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Gukurahundi cover-up editor urgently needs medical help
Geoffrey (Geoff) Nyarota is in critical health and urgently requires medical treatment for a trio of serious conditions: cancer, heart disease, and kidney failure. Nyarota, who has a long career in jo...Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 15:54hrs | 697 | by Staff reporter
BCC defends midnight vehicle impoundment operations amid backlash
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is standing firm on its decision to tow away illegally parked vehicles, despite public criticism. Last week, the council impounded 36 vehicles during midnight operation...Published: 19 Nov 2024 at 08:43hrs | 124 | by Staff reporter
Mangwana threats unsettles media lobby groups
Media lobby organizations in Zimbabwe have raised alarm over recent threats made by Information Ministry Secretary Ndavaningi Mangwana against the Masvingo Mirror, a provincial newspaper, following it...Published: 16 Nov 2024 at 14:37hrs | 453 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland South senator raps govt over Bulawayo water crisis
Matebeleland South Senator Sithembile Mlotshwa has accused the government of lacking the political will to address the ongoing water crisis in Bulawayo, which is grappling with its worst water shortag...Published: 08 Nov 2024 at 07:06hrs | 195 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo to name street after Pathisa Nyathi
BULAWAYO mayor David Coltart has said the local authority will honour the late historian, poet, writer and cultural activist Pathisa Nyathi by naming a street after him.Speaking yesterday duri...Published: 07 Nov 2024 at 07:12hrs | 436 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF leader in fuel tender scam
A Zanu-PF District Coordinating Committee (DCC) member in Zaka is under fire for allegedly failing to deliver 9,000 liters of fuel paid for by the Zaka Rural District Council (RDC) over the past three...Published: 12 Oct 2024 at 16:41hrs | 3285 | by Staff reporter
Mutare grapples with critical land shortage
The Mutare City Council is confronting a critical land shortage as the demand for residential stands continues to rise among residents. This pressing issue was highlighted by the council's deputy dire...Published: 08 Oct 2024 at 07:31hrs | 168 | by Staff reporter
SA-based lawyer wants proper ESG framework in Zimbabwe
South Africa-based lawyer and researcher Edwell Maposa has highlighted that the absence of a proper framework has significantly undermined the implementation of the Environment, Social, and Governance...Published: 03 Oct 2024 at 08:49hrs | 116 | by Staff reporter
Africa is full of contradictions; Qwabe twins are still VIRGINS at 26 years!
Seeing their photo on Bulawayo24 today, I wonder what is cultural, and traditional about these twins? This photo shoot looks like big German barbies on sale. There is nothing that tells me that these ...Published: 21 Sep 2024 at 11:01hrs | 2916 | by Nomazulu Thata
Editor hounded after 'rest in peace' error in Mnangagwa advert
Armed men claiming to be law and order police raided the home of Daily News editor Guthrie Munyuki at dawn on Friday after sister publication The Financial Gazette made an error in an advert which sug...Published: 20 Sep 2024 at 09:20hrs | 1831 | by Staff reporter
Pros, cons of registration of political parties
FOR many years, there have been calls for political parties in Zimbabwe to be registered, and the calls have become louder after divisions in the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party r...Published: 14 Sep 2024 at 12:20hrs | 67 | by Veritas
MK Party forming trade unions and labour federation
President of labour federation Cosatu, Zingiswa Losi, on Wednesday said the African National Congress-aligned labour movements are suffering huge losses as the uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) is forming ...Published: 17 Jul 2024 at 16:13hrs | 890 | by Staff reporter
General nurse training: May 2024 intake has now begun
General Nurse Training May 2024 Intake has now begun. The ministry of Health and Child Care are announced the intake in the Sunday papers on 7 April 2024.The training intake advert reads:...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 19:47hrs | 468 | by Staff reporter
More changes loom at ZBC
A CHANGE of the editorial team at State broadcaster Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) is looming in the wake of a restructuring exercise being implemented by a newly-appointed board.The ...Published: 09 Mar 2024 at 09:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimpapers set to announce editorial changes
THE country's oldest and biggest state-controlled media publishing house, Zimbabwe Newspapers (1980) Limited (Zimpapers), will on Monday announce new editorial changes following the recent appointment...Published: 02 Mar 2024 at 19:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Biti fined US$300 for verbal assault
AFTER a four-year trial, Harare Magistrate Mrs Vongai Guwuriro yesterday ordered Tendai Biti to pay a US$300 fine (or six months in jail) after she found him guilty of a verbal and threatening assault...Published: 28 Feb 2024 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Excited by the killings: How The Chronicle covered the Gukurahundi genocide
AbstractTHIS paper examines and interrogates the role of the state-controlled media during the Gukurahundi genocide in Zimbabwe. Gukurahundi is a genocide that took place in Zimbabwe betwe...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:51hrs | 9 | by Bhekinkosi Jakobe Ncube
Zimbabwe has sunk beyond a banana republic!
