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All Zimbabweans must enjoy the fruits of independence
ZIMBABWEAN politicians involve musicians in their political activities when they are campaigning to be voted into public office.Musicians sing songs of praise and many a time, such songs exagg...Published: 24 Apr 2023 at 07:52hrs | 259 | by Clive Malunga
Ex-Zipra commander says he has nothing to show for his sacrifices
AN 87-YEAR-OLD former Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) war veteran, Moffat Hadebe says he has nothing to show for his sacrifices as he continues to face rejection from the same system he f...Published: 19 Apr 2023 at 16:50hrs | 733 | by Staff reporter
'Killers must be amputated'
SOME citizens feel that the death penalty should be revoked, but are proposing a gory punishment of having murderers amputated.This came out during public consultations on the death penalty by...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 08:19hrs | 191 | by Staff reporter
Death penalty divides public opinion
BEITBRIDGE residents have expressed mixed feelings over whether or not the country should retain the death penalty on its statutesThe residents gave their views during one of the many public h...Published: 05 Apr 2023 at 09:33hrs | 298 | by Staff reporter
Serial killer on death row loses appeal at Supreme Court
THE Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal against the death sentence by a Bulawayo serial killer Birthwell Sibanda who killed three people and robbed them of their cellphones and money.Dubbed ...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 06:46hrs | 382 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean nurses fret over global recruitment ban
UNDERPAID Zimbabwean nurses and doctors have vowed to find alternative ways to circumvent a foreign recruitment ban recently imposed by the World Health Organisation (WHO), saying they cannot bear the...Published: 27 Mar 2023 at 09:54hrs | 3814 | by Staff Reporter
Mr. President, Zimbabweans leaving country not because of good education system but your failed leadership!
Self-delusion is a very dangerous trait! One can easily become reckless in his life decisions, or never able to address his own shortcomings - if he does not realize and admit where he lacks -...Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 10:21hrs | 707 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwean drug mule recalls her time in an Indian prison
Despite Asia's tough stance on drug trafficking, some African women risk it all for the money.News24 caught up with a former Zimbabwean drug mule who found herself jailed in India in 2015 afte...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 07:14hrs | 806 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF to elect Ndebele President in the coming congress?
Should a Matabele, through a miracle, be elected as ZANU PF President in the coming congress, that man or woman would be very lucky to come out of Harare alive.You have heard how MDC aka CCC s...Published: 12 Oct 2022 at 13:54hrs | 2408 | by Israel Dube
Zimbabwe urged to abolish death penalty
GLOBAL human rights defender, Amnesty International has called on Zimbabwe to join 111 progressive nations which have abolished the death penalty as it constitutes the worst form of punishment against...Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 06:08hrs | 307 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe banishes death penalty
IT'S been 6 273 days since Zimbabwe hanged a condemned person. For the gruesome murder of Themba Nkiwane, the High Court sentenced Never Masina Mandlenkosi to death in 2002 and he was executed...Published: 24 Sep 2022 at 06:13hrs | 765 | by Staff reporter
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 | 106 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Ex Zanu-PF youth boss Lewis Matutu bounces back
FORMER Zanu-PF deputy youth secretary, Lewis Matutu, who was stopped in his daring anti-corruption fight against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's benefactor Kudakwashe Tagwirei, has resurfaced, this tim...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:51hrs | 4508 | by Staff reporter
'HIV mothers can breastfeed their babies'
FAITH Karuru (not her real name) was infected with HIV by her boyfriend, who fled to South Africa after committing a crime seven years ago."I discovered I was HIV positive when I went to regis...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:48hrs | 456 | by Staff reporter
Amnesty International Zimbabwe calls for death sentence ban
AMNESTY International Zimbabwe is pushing for a ban of the death penalty which it says has caused a lot of stress on people that are on death row.Capital punishment is provided for in section ...Published: 07 Jul 2022 at 08:03hrs | 203 | by Staff reporter
HIV+ Zimbabwe man (21) who died of HIV was neglected by healthcare staff
A 21-year-old man died due to neglect, after he was not given treatment for HIV while he was a prisoner at Her Majesty's Prison (HMP) Chelmsford, an inquest has determined. HIV is a "treatable" condit...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 06:45hrs | 1763 | by Staff reporter
Without incorporating the boy child we can kiss goodbye to ending misogyny and women's abuse!
