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50 Joshualites awarded Scholarships amid debate over tribal bias
Fifty academically gifted students from across Zimbabwe's 10 provinces have been awarded the prestigious Joshua Nkomo Scholarship, administered by the Higherlife Foundation, in the latest effort to su...Published: 08 Jul 2025 at 22:52hrs | 839 | by Staff reporter
Khupe demands Ministerial statement on use of US$38m sugar tax
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator Dr Thokozani Khupe has called on the Ministry of Finance to urgently deliver a ministerial statement detailing how the US$38 million raised from the suga...Published: 25 Jun 2025 at 17:17hrs | 291 | by Staff reporter
Hichilema goes to SA court in a bid to have Lungu's corpse
The Zambian government has filed an urgent case in a South African court seeking to stop the burial of former President Edgar Lungu, state media reports.This is the latest twist in a row betwe...Published: 25 Jun 2025 at 11:46hrs | 590 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF's Push to Scrap Term Limits Echoes 1987 Power Grab
ZANU PF is laying the groundwork for a new constitutional amendment aimed at removing presidential term limits, in a move that closely mirrors the 1987 changes that allowed Robert Mugabe to become Zim...Published: 23 Jun 2025 at 19:40hrs | 766 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Vumbachikwe Mine moves to evict workers still occupying company houses after 2022 closure
GWANDA, Matabeleland South - Management at the struggling Vumbachikwe Mine has filed court summons seeking the eviction of two workers from company-owned houses, despite hundreds of others still occup...Published: 20 Jun 2025 at 22:25hrs | 354 | by Stephen Jakes
No one is above the Constitution: Zimbabweans must say no to term extensions
Zimbabweans must never allow their country to backslide or let their hard-won rights be stripped away.In 2013, millions of Zimbabweans made history by overwhelmingly endorsing a new Constituti...Published: 12 Jun 2025 at 08:33hrs | 772 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Alarm over Zimbabwe's new media blueprint
Media advocacy groups have raised serious concerns over what they describe as the veiled criminalisation of journalism in Zimbabwe's new National Media Policy, launched by President Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 30 May 2025 at 08:53hrs | 132 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo gifts Reuben Barwe a Luxury SUV and $100,000 'pocket money'
Controversial businessman and philanthropist Sir Wicknell Chivayo has once again made headlines, this time for gifting veteran journalist and Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) Chief Corresponden...Published: 22 May 2025 at 14:06hrs | 1634 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe introduces online visa applications
Zimbabwe has launched a new online visa application system, allowing travellers from countries requiring a visa to apply electronically, in a major move to modernise the country's immigration processe...Published: 12 May 2025 at 14:02hrs | 726 | by Staff reporter
Nick Mangwana doesn't listen to Winky D's music
The Zimbabwean government has firmly denied claims that it imposed a ban on popular musician Winky D's songs from being played on State-controlled radio stations, with Ministry of Information Permanen...Published: 30 Apr 2025 at 07:16hrs | 858 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa missed one fact: Unlike Mugabe, he has never been genuinely respected within ZANU-PF
Who can deny that ZANU-PF is teetering on the brink? As factional fighting within the ruling ZANU-PF intensifies - and even threatens to get ugly with the so-called "uprising" slated for 31st ...Published: 26 Mar 2025 at 22:52hrs | 984 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Geoff Nyarota: A legacy of fearless journalism in the fight against corruption
Zimbabwe has lost a legend! The passing of veteran journalist Geoff Nyarota is not just a loss to the journalism fraternity - it is a deep wound to the soul of a nation still crying out for ac...Published: 23 Mar 2025 at 21:12hrs | 368 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The closure of VoA Studio 7 is a victory for tyranny in Zimbabwe!
