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Man cheats death after love triangle attack
A 35-YEAR-OLD Shamva man is lucky to be alive after he was severely attacked by three men who accused him of cheating with one of the assailant',s wife....Published: 9 hrs ago | 455 | by Simbarashe Sithole
3 Zimbabweans arrested for investment fraud in India
Kolkata Police arrested three Zimbabwean nationals - Tinashe Gadzikwa Praise (22), Malvern Matungamire (25), and Nyamhunga Lenon Kudakwashe (23) - from separate apartments in Mohali's Kharar area, Pun...Published: 20 hrs ago | 185 | by Staff reporter
Hichilema's fight over a corpse forces Lungu family to bury him in SA
The family of Zambia's former President Edgar Lungu says he will be buried in South Africa in a private ceremony following a row with the government over the funeral arrangements.Late on Thurs...Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 11:32hrs | 1694 | by Staff reporter
Bard Santner sponsors Zimbabwean special Olympians
Leading financial advisory firm Bard Santner has extended its corporate social responsibility (CSR) footprint by sponsoring three Zimbabwean golfers with intellectual disabilities who are competing in...Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 11:24hrs | 94 | by Staff reporter
UZ employee in trouble for possessing ivory
A University of Zimbabwe employee from the Clinical Trials Test Research department, Bloodshow Kopa (45), was yesterday brought before Harare magistrate Ruth Moyo, facing charges of illegal possession...Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 09:46hrs | 123 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi survivors at risk of re-traumatisation
Mounting criticism is trailing the government's proposed structure for the upcoming Gukurahundi hearings, set to begin on June 26, amid fears the process will intimidate and re-traumatise victims - pa...Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 09:33hrs | 84 | by Staff reporter
When a Child President wears the 'Mnangagwa scarf', we must all be concerned
Train up a child in the way you want them to grow, they say - but when this guidance is rooted in manipulation and politics, it risks ruining their lives before they've even begun.There was so...Published: 20 Jun 2025 at 22:33hrs | 541 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe opposition fears of 'ZANU-fication'
A motion to establish a legal framework for a National Ideology in Zimbabwe has sparked heated debate in Parliament, exposing deep divisions between the ruling ZANU-PF party and opposition legislators...Published: 20 Jun 2025 at 06:18hrs | 364 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa approves key appointments
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has approved a series of high-level appointments and promotions aimed at enhancing the effectiveness of the Zimbabwe Independent Complaints Commission (ZICC), a constituti...Published: 20 Jun 2025 at 06:12hrs | 711 | by Staff reporter
Tagwirei emerging from the shadows to succeed Mnangagwa?
On Wednesday evening, wearing full military gear and speaking from an unknown location, Zimbabwean war veteran Blessed Geza announced via live video that ‘they' were planning to impeach President Em...Published: 19 Jun 2025 at 20:57hrs | 2851 | by Christopher Mutambirwa
Chivayo dismisses cancer equipment contract claims as fake
Businessman Wicknell Chivayo has denied involvement in a reported US$400 million cancer treatment equipment supply deal with the government, dismissing recently leaked documents as "fake" and politica...Published: 19 Jun 2025 at 13:27hrs | 471 | by Staff reporter
Mawarire accuses Mnangagwa of 'monetising problems'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's surprise visits to Parirenyatwa and Sally Mugabe Hospitals, as well as the NatPharm warehouse on Monday, June 16, have sparked a storm of controversy, with former Nation...Published: 18 Jun 2025 at 19:30hrs | 1079 | by Staff reporter
Fraudsters use AI to impersonate Chivayo
Zimbabwe is facing a new and alarming wave of cyber fraud involving sophisticated scammers who are using artificial intelligence (AI) to impersonate prominent businessman Wicknell Chivayo in a ploy to...Published: 18 Jun 2025 at 18:05hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter
Tagwirei, the military and power politics in Zimbabwe!
