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Bulawayo, the Umthwakazi African City Concept
Bulawayo, the Umthwakazi African City ConceptAuthor: Prince Zwide KhumaloDate: 26 June 2019Isilo seNtuthuko Bulawayo and the identity of Umthwakazi or the Ndebele nation are inseparabl...Published: 3 hrs ago | 313 | by Prince Zwide Khumalo
'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: 3 hrs ago | 538 | by 1893MRM
Mandiwanzira's Megawatt saga rages on
Former Information Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services minister Supa Mandiwanzira has approached the High Court seeking an order to dismiss the Prosecutor-General's application, whic...Published: 16 hrs ago | 528 | by Staff reporter
Freedom of Information Bill
The government on 5 July 2019 gazetted the Freedom of Information Bill [H.B. 6 of 2019]. This is the first of three official Bills meant to replace the much-criticised Access to Information an...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 20:03hrs | 452 | by MISA Zimbabwe
'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 | 16225 | by Blessing Ivan Vava
Civil servants stage demonstration in Harare
Some section of civil servants' staged a protest in the Harare Central Business District over the meagre salaries that they are paid by the government. The protestors who were petitioning the ...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 14:53hrs | 6767 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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 | 849 | by Joshua Berlinger, CNN
Kambarami granted bail
BULAWAYO's deputy's mayor Tinashe Kambarami and Ward 4 councillor Silas Chigora appeared in court yesterday on allegations of assaulting town clerk Christopher Dube.Kambarami and Chigora alleg...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 20:54hrs | 1740 | by Staff reporter
Kambarami in court for assaulting Town Clerk
THE drama around the still-borne suspension of Bulawayo Town Clerk, Christopher Dube is slowly turning into a soap-opera after Deputy Mayor, Tinashe Kambarami and ward four Councillor Silas Chigora ap...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 18:40hrs | 4429 | by newzimbabwe
Woman gives birth to a 'pig'
A Gokwe woman shocked all and sundry after she delivered a baby with features of a pig in a case the community has strongly linked to witchcraft.Essina Ncube (35) of Area Sikwiti under Chief C...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 10:47hrs | 4426 | by Staff reporter
Unpacking the Kambarami -Town Clerk suspension saga
The wait is over.Yesterday (11 July 2019) I promised to give my opinion on the “alleged suspension pending disciplinary investigation” of the Bulawayo Town Clerk Mr. Christopher Dube by th...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 15:45hrs | 4826 | by Sindiso Mazibisa
Duduzane Zuma found NOT guilty of killing Zimbabwean lady
Duduzane Zuma, the son of former president Jacob Zuma, has been found not guilty of the charge of culpable homicide in the Randburg Magistrate's Court.The charge relates to a 2014 car crash th...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 10:12hrs | 2796 | by Staff reporter
'We don't eat Nationalism' says Mthwakazi President
So many people in Zimbabwe particularly shonas and some of our Ndebele speaking people do not really understand or comprehend with what is meant by the term "Nationalism". To Shonas, nationalism means...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 08:11hrs | 1166 | by Mqondisi Moyo
The limits of mass protest in a dictatorship
HONG KONG is not Beijing. And July 1, 2019, is not June 4, 1989. First of all, in 1989, the violence in China came almost entirely from the side of the government; the weeks of demonstrations in Beiji...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 08:04hrs | 358 | by Ian Buruma
Mnangagwa engages IATA executives
INTERNATIONAL Air Transport Association (IATA) executive members met with President Mnangagwa at his Munhumutapa Offices yesterday to discuss ways of improving the air transport system in the country ...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 07:36hrs | 576 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's curse of voodoo economics
I was attending a pre-conference of Christian pastors in Masvingo at the urgent invitation of Prophetess Elizabeth Chademana.I had been charged by the saints in Greenwood District of the Unite...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:30hrs | 338 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Govt's proposed information law is draconian
The government on July 5 2019 gazetted the Freedom of Information Bill [HB 6 of 2019]. This is the first of three official Bills meant to replace the much-criticised Access to Information and Protecti...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:27hrs | 190 | by Golden Maunganidze
Open letter to Dr Lovemore Kurotwi
Dear Esteemed Dr Kurotwi my first port of call is to school you on what an opinion piece is. (Ah! Cry the journalistic profession, no sir !!) Dr Kurotwi sir, an opinion is a view or judgement formed a...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 10:20hrs | 1610 | by Nicholas Ncube
ZCTU can do better than demonstrate for redollarisation
No good deed goes unpunished.Normally, the doer of a good deed expects just a "thank you", but usually someone is adversely affected by the good deed. For example, saving someone's life from a...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 08:10hrs | 673 | by Conway Tutani
