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Attention-seeking Zondo slams Ramaphosa
Attention-seeking former Chief Justice Raymond Zondo has slammed President Cyril Ramaphosa for making politicians with serious findings against them Cabinet Ministers.The commission was create...Published: 2 hrs ago | 130 | by Staff reporter
Gaming centres emerge hubs of juvenile delinquency
Gaming centres across Bulawayo, once seen as harmless recreational spots for young people, are increasingly being blamed for fuelling a wave of juvenile delinquency, truancy, and substance abuse. Auth...Published: 23 hrs ago | 231 | by Staff reporter
Tapera leaves Manica Diamonds
Premier Soccer League side Manica Diamonds have parted ways with head coach Jairos Tapera in what sources say was a mutual agreement, as the club continues to struggle near the relegation zone....Published: 26 Jul 2025 at 11:25hrs | 141 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt reads riot act over corrupt land subdivisions
Agriculture Deputy Minister Davis Marapira has issued a stern warning to corrupt officials and stakeholders, urging urgent action to protect dairy farmers' land through the finalisation of title deeds...Published: 26 Jul 2025 at 11:20hrs | 51 | by Staff reporter
Kembo Mohadi betrayed Matabeleland: Mthwakazi MRP is spot on!
Before he dies, Kembo Mohadi must be told how much he betrayed Ndebele people. To say it post humus is too late. His home region constitutes Matabeleland. Kembo must be told now that he will not be mi...Published: 25 Jul 2025 at 16:05hrs | 509 | by Nomazulu Thata
DJ Ollah 07 has divided opinion
The man about town DJ Ollah 07 has divided opinion with his latest podcast on the St Mary's accident which killed 17 people. This soon after his ground-breaking interview with Mai Jeremaya who had cla...Published: 25 Jul 2025 at 14:24hrs | 227 | by Nevanji Madanhire
Edmund Kudzayi challenges Mahere default judgement
Journalist Edmund Kudzayi has formally approached the High Court to rescind a default judgment awarding US$100,000 in damages to prominent lawyer Fadzayi Mahere in a defamation case. The judgment, gra...Published: 25 Jul 2025 at 12:16hrs | 446 | by Staff reporter
Zimta pokes holes into proposed Zimsec Act amendments
The Zimbabwe Teachers Association (Zimta) has criticised the proposed amendments to the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) Act, arguing that they fall short of restoring credibility to ...Published: 25 Jul 2025 at 09:30hrs | 117 | by Staff reporter
Chinese company loses labour case
Jian Shan Civil Explosives, a Chinese-owned company based in Chinhoyi, has lost a labour dispute and has been ordered by the courts to pay former employees after being found guilty of unfair dismissal...Published: 23 Jul 2025 at 09:03hrs | 296 | by Staff reporter
ERC predicts drop in voter turnout
Zimbabwe is likely to witness low voter turnout in the upcoming local authority by-elections set for later this month and the first week of August, according to the Election Resource Centre (ERC...Published: 22 Jul 2025 at 09:15hrs | 82 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Sables Path to RWC 2027
Zimbabwean rugby has re-emerged as one of Africa's most compelling sporting stories, with the national team, the Sables, charting a historic course toward the 2027 Rugby World Cup in Australia. After ...Published: 21 Jul 2025 at 18:28hrs | 82 | by Marilyn Mutize
CZI, residents petition BCC over tariffs
Bulawayo residents and the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) have taken the fight to the Bulawayo City Council (BCC), petitioning the local authority over its failure to implement the 2025 ta...Published: 21 Jul 2025 at 12:33hrs | 203 | by Staff reporter
Mysterious black chicken causes stir at court
Feathers flew and tongues wagged last Monday when a mysterious black chicken wearing a red scarf strutted confidently into the Kwekwe Magistrates Court yard, as if it owned the place.The unexp...Published: 21 Jul 2025 at 12:15hrs | 1082 | by Staff reporter
Police deny blocking MDC-T meeting
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) have strongly denied reports that they blocked a meeting of MDC-T party members at the party's Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House headquarters. Instead, police said the...Published: 21 Jul 2025 at 12:14hrs | 72 | by Staff reporter
Teacher under fire for collecting learners' saliva
A teacher at Mushavhi Secondary School in Bikita has sparked outrage among parents and learners after allegedly asking an entire class to spit on sheets of paper during a lesson, raising serious conce...Published: 21 Jul 2025 at 12:10hrs | 155 | by Staff reporter
What does Mnangagwa call a 'brutal colonial regime' when the ZANU-PF government is even more brutal?
It's often easy for the pot to accuse the kettle of being black. I am always left bewildered whenever I hear President Emmerson Mnangagwa express outrage at what he calls ‘the brutal co...Published: 21 Jul 2025 at 08:26hrs | 400 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa ally reported for corruption
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's business associate, Muller Conrad "Billy" Rautenbach, along with senior government ministers, has been reported to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) for all...Published: 19 Jul 2025 at 21:30hrs | 1426 | by Staff reporter
Is this health justice or state overreach?
