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Have our churches turned into sanctuaries for the corrupt?
Have our churches become places where criminals go to cleanse their reputations and whitewash their activities?In Zimbabwe, we are witnessing a deeply troubling phenomenon - one that strikes a...Published: 2 hrs ago | 51 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwean woman battles rare and painful breast condition
A 36-year-old woman from Shamva, Mashonaland Central, is living with a rare and debilitating breast condition that has left her physically burdened and socially isolated. Her breasts have grown abnorm...Published: 08 May 2025 at 11:16hrs | 437 | by Staff reporter
Econet Victoria Falls Marathon draws global spotlight
The Econet Victoria Falls Marathon is rapidly establishing itself as one of Africa's leading sporting events, transforming the iconic resort town into a magnet for global tourism, cultural exchange, a...Published: 08 May 2025 at 09:42hrs | 124 | by Staff reporter
Skills audit for Harare council staff
Harare City Council has announced plans to undertake a comprehensive skills audit as part of efforts to address persistent concerns over poor service delivery and a possible mismatch between staff qua...Published: 07 May 2025 at 15:48hrs | 590 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo, Bushiri cases dominate Anti-Corruption Conference
The high-profile cases of fugitive Malawian preacher Shepherd Bushiri and controversial Zimbabwean businessman Wicknell Chivayo have taken centre stage at the 15th Commonwealth Regional Conference for...Published: 07 May 2025 at 15:47hrs | 1166 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Agricultural Show begins preparations for 2025 agric show
The Zimbabwe Agricultural Society (ZAS) has commenced preparations for the 115th edition of the Zimbabwe Agricultural Show, with this year's event set to run from August 25 to 30 under the theme "Buil...Published: 07 May 2025 at 09:35hrs | 64 | by Staff reporter
Boreholes are not the solution to Zimbabwe's water crisis - they may worsen it
There has been a growing disturbing trend.The Zimbabwean government has, in recent years, taken to vigorously drilling boreholes across the country as its signature approach to solving the cou...Published: 05 May 2025 at 23:30hrs | 875 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Who Owns the Future When the Youth Are Just Campaign Props?
Every election season in Zimbabwe brings with it a familiar theatre: politicians parading youth like trophies, cladding them in party regalia, praising their energy, and promising them a future that n...Published: 05 May 2025 at 23:21hrs | 156 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Machakaire exposes the detachment of Zimbabwe's ruling elite from ordinary citizens' suffering
The surprises keep coming!It is not often that we hear a sitting Zimbabwean Cabinet minister openly acknowledge the painful reality faced daily by millions of citizens. That is why Min...Published: 05 May 2025 at 23:18hrs | 556 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Minister Machakaire Just Discovered What the Rest of Us Live With
I saw the post on X just after 9 a.m., while waiting in a queue for my grandmother's antibiotics at a local clinic. The power had gone out, again. There was no doctor on duty, again. And someone's mot...Published: 05 May 2025 at 23:13hrs | 221 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
CBZ supports Highlanders
Some of Highlanders' Problems Being Addressed, Thanks to CBZ Holdings PartnershipSome of the challenges facing Highlanders Football Club are now being resolved, with CBZ Holdings stepping in t...Published: 05 May 2025 at 15:55hrs | 182 | by Staff reporter
Mid-Level managers are Destroying Zimbabwe's Health Sector
Zimbabwe's health sector is in critical condition, unfortunately no amount of propaganda or spin can change the facts on the ground. The problem with our health care system is not because of lack of f...Published: 03 May 2025 at 11:51hrs | 867 | by Hector Madzima
Why community engagement and dialogue are key for Zimbabwe's development
Communities are the backbone of any country.I was recently privileged to moderate the Multi-Stakeholders Dialogue on Bridging Community Solutions and National Policy - organized by the Institu...Published: 03 May 2025 at 11:45hrs | 144 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mutare City refutes bedbug outbreak rumours
Mutare City Council has refuted widespread social media reports alleging a recent infestation of bedbugs (tsikidzi) in the high-density suburb of Sakubva, dismissing the claims as unfounded and mislea...Published: 03 May 2025 at 08:36hrs | 407 | by Staff reporter
Former Zimbabwe Stock Exchange boss dies
Former Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) chairman and revered stockbroker Ndodana Mguquka has died. He was 51.Mguquka passed away in the early hours of the morning at Samuel Leon Medical Centre in...Published: 02 May 2025 at 16:57hrs | 2071 | by Staff reporter
Garwe must change colonial mentality
SOMETIME last year in August, the Zimbabwean government issued a strong condemnation and warning against Mike Moyo and Timothy Chiminya for claiming titles as ceremonial King Mambo and King Munhumutap...Published: 02 May 2025 at 09:00hrs | 948 | by Phakathwayo Gumede
Harare warns Mbare flat residents over bedbug fumigation resistance
The City of Harare has issued a stern warning to residents of Mbare flats who are reportedly refusing entry to municipal health workers deployed to fumigate their homes against a growing bedbug (tsiki...Published: 30 Apr 2025 at 19:46hrs | 404 | by Staff reporter
Bed Bugs Appear to Have a Genetic Resistance to Pesticides
A mutation that helps insects survive our chemical onslaught has been found in one of the worst places imaginable: the genome of the common bed bug.For better or worse, we had these itchy litt...Published: 30 Apr 2025 at 09:16hrs | 2022 | by Erick Matotoba
