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Zimbabwe prisoners sleeping on empty stomachs
Zimbabwe's prisons are grappling with a worsening humanitarian crisis, with inmates reportedly suffering from malnutrition and pneumonia due to overcrowding, poor diets, and a critical shortage of bla...Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 11:36hrs | 251 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's hospital tour confirms health system collapse
The Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZINA) has described President Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent tour of major hospitals as a clear confirmation that the country's public health system is in total collapse,...Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 09:42hrs | 126 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa insists Zimbabwe has enough food
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says his government will ensure that there is enough grain in the country to avert starvation due to the drought.Up to five million Zimbabweans are said to be food...Published: 15 Apr 2024 at 06:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Some Mat North pupils walk more than 30km to schools: RUCET
Rural Community Empowerment Trust Coordinator for Matabeleland North Vumani Ndlovu has bemoaned that some of the pupils in the province and other areas still walk more than 30 km to school after 43 ye...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 15:31hrs | 40 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF's well-oiled campaign raises eyebrows
A day after President Emmerson Mnangagwa's rally in Harare on August 9, thousands of empty boxes of fast foods were strewn across the venue spanning up to more than the size of four soccer fields....Published: 13 Aug 2023 at 21:57hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Hunger stalks Zimbabwe army barracks
MORALE has reportedly hit rock-bottom in the army as the country's soldiers wallow in poverty and are having to make do with inadequate rations and uniforms, NewsDay can report.This was reveal...Published: 25 Oct 2022 at 06:08hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
NRZ pensioners' widows getting US$2 per month
OVER 70 widows of the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ)'s late workers are living in abject poverty in Bulawayo earning a paltry $1 200 per month, an equivalent of US$2.After enquiring with ...Published: 19 Aug 2022 at 06:46hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa on the brink, analysts say
POLITICAL analysts say President Emmerson Mnangagwa will likely retain his post in Zanu-PF at the party's October congress but his political life is on the brink ahead of the 2023 polls due to the com...Published: 31 Jul 2022 at 17:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Muchinguri passing the buck on state of roads in Muzarabani
DEFENCE and War Veterans Affairs minister Oppah Muchinguri was in Muzarabani last week to officiate at the handover ceremony of a classroom block, a mothers' waiting shelter and a solar-powered water ...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 07:00hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa is a hard sell for Zimbabwe
FOR weeks on end, Zimbabweans were told that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's trip to Glasgow, Scotland, would be a major breakthrough of historic proportions.It would be the first time a leader...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:46hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe mines, banks in crunch talks over US sanctions
ZIMBABWE'S mines said on Friday they had kicked-off crunch meetings with banks, government and the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) to find a solution after operators reported that th...Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 07:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Some Zimbabweans irked by Nehanda statue
The Zimbabwean government unveiled a statue of the liberation heroine and anti-colonialism figurehead Mbuya Nehanda in the capital, Harare, on Tuesday amid controversy about its priorities while the e...Published: 26 May 2021 at 10:12hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Phutheho: The decisive Matabeleland Initiative
The Phutheho Convention, a Matabeleland all-stakeholder gathering (Imbizo) which brings together the people of Matabeleland from all walks of life is arguably the best initiative Matabeleland has ever...Published: 11 May 2021 at 22:53hrs | 5 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Varakashi: New agents of terrorism
THERE'S a big, big omen of nasty things to come. The Zanu-PF government wants to revive the Green Bombers.You will remember the youth training programme at the turn of the new millennium....Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 09:25hrs | 2 | by Tawanda Majoni
2,4m urban households food insecure: ZimVAC
APPROXIMATELY 2,4 million Zimbabweans in urban areas are struggling to meet their basic food needs, the latest report by the Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVAC) has revealed.I...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The bittersweet toxicity of the new media
In 1982, when Steve Jobs was asked if he was keen on doing market research, he said, "No, because customers don't know what they want until we have shown them." His instincts, whether good-natured or ...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 19:38hrs | 1 | by Mandlenkosi Siziba
'Soldiers marching on empty tummies'
PARLIAMENT has exposed government for its failure to address the plight of soldiers by not providing essentials that include medical aid and allowances, as well as adequate food rations, resulting in ...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
By-elections TKO and below the belt politics
If the Matabeleland North by-elections held recently were a boxing match, the MDC-Alliance would have been dealt a technical knock-out (TKO).After jabs and uppercuts, then a flurry of combinat...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 08:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
War collaborators starve at Mnangagwa 'thank you' rally
