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Makarawu sets new indoor 300m national record in United States
United States-based Zimbabwean sprinter Tapiwanashe Makarawu has once again made headlines by breaking the national indoor record for the 300m at the Louisville Opener, held at the Norton Healthcare S...Published: 14 Dec 2024 at 10:42hrs | 69 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's first indigenous pilot training academy opens
Central Air Transport Services (CATS), a private charter company operating from Charles Prince Airport in Harare and Victoria Falls International Airport, has made history by opening Zimbabwe's first ...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 09:45hrs | 129 | by Staff reporter
Pravin Gordhan's funeral a 'ceremony of cats'
After being vocal about his opinions on Gordhan following his death, EFF leader Julius Malema took to social media to further express his discontent over the funeral ceremony of former minister Pravin...Published: 20 Sep 2024 at 10:32hrs | 2443 | by Staff reporter
As long as ZACC isn't catching the 'big fish' then its work is useless!
The ZACC (Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission) has, of late, been bragging over its supposed 'successes'.ZACC commissioner Ndakaripa Hungwe recently told a national anti-corruption indaba in H...Published: 18 Jul 2024 at 15:02hrs | 671 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
MK Party still wants Zuma in the ANC
The uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) in KwaZulu-Natal says the ANC has no leg to stand on in its disciplinary hearing of former president Jacob Zuma.The ANC's National Disciplinary Committee (NDC)...Published: 11 Jul 2024 at 08:05hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Bedbugs menace hits Kwekwe
KWEKWE City has been hit by a cat menace which has seen most households having cats breeding at homesteads at an alarming speed leading to the speedy multiplication of the animal.The cats find...Published: 19 Mar 2024 at 20:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF disown Saturday Retreat land barons
The ruling Zanu-PF party has disowned some land barons in Harare South's Saturday Retreat (Border Gezi) who have embarked on an overdrive to dupe unsuspecting homeseekers through allocating them land ...Published: 15 Jan 2024 at 10:31hrs | 66 | by Paul Ndou
Corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless CCC are mile-stone round nation's neck. Alas! Povo still don't know it!
You can count on MDC/CCC leaders to fight each other like wild cats. If it is not one thing it over half a dozen of the other - all trivial and irrelevant to the long suffering voters who elected them...Published: 09 Nov 2023 at 21:08hrs | 9 | by Wilbert Mukori
Is a recession still likely at the end of 2023?
The cost of living crisis has been on everyone's lips for what seems like years now. There’s often talk of it turning into a recession, although so far, most countries have avoided ...Published: 08 Nov 2023 at 14:17hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Fresh Kambucha maker blasts copycats
Fresh Kambucha Private Limited, a beverages manufacturer, has distanced itself from counterfeit products that have saturated the market and damaged the company's reputation. Kambucha is produced throu...Published: 31 Oct 2023 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cowboy country
I DO not get away very often but right now I am in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, which is my wife's home base. We have not been here for seven years and the changes and challengers are very visible....Published: 13 May 2023 at 18:26hrs | 10 | by Eddie Cross
Zimbabwe govt ramps up anti-human trafficking efforts
What seemed to be a good escape from poverty back home in Zimbabwe quickly turned into a nightmare for Chipo* when she landed in Oman in 2022.Like many economically impoverished citizens, Chip...Published: 20 Apr 2023 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Black cats in neighbours witchcraft row
A WOMAN from Cowdray Park suburb in Bulawayo is living in palpable fear after her neighbour who is in the habit of accusing her of practicing witchcraft sensationally claimed that she unleashed black&...Published: 31 Mar 2023 at 07:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF primaries were utter fiasco for ED thx Mafia' said Mliswa. ED's turn to sleep with one eye open
If one, Right Honourable Temba P Mliswa, MP for Norton, is to be believed, then the Gold Mafia is certainly bigger then Zanu PF and they are the ones behind President Mnangagwa's humiliating defeats i...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 11:12hrs | 3 | by Wilbert Mukori
Do not blame Mugabe or Mnangagwa: blame Zanu-PF
Zimbabwe has been in reverse gear since the early eighties. The late Robert Mugabe inherited a sound economy with sound infrastructure and amenities. He wasted no time exhausting the state resources a...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 17:44hrs | 11 | by Zenzo Siziba
Mnangagwa a 'Mthwakazi agent'
Like a busy bee in the process of pollination, Mnangagwa is now a Mthwakazi agent. Albeit death threats and intimidation, he is spreading the gospel of Matabeleland restoration in Mashonaland. The rev...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 09:10hrs | | by Israel Dube
