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Zanu-PF member's property destroyed in suspected intra-party violence
Property belonging to a Zanu-PF member was destroyed in a suspected politically motivated attack on Thursday night in Zvimba, Mashonaland West province, as intra-party tensions continue to rise within...Published: 22 Mar 2025 at 12:19hrs | 1431 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man in Botswana sells stepson for ritual sacrifice
A Zimbabwean man, Lovemore Sithole, aged 37, is facing the death penalty in Botswana after being convicted of selling his 6-year-old stepson to ritualists for US$15,000 (approximately 200,000 Botswana...Published: 27 Nov 2024 at 09:05hrs | 1504 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala-led group calls for protests during upcoming SADC Summit
The Job Sikhala-led National Democratic Working Group (NDWG) has called on Zimbabwean citizens to protest against what it terms the "betrayal" by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) duri...Published: 01 Aug 2024 at 16:59hrs | 1292 | by Staff reporter
Harvest House fights intensify
MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora is battling to retain the party's Harvest House headquarters in Harare grabbed from the then MDC-Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa in June 2020 amid revelations that unpaid ...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 15:36hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Kombi driver kills wife, neighbour
IN a fit of jealous rage, a 38-year-old Kombi driver from Tsholotsho allegedly bludgeoned his wife to death before turning his rage on a 73-year-old neighbour whom he also killed in cold blood....Published: 04 Jan 2024 at 05:55hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabweans are more divided than ever before'
ZAPU says Zimbabweans are more divided than ever before as there is no unity whatsoever, to warrant a whole public holiday, under the guise of commemorating the pivotal signing of the Unity Accord bet...Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 13:44hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's supporters wanted to burn two police vehicles?
The Zimbabwe Republic Police claims opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters wanted to burn two police vehicles and attacked officers for stopping their rally at Masvingo's Mamutse St...Published: 15 Aug 2023 at 21:44hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Teargas after Chamisa rally
Residents in nearby suburbs were forced to inhale chocking smoke as anti-riot police fired teargas canisters at Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters few moments after party leader Nelson Cha...Published: 14 Aug 2023 at 19:53hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa slams violence in Shurugwi
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has directed the police to hunt down and bring to book all perpetrators linked to the reported incident of suspected political violence in Shurugwi, Midlands Province, and urged Zi...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 06:27hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Lets Kwekwe Mnangagwa Out
Zimbabwean politics has been on the knife edge for a very long time. Taking a look from what other African countries are doing on international platforms and hearing how their leaders are articulating...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 20:07hrs | 2 | by Leonard Koni
ZANU PF aspiring MP tears up opposition posters
Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) members in Mazowe North constituency have chastised ZANU PF aspiring Member of Parliament Tsungai Makumbe for all...Published: 15 Jul 2023 at 20:02hrs | 14 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Tsvangirai Jnr election campaign posters defaced in Norton
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) candidate for Norton constituency, Richard Tsvangirai has flagged electoral violations after his campaign posters were defaced.Hordes of posters emblazoned...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why does Africa feel it has to be a slave to one global power or the other?
Will Africa ever be truly free? That is the question that always bugs my mind, as I watch the manner in which our leaders appear perpetually trapped in a 'slave mentality' - whereby, they beli...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 12:17hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF official vociferously defends Murehwa violence
AN UNIDENTIFIED official, purporting to be a Zanu-PF functionary says the party has declared war on the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) as the ruling party and CCC "trade blows" and counter accusa...Published: 10 Jan 2023 at 18:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is being led by the Devil himself - please, dear God, intervene!
I have seen evil in this country before. In fact, I believe that my childhood experiences of watching those in my neighborhood of Redcliff being gruesomely beaten up, and their homes burnt to ...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 09:53hrs | 12 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
CCC supporters attack 'independent' journalists
CCC supporters yesterday beat up two journalists that wanted to cover the party's rally addressed by Nelson Chamisa at Gadzema Stadium in Chinhoyi. News Hawks' Ruvimbo Muchenje and Voice of Am...Published: 12 Sep 2022 at 06:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
If Zimbabweans don't need to be reminded of painful history why does regime keep telling us about colonialism?
