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ZRP confirms officer on the run after flogging suspect to death
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has confirmed that 12 days after the alleged assault and death of a suspect in custody, Constable Prince Ndavambi remains at large.Ndavambi is accused of flo...Published: 09 Jun 2025 at 08:43hrs | 403 | by Staff reporter
Police officer on the run after flogging suspect to death
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has confirmed that a police officer accused of fatally assaulting a suspect in custody at Ruwa Police Station remains on the run - 12 days after the incident....Published: 09 Jun 2025 at 08:39hrs | 198 | by Staff reporter
Interest in Geza might be waning
I was quite surprised to hear that Blessed Geza had another video last Wednesday, an indicator that my interest in him and that of many is waning.Geza makes a lot of sense, but I cannot shake ...Published: 07 May 2025 at 21:23hrs | 1694 | by Nqaba Matshazi
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 | 774 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opposition plans to disrupt upcoming Sadc meeting
DESPERATION can drive one to extremes and often than not, it results in an undesirable outcome, chief among them embarrassment.The opposition elements in this country have become irrelevant an...Published: 14 Jul 2024 at 09:46hrs | 197 | by Dr Obert Moses Mpofu
Air Zimbabwe flogging it's iconic Boeing 737-200 workhorses
Air Zimbabwe is flogging off two of its iconic Boeing 737-200 workhorses via sale by tender, highlighting the fall from grace of an airline which used to rank among the most vibrant flag carriers in A...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 09:03hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police systems are crumbling
I don't know about these days, but one of the most shaming things back in the days was when a learner was sent back home because he or she didn't have a uniform.It was shaming on the learner a...Published: 26 Nov 2023 at 08:43hrs | 22 | by Tawanda Majoni
Zimbabweans flogged at Botswana traditional court
Eight Zimbabwean immigrants were reportedly subjected to flogging at a traditional court in Botswana for illegally entering the country.According to sources in Botswana, the eight individuals ...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 06:32hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Lone anti-Mnangagwa govt protestor charged with unlawful possession of firearm
A Harare resident, Itai Makombe who was arrested while staging a one-man demo at the intersection of Sam Nujoma and Josiah Tongogara streets has been charged.According to police spokesperson A...Published: 07 Jun 2023 at 16:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Wife flogs rival for dating husband
TAMBUDZAI Kana (37) from Karuwa village in Gokwe met her fellow villager Rudzai Madzura (27) and accused her of having an affair with her husband before flogging her several times on the body with a s...Published: 17 Feb 2023 at 20:52hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Vicious crackdown on opposition part of Zanu-PF election playbook
THE arrest of Citizens' Coalition for Change parliamentarians Costa Machingauta and Amos Chibaya (pictured in khaki shirt) alongside other party members, including the elderly and juveniles, for ...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 09:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa should make a clarion call for peace
THE savage beating of elderly people in Murehwa last weekend for political reasons has once again raised concern over the spectre of violence in the country ahead of the harmonised elections to be hel...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 16:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Terror visits Chamisa's rural supporters?
SEVERAL villagers in Murehwa were over the weekend left nursing bruises and sore limbs after suspected Zanu-PF members reportedly attacked opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters in ...Published: 09 Jan 2023 at 07:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF thugs captured on video flogging Chamisa's elderly supporters
Zanu-PF thugs accosted villagers and flogged them ruthlessly with logs for convening a Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) gathering in politically volatile Murehwa, a Zanu-PF stronghold in Mashonalan...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 13:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Paul Kagame: Cruel Betrayal of Matebeleland
In the first week of September 2022, Emmerson Munangagwa visited the Rwanda Genocide Memorial while he was attending a continental African Green Revolution Forum Conference in that country. Many peopl...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 08:56hrs | | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu
'Mthuli Ncube's economic measures illegal'
LEGAL think tank Veritas has poked holes into recent measures announced by Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube to tame inflation saying they undermined Parliament's legislative role.In its latest Bi...Published: 13 Jul 2022 at 07:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Surely is the current Zimbabwe leadership the best this country has to offer?
We can argue all day, all week, all month, and all year, as to exactly why Zimbabwe is in this miserable and disgraceful economic mess....Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 13:29hrs | 14 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Suspending incapacitated teachers is flogging a starved horse - they're victims of mess not the culprits
In 2018 a Zimbabwe teacher was paid US$540 per month in US$. Since then, government paid them the equivalent in local currency but never bother to adjust the amount to keep pace with inflation. ...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 11:47hrs | 4 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Are Zimbabweans a lost cause irredeemably content with being oppressed?
