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Smelly uplifts orphans
Gweru-based businesswoman and philanthropist, Smelly Dube, has refurbished an early childhood development (ECD) classroom block for orphaned children in the Midlands capital. The classroom block, esta...Published: 21 Nov 2024 at 06:32hrs | 175 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland leaders fail to push for proper Pathisa Nyathi honour
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced only a State-assisted funeral for revered historian and author Pathisa Nyathi, who passed away on Saturday. The man deserved an honourary doctorate and a nat...Published: 05 Nov 2024 at 08:22hrs | 368 | by Staff reporter
Miss Universe countdown begins for Bulawayo beauty
The countdown has begun for Sakhile Dube from Bulawayo, who will represent Zimbabwe at the Miss Universe pageant in Mexico.At 27 years old, Dube clinched the Miss Universe Zimbabwe title after...Published: 13 Sep 2024 at 08:05hrs | 198 | by Staff reporter
I am suffocating and sick of crying
I am suffocating and sick of crying and dying for fresher air. I died in May, June and July, last year, and died forever in a shallow swamp on April 18, 1983. Later on, I died in a river full of class...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 09:17hrs | 28 | by Tafi Mhaka
Sakhile Dube lands Miss Universe Zimbabwe 2024
Sakhile Dube has been crowned Miss Universe Zimbabwe after several near-misses.Sakhile emerged victorious over 17 contestants at a glamorous event held in Harare over the weekend.Her n...Published: 20 May 2024 at 07:40hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Community service for killing boyfriend
The High Court has sentenced a Kariba woman to 620 hours of community service after she fatally stabbed her jealous boyfriend with a broken beer bottle on the neck in front of police officers at the N...Published: 11 Apr 2024 at 08:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bishop Mabhiza fundraise, donates tractors on birthday
Bishop Sydney Mabhiza, founder of the Saint John Apostolic Church of the Whole World and President of Federation for Indigenous Churches in Zimbabwe (FICZ) has celebrated his birthday and fundra...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 16:09hrs | 67 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Nyanga family tormented by thigh vendor's avenging spirit killed 50 years ago by their polygamist father
A Nyanga family finds themselves living in constant fear as they believe a vengeful spirit is haunting them, claiming to be a s_ex worker who met a tragic end 50 years ago at the hands of their patria...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 13:28hrs | 9 | by Erick Matotoba
Sex worker's ngozi surfaces 50 years later
A Nyanga family is living in fear of a vengeful spirit that claims to be a sex worker who was murdered 50 years ago by the family's patriarch.The spirit, which speaks through various possessed...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 08:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Nakamba pays courtesy call on Mnangagwa
ZIMBABWE international Marvelous Nakamba yesterday took time off his off-season schedule and paid a courtesy call on President Mnangagwa. Images of the midfielder handing the President a...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 07:05hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
'One year under arbitrary detention in my oppressor's prison'
Chikurubi Maximum Security PrisonChikurubi FarmHarareTo My DEAR Zimbabweans,Regional and Worldwide FriendsWhere ever they may be found14 June 2023DEAR Z...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 12:24hrs | 2 | by Job Wiwa Sikhala
Zimbabwe will prosper if we speak for the suffering, not for politicians!
There is a justifiable reason why I never became a politician and have stayed clear from participating in party politics.One simply needs to go through social media, and the reason will be rig...Published: 18 May 2023 at 21:14hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Strive Masiyiwa now worthh $2-billion
FOLLOWING a surge in the market value of his publicly listed companies on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange, Zimbabwean billionaire businessman Strive Masiyiwa has once again joined the exclusive group of A...Published: 15 May 2023 at 19:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man on the run after fatally stabbing wife
A 32.year-old man from Nyarnwanga village in Shamva is on the run after fatally stabbing his wife four times on the head accusing her of infidelity. Provincial police spokesperson Inspect...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 08:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Survivors relive Gukurahundi horrors
A SOMBRE atmosphere prevailed on Thursday when villagers gathered at a site in Emkhonyeni Village, Tsholotsho district where 21 women and one man were burnt into ashes in a hut on March 16, 1983....Published: 19 Mar 2023 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mashonaland Central has most unregistered births
Mashonaland Central has the lowest number of registered births, a situation that exposes girls to early marriages, a Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat)'population and housing census report ...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 06:22hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
How an orphaned Zimbabwean rose to be a millionaire in Botswana
Banabasi Marambire grew up as an orphan in Zimbabwe with eight siblings. He endured long nights of hunger and was diagnosed with kwashiorkor disease when he was 14 due to poor nutrition.To sur...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 05:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Veritas blasts Social Welfare ministry for squandering budget
Legal think tank Veritas has slammed the Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare for squandering its 2021 budget and failure to relay donated equipment to targeted recipients who need st...Published: 11 Dec 2022 at 08:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Will he really 'face down' China?