Ndebele 'King' addresses the nation
I would like to make it known that I, as King of Matabeleland alias Mthwakazi, am very much committed to the Restoration of my Kingdom. I also want the whole world to know that the whole Inter-cultura...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 13:19hrs | 7503 | by Stanley Khumalo
Chombo denied passport again
Former Cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo has failed in his appeal to get his passport returned to allow him to travel abroad to seek medical attention.His passport was allegedly recently seized...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 18:28hrs | 1537 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa charters expensive luxury jet to Rwanda
President Emmerson Mnangagwa will this week charter the Dubai based luxury jet to fly him to Rwanda for an official visit. The Ministry of Information Publicity and Broadcasting Services has a...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 11:20hrs | 7620 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Ndiweni praises Mnangagwa? Setting the record straight
Outspoken traditional leader, Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni - who has in recent months courted the ire of Zanu-PF apparatchiks with his stinging criticism of the government - has praised President Em...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:55hrs | 5920 | by Staff reporter
Deaths on black women on the rise in Germany; how many deaths will it take until we know that too many women have died?
The cold-blood murders of black women in Germany are not German men as such but African men. Bremen-North is plunged into a shock, the newspapers are filled with a recent event of a mother murdered by...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 07:09hrs | 2124 | by Nomazulu Thata
Why Zanu-PF youths are targeting heavy weights
Zanu-PF youths threw the cat among the pigeons recently when they released a list of alleged corrupt people that included senior ruling party officials such as Obert Mpofu and Prisca Mupfumira....Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 09:20hrs | 6206 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli's mortal fight with the Hydra
If you ask the Bishop what will distinguish E D's Presidency, he will tell you that it is his fierce decisiveness, keen pragmatism and a commendable ability to swiftly change and adjust as the situati...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 09:01hrs | 1183 | by Bishop Lazi
Mnangagwa gets honorary PhD degree
THE University of Zambia (UNZA) yesterday conferred Special Honorary PhD Law Degrees to President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa and his Zambian counterpart Edgar Lungu in recognition of transforma...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 08:02hrs | 1493 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to recruit 5 000 teachers
THE Public Service Commission (PSC) is negotiating with Treasury for the employment of 5 000 teachers to reduce the deficit of educators in schools which have almost 13 000 vacancies, a Cabinet Minist...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 16:43hrs | 843 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa struggling to shake off gukurahundi genocide stains
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa met chiefs from the Matabeleland region and the Midlands Province at State House here yesterday to discuss a number of issues, including traditional leaders taking a leading role i...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 16:37hrs | 398 | by Staff reporter
Dennis Murira - An obituary
The late Dennis Murira to many in the MDC family would be distinctly remembered for being part of the group that wanted to usurp that party's leadership on the eve of the late Morgan Tsvangirai's trea...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 06:51hrs | 604 | by Views Matopo
US$ as deity in Zimbabwe
THE Zimbabwean government recently did the unfathomable, at least according to social media pundits, some civil society organisations, unions and influential urbanites. It arbitrarily and abruptly re-...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 06:22hrs | 1062 | by Takura Zhangazha
ZANU PF Lack of Consultation Dragging Zimbabwe into the Abyss
The announcement of Statutory Instrument 142 of 2019 which outlawed the use of multi-currency system that has been in operation since 2009, adds another chapter, or rather a new low in ZANU PF's non-c...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 21:38hrs | 1211 | by Farai Maguwu and Darlington Nyambiya
The elderly have been thrown under the speeding bus
If my memory and anyone's serves me right, citizens above sixty years of age were to board Zupco buses that ply rural destinations free of charge. Is that notion true and if so is it happening? Before...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 09:01hrs | 3149 | by Tondorindo
The Chamisa effect and hope for a new Zimbabwe
NELSON Chamisa, the unopposed president of the opposition MDC, recently announced the members of his national executive committee. The appointments are not surprising - in many respects, they are a cu...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 07:29hrs | 2424 | by Obert Hodzi
Macheso band members assault motorist
