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Zimbabwe will not regret taking back land!
ON January 1, 1994, a group of indigenous Mexicans took up arms against their government in what became known as "the struggle of the Zapatistas".While the idea of an armed insurgency was quic...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 12:19hrs | 74 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
'With immediate effect, I no longer have anything to do with CCC!' Is this the end of the phoney 'Change Champion in Chief' epoc
"With immediate effect, I no longer have anything to do with CCC!" announced Nelson Chamisa.Could this be the turning point in Zimbabwe's turbulent and chaotic political history? I for one, wo...Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 19:47hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
2 company bosses in court over Zambia rendition of truck driver
Two bosses of a trucking company in Harare appeared in court on Thursday accused of the extrajudicial rendition of a truck driver from Zimbabwe to Zambia, after accusing him of losing a fertilizer con...Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 12:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man's manhood hacked off over infidelity
Police in Marondera, Mashonaland East province, have arrested a 24-year-old woman who cut his boyfriend's manhood using a broken mirror over infidelity.The victim, Thomas Masarirenhamo (43), i...Published: 09 Sep 2023 at 08:04hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Bussed Zanu-PF supporters excites Mnangagwa
President Emerson Mnangagwa praised Mashonaland East province on Saturday for mobilising the largest gathering, so far, of ruling Zanu-PF supporters for his presidential election rally at Mutawatawa i...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 18:02hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Notorious cattle rustler arrested over 4 beasts
Notorious alleged cattle rustler Elson Chimutunga (40) from Marondera District, was arrested yesterday after being found with two slaughtered beasts, while two live animals were tied to a tree....Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chief tells govt to 'pamper us some more'
ONE of the country's traditional leaders has told government to give them more freebies for them to earn respect from their subjects.The new demands come hardly a month after President Emerson...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Spirit medium vs police: A clash of beliefs at Wenimbi Dam
WHERE do we draw the line between reality and belief?Who do you believe, a mouthpiece of the unseen or an account of an elite trained squad whose experience tells a story of service?Th...Published: 11 Mar 2023 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mutami will be waiting for Mnangagwa at UN General Assembly
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will fly into a storm if he attends the 77th United Nations General Assembly in New York, United States, next month as Susan Mutami, the Australian-based local woman who a...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 19:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pomona deal exposes MDC councillors
THE names of the Harare City councillors involved in the controversial Pomona waste management deal which will see residents forking out US$22 000 per day have been revealed.The controversial ...Published: 28 May 2022 at 08:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Joshua Maponga apologises to Ndebeles over Gukurahundi rant
Former Seventh Day Adventist Bishop Joshua Maponga has issued an apology to the people of Zimbabwe after he posted an article saying the people of Matabeleland should forgive the Shona people of the G...Published: 07 Mar 2022 at 10:23hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Woman in trouble over virginity testing
A 47-YEAR-OLD Marondera woman has been arrested for allegedly inserting a cooking stick in her 14-year-old stepdaughter's private parts to test if she was still a virgin.The woman from Gomo vi...Published: 16 Dec 2021 at 23:29hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
FLASHBACK: Mnangagwa's November letter to Zimbabweans (2017)
My family was banished to Zambia when I was still in primary school for resisting the oppressive rule of the white minority regime in 1955. This action hardened my resolve for justice and black empowe...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 12:45hrs | 10 | by Emmerson Mnangagwa
NetOne remembers Wedza
Mobile telecommunication giant NetOne yesterday launched a 3G/4G base station in Chanakira village, the heart of Ward 9 in Wedza under Chief Svosve , as it moves towards achieving the goal of establis...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 08:54hrs | 2 | by Alice Mangwanda
MDC-T province wants party to recall more Chamisa MPs, councilors
THE MDC-T's Matabeleland North province has written to the party's national leadership recommending the recalling of MDC Alliance legislators, councilors as well as some members of the party's p...Published: 28 Aug 2021 at 21:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to commission dam
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is today expected to commission Causeway Dam outside Marondera that is set to benefit close to 200 farmers.The dam, which forced the relocation of 146 families, wa...Published: 13 May 2021 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Residents clock 30 years without tap water'
