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Zimbabwe's Water Crisis: Boreholes will cause more harm than good
This morning, as I watched a news report on the ongoing so-called ‘Presidential Borehole Drilling Scheme', my heart was troubled. Just how sustainable is the drilling of boreholes all over t...Published: 23 Sep 2024 at 18:29hrs | 2363 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Khama Billiat sinks Bosso
In a Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match at The Heart Stadium, YADAH FC secured a 2-0 victory over Highlanders on Saturday. Jerry Chipangura opened the scoring in the 31st minute, capitalizing on...Published: 30 Jun 2024 at 18:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Witchcraft claims derail search for missing 2 year old
WHEN Ms Glenda Sibelu left her two-year-old daughter at home to fetch water from a nearby river, she had no idea it would be the beginning of a heart-wrenching search for the toddler who has been miss...Published: 07 Dec 2023 at 05:27hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to meet UAE counterpart
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is set to hold bilateral meetings with United Arab Emirates President Mohammed bin Zayed Aal Nahyan, as well as with UAE business leaders when he attends the United Nations Climate...Published: 10 Nov 2023 at 06:41hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Cowering to a dictator only makes him more brazen!
I was bullied when I was a little child - from my crèche days to early primary school.That was the period my life changed forever - becoming the person I am today. There were two thin...Published: 16 Sep 2023 at 19:27hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Nelson Chamisa's Alienating 100 Page Manifesto
The Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) lost in the 2023 electoral plebiscite, and as expected immediately rejected the results complaining the elections were "marred by vote suppression and egregious ...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 22:29hrs | | by Dr Moses Moyo
Zanu-PF cheered by 53 uncontested council seats
Zanu-PF on Thursday said it won 53 local authority seats unchallenged at the close of the nomination court sittings, but the party was challenged in all 210 National Assembly races by the Citizens Coa...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 17:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Harare based Zimbabwe Cricket neglecting Bulawayo Athletic Club on purpose?
A SIMMERING war between the Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) and Bulawayo Athletic Club (BAC) is heating up with allegations that the cricket mother body released limited funding for the makeover and takeover of...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 08:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kwekwe faces total collapse into mine tunnels
AN environmental catastrophe looms in Kwekwe, a gold mining city about 200km southwest of Harare, where properties are being swallowed by mine tunnels underneath them.Unregulated exploration b...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
'We aim to win big!' insists Chamisa oblivious Zanu PF is rigging big, there is verified voters' roll, etc., etc.
"The world is flat or round not because you or me say it is flat/round. It is round because the mountain of supporting evidence say it is round," my Secondary School teacher used to say. Zimba...Published: 24 Jan 2023 at 17:04hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
How high-level corruption at ZESA plunged Zimbabwe into darkness!
The reason Zimbabwe is suffering by daily 20-hour electricity cuts is not necessarily due to antiquated equipment, neither can it ever be a so-called 'growing economy' - but, had everything to do with...Published: 09 Dec 2022 at 09:39hrs | 7 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
When being oppressed is perceived as an honor and privilege!
It is most certainly saddening and tragic when a nation sinks to such levels, whereby there are those who actually perceive oppression as some warped and ...Published: 12 Nov 2022 at 19:16hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa jets off to Egypt
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa today joins fellow world leaders in the two-day Sharm El-Sheikh Climate Implementation Summit, the first part of the high-level segment for Heads of State and Government, here at t...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why did African leaders cease speaking for ordinary citizens but standing with oppressive leaders?
