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Shock as Charamba sings rare praises for Jonathan Moyo
In an unexpected turn of events, Zimbabwe's Presidential Spokesperson, George Charamba, took to Twitter to express his admiration for the former Minister of Information and Publicity in Zimbabwe, Prof...Published: 26 Feb 2024 at 15:07hrs | 3 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
What Zanu-PF can learn from China
(In December 2016, ZimLive editor Mduduzi Mathuthu, then the editor of The Southern Times newspaper based in Namibia, was dragged over the coals and subsequently fire...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 08:59hrs | 3 | by Ranga Mberi
FULL TEXT: Tawanda Muchehiwa's gory story on how he was abducted by Ferret team
I often wake up in the middle of the night sweating profusely with a pulsating headache. At that moment, I can feel intense pain on the right side of my jaw. I never get back to sleep.I have t...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 09:49hrs | 38 | by Tawanda Muchehiwa
Zimpapers shuts down its weekly newspaper
Namibian media has reported that The Southern Times which was a partnership between the Zimpapers and Namibian government's New Era Publications Corporation will be closing down next week ....Published: 25 Apr 2019 at 11:30hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimpapers hike Herald and Chronicle prices by 100%
Zimbabwe Newspapers (1980) Ltd has with immediate effect reviewed the cover prices of its eleven newspapers as it seeks to weather the current economic storm, ...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 13:19hrs | 7 | by Staf reporter
Caesar Zvayi removed as Editor in a major editorial shake-up at Zimpapers
The Zimpapers Group has announced senior editorial changes at the Group's Digital and Publishing Division, with immediate effect. Joram Nyathi has been appointed Editor of the Herald, while Vi...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 05:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Warmonger's 'shoot-to-kill' policy revoked
The Botswana government has decided to withdraw military grade arms from its anti-poaching units on patrol along the country's borders.The move to recall what it called "arms of war" from the ...Published: 25 May 2018 at 17:26hrs | 24 | by Southern Times
+70 Zimbabwean farmers in Zambia yearn to return home
farmer_farmerOver 70 Zimbabwean white commercial farmers living in Zambia are yearning to return home and assist redevelop the agriculture sector in the once Southern African Development Commu...Published: 07 May 2018 at 10:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Frail Mugabe vows to fight on
Defiant Mugabe had his first interview yesterday from SABC, Southern Times and Times of London at his Blue Roof mansion in Borrowdale Harare.This is a typical former President Robert Gabriel M...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 09:35hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Zimpapers to launch TV station
ZIMBABWE Newspapers (Zimpapers) Limited is geared to launch its television station in line with its thrust to consolidate its status as the country's leading integrated media house.The idea fo...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi rally in South Africa a huge success
Mthwakazi Republic Party structures in South Africa last week conducted a successful meeting at Yeovile in , Johannesburg.The party said it was growing from strength to strength as the people ...Published: 30 May 2017 at 07:59hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Prophet urges Church leaders, Ndebeles to rise up, lead the revolution in Zimbabwe
JOHANNESBURG - A church leader sent a hard-hitting message Thursday, challenging Zimbabwean Christians and Ndebeles to "wake up" and lead the revolution, as a tidal wave of change sweeps across the co...Published: 03 Feb 2017 at 12:08hrs | 3 | by Mxolisi Ncube
Zim artist pens a guitar manual book
JOHANNESBURG - The versatile Nkayi born and Bulawayo bred guitarist Mthabisi Moyo who dropped a hot gospel album last year in November has penned a new book that will be used as a manual for gui...Published: 03 Feb 2017 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Future Moyo aka Jamelah
Mduduzi Mathuthu pushed out of Zimpapers?
