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Insiza villagers cross swords with Chief Mafu
Villagers in Insiza District are at odds with their chief over the alleged protection of an abusive village head, Anton Msimanga, whose conduct has drawn multiple complaints from locals. The villagers...Published: 08 Nov 2024 at 07:03hrs | 600 | by Staff reporter
John Landa Nkomo's son banished from Zanu-PF conference
Jabulani Nkomo, son of the late Vice-President John Landa Nkomo, has been barred from attending the upcoming Zanu-PF annual conference after his name was mysteriously removed from the accreditation li...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 09:04hrs | 1142 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa nullifies Musara chieftainship downgrade to headman
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has, with immediate effect, nullified the decision by former Minister of Local Government July Moyo to downgrade the Musara Chieftainship to a headman.Mnangagwa, t...Published: 15 Jun 2024 at 12:45hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zapu blast tribal ZBC presenters
ZAPU spokesperson Richard Gandari has blasted the ZBC presenters who made tribal attacks on the Ndebele King LObengula live on TV claiming he was depicted to sell the country to colonialis...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 15:24hrs | 39 | by Stephen Jakes
'Zimbabwe performs dismally on human rights'
ZIMBABWE has been ranked among the world's worst performers in terms of human freedom, the Human Freedom Index (HFI) has revealed.The country was ranked 153 out of 165 countries with analysts ...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 05:47hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Recalls dominated 2023 Zimbabwe Parliament
The ink on the electoral certificates for the Members of Parliament (MPs) had not dried when a Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) member, Sengezo Tshabangu, cracked the whip on legislators belonging ...Published: 01 Jan 2024 at 08:12hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Why Zanu-PF will remain in power
Western countries, through some of their election observers, are interfering in the country's elections. The interference is being done to aid their preferred candidate, Nelson Chamisa.They po...Published: 25 Aug 2023 at 06:25hrs | | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Mnangagwa dangles citizenship to Mzilikazi royal family
The Mthwakazi kaMzilikazi Royal Crown Family, which includes the Mzilikazi Royal House and the Khumalo Clan, claims the Emmerson Mnangagwa-led government has shown them generosity by promising to rest...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 20:55hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Shattering blow to the Nelson Chamisa-led CCC
In a shattering blow to the Nelson Chamisa-led CCC - which many feared was rather predictable given that some judges are now buckling under political pressure - Bulawayo High Court Justice Bongan...Published: 27 Jul 2023 at 20:26hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Teens terrorise community
FEAR has gripped St Peters, on the outskirts of Bulawayo, with residents divided on whether attacks on residents by three minors are acts of robbery or satanism.The three minor brothers, aged ...Published: 07 Jul 2023 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Community wants witchcraft-accused family banished
St Peter's residents on the outskirts of Bulawayo are calling for a family to be banished from the community for practising witchcraft.This is after some community members suffered some myster...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 16:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Death penalty divides public opinion
BEITBRIDGE residents have expressed mixed feelings over whether or not the country should retain the death penalty on its statutesThe residents gave their views during one of the many public h...Published: 05 Apr 2023 at 09:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mr. President, its you making Zimbabwe 'subaltern' to world powers!
It was most strange, if not entirely queer and incomprehensible, reading President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa latest diatribe against Western countries' insistence on observing our elections. ...Published: 03 Apr 2023 at 11:08hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa's Midlands allies exempt from Zanu-PF primaries
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's close allies in his Midlands home province have been exempted from being challenged by other party officials in Zanu-PF primary elections in a development that has stoke...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 11:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chigumba guns for 'rogue' Zec commissioners
SEVEN Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) commissioners, who reportedly refused to append their signatures to the electoral body's preliminary delimitation report presented to President Emmerson Mnang...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:13hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Time running out for Nakamba?
