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Mnangagwa, Chiwenga battle lines drawn
The recently concluded ZANU-PF conference has unveiled deepening rifts within the ruling party, with factions positioning themselves for the succession battle of President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Tensions...Published: 27 Oct 2024 at 12:29hrs | 5312 | by Staff reporter
7-0 win exposes Zanu-PF legislator's club Scottland
Scottland FC, a club owned by ZANU-PF legislator Pedzai Scott Sakupwanya, is under scrutiny following allegations of match-fixing in the wake of their emphatic 7-0 win over Norton Community FC. The vi...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 09:08hrs | 2771 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo diarrhoea cases surge 700%
The City of Bulawayo has experienced a concerning spike in diarrhoea cases, with approximately 555 reported as of August 2024. This marks a staggering 693% increase from the 370 cases recorded in July...Published: 11 Oct 2024 at 17:58hrs | 317 | by Staff reporter
Pupil spared jail time for fatal stabbing
A 17-year-old former student of Milton High School narrowly avoided a prison sentence after appearing in the Bulawayo High Court last Thursday for fatally stabbing another 17-year-old boy in Magwegwe ...Published: 15 Sep 2024 at 09:57hrs | 274 | by Staff reporter
Rowdy Zanu-PF councillor sparks chaos
A dispute among Chinhoyi councillors over residential stand allocations erupted into public view after Zanu-PF Councillor Godknows Muzhandamuri reportedly seized a list of preferred stand numbers and ...Published: 19 Jul 2024 at 06:24hrs | 675 | by Staff reporter
Shopping Shock: Over a third of customers scammed on popular shopping sites across Europe and beyond
While price comparison sites are a popular tool for finding deals and secure retailers, a new study reveals a disturbing truth: online shopping might not be as safe as we think. According to the ...Published: 17 May 2024 at 12:14hrs | 41 | by Staff Reporter
ZNA Colonel hits employee with hammer in salary dispute
A ZIMBABWE National Army Colonel is facing turbulent times after he was dragged to court by his employee for allegedly severely striking him with a hammer on the head over a salary dispute.Col...Published: 16 Feb 2024 at 15:26hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
St Faith High School Priest shows off punching skills
TEMPERS flared at St Faith's High School on Wednesday, with a priest from the Anglican Diocese of Manicaland showing his boxing skills as parents who escorted Form Five learners bulldozed their way in...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 08:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tempers flare at school meeting over missing US$150
TEMPERS flared during a meeting on Monday involving parents and guardians of learners at Lukhanyiso Primary School in Bulawayo's Mpopoma suburb after it emerged that the school authorities clandestine...Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 04:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
South Africa is testing the West's claim to moral superiority
Supporters of Palestine have long been told their position is fringe. But this case gives them legitimacy – and tests the limits of human rightsIt was only a little over six hours of legal a...Published: 16 Jan 2024 at 05:44hrs | 1 | by Nesrine Malik
Tempers flare over trapped Redwing miners
Tempers flared yesterday at Redwing Mine in Penhalonga where about 11 artisanal miners were trapped underground after a mine shaft collapsed, with relatives accusing government of fumbling the rescue ...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:41hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Without Zimbabweans, Musina is going to be a big ghost town
By 7AM, lines of customers snake down the block outside stores on the main commercial strip in Musina, a bustling South African border town where thousands of people arrive daily from neighboring Zimb...Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 08:46hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Dexter Nduna barred from contesting Zanu-PF primary election
OUTSPOKEN former Chegutu West Member of Parliament (MP), Dexter Nduna has had his quest for another bite of the cherry as a parliamentarian dashed after Zanu-PF disqualified him from contesting a prim...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 06:08hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe kills over 150
These days, Catherine Mangosho locks her 3-year-old grandson in the house for hours on end in an attempt to shield him from a deadly cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe.The virulent bacterial disease...Published: 25 Nov 2023 at 07:45hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Woman Accused of Violent Altercation with Sister-in-Law Over Alleged Affair
Madabe, September 12, 2023 - In a small community in the Madabe area in Plumtree, a family feud turned violent when a woman allegedly attacked her sister-in-law...Published: 11 Oct 2023 at 21:45hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
'We (povo) lacked strategic thinking for electoral victory.' Quick burning grass fire passion will never bring change.
