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Shadowy group claims mercenaries hired to kill Chiwenga
A shadowy group supporting Zimbabwe's Vice President, the General Chiwenga Voluntary Supporters Association (GCVSA), has made sensational claims that mercenaries have been hired to eliminate the forme...Published: 20 Mar 2025 at 09:26hrs | 2415 | by Staff reporter
Bombshell Allegation: Geza accuses President Mnangagwa of plotting VP Chiwenga's death
In a startling revelation during his recent State of the Nation Address, Blessed "Bombshell" Geza has accused Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa of conspiring to assassinate Vice President Consta...Published: 18 Mar 2025 at 20:40hrs | 5302 | by Paul Ndou
Mnangagwa successfully thwarted a premature revolution! We waited for a Geza signal that would never come!
There is open disdain in all societies about how President Mnangagwa failed the people. At the same time the open discussions about a rift between Chiwenga and Mnangagwa is known; hostilities are play...Published: 09 Mar 2025 at 20:32hrs | 1802 | by Nomazulu Thata
Ex-Harare Mayor avoided Town House meals over poisoning fears
Former Harare Mayor Ben Manyenyeni deliberately avoided eating at Town House during his tenure, fearing possible poisoning after leading a campaign to slash excessive salaries and perks earned by city...Published: 09 Mar 2025 at 13:10hrs | 97 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa in the shadows of political darkness
Justice Alfred Mavedzenge has done a very informative analysis on the behavior of Nelson Chamisa, and the radical change in his political personality since his ZINASU days of a firebrand student polit...Published: 06 Mar 2025 at 15:08hrs | 619 | by Reason Wafawarova
Bulawayo registers 200 diarrhoea cases, one death
The City of Bulawayo reported over 200 cases of diarrhoea and one related death as of December last year, according to the latest council disease surveillance report. The city has implemented intensif...Published: 11 Feb 2025 at 06:45hrs | 158 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean innovator showcases self-powering vehicle to Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has hailed Zimbabwean innovator Maxwell Chikumbutso for his groundbreaking invention of self-powering vehicles and motorbikes that run on radio waves, describing the feat ...Published: 29 Jan 2025 at 08:45hrs | 966 | by Staff reporter
A reset of the opposition
The opposition party is currently in dire straits and needs a serious resuscitation and to get back to its factory settings.Anyone who was in opposition for more than ten years is likely to be...Published: 18 Jan 2025 at 11:25hrs | 377 | by Leonard Koni
Red flag over SA food poisoning crisis
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has intensified its vigilance on food safety following reports of food poisoning incidents in South Africa, where more than 20 children died and nearly 890 incidents of foo...Published: 13 Jan 2025 at 07:23hrs | 1044 | by Staff reporter
China's meddling in Zimbabwe's internal politics unwelcome and against international law
China's actions in Zimbabwe are becoming increasingly disturbing, with its flagrant interference in the country's internal political affairs going beyond what is acceptable under international law. ...Published: 12 Jan 2025 at 23:11hrs | 592 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Suicide following domestic dispute over infidelity
Police in Bulawayo are investigating a tragic case of suicide following the death of 49-year-old Kholisani Ncube of Lobengula West, who took his own life by ingesting pesticide after a domestic disput...Published: 11 Jan 2025 at 08:31hrs | 159 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean migrants lose jobs in SA after raid on spaza shops
Zimbabweans working in South Africa's spaza shops are facing hardship following a series of raids targeting foreign-owned tuckshops after allegations of food poisoning incidents, which have left child...Published: 04 Dec 2024 at 06:51hrs | 355 | by Staff reporter
City workers choke to death in sewer
The City of Kadoma is in mourning after two municipal workers tragically lost their lives while attempting to fix a sewer blockage near St John Kennedy Primary School on Thursday, November 28, 2024....Published: 30 Nov 2024 at 12:59hrs | 139 | by Staff reporter
Poisoning scare at school dinner
A suspected food poisoning incident has rocked Riverdale Academy, a private school located in the Hillside suburb of Bulawayo, with dozens of pupils and even some parents reportedly hospitalized after...Published: 23 Nov 2024 at 12:41hrs | 256 | by Staff reporter
The truth about symbiotic survival of Mnangagwa and Chiwenga!
