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Nyokayemabhunu will not survive!
About Nyokayemabhunu, it has become clear that he was sent by big people in politics to do the dirty work for them outside Zimbabwe. South Africa is a political haven for Zimbabweans; still has a modi...Published: 18 May 2025 at 18:11hrs | 3637 | by Nomazulu Thata
Opposition should unite to dismantle Zanu-PF: Komichi
Veteran opposition politician and anti-Zanu PF hardcore, Senator Morgan Komichi has claimed that there is need for opposition movements must to unite and fight Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangwagwa's administr...Published: 17 May 2024 at 11:28hrs | 14 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Hyena attacks five; rips off lips, limb
TWO victims of human-wildlife conflict are battling for their lives in hospital after being mauled by a vicious hyena in the Zuze area of Makoni District in incidents that happened last week on Thursd...Published: 08 Oct 2023 at 10:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Pirate taxi driver vanishes after near death accident
Police in Gweru are hunting for a driver of a Honda Fit vehicle who allegedly disappeared after he was involved in a head collision with another vehicle leaving six people hospitalized.The acc...Published: 20 Jul 2023 at 16:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Community wants witchcraft-accused family banished
St Peter's residents on the outskirts of Bulawayo are calling for a family to be banished from the community for practising witchcraft.This is after some community members suffered some myster...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 16:08hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Ukraine war: Zimbabwean students relive horror
It has been six days since she left Ukraine, but 19-year-old Blessing Mushipe is still terrified.The medical student at Karazin National University in Kharkov, Ukraine's second largest city, s...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:16hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Woman survives night-long lion attack
In what sounds stranger than fiction, a woman here says she spent a night squaring off with a lioness. She escaped with injuries only, after the feline gave up at daybreak. &...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:05hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Go well my friend, Cde SK
COMRADE Simon Khaya Moyo is no more. He has joined the pantheon of Zimbabwe's finest patriots throughout the ages. Of recent note are fellow heroines and heroes of Chimurenga II who sacrificed to bury...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 09:12hrs | 32 | by Amb Chris Mutsvangwa
Cops near death as tout mob attacks
PIRATE kombi operators and illegal money changers yesterday allegedly ganged up and attacked traffic police officers who were patrolling in the Bulawayo city centre.The rowdy crew smashed wind...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Illegal gold panners unleash reign of terror in Mat South, Mberengwa
GOLD panners have unleashed a reign of terror in Malungwane Village in Umzingwane District, Matabeleland South attacking villagers with axes, machetes and knobkerries. The development has seen...Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 09:09hrs | | by Lovemore Dube
Man stabbed for thinking he's better
DO nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves.This Biblical verse will be apparently a living philosophy for a Bulawayo man after he was...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 07:08hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter
An open letter to all former ZIPRA cadres
Greetings to you all! 2020 has been a very challenging year. Many people lost their loved ones to the COVID-19 pandemic and others fell ill due to it. But probably the worst impact of the pand...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 16:47hrs | 10 | by Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Chamisa's MDC, G40 clash over 'abductions'
CLAIMS by the opposition MDC-Alliance that its members are routinely abducted by State agents have been exposed as nothing but sheer fabrications following the recent exoneration of a senior party off...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 06:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ubuntu/Hunhu is misplaced in African societies: Give me signs of...?
I should be excused once more for critiquing African values or should I say the African philosophy of humanism – Ubuntu/Hunhu. There are no traces of this noble philosophy in our culture: instead, w...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 13:32hrs | 16 | by Nomazulu Thata
Tribalism at its best: Khuphe a leader sent from hell! My reply!
They see everything is wrong and going wrong because of Thokozani Khuphe. But who ignited the whole shenanigans going on in the MDC opposition parties? Indeed tribalism is embedded, it is entranced in...Published: 18 Oct 2020 at 15:10hrs | 3 | by Nomazulu Thata
RBZ boss survives hellish Covid-19 experience
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Deputy Governor Dr Kuphukile Mlambo views himself as a lucky and blessed man after surviving what he described as a hellish and nasty Covid-19 ordeal. Dr Mlambo had to...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 07:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jessie Majome: 'Salute' A Zimbabwean woman breaking the glass-ceiling!
Quote: Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will, "She doesn't have what it takes."...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 16:37hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe Vice President guilty?
