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Serial robbers in court $11 500 robbery
BULAWAYO serial robbers have been taken to court for robbing several residents property worth $11 500.Nick Ngwenya (23) and Malcon Ngondo (18) appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Lizwe Jamela ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 183 | by Stephen Jakes
MDC-Alliance linked terror activist arrested in UK
MDC-Alliance activist Martin William Chinyanga was on Tuesday arrested by the United Kingdom anti-terror police on terrorism charges following a video he released in December last year encouraging peo...Published: 6 hrs ago | 307 | by Staff reporter
A lesbian Zimbabwean's struggle for UK asylum
Angel fled Zimbabwe in fear of her life after police found her in bed with another woman five years ago. It's taken most of the time since then for her to convince the Home Office that she is gay and ...Published: 18 hrs ago | 1911 | by BBC
'Mnangagwa must know that Zanu-PF is not God'
Mthwakazi Republic Party leader Mqondisi Moyo has warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa that he must know that his party Zanu PF is not God and Zimbabwe is cursed because of his hands that are dri...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 09:46hrs | 1220 | by Stephen Jakes
Thugs terrorise revellers in Tsholotsho business centre
A group of thugs recently pounced on at a Tsholotsho business centre attacking revellers after a misunderstanding over unclear circumstances.Sources from the centre said the gangs had s[pent t...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 09:29hrs | 1077 | by Stephen Jakes
'Heavy police presence shows Zimbabwe regime is panicking'
POLICE have increased their presence in and out of Harare in apparent readiness to quash attempts by restless opposition supporters and workers in the wake of threats of massive protests to pressure P...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 07:10hrs | 3958 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC divided over strategy to confront Zanu-PF
THE Nelson Chamisa-led opposition party, MDC, is in turmoil over a better strategy to implement in order to confront the ruling Zanu-PF party as the economy continues to tank.This comes as squ...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 06:54hrs | 535 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths to besiege Chamisa, Biti's homes over sanctions
SUSPECTED Zanu-PF youths have vowed to besiege MDC President Nelson Chamisa's rural Gutu home and the residences of his Vice President Tendai Biti and firebrand Vice Chairperson Job Sikhala.Th...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 06:02hrs | 854 | by Staff reporter
Violence after man finds girlfriend with new lover
A MAN from Bulawayo has appeared in court for allegedly damaging his ex-girlfriend's property and assaulting her after finding her with another man. Brian Ncube (27) of Emganwini suburb allege...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 05:58hrs | 622 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to use Jonathan Moyo's book as V11 at ConCourt?
OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa will launch a renewed bid to oust President Emmerson Mnangagwa by seeking to have the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) review its own judgment based on "new evidenc...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 20:53hrs | 2007 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says committed to reforms
Zimbabwe is committed to implementing political, economic and legislative reforms as part of efforts to escalate sustainable socio-economic development initiatives, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sa...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 20:52hrs | 934 | by Staff reporter
Book reveals Solomon Mujuru's dance with Bulawayo
The late former Zimbabwean army general and war hero Solomon Mujuru moved to Bulawayo at the age of 18 where he worked as a salesperson for tyre manufacturer Dunlop while he stayed at Mzilikazi suburb...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 18:47hrs | 4390 | by Staff Reporter
Wife bashes hubby over contraceptives
A Harare man is nursing injuries after he was allegedly bashed by his wife and had to be rescued by the police over contraceptives dispute.The matter came to light at Mbare magistrates courts ...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 09:22hrs | 3248 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Chamisa in fresh ConCourt appeal
OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa will launch a renewed bid to oust President Emmerson Mnangagwa by seeking to have the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) review its own judgment based on "new evidenc...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 07:00hrs | 8207 | by Staff reporter
UK presses Mnangagwa for reforms
THE United Kingdom (UK) says it will maintain its tough stance against the administration of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a position it says will only change if the regime implements meaningful polit...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 06:59hrs | 2915 | by Staff reporter
Machete gangs run riot in Zhombe, Mangwe
MACHETE-WIELDING gangsters linked to the infamous MaShurugwi on Saturday stormed two schools in Zhombe and Silobela and got away with valuables belonging to teachers after detonating explosives to sca...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 06:59hrs | 1689 | by Staff reporter
Security minister implicated in machetes violence
OPPOSITION MPs yesterday alleged in Parliament that State Security minister Owen Ncube was the co-ordinator of the machete gangs, popularly known as MaShurugwi.They said this as they grilled H...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 06:56hrs | 1631 | by Staff reporter
AU insists on Zimbabwe sanctions removal
