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Geza warns Tagwirei
Controversial businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei, a close ally of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has come under fire from war veterans, with one of their leaders, Blessed "Bombshell" Geza, accusing him of...Published: 2 hrs ago | 326 | by Staff reporter
Kirsty Coventry elected new president of the International Olympic Committee
The 41-year-old former swimmer, who won two Olympic gold medals, replaces German Thomas Bach - who had held the role since 2013 - and becomes the first woman, the first African and the youngest person...Published: 5 hrs ago | 277 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean prop signs for Northampton Saints
Northampton Saints have secured the signing of Zimbabwean prop Cleopas Kundiona from French Pro D2 side USON Nevers ahead of the 2025/26 season.The 26-year-old tighthead will join the Gallaghe...Published: 11 hrs ago | 247 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police boss says he doesn't have authority to sanction protests
Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Commissioner-General Stephen Mutamba has firmly rejected claims that his office is responsible for authorizing or denying planned protests, including a nationwide demons...Published: 19 Mar 2025 at 08:06hrs | 1802 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo offers US$100,000 reward to recover $74,100
Prominent businessman and tenderpreneur Wicknell Chivayo has announced a staggering US$100,000 cash reward for information leading to the recovery of US$74,100 stolen at gunpoint from his in-laws' res...Published: 18 Mar 2025 at 20:19hrs | 1056 | by Staff reporter
Police probe NSSA boss over RTG extortion plot
NSSA chairman, Emmanuel Fundira was on Wednesday questioned by the police in connection with an extortion case involving former Rainbow Tourism Group (RTG) senior employee Paula January.The de...Published: 18 Mar 2025 at 10:45hrs | 622 | by Nathan Guma
Mnangagwa revives canteens at Zimbabwe police stations
The Zimbabwean government has revived canteens at police stations, providing officers with improved meals, including English breakfasts with fried eggs, sausages, and baked beans, as part of efforts t...Published: 17 Mar 2025 at 16:01hrs | 1304 | by Staff reporter
Rwanda expels Belgium diplomats
Rwanda has severed diplomatic ties with Belgium, its former colonial ruler, following European Union sanctions on senior Rwandan officials. The move comes amid accusations that Kigali is backing the M...Published: 17 Mar 2025 at 12:04hrs | 1069 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga 'supporters' allege Mutsvangwa is a double agent
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's supporters have rallied behind him following the release of an explosive recording in which Zanu-PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa dismissed any possibility ...Published: 17 Mar 2025 at 10:52hrs | 1263 | by Staff reporter
NSSA chair implicated in extortion case
National Social Security Authority (NSSA) chairman Emmanuel Fundira was questioned by police on Wednesday in connection with an extortion case involving former Rainbow Tourism Group (RTG) senior emplo...Published: 17 Mar 2025 at 09:37hrs | 440 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa says Zanu-PF will push to extend Mnangagwa's rule
Zanu-PF Secretary for Legal Affairs, Patrick Chinamasa, has reaffirmed the ruling party's commitment to pursuing the controversial 2030 agenda aimed at extending President Emmerson Mnangagwa's rule be...Published: 17 Mar 2025 at 09:23hrs | 812 | by Staff reporter
Trump's US is looking for a political showdown with South Africa
The debate on Ebrahim Rasool's public expulsion as South Africa's ambassador to the US has focussed on the wisdom of his remarks. But this debate misses the substantive issues at stake. First, the pub...Published: 16 Mar 2025 at 13:44hrs | 1249 | by Adam Habib
BCC reduces parking exemption hours for senior citizens
The City of Bulawayo has announced a reduction in monthly parking exemption hours for senior citizens, citing financial losses exceeding US$119,000 from the initiative last year. As a result, the exem...Published: 16 Mar 2025 at 09:23hrs | 220 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF warns members
ZANU-PF has vowed to take disciplinary action against party members who use social media to attack its leadership or undermine the party's integrity, a senior official has warned.Speaking at a...Published: 16 Mar 2025 at 09:19hrs | 116 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, Botswana border impasse rages on
A long-standing border dispute between Zimbabwe and Botswana, sparked by the construction of the Kazungula Bridge, continues to be a contentious issue four years after the US$259.3 million project was...Published: 15 Mar 2025 at 11:58hrs | 13861 | by Staff reporter
Regime change Khama refused entry into Angola
Angola is under scrutiny after denying entry to several senior African political figures who were set to attend a conference hosted by the country's main opposition party, the National Union for the T...Published: 15 Mar 2025 at 09:51hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
Blessed Mhlanga docket classified as security record
Defence lawyer Chris Mhike has raised concerns over the State's classification of Heart & Soul TV senior journalist Blessed Mhlanga's docket as a security record. Mhike made the complaint in court...Published: 14 Mar 2025 at 10:57hrs | 958 | by Staff reporter
Muchinguri-Kashiri warns ED2030 runners
ZANU-PF National Chairperson Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has cautioned party members against using the 21st National People's Conference Resolution Number 1 as a tool to attack fellow members, create div...Published: 14 Mar 2025 at 06:44hrs | 766 | by Staff reporter
If land was the reason for the liberation struggle, why must Zimbabweans now buy it?
