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Sihlangu Dlodlo predicted his death?
The tragic passing of Sihlangu Dlodlo, the late CEO of Highlanders Football Club, has taken a chilling turn as it has emerged that he seemingly predicted his own demise in a haunting Facebook post jus...Published: 29 Oct 2024 at 07:38hrs | 898 | by Staff reporter
Why video chat is better than the classic dating app
Many of you might remember when people went on blind dates or speed dating, or when friends or colleagues invited each other to meetings to introduce/bring together a potential couple. Sometimes, it w...Published: 16 Oct 2024 at 16:54hrs | 350 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's reckless statement to Putin positions Zimbabwe as a security threat
THE southern Africa region has, by and large, been regarded as a peaceful place.Save for a few conflict zones - such as Mozambique, Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo - we have avoide...Published: 11 Jun 2024 at 07:50hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Understanding suicide among diaspora-born youths
The prevalence of media reports highlighting the suicides of young Zimbabweans born in the Diaspora is a deeply concerning issue. The time has come for us as Zimbabweans to understand the underlying f...Published: 15 Mar 2024 at 13:10hrs | 1 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Rising sudden death cases among newly arrived diasporans - medical expert speaks
MICHAEL Mawema had barely been in the United Kingdom (UK) for two months when he died suddenly in December last year, explained a GoFundMe appeal launched to raise funds for repatriation of his body t...Published: 16 Jan 2024 at 04:42hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean woman lands top WHO post
A Zimbabwean woman, Ms Chipo Mpemba, has been appointed co-chair of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Commission on Social Connection.The Commission will have its secretariat housed at the U...Published: 16 Nov 2023 at 05:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mental health cases spike in Zimbabwe
Health experts have expressed concern over a significant increase in mental health breakdowns among adolescents and teenagers due to drug and substance abuse. This issue was raised as the country obse...Published: 13 Oct 2023 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutare family 'disowns' gay son
GALZ has slammed Zimbabwe's laws for fuelling hate against the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQl+) community following the recent publicity of a Mutare based family "diso...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
LMG Choir: the cornerstone of revolution
THE battle for the freedom of Zimbabwe from the shackles of imperialism was pursued on various fronts.Some battled physically, others did so verbally while others provided the necessary resour...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 10:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mark Zuckerberg speaks out
I wanted to share a note I wrote to everyone at our company.Hey everyone: it's been quite a week, and I wanted to share some thoughts with all of you. First, the SEV that took down all...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 07:33hrs | 8 | by Mark Zuckerberg
Zimbabwe govt punishing the young through its Covid-19 lockdown measures
Emerson Mnangagwa's government has been making some anti young people decisions since April 2020. While it is agreeable the unprecedented nature of the Covid 19 pandemic has destroyed any forecasting ...Published: 23 Jun 2021 at 07:49hrs | | by Taruberekera Masara
Diaspora attacked by covid and loneliness in lockdown times
Imagine a day in your life or is it going to be every day of your remaining life?. You are now stuck in a room and the pace of life has slowed. You get up early in the morning and sit in your favorite...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 14:05hrs | 10 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
When loneliness is great company
Gogo Chihera and 'Sekuru' Dlodlo stay in deferent provinces of Zimbabwe yet they have one thing in common, both their spouses are late hence lead lonely lives. Their brood has come of age and have gon...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 19:30hrs | | by Thomas Murisa.
A tribute to Bishop Sibusiso Donga: An open letter from the border to all pastors
I HAVE been thinking of you dear pastors these past weeks, particularly following the death of Bishop Sibusiso Donga (pictured). The Christian church and Zimbabwe as a whole woke up rece...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Hlakanipha Mbongolwane
Mnangagwa resurrects Beitbridge District club
THE Beitbridge District Club, once a social assembly point for white commercial farmers prior to independence, and the entire Beitbridge community after independence, relived its past glory last week....Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tafataona Mahoso: A man of many hats
Rupise: Poetry of Love, Separation and Reunion 1977-2017; By Tafataona Mahoso; Mutare, Samwasika Heritage Products.136 PagesISBN: 978-1-7706-070-9 (Paperback)INDEED Tafataona M...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 16:09hrs | 21 | by Staff writer
Our grandparents need good care
If the truth be told, most elderly widows and widowers are leading a lonely life despite plenty next of kin including children. This notion is confirmed by the many cases of 'lonely deaths' of...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 15:55hrs | | by Thomas Murisa
Curtains: an anthology of poems
The Harare based poet and author, Takunda Chikomo made his first contribution to poetry with Curtains: an anthology of poems, published by TafaPrint Publishers Zimbabwe, 2018. Takunda recently finishe...Published: 12 Dec 2018 at 09:28hrs | 5 | by Brian Maregedze
Take care of the elders, they deserve more
In all this economic turmoil, prices madness and the consumer unfriendly three tier pricing system, how are NSSA pensioners making ends meet? Do they also have to pick their walking sticks and...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 07:30hrs | | by Tondo
Who shall take care of senior citizens?
