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Dembare revenge mission spoiled by dressing room squabbles
Troubled premiership giants Dynamos would be hoping to put aside the week's turmoil in their dug out to confront old foe Highlanders in a mouth-watering Match Day 18 premiership clash at Rufaro stadiu...Published: 09 Jul 2024 at 06:22hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Unity Day has lost its lustre
TODAY Zimbabwe celebrates Unity Day. It is a day that is meant to unite Zimbabweans as they reflect on the dark past of the 80s in which about 20 000 people were killed in what is now known as Gukurah...Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 07:12hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe tobacco exports rake in US$1 billion
ZIMBABWE'S tobacco export earnings have increased by 43% to US$1,09 billion this year from US$766,6 million last season as the golden leaf retains its lustre, latest figures from the Tobacco Industry ...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 05:35hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa assures delivery on promises
CONSOLIDATION of gains made in the first term and advancement of the Zimbabwe dream to become an upper middle class economy will characterise the second term of President Mnangagwa who was sworn in ye...Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Brito parks the bus
Highlanders 1-0 Bulawayo ChiefsHIGHLANDERS Football Club heaved a huge sigh of relief as they ended a five-match winless run, thanks to a 20th minute headed goal by central defender Mbongeni Ndlov...Published: 05 Jun 2023 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe highway 'mysterious' bus demystified
Today, Zimbabweans are being treated to yet another story of a "talking bus" that has been parked by the roadside along Harare-Nyamapanda Highway for over three years.Tales of "talking" buses ...Published: 06 May 2023 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is safe from tropical storms - Dingani, Freddy
The Meteorological Services Department (MSD) says the country is safe for now from tropical storms Dingani and Freddy which are evolving and intensifying some 4 600km away in the Indian Ocean....Published: 10 Feb 2023 at 19:38hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mudzuri's rise and fall
FROM a shining opposition political star, Engineer Elias Mudzuri - Harare's former first resident — has seen his lustre fade into oblivion over the years.The ex-mayor's recent suspension fro...Published: 25 Jan 2023 at 10:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's politics of salving troubled consciences
Politics and poetryWilliam Butler Yeats, I think it was he who said out of our arguments with others we make politics, but out of arguments with ourselves we make poetry!We can forgive...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 07:10hrs | 4 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Opposition 4ED crumbles like a deck of cards
It never rains but pours for MDC-T leader Mr Douglas Mwonzora. The centre is not holding at his party which he unconstitutionally grabbed from Nelson Chamisa with the help of President Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 13:25hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Bulawayo's iconic Post Office Gardens crumble
A gaping hole now exposes the western part of the Post Office Gardens. It is perhaps ironic that a building also known as the War Memorial Park or the Cenotaph, now looks like it was the victim of a n...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
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 | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's 5-year tenure divides public opinion
THE history of Zimbabwe is etched on the fateful events of November 14 and 21, 2017 an eventful week that saw soldiers roll their tanks onto the streets of Harare, culminating in the forced resignatio...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF stretching the truth on prices
YOU know we are in the election season when the Zanu-PF government starts lauding itself over non-existent economic improvements.The latest self-praise comes from the Treasury, the Reserve Ban...Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
EFF, DA urge Limpopo MEC's ouster for hospital rant at Zimbabwean patient
South Africa's opposition parties, Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and the Democratic Alliance (DA) have called for the sacking of Limpopo provincial executive and medical doctor Phophi Ramathuba who ...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 21:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe MPs snub desperate Wenela miners
FORMER Zimbabwean mine workers who toiled under the Witwatersrand Native Labour Association (WNLA), also known as "Wenela", have accused the country's lawmakers of ignoring their plight and refusing t...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 17:03hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
If the situation in Zimbabwe is Mnangagwa's best then the entire government needs to resign!
Whilst we were still in school, there were always two groups of students who performed dreadfullyThere were those who were unquestionab...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 19:35hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Why are we placing our lives and livelihoods at risk when ordinary Zimbabweans unwilling to play their part for a New Zimbabwe?
