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Man slits his father and mother's throats
A man from Lupane in Matebeleland North is currently evading law enforcement after allegedly brutally murdering his parents during a family gathering last week. Clever Ngwenga (35), a resident...Published: 22 hrs ago | 297 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai told to 'slow down'
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Goblins immobilise pupils
VILLAGERS of Tsholotsho are still trying to come to terms with a mysterious ‘ailment' that has left about a dozen school children unable to walk after attacks from mysterious creatures.The b...Published: 22 Sep 2023 at 06:39hrs | 2536 | by Staff reporter
Insiza North to get more secondary schools
Leadership in Ward 13 of Insiza District in Matabeleland South Province has identified a piece of land with plans to establish a secondary school. According to local headman Mr. Julius Maromo, communi...Published: 22 Sep 2023 at 06:26hrs | 93 | by Staff reporter
CCC councillor dies
Patricia Chibaya, the Councillor for Ward 2 in Chinhoyi and a member of the Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC), has tragically passed away just a month after being re-elected for her second term in ...Published: 21 Sep 2023 at 19:43hrs | 1094 | by Staff reporter
UK-born Zimbabwean forward signs for Queens Park Rangers
Nathan Jeche, the Zimbabwean teenage forward, has achieved a significant milestone in his budding career by securing a contract with Queens Park Rangers (QPR)'s development team, coming from the Engli...Published: 21 Sep 2023 at 13:02hrs | 1536 | by Staff reporter
Spurned man kills wife at her paternal home
A man is currently on the run after allegedly fatally assaulting his estranged wife during an attempt at reconciliation at his in-laws' residence. The suspect, identified as Alfigio Zhou from Village ...Published: 20 Sep 2023 at 20:01hrs | 552 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: A nation at crossroads
Good day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Your Excellency, Zimbabwe is dogged by reputational and socio-economic challenges. Consequently, the citizenry is despondent, crying out for commitment to uphol...Published: 20 Sep 2023 at 06:41hrs | 812 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Zambian national appears in a Zimbabwe court
A Zambian citizen, Kimbungwe Yub Ibrah (28), appeared before Harare magistrate Ethel Chichera, facing two charges of trafficking Ugandan nationals into Zimbabwe. Ibrah was remanded in custody until Se...Published: 20 Sep 2023 at 06:41hrs | 638 | by Staff reporter
When our parents celebrated independence in 1980, this isn't what they were celebrating!
Whenever I look at this picture, my heart is filled with indescribable grief and anguish. I see my father, with his dear friends - as they openly expressed ecstatic transports of joy - at the ...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 23:20hrs | 291 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa salutes Heath Streak
THE late cricket icon Heath Streak is likely to live long in the memories of many Zimbabweans, with President Mnangagwa yesterday describing the former national team captain and coach as a "great spor...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 19:43hrs | 396 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest 14 pupils at a vuzu party
BULAWAYO police are investigating an incident involving 14 high school pupils found hosting a vuzu party in Pumula South last week on Friday afternoon.Police were alerted after a stranger saw ...Published: 18 Sep 2023 at 07:00hrs | 728 | by Staff reporter
Students from Zimbabwe flock to Zambia
An estimated 10,000 young Zimbabweans running away from high unemployment and a broken economy among other factors have turned their backs on local universities and are now studying in Zambia, The Mir...Published: 17 Sep 2023 at 22:30hrs | 973 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says his life has not been an easy one
President Mnangagwa has defied death on three separate occasions in his life, including a notorious poisoning incident in Gwanda six years ago and narrowly escaping the death penalty due to a technica...Published: 17 Sep 2023 at 07:56hrs | 341 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa survived assassination attempts 3 times
President Mnangagwa has narrowly escaped death on three occasions during his lifetime, including surviving an assassination attempt by poisoning in Gwanda six years ago and evading the death sentence ...Published: 17 Sep 2023 at 07:52hrs | 571 | by Staff reporter
'Nothing wrong with CALA'
THE new Primary and Secondary Education minister, Torerayi Moyo has said there is nothing wrong with learners doing the Continuous Assessment of Learning Activities (CALA) adding that the way they are...Published: 14 Sep 2023 at 06:28hrs | 365 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's endorsement of 'rigged' election will bring more foreigners to SA, say Zimbabweans
SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa's public support of Zimbabwe's national election results will lead to more foreign nationals fleeing to South Africa in search of a better life, Zimbabwean nati...Published: 10 Sep 2023 at 08:56hrs | 126 | by Staff reporter
Children born in South Africa to foreign parents not automatically entitled to SA citizenship
A court has found that children born in South Africa to foreign national parents do not automatically entitle them to South African citizenship.The court then turned down an application by Zim...Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 22:17hrs | 705 | by Staff reporter
Is the Permanent Secretary living in Mars?