Zimpapers has announced that The Southern Times editor Mduduzi Mathuthu will be leaving the company at the end of this month. Mathuthu joined the group in November 2013 as editor of The Ch...Published: 13 Jan 2017 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Ian Khama should shut up,' says Mugabe's spokesman
PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson George Charamba has lashed out at Botswana President Ian Khama over his recent calls for President Mugabe to step down saying he has recklessly exceeded the bounds of bot...Published: 25 Sep 2016 at 09:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
African 'liberation' movements have only themselves to blame for loss of support
I was amazed by a screaming headline in the Southern Times that cried, 'Apartheid around the corner', in an apparent desperate bid to make excuses for South Africa's African National Congress (ANC)'s ...Published: 15 Aug 2016 at 13:11hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mduduzi Mathuthu's Southern Times to go regional
SADC countries have expressed interest in joining the Southern Times newspaper, transforming it into a regional partnership. Presently it is a joint venture between Zimbabwe and Namibia. A new board d...Published: 04 Jun 2016 at 09:06hrs | | by Freeman Razemba
Mathuthu booted out of Chronicle as Zimpapers makes senior appointments
Zimpapers group chief executive officer Mr Pikirayi Deketeke has made several key appointments aimed at positioning the media giant firmly on the print, publishing, broadcasting and digital platforms....Published: 24 May 2016 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa faction takes on Grace Mugabe head-on
The Zanu-PF faction rallying behind embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa's mooted presidential aspirations is said to be taking on powerful First Lady Grace Mugabe and her allies head-on ag...Published: 22 May 2016 at 17:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chronicle editor transferred over Gukurahundi story
Zimpapers yesterday transferred the editor of its Bulawayo daily, the Chronicle, Mduduzi Mathuthu, to Namibia, in what sources claim to be punishment for the way the paper covered some stories, pa...Published: 20 May 2016 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean family cries foul over SA post-mortem
THE family of Zimbabwean gynaecologist Dr Tham Matinde, who was found dead at his Cape Town home in South Africa, in July last year, has expressed concern over the slow pace of police investigations i...Published: 14 Mar 2016 at 05:42hrs | 1 | by Sifelani Tsiko
Zimbabwe to launch Sadc TV
ZIMBABWE will soon introduce a television station for the Sadc region which will promote the African cultural ethos of member states, a Cabinet Minister has said. Speaking on the sidelines of ...Published: 14 Feb 2016 at 10:49hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
Celebrating 40 years of Tuku music
Oliver Mtukudzi celebrates 40 years in music with a show at Pakaye Paye Arts Centre. The show will feature Ringo Madlingozi, Suluman Chimbetu, Jah Prayzah, Munya Mataruse, Diva Mafunga, Donald Kanyuch...Published: 05 Dec 2015 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Diplomatic row erupts between Harare and Pretoria
Zimbabwe has dispatched a team of legal experts to South Africa to lodge a complaint against the auctioning of a property in Cape Town owned by the Harare authorities by lawyers representing former wh...Published: 11 Oct 2015 at 16:54hrs | | by APA
'Baba Jukwa' booted out
The fate of Sunday Mail editor Edmund Kudzayi has now been sealed after he was officially booted out from his position and replaced by Mabasa Sasa, the man who has been acting editor since June 2014....Published: 04 Aug 2015 at 13:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Come on Jonathan, this is certainly sinking too low
WHEN Jonathan Mashingaidze sensed blood and launched his counter-attack, with both lightning speed and ferocious blows in Parliament on Thursday, there were shades of Muhammad Ali in the Rumble in the...Published: 09 Aug 2014 at 09:14hrs | 1 | by Robson Sharuko
Mduduzi Mathuthu officially takes over at Chronicle
ZIMPAPERS Bulawayo branch staffers on Saturday bade farewell to former Chronicle Editor Itai Musengeyi and welcomed the new boss, Mduduzi Mathuthu. Musengeyi, who was the Editor of the p...Published: 04 Nov 2013 at 09:44hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Zimpapers to commission new digitalised printing press
ZIMBABWE Newspapers will next month commission a $2,2 million highly digitalised and efficient printing press, chief executive Mr Justin Mutasa has said. "We are targeting a trial run mid-next...Published: 30 Jul 2013 at 04:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe returns home
President Robert Mugabe has returned home from Windhoek, Namibia, where he attended the summit of former Southern Africa liberation movements.Mugabe applauded the position taken by the party l...Published: 12 Aug 2011 at 18:49hrs | | by
ZANU-PF's bid to replace Zuma rejected
SADC (Southern African Development Community) has rejected ZANU-PF's bid to replace South African President Jacob Zuma as the facilitator of local talks on grounds that his imminent chairing of the ...Published: 26 Jun 2011 at 06:41hrs | | by FinGaz Political Editor and edited by Moyo Roy
Sino-Africa relations: Who is benefiting!
African countries have been failing to take full advantage of the opportunities offered by the relationship with the world's next superpower.Is Southern Africa benefitting developmentally from...Published: 18 Jun 2011 at 08:55hrs | 2 | by Tirivangani Masawi
My Turn: From Mugabe must go to No, he stays!
HAVE you, dear reader, taken time to decode the messages from the personalised party, MDC-Tsvangirai over the GPA and this whole election business?From the "Mugabe must go!" mantra that was th...Published: 06 Jun 2011 at 08:31hrs | 3 | by Caesar Zvayi
Zimbabwe must licence private broadcasters transparently
HAVE you, dear reader, taken time to decode the messages from the personalised party, MDC-Tsvangirai over the GPA and this whole election business?From the "Mugabe must go!" mantra that was th...Published: 06 Jun 2011 at 08:31hrs | | by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri
Zimasco shuts down Peak Chrome Mine
Sinosteel owned Zimbabwe ferrochrome producer Zimasco will shut down its 48 000 tonnes per year Peak Chrome Mine, an underground operation, due to dwindling ore, a company spokesperson told...Published: 16 Feb 2011 at 10:48hrs | 76 | by Byo24News
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