Whenever I watch clips, repeatedly replayed on state television, of a couple of African leaders calling for the 'lifting of sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe', my heart sinks, as I am quite sure, it also ...Published: 01 Nov 2022 at 11:50hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Kenya linked Rishi Sunak to become UK prime minister
Rishi Sunak will become Britain's next prime minister after he won the race on Monday to lead the Conservative Party, tasked with steering a deeply divided country through an economic downturn set to ...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 17:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Maguwu raises Zimbabwe civil war fears
HUMAN rights activist Farai Maguwu says Zimbabwe is on the cusp of a civil war if the current wave of political violence is not contained.This comes after the ruling Zanu-PF party supporters h...Published: 05 Sep 2022 at 06:43hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean villagers cross into Botswana to fetch water
VILLAGERS from four villages in Ward 10, Bulilima District in Matabeleland South have been forced to illegally cross to neighbouring Botswana to fetch water from Maitengwe River after the wall of Fuba...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa voices disquiet over criminal tag on nationals in South Africa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ministers say they are worried by the continued portrayal of Zimbabweans in South Africa as the biggest criminals in the neighbouring country.The subject f...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 21:23hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sinks deeper into debt hole
THE government last year added US$6,45 billion to the public debt as the Treasury assumed the former white farmer's compensation fund under domestic debt and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) legacy ...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 08:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Economic growth all good, but meaningless when Zimbabweans' livelihoods deteriorating!
A father can boast of his recent promotions at work or the expansion of his business entities.He can even be proud of the increased financial earnings, and profit margins coming into his pocke...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 21:42hrs | 6 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa pleads poverty
REVELATIONS that Zimbabwe is pushing to be classified a Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) as Harare seeks debt relief in what is effectively a volte-face on the long-held official aversion to the i...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Biden 's approval rating sinks - poll
US President Joe Biden's approval rating sank to 38% in a CNBC poll released on Thursday, down from 46% in December. Respondents rated Biden poorly on his handling of the economy and the conflict in U...Published: 14 Apr 2022 at 20:36hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe was better
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, sitting around waiting for electricity that had been switched off for over 18 hours can make one start entertaining unsavoury thoughts....Published: 09 Feb 2022 at 05:30hrs | 5 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mugabe was indeed better but so scary to imagine what that means for today's Zimbabwe!
Sitting around waiting for electricity that has been gone for over eighteen hours - from around midnight, and still nothing as I write this article at five in the afternoon - so as to engage in some p...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 16:03hrs | 5 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
What's the point in building Zimbabwe 'brick by brick' whilst dismantling it 'wall by wall'?
There is a popular saying, "taking two steps forward, and one step backwards" - that describes a scenario whereby things are not going smoothly, when one's efforts are not yielding the desired results...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 07:51hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Who is behind forex dealers?
NO matter how well-meaning and determined, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) could be towards uprooting rampant delinquency in the economy, the effort may count for nothing if other institutions are ...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:38hrs | | by Nathan Gurira
US$137m loss sinks run-down Air Zimbabwe
NATIONAL flag carrier, Air Zimbabwe (AirZim), chalked over a US$137 million loss in four successive years which helped sink the airline deep into the abyss under the yoke of corporate malfeasance, inc...Published: 28 May 2021 at 08:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Would you eat cyanide laced oranges, why accept poisoned constitutional amendments only for some youth/women's quota clauses?
As the shock over the recently gazetted Constitutional Amendment No 2 Act deepens, and the realization of the reality of the brutal shredding, and callous assassination, of any semblance of democracy ...Published: 10 May 2021 at 10:45hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
MDC Alliance wounds self-inflicted, says analysts
LIKE a deck of jacks, the MDC-Alliance is crumbling, triggering a mass exodus of distressed and disillusioned former officials who are joining Zanu-PF in droves. At the centre of the collapse ...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
POLAD's opportunism and greed exposes a poverty-stricken nation whose leaders are so hungry would sleep with the devil for a pla
In some of my articles, I have usually expressed how I had been shocked by something that would had occured, but this time around, what I have just come from reading did not shock me at all - rather, ...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 10:02hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
WATCH: Truck sinks trying to cross flooded river killing baby
Police in Mashonaland Central province are looking for a seven months old baby who drowned in a flooded river after a UD truck he was travelling in sunk in a flooded river in Bindura over the weekend....Published: 10 Mar 2021 at 18:02hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Rains stall grave digging in Bulawayo
BULAWAYO City Council is facing imminent grave shortage as a result of incessant rains that have caused flooding at Luveve Cemetery, making the graveyard soggy and unfit for burials.This has f...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:43hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Caledonia sinks US$60m into Gwanda project
CALEDONIA Mining Corporation Plc (Caledonia) has spent about US$60 million developing the Central Shaft project, which is due to be commissioned during the first quarter of next year.In a stat...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa owns trophy hunting company?
