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Zimbabweans in SA urged to support Warriors in crucial AFCON qualifier
Warriors head coach Michael Nees has called on Zimbabweans based in South Africa to rally behind their national team when they face Namibia in the return leg of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) ...Published: 12 Oct 2024 at 11:14hrs | 107 | by Staff reporter
Father, son reunite at Khami Prison after 27 years
Tafadzwa Hove's story is an extraordinary tale of fate and family reunion in the most unexpected of places - prison. Hove, who was sentenced to 369 years in prison for multiple robbery and rape charge...Published: 01 Sep 2024 at 10:19hrs | 972 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe students shine in Cambridge exams
Zimbabwean students who sat the internationally acclaimed Cambridge Examinations recorded a very high pass rate in 2023, Advanced Level results released this week have shown, with parents excited abou...Published: 13 Jan 2024 at 06:45hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Zahara dies in SA hospital
The world bids farewell to the exceptionally talented musician Zahara, known in private life as Bulelwa Mkutukana. The multi-award-winning artist took her final bow on Monday night, leaving a void in ...Published: 11 Dec 2023 at 21:18hrs | 18 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa has nowhere to play 'stolen village drum'
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Your Excellency, an African proverb that says it is easier to steal the village drum than to find where to play it, came to mind as the presidential election re...Published: 30 Aug 2023 at 06:46hrs | | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Spiritual home of Black cricket in Zimbabwe finally gets international recognition
Bill Flower realized 30 years ago that cricket wouldn't survive, let alone bloom, in Zimbabwe unless it reached out to the country's Black majority and found a place in their hearts.Part of hi...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 13:09hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Egodini decade of deception
WHEN the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) ordered vendors and transport operators to vacate Basch Street Terminus on 25 March 2016, those men and women that were marched out of the place famously known as ...Published: 09 Apr 2023 at 12:00hrs | 4 | by Bruce Ndlovu
China's energy policy shift a wake-up call for Zimbabwe
REPORTS that China will stop building new coal power plants overseas is a bittersweet for Zimbabwe, as it has dealt a major blow to planned coal power projects funded by Beijing but has provided an op...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Old people's homes turn into poor families' dumping grounds
BANANA bread was served at a recent birthday party at Melfort Old People's home, where a group of residents mustered a raspy happy birthday tune.Just a week after arriving at the facility, Rod...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The bittersweet toxicity of the new media
In 1982, when Steve Jobs was asked if he was keen on doing market research, he said, "No, because customers don't know what they want until we have shown them." His instincts, whether good-natured or ...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 19:38hrs | | by Mandlenkosi Siziba
Remembering those who made it possible, our fallen heroes
As the blood of the heroes flows beneath our freedom, reminding us that every expression of joy and every fruit of freedom was watered by the blood of our heroes. It will become history if we do not r...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 19:31hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Obert Mpofu wins it for Zanu-PF in Lupane
ZANU-PF supporters in Lupane have attributed their clean sweep in two local authority by-elections and a parliamentary vote held on Saturday in Matabeleland North to Obert Mpofu the party's secretary ...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 20:02hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Lupane spits on Nelson Chamisa
The MDC under Nelson Chamisa 's leadership has yet again lost a by-election to ZANU PF. The MDC garnered a respectable 4492 votes while ZANU PF emerged victorious with 6 126 votes counted in its favou...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 12:54hrs | | by Nicholas Ncube
Mnangagwa must act before it's rather too late
THERE was some bittersweet news for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration this week when the European Union (EU) decided not to extend existing sanctions against Harare despite a recommendatio...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 09:18hrs | | by Owen Gagare
Axcil Jefferies charms Hollywood star Will Smith
THE year 2018 is one 24-year-old Zimbabwe racing sensation Axcil Jefferies describes as bitter-sweet.Bitter, because Lady Luck seemed to desert him in crucial events and sweet in that he compe...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 10:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Henry Olonga feared Mugabe thugs would kill him
Almost 15 years after Henry Olonga wore a black armband, Mugabe's rule in Zimbabwe is finally over. "I'm stunned," he says. "Here we are in a country that is Mugabe-less for the first time in 37 years...Published: 02 Dec 2017 at 14:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Marabini booed for singing in isiNdebele at Mnangagwa event
AFRO-Jazz musician Jeys Marabini has called on Zimbabweans who are from different tribes to embrace each other in order to focus on development.His call comes after he was reportedly sub...Published: 27 Nov 2017 at 05:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
The birth and death of Beatar Mangethe
WHEN Beatar Mangethe organised a concert at the Large City Hall hot on the heels of the success of her smash hit song, I Come from Makokoba, she did so against the wishes of her long-time mentor Cont ...Published: 05 Nov 2017 at 08:11hrs | 834 | by Staff reporter
Quicksand sinking & mirages: Inside Zanu PFs long history of infighting
A long read on Zanu Pfs 54 years of bitter infighting, betrayal and power games. There is no iota of doubt that...Published: 03 Apr 2017 at 15:40hrs | | by Maynard Manyowa
Dialogue key to progress: Patson Dzamara open response to Prince Noble
My dearest brother, Prince Noble My brother Prince, thank you for the prolific and timely letter. Thank you for your brutal honesty. That's what a real brother does. I receive your letter with...Published: 06 Feb 2017 at 18:11hrs | | by Patson Dzamara
Mugabe embodies African fighting spirit
For many Africans at home and abroad, when President Mugabe presented not only Zimbabwe, but all of Mother Africa's case before the United Nations last Thursday concerning Sustainable Development Goal...Published: 29 Apr 2016 at 06:50hrs | | by Obi Egbuna Jr Simunye
Remembering Nkrumah's overthrow, defending Zimbabwe
This means when the Herbert Chitepo Ideological Institute begins to function in Zimbabwe, President Mugabe and ZANU-PF will ensure that the youth do not overindulge in theory, but emerge from that phy...Published: 18 Mar 2016 at 05:31hrs | | by Obi Egbuna Jnr Simunye
Castle Milk Stout Chocolate is back for good
South African beer aficionados who failed to get their hands on last year's limited-edition run of Castle Milk Stout Chocolate now have ample opportunity to taste the new variant as the country's lead...Published: 13 Jul 2015 at 15:50hrs | | by Agencies
'Zimdollar' reintroduction likely to be tough
THE dumping of the local currency in 2009 in favour of the multicurrency regime was bittersweet in that it halted hyperinflation but at the same time created a liquidity crunch in the economy. It is w...Published: 31 Jul 2014 at 11:51hrs | | by AfrAsia Kingdom
Bulawayo up for another award
TRAILBLAZING Zimbabwean writer, NoViolet Bulawayo continues to shine on the international scene, as she has once again been nominated for the prestigious Book Man Long List award. The United ...Published: 25 Jul 2013 at 07:27hrs | | by Arts reporter
No place quite like Bulawayo
It's been four years since I last lived in Zimbabwe, four long years during which I strolled along the Mediterranean beaches in Algiers, ate Middle Eastern food, danced to Rai music and, like the res...Published: 07 May 2013 at 07:47hrs | | by Bongani Ncube-Zikhali
Goodbye Oprah, Oprah's final show
Chicago - For the final episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show taped on Tuesday, the talk show queen appeared alone on her Chicago stage, talking to viewers about what they've meant to her during the show'...Published: 06 Jun 2011 at 09:31hrs | 1 | by Mafu Sithabile
Brothers and sisters in Chris
The warning was polite but firm: "This is not a football match, hey! It's the word of God!""You can't sell those tickets!" a ­security guard told a man in f...Published: 14 Mar 2011 at 21:38hrs | | by Lucas Ledwaba
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