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Matemadanda confirms Grace Mugabe's prophecy to topple Mnangagwa
ZANU PF National Political Commissar Victor Matemadanda has confirmed a prophecy that was given by Harare based Bishop Charles Motondo regarding a woman who is working with people outside the country ...Published: 9 hrs ago | 8701 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Villages and cattle pens are empty
It was not the usual rainfall but heavy downpour punctuated with blinding lightening and earsplitting thunder. Of course far too little when compared to the deluge of Noah's time but nevertheless it r...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 18:46hrs | 1956 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Eating mice is not poverty its our ways
When you see an African woman coming from the woods with a big bundle of firewood balanced on her head, young daughter in tow carrying a smaller bundle of twigs in same fashion, its not child labour. ...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 18:45hrs | 1719 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Bishop Motondo embarks on a food distribution program in Harare
Charismatic leader of Grace Fellowship Ministries (GFM), Bishop CB Motondo has embarked on a food distribution program which has kick started in Harare and is set to be introduced in Bulawayo in the n...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 07:27hrs | 1098 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The frogs are singing in their aquatic languages
The road that cuts through the two schools starts from or ends at the landmark dam, not a real cul-de-sac but just a dead end. Nevertheless, tyre tracks are still visible since anglers and customers c...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 21:52hrs | 877 | by Thomas Tondo MURISA.
Who is manipulating tobacco prices at the floors?
What is happening at the tobacco auction floors come the selling season? Some tobacco farmers are not happy and even their wives are shaking heads in disapproval and dismay. The children may n...Published: 29 Oct 2019 at 11:12hrs | 1396 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
The drinking will never stop
The illicit brew 'kachasu' has come back with a bang after a long sabbatical. Its never seen but the effects are too glaring to conceal. The singing has no notes and compiling them is like mat...Published: 29 Oct 2019 at 11:09hrs | 1882 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
They live in harmony with nature
Customs and traditions are still held dear, regarded with great reverence and deep respect in most parts of Mash. Central especially Mbire, Lower Guruve and Chiweshe. Curtseying by women when greeting...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 20:27hrs | 936 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Msasa tree looks great even without flowers
Not much into botanical or forestry issues but the 'Msasa' tree amazes me if not many. No wonder one of Harare's suburbs was named after it or in its honour. Whilst the nation and region are g...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 20:25hrs | 717 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Our loquats our fish, devolution for development
The month of October in Mash. Central comes with a lot of forest goodies and wild freebies. Loquats (mazhanje) are now in season and most people are making a beeline for the forest to pick these juicy...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 14:06hrs | 109 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Unisex footpaths are ideal for erotic manoeuvres
Secondary school students from Chideu, Chigwida, Mukunyadzi, Jaji, Rwiza and Mashiri villages in Mash. Central all go to Chinehasha for their high school education. A very good school indeed, strategi...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 16:25hrs | 672 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa.
Freely they were given freely they must give
Anointed pens for exams, anointed umbrellas, condoms, maize, bricks, cucumbers etc, the list is endless. The basic equation is money and more money. The Lord Jesus and his disciples never vend...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 16:24hrs | 249 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa.
Let the girl child rise and shine
They never tell us, will never do and we may never know. Some school girls will be women before they are school children. Detours and lay-byes are very common before school starts. Call it lod...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 16:16hrs | 70 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa.
Roses have thorns but remember thorns have roses
Some among us are hunting with the hounds and running with the hare at the same time making us wonder if its about the people or themselves. Rising kombi fares spawned an outcry across the lan...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 19:49hrs | 18 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa.
Tree planting is everyone's child
If you have cut more trees than you have planted then feel guilty, trees are life. The countryside is almost 'naked', forests are no more as wanton tree cutting has become endemic. Who shall s...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 19:43hrs | 24 | by Tondo Murisa.
Why not Eastern Province, why Manicaland?