SA registered car caught trying to ferry stolen cattle in Zimbabwe
A South African registered car has been caught trying to transport stolen cattle from Mberengwa. According to a message circulating on social media, it is believed the cattle were stolen in th...Published: 09 Jan 2023 at 20:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tips on rearing broilers
When you intend to start a poultry project, sometimes budget constraints may be very discouraging . That is not an excuse to shelve the project though. To cut on production costs, you can substitute a...Published: 19 Nov 2022 at 06:25hrs | 3 | by @Jamwanda2
CCC ditches Chamisa's face as it unveils new party logo
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party yesterday unveiled a new logo with the sun replacing its leader Nelson Chamisa's image in the old logo.Chamisa formed the CCC party in Janu...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Stop govt, Zanu-PF conflation
WHILE corruption and misgovernance have a bearing on the chaos at most parastatals, the main problem is plunder of money and other resources at these institutions by the ruling Zanu-PF party and fatca...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 06:58hrs | | by Mukunda Chitova
Banks: If gold rusts, what will iron do?
Native Commissioner Oates, I presume!LORD Jonathan Oates' ambition is becoming a latter-day colonial Native Commissioner.Too late chum, both by age and history! Still both don't deter ...Published: 14 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | 3 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Is he the young man?
I have lost touch with my Zipra brother Melusi Nkomo. The last time I heard about him, he was doing some lofty business at the International Graduate Centre in Geneva, Switzerland."Robert Muga...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:29hrs | | by Kenneth Mafuka
Zimdollar: The writing is on the wall
THE United States Agency for International Development food security watchdog, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, reported a 20% increase in the price of bread and cooking oil last month....Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jwamu imali kakhondekitha kaZupco
KUCATSHANGELWA ukuba kuthe ngokuzwa indlala isihlasele lokuba lezikwelede, enye indoda yeZvishavane ijwamulele ukhondekitha wakoZupco imali, qede yacela ezinyaweni. Kubikwa uListon Kubvoruno ,...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 17:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
It rained 'Elephants and Buffaloes' in Chiweshe today (29 December 2021)
To say it rained cats and dogs may be actually being economic with the truth. Saying it rained elephants and buffaloes may give a modicum of justice to the copious rains that pounded my home area on 2...Published: 30 Dec 2021 at 11:27hrs | 8 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Female passenger caught breastfeeding cat during flight
A woman on a recent Delta Airlines flight allegedly began to breastfeed her pet cat mid-flight and refused to stop after getting caught.The incident allegedly happened during a recent trip onb...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 21:42hrs | 12 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF 'hijacks' Chamisa project
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday accused "jittery" Zanu-PF and State security agents of hijacking his party's Citizens Convergence for Change (CCC) project and registering it at...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans politicians lining up their pockets
THE silly season is slowly approaching with less than 20 months left before the next elections. We now have President Emmerson Mnangagwa promising voters manna from heaven, declaring that what happene...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:07hrs | 1 | by Batsi Gonzo
Muchena commits to Sables
FORMER Zimbabwe youth international Tinashe Muchena is ready to snub an opportunity to play for the USA Eagles in order to emulate his father by representing the country of his birth at senior level....Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Rugby ace Muchena breaks into US Major League Rugby
HIGHLY rated USA-based rugby ace Tinashe Muchena has achieved a major milestone in his fledgling rugby career. Muchena has made history by becoming the first Zimbabwean rugby player to earn a professi...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 08:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
We're now weary of complaining - Zimbabweans need to finally stand up for themselves
There are times I look back at my writing career - which started in 1989, whilst doing form three - and can not help being gripped by a painful sense disenchantment and disillusionment.Have I,...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 17:39hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF does not deserve our votes
TIME and again I have been questioning Zanu-PF's 2018 election manifesto on education, health and housing. It left me with so many doubts about the ruling party's capability to fulfil the highly exagg...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 07:23hrs | | by Concerned
The Liberation War in Nkayi, Matebeleland: The Agenda by Rhodesian Army & State to starve 'terrorists', a personal experience!