The oppressed people of Zimbabwe have lost another voice! The closure of the Voice of America (VoA), particularly its Zimbabwe-focused service Studio 7, marks a dark and devastating chapter fo...Published: 23 Mar 2025 at 21:00hrs | 1095 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Freedom Alliance seeks to grow its Matabeleland footprint
The Matabeleland-based movement, Freedom Alliance (FA), has launched a call for its members to broaden the scope of its influence by recruiting their families - specifically wives and children - to jo...Published: 23 Feb 2025 at 10:00hrs | 365 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo wades into Zanu-PF factional wars
Controversial businessman and tenderpreneur Wicknell Chivayo has thrown his support behind the extension of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's presidency beyond the constitutionally mandated two terms, in...Published: 18 Feb 2025 at 03:44hrs | 5868 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa-linked gold mine fined over pollution
ZIMCN Investments, a company reportedly linked to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's son, Collins, has been fined for violating environmental regulations at its gold mining operation in Mashonaland East. ...Published: 01 Feb 2025 at 14:04hrs | 686 | by Staff reporter
City Parking bribes journalists to evade scrutiny
City Parking has extended free parking services to state media (Herald, Sunday Mail, H-Metro and Zimbabwe Television Network) and a journalist from an online p...Published: 20 Dec 2024 at 11:58hrs | 1200 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Environmental crisis looms at Vumbachikwe... amid concern over management's non compliance
ENVIRONMENTAL crisis is reportedly looming at Vumbachikwe mine in Gwanda after the management set up an allegedly substandard elution processing facilities wrapped around by a sail above ground surfac...Published: 02 Dec 2024 at 15:58hrs | 461 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa admits his government engulfed by corruption
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has acknowledged the pervasive corruption within his government, issuing a stern warning to officials at all levels of governance, including local authorities, as he commi...Published: 01 Dec 2024 at 12:20hrs | 841 | by Staff reporter
German government collapses
Germany's 'traffic-light' coalition has fallen apart, leaving Olaf Scholz at the helm of a minority government consisting solely of his Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Greens. This follows the c...Published: 07 Nov 2024 at 08:21hrs | 2517 | by Staff reporter
You can't rig suffering Zimbabweans, Mr. Mnangagwa!
The debate rages on as to President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa's true intentions regarding his stay in power. Is he stepping down as demanded by the country's Constitution at the end of his t...Published: 08 Sep 2024 at 20:04hrs | 1016 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The day Sadc failed
THREE weeks ago, the regional bloc,Southern African Development Community (Sadc), hosted the 44th summit in Harare.The summit saw Zimbabwe becoming the chair of the region for the next...Published: 07 Sep 2024 at 10:12hrs | 221 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Chamisa ally's pointed rebuke of Mnangagwa
In absence, Zambian President Hichilema Hakainde cast a shadow at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's parade on Saturday as he assumed the rotational chairmanship of SADC.Mnangagwa had pulled all s...Published: 18 Aug 2024 at 13:10hrs | 1406 | by Staff reporter
Exposing Mnangagwa Sadc facade
Your Excellencies, I write this public letter as an ordinary citizen of Zimbabwe, a member state of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).It is in the true African spirit of ubuntu...Published: 07 Aug 2024 at 15:34hrs | 1848 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Mugabe never acted like a maniac as Sadc and AU Chair
I am still struggling to wrap my head around this madness. What is it about hosting a SADC heads of state and government meeting in Zimbabwe that can drive the host leader to go off the rails?...Published: 05 Aug 2024 at 16:56hrs | 513 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe to pursue 'fugitive' US diplomat
Presidential spokesperson George Charamba has vowed the country will use all available diplomatic channels to pursue a United States embassy official who fled the country last month after he ran over ...Published: 30 Jul 2024 at 17:16hrs | 989 | by Staff reporter
SADC Summit turns Mnangagwa govt into a joke!
One simply needs to tune into or read the state-controlled media in Zimbabwe to discover how the country has become a huge circus. All this simply because of the opportunity to chair the 44th ...Published: 20 Jul 2024 at 21:40hrs | 3975 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Confusion over Lake Gwayi-Shangani completion
State Media today reported that Lake Gwayi-Shangani, the country's third-largest inland reservoir, is now 70 percent complete with completion expected before year-end.Once reported by the same...Published: 14 Jul 2024 at 09:54hrs | 1358 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must stop flirting with extending rule
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been sworn into office three times in six years, and in his inauguration speeches in November 2017, August 2018, and September 2023, he promised radical reforms aimed ...Published: 23 May 2024 at 10:56hrs | 5 | by Nyasha Macbride Mpani
Iranian president confirmed dead in helicopter crash
Iranian state media have confirmed that President Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday in the northwestern province of East Azerbaijan. His entire entourage, including Fore...Published: 20 May 2024 at 08:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanufication of the ANC on
AS South African general elections approach, the country's governing ANC is increasingly undergoing a further Zanufication process as it openly accepts offers of help from Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF wh...Published: 19 May 2024 at 11:52hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
SA parties alarmed as ANC enlists Zanu-PF help for election campaign
ZIMBABWEAN state media on Tuesday broke the news that the country's ruling party, Zanu-PF, had been called on by the ANC to assist with its final stretch of campaigning ahead of South Africa's general...Published: 19 May 2024 at 11:43hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Why is Zanu-PF opening branches and office in South Africa?
