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Mugabe exhumation fight rages
Lawyers representing the family of the late former President Robert Mugabe have filed an appeal against a ruling by a magistrate that they could not challenge an order issued by a traditional chief to...Published: 10 hrs ago | 2472 | by Staff reporter
Chunga humbled by Tagwirei's gesture
ZIMBABWE football icon Moses "Bambo" Chunga was left humbled by Sakunda Holdings boss Kuda Tagwirei's gesture after the petroleum mogul pledged to buy the former Dynamos and Warriors midfield maestro ...Published: 10 hrs ago | 1831 | by Staff reporter
Dead woman 'haunts family'
A Cowdray Park family in Bulawayo says it is being haunted by its 22-year-old daughter, who died in a car crash nearly three months ago as they constantly "see" her in the house. The family wa...Published: 10 hrs ago | 992 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa opens up on private life
President Mnangagwa, who turned 79-years yesterday, called on Zimbabweans to be peaceful, united and most of all, be patriotic to develop the country. Speaking at his African-themed birthday d...Published: 11 hrs ago | 714 | by Staff reporter
'Covid 19 is spreading in school like wild fire, 2 weeks after reopening' - risking all for 3% pass rate
Health care, education and everything else affecting the ordinary people have been neglected by Robert Mugabe and now by Emmerson Mnangagwa and the consequences are there for all to see, especially no...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 10:28hrs | 1787 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Juvenile murder suspect bolts out of court
THERE was drama at the Beitbridge Magistrates Court yesterday when a juvenile murder suspect bolted from the courtroom and took to his heels before he was charged.The suspect, aged 17, duped a...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 05:53hrs | 2508 | by Staff reporter
Cellphone thief stoned to death
ELEVEN residents of Pumula in Bulawayo are in trouble with the law after they stoned a suspected cellphone thief to death on Saturday.He was identified by one of the residents when they were p...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 05:50hrs | 1721 | by Staff reporter
29 escape Mutoko bus inferno
TWENTY-nine passengers escaped death by a whisker after a bus they were travelling on caught fire near Mutoko business centre in Mashonaland East on Monday.Provincial police spokesperson Inspe...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 05:49hrs | 1112 | by Staff reporter
No vaccination, no work for civil servants
All civil servants must now be vaccinated against Covid-19 before being allowed to report for duty after being given time to get their jabs, while churches are now permitted to move from 100 people at...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 05:41hrs | 207 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa salutes health workers
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday saluted healthcare workers for their sterling and relentless work in the fight against Covid-19 - at the same time warning the nation not to be complacent lest a fourth w...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 05:41hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter
Driver crashed to death by own truck
A TRUCK driver was crushed to death by his broken down truck after going underneath to fix brake failure near Nyamhunga bus terminus in Kariba on Sunday. The man had stopped the truck to fix its brake...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:11hrs | 1441 | by Staff reporter
IDs for 'forgotten citizens'
THE Registrar-General (RG's) office yesterday started issuing identity documents to the San community in Tsholotsho, Matabeleland North, creating a sense of belonging among these almost forgotten citi...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:03hrs | 241 | by Staff reporter
Vaccination rates continue to dwindle
While the third wave of Covid-19 infection continues to trickle down to just 4,8 percent of its mid-July peak, the vaccination rate is also continuing to slow with 286 134 jabs given last week between...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 05:51hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter
Man kills son for playing in his bedroom
A FILABUSI man fatally assaulted his 13-year-old son with a knobkerrie for playing in the bedroom. Police said Sikhumbuzo Nkomo (33) of Thandabantu Village committed the offence on September 9. ...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 18:44hrs | 1648 | by Staff reporter
4 die as 57 new cases are recorded
FOUR people succumbed to Covid-19 yesterday as the country recorded 57 new cases in the last 24-hour reporting period.The country has so far recorded 126 220 cases, 4 536 deaths and 118 655 re...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 18:41hrs | 1182 | by Staff reporter
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 | 5733 | by Nomazulu Thata
Hand-picking fisherman drowns
