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18 November 2017 - the day of Zimbabwe's delusional politics!
I have just been reading some testimonies from some of the people who partook in the 18 November 2017 mass protests against Robert Gabriel Mugabe's 37 year long tyranny - and the tremendous hopes that...Published: 3 hrs ago | 588 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Guard on the run after R30 000 theft
A SECURITY guard is on the run after allegedly stealing R30 000 and $200 from a lodge where he was employed in Gwanda. Matabeleland South provincial police spokesperson Chief Inspector Philisa...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 05:52hrs | 411 | by Staff reporter
Money is the root of all evil
We all use money every day and yet few of us really understand what these bits of paper or cotton or simply figures in a ledger really mean. But we know the stuff is important.In economic term...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 05:38hrs | 990 | by Eddie Cross
Do not strip our forests
Commercialization of wild fruits has left creatures of the wild with no food. Attendant to this 'tragedy' is the wanton cutting down of trees that is destroying the natural habitat of animals and bird...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:17hrs | 66 | by Tondo Murisa.
The day I tricked my headmaster
Some years ago at school, we were busy making some noise; and our headmaster, whose office was close to our classroom overhead the noise we were making. I was standing, making some...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 07:30hrs | 2642 | by Mthokozisi Gwizi
'Thief' turns into lawyer in court
A MAN from Bulawayo caused a stir in court when he brought a law textbook to "guide his defence" after he was found in possession of goods that are suspected to have been stolen.Godknows Mandu...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 07:03hrs | 9925 | by Staff reporter
Police hunt for 5 robbers
POLICE in Bindura have launched a manhunt for five suspected robbers linked to a series of armed robberies in Mashonaland Central province.The five, all believed to be from Harare, were initia...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 06:12hrs | 1037 | by Staff reporter
Shoot-out robbers arrested
A gang of suspected armed robbers, who exchanged gun shots with police detectives in Waterfalls on Thursday last week, will appear in court today.The notorious gang was arrested after a shooto...Published: 05 Nov 2018 at 16:58hrs | 3117 | by Staff reporter
Retracing the life and death of Dr Sithole
This is the third and final contribution on the life, abduction, disappearance and subsequent death of Dr Edson Sithole - a veteran nationalist, barrister and national hero whose heroic life remains s...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 08:42hrs | 496 | by Isaya Muriwo Sithole
Chamisa mobilises supporters for march
MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa yesterday reiterated that his party was mobilising its supporters to march against the Government.Mr Chamisa said he was on a countrywide tour to mobilise...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 08:05hrs | 1241 | by Staff reporter
Man falls from third floor over hooker
A Glen View man was last night left injured when he was thrown from third floor of a flat by a hooker following a misunderstanding over payment for sex services she rendered.The incident happe...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 15:43hrs | 1679 | by Staff reporter
Dead donkeys land man in court
A Guruve village head is up in arms with his friend whom he gave two donkeys last year and were returned dead to his place of residents the same year.Village head Ezekiel Kamota (78) of Kamota...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 20:01hrs | 1783 | by Simbarashe Sithole
War vets crank up heat on Zanu-PF 'chefs'
The political future of former Cabinet ministers who were recently re-assigned to the ruling Zanu-PF's headquarters by President Emmerson Mnangagwa is becoming increasingly uncertain. This com...Published: 30 Oct 2018 at 06:04hrs | 6124 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe under attack from within
It is without doubt that government is facing resistance from the civil service, a lumbering elephant of half a million workers, in carrying out its reforms.This is because civil servants are ...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 19:34hrs | 7379 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zanu-PF HQ under siege - as war vets gun for bigwigs
Members of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) besieged the Zanu-PF headquarters yesterday, demanding the removal of ex-Cabinet ministers assigned to the "Shake-Shake Bu...Published: 27 Oct 2018 at 14:38hrs | 1994 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF and MDC Alliance at par
A joint forum of the church and the civic society have said both Zanu PF and MDC Alliance have equal power despite their legitimacy feuds.Abigail Mupambi the nation cordinator said Zimbabwe ha...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 15:01hrs | 3468 | by Stephen Jakes
Exam leaks: Zimsec tightens security
The Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) has acquired its own printing machine and will no longer be contracting other organisations, a move acting director Dr Lazarus Nembaware says will hel...Published: 25 Oct 2018 at 06:30hrs | 529 | by Staff reporter