A few days ago in the state paper, The Chronicle, appeared an article related to the massive hike in fees at our local universities.There was a public outcry over the fees pegged in US dollars...Published: 02 Sep 2023 at 06:58hrs | 621 | by AT Kadada
Outcry over Zimbabwe varsity fees increase
THE marginal increase in fees for public university students is meant to meet operational costs while ensuring quality education at a time when the Government is subsidising tuition fees and levies by...Published: 30 Aug 2023 at 06:44hrs | 410 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa lashes out at CCC, observers
President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday lashed out at claims that the August 23 and 24 harmonised elections were rigged in his favour, challenging those who are not happy to take the matter to co...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 06:57hrs | 898 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean star Trey Nyoni signs for Liverpool
RISING star Trey Nyoni has been tipped to make it big at Liverpool following revelations the English Premiership giants have completed the signing into their academy the teenage midfielder who was bor...Published: 25 Aug 2023 at 06:25hrs | 194 | by Staff reporter
Why we must reject Zanu-PF
THE Zanu-PF government is not a listening administration. For the last 18 years, I provided the government with grounded policy advice, but all fell on deaf ears. Zanu-PF is so arrogant that in this 2...Published: 21 Aug 2023 at 06:39hrs | 6 | by Gift Mugano
Zanu-PF flexes muscles
CHILDREN of primary school going age stood along the almost 50km long dusty Lalapanzi to Shurugwi dirt road, waving in awe and excitement at hundreds of buses carrying thousands Zanu-PF supporters to ...Published: 21 Aug 2023 at 06:37hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter
'Youth vote vital for victory'
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa and his Zanu-PF parliamentary and council candidates will romp to victory riding on the back of a strong youth vote, the ruling party's Bulawayo provincial chairman Jabulani Siband...Published: 21 Aug 2023 at 06:34hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, CCC members in court
TWO members of the ruling Zanu-PF party have been fined US$100 each for defacing opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) campaign posters while five members of the opposition party are on trial...Published: 19 Aug 2023 at 16:21hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
'Promote women and youths participation in tobacco production' - Gatawa
Senior agronomist Lazarus Gatawa has urged Tobacco Industry players to empower more women and youths to venture into mainstream tobacco production. Gatawa said women and youths hav...Published: 16 Aug 2023 at 18:53hrs | 3 | by Simbarashe Sithole
'Political intolerance, poverty, corruption dividing Zimbabwe'
ZIMBABWE remains highly polarised as a result of political intolerance, unresolved historical issues, growing poverty, corruption and a lack of a common shared vision among other social ills, observer...Published: 15 Aug 2023 at 06:37hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Nhlanhla Ndiweni wants court action over Zanu-PF rallies
Exiled former Ntabazinduna chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni says Zanu-PF must be taken to court for coercing schoolchildren to attend its rallies in violation of a 2018 High Court ruling.I...Published: 14 Aug 2023 at 21:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Withdrawal of Zimbabwe Exemption Permits is discriminatory and inhumane'
New research has indicated that the biggest challenge in documenting immigrants is procedure, which increasingly excludes people who are considered 'not useful' to the South African economy.Th...Published: 14 Aug 2023 at 06:40hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Change is inevitable. Is Africa ready?
