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Conveyor belt crushes teenager to death
A mine worker at Canterbury Milling Centre in Shamva was crushed to death between a conveyor belt and a roller crusher on Sunday.The nineteen-year-old Khumbulani Mdlongwa Vuyelwa was crushed w...Published: 11 Dec 2024 at 16:00hrs | 908 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Shamva
Chamisa prepares for Presidential bid
Former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has announced his preparations for a potential presidential run, emphasizing the importance of ethical leadership in the pursuit of pow...Published: 29 Oct 2024 at 07:43hrs | 1352 | by Staff reporter
Chitepo School of Ideology director threatens voters
Controversy has erupted following alarming remarks made by Resten Magumise, a director at Zanu-PF's Chitepo School of Ideology, who threatened war against Zimbabweans advocating for the democratic rem...Published: 24 Oct 2024 at 08:01hrs | 275 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean migrants flee Dudula raids in Soweto
A STREET trader ran into her house and locked herself inside and watched in trauma while a group of people wearing Operation Dudula T-shirts ransacked her vegetable stall.For about 30 minutes,...Published: 24 Aug 2024 at 11:44hrs | 464 | by Staff reporter
Foreigners flee as Dudula raids Soweto spazas
A street trader ran into her house and locked herself inside and watched in trauma while a group of people wearing Operation Dudula T-shirts ransacked her vegetable stall in Soweto, Johannesburg, Sout...Published: 14 Aug 2024 at 15:30hrs | 2030 | by Staff reporter
Man stabbed to death at in-laws over spilt masese
A MAN from Bulawayo's Emthunzini suburb died at his in-laws' house after he was thrashed with an electric cable before he was allegedly stabbed in the neck with an Okapi knife.The incident was...Published: 01 Dec 2023 at 04:51hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe will never be ruled by traitors who called for Westerners to punish their people through sanctions
THE problem we have in Zimbabwe is we have a new generation of people who think they are educated and thus they don't acknowledge that Zimbabwe is a sacred country, nyika ine varidzi (a country with a...Published: 17 Nov 2023 at 05:04hrs | 2 | by Rutendo Matinyarare
Mnangagwa inauguration a non-event, says Chamisa's CCC
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has described the swearing in of President Emmerson Mnangagwa to serve a second term yesterday as a non-event, maintaining that he was declared the w...Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Why ZANU-PF Wins elections
Since 1980, ZANU PF has lost in two elections. They lost the 2000 referendum which forced the incumbent president to go with the old constitution albeit with later amendments which largely undermined ...Published: 02 Sep 2023 at 10:43hrs | 1 | by Moses Moyo
Chamisa can fight back
CITIZENS Coalition of Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has told his supporters to avenge the death of slain supporter Tinashe Chitsunge by voting out Zanu-PF in the August 23 elections.He sa...Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 06:51hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's real 'Second Republic' was actually established under Mugabe!
Ever since Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa grabbed power from then president Robert Gabriel Mugabe in a military coup d'état in November 2017, he has sought to portray his government as the 'Second Repub...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 21:58hrs | 10 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Kasukuwere presidency bid revives Zanu-PF factional battles
The decision by former Zanu-PF minister Saviour Kasukuwere to run for the presidency has rattled the ruling party as it is a reminder of the unsolved issues since the takeover of power by President Em...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 21:10hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo's Contribution to the struggle for freedom
When the iconic Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo died on the 1st of July 1999, the generality of Matabeleland felt demobilised, further isolated and wondering if it would ever achieve peace in Zimbabwe. Father...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 19:50hrs | 9 | by Freedom Alliance
Fuel tanker fatal accident victim identified
A FUEL tanker driver who died on the spot yesterday in Bulawayo opposite Mzilikazi Barracks along the Bulawayo-Harare highway has been identified as, Blessing Nhira aged 39 from Uplands Waterfalls, Ha...Published: 27 May 2023 at 19:39hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Fuel tanker overturns, kills driver
A FUEL tanker driver died on the spot when his vehicle overturned outside the Mzilikazi Barracks in Bulawayo, spilling over 20 000 litres of petrol resulting in the closure of the Bulawayo-Harare high...Published: 27 May 2023 at 09:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mwonzora activists in bloody fight
CCC and MDC-A activists clashed in Chinhoyi yesterday afternoon over who would control a party office in the town, with the physical confrontation resulting in several of them getting injured....Published: 01 May 2023 at 08:08hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Why blame Chamisa for every wrong in Zimbabwe?
