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Why Botswana's shift has Zimbabwe's Zanu-PF on edge
As the region and the continent at large continue to digest the outcome of the recent Botswana elections and their ramifications reverberate across borders, a bigger debate is unfolding on the changin...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 14:39hrs | 1253 | by Ntibinyane Ntibinyane
Why Kamala Harris Lost and How Donald Trump Won: A Deep Analysis of the 2024 US Election
Today I am mourning, but this too shall favour me - Donald Trump's victory and Kamala Harris's loss carry lessons for us all. She joined the race just 107 days ago, facing a former president who began...Published: 06 Nov 2024 at 12:43hrs | 1722 | by Ifeanyi Abraham
Mnangagwa's adviser says ZiG is 'doomed', warns RBZ Governor
Local economist and adviser to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Eddie Cross, has issued a stark warning to Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor John Mushayavanhu, cautioning that the country's new Zim...Published: 15 Oct 2024 at 18:10hrs | 5665 | by Staff reporter
Midlands is Zimbabwe's murder capital
The Midlands Province has recorded the highest number of murder cases in Zimbabwe, with a staggering 90 percent of these involving the use of lethal weapons, according to the National Prosecution Auth...Published: 20 Sep 2024 at 07:55hrs | 147 | by Staff reporter
Man beats 15-months-old daughter to death
A 35-year-old man from Mvuma in the Midlands has been arrested for the murder of his 15-month-old daughter, who was found with severe injuries while in his care.The baby was discovered with a ...Published: 14 Sep 2024 at 12:14hrs | 121 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa was bribed by Zanu-PF claim rubbished
Nelson Chamisa, the former leader of Zimbabwe's Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) party, has dismissed threats from his critics to expose his alleged underhand dealings, declaring that he has "noth...Published: 24 Aug 2024 at 14:57hrs | 942 | by Staff reporter
Mafume slammed for attending training at Zanu-PF Ideological school
Harare mayor, Councillor Jacob Mafume, has been criticised for attending a ZANU-PF indoctrination programme at the party's Herbert Chitepo School of Ideology.Mafume is among a group of mayors,...Published: 24 Aug 2024 at 12:48hrs | 359 | by Staff reporter
Granny burnt alive, child smashed to death
MANYAYA Village under Chief Mutema in Chipinge was last Sunday plunged into deep mourning following a spine-chilling and mind-boggling incident in which a man burnt a defenceless granny beyond recogni...Published: 23 Aug 2024 at 07:11hrs | 1468 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya launches a blistering attack against Lincoln Mutasa
Walter Magaya's Heart Group, owners of Heart Stadium in Harare, has launched a blistering attack against ZIFA normalisation committee chairperson Lincoln Mutasa who claimed in a statement on Monday th...Published: 06 Aug 2024 at 18:24hrs | 1606 | by Staff reporter
Dembare fires Mangombe
GENESIS Mangombe has been fired as Dynamos coach following their disappointing 1-1 draw against struggling Bulawayo Chiefs at Barbourfields on Sunday.This follows a crisis meeting by the Dynam...Published: 06 Aug 2024 at 08:51hrs | 196 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa must wake up from slumber and spare us this confusion
If truth be told, the tragic events happening in the opposition can only be attributed to Nelson Chamisa himself because only him can put a stop to this nonsense. If he were to step up and sho...Published: 30 Jul 2024 at 20:39hrs | 734 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
IMF unhappy with Zambia's plan to end dollar use
Zambia's proposed ban on charging foreign currency in local transactions - punishable with 10-year jail terms - might defeat its own purpose, according to the International Monetary Fund.The c...Published: 21 Jul 2024 at 10:38hrs | 16763 | by Staff reporter
High-tech Western weapons 'useless' in Ukraine conflict
Satellite-guided shells are particularly vulnerable to Russian jamming technology, commanders in Kiev have told the newspaperRussia's electronic warfare capabilities have rendered precision-gu...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 17:07hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter
Zambia to criminalise the use of US$ in local economy
Zambia's central bank published plans to criminalize the use of foreign currency in the local economy amid the biggest rally in the kwacha in four months.The southern African nation has faced ...Published: 01 Jul 2024 at 08:46hrs | 33 | by Staff reporter
'Ramaphosa's government of selective unity,' says Dr Imtiaz Sooliman
Founder of Gift of the Givers, Dr Imtiaz Sooliman, one of the country's leading community outreach programmes in the continent, has poured cold water over the Government of National Unity led by the A...Published: 20 Jun 2024 at 08:33hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Shock as ZANU PF Activist Rutendo Matinyarare turns on Party, accuses it of selling out
Long-time ZANU PF activist Rutendo Matinyarare has turned on the revolutionary party, accusing it of selling out the people of Zimbabwe."ZANU PF sells out like the ANC, will ZANU PF like it?" ...Published: 04 Jun 2024 at 14:04hrs | 10 | by George Tshuma
Brito divides Zifa
