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Remembering those who made it possible, our fallen heroes
As the blood of the heroes flows beneath our freedom, reminding us that every expression of joy and every fruit of freedom was watered by the blood of our heroes. It will become history if we do not r...Published: 20 hrs ago | 673 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chief Charumbira finally confirms that 5th Brigade targeted Ndebeles only
"We have heard lies being thrown around in the media. They are saying we have been captured to white-wash the gukurahundi reburial. Well let me make it clear that is not the case. Only Chiefs from Mat...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 10:18hrs | 5465 | by Israel Dube
Mnangagwa honours King Lobengula's commander
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has posthumously conferred National Hero status on revered military tactician, General Mtshana Khumalo ahead of the unveiling of a monument at the site where the commander won his ...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 06:14hrs | 2430 | by Staff reporter
Diarrhoea outbreak hits Harare Central Prison
A DIARRHOEA outbreak has hit Harare Central Prison, which houses an estimated 100 inmates at a time holding cells have no running water. Clean water has reportedly been scarce at the prison, a...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 06:08hrs | 297 | by Staff reporter
National Hero status for Gen Mtshana Khumalo
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has posthumously conferred National Hero status on revered military tactician, General Mtshana Khumalo ahead of the unveiling of a monument at the site where the commander won his ...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 05:52hrs | 817 | by Staff reporter
Sadc waits for signal from Mozambique
Let's face it, any disturbing developments in a neighbouring country have the effect of being contagious if not carefully managed. There is something disturbing taking place in Mozambique in the provi...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 05:50hrs | 808 | by Ranga Mataire
Govt mounts fresh plan to save Zisco
GOVERNMENT is mounting a fresh plan on Friday to revive operations at the moribund steel maker Ziscosteel, the latest of a string of futile attempts to rebuild Africa's once largest integrated steelwo...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 07:03hrs | 389 | by Staff reporter
Moana burial set for today
SOCIALITE Michelle "Moana" Amuli, who died in horrific car accident on November 8, is set to be buried today after the High Court resolved a three-week-long impasse between her estranged parents over ...Published: 28 Nov 2020 at 07:09hrs | 576 | by Staff reporter
Uncle murders brother's son
A HONDE Valley man recently confessed to killing his nine-year-old nephew for ritual purposes, before going on to harvest the minor's private parts, arms, ears and eyes after being contracted to do so...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 17:02hrs | 581 | by Staff reporter
Moana's burial suspended indefinitely
The dispute over how and where Michelle "Moana" Amuli will be buried looks set to establish a legal precedent in Zimbabwe to govern how such conflicts among relatives belonging to different faiths can...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:07hrs | 429 | by Staff reporter
Only Matabeleland and Midlands chiefs to be used for Gukurahundi genocide cover-ups
Chief THE President of the Chiefs' Council, Chief Fortune Charumbira has said only chiefs from Matabeleland and Midlands provinces whose people were affected by Gukurahundi will participate in reburia...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:42hrs | 478 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC plots to burn Zimbabwe Government buildings?
A LEAKED audio recording of a top MDC-Alliance official reveals stunning details of how the opposition party planned a wave of terror that involved burning Government buildings and faking abductions t...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:38hrs | 944 | by Staff reporter
NUST to conduct Gukurahundi DNA tests
GOVERNMENT is working on a law that will guide the process of exhumations of the remains of Gukurahundi victims in Matabeleland and the Midlands with the National University of Science and Technology ...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 21:38hrs | 154 | by Staff reporter
Struggling millionaires
HIS nickname, which I find a bit harsh, is Poor Millionaire. I prefer calling him just SP - for Struggling Peter.He shares a small cabin with his younger brother at an illegal settlement adjac...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 19:02hrs | 2152 | by Black Edward
Civil society trashes Gukurahundi genocide plan
CIvIC and Church organisations, most of them drawn from the matabeleland region have unanimously agreed to declare government's position on the exhumation and reburial of Gukurahundi victims misplaced...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:12hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
Kudos to govt for rehabilitating Harare-B/bridge highway
GOVERNMENT invited for the bids of the dualisation of the Harare-Beitbridge Highway in 1998 and in 2003, the project was awarded to the consortium of six local contractors and six local engineering fi...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 05:30hrs | 1170 | by Ben Musarurwa
Zimbabwe govt mulls tightening lockdown
AUTHORITIES could be forced to re-introduce a tough national lockdown to prevent a second wave of the lethal coronavirus in the country.This comes as health experts - alarmed by the rising num...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 07:11hrs | 13314 | by Staff reporter
