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Zimbabwe's traditional healers take to TikTok
WEARING a stylish black leather jacket and a red blouse, a denim sun hat covering her dreadlocked head, Gogo Mafirakureva goes live on TikTok.In just the first few minutes of her livestream, a...Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 18:01hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
The imbecility of Macron - 'Africa can't manage the world!'
Imbecility of MacronFollowing a wave of anti-French feelings across Francophone Africa, a former Economic Minister for France, one Thierry Breton, took to twitter and posted the following: "It...Published: 18 May 2024 at 10:43hrs | 209 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
CCC activist relives Harare Remand Prison aftereffects
CITIZENS Coalition for Change activist Phineas Nyambi is being haunted by his month-long detention at Harare Remand Prison three years ago. He claims to be suffering from hallucinations and forgetfuln...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mr Mnangagwa, longevity is a treasure beyond measure
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, congratulations on your 80th birthday. Given that for many people, 40 years is a lifetime, you rank among the fortunate remnant who have live...Published: 21 Sep 2022 at 06:02hrs | | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Obert Mpofu's Gukurahundi denialism very unsettling
UTTERANCES by Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu (pictured) dismissing Gukurahundi as a "thing of the past" and telling victims to forget is tantamount to attempting to whitewash the gen...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 19:18hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers give one-week strike notice
TEACHERS have given government a one-week ultimatum to address their salary grievances or face a crippling strike action beginning June 1.In a letter seen by NewsDay, which was handed to gover...Published: 26 May 2022 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Makandiwa rapped for 'bootlicking' Mnangagwa
POPULAR preacher Emmanuel Makandiwa has came underfire for absolving President Emmerson Mnangagwa over the high unemployment rate in the country.An excitable Makandiwa showered Mnangagwa with ...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 10:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Biden hopes to topple Putin
Joe Biden, the president of the United States, has called Russian leader Vladimir Putin a "butcher" who "cannot remain in power" during a visit to Poland, where he met Ukrainian refugees displaced by ...Published: 28 Mar 2022 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Drama as nurse fails marriage test
THERE was drama in Hatfield last Wednesday when a female nurse locked the gate and ran for cover when her two lovers arrived at the same time to expose her unfaithfulness.Chipo Lucia Danha, 38...Published: 05 Jul 2021 at 12:44hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Pathisa Nyathi, the forgetful man who reminds us about our heritage
"HELLO. I will be with you in a moment. I just want to finish this sentence," Pathisa Nyathi told a news crew that visited him at his home in Gwabalanda last week.Nyathi, who was seated in the...Published: 26 Jun 2021 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Tribute to Morgan Nemadire the regional magistrate and a friend
On the 6th March 2021 one of the brightest lights in the Zimbabwean legal fraternity, MR Morgen Nemadire was switched off.But the sun has not set on the Nemadire's alone, Zimbabweans also mourn th...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 14:31hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zanu-PF demands heroes' remains from Britain
ZANU-PF is demanding the return of heads of the country's heroes and heroines who were beheaded during the First Chimurenga for decent burials from Britain. This comes as the country is presen...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 06:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
AFM pastor sues church for $13m
AN Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) in Zimbabwe pastor is claiming over $13 million from the church as he accuses it of neglecting him after he was involved in a car accident.Alfred Mujeyi issued...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Guard forgets firearm in toilet
WHAT a relief!A seemingly absent-minded security guard with a local security company who was deployed at a bank landed himself in trouble when he allegedly forgot his service firearm in the to...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in the UK living with the aftermath of Covid-19
Many Zimbabweans in the UK who contracted COVID 19 have recovered. This brought joy and hope not only for the recovered but for the world at large. While the vast majority of those who contract Covid-...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 08:13hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chamisa gets support from DA to attack Zimbabwe?