So, the Zimbabwe ruling establishment believes that the people of this country - especially, those who suffered the brunt of the regime's unimaginable cru...Published: 31 May 2022 at 19:48hrs | 9 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Black Umfolosi condemns Elvis Nyathi murder
As Black Umfolosi and international musicians, we totally condemn the most cruel, evil and babaric killing of our dear innocent brother Elvis Nyathi in Diesploot by our own black South African b...Published: 16 Apr 2022 at 19:59hrs | 32 | by Thomeki Dube
Help stop xenophobia: Buy Zimbabwe
FEBRUARY 2022 saw the emergence of a vigilante group in South Africa led by one Nhlanhla "Lux" Dhlamini, that launched what they termed Operation Dudula, against foreigners. It viciously targeted Zimb...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:36hrs | 6 | by Innocent Mujeri
'Attack on Zimbabweans is unwarranted'
ZIMBABWEANS in South Africa have pleaded passionately with the neighbouring country's nationals to be merciful towards them amid the ongoing anti-immigrant violence.This follows the brutal mur...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 19:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ELVIS NYATHI DEATH: Activists to shutdown SA businesses in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean activists under the banner of One Africa Movement have threatened to shut down all companies that are owned by South African investors in Zimbabwe over the gruesome murder of one Mbhodazwe ...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 11:04hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zim Community in SA statement on death of Elvis Nyathi
It is with deepest sadness that we have learnt of the brutal murder of an innocent Zimbabwean compatriot Elvis Nyathi by a mob who had been going door to door demanding documentation. We have learnt t...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 08:23hrs | 1 | by Zim Community in SA
Zanu-PF thugs turned yellow Kwekwe rally bloody red
On Sunday the 27th of February 2022, Zimbabwe's main opposition party Citizens' Coalition for Change held a rally in Kwekwe town which saw a huge attendance by thousands of ecstatically cheering suppo...Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 17:08hrs | 14 | by Nontokozo Malaba Ncube
'Mnangagwa must speak out against violence'
POLITICAL commentators yesterday urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to speak up and act following a resurgence of political violence that claimed the life of an opposition supporter in Kwekwe last wee...Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 08:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chitungwiza demolishes more structures
Chitungwiza Municipality on Saturday demolished "illegal" vending structures in the dormitory town, leaving hundreds of informal traders counting their losses.The demolitions were done in a jo...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:37hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Show us criminals that surrounded Gushungo
My People,Ignatius Chombo, the man who was branded the biggest criminal around Gushungo, is now a free man.Chombo was seized by soldiers on the night of the infamous coup while sleepin...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:55hrs | 3 | by Dr Stop It
Shamwari Yemwanasikana breathes fire over the death of a 14 year old girl
A girl child Organisation, Shamwari yemwanasika breathes fire over a 14 year old girl who died in labour at an unnamed apostolic sect last week in Bocha Marange.In a statement Shamwari Yemwana...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 07:46hrs | 1 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Drama as nurse fails marriage test
THERE was drama in Hatfield last Wednesday when a female nurse locked the gate and ran for cover when her two lovers arrived at the same time to expose her unfaithfulness.Chipo Lucia Danha, 38...Published: 05 Jul 2021 at 12:44hrs | | by Staff Reporter
After ED was shown where colonialists hanged Ndebele warriors, was he also shown where Ndebele-speakers were massacred by Zim re
I do not know whether I can ever reiterate this point enough - history is a total accumulation of past events, which can never, and should never, be cherry-picked, or narrated selectively - such that,...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 13:30hrs | 6 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Fear grips women in mining
Women in mining are now living in fear at Mudhindo and places surrounding Guruve where machete gangs have resurfaced in search of the precious stone....Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 12:12hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole in Guruve
Zanu-PF still don't believe they can win free and fair elections after 41 years of state-controlled propaganda, vote-rigging
In my entire 48 years of existence, I have come across those who have tried every trick in the book to win popular opinion and favour - from lying, deviousness, and all manner of image polishing - but...Published: 31 May 2021 at 14:17hrs | 3 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Woman axes ex-boyfriend
Police in Centenary arrested a 20-year-old woman who attempted to kill her ex-boyfriend with an axe over the weekend.Sandra Makosa of Archiford farm, Centenary is assisting police with investi...Published: 31 May 2021 at 14:04hrs | 10 | by Simbarashe Sithole
UN greatest threat to world peace and security as SC veto powers only used to protect tyrants, warmongers and aggressors
It can never be debated that the world today is at its most dangerous, with a marked upsurge of tyrants, warmongers, and aggressors - who appear to increasingly grow in confidence in their heinous act...Published: 19 May 2021 at 17:45hrs | 3 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Open letter to the Minister of Defence Cde Oppah Muchinguri Kashiri
