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Zimbabwe activists on high alert amid pre-SADC Summit crackdown
Human rights advocates, activists, and opposition politicians are on high alert as they face pressure and intimidation from the government, which is allegedly growing nervous about possible protests d...Published: 06 Aug 2024 at 10:40hrs | 705 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa fall: Mnangagwa scared
SOUTH AFRICA held general elections on Wednesday and results trickling in are sending shivers down the spines of regional liberation movements.The ruling African National Congress (ANC) is set...Published: 03 Jun 2024 at 08:16hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Zanu-PF deploys party chairpersons for ZiG campaigns
Zanu-PF Masvingo Provincial Coordinating Committee (PCC) recently deployed its chairpersons at various levels from the cell level to go and hold weekly meetings with people and explain to them about t...Published: 25 May 2024 at 13:02hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Siziva warns of fraudsters in constituencies
PEOPLE who support former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa must be wary of fraudsters who want to cause chaos in opposition movements ahead of the establishment of a new polit...Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 04:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ConCourt judges flout JSC code of conduct
THREE Constitutional Court judges have come under the spotlight after they failed to comply with the Judicial Service Commission code of ethics which requires them to deliver a judgement reserved with...Published: 29 Nov 2023 at 10:45hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
End of the road, the curtain has fallen as elected CCC councilors take their oath of office
THE CURTAIN HAS FALLEN, as elected CCC councilors took their oath of office, with elected CCC MPs set to take theirs tomorrow, on the back of the presidential oath of office taken by Emmerson Dambudzo...Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 19:00hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
ZEC warns of fake account
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has warned members of the public against consuming misleading information from a fake Twitter account falsely purporting to represent the commission.In ...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 07:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BCC blasted over proposal to disband municipal police
BULAWAYO residents have reacted with anger following the proposal by the local authority to disband municipal police and engage a private security company, saying the move is not only unprecedented, b...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 07:09hrs | 7 | by Staff rporter
Zimbabwe's future is debated in the city but decided in the village
THE electoral lines have been drawn as we face the impending reckoning of the August 23 general election. Intra-party squabbles have been settled regarding who will be the torch bearer in what ward or...Published: 25 Jun 2023 at 18:23hrs | 7 | by Ntando Dumani
BCC trench excavation- motorists beware
THE Bulawayo City Council will be digging trenches across 15th Avenue between George Silundika Street and Fife Street as internet service provider Utande will be laying optic cables.In a state...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 08:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Africa: Embattling a Continent
When the IMF goes to warSo the International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff has decided to grant Ukraine some whooping USD15,6 billion?Ukraine is at war with Russia.A war funded and...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 12:59hrs | | by Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Jonathan Moyo attacks Chamisa's structureless party after Nigeria elections
EXILED former information minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has once again hit out at the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) over its lack of structures, describing the party as delinquent ...Published: 01 Mar 2023 at 20:28hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
What can go wrong with your crypto investment?
It may be virtual money, but the value of a cryptocurrency can never be negative. To put it simply, a cryptocurrency's ...Published: 10 Jan 2023 at 16:16hrs | 12 | by Moyo Roy
Beware of fake livestock vaccines, govt warns
THE Department of Veterinary Services has warned farmers not to buy livestock vaccines from unlicensed dealers, saying most of their products were fake.The department's chief director, Josphat...Published: 09 Dec 2022 at 05:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's politics of salving troubled consciences
Politics and poetryWilliam Butler Yeats, I think it was he who said out of our arguments with others we make politics, but out of arguments with ourselves we make poetry!We can forgive...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 07:10hrs | 2 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Beware of the folly of Trojan rulers!