CHANGE is one of the few constant factors in our lives, perhaps since the beginning of time. Unless driven by the people, the fear of change is another constant. This is because humans, by nature, are...Published: 14 Aug 2023 at 06:29hrs | 2 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Mnangagwa calls them 'daydreaming political toddlers'
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has told off infantile opposition leaders who have threatened to trigger chaos if they lose elections in direct contradiction to democratic practices.The President also lau...Published: 12 Aug 2023 at 07:50hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Carl Joshua Ncube hangs mic
SHOCKING!What is Zimbabwean stand-up comedy without arguably one of the pioneers of the trade in the precinct, Carl Joshua Ncube?This is a question that will come to boggle the minds o...Published: 12 Aug 2023 at 07:44hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
The war of liberation was not a stroll in the park
Seized by the prophetic words of the mystic and condemned Mbuya Nehanda, "My bones will rise again", young Jorum left home without telling anyone. School, parents and siblings did not matter anymore, ...Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 19:26hrs | 1 | by Thomas Murisa
ZPCS defends release of convicted rapist from prison on Mnangagwa's amnesty order
THE ZIMBABWE Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) has justified the release from prison of Bobby Makaza, a convicted rapist, under a recent presidential amnesty order.Makaza, who resides in...Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 18:55hrs | 4 | by Stephen Jakes
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 | 12 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimdollars rain at Chamisa's rally
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa made Sakubva Sports Oval rain with Zimdollar notes after declaring that once he is elected President, he will do away with the local currency, violence and centralisat...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 06:42hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Jobless Zimbabwe teachers told to 'start your own schools'
GOVERNMENT has told jobless teachers to open their own schools as it cannot employ all of them into the country's education system.This was said by Higher and Tertiary Education deputy ministe...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 06:41hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mumps outbreak hits Harare
Harare has been hit by an outbreak of mumps, a contagious viral infection mostly common in children that affects the salivary glands.Mumps is most recognisable by the painful swellings in the ...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 08:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police warn against recording videos of drunks
POLICE have warned members of the public against recording videos of people who are in a state of vulnerability, saying it is a criminal offence and those caught doing so will be liable to arrest....Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 08:21hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF red-flagged for child abuse
Zanu-PF has been asked to stop involving children in its political campaigns after some learners were paraded at a rally in Bulawayo's Cowdray Park high-density suburb chanting slogans against the opp...Published: 05 Aug 2023 at 19:36hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Parly candidate caught offside
AN independent National Assembly candidate for Nketa constituency Vincent Bhala is alleged to be "double dipping" after pictures of his not-so-secret night escapades were caught on camera.In a...Published: 04 Aug 2023 at 06:51hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo opens up after David Coltart 'insult'
Zimbabwean former minister and MP Jonathan Moyo has written a long open letter to main opposition CCC senior leader David Coltart over his remarks about his late father Melusi Job Mlevu who was ...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 08:03hrs | 57 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF way beyond redemption
IT never ceases to baffle the mind what exactly the ruling Zanu-PF party intends to achieve by singing on rooftops about its supposed "achievements".Surely, after authoring the unimaginable mi...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 06:31hrs | 3 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa promises projects already delivered by Zanu-PF?
CCC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa took his campaign trail to Gadzema grounds in Chinhoyi yesterday, where he promised to undertake developments that have already been implemented or are being undertaken by...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 06:28hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
David Coltart operated in Matabeleland where he did dastardly things
Dear David Coltart,WHY I CANNOT SUPPORT QUINTUPLE C: COLTART, CHAMISA AND CCCMy attention has been drawn to your fraudulent and disgusting tweet you posted on my Twitter TL yesterday D...Published: 31 Jul 2023 at 18:58hrs | 7 | by Jonathan Moyo
Modi donates toilets to school
BULAWAYO South legislator Raj Modi has donated a toilet block to Greenfield Primary School's infants' department. The toilet block was built at a cost of US$35 000 by the Raj Modi Foundat...Published: 31 Jul 2023 at 17:21hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Zanu-PF will romp to victory
Zanu-PF will romp to victory in the August 23 harmonised elections, riding on a crest of tangibles and deliverables and no meaningful opposition, President Mnangagwa has said.Addressing scores...Published: 31 Jul 2023 at 06:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean multimillionaire changing lives in the UK
AS the elections in Zimbabwe approach, I am speaking with one of the millions from that country in greener pastures far from home.Despite the enduring difficulties of her homeland, Guernsey-ba...Published: 31 Jul 2023 at 06:51hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF is way beyond redemption!
It never ceases to baffle the mind what exactly the ruling ZANU PF party intends to achieve by singing on rooftops over their supposed 'achievements'.Surely, after authoring the unimaginable m...Published: 30 Jul 2023 at 17:45hrs | 3 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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