Mushumbi based fisherman Leonard Kapanga (31) drowned at Mushonga vende pool,Mushumbi while hand-picking fish on Wednesday.Acting Mashonaland Central police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Na...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 11:44hrs | 1328 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa told to stop Mugabe remains fiasco
PreSident Emmerson Mnangagwa must intervene to stop spirited attempts to exhume former president robert Mugabe's remains for reburial at the Heroes Acre, the late strongman's family has said.A...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 09:04hrs | 5291 | by Staff reporter
Robert Gabriel Mugabe: The killer of our dreams
THIS week marks the second anniversary of the death of Robert Gabriel Mugabe, the first prime minister of an independent Zimbabwe, on April 18, 1980.While we acknowledge the fact that there ar...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:59hrs | 740 | by Kenneth Mufuka
'Zimbabwe's biggest threat to 2023 elections'
THE Crisis In Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) has warned the controversial role of the military in the country's politics stands as the biggest threat to the credibility of the country's 2023 elections....Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:26hrs | 532 | by Staff reporter
Chadzamira drags Chiwenga in the mud
Chickens have come home to roost for ZANU PF Masvingo Provincial Chairperson, Ezra Ruvai Chadzamira as he drags Vice President Constantine Chiwenga into t...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 00:36hrs | 8528 | by Paul Ndou
380 Zimbabwean teachers commit suicide
EVEN though suicide is considered the 19th most common cause of death in Zimbabwe, a slew of suicides by teachers have shocked the country.According to the Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimba...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:45hrs | 951 | by Staff reporter
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 | 152 | by Staff reporter
Matabeles to disown 'gukurahundi' sellout Chiefs, blood on your hands!
Confidential information on our hands confirming that some Matabele traditional chiefs have accepted bribes from the genocidal Zimbabwe government to assist it to impose its suspicious Matabeleland ge...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 11:07hrs | 535 | by Israel Dube
Zimbabwe's Ambassador to Iran dies
ZIMBABWE'S Ambassador to Iran Ambassador Christopher Mapanga has died. Ambassador Mapanga died in Tehran, Iran on Thursday. He was 69.In a statement on Friday, Foreign Affairs and Inte...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 18:57hrs | 1896 | by Staff reporter
Man kills girlfriend for cheating on him
POLICE are looking for a man who allegedly killed his girlfriend after accusing her of infidelity. In their twitter page police said Clifford Phiri (38) attacked the now deceased and dumped her body i...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 18:55hrs | 1331 | 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 | 2816 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF factional firestorm worsens
THE Zanu-PF factional firestorm has continued raging, with officials blatantly defying last week's injunction by the politburo - its highest decision-making organ between congresses - as they continue...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 18:53hrs | 676 | by Staff reporter
Border Gezi's widow in police custody
The late ZANU PF political commissar Border Gezi's widow Sheilar has been arrested today at her house in Mvurwi where she is suspected to be drug peddling.Gezi who is the ruling party chairwom...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 16:15hrs | 4975 | by Paul Ndou
Govt snubs cheaper donor-funded jabs
IN an eyebrow-raising development, the Zimbabwean government, battling the Covid-19 pandemic, has been purchasing expensive Chinese vaccines while overlooking doses supplied at cheaper prices under th...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:32hrs | 913 | by Staff reporter
Church leaders meet Mnangagwa
A united front representing Christian churches yesterday met President Mnangagwa to establish and improve relationships between church and State and see where they can work together for the developmen...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:17hrs | 467 | by Staff reporter
If church leaders don't speak truth to power then they don't represent God or Christians
I am a bondservant of Christ Jesus, and faithfully abide by the Holy Bible in what it commands us to do.One of those things is that, a ...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 06:51hrs | 443 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Retired colonel found dead
Retired Colonel Patrick Tawona Maponga was found dead at his home in Magunje on Tuesday morning.He was 60. The late Maponga lost his wife early this year.A former freedom fighter, join...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 06:17hrs | 9465 | 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 | 1073 | by Staff reporter
7732 returnees enter Zimbabwe the past week
The International Organisation for Migrants has reported that 7732 returnees' entries have been recorded at the country's four entry points. ...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 19:32hrs | 1573 | by Stephen Jakes
