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Nyarota the Gukurahundi Cheerleader
Geoff Nyarota, that Gukurahundi cheerleader and genocide supporter is no more. He died in a country with hospitals without medicine. Yet he died better than the thousands who were bayoneted in the kil...Published: 10 hrs ago | 271 | by Victim of Nyarota Gukurahundi Editorials
Zimbabwean arrested in connection with SA mass murder
South Africa Police Minister Senzo Mchunu announced the arrest of a Zimbabwean national in connection with the brutal murder of five community patrollers over the weekend in Soshanguve, Pretoria....Published: 22 hrs ago | 1567 | by Staff reporter
Geoff Nyarota betrayed the people of Matabeleland and Midlands
The recent passing of Geoff Nyarota, an award-winning veteran journalist and writer, has reopened a painful chapter in Zimbabwe's history.While lauded by others as a doyen of journalism, both ...Published: 24 Mar 2025 at 05:29hrs | 1616 | by Staff reporter
Geoff Nyarota: A legacy of fearless journalism in the fight against corruption
Zimbabwe has lost a legend! The passing of veteran journalist Geoff Nyarota is not just a loss to the journalism fraternity - it is a deep wound to the soul of a nation still crying out for ac...Published: 23 Mar 2025 at 21:12hrs | 352 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
School headmaster dies while celebrating athletics victory
Hwange - A primary school headmaster from Harare Province tragically collapsed and died at Hwange Colliery Stadium this afternoon while celebrating his province's victory at the National Association o...Published: 21 Mar 2025 at 09:17hrs | 1545 | by Staff reporter
Munyaka thrown off moving vehicle, dies of injuries
Police in Marondera are investigating the murder of a 38-year-old man who was thrown from a moving vehicle in the town's central business district on Monday afternoon.National police spokesper...Published: 18 Mar 2025 at 15:41hrs | 2002 | by Staff reporter
Choosing Chiwenga to replace Mnangagwa is like a mouse telling a black mamba bites better than a green mamba!
I wonder still if I could have said it better than this! (Wilbert Mukori's last article on BYO 24) Zimbabwean GenZs are a problem, not a solution. They will muddle with water instead of coming up with...Published: 16 Mar 2025 at 15:13hrs | 1289 | by Nomazulu Thata
Delays in hearings over Gukurahundi irk chiefs
Some traditional chiefs in Matebeleland have voiced their frustration over the government's failure to adequately support the Gukurahundi outreach programme, citing a lack of financial commitment and ...Published: 16 Mar 2025 at 09:28hrs | 152 | by Staff reporter
Fresh wrangle rattles Mabhikwa chieftaincy
The appointment of Ms. Zanele Khumalo as Regent Chief Mabhikwa has sparked fresh controversy, with 32 family members approaching the High Court to challenge her ascension to the chieftaincy.Za...Published: 16 Mar 2025 at 09:22hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
Chief dies in fatal accident on Harare-Mutare highway
Chief Makumbe of Buhera, born Takudzwa Paul Chengeta, tragically lost his life in a fatal road accident on Wednesday, March 12. The incident occurred around 4:00 PM on the 86 km peg along the Harare-M...Published: 14 Mar 2025 at 10:45hrs | 1803 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo-Victoria Falls Road truck stops, a haven for prostitution
Dressed in tight-fitting, body-revealing clothes that leave little to the imagination, two young women take turns knocking on the driver's side door of a haulage truck at Gwayi Shopping Centre, along ...Published: 14 Mar 2025 at 06:46hrs | 459 | by Staff reporter
Mine workers around Gwanda chronicle cocktail of unfair labour practices
Mine workers in Matabeleland South have reported facing threats of illness, death from diseases, violations of their labour and human rights, and horrific living conditions during their work in mines....Published: 12 Mar 2025 at 22:13hrs | 1605 | by Stephen Jakes
Choosing Chiwenga or Mnangagwa is as false choice as mouse picking black mamba or cobra. Escape whilst snakes fight!
