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Julius Sello Malema: a politician full of contradictions
Comments about Malema in the in South African social media confirmed my fears about him. Malema does not take critiques kindly; for this reason, he has fallen out with his right-hand-man, Shivambu: th...Published: 18 Aug 2024 at 19:26hrs | 1099 | by Nomazulu Thata
Paul Siwela's letter to President Mnangagwa - Buying chiefs not just nor sustainable to resolve Matabele grievances
The President of Zimbabwe Munhumutapa Building Harare Zimbabwe 28th July 2024 Ref: PresZim/07/28/24 Attention: Emmerson D. Mnangagwa Dear Mr Presi...Published: 16 Aug 2024 at 07:15hrs | 1415 | by Paul Siwela
Mutsvangwas are dummy sucking cry babies!
It is intriguing to see how loud the cruel and oppressive wail when they are given the taste of their own medicine.We have seen the tears of the savagery late President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mug...Published: 27 May 2024 at 20:03hrs | 6 | by Israel Dube
Smith & apartheid regimes were angels compared to 44-Year-Old 'independent' Zimbabwe
Talking in terms of segregation, oppression and savagery towards those considered as foreigners or political undesirables, no present or past government in Southern Africa matches the black Shona supr...Published: 15 Apr 2024 at 15:56hrs | 19 | by Israel Dube
Mnangagwa aborts rally; as Zim churches parallelly suspended
Despite attending unrestricted Zion Christian Church's annual Passover (Easter gathering) festivity in Mbungo last weekend during the period when cholera outbreak is reportedly at its peak, President ...Published: 03 Apr 2024 at 09:15hrs | 3 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole in Bindura
Zinara pleads with Zanu-PF over toll fees
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) has pleaded with ordinary and senior Zanu-PF officials to stop abusing tollgates amid concerns that its activists are refusing to pay passage fees....Published: 05 Feb 2024 at 04:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why SADC is happy with the Mumba Report
Franz Kafka's worldFranz Kafka's art rests and runs on the bizarre and overawing grotesquery. Yet it is that de-familiarised, out-of-size world which he so ably colours which becomes the vehic...Published: 30 Sep 2023 at 07:36hrs | | by @Jamwanda2
'Artificial ivory opens another way to end ban on natural ivory trade' says U.S. NGO
A United States-based NGO welcomed a BBC report this month that Austrian scientists have developed a new artificial ivory product, called Digory, that looks and feels like the real thing. The ...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 23:41hrs | 1 | by Emmanuel Koro
Biti hit with costs for delaying US$1m defamation lawsuit
CCC politician Tendai Biti has been hit with costs incurred by Augur Investments and its owner Mr Kenneth Sharpe over the US$1 million civil lawsuit against him for allegedly defaming the land develop...Published: 10 Aug 2023 at 06:43hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Distinctly Bosso
Ngezi Platinum 0- 1 Highlanders GIANTS Highlanders brought down the curtain on the first-half of the season with a massive win over Ngezi Platinum Stars at Baobab yesterday to open a seven-point l...Published: 31 Jul 2023 at 06:56hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere: Popular delusions or realpolitik?
THE nomination court has sat and registered aspiring candidates for the upcoming polls. The process was marred with drama generally, but it was the presumptive presidential candidates that provided th...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 19:43hrs | 1 | by Ntando Dumani
Mnangagwa in Malawi on State visit
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa arrived here yesterday for a three-day State visit at the invitation of his counterpart, President Lazarus Chakwera.He was welcomed at Kamuzu Banda International Airport by...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 06:41hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Forever Associates Zimbabwe is misleading Zanu-PF
IN yesterday's NewsDay we heard of allegations that a certain organisation called Forever Associates Zimbabwe (Faz) - which is reportedly linked to Zanu-PF - has hijacked voters roll inspection centre...Published: 30 May 2023 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bosso: 'It's not inside, it's on top!'
