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UK rape culture forces govt to roll out chemical castration
The British government has announced plans to roll out the use of medication to suppress the sex drive of certain sex offenders, as part of a broader package of reforms aimed at reducing reoffending a...Published: 26 May 2025 at 07:57hrs | 102 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says his councillors went bonkers once elected into office
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) councillors have reportedly rejected a blueprint designed to promote transparency and curb corruption in local authorities, according to former party leader Nelson ...Published: 15 Dec 2024 at 09:21hrs | 1745 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa throws councillors under the bus
Former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) president Nelson Chamisa yesterday condemned Harare councillors for abandoning their duties once elected, as he appeared before the commission of inquiry inv...Published: 10 Dec 2024 at 07:06hrs | 403 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa grilled over illegal land allocation scandal
Former CCC leader Nelson Chamisa faced tough questioning from the Harare Commission of Inquiry yesterday over allegations of involvement in the illegal allocation of over 5,000 residential stands and ...Published: 10 Dec 2024 at 06:37hrs | 195 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Land barons share the loot with ZRP officials to evade arrest
In a clear sign of disregarding the law, evading arrest and extending influence, land barons from the ruling party, Zanu-PF have illegally resorted to both share the loot and parcel out land earmarked...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 13:44hrs | 21 | by Paul Ndou
Elections won't change anything as long as Zimbabweans don’t hold leaders accountable
Some people have asked why I appeared as though I was not particularly enthusiastic about the forthcoming harmonized elections in Zimbabwe.This deduction seems to have emanated from my apparen...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 16:12hrs | 14 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe in desperate need of national leaders not Mafia bosses and gang leaders!
It was the most heartbreaking sight - as images of a collapsed primary school in my home city of Kwekwe made the rounds across the country. In fact, the stab to my heart was made more excrucia...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 09:17hrs | 11 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF youths run amok at court
RULING Zanu-PF party youths yesterday ran amok at the Mbare Magistrates Court threatening to set ablaze lawyers' vehicles if three members of the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) who wer...Published: 04 Oct 2022 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dangers of Arab Spring in South Africa
Former South African President Thabo Mbeki recently launched a sharp critique of the governing African National Congress (ANC) for failure to address what it has labelled the triple challenge of pover...Published: 31 Jul 2022 at 08:15hrs | 1 | by Sandy Africa
Chamisa's supporters run amok
Police have been heavily deployed in the Nyatsime area after violence erupted when CCC members destroyed some houses belonging to Zanu PF supporters. The opposition supporters were part of a g...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 19:36hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Cry, the beloved country Zimbabwe
THE average salary of a Zimbabwean teacher is now only able to buy just 20 loaves of bread. But the majority of the teachers' take home can no longer even buy half a dozen loaves given that many of th...Published: 10 Jun 2022 at 07:56hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers run amok in Chegutu
DOZENS of villagers near Jason Ziyaphapha Moyo Airbase in Chegutu were on Tuesday allegedly assaulted by soldiers reportedly searching for a machete gangster who had assaulted their collegue.A...Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean consumers feel the pinch as cost of living shoots up
THE wave of price hikes resulting from the weakening of the Zimbabwe dollar spells doom for beleaguered citizens in the New Year, with no reprieve in sight to the country's deepening economic crisis....Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 16:11hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Go well my friend, Cde SK
COMRADE Simon Khaya Moyo is no more. He has joined the pantheon of Zimbabwe's finest patriots throughout the ages. Of recent note are fellow heroines and heroes of Chimurenga II who sacrificed to bury...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 09:12hrs | 32 | by Amb Chris Mutsvangwa
Zimbabwe independence is now a senior bachelor!
