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Talking Nkayi Development: 'No cry babies on their mothers' backs!'
The inspirational and progressive people of Nkayi have risen to the occasion in their endeavour to see their native area of habitation, 'Nkayisburg', effortlessly and unencumberedly adopt the bottom-u...Published: 13 hrs ago | 843 | by Nhlanhla Moses Ncube
'Did you vote MPs to live large' asked Nkosana Moyo - how insulting, when he helped rig the vote
"As you continue to suffer, your representatives in parliament and government are preparing to receive brand new cars. Is this what you vote them in to office for? To live large in the face of crisis?...Published: 14 hrs ago | 1719 | by Wilbert Mukori
NPRC spells out Gukurahundi strategy
The National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) is finalising a strategy on dealing with the Gukurahundi issue that is expected to be completed next month and will, among issues, address the p...Published: 14 hrs ago | 210 | by Staff reportr
Exploring the causes of Gukurahundi
It is true that the Matabeleland crisis resulted in a number of people losing their lives while some remained with permanent psychological and physical injuries.True that maybe, perceptions an...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 10:11hrs | 756 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
'The electorate believes in Zanu-PF'
Zanu-PF win over MDC in the just-ended by-election in the Nyanga South Ward 26 indicates the electorate's trust in the governing party and the effectiveness of its issue-based campaign, senior party o...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 10:04hrs | 204 | by STaff reporter
Woes mount for Prophet Magaya
Women's groups have called on the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), the Zimbabwe Gender Commission and Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission to launch an inquiry into allegations of sexual abuse against Prop...Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 09:04hrs | 7928 | by Staff Reporter
ZESN condemns Zanu-PF vote buying
The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) has condemned requests by the Zanu PF Political Commissar Victor Matemadanda for medicine supplies at Lupane clinics to be used for vote buying in th...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 14:03hrs | 2919 | by Staff Reporter
How ZANU PF will be removed
The leaked audio featuring a conversation between Mnangagwa's wife Auxillia and an army commander named as one Murombo has exposed the power struggles in the "New Dispensation" administration. In the ...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 10:24hrs | 10928 | by Blessing Vava
Presuming 'no normal person votes Zanu-PF' is what makes MDC lose
Appearances can deceive big-time.Perusing the South African media before that country's general elections in May this year, one would have concluded that the ruling ANC was finished and would ...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 07:19hrs | 1423 | by Conway Tutani
Army confronts Mnangagwa over leaked audio
Information from Harare indicate that President Emmerson Mnangagwa was locked up in a meeting with some senior officers from the Joint Operations Command on Thursday evening when he returned fro...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 21:00hrs | 26500 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa's MDC begs SADC
MDC Media and Diplomatic Briefing ahead of the 21st Meeting of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Ministerial Committee of the Organ (MCO) on Politics, ...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 20:05hrs | 3979 | by Gladys Hlatywayo
Tajamuka plotting a national shutdown protest
Pressure group Tajamuka has issued a statement saying they are consulting various stakeholders towards implementing a national protest that will liberate the people of Zimbabwe. In a statement...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 11:50hrs | 7651 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa's MDC underplays tribalism in Bulawayo
A Bulawayo based analyst views the fracas involving the second capital's deputy mayor and the town clerk as evidence that the Nelson Chamisa led MDC has underplayed the issues of tribalism in the prov...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 09:12hrs | 3092 | by Staff reporter
Japajapa convicted
A HARARE magistrate yesterday sentenced MDC activist Paddington Japajapa to three years in jail after convicting him of inciting the public to commit political violence when he accused the Zimbabwe El...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 08:10hrs | 1835 | by Staff reporter
Minister, police boss sued for $500,000
HOME Affairs minister Cain Mathema and Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga face a for $500 000 lawsuit each for the arrest and harassment of MDC organising secretary Amos Chibaya during the Jan...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 08:08hrs | 704 | by Staff reporter
Man axes former wife for seeking refuge at his house
A CHIMANIMANI woman escaped death by a whisker after she was allegedly axed by her former husband when she sought refuge at his house during the Cyclone Idai disaster, a Chipinge court heard yesterday...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 08:03hrs | 1177 | by Staff reporter
Parents storm school over sexual abuse case
VIOLENCE broke out at Barwick Primary School in Concession on Monday after angry parents stormed the premises to inquire on the sexual abuse case in which a teacher is being accused of indecently assa...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 07:39hrs | 656 | by Staff reporter
'Kambarami has a string of legal battles'
1893MRM lodged a case against Tinashe Kambarami following the 31 July 2018 Zimbabwe harmonized national and municipal government elections. The movement had discovered that Mr Kambarami, the councilor...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 20:55hrs | 2509 | by 1893MRM
Mayor exposes Kambarami, says, 'I was not on leave'
BULAWAYO mayor Solomon Mguni yesterday denied claims he was on leave last week when town clerk Christopher Dube was suspended by his deputy, Tinashe Kambarami.Kambarami and other councillors l...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 08:47hrs | 7783 | by Staff reporter
Trump nails Mnangagwa?