When I was reading renowned and award-winning journalist Hopewell Chin'ono's latest tweets where he clearly expressed open frustration and even infuriation at most Zimbabweans' apparent docility, subm...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 07:45hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Uninspected meat floods butcheries
Some farmers and butchers are selling condemned meat from livestock affected by diseases such as January disease and anthrax, instead of burning the carcasses. Although cases of tick-borne diseases ar...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 06:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says 'vote-buying a dismissible offence'
ZANU-PF First Secretary and President, Mnangagwa, yesterday warned senior officials against breaching party rules and regulations when conducting District Coordinating Committee (DCC) and primary elec...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The bane of rabid, frenzied media
Again, dear reader, if ever you are in doubt, if ever you are confused, if ever you need a moral compass, or whenever you find yourself agreeing with Jonathan Moyo, you should know that you are close ...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 09:35hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
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
'Chamisa's ally a bitter soul'
KWEKWE Central MP elect Masango Matambanadzo (National Patriotic Front) has dismissed MDC Alliance losing candidate Blessing Chebundo as a bitter soul that cannot stomach electoral defeat, and was now...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 12:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Panicky Chamisa beginning to sound like Tsvangirai
Hey hoo, the Zimbabwe Defence Forces have a new quartermaster! One who knows it all, and manages the national armoury from far-away Kenya. Maybe these are the wonders of a twitter epoch: you know it a...Published: 30 Jun 2018 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Igomombe
GNU2: A Betrayal to Zimbabwe's Democracy
A second Government of National Unity would a betrayal to democracy in Zimbabwe. The main mandate of the Opposition is to provide checks and balances to the ruling party. And more importantly offer al...Published: 01 Dec 2017 at 06:36hrs | 3 | by Darlington Nyambiya
Pregnant smallhouse's stunt goes horribly wrong
A Cheeky smallhouse who went to her married boyfriend's home in the middle of the night is licking her wounds in hospital after the man's wife teamed up with her sisters to beat her to within an inch ...Published: 20 Oct 2017 at 06:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe urged to 'whip her children'
THE ruling Zanu-PF party youth leader has encouraged Grace Mugabe to use a whip on her errant "children", after the first lady was accused of whipping South African model Gabriella Engels with an elec...Published: 06 Sep 2017 at 11:20hrs | 1 | by Staf reporter
Anne Nhira vs Zodwa: Grace Mugabe fingered in South African artist ban
Harare (Khuluma Afrika) - The first lady of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Dr Grace Mugabe has been fingered in a sensational and deliberate plot to ban South African artists Zodwa wa Bantu from performing...Published: 01 Sep 2017 at 19:04hrs | 3 | by Khuluma Afrika
Tsvangirai broke Mugabe's 'virg*nity'
A political analyst Pedzisai Ruhanya has warned the MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai to focus less on the useless President Robert Mugabe whom he said his time has passed to rule the country.He ...Published: 25 Aug 2017 at 07:43hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa offers to resign from govt and Zanu-PF
IN a dramatic development which could have led to a seismic shift in local politics, Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week offered to resign from his government and ruling party posts, saying he...Published: 11 Aug 2017 at 07:17hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
When scriptural fraud and spiritual illiteracy dominate at high levels
The current hurried wave of religion sweeping over Africa, driven by "Man of God" of all sorts, has, in some cases, brought more both scriputural and spiritual confusion than emancipation.A fe...Published: 27 Apr 2017 at 07:52hrs | | by Evangelist Reginald Thabani Gola
Drug abuser's parents face murder charge
THE case in which a Marondera couple fatally flogged its 18-year-old son, accusing him of taking intoxicating drugs, has taken a new twist, with the parents now facing murder charges following...Published: 18 Apr 2017 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
There is real hope for Zimbabwe
The unprecedented rise of the citizens' movement in Zimbabwe gave ordinary citizens a loud and bold voice.After the disbanding of the GNU and the 2013 elections, Itai Dzamara was the first cit...Published: 02 Feb 2017 at 19:03hrs | 1 | by Patson Dzamara (Khuluma Afrika)
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Mugabe's soldiers go on the rampage
