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Mr. President, Zimbabweans don't care about your 'critical pronouncements' as long as we're hungry and poor!
Recently, during a performance contract signing ceremony, President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa chided his information and communications personnel for failing to properly articulate and disseminate h...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 09:27hrs | 317 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Survivors relive Gukurahundi horrors
A SOMBRE atmosphere prevailed on Thursday when villagers gathered at a site in Emkhonyeni Village, Tsholotsho district where 21 women and one man were burnt into ashes in a hut on March 16, 1983....Published: 19 Mar 2023 at 07:51hrs | 1104 | by Staff reporter
Sandra Ndebele-Sibindi contesting in Zanu-PF primary elections
14 pupils injured after sinkhole opens up in classroomFourteen pupils at a Kwekwe school were treated for injuries on Thursday after a sinkhole opened up in the middle of their classroom – the c...Published: 16 Mar 2023 at 16:08hrs | 1383 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF grassroots supporters should rid party of political elite who have destroyed Zimbabwe
Every time I teach my son about the history of this country, I can not help feel a deep sense of pride and respect for our nationalist movements, in their intrepid quest for the independence and freed...Published: 16 Mar 2023 at 10:19hrs | 570 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Job Sikhala's case is exposing the opposition
In three months' time, Job Sikhala would have clocked a full year in jail for allegedly inciting public violence and attempting to defeat the course of justice.They say, among other things, he...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 06:25hrs | 1053 | by Tawanda Majoni
6 NUST students feared dead as horror crash claims 9
Six students from Bulawayo's National University of Science and Technology (NUST) are believed to have perished Thursday in a horrific road traffic accident which killed nine people, according to poli...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 08:14hrs | 2250 | by Staff reporter
Gweru: a city without traffic lights
Green means go, and red means stop. That is the rule on the road, but when traffic lights are down, motorists are left asking which car goes first? This is a question that most motorists in Zimbabwe's...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 08:02hrs | 135 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe was colonized through a 'mega deal', and happening again with the Chinese and Belarusians
When people talk of colonization, there are those with the misguided notion that this only occurs via military conquest - usually, by a more powerful nation over a far weaker one.Yet, this cou...Published: 02 Mar 2023 at 07:32hrs | 1248 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabweans man survives SA horror bus crash that claimed 21 lives
One of the survivors of the bus crash that claimed at least 21 lives and left more than 60 people injured has described the accident as the "worst event" he has seen in his 59 years of life.Ja...Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 17:32hrs | 337 | by Staff reporter
War vets should be vanguards of Zimbabwe's independence
Our war veterans should be at the forefront of condemning the institutionalised plunder of our vast national resources by a small ruling eliteONE of the greatest tragedies to befall post-colon...Published: 13 Feb 2023 at 05:20hrs | 245 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe-born Italian rugby star recounts farm invasions horror
Sebastian Negri still remembers the gunshots. A staccato volley piercing the still Zimbabwean night. He was eight years old when a violent gang of war veterans came to seize his family farm. Around th...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:41hrs | 851 | by Staff reporter
A leader who always gives reasons for his failures is himself an unmitigated failure!
Every one of us is a leader in one form or another! One may be a father or husband, mother or wife, or maybe a supervisor or manager at a company – to a corporate executive, or an entreprene...Published: 11 Feb 2023 at 14:16hrs | 538 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Hollywood-based Zimbabwean actor visits Victoria Falls
Hollywood Zimbabwean actor and star of multiple American film productions, Tongayi Anorld Chirisa visited Victoria Falls during the first week of February 2023.Mbano Manor boutique hotel - ren...Published: 09 Feb 2023 at 08:55hrs | 3343 | by Shelton Muchena
Mubobobo man rubs manhood against woman in bank queue
A WOMAN who was queuing at a bank in the city centre nearly jumped out of her skin when she felt something hard and slimy sliding up and down her back.To her horror, when she turned to check, ...Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 19:15hrs | 2017 | by Staff reporter
Support ED all you want, but please don't blaspheme the name of our God!
The Apostle Paul was right!"The love of money is the root of all evil"!And, tragically these words have been proven more real i...Published: 27 Jan 2023 at 17:33hrs | 1762 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Air Commodore dies in lnter Africa bus accident
Air Commodore Pio Maketo died on the spot in the horror road accident when Inter Africa bus collided with a Toyota Hilux on Saturday....Published: 09 Jan 2023 at 07:40hrs | 5349 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Zimbabwe is being led by the Devil himself - please, dear God, intervene!
