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'I would rather miss Olympics than get COVID-19 vaccine'
OLYMPIC champion sprinter Yohan Blake of Jamaica has said he would rather miss the Tokyo Games than get the COVID-19 vaccine, although getting vaccinated will not be required of the athletes competing...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lies run sprints, truth runs marathons
They say time heals even the deepest of scars, but not for Bishop Lazarus.And they say everything — absolutely everything and anything — has a price, but not this man of scripture and pray...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:33hrs | 2 | by Bishop Lazi
The high cost of being a repressive regime
IT is an inescapable fact that America, as the most influential State in the world, lays claim to the world's most powerful military.But military might is nothing compared to the repercussions...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 07:42hrs | | by Learnmore Zuze
Give Mthuli a chance!
The story is told that Moses undertook the dangerous assignment to relocate the children of Israel to the Promised Land. The Red Sea, that vast water body, presented an intractable obstacle. T...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 07:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe linked Sasha Zhoya lights up Australian athletics
SIXTEEN-year-old athletics wonder-kid Sasha Zhoya, who was born in Australia to a Zimbabwean father and a French mother, is currently at the centre of a fierce tug-of-war between Australia and France ...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:24hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa, take us back to Egypt!'
Bishop Lazarus had a pleasant revelation on Monday and is seriously considering participating at next year's Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.With Usain Bolt happily retired and sipping margarita...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:11hrs | | by Bishop Lazarus
Can we say our Army is one of the best in Africa?
One thing I observed long ago is how my compatriots will boast in many areas, be it in education,sport ,hard working ethics.Does this sound familiar?It even extends to, yes, our Army or security agenc...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 20:47hrs | | by AT Kadada
The West suspicious of Mnangagwa
In recent years, President Emmerson Mnangagwa seem to have discovered that Britain and the West are good.For example, when newly-appointed as vice-president in 2013, Mnangagwa was not ashamed ...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 08:02hrs | | by Tinhu
Chamisa on cusp of Barrowian history?
The Gambia is a small river country, named after the river which cuts through its heart, the smallest country on mainland Africa, which is entirely surrounded by Senegal on one side and the coastline ...Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 10:14hrs | | by OP ED BY VIVID GWEDE
Brides flee from court as wife finds hubby wedding
A leopard never changes its spots so goes the African saying.John Chirongoma who left Masvingo Magistrates Court with tail under his legs after a man caught him wedding his wife last year was ...Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 14:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Ndebele King and my Pragmatic Shona Vision
Civilisation started with problem solving. When our Homo Habilis ancestors noticed that they were physically less powerful than the buffalos in the forest whose meat they wanted to eat, they used the ...Published: 04 Mar 2018 at 16:57hrs | 1 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Gukurahundi, Nyadzonya and the David Coltart apology
Its sixty days since the inauguration of Emmerson Mnangagwa as the president of the Republic of Zimbabwe on the 24th of November 2017. In his inauguration speech, he promised visible changes within th...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 09:46hrs | 1 | by Lloyd Msipa
Zec targets churches
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), in partnership with the Christian Alliance, has set up biometric voter registration (BVR) centres at churches, as it targets the clergy and Christians before t...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fresh moves to arrest Grace Mugabe
The declaration by President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week that former first lady Grace Mugabe is no longer immune to prosecution appears to have left Mugabe's garrulous wife vulnerable to arrest as vu...Published: 28 Jan 2018 at 08:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bribed Ndebele chiefs to deal with Mnangagwa on Gukurahundi
Traditional Chiefs, who received cars early January, will work with President Emmerson Mnangagwa to bring closure to the matter of civil disturbances that rocked Matabeleland and Midlands in the 1980s...Published: 28 Jan 2018 at 08:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe family 'left in peace', says Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe's long-time leader Robert Mugabe will be "left in peace" with a "lucrative" retirement package, his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.However, Mr Mnangagwa also told the BBC's Mis...Published: 25 Jan 2018 at 05:55hrs | | by BBC
Mnangagwa would accept election defeat
Emmerson Mnangagwa - Zimbabwe's new president - has told the BBC his party would accept defeat should Zanu-PF lose the election later this year.Speaking to Mishal Husain, he said: "If we lose ...Published: 24 Jan 2018 at 14:39hrs | | by BBC
Usain Bolt beaten to 3rd spot
Bolt gets a sluggish start and has it all to do! He battles to get in the mix but Christian Coleman is streaming away. Suddenly on the outside comes another American, it's Justin Gatlin, and he's ahea...Published: 05 Aug 2017 at 22:06hrs | | by Online
In trying to 'baby dump' Mnangagwa, Grace will be crushed like a bug, she is
Grace Mugabe tells VP Mnangagwa he is only an appointee serving at Mugabe's pleasure and therefore can be fired at the drop of a hat. She too is any appointee but one Mugabe cannot easily fire....Published: 30 Jul 2017 at 20:39hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Opposition leaders will only accept reforms if their lives, not povo's, or burnt bar shed were on the line