In the swiftly evolving drama of Zimbabwean healthcare, a new bill in Parliament has stirred both hope and alarm. The Medical Services Amendment Bill, championed by Justice and Parliamentary Affairs M...Published: 19 Jul 2025 at 09:10hrs | 1327 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Court blocks eviction of indigenous Zimbabwe farmers
High Court Justice Regis Dembure has ruled against the eviction of indigenous farmers at Springs Farm in Goromonzi, Mashonaland East Province, condemning the withdrawal of their offer letters by Land ...Published: 18 Jul 2025 at 08:53hrs | 753 | by Staff reporter
Villager loses 12 cattle in traditional court ruling
A Mazowe villager, Christopher Chisango, has won a reprieve at the High Court after successfully challenging a traditional court ruling that had ordered him to compensate a fellow villager with 12 cat...Published: 18 Jul 2025 at 08:32hrs | 426 | by Staff reporter
ZACC confirms Bosso probe over suspected graft
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has launched an investigation into Highlanders Football Club over suspected corruption linked to player transfers and financial mismanagement.Con...Published: 17 Jul 2025 at 20:50hrs | 172 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge clearing agent's vehicle import scam trial postponed again
The trial of Evans Nzara (28), a Beitbridge-based customs clearing agent accused of defrauding a Harare civil servant of US$15,700 in a botched vehicle import deal, has been postponed to August 7 afte...Published: 16 Jul 2025 at 19:12hrs | 390 | by Staff reporter
An open letter to Chimhama: are you in South Africa?
Dear Madam Chimhama, I hope I find you well, daughter of the African soil!I am writing this letter because I am deeply concerned about your utterances of violence in your video yo...Published: 16 Jul 2025 at 16:04hrs | 528 | by Nomazulu Thata
Illegal miners threaten Bulawayo infrastructure projects
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has raised alarm over the escalating invasion of its Khumalo gravel pit by illegal gold miners, warning that the activities of these panners threaten to derail critical...Published: 16 Jul 2025 at 07:43hrs | 356 | by Staff reporter
Regime change foundation closes down
The Brenthurst Foundation, a Johannesburg-based think tank established and funded by the Oppenheimer family, known for funding regime change players...Published: 15 Jul 2025 at 22:12hrs | 690 | by Staff reporter
Mine owner fined for operating unregistered milling plants
MAPHISA - A 45-year-old Snake Bone Mine owner has been fined US$200 for operating hammer and ball milling plants without proper documentation for registration.Matebeleland South Provincial Mag...Published: 14 Jul 2025 at 21:45hrs | 566 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole in Kezi
Police officers in uniform banned from betting shops
Police officers in uniform are strictly prohibited from entering betting shops or gambling in casinos in Zimbabwe, national police spokesperson Commissioner Paul Nyathi has ...Published: 14 Jul 2025 at 07:58hrs | 600 | by Staff reporter
Ballot stuffing claims rock elections in Kariba
The just-ended National Association of Secondary School Heads (NASH) elections held during the annual congress in Kariba have been marred by shocking allegations of vote rigging and ballot stuffing....Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 16:08hrs | 253 | by Staff reporter
Court officials arrested by ZACC
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has arrested Beitbridge prosecutor Beatrice Pedzisayi, court interpreter Bridget Mudau, and an unnamed prison officer on charges of conspiring to commit ...Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 11:28hrs | 141 | by Staff reporter
Biti's new political outfit: Another desperate stunt from a failed politician
Tendai Biti is back again, but instead of bringing something new or worthwhile to Zimbabwe's political landscape, he returns with yet another recycled and empty formation, now parading the once-insign...Published: 11 Jul 2025 at 15:29hrs | 3051 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 2 rotten apples
One of life's greatest follies is assuming that what matters to us matters equally to others. That our fears are shared, our desires understood, our sense of decency mutual. Quite the contrary, realit...Published: 11 Jul 2025 at 09:35hrs | 3044 | by Edmund Kudzayi
AMH editor-in-chief appears in court
The editor-in-chief of Alpha Media Holdings (AMH), Kholwani Nyathi, appeared in court on Thursday representing the media company as it faces charges of undermining the authority of President Emmerson ...Published: 10 Jul 2025 at 20:39hrs | 572 | by Staff reporter
Mahere wins US$100,000 in damages against 'Baba Jukwa' by default
Former opposition legislator and lawyer Advocate Fadzayi Mahere has been awarded US$100,000 in damages after the High Court ruled in her favour in a defamation lawsuit against journalist Edmund Kudzay...Published: 10 Jul 2025 at 16:32hrs | 746 | by Staff reporter
When it rains for Professor Welshman Ncube, it pours
