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Umzingwane organises cultural, arts fest
UMZINGWANE district in Matebeleland South province has set Africa Day (May 25) as the day for its annual cultural and arts festival.Africa Day is the annual commemoration of the founding of th...Published: 22 May 2023 at 06:36hrs | 105 | by Staff reporter
Survivors relive Gukurahundi horrors
A SOMBRE atmosphere prevailed on Thursday when villagers gathered at a site in Emkhonyeni Village, Tsholotsho district where 21 women and one man were burnt into ashes in a hut on March 16, 1983....Published: 19 Mar 2023 at 07:51hrs | 1175 | by Staff reporter
Bullying leads to suicide
AGONY, grief, pain, anguish, sadness and anger aptly describe how the Saudan family in Bulawayo is feeling following the death of their 15-year-old son Jayden who committed suicide after complaining o...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:19hrs | 488 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: SADC artists release Robert Mugabe emotional song
Artists' from Zimbabwe, Zambia and Tanzania came together to release a sombre track in memory of the late founding father of the country Robert Mugabe on the 2023 edition of commemorating his birthday...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 06:49hrs | 931 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe after Robert Mugabe
This opinion-editorial piece was written by Japhet Ncube, a Zimbabwean-born former editor of South African daily, The Star, in November 2017 during the coup which ousted the late former president Robe...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:10hrs | 362 | by Japhet Mathanda Ncube
Fort Rixon cattle carnage: Ward records 262 deaths in 1 month
A 65-year-old Fort Rixon widow has so far lost more than 50 cattle as the dreaded theileriosis, commonly known as January disease, has ravaged through the area leaving peasants and small scale farmers...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 08:12hrs | 1334 | by Staff Reporter
Wife scalds hubby with cooking oil, commits suicide
A Glendale woman who failed to accept her husband's cheating habbits decided to end her life after she burnt him with hot cooking oil.S...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 06:41hrs | 2563 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Cop killer's family pleads for forgiveness
THE family of killer cop, Jaison Muvevi yesterday approached two families of the three victims that he shot dead in Hwedza last week and apologised for the heinous crime.They roped in police d...Published: 19 Jan 2023 at 07:31hrs | 1316 | by Staff reporter
10 farm workers killed while battling veld fire in Esigodini
Ten people were confirmed dead and at least five others were treated for smoke inhalation at a farm in Esigodini, Matabeleland South, on Monday while battling to put out a veld fire, the environmental...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 18:22hrs | 2818 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa hints at diplomatic offensive to free Sikhala and Sithole
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa Thursday gave a sombre account admitting to his camp's failure to secure the release of legislators, Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole along wi...Published: 30 Sep 2022 at 06:24hrs | 3889 | by Staff reporter
Mahachi granny testifies in court
A SOMBRE atmosphere engulfed the court when footballer Kudakwashe Mahachi's grandmother was testifying in a case in which the footballer is on trial for attempting to murder his son.Giving her...Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 06:18hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter
National hero Cont Mhlanga buried on ancestral lands
THE urban and rural worlds collided yesterday in Lupane District, Matabeleland North Province as villagers, artistes and high-profile dignitaries from various fields came to bid a spectacular farewell...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:27hrs | 551 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa welcomes Alex Magaisa's body
The body of prominent lawyer and constitutional expert Alex Magaisa arrived in Harare yesterday to a sombre atmosphere ahead of his burial.Magaisa, a former adviser to late former prime minist...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 10:47hrs | 803 | by Staff reporter
Gone too soon! Chief Mabhikwa (28) dies in horror car crash
CHIEF Mabhikwa of Lupane who died yesterday after his vehicle crashed head on with a haulage truck on Sunday night has been described as a humble cultural preservationist of outstanding leadership qua...Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:21hrs | 685 | by Staff reporter
Bishop Mutendi mourns crash victims, thanks Mnangagwa
Grieving ZCC Mutendi leader Right Reverend Bishop Nehemiah Mutendi has thanked President Mnangagwa and his government for extending state assistance to mitigate the Chipinge bus accident disaster that...Published: 16 Apr 2022 at 20:37hrs | 544 | by Staff reporter
Bus crew relives moments before horror crash that claimed 36 ZCC members
THE speeding St Charles Lwanga High School driver, whose bus lost brakes, veered off the road and rolled several times before landing over 200 metres down the steep, killing 36 people on the spot on T...Published: 16 Apr 2022 at 08:29hrs | 771 | by Staff reporter
Sombre atmosphere at ZCC Mutendi Church
