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Britain based NGO says Zimbabwe voters favour Chamisa over Mnangagwa
Results of a British organisation survey of Zimbabwean voters show that Nelson Chamisa will defeat ...Published: 1 hr ago | 168 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe starts stockpiling lithium, says Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe has to do more than ban export of lithium and other ores, insisting on processing locally before export, but now needs focused research and development towards transforming ores into domestic...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 23:40hrs | 2271 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe after Robert Mugabe
This opinion-editorial piece was written by Japhet Ncube, a Zimbabwean-born former editor of South African daily, The Star, in November 2017 during the coup which ousted the late former president Robe...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:10hrs | 296 | by Japhet Mathanda Ncube
Surely, why study 10 subjects at school as if unsure of one's goals in life?
The ZIMSEC Ordinary Level results are out - and, already we are hearing of those outrageous numbers of subjects passed by single candidates. This inevitably leads to the usual debate - is it r...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 16:39hrs | 3420 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
West Nicholson-Mberengwa road is really bad
GOVERNMENT is rehabilitating the West Nicholson-Mberengwa Road linking Matabeleland South and Midlands provinces.The road is one of the five major roads in Matabeleland South that are being ta...Published: 26 Jan 2023 at 07:33hrs | 308 | by Staff reporter
Substance abuse not necessarily due to idleness but poor socialization and mindset!
With the scourge of drug and alcohol abuse on a worrying upward trajectory, the question of how to deal with this pandemic had been, understandably, uppermost on the nation's lips.There have b...Published: 23 Jan 2023 at 16:33hrs | 655 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Charamba mocks Chamisa
PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson George Charamba has blasted Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa for promising a ‘new great Zimbabwe' while opposition led councils have failed t...Published: 23 Jan 2023 at 05:48hrs | 5006 | by Staff reporter
The goal should never be simply removing ZANU PF but electing a better government!
Recently, I came across Twitter posts made by the 'new kid on the block', Robert Chapman - who leads a political party named the Democratic Union of Zimbabwe (DUZ).However, what grabbed my att...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 18:22hrs | 935 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe police dragged to Zanu-PF ideology classes
MORALE has reportedly hit rock bottom in the police force after all officers were commandeered to attend civic education meetings co-ordinated by the ruling Zanu-PF party as part of its indoctrination...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 05:52hrs | 1288 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in 2023: There is great disorder, chaos under the heavens
GEORGE Orwell wrote so much and so well that one day it became cause for a whole essay to explain to himself and the world why he wrote as such.In the essay of 1946, Why I Write, Orwell recoun...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 05:49hrs | 1089 | by Dr William Jethro Mpofu
Reality finally dawning on Zanu-PF
IN the four or so articles I have written thus far on the ludicrous proliferation of all these dubious "4ED" organisations - I have made it abundantly clear that these were just groupings of desperate...Published: 16 Jan 2023 at 16:21hrs | 463 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Suspected wizards/witches usually found at people's homes suffer from mental health
THE grey-haired, half naked and stumbling elderly individuals who are usually found at people homes in the wee hours are not all wizards and witches but some suffer from mental health.A family...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:54hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe looks to public to provide solar power amid energy crisis
BULAWAYO: As lingering droughts hit southern Africa's hydropower dams, Zimbabwe faces growing electricity shortages – but connecting individuals and businesses that have installed private solar pane...Published: 13 Jan 2023 at 05:51hrs | 681 | by Staff reporter
New sanctions on Zimbabwe spoiled US-Africa Summit
When President Joe Biden announced the hosting of United States-Africa Summit last year, he sounded like he was doing a favour to Africans. That was mistake number one.That is old archaic poli...Published: 12 Jan 2023 at 11:16hrs | 1434 | by Staff Reporter
Lee Ndlovu's goal ensures his non-league side continue FA CUP run
Boreham Wood have form for a giantkilling in this competition and were in the fourth-round draw for the second season running - but goalscorer Lee Ndlovu admitted the National League side were di...Published: 09 Jan 2023 at 06:54hrs | 311 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt to consider return of June examinations
SCHOOLS will open for the 2023 first term tomorrow, with the exception of boarding schools in two provinces where the authorities have issued an adverse weather alert, prompted by downpours over the w...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 09:34hrs | 274 | by Staff reporter
Schools to open despite flood alert
SCHOOLS will open for the 2023 first term tomorrow, with the exception of boarding schools in two provinces where the authorities have issued an adverse weather alert, prompted by downpours over the w...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 09:31hrs | 208 | by Staff reporter
Is CCC throwing Sikhala under the bus?