Suspected serial car thief arrested
Police in Marondera have arrested a suspected serial car thief who masqueraded as a passenger and targeted pirate taxi drivers before getting off with their vehicles.Walter Benjamin Changa (25...Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 06:58hrs | 1533 | by Staff reporter
Man 'chokes' mum to death, locks house
A MAN from Mzilikazi suburb in Bulawayo allegedly strangled his mother to death after accusing her of bewitching him before locking the body in her house. Keith Muponda (25), who is suspected ...Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 06:45hrs | 1226 | by Staff reporter
Gang members arrested for 'assaulting' cops
TWO of the 12-man machete wielding gang that assaulted cops and destroyed six police bicycles, have been arrested. Prince Moyo (24) and Descent Moyo (26) both from Spitzop North suburb in Gwan...Published: 20 Oct 2018 at 08:17hrs | 499 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Midlands seeks hero status for Shiri
THE Zanu PF Midlands province structure is set to write to the party's supreme governing body, politburo, seeking national hero status for its vice-chairperson, Godwin Shiri, who died in a car acciden...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 07:00hrs | 1721 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Central Committee member dies in car crash
ZANU-PF Midlands Province deputy chairperson and Central Committee member Godwin Shiri has died. Shiri died after the party vehicle he was driving was involved in a head on collision with a bu...Published: 16 Oct 2018 at 06:19hrs | 3265 | by Staff reporter
Clueless ED has nation push-starting Zimbabwe Bus uphill with empty fuel tank - going nowhere
Of course, Zanu PF rigged the recent elections; if the truth be told the EU, USA and everyone with any understanding of Zimbabwe politics did not expect anything else. "The final results as an...Published: 14 Oct 2018 at 20:02hrs | 5263 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Moyo is Mnangagwa's new acid test
Back in the days, every old, frail and ugly country woman was believed to be a witch. It didn't matter if, indeed, she was. Her looks and age naturally turned her into that ogre that drank our blood a...Published: 14 Oct 2018 at 10:02hrs | 10878 | by Tawanda Majoni
EU poll observer report: Public camaraderie with Chamisa
While Zimbabweans had largely moved on with life after the July 30 harmonised elections, the European Union (EU) has sought to drag the country back into election mode through the release of its...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 06:51hrs | 922 | by Bevan Musoko
Zanu-PF scoffs at GNU
Zanu-PF has scoffed at reports that the economic challenges prevailing in the country will push President Emmerson Mnangagwa to engage the opposition MDC Alliance and form a government of national uni...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 18:42hrs | 4397 | by Staff reporter
Planned demonstrations retrogressive
Government recently introduced fiscal measures meant to address the economic challenges that the country is facing, and against this backdrop, there has been a surge in planned protest action by oppos...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 09:42hrs | 1362 | by Anesu Pedzisayi
Monetary, fiscal policies: The equivalent of a two legged stool?
ON October 1, 2018, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) issued its rather long monetary policy statement (MPS).Empirical evidence has shown that ordinarily, the length of such a statement is in...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 06:38hrs | 281 | by Tapiwa Nyandoro
Chamisa's supporters stuck in Wonderland
Some issues do not add up, but some people believe them anyway. Could it be escapism – creating a bubble enabling one to escape from his shortcomings in the real world, or such people strongly belie...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 12:14hrs | 3958 | by Mapozho Saruchera
Chamisa 'is not the answer to Zimbabwe's economic challenges'
The Zimbabwean government has reportedly dismissed claims by the opposition that the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Nelson Chamisa holds the keys to the current economic problems affectin...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 09:54hrs | 5859 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa not a 'Messiah' to solve current economic problems'
MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa is not a "Messiah" or the answer to the current economic challenges since the role to fix the economy is the responsibility of all Zimbabweans regardless of polit...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 07:48hrs | 2659 | by Staff reporter
15 Zesa bosses sent on mandatory leave
ZESA Holdings has sent 15 managers across its subsidiaries on mandatory leave to pave way for a forensic audit into the affairs of the parastatal, it has emerged. The audit has been going on a...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 06:58hrs | 1255 | by Staff reporter
RBZ, fat cats rule the black market
Someone must do the right thing, grab the office keys from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor, John Mangudya, and take him to a job that he actually deserves. Because he looks and acts like a...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 08:53hrs | 2927 | by Tawanda Majoni
Who cursed our Economy?