Government, folly of mankind?Barbara W Tuchman is a prolific writer on politics as read through history. I enjoy her take on her subject.But she is American, western, itself an importa...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 18:07hrs | 1 | by on Saturday
Mnangagwa tells his ministers to perform or face axe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned underperforming ministers in his male-dominated Cabinet that they will be replaced by eloquent women as he warms up to the 50/50 gender equality system stipulat...Published: 20 Sep 2022 at 06:05hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
The dangers of a long colonialism
Walking the last mileBY the time you read this piece, Queen Elizabeth II, late sovereign of the United Kingdom and titular head of the pizza-like Commonwealth, will be two days away from her f...Published: 17 Sep 2022 at 06:41hrs | | by Jamwanda
Opposition: Politics and Pisgah sight fallacy
A student of CultureAT heart and at soul, I am a student of culture.This is why I opted to read Literature at college, much of it drawn from the Western World.But that was to g...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 07:15hrs | 10 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Zimbabwe suspends e-passport processing nationwide
ZIMBABWE's electronic passports processing has been put on hold indefinitely following a major machine breakdown.This comes at a time when there have been disputes between Kingdom Five Zimbabw...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:23hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Shona, Ndebele Highway Code launched, beware of Ndebele mistakes
The Highway Code has now been translated into Shona and Ndebele, and printed copies are available at a subsidised cost of US$5 each or the equivalent in local currency while Government is working on t...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Moreblessing Ali family won't be intimidated
THE family of slain Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist, Moreblessing Ali, says the arrest of its lawyer Job Sikhala, is a State ploy to force them to bury their relative before her killers a...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 08:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Beware of monkeypox
GOVERNMENT has been urged to be vigilant after over 80 monkeypox cases were detected in 12 European countries.Monkeypox is a viral infection mostly common in central and west Africa.Ca...Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Matabeles not interested in Zimbabwe independence celebrations in Bulawayo
From on set, let us set the record straight. Matabeleland is not Zimbabwe and Zimbabwe is not Matabeleland. Zimbabwe/ Mashonaland, which voluntarily gave away its independence to the BSA Co on 13 Sept...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 08:32hrs | 5 | by Israel Dube
'There is room for Thokozani Khupe in CCC' Chamisa lawyer says
Advocate Thabani Mpofu, the CCC President Nelson Chamisa's legal representative, says the newly formed political party is open to welcome MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe and former G40 Kingpins to be par...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 10:02hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa raises rigging fears
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa last night raised fears of vote rigging as he urged his supporters to be vigilant and guard their by-election votes.The polls were mar...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
By-elections: The morning after
ZANU-PF's Wednesday St Mary's rally was a turning point in several ways. Of course, the most obvious marker were the numbers that attended, something even the blind could see and feel.I cannot...Published: 26 Mar 2022 at 06:14hrs | | by @Jamwanda2
Beware of fake nurse aide certificates, says ZRCS
The Zimbabwe Red Cross Society (ZRCS) has raised concern over the mushrooming of bogus institutions and agencies offering fake nurse aide and first aid certificates.Lately, there has been a pr...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 08:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF provoking citizens
The murder of CCC members in Kwekwe has incensed Inhlokomo YeSizwe. How can political parties and civic bodies let Zanu get away with such lawlessness. An attack on one is an attack on all of us. We m...Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 16:58hrs | 5 | by Inhlokomo YeSizwe
Fraudsters demand sex for jobs from desperate women
JOB-SEEKERS in Bulawayo beware of being duped by fraudsters, who are playing to your need for a job by demanding money (and sex from women) in return for employment.The conmen are reportedly u...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Major boost for NRZ
A new fleet of locomotives, wagons and coaches should be equipping the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) by year end with the new dispensation making major strides in revamping the almost collapsed ...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe must beware of COVID-19 fourth wave
WE note with concern reports that a fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic driven by variants is imminent in Zimbabwe. While we are fully aware of the measures put in place to curb the spread of COVID-1...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:24hrs | | by Women's Coalition of Zimbabwe
Jah Prayzah, Killer T performs at 'G40' party, detained at Airport
Musicians Jah Prayzah and Killer T were detained for more than four hours at RGM International Airport on Monday after performing for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's political archenemies in Cape Town,...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