The Zimbabwe electorate’s political activism is like a grass fire, it will flares up but very quickly die down because there was not much to burn. Similarly there is not much in-depth knowledge of a...Published: 27 Sep 2023 at 20:04hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Barbara Rwodzi's assault case takes new twist
Lawyers representing Citizens Coalition for Change (Chirumanzu South losing candidate, Patrick Chez and four others, who are accused of assaulting Tourism deputy minister Barbara Rwodzi have que...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo fuel storage depot explodes
A petrol storage tank exploded resulting in a raging fire that reduced several vehicles to shells at a fuel storage depot in Kelvin West industrial area in Bulawayo yesterday.With a sudden who...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pastor bashes naked female sangoma
A pastor from Makokoba suburb in Bulawayo shocked residents when he beat up his tenant who is a traditional healer while she was naked as punishment for playing music too loudly while he was conductin...Published: 25 Aug 2023 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police 'secretly' vote in Zimbabwe
TEMPERS flared yesterday after it emerged that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) had "secretly" allowed police officers to vote ahead of the August 23 polls in the absence of political parties' ...Published: 16 Aug 2023 at 06:51hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt scoffs at Chamisa's demands
GOVERNMENT has revealed that main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa will not get equal coverage with his rival President Emmerson Mnangagwa in public media outlets b...Published: 15 Aug 2023 at 06:37hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's supporter murdered as violence flares
A CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) activist was yesterday stoned to death by a suspected Zanu-PF member near Tanaka grounds in Glen View, Harare, as political temperatures rise ahead of the August ...Published: 04 Aug 2023 at 06:44hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Girlfriend pours boiling oil on lover's privates
IT is normal, occasionally, in any relationship that tempers flare and hurtful words are spoken.But what happens when you discover that your loved one is cheating on you?Wonder no more...Published: 29 Jul 2023 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC, Zanu-PF clash over voters roll
TEMPERS flared yesterday during the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) Harare Metropolitan provincial multi-party liaison committee meeting after opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party ...Published: 11 Jul 2023 at 07:42hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mr President, you failed to uphold the Constitution
GOOD day President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Your Excellency, I have reason to believe there is overwhelming evidence that your presidential term was destined to be retrogressive. It has long been char...Published: 05 Jul 2023 at 07:47hrs | 6 | by Cyprian Ndawana
Chaos in Bulawayo as Chamisa tries to calm angry party members
CCC leader Nelson Chamisa on Sunday sent a delegation to Bulawayo to calm growing anger over his handling of the candidate selection process for the August 23 election.The in...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 11:06hrs | 8 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Assemblies of God leadership wrangle rages
THE leadership wrangle between warring factions in the Assemblies of God (AOG) church has spilled into the courts, leaving congregants divided.The fights broke out after AOG Spiritual Movement...Published: 23 Jun 2023 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tempers flare at Zanu-PF Mashonaland West women's quota nomination meeting
Zanu-PF Mashonaland West top activists came to near fist-fights as tempers rose at Thursday's party Provincial Coordinating Committee (PCC) meeting to endorse local authority women's quota candidates....Published: 03 Jun 2023 at 08:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
On inflation Mthuli Ncube must listen to Chinamasa and Gono, 'in the know' advised Moyo. A very sick joke.