A sombre atmosphere engulfed the ZCC Mutendi Church in Bikita today where thousands of pilgrims are gathered for the church's Easter festivities blemished by the death of 36 church members in a road t...Published: 16 Apr 2022 at 08:29hrs | 356 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe family can't bury victim of SA serial killer
The brother of one of the victims of the alleged Limpopo serial killer is frustrated and struggling to survive in South Africa since leaving his country to retrieve the body of his sister allegedly ki...Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 04:34hrs | 776 | by Staff reporter
Munatsi legacy: To die in service
AMID the sombre atmosphere of Doug Munatsi's memorial service last week, the light-hearted eulogies delivered by his wife and first-born son were undoubtedly embedded in moral values that the late pro...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:16hrs | 400 | by Enock Muchinjo
Munatsi family seeks closure
A fire broke out in apartment C9 at the palatial Northfields Complex in Harare in the early hours of Monday.The occupant of the luxurious flat was top investment banker and chief executive off...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:08hrs | 38 | by Bishop Lazarus
Mystery deaths deepen in Zimbabwe
DEATH is never easy and, whenever it strikes, the grief it causes is traumatic for family and friends who would have lost a loved one.This encounter with mortality always leaves the surviving ...Published: 04 Dec 2021 at 18:49hrs | 114 | by Staff reporter
Chiredzi residents left in shock over the tragic death of two minors
RESIDENTS of Chiredzi are still in shock after two minors from a local pre-school allegedly suffocated to death in a vehicle trunk this Tuesday.The minors, Celine Shiri (3) and Lynet Musungatu...Published: 25 Nov 2021 at 06:46hrs | 29 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa challenges professionals
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has challenged local professionals to continuously play a part in building the economy through good corporate governance and accountability, as he reiterated the importance of coll...Published: 25 Sep 2021 at 06:03hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa demands accountability
All Zimbabwean professionals must play a part in building the economy through good corporate governance and accountability, President Mnangagwa said yesterday as he reiterated the importance of collab...Published: 25 Sep 2021 at 06:02hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Time up for Logarusic
WARRIORS' humiliating defeat by Ethiopia in Group G of the Fifa 2022 World Cup qualifiers on Tuesday should be ample evidence that coach Zdravko Logarusic is not fit for the job.With the defea...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:23hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers kill man in home raid
A Bulawayo man was shot dead at his home by four suspected armed robbers in an attack that left his neighbour with gunshot wounds. The man's family talked about the devastation of losing a loved one f...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 06:11hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
When Magufuli spoke from the grave
There once lived a woman in Masvingo who was called Shuvai Ben Mahofa.Known for her unapologetic straight-talk and indefatigable industry, she had long morphed into an Iron Lady before activism on...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 08:30hrs | 2 | by Bishop L
Jane Ngwenya the first black woman nationalist to join active politics in Rhodesia
Comrade Jane Ngwenya was the first woman who dared the men spaces, a domain of male occupation: politics. When my mother came to Zambia running away from the obvious incarceration at Chikurubi prison ...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 13:44hrs | 34 | by Nomazulu Thata
National hero Nkiwane gets befitting send-off
A SOMBRE atmosphere engulfed Joyful Farm in Umguza District yesterday as people from all walks of life gathered at the farm to give the late national hero Abraham Dumezweni Nkiwane a befitting send-of...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 09:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Sentence corruption and poverty not makomborero
A very dark cloud hovers on the motherland sending a very sombre atmosphere to every progressive Zimbabwean who is crying for good governance.Instead of sentencing poverty, corruption, poor go...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 19:03hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Covid-19 pandemic grounds Zanu-PF
FINANCE and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube boycotted the Zanu-PF politburo on Wednesday, where the party's top brass spent hours discussing the dire state of the economy and how the ...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 19:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Worthwhile Mugabe buried
Worthwhile Mugabe who died on New Year's and was laid to rest at Umvutsha Park Cemetery in Bulawayo yesterday.Mugabe succumbed to Covid-19, two days short of his 53rd birthday at the prestigio...Published: 03 Jan 2021 at 07:36hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans see gloomy 2021
ZIMBABWEANS are not enthused about the New Year, 2021, and see no improvement in the social, economic and political problems that bedevilled the country throughout 2020.Most people entered January...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 07:45hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Rtd Col. Dyck holds fort in Mozambique