DEAR READER, it was on the 13th of May 2018 that Phineas Tagwirei, "father" to Kudakwashe Tagwirei a Zimbabwean tycoon with an avalanche of ''business'' interests quietly breathed his last at the trau...Published: 18 Jun 2025 at 07:41hrs | 1945 | by Dr P. Zamchiya
Sanyatwe praises Tagwirei
Zimbabwe's Minister of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture, Anslem Sanyatwe, has commended businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei for his instrumental role in the implementation of the command agriculture sc...Published: 17 Jun 2025 at 07:25hrs | 348 | by Staff reporter
3 suspects arrested after high-speed chase
A major police operation in Headlands last week culminated in the arrest of three suspected copper cable thieves and the seizure of two vehicles, including a Toyota GD6 truck loaded with stolen cables...Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 15:19hrs | 815 | by Staff reporter
3 arrested in connection with copper cable theft
In a separate incident, Zimbabwe Republic Police arrested three individuals on Monday over the theft of copper cables belonging to the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA).The suspects...Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 15:03hrs | 82 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa claims Shared Law School history with Edgar Lungu
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has asserted a personal connection with the late former Zambian President Edgar Lungu, claiming the two were contemporaries at law school.Speaking at the Zambian E...Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 14:44hrs | 98 | by Staff reporter
The ZANU-PF–Britain alliance is a self-serving bond that never served the people
The political theatre designed to deceive Zimbabweans seems never-ending.A few days ago, senior Zimbabwean officials and British nationals gathered in Harare to celebrate King Charles III's bi...Published: 13 Jun 2025 at 14:24hrs | 661 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Bid to sell Zimbabwe game park for US$2,5 million backfires
A man has been implicated in a $2.5 million fraud case involving an alleged scheme to sell a game park in Masvingo without authorization.Samuel Mvurume appeared before Harare magistrate Marewa...Published: 13 Jun 2025 at 06:28hrs | 2011 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Edgar Lungu
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has described the late former Zambian President Edgar Chagwa Lungu as an astute and visionary statesman who played a vital role in fostering development and cooperation wi...Published: 13 Jun 2025 at 06:24hrs | 294 | by Staff reporter
Hichilema banned from Lungu's funeral
Zambia's former President Edgar Lungu, who died last week, left instructions that his successor Hakainde Hichilema "should not be anywhere near" his body, a family spokesman has said.This is t...Published: 13 Jun 2025 at 06:19hrs | 1851 | by Staff reporter
High Court declares key provision of Patriotic Act unconstitutional
The High Court of Zimbabwe has struck down a significant part of the controversial Patriotic Act, ruling that Section 22A (3) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Amendment Act No. 10 of 2023...Published: 12 Jun 2025 at 19:06hrs | 446 | by Staff reporter
No one is above the Constitution: Zimbabweans must say no to term extensions
Zimbabweans must never allow their country to backslide or let their hard-won rights be stripped away.In 2013, millions of Zimbabweans made history by overwhelmingly endorsing a new Constituti...Published: 12 Jun 2025 at 08:33hrs | 768 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe's whites are more patriotic than the majority blacks
I am a black Zimbabwean, born and bred in this land of striking beauty. But in my lived experience, I have observed something that continues to trouble me. Among my circle of friends, it is often my w...Published: 10 Jun 2025 at 21:59hrs | 1008 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
ZACC arrests three council officials over illegal land deal
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has arrested three senior officials from the Rusape Town Council in connection with a controversial and allegedly unlawful land lease deal involving a pr...Published: 10 Jun 2025 at 17:18hrs | 852 | by Staff reporter
Speaking against injustice is not being negative - it's being honest
There are those who often find the truth hard to swallow - but, like medicine, it is vital for healing.I am often told that I focus too much on the negative.That I dwell on the darker ...Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 21:53hrs | 191 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chaos at Bulawayo council meeting over traditional attire dispute
Tensions flared and order broke down at Bulawayo City Council's 3,394th full council meeting on Wednesday after councillors clashed over a controversial dress code dispute, prompting one senior counci...Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 14:27hrs | 615 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doesn't need 249 years to fight corruption, Mr. Murwira!
The Zimbabwe government never ceases to amaze.During the recent United States Independence Day commemorations in Harare, the American ambassador to Zimbabwe, Pamela Tremont, described corrupti...Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 08:26hrs | 232 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zambia's Edgar Lungu dies
Zambia's former President Edgar Lungu has died at the age of 68, his party has said in a statement.He had "been receiving specialized treatment in South Africa" for an undisclosed illness, the...Published: 05 Jun 2025 at 14:30hrs | 2093 | by Staff reporter
Some Zimbabweans oppose development
There is a growing and deeply troubling trend among certain segments of our society—an unsettling comfort with the status quo of decay and underdevelopment. It is as if, for some, the sight of crumb...Published: 05 Jun 2025 at 13:26hrs | 511 | by Kudzai Mutisi
SABC pulls plug on iconic Venda soapie
South Africa's national broadcaster, the SABC, has announced the end of Muvhango, one of its longest-running and culturally significant television dramas, after nearly three decades on air.The...Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 15:28hrs | 1182 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans appreciate real development but can't keep quiet when it's a veil for looting
This is a fact we all need to understand. Zimbabweans are a naturally appreciative people. We are not inherently negative or ungrateful. On the contrary, we cherish and celebra...Published: 31 May 2025 at 19:31hrs | 3093 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Trio in soup for stealing city council property
Three men appeared before Mutare Magistrates Court charged with multiple counts of theft and unlawful entry involving property belonging to Mutare City Council.Tinashe Makonese, 22, together w...Published: 31 May 2025 at 13:51hrs | 93 | by Staff reporter
Notorious thieves jailed two years
Three notorious thieves who pounced on a shop in Plumtree and looted goods worth ZAR 8268 have been sent to Prison.Advance Ncube (20), Trust Mlilo(18) and Khlowani Ndlovu (23) were sentenced t...Published: 29 May 2025 at 19:46hrs | 435 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Objection to recently imposed US$92 radio licence fee
HIS Excellency, The President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, Office of the President and Cabinet, Munhumutapa Building, Harare, Zimbabwe.Your Excellency Sir,...Published: 29 May 2025 at 10:24hrs | 536 | by Staff reporter
AI in focus as Zimbabwe Media Policy is unveiled
President Emmerson Mnangagwa officially launched the Zimbabwe Media Policy on Wednesday, a landmark framework aimed at guiding the country's media industry through the rapidly changing global informat...Published: 29 May 2025 at 10:21hrs | 200 | by Staff reporter
There were no Zvigananda under Smith because Rhodesians loved Zimbabwe more than ZANU-PF!
