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Chamisa is a very bad and poor chip off the Tsvangirai block
Mario Vargas Llosa, the world-famed Peruvian writer, penned a small, but sweet collection of incisive essays titled "A Writer's Reality." My favourite from that collection is "Novels Disguised". Its a...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:13hrs | 2877 | by Igomombe
'I was labelled a prostitute'
HAJIRAH Belinda Potts was recently crowned Miss World Zimbabwe at a colourful ceremony in Domboshava's Orchid Gardens, shrugging off stiff competition from 13 other contestants. NewsDay Life &...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:26hrs | 1301 | by Staff reporter
Biti takes an oath of office for an institution that has 'crisis of legitimacy'
Greetings to you all dear congregants in the mighty name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Rugare kwamuri vanhu vaMwari.It has been a busy and long week for Zimbabwe. In fact, it was such ...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:17hrs | 3903 | by Bishop
Constitutional Court saga lawyers
My Advanced Oxford Learners dictionary says, 'saga' means a long story of heroic deeds, events or adventures especially involving several generations of people. It goes further to give the adjective t...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 06:36hrs | 1032 | by Morris Mtisi
Bev denies Robert Mugabe Jnr links
RAUNCHY dancer Beverly 'Bev' Sibanda has poured cold water on speculation that she is in a relationship with former President Robert Mugabe's son, Robert Jnr in South Africa.Pictures of the tw...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 15:10hrs | 7717 | by Staff reporter
Sex for job deal blows up
A MIDLANDS State University (MSU) student who lives in Victoria Falls was offered internship in exchange for a romantic relationship with a prospective recruiter.Ratidzo (name changed for fear...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 19:32hrs | 4379 | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti's arrest expected to push the struggle to its boiling point
Past historical events in Zimbabwe have taught us that, the democratic struggle's objectives cannot be achieved by becoming lenient and submissive to the existing laws. These laws were created to sile...Published: 08 Aug 2018 at 14:10hrs | 6891 | by Don Chigumba
Political violence, deplorable and red flags ignored
Wednesday's awful shooting gave us lot to discuss as this day dawns, so let's get straight to it.. If the government and local police authorities unwilling to address violent protesters, it will fuel ...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 13:22hrs | 1918 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
What government awaits Zimbabwe next week?
How is it that with such a long, rich history of pain, and deep experience of heartbreak, abuse and lies, smart girls still fall for the lies of cheap confidence tricksters and con-lovers? How is it, ...Published: 22 Jul 2018 at 10:37hrs | 359 | by Zifiso Masiye
Chigumba in sexual relationship with a presidential candidate?
Zimbabwe Electoral Commission chairwoman Justice Chigumba has said she is "not in a sexual relationship with any presidential candidate" and her private life "should remain exactly that. Private!." ...Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 18:47hrs | 10391 | by Ndou Paul
Election run-up takes nasty turn
As Zimbabwe's crunch national elections draw ever closer, the jostling for votes is increasingly taking an ominous tone - with leading presidential candidates and the under-fire chairperson of the Zim...Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 15:04hrs | 1717 | by Staff rpeorter
Mnangagwa must answer to past 'transgressions' first
Oftentimes, age is said to be nothing but just a number. Ask anyone in a cross generational romantic relationship and most assuredly, they would parrot like answer that age is only but a number. At fa...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 07:18hrs | 654 | by Cyprian Ndawana
Generational gaps and false dichotomies
In the recent BBC HARDtalk episode, Stephen Sackur, the host, asked presidential hopeful Nelson Chamisa to respond to the allegation that some see him as a young man in a hurry.While the insin...Published: 22 May 2018 at 06:15hrs | 297 | by David Mungoshi
Zimbabwean man places pregnant wife's picture on SA billboard
While other husbands show off their love for their spouses on social media through selfies on birthdays, Valentine's Day and the like, for Nhlanhla Nxumalo that was not enough.The man based in...Published: 19 May 2018 at 10:06hrs | 8007 | by Staff Reporter
Why online dating has revolutionized the world of singles romance
Once upon a time going online to find a partner was frowned upon. The consensus was it was necessary to meet someone face-to-face in order to get to know them better, whether that was in a bar ...Published: 15 May 2018 at 12:56hrs | 1192 | by Lifestyle Reporter
WATCH: Woman who lost arm to crocodile weds in hospital
LOVE conquers all, so goes the dog eared cliché of improbable romantic scenarios encountered in romantic novels.Borrowing a typical chapter from a Mills and Boons novel is a former Zimbabwean...Published: 06 May 2018 at 09:42hrs | 4595 | by Staff reporter