The land question in Zimbabwe is a contentious issue.The liberation struggle in Zimbabwe was fought with a clear objective: to reclaim land from colonial rulers and redistribute it equitably a...Published: 13 Mar 2025 at 16:17hrs | 577 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Bombshell fires up Zimbabwe's succession battle
It was a war veteran and senior Zanu-PF member named Blessed Geza, also known as "Bombshell", who launched a verbal offensive against Mnangagwa.A long convoy of armoured personnel tanks rollin...Published: 13 Mar 2025 at 07:16hrs | 3800 | by Staff reporter
Blessed Mhlanga's bail hearing adjourned indefinitely
High Court judge Justice Gibson Mandaza has indefinitely adjourned the bail hearing for Heart & Soul Television (HSTV) senior journalist Blessed Mhlanga to review an application for the use of vid...Published: 12 Mar 2025 at 13:11hrs | 489 | by Staff reporter
Benin names squad for Zimbabwe World Cup qualifiers
Benin coach Gernot Rohr has announced his squad for the upcoming 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Zimbabwe and South Africa, making some surprise omissions and including a teenage prospect for t...Published: 11 Mar 2025 at 16:17hrs | 351 | by Staff reporter
Brig General Tshuma takes command of 4 Infantry Brigade
Brigadier General Oscar Tshuma has been appointed as the new commander of the 4 Infantry Brigade in Masvingo Province, taking over from Brigadier General Cephas Gurira in a formal handover ceremony he...Published: 11 Mar 2025 at 16:14hrs | 1761 | by Staff reporter
Chatambudza's 'A lion eating its cubs?' is a disinformation campaign against ZPRA
I do not usually review scholarly material or critique academic work, but I must make an exception for Takawira Chatambudza's outrageously misleading article, "A Lion Eating Its Cubs? Assassinations, ...Published: 11 Mar 2025 at 07:23hrs | 1740 | by Zenzele Ndebele
SAPS to launch Operation Shanela 2
The South African Police Service (SAPS) will roll out the second phase of its high-density crime-fighting initiative, Operation Shanela 2, in March 2025. The operation, aimed at tackling crime hotspot...Published: 10 Mar 2025 at 14:00hrs | 1404 | by Staff reporter
Shun Sidemarketing, tobacco farmers warned
Contracted tobacco farmers have been warned to shun side marketing by senior agronomist Lazarus Gatawa while urging them to fulfill their contractual obligations and deliver all their crops to the mer...Published: 10 Mar 2025 at 12:16hrs | 159 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa reverses Chinamasa's decision to fire activists
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has intervened in an internal Zanu-PF dispute, reversing a decision by the party's legal secretary, Patrick Chinamasa, to fire six paid social media activists who were dee...Published: 10 Mar 2025 at 10:47hrs | 5303 | by Staff reporter
Mhlanga's bail hearing to be heard today
Alpha Media Holdings senior journalist Blessed Mhlanga will today challenge a magistrate's decision to deny him bail as he takes his freedom bid to the High Court.Mhlanga, who is represented b...Published: 10 Mar 2025 at 08:35hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
The tragedy of 'Zimba the Arsonist' who torched King Mzilikazi's gravesite
Zimba of the Shilwa clan was part of the Inqama regiment that guarded the grave of King Mzilikazi at Entumbane hill at the Matobo National Park. Sometime in the early 1870s when King Lobhengula was st...Published: 09 Mar 2025 at 15:28hrs | 1153 | by Mzala Tom
'Chamisa was not involved in Gushungo Dairies transport scheme'
As controversy continues to swirl around embattled former opposition leader Nelson Chamisa, Chalton Hwende, a senior official with the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), has once again vehemently di...Published: 09 Mar 2025 at 14:25hrs | 1370 | by Staff reporter
Top cop accused of extorting business community
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has initiated an investigation into Superintendent Elizabeth Chipfakacha following serious allegations of extortion and illicit activities raised by the Masvingo bus...Published: 09 Mar 2025 at 13:29hrs | 303 | by Staff reporter
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
Chiwenga in emotional return to former school
Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga was overcome with nostalgia yesterday as he returned to his former school, Mount St Mary's, to attend the Thanksgiving Mass for recently ordained Roman Catholic ...Published: 09 Mar 2025 at 13:09hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
Emmerson Mnangagwa and the 26 criminals around him
In November 2017, former President Robert Mugabe was removed from office and his crime, according to the putschists who ousted him in a coup, was that he had allowed himself to be surrounded by crimin...Published: 08 Mar 2025 at 15:51hrs | 1609 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Blessed Mhlanga appeals for bail at High Court