EVENTS of past few weeks have shown that in Zimbabwe we have the unfortunate culture of holding the weak to account, while shying away from confronting the powerful.It starts with the arrest a...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:45hrs | | by Blessed Mhlanga
Zuma dares Judges to apply double standards
Jacob Zuma says his urgent court application to interdict his private prosecution of President Cyril Ramaphosa will test "whether Lady Justice has removed her blindfold in South Africa"."There...Published: 09 Jan 2023 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa councillor fronts Zanu-PF MP's campaign in Silobela
A CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) councillor Willard Moyo shocked attendants at a prize giving day in Silobela after encouraging parents to vote for rival Zanu-PF's Mthokozisi Manoki-Mpofu at...Published: 20 Dec 2022 at 20:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rival amakorokoza groups clash in Nkankezi
GOGO Martha Mlotshwa swears that she has never seen so much blood in her 75 years of existence.At her age, she has seen it all - the good, the bad and the worst of humanity but the level of vi...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere lives in fear in Joburg as Harare steps up pressure
SELF-EXILED former Zimbabwean minister and Zanu-PF political heavyweight Saviour Kasukuwere is living in fear in Johannesburg, South Africa, as the Harare government steps up pressure behind the scene...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:47hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
King Lobengula's most trusted chieftaincy seeks reinstatement
EARLY on Sunday morning last week, Mr Minus Mabhena made his way to the back of the Maphungo homestead in Nkayi's Sikopo area, in Matabeleland North province and stood on what looked like an anthill....Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 06:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mwazha's church set to hold massive pilgrimage
The African Apostolic Church (AAC), popularly known as Vapostora veAfrica, and led by Archbishop Ernest Paul Mwazha is set to hold its biggest yearly conference, putting aside leadership squabbles tha...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa officially recognises Matabeleland independence cause, talks about it daily
Just imagine UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, threatening to shorten the lives of all Scottish people who are calling for the independence of Scotland from UK or Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sanchez...Published: 11 Jul 2022 at 09:19hrs | 8 | by Israel Dube
Chamisa's MPs back Zanu-PF's Jacob Mudenda
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) and MDC T legislators have leapt to the defence of beleaguered Speaker of the National Assembly, Jacob Mudenda after after he came under attack members of his own p...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 08:35hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Naughty judges irk Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has expressed concern over rampant misbehaviour, warning he will not hesitate to remove the naughty ones from office.He was addressing delegates at the launch of t...Published: 07 May 2022 at 19:55hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
End of the road for Tsvangirai's MDC
D-DAY has arrived for the MDC brand, with the electorate expected to decide its fate, as analysts say the iconic party associated with the firebrand Morgan Tsvangirai may disappear into oblivion if it...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Marry Mubaiwa assault trial postponed 15 times
THE trial of Marry Mubaiwa on charges of assaulting a family maid, postponed more than 15 times since it was due to start two years ago, was yesterday postponed yet again, this time because defence la...Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 05:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's oligarchs: The heirs of Cecil Rhodes
As Zimbabwe's economy has spiralled down, with one million economic refugees in South Africa alone and ordinary people facing shortages of food, fuel, medicine and shelter, there is a class of people ...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:29hrs | 4 | by Phillip van Niekerk and a Zim-based Research Team
The rise and fall of the MDC: Winners, losers and neutrals
AS Zimbabwe approaches crucial by-elections in March, which will test the strength of main contestants while determining the authentic opposition, there is no denying that the MDC, which has posed the...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:21hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
AFM wrangle sucks in police
SOME police officers from Marlborough police station in Harare have been accused of siding with the Apostolic African Mission (AFM) church faction led by Bishop Cossam Chiyangwa, after they allegedly ...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 07:04hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
SA consumers face higher prices in 2022
Various product prices are rising rapidly across the globe as the world opens after months of lockdown. As a result, food prices have been in the headlines, and SA is no exception.As a case in...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 05:25hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Thinking that the military are just wearing overalls (military gear) for Chamisa to just rule, fear God'
MDC had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms including reforms of the military, Police, CIO and Prison Services; sadly, the golden opportunity was wasted because not even one ref...Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 08:53hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
