Search / Smells
Welshman Ncube is worse than what Sengezo Tshabangu is doing today!
It is surprising how the opposition political landscape is screaming about how Sengezo Tshabangu is selling the opposition broad day light. It is bad enough what Tshabangu is doing: it smells deep int...Published: 14 Dec 2024 at 23:08hrs | 1314 | by Nomazulu Thata
Bulawayo residents call for mosquito control
As the rainy season brings increased mosquito activity to the city, residents are urging the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to prioritize mosquito control efforts. The rising number of mosquitoes, compou...Published: 11 Nov 2024 at 15:43hrs | 511 | by Staff reporter
Smells nepotism as unknown Mangombe set for Warriors job
The ZIFA Normalisation Committee (NC) says it will soon announce the coach for the senior men's football team with indications pointing to Dynamos coach Genesis Mangombe getting the vacant Warriors po...Published: 13 Jan 2024 at 06:50hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Nakamba declared fit to face Birmingham City
ZIMBABWE Warriors midfielder Marvelous Nakamba has been declared fit for Luton Town's Championship clash against Birmingham City on Saturday.The 29-year-old defensive midfielder limped off inj...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF smells victory in Manicaland
THE Zanu-PF leadership in Manicaland, buoyed by a thumping victory in the recent Mutasa South national assembly polls, declared this week that it will win all 26 constituencies and wards in the forthc...Published: 17 Feb 2023 at 20:55hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
This & that with Mal'phosa: When the honeymoon is over
I was in a train the other day, which happened to be stationary for over an hour because of load shedding. Most of the passengers look restless; some were shouting their lungs out; others were mummeri...Published: 13 Dec 2022 at 09:42hrs | 1 | by Clerk Ndlovu
Mwonzora pampered with vast farm, Mercedes-Benz
MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora has taken delivery of a brand new Mercedes-Benz from President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government, adding to a farm he was also given for free early this year in what is see...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Majaivana's love-hate relationship with Bulawayo
BULAWAYO is a subject that runs like a thread through Lovemore Majaivana's extensive catalogue of music.Perhaps, because he hails from the city, some might take it as given that Majaivana, wit...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 09:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Passport queues to be outlawed
SLEEPING overnight in queues at the passport office in Bulawayo may soon be outlawed, if the city's councillors have their way.scores of Passport seekers queue at the passport office ( file pi...Published: 18 Oct 2022 at 19:12hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa smells victory
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change leader Nelson Chamisa has expressed optimism that the opposition will win next year's elections given "a wave" of opposition triumphs in the Southern African D...Published: 14 Oct 2022 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt stripping assets, claims MPs
LEGISLATORS have accused the Executive of systematically stripping the country of its valuable assets and selling them through opaque deals, which observers say smells of deep-rooted corruption and pl...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CCC's politics of a scavenging bird
A vulture is a scavenging bird. It feeds from and thrives in the dead, dirt, smelly and foul.A green parrot, on the other hand is an adorable creature of magnificent beauty. It blends with and...Published: 18 Aug 2022 at 20:45hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Bodies of seven miners retrieved from shaft
THREE nights of pumping water out of the 240-metre-deep shaft at Bucks Mine in Colleen where seven miners have been trapped underground since Saturday were met with dead silence when the first body wa...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:20hrs | 9 | by Fungi Kwaramba
Chamisa: When the snake bites the charmer
Staring the abyssVery slowly but definitely quite surely, the world is drifting towards a scary nuclear abyss. The conflict in Eastern Europe now has all the makings of a major superpo...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 16:10hrs | | by jamwanda
Harare youths get drunk on sanitary pads powder
Zimbabwean youths grasping to survive the prevailing harsh economic conditions have turned to drinking sodium polyacrylate to get high and forget their problems. sodium polyacrylate is found in di...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 11:50hrs | 11 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The tragic price of forgetting: Pre-independent Zimbabwe questions still need answers
Zimbabwe is beset by a serious crisis of governance. Infact the same questions we wanted solutions for pre-independence still remain unanswered.We are still in a crisis.This crisis has...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 12:46hrs | 10 | by Taruberekera Masara
Govt, companies challenged to adopt policies that advance female waste pickers
Government and various companies have been challenged to adopt policies that advance female waste pickers business as a way of empowering them.The call was made by the Matabeleland Institute f...Published: 18 Mar 2022 at 09:14hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Where are the human rights defenders when our children are being denied the right to education?