Citizens, forget about these fake social media channels news, one called Chatufa voices and his admirers. We are subjected in a web of fake news and meanings that spin themselves constantly, finding i...Published: 22 Nov 2024 at 15:54hrs | 889 | by Nomazulu Thata
Whites want South Africa's township economy
South Africa has had Spaza shops controlled by foreigners for the better part of 30 years, and we never had food poisoning. But all of a sudden, now that white foreigners are building malls in the tow...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 15:16hrs | 919 | by Rutendo Matinyarare
Plundering of Zimbabwe's minerals stalling a just energy transition in fighting climate change
In his address at a High-Level Meeting on Resourcing the Energy Transition with Justice and Equity, held on the sidelines of COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa delivere...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 12:37hrs | 174 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mbalula attacks Madam Zille
Cracks within the Government of National Unity (GNU) have continued to widen after ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula launched a blistering attack on the DA's federal chairperson Helen Zille, accusi...Published: 08 Nov 2024 at 09:49hrs | 948 | by Staff reporter
Chafuka on Zimbabwe social media will topple Mnangagwa government!
I should be forgiven if I said this man is an implant of president Mnangagwa masquerading as a revolutionary. Yet he is playing a political game that speaks the opposite to loo as many as he can get t...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 21:12hrs | 1580 | by Nomazulu Thata
Sengezo Tshabangu up and running, in good health
Sengezo Tshabangu, the secretary-general of the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), is up and running after being reported to have been moved to the intensive care unit (ICU) of a hospital...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 14:21hrs | 5126 | by Staff reporter
Britain tried to exile Zulu King to Zimbabwe
In a remarkable revelation, King Misuzulu KaZwelithini recently shared that the British-governed Natal Province of South Africa sought to exile Zulu King Dinuzulu to Bulawayo, Zimbabwe - an area also ...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 12:26hrs | 1158 | by Staff reporter
What is the probability that those who poisoned Jacob Zuma poisoned Paul Mashatile?
The recent health scare involving Paul Mashatile, South Africa's Deputy President, has reignited discussions about the troubling pattern of alleged poisonings among top South African politicians. With...Published: 15 Sep 2024 at 10:09hrs | 2253 | by Askari
Bulawayo on high alert over disease outbreaks
In July 2024, Bulawayo reported around 400 cases of diarrhoea, an increase from 318 cases the previous month, as noted in the latest Bulawayo City Council minutes. Health services director Edwin Siban...Published: 06 Sep 2024 at 07:18hrs | 93 | by Staff reporter
Aflatoxin contaminated maize sparks fear in Zambia after 400 dogs die
An "alarming number" of 400 dogs are thought to have died over the past month in Zambia after eating contaminated maize and humans could be at risk too, the country's health minister has said....Published: 22 Aug 2024 at 12:34hrs | 484 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo dismisses cyanide poisoning claims
The Bulawayo City Council has dismissed social media claims alleging contamination of tap water with cyanide and other chemicals, reaffirming its commitment to providing safe water to the public. ...Published: 16 Jul 2024 at 13:44hrs | 473 | by Staff reporter
Woman poisons self, 4 kids
In Kuwadzana Extension, Harare, a woman is suspected of poisoning her family's food, resulting in the deaths of two of her four children, while she and her remaining children are in critical condition...Published: 16 Jul 2024 at 12:34hrs | 676 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Poisoning fears at Bulawayo supply dam
THERE are fears of cyanide poisoning at Upper Ncema Dam owing to mining activities at Alice Farm in Umzingwane district, that are also posing a serious environmental threat.This was revealed i...Published: 16 Jul 2024 at 10:10hrs | 548 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa accused of poisoning Dzamara?
Controversial socialite Susan Mutami has cast aspersions on her baby father Temba Mliswa.Mutami accused Mlisa of being a Satan, she asked him about who poisoned Patson Dzamara.Patson D...Published: 05 Jul 2024 at 16:11hrs | 50 | by Staff reporter
Woman in court for poisoning pupils
A 37-year-old woman from Zvimba, Paidamoyo Makayi, appeared in Chinhoyi Magistrates Court on Saturday for allegedly attempting to poison her daughter's schoolmates. Makayi, who is from Murombe...Published: 11 Jun 2024 at 06:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Sikhala still undergoing treatment'
FORMER opposition Zengeza West legislator, Job Sikhala, is still undergoing treatment at a medical centre overseas after experiencing a running stomach and passing bloody stool due to suspected poison...Published: 27 Mar 2024 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa regime doing the work of US sanctions in Zimbabwe!
