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Willing recolonisation will forever be the hallmark of MDC-Alliance
The folly of Zimbabwe's destiny lies in a fetish plinth that Sadc and the African Union (AU) are insignificant to the African cause, while the European Union (EU) and International Criminal Court (ICC...Published: 1 hr ago | 37 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Fare thee well dear Comrade Callistus Dingiswayo Ndlovu
He was never a mainstream thinker because he thought outside the box all the time, appearing as if he was a rebel in the Zapu leadership setup. In many ways he was controversial because he was...Published: 1 hr ago | 23 | by Nomazulu Thata
Damnatio memoriae and Robert Gabriel Mugabe National Youth Day?
In the recent past few years, it had become a norm in February to see pomp and extravagance in Zimbabwe's state and independent media with preparations towards and celebrations on the birthday of "com...Published: 3 hrs ago | 100 | by Brian Maregedze
Stabbing at school
A Zengeza 4 High School pupil is nursing injuries at Chitungwiza Central Hospital after he was stabbed in the abdomen last Friday while defending his neighbour who had accidentally stepped onto assail...Published: 7 hrs ago | 2701 | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe a hero and a true patriot
Cde Robert Mugabe tendered his resignation as the president of Zimbabwe on the 21 st September 2017. This came about after a bloodless army intervention. The man who became a hero and fought many stro...Published: 14 hrs ago | 1910 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
ZANU PF Youths celebrate Mugabe's birthday
ZANU PF Youth League leadership has encouraged the generality of the young people to take time and introspect about their role in the development of the nation-state.In a statement issued by t...Published: 16 hrs ago | 1679 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mtukudzi widow's actions raise questions
What could be going on in Daisy Mtukudzi's mind? When she distances herself from gigs that have been organised in honour of her late husband Oliver Mtukudzi, is she implying there are sinister motives...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 22:47hrs | 3934 | by Staff reporter
Ex-army boss evicts 300 families
OVER 300 villagers are now living in the open after they were evicted by a former army general from a farm which reportedly used to be owned by the late Vice-President Joshua Nkomo.The settler...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 13:47hrs | 1411 | by Staff reporter
When 45 Degrees falls to Zero, Freedom is nigh!
President Mnangagwa has pruned Mugabe Military and retired some acidic elements, and that does not mean that Mnangagwa is an angel. It is just that the law of conservation states that the total energy...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 11:38hrs | 1412 | by Multiverse Dungani
Mrs Mnangagwa denies 'hand' in Zanu-PF youth fights
First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has denied meddling in the internal power struggles rocking the Zanu-PF youth league.Social media has been awash with claims that she sponsored no-confidence vote...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 10:09hrs | 2349 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo angry over collapsing farm video
Exiled former Cabinet Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has expressed his anger over a video that was taken by unknown people at his farm who alleged that the Professor is neglecting the land which he ...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 09:55hrs | 3224 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagnwa dismisses fake reports on tracking doctors and lawyers
Government has dismissed as false and misleading reports in the private media claiming President Mnangagwa threatened to track down lawyers who represented rioters and doctors who treated people who w...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:44hrs | 4192 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa will not be challenged at the elective congress
MDC Alliance national organising secretary Amos Chibaya has revealed that the party does not expect party leader Nelson Chamisa to be challenged at the coming elective congress, because the grassroots...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:40hrs | 1976 | by Staff reporter
African Union and Sadc are spineless
A combined African Union (AU), Southern African Development Community (Sadc) and President Emmerson Mnangagwa trio-solution to the entangled, Zimbabwean problem will not yield the correct result. In p...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:26hrs | 150 | by Pearl Matibe
Former minister's children fight over estate
Former Mashonaland West Provincial Affairs minister Nelson Samkange's children are entangled in a battle over the control of their late father's farm, which has affected Rukoba Secondary School operat...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:24hrs | 1311 | by Staff reporter
African religion comprises of witches, satanists, spiritualists, spirit mediums
African religion comprises of witches, satanists, spiritualists, spirit mediums, healers, kings and queens. While Christianity remains as that or those institutions preaching, teaching and prophesying...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 14:50hrs | 2183 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Mugabe stews in legal bills
