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Killer Zivhu readmitted back to Zanu-PF
Former Chivi South MP Killer Zivhu has been readmitted to Zanu-PF without any conditions.Zivhu was expelled from Zanu-PF in 2020 on charges of misconduct after he wrote on his Twitter handle t...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 18:14hrs | 2777 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF wins 2 council by-elections
Zanu-PF has won Harare Ward 36 and Chinhoyi Ward 4 after defeating opposition candidates in Saturday by-elections.The Harare Municipality by-election was necessitated by the recall of former c...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 04:50hrs | 269 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP ordered to vacate farm
KAROI magistrate Moreblessing Makati on Friday fined Zanu-PF Hurungwe East legislator Chenjerai Kangausaru and ordered him to vacate Chitonga Farm he had occupied using forged documents. ...Published: 26 Feb 2024 at 04:53hrs | 1515 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's ruling elite and the quest for one-party rule
Since 1980, the Zanublack government has replicated the colonial white minority government tactics of suppressing opposition and alternative views.This is a special note to assist friends in t...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 17:25hrs | 1095 | by Tapiwa Shumba political analyst
Jabulani Sibanda urges Zimbabweans to shun tribalism
Zanu-PF provincial chairperson for Bulawayo Jabulani Sibanda has urged Zimbabweans to shun tribalism to ensure unity and development.The former Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veteran Associa...Published: 24 Jan 2024 at 04:51hrs | 1015 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1298 | by Staff reporter
'Biti had motive to attack Aleshina'
Deputy Prosecutor-General Mr Michael Reza yesterday said opposition politician and lawyer Tendai Biti had the motive and opportunity to assault businesswoman Mrs Tatiana Aleshina after an altercation ...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 05:00hrs | 159 | by Staff reporter
List of renamed places in Zimbabwe
Place names in Zimbabwe, including the name of the country itself, have been altered at various points in history. The name Zimbabwe was officially adopted concurrently with Britain's grant of indepen...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 16:46hrs | 1912 | by Wikipedia
Tears of Zimbabwean single mothers in the UK
SOME Zimbabwean single mothers based in the United Kingdom (UK), struggling to secure visas for their children to join them abroad, were dealt a severe blow following the introduction of tough immigra...Published: 13 Dec 2023 at 05:15hrs | 1386 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa loyalist threatens councillors
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Masvingo City Councillors are under fire from the party and were threatened for failing to attend the ward 2 by-election campaign launch last weekend by the par...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 19:03hrs | 571 | by Staff reporter
'Recalled Makone still running Harare'
RECALLED Harare mayor Ian Makone is still running the municipality behind the scenes advising his inexperienced successor Lovejoy Chitengu.Chitengu was recently elected mayor of Harare after M...Published: 01 Dec 2023 at 04:56hrs | 420 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe is unlikely to have a Ndebele President,' says CCC Spokesperson
Promise Mkwananzi, the spokesperson of the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), asserted that the focus on tribalism diminishes the likelihood of having a Ndebele President. He made these r...Published: 29 Oct 2023 at 15:03hrs | 1603 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans welcome passport offices in South Africa
Zimbabweans residing in South Africa have expressed their approval of the government's initiative to establish e-passport and national identity card application and enrollment centers within the neigh...Published: 15 Oct 2023 at 18:52hrs | 1025 | by Staff reporter
Spirit of vengeance cited in Lupane double murder
Spiritual leaders believe that Clever Ngwenya of Gwalubha village in Lupane District, who brutally killed his elderly parents, may have been influenced by vengeful spirits haunting him.Clever ...Published: 26 Sep 2023 at 06:18hrs | 630 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe nearing a fully-fledged family dynasty!