I am sure the first time I came across the term 'banana republic' was in the early 1980s - when I was still a little boy in primary school.Obviously, I did not know what this meant.It ...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 19:12hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Radio personality busted with fake Zanu-PF IDs
Thandeka Hilda Chitombo, an up-and-coming presenter at Platinum FM radio, found herself in court on Saturday after being apprehended in Chinhoyi for allegedly posing as a Central Intelligence Organisa...Published: 05 Feb 2024 at 19:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa fired Mutsvangwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa fired his outspoken political ally Christopher Mutsvangwa as Minister of Veterans of the Liberation Struggle Affairs with immediate effect for various reasons, but the tri...Published: 05 Feb 2024 at 18:34hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Major Zimpapers shake-up looms
THE state-controlled Zimbabwe Newspapers (1980) Ltd (Zimpapers) will soon appoint new editors after announcing a new board chaired by former Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Misheck Siband...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 19:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa relative by marriage appointed to Zimpapers Board
The state-controlled Zimbabwe Newspapers (1980) Ltd (Zimpapers) has announced a new board chaired by former Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Misheck Sibanda's wife Doreen Joyce Sibanda....Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 13:38hrs | 65 | by Staff reporter
Tommy Sithole to be replaced as Zimpapers board chair
Veteran journalist and sports administrator Tommy Sithole will soon be officially replaced as Zimbabwe Newspapers (1980) Ltd (Zimpapers) board chairperson in an imminent announcement of a new board fo...Published: 20 Jan 2024 at 16:36hrs | 51 | by Staff reporter
CCC councillors hire retired Zanu-PF apologist as chamber secretary
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) councillors in Chinhoyi have curiously enlisted the services of retired chamber secretary, Abel Gotora, despite battling for years to fire him in a protracted boar...Published: 18 Jan 2024 at 17:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Lobhengula's legacy embodied unique tactful diplomacy, military heroism
DISTINGUISHED researchers and historians have utterly dismissed the narrative that Ndebele monarch King Lobhengula Khumalo is associated with selling out to colonial settlers, arguing his distinct leg...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 05:05hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
List of renamed places in Zimbabwe
Place names in Zimbabwe, including the name of the country itself, have been altered at various points in history. The name Zimbabwe was officially adopted concurrently with Britain's grant of indepen...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 16:46hrs | 14 | by Wikipedia
Mthulisi Mathuthu completes his PhD studies
Zimbabwean media journalist Mthulisi Mathuthu who worked for the Zimbabwe Independent and the now defunct Mirror Group of newspapers, among other key local publications, has completed his PhD studies,...Published: 04 Dec 2023 at 18:55hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Manhize folk fret over graveyards
VillAgERs in Manhize have asked the Mvumabased Dinson iron and steel Company (Disco) to allow them access to graveyards on land taken over by the Chinese mining company so that they conduct traditiona...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 17:40hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe at a crossroads: a statement by Tendai Biti
Former finance minister and Harare East MP Tendai Biti has issued the following statement responding to claims that he is colluding with self-styled CCC interim secretary general Sengezo Tshabangu to ...Published: 11 Nov 2023 at 15:56hrs | 12 | by Tendai Biti
Our newspapers don't tell the whole ugly truth
It's no secret that our newspapers often fail to present the whole truth, especially when it comes to the actions of the administration in power. This should come as no surprise to anyone who has trul...Published: 06 Nov 2023 at 15:29hrs | 10 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Resilience Behind Bars: A reflection on seven months in prison
It is seven months since magistrate Feresi Chakanyuka sentenced me to four years in prison for "calling for anti-corruption demonstrations". One year was suspended and am effectively serving three yea...Published: 04 Nov 2023 at 12:47hrs | 11 | by Jacob Ngarivhume
Oppression is justifiable when it's by our own race.
We fought for our independence from the British colonialists, who exploited our land, our resources, and our people for their own benefit. We dreamed of a free and prosperous Zimbabwe, where we could ...Published: 25 Oct 2023 at 20:34hrs | | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
NSSA is a vehicle for enriching the powerful whilst exploiting the poor!
