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Truck driver sentenced to 4 years for fatal road accident
A truck driver who was found negligent in a road traffic accident that resulted in the deaths of six people has been sentenced to four years' imprisonment. Denny Taziva, 36, appeared before the Nyanga...Published: 08 Feb 2025 at 12:51hrs | 537 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe School of Infantry renamed to Lookout Masuku Barracks
Government has renamed the Zimbabwe School of Infantry to Lookout Masuku Barracks. The new name was announced at the last cabinet meeting of 2024....Published: 17 Dec 2024 at 16:07hrs | 1336 | by Staff reporter
CMED apprenticeship intake jobs
TRAINING INTAKEApprenticeship Intake JobsCMED Private Limited Expires 25 Oct 2024 Harare Full-TimeJob DescriptionApplications are invited for the Apprenticeship Trainin...Published: 15 Oct 2024 at 14:29hrs | 1204 | by Staff reporter
Dairibord has no plans to exit Zimbabwe
Dairibord Holdings has firmly dismissed recent online reports suggesting that the company is planning to shut down its operations in Zimbabwe and relocate to South Africa. The group has reaffirmed its...Published: 09 Oct 2024 at 07:36hrs | 306 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabweans are more divided than ever before'
ZAPU says Zimbabweans are more divided than ever before as there is no unity whatsoever, to warrant a whole public holiday, under the guise of commemorating the pivotal signing of the Unity Accord bet...Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 13:44hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
How ZPRA, ZANLA were allocated camps in Entumbane
WE round-up our interview with former freedom fighter Lieutenant-Colonel (Rtd) Alson Masilinge Muleya. Lt-Col (Rtd) Muleya who trained as a regular officer cadet at the Zambian Military Academy in Koh...Published: 08 Oct 2023 at 07:51hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa claims Zanu-PF fulfilled 2018 election promises
AS Zimbabweans continue to suffocate under the hyperinflation environment and many other challenges, President Emmerson Mnangagwa says much has been achieved by the Second Republic in last five years....Published: 25 Jun 2023 at 09:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
17,000 Zimbabweans leave for UK care work
THE number of Zimbabweans leaving for care and support jobs in the United Kingdom jumped 562 percent to more than 17,000 last year but the escape option may close as the Tory administration faces a hu...Published: 28 May 2023 at 08:12hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Ambassador Mandigora dies
War veteran, diplomat and former Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) chief executive Ambassador Thomas Mandigora has died.The former Ambassador to Botswana died at his home in Gletwyn, Ha...Published: 22 May 2023 at 06:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Today's ZANU PF supporters likely to have backed colonial rule!
It is quite scary witnessing how ZANU PF supporters are always so ready and too eager to defend the brutal oppressive reign of the Zimbabwe regime. Whenever I come across the numerous posts on...Published: 05 Jan 2023 at 12:02hrs | 13 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa regime worse agents of imperialism and puppets of Chinese colonialism
The study of history has always been my passion from a tender age. Whether it is that of the Americas, Europe, or Asia - anything can touches on a people's past and even present (as that would...Published: 18 Dec 2022 at 18:45hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The enablers of Shona hegemony and enemies of Mthwakazi's peoples' emancipation from the MLF President
Greetings to all!, The compilation of this article identifies the enablers of Shona hegemony among others as the so-called "ZPRA Legacy Group". This group is comprised of charlatans who are in...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 09:37hrs | 16 | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Mnangagwa says 'Never challenge, breach or compromise Unity Accord'
THE 1987 Unity Accord is a key pillar of national peace and stability, and should never be challenged, breached or compromised, President Mnangagwa has said.Writing in his weekly column, publi...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:26hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Harare street-lighting project takes off
THE City of Harare has embarked on a smart street-lighting pilot project covering 35km of the capital city's major road network."The project covers Airport Road, Seke Road, Julius Nyerere Way,...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Top Army Boss dies
The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA)is mourning the death of the country's Defence Attaché to Botswana, Colonel John Mhlanga who died on Tuesday after he was involved in a fatal road accident along the B...Published: 22 Apr 2022 at 16:24hrs | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Accident scene a black spot
THE place where four staff members from the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) perished while two others sustained injuries in an accident, which occurred on the 38km peg along the Nyanga-Ruwan...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man kills mentally challenged mother
