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Reporting Khaliphani Phugheni to big brother Israel Dube: here is a Ndebele calling Mnangagwa 'His Excellency'
Khaliphani Phugheni is not stupid or an imbecile by any stretch of my imagination. In retrospect he is eloquently intelligent, articulative, brilliant argumentative skills. However those skills are no...Published: 2 hrs ago | 951 | by Nomazulu Thata
Futility of wanting to reverse liberation rule in Southern Africa
Realising the futility of aligning with ephemeral and rootless MDC Alliance, the former G40 fugitives domiciled outside the country attempted to refashion themselves as true representatives of Zanu-PF...Published: 5 hrs ago | 143 | by Ranga Mataire
UNcle Tom queries South Africa 'sham' envoys
Prominent South African opposition leader Mmusi Maimane believes President Cyril ramamphosa's special envoys appointed to find ways of solving political problems in Zimbabwe are too compromised to lea...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:27hrs | 2245 | by Staff reporter
Online #ZimbabweLivesMatter campaign jolts Mnangagwa govt
STUNG by the impact of an online campaign by Zimbabweans to raise awareness about alleged human rights violations in the country, top government officials are fighting back with claims that gory image...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:23hrs | 9053 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's appointment cynical
MY Dear People,The continued hardships that Zimbabweans have experienced since 1980 have sent them into a permanent state of stupor and numbness.As a result, the leadership, especially...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:16hrs | 755 | by Dr Amai
Since when did funerals become hard hat areas?
People may have their differences, beliefs and preferences but chasing someone from a funeral is against African tenets, traditions and the much cherished Ubuntu. The good book teaches us to mourn wit...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 20:06hrs | 955 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
'Motlanthe Commission wasted Zimbabwe taxpayers' money'
THE Motlanthe Commission into the August 2018 fatal shooting of seven civilians by the army was a waste of taxpayers' money as two years after it completed its work, the government is yet to implement...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 19:40hrs | 1037 | by Staff reporter
The price of tribal politics in Zimbabwe is dangerous and costly: A warning to the people of Mashonaland once more!
Hätte der Hund nicht geschießen, hätte der Haufen nicht gegeben, this is a German adage it means we regret bitterly the decisions we made in previous times. Indeed if the dog had not shot, th...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 22:22hrs | 4148 | by Nomazulu Thata
Chamisa breathes fire
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has blasted President Emmerson Mnangagwa for labelling innocent citizens as terrorists after they expressed anger over his maladministration.Chami...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:58hrs | 11457 | by Staff reporter
Gumbura's rape jail sentence slashed
RMG Independent End Time Message leader Robert Martin Gumbura on Wednesday had his jail sentence on four counts of rape reduced, but his legal team claims it was not enough and is now seeking to appro...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:45hrs | 1513 | by Staff reporter
Cost of under reporting covid-19 to look good - virus spreads to Zanu PF chefs too, no sacred cows
Ever since the day, 11 March 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared coronavirus a pandemic many governments across the world prepared themselves to do what they could to contain the virus,...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 23:03hrs | 3626 | by Nomusa Garikai
2 die in anthill collapse
TWO Rusape brothers died on Monday after an anthill they were digging collapsed and trapped them.Manicaland provincial police spokesperson Inspector Tavhiringwa Kakohwa confirmed the incident ...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:19hrs | 1662 | by Staff reporter
Malawi President distances himself from #ZimbabweLivesMatter
The newly elected President of Malawi Lazarus Chakwera, has distanced himself from a Twitter account in his name which has been posting a series of tweets in solidarity with the victims of human r...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 17:31hrs | 3723 | by Mandla Ndlovu
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter trends on Twitter
PRESSURE on President Emmerson Mnangagwa escalated yesterday, with politicians and rights groups from the southern African region flagging the deepening crisis in Zimbabwe and worsening rights abuses ...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:28hrs | 6357 | by Staff reporter
Jealous man douses ex-wife and son with petrol, sets room alight
A 26-year-old Bulawayo woman miraculously escaped from her burning bedroom and rescued her four-year-old son after her jealous ex-husband allegedly doused them with petrol before torching the room the...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:08hrs | 555 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt taken to court over curfew
WOMEN'S Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (Walpe) has taken the government to court arguing that the recent imposition of a 6pm to 6am curfew on citizens was a violation of people's righ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:59hrs | 1928 | by Staff reporter
Local transmissions constitute 95% of Bulawayo Covid-19 cases
LOCAL Covid-19 transmissions have risen alarmingly in the country, constituting more than 70 percent of all cases, while they make up 94,5 percent of Bulawayo's infections. This comes at a tim...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:50hrs | 507 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe tragedy is the psychological warfare and propaganda machinery: Manyika