I already knew that Zimbabwe was hell and a living nightmare for the vast majority of the ordinary citizenry.I was also fully aware that the powerful were the only ones getting richer and rich...Published: 15 Oct 2023 at 09:49hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
CCC MP's warrant of arrest cancelled after showing up in court
CCC legislator Joana Mamombe appeared in court today and successfully had her arrest warrant revoked. Mamombe is currently facing charges related to fabricating abductions. The warrant was issued afte...Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 16:44hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man comes back from the brink after open heart surgery in India
WHEN Mr Wilberforce Matashu (46) of Nkulumane suburb in Bulawayo arrived in India early this year for open heart surgery, which saw him implanted with artificial heart valves to assist the aorta, he h...Published: 06 Oct 2023 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ignatius Arnoz Commemorated
A lecture and tour attended by over two hundred congregants was held in Commemoration of the life of Ignatius Arnoz, the first catholic bishop of Bulawayo last week.Czechs and Zimbabweans last...Published: 04 Oct 2023 at 10:55hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Cowering to a dictator only makes him more brazen!
I was bullied when I was a little child - from my crèche days to early primary school.That was the period my life changed forever - becoming the person I am today. There were two thin...Published: 16 Sep 2023 at 19:27hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
2 Mutsvangwas, 6 women and 3 Mnangagwas
With former television personality Tatenda Mavetera thrown into the mix, one needs very little imagination to describe Zimbabwe's Cabinet that was sworn into office early this week following a sham el...Published: 15 Sep 2023 at 22:09hrs | 5 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Nevers Mumba hits back at Zimbabwe govt
SADC Expresses concern on statements made about its Electoral Observation Mission in Zimbabwe and the personal attacks to its Head of SEOM following the release of its Preliminary Statement on Zimbabw...Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 19:31hrs | | by Nevers Mumba
Jonathan Moyo says Electoral Act has to be reviewed
Professor Jonathan Moyo says the Electoral Act needs to be reviewed and brought in line with the current constitution of Zimbabwe.The Electoral Amendment Bill, which was gazetted on November 1...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 22:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa-Chikoka accused of forging Zanu-PF aspiring councillors' signatures
MASHONALAND West Provincial Affairs Minister, Mary Mliswa-Chikoka has been fingered in a fraud storm amid accusations she forged the signatures of three aspiring councillors prompting the Zimbabwe Ele...Published: 16 Aug 2023 at 06:53hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube always wanted to be in politics
FINANCE and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube, who is also the Zanu-PF parliamentary candidate for Cowdray Park constituency in Bulawayo says his participation in mainstream politi...Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 06:48hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt ducking responsibility by urging new graduates to start companies!
I remember soon after graduating from journalism school in 1998, I was so eager to be my own boss, such that I implored my parents to help establish a newspaper for me. I had always been passi...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 20:14hrs | 9 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Disqualified' CCC Bulawayo candidates carry on with campaigns
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) candidates who were barred from participating in the forthcoming harmonised elections by a High Court ruling have vowed to fight on declaring that they will not giv...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 21:51hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
ZEC unfit to run free, fair elections - Study
A NEW study on Zimbabwe's electoral politics, processes and institutions has found that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is deeply distrusted by voters, hence cannot be trusted to preside over ...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 21:13hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
ZBC, a national embarrassment and huge shame on journalism!
Who can still remember the late great Bornwell Chakaodza?I can still see the images of the fiery no-nonsense renowned journalist and media lecturer - as he bombarded government officials on pe...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 18:06hrs | 11 | by by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe has nothing to hide, Govt tells election observers
Zimbabwe has nothing to hide in its conduct of elections and welcomes all observer missions and diplomats to observe the forthcoming polls slated for August 23 and make their recommendations in an imp...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanla story on Salisbury fuel tanks is utter fiction
THERE has been a lot of confusion on the role ZIPRA played during the liberation struggle and a lot of twisting of facts related to certain operations that are perceived to have changed the course of ...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 08:41hrs | 2 | by Barbatone Irvine Sibhona
Trevor Ncube refuses to be cowed by George Charamba
ALPHA Media Holdings (AMH) platforms exist to serve Zimbabweans in their diversity and to help build the country, the group's chairman Trevor Ncube said yesterday.Speaking on the sidelines of ...Published: 20 Jul 2023 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Does propaganda work in a nation of enlightened citizens?
Of late, there has been a lot of noise, most notably from the ruling ZANU PF camp, to the effect that opposition CCC leader Nelson Chamisa threatened to displace those who benefited under Zimbabwe's l...Published: 19 Jul 2023 at 20:53hrs | 11 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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