PROFESSOR WELSHMAN NCUBE'S FRAUDULENT HEADS OF ARGUMENT BASED ON FICTITIOUS OR FALSIFIED CASE LAW AUTHORITIES FILED WITH THE SUPREME COURT: When it rains for Professor Ncube, it pours. Just as he is e...Published: 10 Jul 2025 at 12:50hrs | 2441 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
Illegal lithium exports undermine Zimbabwe's mineral wealth
In 2023, Peter, a truck driver, approached a border checkpoint between Zimbabwe and Mozambique carrying a sealed container he believed held chrome, a mineral listed on the shipment paperwork. Having t...Published: 10 Jul 2025 at 09:00hrs | 239 | by Staff reporter
Trevor Ncube's AMH charged for 'insulting' Mnangagwa
A week after the arrest of Zimbabwe Independent editor Faith Zaba, the Zimbabwean government has escalated its legal crackdown on independent media by charging the newspaper's parent company, Alpha Me...Published: 09 Jul 2025 at 19:15hrs | 1054 | by Staff reporter
Security firm sues +HIV ex-employee
Seasec Security Company has filed a US$16,000 defamation lawsuit against a former female employee who accused the company of firing her due to her HIV-positive status. The company's secretary, Ms Prec...Published: 08 Jul 2025 at 19:13hrs | 917 | by Staff reporter
Coal mining row erupts in Chipinge
A storm is brewing in Zamuchiya, Ward 23 of Mutema-Musikavanhu constituency in Chipinge, where a mining company, Muzururi Mining Development, is accused of conducting coal exploration operations witho...Published: 08 Jul 2025 at 19:13hrs | 641 | by Staff reporter
AMH Crisis Rages On: Journalists humiliated as marketing and distribution staff treated better
The crisis at Zimbabwe's leading privately owned media house, Alpha Media Holdings (AMH), continues to deepen, with journalists bearing the brunt of the company's financial turmoil.Only editor...Published: 08 Jul 2025 at 14:04hrs | 529 | by Staff Reporter
Minister Machakaire, instead of suing, just tell us: Are you corrupt or not?
When someone resorts to diversionary tactics instead of addressing legitimate questions, it naturally raises suspicion.In a disturbing turn of events that strikes at the heart of democratic ac...Published: 07 Jul 2025 at 12:14hrs | 899 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Elias Musakwa embroiled in chieftainship battle
A fierce succession battle has erupted within the Chinamhora dynasty, with several families moving to block the installation of Richard Jeyi as substantive Chief Chinamhora, arguing that he is not the...Published: 07 Jul 2025 at 12:01hrs | 908 | by Staff reporter
Jalai sparks storm as Dynamos sink deeper into crisis
Dynamos Football Club captain Emmanuel Jalai has ignited a storm within the camp and among supporters after posting a cryptic but powerful message on Facebook in the aftermath of the team's dismal 0-2...Published: 07 Jul 2025 at 09:10hrs | 728 | by Staff reporter
Bona Mugabe wins High Court ruling allowing divorce claims
Bona Mugabe, daughter of the late President Robert Mugabe, secured a significant legal victory last week as Justice Amy Tsanga of the High Court dismissed an exception raised by her estranged husband,...Published: 07 Jul 2025 at 08:49hrs | 8122 | by Staff reporter
Madhadha closure, Zanu PF Manicaland factional fights turns nasty
Zanu PF Manicaland factional wars have spilt into business, with companies owned by some members close to Sports Minister Anselem Sanyatwe being targeted over allegations of backing Vice-President Con...Published: 06 Jul 2025 at 17:18hrs | 1088 | by Staff Reporter
Dynamos' slow but obvious death
Dynamos' downfall is no longer a rumor - it's a reality show, and the doubting Thomases are now the panic-stricken prophets, DeMbare DotComs reported. The problem isn't the coaching staff...Published: 06 Jul 2025 at 11:31hrs | 229 | by Staff reporter
A choking hazard for Cowdray Park residents
Whenever a plume of smoke rises from Bulawayo's Richmond Landfill site, popularly known as Ngozi Mine, Sazini Ncube's thoughts immediately turn to her six-year-old daughter, Audrey. Living in Cowdray ...Published: 06 Jul 2025 at 10:13hrs | 189 | by Staff reporter
Sangoma has a message for Mnangagwa
Munetsi Masheedze, widely known as Murandawashe, has resurfaced with a familiar declaration — he says he has a message for the President of Zimbabwe, this time Emmerson Mnangagwa, claiming it is fro...Published: 05 Jul 2025 at 10:16hrs | 580 | by Staff reporter
Let us restore our identity
Family bondage is crucial to our lives and contributes to the development of a solid and tranquil community. We Africans have abandoned certain customs and behaviours because we don't realise how effe...Published: 04 Jul 2025 at 22:30hrs | 129 | by Leonard Koni
Dr Malusi Gigaba has completed his PhD
Former finance minister Knowledge Malusi Nkanyeni Gigaba has achieved a significant academic milestone by completing his PhD at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), with his graduation confirmed for 2...Published: 04 Jul 2025 at 10:57hrs | 550 | by Staff reporter
Faith Zaba granted bail after 'Mafia State' Column lands her in court
Veteran journalist and editor Faith Zaba was granted ZW$200 bail on Thursday by the Harare Magistrates Court after spending three days in custody over a newspaper column in which she described Zimbabw...Published: 04 Jul 2025 at 10:49hrs | 255 | by Staff reporter
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