African Union Commission, deputy commissioner Mr Kwesi Quartey has called for the removal of sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by United States and its allies, saying they were negatively impacting on the...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 06:31hrs | 170 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa tackles Zanu-PF rural hegemony
THE MDC has taken its campaign machinery into rural areas to challenge Zanu-PF electoral dominance, with the opposition saying it is gearing to wrest power from President Emmerson Mnangagwa before the...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 17:42hrs | 319 | by Staff reporter
MDC tackles Zanu-PF rural hegemony
THE MDC has taken its campaign machinery into rural areas to challenge Zanu-PF electoral dominance, with the opposition saying it is gearing to wrest power from President Emmerson Mnangagwa before the...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 10:10hrs | 1301 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa regime cannot silence me,' says Sikhala
Masvingo High Court judge, Justice Garainesu Mawadze, recently acquitted MDC vice chairperson Job Sikhala of treason charges after he allegedly called for the overthrowing of President Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 07:22hrs | 1092 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's tactics fail to work
RIDING the wave of popular anger has not worked out for Nelson Chamisa as it did for the late Morgan Tsvangirai. That is probably because Tsvangirai was popular first before surfing the great ...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 06:32hrs | 399 | by Lawson Mabhena
Zimbabwe govt has a history of sponsoring lawless since 1980
The notorious militia gang in Zimbabwe popularly known as MaShurugwi that is going around across the country terrorising people in both rural and urban areas is nothing new and certainly it's governme...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 06:17hrs | 192 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Man battles for life after fight over hookers
A man from Pumula North in Bulawayo is battling for life at Mpilo Central Hospital after he was attacked by two suspected illegal miners with a knobkerrie fitted with nails following a misunderstandin...Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 16:27hrs | 2891 | by Staff reporter
NCA chastises rowdy MDC Alliance leadership
One of the parties that participated at a meeting in the capital to discuss the proposed Constitutional Amendment Bill, the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA), has censured MDC-Alliance leaders fo...Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 16:27hrs | 2241 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans must ignore Chamisa's calls for violence
AS MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa continues his futile quest to power through the backdoor, just like before, he has announced plans to sponsor violence in the country, a grave route that has n...Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 08:24hrs | 491 | by Staff reporter
I would rather be a dog
In this perverted life, good behaviour is generally viewed as uninspiringly drab, while bad habits are considered to be titillatingly infectious, contagious, addictive and fashionable.This is ...Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 08:17hrs | 244 | by Bishop Lazarus
Munangagwa to fast-track Gukurahundi reburials
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected to convene a "consensus- building meeting" with Matabeleland traditional leaders soon to co-ordinate and fast-tra...Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 08:14hrs | 1392 | by Staff Reporter
'Will not rest until Zanu PF is extinguished' - shadow boxing, failed to implement even one reform in 20 years
As much as Zanu PF thugs would want to believe they will rule Zimbabwe until "donkeys have horns" the reality is that change is coming. The best they have...Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 07:58hrs | 327 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mliswa to be banned from Twitter?
Norton MP Temba Mliswa (Independent) has been shopped to Twitter over bigoted and racist comments made on the social media platform on February 17.The comments were made in a 39-part rant in w...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 18:22hrs | 2616 | by Staff reporter
MDC senator further remanded for threatening to burn Zec offices
A ZVISHAVANE magistrate on Thursday further remanded Midlands Senator Lillian Timveos (MDC Alliance) to March 16 in a case where she is accused of threatening to destroy Zimbabwe Electoral Commission ...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 16:34hrs | 145 | by Staff reporter
Wave of arrest in Zimbabwe as authorities clamp down on dissent
ZIMBABWEAN authorities have stepped up their onslaught against dissent after arresting a total of 47 people in one day for allegedly participating in anti-government protests over the country's worsen...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 08:52hrs | 3066 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Zanu PF hegemonic grip on power depends on poverty and violence' - without reforms, never be broken
Last week, former Zanu PF Minister Walter Mzembi promised to spill the beans of how Zanu PF has been rigging elections. Those who know Mzembi is but a man of little substance, an intellectual midget m...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 08:43hrs | 708 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa's govt warns Chamisa
GOVERNMENT yesterday said it is ready to thwart any unsanctioned dissent in the wake of threats by the country's opposition political party - the MDC - to unleash crippling protests in a bid to push P...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 05:51hrs | 5835 | by Staff reporter
I need to see one article from Mthwakazi Parties condemning Jonathan Moyo for supporting Robert Mugabe to the bitter end!