I still clearly remember sometime around 2007, when I excitedly approached such women's rights organizations as Women's Action Group (WAG), and Musasa Project, as well as the public broadcaster (ZBC),...Published: 16 May 2022 at 11:48hrs | 526 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Clive Chigubu last joke mocked Zim health system'
It begins with a C. It isn't Clive or Chigubu. It's cancer. That he was in pain and couldn't get medical attention should never escape our minds. That he had been booked for an appointment and arrived...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 08:32hrs | 722 | by Robert Mukondiwa
Please don't jail me I am old: ex perm sec Proff Gudyanga pleads in court
Former secretary for mines professor Francis Gudyanga who was convicted for Criminal abuse of office after he received boarding fees for meeting done with himself has asked the court for a lenient sen...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 05:44hrs | 1733 | by Staff reporter
Transport blues resurface
Police say the operation came after it was realised that many unregistered vehicles were being used as getaway cars in the commission of dangerous crimes, including armed robberies.As part of ...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 05:34hrs | 610 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gets greenlight to evict Chilonga villagers
THE fate of 12 000 villagers in Chilonga, Chiredzi, has been effectively sealed after the High Court on Thursday ruled there was "finite wisdom" in gave President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration's...Published: 07 Jan 2022 at 05:51hrs | 1516 | by Staff reporter
Zapu laments continued repression
Opposition party Zapu says the Unity Day, commemorated annually on December 22, has lost significance because of continued repression of Zimbabweans by the government.In its Unity Day commemor...Published: 23 Dec 2021 at 05:38hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
2 Zimbabweans nabbed with 35kg heroin in India
TWO Zimbabwean nationals were yesterday nabbed by India's anti-smuggling agency, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence at Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, for possession of 35kg of ...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:33hrs | 134 | by Staff reporter
FLASHBACK: Mnangagwa's November letter to Zimbabweans (2017)
My family was banished to Zambia when I was still in primary school for resisting the oppressive rule of the white minority regime in 1955. This action hardened my resolve for justice and black empowe...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 12:45hrs | 52 | by Emmerson Mnangagwa
Organisation embarks on breast cancer awareness campaign
Bulawayo's Creative Centre for Communication and Development (CCCD) has embarked on a breast cancer awareness campaign themed Give hope save lives in bid to educate women on how to reduce the risks of...Published: 24 Oct 2021 at 12:43hrs | 19 | by Stephen Jakes
Death sentence for murderer
A HIGH Court judge yesterday sentenced a Hwedza man to death for the constructive murder of his employer in 2015 and throwing the body into Rhodesville Dam.Tapiwa Murombo was yesterday found g...Published: 19 Oct 2021 at 06:31hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
'Death penalty a remnant of colonial legacy'
GLOBAL human rights watchdog Amnesty International has urged Zimbabwe to take steps towards abolishing the death penalty in line with international standards.In a statement to commemorate the ...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 06:00hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Let's compile register of the dead in all our conflicts
January 1977 was the worst of the several months when I personally endured the ravages of the war for the emancipation of Zimbabwe from the toxic grip of rebel leader Ian Douglas Smith's Rhodesian Fro...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:15hrs | 13 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
We are not abandoning Merry Chiwenga-Mubayiwa
To be a woman activist in Zimbabwe is totally different from being an activist in the comforts of Germany. I have come to terms with this fact. Women activism especially in our societies does not mean...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 14:56hrs | 23 | by Nomazulu Thata
Motivate people to get vaccinated, says Mutsvangwa
Journalists have been urged to devise innovative ways of motivating people to take up Covid-19 vaccination and adopt safer sexual behaviours voluntarily and for their own good, rather than because the...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:15hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Another lie exposed in Mnangagwa biography?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's biography by his newfound ally, Eddie Cross, has yet another major distortion which borders on lies on what happened after the former vice-president had been fired by hi...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 18:54hrs | 110 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's heroics myth explodes after 56 years
THE now hackneyed phrase that "the first casualty of war is truth" has been attributed to many prominent people – from the father of Greek tragedy Aeschylus to United States senator Hiram Warren Joh...Published: 28 Aug 2021 at 21:28hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Moderna starts human trials of experimental mRNA HIV vaccine
United States pharmaceutical and biotechnology company Moderna last Wednesday started trials of its experimental mRNA HIV vaccine.Moderna has enrolled 56 healthy adults without HIV to test the...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 10:58hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo queries Mnangagwa's age
Zimbabwe's exiled former Information Minister who is a sworn Mnangagwa enemy, Professor Jonathan Moyo, has queried President Emmerson Mnangagwa's age.According to Wikipedia, President Mnangagw...Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 08:28hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
The same Eddy Cross said, 'U Tsvangirai yi Nkosi yami' Bootlicked; MDC-T now jumps to bed with Zanu PF
Mnumzana Eddy Cross is disregarding atrocities of geocide that Zanu PF government perpetrated in the early hours of independence. Cross lives in Matabeleland: he is versed in Mnangagwa's mass murders ...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 19:12hrs | 14 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa's grandfather was raised in King Mzilikazi court
WITH a grandfather who was raised in King Mzilikazi court and maternal links to the great Munhumutapa State, President Mnangagwa was from an early age poised for greater heights. On the day that his h...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 07:02hrs | 39 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to Jean Gasho!