YOUR Excellency, President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Sunday April 18 was Independence Day a once-hallowed day that has since lost its glitz because the requisite freedoms associated with the occasion are...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
MDC Alliance call for 'streetifying people's anger' - real change will come from implementing reforms
"It is Zanu-PF itself that has become a super-spreader of perfidy and unbridled falsehoods as exemplified by its statements alleging growth in the country's economy and the cheap allegation that victi...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 15:50hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Open Letter to the acting Harare City Council Mayor in the wake of the demolition of houses in Budiriro
Alarmed with the insensitive, heartless and callous decision by the MDC Alliance led Harare City Council to demolish houses in Budiriro during the rainy season;Aware that the uncouth decision ...Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 15:08hrs | 2 | by Tendai Chirau
Churches call for cessation of hostilities between Mnangagwa and Chamisa's parties
AS an elderly woman, who was struck with a truncheon on the head by the police during the Harare demonstrations, battles for life, the MDC and Zanu-PF continue their running battles and power struggle...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 15:09hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt's failures may trigger public anger
Over the past year, President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government have totally ignored calls from Zimbabweans to change the corrupt and inefficient way in which government is run. Zimbabweans from a...Published: 17 May 2019 at 07:19hrs | | by Martin Tarusenga
Chamisa bombshell raises temperatures
MDC Alliance yesterday claimed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government had an elaborate strategy to destroy its leader Nelson Chamisa's political career after a Norton woman allegedly pressed rape c...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 11:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's rural politics
The vulnerability of Rural Zimbabweans politically is appalling. It doesn't matter how politically clear they may be or how knowledgeable of their human rights they are, they still fall prey to Zanu-P...Published: 23 Feb 2019 at 08:04hrs | 6 | by Clement Moyo
Zimbabwe soldiers 'run amok, fire gunshots, teargas at farmers'
A Zimbabwean court is reportedly set to hear how soldiers recently fired gunshots and teargas at farmers who resisted eviction to make way for the establishment of an army base near Domboshawa, one of...Published: 25 Oct 2018 at 16:38hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Rogue cops run amok in Harare
Some rogue police officers went on the rampage in Harare at the weekend - firing tear gas indiscriminately at commuters omnibus ranks before savagely assaulting revellers at night clubs.In the...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 14:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Odinga is a bad mentor Mr Chamisa
President-elect Mnangagwa revealed recently that he had been communicating with opposition MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to defuse the political tension in the country. We are not aware whether t...Published: 06 Aug 2018 at 07:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers run amok in Chipinge, force villagers to live like baboons
Villagers under headman Barauta of Mt Silinda Mission, in Chipinge district have fled their homes and feel like they are living like baboons in the mountains following continuous violent attacks by me...Published: 18 Dec 2017 at 22:12hrs | 2 | by Chipinge Correspondent
Soldiers run amok in Chitungwiza
SEKE Unit O shops in Chitungwiza have resembled a war zone each evening for the past week as soldiers wantonly beat up residents in retaliation for the murder of their colleague by an unknown gang of ...Published: 08 Oct 2017 at 15:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reportrer
Mnangagwa's boot licker bays for Jonathan Moyo's head
WAR veterans' leader Christopher Mutsvangwa yesterday accused Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo of abusing his friendship with the late Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku to escape jail over accu...Published: 04 Jul 2017 at 16:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa aligned war vets call for Jonathan Moyo to be fired
Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo must be dismissed from Zanu-PF and Government for his unbecoming behaviour, the Zimbabwe National Lib...Published: 04 Jul 2017 at 06:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
SA wary of Kasukuwere - Malema link
SOUTH Africa's ruling ANC wants Zimbabwe to rein in Zanu-PF National Political Commissar Saviour Kasukuwere over his alleged links with Mr Julius Malema, it has emerged.Our Harare Bureau under...Published: 14 May 2017 at 14:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe soldiers run amok, beat up people in Chipinge
Soldiers in Chipinge on Tuesday reportedly ran amok beating up patrons in all the bars in the town in retaliation for their killed colleague who died at Dzonzayi during the Raunchy dancer Beverly Siba...Published: 10 May 2017 at 12:06hrs | | by Stephen Jakes and Givy Salaz
Adulterous cop run amok
An adulterous Bulawayo police officer- Sergeant Jullian Mapetere destroyed his wife grandmothers house after his cheating antics where exposed. Mapetere's wife, Sibonginko...Published: 07 Oct 2016 at 10:04hrs | 2 | by Thobekile Zhou
MDC-Terror and anti-people uprising
There have been attempts to frame the recent disturbances in Zimbabwe, which have been characterised by violence between protesters and police, as social or civil "uprising". Nothing could be ...Published: 30 Aug 2016 at 06:25hrs | 2 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Mugabe's days in office are numbered