MARVELOUS Nakamba could be running out of time to find suitors before the close of the transfer window amid reports yesterday that his club Aston Villa is yet to receive any formal offers for the bani...Published: 26 Jan 2023 at 07:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Africans are to blame for soon-coming Nuclear World War III
When human beings were created, there was a certain field of knowledge which they were not supposed to extrapolate into. Knowledge was supposed to be limited for the good and continuity of this Planet...Published: 05 Nov 2022 at 05:36hrs | 1 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Chiefs speak out against Zanu-PF coercion
Zimbabwe's rural areas have for decades been a Zanu-PF stronghold, and are turned into no-go areas for the opposition during elections.Previous Zanu-PF election victories in the rural ar...Published: 11 Sep 2022 at 15:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Virginity and the Johanne Marange religious customs
THE state has outlawed virginity testing as a human rights violation.However, it is surprising to note that Johanne Marange Apostolic Church (JMAC) still teaches and conducts mandatory virgini...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 19:54hrs | | by Matthew Mare
Mnangagwa son in-law led SRC must wake up and smell the coffee
THE latest response by the Confederation of African Football (Caf) to the public discourse on Zimbabwe's suspension by Fifa has put to rest the false and misguided narrative by the Sports and Recreati...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga marries long-time soldier lover
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has married his long-time lover Miniyothabo Baloyi, the presidency announced on Wednesday.The two lovebirds exchanged their vows during a private ceremony a...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 17:58hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Ndiweni High Court appeal fails to take off
BULAWAYO High Court judges Justices Martin Makonese and Nokuthula Moyo declined to hear dethroned Ntabazinduna Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni's appeal against conviction and sentence in his absence....Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Headman bullies villagers over Zanu-PF meetings
A HEADMAN in Mtawatawa, Uzumba-Maramba-Pfungwe, has threatened to banish villagers from the area if they fail to attend Zanu-PF indoctrination meetings.Simbarashe Chingoma, Moses Jaji, Progres...Published: 10 Jun 2022 at 07:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Esibomvu villagers banish their community member
ESIBOMVU villagers in uMzingwane District, Matabeleland South province have banished one of their community members after allegations that he was involved in the raiding of illegal miners by the armed...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 17:07hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Chief Ndiweni to return home after treatment
Chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni of Ntabazinduna says a warrant for his arrest issued by a court in Bulawayo is “politically motivated."Police said he had breached bail conditions set by...Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 19:11hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Dethroned Chief Ndiweni turns fugitive
DETHRONED Ntabazinduna Chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni has been declared a fugitive from justice after a Bulawayo magistrate issued a warrant of arrest against the ex-traditional leader for viola...Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 05:43hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Ndiweni jumps bail, arrest warrant issued
DETHRONED Ntabazinduna chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni has been declared a fugitive from justice after a Bulawayo magistrate issued a warrant of arrest against the ex-traditional leader and convi...Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 05:41hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'No aid for villagers who mourned MDC activist'
Zanu-PF councillor for Ward 24 Gutu, Mathias Takamira Rashai has threatened to withdraw food and other Government aid from mourners who attended the funeral of an MDC activist killed during political ...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 18:55hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Clinic shut down as nurses flee sex-terror tikoloshes in Umzingwane
A clinic has been forced to close in Umzingwane district, Matabeleland South, after nurses complained of being raped by invisible creatures.The mysterious creatures have reportedly also made f...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 07:08hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Warrant of arrest issued for Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni
A court in Bulawayo has issued a warrant for the arrest of former Ntabazinduna chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni, just days after he stood outside 10 Downing Street in London to petition the Britis...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 07:07hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
FLASHBACK: Mnangagwa's November letter to Zimbabweans (2017)
My family was banished to Zambia when I was still in primary school for resisting the oppressive rule of the white minority regime in 1955. This action hardened my resolve for justice and black empowe...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 12:45hrs | 12 | by Emmerson Mnangagwa
Robert Mugabe's ex-teacher (99) dies
A TEACHER to former President Robert Mugabe, Kennedy Manyika has died.Manyika, who, after Zimbabwe's independence served as a diplomat, is also the father of opposition leader, Noah Manyika....Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 19:58hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Top diplomat dies