Numerous calls have been made and are still being made, calls to empower the youth and women. Noone is talking about the welfare of senior citizens. In rural Zimbabwe, cities and towns, many o...Published: 14 May 2018 at 17:41hrs | | by Tondorindo Murisa
Adios Cde Dr Amai Grace
Now that the local news wires are ablaze with how lewd Mrs Grace Mugabe conducted herself in front of the law, it becomes clear that to her and her family, the Constitution was just but one of those p...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 09:02hrs | | by Chigumbu Warikandwa
Mugabe lonely on his birthday
In our series of letters from Africa, we consider the fate of ousted president Robert Mugabe as he celebrates his 94th birthday.A famous quote by Machiavelli advises politicians: "It is better...Published: 23 Feb 2018 at 06:27hrs | 2 | by Brian Hungwe
Mugabe feeling 'unloved' on his 94th birthday
Zimbabwean journalist-turned-barrister Brian Hungwe considers the fate of ousted President Robert Mugabe as he celebrates his 94th birthday.A famous quote by Machiavelli advises politicians: "...Published: 21 Feb 2018 at 12:13hrs | 2 | by BBC - Brian Hungwe
How Oliver Mtukudzi sheltered a Zimbabwean refugee in downtown Harare
Music is soulful shelter. I became a refugee when I discovered potential life hidden in the works of Mbare-born guitarist Louis Mhlanga and the late Mozambican Afro-Jazz singer Gito Baloi and slowly r...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 17:07hrs | | by Tafi Mhaka
Granny (101) commits suicide
A 101-YEAR-OLD woman committed suicide by throwing herself into a stream in Bulawayo's Kingsdale suburb on Tuesday evening.Gogo Sarah Phulu, who was born in 1917, threw herself into a tributar...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Help Orphans live better lives…
Vanhu vakawanda vanobatsirwa uye kutungamirirwa naMwari kana vakabatsira Nherera regardless of what they go through (many people who help and assist orphans are mostly led by God and get a special fav...Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 11:23hrs | | by Belinda Chowa
Partners who join families abroad living the high life or secretly struggling
Most people have left their families to go abroad and work. The idea is if things work they will come back and take their families so that where they will be they will be there also. A decision to go ...Published: 22 Nov 2017 at 23:54hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
The next suicide threat you come across isn't a joke!
Suicide is fast becoming a quick fix to intolerable depression. While we try to preserve the only life we have; every one hour, some other people are trying to lose theirs - intentionally. Stories of ...Published: 01 Nov 2017 at 07:02hrs | | by Nimi Princewill
Time for Zimbabweans to fight for their future
It is my heart's desire to be on God's side of this battle for justice and liberation of my people. I have a particular burden that occupies my heart, it is my desire to fight on behalf of the oppress...Published: 30 Oct 2017 at 12:52hrs | | by Tendai Mazenge
WATCH: A message from the diaspora
A South Africa based Zimbabwean, Rutendo Benson Matinyarare, has taken to social media to remind people in Zimbabwe about the hardship their fellow countrymen in the diaspora go through.In the...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 15:45hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Sex is a mistake, says prophet
CONTROVERSIAL prophet Talent Madungwe believes sex is a mistake and he will take his time before he gets married.Despite popular thinking that sex was meant for procreation, Madungwe argued th...Published: 20 Jul 2017 at 17:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutasa's plight touches Mugabe
It is often said that President Robert Mugabe hardly forgives nor forgets, but not when it has something to do with Didymus Mutasa - one of his longest serving confidantes who fell out with him after ...Published: 19 Jul 2017 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe runs amok, something has happened to her
The relentless obsessive and compulsive looting, grabbing and stealing of private and state resources by Grace without a recourse to those resources, and without financial compensation to the affected...Published: 09 Jul 2017 at 14:18hrs | | by Themba Mthethwa
Why I sometimes hate technology
"Technology takes us closer to people who are billion miles away actually at the same time takes us far away from the people who are actually closer"Te...Published: 23 Mar 2017 at 13:02hrs | | by Belinda Chowa
'Mugabe stole my Valentine'
At the end of our farewell kiss, when our lips parted, she said it would be just 18 months."I will return the moment I have that MSc acronym after my name".She blinked away a tear and ...Published: 28 Feb 2017 at 17:22hrs | | by Jerà
Why do we cheat, How do we stop these killings?