There are things we all as human beings keep bottled up in our hearts and minds - usually for long periods of time.These could be hurts...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 10:26hrs | 10 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Bosso shoots blanks in front of home crowd
Highlanders 0-0 Tenax SC HIGHLANDERS FC coach Baltemar Brito was brave enough to go to the disappointed fans at the Soweto end of Barbourfields Stadium to apologise for a lethargic performance tha...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Petrol expected to increase by R2 in South Africa
Mid-month data from the Central Energy Fund points to further fuel price pain for diesel and petrol vehicle owners in July.The data, which serves as a snapshot of market conditions as of 14 Ju...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 09:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dembare in drab draw
Dynamos 0 - 0 HerentalsDYNAMOS put up a lacklustre show on their return to action, settling for a draw against Herentals in a Castle Lager Premier Soccer League tie at the National Sports Stadium ...Published: 30 May 2022 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe won't fall prey to Western fables, fabrications
DRUMS are beating, so high to a deafening crescendo as Zimbabwe hurtles towards the 2023 elections. Of course, the ground is already uneven because President Mnangagwa has been implementing pro-people...Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's scorecard after 4 years
THIS week had two special days - Workers Day and Press Freedom Day - they both had muted celebrations. Something has changed, the economy is not working and the two are now holidays threatened by exti...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:20hrs | 10 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Mnangagwa claims sabotage
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday appealed to the youth to expose businesses "sabotaging the economy" saying the prevailing economic crisis was being engineered to topple him.Speaking at ...Published: 06 May 2022 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Chiefs finally win
Bulawayo Chiefs 1 - 0 WhawhaBULAWAYO Chiefs finally tasted victory after a barren eight-match run when they beat visiting Whawha in rather lacklustre Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match...Published: 25 Apr 2022 at 08:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe @42 where exactly did we go wrong?
It really pains me when I look at what my country has become today four decades into independence. We have regressed so much.I couldn't think that one day I would board a plane to a war torn c...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 12:40hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Stop police brutality
There has been spiralling of political motivated violence targeting members of the opposition. This is bad publicity for President Emmerson Mnangagwa who is calling himself a new republic....Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 14:06hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Dembare fall to Gamecocks
Dynamos 0 - 1 Chicken InnCHICKEN Inn gave Dynamos a big reality check at the National Sports Stadium yesterday as the Gamecocks underlined their title credentials on what turned out to be a bad da...Published: 28 Feb 2022 at 05:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF birthed a free Zimbabwe, claims Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday said every Zimbabwean has the DNA of the ruling party, Zanu-PF which gave birth to a free Zimbabwe.President Mnangagwa, who was addressing multitudes of party sup...Published: 27 Feb 2022 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lyon keep faith in Kadewere
FRENCH football giants Olympic Lyon have kept faith in Zimbabwe international forward Tino Kadewere despite a dip in form which has seen him get little game time.The Warriors striker had attra...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa has put the final nail into the MDC brand
THE move by opposition leader Nelson Chamisa to change his party's name to Citizens' Convergence for Change (CCC) has put the final nail into the MDC brand, which has since 1999 emerged as one of the ...Published: 29 Jan 2022 at 14:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Acid test for Zimbabwe's health restructuring
THE desire is to have a national healthcare system that ensures equitable access to services of sufficient quality to all, thereby, leaving no one behind," said Vice-President and Health minister Cons...Published: 23 Dec 2021 at 05:42hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Biti dismisses Mthuli's 2022 budget 'mediocrity'
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday presented a $927,3 billion budget with an ambitious gross domestic product growth projection of 5,5% for 2022, but former Finance minister Tendai Biti dismissed...Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 08:21hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
Rights-pampered pupils turning classrooms into sex nests
NOW immune to corporal punishment and pampered with an array of rights, school children are turning classrooms into sex nests, developments that have left teachers bemused.Some are even practi...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 06:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Musona speaks tough ahead of Ethiopia tie
AFTER enduring a frustrating goalless draw in their 2022 World Cup Group G qualifying opener against South Africa at home last Friday, Warriors captain Knowledge Musona says the team should do more in...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 05:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cyril Ramaphosa appears to be using the ANC's step-aside rule to target, purge political opponents
President Cyril Ramaphosa increasingly appears to be using the ANC's "step-aside" rule to target and purge his political opponents, while affirming his untouchable supporters, before next year's elect...Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 09:25hrs | 1 | by Clyde Ramalaine
Were MDC human rights violated in 2008?