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe is a besieged man, his aura of invincibility appears to have all but gone as protests pop up like mushroom in summer, while calls for his removal grow into a crescendo....Published: 05 Jul 2016 at 16:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai spokesman accuse ZBC of propagating lies about MDC-T demo
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai spokesman Luke Tamborinyoka has accused the ZBC for propagating lies about the demonstrations which was conducted by the party on April 14 saying the national broadcaste...Published: 19 Apr 2016 at 06:42hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa's thugs run amok in Midlands
Deadly violence broke out in the restive Midlands province yesterday when rowdy Zanu-PF supporters linked to embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa descended on their party foes in the Generation...Published: 16 Apr 2016 at 11:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Marauding MDC-T youths run amok
A CHOPPIES Supermarket security guard was hospitalised yesterday after sustaining serious injuries at the hands of rowdy MDC-T supporters who ran amok downtown in the wake of an address by party leade...Published: 15 Apr 2016 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Shadows won't lead Zimbabwe anywhere
The demise of any nation starts when those who claim to have its best interest at heart resort to calls for violence and anarchy in order to get their way. Such is the nature of the MDC-T, as that par...Published: 12 Apr 2016 at 11:17hrs | 1 | by Shadows won't lead Zimbabwe anywhere
Plot to derail Mugabe bash
It appears as if it does not rain, but pours for the beleaguered Zanu-PF faction that is said to be rallying behind embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa's mooted presidential aspirations....Published: 21 Feb 2016 at 11:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Donkeys run amok, maul villagers
TWO Filabusi villagers sustained injuries after they were mauled by donkeys in separate incidents that have triggered a rabies alert in the district. The two animals have since been put down.S...Published: 19 Nov 2015 at 05:18hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
Failure by govt to deliver basic services is powder keg that will trigger uprising in Zimbabwe
Failure by govt to deliver basic services is powder keg that will trigger uprising in ZimbabweBy the late 1990s, some 120 countries around the world - more than 60 percent of the world's inde...Published: 30 Apr 2015 at 22:47hrs | | by Tendai Kwari @tendaikwari
Mohadi blasts Zuma for lack of tact
HOME Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi yesterday expressed dismay over comments by South African President Jacob Zuma in which he appeared to suggest that Zimbabweans were largely responsible for crimes c...Published: 24 Apr 2015 at 07:03hrs | | by Lovemore Mataire and Mashudu Netsianda
Zanu-PF terrorizes Mujuru supporters
Zanu-PF has launched a brutal campaign of terror against perceived supporters of former VP Joice Mujuru ahead of the party's divise primary elections to choose candidates to stand in 16 vacant le...Published: 25 Mar 2015 at 06:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
UZ shut down as staff and students run amok
The University of Zimbabwe shuts down as staff and students run amok. Hundreds of frustrated UZ students had embarked on peaceful demonstrations demanding the kitchen staff to end their stri...Published: 17 Mar 2015 at 14:09hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Taxi drive up for head butting cop
A taxi drive in Bulawayo has been locked up after he attacked the police officer who wanted to arrest him for parking his vehicle dangerously in the city centre.Khulumani Ndlovu (33) of Njube...Published: 15 Mar 2015 at 07:28hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
'Goblins' terrorise pupils, chief seek govt help
Chief Malachi Masuku from Matobo District has appealed for Government intervention in schools in his area following reports that pupils were being terrorised by goblins.Chief Masuku said four ...Published: 29 Oct 2013 at 03:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers run amok, invade gold mine
Several soldiers ran amok and invaded a gold mine, looting and turning into miners, the High Court has heard.In an urgent chamber application filed yesterday, Blooming Lilly Investments Pvt Li...Published: 24 Feb 2013 at 17:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cheating man's penis disappears after bonking a married woman
A Bulawayo man will live to curse the day he decided to romp with a woman other than his wife following a series of 'manhood disappearances' whenever he gets ready to make love at home.Phibion...Published: 14 Feb 2013 at 10:03hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Hackers topple Huawei routers at Def Con
LAS VEGAS, Nevada - Hackers at an infamous Def Con gathering were shown how to easily slip into computer networks through some routers made by Chinese electronics colossus Huawei Technologies....Published: 30 Jul 2012 at 05:58hrs | | by AFP
Man's manhood pulled in domestic dispute
THERE was drama in Mzilikazi when an 18-year-old man cheated death by a whisker after being pulled and uplifted by his manhood for a distance by his uncle before being thrown to the ground following a...Published: 15 Nov 2011 at 10:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe coins document inflation
Zimbabwe set a dubious world record for highest currency denomination when, in 2009, it issued bank notes in the astronomical value of 100 trillion Zimbabwe dollars. By the time this Reserve Bank of...Published: 21 Jun 2011 at 18:18hrs | 2 | by Richard Giedroyc
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