A few months ago, Tendai Biti, PDP President's rural home was attacked in what he claimed was a politically motived move. On Tuesday night, it was Elias Mudzuri, one of the three MDC-T VPs whose home ...Published: 20 Jul 2017 at 23:03hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Senior police officer breaks arm and leg fleeing fellow officers
A senior police officer broke a leg and an arm while fleeing fellow officers who had mistaken him for a thief after he had sneaked into the wrong house while looking for his girlfriend.The cop...Published: 24 Jun 2017 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Reports of 'ZEC disenfranchising voters' regardless BVR are eroding MDC credibility
The people of Zimbabwe went into the 2013 elections beaming with confidence that the elections will be the watershed elections the nation had waited for - free, fair and credible elections. Morgan Tsv...Published: 17 May 2017 at 16:50hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Usain Bolt to return medal
KINGSTON - Usain Bolt and his Jamaican teammates who won the 4 x 100m relay at the 2008 Beijing Games have been told by the country's Olympic Association to return their gold medals following Nesta Ca...Published: 28 Jan 2017 at 06:07hrs | | by Reuters
Renowned Gospel Choir Free to Worship to Record fourth Album in October
UK based Zimbabwean gospel ensemble Free to Worship (FTW) will embark on their first concert of the year in London in October.Following a successful tour of the US in 2014 and their pulsating ...Published: 09 Aug 2016 at 07:06hrs | | by Tidi Kwidini
Do not just watch Rio Olympics, be inspired to excel and save Zimbabwe from itself
The 2016 Rio Olympic Games are upon us; we should all watch the games and enjoy the sporting spectacle but, most important of all, be inspired by the Olympic spirit! When we see great athletes...Published: 08 Aug 2016 at 07:06hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
WATCH: Zimbabwean man beats Usain Bolt's 2011 100m record
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6sdT0O2NCec...Published: 14 Apr 2016 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Msipa warns Mujuru of Mugabe violence - she has ears but neither will nor vision
Former Zanu PF strongman, Cephas Msipa's warns Zimbabwe's opposition parties of President Mugabe and Zanu PF's tendencies to use violence to stay in power. "They (ZPF) have a mammoth task befo...Published: 12 Apr 2016 at 06:47hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Murewa if Tsvangirai 'lacks vision' as you say then why 'crisis of expectation' at his demise!
A close look at this nation and even a total stranger will immediately see why we are drowning in a pond of water three feet deep. Even when someone gets the facts right trust him or her to make the w...Published: 07 Jan 2016 at 18:37hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Carnival photo goes viral in Zimbabwe
A photograph believed to have been extracted from a US-based Jamaican photographer's website has gone viral in Zimbabwe with people criticising the Ministry of Tourism claiming that the image was take...Published: 16 Oct 2015 at 09:06hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Whither sport in Zimbabwe
The recently held 11th All Africa games in Congo Brazzaville has clearly exposed and shown the sorry state of sporting in this country. Surely for someone who would want to earn a living through sport...Published: 02 Oct 2015 at 20:55hrs | 1 | by Collen Maenda
Usain Bolt defeats Justin Gatlin
Usain Bolt overcame the doubters and the form book to beat controversial rival Justin Gatlin to 100m gold at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing Sunday.The imperious Jamaican, who has...Published: 23 Aug 2015 at 19:12hrs | | by CNN
Avenging spirit threatens to wipe family
DRAMA broke-out at Acting Chief Zimunya's court recently when a man, Tonderai Nikisi, out of the blue stormed the traditional court like a mad man after an avenging spirit of his departed brother mani...Published: 02 May 2015 at 13:45hrs | | by Ngoni Dapira
Zanu-PF, ANC next in line to lose elections
The emphatic victory of opposition candidate of the All Progressive Party (APC), Muhammadu Buhari in the recent Nigeria's presidential election could create a democratic evolution for not just Nigeri...Published: 04 Apr 2015 at 13:35hrs | | by Solomon Izang Ashoms
Mugabe's fall - Why I laughed
After his usual bluster on the podium, at the Harare International airport, Robert Mugabe tumbled. Lucky for him, the ground broke his fall, right beneath the stunned gaze of his rented crowd. Mugabe'...Published: 13 Feb 2015 at 14:13hrs | 20 | by Jera
Social media goes berserk over Mugabe tumble
Social media went berserk yesterday after pictures and video footage of President Robert Mugabe's fall on Wednesday were released on the Internet.Although photojournalists who had managed to...Published: 06 Feb 2015 at 15:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's opponents demand voters' roll before by-elections
Opposition parties have demanded that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) furnishes them with an electronic version of the voters' roll before they can participate in by-elections pencilled for Ma...Published: 13 Jan 2015 at 12:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Prophet' flees angry mob after a stage-managed healing event
A BOGUS Pentecostal pastor, fled an angry mob recently at the popular Egodini rank in Bulawayo after his fake miracles were exposed when one of the "healed cripples" who was used to stage-manage the e...Published: 15 Jun 2014 at 09:00hrs | 8 | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
N*ked pictures expose affair with maid
Bare pictures of a domestic worker and her employer sold out a relationship between the two leading to the collapse of a four-year-old marriage.The marriage between Ene...Published: 24 Jan 2014 at 20:18hrs | 1 | by Mirirai Nsingo
You just have to admire Dynamos FC: BOSSO mene mene TEKEL upharsin?
