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Colourful place names of Rhodesia and their origin
THE TRACING of place names in a country in Africa can be both fascinating and frustrating. One must know – or quickly learn – something about history, about geography and the origins of word...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 17:59hrs | 50 | by Phillippa Berlyn with some amendments by Tony Tanser
'Unveiling Zimbabwe's Dark Secrets' Al Jazeera documentary Truth is finally coming out. 'Rinemanyanga hariputirwi!'
Starting tonight, 10 pm UK time, Al Jazeera will broadcast a four-part documentary titled Unveiling Zimbabwe's Dark Secrets: Al Jazeera Exposes Looting, Plunder and Money Laundering.The Zanu P...Published: 02 Mar 2023 at 20:17hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa: When the Goliath Complex Afflicts
My early days in primary school were dominated by the story of Goliath, the giant of Philistine.Goliath's name was onomatopoeic; this sonorous name heavily suggested physical hugeness afflicte...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Linda Masarira's utterances are Zimbabwean: women are merciless judges and advocates at the same time
It is not uncommon in our Zimbabwean societies to see evil deeds mostly on women. Men are in most cases exonerated by the very women who are victims of patriarchal settings. Reading about Linda condem...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 19:32hrs | 10 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mr Ugly's fate hangs in balance
ORGANISERS of the Mr Ugly pageant are yet to decide on whether the three-time winner William "Mr Ugly" Masvinu would participate in the returning show scheduled for December 4 after a year-long break ...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe calls for a 'sober reflection' by Washington
Zimbabwe is doubling down on taking apparent satisfaction in the U.S. Capitol insurrection Wednesday, with Foreign Minister Sibusiso Moyo criticizing the 'politically-motivated violence' and call...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 17:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Talking Nkayi Education: Slicing the education cake with high-flying Zwelabo Secondary School
Zwelabo Secondary School, founded in 1984 and located about fifty kilometres west of Nkayi Centre in Matabeleland North Province, is arguably the jewel and golden place to be, for many progressive stu...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 16:46hrs | 6 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Chamisa, Mnangagwa fans fighting for Boris Johnson's love - 'The Boris is mine'
Boris Johnson, mocker of African "piccaninny" children and their "watermelon smiles", became Prime Minister of Britain on Wednesday. On hearing the news, supporters of two political parties in an Afri...Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 19:34hrs | | by newZWire
'I was never part of the system' Jonathan Moyo says
Exiled Professor Jonathan Moyo has denied being part of the 'system' that has ruled the country since 1980. Prof Moyo was responding to Activist Brighton Chiwola who had said, "But honestly sp...Published: 25 Apr 2019 at 12:17hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
None of us should want to be Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
A story that is not often told about the weekend of Nelson Mandela's release from prison is the one about the desperate quest to find his wife the night before he was freed.When then president...Published: 09 Apr 2018 at 09:07hrs | 1 | by Mondli Makhanya
President's Kariba visit preparations disheartening and reminds people of the old way of doing things
The first resident of our country lands into Kariba in the next week for the historical commissioning of the power supply generation expansion that has happened at the Kariba Power station. His coming...Published: 24 Mar 2018 at 17:44hrs | | by MuHwisiry Chaiyeiye
What I learnt from my learner's ugly handwriting
Sometime ago I became very annoyed while marking a book belonging to one of my learners. I just couldn't stand his ugly handwriting anymore. After trying everything in my power to help him improve or ...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 19:01hrs | 1 | by Mthokozisi Gwizi
Zimbabwe after Morgan Tsvangirai - A narrative full of trials, sadness and hope
Our condolences go to the family of the Tsvangirais for an irreplaceable loss of their father, brother and, uncle, and for the country to whom Morgan Richard Tsvangirai became a stalwart for championi...Published: 18 Feb 2018 at 22:42hrs | | by Andrew Manyevere
When ugliness becomes a source of livelihood
After being crowned Mr Ugly for two consecutive years, William Masvinu went into comfort zone. Despite the prize money being as little as $100, Masvinu landed some deals with some local companies - a ...Published: 10 Dec 2017 at 06:04hrs | | by Jairos Saunyama
Mr Ugly banned from future contests
Mr Ugly director David "Apama Styles" Machowa's has revealed plans to stop repeat-winner William Masvinu from contesting in future pageants."We are going to stop Masvinu as we cannot continue ...Published: 09 Dec 2017 at 18:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Masvinu wins Mr Ugly contest again
Five times Mr Ugly winner William Masvinu took the title he lost last year to Maison Sere in controversial circumstances during this year's edition of the competition held over the weekend in Ruwa. Th...Published: 05 Dec 2017 at 05:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mzembi stripped of Miss Tourism Pageant licence