Dear We the Murowa community sympathise with teachers and all the civil servants per se'. Its an undeniable fact that civil servan...Published: 12 Feb 2022 at 08:35hrs | 2 | by Concerned Murowa Ward Community
'Java is mentally challenged and should not abuse ZANU PF,' Seh Calaz
Zimdancehall chanter Tawanda Seh Calaz Mumanyi has said socialite Passion Java is mentally challenged and should stop using ZANU PF to intimidate people.Speaking on national broadcaster Power ...Published: 18 Nov 2021 at 18:41hrs | 6 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Kazembe Kazembe's rigging plot exposed
FIREWORKS are expected at a potentially explosive Zanu-PF Mashonaland Central provincial executive meeting Monday as the provinces top guns lock horns in a do-or-die pre-election encounter.The...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 18:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dirty water fury in Bulawayo's Emganwini
DIRTY and smelly water coming from taps in Bulawayo's Emganwini suburb has residents worried that another diarrhoeal disease outbreak may hit the area. Two months ago, the high-density suburb ...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 07:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ask why Dumiso Dabengwa crushed ZimRights Gukurahundi investigations while Minister of Home Affairs!
While accusations are still hot on Obert Gutu, can we revisit our past and see where things went wrong for the victims of Gukurahundi in Matabeleland and Midlands. I maintain that what Gutu uttered wa...Published: 05 Jul 2021 at 06:13hrs | 9 | by Nomazulu Thata
Diarrhoea outbreak hits Bulawayo again
BULAWAYO has recorded a third diarrhoea outbreak in 11 months with about 50 cases being reported in the high-density suburb of Emganwini. Residents have accused the city council of failing to provide ...Published: 19 May 2021 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
America angry that their blue-eyed boy has been recalled by his own party
The United States has made very hidden but vivid threats to Zimbabwe for allowing Biti to be recalled from Parliament by his own party. In a statement the United States a surprising statement by Ameri...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 08:56hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
COVID-19 vaccines scammers on the prowl
The majority of sellers came from France, Germany, the UK, and the USA, and the prices per dose ranged from $250 to $1,200, with an average cost of about $500 Never buy products including vaccine dose...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cowardice is when you pounce on the weak and shout Courage!
For abusing his office Mohadi must be condemned for his deeds. I refuse to hear tribalists talking about Mohadi resigning from office because of the last week's scandals that were caught on media. Why...Published: 22 Feb 2021 at 12:44hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwean man earns a living by breeding flies
A BINDURA man is earning a living through breeding flies as animal feed at a time flies are associated with unhygienic practices and condemned for causing diseases such as cholera, typhoid, dysentery ...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:45hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus and the mystery of infection
He waited by the bus-stop, all day, shaking his car keys rather impatiently, pacing up and down as each bus arrived, as each bus left. Only a dishevelled tramp sat by the benches, mumbling incoherentl...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 22:45hrs | 1 | by Zifiso Masiye
Chief Mtshana hero status: A veiled insult on Matabeleland
Although the all-conquering Chief Mtshana, was a bona fide and outstanding freedom fighter of all-time requiring recognition, the recent villainous conferment of hero status on him by the relevance-se...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 09:20hrs | | by Nhlanhla Moses
Trump, a poisoned chalice, says analysts
In yet another not so surprising move, United States of America (USA) President, Donald Trump has refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power, if he loses the 3 November 2020, elections....Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and the cult of mediocrity in Zimbabwe politics
ZIMBABWE has finally arrived at its Idi Amin moment in history.This is a moment where the vulgar, obscene and grotesque performances of leaders get tragically normalised. It is a true "gods mu...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Macaphulana
'Chief Ndiweni incarceration political'
ONE of Matabeleland South's traditional leaders, Chief Mathema, has said he smells a political hand in the recent incarceration of the outspoken Ntabazinduna chief, Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni....Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 07:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe troops and police deployed in force
Troops and police deployed in force in Zimbabwe's second city of Bulawayo on Monday in a bid to deter a planned opposition march, three days after brutally dispersing a banned protest in the capital H...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 14:07hrs | 2 | by AFP
Minister Monica Mutsvangwa confirms MRP right
The three board appointments under the Ministry of Information, Publicity, and Broadcasting Services announced today [Wednesday] by Minister Mutsvangwa only serves to confirm that Mthwakazi Republic P...Published: 01 Aug 2019 at 07:36hrs | 1 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Temba Mliswa: a hero or villain?