FOR over 37 years, former president Robert Mugabe had remained untouchable as many citizens suffered in silence at the hands of the autocratic leader. But when his rule came to a dramatic end nearly t...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 13:33hrs | 3712 | by Staff reporter
Spiritual significance of lobola/ roora
Calls to abolish the payment of lobola/roora are associated with some feminist perspective, which decries it as the major cause of inequalities between the sexes. Arguments against it are well establi...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:20hrs | 1426 | by Miriam Tose Majome
God is our sufficiency
Believers are always called to remain focused and determined in a world that oftentimes tempts them to surrender God's precious call on their lives. It is always the trick of the devil to solicit Chri...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:19hrs | 135 | by Erasmus Makarimayi
Guvamombe trial set for February 28
The trial of suspended chief magistrate Mishrod Guvamombe on charges of allegedly influencing a subordinate to recuse himself in a matter he had interest in, will commence on February 28. Guva...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 06:29hrs | 59 | by Staffg reporter
Zimbabwe urgently needs own currency
THE drive for Zimbabwe to have its own currency is understandably gain-ing traction, particularly given the aberrations of price increases, multi-tier pricing and foreign currency shortages on the loc...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 18:44hrs | 5105 | by Edmore Ndudzo
Tafataona Mahoso: A man of many hats
Rupise: Poetry of Love, Separation and Reunion 1977-2017; By Tafataona Mahoso; Mutare, Samwasika Heritage Products.136 PagesISBN: 978-1-7706-070-9 (Paperback)INDEED Tafataona M...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 16:09hrs | 1751 | by Staff writer
CIO dirty secrets exposed
A top Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) officer has accused his bosses in the spy agency of victimising him because they fear he will expose their corrupt activities.Augustine Mutambu, the C...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 08:17hrs | 3061 | by Staff reporter
Joy, anger as trapped miners are rescued
A visibly shaken Thinkmore Madimutse was the first survivor to be retrieved from a flooded shaft at Silver Moon mine yesterday four days after disaster struck in the gold-rich Battlefields area....Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 08:11hrs | 1146 | by Staff reporter
Nuggets from the men's conference
I just sneaked out of a boot-camp for that boy-thrill, the urge to break a cardinal rule: What happens at the men's conference stays at the men's conference! The thrifty snitch in me couldn't resist t...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 08:07hrs | 370 | by Zifiso Masiye
Village head arrested for rape
A VILLAGE head from Jambezi who allegedly turned a 25-year-old mentally challenged woman into a sex slave has been dragged to court facing rape charges.Walter Ncube (43) of Monde Village who i...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:56hrs | 557 | by Staff reporter
Bosso, Dembare face collapse
TIME is up for community clubs to continue to run on the old template of members whose contributions are just a drop in the ocean.Many great names in sport have gone extinct because the so cal...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:55hrs | 410 | by Staff reporter
Haddon and Sly suspends workers
ONE of Bulawayo's oldest supermarkets, Haddon and Sly Supermarket has suspended 52 workers with immediate effect for participating in what it called an illegal job action last year, it has been establ...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:54hrs | 555 | by Staff reporter
Sex makes Zodwa Wabantu fat
IF for some reason you've been wondering why South African entertainer Zodwa Wabantu is on the thicker side of life, then wonder no more.The queen of the dance-floor has shed light on exactly ...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:51hrs | 3319 | by Staff reporter
Selmor relives childhood in Tuku household
IN the aftermath of legendary musician Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi's death his daughter, songbird Selmor Mtukudzi, has said that she always felt that her father did not belong to just her or the Mtukudzi f...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:50hrs | 944 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance lie has no legs
A number of Non-Governmental Organisations and the opposition MDC Alliance have been on the warpath, peddling falsehoods regarding last month's riots, which interestingly, were instigated by them....Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:46hrs | 253 | by Staff writer
Tribute to 'Save' the late Dr Morgan Richard Tsvangirai
Somewhere in the communal lands of Buhera Zimbabwe, there is the people's hero.Travelling in the rural areas holding and reading The Daily News tabloid newspaper was a crime, something v...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 21:02hrs | 1019 | by Leonard Koni
24 bodies retrieved from the Battlefields Mine disaster
24 bodies have been retrieved from the Battlefields Mine disaster as rescue operations continue to search for survivors.They have laboured for 24 hours and the fatigue is showing but they are ...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:30hrs | 4361 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: 8 miners pulled out alive after 5 days in flooded tunnel