The Presidency denied President Cyril Ramaphosa has a stake in a trophy hunting company following a claim published by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). PETA alleged Ramaphos...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:38hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimplats sinks US$200m in Zimbabwe
AUSTRALIAN Stock Exchange-listed resources giant Zimplats is scouring Zimbabwean landscapes to unlock fresh opportunities, possibly bolstered by fresh policies giving foreign investors the right to ho...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Urban to rural migration the new scenario in Zimbabwe
IN a reversal of the normal trends with regards to rural-to-urban migration worldwide, the current pattern in Zimbabwe is pointing towards a shift in migration, this time, urban to rural migration bei...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:13hrs | 4 | by Peter Makwanya
Dr. Masimba Mavaza, please do not excite!
I have hardly recovered from the last article you wrote on Bulawayo24: an article that sees female gender as unreasonable and out of sic with African traditions and culture. Here we go again today: "M...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 20:57hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Does Mthuli Ncube really live in ZImbabwe?
ZIMBABWE on Monday woke up to a fresh dosage of shocking data from the ever-blundering Finance minister Mthuli Ncube.Mthuli scaled up defence against his catastrophic economic policies, which ...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told to resolve crisis or nation sinks
The usual band of political analysts has said that President Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF should lead efforts to address the country's decades long political crisis if the Government is to have any chance of...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 07:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Christian attack against the native family and The Native Religion Beyond Jerusalem! Rome and London
"I have travelled across the length and breath of africa and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief such wealth I have seen in this country such high moral values, people of ...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 22:36hrs | | by Reginald Thabani Gola
'Did you vote MPs to live large' asked Nkosana Moyo - how insulting, when he helped rig the vote
"As you continue to suffer, your representatives in parliament and government are preparing to receive brand new cars. Is this what you vote them in to office for? To live large in the face of crisis?...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 08:56hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
The pig in Mthuli Ncube's bacon
I had occasion in my last visit to my discerning barber to try and explain the latest glowing World Bank reviews of the sterling performance of finance minister Mthuli Ncube and the minister's impecca...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 10:22hrs | | by Zifiso Masiye
'Mnangagwa lured 2018 voters with war tales' - damned lie, he rigged the election
As Zimbabwe's economy sinks deeper and deeper into the morass the tension and panic in Zanu PF circles is palpable. The regime rigged last year's elections and was super confident that it will rig the...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 07:43hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Tsvangirai turning in his grave, says daughter
THE late former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's eldest daughter, Vimbai Tsvangirai-Java yesterday said his father could be a "bitter man wherever he is" because Zimbabweans have lunged into deeper ...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 17:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mbare project raises stink
Harare City Council and the government have come under fire after revelations that the much-trumpeted renovation of Mbare's Matapi Flats only centred around the repainting of outside walls.The...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 08:57hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
South Africa to monitor Zimbabwe's economic affairs
IN an unprecedented move, Zimbabwe has agreed to allow South Africa - the continent's most developed economy and powerhouse - to sit in official Ministry of Finance meetings to oversee Harare's debt c...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 17:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA to sit in next critical Zimbabwe Treasury meetings
IN an unprecedented move, Zimbabwe has agreed to allow South Africa - the continent's most developed economy and powerhouse - to sit in official Ministry of Finance meetings to oversee Harare's debt c...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cross, Ncube's reforms will never deliver economic prosperity not as long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state
"People of Zimbabwe deserve a new day" wrote Eddie Cross in Bulawayo24. Mr Cross was writing about Zimbabwe's economic chaos, the country has already claimed the position of being the poorest ...Published: 23 Feb 2019 at 07:48hrs | 2 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
5 of the most expensive apartments throughout the world
Today's luxury apartments are designed to provide you with ample space, top amenities, beautifully appointed rooms and balconies, flawless landscaping, stunning views and other features all in a prize...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 21:21hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
The Dembare circus returns
When other Premier Soccer League teams are busy on the transfer market, Dynamos are busy in the boxing ring, this time, the contestants being board chairman Bernard Marriot and club president Solomon ...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 17:51hrs | 7 | by MICHAEL KARIATI
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