Highlanders 1-0 HwangeGOD favours hard workers, people who want to play and respect fans, these words were uttered by Highlanders Football Club coach Baltemar Brito following his team's late w...Published: 01 May 2023 at 08:09hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Epworth title deed scheme Zanu-PF vote-buying stunt
THE regularisation of Epworth settlements after President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week started distributing so-called title deeds has come under the spotlight as it has since emerged that the document...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 19:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe dying slowly
It was a memorable journey back to Zimbabwe five years after I left the country in January 2018 just three months after the November 2017 coup.My friend and I arrived at the Musina border post...Published: 30 Mar 2023 at 11:46hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Chiwenga will never rule Zimbabwe while Karangas watch
"Dunderhead", is how the biggest Zimbabwe gold smuggling syndicate describes Zimbabwe Vice President Constantino Chiwenga. It is fascinating that even the criminals are aware of this fact. His below p...Published: 12 Mar 2023 at 08:12hrs | 399 | by Israel Dube
'I was told to stop supporting Mnangagwa'
WE today conclude our interview with Elphas Tshuma, a former guerilla who operated in Hurungwe in Mashonaland West Province and later on in Hwange in Matabeleland North. Tshuma, now a member of the ru...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 08:27hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Egodini to open in mid-February this year
Bulawayo City Council has said the Basch Street Bus Terminus, popularly known as Egodini, will be opened in mid-February this year for some informal traders and transporters as construction work progr...Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 16:47hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is about to do the Zambia - One last chance to save democracy and bury Mnangagwa
Happy new year to all. 2023 is finally here after 5 long years. Zimbabwe is about to do the Zambia. It is time to bury Zanu pf for good. It is time to make the dinosaurs of the last Chimur...Published: 10 Jan 2023 at 10:54hrs | 2 | by Nobukhosi Moyo
Zanu-PF has dismally failed
Our lives have become so much compressed and constrained under this new dispensation. All hope of expecting anything new coming from t...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 08:02hrs | | by Leonard Koni
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 | 1 | by Israel Dube
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF falls for Chamisa hoax
SCORES of Zanu-PF supporters were left with egg on their face yesterday after their plans to disrupt Citizens Coalition for Change (CC) leader Nelson Chamisa's campain rally in Chivhu, Mashonaland Eas...Published: 03 Sep 2022 at 19:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
'We can only afford 232 houses, not 300 000'
HOUSING Amenities minister Daniel Garwe yesterday said government had budgeted to build less than 250 houses this year, indirectly admitting to selling the public a dummy when it pledged 300 000 annua...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa tasked with finding a Ndebele puppet that will replace Kembo Mohadi?
The position of 2nd vice president that is imposed on Matabele people in Zimbabwe is a symbol of capture, oppression, mockery and an insult to Matabele nation. The children of the stars and the sons a...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 07:15hrs | 10 | by Israel Dube
Jah Prayzah sabotaged Andy Muridzo?
WHEN Andy Muridzo went under his mentor and supposedly his rival's wing, Jah Prayzah, the musician said he had a bigger picture that no one was seeing.Despite being warned by everyone about th...Published: 22 May 2022 at 19:21hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Journalists at threat after governments passed cyber security laws
JOURNALISTS have been urged to protect themselves against digital surveillance threats after the country passed cyber security legislation.A statement by Fesmedia Africa yesterday said a survi...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Should Zimbabweans be Commemorating Workers Day?
May day is a commemoration of the historic struggles and gains made by workers and the labour movement, but can Zimbabweans really take part in these historic celebrations as there is not much to appl...Published: 01 May 2022 at 20:55hrs | | by Prince Njagu
ZACC probes Koefman estate ownership
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission is now digging into reports that some people are jostling to grab the Mbare property popularly known as "Kwa Koefman" some, 89 years after the death of the owne...Published: 28 Mar 2022 at 06:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans sold a dummy by the coup
In 2017 some months after the coup, people were still gripped with some frenzy of excitement that Robert Mugabe the once powerful leader who ruled by iron fist has been dethroned.Many people v...Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 20:30hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Chamisa a cunning megalomaniac
THERE is a problem that the Zimbabwean electorate is not seeing in the opposition politics of our country.The situation cannot even be explained using the words disaster and catastrophe. Many ...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Foster Dongozi was not killed by Covid-19
It's now a year after the media industry was robbed of one of its experienced and prominent scribe, Foster Dongozi who reportedly died of Covid 19 complications. His demise came a few days after he ha...Published: 23 Dec 2021 at 15:08hrs | 11 | by Shelton Muchena
Zanu-PF warns motorists driving cars with fake 'ED PFEE' plates
Zanu-PF has warned party members to stop abusing Zanu-PF emblems and the name of President Emmerson Mnangagwa and violate road rules and regulations in the name of the ruling party.The Zanu-PF...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:38hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF revives Chamisa's popularity?