SA businessman arrested in Zimbabwe over presidential solar plant project dispute
A South African businessman was arrested last week on his arrival in Zimbabwe, and now can't leave the country because of a contractual dispute involving $1m (R14.66m) and material for the constructio...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Injiva robber killed, two injured in heist gone wrong
A suspected armed robber was killed with two others injured while trying to flee when a gang of six armed men believed to have travelled all the way from South Africa were involved in a dramatic early...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jacob Zuma's jail case was a golden opportunity: a catalyst to real issues
Criminals have taken a golden opportunity to hide behind another criminal who disdained the nation's constitution he once presided. Chinua Achebe writes about corruption in Nigeria's early independenc...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 18:40hrs | 18 | by Nomazulu Thata
'How can we help Zimbabwe?' SA Minister asked Shava - foolish question to still be asking
"Ramaphosa's SA remains concerned over Zimbabwe's worsening political situation!" screamed the Bulawayo24 headlines.Many Zimbabweans did not even bother to read the article because they have h...Published: 23 May 2021 at 11:42hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa a hurdle to progress
Unless Zimbabwe's opposition puts its act together, the thunder that is going to strike it is still doing push-ups in heaven. Events over the past two years should serve as a wake up call for the spli...Published: 09 Mar 2021 at 08:23hrs | | by Grace Kwinjeh
Cry for the land again
By land is meant not merely land in the strict sense of the word, but whole of the materials and forces which nature gives freely for man's aid in land, water, in air and light and heat.In Eco...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:21hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Old landlord beds tenant's minor daughter
There was drama at Guruve magistrates courts on Friday after a 40-year-old Mvurwi landlord told a Guruve magistrate that he bedded his tenant's 15-year-old daughter as a way of comforting her....Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 16:13hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
The outcome of the August 16 MDC mass protest foretold
The month of August in Zimbabwe is recognized as the month of heroes. We celebrate those who fought for our freedom and the institutions which facilitated the liberation process. 2019 hero...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 15:14hrs | | by Fidelis Fengu
Epileptic toddler falls into fire burns to death
AN epileptic 18-months old boy allegedly died from severe burns he sustained after he fell into a fire in his grandmother's kitchen.The incident that left the little boy with serious injuries ...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Makorokoza shot dead
The dispute over the gold claims in Chegutu turned fatal last week when one man was shot dead after police tried to control a marauding crowd of approximately 3 000 artisanal miners who wanted to stop...Published: 06 May 2019 at 08:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's illegitimacy must be resolved - no economic recovery until we do
Zanu PF has rigged elections in the past and got away with it. This time things are different the issue of rigged elections is not going away and the party is at a loss what to do. "Everybody ...Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 10:43hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
An ode to Oliver Mtukudzi
Oliver Mtukudzi achieved both in life and in death what our national leaders have failed to do: uniting a deeply polarised and fractured nation.Such was his greatness.In life, he performed...Published: 31 Jan 2019 at 10:28hrs | 2 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Judge calls for revamping of judicial system
HIGH Court Judge, Justice Thompson Mabhikwa has called for the revamping and capacitation of the institutions in the justice delivery system to enable them to adequately fight crime. Officiall...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa deploys army in another 'Murambatsvina'
Zimbabwe appears headed for another social crisis as authorities have embarked on a widespread operation to destroy illegal structures in urban areas, reminiscent of the 2005 disastrous Operation Mura...Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 19:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe leaders spilled too much blood - country can never be blessed!
Ever since Zimbabwe gained independence from its erstwhile colonial master Britain 38 years ago, the majority of its people have never experienced real prosperity, joy and peace - as there has been on...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 09:11hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Fatal assault over spilt beer
A 28-year-old man from Bulawayo's Mpopoma suburb died after he was assaulted by three assailants at a beer garden for allegedly spilling beer on Friday night.Mr Farai Moyo died on Saturday aft...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 07:21hrs | | by Staf reporter
AFM leader to step down
ONE of the longest serving leaders of a Pentecostal church in Zimbabwe, AFM president Dr Aspher Madziyire will step down from the helm of the church after elections to choose a new leader are held thi...Published: 28 Oct 2018 at 08:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
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