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Zimbabweans mistrust SAZ report on contaminated grain
Consumers have expressed significant skepticism over a report by the Standard Association of Zimbabwe (SAZ) that cleared certain grain products of containing glyphosate, a controversial herbicide, cla...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 09:01hrs | 132 | by Staff reporter
2 Royal baLozi graves in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Bulawayo's Athlone Cemetery is the oldest formal graveyard in the modern city, being established in December 1893 in the vicinity of what was known as White Man's Camp. There are many significant pers...Published: 25 Sep 2024 at 11:12hrs | 965 | by Paul Hubbard, Independent Researcher, Bulawayo
Sheep on a high: Flock feasts on cannabis after extreme weather
In a truly bizarre twist of fate, a flock of sheep in Greece found themselves feeling a bit too "ewe-phoric" after munching on a crop of weed!Wildfires, heatwaves, and flooding had left the po...Published: 17 Jul 2024 at 09:05hrs | 857 | by Staff Reporter
Maintaining graves is not Bulawayo City Council's job
THE Bulawayo City Council has urged residents with relatives buried at different cemeteries in the city to constantly check and maintain the graves as it is not the duty of the local authority to do t...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:36hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Rains expected to return to Zimbabwe from Monday
Rains are expected to return to parts of Zimbabwe starting Monday, bringing relief to the country after a brief period of dry weather. According to forecasts, widespread rainfall is expected f...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:32hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe farmers advised to replant failed crops
DRY land farmers should consider replanting after their initial crop suffered from moisture stress due to the prolonged dry spell between November and December.Weather projections indicate tha...Published: 04 Jan 2024 at 05:54hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Effective rains expected within the next two weeks
Even with the El-Nino, weather and agricultural experts forecast that most of the dry regions of Southern Africa are expected to receive effective rains within the next two weeks.The experts u...Published: 20 Dec 2023 at 06:30hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa fires 17 top CIOs
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday fired 17 top State security operatives believed to have facilitated the meeting between former President Robert Mugabe and opposition National People's Party lea...Published: 12 Jan 2023 at 09:49hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Zifa weeds out unqualified coaches?
ZIFA is adamant that there will be no sacred cows as they fully implement standardisation of coaches, with the association's acting president Gift Banda saying unqualified gaffers will not be allowed ...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 09:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Highlanders legends to visit graves of fallen colleagues
Highlanders football legends meet in Bulawayo this Saturday to honour and celebrate the lives of their departed former teammates.Douglas Mloyi, the chairman of the Highlanders Former Players A...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 19:29hrs | | by Staff rteporter
Farmers fret over dry spell
Farmers are becoming very worried as the dry spell continues with crops showing signs of moisture stress and a lot could depend on supplementary irrigation to ensure reasonable harvests.It has...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
US sanctions on Zimbabwe's elite ricochet across economy
Callisto Jokonya stands in the cavernous factory of Imperial Refrigeration and recalls the halcyon days.In the 1990s, his factory, located in the Zimbabwean capital Harare, was buzzing....Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean economy suffers under US sanctions
Callisto Jokonya stands in the cavernous factory of Imperial Refrigeration and recalls the halcyon days.In the 1990s, his factory, located in the Zimbabwean capital Harare, was buzzing with a ...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 05:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Esidakeni farm wrangle turns nasty, tomato crops destroyed
KERSHELMAR Farm, commonly known as Esidakeni, should be teeming with ready-to-harvest tomatoes at this time of the year as it is every farmer's wish to take a good crop to market.A gaze throug...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:04hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo weeds out negligent staff members
MPILO Central Hospital has taken drastic measures to weed out negligence by staff members, a development that has seen over 20 workers redeployed from the maternity ward and disciplinary hearings bein...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's A1 known knowns: Zanu PF has already rigged 2023 and participating will give illegal regime legitimacy
"There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 23:00hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Grass, trees grow inside Mpilo mortuary
TREES and grass have grown in a structure that was supposed to house a mortuary at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo which has not been completed 25 year...Published: 30 May 2021 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