Cheated hubby weeps in court
A CHEATED man broke down in court while recounting the disgrace he endured at the hands of his wife.He accused her of degrading his dignity by violently pulling his private parts after he conf...Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 22:20hrs | 833 | by Staff reporter
Prophet attempts suicide over sex
IN a rather comical but disturbing incident, a married prophet with an apostolic sect in Binga allegedly attempted to commit suicide by taking cotton pesticide in shame after his lover denied hi...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 07:01hrs | 398 | by Staff reporter
Wisdom in a relationship
Love is one of the most profound emotions known to human beings. There are many kinds of love, but most people seek its expression in a romantic relationship with a compatible partner. For some, roman...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 14:43hrs | 887 | by Enos Denhere
MRP will not accept piece meal solutions
Mthwakazi Republic Party spokesperson Mbonisi Gumbo has said his party will not accepted piece meal solutions to the Matabeleland problems.He said following the announcement by Mthwakazi Repub...Published: 12 Mar 2018 at 06:44hrs | 501 | by Stephen Jakes
Tsvangirai Death: The only truth is
Amidst all the speculation and misinformation surrounding the final days of the late former Zimbabwe Prime Minister and leader of the MDC-T, Dr. Morgan Richard Tsvangirai, it remains to be seen whethe...Published: 19 Feb 2018 at 07:50hrs | 8539 | by Robert Sigauke, Political Analyst, Johannesburg
How Oliver Mtukudzi sheltered a Zimbabwean refugee in downtown Harare
Music is soulful shelter. I became a refugee when I discovered potential life hidden in the works of Mbare-born guitarist Louis Mhlanga and the late Mozambican Afro-Jazz singer Gito Baloi and slowly r...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 17:07hrs | 2268 | by Tafi Mhaka
Communication and Compromise are the oxygen of every romantic relationship
Its St Valentine's Day and what a perfect day to celebrate love. In the course of appreciating the extravagant eye-catching garden fresh bouquet of flowers and captivating box of chocolate...Published: 13 Feb 2018 at 22:05hrs | 1041 | by Matthew Dube esquire
Struggle on my beloved country
I wanted to title this article Cry My Beloved Country. After all we recently had cholera outbreaks and our political parties are competing to demonstrate proximity to the West. It does not seem to mat...Published: 09 Feb 2018 at 07:27hrs | 890 | by Staff reporter
Woman, lover engage in sex in view of teenage children
IN an incident that sounds more like a far-fetched soap opera plot than real life, a married woman from Nkankezi in Insiza district, Matabeleland South is facing arrest following revelations that she ...Published: 09 Feb 2018 at 06:01hrs | 1110 | by Staff reporter
Granny cohabits with Ben 10
The mountainous city of Mutare is abuzz with the story of a 57-year-old shebeen queen who is cohabiting with her former tenant — 28 years younger.Popularly known as Mbuya Sauti, Sophie Masik...Published: 05 Feb 2018 at 10:30hrs | 2199 | by Staff reporter
Man catches wife pants down with 'relative'
IF you thought every man your partner or wife introduces to you as their relative is really a relative you might change your mind after reading this "super" story.A man from Mberengwa Business...Published: 26 Jan 2018 at 05:47hrs | 1712 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's untapped tourism potential
With dozens of tourist attractions, each having a rich history and remarkable diversity of culture, Bulawayo — Zimbabwe's second largest city — as well as its hinterland should have no problem att...Published: 14 Jan 2018 at 09:24hrs | 436 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe recidivated to the 'Mugabe normal' or worse
In the aftermath of Zimbabwe's so-called military-assisted takeover of the 37-year-old fatiguing era of the regime of former President Robert Mugabe, the country has quickly recidivated to the "Mugabe...Published: 14 Dec 2017 at 05:08hrs | 365 | by Paul Simon
Mnangagwa affair: Romanticisation of the underdog
There is something romantic about an underdog, something that attracts one to it and makes people build affinity for no hoppers.From biblical times, the story of David slaying the giant Goliat...Published: 02 Nov 2017 at 05:21hrs | 736 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Zifa eye Peter Ndlovu, Bruce Grobbelaar
BRUCE Grobbelaar and Peter Ndlovu - two of the strongest pillars who held the Dream Team together in a remarkable adventure that almost took Zimbabwe to the 1994 World Cup finals in the United States ...Published: 27 Oct 2017 at 06:49hrs | 3464 | by Staff reporter
Carl Joshua to make a movie
While he has rocked many of the country's stages as a stand-up comedian, one of the country's most prominent funnyman Carl Joshua Ncube is now ready to take the country's film industry by storm as he ...Published: 27 Oct 2017 at 06:35hrs | 41 | by Staff reporter
President Zuma has a crush in Nigeria, and it isn't female!