THE Community Water Alliance (CWA) yesterday called for urgency in addressing water challenges in Harare's Mabvuku-Tafara high density suburbs where residents have gone for 30 years without running wa...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe parlours downplay spiralling deaths
ZIMBABWE'S funeral assurance sector has allayed fears of possible collapse as the COVID-19 scourge intensifies and affects capacity to meet policyholder claims.Taka Svosve, the Zimbabwe Associ...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Aeneas Chigwedere dies of Covid-19-related complications
Former education minister, Mashonaland East governor and historian Aeneas Chigwedere has died at the age of 81. His son Casper said his father died following "Covid-19 related complications"...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe funeral parlours overwhelmed by COVID-19
AS AUTHORITIES continue to battle to contain the deadly coronavirus, amid alarming deaths and new infections in the country, Zimbabwe's stretched funeral parlours say they are now being overwhelmed by...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 13:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: 'The Second Republic'; Land history; Ownership and Productivity in the Post Mugabe era
The Author is a Master of Science in International Trade and Diplomacy student at the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a MSc degree in Development Studies (National University of Science and Technolog...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 21:34hrs | 2 | by Livingstone Kazizi
Zimbabwe: 'The Second Republic'; Land history; Ownership and Productivity in the Post Mugabe Era
The Author is a Master of Science in International Trade and Diplomacy student at the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a MSc degree in Development Studies (National University of Science and Technolog...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 12:32hrs | 4 | by Livingstone Kazizi
Excavator operator kills security guard
A SECURITY guard at Salgro Investment in Rushinga, Mashonaland Central province died yesterday when an excavator uprooted a mango tree he was on.Trust Manyanga (24) succumbed to injuries susta...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Security guard 'killed' on mango tree
A SECURITY guard at Salgro investment in Rushinga, Mashonaland Central province died yesterday after he was seriously injured by an excavator which uprooted a mango tree he was on.Manyanga Tru...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 15:26hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Violence erupts in Mash Central as ZANU PF internal wars escalate
The battle for Mazowe DCC Chairmanship has reached another level with reports of violence now before the courts. ZANU PF Concession District youth official Paul Kasvosve was severely assaulted by a Ka...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 09:48hrs | | by Claris Magwenzi Freelance journalist
Man axes wife, children in paternity row
IN a spine-chilling incident that left people in Village 4 under Chief Svosve in Hwedza shocked, a man axed his wife and two children to death after she allegedly told him, he was not the biological f...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Good Samaritan stabbed to death
A GOOD Samaritan, who was assisting police officers to arrest an assault suspect in rural Marondera, was stabbed to death after manhandling the suspect.Kennedy Nyandoro (38) of Mudzimukunzi vi...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 07:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Three cattle rustlers jailed
Three cattle rustlers were slapped with a nine year jail term each by a Kwekwe magistrate yesterday after stealing two heifers. The convicts shot and skinned them in the bush.The trio, T...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Ndiweni, the chief who dared bell the cat
IF ever you did history in a Zimbabwean school or at least watched ZBC-TV, you are sure to have come across the name of Manicaland traditional leader Chief Rekayi Tangwena, who is famed for helping Ro...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 07:32hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
'Zimbabwe under-reported cholera deaths'
The recent cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe could have killed over 100 people amid fears an official government count did not capture a majority of the deaths in a bid to conceal negligence.Offici...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 14:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chigwedere plots to dethrone Chief Svosve
Former Education minister Aeneas Chigwedere has filed an affidavit in support of a High Court application filed on October 7 by one Aaron Maruta, who is seeking to dethrone Chief Svosve, real name Wes...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru armed robber appear in court
A suspected armed robber who has been on the run since January after reportedly hijacking the daughter of National People's Party (NPP) leader Joice Mujuru appeared in court on Saturday.Tatend...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 18:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
War vets, polling agents push for ex-minister ouster
WAR veterans and Zanu PF electoral agents in the July harmonised elections in Hwedza are pushing for the ouster of former Mashonaland East resident minister David Musabayana from Parliament, alleging ...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Form 1 pupil impregnates own cousin
