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When dark babies are not good enough
For Ms Ntokozo Gumbo, after successfully achieving her desired complexion following years of investing in skin care to lighten her skin tone, she was disappointed when she gave birth to a baby heavily...Published: 22 Aug 2024 at 07:10hrs | 354 | by Andile Tshuma
Nordic Development Fund hails Zimbabwean entrepreneurs
THE Nordic Development Fund (NDF) has commended Zimbabwe's entrepreneurs who have received the institution's support so far amid indications that more locals will be considered for funding in the near...Published: 16 Nov 2023 at 05:55hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Muslim nations denounce Quran burning in Sweden
Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, UAE and other Middle Eastern nations on Thursday condemned the burning of the Quran by an Iraqi living in Sweden, warning such acts "inflame" the feelings of Muslims around t...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 16:40hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Ukrainian command center destroyed by Russian cruise missiles
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed on Saturday that it has destroyed a major Ukrainian command center. Cruise missiles launched from the sea were used to target the facility, the ministry's spokesma...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 19:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe politics: Lineaments of stock characters
What are stock characters?LET me be basic so I am accessible to many of my readers, whatever level of education, and from whichever discipline they hail.In literature we have what are ...Published: 22 Apr 2023 at 19:00hrs | 9 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Triple C: Puny-wise, Pint Foolish!
Obdurate immaturityIT is not like Nelson Chamisa had not been warned, whether by living men or by past circumstances. Both did; yet he still hurtled headlong towards yet another blunder, which...Published: 11 Dec 2022 at 08:56hrs | | by Jamwanda
Zimra tender raises eyebrows
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has reportedly awarded a US$4,6 million tender for the supply, delivery and installation of a fiscalisation back-end system to Norwegian firm, Norway Registers D...Published: 21 Sep 2022 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere: To be or not to be!
Widening Russian War Aims What a week we have had! War works largely on laws of the unforeseen and the unintended. The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, has ominously hinted at ...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:27hrs | | by Jamwanda
Mnangagwa makes headway in re-engagement crusade
THE removal of three Zimbabweans from the European Union (EU) sanctions signals the positive strides that the country has made under President Mnangagwa's reengagement policy.Commenting on the...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
FC Wangu Mazodze to export soccer players to Europe
Masvingo, Zimbabwe - FC Wangu Mazodze, a ZIFA Eastern Region League , First Division Soccer Team has caused waves in Europe following the sharing of scint...Published: 08 Jan 2022 at 21:48hrs | 14 | by Cluade Blaise
US plotting to discredit Chinese investments in Zimbabwe
THE Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor of the U.S. Department of State is implementing "an intricate plan" designed by Washington to smear Chinese businesses in Zimbabwe "through disinformat...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 20:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
My desperate plea to billionaire Masiyiwa
Last Sunday I dwelt on the depressing theme of the hardship that journalists often endure for failing to toe the ill-defined line drawn by intolerant politicians.Newspaper editors must be the ...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 07:10hrs | 9 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Hopewell Chin'ono gave us MDC safe houses, claims Charamba
Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba has exposed how prominent journalist Hopewell Chin'ono worked for the ruling party ZANU PF and the government in selling out civic society members to the stat...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 12:41hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's Zimbabwe begs US for talks on sanctions
THE Zimbabwean government has pleaded for a meeting with United States Senate officials, in a bid to push for sanctions against President Emmerson Mnangagwa and members of his administration to be lif...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ABC of knowing Mbudziyadhura munyaya dzematongerwo enyika
Not many zealous seemingly political Zimbabweans know @daddyhope, better called Mbudziyadhura. Let me measure for you the depth of his political convictions and what sets him hissing. I will do so fro...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 19:38hrs | | by Jamwanda
Zimbabwe is the second least happy country in the world
African countries rank close to last in 'The World Happiness Report 2021'The World Happiness Report 2021 has been released and Finland has come out tops, followed by Iceland, Denmark, Switzerl...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 13:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Christmas isn't Christian, it's a pagan tradition . . .
