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Death sentence passed by Zimbabwe court
HIGH Court judge Justice Munamato Mutevedzi yesterday sentenced to death Tapiwa Makore Snr (60) and Tafadzwa Shamba (40) for the murder of a Murehwa boy.Mutevedzi said the duo showed no mercy ...Published: 12 Jul 2023 at 20:45hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Walk the talk on reforms
Five years after President Emmerson Mnangagwa swept into power following a coup that toppled Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe is still stuck in the political and economic quagmire of the past two decades....Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa poised for by-elections sweep
THE opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) is expected to win the lion's share of tomorrow's by-elections which are largely viewed as a dress rehearsal for next year's vote, analysts have sai...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tough questions for Mnangagwa, Chamisa ahead of 2023 polls
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's desperate quest to stop Nelson Chamisa from contesting elections under the MDC-Alliance banner betrays the Zanu-PF strongman's lack of confidence in his ability to win a...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 20:41hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean leaders too immature to understand democracy
I KNOW that Zimbabweans have resigned themselves to expecting anything from their leaders — no matter how horrendous and disgraceful — as that has been the shameful hallmark of the regime ever sin...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 07:25hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe leaders too immature to understand democracy
I know that Zimbabweans have resigned themselves into expecting anything from their leaders - no matter how horrendous and disgraceful - as that has been the shameful hallmark of the regime ever since...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:10hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
People must resist dictatorship
This economic, social-political collapse and crisis in Zimbabwe is a result of poor governance. It has now affected nearly three-quarters of the country pushing others to leave the country en masse to...Published: 09 May 2021 at 09:13hrs | 7 | by Leonard Koni
Sad milestone for Zimbabwe democracy or momentous occasion?
CONSTITUTIONAL Amendment No 2 Bill sailed through Senate yesterday with three MDC-T senators, Piniel Denga, Morgan Femai and Jane Chifamba voting in Zanu-PF's corner to help the ruling party achieve t...Published: 05 May 2021 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZCTU boss slams 'sell-out' MDC-T MPs supporting Mnangagwa bill
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) says opposition MDC-T legislators who last week voted in support of Constitutional Amendment Bill Number 2 were sell-outs.The proposed law seeks to...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 06:31hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Let us stop child sacrifice
The death of a child of any age is devastating. The pain and anguish can be compounded when the death comes at the hands of another human being. Parents and family members can face many complicated is...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 11:18hrs | 12 | by Heaven Munyuki
Mwonzora has sold his soul for a bowl of soup
THE Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC-T's support for constitutional amendments in the Senate last week exposes the so-called opposition party's lack of principles and its desperate quest to be part of the gra...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Activist's conviction stirs controversy
The opposition MDC Alliance and political analysts say the conviction of activist Makomborero Haruzivishe last week is a strategy to silence critics and instil fear ahead of the 2023 harmonised electi...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 09:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's selection of by-election candidates raises temperatures
FRESH trouble is brewing in the MDC Alliance, with its leaders now standing accused of overlooking an agreement which allows the group that came with one of the coalition's deputies, Welshman Ncube, t...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 20:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa has no right to ammend the consitution'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has been warned against amending the constitution through the controversial Amendment Number 2. A local pressure group Chapter 2 Movement has issued a...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 10:02hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Man arrested for ritual murder
A Masvingo man, who allegedly killed a two-year-old boy before mutilating the body for suspected ritual purposes, has been arrested.Darlington Magomana (39) allegedly hid some body parts under...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 14:49hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Man attacks wife's lover, flees with his penis