Dear Jean, Its already August 2021; incredible how time has flown!My recent conversation with you was uplifting it is one of those rare telephone calls one gets out of the blue we comm...Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 23:44hrs | 102 | by Nomazulu Thata
Death row inmate Jindu loses appeal
THE Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal against the death sentence by Bulawayo "killer" Rodney Tongai Jindu who is on death row for the callous murder of his two friends in 2017. Jindu (27) ...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 07:39hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
We are in far greater danger from the Zimbabwean regime than from COVID-19
I am sure most of those in my age group can still remember those weirdly strange questions we would ask each other whilst we were still primary school children - "Who would hurt you the most were they...Published: 06 May 2021 at 14:58hrs | 8 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF youth league rocked by indiscipline
ACTING deputy secretary for youth affairs in the Zanu-PF politburo, Tendai Chirau has accused some members of the ruling party's youth league of acting in a manner detrimental to the moral standing of...Published: 04 May 2021 at 07:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Petition launched against reintroduction of 'green bombers'
ZIMBABWEANS have started an online petition against government's planned reintroduction of the controversial National Youth Service Training Programme in the country.This comes after governmen...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 07:28hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Lobola row murderer challenges sentence
AN illegal gold panner who was in 2018 sentenced to death for fatally stabbing his wife 27 times following a row with his in-laws over payment of lobola, has approached the Supreme Court challenging h...Published: 24 Mar 2021 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Meet Khami's longest serving inmate
HE was condemned at birth to a life of hardship after being christened Mhlupheki, which is Ndebele for "the one who struggles". True to his name, Mhlupheki Ngwenya (47) has suffered, living a ...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 08:29hrs | 31 | by Staff reporter
'Imprisonment in COVID-19 era is death sentence'
LOCAL think-tank has described imprisonment in Zimbabwe during the COVID-19 era as "a death sentence" due to the overcrowded and unsanitary conditions at the country's correctional facilities....Published: 27 Jan 2021 at 06:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'If I die in Chikurumbi, it will be for freedom' penned Sikhala - no, it's for pole position in gravy train rat race
The fight amount opposition politicians for headlines is hotting up! "MDC Alliance's outspoken Vice Chairman and MP, Job Sikhala that despite all adversities in jail and even if it means dying...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 12:04hrs | 2 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Why are we abusing sick Zimbabweans?
Once again another friend, relative, colleague and country men and women are passing on not because they cannot be treated, NO, but the cost of our health service has sky-rocketed way beyond the reach...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 20:07hrs | 7 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Mbuya Nehanda's remains must be repatriated first then erection of the statue
One of the greatest achievements of the President of Zimbabwe comrade Emerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa is to honour the heroes. The president has shown that he does not forget those deserving to be honoured...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:40hrs | 54 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Ex-convicts sentenced to life in jail
TWO Bulawayo ex-convicts, who robbed an elderly man of his cellphone and clothes before they killed and dumped his naked body in a bushy area, were on Wednesday sentenced to life in jail.Perfe...Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 06:08hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean healthcare workers facing deportation after saving lives during COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland
CNN - Lily was taking her lunch break at the Dublin nursing home where she works when a friend called with the news that an official-looking letter had arrived for her. She asked the friend to open it...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 09:07hrs | 43 | by CNN
Honouring the war spirit
COMRADE Muchazotida, born Sekai, was a member of the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army, better known as ZANLA.She died during the 1977 Chimoio Attack by the army of racist Rhodesia....Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:49hrs | 3 | by Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa
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