The UK has a new prime minister… Today's world news is evidently dominated by a variety of interesting and illuminating stories, expectations, theories, debates and analyses about Mr. ...Published: 29 Oct 2022 at 11:25hrs | | by Ndaba Sibanda
Lion spotted in Kwekwe suburbs
PANIC has gripped residents in Mbizo and Msasa Suburbs in Kwekwe after a lion was reportedly spotted in the area.According to a message doing rounds on social media platforms, the lion is susp...Published: 27 Oct 2022 at 18:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ali Baba to receive award
LEGENDARY junior football coach, Ali "Baba" Dube is on Saturday receiving a lifetime achievement award for his contribution to the local game. Dube, a former Highlanders juniors coach is being...Published: 06 Oct 2022 at 06:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bleak future for Zimbabwean families depending on breadwinners in South Africa
Families depending on remittances from relatives working in South Africa fear they will lose their primary income when the Zimbabwe Exemption Permit expires.A financial services company warns ...Published: 30 Sep 2022 at 21:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Armchair activists make Pan-Africanism elitist and irrelevant to ordinary suffering Africans!
Imagine an impoverished widowed grandmother, struggling to fend for her orphaned grandchildren, somewhere in rural Marange, Zimbabwe - without any means of income, nor anyone to assist her tend her ti...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 12:26hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Growing number of Zimbabwe couples opt for child adoption
IN most families, news that a loved one is going to have a child is usually received with joy.But when Kuteesa "Tess" Gweshe and her husband announced that they were going to have two more chi...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 19:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi survivors still struggling to get IDs
Twenty-five-year-old Charity Ncube (25), a villager from Lupane in Matabeleland North, doubts if she will ever obtain a birth certificate."My father disappeared and our homestead was burnt," s...Published: 30 May 2022 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
13-day marriage ends in tragedy
WHAT started as a normal holy matrimony early March this year, ended prematurely as the couple's misunderstanding ended on a tragic note.Simon Jackson (45) of Zvamano Village under Chief Nhere...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 06:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ex-mayor jailed 12 years
FORMER Gwanda mayor, Rido Mpofu (71) was slapped with a 12-year jail term on Tuesday for raping a 15-year-old orphaned minor who was staying at his home.He appeared before Bulawayo regional ma...Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 05:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Church leader pays fees for entire school
The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has left a sad trail of hopelessness in many poverty stricken communities around Zimbabwe.While some urban settlers are receiving some cushion against the...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
There can never be any genuine unity in Zimbabwe without justice for Gukurahundi genocide victims
Yesterday I was watching a very touching true crime television program on a cold-blooded murder that remained unsolved for over twenty years - eventually ...Published: 22 Dec 2021 at 07:27hrs | 6 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Matabeleland tops in child-headed families
MOST families in the Matabeleland region are either child-headed or female-headed after they lost one or both of their parents, and are reportedly in need of assistance to mitigate the effects of COVI...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:54hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Munatsi family seeks closure
A fire broke out in apartment C9 at the palatial Northfields Complex in Harare in the early hours of Monday.The occupant of the luxurious flat was top investment banker and chief executive off...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:08hrs | 8 | by Bishop Lazarus
Fuel released for Pfumvudza inputs transporters
Pfumvudza inputs can now be moved rapidly from GMB depots to collection points after the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development last week received 250 000 litres of die...Published: 19 Nov 2021 at 08:19hrs | 6 | by Straff Reporter
NMB donates foodstuffs to Dzikwa Trust to help feed 850 children
NMB Bank on Thursday last week handed over to Dzikwa Trust, groceries, toiletries, masks and sanitisers to assist the trust in feeding more than 850 vulnerable children in and around Harare's Dzivaras...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 20:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bizzare incidents engulf Mugabe's village as boy hangs self at father's funeral
BIZARRE incident are playing out in the late former President Robert Mugabe's rural Zvimba area after an 18-year-old high school pupil committed suicide by hanging near his newly buried father's grave...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 19:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