Build Zimbabwe leader Noah Manyika has said the tragedy in Zimbabwe is the psychological warfare and the propaganda machinery."The tragedy of this moment in the life of our nation is not just ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:39hrs | 479 | by Stephen Jakes
July 31 widens Mnangagwa, Chiwenga rift
The rift between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy Constantino Chiwenga that was exposed by the July 31 protests against the deteriorating economic and political situation in the country is ...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:44hrs | 11511 | by Staff reporter
July 31 exposed Mnangagwa
In order to legitimise anti-democratic politics, violence and human rights abuses to the world, Zanu-PF has gone back to its exhausted ideological settings.This follows a widespread call by ac...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:36hrs | 9861 | by Phillan Zamchiya
Mwonzora's fight with Chamisa not personal
MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora says his fight with MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is not personal, but is fuelled by his desire to instil constitutionalism in the opposition.Mwon...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:33hrs | 3316 | by Staff reporter
A passport is a privilege in Zimbabwe
I goT my current passport in 2016, three years after the election that ended the government of National Unity. This was also the year the government introduced bond coins and bond notes, and foreign c...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:29hrs | 787 | by Kudzai Mubaiwa
Abductions rock region
THE MDC Alliance claims unknown men abducted eight of their Matabeleland South members last week as cases of enforced disappearances climb.The incidents came a week after an MDC Alliance membe...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:16hrs | 561 | by Staff reporter
Lavish party from hell triggers Covid-19 panic after two deaths
THE Bulawayo City Health Department has instituted an investigation after claims that a dozen of people who attended a lavish and wild birthday party thrown by a city socialite and businessman last mo...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 07:38hrs | 4138 | by Staff Reporter
1893 MHRRM on Perence Smallboy Chikerema Shiri's death
The most evil and barbaric man who led the Matebeleland Gukurahundi Genocide accompanied with mass beatings, mass rapes, mass disappearances and mass starvation of the Matebele through curfews in the ...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 08:52hrs | 10836 | by 1893 MHRRM Bayethe Board of Directors
Hope for Zimbabwe as coronavirus Covid-19 is not the end of the world
As CORONA VIRUS ravages the world and its ugly head makes upwards strides in Zimbabwe, we feel a great comfort in knowing that this world will never end b...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 07:07hrs | 3544 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Opposition party distances self from its leader's utterances
NEWLY-FORMED opposition party, The Patriotic Front (TPF) has distanced itself from utterances made by its leader, Darryl Collet last week where he urged the country to forget both colonialism and Guku...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:40hrs | 1040 | by Staff reporter
'Gukurahundi victims celebrate the death of Perrance Shiri'
Victims of the Gukurahundi genocide that took place in the 1980s are celebrating the death of former 5th Brigade Commander Perrance Shiri, Ibhetshu lika Zulu Secretary-General Mbuso Fuzwayo has said. ...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 11:50hrs | 1884 | by Mandla Ndlovu
COVID-19 disaster looming in Zimbabwe
The opposition MDC Alliance yesterday said the regime had failed to manage the pandemic, warning of more COVID-19 deaths that a disaster was looming if the situation did not improve."We are co...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 09:07hrs | 1237 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths, soldiers unleash terror
ZANU-PF youths led by Harare district secretary for transport Nicholas Hamadziripi yesterday unleashed violence, beating up MDC Alliance members, breaking water taps, uprooting fence poles and torchin...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 09:05hrs | 2605 | by Staff reporter
Will Shiri's demise force Mnangagwa govt to act?
ZIMBABWEANS yesterday woke up to news of the death of Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri, who reports suggest was the latest victim of COVID-19.He was no angel, but we hope his passing on may...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:59hrs | 1089 | by Staff reporter
Roy Bennett foundation launches fund for prodemocracy activists
A FOUNDATION started by the late opposition MDC stalwart Roy "Pachedu" Benett says it will support prodemocracy and political activists.The Roy Bennett Foundation (RBF), a self-funded pro-demo...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:55hrs | 356 | by Staff reporter
'Mthwakazi nation, not mourning the Zimbabwean terrorist Perrence Shiri'
Today Zimbabwe happens to be grieving after the sudden death through the deadly Corona Virus, of the so-called "Black Jesus" of the 1980s. A self-proclaimed 'Jesus' figure during the 5th brigade opera...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 19:57hrs | 2780 | by Velile D Moyo
Perrence Shiri's cause of death takes a new twist
Perrance Shiri, the former army general blamed for the deaths of thousands of minority Ndebele people in post-independence war massacres has died aged 65.Initial reports alleged that Shiri had...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 17:55hrs | 8655 | by Staff reporter
Perrance Shiri untimely death - evoking my traumatic childhood memories of witnessing Gukurahundi genocide
When I woke up this morning, there were two main things on my mind: to check if there was still Internet connectivity, as there had been widespread rumours last evening of an impending plan by the Zim...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 15:09hrs | 1340 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Gukurahundi perpetrators evading justice by running to the realm of the dead.