Heart & Soul TV (HStv) head of news Blessed Mhlanga has launched an appeal for bail at the High Court after being denied freedom by a Harare magistrate last week. Mhlanga was arrested on February ...Published: 08 Mar 2025 at 14:43hrs | 60 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga, Mohadi continue absconding Parliament
Deputy President of Senate, Michael Nyambuya, has expressed disappointment over the persistent absence of the country's two vice presidents and Cabinet ministers during crucial parliamentary Question-...Published: 08 Mar 2025 at 14:38hrs | 195 | by Staff reporter
Decoding and explaining the co-existence between Nelson Chamisa and ZANU-PF
Decoding and explaining the co-existence between Nelson Chamisa and ZANU-PF in the Zimbabwean authoritarian context: A case of captured popular opposition leadership1. Introduction...Published: 07 Mar 2025 at 09:34hrs | 1989 | by Justice Alfred Mavedzenge
Gukurahundi hearings to start in April
Traditional chiefs have announced their readiness to commence public hearings on the Gukurahundi massacres as early as April after completing a refresher course on conducting the exercise.Pres...Published: 06 Mar 2025 at 14:22hrs | 100 | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court dismisses Tendai Biti appeal in US$1 million case
The Supreme Court has dismissed lawyer and former Finance Minister Tendai Biti's appeal against a High Court ruling that denied his application for condonation in a US$1 million defamation case filed ...Published: 06 Mar 2025 at 14:18hrs | 184 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi activist appears in court over school protest
A Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) activist, Mkhulile Jele, appeared at the Plumtree Magistrates Court on Thursday facing a disorderly conduct charge after protesting at a local school over the alleged ...Published: 06 Mar 2025 at 14:14hrs | 148 | by Staff reporter
Mixed messaging and confusion over Mnangagwa term extension fuel speculation
Over the past week, President Emmerson Mnangagwa gave probably his most emphatic response to whether he would like to extend his term beyond 2028, reiterating that he would leave office in the next th...Published: 01 Mar 2025 at 09:24hrs | 974 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Ministers, deputies ignore Mnangagwa
Speaker of the National Assembly, Jacob Mudenda, has expressed frustration over the frequent absences of ministers and their deputies from Parliament, urging that action be taken against those who con...Published: 01 Mar 2025 at 09:22hrs | 1263 | by Staff reporter
Gweru City Council under investigation for mismanagement
Local Government and Public Works Minister Daniel Garwe has appointed an investigation team to probe allegations of abuse of office and mismanagement by Gweru City Council management and councillors....Published: 01 Mar 2025 at 09:00hrs | 117 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa blasts indiscipline on the roads
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) must take decisive action to restore order on the country's roads by implementing the electronic traffic management system to reduce road carnage, President Emmerson...Published: 01 Mar 2025 at 08:58hrs | 113 | by Staff reporter
Afrikaners want to establishing an autonomous state in South Africa
AfriForum, the minority interests lobby group, met with senior representatives of Trump's administration on Tuesday, saying this was part of its fight for the interests of Afrikaners.Trump has...Published: 27 Feb 2025 at 16:47hrs | 2179 | by Staff reporter
Blessed Mhlanga bail ruling postponed to Friday
The bail ruling for Blessed Mhlanga, a senior reporter with Alpha Media Holdings (AMH), has been postponed to Friday, February 28, 2025, at 12 noon. The decision, initially scheduled for today, was de...Published: 27 Feb 2025 at 13:18hrs | 350 | by Staff reporter
Funds embezzlement scandal at Khumalo Primary School
Khumalo Primary School headmistress Stella Mhlanga and two other school officials are facing allegations of embezzling US$12,000 from the school's funds through under-banking and other fraudulent acti...Published: 27 Feb 2025 at 11:43hrs | 1402 | by Stephen Jakes
Journalism is not a crime, but looting national resources surely is!
On Monday, February 24, 2025, Blessed Mhlanga, a senior journalist with Alpha Media Holdings, handed himself over to the Zimbabwe Republic Police at Harare Central Police Station.Hours later, ...Published: 26 Feb 2025 at 22:04hrs | 619 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Brigadier-General Raban Nikisi takes over
The command of the Mechanised Brigade at Inkomo has officially changed hands, with Brigadier-General Raban Nikisi assuming leadership from Major-General Josphat Kudumba, who was recently promoted....Published: 26 Feb 2025 at 12:01hrs | 2752 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's liberation was the greatest farce of all time
The truth can be a bitter pill to swallow, but it needs to be taken if we are to heal our nation.Zimbabwe's liberation struggle, celebrated as a triumph over colonial oppression when independe...Published: 25 Feb 2025 at 21:11hrs | 1153 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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