HAS the Nelson Chamisa led CCC thrown its imprisoned vice chairperson Job Sikhala into the political dustbin?Emerging reports are saying he is no longer part of the opposition party's future plans...Published: 06 Jan 2023 at 18:19hrs | 1116 | by Staff reporter
'CCC will win big 2023!' bombardment is relentless. Real challenge, educate povo to know it's all wishful thinking
"2023 IS A YEAR FOR CHANGE. 2023 brings hope, dignity and prosperity.May this year be the year Zimbabwe becomes free, happy and prosperous. This time Citizens will WIN BIG & celebrate BIG....Published: 04 Jan 2023 at 01:11hrs | 1685 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
If Zimbabweans are serious about change then 2023 should be a year of action!
In this world, only a fool expects their aspirations and goals to just fall onto his laps - as if manna from the heavens. Anyone who genuinely supposes that their dreams and objectives will be...Published: 01 Jan 2023 at 09:38hrs | 892 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Council to intensify refuse collection
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has promised to improve service delivery in the city and increase the number of refuse collection trucks.Residents and stakeholders had complained that the city's w...Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:12hrs | 69 | by Staff reporter
Why does ZANU PF become so bitterly angry with those desiring Zimbabwe to succeed?
It is always perplexing!Why would I be offended by those who want me to do better - pushing me to attain phenomenal heights reached by other legendary writers - and, in so doing, identifying w...Published: 16 Dec 2022 at 07:44hrs | 1130 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Corrupt cartels shouldn't hold nation at ransom but be held to account!
It was really strange reading a report - whereby, Fossil Group, threatened to retrench over 2,000 workers - ostensibly, in response to its, and its proprietor Obey Chimuka's recent placement on the US...Published: 15 Dec 2022 at 23:23hrs | 602 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Zimbabweans are serial plan B people!' Where is plan B if millions are in the dark and starving
"Zimbabwe did not become a failed state overnight. The collapse of the country happened over a period of decades, starting as early as the 1980s," wrote Malaika Mahlatsi in an article circulating in m...Published: 15 Dec 2022 at 10:01hrs | 816 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
260,000 people on Zimbabwe's land waiting list
An estimated 260 000 people are on the waiting list for land with 10 000 in the diaspora, government said yesterday as it announced plans to speed up the allocation of land to the landless.Add...Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 06:40hrs | 271 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 24 500km road network to be revamped by 2025
THIS week Zimbabwe Independent (ZI) business reporter, Freeman Makopa caught up with Transport and Infrastructural Development minister Felix Mhona (FM) to discuss updates in the progress of crucial i...Published: 09 Dec 2022 at 17:55hrs | 846 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe unemployment, education system not directly linked
IN the Wednesday edition of NewsDay we carried a story in which some of our college student leaders were frothing at the mouth over the failure by many of the students to get employment soon after gra...Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 05:09hrs | 210 | by Staff reporter
What l Learnt From Spain vs Morocco
1. Don't Let Your Poor Strike force Undermine Your Resilient Defence.Although Mocco eventually won the game, the strike force couldn't capitalise on the...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 09:07hrs | 1598 | by Mthokozisi Gwizi
70% registered to vote, claims ZEC
More than 70 percent of Zimbabweans eligible to vote have registered and are already on the voters roll, the chief elections officer of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, Mr Utoile Silaigwana, has tol...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:06hrs | 144 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa 'cool' after misconduct report
President Cyril Ramaphosa is not going to make a "hasty" decision of resigning after the section 89 panel report finding that he has a case to answer to on Phala Phala. This is according...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 04:54hrs | 415 | by Staff reporter
'EU turns to Zanu-PF as prospect of opposition govt fades' - we only have ourselves to blame for this
"EU turns to Zanu-PF as prospects of opposition govt fades" screamed the headlines in Bulawayo24. Of course, every thinking Zimbabwean out there must be disappointed the EU has given up the fight end ...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 14:12hrs | 1224 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Does the Zimbabwe opposition stand any realistic chance of winning 2023 elections?
This is the million dollar question - which has been on the lips of many, and the source of much debate, in Zimbabwe. What I see, though, is that most of us are living in a delusional world - ...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 14:08hrs | 1419 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The alternative Sona by Trevor Ncube
DEAR compatriots, comrades, and friends.Since independence in 1980, our nation has experienced moments of joy punctuated with anguish and trauma.The dream of our liberation struggle of...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 04:58hrs | 285 | by Trevor Ncube
US$1,5m biscuit plant opens in Bulawayo
AGRO-PROCESSING factory, Flynote Investments Private Limited, has channelled more than US$1,5 million towards the establishment of new biscuit and stockfeed manufacturing units.Flynote Investm...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 05:03hrs | 425 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa scorns MPs4ED group
INDEPENDENT Norton legislator, Temba Mliswa has blasted Zanu-PF Members of Parliament (MPs) under the MPsforED grouping, arguing some of them could be engaged in these ‘bootlicking' initiatives to h...Published: 24 Nov 2022 at 05:01hrs | 5486 | by Staff reporter
What makes anyone believe blacks can't 'brainwash' whites?