26% drop out before O-Level completion
AT LEAST 26 percent of pupils dropped out of school before completing their Ordinary level last year and most of them were boys.The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education 2020 Statistical...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Child prostitution rampant in Zimbabwe slums
DONNING mini-skirts, popular for being the dress code for the oldest profession, girls as young as 12, file past the railway tracks towards Harare-Chinhoyi Highway, where one after the other, they are...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nyamandlovu couple burnt to death
A couple was burnt to death on Friday night after a hut they were sleeping in caught fire in Bhafodi, Nyamandlovu, Matabeleland North province.The deceased were identified as Adelaide Tshuma (...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 07:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Headmaster cleared of rape after 2 years in jail
FORMER Makumbe Mission primary school headmaster Silas Chitate has been acquitted of raping an orphaned Grade 7 pupil at the school, after serving two years of a 15-year prison term. Chi...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 07:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tsepo Tshola exits the Jazz stage
The legendary musician, composer and award-winning Jazz musician Tsepo Tshola 'crossed the great divide' yesterday [the 15th of July] at the age of 67. The 'Village Pope' succumbed to the Covid-19 vir...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 17:51hrs | | by Matthew Dubs Esquire
Joshua Nkomo 'loved me dearly', says Masiyiwa
ZIMBABWEAN billionaire and Econet Wireless founder, Mr Strive Masiyiwa, says he still remembers how the late veteran nationalist and Vice-President Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo loved him and how he contribute...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 08:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa reveals what inspired him to start the Joshua Nkomo Scholarship Trust
Pan-African businessman and philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa recounts what inspired him and his wife to start an education Trust that been. supporting gifted and talented students for 21 years.W...Published: 31 May 2021 at 15:32hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Poverty drives women into prostitution
UNSURE of the direction he was taking, the driver of the fancy Chevrolet stopped beside two village women that were walking from the opposite direction, along the dusty road in Maranda, Mwenezi....Published: 16 May 2021 at 09:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Battle for Zimbabwe's rural votes kicks off
THE opposition is making a determined push for rural votes ahead of the fast approaching 2023 harmonised elections - triggering an atypical but titanic turf war with Zanu-PF which has always dominated...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Diasporans pool resources for detained Zimbabwean activists
A GROUP of Zimbabweans based in North America have started a fundraising drive to assist detained civic and political activists and their immediate families with financial and material resources to en...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Indecent assault journalist granted $2,000 bail
JOURNALIST Robert Mukondiwa, who is facing allegations of aggravated indecent assault on an orphaned 19-year-old Upper Sixth pupil, has been granted $2 000 bail by the High Court. He is ...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wife convoy biker's death linked to juju
SOCIAL media in Chinhoyi is abuzz with claims the sudden death of Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) executive escort motorbike outrider, Sergeant Freddy Chipato, was a result of witchcraft by a motorist ...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 11:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police outrider buried
SERGEANT Freddy Chipato of ZRP Chinhoyi who died last Friday on VIP Traffic clearance duties riding a police motorbike while the First Lady's convoy was on its way from Mhangura, has been laid to rest...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T is putting the cart before the horse
RECENTLY, someone asked me to share my view on the recent call by the MDC-T for dialogue for all the concerned stakeholders to discuss a common way forward for our great country, Zimbabwe.The ...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 06:49hrs | | by Daniel Molokele, Hwange Central MP, MDC Alliance
Job hunters defy Covid-19 regulations
BULAWAYO residents who survive on hunting for piece jobs are defying the Covid-19 lockdown regulations by continuing to flood the streets as part of their daily struggles to eke out a living. ...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opposition's squandered opportunities
The political opposition in Zimbabwe, particularly the MDC, is stuck in the middle: between making news headlines and making reform headways.This is not new.Being stuck between making ...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:18hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
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