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Extremely hot, dry conditions jolt farmers
Zimbabwe is experiencing an extreme heatwave that began on November 30, raising alarm among farmers and health experts. Temperatures across the country are soaring, with some areas expected to reach u...Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 06:29hrs | 340 | by Staff reporter
Rising sudden death cases among newly arrived diasporans - medical expert speaks
MICHAEL Mawema had barely been in the United Kingdom (UK) for two months when he died suddenly in December last year, explained a GoFundMe appeal launched to raise funds for repatriation of his body t...Published: 16 Jan 2024 at 04:42hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Sadc anti-sanctions crusade a lost cause
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Your Excellency, the Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) annual Anti-Sanctions Day commemoration held last week was a sham vigil.It was misdire...Published: 02 Nov 2023 at 05:46hrs | 10 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Brushstrokes of Eternal Inspiration: Honoring the Legacy of a Garry Mapanzure
Ladies and gentlemen, We seat in different corners of Zimbabwe today shocked and sad at the untimely loss of a young and bright artist who touched our hearts and souls with his music. In the b...Published: 15 Oct 2023 at 09:00hrs | 1 | by Mberi Prince
Zimbabwean teen swimming sensation Katai accepted to join Princeton University
ZIMBABWEAN Olympian Donata Katai is set to continue her promising swimming career in the US after securing a scholarship with Princeton University.Princeton women's swimming and diving team, w...Published: 16 Jun 2023 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans will wake up after elections…well, hopefully!
Yesterday, during a relative's burial, I had a wonderful opportunity to mix and mingle with friends, family, neighbors and people from all walks of life. In these interactions - especially wit...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 07:00hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
CCTV Surveillance Technology in Africa needs a national policy
African countries are installing closed circuit television cameras (CCTV) and surveillance technologies without regulation frameworks and national CCTV and surveillance national policies. The sp...Published: 29 Oct 2022 at 11:28hrs | 2 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Tuskers bar Eagles again despite Marumani heroics
A brilliant century from Tadiwanashe Marumani was not enough for Alliance Health Eagles to overcome some fine consistent teamwork from Tuskers, who beat them again on Monday in the Pro50 Championship ...Published: 04 Oct 2022 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 70 year old historic painting depicts Jesus as a black man
For the first time in his life, Gift Livingstone Sango, 65, saw a painting by his father depicting Jesus as a Black man."My father used to draw Jesus as Black because God is for all of us. He ...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 18:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
3 African Stars Who Could Win a Golf Major in 2022
The professional golf schedule is manic, to say the least, with a year-round conveyor belt of events on all of the major tours ensuring the players have no shortage of options for picking up ranking p...Published: 12 May 2022 at 13:58hrs | 4 | by Staff Writer
Hodzi suffers double stroke, mental health collapse
FORMER Prosecutor General (PG) Kumbirai Hodzi was hounded by the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) and senior officials from the Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs following the submissi...Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 05:47hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe probes 4 deaths linked to Covid-19 vaccines
Zimbabwe investigated four deaths over possible links to Covid-19 vaccines, officials said on Sunday.The four cases were among 96 reported post-vaccination adverse reactions, but none of them ...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:45hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
The same Eddy Cross said, 'U Tsvangirai yi Nkosi yami' Bootlicked; MDC-T now jumps to bed with Zanu PF
Mnumzana Eddy Cross is disregarding atrocities of geocide that Zanu PF government perpetrated in the early hours of independence. Cross lives in Matabeleland: he is versed in Mnangagwa's mass murders ...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 19:12hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
First Zina president Clarah Nondo dies
THE first president of the Zimbabwe Nurses Association (Zina) Clara Nondo, has died.She was 81.She died at the Avenues Clinic in Harare.Zina president Enoch Dongo confirmed Non...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nkayi chief taken to court over 'illegal' ruling