In today's Africa, we often ascribe the violation of African rights to only African governments and easily forget a long-standing history of wanton violation of African rights by gun-ho racialist geno...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 22:38hrs | 15 | by Thembani Dube
West's Zimbabwean political project crumbling
There is an interesting quotation from the Old Man in Charles Mungoshi's "Waiting for the Rain" (1975). It is a quotation that epitomises his lament about the alienation that has afflicted Lucifer, hi...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:13hrs | | by Ranga Mataire
Mbudziyadhura's health deteriorates
POPULAR actor Blessing Chimhowa who plays Mbudziyadhura in the Gringo series broadcast on ZBCTV - was rushed to a local clinic in Gweru in the early hours of Wednesday after developing abdominal compl...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 09:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dumb advisors, deaf Executive
"JANUARY 2021 has been cancelled," is a joke that went viral in Zimbabwe last weekend.It is a joke premised on Zimbabwe's return to COVID-19 lockdown measures. These are the strictest conditio...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 20:29hrs | | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Covid-19 where does Africa stand?
Theorists and gossipers are in sixth gear with discussions swirling around great conspiracy to wipe out a big chunk of the world population leaving only a small controllable and compliant size. ...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 11:34hrs | 1 | by Murisa
Anti-graft crack team seizes $2 billion assets
A CRACK team made up of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has seized luxury homes and top-end vehicles wor...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
5 killed in Ghana election violence - pray not slipping backwards to join likes of Zimbabwe
For many years now, Ghana has successfully held free, fair and credible elections, a successful and stable democracy. And the country has benefited greatly for with stable and functioning democracy th...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 08:44hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
Human wildlife conflict stops agriculture where hunting brings hope
Co-existing with wildlife can be both a curse and a blessing. The human-wildlife conflict has brought the century-old culture of agricultural production to a sad and difficult end in Bots...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 18:21hrs | 1 | by Emmanuel Koro
Ginimbi in another 'bizarre' accident
THE late socialite Genius Kadungure aka Boss Ginimbi's hearse was involved in yet another accident on Friday afternoon as his body was being carried home from a funeral parlour, his father told mourne...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 16:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-police commissioner spills the beans on corrupt top cops
A LEAKED police internal correspondence has exposed how top police fat cats are frustrating criminal investigations by allegedly shielding criminal cartels in return for money and gold.The let...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, a year on
Angry and defeated! This is exactly how I feel one year since Robert Mugabe passed on. Angry because the country he left in a mess has gone completely bad and inhabitable in many respe...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 20:04hrs | 2 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Masarira slams Mnangagwa
Linda Masarira, leader of the Labour Economists and Afrikan Democats (LEAD), opposition party, has slammed the country's President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, for initiating the land compensation progr...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 18:49hrs | 11 | by Daniel Itai
Govt sweats over Drax payment
Government is in a dilemma on whether to retain or pay US$2 million to Drax SAGL International for the supply and delivery of medicines and consumables as part of a US$20 million contract it later can...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Guns fired at MDC MP's house
The MDC Secretary General Charlton Hwende has alleged that some unknown person fired guns at the house of MDC MP Catson Matewu on Wednesday night. Said Hwende, "Bullets were fired at the House...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 06:57hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa needs to walk the talk on corruption
Two critical developments, separate but intertwined, happened on Monday.As a Harare magistrate was castigating President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Anti-Corruption Prosecution unit for lack of serio...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 07:20hrs | | by Editorial - Newsday
Gloves off on corrupt fatcats: Zacc
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) says it will dig deep into senior Zanu PF and government officials' feeding troughs, among them Command Agriculture, the National Social Security Authori...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unite against big business' deathly grip
THERE is a lot to criticise about what is going on, but not all price increases we are seeing are that inevitable because in many cases, these are contrived with many big retailers taking advantage of...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:26hrs | | by Conway Tutani
'Fatcats choke Zesa'
Energy and Power Development minister Fortune Chasi yesterday said power utility Zesa was struggling to service its external debt and increase power importation to alleviate the current electricity cr...Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
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