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The Zimbabwean Cyber Crime Bill, a good way forward
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his cabinet passed the long awaited Cyber Crime, Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill in what they say is an effort to "protect the country's cyber space...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 00:03hrs | 70 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
MDC tribal cracks widen
Zimbabwe's politics is a very interesting terrain. It is contested by revolutionaries, pseudo revolutionaries, neo-liberals, sell-outs to the outright treasonous. Students of politics know tha...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 08:49hrs | 2855 | by Staff reporter
Man poisons kids, attempts suicide
A MAN from Bulawayo allegedly poisoned himself and his three children "to save the family from abuse and suffering."Chelesani Sibanda (34) allegedly mixed a soft drink with rat poison and gave...Published: 12 Oct 2019 at 11:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mental health service platform launched
Zimbabwe faces a critical shortage of mental health professionals, with only 17 psychiatrists and 900 mental health nurses available to serve the whole country.Speaking at a combined commemora...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 07:40hrs | 103 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's statement on World Mental Health Day
Today it is the World Mental Health Day, a very important occasion where we stop and reflect on how we would have spent the previous year looking after the most import part of the human body, the mind...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 14:45hrs | | by Advocate Nelson Chamisa
Nelson Chamisa’s statement on World Mental Health Day
Today it is the World Mental Health Day, a very important occasion where we stop and reflect on how we would have spent the previous year looking after the most import part of the human body, the mind...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 11:40hrs | 675 | by Nelson Chamisa
Medical Marijuana: Taking The Market By Storm
Pot, Weed, Blunt, Joint, MJ, Ganja, Hemp, or only Marijuana. A plant that was proven to inhibit medicinal properties that can cure different illnesses and ...Published: 08 Oct 2019 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff Writer
Exhumation in the context of Gukurahundi and Ndebele thought
AS efforts continue to find closure to the Gukurahundi conundrum, hopes are being raised that there might be some light at the end of the tunnel. While people may be speaking freely on the subject, cl...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 17:01hrs | | by Pathisa Nyathi
MSU, Zupco seal bus deal
The Midlands State University (MSU) has sealed a deal with ZUPCO to have a bus that plies the town - Senga route for students only.Students are expected to produce their school identity cards ...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 20:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
What are behavioral disorders and how can they be managed?
We often hear people talk of behavioral disorders but most of those around us have no idea what they are. This article seeks to demystify and equip parents and guardians with the basic knowledge on ho...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 16:53hrs | | by Temba Munsaka
Hard-pressed Zimbabweans resort to gambling for survival
When a local pub in the southern city of Masvingo introduced four casino slot machines, *Tendai Moyo went there "just for the fun of it".After all, it was his first time to gamble.A fe...Published: 01 Oct 2019 at 14:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cheating man beaten to death
A NYANGA man was on Tuesday evening assaulted to death after he was caught having sex with a married woman.James Nyakapanga (36) was having the time of his life with Chipo Guta nee Boterere, w...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 13:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Forex pricing ban vital
The nonsense Zimbabwe saw in the first fortnight of September in foreign exchange markets, whose serious and unnecessary side-effects may well be felt for months, was an example of how a small number ...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 13:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man found hanging in suspected murder case
A MAN believed to be in his 30s was found hanging on a shrub in Bulawayo, amid suspicion that he could have been murdered and hanged.Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector Abednego Ncube yeste...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 09:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
In your wildest imagination did you ever envisage Zim would have a reincarnation of the devil Mugabe in Mnangagwa?
