as president
The Zimbabwe National Army has placed perceptions around Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa at the heart of its recruitment exercise, ZimLive can reveal.Army recruits wh...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:13hrs | 1089 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers run amok in Chegutu
DOZENS of villagers near Jason Ziyaphapha Moyo Airbase in Chegutu were on Tuesday allegedly assaulted by soldiers reportedly searching for a machete gangster who had assaulted their collegue.A...Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:31hrs | 2427 | by Staff reporter
Uproar over police bosses hefty perks
JUNIOR police officers are heavily disgruntled after a confidential correspondence showing their bosses are getting airtime and data allowances way above their monthly salaries was leaked.The ...Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:49hrs | 3595 | by Staff reporter
'Killer' soldier granted bail
A SERVING Air Force of Zimbabwe member Christopher Tafadzwa Charuma, who is facing armed robbery, murder and attempted murder charges has been granted $30 000 bail by the Supreme Court.Charuma...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:08hrs | 636 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's anti-corruption crusade fizzles out deplorably
HIGH-PROFILE corruption cases from as far back as 2017 are yet to be finalised, almost five years after President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised to decisively tackle graft.The development also de...Published: 03 May 2022 at 16:08hrs | 1064 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans MPs reduced to beggars
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime has reduced members of Parliament to beggars whose lives are now miserable, opposition MDC-T national chairperson Morgen Komichi (pictured) has said.This ...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:39hrs | 733 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean smugglers abandon R1.7m worth of illicit cigarettes in Limpopo
Members of a cigarette-smuggling syndicate transporting illicit cigarettes worth almost R2 million in a four-car convoy abandoned their vehicles and ran away from members of the SAPS in Limpopo....Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 09:57hrs | 705 | by Staff reporter
Operators, Zacc clash over impounded buses
BUS operators have accused the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) of arresting "soft" targets in their blitz against smuggling in an operation that has so far netted nine buses.Some op...Published: 25 Apr 2022 at 09:03hrs | 491 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers harass Civilians in Chimanimani
Zimbabwe Soldiers are allegedly harassing civilians in Chimanimani. Speaking to some residents in Chimanimani, they say they are w...Published: 22 Apr 2022 at 22:14hrs | 1970 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
South Africa soldiers fed rotten meat in Mozambique
South African members of the joint defence committee of Parliament are investigating reports that the country's special forces deployed as part of the Southern African Development Community regional s...Published: 22 Apr 2022 at 10:13hrs | 1449 | by Mandla Ndlovu
3 Air Force paratroopers injured during drills
TWO Air Force of Zimbabwe paratroopers were last week injured during drills to prepare for Independence Day celebrations.A third paratrooper was also got injured while displaying his skills du...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:13hrs | 656 | by Staff reporter
Hundreds arrested trying to illegally cross Beitbridge Border Post into South Africa
SOUTH Africa's Home Affairs officials together with police and soldiers have arrested hundreds of undocumented foreign nationals at the Beitbridge Border Post at Musina in Limpopo.There has be...Published: 19 Apr 2022 at 06:42hrs | 1992 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dodges dying Zimdollar
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa dodged the question of the struggling Zimbabwe dollar in his keynote address at the 42nd Independence Day commemorations in Bulawayo yesterday.The local currency i...Published: 19 Apr 2022 at 06:40hrs | 2699 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's nephews in court on robbery, gun charges
Two nephews of President Emmerson Mnangagwa appeared in court on Saturday charged with conspiracy to commit armed robbery and possession of illegal firearms.Tawanda Munangagwa, 36, a squadron ...Published: 17 Apr 2022 at 09:17hrs | 2414 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers' pay hike riles civil servants
A move to award soldiers a 37% pay increase at a time when the government is silent about reviewing civil servants salaries has drawn fire from some teachers' unions, who say it exposed double standar...Published: 17 Apr 2022 at 09:17hrs | 2794 | by Staff reporter
Poor remuneration pushing soldiers to crime, Parliament told
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has been blamed for the rise in armed crimes by members of the military.MDC Alliance MP Peter Moyo said government's failure to adequately remunerate them was pus...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 09:04hrs | 612 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt deploys police, soldiers for census
THE involvement of members of the security sector in the upcoming population census has raised eyebrows, with observers describing it as a calculated move by the Zanu-PF government to manipulate the r...Published: 14 Apr 2022 at 06:40hrs | 1814 | by Staff reporter
The fog has cleared in Zimbabwe, writes Nelson Chamisa
AT the beginning of last year, I wrote an article in which I promised that "the fog will soon clear".The article was at a time when the movement was facing adverse circumstances. It was a mess...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:41hrs | 1505 | by Nelson Chamisa
Precedent that undermines credibility of Human Rights Council
On April 7, the UN General Assembly decided to suspend Russia's membership in the Human Rights Council. This establishes a destructive precedent not only for the future of the Human Rights Cou...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:32hrs | 94 | by Alfred de Zayas
Govt probes 22 000 absconding teachers
MORE than 22 000 teachers and headmasters are being investigated for failing to report for work while 1 220 have been suspended since schools opened in February, unions have said.Since the reo...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 06:31hrs | 521 | by Staff reporter
Bosso coach disappointed
HIGHLANDERS head coach Mandla Mpofu insists the incentives promised to the players by principal sponsor Sakunda Holdings ahead of their Castle Lager Premier Soccer League tie with Cranborne Bullets at...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 06:29hrs | 260 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge Villager Shot by ZNA officer