Chief Makope has expressed dismay over three cases of incest by school children in his area of jurisdiction.According to Makope a cousin brother and a sister from Mbari Secondary school in Mvu...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 19:47hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Why rural vote is heart, soul of Zimbabwean democracy
Rural folk did not limit their usefulness to war times because even when we got political independence, the country still needed to protect itself from cultural and economic colonisers. In thi...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 06:32hrs | | by Charles Motsi
Why the rural vote is the heart and soul of Zimbabwean democracy
Now that all the hullaballoo of who won, who lost; who has V11 forms, who doesn't and whose lawyers have a richer bag of English tongue twisters is over, we can now critically reflect on what the elec...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 15:13hrs | | by Charles Motsi
'Senzeni na' guitarist dies
David Dumingo, the guitarist who played that soulful, mournfu leadl guitar on Senzeni Na is late.This was confirmed by Albert Nyathi who worked with him in the production of the song."...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 07:05hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Chigwedere, son ordered to get paternity tests
Former Education minister Aeneas Chigwedere has been ordered to have his son Mangwiza undergo a paternity test after the politician disowned his offspring after he accused him of practicing witchcraft...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 09:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ex evicts dead hubby
MOURNERS were forced to conduct a burial service in a field after the deceased's former wife forced them out of her house.The incident took place at Mangwena village under chief Svosve in Wedz...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 17:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to meet opposition leaders
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday said he will meet with opposition leaders soon, now that the nomination process is over and together they will commit to holding free, fair, credible and peaceful electio...Published: 16 Jun 2018 at 21:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF councillor beds jailed cattle rustler' wife
A ZANU-PF councillor has appeared before Chief Svosve's traditional court facing charges of conducting an illicit affair with woman whose husband was serving time in prison for stock theft.Jos...Published: 07 Jun 2018 at 15:13hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Zanu-PF supporters bay for 'fraudulent' minister's head
THOUSANDS of Zanu-PF supporters from Hwedza constituency have petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa calling for the immediate expulsion of Mashonaland East Provincial Affairs minister David Musayaba...Published: 06 Jun 2018 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiefs bay for minister's head
MASHONALAND East Provincial Affairs minister David Musabayana is in trouble with traditional leaders who have demanded that he be recalled as Zanu PF's candidate for Hwedza North constituency in the f...Published: 16 May 2018 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's sister burial tomorrow
The late Margaret Machekabuwa, sister to Vice President Constantino Chiwenga who passed away on Saturday, will be buried tomorrow at 10am at Machekabuwa Farm in Marondera.She succumbed to an a...Published: 07 May 2018 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Court petitioned to fire Terrence Mukupe
An urgent chamber application has been filed in the High Court seeking to have deputy Finance and Economic Development minister Terence Mukupe relieved of his duties following accusations that he assa...Published: 28 Apr 2018 at 14:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wife sets self ablaze over isitshwala
A MARONDERA woman allegedly set herself ablaze after a heated argument with her husband over the family staple diet, isitshwala.Wadzanai Nadzo, of Plot 28, Masomera, under Chief Svosve, died f...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman sues dead man
A Harare woman whose plea for a peace order was dismissed at the civil court on grounds of merit sued a man who passed away in 2009 in a bid to recover property at a piece of land she was evicted from...Published: 05 Mar 2018 at 14:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bus firm ordered to pay accident victim's wife $60k compensation
THE High Court has ordered a luxury bus company Pathfinder to pay $60 000 compensation to a woman who lost her husband in an accident which occurred along Harare-Bulawayo highway near Shangani in 2013...Published: 19 Feb 2018 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 'Mr Fix It'
Father Fidelis Mukonori is without doubt the man-of-the-moment in political circles today, propelled to these lofty heights by the role he played in bringing in a "New Dawn" in Zimbabwe, making him on...Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 08:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangangwa's early days, political career
BORN on 15 September 1942 in Zvishavane in the Midlands Province of Zimbabwe in a farmer family that was aggressively anti establishment, President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa's family had an abrasive...Published: 26 Nov 2017 at 08:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
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