As news filtered that the nation's foreign minister, Walter Mzembi was holed up in the Cuban embassy in Harare; his wife Barbara being from that island, the withdrawing of the Miss Tourism Zimbabwe li...Published: 25 Nov 2017 at 05:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mr Ugly will walk away with a bull
The winner of this year's edition of Mr Ugly, set to take place at Mtangaz Hide Out in Ruwa, will walk away with a bull, the pageant founder has said.Pageant founder and organiser David "Apama...Published: 28 Oct 2017 at 16:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Are Mugabes creating a political dynasty?: People in Zimbabwe need to exert their authority over Zanu Political decay
Media and social networks on Zimbabwe by Zimbabweans, in my opinion, has played silent role on who is who in Zimbabwe on politics, community building, discipline and prudent management objectivity inc...Published: 18 Oct 2017 at 12:48hrs | 1 | by Andrew M Manyevere
Mr Ugly pageant set for 25 November
Organisers of the Mr Ugly pageant revealed this year's event is scheduled for November 25 at City Sports Bar in the capital.David Machowa aka Apama Styles said they were looking forward to ano...Published: 17 Oct 2017 at 16:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Robert Mugabe poverty formula rooted in the Zanu-PF of Zimbabwe
The country of Zimbabwe has to take stock of behaviours displayed by Zanu Pf leadership: Neither in Mao Tse Tung China nor the Czar of the Soviet Union did party members and/or leadership have uniform...Published: 25 Sep 2017 at 18:48hrs | | by Andrew M Manyevere
Black FNB employees fired for being negative on DA leader
DA leader Mmusi Maimane was the butt of jeers among FNB employees in e-mails as his wife, Natalie, is white.A negative comment about DA leader Mmusi Maimane on WhatsApp is among the many polit...Published: 28 Aug 2017 at 11:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
For umpteenth time DR Moyo, 'will of the people' alone is not enough to dislodge Zanu PF
When Dr Nkosana Moyo agreed to contesting in next year's elections knowing fully well that Zanu PF rigs elections and that not even one reform was implemented since the last rigged elections of July 2...Published: 11 Jul 2017 at 21:10hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mugabe's nephew has bigger issues to fight
The chickens are surely coming home to roost!Remember the other time when Zanu-PF National Political Commissar Saviour Kasukuwere raged like a mad bull, railing at The Herald for reporting in ...Published: 26 Jun 2017 at 10:05hrs | | by Staff writer
Nathaniel Manheru - where is the 'revelation'?
UMthwakazi has known this character as a wide-nosed, strong-jawed anti-Mthwakazi Gukiurahundist and Shonaist, who like the rest of them who harbour these rabid anti-Mthwakazi, Gukurahundist feelings, ...Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 17:42hrs | 1 | by Xoxani Ngxoxo
'Zanu PF cannot be dislodge,' admit insane Biti, in a fleet moment of sanity
"Even on a day turned night by the black clouds, the sun will sometimes break through or be it for a fleeting moment!" my late mother, full of proverbs, would say. "You must always listen careful to e...Published: 19 May 2017 at 15:56hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
It's the Zimdollar, stupid!
Gentle reader, I think it is a sheer waste of national time to focus on the collapse of ZimPF, spectacular though that may be. There was nothing unexpected about ZimPF's dramatic finale, especiall...Published: 11 Feb 2017 at 20:52hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Zhangazha say it directly and clearly: Zimbabwe needs socialist ideology
Zipra Song in FC Camp: "Kuyini isocialism? Sizo lima santando, sivhume santando, ukulume okufunayo lawe, yiyo leyo inhlalakahle ye socialism. Bayakhalo bhuzhwa bonke" ngoba bayayesaba isoc...Published: 22 Sep 2016 at 11:16hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
The born free and other dangerous myths
It comes easy in Africa to call the young men and women born after political independence as the "born free" generation. What the nature of their freedom is, what they are free from, and what priv...Published: 14 Aug 2016 at 13:17hrs | 13 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Poor service by Zimra at Beitbridge Border Post
It has became a nightmare for Small Medium Enterprises Development, (SMED). As economy biting is felt in every corner of Zimbabwe it has become worse and unaffordable for those who run small scale bus...Published: 10 May 2016 at 21:04hrs | | by Concerned SME
Muslim woman kicked out of Donald Trump presidential campaign
WASHINGTON: A Muslim woman was kicked out of a Donald Trump presidential campaign rally after staging a silent protest against the Republican frontrunner, who has called for a ban on Muslims entering ...Published: 09 Jan 2016 at 16:47hrs | | by AFP
Mugabe's happy Christmas - Zimbabwe Vigil Diary: 26th December 2015
As we spent another Christmas in exile we were surprised to hear from the United Nations that 'Zimbabwe had done tremendously well' on the human rights front. We would never have known this if the Her...Published: 31 Dec 2015 at 15:38hrs | | by Zimbabwe Vigil
Politics of Starvation and Decay: Zimbabwe and the Year Behind (2015) and Beyond (2016)
No doubt, Zimbabwe has emerged much poorer than before based on the politics of insensitivity, self-aggrandizement, decay and poverty in collective good will of leadership. In 1980, Zimbabwe obtained ...Published: 30 Dec 2015 at 06:14hrs | | by Andrew M Manyevere
Taking another well-deserved break, Cdes?