Many people will answer Blessed Geza's call to come out in support of the so-called Geza revolution, because feel they must choose to support the Chiwenga or the Mnangagwa faction. The truth is, these...Published: 12 Mar 2025 at 22:03hrs | 685 | by Wilbert Mukori
Gweru police officer commits suicide
A Gweru-based police officer, Constable Claude Jele, tragically died while receiving treatment at Gweru Provincial Hospital (GPH) on Sunday after allegedly consuming a yet-to-be-identified poison. The...Published: 12 Mar 2025 at 11:41hrs | 750 | by Staff reporter
Chipinge dam collapse claims 4 lives, 3 still missing
A tragic dam breach at a Chipinge farm on Sunday resulted in the release of a massive amount of water downstream, leading to the deaths of four people, including minors. Three others are still missing...Published: 10 Mar 2025 at 16:07hrs | 1010 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa successfully thwarted a premature revolution! We waited for a Geza signal that would never come!
There is open disdain in all societies about how President Mnangagwa failed the people. At the same time the open discussions about a rift between Chiwenga and Mnangagwa is known; hostilities are play...Published: 09 Mar 2025 at 20:32hrs | 1795 | by Nomazulu Thata
Bulawayo police detective killed by friendly fire?
A Bulawayo police detective, who tragically died in a shootout with armed robbers, was killed by a police bullet, her family has revealed. Detective Constable Cassandra Hove, 37, was shot in the left ...Published: 09 Mar 2025 at 13:23hrs | 2219 | by Staff reporter
Detective Constable Hove mourned after tragic shooting
The Officer Commanding Bulawayo Province, Commissioner Jasper Chizemo, and colleagues of the late Detective Constable Cassandra Hove (37) have described her as a courageous and dedicated officer whose...Published: 09 Mar 2025 at 13:15hrs | 188 | by Staff reporter
'Revolution identifies Zim leaders, not ordinary people,' ZLWVA
The Zimbabwe Liberation War Victims Association has called for peace and unity in ZANU-PF and country at large while announcing that it is high time that this has been the historical norm, a revolutio...Published: 08 Mar 2025 at 17:40hrs | 1010 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Emmerson Mnangagwa and the 26 criminals around him
In November 2017, former President Robert Mugabe was removed from office and his crime, according to the putschists who ousted him in a coup, was that he had allowed himself to be surrounded by crimin...Published: 08 Mar 2025 at 15:51hrs | 1622 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Teen kills stepfather over $3
A Bindura-based 18-year-old man is in trouble after he allegedly murdered his stepfather, whom he accused of stealing his $3.Felix Murambirira, of Ledbury Farm, Bindura, appeared at the Bindur...Published: 07 Mar 2025 at 21:14hrs | 1109 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Decoding and explaining the co-existence between Nelson Chamisa and ZANU-PF
Decoding and explaining the co-existence between Nelson Chamisa and ZANU-PF in the Zimbabwean authoritarian context: A case of captured popular opposition leadership1. Introduction...Published: 07 Mar 2025 at 09:34hrs | 1997 | by Justice Alfred Mavedzenge
4 dead at Christmas Pass as haulage truck rams into cars, pedestrians
Four people tragically lost their lives on Thursday after a haulage truck rammed into four vehicles and ploughed into pedestrians while descending the Christmas Pass along the Mutare-Harare Road....Published: 07 Mar 2025 at 07:05hrs | 376 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa in the shadows of political darkness
Justice Alfred Mavedzenge has done a very informative analysis on the behavior of Nelson Chamisa, and the radical change in his political personality since his ZINASU days of a firebrand student polit...Published: 06 Mar 2025 at 15:08hrs | 615 | by Reason Wafawarova
Air Zimbabwe's Chimanimani carries SA soldiers home from Kigali