NYANGA villagers were on Tuesday left dumbfounded after a man axed his mentally challenged mother to death over an undisclosed matter.Manicaland provincial police spokesperson Inspector Luxon ...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 07:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Heroes Acre without Mugabe: incomplete history of Zimbabwe
Robert Gabriel Mugabe ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years from 1980-2017 and despite being shunned by many, the nonagenarian had managed to protect the country's legacy. The late President fast tracked ...Published: 29 May 2021 at 14:05hrs | 1 | by Tatenda Murenjekwa
Mugabe exhumation saga sucks in Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been sucked into the exhumation of the late former president Robert Mugabe's remains saga after it emerged he chaired a high-level meeting of the deceased strongman's ...Published: 21 May 2021 at 06:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Independence Day' a continual reminder of how Zimbabweans are still in painful bondage
I have never had any hesitation asserting that the holidays that I regarded most appealing to my heart on the Zimbabwean calender, were "Independence Day", and "Heroes Day" - not for the skewed and ba...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 10:47hrs | 10 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Damaged urban roads need urgent attention
Importance of roads Recently I read an article by my former employer, the World Bank. The article explains that roads are the arteries through which the economy pulses. By linking producer...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 06:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Displacement of indigenous people from their ancestoral land proves Zimbabwe regime a continuation of colonialism
It has never been in doubt to most of us that, the 1980 government, that came into power in Zimbabwe, was nothing more than a British project, which had been created to hijack the genuine and gallant ...Published: 01 Mar 2021 at 12:33hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
My heart is in Zimbabwe!
As we pass from the year 2020, let us establish some homegrown truths about ourselves as Zimbabweans.While I will challenge our readers to this debate, on penalty of paying a fine of a goat if...Published: 03 Jan 2021 at 07:49hrs | 1 | by Ken Mufuka
Traffic, street lighting nightmare in Harare
Many traffic lights at major Harare intersections are either not working or working intermittently, creating massive traffic jams especially when there is a sequence of failed robots along a road, wit...Published: 12 Dec 2020 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Robbers die in accident minutes after heist
IN a typical case of instant justice, two criminals who had robbed some farmers of five bales of tobacco at gunpoint in Harare, died on the spot after their getaway vehicle collided with another car, ...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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
NetOne donates to ZRP
Zimbabwe's second largest mobile network provider NetOne has signed a donation agreement with the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) traffic department in a bid to decongest the capital city. The ...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 10:58hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe Army Commander hails traditional leaders' role in development
Zimbabwe National Army Commander Lieutenant-General Edzai Chimonyo has hailed the symbiotic relationship between traditional leaders and the army in fostering peace and development within the communit...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
ERC sue Chief Charumbira for campaigning for Zanu-PF - sue the puppeteer and not the puppet!
"President of the National Council of Chiefs (NCC) Fortune Charumbira is facing jail after failing to comply with a court order that directed him to issue an apology for rallying other chiefs to suppo...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 16:49hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Kasukuwere narrates great escape
FORMER Cabinet minister and Zanu-PF commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere yesterday told a Harare magistrate that he escaped death by a whisker last November when the military pumped over 113 rounds of live a...Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 09:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
A sad reminder that nothing has changed: Bulawayo-Harare highway
Under a gigantic Zanu-PF colourful election campaign billboard covered with the image of a half-smiling president of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, is a small stall manned by a middle-aged vendor selli...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 15:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Heritage tourism to create jobs: ZTA
THE Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) has initiated a programme to empower rural communities through the recently unveiled heritage tourism programme that is envisaged to create jobs and improve liveli...Published: 06 May 2018 at 09:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiefs' cars not vote-buying
Every election promise is predicated upon the promiser winning the election. The fulfilment of that promise is contingent upon the electorate one is trying to lure fulfilling their part of the transac...Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 05:38hrs | | by Nick Mangwana
Calls for Dabengwa to write liberation history before criminals steal the show