THE world over people always look forward to the next Christmas. In some cultures, years are measured by Christmas. People are sensitive when it comes to Christmas, and that's understandable. Mu...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:40hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabweans ranked happier than Rwandans, Batswana and Malawians
The World Happiness Report has been released and Zimbabwe ranks close to the bottom ten, lower than neighbours Mozambique and Zambia. However, Zimbabweans have been ranked happier than Rwandans, Batsw...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 11:14hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Nyarota lands top journalism training post
VETERAN journalist and founding editor of the Daily News, Geoffrey Nyarota, has been appointed head of journalism and communication training at the Christian College of Southern Africa (CCOSA)....Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 11:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans paying 43% more for Netflix subscription - study
A study has found that Zimbabwean users pay 43% more for their Netflix subscription (on a cost per title basis) than US customers, Zi...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 11:29hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
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Studying is an integral part of human life. The most successful and financially secured people received an appropriate education to reach their greatest dreams. Thanks to education, we gain knowledge ...Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 16:31hrs | 2 | by Agencies
Zimbabwe has a Happiness deficit - report
Zimbabwe is nowhere near the happiest people on earth, according to 2018 World Happiness Report issued by a United Nations agency. Forget about the trade deficit, budget deficit, Zimbabwe has a happin...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 14:40hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Zimbabwe economy to grow value addition has to be a must
The term "citizen sector" applies to the realm of activity that brings the power of private citizens to bear on important public issues.Implicit in the idea of a vibrant citizen sector are vibrant cit...Published: 01 Mar 2018 at 14:36hrs | | by Enos Denhere
We need holistic policies and priotize value addition in Africa
The term "citizen sector" applies to the realm of activity that brings the power of private citizens to bear on important public issues.Implicit in the idea of a vibrant citizen sector are vibrant cit...Published: 09 Oct 2017 at 15:56hrs | 1 | by Enos Denhere
Zimbabwean teenage sensation making waves in England
Brendan Rogers once said that a cleaner is just as important as one of the footballers in a professional football club. So, that means that the boot cleaner of Riyad Mahrez is just as important as the...Published: 21 Sep 2017 at 10:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Persevere, beware of dream killers
Success is the accomplishment of an aim or purpose. Many great achievers have written inspiring statements about success. We need staying power in the journey to success.In order to succeed, your desi...Published: 17 May 2017 at 15:15hrs | | by Enos Denhere
General Chiwenga threatens war vets
The majority of war veterans have nothing to do with this nonsense that we are now getting daily in our media.The ones who are now championing themselves as the war veterans are members of an ...Published: 02 May 2017 at 06:40hrs | 3 | by Gen Constantino Guveya Dominic Nyikadzino Chiwenga
South Africa hardly recovered from the race sentiment of apartheid
It is very easy to think it is the flash, not the flame; that burns big logs. The local media excitedly reported on the resignation of an aide of Mujuru's Nats, in the process missing the actual burni...Published: 08 Apr 2017 at 11:54hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru
As the Twitter Professora would say, handei tione!
IT has been a week of laughter and good political humour, not least because my party triumphed in Bikita West, but also because of the clotted reasoning and prose which this defeat wrought in lose...Published: 28 Jan 2017 at 08:31hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Why Zimbabwe Is a Failed State
Given the deafening noise from Mashonaland in the Zimbabwe media about Jonathan Moyo's corruption case, one can be forgiven for thinking that it is the first corruption case in Zimbabwe. H...Published: 14 Oct 2016 at 06:59hrs | | by Israel Dube
Zimbabwean born Zibusiso to sign for Newcastle United
Newcastle United are set to move for Brendan Joel Zibusiso Galloway, a player whose maturity impressed Everton supporters.Galloway is eligible to play for Zimbabwe or England. He was named...Published: 09 Aug 2016 at 19:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean citizens slipping through social safety net
MY late father-in-law never tired of seeking to persuade me that the true measure of the success or failure of any given nation is never the successes of its well-to-do citizens but how that nation ma...Published: 04 Oct 2015 at 09:18hrs | | by Welshman Ncube
Mujuru won't sleep alone
I LIKE what is happening in Europe, namely the trekking to its shores of thousands and thousands of refugees from North Africa and Middle East, foremost refugees from war-torn Syria. It's a pity Ameri...Published: 12 Sep 2015 at 09:09hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Zimfest hits Oslo for the second year running