Rescuers pulled out eight illegal gold miners alive at Cricket Mine on Saturday, five days after they were trapped in flooded shafts.Rescue efforts were continuing to find about 60 others whos...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:21hrs | 2397 | by Reuters/ZimLive
Granny killer sentenced to death
A BEITBRIDGE man, who waylaid a 65-year-old flea market trader in the driveway of her house in the border town before fatally stabbing the woman and robbing her of two cellphones, was yesterday senten...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:08hrs | 424 | by Staff reporter
Rescuers to begin retrieval of bodies of up to 70 Battlefields mine disaster victims
Rescuers are expected to start retrieving trapped illegal gold miners in Battlefields on Friday, but none are expected to have survived flooding in the shafts and the number of casualties could rise t...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:05hrs | 287 | by Reuters§
Man for wearing army uniform
A 23-year-old Chitungwiza man will spend six months in prison after he was convicted of wearing a Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) uniform when he was not a member of the force. Tafadzwa Marumanad...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:00hrs | 194 | by Staff rpeorter
Foreigners, NGOs outed on demos
A number of foreign individuals and non-governmental organisations have been outed in their efforts to destabilise the country, following a workshop they held in Mutare this week which discussed how t...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 19:58hrs | 236 | by Staff reporter
Human Rights petitions AU over Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (the Forum) has written to the African Union (AU) chairperson and Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, demanding the regional body to urgently intervene and assist ...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 14:41hrs | 755 | by Staff reporter
The Mnangagwa regime
This article was first published by the House of Commons Libra...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 14:35hrs | 955 | by House of Commons Library
Joshua Nkomo was a dictator?
The late Father Zimbabwe Joshua Nkomo may have been a rigid leader who did not agree with anyone disagreeing with his ideas, it has emerged.A top leader of the Alliance for People's Agenda (AP...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 12:35hrs | 4184 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa rejects 'meaningless' dialogue
OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said he would not be bulldozed into "a meaningless dialogue" with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, vowing that any talks with the Zanu-PF leader to resolve ...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:42hrs | 1061 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mnangagwa must swallow their pride and dialogue
SOMEONE has to point it out: We Zimbabweans, and, indeed, Africa are such a lousy lot. We are such an embarrassing people that we keep repeating the same mistakes time and again.And after maki...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:39hrs | 741 | by Editorial - newsday
Journalist's 'death' another hoax
Elizabeth Zimunda, the woman identified as a veteran journalist who was allegedly killed by security forces in Chitungwiza during last month's violent protests organised by MDC-Alliance and its associ...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:32hrs | 610 | by Staff reporter
Southern Africa's problem of political elite impunity
Former South African deputy foreign affairs minister Aziz Pahad's support for the Maduro regime in Venezuela throws into sharp relief the acceptance by political elites in Southern Africa of die-hard ...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:25hrs | 147 | by Tendai Biti and Mills
Fresh land Invasions in Matabeleland
There is a new land invasion in Matabeleland, this time by the government of Mnangagwa and Zanu PF. This program is spearheaded by the district Lands office in Filabusi. On the 8th of February 2019, M...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 07:25hrs | 1314 | by MRP
Chiwenga suspectedly poisoned with deadly Polonium-210
Vice president, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, is suspected of suffering from the lethal polonium- 210 poisoning, and is reportedly admitted at an undisclosed Indian military hospital.High ...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 06:53hrs | 47177 | by Staff Reporter
Ramaphosa was accused of being an askari
President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday had to do something that none of his predecessors, including the corruption accused Jacob Zuma, has ever been forced to do: defend his struggle credentials....Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 14:40hrs | 1889 | by Staff reporter
'Children are not mine'
A Harare man has disowned his two children claiming that his former wife had a boyfriend who regularly accuses him of being weak.Hilda Karadzi yesterday appeared at the Harare Civil Court appe...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 13:47hrs | 2951 | by Staff reporter
Mushava's valentine in austerity and Zimbabwe's political economy
A few weeks ago, I wrote on Stan Mushava's autobiographical poetry anthology, Rhyme and Resistance and it has become a habit for me to check on his Facebook page for any latest poetry. On this Valenti...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 09:35hrs | 603 | by Brian Maregedze
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