SOUTHERN African Development Community leaders gathered for an emergency meeting this week in Maputo, Mozambique, following a recent get-together in Gaborone, Botswana, to discuss the volatile politic...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 16:37hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
When death visited the village
We were there, they were there, a very sad occurance in the village. One of our own, Agrippa Chinehasha had passed on and it was time for last rites and bidding him farewell. Who is safe, it's the ord...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 18:11hrs | 1 | by Tondo
Changing face of the 'Zimbabwean' funeral
Funerals are an inevitable sad part of our exit from mother earth.This exit to another world yonder, confirms human being's mortality.This is despite their status, power, influence and...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
7 perish, 40 injured in Heroes accidents
Seven people were killed, while 40 were injured in separate accidents that occurred in Beitbridge and Guruve yesterday.In Beitbridge, seven people died on the spot, and nine were injured when ...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 20:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa chasing wrong priorities, says US Senate
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is misdirecting his energy lobbying western governments and blaming Zimbabwe's economic crisis on United sanctions, said Senator Jim Risch, the chairman of the United Stat...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 16:45hrs | 3243 | by ZimLive
Man burns brother's million Rand house
AN Injiva on a revenge mission allegedly travelled all the way from South Africa to set his millionaire brother's five bedroomed house at Rest Camp resort on the outskirts of Bulawayo on fire followin...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 07:50hrs | 2349 | by Staff reporter
MSU student kills self in protest
A 24-YEAR-OLD Midlands State University (MSU) student from Gutu allegedly committed suicide by drinking a poisonous substance in protest after being reprimanded by his father for continuously coming h...Published: 22 Jun 2019 at 01:19hrs | 3746 | by Staff reporter
Chief Binga dies
CHIEF Binga of Binga District in Matabeleland North has died. He was 74. Born Siakateya Siakulya Gasita, Chief Binga died at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo on Wednesday last ...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 06:59hrs | 1076 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's dilemma over Dabengwa
TO go or not to go? That is the question. And damned if he does; damned if he does not.This is the dilemma President Emmerson Mnangagwa faces tomorrow over whether or not to attend the burial ...Published: 31 May 2019 at 18:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA bus accident: Bodies arrive
THE bodies of 13 of the 14 Zimbabweans who died in a Marsmery bus accident in South Africa on May 6 arrived in the country yesterday through Beitbridge.Initially 10 of the 13 bodies were broug...Published: 13 May 2019 at 08:48hrs | 1765 | by Staff reporter
How Mnangagwa won Zimbabwe's landmark elections
ON August 1, following the announcement of the parliamentary election results in Zimbabwe, which saw Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF winning a clear majority, opposition MDC Alliance supporters held a de...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 06:45hrs | | by Al Jazeera
Mnangagwa leads nation in mourning
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday joined the nation in mourning people who perished during Cyclone Idai and expressed gratitude to various countries, embassies, local companies, organisations, churches an...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 06:55hrs | 323 | by Staff reporter
Chimanimani: Valley of the shadow of death
CHIPO Dhliwayo (30) of Rusitu village in Chimanimani is a devastated woman after a nasty encounter with the fury of nature.The blank look on her face, long after shedding many tears over the l...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:39hrs | 801 | by Staff reporter
Students recount sleeping with corpses #CycloneIdai
A SOMBRE atmosphere engulfed Paradise Park in Marondera yesterday during the burial of one of the students from St Charles Lwanga High School, Munashe Jena, who succumbed to Cyclone Idai-induced injur...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 09:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Xibalene remains an eternal identity for the Shangani people
IN Africa music and dance plays a very important role to preserve culture, relay history and maintain a certain identity.Every African is proud of his or her cultural identity and preserving i...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:43hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa was accused of being an askari
President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday had to do something that none of his predecessors, including the corruption accused Jacob Zuma, has ever been forced to do: defend his struggle credentials....Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 14:40hrs | 1914 | by Staff reporter
Tuku a cultural icon, a world changer, a true superstar and legend
ICON. Superstar. Legend. Three words that have been used to describe departed Zimbabwe music icon Oliver Mtukudzi. Mtukudzi thoroughly deserved the accolade. His almost four-decades long music career ...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 09:28hrs | 989 | by Methuseli Moyo
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