Ginimbi in another 'bizarre' accident
THE late socialite Genius Kadungure aka Boss Ginimbi's hearse was involved in yet another accident on Friday afternoon as his body was being carried home from a funeral parlour, his father told mourne...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 16:16hrs | 6486 | by Staff reporter
Ibhetshu Lika Zulu statement on government position on gukurahundi exhumations
Ibhetshu LikaZulu has in the past weeks consulted civic society groups, church leaders, political leaders, and individuals, to consult on the government position on Gukurahundi genocide exhumations an...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 08:03hrs | 877 | by Ibhetshu Lika Zulu
A tale of two funerals
THE angel of death has once again struck - it has paid the nation the all but unfamiliar visit.It is not the visit that surprises many, but it is how it stole from the roll-call of the famous ...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 21:24hrs | 980 | by Staff reporter
Chaos mars Gringo burial
THE burial of the late popular comedian Lazarus "Gringo" Boora at his rural home in Rukweza, Rusape, yesterday was marred by chaotic scenes as the family clashed with members of the Johanne Masowe eCh...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 05:44hrs | 3103 | by Staff reporter
Thugs in Zanu PF soiling the good name of the party
In this time of DCC elections, a lot of hero-worshipping and name dropping within the party is rife. Many people are abusing the name of the president in order to gain momentum. Some in provinces are ...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 13:04hrs | 975 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chamisa, Khupe and Mnangagwa must leave politics; the people shall govern
Failed politicians must pack and go! What a breath of fresh air to read your todays article "No single or individual group can stage a revolution on its own".An Alliance of Democratic ...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:56hrs | 4905 | by Nomazulu Thata
Police intensify Ginimbi death probe
NATIONAL police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi yesterday said they were intensifying investigations into the death of socialite and businessman Genius "Ginimbi" Kadungure who died in ...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:43hrs | 4009 | by Staff reporter
The Importance of Unity, Mzilikazi's legacy
The legacy of Mzilikazi "the Trailblazer" who left Kwa-Zulu in the early 1800's to trail through the rigid Territories of the North-West, passing through certain areas and establishing his 'Kraals' wh...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 08:11hrs | 1431 | by Sizwe Mda
Chiwenga humiliates 'gravely sick' wife
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga used soldiers to humiliate his estranged wife by dumping her property at her Harare offices on Friday.Chiwenga and his wife Marry Mubaiwa are embroiled in a...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 18:42hrs | 27514 | by Staff reporter
Nurses approach High Court over Chiwenga's flexi-hours
GOVERNMENT should brace for bruising court battles as nurses have approached the High Court seeking an interdict to halt their employer from implementing the "unlawful"removal of flexible working ...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:36hrs | 708 | by Staff reporter
African leaders now smell like goats!
The Lord really works in mysterious ways.It has come full circle for Evo Morales.The former president of the South American country of Bolivia will be returning home on Wednesday this ...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:01hrs | 421 | by Staff reporter
'Chiefs captured by Mnangagwa to whitewash Gukurahundi genocide'
DETHRONED Ntabazinduna Chief Felix Nhlanhlayemangwe Ndiweni has claimed that local traditional leaders were captured by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to "whitewash" the Gukurahundi mas...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:34hrs | 1082 | by Staff reporter
CSOs angry over border policing failures
CIVIC organisations in the country yesterday expressed fury over President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government's failure to police border areas, where there is rampant smuggling of minerals.In a j...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:26hrs | 247 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in a crisis
A crisis where the government deployed the army, rolled tanks into the streets and killed innocent unarmed civilians at 45°angle and a commission of enquiry instituted but no one is held accountable....Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 10:04hrs | 6675 | by Leonard Koni
'Zimbabwe youths being robbed of the prime'
ZIMBABWE is now a sad story where youths have been robbed of a whole generation of prime time, the selfexiled director of the Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation Mthulisi Hanana has claimed.Hanana who ...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 05:45hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
Inside Bulawayo's worsening water crisis
It is 6am on a Saturday and residents of Sizinda, a poor suburb in Bulawayo, have begun their desperate hunt for water.The taps at home dried up three months ago.Water has become a dai...Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 08:32hrs | 1340 | by Staff reporter
Iyasa founding and longest-serving member, Bonnie dies