I have seen evil in this country before. In fact, I believe that my childhood experiences of watching those in my neighborhood of Redcliff being gruesomely beaten up, and their homes burnt to ...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 09:53hrs | 1798 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Man murders wife, 3 kids and hangs self
In a shock incident, a Nyanga man, Edward Chirombe allegedly murdered, in cold blood, his wife and three children aged 8, 12 and 14 before committing suicide through hanging.The bodies were di...Published: 07 Jan 2023 at 19:30hrs | 1141 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants grovelling for housing stands isn't economic development but shameful retrogression
It was one of the most painful and heartrending sights! There are very few incidents that are so harrowing and sink the heart, as watching grown-ups - grovelling for things which, in a normal ...Published: 05 Jan 2023 at 13:22hrs | 879 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
If Zimbabweans are serious about change then 2023 should be a year of action!
In this world, only a fool expects their aspirations and goals to just fall onto his laps - as if manna from the heavens. Anyone who genuinely supposes that their dreams and objectives will be...Published: 01 Jan 2023 at 09:38hrs | 921 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
3 dead in horror collision between two trucks
Three people died while three others were injured when an Ashok Leyland Truck they were travelling in hit the trailer of a haulage truck which was heading in the opposite direction at the 382km peg al...Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 06:47hrs | 1778 | by Staff reporter
How high-level corruption at ZESA plunged Zimbabwe into darkness!
The reason Zimbabwe is suffering by daily 20-hour electricity cuts is not necessarily due to antiquated equipment, neither can it ever be a so-called 'growing economy' - but, had everything to do with...Published: 09 Dec 2022 at 09:39hrs | 2958 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Horror fight leads to double murder at Growth Point
POLICE in Midlands province are investigating a case of double homicide after two bodies with stab wounds were found at the business centre on Saturday.In a statement on Tuesday, the Zimbabwe ...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:04hrs | 151 | by Staff reporter
GBV sign of broader culture of violence we have embraced in our lives
I always teach my family that 'sin cannot be successfully micromanaged'.In other words, an individual can never successfully control or...Published: 26 Nov 2022 at 21:06hrs | 162 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
How can Zimbabweans be helped when they don't want to help themselves?
There is a popular Chinese adage - 'it's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness'.Indeed, as the people of Zimbabwe, we have endure unbelievable untold suffering, oppression and po...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 13:22hrs | 990 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Fluttering the Triple C dovecote
Horror times for Triple CKikikiki, Professor Jonathan Moyo and Patrick Zhuwao have caused a perfect storm in Chamisa's already troubled, and inexorably shrinking space. They have written to "c...Published: 19 Nov 2022 at 06:26hrs | 177 | by Staff reporter
Glorification of violence coming back to haunt Zimbabwean societies
Hardly a day passes without Zimbabweans encountering a horrific story of one incident of barbaric violence or another – be it in romantic relationships ...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 11:32hrs | 327 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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 | 287 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe paying the price for not holding leaders to account
AS much Zimbabwe scares me, sometimes!It is terribly unsettling and outright creepy, to say the least, whenever I watch how some Zimbabweans treat their leaders.I try to imagine if I h...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:27hrs | 238 | by Tendai R Mbofana
Let's not be a nation of stooges!
