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George Shaya's wife delivers a stinging rebuke of Dembare
Agnes Shaya, widow of the late Dynamos and Zimbabwe football legend George Shaya, has delivered a stinging rebuke of the club’s leadership, accusing them of abandoning her husband in his darkest hou...Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 15:37hrs | 1096 | by Staff reporter
Fortune hunters invade Chiefs' courts
IF you visit any social media platform today, be it Facebook, YouTube or WhatsApp, you are likely to be greeted by a video of a grueling no-holds-barred traditional court session.This is the w...Published: 04 Aug 2024 at 14:02hrs | 163 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe makes surprise appearance at Mnangagwa inauguration
Former President Robert Mugabe's widow Grace and daughter, Bona, hugged and exchanged pleasantries with President Emmerson Mnangagwa during swear-in on Monday in the latest public demonstration of a t...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 20:36hrs | 32 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa has no room for rigging, says Chamisa
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) president Nelson Chamisa has claimed that he has covered all loopholes used by Zanu-PF to rig elections in the past as the contest for August 23 elections reaches f...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 06:51hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa stole power, destroyed Zimbabwe, says Chamisa
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change party president Nelson Chamisa has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration of destroying the country after "usurping" power from the late former ...Published: 20 Sep 2022 at 06:08hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe loyalists vow to preserve his legacy
DESPITE silence by Zanu-PF hawks on commemorating the death of their once revered leader Robert Mugabe, his loyalists, many of them in exile since the 2017 military coup, have vowed to fight to ensure...Published: 13 Sep 2022 at 20:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's Kwekwe rally rocked by violence
ONE person reportedly died yesterday while scores of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters were injured following an attack by suspected Zanu-PF supporters during party leader Nelson Chamisa'...Published: 28 Feb 2022 at 05:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Malayitsha claims to be father to MRP president's child
MTHWAKAZI REPUBLIC Party (MRP) leader Mqondisi Moyo must be a very bitter man after a malayitsha claimed on Facebook that he is the biological father of one of the militant politician's children....Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 17:44hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa seeks to pacify G40 cabal with Robert Mugabe awards
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has announced plans to honour the late former strongman Robert Mugabe by launching an award in his name.However, the decision has been described b...Published: 03 Jan 2022 at 06:02hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Govt launches Robert Mugabe awards
GOVERNMENT has announced plans to honour the late former President Robert Mugabe by launching an award in his name.Mugabe died a bitter man in September 2019 in Singapore where he was receivin...Published: 03 Jan 2022 at 05:58hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Some Zimbabwe coup troopers die without enjoying benefits of their sweat
SEVERAL key players in the 2017 coup that toppled the late former President Robert Mugabe and elevated President Emmerson Mnangagwa to the helm have died in the past four years without fully realising...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:15hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Not even ZANU PF late presidents are laid at the national heroes acre!
The first ZANU president, Ndabaningi Sithole, was deposed by Robert Gabriel Mugabe (who had been the party's secretary general) in 1975 - in an internal coup, whose constitutionality was questionable....Published: 18 Nov 2021 at 18:25hrs | 12 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Mugabe's bitter, vengeful spirit decimating foes'
THE late former president Robert Mugabe's family claims his spirit is causing the death of his tribesmen who are at the forefront of the exhumation of his remains.Mugabe's body was buried at h...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:22hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe burial saga in bizarre twist
Former president Robert Mugabe's family says his spirit is fighting back after "mysterious" deaths and illnesses hit families of some traditional leaders that were pushing for the exhumation of the la...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:16hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Address motives behind Mugabe exhumation
THE case by the now late Chief Zvimba to have the remains of the late former President Robert Mugabe exhumed from his rural graveyard in Kutama village in Zvimba and be interred at the National Heroes...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Book on Mugabe set for launch
LEADERS for Africa Network (LAN) in partnership with renowned academic Ibbo Mandaza's regional think-tank, the Southern African Political-Economy Series (Sapes) Trust, will today launch a book tracing...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 06:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa sheds crocodile tears over Mugabe'
