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Zimbabweans falsely registered to vote in Mozambique's 2024 election?
Masvingo, Zimbabwe - In early 2024, journalists working in Zimbabwe's Masvingo province began hearing troubling rumours: Zimbabwe's ruling party, Zanu-PF, was allegedly registering support...Published: 26 May 2025 at 08:21hrs | 291 | by Staff reporter
'I was told to stop supporting Mnangagwa'
WE today conclude our interview with Elphas Tshuma, a former guerilla who operated in Hurungwe in Mashonaland West Province and later on in Hwange in Matabeleland North. Tshuma, now a member of the ru...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 08:27hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Rapist jailed 17 years
A Concession man who raped a 10 year old girl at a banana plantation will curse the day he committed the crime as it earned him 17 years behind bars....Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 21:04hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Growing up in the village
Back in the village in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve the moon rose slowly, tentatively and imperceptibly, its soft rays breaking the virginity of the night. Slowly darkness gave w...Published: 15 May 2021 at 09:40hrs | 13 | by Isdore Guvamombe-
Cyclone Idai buried people with their belongings
WHEN we arrived in cyclone hit Chimanimani a week after the monstrous Idai, what we could only see at most places are stone boulders that had buried wholesome villages underneath and someone coming fr...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 15:45hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Elephants wreak havoc
FARMERS in the Chibuwe/Musikavanhu irrigation scheme have appealed to Government for assistance in controlling elephants that are destroying their summer crop. The elephants are straying from ...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 05:36hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Military evicts Mnangagwa's elderly cleric at gunpoint
ZIMBABWE'S military, enforcing a government order, has forcibly evicted President Emmerson Mnangagwa's elderly cleric neighbour - at gunpoint - from a well-developed and equipped 250-hectare farm on t...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man rapes mother
A-30-YEAR-OLD Chipinge man did the unthinkable when he pounced and raped his defenceless 63-year-old mother in her kitchen hut in a bizarre incident that has left tongues wagging in the Mutema area....Published: 08 Jul 2018 at 13:57hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
White farmers still being kicked out of Zimbabwe farms
White farmers in Masvingo continue to face eviction despite moves by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to return some of their land, as part of efforts to revive the ailing agricultural sector which used t...Published: 30 Dec 2017 at 05:53hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Chinx's farm groans under the burden of neglect
"KUTORA minda kukanganisa, aiwa hakusi kukanganisa..." (It's not wrong to reclaim the land) sang the late musician Dickson "Comrade Chinx" Chingaira in one of his songs.The musician was one of the...Published: 09 Aug 2017 at 10:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bob Mugabe and the phantom of a national hero
It happened in slow motion. The nation watched Robert Mugabe become the national hero who somehow defied all manner of common appraisal. The people had heard that Mugabe had remarkable intellectual ca...Published: 06 Aug 2017 at 22:12hrs | | by Tafi Mhaka
Mohadi invades banana farm
Beitbridge senator Tambudzani Mohadi, Zanu-PF Matabeleland South provincial chairperson Rabelani Choeni and a few villagers last week, in defiance of presidential directives, allegedly invaded Dou...Published: 04 Sep 2016 at 09:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Latest Matabeleland farm grabs affect widows' livelihoods
The latest wave of farm grabs in Matabeleland South has an adverse effect on the livelihoods of widows who some of them have been employed in the farms and some have been running thriving sustainable ...Published: 27 Jan 2015 at 22:56hrs | | by Widows Empowerment Trust
Mphoko banana project hits a snag
Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko's planned banana plantation projects in Matabeleland north and south have hit a snag following the eviction of white farmer George Watson from Double O Ranch in Gwand...Published: 27 Jan 2015 at 14:20hrs | | by Staff Reporter
VP Mphoko's bid to set up banana plantations praised
VICE President Phelekezela Mphoko has been praised for his plans to set up banana plantations in Matabeleland North and South provinces with calls for him to also look at the incomplete Bulawayo Kraal...Published: 05 Jan 2015 at 04:55hrs | 1 | by Nduduzo Tshuma
VP Mphoko directs Ncube to settle Beitbridge land row
VICE President Phelekezela Mphoko has directed Matabeleland South Provincial Affairs Minister Abedinico Ncube to solve a wrangle over Magwamazi Ranch in Beitbridge District between resettled v...Published: 01 Jan 2015 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Illegal settlers invade the eastern highlands in search of water
Rural community meetings, such as one held recently in Mpudzi Resettlement scheme, south of Mutare in Manicaland province, are usually placid affairs dealing with mundane matters. Not anymore. ...Published: 19 Jun 2014 at 07:50hrs | 15 | by Andrew Mambondiyani
Man bashes ex-wife for being in love with his best friend
FAILURE to stomach seeing his estranged wife in the arms of his best friend made a Chipinge man go berserk and assaulted her.Solomon Mlambo (28) of Naffaton Farm was dragged to court facing d...Published: 28 Jun 2013 at 04:10hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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