The last two decades have seen a chronology of unplanned events forcing Zimbabweans to migrate around the world. Forced by economic and political turmoil to embark on journeys that they knew to be lif...Published: 23 Feb 2017 at 00:44hrs | 1 | by Ezra Tshisa Sibanda
Daily Old Testament Questions and Answers with Witness Dingani
QN To what extent do men in Zimbabwe suffer in marriages just like Hosea?(25)COMMENT OVERVIEW• The above question might be challenging. The reader will realize that after reading the...Published: 18 Jan 2017 at 13:21hrs | | by Witness Dingani
Minister marries 23 year old woman
Matabeleland North Provincial Minister Cain Mathema has remarried a woman 44 years younger than him.Mathema (67) married young Bathabetsoe Diana Nare (23) on Thursday.Nare is a M...Published: 25 Dec 2016 at 04:56hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Botswana bans elephant-back rides
From the end of this month, no elephants will be permitted to be ridden in Botswana. Abu Camp, the only facility that allowed elephant back riding in the country, has been directed to terminate its el...Published: 14 Dec 2016 at 09:48hrs | | by Don Pinnock Environmental journalist
Are Pokello and Elikem still together?
Pokello poses for a picture with schoolchildren after the Miss Tourism Zimbabwe pageant recentlyIt appears Pokello Nare is living it up without her famed Ghanaian hubby - Elikem Kurmodzie....Published: 08 Dec 2016 at 05:03hrs | | by Showbiz Reporter
Daily Divinity Questions and Answers with Witness Dingani
"Hosea and Gomer divorced because of so many problems" Discuss the causes and effects of divorce in Zimbabwean context ? (25)COMMENT OVERVIEW•The above question demands one to discuss th...Published: 01 Dec 2016 at 16:55hrs | | by Witness Dingani
Teachers outside Zimbabwe
Dear Editor, It is very disturbing and painful to read about Education minister's statements concerning teachers that are currently working outside Zimbabwe. One just hopes it's a dream that w...Published: 27 Sep 2016 at 16:04hrs | | by Themba Tshuma
Abortion is a moral dilemma! The gender and the feminist in me conflict!
Dear Tsungai, you have given us a very challenging topic indeed: Abortion in Zimbabwe is a much contested topic. At best it should never be spoken. How do I speak about this topic freely without trump...Published: 05 Sep 2016 at 00:12hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Reasons why women cheat
Last week I wrote about why men cheat and the responses I got were interesting! People kept repeating that they are waiting to read what reasons I will share about why women cheat. Being a woman I...Published: 27 Aug 2016 at 08:06hrs | | by Tsungai Chekerwa-Machokoto
Bukalanga gathering in UK (30 July 2016)
Being away from one's land of birth could mean always yearning for a feeling of belonging. It could also mean loneliness and struggling to cope with or even adapt to the traditions of one's new ...Published: 14 Jul 2016 at 18:11hrs | | by Tisha Ncube
A'Level: Daily Divinity Questions and Answers with Witness Dingani
QN To what extent do men in Zimbabwe suffer in marriage just like Hosea?(25)Divinity Revision Questions|19 June 2016...Published: 19 Jun 2016 at 09:09hrs | | by Witness Dingani
1ns and 2s with DJ-Sticha - Solo artist vs Band or Group,which should you choose?
Ngithand' ukubingelela wonk' umuntu kuzo zonk' izinkalo zomhlaba,philani bo.Merry Christmas nijabule nizibheke and spend quality time with your loved ones.It's a different story for entertainers ngoba...Published: 25 Dec 2015 at 07:59hrs | | by DJ-Sticha
Whats on Bulawayo Showbiz this Week? Dj Dash and Kurt Rusike - Valerie
As Kahlil Gibran observes, never has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. And well, as they again say, as humans, we're wired to experience incredible love and affec...Published: 13 Nov 2015 at 20:38hrs | | by Titshabona Malaba Ncube
Father, son have sex with one woman
A man from Nyanga in Manicaland and his son reportedly entangled into taking turns to have sex with one woman a development which has left tongues wagging in the area.WHEN most people hear...Published: 07 Jun 2015 at 12:27hrs | 36 | by Staff Reporter
Father, son in love triangle
WHEN most people hear about a father and son love triangle, the response is usually a mixture of shock and disgust.Family ties can cause dramatic tension if the love triangle is the parent an...Published: 06 Jun 2015 at 15:02hrs | 9 | by Cletus Mushanawani
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