After a successful launch in 2015 all is set for the second annual Zimfest in Oslo Norway. The event which brings together the small but vibrant Zimbabwean and African community in Oslo as well as a g...Published: 26 Aug 2015 at 15:55hrs | | by Mike Tashaya
Welshman Ncube on Friday: It Maybe Free, But Someone Pays For It
In the early 1980s, I was a young man in my twenties listening and reading with keen interest as nationalist politicians promised us unlimited access to free education, health and such other thing...Published: 03 Jul 2015 at 10:26hrs | | by Prof Welshman Ncube
Welshman Ncube on Friday: The Economics of Happiness
I am a lawyer by profession and a politician by choice, but this week I want to delve into a familiar but treacherous issue of human behaviour - happiness. We might not realise it, but our lives ...Published: 29 May 2015 at 08:32hrs | 2 | by Welshman Ncube
Zimbabwe needs friends, every country needs friends
In the past six-months, we have witnessed some of the worst human created and natural disasters in the world. An AirAsia Airbus A320 crashing into the Java Sea destroying 160 lives; the tragic m...Published: 15 May 2015 at 08:57hrs | | by Welshman Ncube
Danish Minister to visit Zimbabwe for high-level meetings
Danish Minister of Trade and Development Cooperation Mogens Jensen will visit Zimbabwe for high-level meetings scheduled from November 5-7 as relations between Zimbabwe and the West continue to thaw,...Published: 29 Oct 2014 at 21:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
EU engagement with Zanu-PF slammed
The ongoing efforts by European nations to re-engage with Zanu-PF have been described as a "travesty of justice", because they don't take into account either the past or current destructive policies o...Published: 20 May 2014 at 20:28hrs | | by Alex Bell
Denmark offers to help compensate white former commercial farmers
Denmark will explore ways of helping compensate white former commercial farmers for improvements on farms that were redistributed to the black majority under the revolutionary fast-track land reform p...Published: 20 May 2014 at 06:29hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Malema & EFF are what the South African masses yearn for
WHEN the Zimbabwean-born and South African domiciled businessman, Strive Masiyiwa, voiced his concern about huge youth unemployment and the wakeful nights which that caused him, little did he know he...Published: 16 Nov 2013 at 03:08hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
SA snubs Tendai Biti's GNU-like proposal
Efforts by the MDC-T to push for new facilitation by South Africa through a letter written by the party's secretary-general, Mr Tendai Biti, have failed while clandestine moves by the party to form an...Published: 06 Oct 2013 at 04:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
When the media, diplomacy make midgets taller
I suppose they are still being apprenticed by President Mugabe. Otherwise how else do you explain an astonishing picture where the leader of a rival party, his estranged secretary general and his unsu...Published: 13 Jul 2013 at 06:07hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Zimbabwe and South Africa detaining thousands of Rwandans without trial
The leadership of the Ugandans in the diaspora are investigating circumstances under which over 5,000 Ugandans are being detained in Zimbabwe and South Africa without trial.The development fol...Published: 30 Mar 2013 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF should brace itself for a battle against a reunited MDC
Zanu-PF should brace itself for a battle that pits it against the reunited MDC factions. That is coming, and the sooner the revolutionary party gears itself up for that, the better for the cause of ...Published: 18 Feb 2013 at 05:19hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Mugabe to face a united MDC - report
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe is preparing to face a united Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in forthcoming elections - despite seemingly unbridgeable differences between the leaders of the former oppos...Published: 18 Feb 2013 at 04:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
African Guest Researchers' Scholarship
African Guest Researchers' ScholarshipDeadline: 1 April 2013This scholarship programme is directed at scholars in Africa, engaged in research on the African continent. Female researchers a...Published: 22 Jan 2013 at 12:55hrs | | by Educationist
When Tsvangirai becomes a Mandela
The beauty about running a muscular column is that oftentimes you sting your opponents into an ungainly self-display. My bad friend Muckraker did just that this week. Stung by my expos√É∆ÃÂÂ...Published: 28 Jul 2012 at 05:09hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Zim teenage midfielder ditches Zimbabwe opts for England
While Zimbabwe has failed to see any value in England-based teenage midfielder Brendan Galloway, his adopted country has included him in the England national Under-17 squad.The Zimbabwean-born...Published: 15 Jul 2012 at 08:50hrs | 28 | by Sports reporter
De-listed Zanu-PF loyalists face big dilemma
Rather than celebrate at being removed from the EU 'sanctions' list, some Zanu-PF loyalists are arguably wishing they had been left on the list until everyone else was de-listed. At home, some...Published: 21 Feb 2012 at 14:05hrs | | by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri
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