When domestic crime was meted brutally against our own, our fellow woman; the Honourable Tambudzani Mohadi, we waited to see if the arm of government, the police were dutifully going to take state act...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Sons and daughters of the soil
The former white commercial farmers will be receiving compensation for lost farms soon, or so it is said. This is happening when gratuities or tokens of appreciation for war collaborators are still a ...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 06:37hrs | 10 | by Tondo
Black Umfolosi founding member survives fatal crash
ONE of the founding members of well-travelled imbube group Black Umfolosi, Sotsha Moyo is lucky to be alive after he was involved in a bus accident in Botswana. Moyo, who had travelled to the ...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 09:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Famous Bishop stranded on tree for 6 hours after car crash
APOSTOLIC Christian Council of Zimbabwe (ACCZ) leader Bishop Johannes Ndanga and a colleague spent six hours perched on a tree in the crocodile-infested Bubi-Lupane Dam after a vehicle they were trave...Published: 25 Sep 2018 at 00:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ex-lover hospitalised after attacks
A BULAWAYO woman went berserk and left her ex-lover hospitalised when she violently squeezed his genitals after she allegedly found him in bed with his wife.For Mandlenkosi Nkala from Aisleby ...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
White City bombing - Gukurahundi started the same way, says Bajila
MDC Alliance member Discent Collins Bajila has said the moral police officers and professional mourners who want to rule out the possibility that the White City bombing was a stage managed thing must ...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 07:17hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
The treatment of our nurses is unpatriotic
Nurses can only render quality services if their work environment provides conditions that support them and the patience. Positive work environments are important in achieving patient and employee saf...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
From Generation 40 to Bitterness 40
ZANU-PF has a life beyond any of its members, as indeed is supposed to happen with all well-established organisations — they outlive their members and they perpetuate themselves.This is what...Published: 15 Jan 2018 at 05:22hrs | 2 | by Reason Wafawarova
Cops shoot at 'taxi driver hired by gang of armed robbers'
A STUDENT from the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) in Bulawayo is lucky to be alive after police opened fire on his pirate taxi, hours after he had been hired by alleged armed rob...Published: 16 Oct 2017 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's fate in Mugabe's hands?
Like one at the end of a bungee rope, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa always springs back while those who love the nerve-wrecking sport talk of their experiences.After falling sick in Gwanda...Published: 18 Sep 2017 at 18:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
At the heart of Zim's human tragedy is the denial of UN rights - cure is demanding them
I once gave a presentation on the UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS to a group of High School students. I rattled through what the UN is, what gave rise to the declaration and then ...Published: 30 Mar 2017 at 07:33hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mermaid kidnaps two boys and brings them back alive in Gokwe
IN a rather stranger than fiction case, which left people at Village Seven under Chief Nemangwe in Gokwe shocked, two boys died under unclear circumstances after they were reportedly snatched by a...Published: 03 Mar 2017 at 10:48hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Misogyny in our discriminatory social institutions: Taken from the book: My roots my proud identity: Part one
Psychologist: Let's discuss the societal aspect of your home and the culture of your people regarding women. I have left this question too long but when I liste...Published: 20 Feb 2017 at 18:53hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
We want new names! We want new blood in our Zimbabwe politics! Period!
When Noviolet Bulawayo talked about "We want names": she must have known what she was talking about. The young woman was spot on! This statement is in as much as it is relevant in her book as it is re...Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 23:33hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Let the law take its course on Prof Jonathan Moyo corruption and fraud case - ZAPU
Last week the nation woke up to news headlines about the impending arrest of Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education Prof Jonathan Moyo for a string of corruption and fraud allegations. We a...Published: 10 Oct 2016 at 18:31hrs | | by Iphithule kaMaphosa
Yvonne Chaka Chaka survives shootout
Yvonne Chaka Chaka survived a near death experience when she was caught in the crossfire between cops and hijackers in Midrand yesterday. The legendary singer tweeted a picture of the scene wi...Published: 28 Sep 2016 at 17:53hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Sexual abuse of women in the struggle, it must be told and give closure to it!