Somewhere in Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria, a fancy statue of President Jacob Zuma poses in elegance, despite widespread condemnation of the romantic gesture by the Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha, wh...Published: 17 Oct 2017 at 07:28hrs | 2277 | by Nimi Princewill
Mnangagwa speaks on Majonga saga
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has broken his silence on the damaging claims that he forced legendary broadcaster Godfrey Majonga to jump from a high-rise apartment in Harare 30 years ago, after he...Published: 13 Oct 2017 at 13:26hrs | 5202 | by Staff reporter
Cheating bride exposed on her wedding day
The groom hired a private investigator after suspecting his bride of cheating on him.It's a scene straight out of a Hollywood flick; you have the suspicious husband, the cheating bride a...Published: 08 Oct 2017 at 16:02hrs | 4454 | by Staff reporter
Ndoro proposes. . . infront of mom
OUT with the old, in with the new!"Focus is on the way forward. History belongs to the past and this is my biggest moment," Tendai Ndoro told B-Metro as he chose to marry a new wife.A ...Published: 06 Oct 2017 at 07:03hrs | 1642 | by Staff reporter
There is need to reconstruct MDC of 1999, says Bajila
Those who signed alliance with Mujuru are the ones who suggested MDC not to challenge Jonathan Moyo in TsholotshoAn MDC official Discent Collins Bajila has said he has no doubt that it is the ...Published: 04 Oct 2017 at 07:41hrs | 822 | by Stephen Jakes
Daily Sociology Questions and Answers with Mwiinde Laison - Discuss the vitality of secularization
QUESTION: Discuss the vitality of secularization SUGGESTED ANSWER The seminal social thinkers of the nineteenth century -- Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Ka...Published: 30 Sep 2017 at 20:02hrs | 315 | by Mwiinde Laison (sociologist, teacher and author)
Unpacking the political cultural psychology in public policy administration
This past week has been filled with epiphanies that led to a rethought of popular subscribed ideologies. Allow me to start with rooting of the thinking here. Popular movements have often succeeded or ...Published: 29 Sep 2017 at 13:16hrs | 172 | by Tedious Ncube
'Sugar daddy' website faces legal fight
Belgian ministers have said they will take legal action in an attempt to force a website that links young women and rich men to remove huge adverts near the country's universities.Trucks beari...Published: 27 Sep 2017 at 06:18hrs | 507 | by Staff reporter
Can a child legally consent to sex?
When looking at the age at which one is legally regarded as having the ability to consent to sex, it usually sparks much debate and argument. It is, however, important that everyone has a general unde...Published: 20 Sep 2017 at 06:35hrs | 506 | by Danai Chirawu
Zimbabweans in UK top the spouse murdering list
Zimbabweans in the UK have taken the first and the golden cup in killing their spouses. In the last four years in the UK alone thirty Zimbabwean women were murdered ruthlessly by their husbands or...Published: 10 Sep 2017 at 09:16hrs | 5089 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Khupe out in the cold, as Tsvangirai assembles the band
With some opposition parties having signed an alliance deal, MDC-T finds itself in a familiar, but unenviable position, where some party members are openly challenging their leader, Morgan Tsvangirai....Published: 31 Aug 2017 at 08:46hrs | 3882 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Mnangagwa is not the Messiah, he's Mugabe's enforcer in the belly of the beast
Life can be ugly. I have seen the unspeakable rot of unchecked malfeasance light up a dinghy hotel bar with womanly seduction like a fireworks display at the Harare Agricultural Show. Laced up in tigh...Published: 31 Jul 2017 at 08:26hrs | 1595 | by Tafi Mhaka
Negotiating the political economic space of the youth in Zimbabwe's policy framework
The post year-2000 era Zimbabwe's political-economy challenges have accelerated learnt lessons to every Zimbabwean in Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwean youth, as a constituency in itself, is having a compromis...Published: 29 Jul 2017 at 12:41hrs | 171 | by Tedious Ncube
'Negotiating the political economic space of the youth in Zimbabwe's policy framework'
The post year-2000 era Zimbabwe's political-economy challenges have accelerated learnt lessons to every Zimbabwean in Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwean youth, as a constituency in itself, is having a compromis...Published: 28 Jul 2017 at 13:46hrs | 136 | by Tedious Ncube
'Negotiating the political economic space of the youth in Zimbabwe's policy framework'
The post year-2000 era Zimbabwe's political-economy challenges have accelerated learnt lessons to every Zimbabwean in Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwean youth, as a constituency in itself, is having a compromis...Published: 27 Jul 2017 at 20:24hrs | 1220 | by Tedious Ncube
Entirely my fault, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, when I look at these people who always make noise; flinging all manner of accusations against us, even to the point of being openly disrespectful of...Published: 27 Jul 2017 at 17:51hrs | 735 | by CZ
Real change cannot be brought by hypocrisy
Mthwakazi Republic Party has warned the Mthwakazi community not to be moved by the recent coalition romanticising sentiments and efforts which is merely a fundraising stunt by hungry politicians with ...Published: 14 Jul 2017 at 10:46hrs | 430 | by Stephen Jakes
In Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream
His talents show that Africans can be anything they want to be.There's a poignant picture in the collected images in Arthur Mutambara's newly published book about his life.It shows fou...Published: 11 Jul 2017 at 12:18hrs | 456 | by Brendan Seery
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