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, since our party's restructuring exercise is going smoothly in all the provinces, naturally helped by the star rallies that Dr Amai is conducting, I ...Published: 26 Nov 2015 at 10:25hrs | | by CZ
Reasons why 'former' Mr Ugly lost revealed
ORGANISERS of the Mr Ugly contest are struggling to explain why William Masvinu lost his title to a front toothless Maison Sere.Sere was beaten by Masvinu two years ago and many say there was ...Published: 26 Nov 2015 at 05:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Debate over Mr Ugly 2015 winner, can someone enhance his ugliness?
There has been an outcry by fans over the criteria used by judges to select Mr Ugly 2015 in a contest that was held over the weekend at City Sports Bar. This year's title was grabbed by front ...Published: 25 Nov 2015 at 05:15hrs | | by Bornwise Mtonzi
WATCH: Zimbabwe's Mr Ugly contest
Zimbabwe's competition for the ugliest man has been plagued by allegations of cheating, after the winner was accused of being too handsome.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBhC8F8QQK8Mi...Published: 23 Nov 2015 at 18:10hrs | | by AFP
Mr Ugly pageant turns ugly
A 42-year-old unemployed man was crowned Zimbabwe's ugliest man at a pub pageant in Harare -- but the contest turned ugly when the runner-up accused judges of bias.Maison Sere, who was missing...Published: 21 Nov 2015 at 16:34hrs | | by AFP
Zimbabwe police: Old wine in new bottle-skins
I SEEK reader indulgence in breaking a promise I made last week. I had committed this column to a follow-up article on the wider pointers beyond the media issues I dealt with. Little did I know that n...Published: 07 Nov 2015 at 07:23hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Prostitution, the phenomenon of pushing volumes
Back in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, the ageless village autochthons - the original people who saw the virginity of the sun - say one should not question a blind man for...Published: 23 Oct 2015 at 11:00hrs | 1 | by Isdore Guvamombe
How long are the Zimbabweans going to stomach nonsense coming from these politicians?
Not long ago Registrar General Tobaiwa Mudede went ballistic about the use of contraceptives in Zimbabwe. They should be banned so that the Zimbabwean people can multiply and replenish the country wit...Published: 14 Oct 2015 at 11:26hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
He was my Facebook friend
To befriend a world record holding criminal was something that sounded strange to me and my own.That when I realised it after being summoned for an answering by the Criminal Investigating Depa...Published: 29 Sep 2015 at 23:05hrs | 3 | by Wilson Chipangura
Zimbabwean politics in underwear moments
In the opinion of philosophers, Man the angriest and the saddest of all animals invented laughter to cushion himself from the pains of the universe. Man has invented gods, music, dancing and beer...Published: 10 Aug 2015 at 14:02hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Zimbabwean politics in underwear moments
In the opinion of philosophers, Man the angriest and the saddest of all animals invented laughter to cushion himself from the pains of the universe. Man has invented gods, music, dancing and beer to ...Published: 10 Aug 2015 at 13:30hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Journalists speak out against flotilla ordeal at hands of Israel
Two Al Jazeera journalists have spoken out after Israeli navy forces assaulted and abducted them while covering the 'Freedom Flotilla III' heading to Gaza.Mohamed El Bakkali, Al Jazeera's repo...Published: 02 Jul 2015 at 21:13hrs | | by Al Jazeera Africa
MDC-T is a 'satanic' movement - Mnangagwa
Opposition MDC-T is a "satanic" movement and all Zimbabweans who voted for the party during the 2013 elections to seek "redemption from the Lord for supping with the devil", Vice President Emmer...Published: 17 May 2015 at 07:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Feeling sorry for the poor haters, Cdes?
CABINET FILES AND CZ's NOTEBOOKDear Cabinet andPolitburo membersCOMRADES, I know there are people out there who hate with passion and lie fluently, but the British steal the show. ...Published: 26 Feb 2015 at 09:25hrs | | by CZ
London Mayor Johnson's tick-off of Mugabe turns out to be the greatest toast!
I have always held London Mayor, Boris Johnson, in high regard. I have found him to be witty and persuasive, what he said made a lot of sense. But in his article "Happy birthday, Mr Mugabe, with speci...Published: 25 Feb 2015 at 06:56hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Britain's shameful part in Mugabe tyranny
I CAN'T imagine that anyone in his right mind would actually want to go to the 91st birthday party of Robert Gabriel Mugabe which takes place this Saturday.It promises to be an event of truly ...Published: 24 Feb 2015 at 07:08hrs | | by Boris Johnson
'Air Zimbabwe's pathetic online presence'
In the 21st Century, there's probably no better way of relaying/receiving information or commercially transacting more efficiently than using the endlessly fascinating World Wide Web.Most avi...Published: 16 Jan 2015 at 10:57hrs | 2 | by Maguire
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