The arts fraternity in Zimbabwe has been plunged into mourning again following the death of Iyasa founding and longest serving member, Sibonisiwe Sithole, who died in Bulawayo on Thursday morning....Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 21:12hrs | 645 | by Staff reporter
Speeding bus rams into cart, kills boy (10)
A speed race for passengers between two bus companies plying the Bulawayo-Binga route ended in tragedy after a CAG Travelers bus hit a donkey drawn scotch cart and killed a juvenile on the spot while ...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 20:12hrs | 1655 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi genocide must not be swept under the carpet, says Gandawa
EXILED former Higher and Tertiary Education deputy minister, Godfrey Gandawa has called for truth telling and prosecution among perpetrators of the Gukurahundi atrocities before steps could be put in ...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 07:24hrs | 1830 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa backs down on Zimbabwe genocide
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has given in to demands by traditional leaders, who want the government to take a back seat in the exhumation and reburial of victims of army atrocities.Mnangagwa,...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 08:01hrs | 1157 | by Staff reporter
Sex prophet preys on flock
A self-styled prophet who started a virtual church on WhatsApp has admitted bedding several female congregants who came to him for prayer and confided in him about problems they were having in their r...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 18:44hrs | 3019 | by Staff reporter
Hostilities persist in Chamisa party
HOSTILITIES in the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance are escalating with each passing day amid complaints that its elections directorate approved unqualified candidates to contest the Highfield West pri...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 22:18hrs | 3695 | by Staff reporter
'You like us dead' unions tell government over new US$500 funeral cover
Public sector workers accused the government of being "insensitive" on Tuesday after a new US$500 funeral cover was announced.Information ministry spokesman Ndavaningi Mangwana announced the n...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:59hrs | 728 | by Staff reporter
Teen boy sentenced to 18 years for murder
A TEENAGE boy from Nyamandlovu who strangled his 13-year-old cousin to death and set the body alight using paraffin before burying it in a shallow grave has been sentenced to 18 years in jail....Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 13:30hrs | 2878 | by Staff Reporter
Man robbed of forex while praying
A Beitbridge man lost US$200, R10 000, seven cellphones and various goods to five armed robbers who attacked him while he was praying alone in a bushy area, as such cases continue to rise in the borde...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 23:52hrs | 1601 | by Staff reporter
The Unity Accord & Gukurahundi
The 1987 unity accord meant nothing then to the people of Mathebeleland and the Midlands and it means nothing to them today. We said it then and we are saying it today. It actually made the leader of ...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 09:30hrs | 1024 | by Clemen Moyo
Chiwenga's ministry rocked by salaries scam
THE profligate President Emmerson Mnangagwa administration is spending millions of dollars per month on double salaries and allowances for senior officials in the Ministry of Health and Child Care des...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 07:26hrs | 11087 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa must openly apologise for Gukurahundi'
Victims of Gukurahundi have dared President Emmerson Mnangagwa to openly apologise for the massacre of approximately 20 000 innocent civilians, arguing that half-hearted approaches such as the issuanc...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 21:22hrs | 920 | by Staff reporter
Illegal guns worry government
POLICE admitted yesterday that they were concerned by the proliferation of unlicensed firearms in public hands, which were being used to commit violent crimes.However, police said it was too e...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 18:50hrs | 1309 | by Staff reporter
General Chiwenga's vehicle caught by police carrying diamond gravel?
The Children of Zimbabwe War Veterans Association has alleged that a vehicle belong to Vice President Constantino Chiwenga was intercepted by police officers carrying diamond gravel about a month ago....Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 10:50hrs | 15802 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Infertility: A shared responsibility
Being a parent is a desired part of adult identity in most societies. For many couples, the inability to bear children is a tragedy. The conflux of personal, interpersonal, social, and religious expec...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 12:01hrs | 1263 | by Heaven Munyuki
Urban to rural migration the new scenario in Zimbabwe
IN a reversal of the normal trends with regards to rural-to-urban migration worldwide, the current pattern in Zimbabwe is pointing towards a shift in migration, this time, urban to rural migration bei...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:13hrs | 1121 | by Peter Makwanya
Understanding method to 'madness' in urban councils
Nowadays, hardly a day passes without news headlines relaying salacious details of corrupt goings on in predominantly opposition run urban councils. Often, these headlines are accompanied by t...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:00hrs | 155 | by Staff reporter
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