The events of the last weeks have been knee shacking and deeply depressing. The peaceful demonstrations in Zimbabwe were hijacked by the regime change financiers. The onslaught Zimbabwe received from ...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 12:26hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Strive Masiyiwa struggles to stomach criticism
In what started as a routine interview with continental business television channel CNBC Africa, Strive Masiyiwa, Econet founder and Executive Chairman describes the political changes being witnessed ...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 08:46hrs | | by Willliam Muchayi
MDC tripping itself
The MDC continues to refuse to recognise the legitimacy of President Mnangagwa despite various Elections Observer Missions having largely endorsed the conduct of the polls. As is usual in many electio...Published: 14 Dec 2018 at 09:16hrs | | by Bevan Musoko
'I almost died for supporting Masiyiwa' says Top Journalist
Voice of America journalist Blessing Zulu has came out guns blazing accusing Strive Masiyiwa of re-writing history by saying no one stood for him when he was allegedly persecuted for seeking a Telecom...Published: 03 Nov 2018 at 06:46hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's likely trajectory
THE most significant political fact about Zimbabwe today is that it is mired in a complex and turbulent multi-dimensional transition of which the just-ended elections were a part. The bitterly contest...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 13:48hrs | 1 | by Eldred V Masunungure
Thucydides' 'something is not quite fair' with elections - is no licence to rig elections
One of the things that has helped to drag us into the economic and political mess we are in as a nation is our failure to distinguish the wood from the trees, the trivial from the important, lies and ...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 21:21hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chamisa: Different democrat with many 'shades of grey'
"In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it," remarked Thucydides, a respected Athenian his...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 06:39hrs | | by Gibson Nyikadzino
An inherited crisis of imagination: A Long Essay concerning the understanding of Zimbabwe - Pt1
If it is a despot you would dethrone, see first his throne erected within you is destroyed lest what you call freedom is the strongest of chains. The Gibranian perception sums the November 201...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 19:02hrs | 2 | by Tshepo Mabalane Mabalane
'Not only must Justice be done; it must also be seen to be done' - Is there Justice in Zimbabwe?
In the case of R v Sussex Justice, Ex parte McCarthy in 1923, an English case on the impartiality and recusal of judges, this aphorism was birthed. The full statement was that it was of fundamental im...Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 19:13hrs | | by Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda
Opposition failing democratic test
"WE MDC-T are being cruel to ourselves in candidate selection by allowing strangers a free ride at the expense of our long serving loyal committed cadres. Those with money and connections come through...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 15:12hrs | | by Vincent Gono
Chamisa, the curse of youthful exuberance
The parable of our time might well be: "Mind your young, or they will trouble you in your old age."During the Cold War, Chinese Premier Chou Enlai once observed: "One of the delightful things ...Published: 12 Apr 2018 at 06:55hrs | | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Zimbabwe cash crisis that won't go away
If there is one common theme that ran throughout Zanu PF's election strategy under former President Robert Mugabe is that it had a litany of high sounding and astounding promises that never got fulfil...Published: 03 Apr 2018 at 06:55hrs | 15 | by Learnmore Zuze
Reckless behaviour cost lives - PDP
Repression, police brutality and the use of force, have no place in a modern democracy. Sadly for Zimbabwe the opposite is true , ZANUPF has taught the native to be violent in order to resolve social ...Published: 23 Feb 2018 at 13:21hrs | | by Jacob Mafume
Liberal Democrats respond to Mnangagwa statement
STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO MR MNANGAGWA, AN APPEAL! What is good for the goose must be good for the gander. 'Tichingotonga! Vachivukura!' we are dogs that...Published: 08 Nov 2017 at 18:54hrs | | by Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda
Zodwa Wabantu wins, Zimbabweans lose
Ordinarily, September is the month of jacaranda blooms, the arrival of summer in Zimbabwe - but this year, it was the month of Zodwa Wabantu. In his usual humorous style, Jera reflects on the month do...Published: 25 Sep 2017 at 18:32hrs | | by Jera
Zimbabwe political parties, coalitions and state of preparedness - Analysis
DEVELOPMENTS in the country's political landscape are both interesting and confusing. Interestingly, those in opposition have joined the succession debate in the ruling party.Opposition politi...Published: 30 Jul 2017 at 08:15hrs | | by Vincent Gono
Poor Dembare miss out on top four
Dynamos 2 - 3 Chicken InnIN a season they have made a mockery of the big institution they are, Dynamos ended a forgetful 2016 with a loss to Chicken Inn to finish outside the top four for the firs...Published: 27 Nov 2016 at 09:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Unmasking 'Patrick Guramatunhu' and 'Nomsa Garikai'
In a democracy, everyone is entitled to their view. It is not a crime for 13 million Zimbabweans to have 13 million different opinions on a single subject. What is wrong and totally unacceptable is to...Published: 17 Nov 2016 at 06:24hrs | | by Moses Chamboko
Bond Notes: Our refusal to learn from history
The study of history has a moral purpose, so we are told. It is believed that studying history can create better citizens in a free society. At least this is the shared belief among authors of history...Published: 10 Oct 2016 at 16:40hrs | 4 | by Whitlaw Mugwiji
Buyanga cries foul
Businessman Mr Frank Buyanga has more than 200 criminal and civil cases against him and his companies before the courts that were brought mainly by people who took loans from his Hamilton Finance comp...Published: 10 Sep 2016 at 08:00hrs | | by Freeman Razemba
Harare Police fine motorists for not indicating while turning
Harare Residents Trust has warned motorists to be careful when approaching a police road block mounted at Crowhill Road indicating that the law enforcement agents target the turning point so as to fin...Published: 04 Feb 2016 at 05:16hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Last year Oppah helped Grace 'baby dump' Mujuru she got a tearful reward!