Gukurahundi perpetrators evading accountability and justice by running to the realm of the dead. While not every death, and this particular one is a tragedy, it is with sadness that we learn o...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 14:00hrs | 970 | by Iphithule Maphosa
Perrance Shiri's death: A double loss to Gukurahundi victims
The Matabeleland All-Stakeholders People's Convention (known as Phutheho) has described the passing away of former 5TH Brigade Commander Perrance as a double loss to victims of the Gukurahundi Genocid...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:33hrs | 1460 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF councillor in pyramid scheme scam
Over 2 800 people in Chiredzi are counting their losses after money pyramid schemes that were operating around town collapsed. Chiredzi Town Council ward 4 councillor, Liberty Macharaga (Zanu-PF) ...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:08hrs | 717 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo speaks on Perrance Shiri's death
Professor Jonathan Moyo says it is unfortunate that the former Commander of the 5th Brigade Retired Air Marshall Perrance Shiri died without atoning for his sins. Moyo posted the statement on ...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 10:41hrs | 8894 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Shop owners and millers worried over 31 July mass protests
January 2019 demonstrations resulted in USD 28 million losses which are yet to be fully paid for by retailers and industry players, the Confederation of Zimbabwe Retailers and Grain Millers Asso...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 15:53hrs | 1145 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mupambi Spills the beans on foreign funded training to desturbilise Zim
A Controversial Activist and Human Rights Defender, Abigale Mupambi has exposed that the opposition forces have been funded by foreign forces to desturbilise the country in a regime change agenda in w...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 21:10hrs | 7336 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe defence ministry official dies suddenly on eve of US$20m fraud trial
The central figure in a fraud case involving more than US$20 million allegedly siphoned from Zimbabwe's ministry of defence died a day before he was due in court.Peter Muchakazi, 56, an army p...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 19:30hrs | 3367 | by Staff reporter
'Politicians must stop victimising health professionals'
HEAlTH workers in Zimbabwe bear the brunt of savage politics and are victimised for providing professional services to victims of political violence and demanding better working conditions, United Kin...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:50hrs | 689 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's lockdown is clumsy, weird
ONE thing that the "new dispensation" of President Emmerson Mnangagwa will always be remembered for with frustration and contempt is its clumsy articulation of policy.You would have thought th...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:15hrs | 5392 | by Tawanda Majoni
Police boss sucked into bloody mine wrangle
Police in Mvuma have been accused of illegally grabbing a lucrative gold mine at the centre of a dispute between two miners with some officers allegedly shooting to death an employee during the violen...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:06hrs | 1181 | by Staff reporter
Graca Machel Trust speaks on Hopewell Chin'ono's fraud allegations
Graca Machel Trust has dismissed reports by some social media users who are accusing Award winning journalist Hopewell Chin'ono of fleecing unsuspecting students through a botched scholarship fund. ...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 11:29hrs | 11890 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Ramaphosa roped into Hopewell Chin'ono's court case
Nine top media organisations across the world have written to the as Chair of the African Union, and as the President of the Republic of South Africa Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa to intervene in the crimi...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:31hrs | 4708 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mobocracy, 'dofocracy' and the myth of new dispensation
"WE spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny is rampant." Mwalimu Julius Nyerere.Dofocracy/DomocracyIn Shona a dofo is...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:16hrs | 1401 | by Brian T Kagoro
Zanu-PF militia evicts 100 Chiredzi families
OVER 100 families in Gutsaruzhinji C, ward 23 in Chiredzi North have been sleeping in the open since July 10 after a Zanu-PF militia razed down their homes in a bid to evict them from the area....Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:09hrs | 967 | by Staff reporter
'Brutal' shona police officers fail to have case dismissed
THE trial of six police officers who allegedly brutalised two women from Bulawayo's Cowdray Park suburb for allegedly violating lockdown regulations started on Wednesday. The police officers' ...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 07:41hrs | 820 | by Staff reporter
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