City of Harare says bed bugs infestation confined to Mbare
The City of Harare (CoH) has responded to reports of bed bug infestations spreading to suburbs such as Mabvuku, Glen View, and Budiriro, confirming that investigations are underway but asserting that ...Published: 29 Apr 2025 at 07:15hrs | 327 | by Staff reporter
Lions wreak havoc in Marange
A series of lion attacks in Mutsago village, located in Marange, Manicaland province, has sparked fear and uncertainty among residents who are now grappling with the loss of livestock and growing safe...Published: 28 Apr 2025 at 12:45hrs | 822 | by Staff reporter
Dynamos fans disgruntled
Dynamos 0 - 0 Kwekwe UnitedDynamos FC supporters vented their frustration yesterday after their team failed to secure a win against struggling Kwekwe United in a goalless Castle Lager Premiers...Published: 28 Apr 2025 at 12:14hrs | 46 | by Staff reporter
China says US should revoke unilateral tariffs, denies talks
China demanded that the US revokes all unilateral tariffs and denied there were talks on reaching a trade deal, maintaining a defiant stance despite President Donald Trump's recent easing of criticism...Published: 28 Apr 2025 at 12:05hrs | 60 | by Staff reporter
NTA, best solution for Zimbabwe! Geza group is saying Chunhu Chedu!
Master of Philosophies say the same thing: without the backing of intelligenzia, there can never be remarkable national development. A Geza revolution is not backed by intelligenzia but by pastors, Iz...Published: 28 Apr 2025 at 09:01hrs | 692 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabweans believe that constant negativity is a revolutionary act
There is a peculiar tragedy unfolding in Zimbabwe, not of violence or bloodshed - though we have our fair share of that - but of perception. A misprogramming of the national psyche has taken root, alg...Published: 25 Apr 2025 at 13:53hrs | 287 | by Twaluma Loko
Tobacco crop under threat from fungal disease
Zimbabwe's tobacco farmers are facing a major crisis as a destructive fungal disease, Fusarium Wilt and Root Rot (FWRR), spreads across fields, threatening the country's lucrative tobacco industry....Published: 25 Apr 2025 at 07:24hrs | 75 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on the brink
As Zimbabwe's socioeconomic crisis deepens, analysts warned this week that the country may be heading for an implosion.According to Harare-based human rights lawyer Thulani Mzala, the mineral ...Published: 25 Apr 2025 at 07:01hrs | 1154 | by Staff reporter
White and black farmers still bear the scars of Zimbabwe's land grabs
Guy Watson-Smith felt hurt and betrayed when his 5,000-hectare (12,355-acre) farm in Beatrice, in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland East province, was violently invaded by three armed men in the early 2000s....Published: 24 Apr 2025 at 07:49hrs | 795 | by Farai Matiashe, Al Jazeera
Civil war: Not Matabele-Shona but Zezuru-Karanga infightings!
Now that the impeachment is dead on arrival, Geza has changed his modus operandi multiple times, he wants people to make stay-away protests. His statement has again changed, and it now says: stay away...Published: 23 Apr 2025 at 13:55hrs | 1588 | by Nomazulu Thata
Stop Prioritising Universities , Zimbabwe Needs Vocational Institutions to Develop
Zimbabwe is facing a looming crisis in the engineering sector, not because it lacks intelligent students or capable minds, but because of a mismatch in its education and skills training priorities. Wh...Published: 23 Apr 2025 at 13:46hrs | 335 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Drones help intercept over 1,000 undocumented migrants at Beitbridge
Border Management Authority (BMA) Commissioner Dr Michael Masiapato has praised the use of drones in helping intercept more than 1,000 undocumented migrants attempting to enter South Africa illegally ...Published: 23 Apr 2025 at 08:38hrs | 524 | by Staff reporter
22-year-old scams job-seekers
A 22-year-old Bulawayo man, Melusi Sibanda, has appeared in court facing four counts of fraud after allegedly posing as an employment agent and deceiving four individuals with promises of jobs at hote...Published: 23 Apr 2025 at 08:32hrs | 206 | by Staff reporter
As long as Mnangagwa doesn't acknowledge his own failings, Zimbabwe will not develop
Excuses, excuses, and more excuses!There is no greater hindrance to meaningful development and transformation in Zimbabwe than a leadership that refuses to take responsibility for its own shor...Published: 22 Apr 2025 at 22:18hrs | 753 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
CIO ordered to pay employee US$132,000
A High Court judge has ordered the director-general of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) to pay an employee, Tryness Kabiti, US$132,152 after her salary was unjustly reduced, marking a signi...Published: 22 Apr 2025 at 08:17hrs | 2356 | by Staff reporter
Bed bugs spread across Harare
Residents in several high-density suburbs of Harare are raising alarms over an ongoing bed bug (tsikidzi) infestation that has caused discomfort and growing health concerns.The problem, which ...Published: 22 Apr 2025 at 08:16hrs | 4408 | by Staff reporter
Crossing Beitbridge border post a lifeline for many Zimbabweans
Zimbabwe's economic problems continue to force thousands of citizens to seek relief in neighbouring SA.With inflation, high unemployment, and skyrocketing prices for basic foods, survival has ...Published: 22 Apr 2025 at 07:44hrs | 250 | by Staff reporter
Badly managed Caps United's crisis deepens
Caps United 0 - 1 Bikita MineralsJust when it seemed things couldn't get any worse for Caps United, they plunged deeper into crisis with a crushing 1-0 defeat at home to league debutants...Published: 21 Apr 2025 at 08:55hrs | 122 | by Staff reporter
Is Zimbabwe wooing Donald Trump by paying white farmers and ending tariffs?