An Air Zimbabwe Boeing 767-200, famously known as Chimanimani, recently completed a remarkable mission, flying under the call sign FSK150, to transport injured soldiers from South Africa, Tanzania, an...Published: 26 Feb 2025 at 11:30hrs | 1282 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's liberation was the greatest farce of all time
The truth can be a bitter pill to swallow, but it needs to be taken if we are to heal our nation.Zimbabwe's liberation struggle, celebrated as a triumph over colonial oppression when independe...Published: 25 Feb 2025 at 21:11hrs | 1153 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'SANDF has been turned into a Mickey Mouse force' - top general speaks out
"South African borders are porous because you, the politicians, have decided you want a Mickey Mouse defence force," SA National Defence Force (SANDF) Lieutenant-General Peter Ntshavheni Maphaha said....Published: 24 Feb 2025 at 12:10hrs | 2816 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's bench counseling goes international
Outside the Bernice Elizabeth Fonteneau Wellness Center in Petworth, a historically Black neighborhood in Washington, D.C., bundled-up passersby swerve around piles of melting slush. But the small roo...Published: 24 Feb 2025 at 09:03hrs | 338 | by Staff reporter
ED2030 Brigade pushes for Mnangagwa's extended
The ED2030 brigade took its campaign to Bulawayo on National Youth Day last Friday, where supporters sang "2030 ndeya Emmerson," reinforcing a push for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to extend his tenur...Published: 24 Feb 2025 at 09:01hrs | 759 | by Staff reporter
Removing Mukuru will open Pandora's box!
Whether we are in the Diaspora or in the homeland, events unfolding in Zimbabwe will affect us all. The story of Pandora comes from the Greek poem, Theogony by Hesiod circa 700 BC. Once a...Published: 23 Feb 2025 at 18:09hrs | 2766 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Walter Mzembi's PhD raises red flags
In December 2015, former Zimbabwean Foreign Minister Walter Mzembi proudly declared that he had earned a PhD from Aldersgate University College. However, the United Kingdom investigative unit Dug Up h...Published: 23 Feb 2025 at 11:18hrs | 2004 | by Staff reporter
49 killed as heavy rains wreak havoc
FORTY-NINE people have been killed in extreme weather incidents that have been recorded since the start of the rainy season, with the authorities forecasting more heavy rains across the country until ...Published: 23 Feb 2025 at 09:45hrs | 306 | by Staff reporter
Chiredzi SMEs complement Vision 2030, empower less privileged
Over a thousand members drawn from Chiredzi rural and urban districts operating micro, small to medium enterprises are complementing government efforts to attain upper-middle income economic status by...Published: 22 Feb 2025 at 11:07hrs | 743 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole recently in Chiredzi
Elderly driver collapses and dies after crashing into street curb
An elderly man collapsed and died at the corner of Herbert Chitepo Street and Fifth Avenue on Thursday afternoon in what is suspected to be a case of sudden death.Eyewitnesses said the man had...Published: 21 Feb 2025 at 11:18hrs | 1347 | by Staff reporter
Bloodthirsty demon of war currently in Eastern DRC will visit Zimbabwe
The bloodthirsty demon of war and destruction currently operating in DRC will proceed to Zimbabwe on invitation by the Shona supremacist government of Zimbabwe. The unresolved issue of Matabel...Published: 19 Feb 2025 at 21:12hrs | 1782 | by Israel Dube
Woman jumps to death
In a heart-wrenching incident of gender-based violence, 33-year-old Siphiwe Ndlovu from Burombo Flats in Bulawayo has died after allegedly being assaulted by her husband before she jumped from a third...Published: 18 Feb 2025 at 03:38hrs | 3635 | by Staff reporter
Openly gay Islamic priest shot dead in South Africa
Muhsin Hendricks, a pioneering figure dubbed the world's first openly gay imam, has been shot dead in South Africa.The 57-year-old cleric ran a mosque in Cape Town intended as a safe haven for...Published: 17 Feb 2025 at 10:57hrs | 1207 | by Staff reporter
Slain woman's family dumps body at boyfriend's house