A Florida man allegedly used scissors to cut off the penis of a man he suspected of sleeping with his wife, according to law enforcement officials.The Gilchrist County Sheriff's Office arreste...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 08:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa abandons Tsvangirai's three VPS
MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa who assumed his first full mandate Sunday, at the end of the opposition party's first congress since the death of founding father Morgan Tsvangirai who died last February, h...Published: 28 May 2019 at 08:18hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Reconstructing Zimbabwe's reputation
Zimbabwe is a complex thesis of multiple disciplinary subjects. One of them is in the industry of reputation management, which is currently a disaster! This is manifested in the repeated own goals whi...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 06:57hrs | 1 | by Tabani Moyo
Ndebeles' long walk from Bulawayo to Harare
On the 7th December 2018 saw some dedicated and culturally conscious Ndebele men embark on a long walk from Bulawayo to Harare with an aim of petitioning the government of Zimbabwe on cultural res...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 21:22hrs | 1 | by Thulani Nkala
President Mnangagwa, please help preserve isiNdebele
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, please help preserve isiNdebele, your commissions are murdering the language. Kindly ask them to engage the services of people who can translate their material properly r...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 09:16hrs | | by Editor
Chamisa u-turn on Khupe comes late
As we report elsewhere in this issue, MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa has withdrawn his court challenge against Thokozani Khupe over the use of the MDC name, symbols and logos....Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 14:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZEC idiots mutilating isiNdebele
ZEC idiots mutilating isiNdebele.What does Sokuyikhathi sokuhlola mean you ZEC idiots?...Published: 22 May 2018 at 08:09hrs | | by Staf reporter
Tsvangirai calls vultures to order
MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has counselled his impatient lieutenants who are already looking beyond him that he is still in charge and that his successor will only come through proper party processes...Published: 19 Jan 2018 at 16:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe threatens to quit MDC-T
The MDC is headed for turbulent times amid reports that its longest serving deputy Thokozani Khupe is contemplating stepping down should Morgan Tsvangirai attempt to hand over power to any of her juni...Published: 15 Jan 2018 at 05:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why Zanu-PF cannot be trusted
Zanu-PF last week demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that it cannot be trusted with unfettered control of the legislature when it railroaded the disputed Constitutional Amendment Bill (Number 1) thr...Published: 30 Jul 2017 at 07:44hrs | | by The Standard Editorial
Gwanda Hospital not to blame for toddler amputation
Following recent reports in the media on allegations of gross negligence by nurses at Gwanda Hospital children's ward which resulted in a one month old baby having to have a hand amputated, the Gwanda...Published: 01 Sep 2016 at 06:50hrs | | by Bekezela Maduma Fuzwayo
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Zimbabwean activists stage demo at Zimbabwe embassy in London
More than a dozen Zimbabwean Human Rights and political activists belonging to the original ROHR (Restoration of Human Rights) Zimbabwe, MaZimbabweans Yes We Can (MZYWCAN) and MDC-T staged a joint pea...Published: 01 Jul 2016 at 11:30hrs | | by Mandulo Pasichigare
'Mboko slur' Mpkoko to be appeased with a live beast
ACTING Zanu-PF provincial chairperson for Midlands, Kizito Chivamba, has reportedly offered to appease Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko with a live beast after mutilating his name during a rally in M...Published: 27 Nov 2015 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ritual murderers killed 3 women, baby for muti
THREE men from the Stanmore area of Gwanda who murdered three women and a seven-month-old baby before mutilating their bodies for ritual purposes were yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment. ...Published: 14 May 2015 at 06:58hrs | 13 | by Mashudu Netsianda
Vacancy: Zanu-PF seeks Daniel - ideal job for Morgan Tsvangirai
WISDOM AND DISCERNMENT are good gifts that come from God. In the Robert Mugabe controlled Zanu Pf and Zimbabwe ruins, there is a vacancy as they seek a Daniel to interpret the long forgotten dream of...Published: 19 Dec 2014 at 08:49hrs | | by Tapiwa Diamond Chadya
The deliberate mutilation of the Ndebele language unacceptable
In a country like Zimbabwe which has been ruled on tribal lines since independence, all fair-minded and forward thinking organisations and individuals should be very sensitive when it comes to la...Published: 17 Dec 2014 at 07:43hrs | | by Thulani Nkala
Chicken Slice must apologise to the Ndebele community
HARARE fast food outlet Chicken Slice opened its first restaurant in Bulawayo on Saturday - but it immediately ran into trouble with locals after misspelling basic isiNdebele words on its display adve...Published: 16 Dec 2014 at 08:38hrs | | by Pamela Shumba and Oliver Kazunga
Hitmen out to get Grace Mugabe?