Long-frozen relations between the United States and Zimbabwe may be thawing after the Southern African nation slashed all taxes on US goods flowing into the country and announced it has begun to pay c...Published: 18 Apr 2025 at 15:19hrs | 729 | by Staff reporter
What triggered the call for the failed 31 March 'uprising' in Zimbabwe?
The old-age wisdom that facts are stubborn came alive last week after social media platforms and sections of the mainstream media went into a frenzy with sensational claims that the Parliament of Zimb...Published: 15 Apr 2025 at 18:22hrs | 2779 | by Jonathan Moyo
Social unrest warning in South Africa
Critical issues such as the government's overreliance on taxes and the deterioration of basic services threaten social unrest in South Africa. Renowned economist Dawie Roodt warned that the go...Published: 14 Apr 2025 at 12:33hrs | 1296 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo cracks down against gold panners
In a bid to curb the increasing menace of illegal gold panning and sand poaching in Matabeleland South province, the Bulawayo City Council is planning to establish a permanent base for its rangers and...Published: 14 Apr 2025 at 09:13hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
New truck stops to ease safety concerns on Bulawayo-Victoria Falls road
Kusile Rural District Council has identified three potential sites to establish designated truck stops along the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls road, in response to rising concerns about reckless parking and...Published: 14 Apr 2025 at 09:09hrs | 245 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's crisis will not be solved by another election
For over four decades since our hard-won independence, Zimbabwe has been trapped in cycles of political contestation, economic decline, and social fragmentation.As someone who has lived throug...Published: 13 Apr 2025 at 15:04hrs | 1304 | by Ibbo Mandaza
Bulawayo's alarming drug abuse
A landmark study by leading psychiatrist Dr Loveness Ndebele of Ingutsheni Central Hospital has exposed an escalating drug and substance abuse crisis in Bulawayo and surrounding provinces, revealing s...Published: 13 Apr 2025 at 09:40hrs | 175 | by Staff reporter
Sick and tired of sweet-talking! Set 109 activists & Blessed Mhlanga free!
Nyokayemabhunu informed us, the demonstrations on the 31st of March will be safe: nobody will be hurt or arrested or gunned down by Mnangagwa army: he said, he is carrying a true voice from Geza, it w...Published: 12 Apr 2025 at 21:41hrs | 758 | by Nomazulu Thata
Chamisa blocks Hopewell Chin'ono
This tweet with a Bible verse where I was responding to Nelson Chamisa's own Bible verse got me blocked today. The tweet was merely reminding Chamisa that many Zimbabweans expect a lot from hi...Published: 12 Apr 2025 at 15:52hrs | 845 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Harare tops list of most corrupt provinces in Zimbabwe
Harare has been named the most corrupt province in Zimbabwe based on the number of complaints received by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) during the first quarter of 2025, according to ...Published: 12 Apr 2025 at 12:51hrs | 222 | by Staff reporter
Empowering African women to thrive in a digital economy
Growing up with her hardworking mom in tough circumstances in Nigeria, Dominion Paul was determined to forge her path to success in a world that didn't always make space for her. When she discovered t...Published: 12 Apr 2025 at 09:43hrs | 96 | by Tamaryn Brown
The new PVO law is a sign of a government that fears its own people
The Zimbabwe government has always been afraid of its own people.President Emmerson Mnangagwa's signing of the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Amendment Act, 2025, into law marks yet ano...Published: 12 Apr 2025 at 09:27hrs | 79 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Bubi villagers petition Justice minister Ziyambi over alleged corrupt prosecutors
BUBI VILLAGERS, Have Petitioned the Minister of Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ziyambi Ziyambi and the National Prosecutor General Loyce Ma...Published: 12 Apr 2025 at 00:16hrs | 542 | by Stephen Jakes
Bulawayo turns to researchers for solutions to water crisis
The City of Bulawayo is intensifying its efforts to address persistent water shortages by embracing research-led strategies in collaboration with local academic institutions and experts. The drive was...Published: 10 Apr 2025 at 09:04hrs | 314 | by Staff reporter
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