Kanti yagana inyamazana sikhona kwenzenjani? Zidla belindile kwatsho abadala!This is a response to Senor Bongani Mafu a great football and sports trainer.Th...Published: 20 Nov 2013 at 14:56hrs | 2 | by Tshepo Mabalane Mabalane and Dumisani Matsebanane
Welshman Ncube the big winner of Maputo
SO the SADC summit which was dubbed as a make or break Zimbabwean election theatre script has now come and delivered resolutions that continue to tap into the high adrenaline levels that parties in ou...Published: 19 Jun 2013 at 18:04hrs | | by Thamsanqa Zhou
Usain Bolt beaten by Justin Gatlin in 100m
Justin Gatlin beat Olympic champion Usain Bolt by one-hundredth of a second to record a surprise 100m win in Rome.Bolt, 26, was fastest out of the blocks at the Diamond League meeting but Ame...Published: 07 Jun 2013 at 10:02hrs | | by BBC
'Zanu-PF primaries divisive,' says Chiyangwa
Zanu-PF's aspiring Chinhoyi MP and former provincial chairman Phillip Chiyangwa has described his party's impending primary elections as the most divisive phase, adding the process was likely to widen...Published: 27 May 2013 at 03:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Top 10 running world records
The most impressive running achievements of all time Have you hit a running rut? If you're in need of inspiration to get out there and run, we've pu...Published: 21 May 2013 at 04:51hrs | | by realbuzz.com
Man jailed for threatening doorstep missionaries with gun
A man has been jailed for threatening to shoot two Mormons who knocked on his door.Donald Ewers, 47, a father of 17, pointed an imitation handgun at the missionaries on his doorstep and said: ...Published: 30 Mar 2013 at 08:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Usain Bolt comes THIRD
The fastest man on the planet wasn't even the second-fastest guy on the track Saturday when Usain Bolt placed third at the Camperdown Classic in Kingston, Jamaica. Watch YouTube Clip bel...Published: 10 Feb 2013 at 13:38hrs | | by Staff Reporter
22 villagers critical after drinking poisoned maheu
TWENTY-TWO villagers from the Hwakwata area in Chipinge have been admitted to St Peter's Mission Hospital in Checheche following suspected food poisoning.Fellow villagers said the 22 started c...Published: 05 Feb 2013 at 05:33hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Fergie to try out Bolt in Real Madrid match
Manchester United boss, Sir Alex Ferguson told Inside United that he will happily give the Jamaican sprint legend, Usain Bolt his chance to take to the field in the club's annual charity clash aga...Published: 05 Sep 2012 at 06:24hrs | | by Sports Reporter
Othathekile imota yama sweets!!!
Uyazi so much has been happening lana eMzansi for the past nsuku or so, as usual, izazi zaseMpumalanga sengisho othathekile imoto yamasweets will always have something to say and chothoza amanye ama v...Published: 18 Aug 2012 at 15:15hrs | | by Jeff Matshikiza
Grenada Prime Minister congratulates Usain Bolt
Jamaica - Grenada's Prime Minister Tillman Thomas says Jamaica's Usain Bolt is a Caribbean inspiration and described his performance in the 2012 London Olympics as "legendary," the Jamaca Observer rep...Published: 12 Aug 2012 at 11:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bolt and team set a new world record
The Jamaican 4x100m relay team hasset a new world record, 36.84s........Published: 11 Aug 2012 at 18:32hrs | | by Moyo Roy
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