A CONFERENCE in honour of President Emmerson Mnangagwa turned into a nightmare for hundreds of war collaborators who had to sleep in the open on empty stomachs and without water after organisers faile...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 07:35hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chiefs urge Mnangagwa to urgently address rising cost of living
CHIEFS in the Midlands and Matabeleland regions have called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to urgently address the rising cost of living, including sharp increases in food insecurity.Mnangagw...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZESA plunges Lobengula into darkness for 2 months
Residents of Lobengula West are up in arms against ZESA for plunging them in darkness in the past two months. A resident who spoke to this publication said in Lobengula West, corner Luveve roa...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 14:03hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Hunger and disease kill school children in remote Zimbabwe
Having grown up in a crude environment in Zimbabwe witnessing child abuse and negligence there are tell tale signs that are still haunting me this time the number of children going hungry in Zimbabwea...Published: 05 Jun 2019 at 18:52hrs | 3 | by Makho Precious Moyo
Zimbabwean workers celebrate May Day with empty stomachs
It's all gloomy faces across the country as workers celebrate the workers day with empty stomachs. May Day is a public holiday usually celebrated on 1 May. It is an ancient Northern Hemi...Published: 01 May 2019 at 11:56hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Zanu-PF youths, armed cops evict family from its mine in the name of MP
What turned to be a fruitful morning turned into a tragic event at our own community mine. As the deputy Sheriff arrived with a team of armed policemen and with a number of youths coming from Kwekwe t...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 16:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
NRZ artisans threaten strike
ARTISANS at the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) are threatening to down tools over non-payment of salaries. In a statement, the Railways Artisans Union (Rau) said its members have not been paid th...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 08:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kachasu kills 2
TWO people died in separate incidents in Bindura and Glendale after taking too much of an illicit beer called kachasu at the weekend.Mashonaland Central police spokesperson Inspector Milton Mu...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Drought to severely affect HIV+ people'
A UNITED Nations (UN) organ has warned that people living with HIV will be severely affected by drought-induced hunger because they are unable to take life-saving treatment on empty stomachs.F...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 07:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reprter
'Prophets fuel ARVs defaults''
PEOPLE living with HIV (PLHIV) have blamed some prophets and faith healers for the upsurge in the number of people who default from the first line antiretroviral therapy (ART). After defaultin...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 18:14hrs | | by Satff reporter
From November coup to austerity
We are back again to where Dambudzo Marechera was screaming, in an Oracle to the Povo, drawing harrowing pictures "Of lean harried squatters, . . . And fat pompous armed overlords." But we mus...Published: 29 Nov 2018 at 10:11hrs | 1 | by Tinashe L. Chimedza & Tamuka C. Chirimambowa
Mnangagwa doing things differently from Mugabe
Much to the chagrin of the opposition dictatorship, Nkosana Moyo predicted, well before the elections, that a President Emmerson Mnangagwa would do things, (not necessarily well), but certainly differ...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 12:55hrs | 5 | by Zifiso Masiye
ED must now manage the economy, Pfee to prosperity
In every country, the government takes steps to help the economy achieve the goals of growth, full employment, and price stability. the government must influence economic activity through two approach...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 23:08hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Youth participation in governance in a poor economy will not help - Nkomo
Habakkuk Trust director Dumisani Nkomo has said the youth participation in governance in a poor economy will not help the situation."Youth participation in governance processes will mean very ...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 09:35hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Shabanie Mine FC on the brink of collapse
One of the oldest clubs in the country is in a sorry state.Shabanie Mine Football Club is probably the poorest club in the Premier Soccer League and mainly survives on hand-outs.Curren...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa fails to pay polling agents
MDC-Alliance polling agents in the July 30 harmonised elections are up in arms with the party over non-payment of allowances. Ahead of the polls, the MDC-Alliance reportedly deployed 45 000 el...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 07:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Polling officers complain over delayed payments
CIVIL servants in Bulawayo province who were recruited as polling officers during the just-ended harmonised elections have accused the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) of delaying payment of their ...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 07:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Looting at Tsvangirai's burial
Hungry supporters of the late MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai looted bread vans, breached security fences and beat up some of the party leaders during his burial on a chaotic rainy day.With tr...Published: 23 Feb 2018 at 10:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe 2018 election outcome will be contested' - Communist Party
Zimbabwe Communist Party secretary general Ngqabutho Nicholas Mabhena has said it is known that the outcome of the 2018 elections will possibly be contested and there is a need for electoral reforms....Published: 16 Dec 2017 at 11:50hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Why Matebeleland must not celebrate!