Out of all liberation parties in Africa, Zanu PF is the only one that is opening offices and branches in all major South African cities and beyond. For an independent country like Zimbabwe, an embassy...Published: 17 May 2024 at 13:45hrs | 38 | by Israel Dube
ZANU PF now needs a leader chosen on merit!
For as long as Zimbabwe has existed as an independent country, we have only known ZANU PF as the ruling party. In spite of several attempts at removing the party from power through democratic ...Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 21:12hrs | 19 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa a good farmer but then...
While Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Precabe Farm in Sherwood, near Kwekwe, is doing well and is often used to showcase isolated success stories of the state-sponsored chaotic land reform p...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 16:29hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Selection of gukurahundi journalists opaque and dodgy
A group of local Zimbabwean journalists, whose selection has been clearly opaque and dodgy, are grappling with how media should cover the upcoming Gukurahundi outreach programme hearings into the 1980...Published: 28 Feb 2024 at 06:44hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MPs praises ZEC praise for holding 'free and fair' elections
Zanu-PF MPs Tuesday reduced parliament into a chorus of superfluous praise on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) for conducting what they claim were free and fair elections, condemned as a fraud ...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 18:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora, Chamisa, Tshabangu fight for Bulawayo offices
NELSON Chamisa's loyalists are engaged in a bitter fight with a Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) rival camp and the MDC over control of Bulawayo party offices.The offices, which once belonge...Published: 01 Feb 2024 at 05:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Belarus strongman dispatches 'smallhouse' to Mnangagwa's wife
PROFESSOR Irina Abelskaya, the Belarusian envoy recently dispatched to Harare to deliver a donation to First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa, is a mistress of the Eastern European country's leader Alexander L...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 06:21hrs | 694 | by Staff reporter
Just how low has Zimbabwe sank?
A country's state media is always a window into the government's psyche and mindset. It is like a reflection of the particular nation's soul.So, in spite of the insufferable tort...Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 14:30hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa not a game-changer but merely going in circles
So the ZANU PF regime is exceedingly delighted over the US$1.5 billion Manhize steel project in Mvuma!The Zimbabwe government can not tell ...Published: 21 Jan 2024 at 07:13hrs | 20 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Gukurahundi genocide brigade was deployed on this day 41 years ago
Today in history: On this day 41 years ago and three years after Zimbabwe gained independence from Britain, the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA)'s Fifth Brigade was deployed in Matabeleland North on 2...Published: 20 Jan 2024 at 16:40hrs | 136 | by Staff reporter
Lobengula denigrating presenter, ZBC board fired
Zimbabwe's Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Jenfan Muswere has dismissed the state-owned Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) board, while getting two television present...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 13:04hrs | 32 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe set to open passport offices in South Africa, UK and US by March
Zimbabweans based in South Africa, United Kingdom, USA and two other countries will now be able to physically apply for passports in their respective host countries by March this year, Registrar-Gener...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:43hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
South African opposition turns away over 700 Zimbabweans attempting to cross Limpopo river
The Patriotic Alliance, a South African opposition party, has taken measures along the Limpopo River to counter the illegal immigration of Zimbabweans into the neighboring country.As the festi...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 05:56hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zipra was behind Salisbury fuel tanks bombings
Former Zipra chief of logistics Thomas Ngwenya has challenged claims that Zanla forces bombed the Salisbury fuel tanks in 1978, insisting that it was Zipra that was behind the sabotage that proved to ...Published: 26 Dec 2023 at 20:10hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter
South African robber no match to Zimbabwean police, shot dead
A South African national was one of two suspected criminals killed in a shootout with detectives from the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) in Arcadia, Harare.State media in Zimbabwe, The Herald ...Published: 24 Dec 2023 at 15:54hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
Media that serves the ruling elite is against the people!
Lately, in Zimbabwe, there has been a noticeable resurgence in calls for media to focus more on what is termed 'developmental journalism'.We have heard this call repeated by the new informatio...Published: 20 Dec 2023 at 22:56hrs | 13 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Parting Thoughts from 2023 Zimbabwe Coconut Reforms
It is not a secret that the rotten state or the coconut republic of Zimbabwe must be reformed and replaced with a well-functioning state. To establish a functional state, reform is needed in political...Published: 20 Dec 2023 at 22:45hrs | 19 | by Sam Wezhira
Zambia is on the verge of being a one-party state
Zambia's former ruling parties have typically fared poorly after losing power. The United National Independence Party (UNIP) ruled for 27 years but gradually collapsed following its defeat in 1991. Th...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 21:11hrs | 20 | by Sishuwa Sishuwa
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