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Zimbabwe's ex-CIO Chief details counter-espionage success in his book
In his book, One Among Many: My Contribution to the Zimbabwean Story, former Director-General of Zimbabwe's Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), Happyton Bonyongwe, offers a rare glimpse into the ...Published: 05 Dec 2024 at 15:59hrs | 4314 | by Staff reporter
'I've no plan, I'm now poor,' says ZANU-PF Councillor
Jostinah Ndondo, a ZANU-PF councillor for ward 18 in Insiza has failed to comprehend losing over one hundred and fifty-four cattle this year, describing the incident as greatest climatic betrayal in t...Published: 11 Oct 2024 at 20:30hrs | 1355 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
Zanu-PF, ANC were publicly sworn enemies
Zimbabwe's Zanu-PF and South Africa's old National Party government were publicly sworn enemies. Privately, their relationship was a bit more complicated.On 7 and 8 February, 1983, for instanc...Published: 27 Sep 2024 at 10:42hrs | 1265 | by Peter Fabricius
Uber driver recounts near-death experiences
BRIAN Moyo (not real name) remembers the night when a gang of four men hijacked him, tied him up,and drove around on the streets of Johannesburg in South Africa while still deciding whether to kill hi...Published: 18 Aug 2024 at 12:19hrs | 249 | by Staff reporter
'Gay exorcism' church with roots in Zimbabwe sets sights on expansion across Scotland
The Forward In Faith Church International Incorporated (FIFCII), notorious for its endorsement of "gay exorcism" as conversion therapy and belief in witchcraft, is advancing its reach in Scotland....Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 12:40hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
Gospel artists pen tribute songs for late Mother General Mabhiza
Several gospel artists have penned songs in memory of late Saint John Apostolic Church of the Whole World's Mother General Mabhiza.The late Mother General was remembered for her marriage...Published: 17 Feb 2024 at 19:49hrs | 28 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Former MDC senator recounts Gukurahundi disappearances
ONE will not understand the pain of another's wound until he or she falls into the same predicament, goes an adage.This is the feeling that many Gukurahundi victims and survivors ponder daily since 19...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 09:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutambara defends his book on Mugabe
PROFESSOR Arthur Mutambara has defended the credibility of his newly published book, which opens a window on the political life of former President Robert Mugabe, who died without writing his memoirs....Published: 08 Dec 2023 at 20:53hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe-born Italian rugby star recounts farm invasions horror
Sebastian Negri still remembers the gunshots. A staccato volley piercing the still Zimbabwean night. He was eight years old when a violent gang of war veterans came to seize his family farm. Around th...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in 2023: There is great disorder, chaos under the heavens
GEORGE Orwell wrote so much and so well that one day it became cause for a whole essay to explain to himself and the world why he wrote as such.In the essay of 1946, Why I Write, Orwell recoun...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 05:49hrs | 70 | by Dr William Jethro Mpofu
Zimbabwe military gets permit to export raw lithium
EMBATTLED state arms manufacturer, the Zimbabwe Defence Industries (ZDI) has been controversially granted a special permit to export raw lithium by the government, a decision expected to inject life i...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 16:28hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Who is afraid of Donald Trump?
When reading about United States politics, the reader should remember that the Democrats are the brainy party, but they are too brainy for their own good. While the Republicans are the stupid party, t...Published: 25 Sep 2022 at 16:46hrs | | by Kenneth Mufuka
Zimbabwean migrants making it big in South Africa
WHEN he made the decision to leave the country and cross the border into South Africa several years ago, his family and his peers tried to dissuade him, telling him he was putting his life in danger u...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 13:07hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
How I first met Sir Richard Branson - by Strive Masiyiwa
On the eve of Sir Richard Branson flight to space aboard a Virgin Galactic spacecraft at the weekend, Strive Masiyiwa recounts how he first met Sir Richard and gives a glowing tribute to the mentor, t...Published: 09 Jul 2021 at 09:18hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Masiyiwa reveals what inspired him to start the Joshua Nkomo Scholarship Trust
Pan-African businessman and philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa recounts what inspired him and his wife to start an education Trust that been. supporting gifted and talented students for 21 years.W...Published: 31 May 2021 at 15:32hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Sibanda recounts Gukurahundi horror
MDC Alliance deputy spokesperson Felix Magalela Mafa Sibanda says memories of the Gukurahundi killings in the Midlands Province are still haunting him as he called for truth-telling.Sibanda sa...Published: 07 Feb 2021 at 07:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa-Chikoka recounts Covid-19 experience