Israel Dube does not cease to amaze me each time he writes articles on Bulawayo24 regarding the Mthwakazi nation and how they are going to liberate it. His latest article was all subtly pointing at Ma...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 16:01hrs | 1754 | by Nomazulu Thata
Gukurahundi commissioner quits
THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) has with immediate effect parted ways with Commissioner Mrs Netty Musanhu over a long-standing matter of conflict of interest. In a stat...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 05:38hrs | 732 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa must stop inciting violence
After almost a year of rejecting broad-based dialogue preferring exclusive discussions with Zanu-PF, MDC Alliance has shockingly claimed its efforts for talks have failed and now seeks violent confron...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 05:30hrs | 270 | by Staff reporter
Woman scalds hubby over toilet sex
A 29-YEAR-OLD Guruve woman was arraigned before Guruve resident magistrate Shingirai Mutiro for scalding her husband with hot water over toilet sex.Talent Chinemwamwasa (29) of Nyamuseve villa...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 20:33hrs | 4285 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zanu-PF desperate to tame theatre of factional wars
ZANU-PF will soon resume internal elections in its provinces after the process was suspended last year following vicious factional clashes in Harare and Bulawayo as the party prepares to roll out a ma...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:32hrs | 659 | by Staff reporter
There is no honour among thieves
A FORTNIGHT ago, the Constitutional Court in Malawi set a precedent by overturning that country's 2019 election results, setting aside the victory of the incumbent Peter Mutharika, citing "widespread ...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:32hrs | 982 | by Crispen Manjonjo
Bulawayo sitcom airs on ZBC TV
THE long-awaited 13-episode situational sitcom titled Indlalifa (The Heir) which features award-winning local musicians Tebza and Paulla Paloma premiered yesterday on ZBC TV, something which is positi...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:18hrs | 129 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's tragic failure of leadership can be reversed
In 2008 Nelson Mandela said there was a "tragic failure of leadership" in Zimbabwe. His words have never been truer than they are today. There is evidence of failure everywhere you look.In Mar...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 05:58hrs | 2478 | by Nelson Chamisa
Chamisa threatens to unleash as he goes for 'radical' & disruptive approach
MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa yesterday said his party is planning to plunge the country into an orgy of violence as it has abandoned its calls for dialogue. Mr Chamisa lost to P...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 05:27hrs | 1025 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa drops a bombshell
Opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa, dropped a bombshell in today's press conference held at the party headquarters as he declared that only he matters and others in the party structures are insignifica...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 20:17hrs | 4251 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Sikhala lashes Tamborinyoka for protecting Mnangagwa
THE acquittal of MDC deputy chairperson Job Sikhala of treason charges last week has exposed the rift between radicals and soft-liners within the opposition party.Sikhala was arrested in July ...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 07:13hrs | 5813 | by Staff reporter
Politicians continue to bicker while Zimbabweans are starving
Zimbabwe is teetering on the edge of a large-scale humanitarian crisis and South Africa and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) cannot afford to ignore it. Half the population (7.7 milli...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 22:16hrs | 1092 | by Ringisai Chikohomero
MDC has lost its vision.
THE acquittal of MDC deputy chairperson Job Sikhala of treason charges last week has exposed the rift between radicals and soft-liners within the country's biggest opposition party, political analysts...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 18:21hrs | 1509 | by Staff reporter
EU tightens screws on Mnangagwa
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) yesterday tightened screws on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government after they maintained sanctions against the Zimbabwe Defence Industries (ZDI), citing human rights abuse...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 13:17hrs | 4927 | by Staff reporter
Machete wielding gang attacks mine
FOUR daring Mutare robbers are in the dock after allegedly using machetes and axes to attack security guards as Redwing Mine in Penhalonga in an attempt to gain entry.The gang of four consiste...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 06:31hrs | 2136 | by Staff reporter
'Sikhala acquittal exposes MDC rift'
THE acquittal of MDC deputy chairperson Job Sikhala of treason charges last week has exposed the rift between radicals and soft-liners within the country's biggest opposition party, political analysts...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 06:14hrs | 4659 | by Staff reporter
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