There is something tragically ironic about the state Zimbabwe finds itself in today.A country that was once described by none other than former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere as the "jewel...Published: 27 May 2025 at 20:45hrs | 1237 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Donkey thieves jailed 12 years
Three men from Plumtree have been sentenced to a combined total of twelve years in jail for stealing donkeys from local grazing lands. Magistrate Joshua Nembaware handed down the sentences following g...Published: 26 May 2025 at 08:22hrs | 123 | by Staff reporter
Court officials arrested for extortion
The prosecutor at Mutasa Magistrate Court, Shephard Chavarika, along with two police officers stationed at Mutasa Police Station, Liberty Tivafukidze and Sencia Masase, have been arrested and charged ...Published: 26 May 2025 at 08:01hrs | 87 | by Staff reporter
'Femme Fatale' and 2 accomplices in Bulawayo armed robbery horror
A suspected love triangle turned criminal gang is facing serious charges after allegedly hijacking an indrive driver, gagging him at gunpoint, and locking him in the boot of his own car in a shocking ...Published: 26 May 2025 at 07:55hrs | 57 | by Staff reporter
Why were Zimbabweans left behind 45 years after independence, in the first place?
There's always something telling - yet deeply disturbing - about the mantras repeated by the Zimbabwean government.Yesterday, I watched a report on the state-controlled broadcaster in which th...Published: 24 May 2025 at 23:30hrs | 1376 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Where are the once touted Zupco buses?
As members of the fourth estate, our role is clear: to hold power to account and to speak truth to those entrusted with public resources. Remaining silent in the face of Zimbabwe's ongoing transport c...Published: 24 May 2025 at 11:00hrs | 285 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe moving towards a one-party State
Zimbabwe appears to be hurtling toward a one-party State, as the ruling Zanu PF regime intensifies efforts to dismantle opposition forces, muzzle the media, and consolidate power under a single, uncha...Published: 24 May 2025 at 10:57hrs | 293 | by Staff reporter
Witness incriminates Ministry of Industry and Commerce officials
The trial of three Ministry of Industry and Commerce officials accused of issuing fraudulent vehicle import licences to over 200 unqualified individuals resumed this week, with damning forensic eviden...Published: 24 May 2025 at 09:21hrs | 572 | by Staff reporter
Bosso face another bogey side
Highlanders FC will be seeking to bounce back from their shock 2-0 defeat to ZPC Kariba when they welcome another tricky opponent, Herentals College FC, to Barbourfields Stadium on Sunday in a Castle ...Published: 22 May 2025 at 16:18hrs | 458 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo gifts Reuben Barwe a Luxury SUV and $100,000 'pocket money'
Controversial businessman and philanthropist Sir Wicknell Chivayo has once again made headlines, this time for gifting veteran journalist and Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) Chief Corresponden...Published: 22 May 2025 at 14:06hrs | 1634 | by Staff reporter
Teachers doorstep Mnangagwa over poor salaries
A delegation of teachers from the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) visited President Emmerson Mnangagwa's offices on Tuesday to seek urgent intervention over deteriorating salaries and wo...Published: 22 May 2025 at 09:38hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
High Court refuses to strike down Patriot Act
The High Court has dismissed a legal challenge seeking to declare amendments to the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act - widely known as the Patriot Act - unconstitutional, dealing another blo...Published: 22 May 2025 at 09:33hrs | 147 | by Staff reporter
Army captain killers get life sentences
Two Masvingo prisoners, who had been on death row for the brutal murder of an army captain in 2018, have had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment following Zimbabwe's recent abolition of the ...Published: 21 May 2025 at 19:56hrs | 1020 | by Staff reporter
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