Political analysts have described President Emmerson Mnangagwa as a hypocrite after the Zanu-PF leader praised the late former President Robert Mugabe a few years after celebrating his ouster in a Nov...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man sets alight ex-lover's house
A jilted lover from Cowdray Park in Bulawayo is on the run after he set alight his ex-girlfriend's house on Friday night, destroying the house and household property.No one was injured. It is ...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:22hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Ndebele Chiefs are the problem and Obert Gutu is the scapegoat
As far as I can remember, our Chiefs have been a problem since this country was colonized by "those without knees", the British colonial master. During the colonial times, the Chiefs were the better h...Published: 28 Jun 2021 at 18:33hrs | 6 | by Nomazulu Thata
How Zimbabwe is still haunted by Robert Mugabe
IN OUR series of letters from Africa, Zimbabwean journalist-turned-barrister Brian Hungwe writes that long-serving ruler Robert Mugabe, who died in 2019, seems to be causing trouble from beyond the gr...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 18:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube supports Mugabe family for clinging to ex-leader's body
OUTSPOKEN former minister and Zanu-PF politburo member, Tshinga Dube has defended late former President Robert Mugabe's family for burying the once fierce ruler at his rural home in Zvimba.Add...Published: 29 May 2021 at 20:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zapu reflects on Dabengwa legacy 2 years on
THE late Zapu leader Dumiso Dabengwa reportedly died a bitter man after his efforts to reclaim party properties seized by the ruling Zanu-PF party during the Gukurahundi era hit a brick wall.D...Published: 25 May 2021 at 07:18hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'Dumiso Dabengwa died a bitter man'
ZAPU acting president Isaac Mabuka says his predecessor and late liberation hero Dumiso Dabengwa died whilst still bitter about his lengthy jailing by then State leader Robert Mugabe despite being cle...Published: 25 May 2021 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hands off Grace, says the Mugabes
THE late former President Mugabe's family yesterday rubbished moves by a Zvimba traditional leader to summon former First Lady Grace Mugabe to appear before his traditional court on a charge of "impro...Published: 13 May 2021 at 06:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says he is now wiser than before
MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa says the systematic attacks he and his party have received from the ruling Zanu-PF and state institutions since 2018 have instead hardened him and transformed him...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Brief Treatise for my Beloved Sister Nomazulu Thata
Just to briefly put our differences in perspective, I am forwarding a few words for you to consider ahead of our conversation. I have always valued and still do, your deep and ingenious analytical ski...Published: 24 Mar 2021 at 13:04hrs | 1 | by Anonymous Writer
Chief Maduna died a bitter man
THE late Filabusi traditional leader Chief Vezi Maduna Mafu reportedly died a bitter man after government failed to apologise and compensate for his unlawful arrest and torture during the Gukurahundi ...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 06:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Late Chief Maduna wanted SK Moyo appointed VP
THE late Chief Vezi Maduna Mafu died a bitter man after the architects of the November 14 2017 military coup allegedly snubbed the Chief's suggestion to appoint Simon Khaya Moyo as the second vice pre...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Brigadier General Moyo died a bitter man
ZIPRA Veterans Association members, who mourned the late Retired Brigadier General, Collin Moyo, who died last Friday aged 66, said he died bitter over the marginalisation of the ex-Zapu military wing...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 07:59hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe striking terribly hard in death
LAST week marked the first anniversary of the death of Robert Gabriel Mugabe, independent Zimbabwe's first president. Arguably one of the world's most shrewd and controversial politicians, the "larger...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa being sabotaged from inside Zanu-PF'
Expelled former Zanu-PF youth leader Godfrey Tsenengamu told the Daily News that Mnangagwa was being sabotaged from inside Zanu-PF - which demanded that he re-strategised his political trajectory....Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 19:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's protest leaders call for dialogue
IN A significant change of tactic - amid the ongoing crackdown on dissenting voices in the country by authorities - two prominent personalities linked to the foiled July 31 mass protests are calling f...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 18:09hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
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 | 10 | by Nicholas Ncube
'Dabengwa died a bitter man'
THE late liberation war icon and national hero Dumiso Dabengwa died a bitter man after his push for a national transitional authority (NTA) to run government business following former President Robert...Published: 03 Jun 2019 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC and the colonial ghost of whiteness
