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If I had married that man, I would be dead by now!
The level of violence in Zimbabwe is alarming: domestic violence accompanies the life of a married woman daily. Daily we read depressing news about the growing number of cases of femicide. Today again...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 17:58hrs | 1830 | by Nomazulu Thata
Tongai Moyo Jnr chides brother Peter in new song
Obert Tongai Moyo Jnr has taken the gloves off for a bare-fisted brawl with his elder brother Peter after he recently released a single titled Cain and Abel.Plucked from the biblical scripture...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:10hrs | 3892 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean nurse banned in Scotland
A ZIMBABWEAN mental health nurse has been banned from the profession after he was convicted of sexual assault.The watchdog for nurses and midwives said the nurse had brought the profession int...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:04hrs | 1809 | by Staff reporter
Chidyausiku pension row settled
THE High Court has ruled that the two widows of the late former Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku are both entitled to receive the national hero's pension.the determination by Justice Jacob Ma...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 09:05hrs | 4415 | by Staff reporter
Political nobodies should not comment about land
I write to dissect and expose the lies and hypocrisy in the statement issued yesterday by one Kudakwashe Ndavara on behalf of the so called Zimbabwe National Service Graduates Association (ZIM-NASGA)....Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 16:56hrs | 1819 | by Kundayi Masekesa
FULL TEXT: Tawanda Muchehiwa's gory story on how he was abducted by Ferret team
I often wake up in the middle of the night sweating profusely with a pulsating headache. At that moment, I can feel intense pain on the right side of my jaw. I never get back to sleep.I have t...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 09:49hrs | 12298 | by Tawanda Muchehiwa
Mujuru: The soldier, kingmaker
LAST week marked the fifth anniversary of the mysterious death of Solomon Mujuru (Rex Nhongo) a war hero, former military commander, politician, business mogul and Zanu-PF kingmaker until his demise. ...Published: 22 Aug 2020 at 08:31hrs | 2867 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Zimbabwe church leaders, hiding behind Bible, to defend regime brutality and corruption have sold souls to devil
I have always asserted that the Holy Bible is the most perverted book in the history of mankind, as it has found itself at the mercy of all manner of scandalous individuals - from abusive husbands, an...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 09:19hrs | 1809 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
War veterans warn 'sodomist' Catholic priests to stop playing with fire'
WAR VETERANS have stormed the raging tirade pitting government and Catholic priests with the militant pro-Zanu-PF group telling the clerics to stop "playing with fire".This comes after the men...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 07:30hrs | 863 | by newzimbabwe
Can Zimbabwean Christians and Church leaders honestly not see the regime's evil ways - why are they silent?
As a devout Christian, there is one thing that I have never been able to wrap my mind around - that is, can most Christians and Church leaders in Zimbabwe honestly tell me that they can not see the ba...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 16:13hrs | 738 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Abusive rogue regimes that violate international law shouldn't be allowed to hide behind 'protocol' and 'diplomacy'
When I was growing up, whenever an abusive husband battered his wife, the best she could do was either, keep quiet and accept her fate (even blaming herself as having 'deserved' the brutality as punis...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 16:19hrs | 1122 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Matemadanda jumps on Malema's throat
Comrade Victor Matemadanda lashes out at "idiot Malema" outspoken South African opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema who has described President Emmerson Mnangagwa as a fool...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 00:40hrs | 8213 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
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 | 3558 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
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 | 1347 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
A selfish proliteriate, a voracious educated elite and a rapacious ruling class - The opiate numbing Zimbabwe
Wrote in 1943, Karl Marx's celebrated dictum, "religion is the opium of the people," entered popular lexicon and according to Rosie Blau ,still resonates with 4,5 billion people the world over who ide...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 23:10hrs | 1777 | by Evangelist Sendekai W.T
City of Bulawayo, Mnangagwa govt headed for clash over renaming of roads
The government was on a collision course with the City of Bulawayo on Friday after the Local Government Ministry gazetted new names for some of its roads.The ministry, headed by July Moyo, ren...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 21:33hrs | 4589 | by Staff reporter
We have Epsteins and Ghislaine in homes: capital punishment is befitting to paedophiles!!