WHAT started as a pedestrian civic engagement for Zimbabwe's main opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to interface with communities and the grassroots in Masvingo this week ahead of the 2023...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 20:43hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Trust gets US$5million, collapses in 3 years
THE Marange-Zimunya Community Share Ownership Trust (MZCSOT) has collapsed only three years after the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamonds Corporation (ZCDC) injected US$5 million to prop it, a Zimbabwe Ind...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 18:58hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mr Gambakwe, Nomathemba wants to know where Albert Matapo is?
Dear Mr Gambakwe,I hope I find you well Mr. Gambakwe and that you are recovering from the Covid 19 virus that nearly took your life. We thank your ancestors for refusing to let you in so early...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 22:13hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Chrome export ban sends tremors
GOVERNMENT'S shock decision to ban the export of raw chrome has sent shivers across markets, with mining industry players and leading experts calling on authorities to roll out incentives to stimulate...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
'South Africa needs a total judicial and system overhaul and transformation'
It's not just the Zulus, it's the generality of the South African masses that are living pathetic lives in desperation, poverty, hunger, joblessness and in a continuous state of debt with no hope for ...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 14:25hrs | 1 | by Linda Tsungirirai Masarira
Contractor, BCC give conflicting figures on Egodini project
THE Egodini construction project cost was overstated at US$60 million with council and the constructor now giving different figures, raising questions if the city will eventually get value for money f...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 09:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Afrobarometer opinion is it is flawed and manipulated
Zimbabwe woke up to a report by Afro Barometer which was so negative to the efforts being made in the democratisation of Zimbabwe and positive on the fight against COVID-19. The mixed bag from Afrobar...Published: 21 Jun 2021 at 17:27hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
When clowns sup at State House, it's trouble, serious trouble!
Pretoria mornings are now cold. It is a geographical axiom winter is for chills.Increasingly here, the weather is biting and unrelenting like a witch's tit as assumed.Early morning jog...Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 18:40hrs | | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Bulawayo mayor's relocation subject to Govt's approval
BULAWAYO Mayor councillor Solomon Mguni's planned relocation to a city's Mayoral house hinges on Government's approval as the local authority has applied to the relevant department for endorsement....Published: 19 May 2021 at 18:35hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Peter Hain's heinous plot against Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's justice system is under siege from foreign powers and their opposition proxies. The dishonourable Peter Hain, a member of the House of Lords in Britain, on April 27 2021, under the misguide...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:17hrs | | by Charlene Shumba
Kembo Mohadi removal was necessary for 'nation building'
Since Kembo Mohadi is on record saying Matabeleland genocide was necessary for nation-building, we also put it on record that his sacking by Mnangagwa following his sexual romps was good for nation bu...Published: 29 Apr 2021 at 08:12hrs | 11 | by Israel Dube
Mamombe trial date set
The trial date for MDC Alliance's Joana Mamombe and seven other political activists who are charged with participating in an illegal demonstration sometime in May last year, has been set for next mont...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
President John Pombe Magufuli's demise: how Africa was sold a dummy!
The female President of Tanzania: Madame Samia Suluhu Hassan took office with crystal clear aims and objectives: to take drastic steps of combating the Sars-Covid 2 pandemic. She ordered the wearing o...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 21:37hrs | 8 | by Nomazulu Thata
Jail Mamombe, throw away keys
The denial of bail to MDC-Alliance members Johana Mamombe and Cecila Chimbiri, on March 11 sparked a huge outcry from the usual quarters. Of note is that The Herald devoted merely three lines on the r...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 06:04hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Water crisis bedevils Gweru as dams spill
GWERU City Council has come under fire from residents for failing to address the perennial challenges bedeviling the city, especially now when supply dams are all spilling. For the past two ye...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Court blasts deceitful Mamombe, Chimbiri
MDC-Alliance members Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri, accused of illegally convening a public gathering at the Harare Magistrates' Court during the level four lockdown, have been denied bail for al...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 05:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ndebele vultures fight for VP position left vacant by Mohadi
When you see vultures circling in the air and perching on the nearby tree branches you know that prey has fallen close by. The unceremonious fall of the 2nd Vice President of Zimbabwe, Kembo Mohadi ha...Published: 10 Mar 2021 at 07:52hrs | | by Israel Dube
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