The United States of America has released yet another damning report on Zimbabwe - observing that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government continues to fail to capitalise on the goodwill that was pre...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 08:26hrs | 10611 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala arrest cost us Bikita East by-election, claims MDC
SMARTING from a defeat in the Bikita East ward 31 by-election held on Saturday, the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC party has blamed Zanu-PF and the State for intimidating voters through the arrest of party de...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 08:04hrs | 2885 | by Stafff reporter
Mnangagwa asks UK to arrest Sibusiso Moyo's attackers
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has requested the government of the United Kingdom to arrest the protestors who attacked Foreign Affairs Minister Sibusiso Busi Moyo recently. In a st...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 19:45hrs | 8053 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'A coup against Mnangagwa is about to explode'
The November 2017 military coup which forced tyrant Robert Mugabe from power is still haunting Zimbabwe almost 18 months down the line. The remnants of the coup and its footprints will not disappear s...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 16:59hrs | 18602 | by Blessing Ivan Vava
For Auxilia Mnangagwa to kick and scream: tip of the iceberg: she has seen the limit of what it takes to be married to Emmerson
Putting some pieces of the jigsaw puzzle together, we shall indeed not get all of them, it's not possible. We are now told that Mnangagwa got a child with a student from MSU. We read too that Auxilia ...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 14:03hrs | 15173 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe, North Korea, Syria and Myanmar among countries defending China's actions in Xinjiang
Ambassadors representing 37 countries praised China for its "remarkable achievements in the field of human rights," just a day after a group of 22 other countries formally condemned Beijing for the ma...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 08:15hrs | 877 | by Joshua Berlinger, CNN
Kambarami: A pig in royal robes still finds amusement in mud
The Tinashe Kambarami cabal's crass exhibition of foolishness unmasks the failure of the MDC to run urban councils. The exalted office of councillorship has been defiled by the repugnant behaviour of ...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 07:37hrs | 1686 | by Ndabazabantu Sondokhulu
Gukurahundi 'architect' threatens
Zanu-PF party Politburo member Perrance Shiri has called on members not to be swayed by opposition elements who want to make the country ungovernable through demonstrations. Addressing thousan...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 07:22hrs | 1045 | by STaff reporter
Chamisa calls for health minister's arrest
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has called for Health Minister Obadiah Moyo to be arrested for corruption after a leaked letter showed how Zanu-PF plans to use medical drugs as a campaign tool in the Lupane...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 10:33hrs | 5836 | by ZimLive
Nomazulu Thata Misinformed
Nomazulu Thata who regards herself as the custodian of all Mathebeleland issues has a tendency to twist facts to suit her agenda. It is very curious that she refers to Bulawayo as the City of Kings an...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 10:15hrs | 1772 | by Lizwe Dube
US condemns London attack on Mugabe coup announcer
US ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols has condemned attack on Foreign Affairs Minister Sibusiso Moyo by a group of angry Zimbabweans in London last week.Nichols, in an interview with journal...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 08:20hrs | 4999 | by Staff reporter
I am made of thick skin: Matsunga
IN the country's political sphere, it has almost become a trend that the majority of female politicians are now making it to Parliament through the Proportional Representation route, set by government...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 07:57hrs | 603 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt threatens MDC Alliance leadership
Government has warned the MDC leadership against making inflammatory threats of violence against Government, as the law will descend on them. The call comes after MDC said they are rallying su...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 07:46hrs | 1036 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance declare war on Mthwakazi
There are licked audios and messages from the MDC Bulawayo group which are in bad taste. In one of the audios, a woman is heard calling upon all MDC members to meet at Bulawayo high court tomorrow at ...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 22:45hrs | 5657 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Lying for his country
A diplomat was famously described as 'an honest gentleman sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.' Lieutenant-General SB Moyo, Zimbabwe's chief diplomat as Minister of Foreign Affairs, fell so...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 22:43hrs | 5771 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
'MDC went into GNU with no plan, sat and ate' - amused and irritated SADC in equal measure