The removal of Mugabe was an unexpected early Christmas present in November 2017.We threw away our differences as we cheered the removal of one of Africa's dictators who had brought Zimbabwe on its kn...Published: 26 Sep 2019 at 07:50hrs | | by AT Kadada
Suicide pastor's mother dies hours after her son's tragic incident
THE mother of a 59-year-old senior pastor with Upper Room Ministries, Bishop Berry Dambaza who committed suicide yesterday in the city has died.Dambaza died after apparently throwing himself f...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 15:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pastor commits suicide after walking in on cheating wife
A Harare cleric on Monday threw himself to death from the 4th floor of a city building in an apparent suicide case that sources claimed was linked to domestic issues.Gospel author and senior p...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 08:31hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Prominent preacher falls to his death from a fourth-floor car park
Prominent Harare preacher and gospel author Bishop Berry Dambaza died on Monday after falling to his death from a fourth-floor car park.Police were called after a man was seen dropping four fl...Published: 23 Sep 2019 at 17:00hrs | 6423 | by ZimLive
Remembering Dr Mzee: Soul of the nation
CDE SIMON Muzenda, who had his last breath on September 20, 2003 at Parirenyatwa Hospital, was declared a national hero and buried at the National Heroes Acre in Harare. On Friday, the nation commemor...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 10:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Suspected 'wizard' identified
The young who had been mistakenly identified as a wizard, is believed to be suffering from mental illness.A young man who had been mistakenly identified as a wizard after he was found undresse...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 19:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Moving on from Mugabe era
BEING in Harare in the past two weeks has been quite an experience. The Robert Mugabe era has finally closed after his death in Singapore on September 6, even through he is yet to be buried.Bu...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 08:32hrs | | by Eddie Cross
Suicide cases rise
The African Institute for Ending Bullying Depression and Suicide (AIEBDS) has raised concern over the spike in suicide cases in Zimbabwe after the country recorded 129 cases in the first quarter of th...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 11:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's 'dodgy donator' 'already dead' at time of crash - report
A private pathology report has reportedly revealed that former Bosasa boss Gavin Watson was already dead before he crashed his company car into a concrete pillar at the OR Tambo International Airport ...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Robber' tries to commit suicide at police station
A SUSPECTED armed robber who allegedly tried to escape through a window at Pumula Police Station in Bulawayo has told a court how he threw himself at the window to commit suicide. The suspect ...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Open Letter to the soul of R.G. Mugabe (currently in the purgatory)
Dear Comrade RG, I know that you are currently in the purgatory while waiting for your verdict from the almighty. There is no doubt that you are in great fear and shivering. Your chances of go...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 11:58hrs | | by Don Chigumba
'Zimbabwe records more suicide cases in 2019'
Zimbabwe recorded more cases of suicide in the first quarter on 2019 than the previous year, an indication that the country needs to open up discourse on the subject.Suicide, as defined by the...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 06:47hrs | 97 | by Staff reporter
Granny attempts suicide after being raped by Gumbura cleric
A 63-YEAR-OLD Chivhu woman attempted to kill herself after she was allegedly raped by a pastor belonging to convicted rapist Robert Martin Gumbura's RMG Independent End Time Message Church.Wal...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 20:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man (29) fatally axes wife, 2 children
A 29-YEAR-OLD man from Wedza fatally axed his wife and two children, one of them a one-month-old infant, before drinking a tobacco pesticide in a bid to commit suicide.Innocent Chakabuda of Pl...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Man axes wife, 2 children
A 29-YEAR-OLD man from Wedza fatally axed his wife and two children, one of them a one-month-old infant, before drinking a tobacco pesticide in a bid to commit suicide.Innocent Chakabuda of Pl...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man beats son to death, fails at suicide
IN a fit of rage, a man from Sizinda suburb in Bulawayo allegedly beat his son to death with an iron bar for breaking a neighbour's window before attempting to commit suicide by drinking a pesticide. ...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Africa'second revolution whose time has come: Breaking-away from oppressive partisan poverty politics
The high-sounding and inspirational liberation of the entire of Africa by political parties and liberation movements that lost its cause! The law-abiding citizens that have been reduced to the level o...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 21:20hrs | | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Drama at prison officer's funeral
There was drama at a Harare based prison officer's foiled burial in Guruve last week where relatives' of the deceased's wife stopped burial proceedings alleging that the deceased was murdered rather t...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 08:45hrs | | by Simba Sithole
'Zanu PF media ad hominem attacks on ambassadors is insulting' - remain focused and tighten screw
