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Zimbabwe destroys 36 ostriches, several animals smuggled from South Africa
THE Veterinary Services Department has destroyed 36 ostriches, five peacocks, one bush pig, three parrots, 10 Chinese pheasants and 27 chickens that were smuggled from South Africa into Zimbabwe. ...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 07:27hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Numbers don't lie, facts are stubborn mules
THINK of a bowl of soup; you don't have to take it all to feel the taste but just a spoonful, such is the case with opinion polls that have concluded that if elections are held today, President Mnanga...Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 06:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa using people for his own selfish ends
MOST probably ensconced in the comfort of their homes, the violence mongering leaders of the opposition used their proxies to ignite chaos in the heart of Harare. What they did not know is that their ...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:31hrs | | by Pupurai Togarepi
Togarepi warns MDC Alliance over violence
ZANU-PF has warned the MDC-Alliance that its plans to overthrow a constitutionally-elected Government would be opposed vigorously by the revolutionary party. The remarks follow repeated uttera...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 09:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
What constitutes a youth in Zimbabwe politics?
I have always been intrigued by members of Zanu-PF that fall under their youth branch or wing. The leadership is made up of middle-aged men probably in middle life crisis no wonder they are not in syn...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 19:10hrs | | by AT Kadada
Gukurahundi, which way now?
The days we were growing up, back then in Masvaure area kwaMarange, watching domestic animals fight was a popular hobby. Dominant bulls would fight for territory. Dog fighting was however most enterta...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 20:34hrs | | by Bornface waNgaikere Masikati
Ex-Bosso coach placed on suspension in Botswana
FORMER Highlanders coach, Bongani Mafu has been suspended by his Botswana Premier League side, Orapa United due to problems between the Zimbabwean and the club's management.Mafu was told not t...Published: 28 Oct 2018 at 09:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Epoupa unveiled in Botswana
FORMER Dynamos striker Christian Epoupa was unveiled yesterday by modest Botswana side Orapa United among half-a-dozen changes ahead of their new campaign. The Cameroonian striker signed a two...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Paul Kagame Transformed Rwanda into middle economy
His Excellency Paul Kagame, the President of Rwanda, once said: "In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investments and not aid are major pillars of development."Ordinary Africans have for long ...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 16:19hrs | 1 | by Enos Denhere
Zimbabwe, back from the brink
Three weeks ago a young elephant wound her trunk around my arm and began – politely, elegantly, insistently – to pull my hand into her mouth and suck the salt sweat off my fingers. It was the happ...Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 08:16hrs | 1 | by Katherine Rundell
Debate on accessibility and affordability of sanitary products in Zimbabwe
I have been following with keen interest the debate on sanitary pads in Zimbabwe since 2014. Both the private and public print media have been carrying screaming headlines on the subject matter. For e...Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 10:26hrs | | by Johanne Mhlanga
Ostriches won't fly, Mr Mugabe
AFTER weeks of simmering inflationary pressure, things finally boiled over last weekend. The steep price increases for some basic goods and frenzied hoarding witnessed in the capital provide an ominou...Published: 28 Sep 2017 at 12:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mzilikazi II's triumphalism
The suppressed public Coronation of King Mzilikazi the Second on the 12th September 2017 by the repressive regime of Robert Gabriel Mugabe is like the clamping down of the Chinese "89 Democracy Moveme...Published: 16 Sep 2017 at 12:26hrs | | by Rori Masiane
'Death to moribund struggle politics,' argue Musewe - right now, death to opposition greed we want
In this life timing is everything! I grew up in the rural areas and it was there I learnt timing is everything and I remember my hardest lesson as if it was yesterday.The family had worked har...Published: 31 May 2017 at 16:34hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zimbabweans stampeding out of the country, mainly to South Africa
After a period of relative calm and stability that obtained in the country during and just after the government of national unity era, desperate Zimbabweans are once again stampeding out of the countr...Published: 07 Jun 2016 at 19:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Panic as Zimbabwe banks run out of cash
Despite the best efforts of Reserve Bank Governor John Mangudya and his team to mitigate the situation, the debilitating cash shortages that hit local banks a few weeks ago are worsening, sending the ...Published: 03 Apr 2016 at 19:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwig admits that the country is 'in dire straits'
With Zimbabwe continuing on its precipitous decline that is widely blamed on President Robert Mugabe and Zanu-PF - as manifested by rising poverty levels and a stone-broke State that cannot pay its wo...Published: 21 Jan 2016 at 12:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Political commentators lament speedy crumbling of Zim economy
The Zimbabwe Political commentators Livingstone Masamba and Rejoice Ngwenya have lamented the continued deterioration of Zimbabwe's economy while the citizens watch helpless when the political lea...Published: 15 Apr 2015 at 06:11hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
CIO boss hunts for Maleme people at night
AS TENSION between the villagers and Central Intelligence (CIO) boss Rodney Mashingaidze over Maleme farm in Matobo escalates, villagers have claimed that the secret agent yesterday visited the fa...Published: 13 Mar 2015 at 09:23hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe prisoners denied ARVs in Botswana
HUMAN rights lawyers representing a group of HIV-positive Zimbabweans incarcerated in Botswana are set to file papers in the Gaborone High Court later this month to force the state to provide anti-ret...Published: 11 Jan 2013 at 17:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Inside the Great Nation of Bukalanga: A Definition of Bukalanga vis-à-vis the Ndebele, Shona and Ngwato
For most of the time in the past 200 years, the peoples of Bukalanga have been treated as a sub-ethnicity of the Ndebele, the Ngwato and the Shona. We also raised the point that the Great Nation of B...Published: 29 Apr 2012 at 22:58hrs | 45 | by Ndzimu-unami Emmanuel Moyo
Zimbabwe bans poultry imports from South Africa
GOVERNMENT has banned, with immediate effect, all imports of poultry and poultry products from South Africa following an outbreak of Avian Influenza (H5N2) in ostriches at five commercial farms in th...Published: 15 Apr 2011 at 09:12hrs | | by Mafu Sithabile
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