Dear Zimbabweans, REF: I have a dilemma and need your help.THEY came with their donkeys and mixed them with my cows and told me that the donkeys...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 08:52hrs | 1561 | by Melfort Sibanda
Elections were rigged: Chamisa's presidential claim is as nonsensical as ED's - 2 nonsense don't make a right
Nelson Chamisa is now a real pain in the backside of the nation! He is like the High School boy you agree to dance with and the next thing he is telling everyone you are his girlfriend! Whilst...Published: 03 Oct 2018 at 16:00hrs | 1361 | by Nomusa Garikai
Chamisa rallying his supporters to unseat Mnangagwa 'peacefully'
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, who claims he has a legitimate claim to lead the country after rejecting a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) ruling that confirmed President Emmerson Mnang...Published: 03 Oct 2018 at 07:26hrs | 1720 | by Staff reporter
Carjackers pounce on motorist
NOTORIOUS carjackers recently pounced on an unsuspecting Zvishavane motorist and stabbed him several times before leaving him undressed along the Zvishavane-Gweru Highway.The victim has been i...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 06:55hrs | 875 | by Staff reporter
Hyena snatches, kills boy (6)
TERROR has engulfed Buhera after an aggressive hyena snatched a six-year-old boy from his parents' doorstep, viciously killed him and dropped off his mutilated skeleton in a nearby riverbed in the mid...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 06:37hrs | 824 | by Staff reporter
Diamond miner accused of poisoning livestock
VILLAGERS in Chivi, Masvingo province, have accused Murowa Diamonds of contaminating water sources while prospecting for diamonds, which they say has caused the deaths of their cattle.At a pub...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 07:19hrs | 474 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU used as a cash cow
Many people have left the party forced by ditactorship of its leader that were bought by Barbara Nyagomo to hand the Vice President post to her. When she realised how unpopular she was within ZAPU ran...Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 18:21hrs | 2399 | by Godknows Khumalo, Zapu member - Kwekwe Province
Two ladies steal man's underwear, central lock his manhood
Two Guruve women appeared before Guruve resident magistrate on Monday for allegedly unlawfully entering a man's bedroom and stealing his underwear there-by central locking his manhood.The duo ...Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 13:02hrs | 6858 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe economy on the mend
Zimbabweans have entered the most anxious week. The new cabinet flew into a cholera crisis and from nowhere prices sky rocketed and rates came to obnoxious stinking levels. Mthuli Ncube's first week i...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:32hrs | 2895 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
3 traffic cops who bashed motorist acquitted
Three traffic police officers based at Kwekwe Central Police station were acquitted of malicious damage of property and assaulting a motorist yesterday by Kwekwe provincial magistrate Mr Stories Rusha...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 14:22hrs | 1348 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Man crush ex-wife car with haulage truck
A MUTARE man has been hauled before the courts on malicious damage to property charges after he allegedly drove a haulage truck into his ex-wife Toyota Raum in an apparent fit of rage.Fungai K...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 06:01hrs | 611 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe has to rejoin Zanu-PF from cell level, says War vets
War veterans recently held a Press conference and chided former President Robert Mugabe after the latter turned his back on President Emmerson Mnangagwa on election eve, saying he would not vote for p...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 13:35hrs | 876 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa lived up to his word
Leader of the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance (MDC A), Nelson Chamisa, huffed and puffed during his rallies, threatening to make Zimbabwe ungovernable, if the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Ze...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 06:48hrs | 2870 | by Prosperity Mzila
Mnangagwa's new Cabinet raises Zimbabwe hopes
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new Cabinet has raised fresh hopes among long-suffering Zimbabweans that his administration could finally end the misery and despondency that characterised life under fo...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 17:19hrs | 5950 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Biti fighting for party leadership?
A power struggle is reportedly brewing within Zimbabwe's Movement of Democratic Change (MDC) Alliance - between party leader Nelson Chamisa and one of its principals, Tendai Biti - as a contest for ma...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 13:04hrs | 5220 | by Staff reporter
ED rigged the elections, first came cash shortage and next is the exodus - no lights to turn out
"If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights." Screamed the headlines in The Sun April 1992, Britain's leading tabloid newspaper. Neil Kinnock, Labour, did n...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 06:56hrs | 1193 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
ED rigged elections, per se, illegitimate and 'Chamisa holds the key' argue Biti - what a narcissist
Zimbabwe is in serious trouble already with unemployment at the dizzying heights of 90%, basic services such as clean running water and health all but collapsed and 75% of our people living on US$1.00...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 16:37hrs | 2521 | by Nomusa Garikai
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