"President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government appeared determined to commit diplomatic hara-kiri - ritual suicide by disembowelment with a sword, which used to be practised in Japan - with its officials ...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 15:54hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
EU Ambassador fumes at The Herald's 'freedom of speech'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government appeared determined to commit diplomatic hara-kiri - ritual suicide by disembowelment with a sword, which used to be practised in Japan - with its officials a...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 08:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa committed political suicide'
CONTROVERSIAL Zanu-PF-linked cleric Obadiah Msindo has claimed that opposition MDC leader Nelson Chamisa lost a golden opportunity to push for electoral reforms for the 2023 general elections when he ...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man drowns self after thinking he killed wife
A 42 year old man committed suicide by throwing himself into Lake Kariba after he thought he had killed his wife with whom he had a misunderstanding. According to the police, the man had a mis...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 17:24hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Taxi driver commits suicide over clamped car
A 41-YEAR-OLD Zvishavane taxi driver on Monday committed suicide by drinking poison in protest after his cab had been clamped by municipal police in the town's central business district.Tasara...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wife basher found dead in Lake Kariba
A 42-year-old man committed suicide in Kariba on Tuesday afternoon after he had assaulted his wife following a misunderstanding at their home. The man, whose name was still being withheld yest...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Clamped taxi driver suicide at municipal cop's house
A ZVISHAVANE taxi driver allegedly committed suicide by consuming a pesticide at the house of a municipal police officer who had clamped his taxi in the town's Central Business District. Frust...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man kills self over daughter's lobola
A CHINHOYI man hanged himself after receiving news that his daughter had died before her husband paid lobola.Mashonaland West provincial police spokesperson Inspector Clemence Mabgweazara conf...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Form 4 pupil found hanging at Bulawayo beerhall
A FORM Four pupil at Msiteli High School was found hanging from a roof truss at a beerhall near his home on Friday in a suspected case of foul play. Nhlanhla Radasa (17) of Bulawayo's Ts...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Don't shoot on Friday
The Vigil demonstrated on Saturday against the failure of the government to implement the recommendations of the Motlanthe Commission of Inquiry into the army's murder of unarmed civilians during a de...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 18:21hrs | | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Beitbridge records 4 sudden deaths
BEITBRIDGE has in the last seven days recorded four sudden deaths, with two-suspected suicides.An 84-year-old man from Nuli, who cannot be named, allegedly took his life in an apparent case of...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 15:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sex scandal hits school
A massive sex scandal has hit Mahlothova Secondary School in Umguza District, Matabeleland North amid allegations that one Form Three girl dropped out of school after being continuously defiled by one...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 09:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman kills son, self over 'economic hardships' in Zimbabwe
A 31-YEAR-OLD Mutare woman killed herself and her son by lacing their food with rat poison citing economic hardships.Manicaland police spokesperson Inspector Tavhiringwa Kakohwa confirmed the ...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 09:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
A political career built on jecha
To be or not to be, is the question Nelson? Well, they say, trying to talk sense to Nelson Chamisa is as good as winking at a blind person. It is a horrible waste of time. He sees nothing. Now it's a ...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 09:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Accepting abnormality as normal in Zimbabwe
The ruling Zanu-PF party has mastered the art of destruction since the early 80s.The year 1980, when all Zimbabweans rejoiced for a country free from colonial oppression marked the path of destruction...Published: 01 Aug 2019 at 13:16hrs | | by AT Kadada
MDC warned against 'suicide protests'
Deputy government spokesperson Dr Energy Mutodi has warned the opposition MDC from engaging in violent protests saying that will be similar to tempting God. "MDC Luke Tamborinyoka says governm...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 13:29hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Man commits suicide over $600 bet loss
A CHINHOYI man committed suicide after he reportedly lost $600 on gambling.Mashonaland West police spokesperson, Inspector Clemence Mabgweazara yesterday confirmed the death of Clemence Hamufa...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC at crossroads: Damned if they do, damned if they don't
FOR the best part of the last 12 months, the MDC has been threatening to roll out demonstrations and mass protests to either force President Emmerson Mnangagwa out of power or at least to the negotiat...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 08:06hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
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