A CRACK unit of the military working with other wings of the security apparatus is going on a rampage in Harare's high-density suburbs, targeting civilians under the cover of darkness in a violent...Published: 25 Nov 2016 at 12:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF in a bid to force a succession prophecy out of a 94-year-old prophet
More stunning claims are emerging regarding the mad-scramble within President Robert Mugabe's warring Zanu-PF to control the aged and mysterious leader of a secretive apostolic sect, who is acclai...Published: 17 Jul 2016 at 19:32hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
A dead horse named Morgan Tsvangirai
Five days ago, a local newspaper thundered with the headline, "Tsvangirai roars back". For those who are familiar with the dynamics of Zimbabwean politics, historically and as currently in flux, one w...Published: 22 Jun 2016 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Botswana public floggings scaring Zimbabweans
Zimbabweans living in Botswana say they support their government’s effort to engage its neighbor on corporal punishment. Botswana regularly flogs transgressing Zimbabweans, particularly for border j...Published: 27 Mar 2016 at 13:07hrs | | by Martin Ngwenya
Zimbabwe can't control Batswana chiefs
Zimbabwe's major obstacle in stopping Botswana authorities from beating up Zimbabwean nationals was that Gaborone statutes allowed traditional leaders to impose punishments like flogging offenders, le...Published: 18 Mar 2016 at 05:41hrs | | by Zvamaida Murwira
Nigerian preacher fails to overturn death sentence
Abuja - Nigeria's Supreme Court on Friday upheld a death sentence handed out nine years ago to a Christian pastor for murdering a female member of his congregation and trying to kill five others. ...Published: 29 Feb 2016 at 06:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Be careful with state newspapers - Job Sikhala
The MDC-T senior official Job Sikhala have urged members of the public and commentators to be careful when talking to the state newspapers which he accused of manipulating issues to suit their ow...Published: 11 May 2015 at 08:54hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Man undresses wife, ties her to tree and flogs her over infidelity
A Tsholotsho man is on the run from police after he allegedly undressed his wife, tying her to a tree and flogging her with an electric cable for allegedly having an extra marital affair....Published: 10 Mar 2015 at 06:02hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Drama as chief flees from vengeful villager
A chief from Matabeleland South who is famous for whipping his subjects, got a taste of his own medicine when he had to flee for life after a villager retaliated and assaulted him.Villagers ga...Published: 05 Mar 2015 at 21:07hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Why we laughed when Mugabe collapsed
We all have elderly people in our lives that we love and care for dearly. None of us would make fun of them if they stumble, trip or fall over. So how come the 91-year-old president of Zimbabwe, Rober...Published: 08 Feb 2015 at 09:50hrs | 1 | by Lance Guma
Man thrown off building for being gay
A man has reportedly been blindfolded and thrown off a tower block in Syria for ‘being gay’ before being stoned to death after surviving the fall.New images have emerged appearing to show ...Published: 03 Feb 2015 at 13:02hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
ZDI calls on MDC to take advantage of infighting in Zanu PF - flogging a mentally dead MDC
MDC committed collective suicide by failing to get even one democratic reform implemented and, to wash down the poison, paid no heed to advice not to take part in the 2013 elections without the refor...Published: 08 Jan 2015 at 22:54hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mugabe must go
Some members of the Mujuru camp have been accused of plotting to get rid of President Robert Mugabe - by hook or by crook. But calls for the aged leader to go are not...Published: 03 Dec 2014 at 12:30hrs | | by Moyo
Chief publicly flogs serial bed-hopping Madzibaba
A Chief in the Silonga area of Gwanda allegedly whipped a Madzibaba from an unidentified apostolic sect after he impregnated a villager in his area.Chief Owaheng Marupi reportedly took the...Published: 25 Sep 2014 at 20:17hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Independence: African lazy day
I could go to prison just for the title; for dampening the spirit of commemoration, and yet I would gladly go. This is a title that befits the occasion. Google the world and see what I am talking ...Published: 25 Aug 2014 at 08:51hrs | 1 | by Field Ruwe
Gwindi booted out
Leslie Gwindi and his executive committee have been booted out of Harare City as the capital's councillors move to address the team's horrific start to the season.Team patron and Harare Mayor ...Published: 18 May 2014 at 10:55hrs | | by Ishemunyoro Chingwere
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