Zimbabwe's First Lady, Grace Mugabe, must watch her back and beef up her security detail to the maximum, amid reports that a squad of hitmen have reportedly sneaked into the country, with alleged or...Published: 05 Dec 2014 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Outcry as ZBC News misspells Ndebele word
There has been a social media outcry after the state TV, ZBC, misspelt 'uGogo uMargarate Mahate vayadingwa'.A Twitter user @siemathe responded to the above screenshot which was posted on t...Published: 29 Nov 2014 at 12:01hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Mugabe 'mutilates' Zanu-PF constitution
ZANU-PF leader President Robert Mugabe and his political hirelings have been mutilating the party's constitution to oust Vice-President Joice Mujuru and decimate her allies ahead of next week's congr...Published: 28 Nov 2014 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Delta downplays storm over Ndebele errors
DELTA BEVERAGES yesterday downplayed accusations for deliberately mutilating the Ndebele language saying the incidence of misspelt names on some of its products were due to editing errors and was not ...Published: 23 Oct 2014 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Senators demand circumcision ban
MDC-T's Matabeleland South senator Sithembile Mlotshwa yesterday moved a motion urging a ban on circumcision of minors saying the country is "creating a generation of useless men".Mlotshwa...Published: 18 Jul 2014 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man nabbed after cutting off wife's privates
A 33-year-old man from Hans Kekana View in Hammanskraal, Tshwane, SA, has been arrested after he cut his 29-year-old wife's private parts.The man suspected that his wife was cheating and after...Published: 22 Apr 2014 at 13:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Trio allegedly cuts off breasts, privates of 3 women
THREE men, including a teenager, allegedly killed four people for suspected ritual purposes in Gwanda and cut off their breasts and private parts. Mncedisi Ndlovu, 18, Nhlanhla Sibanda, 23 an...Published: 21 Mar 2014 at 06:26hrs | | by Thandeka Moyo
Tendai Biti - Please mourn privately!
Yesterday Tendai Biti, Secretary-General of MDC-T, wrote an article in which he purported to pose a question. He asked: What is wrong with Zimbabwe?For starters, that is no question at all...Published: 13 Jan 2014 at 17:54hrs | | by Stellar Msebele
Woman drinks 36 litres of blood every week
Californian tattoo-artist Michelle, 29, drinks 36 litres of pig plasma every week, enough blood to fill 23 bathtubs in the last ten years including human blood once a week, TLC reality show My Strang...Published: 22 Mar 2013 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Just like Osama bin Laden, Liberia's Charles Taylor 'was CIA spy'
New York - Liberia's Charles Taylor, the first African head of state to be prosecuted for war crimes by an international tribunal, used to work for the CIA, the Boston Globe newspaper reported this w...Published: 20 Jan 2012 at 05:51hrs | | by Sapa
Hubby accuses male church elders of mutilating wife's private parts
A Gweru man, Isaac Katunga allegedly visited the offices of Gweru's state controlled newspaper Chronicle, accusing Zion Christ Church (ZCC) Windsor Park branch elders of mutilating his wife, Precious...Published: 09 Jul 2011 at 07:26hrs | | by Mafu Sithabile
Osama bin Laden buried at sea: Reports
The dilemma of what to do with Osama bin Laden's body appears to have been quickly resolved if reports that he has been buried at sea prove correct, guardian.co.uk reported on Monday.Burying ...Published: 02 May 2011 at 10:26hrs | | by Moyo Roy
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