Last week, a reporter with a national daily newspaper phoned for my opinion on how I believed the country's new Cabinet should be constituted.This was after the recently-held hotly disputed ha...Published: 12 Sep 2023 at 14:11hrs | 1964 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
South African woman launches heartfelt search for long-lost family in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
South Africa - Smangele Khumalo, a South African resident, has embarked on an emotional journey in search of her long-lost family in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Armed with limited information about her relati...Published: 12 Sep 2023 at 13:18hrs | 1455 | by Moyo Roy
ZEC spells out election day conduct
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) yesterday released a list of activities that are not permitted within a 300-metre radius of a polling station on election day next Wednesday.Posting on ...Published: 18 Aug 2023 at 06:54hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Landlord vs lodger: The battle continues
"LANDLORD fatally stabbed by lodger over rent!" screamed a newspaper headline.In 2021, Prayer Banda (22) of Mbizo 18 in Kwekwe, was fatally stabbed by his lodger Victor Moyo (24), following a ...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 08:19hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
New ZAOGA leader pokes Manyeruke family
IN a controversial sermon, the newly appointed leader of ZAOGA Joe Guti has brewed a storm by telling his followers to stay "focused" unlike veteran gospel musician Baba Manyeruke and his son Guspy Wa...Published: 30 Jul 2023 at 09:04hrs | 35 | by Staff reporter
30% of marriages collapse within five years
KEEPING marriages intact has seemingly become a mammoth task for newlyweds, if statistics provided by the Judiciary Service Commission (JSC) are anything to go by.At least 30 percent of new ma...Published: 23 Jul 2023 at 08:03hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe voters' roll searchable, analysable'
The voters' role being distributed to candidates is searchable and analysable, but is in a format that cannot be altered or tampered with, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has said, rubbishing ...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 08:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Paternity shock for divorcee: DNA test shatters man's life
GREAT betrayal!Mkhululi Rodwell Khumalo's whole world apparently turned upside down after he discovered that the child he had been calling his biological daughter for five years was not his....Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 06:30hrs | 101 | by Staff reporter
Ostallos Siziba/va's surname sparks huge debate on Twitter
Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Deputy Spokesperson Ostallos's surname has taken social media by storm.There is a debate raging as to what Ostallos's real surname is. He is...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 09:32hrs | 85 | by Staff reporter
The Ngungumbane Chieftaincy of Mpateni
Today we look at the Ndebele community of Chief Ngungumbane which was relocated to Mberengwa in the late 1920s. Their migration story is similar to that of the Chief Gwebu community of Buhera....Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 21:30hrs | 7 | by Mzala Tom
Here are options for Zimbabweans to stay in South Africa
While there might be alternative options for Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) holders to remain in the country after the permits expire, these options are not viable and are hard to acquire, an exper...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 08:09hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
JSC appoints Electoral Court judges, 5 out of 35 have Ndebele surnames
The Judicial Service Commission has appointed 35 High Court judges and 76 magistrates in all 10 provinces to arbitrate in electoral disputes and ensure rapid trial for political violence over the next...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 06:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa closes out Bulawayo big names
CONFUSION engulfed the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) when all Bulawayo Members of Parliament and councillors who were not recalled had a shock of their lives yesterday when their name...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 08:33hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Names vanish from Zimbabwe voters roll
THE on-going Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) voters roll inspection exercise has exposed major anomalies as many people including prominent opposition politicians could not locate their names on t...Published: 30 May 2023 at 06:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Anti-riot police disrupt CCC media address outside ZEC offices
Truncheon wielding anti-riot police on Monday ordered Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) officials to stop addressing journalists just outside the perimeter wall of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission'...Published: 29 May 2023 at 19:38hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
CCC pushes for urgent ZEC meeting to raise voters' roll anomalies
Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has written to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) seeking audience with the poll management authority so as to point out some "serious irregularitie...Published: 29 May 2023 at 19:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Uebert Angel telling lies'
UNDERCOVER journalists who were posing as Chinese gangsters seeking to smuggle US$1.2 billion in Al Jazeera's four-episode investigative documentary have denied ever desiring to meet President Emmerso...Published: 08 May 2023 at 19:06hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Baby refused birth registration in South Africa because dad is a Zimbabwean
With the intervention of the court, a child born nearly four years ago will, for the first time, officially have a name and legal standing in South Africa after bureaucratic red tape has denied him of...Published: 06 May 2023 at 06:38hrs | 10 | by Zelda Venter for Pretoria News
CIO bosses dismiss Uebert Angel claims on their role in Gold Mafia
STATE security service Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) bosses say President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Envoy and Ambassador-at-Large Uebert Angel (real surname Mudzanire), a selfstyled prophet, dang...Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 17:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC candidates chicken out of the Cowdray Park race
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) aspiring candidates in Bulawayo are reportedly chickening out of Cowdray Park constituency after sensing a humiliating defeat at the hands of ZANU PF's Professor Mt...Published: 31 Mar 2023 at 11:53hrs | 9 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Cyril Ramaphosa's real surmame revealed
South African opposition leader Julius Malema has claimed that the real surname of South African President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa is Mennel. Malema was speaking during the #EFFNationalShutdo...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 20:22hrs | 191 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Man in court for defrauding civil servants
A KUWADZANA man is in court facing charges of defrauding a civil servant after claiming that he had a company that could issue them with loans.The accused, Wylie Ligomeka (41) was today remand...Published: 28 Feb 2023 at 07:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Deputy minister testifies in fraud case
FORMER Alouvine Investments Private Limited company director, Rudo Sarudzayi Mapfumo, allegedly defrauded Deputy Minister of Health and Child Care Dr John Mangwiro of over US$100 000 after reselling a...Published: 27 Feb 2023 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
White skin, black masks!