Calls have been made for Zapu leader and former Zpra intelligence supremo Dumiso Dabengwa to write the Zimbabwe's liberation history before criminal and those bent on crediting themselves with what th...Published: 06 Jan 2018 at 06:59hrs | 6 | by Stephen Jakes
Chombo's case continues to suck in more and more people
The ongoing trial of former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo on corruption and fraud charges is likely to open a can of worms as it continues to suck in more and more people every week.Chombo ...Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 12:24hrs | | by Staf reporter
When the Zimbabwe flag became a fashion trend
Former president Robert Mugabe's dramatic fall after the army seized control of government on November 12 sparked unparalleled patriotic fever among Zimbabweans.Suddenly, the Zimbabwe flag bec...Published: 26 Nov 2017 at 09:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga and the Nyikadzino Prophecy
The day before Constantino Guveya Dominic Nyikadzino Chiwenga's grandfather died, he called the future general to his bedside and said: "What I wanted to achieve I could not achieve, but you are going...Published: 26 Nov 2017 at 08:10hrs | 7 | by Staff Reporter
Army barracks named after Mzilikazi, Lookout Masuku, JZ Moyo
Government has renamed all army barracks after the country's national heroes.The new names were announced by Defence Minister Sydney Sekeramayi in Statutory Instrument 138 of 2017 published in...Published: 18 Nov 2017 at 04:28hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
RG Mugabe airports name causes a stink
Opposition parties have reacted angrily to the renaming of Harare International Airport by government this week which honoured President Robert Mugabe by naming the airport after him in a process whic...Published: 11 Nov 2017 at 16:14hrs | 1 | by staff reporter
How Zipra rose from the ashes
IN our previous instalments of our Column Lest We Forget we have been carrying out articles on former Zipra camp commander, instructor and a member of the High Command, Jack Mpofu. Mpofu, the late Rog...Published: 29 Oct 2017 at 07:31hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Pampering chiefs with vehicles a clear vote-buying gimmick
THE MDC-T respects the institution of traditional leaders and, in fact, we have always advocated for the welfare of all our traditional leaders to be adequately catered for by the responsible authorit...Published: 28 Oct 2017 at 07:52hrs | | by Obert Gutu
Government must have its priorities right
The MDC respects the institution of traditional leaders and in fact, we have always advocated for the welfare of all our traditional leaders to be adequately catered for by the responsible authorities...Published: 27 Oct 2017 at 11:38hrs | | by Obert Chaurura Gutu
Smuggler shot dead
A well-known smuggler of second-hand clothes was last week shot dead by police officers who allegedly mistook him for an armed robber during a midnight ambush at the Cecil Kop Game Park in Mutare....Published: 14 Oct 2017 at 17:18hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
2nd-hand clothes smuggler shot dead by cops by mistake
A well-known smuggler of second-hand clothes was last week shot dead by police officers who allegedly mistook him for an armed robber during a midnight ambush at the Cecil Kop Game Park in Mutare....Published: 13 Oct 2017 at 15:51hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Facelift initiative for Robert Mugabe Rd
Youth organisations, Young Architects Association of Zimbabwe and Smart04 have launched the Robert Mugabe Road face lift project, an initiative that is aimed at refurbishing the street that is named a...Published: 11 Oct 2017 at 13:12hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Man of God' spared jail in adultery scandal
A United Methodist Church cleric accused of attempting to kill his lover's husband got away with community service after being convicted of a lesser assault charge.Harare regional magistrate T...Published: 01 Aug 2017 at 13:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa is being sent by Mnangagwa to call for Mugabe to go
This is the full text of the address by President Mugabe to the Zanu-PF Women's League Assembly at the Zanu-PF National Headquarters in Harare yesterday.THE First Lady Mai Mugabe; our Vice Pre...Published: 28 Jul 2017 at 06:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Attempted murder accused Reverend claims that his life was in danger
UNITED Methodist Church Reverend Eliot Chikwenjere yesterday maintained he never wanted to kill the man thrown off the bonnet of his moving car when he was allegedly caught with his wife in the Centra...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 10:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cde Chinx's voice will never die
My birth name is Charles Zvidzai. My Chimurenga name was Charles Tongobaya Mabhunu. I was later given the nick-name Zanz by Gula Ndebele after he discovered in Mozambique that I liked putting on cloth...Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 10:01hrs | | by Charles Tongobaya Mabhunu, "Zanz"
Man thrown off moving car over 'cheating wife'
A 47-YEAR-OLD man sustained head injuries after he was thrown out of a moving vehicle driven by his wife's lover on Monday. David Gwarazimba jumped on to a bonnet and clung precariously on to ...Published: 14 Jun 2017 at 18:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
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