David Coltart, the self-confessed former British South African Police (BSAP) member, who authored a rehashed moribund autobiography, recently rebounded as treasurer of the MDC at the party's congress ...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 08:16hrs | 1 | by Ranga Mataire
Felix Ndiweni seeking political asylum status
They are striking similarities between the rise of Nelson Chamisa to the helm of the MDC-T and the current on-going attempts by Felix Ndiweni to grab the Ndiweni Chieftainship of Ntabazinduna in Matab...Published: 16 May 2019 at 08:37hrs | 1 | by ViewFromMatopos
Tsvangirai unites Mnangagwa, Chamisa supporters
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF and opposition leader Nelson Chamisa's supporters have put aside their differences to attend today's high profile memorial service for the country's much-loved f...Published: 04 May 2019 at 19:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai turning in his grave, says daughter
THE late former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's eldest daughter, Vimbai Tsvangirai-Java yesterday said his father could be a "bitter man wherever he is" because Zimbabweans have lunged into deeper ...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 17:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The dream that never ends
It seems the once sobbing nephew is now in acceptance mode, the sobbing has now 'climbed' down to sporadic sniffs of despair and distant hope. Even the hate laden rhetoric from his fox hole ac...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 15:57hrs | 1 | by Tondo Murisa.
Zanu-PF wants Mugabe stripped of honours
ZANU-PF youth league has escalated its attacks on former leader Robert Mugabe whom it now wants stripped of all honours bestowed on him during his disastrous 37 years at the helm of the country....Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 14:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's 'handlers' should put him under a leash
ZANU-PF youth league secretary Pupurai Togarepi says ex-President Robert Mugabe's "handlers" should put him under a leash or risk a push by party youths for buildings and roads named after the veteran...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 07:24hrs | | by newzimbabwe
ZANU PF Youth league warns Mugabe
ZANU PF Youth League has warned former President Robert Mugabe to appreciate the respect that is being accorded to him by President Emmerson Mnangagwa or risk dying a bitter man.The warning co...Published: 25 Feb 2019 at 12:11hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
GNU with Tsvangirai talk is Chamisa's imagination, says Zanu-PF
ZANU-PF yesterday said claims by the MDC-Alliance's Nelson Chamisa that MDC-T late leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai died a bitter man after the ruling party reneged on a deal to co-opt him into President M...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 19:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai was duped by Mnangagwa
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa revealed yesterday that his revered late predecessor, Morgan Tsvangirai, had died a bitter man after he was allegedly duped by President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his all...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 14:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Elizabeth opens up on Tsvangirai's last days
ELIZABETH Macheka, widow of the late MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, yesterday poured her heart out, sharing intricate details of the couple's psychologically-draining journey from the day the former Pr...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Tuku died a bitter man'
THE late music icon and national hero Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi died a bitter man after the Bindura Municipality frustrated his dream to set up an arts centre in his Madziwa rural home in the mould of Pa...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 08:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF's 'War Room' exposed?
William Mutumaje (Acie Lumumba) ran a ZANU PF media ‘war room' comprising of an informal grouping of party comrades with expertise in social media and public relations to launch an ‘aerial b...Published: 12 Dec 2018 at 16:12hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe doctors' strike bites
Seventy-four-year-old Elliot Moyo is a bitter man. He was hit by a car and suffered a broken leg, among other serious injuries, early last week.Since then, he has been making several fruitless...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 07:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'I created Mnangagwa and he dumped me' says student leader
Student Leader Farai Mteliso is a bitter man after he allegedly pushed President Mnangagwa to contest former President Mugabe and organised meetings for him to address people only to have Mnangagwa th...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 09:44hrs | 9 | by Mandla Ndlovu
British have cut ED adrift, has he even Smith's common sense to admit 'game is up!'
South Africa's then president F W de Klerk and the man who would succeed him, Nelson Mandela, were co-recipients of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize.Nelson Mandela's citation for the prize was easil...Published: 02 Oct 2018 at 00:30hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
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