A-BEITBRIDGE villager Knowledge Sibanda was last Thursday shot and injured by a soldier as he was driving near the now defunct River Ranch Diamond Mine.When police officers attended the scene,...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:32hrs | 948 | by Staff reporter
Mtshana Khumalo: The general who outfoxed villain Allan Wilson
A MILITARY tactician, General Mtshana Khumalo, commanded an elite group of fighters tasked with safeguarding King Lobengula's life and dignity as he trekked north at the height of the Matabele War of ...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:27hrs | 291 | by Elliot Ziwira
EU divided over Russian sanctions
EU citizens are being asked to make great sacrifices to support a sanctions regime against Moscow over its military offensive in Ukraine. But how long will Western consumers be willing to live without...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:25hrs | 425 | by Robert Bridge
Naysayers will be buried in own ignorance
For Bishop Lazi and his ilk, today - Palm Sunday - marks the beginning of Holy Week.It is a sacred period that commemorates Jesus Christ's ‘triumphal entry' into Jerusalem for the Passover w...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 08:08hrs | 84 | by Bishop Lazi
Charamba exposes Mwonzora, Mnangagwa alliance
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson George Charamba has exposed that MDC Alliance leader Douglas Mwonzora for being the ruling Zanu-PF party's project to destroy the opposition led by Nelson C...Published: 05 Apr 2022 at 06:50hrs | 3924 | by Staff reporter
Useless UN Rights Chief tells Russia to stop war in Ukraine immediately
The U.N. high commissioner for human rights on Wednesday called Russia to immediately withdraw its troops from Ukraine and stop the war that she said had caused immeasurable suffering and grief for mi...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 08:55hrs | 515 | by Staff reporter
Soldier shoots villager, jailed 3 years
A SOLDIER based in Fort Rixon, Matabeleland South province, has been sentenced to an effective three-year jail term for shooting a villager on the leg with an AK47 rifle during a beer brawl in 2020....Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 07:21hrs | 423 | by Staff reporter
Bees fend off illegal loggers
Tanaka Ngara (39), who lived in Watsomba village in Zimbabwe's Mutasa district, transformed his fortune through beekeeping, which also successfully helped safeguard his area's dwindling forests....Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 11:42hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
Binga residents plead with Zinwa to take over water supplies
EMASOTSHENI residents in Binga are pleading with Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) to take control of water management from the Binga Rural District Council they accuse of failing to provide w...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 12:02hrs | 354 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa tightens firm chokehold on Jonathan Moyo
FORMER cabinet minister, MP and Zanu-PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo, who escaped by death by a whisker when the army stormed his home and that of a friend guns blazing during the 2017 military coup...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:39hrs | 7685 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans speak on by-elections
INDEPENDENT election watchdogs, the clergy and ordinary Zimbabweans have called for peace in today's polls to fill 28 parliamentary and 105 local government seats.The run-up to the polls was m...Published: 26 Mar 2022 at 06:23hrs | 1623 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi hits back at Mnangagwa
THE Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) Thursday hit back at Zanu-PF leader, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, for making unsavoury remarks against him and his party.Mnangagwa took issue with MRP leade...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:13hrs | 1599 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to 'shorten' the lives of Mthwakazi 'separatists'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday threatened to "shorten" the lives of individuals advocating for a separate state in south western Zimbabwe.Mnangagwa maintained that Zimbabwe would rem...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:02hrs | 343 | by Staff reporter
Stubborn smugglers dice with death on treacherous Limpopo
DECENT Mbedzi (42) sits uncomfortably as he frantically nails together some wooden boards to make a wooden raft, just metres away from Dulibadzimu Gorge, about five kilometres south of Beitbridge bord...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:02hrs | 516 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF scoffs at Chiwenga, Mnangagwa rift
Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu on Saturday claimed that there was no rift between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy Constantino Chiwenga.Mpofu made the remarks at a...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 06:42hrs | 3099 | by Staff reporter
Stop the bloodletting ahead of by-elections
Zimbabwe will this weekend hold what is seen in some circles as a mini general election where 29 parliamentary seats and over 100 local government positions would be up for grabs.The by-electi...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:30hrs | 87 | by Staff reporter
Who is behind the biohazard threat in Ukraine?
From the very beginning of Russia's military operation in Ukraine, the United States has unleashed a massive campaign to accuse Moscow of all sorts of crimes.Protecting the civilian population...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:30hrs | 501 | by Staff reporter
6 Zimbabwe army recruits died during eight-month training
Six army recruits died during an eight-month training regime which started in July last year and ended on Tuesday, the army commander revealed.Lieutenant General David Sigauke was speaking dur...Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 08:18hrs | 2837 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: 2 400 recruits become soldiers
THE Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) should not be content with past achievement, but must build a formidable force relevant to modern security demands and thwart threats to the country and region....Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 05:33hrs | 1275 | by Staff reporter
Presumptive patriotism reversing the Second Republic image building
The on going assaults on Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) are a regrettable obtaining of the second republic. Political analyst and free market advocate Rejoice Ngwenya quizzed where the Zi...Published: 14 Mar 2022 at 13:44hrs | 624 | by Taruberekera Masara
Cops flee roadblock
SPECIAL security forces on an operation against smuggling and illegal cross-border travel yesterday fled a roadblock just outside Beitbridge after a raid by officials believed to be investigating corr...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 08:29hrs | 5461 | by Staff reporter
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