BCC resumes work at Highlanders club house grounds
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) nursery department workers have returned on site to revamp the Highlanders Club House grounds after the end of a long strike by municipal employees. The strike adve...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents demand refuse fee removed from their rates
side from the Covid-19-induced lockdown restrictions where many of us had to adjust to working from home among many other things, 2020 was a burdensome year because of the Bulawayo City Council's fail...Published: 30 Jan 2021 at 05:55hrs | | by Yoliswa Dube-Moyo
SRC targets 'weeds' around Zifa president
THE Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) has vowed to get rid of "weeds" within Zifa who are resisting efforts to bring sanity back into the football governing body.The two associations have...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 14:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rains raise hopes of bumper harvest
LOCAL farmers have started the summer season at a blistering pace and have already planted more than 80 percent of the targeted hectarage of maize, laying the foundation for a bumper harvest in the co...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mayoral mansion now football club house
The gigantic mayoral mansion built by Harare City Council in Gun Hill for more than US$500 000 as the grand luxury residence for the now-defunct executive mayors is a white elephant gradually rotting ...Published: 12 Dec 2020 at 06:43hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mastering art of 'villagising' cities
In Bishop Lazi's village, there lived this super-reclusive chap who, after a quarrel with his father over witchcraft, decided to build his own hut a spitting distance from the family homestead....Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:30hrs | | by Bishop Lazarus
Powerful political enemies out to finish Magaya
Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries found and preacher Walter Magaya is a household name in Zimbabwe. Magaya commands crowds that would make any politician jealous and envious of the pr...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 14:35hrs | | by Nicholas Ncube
White farmers told to get offer letters
GOVERNMENT has challenged white farmers who got land to get offer letters and have access to 99-year leases. This was said by Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement Minister...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Make corruption suicidal
Time seems long overdue for the Second Republic to supplant with dizzifying actions rhetorical denunciation of maggots fattening themselves on what does not belong to them so that Zimbabweans are spar...Published: 25 May 2019 at 08:28hrs | 1 | by Stephen Mpofu
Understanding Day Trading and If It's Right for You
Most people who drift off and have thoughts of quitting their job during a stressful day and trading stocks for a living are daydreaming about day trading. Careless or inexperienced traders can lose t...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 10:28hrs | 8 | by Staff Writer
'Regional trade will cure Zim fragile economy' WB proscribed - this is false medicine, I hate false medicine
"The increases in prices that we have witnessed since October last year will affect the growth rate for 2019. For 2018, in the first quarter the growth was real, but it was then disturbed by the last ...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 19:30hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
The dirty truth about OIL
What does "oil" make you think of? Do "invasions" and "emissions" top your list? Why have leaders thought it worth spilling so much blood for the sake of this pungent mud? And why has it been so hard ...Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 10:13hrs | | by Erick Matotoba
Too poor for periods, Zimbabwe's girls rely on rags
When her monthly period comes, 17-year-old Maria Chaodza dismantles a home-made pillowcase and picks out pieces of its worn stuffing – an old, cloth rug – which she uses in place of the sanitary p...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 07:42hrs | | by Reuters
Your mind is a garden, cultivate it
The mind is a set of cognitive faculties including consciousness, perception, thinking, judgment, language, and memory. It is usually defined as the faculty of an entity's thoughts and consciousness. ...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 12:03hrs | | by Enos Denhere
Jonathan Moyo's false hope from Malaysia
I have just been reading Deluze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. It's a big book, one quite opaque and thus requiring stout intellect and a liberal outlook to digest it....Published: 19 May 2018 at 14:40hrs | 1 | by Igomombe
Tsikamutanda nailed over witchcraft accusations
A 44-YEAR-OLD tsikamutanda from Buhera was on Monday fined $100 or 20 days in jail for accusing two villagers of being witches.Fainas Mutetwa, of Nechishanye village, under Chief Chamutsa, Buh...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 06:56hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Patience is bitter, but its fruits are sweet