Zimbabwe's former envoy to Yugoslavia and Namibia, Ambassador Kennedy Grant Dick Chivanda Manyika has died.He died on November 5 at the age of 99.Ambassador Manyika was an author, reve...Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 05:23hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Land barons hiding behind Mnangagwa's name'
A HARARE resident, Samuel Mutete, has written to Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe, police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga and the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) calling for invest...Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 05:51hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Husband' of a 14-year-old girl who died during child birth arrested
The "husband" of a 14-year-old girl who died during child birth is behind bars after he was charged with having sex with a minor.Evans Momberume is set to appear at the Mutare Magistrates Cour...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 19:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
MLF remembers David Magagula
Long live the defiant spirit of Comrade David Magagula long live!Forward with the struggle for Mthwakazi liberation forward!Vuka Mthwakazi Vuka!!!Mthwakazi kaNdaba, today marks a full ...Published: 18 May 2021 at 09:30hrs | 1 | by MLF
Tribalism and politics in Zimbabwe
Tribalism regularly comes into play in Zimbabwe. sometimes it is in terms of political rivalry and competition. at other times it is based on a friendly joking relationship between different tribes....Published: 14 May 2021 at 07:00hrs | | by Fay Chung
147,000 kombi workers lose jobs
OVER 140 000 workers in the transport sector in the capital lost their jobs owing to measures put in place by the government to curtail the Covid-19 pandemic, the secretary-general of Greater Harare C...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 16:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lunga still part of Warriors
GOLDEN Arrows defender Divine Lunga remains an integral member of the Zimbabwe national senior soccer team amid revelations by Warriors manager Wellington Mpandare yesterday that the door had not been...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 09:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Loga slams door on Devine Lunga
DEVINE Lunga's future with the senior national football team is in doubt with reports suggesting that he turned down a national team call up, which riled Warriors coach Zdravko Logarusic.Addre...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti's attack on people of Chipinge deserve utmost condemnation from all civilised people
Editor,The recent unsanctioned comments by MDC Alliance vice president, Tendai Biti, deserve utmost condemnation from all civilised people.The comments were not only offensive, but ver...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 15:48hrs | 1 | by T. Kandemiiri
'SA lacks will to rescue Zimbabwe' - as we lack common sense to rescue ourselves
Dear Tendai Dumbutshena Thank you very much for yet another informative and thought provoking article, "SA lacks the will to rescue Zimbabwe" in Bulawayo 24."But hope springs eternal. ...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 07:38hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mohadi has been dating a married woman?
Vice President Kembo Mohadi was on Sunday left shaken and bleeding after a raucous showdown with a man accusing him of enjoying secret trysts with his wife, ZimLive reported.Following the conf...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 18:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T continues to burn, Khupe does a Donald Trump
FORMER MDC secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora is the new leader of the country's biggest opposition party after he trounced his main rival, Thokozani Khupe, in Sunday's chaotic election in Harare....Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 16:54hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions unpacked
As the nation, region and continent come together to mark 25 October as an anti- sanctions day it becometh expedient that I add my voice to the matter at hand. It is said knowledge is power and indeed...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 08:03hrs | | by Prof Blessing Kasiyamhuru
Matebeleland chiefs throw Ndiweni under the bus
THE Matebeleland Chiefs Council says it will not interfere with Bulawayo Magistrate, Gladmore Mushove's ruling to sentence Ntabazinduna traditional leader, Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni to 18 months in pri...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 08:09hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Welshman Ncube takes up Chief Ndiweni bail application case
The bail hearing for Ntabazinduna Chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe set for Tuesday was postponed after the state prosecutor asked for more time to respond to his application.Instead, the matter sh...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 21:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Chief Ndiweni incarceration political'
ONE of Matabeleland South's traditional leaders, Chief Mathema, has said he smells a political hand in the recent incarceration of the outspoken Ntabazinduna chief, Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni....Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 07:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Chief can do no wrong
In Nguni "inkosi ayoni" the Chief can do no wrong. This is derived from the concept that all decisions made by the Chief represent the collective wisdom and aspirations of his people. Unlike a Judge t...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 09:07hrs | | by L Dube
Pastor 'expels' congregant for not tithing?
A REVEREND with Church of Central African Presbyterian (CCAP) in Sizinda, Bulawayo reportedly sparked outrage among his congregants when one of the worshippers stopped going to church amid allegations...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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