Naming our provinces tribally was a white man's way of diving us so they could rule unhindered. Remember united we stand and divided we fall, it was one way of entrenching and stamping their authority...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 15:57hrs | 438 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
When hunger inhibits acquisition of knowledge
The young girl could hardly walk, her step was a blend of jaywalking and deathly staggering. To say she was sleep walking would be far fetched since she new the direction of the foot path. Her...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 15:56hrs | 101 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Child abuse is a danger to society
Amongst my people (blacks), the problem of paedophilia is downplayed to not-a-problem levels yet its a reality. Entrusting male relatives with girl child care or girl baby sitting must be done with gr...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 15:54hrs | 92 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Zupco kombis have come to towns and cities
If you can not beat them join them goes the legendary saying. Very true with kombi operators who are now literally stepping on each other's toes queueing to join the Zupco franchise. There is a lot of...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 18:07hrs | 4306 | by Tondo Murisa
The foot bridge (Murato) across Chiraire River in Chiweshe is a tragedy waiting to happen
School children some as young as seven years use the footbridge daily going to Chinehasha Schools on the other side. They dart and dash with amazing dexterity and agility that would shame a mo...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 08:08hrs | 1462 | by Tondo Murisa
NSSA pensioners are still getting eighty RTGS per month, really?
Who would have thought NSSA would still have the cheek to pay pensioners 80 rtgs this month of October at the height of prices madness? Unbelievable! Despite all the 'dirty linen' washed in public at ...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 21:37hrs | 1348 | by Tondo
Chinehasha Secondary School leads, others follow
Strict adherence to school etiquette and standing school rules has given a touch of modernity to Chinehasha Secondary School in Chiweshe Mash. Central Province. Boys with tucked in shirts and that imm...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 08:03hrs | 161 | by Thomas Tondorindo Murisa
AUDIO: Prophet reveals coup plot against Mnangagwa by a woman
Prominent Harare based clergyman Bishop CB Motondo of Grace Fellowship Ministries has revealed that there is a suspicious plot by a woman in this country and Zimbabweans must be on the lookout. ...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 04:49hrs | 8181 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Uncle Sam is not Father Christmas
In rural Zimbabwe Zanu-PF has always been with the people through thick and thin. It was in the countryside where the war of liberation was more brutal, leaving many maimed and without livestock. Othe...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 18:13hrs | 428 | by Tondorindo
What was called mere rhetoric is now morphing into reality
Development to the people, the pro-people New Dispensation is stopping at nothing to improve people's lives. Chinehasha and Chirimugaha villagers are very excited that what was called 'mere rhetoric' ...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 21:06hrs | 975 | by Thomas Tondorindo Murisa
Who is stealing our cattle
Who is stealing our cattle, our draught power, pride and 'mobile' wealth fund? Sullen faced villagers are worried sick and not sure when and where the cattle rustlers will strike again. They come in t...Published: 05 Oct 2019 at 09:16hrs | 42 | by Tondorindo
Sextortion in Zimbabwe
Catherine Mazorodze was overworked and tired when she quit her job as a farmworker in Zimbabwe's Manicaland province.No job meant she was also homeless, along with her grandmother with whom sh...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 07:35hrs | 859 | by Staff reporter
Repair toilets in First Street, Harare
Pay toilets in First Street, Harare CBD are in a deplorable and sorry state despite daily cash collections from the paying members of the public. The door locks and latches work no more, in fa...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 07:24hrs | | by Tondorindo
Graveyard fight over undergarment in coffin
BURIAL of a 21-year-old Sakubva man was delayed for more than five hours as relatives quarrelled and exchanged blows over his wife's undergarment that had been placed in his coffin last Thursday at Yo...Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 07:23hrs | 5771 | by Staff reporter
Cradle and creche robbers must be stopped
The little girl (hardly twelve years old) ducked behind the 'gonyeti' giggling rather stupidly. Caught between the shame of being too young for the trade and the desire to parade 'her assets' to attra...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 19:49hrs | 1708 | by Tondorindo
Stop corruption in its tracks
The mobile cash-out agent why are you 'robbing' the poor? Forget about robbing Peter to pay Paul you are stealing from the transacting public. The surrogate parent company offering the service...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 19:47hrs | 773 | by Tondorindo
We need to exorcise the spirit of retention
As Africans we need to exorcise the spirit of retention, a type of spirit tormenting most of my people to this day. Some of our customs and traditions are no more in anyone's interest except our detra...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 20:00hrs | 151 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Who owns Papa's land?
Quoting from some long parted Roman Empire politician, I 'will go to bury Mugabe not to praise him'. When there is death in the village, sullen faces and inactive pigeons tell it all especially where ...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 19:48hrs | 370 | by Thomas Tondo
Zimbabweans would never kill a fly
Zimbabweans are a peaceful and peace loving people even when faced with extreme provocation like what is happening down south now. Nigeria, Zambia and Botswana have stood up eyeball to eyeball...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 17:31hrs | 3483 | by Tondorindo
How about a SADC or AU intervention force?
