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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 | 5434 | by Staff reporter
Biden tells President Trump to 'get a life' and 'help these people'
The US president has criticized his predecessor's rhetoric about the recent hurricanes which have battered the nationUS President Joe Biden has lashed out at his predecessor, Donald Trump, whe...Published: 11 Oct 2024 at 17:22hrs | 388 | by Staff reporter
Hichilema: Absolute power corrupts absolutely
I could not believe what I was hearing. I tried to reassure myself that I was only dreaming. For the third time, I played the video and listened gravely. Again, the words fell like stones into the roo...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 11:38hrs | 1023 | by Dr. Field Ruwe
Government up to its usual shenanigans, again
In the latest act of the ongoing drama which I dub "Governmental Promises: A Comedy of Errors," our esteemed government has once again shocked and dismayed the nation with their predictable flair for ...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 21:40hrs | | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Mnangagwa launches ZimAfro T10
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday said the hosting of the historic Zim Afro T10 on Zimbabwean soil for the first time was a step in the right direction as it fits into Government's thrust to remodel the s...Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe hosts another high profile cricket tournament
Zimbabwe will later this month host another high profile T10 cricket tournament, the first to be held in Africa, in which a number of privately-owned teams are set to take part.The tournament,...Published: 20 Jul 2023 at 16:52hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
International cricket stars for Zim Afro T10
AN ARRAY of international cricket stars is expected to descend on Zimbabwe in the next two weeks for the inaugural Zim Cyber City Afro T10 following the success of the player draft conducted yesterday...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 08:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Remembering gukurahundi genocide
The spirit of Mthwakazi insecurity and why the Mthwakazi prosecutor general must bring the perpetrators of these henious crimes to justice.Greetings to all!For forty-two years, the insecur...Published: 31 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 8 | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
How tech in the classroom continues to change student learning
Tech in the classroom continues to change the way students consume and learn information. From using virtual reality glasses to learn geography to playing online games to learn languages, tech...Published: 16 Aug 2021 at 09:22hrs | 7 | by Staff writer
101 Amazing Facts About the Life and works of Emperor Haile Selassie
On the occasion of the 129th birthday of the Emperor, I have selected one out of 101 extraordinary achievements he accomplished during his reign: from Ras Tafari- Emperor Haile Selassie. The May 5th V...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 14:21hrs | 9 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza originally written by Mulugeta Haile
ZRU names star studded Sables squad
THE Zimbabwe Rugby Union (ZRU) have started preparations for the sports resumption announcing an expanded squad in preparation for the qualifiers for Olympic Games and the 2023 World Cup qualifiers....Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 09:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kembo Mohadi embarrasses the presidium
The vice president's power to lead comes from a ceremonial reverence Zimbabweans grant their presidents. To deserve the reverence, a vice president must act as a steward of the dignity and stature of ...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 08:30hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Zimbabwe, Mozambique worse affected by climate change'
ZIMBABWE and Mozambique are among the worst affected countries by climate change after Cyclone Idai in 2019 hit the two countries, resulting in loss of lives and infrastructure.This was reveal...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
How to kill a country
Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had tired of London's nagging about the subjug...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 16:49hrs | 2 | by Samantha Power
Zimbabwe ministries blocked from outsourcing legal advice
Thirteen tropical cyclones formed in the south-west Indian Ocean during the last rainy season and had some effect on southern Africa weather although only three made a landfall. The cyclones w...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Acid Test for Zimbabwe Rugby Academy as they face Border Bulldogs
It will be a tough test for the Zimbabwe Rugby Academy when they face the Border Bulldogs on Sunday (April 28) at 1430hrs in the debut appearance at the SuperSport Rugby Challenge at the Sisa Dukashe ...Published: 27 Apr 2019 at 16:19hrs | 11 | by APO
Zimbabwe's version of disaster capitalism, couched as resilience
A LOCAL Zimbabwean artist, Dereck Mpofu, recently released a song titled Mweya wechiZimba. Even though the title of the song may suggest it is religious, it is upon listening to it, that you discover ...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Takura Zhangazha
Understanding Cyclone Idai, associated geomorphological processes
Global pressure patterns are a function of spatial temperature variations. We use weather maps to show spatial pressure variations and through analysing atmospheric variables such as wind speed, wind ...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 06:50hrs | 1 | by Energy Mutodi
These critics need more help than cyclone victims
CYCLONE Idai has brought out the good and the ugly in people.Many Zimbabweans have, commendably, risen to the occasion to assist fellow human beings, while others are using this as an opportun...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:33hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Sanctions and jecha affect Zimbabwe's response to natural disasters