President Mugabe is not the only one who is being bullied around by his wife Grace, she has all the bigwigs in Zanu PF on the cosh! Look at the large of senior party leaders have been attending her me...Published: 01 Dec 2015 at 20:49hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Maridadi is a dishonourable MP?
As 2018 is beckoning, the electorates must take stock of the contributions made by the people they voted into parliament to represent them. This should be done with a view to assuring quality represen...Published: 26 Nov 2015 at 12:49hrs | | by John Sigauke
Zimbabwe Simply Needs Serious Opposition
As things are running haywire, with the economy at the tip edge as poverty and lawlessness are sinking in, Zimbabweans remain anxious. There is no hope for the way forward. The once supposed formi...Published: 04 Apr 2015 at 23:48hrs | 1 | by Chris Tongogara
State fails to prove its case, Maleme villages apply for discharge
TWELVE Matobo District villagers, who were arrested for allegedly kidnapping a farm worker employed by district intelligence officer Rodney Mashingaidze, have applied for discharge at the close of the...Published: 20 Mar 2015 at 12:11hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
South Africa and the denial of xenophobia
The history of the 20th century is one of tragic national denials that became fuel and springboards for numerous wars and on the back of which genocide was invented long before there was a word for it...Published: 02 Feb 2015 at 13:08hrs | | by Professor Tinyiko Maluleke
Zimbabwe: Memory, Knowledge and the difficult Future
Sometime in a lonely day in 1749, a small scale thinker with a taste for music and a reputation for familial irresponsibility was walking on a foot path in a village a few miles from Paris in France. ...Published: 19 Jan 2015 at 14:30hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Coltart welcomes unification of 'doers' MDC and MDC-R
"I am pleased to be reuniting with "doers", said David Coltart in welcoming the unification of the two breakaway MDC factions, one led by Profession Welshman Ncube of which Mr Coltart is a member and ...Published: 26 Nov 2014 at 07:01hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Not As Bad!
It's now clear that the Zimbabwean electorate resembles the plebians in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. In one moment they are mourning Julius Caesar and in the next, Mark Anthony hops on stage and g...Published: 02 Nov 2013 at 03:04hrs | | by Joram Nyandoro
The Ndebeles who succumbed to a manipulator
It is both funny and irritating. I am referring to current spirited attempts by strange people who had nothing to do with Zanu-PF, nay, who worked against Zanu-PF in its bid for re-election, to now s...Published: 11 Aug 2013 at 09:10hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Bennett, the former brutal Rhodesian policeman, remains unrepentant to this day
So many times people have been reminded that the truth hates if it is told to people. One person who will die with anger and hatred in his heart is one unrepentant former Rhodesian policeman Roy B...Published: 06 May 2013 at 16:37hrs | | by Kennedy Mapesa Mandaza
ANC, Zanu-PF are partners in non delivery
The ANC and Zanu-PF are failing to lead Africans from liberation to economic freedomI was not at all surprised by the support of the ANC to Zanu-PF because they have a common past and a common...Published: 11 Apr 2013 at 05:57hrs | | by Vince Musewe
Top Reasons Why Welshman Ncube Could Be The Next President Of Zimbabwe
Being in office for seven terms of 5 years each, President Robert Mugabe tenure of being the president is coming to an end shortly before or after the start of 2013 as the election period has been...Published: 04 Jun 2012 at 09:30hrs | | by Shephard Dube
When Rhodesia coils through lasting myths
TODAY is April 14, a mere four days away from yet another 18th April, the day we commemorate our birthday as an independent, sovereign nation.The year for that momentous event was of course 19...Published: 14 Apr 2012 at 14:24hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Man in the mirror
"A hearer of the word and not a doer" James 1:23Your Bible is a mirror that shows you what you really look like in God's eyes: "If anyone is a hearer of the word and not ...Published: 28 Dec 2011 at 07:11hrs | | by Linda Diokpa
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