Taken from eBook "Meme no cry"I thank the author Mangosuthu Mbele for his very moving article of today in Bulawayo24 " In response to Cde Rutanhire'...Published: 28 Aug 2016 at 18:27hrs | 3 | by Nomazulu Thata
Man in court for trying to kill brother
Siremo Willem Hamutenya, 34, was denied bail when he appeared in the Rundu Magistrate’s Court yesterday on charges of the attempted murder and assault of his brother.The New Era reported tha...Published: 12 Feb 2016 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Lightning strikes 3 homes, 1 dead, another critical
A WOMAN from Bulilima died and a 33-year-old man was severely burnt when three homesteads in the area were struck by lightning. Gugulethu Dube, 23, failed to escape from a burning hut and was ...Published: 18 Jan 2016 at 05:29hrs | | by Sukulwenkosi Dube
Didymas Mutasa haunted by his past Zanu PF actions
The MDC-T has claimed that former Zanu PF secretary for administration Didymas Mutasa's Zanu era ghost comes to haunt him."If l were former vice President Joice Mujuru l would retire folks lik...Published: 20 Dec 2015 at 11:15hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
ZimFirst promises to revive the economy
ZimFirts President Maxwell Shumba has promised to revive the Zimbabwean economy when he is voted into power in 2018 elections.Shumba was reacting to media reports which stated that the decline...Published: 22 Oct 2015 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Cheating man poisons self over unfaithful wife
A MAN from Victoria Falls lied and said he was spending the night at a funeral wake while he visited a girlfriend. He attempted suicide when he returned home on the following day and found hi...Published: 06 May 2015 at 11:43hrs | | by Leonard Ncube
Mugabe condemning xenophobia in SA, what beautiful morals!
Does Robert Mugabe still have his decent conscience to attack Zuma's South African xenophobic incidences across the country, has he ever had one? Has he forgotten the way he perpetrated genocide in Ma...Published: 20 Apr 2015 at 09:52hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwean born Ebola doctor's return from the 'Edge of Death'
The medical record, from an Ebola case, made for grim reading, but Dr. Ian Crozier could not put it down. Within days of the first symptom, a headache, the patient was fighting for his life. He became...Published: 09 Dec 2014 at 10:37hrs | | by nytimes
Senior citizen 'petrol bombed' in Pumula
A 70-YEAR-OLD woman from Bulawayo's Pumula North suburb was almost burnt to death after unknown assailants allegedly threw a petrol bomb into her bedroom while she was sleeping last Wednesday night....Published: 05 Oct 2014 at 20:05hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Synagogue tragedy: South Africans stand with TB Joshua
Messages of support, especially from South Africa, have flooded in for Prophet T.B. Joshua in the wake of the tragic building collapse that devastated his church last week.A condolence mes...Published: 20 Sep 2014 at 11:04hrs | 1 | by Ihechukwu Njoku - freelance Nigerian journalist
Zimbabwean writer publishes thriller novel in UK
When the economic situation in Zimbabwe deteriorated, her citizens just packed their bags and left. But the exodus was neither exactly planned nor the same for everyone. Some families seamlessly ...Published: 16 Jul 2014 at 07:01hrs | 6 | by Mandla Stone
I have all the disadvantages for success - Be inspired
1. Parents divorced when I was one and a half years old. Lived all my childhood and teenage life in grinding poverty (sometimes eating African Chewing Gum - Matobgwe - for supper) and pap made out of ...Published: 03 Jun 2014 at 07:15hrs | | by Ndzimu-unami Emmanuel Moyo
'Chihuri you are responsible for death'
A SOMBRE atmosphere engulfed the low-income suburb of Rugare, Harare, yesterday as mourners gathered at the funeral wake for three-year-old Neil Tanatswa Mutyora, knocked down by a commuter omnibus d...Published: 24 Apr 2014 at 11:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
From One Vice President to another - Salarygate
Cry the beloved Country! How sad it is that at a time when the people of Zimbabwe are looking forward to solutions from their leaders in terms of the economic and social hardships, they have t...Published: 12 Feb 2014 at 11:07hrs | | by Emilia Mukaratirwa
Zimbabweans in tribal shocker over Mugabe health
As rumours on President Robert Mugabe's health or death or imminent death spread around world press and social networks unalleviated by government, Zimbabweans are beginning to grow despondency a...Published: 19 Jan 2014 at 09:50hrs | | by Staff Reporter
South Africa's interests in Zimbabwe's elections
Zimbabwe is nearing a historic period of political change, and South Africa is maneuvering to play a major role in it. This is why, as Zimbabwean Finance Minister Tendai Biti announced April 15, the ...Published: 16 Apr 2013 at 13:14hrs | | by Stratfor
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