I rise to give a statement on the condition of Cyclone Idai which has affected people in Manicaland and many other provinces and to state what Government is undertaking in order to relieve the pressur...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:30hrs | | by July Moyo
Cyclone Idai a disaster to the region
Intense Tropical Cyclone Idai was the strongest tropical cyclone to strike Mozambique since Jokwe in 2008 and the deadliest tropical cyclone worldwide in 2019. The tenth named storm and re...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 12:24hrs | 1 | by Enos Denhere
SADC and AU have the blood of Zimbabweans on their hands
In life there are always those things that one always finds baffling - which never seem to make any sense - and, similarly, I also have two such things in my life.One of those seemingly inexpl...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 11:12hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
NPA chief contests transfer
FORMER director of economic crimes in the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), chief law officer Chris Mutangadura, is suing Prosecutor-General Mr Kumbirai Hodzi at the High Court over his decision t...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa bring back our husbands' Olinda Chapel fumes
I am extremely confused Mr President. Who is this post meant to benefit . You have blocked the internet for all Zimbabweans and therefore they can't see this? Is this "optics" for the international co...Published: 16 Jan 2019 at 13:55hrs | 1 | by Olinda Chapel-Nkomo
Parliament urged to oversee govt spending
PARLIAMENT has to keep strict checks and balances on government expenditure to control the budget deficit, economists have advised.Last week, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube presented his maiden...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti always has something to say
The Daily News on Sunday's Pauline Hurungudo sits down for a wide-ranging interview with former Finance minister Tendai Biti, who is also the deputy national chairperson for the MDC, about the state o...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 14:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti savages Mthuli Ncube
Opposition kingpin Tendai Biti has lashed Finance minister Mthuli Ncube for his "wrong economic prescriptions" for the country.This comes after Ncube's recent policy measures - which include t...Published: 20 Oct 2018 at 13:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
National wisdom, honest optimism can rescue Zimbabwe
FELLOW Zimbabweans, it is almost November again. Are you getting this novemberish sense of déjà vu? Remember November 2017? It was the best of times and the worst of times.This November, pro...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 08:45hrs | | by Brian Kagoro
Chamisa too hot to handle
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, young and eloquent, turned the political landscape upside down to the chagrin of his detractors at home and abroad.When he assumed the leadership of the MDC...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 06:54hrs | | by Pardon Maguta
Caution! - Zimbabwe is at a critical moment
Zimbabwe is at a critical moment. I want to warn politicians, ZEC, churches, courts, lawyers, and the military to respect the will of the people. The voice of the people is the voice of God. Politicia...Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 16:47hrs | 2 | by Isaac nkomah
Chamisa the unstoppable hurricane
Thank You President of the government in waiting Advocate Nelson Chamisa for visiting and exposing the incapability of Mnangagwa led government. You have done a very commendable duty. You ...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 17:02hrs | | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Hurricane Unstoppable: Watching from the terraces - A big Sunday Muzamhindo
Chamisa's ascendancy to power has touched the storms of Harare and indeed it is now hurricane and unstoppable, he got the opportunity and he struck on his competitors. He saw the opportunity and he st...Published: 19 Feb 2018 at 16:29hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
MDC Alliance a the Hurricane Katrina - MDC-T official
MDC-T's deputy national Chairman Morgen Komichi has described the alliance formed with other opposition political parties by his party as a Hurricane Katrina as it has launched its outreach campaign r...Published: 12 Feb 2018 at 07:42hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Silence Gukurahundi purveyors
The way things are trending with Gukurahundi enterprise fundis strenuously casting a small dark cloud to discolour the armed revolution that brought uhuru to the motherland in 1980 — and...Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 10:14hrs | | by Stephen Mpofu
How Mnangagwa factions feted General Chiwenga
Clad in a black suit, white shirt and a stripped green necktie which matched his wife Marry's green attire, commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) General Constantino Chiwenga sat coolly in th...Published: 17 Dec 2017 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unpacking the 'criminal elements' that caused #Zimbabwe coup
President Robert Mugabe's 52-year-old wife rose from political obscurity to the top ranks of the ruling Zanu-PF party women's league secretary in the Zanu PF politburo. She led the charge, leading to ...Published: 18 Nov 2017 at 04:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unpacking the 'criminal elements' that caused Zimbabwe coup
President Robert Mugabe's 52-year-old wife rose from political obscurity to the top ranks of the ruling Zanu-PF party women's league secretary in the Zanu PF politburo. She led the charge, leading to ...Published: 18 Nov 2017 at 04:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Zanu-PF ravaging Zimbabwe
The force with which the Zanu-PF government is bashing Zimbabwe exceeds that of the hurricanes, typhoons or cyclones which are known for causing catastrophic damage to nations.Zimbabwe's woes ...Published: 06 Nov 2017 at 05:21hrs | | by Pardon Maguta
Mnangagwa needs a bit of respect! - What respect, to a murderer?