"Chamisa: We went into GNU with no plan, sat and ate!" screamed the headlines in New Zimbabwe.Every SADC leader involved in the Zimbabwe political crisis during the 2008 to 2013 GNU was amused...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 22:41hrs | 2510 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa pursues Mthwakazi Republic Party official over Gukurahundi genocide
When we heard that ZANU-PF president and the commander-in-chief of the defence forces was in Rwanda last week at the commemoration of the 1992 genocide that took place there, we thought he had gone th...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 22:39hrs | 883 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Zanu-PF wins Nyanga and Bikita by-elections
THE ruling Zanu-PF has wrestled the Nyanga South ward 26 seat from the MDC Alliance in a by-election which was held Saturday and retained Bikita Rural District Council ward 31 on the same day....Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:38hrs | 892 | by newzimbabwe
7 January protesters acquitted
SEVEN people, including an entertainment promoter-cum-DJ, alleged to have taken part in the violent January protests this year, which saw three cars belonging to Zanu-PF Bulawayo provincial Women's Le...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:38hrs | 306 | by Staff reporter
Thuggery in Bulawayo council chambers must stop
THE story in Bulawayo in recent weeks has been the unending water shedding, as council works on its water infrastructure, but that story, which touches on people's lives and the socio-economic fabric ...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:34hrs | 467 | by Staff reporter
Violence never an option
Zimbabweans are generally renowned as hospitable and peace loving people but the tendency to cause violence that seems to rear its ugly head, particularly by the MDC Alliance and its handlers is a ser...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:22hrs | 153 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabweans must be proud patriotic ambassadors' - deny truth, we are serfs in a banana republic
"The peace loving Zimbabweans must condemn the violence and destruction that has accompanied the visit of the minister of Foreign Affairs by the misguided elements of the opposition in the UK state," ...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 17:56hrs | 5388 | by Wilbert Mukori
Bulawayo Town Clerk not off the hook yet
It is now clear that tribal battles at Bulawayo now over shadows service delivery.The city is facing serious water shortages,have poor roads, busting of sewer pipes posing a health hazard especially i...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 17:43hrs | 2748 | by Etiwel Mutero
WATCH: Youths savagely attack rogue Bulawayo councillor
BULAWAYO Ward 5 Councillor Felix Mhaka was yesterday savagely attacked by rogue youths while other councillors were held hostage at the City Hall as tempers flared over the aborted suspension of Town ...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:29hrs | 2676 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe coup announcer, delegation humiliated in UK
FOREIGN Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo and his high-powered delegation were yesterday humiliated in the United Kingdom after angry protesters attacked them for "crippling" the country.Moyo, wh...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:18hrs | 4882 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans must condemn the violent protest by MDC in the UK
The peace loving Zimbabweans must condemn the violence and destruction that has accompanied the visit of the minister of Foreign Affairs by the misguided elements of the opposition in the UK.V...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 07:22hrs | 803 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Having Zanu-PF and MDC for leaders is like having parents who are not a full shilling - life is hell-on-earth
In the rural village where I grew up lived an odd couple, both the husband and wife were "not a full shilling", people said. As luck would have it, the two were blessed with a child. The two would not...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 19:57hrs | 838 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
MDC councillors out of order
The purported suspension of the Town Clerk of Bulawayo by a Shona tribalistic cabal led by the convicted fraudster Tinashe Kambarami aptly demonstrates that even if one were to dress a pig in royal ro...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 18:59hrs | 994 | by L Dube
Mnangagwa's govt condemns UK hooligans
Government has slammed an attack by opposition protesters directed at a Zimbabwean delegation in London led by Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Dr Sibusiso Moyo who are on a four day r...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 18:47hrs | 1975 | by Staff reporter
Government speaks on SB Moyo attacks
The delegation in London had great engagements with different stakeholders. The Government of Zimbabwe condemns the violent attacks against the delegation by a group of opposition protesters outside C...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 17:49hrs | 6384 | by Nick Mangwana
The Grand plan, gukurahundi, the Unity Accord 1987 - A program of invasion
This is a follow up of my Press Release released on 3rd July 2019. The focus today is Gukurahundi; its origins, meaning, and its role in the unprecedented influx of the Shona community in every part o...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 10:14hrs | 1967 | by King Mzilikazi II
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