So, we have abandoned 'One man, one vote!' for 'SOLID PLANS' to win rigged elections - how nauseating
The right to free, fair and credible elections, the right to a meaningful say in the governance of one's country is the mother of all rights because it is the guarantor of good governance and of all t...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 10:03hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Madhuku blames lack of citizen activism for failing to block Amendment Bills - that's rich, who gave Zanu PF legitimacy
Professor Lovemore Madhuku, a constitutional law Professor and NCA presidential candidate in the July 2018 elections has expressed his doubts in the many legal challenges producing the desired result ...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 21:08hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa joins the constitutional onslaught quietly
Zimbabwe has been in the limelight again when a constitutional matter was hijacked by the opposition politicians and made an apolitical matter. The most puzzling and missing card is the very loud sile...Published: 31 May 2021 at 08:42hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Independent Matabeleland presages the worst to come: South Sudan war will be nowhere near
We have been saying time and again that these numerous Mthwakazi parties are a group of young boys who do not have the slightest idea about the past liberation war. Reading the daily news in social me...Published: 16 May 2021 at 07:17hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
The Emergence of 5th Columnists in Matebeleland
Matebeleland has come a long way and still has a long way to go before any realistic arrival at the station of real freedom for its own people. It is a long winding mountainous road to freedom that is...Published: 14 May 2021 at 13:24hrs | | by Thembani Dube
Farmers do not be a sitting duck to fraudsters
Harvest time is upon us, a time of plenty. Fraudsters are on the prowl looking for who to con, taking your agricultural produce without paying a dime for it. A colleague nearly lost a tonne of...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 13:11hrs | 1 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
'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
SA lacks the will to rescue Zimbabwe
IN any discussion on the political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe, the need for South Africa's mediation to find resolution is invariably raised. Calls for South African involvement are getting loude...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by Tendai Dumbutshena
UN warns social media job seekers
The United nations through its social media websites has issued a statement alerting people to be careful when applying for jobs on social media. ...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 19:32hrs | 1 | by Shelton Muchena
Killer Zivhu accuses Temba Mliswa of being gay
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa on Tuesday denied sensational allegations by a woman claiming to be pregnant with his twins that he is a gay in relapse.Mliswa also rejected similar ch...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 18:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Beware of post-lockdown gravy train
COVID-19 and the resultant lockdowns around the world, no doubt, killed the life for just about everybody and everything.Trans-border ships docked. That meant loss of thousands of direct and d...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:07hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Behave or else, Zanu-PF warns
THE ruling Zanu-PF said yesterday that it would deal ruthlessly with senior officials who interfere with its eagerly-awaited District Co-ordinating Committee (DCC) elections to be held this weekend....Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 07:34hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
How to avoid Bitcoin scams
Bitcoin scams are everywhere and with cryptocurrency being a valuable asset in the world today, it easily attracts more criminals. There have been multiple reports of scams in recent years worth up to...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 20:28hrs | 3 | by Staff writer
'Chamisa's MDC should take government threats seriously'
ANALYSTS and rights groups have advised MDC leaders to beware after authorities said the party was linked to a plot aimed at overthrowing President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the government from power. ...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 18:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Beware a woman sc Beware a woman scorned - Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
When is a crisis not a crisis? When it's a challenge. Despite the manifest economic and political crisis in Zimbabwe the ANC agreed to refer to it only as a challenge when it held a crucial meeting wi...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 23:27hrs | 1 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Zanu-PF comedians
In March this year the governing party appointed a young man into the position of Director of Information. Tafadzwa Mugwadi, a holder of a BSc in Political Science and a MSc in Finance in Internationa...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 14:32hrs | 1 | by Patrick Gabavu
From the 404 to the Honda Fit
"KIDNAP, robbery and near rape", the newspaper headline screamed on 22 August. "Honda Fit Crew robs osiphatheleni," our sister paper The Chronicle's headline read on 27 August. In the ...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:48hrs | 2 | by Bruce Ndlovu
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