It is always so extremely disturbing watching how much self-decrepitation and self-hate there is amongst us as black people - a sickening trait more prominent here in our own Zimbabwe.Why do w...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 16:55hrs | 780 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Jonathan Moyo preparing for life after Mnangagwa'
THE open letter of apology by self-exiled former ministers Jonathan Moyo and Patrick Zhuwao - addressed to Zanu-PF members - shows that the two politicians may be preparing for life after Emmerson Mna...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 18:34hrs | 9706 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must call war veterans to order
WHILE it is a public secret that Zimbabwe is a democracy where freedom of expression and freedom of thought are enshrined in the Constitution, it defies logic that a person who left the comfort of his...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 04:58hrs | 458 | by Mambo Dari
Bloodshed of Zimbabwe's past elections has citizens bracing for what's to come next year
"Just thinking of voting causes me to become more afraid," Maxwell Tauro told The Globe and Mail. I might be met with bullets. I'm just fearful that I might get shot like my son."With a new el...Published: 19 Nov 2022 at 06:40hrs | 351 | by Jeffrey Moyo for The Globe & Mail
Child dies at clinic gate after 11 hour wait
IN a heart wrenching incident, a one-year six month-old child from Silobini Village died at the gate of Mhlahlandlela Clinic in Matobo, Matabeleland South province where her parents had waited for abo...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:07hrs | 626 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF is desperate to be readmitted into the Commonwealth before 2023 - its legitimacy depends on it
Zanu PF stall: Readmit Zimbabwe into Commonwealth before 2023 elections and lift the sanctions soon thereafter.The number one priority to Zanu PF is to retain its iron grip on political power ...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 08:59hrs | 661 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabwe opposition disunity promotes Mnangagwa's rule
RENOWNED economist, Dr Godfrey Kanyenze has blamed disunity among the country's opposition political parties for propping up President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ascendancy and leaving foreign allies with n...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 05:25hrs | 1647 | by Staff reporter
Tagwirei denies stealing $3 billion, claims he wanted to leave Zimbabwe in 2015
FUEL mogul Kudakwashe Tagwirei has for the first time proudly commented on the controversial Command Agriculture programme, distancing himself from abusing US$3 billion as reported by the Auditor Gene...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 05:22hrs | 2881 | by Staff reporter
Sue Nyathi nominated for AU20 Artistes and Writers Residency Programme in Ghana
BULAWAYO-born fiction author Sukoluhle "Sue" Nyathi has been nominated for the AU20 "Our Africa, Our Future" Writers Residency Programme to be held in Ghana from tomorrow to November 28.The Wr...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 05:10hrs | 39 | by Staff reporter
Walter Mzembi defiant...vows to fight another day
Former G40 Kingpin Walter has vowed that he stands to fight another day against the President Emmerson Mnangagwa led government after failing take over power in November 2017. Mzembi who was c...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 21:01hrs | 3831 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Could Smith's plan for independence have led to a better Zimbabwe?
Today is 11 November - a day marked in this country’s history as when then Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith, in a daring move, stubbornly cut off ties with the colonial British Crown - by unilateral...Published: 11 Nov 2022 at 14:46hrs | 2917 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
2 convicts escape from Chikurubi Maximum Prison
Two convicted armed robbers have escaped from Chikurubi Maximum Prison – just months before their expected releases, police said.Ibrahim Mayeha and Mikia Pikirisi vanished at around 2PM on S...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:26hrs | 2457 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's education was once the envy of Africa. Not anymore!
It wasn't just his well-fitted suit, the crisp shirt, and the neatly paired tie that caught everyone's attention. When Amos Mawoyo walked through the rural areas of Imbeza, a timber estate in the East...Published: 03 Nov 2022 at 05:10hrs | 1338 | by Staff reporter
CCC proposes national peace pledge
THE opposition Citizens Coalitions for Change (CCC) has proposed that the country must craft a national peace pledge targeting political parties before next year's polls to ensure they are peaceful....Published: 01 Nov 2022 at 05:14hrs | 399 | by Staff reporter
Another ploy of rewriting history by the Zanu-PF regime
Greetings to all! FROM THEMTHWAKAZI LIBERATION FRONT PRESIDENTDR CHURCHILL MP...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 15:13hrs | 1297 | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
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