Zimbabwe scares me, sometimes!It is terribly unsettling and outright creepy, to say the least, whenever I watch how some Zimbabweans treat their leaders....Published: 06 Nov 2022 at 19:17hrs | 1299 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
CCC MP relives torture horror
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) MP Jasmine Toffa has described her last weekend's ordeal at the hands of suspected Zanu-PF hooligans as dehumanising and traumatising.Toffa was brutally att...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 09:22hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
Jumbo, croc attack victim seeks help
A BINGA man who miraculously survived an elephant and crocodile attack that left him clinging onto the straws of life is appealing for financial assistance to enable him to undergo further treatment o...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 09:13hrs | 118 | by Staff reporter
Diasporans must fly Zimbabwe flag high
JOHN Wirimai worked for a railway company. His duties were to give warnings at rail and road crossings. Those days many rail crossings were at a low level so cars had to give way to the trains. ...Published: 22 Oct 2022 at 05:38hrs | 159 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
West Indies survive Zimbabwe fright
The West Indies have kept their T20 World Cup campaign alive, overcoming another batting collapse, horror run out and wayward early bowling to beat Zimbabwe by 31 runs in Hobart.The two-time c...Published: 19 Oct 2022 at 20:26hrs | 80 | by Staff reporter
1 dies in horrific accident
ONE person died and 14 others escaped with varying injuries when a Nissan Patrol pickup motor vehicle they were travelling in overturned.Midlands Provincial police spokesperson Inspector Emman...Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 05:50hrs | 359 | by Staff reporter
'Climbing on rooftops' in criticizing Zimbabwe ruling elite is indictment on dictatorial regime insensitivity to citizens' cries
The past week in Zimbabwe was characterized by the fervent reprimand by two prominent individuals on citizens who ostensibly 'climb on rooftops' in condem...Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 17:55hrs | 375 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Binga horror crash claims four, injures nine
Four people died Thursday while nine others were injured when a Department of Roads vehicle veered off the road and overturned in Siabuwa, Matabeleland North.Police confirmed the tragic incide...Published: 17 Sep 2022 at 19:13hrs | 1020 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe domestic worker used as sex slave, exploited then fired in Pretoria, South Africa
A ZIMBABWEAN woman employed as a housemaid in Pretoria, South Africa is grappling to recover from the trauma of alleged sex slavery by a family she worked for, before her unceremonious dismissal....Published: 15 Sep 2022 at 05:59hrs | 2442 | by Staff reporter
6 perish as vehicles collide in Mutare
Six people died early Sunday morning in a horrific collision involving two Honda Fit vehicles in the border city.The road traffic accident happened on a curve along the Mutare-Masvingo Road ju...Published: 04 Sep 2022 at 15:55hrs | 2038 | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe junior in accident
The late former president Robert Gabriel Mugabe’s son, Robert Tinotenda Junior, was reportedly involved in a horror accident after his luxury SUV flipped over.According to a local online pub...Published: 03 Sep 2022 at 19:41hrs | 6326 | by Staff reporter
Desperation and despair turn Mnangagwa and comrades into a pathetic sorrowful sight!
In my book, there is nothing that robs a man of all his dignity and confidence as desperation and despair. There is no sadder and more dismal sight than a man who is fully aware of the hopeles...Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 20:02hrs | 438 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa says Uzumba has never known independence
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) president, Nelson Chamisa, has said villagers in Zanu-PF stronghold Uzumba are yet to enjoy fruits of independence due to ruling party militia engaged in activities...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 21:20hrs | 3266 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala stares horror in prison's notorious D-Class
"These leg irons are as old as can be. Other than them being too tight, since they appear to be one size fit all (despite that some inmates may have bigger legs) with a possibility of disrupting the s...Published: 18 Aug 2022 at 20:50hrs | 2210 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans living in South Africa fear for their safety
ZIMBABWEANS living in South Africa (SA) have expressed concern over their safety after a top African National Congress (ANC) official said Pretoria could not guarantee the safety of foreign nationals ...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 06:34hrs | 1077 | by Staff reporter
'HIV mothers can breastfeed their babies'
FAITH Karuru (not her real name) was infected with HIV by her boyfriend, who fled to South Africa after committing a crime seven years ago."I discovered I was HIV positive when I went to regis...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:48hrs | 451 | by Staff reporter
As long as Zimbabweans are such unmitigated cowards - Chamisa will grow old, and go into the grave without ever tasting power!
I have written extensively on how our appalling cowardice as Zimbabweans is the greatest single most outstanding factor holding us back as a nation - preventing us from pushing for the change we despe...Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 21:39hrs | 1186 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabweans suffer horrific medical exclusion in SA
SOUTH Africa arguably boasts the highest standard of healthcare on the continent where everyone can access public healthcare. However, access to public facilities comes at a cost over around US$300 US...Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 1783 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa relives 2017 'ice cream' horror
President Mnangagwa yesterday opened up on his infamous Gwanda poisoning incident in 2017, saying the medical treatment that saved his life after being airlifted to South Africa inspired his mantra th...Published: 16 Jul 2022 at 10:29hrs | 4409 | by Staff reporter
Is ED honestly proud of his five years in office?
All too often I encounter disturbing media reports of ordinary Zimbabweans being callously arrested and hauled before the courts for ostensibly "undermining the authority of/or insulting the president...Published: 12 Jul 2022 at 11:21hrs | 2502 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe war veterans in witch-hunt
WAR veterans are re-structuring in an exercise expected to claim some scalps to weed out "rogue" elements that "could disrupt" President Emmerson Mnangagwa's chances of being re-elected next year....Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:50hrs | 925 | by Staff reporter
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