Professor Jonathan Moyo would be fountain of wisdom if only his contributions are not more often than not laced with propaganda, lies and damned lies whose sole purpose is to poison the mind. ...Published: 26 May 2023 at 10:22hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Killings flare up in Kwekwe
THE recent callous murder of two people in Mbizo, Kwekwe has sent residents into panic mode as they fear for their lives.The body of veteran educationist and retired teacher Mr Lovemore Marume...Published: 25 May 2023 at 06:18hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Bona Mugabe alone got 21 farms peasants, supposedly beneficiaries of Land Redistribution, got nothing
If you asked most Zimbabweans out there today what the war of independence was about; most of them will say, "Land!" Before independence the major would have said "One man, one vote!" but all ...Published: 04 May 2023 at 10:13hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe politics: Lineaments of stock characters
What are stock characters?LET me be basic so I am accessible to many of my readers, whatever level of education, and from whichever discipline they hail.In literature we have what are ...Published: 22 Apr 2023 at 19:00hrs | 8 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Man sets neighbour's hut on fire
A MAN from Dula Village in Tsholotsho, Matabeleland North province thought the best way to revenge against a man who had beaten him up was to raid his homestead at night and lock his bedroom hut from ...Published: 14 Apr 2023 at 07:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tempers flare during Mubaiwa's trial
TEMPERS flared during the trial of Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's estranged wife Marry Mubaiwa as her lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa, and the prosecution haggled over cross-examination procedures, for...Published: 12 Apr 2023 at 08:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Africa: Embattling a Continent
When the IMF goes to warSo the International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff has decided to grant Ukraine some whooping USD15,6 billion?Ukraine is at war with Russia.A war funded and...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 12:59hrs | | by Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Zanu-PF turns Mash West into war zone
SANYATI, in Mashonaland West province, reportedly turned into a war zone this week as rival aspiring Zanu-PF candidates bludgeoned each other ahead of the party's primary elections set for tomorrow....Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man killed in fight over girlfriend
POLICE in the Midlands Province have launched a manhunt for a Shurugwi man who allegedly teamed up with a girlfriend and fatally stabbed a 32-year-old rival suitor after they clashed at the girl...Published: 26 Feb 2023 at 09:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cop killer's family pleads for forgiveness
THE family of killer cop, Jaison Muvevi yesterday approached two families of the three victims that he shot dead in Hwedza last week and apologised for the heinous crime.They roped in police d...Published: 19 Jan 2023 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Historic reception for Morocco's Atlas Lions on homecoming
Following a World Cup performance that was well above the North African country's wildest dreams, Morocco's national football team returned home to a hero's welcome.The team landed at Rabat-Sa...Published: 10 Jan 2023 at 16:33hrs | 46 | by Moyo Roy
A random 10 political questions that will make 2023 an uncertain year
As the euphoria of the New Year begin to fed away, we have to wait to see whether it's clear that the trends we have been seeing over the last few decades show no signs of slowing down. You might say ...Published: 04 Jan 2023 at 01:08hrs | 1 | by Farai Chirimumimba
Chaos as Henrietta Rushwaya flees angry mob
There was chaos at Sandawana mine as thousands of artisanal miners bayed for the blood of Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) president Henrietta Rushwaya after they failed to agree on working conditions...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 08:47hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Commonwealth readmission will not solve Zimbabwe's problems
IT looks very likely that in the near future Zimbabwe will be readmitted into the Commonwealth, the grouping of former British colonies, boosting President Emmerson Mnangagwa's re-engagement efforts a...Published: 19 Nov 2022 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kazembe Kazembe summoned as tempers flare up
HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe has been summoned to Parliament to issue a ministerial statement on what the police is doing to clamp down on perpetrators of political violence targeting opposit...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 17:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare mayor bans management foreign trips
HARARE City Council yesterday banned foreign trips for councillors and management.This came after mayor Jacob Mafume had his trip to South Korea on council business was blocked by Cabinet....Published: 21 Oct 2022 at 06:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe deploys military in newfound oilfields
ZIMBABWE'S military incursion into the Mashonaland Central province for a routine training exercise is part of efforts by the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) to familiarise itself with the area as the S...Published: 07 Oct 2022 at 20:43hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala is a victim of flouting bail conditions, says Ziyambi
JUSTICE minister, Ziyambi Ziyambi told Parliament Wednesday that the continued detention of two opposition legislators was justifiable as they were notorious for flouting bail conditions involving pre...Published: 30 Sep 2022 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chokuda told to resign
OPPOSITION legislators have called on Clerk of Parliament Kennedy Chokuda to resign after laying the blame for the dodgy laptop and desktop tender, and suspicious fuel allocations at the august House ...Published: 29 Sep 2022 at 05:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fire breaks out at Bulawayo service station
A SWIFT reaction by the Bulawayo Fire and Emergency Services coupled with bravery by a driver of a fuel-tanker helped to avert disaster when a fire broke out at a city service station during a decanti...Published: 22 Sep 2022 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woes mount for suspended Zanu-PF DCC chairperson
IT never rains but pours for suspended Zanu-PF Buhera district coordination committee (DCC) chairperson Cosmore Chimombe who is also now being accused of abusing the Presidential inputs scheme....Published: 15 Sep 2022 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Zanu-PF youths in violent clashes
VIOLENCE flared up between Zanu-PF and Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) youths in Harare yesterday morning as they fiercely fought for control of flea market spaces in Mbare's Mupedzanhamo area....Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 05:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
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