Dear Mom,I know you are still in grief after losing Manicaland Resident Minister Dr Ellen Gwaradzimba and other close comrades like Nyikayaramba, Shiri, Zimhondi, Sibusiso Moyo among others to...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 17:19hrs | 4 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Chinese miner attacks employees for demanding last year's dues
TWO mine workers at the Fools Investment Mine in Hope Fountain, which is just outside Bulawayo, were last Saturday assaulted by their Chinese employer after theydemanded payment of their outstandi...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 07:36hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
2 Matabeles shot dead by Zimbabwe soldiers for speaking Ndebele language
MLO Supreme Council was angered by the gunning down of 2 Matabeles, Morgan Sibanda and Dumisani Mpofu by the the number one killers of Matabele people, Zimbabwe National Army, for speaking Ndebe...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 08:33hrs | 3 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa's govt condemns violent SA attacks
Government has condemned flaring attacks on citizens from other African countries in South Africa which have so far left five people dead, shops looted and property burnt down. Botswana,...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 07:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU calls on SA to decisively deal with xenophobia and acts of barbarism
Zimbabwe's opposition Zapu political party has called upon the South African government to urgently intervene and stop the violence and looting of shops that has gripped the country since Sunday morni...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 12:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Teachers arrested for 'pay-day protest' charged with public nuisance
POLICE on Friday brutally crushed a wild-cat protest by the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) members who wanted to picket at the Ministry of Finance in protest over the poor salari...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:06hrs | 4 | by newzimbabwe
Kidnappings raise tension in Zimbabwe
Suspected security agents abducted and tortured an MDC youth leader and a pre-democracy activist in pre-dawn raids yesterday- further raising tensions ahead of tomorrow's mass protests against Preside...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
US condemns abduction, torture of rights activists in Zimbabwe
The United States embassy in Harare on Wednesday voiced concern over the latest crackdown on pro-democracy activists by Zimbabwe's security forces ahead of a series of planned opposition protests....Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 23:38hrs | | by ZimLive
Ignore retrogressive MDC Alliance protests, begs Muchinguri
ZIMBABWEANS should ignore the planned mass protests by the opposition MDC Alliance aimed at toppling the Government as this is retrogressive to development being spearheaded by Zanu-PF across the coun...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Gukurahundi Solution
Thirty five years after this Zimbabwe human massacre, we the affected are still begging for a solution. Apparently the government has money to compensate the white farmers for their loses during the b...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 17:52hrs | 1 | by The Gukurahundi Solution
'Tsvangirai turning in his grave'
RESPECTED MDC secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora says the main opposition party's revered late founding leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, is probably turning in his grave because of the toxic politics obtain...Published: 31 Mar 2019 at 16:09hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Arbitrary arrests won’t solve Gukurahundi
Zimbabwe African People's Union is dismayed by the state's arrest on journalist Zenzele Ndebele at Bulawayo State House today. As much as it is a clear misplacement of priorities in a co...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 17:44hrs | 1 | by Iphithule Maphosa
A time to impose sanctions on America!
America has imposed a new set of sanctions that must run for the next 12 months against Zimbabwe. This is not new. America has been doing this for the past 18 years since Zimbabwe took the bold but lo...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 14:47hrs | 5 | by Chigumbu Warikandwa
Chamisa's divisive tactics in vain
There is more that binds us as Zimbabweans than that which divides us and the earlier we realise this the better for all of us and for posterity.Zimbabwe is the only place we call home and any...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 01:28hrs | 1 | by Editorial - Sunday Mail
Abduction of Mamombe concerns MDC Caucus
The Law and Order section has denied arresting Hon Joanna Mamombe who was abducted this morning in Nyanga while on parliamentary business.A team of about eight henchmen who snatched Hon Mamo...Published: 02 Mar 2019 at 09:18hrs | 1 | by PC Mutseyami
MDC Youth President speaks on arrest and persecution
On Tuesday, 19 February 2019, I was acquitted of any crimes by a Gweru magistrate. I was being tried for frivolous charges of inciting public violence since July 2018.From the beginning I had ...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 08:42hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe not yet ready for national dialogue
This Tuesday I wrote an analytic piece on how our main political leaders Pres Chamisa and Pres Mnangagwa have all used their political posturing skills at the expense of the nation's economic, politic...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 11:53hrs | 1 | by Terence Simbi
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