Chaos at ZANU PF Kwekwe district
Zanu PF's factionalism in Kwekwe has turned ugly following the rivalry between District Coordinating Committee (DCC) Secretary for finance Ka...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 19:26hrs | 1175 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Zimbabwe govt COVID-19 response driven by ignorance and ego than logic and science
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to make global headlines, and issues of how to respond to it - most particularly, faced with restive populations divided between those who want to be vaccinated, and...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 17:27hrs | 731 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa and Hichilema plot to annihilate Africa old guard revealed - 'Chawanzwa usaudza Chamisa, idare rinorira nohusiku'
It was natural for then Zambia opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema (HH) to meet and hobnob with a fellow opposition leader like Nelson Chamisa. But now that HH is the President of Zambia his relation...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 07:02hrs | 5631 | by Nomusa Garikai
'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 | 2253 | by Staff reporter
MDC: A case of burning ambition, failed leadership
THE Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) was founded in 1999 as an opposition party from members of a broad coalition of civic society groups and individuals that campaigned for a "no" vote in the 200...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 06:18hrs | 675 | by Cedric Steele
Underdevelopment irks Binga communities
BINGA, one of the districts in drought-prone Matabeleland North province has continued to be exposed to poor road infrastructure, communication facilities and water shortages despite several non-gover...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 06:14hrs | 145 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa will never reverse Mugabe's land reform
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has vowed he will never reverse the land reform which was pioneered by the late former President Robert Mugabe.Mugabe died on September 6 i...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 18:27hrs | 731 | by Staff reporter
President Mnangagwa to address the nation on Tuesday
Information coming from Harare indicates that President Emmerson Mnangagwa will address the nation on Tuesday to give direction and update the nation on the government's fight against the deadly Coron...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 12:52hrs | 1892 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bulelani's speech on King Mzilikazi Day 2021
Mahlabezulu ,Mthwakazi omuhle, zingane zobaba.Mthwakazi omuhle , namhlanje sihlangane lapha ngosuku olukhulu kakhulu esizweni sethu, ngilethemba elikhulu ukuthi iningi laMahlabezulu lihlangane...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 07:59hrs | 1752 | by King Bulelani Lobengula kaMzilikazi
Covid-19 may have exposed the false prophets
It's difficult not to talk about them, I mean the later day gospelpreneurs. Some would call theirs prosperity gospel Prophets since they thrive in flamboyance and opulence, promising their followers a...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 07:45hrs | 1233 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Lake Gwayi-Shangani relocation preps start
FEAR of being affected by flooding has led Lubimbi villagers in Binga to form a committee that will work closely with the Government to facilitate smooth relocation of families that reside close to La...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 06:10hrs | 1091 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pays tribute to Mugabe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday paid glowing tribute to his predecessor, the late Robert Mugabe who was toppled by the military in November 2017, describing him "as a principled man who would n...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 20:42hrs | 1749 | by Staff reporter
Underpaid teachers turn to loan sharks
CASH-STRAPPED teachers said they had to approach loan sharks to borrow money for bus fare to return to work on the reopening of schools yesterday.They were caught unawares when government anno...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 20:40hrs | 939 | by Staff reporter
War vets savage Mnangagwa again
UNAPOLOGETIC war veterans have launched a fresh attack on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration, accusing it of failing to expedite the exhumation and reburial of victims who are still interre...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 19:42hrs | 1658 | by Staff reporter
4 battle for Zanu-PF Mashonaland East youth league chair
THE battle for the Mashonaland East youth league chairmanship has intensified after Mutoko businessman Isaac Tasikani expressed interest in the highly influential post.Tasikani who is currentl...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 06:06hrs | 1015 | by Staff reporter
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