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Double-storey house illuminates rural Matebeleland village
In a landscape dominated by traditional mud huts, a remarkable double-storey house in Jutshume Village, located in Bulilima District, Matabeleland South Province, has captured the imagination of local...Published: 03 Nov 2024 at 10:13hrs | 7364 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF is evicting resettled blacks, Operation Mavhotera Papi mark 2023 in all but name
"HUNDREDS of farmers and villagers in Mashonaland West province are facing eviction from the land they occupied on the strength of offer letters issued by politicians and lands officers during the cha...Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 19:17hrs | 10 | by Wilbert Mukori
Floods leave a trail of destruction in Bulilima
DOZENS of villagers in Ngwala village in Huwana ward 8 in Bulilima district, Plumtree escaped death by a whisker after 12 houses curved in due to the incessant rains that pounded the area during the w...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 06:55hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
One last big bash for Ginimbi Kadungure
The final party to be thrown for Zimbabwean socialite and businessman Genius "Ginimbi" Kadungure will be on Friday, but this time guests will have to bring their own champagne because he won't be ther...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:39hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Watching our customs and traditions vanish
A new baby in the village, a new person, another family member. Elderly women would make a bee line to see and welcome the new arrival. Out of tune welcome songs would be heard, gifts and pron...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 19:01hrs | | by Thomas Murisa
In memory of Zimbabwe's Independence
On 18th April 1980, Zimbabweans celebrated their Independence both from Britain and from the Ian settler state. The celebration was rather muted because it was the little headmaster, Robert Mugabe, wh...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 11:46hrs | | by Ngqabutho Mabhena
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.
It never rains but pours; to 38 years bad governance add drought, Idai and now savage power cuts
"ELECTRICITY power generation at Lake Kariba has been cut due to falling water levels in the dam," reported Bulawayo24.com "In a statement, the Zambezi River Authority said water allocation fo...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 08:00hrs | 2 | by Nomusa Garikai
'No dialogue without workers unions'
"Let us embark on a process of national dialogue. I invite the heads of all our nation's political parties, as well as religious and civil leaders, to set aside our differences and come together to sh...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 17:57hrs | 1 | by Ngqabutho Mabhena
Makorokozas wreak havoc, vandalise water and sewer pipes
Machete wielding gold panners have become a cause for concern in the City of Kwekwe were they are vandalising water and sewer pipes using the water to clean their gold ore leaving the residents of Kwe...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 16:11hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Rats feast on sick boy
A MAKESHIFT cooking area made of zinc is what greets you when you enter the homestead. The only other "building" is a mud hut which is a bedroom and is partially thatched.Inside the cooking sh...Published: 09 Jul 2017 at 07:35hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: White family's traditional home in Zimbabwe
See how Allan Savory, and his wife Jody, live in Zimbabwe, in traditional thatch-roofed mud huts, entirely off-grid with solar cells, LED lanterns, and solar hot water heater. He also goes everywh...Published: 21 Feb 2017 at 08:53hrs | 6 | by youtube
Dangers of cyclone Deneo - Applauding the Civil Protection Unity
I would like to applaud the Civil Protection Unity on their sensitising people about the impending dangers of cyclone Deneo.It is not very long in Gwanda South where people lost their beginnin...Published: 16 Feb 2017 at 06:46hrs | | by Ekem Moyo
Tsikamutandas and the tragedy of Binga villagers
A YOUNG man barely 20 draped in a white garment with a red lining scampers about in a circle like manner while chanting unintelligibly and convulsively in a frenzy state.He draws a box on the ...Published: 29 Jan 2017 at 09:34hrs | 2 | by Fairness Moyana
8-hour storm pound Gwanda, washes away 3 dams
They received poor rains last year, and hunger followed as they did not harvest anything.The villagers had to rely on the benevolence of non-governmental organisations, and government food...Published: 09 Jan 2017 at 07:35hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Man torches granny's homestead after stone-throwing dispute
A 19-year-old Esigodini man left his grandmother homeless after torching her two mud huts and a zinc roofed house, which contained property worth $5 000 over a dispute on why he was throwing stone...Published: 11 Dec 2016 at 09:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Be careful Madam Mujuru! Some lines are not supposed to be crossed
It's one thing to be a politician, it's something else to try and ride on people's emotions especially when it concerns death. An example is Dr P. Dzamara who has ridden over the disappearance of his ...Published: 13 Sep 2016 at 12:19hrs | 3 | by Sindisiwe Mkandla
How is it possible that millions of Zimbabweans still live in a mud hut in this day and age!
This is a sad and tragic indictment to how much we as a nation have failed our fellow men and failed ourselves.How is it that anyone would call this home in this day and age? And yet millions ...Published: 15 Dec 2015 at 11:27hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwean cricketer probed over 'apes' racial slur
A Zimbabwe cricketer with a history of disciplinary problems is being investigated for making a racial slur on social media where he referred to black people as "apes."Zimbabwe Cricket said it...Published: 16 Oct 2015 at 11:31hrs | 15 | by AP
The root cause of Zimbabwe's lawlessness is the illegitimate Zanu PF government
The Zimbabwe Social Democrats condemn the fragrant disregard of the law and all human decency as shown by Grace Mugabe in secretly recording VP Mujuru in her own home and bedroom. This is happening be...Published: 18 Nov 2014 at 17:15hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori, Secretary General Zimbabwe Social Democrats
Proud to be African
Dear EditorI get ridiculously annoyed, yet amused by the narrow-minded and condescending attitude most people in the Western world have about Africa. Their perception is skewed by non-obje...Published: 26 Jun 2014 at 10:36hrs | | by Kufakunesu Mawira
Namibian MP wants 'wife swapping' legalised
Windhoek - Wife swapping among Namibia's nomadic tribes has been practised for generations but a legislator's call to enshrine it in law has stirred debate about women's rights and tradition in moder...Published: 03 Apr 2014 at 08:35hrs | 3 | by AFP
Mandela will never, ever be your minstrel
Dear revisionists, Mandela will never, ever be your minstrel. Over the next few days you will try so, so hard to make him something he was not, and you will fail. You will try to smooth him, to san...Published: 11 Dec 2013 at 17:20hrs | | by okwang.com
Girl with swollen head - parents pray for 'miracle' to save her life
A desperate Indian father whose young child suffers from a condition that caused her head to swell up to an enormous size said Saturday he is praying for a "miracle" to save her life.Eighteen...Published: 15 Apr 2013 at 11:26hrs | | by Staff Reporter
MDC youth attack Mbuso Sibanda
THE Secretary General of the Youth Assembly of the Movement for Democratic Change formation led by Professor Welshman Ncube has come out guns blazing against Mbuso Sibanda for "personalising the leg...Published: 25 Sep 2011 at 12:07hrs | | by Bekithemba Nhlanhla Ncube
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