It remains a fact that a lot of people have suspended their consciences and systems of consciousness, from which their principles must be firmly anchored. Looking at what is obtaining in Zimbabwe, one...Published: 20 Nov 2017 at 09:29hrs | 5 | by Dr Brilliant Sigabade Mhlanga
Mnangagwa joins Mugabe bootlickers club
The "Zanu-PF Bootlickers Club", signed up a new member on Monday - Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Perhaps, conscious of the ugly economic situation that awaited his boss upon his return fro...Published: 27 Sep 2017 at 16:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe day, a mockery of epic proportions
That Robert Mugabe's name is indelibly inscribed and embellished in the hall of Africa's revolutionary icons is not contestable. In his trail blazing years, Mugabe inscribed a permanent mark on the sa...Published: 24 Aug 2017 at 14:26hrs | | by Patson Dzamara
Command Agriculture initiative a success, but Zimbabwe not out of woods yet
For 16 chastening years, Zimbabwe has been failing to meet its local demand for grain. Specifically, maize, its staple food. The consequences of that have been devastating in their simplicity;...Published: 15 Jun 2017 at 13:55hrs | | by Maynard Manyowa
Students urged to use condoms
PARLIAMENT has urged students at tertiary institutions to use condoms, provided by the National Aids Council (NAC) to reduce HIV prevalence, even if they disliked them.The recommendations were...Published: 27 May 2017 at 09:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Are elections really necessary and important?
I stand to differ when Zimbabwe is held to ransom with few individuals who are obsessed with power. The dimensions in the current state of affairs of this country do not require an election but rather...Published: 25 Apr 2017 at 19:36hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
What Independence, What Freedom- Mafa Sibanda
MDC-T Bulawayo Acting spokesperson Felix Mafa Sibanda has questioned as to what Independence can Zimbabwe talk of, when the liberators fought for themselves and their children?He said when peo...Published: 24 Apr 2017 at 12:03hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
What Independence, What Freedom
What Independence can Zimbabwe talk of, when the liberators fought for themselves and their children?When people preferred the Zanu-PF iron york to Smith's wooden yorkWhen the 1970s ch...Published: 20 Apr 2017 at 12:14hrs | | by Brave Ndebele
Sex for a plate of sadza at Mataga Growth Point
The economic hardships at Mataga Growth Point in Mberengwa have become so acute that commercial sex workers and hordes of little girls that have dropped out of school as a result are engaging in sex j...Published: 14 Dec 2016 at 03:47hrs | 14 | by Staff Reporter
Bride dies on wedding day
FANA HAD waited 17 long years to marry the only woman he had ever loved.And when she died only an hour before the ceremony, the brave bridegroom refused to cancel the ceremony.Fana...Published: 08 Nov 2016 at 10:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
PTUZ President, Dr Takavafira Zhou's 2016 World Teachers' Day, 5 November 2016 Speech
THEME: VALUING TEACHERS, IMPROVING THEIR STATUS1. Background of World Teachers' DayWorld Teachers Day was created by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organizatio...Published: 06 Nov 2016 at 11:23hrs | 4 | by Stephan Jakes
Norton by-elections a sneak preview of the 2018 elections
Under the prevailing political environment, Zimbabweans would require neither a rocket scientist nor voodoo mathematical models to predict the outcome of 2018 elections. ZANU.PF has proven beyon...Published: 20 Oct 2016 at 18:50hrs | | by Ellen Shiriyedenga MDC Director, Planning, Strategy and Implementation
Elderly people forced to sleep on pavement without blankets only to get $50 in bond coins
As cash shortages continue to hit Zimbabwe a number of elderly people comprising of mainly war veterans and pensioners from farms around Mvurwi had to sleep at Sharaude shop pavement without blankets ...Published: 12 Oct 2016 at 11:58hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
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