The ZIFA Normalisation Committee members are currently divided over the selection of the Warriors coach, with reports indicating a push to reinstate Baltermar Brito gaining momentum within one faction...Published: 22 May 2024 at 09:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zapu slams Zimbabwe's new currency ZiG
The 'mother' party ZAPU says as long as the country lacks legitimacy derived from free and fair elections, people will have no faith in a currency produced in Zimbabwe.On April 5, 2024, the ne...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 21:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa plots divisive constitutional coup
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa's strategy for a third term - practically a constitutional coup - is now gathering momentum and going full steam ahead after a brief retreat as the military reg...Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 18:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa scared of gukurahundi, plots divisive constitutional coup
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa's strategy for a third term - practically a constitutional coup - is now gathering momentum and going full steam ahead after a brief retreat as the military reg...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 20:34hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Reunification sought by Tsvangirai 5 months before he died now in tatters
The implosion of CCC in Nelson Chamisa's hands is telling not only because it puts paid to Morgan Tsvangirai's widely publicised [see attached videos] last-ditch efforts - just five months before his ...Published: 19 Feb 2024 at 12:48hrs | 2 | by Jonathan Moyo
Zimbabwe's longest electoral season
IN exactly two weeks, Zimbabweans are going to the polling booth again, as the silly season that began last May stubbornly refuses to end for various reasons — single-minded pursuit of power by oppo...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 10:00hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Dynamos sign Makunike replacement
DYNAMOS have reportedly agreed a deal to sign South Africa-based Zimbabwean midfielder Temptation Chiwunga as a replacement for Junior Makunike.The Harare giants are set to lose their star mid...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 07:34hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's third-term bid up in smoke as army moves in
WHILE Zanu-PF is gradually inching towards a two-thirds parliamentary majority through a by-elections opened by CCC's Interim Secretary General Sengezo Tshabangu's recalls, the army has made strategic...Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 09:39hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Bosso's Peter Muduhwa could join Dembare
DYNAMOS are leaving nothing to chance going into the new season where they will play in the African Safari after adding lethal striker Obriel Chirinda to their roster.He will officially be a G...Published: 20 Dec 2023 at 06:10hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
CCC undoing is a strategy of innovating around the familiar
To put it bluntly, Zimbabwe's main political opposition party, the CCC, in its present construct, is wasting the people's time, resources and mostly emotions as they continue to prove through unbeliev...Published: 09 Dec 2023 at 18:56hrs | 13 | by Brian Sedze
Ncube budget proves, once again, 'nation can tax itself into prosperity' by taxing poor to spare the rich
"I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle," said Si...Published: 02 Dec 2023 at 08:44hrs | 9 | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa has learnt nothing from the MDC etal vs Mashavira etal court judgement
CHAMISA HAS LEARNT NOTHING FROM THE MDC ET AL VS. MASHAVIRA ET AL 31 MARCH 2020 SUPREME COURT JUDGMENT NELSON CHAMISA:"We have not officially launched the Triple C in terms of the structur...Published: 16 Oct 2023 at 11:53hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
Ngidlaliswe amatope mina?
Reading Edward GibbonWhere is God bakithi?Edward Gibbon is no writer for easy readers. Yet he is so important to Britain's governing myth. No wonder why every British-born Prime Minist...Published: 14 Oct 2023 at 07:21hrs | | by @Jamwanda2
Chamisa's CCC has no capacity to form a government, says Zanu-PF critic
Political analyst Ibbo D Mandaza who is a staunch critic of Zanu-PF has said that the Citizens Coalition For Change cannot run a government.Mandaza was speaking at the OR Tambo School of leade...Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 08:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Siblings kill brother in witchcraft row
IN a shocking incident, a 57-year-old man from Macala Village in under Chief Sikhobokhobo's area in Nkayi, Matebeleland North province was allegedly murdered by his two brothers over witchcraft ...Published: 29 Jul 2023 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa and CCC must not use Matebeleland as cannon fodder
"Never target a tribe or victimise a region twice" - Nelson Chamisa, responding to the High Court decision that nullified his 12 parliamentary candidates in Bulawayo....Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 21:38hrs | 10 | by Jonathan Moyo
Dembare target ex-Caps star
DYNAMOS are desperately looking to sign a striker in the current player transfer window with their coach Herbert Maruwa yesterday revealing his club will not give up in their search for a proven goal ...Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 07:46hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Thabitha Khumalo vowed to block Khupe admission into CCC, where is she now?