In a shocking and dramatic protest, the relatives of a murdered woman, Ms. Anna Matambo, dumped her body at the residence of her boyfriend, who is accused of killing her, in Kwekwe's Mbizo suburb. The...Published: 17 Feb 2025 at 08:59hrs | 723 | by Staff reporter
Viral video not 'Bombshell' Geza
Former Zanla guerrillas have dismissed claims that a widely circulated old grainy video features war veterans' leader Blessed Runesu Geza, who has been making headlines for his bold calls demanding Pr...Published: 16 Feb 2025 at 16:10hrs | 2547 | by Staff reporter
Man kills 'cheating' wife after busting her with lover
Police in Mashonaland Central province have arrested a Bindura man for allegedly murdering his wife after catching her in a compromising position with another man suspected to be her lover.Zim...Published: 16 Feb 2025 at 07:51hrs | 2415 | by Staff reporter
Married teacher dies at girlfriend's place after sex
A 50-year-old married teacher from Mutimwi Secondary School tragically passed away at his alleged girlfriend's residence after engaging in sex.The deceased, identified as Nyasha Gambe, was pro...Published: 15 Feb 2025 at 18:00hrs | 2713 | by Staff reporter
State-assisted burial for Beitbridge crash victims
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared the tragic head-on collision in Beitbridge, which claimed 25 lives yesterday, a national disaster. Victims of the accident will be accorded State-assisted bur...Published: 14 Feb 2025 at 06:04hrs | 174 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa declares Beitbridge accident a National Disaster
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared the tragic Beitbridge accident, which claimed 24 lives on Thursday morning, a National Disaster. He extended his heartfelt condolences to the bereaved familie...Published: 13 Feb 2025 at 16:21hrs | 738 | by Staff reporter
ZCC bishop flogs 2 congregants, 1 dies during 'healing' session
A 36-year-old bishop from the ZCC Damsko church in Limpopo View, Beitbridge, has been convicted of flogging and causing the death of a church congregant after claiming she and her husband were mentall...Published: 12 Feb 2025 at 15:14hrs | 773 | by Staff reporter
Teen falls to death while chasing baboons
A 16-year-old boy from Zvada Village, Chief Mukanganwi in Bikita, tragically died on February 9, 2025, after falling from a 12-meter height while chasing baboons on a local mountain. The incident occu...Published: 12 Feb 2025 at 15:05hrs | 721 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate fined US$400 for causing fatal accident
Local magistrate Tavengwa Timeon Makunde has been fined US$400 after being convicted of culpable homicide for a road accident that claimed the life of a school pupil. The incident occurred on November...Published: 12 Feb 2025 at 11:32hrs | 328 | by Staff reporter
IWA rescues Zim's needy, fights period poverty
IN accordance with ethos and values of India's traditions, Indian Women Association (IWA) has this Tuesday in Harare extended an assortment of donations to six needy charitable homes including sanitar...Published: 11 Feb 2025 at 20:43hrs | 562 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole in Harare
In memory of Sam Nujoma: A patriot who built Namibia while his fellow liberators turned into tyrants
It's another sad day for Africa! The death of Namibia's founding president, Sam Nujoma, at the age of 95 years, marks the passing of a man whose legacy transcends national borders. A r...Published: 10 Feb 2025 at 23:02hrs | 340 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Police investigate hit-and-run involving donkey cart in Tsholotsho
Tsholotsho police are investigating a fatal hit-and-run accident involving a donkey-drawn scotch cart that occurred on Sunday, February 9, in the Mazibulala Line area.According to the Zimbabwe...Published: 10 Feb 2025 at 15:27hrs | 610 | by Staff reporter
Simba Makoni's death rumors denied by close friend
Reports circulating on social media claiming that former Finance Minister Simba Makoni has passed away are false, according to his close friend Dr. Ibbo Mandaza. The rumors had suggested that the 74-y...Published: 10 Feb 2025 at 07:48hrs | 4991 | by Staff reporter
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