Every SADC country and others have citizens caught up in the ongoing xenophobic flare up in South Africa. Having said that, I think this is when and where an urgent extra ordinary SADC meeting is call...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 17:30hrs | 1877 | by Tondorindo
Brothers and sisters from hell
The nutty professor is alleged to have correctly pointed out that xenophobia in South Africa happens after every four years, does that not point to a well planned, financed and orchestrated hate...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 17:29hrs | 1433 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
The mantra customer is king matters no more
As I saw it, TM Chadcombe bottle store has been closed for the whole of past week, reason given, licencing issues. Where two elephants fight the ants will suffer, we the consumers and resident...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 13:10hrs | 1257 | by Tondo
Rwanda, the African version of the Asian Tigers
We may as well call it African version of the Asian Tigers, I mean the phenomenal economic growth and development in Rwanda after a very dark past. From the tears and ashes of the genocide Rwanda rose...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 19:20hrs | 661 | by Tondorindo
Go well Uncle Kingdom Mupfumisi
Our impromptu meeting at a ZANLA base near Nyaupfu River was quite scary, full of intrigue and surprises. Nyaupfu River meanders eastwards near Mupuyo Hill in Chiweshe, Mash. Central. Though y...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 19:20hrs | 459 | by Thomas Tondorindo Murisa
Give your lungs a break, breathe fresh air in Mashonaland Central
There is a noticeable decline and visible depreciation of infrastructure at some business centres in Chiweshe, Mash. Central Province. Despite kombis plying the Glendale to Chaona making the route a h...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 20:28hrs | 1084 | by Thomas Tondorindo Murisa
NSSA pensioners are 'picking ants with their mouths' with poverty
Whilst the NSSA saga rages on what's on the table for the poor NSSA pensioners? Is this not the opportune time for damage control by way of increasing the monthly payouts? Events in the past f...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 20:19hrs | 1482 | by Tondorindo
Mutare probes MDC, Zanu-PF councillors over stands
Mutare City Council is probing councillors and officials who were implicated in the forensic land audit for allegedly corruptly allocating themselves land cheaply.The investigations come after...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 07:07hrs | 886 | by Staff reporter
He taught us to listen, not simply hear
Murisa Village in Chiweshe, Mash. Central was plunged into great mourning after the passing on of Morris Murisa, a grandfather, father, bee farmer, unifier and fountain of wisdom. He was 'literally a ...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 22:33hrs | 68 | by Thomas Tondorindo Murisa
Our 'scoop' obsessed jurnos, first things first
A middle-aged woman lay still, probably injured or fainted as a result of mayhem in Harare CBD. Common sense from common people would mean springing into action to render assistance to the motionless ...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 21:01hrs | 535 | by Tondorindo Murisa.
Mupuyo Mountain seemingly appealing to the Most High for development funds
Some who is who of this nation we call home were 'initiated' into schooling at Chinehasha Primary School in Chiweshe, Mash central. Situated a stone's throw from the magnificent Ruya Dam and w...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 20:37hrs | 386 | by Thomas Tondorindo Murisa
NSSA, when corruption has a body, shadow and soul
Hurry up! Bring a satchel or a bucket, NSSA money is free. You heard about 'Manna from Heaven', miracles never stop happening, the well heeled had a field day or days at NSSA, when corruption has a bo...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 14:32hrs | 1466 | by Tondo Murisa
Abusing NSSA funds is no different from witchcraft
Abusing NSSA funds is never different from witchcraft especially considering that NSSA pensioners are wallowing in abject poverty. The once off cushioning payout they received this month did h...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:33hrs | 572 | by Tondorindo
Should the Marriage Certificate incorporate an Expiry Date?
This may induce laughter then extreme anger as it steeps and sink in. There is this other person, a fellow human being who thinks the Marriage Certificate should have an expiry date, yes, expiry so an...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 12:18hrs | 2937 | by Tondorindo
The elderly have been thrown under the speeding bus
If my memory and anyone's serves me right, citizens above sixty years of age were to board Zupco buses that ply rural destinations free of charge. Is that notion true and if so is it happening? Before...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 09:01hrs | 3172 | by Tondorindo
Zimbabwe discovers rare minerals
Zimbabwe sits on bountiful and lucrative deposits of minerals known as rare-earth elements (REE), some of which sell for more than US$1 000 for a single kilogram and where investors are seeking altern...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 21:03hrs | 1558 | by Staff reporter
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