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) interim national chairperson Thabitha Khumalo vowed to block the admission of Thokozani Khupe, into the party for her role destroying the MDC Alliance.The b...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 19:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
We have neglected Manicaland for too long Mr President Sir
On the 24th of June 2023, the President and First secretary of Zanu-PF, Cde ED Mnangagwa, will launch the Zanu PF campaign foundation upon which this year’s election bid will be built upon in Chipin...Published: 23 Jun 2023 at 16:29hrs | 1 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Mnangagwa right-hand man sends stern warning to Zanu-PF primaries' losers
FORMER State Security Minister Owen Ncube has bluntly warned MPs who suffered defeat in the Zanu-PF primaries against contesting as independent candidates in the upcoming general elections.Zan...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 10:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Patriotic bill will isolate Zimbabwe from International community says opposition
THE Criminal Law Codification (Reform) Amendment Bill dubbed Patriotic Bill will be detrimental to Zimbabwe's aspirations of emerging from a pariah state, opposition senators have said.The Bil...Published: 10 Jun 2023 at 17:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Continued increase in diaspora remittances signal rising poverty in Zimbabwe
The marked rise in diaspora remittances into Zimbabwe actually does not signal economic growth - but, as a matter of fact, increased povertyYet, it is always baffles the mind whenever the Zimb...Published: 30 May 2023 at 22:36hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Bosso, Dembare clash
MISFIRING soccer giants Highlanders and Dynamos failed to win their respective weekend matches, leaving a boring build-up to their Africa Day rearranged Castle Lager Premier Soccer League fixture....Published: 23 May 2023 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Never go to bed with Zanu PF. It's dangerous!' warned Chamisa. After 5 long GNU years of nothing, he knows!
"The Constitutional Court on Monday threw out the MDC leader's application seeking nullification of the delimitation report and a delay of the elections set for July," reported Bulawayo 24."Mw...Published: 09 May 2023 at 14:49hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
UAE refuses to extradite Gupta brothers to South Africa
South Africa said on Friday it had learned with "shock and dismay" that the United Arab Emirates had turned down its request to extradite two brothers accused of orchestrating industrial-scale corrupt...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 09:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Wanted SA rapist Thabo Bester skipped the country to Zimbabwe?
Thabo Bester skipped the country to Zimbabwe to lay low after escaping from the Mangaung maximum security prison where he allegedly paid R5 million to at least nine prison warders who helped him escap...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 16:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Christians who support oppressors, looters and killers will answer to our Lord Jesus!
Of course, it is not particularly shocking when some of us witness the proliferation of so-called 'churches', and their leaders, who support evil.I can not deny that it hurts me in indescribab...Published: 30 Mar 2023 at 11:42hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe must realise its position in global geopolitics
ON Wednesday United States envoy Robert Scott jetted into the country. He did not hide his mission. "I am here to engage in a series of meetings with government, civil society and other a...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 08:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zacc commissioner blames law
A COMMISSIONER in the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), Jessie Majome (pictured), has conceded the institution's failure to nail down culprits that are abusing public funds and resources, bu...Published: 01 Mar 2023 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Iran exposes Zimbabwe's lies about sanctions crippling economy
As a Zimbabwe delegation, led by foreign affairs minister Fredrick Shava, visits Iran, and is showcased the repressive regime’s phenomenal economic and scientific breakthroughs - amidst enduring arg...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 21:09hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Fearless editor who first exposed the Gukurahundi killings
While there were a few local Zimbabwean journalists writing for periodicals and foreign correspondents like Peter Godwin for the Sunday Times (UK) and some filing for...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:11hrs | 14 | by Stephen Bates
Chamisa left the fact-finding Mission deeply unimpressed
One Morris too manyWhat it's a name?The name of the old Triple C activist "beaten" in Murehwa is Morris Seremani. Morris as also the name of one turncoat freedom fighter who betrayed t...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:22hrs | 2 | by Jamwanda
Man kills father, castrates corpse
A Nyamandlovu man allegedly strangled his father, castrated the body with a blunt object before further dismembering it and stashing it in a maize field.Police are hunting for Effort Nothoenhl...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
In a normal country, both ZANU PF and CCC/MDC would be history!
It is bewildering listening to ZANU PF mouthpieces condemning the opposition (CCC and MDC) for running down once plush urban areas into disgusting shanty towns - thereafter, suggesting that residents ...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 19:12hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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