It smacks of good sense and reasoning to be told to respect a human being who is responsible for 20,000 innocent victims of ethnic cleansing. Bishop Lazarus Mnangagwa's hands are full of blood of inno...Published: 23 Oct 2017 at 07:14hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
A little bit of respect for Mnangagwa
Instead of working hard for the party, some people are going to work hard to destroy the VP. Some will be sponsored to do so while others will just be overzealous to put up a show. There is going to b...Published: 22 Oct 2017 at 08:20hrs | | by Bishop Lazarus
'BVR machine failing to pick polling stations,' admit ZEC - opens door to new rigging opportunities
The BVR voter registration exercise that started four days ago is failing already. In Bulawayo, for example, ZEC Officials are manually write the polling station name on registration slips, resulting ...Published: 19 Sep 2017 at 21:14hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Sydney Sekeramayi: Trained to save lives and then trained to kill innocent people
The internal dog-eat-dog savage fights in Zanu-PF are real. For a long time the infighting has been predictably so because the ingredients of systemic dis functionality dramatically fall into place as...Published: 14 Sep 2017 at 10:23hrs | | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu
Zodwa's no-panties trademark divides Zimbabwe
Zimbabweans recently woke up to a panties debate involving South African socialite Zodwa Wabantu that has roped in Cabinet ministers, the Censorship Board of Zimbabwe and the country's Tourism ministr...Published: 09 Sep 2017 at 15:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zodwa and the carnival
I long ceased to be a fan of America. I have come to associate America with war, hypocrisy and a high level of superciliousness born of its claim to a divine mission in the world, so-called "manifest ...Published: 01 Sep 2017 at 06:41hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
Gushungu ice-cream with a poisonous chemical cone head to be launched at Gweru youth interface rally
Remember that this is ZANU PF politics. Trust nobody. Only trust yourself. Trust the food that you prepare yourself. Forewarned is forearmed. Your safety and wellbeing comes first. It is your responsi...Published: 28 Aug 2017 at 21:23hrs | | by Themba Mthethwa
Zimbabwe football facilities backward
PRETTY ironic (is it not?) that the first Africa Cup of Nations since the ouster of Issa Hayatou should be in Cameroon, home country of the deposed strongman who ruled African football with an iron fi...Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 08:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dembare set for another boardroom victory as PSL goes rogue
The Premier Soccer League (PSL) has referred the abandoned Castle Lager PSL match between Chapungu and Dynamos played at Ascot Stadium in Gweru on Sunday 18 June to the PSL Disciplinary Committee....Published: 24 Jun 2017 at 15:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Phew, that was close! Tyson can breathe again
So Tyson's near political death experience must be a humbling lesson to him and many other Zanu-PF members.ZANU-PF national commissar, Savior "Tyson" Kasukuwere was a few seconds from his ...Published: 09 Apr 2017 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Met Office allays Cyclone Enawo fears
The Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has warned Zimbabweans not to panic over tropical Cyclone Enawo, as it is still too far from the mainland to have any effect.Cyclone Enawo is b...Published: 06 Mar 2017 at 05:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tropical Cyclone to hit Mozambique
A Tropical Cyclone is set to make landfall over the coast of Mozambique on Monday, 13 February. This is according to Storm Report SA, forecasting that although South Africa is not in dange...Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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