Two developments caught my attention this week. One is a Brenthurst Foundation scholarship invitation to young Africans intent on pursuing postgraduate studies.Brenthurst Foundation is owned a...Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 18:08hrs | 14 | by Jamwanda
Umjolo app launched - 'Thou shall not commit adultery'
Walter Mbano, a 31-year-old man from Pumula South Bulawayo has launched an Application called "Bae Tracker" which is meant to keep relationship partners loyal to each other.The Application is ...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:01hrs | 14 | by Mzingaye Nxumalo
Mthwakazi Republic Party threatens mass action
The Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has threatened mass action if the preliminary delimitation report produced by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) is adopted in its current form.The part...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 13:59hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Sex work now the 'most mentioned source of income' in Harare
High unemployment and the increasing cost of living are fuelling a rise in sex work in Zimbabwe.It is now the most mentioned source of income in Harare, according to a survey by the Zimbabwe C...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:10hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Police name 11 suspects wanted for How Mine robbery, reward offered
Police on Wednesday released names of 11 people they say are wanted over the October 4 gun robbery of a cash-in-transit van carrying gold from How Mine to Fidelity Printers in Bulawayo.Nationa...Published: 19 Oct 2022 at 20:28hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa is trying to re-brand himself as a constructive opposition figure
Born-Again Nelson?I NOTICE Nelson Chamisa is trying to re-brand himself as a constructive opposition figure, constructive in the mould of his bete noire...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 19:06hrs | 10 | by Jamwanda2
Tinashe Kambarami 'mocks' Bulawayo Deputy Mayor Mlandu Ncube
Former Deputy Mayor Tinashe Kambarami has mocked and denigrated the current Deputy Mayor Councillor Mlandu Ncube calling him deregatory as Councillor Murandu eight times in a letter from his lawyer to...Published: 28 Aug 2022 at 16:16hrs | 5 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Voters roll perfect, claims Zec
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) yesterday claimed that its voters roll was "very perfect" after only 1% of registered voters made corrections to their details.Statistics released by Ze...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
CCC to challenge Zec appointments
ZIMBABWEANS must not fret over personalities in the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) but focus on the reform of the election mother body ahead of the 2023 elections, says opposition CCC leader Nels...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 08:00hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
POLAD electoral reform declaration forces ZEC to announce results in 72 hours
The Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD), a grouping of 16 political parties which took part in the 2018 elections, including Zanu-PF, has released a declaration recommending electoral reforms before nex...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 07:37hrs | 8 | by Mduduzi Mathuthu
Shiri's estate wrangle takes another twist
SOME relatives of the late former Lands and Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri appear to have acquired multiple names to fraudulently benefit from the national hero's estate.A wrangle over th...Published: 08 Jul 2022 at 07:37hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
WhatsApp prophet makes waves
WE have seen a boom of prophets who use spiritual hangers, padlock, spectacles, anointing oil and handkerchiefs that are believed to have powers to heal different ailments and restore broken marriages...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:13hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Mashonaland Central needs Mnangagwa's intervention
On the 26th of April 2018 Government spokesperson Nick Mangwana said, "A titanic battle in Mazowe West on Sunday. Tafadzwa Musarara vs Kazembe Kazembe. But Anastencia Mazikana, Chrispen Mataire, Richa...Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 09:14hrs | 12 | by Taurai Zhou
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