Mashonaland West resident minister Mary Mliswa-Chikoka, who has survived a Covid-19 attack, said she is lucky to be alive after battling the deadly virus.Mliswa-Chikoka has vowed to equip all ...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 10:09hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Trump camp vows legal fight against 'elections theft' just began
US President Donald Trump's spokeswoman has vowed the legal battle to contest Joe Biden's White House election victory is only just beginning."This election is not over," White House press sec...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Joe Biden defeats Trump in US presidential election
Joe Biden is now projected to have 290 Electoral College votes, the Associated Press (AP) news agency said on Saturday, above the threshold needed to clinch the hard-fought United States presidential ...Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 18:15hrs | 2 | by AP
Soul Jah Love confirms undying love for ex-wife Bounty Lisa
CONTROVERSIAL dancehall chanter Soul Jah Love has once again confirmed his undying love for ex-wife Bounty Lisa through a yet-to-be released song titled Hatisisiritose if a snippet from the video of t...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:27hrs | 10 | by Staff Reporter
Reserve Bank boss recounts 'near-death experience' with COVID-19
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe Deputy Governor Dr Kuphukile Mlambo views himself as a lucky and blessed man after surviving what he described as a hellish and nasty Covid-19 ordeal.Dr Mlambo had to ...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 21:01hrs | | by Staff Reporter
The life of Misheck Velaphi Ncube: Connecting the dots
ORBITUARYMisheck Velaphi Ncube was buried at the National Heroes Acre in Harare on May 9, 2019, a well-deserved recognition from the ruling party and the state for his contribution to the libe...Published: 26 May 2019 at 13:49hrs | | by Ernest Malandu, Vivian Siziba and Strike Mkandla
Misheck Velaphi Ncube Obituary: Connecting the Dots
Misheck Velaphi Ncube was buried at Heroes Acre in Harare on 9 May 2019, a well-deserved recognition from the ruling party and the state for his contribution to the liberation and independence of Zimb...Published: 19 May 2019 at 20:59hrs | 6 | by Iphithule Maphosa
'Rhodesians kidnapped Ethan Dube, killed JZ Moyo'
This week we continue with a narration by Jane Lungile Ngwenya who speaks to our Deputy News Editor Levi Mukarati from her home in Bulawayo. An indefatigable revolutionary, Ngwenya recounts events lea...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 09:46hrs | 8 | by STaff reporter
Mashayamombe recounts November coup horror
The Zanu-PF Harare Provincial Political Commissar, Shadrack Mashayamombe has recounted the horrors that he alleged went through during the 2017 November coup that ended 37 years of Robert Mugabes rule...Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 14:35hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Nyarota launches 'The Graceless Fall of Robert Mugabe'
VETERAN journalist Geoffrey Nyarota last week officially launched his second book - The Graceless Fall of Robert Mugabe: The End of a Dictator's Reign - published by Penguin in August 2018.Geo...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bruce Grobbelaar legend reveals dark past
Bruce Grobbelaar, largely regarded as a football icon in the country because of his heroics for The Warriors and Liverpool FC, has revealed his 'other side' in a yet to be released new book, 'Life in ...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 13:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa needs Lincolnian wisdom
IN the aftermath of yet another hotly-disputed presidential election between President-Elect Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, as well as subsequent brutal retribut...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 14:48hrs | | by Dumisani Muleya
Zimbabwe 2018 elections marginalised women
The recent general elections in Zimbabwe provide a classic case study for marginalisation of women in key political process in any given country. The elections, in which women were largely condemned t...Published: 08 Aug 2018 at 07:57hrs | 11 | by Makho-Precious Moyo
Chiwenga recounts role he played in Mnangagwa's escape
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has said he arranged for the escape of then vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa in the wake of his abrupt removal from the post by fallen despot Robert Mugabe....Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 16:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sangoma robbed, threatens robbers
SPIRITUAL tragedy!A self-proclaimed sangoma in Bulawayo was on Friday last week left counting his losses after he was allegedly robbed of his bag containing all tools of the trade while on his way...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Mnangagwa recounts poisoning incident
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday recounted the day he was poisoned while attending a Zanu-PF rally in Gwanda last August.Mnangagwa who was then the Vice President, had to be airlifted to...Published: 23 Jun 2018 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Running with Mother explores Gukarahundi atrocities
Have you got a haunting or rather dangerous story to tell? Just give the task to a child narrator. Christopher Mlalazi's narrator in Running with Mother, Rudo Jamela, recounts the story of the Gukurah...Published: 08 May 2018 at 07:59hrs | 6 | by Beniah Munengwa