My own views on this sanctions issue have always been that we needed to prove these measures were the cause of our suffering. I have never denied that there have been targeted sanctions impose...Published: 06 Mar 2024 at 23:01hrs | 6 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Abortion pills sold like sweets on the streets of Bulawayo
ARE you aware of what your children are doing online?A thriving business for abortion pills is booming in the streets of Bulawayo and the rest of Zimbabwe as the illegal drugs are easily acces...Published: 24 Feb 2024 at 07:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Stash of cyanide discovered in Belmont
THE Environment Management Agency (EMA) is investigating a case involving the alleged illegal importation of cyanide, which was found hidden in a warehouse in the Belmont industrial area in Bulawayo....Published: 08 Feb 2024 at 04:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hopewell Chin'ono friend abducted
Suspected state security agents abducted a Harare-based construction manager - who has done a lot of building works for award-winning Zimbabwean filmmaking journalist Hopewell Chin'ono - yesterday in ...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 19:07hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa fired Mutsvangwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa fired his outspoken political ally Christopher Mutsvangwa as Minister of Veterans of the Liberation Struggle Affairs with immediate effect for various reasons, but the tri...Published: 05 Feb 2024 at 18:34hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala confirms prison cell poisoning
Sikhala, the opposition activist recently released after spending 595 days in pretrial detention, has confirmed that he was poisoned during his time in solitary confinement at Chikurubi Maximum Prison...Published: 01 Feb 2024 at 05:02hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala raring to flex muscle
FORMER opposition Zengeza Member of Parliament, Job Sikhala, says he will embark on "Thank You" rallies for the support he received from ordinary citizens across the country while he was in detention....Published: 01 Feb 2024 at 05:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Buried alive for 3 days
WIPING his dusty face and shaking his muddied clothes, Owen Jaison (24) takes a huge sigh of relief.He had just dug his way out of belly of the earth for a kilometre.He and other 14 ar...Published: 13 Jan 2024 at 06:51hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Met Dept issues heavy rains alert
HEAVY rains are expected across much of the country for the next seven days from today to Wednesday next week, the Meteorological Services Department forecasts, as the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone ...Published: 11 Jan 2024 at 05:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Insiza cattle succumbing to cyanide
SOME villagers in Gcabayi, Insiza district of Matebeleland South province, are losing livestock after drinking water contaminated with cyanide disposed of along the Umzingwane River by artisanal miner...Published: 08 Dec 2023 at 05:37hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Rare bacterium behind elephant deaths in Botswana and Zimbabwe
The deaths of 350 elephants in Botswana's Okavango Delta and 35 at the bordering Hwange National Park and Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe in 2020 were due to a rare form of bacteria, scientists have finall...Published: 28 Oct 2023 at 12:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Tsikamutanda powers fizzle out before cleansing
IN a strange twist of events, a witch-hunter popularly known as tsikamutanda from Tsholotsho, Matebeleland North province, ran out of his "magical powers" after he fell seriously ill shortly before a ...Published: 27 Oct 2023 at 06:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
How Mnangagwa consolidated power and outwitted Zimbabwe military
WITH his controversial re-election -achieved with a minimal contribution from the military, and his subsequent swearing-in and cabinet appointments - President Emmerson Mnangagwa has all but completed...Published: 24 Sep 2023 at 21:51hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga trapped in crocodile jaws
In just six years, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, once a formidable figure and key player in the military coup that ousted former President Robert Mugabe, has seen a significant decline in his i...Published: 24 Sep 2023 at 18:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Senior citizen commits suicide over funeral policy debt
A 65-YEAR-OLD Guruve man committed suicide after feeling let down by a funeral policy.Habback Chipuriro committed suicide by poisoning recently.Sources familiar with the incident told ...Published: 21 Sep 2023 at 13:12hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Chamisa's CCC to challenge yellow tie ban
OPPOSITION Citizens for Coalition of Change (CCC) legislators have vowed to challenge the ban on yellow ties in Parliament after several legislators turned up in the yellow attire for the swearing-in ...Published: 18 Sep 2023 at 07:01hrs | | 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 | 3 | 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 | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga the biggest loser on Mnangagwa's new Cabinet
He staked his reputation on Emmerson Mnangagwa's return to Zimbabwe after a two-week absence as President, following a dramatic escape to South Africa in early November 2017. This followed his removal...Published: 12 Sep 2023 at 20:08hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's pluses ahead of Aug 23 polls
By addressing concerns about a runoff scenario, Chamisa has showcased his leadership qualities and strategic foresight, reassuring voters of his commitment to decisive victory in the first round again...Published: 11 Aug 2023 at 06:42hrs | 16 | by Sharon Hofisi
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