NKAYI traditional leader Chief Dakamela has been taken to the magistrates court by one of his subjects after he ordered that he be caned in public for assault.Tumelo Maphala was ordered to per...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Equating recently developed COVID-19 vaccines to long-known vaccinations is not only foolish, but irresponsibly dangerous
Who can deny that the Novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has wrecked unimaginable havoc, destruction, and death throughout the world? Who can deny that there is urgent need for a long-lasti...Published: 15 Mar 2021 at 10:33hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Stroke health facility opens in Bulawayo
A STROKE Unit for specialised care of stroke patients was opened yesterday at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo in response to an alarming mortality rate in the country. The unit which is an ...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Health worker strokes, dies after receiving Chinese vaccine
A Gutu health worker at Mutema Health Care Centre has reportedly died in Harare days after being vaccinated with the Chinese Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine.TellZim News claims that it established ...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 06:50hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told to face reality
OPPOSITION MPs have demanded that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu-PF party should face reality and stop persecuting civil rights activists and introducing draconian laws like the Patriotic B...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sees rising number of strokes
With the economy of landlocked southern African country Zimbabwe in shambles, the cases of frequent strokes fueled by diabetes and hypertension are rising like an epidemic.To add insult to inj...Published: 26 Dec 2020 at 08:49hrs | 8 | by Jeffrey Moyo
Tigermania Returns During 2019
We've all gone crazy again over Tiger Woods, especially when it comes to betting on golf. According to the Golf Channel, ahead of last month's US Open at Pebble Beach, Tiger was certainly not the favo...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 12:07hrs | | by Staff Writer
Gukurahundi cannot be wished away: Williams
ON March 21 2019, President Emmerson Mnangagwa flew from Harare to Bulawayo on a jet chartered from the United Arab Emirates - an extravagant arrangement - for a meeting with Matabeleland-based civil ...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 11:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC violence: A noble cause can beget savages
THE MDC Alliance’s initial reaction to their defeat in the ward by-election held in Cowdray Park, Bulawayo, last week was a classic or textbook example of denialism — the human tendency to deny re...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 06:42hrs | | by Conway Tutani
225 Bulawayo protesters convicted
AT least 375 people - predominantly opposition activists, who participated in the January protests that resulted in 17 deaths, have been convicted with Bulawayo providing the bulk of the convictions....Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Two arrested over viral cheating girl assault video
POLICE have arrested two men who shot a video while brutally assaulting a girl (15) for allegedly having love affairs with both of them at Phumuza village in Plumtree. The video which has gone...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Victims tell tales of Zimbabwe army brutality
IN a shocking exposé, victims of the violent attacks by uniformed military and police officers have spilled more graphic details about how they werebludgeoned with blunt objects and torched with ...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Panacea to Zim economy no fairy tale
As a child I used to like fairy tales because they had all the magic and stuff just happened so easy and everyone would be happy in the end, with ease. Take for instance the story of Aladdin and the m...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 16:30hrs | | by Charles Motsi
Fugitive sodomite arrested after police station visit
AN unrepentant teenager from Kamativi who had evaded the police for three years after sodomising his girlfriend's nine-year-old daughter was arrested on Christmas Day when he went to a police station ...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 10:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teenage boy to be caned for sodomy
GWERU regional magistrate Pathekile Msipa has ordered a 13-year-old boy (name withheld) to receive three cane strokes at Whawha Prison for sodomising his family neighbour's three children aged nine, s...Published: 03 Nov 2018 at 09:18hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Teacher in soup for touching pupil's breast
A 41-YEAR-OLD teacher was dragged to Guruve Magistrates' Court after he allegedly fondled a Form 2 pupil's breasts.Taurai Madhumba appeared before Guruve resident magistrate Shingirai Mutiro l...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Beyond the rhetoric, what does Mnangagwa offer?