Alick Macheso's band members reportedly assaulted a Ruwa motorist in the wee hours of Saturday morning. The band members, who were on their way from a performance at Club Manake, were involved in an a...Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 07:27hrs | 827 | by Staff reporter
'Prices have dropped 19% in US$ terms but soared in RTGS$' says Ncube - scrap RTGS$ then, cowardly lion pulling his own tail
FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube says prices of basic goods in terms of RTGS$ were "grossly inflated" adding that Treasury calculations indicate prices were in fact going down. "Prices for b...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 17:12hrs | 2551 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
BCC shoots down 24-hr clinic call
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has insisted that it is not in a position to open 24-hour clinics despite residents' calls for council-run health institutions to operate round the clock.Propon...Published: 22 Jun 2019 at 15:53hrs | 536 | by Staff reporter
Knives out for Matemadanda
ZANU PF National Political Commissar Victor Matemadanda has come under from a certain faction of ZANU PF that are calling for him to step down from the position or resign from the Deputy Ministry of D...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 10:19hrs | 9826 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Fashion tips` for college students
College students face a lot of pressure. This includes everything from seemingly simple issues like choosing from a list of argumentative es...Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 16:55hrs | 448 | by Staff Writer
'Taming the Shrew' - Deaths on our Roads
Driving in Harare and in the highways of Zimbabwe has become distressful. Recent reports of high profile road traffic deaths refer. The traffic chaos has become a 'shrew.' There is urgent need to 'tam...Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 07:53hrs | 1300 | by Engineer Tororiro Isaac Chaza PMP
MPs insist on corporal punishment
Government should revisit provisions in the Education Amendment Bill, in particular clauses that seek to ban corporal punishment and the exclusion of pregnant pupils from school, legislators have said...Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 07:37hrs | 475 | by Staff reporter
The Monologue of Dialogue is deluded and self immolation
There are what we call synonyms of Dialogue, argument, argy-bargy, colloquial, colloquy, soliloquy, confab, confabulations, give and take, palaver, parley, consultations, moving back and forth. ...Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 19:52hrs | 1091 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Hubby kills wife over Ecocash
A Harare man has been arrested after he murdered his wife during an argument over an Ecocash amount. Zimbabwe Republic Police said the 41 year old man killed his 27 year old wife in Hatf...Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 09:54hrs | 9725 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mugabe protector warns Mnangagwa
Thabo Mbeki, who sided with Robert Mugabe after the 2008 stole elections, has warned Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa that confronting the country's political and economic challenges might not ...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 19:05hrs | 6035 | by SZimLive
Thabo Mbeki supports Nelson Chamisa
South Africa's former President Thabo Vuyelwa Mbeki has supported calls by MDC leader Nelson Chamisa that there is need for an impartial convenor to convenor the political dialogue in Zimbabwe. ...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 09:05hrs | 3980 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Growing up in Bulawayo: Chronicles of a colourful childhood
Bulawayo celebrated 125 years of existence as a city last week. That should be put out there because there are those who believe that the authorities misfired since King Lobengula established it some ...Published: 15 Jun 2019 at 10:26hrs | 3435 | by Lenox Lizwi Mhlanga
Mnangagwa's govt re-ignites currency debate
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's remarks over the weekend that Zimbabwe would have a fully-fledged local currency before the end of the year, ending the multi-currency regime enacted in 2009, effectivel...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 08:25hrs | 2136 | by Brett Chulu
'I'm more educated than you'
Zanu-PF youth leader Lewis Matutu has told MDC Alliance youth chairperson Obey Sithole not to question his judgment as he is more intelligent than him. The two were debating about the contribu...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 18:30hrs | 9045 | by Staff Reporter
The Marriage Bill of 2017 - A personal reflection on why it will not fly!
I am sure most people have read the proposed Marriages Bill of 2017, which seeks to repeal and replace the existing Marriage Act (Chapter 5:11) & the Customary Marriages Act (Chapter 5:01). ...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 12:06hrs | 1826 | by Pastor Tomson Dube
Former Bindura mayor bashed over audit report
Former Bindura mayor Innocent Zvigumbu (ZANU-PF) was reportedly bashed by two Bindura council officials in a meeting he was chariring after he told a full council meeting that he had an audit report w...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 07:41hrs | 650 | by Simbarashe Sithole
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