MDC was created by the CFU (Commercial Farmers Union), capitalists and the west, so that they take power from Zanu-PF, reverse land reform and indigenization; pull the Zimbabwe National Army out of Co...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 18:23hrs | | by Rutendo Bereza Matinyarare
Zimbabwean seeks refuge back home - Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
A young Zimbabwean woman who says her family 'fled' to the UK in 1996 as gone back to Zimbabwe, where she says she will be better off. In a scathing attack on the British government, publ...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 13:43hrs | | by mVigil
Zimbabwe artistes face a bleak 2021
TOMORROW we celebrate the New Year as we wave goodbye to the disastrous 2020.The year 2020 will be remembered as a painful one after the world was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.Caught u...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 10:38hrs | 1 | by Plot Mhako
Is the MDC burying its head in the sand?
The piece by former Zanu-PF elections strategist Jonathan Moyo chronicling the missed opportunities by the opposition in the political history of Zimbabwe has once again raised debate on the state of ...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 07:21hrs | | by Karsten Noko
Traffic, street lighting nightmare in Harare
Many traffic lights at major Harare intersections are either not working or working intermittently, creating massive traffic jams especially when there is a sequence of failed robots along a road, wit...Published: 12 Dec 2020 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hideous mayoral robe wears thin
A red robe trimmed with black velvet and mock sable fur worn with lace frill, a hat and gold chains have for years made up the city's mayoral regalia. Be it under the hot October sun or the freezing w...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Corrupt councils need cleansing
AS the umbrella organ playing the oversight role over the way Zimbabwean local councils discharge their mandate for service delivery, the Zimbabwe National Organisation of Associations of Residents Tr...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:02hrs | | by Shepherd Chikomba
From the 404 to the Honda Fit
"KIDNAP, robbery and near rape", the newspaper headline screamed on 22 August. "Honda Fit Crew robs osiphatheleni," our sister paper The Chronicle's headline read on 27 August. In the ...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:48hrs | 2 | by Bruce Ndlovu
Chamisa using people for his own selfish ends
MOST probably ensconced in the comfort of their homes, the violence mongering leaders of the opposition used their proxies to ignite chaos in the heart of Harare. What they did not know is that their ...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:31hrs | | by Pupurai Togarepi
Zimbabweans flock back home from SA
The Beitbridge border post was a hive of activity yesterday as thousands of Zimbabweans based in South Africa arrived in the country for the long weekend.Motorists complained that Zimbabwe Nat...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 11:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Musina residents 'reject' their police
RESIDENTS of Musina, South Africa's northernmost town bordering Zimbabwe, last week demonstrated against their police's alleged general dereliction of duty in the wake of rising crime such as murder a...Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rhinos denied clear penalty against Dembare
Black Rhinos 1 - 1 DynamosAfter watching another horror show from a very poor Dynamos that huffed and puffed at the Nationals Sports Stadium yesterday, Tonderai Ndiraya says if rules permitted, he...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Arts Awards built on emotions, says Mhlanga
Amakhosi founder Cont Mhlanga said directors of the Roil Bulawayo Arts Awards were supposed to run a good research on the arts industry before launching their awards which are quickly losing their lus...Published: 31 May 2019 at 18:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Disappointing first episode for Our Perfect Wedding Zimbabwe
PERHAPS the producers of Our Perfect Wedding Zimbabwe (OPWZim) took the meaning literally as they tried to portray a flawless nuptial in the first episode that featured gospel musician Thembalami and ...Published: 01 May 2019 at 08:34hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
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