When President Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured)came to power, I was one of the sceptical ones, as he has been in government since independence and I believed he was as much to blame for the economic, pol...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 07:10hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
Mpilo unveils 2 more X-ray, CT scan machines
MPILO Central Hospital yesterday commissioned two more X-ray and CT scan machines that had been lying idle for more than three years due to lack of working space.The hospital has been renovati...Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 08:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Four strokes for bedding, impregnating minor
A 16-year-old boy from Murape Village, Seke, will receive four strokes of the cane for bedding and impregnating a minor.The teenager, who was facing charges of engaging in sex with a young per...Published: 18 May 2018 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Mental illness amongst us, Zimbabwe has lost the battle and should wage a war
A study has shown 75% of the Zimbabwean population has once suffered from mental illness, somewhere in their journey called life this has been caused by a variety of factors which include but are not ...Published: 15 May 2018 at 07:42hrs | 3 | by Simplisio Muvunde
Fair Thee well Mr Tsvangirai
When life hits us in all its random unfairness and we're left reeling and adrift, sometimes the only thing left for us to do is reach for a pen.I never had much in common with Mr Tsvangirai Wh...Published: 15 Feb 2018 at 09:18hrs | | by Masimba Mavaza
Boy (15) to be caned for rape
A 15-year-old teenager from Chitungwiza will be caned four strokes as corporal punishment at Harare Central Prison for raping a 3-year-old girl.The teenager was convicted by Chitungwiza Region...Published: 15 Feb 2018 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
'CMED fuel scam culprits could scare off investors'
THE continued presence of staff who participated in the botched fuel deal that prejudiced the Central Equipment Mechanical Department (CMED) of $2,7 million could scare off investors willing to partne...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 05:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mzembi describes Mugabe in glorious terms
Newly-appointed Foreign Affairs minister Walter Mzembi could be ruing his attempts to ingratiate himself with President Robert Mugabe after masterminding his short-lived appointment as the first ever ...Published: 24 Oct 2017 at 14:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mzembi masterminding Mugabe's short-lived WHO appointment
Newly-appointed Foreign Affairs minister Walter Mzembi could be ruining his attempts to ingratiate himself with President Robert Mugabe after masterminding his short-lived appointment as the first-eve...Published: 24 Oct 2017 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
What's choking Kariba?
In the previous instalment Laiton Kandawire looked at overfishing and how fisheries authorities in both Zimbabwe and Zambia agreed to impose a Full Moon non-fishing ban of at least seven days to comba...Published: 23 Jul 2017 at 17:09hrs | | by Laiton Kandawire and Oliver Samboko
NSSA opens Bulawayo rehabilitation centre to public
The National Social Security Authority (NSSA) has opened its Bulawayo Rehabilitation Centre to the public with immediate effect after operating for over 40 years as a facility for only contributors to...Published: 23 May 2017 at 06:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Juju at Dynamos
Zimbabwe's global avatar has maxed out on grand narratives and pop consumables but occasionally underestimated the place of biography as a long night of the soul.Dynamos Football Club legend M...Published: 15 May 2017 at 06:51hrs | | by Stanely Mushava
Fake mourner sentenced to 18 months, 4 strokes on his bare bum
A bogus mourner who has been terrorising grieving families across the country this week pleaded guilty to a single count of obtaining by false pretences. Olebile Mothofela alias Kabel...Published: 16 Mar 2017 at 11:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teen suspects on the run after gang rape
FOUR Gweru teenagers aged 18 and 19 allegedly drugged and gang raped a 15-year-old girl whom they had invited to a beer drinking party.One of the accused, Emmanuel Mandizvidza of Mkoba Vil...Published: 07 Mar 2017 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Joseph Msika's widow bedridden in neglect
THE widow of former Vice-President Joseph Msika lies helplessly on her bed at her home in Highlands more than a decade after she suffered a serious stroke.Eighty-nine-year-old Maria Msika's he...Published: 24 Feb 2017 at 16:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Juvenile gets 4 strokes for stabbing neighbour with screw driver
A 16 year old juvenile has been slapped with four strokes and two year suspended jail term for stabbing his neighbour at a borehole.The boy pleaded guilty to the charge when he appeared before...Published: 17 Nov 2016 at 07:18hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Girl (15) skips school for sex
A 15-year-old three pupil from Zvishavane reportedly skipped school for two days to embark on a sex spree with her 17-year-old boyfriend.Apparently the pair used an abandoned homestead as thei...Published: 09 Nov 2016 at 08:27hrs | 11 | by Staff Reporter
Pastor whips teens in church for engaging in sex
POPULAR Ghanaian pastor, Bishop Daniel Obinim, has stirred up yet another controversy with one of his usual unorthodox practices at his church where two congregants have been subjected to whipping for...Published: 30 Oct 2016 at 10:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe buying time with two wristwatches'
A photo of President Mugabe wearing two wristwatches, silver one on the left hand and a gold one on the right hand has gone viral online.Some people have mocked the 92-year-old saying he is tr...Published: 04 Oct 2016 at 12:04hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Boy (13) gets two strokes for raping girl
A 13 year old boy who grabbed and raped a girl younger than him has been ordered to receive two strokes administrated by a designed prison officer using a rattan cane.The boy who can not b...Published: 04 Oct 2016 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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