Last week, we saw how Virginia Giuffre-Roberts got her last laugh. At last the notorious Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested by the FBI for counts of perjury and recruiting under-aged girls for prostitutio...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 18:31hrs | 1042 | by Nomazulu Thata
Divorce ruling on 50/50 sharing of assets triggers mixed reactions
GENDER activists have expressed mixed feelings over a recent Supreme Court judgment that awarded a spouse 50% share of property after dissolution of marriage, even if they might not have made a direct...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:46hrs | 1810 | by Staff reporter
Give us our Daily Bread: 12 July 2020
"In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him, "This is what the LORD says, 'Give instructions...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:16hrs | 301 | by Robert Sigauke, fellow servant in the Lord
Interview with ZPRA Instructor Thoriso Moyo
This week on the Big Interview, we have Toriso Moyo, a freedom fighter and military instructor with the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA), a Mgagao attack survivor, and one of the fir...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 15:20hrs | 2702 | by The Big Interview
Chihuri dossier exposes govt rot
EXILED former Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri has exposed how serving and former top government officials and service chiefs allegedly used their spouses as conduits to grab lucrative te...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:50hrs | 4411 | by Staff reporter
Wild partying as Tagwirei takes over gold mine
Workers are said to have gone into wild partying and drinking at Sabi Gold Mine in Zvishavane three weeks ago after Kudakwashe Tagwirei rated as one of the country's richest persons took over the mine...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 17:18hrs | 13162 | by Staff reporter
Nurses' strike rages on
THE countrywide strike by nurses at public hospitals which started on Friday continued into the weekend with the health professionals saying they would only resume duty after receiving United States-d...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 08:17hrs | 2573 | by Staff reporter
Dr. Edison Zvobgo abolished lobola Mr Ziyambi: it has become commodified livestock with variable price tag!
It should never escape me to comment on what Justice Minister Ziyambi previously said about lobola in our diverse cultures. Talking about lobola nowadays, almost every society in Zimbabwe upholds trad...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 18:50hrs | 3446 | by Nomazulu Thata
Nurses strike continues
THE strike by nurses at Bulawayo's two major hospitals entered day two yesterday with a handful of the health workers reporting for work.Nurses at Mpilo Central Hospital and United Bulawayo Ho...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:09hrs | 1136 | by Staff reporter
ZCC bishop dies in funeral car accident
A ZCC Wangamurena bishop was recently killed in a funeral service vehicle accident after a mysterious snake is said to have appeared from underneath the driver's seat causing the car to veer off the r...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 20:11hrs | 2031 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest striking nurses
POLICE yesterday arrested health and general workers at Victoria Chitepo Hospital in Mutare as nurses and some doctors deserted major hospitals across the country following a call by their unions to d...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:34hrs | 2027 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe civil servants reject pay offer
CIVIL servants, through the Apex Council, yesterday rejected government's pay offer of a 50% raise and US$75 allowance for three months as doctors and nurses declared a full-blown strike.Prote...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:11hrs | 1409 | by Staff reporter
The children of politicians should not be judged on their parents' actions
Political leaders are always under the eyes of the nation. Moreso in politics politicians are constantly watched by those who wish them bad so that they can faulter, they are equally watched by those ...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 08:36hrs | 2785 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabweans should pray and fast to be delivered from evil regime that has refused to turn away from its wicked ways
If there is anything I find most detestable and repulsive than everything else on this planet, is the purposeful blaspheming of the name of our Almighty Jehovah, in the fulfilment of shallow, narrow-m...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 13:22hrs | 1008 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Lest we forget the commander in the Covid war general Dr Obadiah Moyo
As Zimbabwe starts to ease the lockdown sounds of car and bus horns hooting the lockdown silence away. This is the sound of thanks and start of victory in a long battle against coronavirus. Let us car...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 08:16hrs | 1636 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Single, childless and black
THERE is a generally held assumption that every adult person is married or should be married and have children.Society, especially African societies, are generally uneasy with the idea of adul...Published: 06 Jun 2020 at 08:26hrs | 3417 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Govt destroys apostolic shrine over COVID-19 fears
THE Marondera District COVID-19 taskforce on Wednesday besieged a Johane Marange apostolic shrine before destroying the tents and ordering the inhabitants to return to their homes.The shrine, ...Published: 09 May 2020 at 08:12hrs | 929 | by Staff reporter