The great Greek philosopher Aristotle used to tell his students that, "Patience is bitter, but its fruits are sweet". Zimbabweans are indeed a patient people. We have waited centuries for ...Published: 01 Mar 2018 at 07:55hrs | | by John Love
'Mnangagwa has failed'
In spite of claims by President Emmerson Mnangagwa that his first 100 days in office have been successful, analysts are not convinced, citing the plight of the long-suffering majority of Zimbabweans w...Published: 01 Mar 2018 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe silenced, surveillance beefed up
There are unverified media reports in the Zimbabwean that former President Robert Mugabe's private residence has been slapped with a sophisticated 24/7 surveillance blanket following the 94 year old's...Published: 12 Feb 2018 at 13:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa fires 17 top CIOs over Mujuru, Mugabe meeting
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday fired 17 top State security operatives believed to have facilitated the meeting between former President Robert Mugabe and opposition National People's Party lea...Published: 06 Feb 2018 at 05:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dr Mandaza, 'a SADC shadow ZEC' will not stop coup Zanu PF rig elections - just implement the reforms
One of the reasons Zimbabwe is this political and economic mess is because we do not like dealing with our unpleasant and tough problems decisively, even when we get the golden opportunity to do so. W...Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
'No interface rallies!' rejoiced Gore - with zero ambition it is no wonder we are in a mess and stuck
After 37 years of one of the most corrupt oppressive and murderous regimes in modern human history that has forced ¾ of the country's population into a life of hopelessness and despair. One would hav...Published: 24 Dec 2017 at 21:04hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Pasi naningi is an outdated political rhetoric
Revolutionary greetings dear comrades. In revolution there is pasi(down) with so and so. The enemies of the revolution are those in power who abuse power. They use the workers and peasants as their do...Published: 15 Dec 2017 at 22:16hrs | | by Khulani David Ndhlovu, NPP National youth spokesperson
Mugabe's 'obedient son' sought 'divine intervention'
He's the minister who once famously referred to himself as Robert Mugabe's "ever obedient son".Home Affairs Minister Obert Mpofu says he would ask his wife to pray for him to shield himself fr...Published: 12 Dec 2017 at 15:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu feared Grace Mugabe's tongue
FORMER First Lady Mrs Grace Mugabe's attacks on President Emmerson Mnangagwa caused a lot of anxiety among senior Zanu-PF leaders who resorted to prayer before rallies in the hope of evading similar v...Published: 09 Dec 2017 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urged to repeal draconian laws
AS Zimbabweans across the globe celebrate the downfall of President Robert Mugabe, who resigned on Tuesday, civic society organisations (CSOs) have called for the removal of draconian laws and opening...Published: 23 Nov 2017 at 06:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
More elephants poisoned in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park
More than 14 elephants, including a mother and her young calf, have been poisoned in and around Zimbabwe's premier game reserve, Hwange National Park. Most of the poisoned elephants died near the sout...Published: 22 Jun 2017 at 10:09hrs | | by Adam Cruise
Mbofana's shallow prophetic gymnastics
Mbofana has, of late emerged with poorly researched loose-cannon wanton-attacks on modern Christianity! On prophets, apostles, pastors, evangelists and teachers in the five-fold domain.Mbofana...Published: 29 Apr 2017 at 13:55hrs | 5 | by Evangelist Reginald Thabani Gola
Where Ian Smith still rules
THREE decades after Independence, villagers in Mudzi district still live in terror of the seeds the colonial military sowed in their soil.Here, Ian Smith - dead and buried - still cont...Published: 16 Apr 2017 at 17:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Snakes claim 38 lives - Ministry of Health
At least 38 people have died from snake bites countrywide since January this year, while more than 5,000 others have survived the bites, an official said Tuesday.Permanent Secretary in t...Published: 04 Apr 2017 at 18:20hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Fall armyworm outbreak cause havoc
MIDLANDS Province has been hit by an outbreak of armyworm which is ravaging the crop amid reports that there is a shortage of insecticide to control the pests.Most farmers have resorted to...Published: 12 Feb 2017 at 09:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Incessant rains affecting horticultural produce
FARMERS in Umguza have lost a significant amount of horticulture produce and crops to the excessive rains that have pounded most parts of the country in recent weeks, a situation that farmers say ...Published: 05 Feb 2017 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe cronies wreck farm in one year
A once thriving tobacco farm where a white Zimbabwean farmer and his wife lived for 35 years before being turfed out by a British doctor with links to first lady Grace Mugabe lies empty only a year af...Published: 15 Jan 2017 at 08:54hrs | | by MailOnline
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