'Abusive' woman saves hubby from suicide
A BULAWAYO man attempted to hang himself from the roof trusses of his house citing abuse from his wife, only to be saved by the wife who managed to cut the rope just in time as he was reportedly gaspi...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
4 Horse Racing movies that you should watch
Horse racing may be one of the oldest equestrian performance sports in the world, but it still remains quite popular and maintains a relatively huge following even in our modern world of today. With p...Published: 03 Mar 2018 at 08:30hrs | 9 | by Staff Writer
Sangoma despised outside her circles, revered by those who know her
INVESTIGATED by child rights organisations for allegedly recruiting underage girls for exploitation as sex slaves - traditional healer Sophie Masikuka, 57, popularly known as Mbuya Sauti - is despised...Published: 01 Mar 2018 at 14:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Justice Maphosa saved 'fugitive' Mnangagwa
It is midnight in a glamorous well-kept office building in the heart of a bright treading estate-like area. It could be anywhere - Zurich, Manchester, London, Bogota.But it is Pretoria, ...Published: 26 Feb 2018 at 05:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean immigrants united by the Greenbomber passport
Since the turn of the century, millions of Zimbabweans left the country to find employment. South Africa is home to the majority of Zim immigrants who are scattered across the globe. Vokal Da Poet rec...Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 18:49hrs | 1 | by Jerà in Diaspora
Dabengwa pokes old wounds
Former Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) intelligence supremo Dumiso Dabengwa has sensationally claimed that he was dragged to be part of the Unity Accord by the late Vice President Joshua ...Published: 23 Oct 2017 at 13:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Stroke patient in miraculous recovery
A Bulawayo woman is thanking her lucky stars after she escaped from the jaws of death after resurrecting from what seemed destined to be her death bed at the United Bulawayo Hospitals.With fri...Published: 22 Sep 2017 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mandela mocked Mugabe and Mugabe also mocked Mandela
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's verbal barbs on Nelson Mandela have a historical context, which both men helped accentuate.South Africa's first majority and black President Nelson Mandela...Published: 16 Sep 2017 at 12:05hrs | 1 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Strange condition afflicts Nyanga family
It is mid-afternoon and 49-year-old Ronica Kembo drags herself to a nearby shrub to answer the call of nature.As she crawls, her eldest daughter, Chisina, sits in the sandy soil under a mango ...Published: 20 Aug 2017 at 12:33hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe's rich factionalism history
Reports that President Robert Mugabe all but threw his weight behind Defence minister Sydney Sekeramayi in the succession race are quite telling as they do not only confirm the obvious fact that the l...Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 12:12hrs | | by Mark Chavunduka
Bosso, Majaivana and other taboos
A number of political philosophers and sociologists of the Global South have noted how sport and religion were used by colonialists to divert the minds and energies of natives from politics.Of...Published: 30 May 2017 at 09:24hrs | | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena writes from South Africa
Man recounts crocodile attack
A 28-year-old Chipinge man is lucky to be alive following a deadly attack by a crocodile while he attempted to cross the crocodile-infested Save River on Saturday morning.Vhusani Munyire put u...Published: 21 Apr 2017 at 08:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jotham Moyo: Utility player who was most feared
Do not call him Jotham Moyo but Big Joe because the slender tall body is no longer there. In its place is a legendary player who could play in any position but not in between the sticks.Hi...Published: 09 Apr 2017 at 08:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Girl who 'cries blood' delivered of demons at T.B. Joshua's church
A YouTube video has emerged showing a young South African teen's purported 'deliverance' at a Lagos-based church from a rare medical condition that caused her to cry actual tears of blood."She...Published: 05 Jan 2017 at 18:55hrs | | by Ihechukwu Njoku
Donald Trump claims millions voted illegally in presidential poll
US President-elect Donald Trump has asserted he won the popular vote on 8 November "if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally".The Republican, who won the all-important elec...Published: 28 Nov 2016 at 06:31hrs | | by BBC
US election rigging, Wisconsin prepares for vote recount
Officials in Wisconsin are preparing to conduct a full recount of the votes from the US election in the state, which was narrowly won by Donald Trump.A formal request for the recount was f...Published: 26 Nov 2016 at 16:49hrs | | by BBC
Has ambition corrupted Mujuru?. . . but history does not lie
On many levels, the question of Zimbabwe People First leader Joice Mujuru's corruptibility is largely rhetorical. Her story in Government for the 34 years to 2014 when she was booted out as Vice-Presi...Published: 19 Aug 2016 at 06:11hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga and Stanely Mushava
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