Shona cops brutalise Ndebele women for lockdown defiance
TWO women from Bulawayo had to seek medical treatment after allegedly being brutally assaulted for hours with batons on their backs, hips and legs by police officers who accused them of violating the ...Published: 09 May 2020 at 08:04hrs | 1209 | by Staff reporter
Barbara Makhalisa weathers patriarchal storm
VETERAN author Barbara Makhalisa has attributed her success to the value her father and grandfather placed on educating the girl child at a time when doing so was unheard of because of prevailing patr...Published: 08 May 2020 at 00:33hrs | 1142 | by Staff reporter
Letter to Cont Mhlanga
Dear Cont, I hope I find you well dear Cont. Having read your article today on Bulawayo24, I got really excited I could not wait to sit down and reply it. Firstly, you must be surprised to cal...Published: 07 May 2020 at 17:32hrs | 2410 | by Nomazulu Thata
Covid-19 team visits Madzibaba with 30 wives, 23 children
MARONDERA: A 35-year-old prophet of the Johane Marange sect is living with his large family and dozens of sick church members of the church, exposing them to the Covid-19 virus.Prophet Ezekiel...Published: 30 Apr 2020 at 20:55hrs | 5043 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown puts pregnant Zimbabwe women at risk
Pregnant women in marginalised communities are struggling to access prenatal care due to the current lockdown, it has emerged.Zimbabwe commenced a 21-day lockdown on March 30 and extended it b...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 12:31hrs | 470 | by Nokuthaba Dlamini
There was no time for 'meet you behind the anthill'
What happened to the progressive women's clubs of yesteryears that 'delivered' hygiene, hope and self reliance to many rural families? In the early 80's these clubs were very active and every ...Published: 21 Apr 2020 at 07:53hrs | 142 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Zim @ 40, A New Dispensation that never was minus Mugabe's booming voice
It's dreary Saturday and somewhat overcast midmorning in Pretoria as I watch live news feeds from the North across the mighty Limpopo River. Life away from home has turned many into creatures ...Published: 19 Apr 2020 at 07:42hrs | 309 | by Josiah Mucharowana
Shocked by Prophet Bushiri asking followers for money during lockdown
Banking details of the church are seen appearing on the video, as Bushiri implores his followers to give their offerings."I want you to put your offering in the church account. Put your seed, ...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 13:37hrs | 6469 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors sue over Covid-19 exposure
ZIMBABWE'S 1 500 doctors working at public health institutions are exposed to the killer coronavirus after government failed to provide personal protective equipment (PPE) and have sued to force autho...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 07:51hrs | 146 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora sucked into nasty estate wrangle
Former MDC deputy secretary for international relations, Douglas Mwonzora, who was the executor of the late Chiredzi businessman Isaac Vengai Rukatya's estate, has been taken to court for leaving out ...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 08:16hrs | 2492 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Republic Police to lose the entire force to corona virus??
Zimbabwe Republic Police and the Zimbabwe National Army members are being exposed to Corona virus as they are deployed in the public domain with no protection at all. Police officers and Soldier...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 20:01hrs | 3982 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mr Trump, please cut us some slack
Despite romanticising rural life perhaps a tad too much, Bishop Lazi will openly admit that some village folk are an idiosyncratic lot.For those who might not know them, it takes time getting ...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:25hrs | 200 | by Bishop Lazi
What people are doing to pass lockdown time
BULAWAYO residents are using the 21-day total lockdown declared by the Government to combat the spread of Covid-19 to engage in yesteryear activities and revive hidden talents to kill time. Th...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:32hrs | 389 | by Staff reporter
Mealie-meal fights break out in Bulawayo
POLICE in Bulawayo were yesterday called to restore order at mealie meal queues in the city centre and Nketa Suburb as residents fought over the commodity. Anti-riot police were called to disp...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:30hrs | 266 | by Staff reporter
I don't regret sex lessons, says Zoey
Zoey says she doesn't regret complementing her earnings by teaching women sex lessons.The 31-year-old, who is now a hit with both married and single ladies itching to impress their partners, r...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:23hrs | 835 | by Staff reporter
Could ignorance be a COVID-19 Cure?
The human body is an amazing machine. I am a Mechanical Engineer by training, but l have also delved in Mental Health and Psychology.On an old and ignorant car, the single problem you would fa...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 11:25hrs | 748 | by Ryton Dzimiri
We are fine with our culture and traditions!
Miriam Majome: Barely 36 hours of writing about medieval traditions and cultural "beliefs" in our communities, we read today once more in Bulawayo24 about a classic case of the power of Sangomas and c...Published: 18 Mar 2020 at 16:26hrs | 1381 | by Nomazulu Thata
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