The firebrand Norton legislator Temba Peter Mliswa is a refreshing and entertaining contributor to every Parliamentary session he attends. He has won the admiration of many hearts in Norton over his d...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 09:12hrs | 1 | by Nicholas Ncube
For Auxilia Mnangagwa to kick and scream: tip of the iceberg: she has seen the limit of what it takes to be married to Emmerson
Putting some pieces of the jigsaw puzzle together, we shall indeed not get all of them, it's not possible. We are now told that Mnangagwa got a child with a student from MSU. We read too that Auxilia ...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 14:03hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Middleton Nyoni turning in his grave: His office of excellence is reduced to despicable genital-mother insults and death treats
We are watching on the sidelines seeing the gross mismanagement of Bulawayo residents' rates payments squandered to the extent that Bulawayo City council cannot resuscitate the water works for weeks a...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 17:50hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Crucifying 'Wiwa' for a mere political rhetoric: A countenance of the Devil
While we mutually admonish instigators of anarchy, despondency, divisiveness and secessionism we loudly criticize an all-out war on the deputy chairperson of MDC-Alliance over an address at a politica...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 18:41hrs | 3 | by Benny Gudo
An explosive ZANU PF Conference being planned
ZANU PF is the ruling party of Zimbabwe and he who has control of ZANU PF controls the country. The importance of ZANU PF was emphasized during the events of November 2017. The tussle for power ...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 11:52hrs | | by Nicholas Ncube
Zanu PF Youth League move away from mother party
In ZANU-PF all disciplinary cases should be dealt with in accordance with the laid down procedures set out in the party constitution.In the case of provinces and other subordinate structures, ...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 07:40hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Khama Billiat smells blood
Zimbabwe national soccer team striker Khama Billiat has declared that they will go all the way in their match against Uganda on Wednesday in the ongoing Afcon finals in Egypt.Zimbabwe lost by ...Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 19:24hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Goat-herder's attack on Chief Ndiweni outrageous, uncivil and un-African!
The daringly outrageous, uncivil, abusive and un-African article of the 28th of May 2019 by The Chronicle, viciously attacking Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni of Ntabazinduna smells goaty and belongs t...Published: 05 Jun 2019 at 11:22hrs | 1 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Voting influenced by slate will result in a weak MDC
As Congress temperatures reach heatwave levels,it is time I urge caution,forensic,intrinsic,none greed action so we help build a balanced,human resource with substance and attraction,not the cheap who...Published: 22 May 2019 at 07:23hrs | | by Isaac Mupinyuri
Herald-Newsday fight escalates
The altercation between The Herald and Newsday newspapers escalated on Monday with Acting Herald Editor Tichaona Zindoga accusing his Newsday counterpart Mr Wisdom Mdzungairi of employing "subte...Published: 20 May 2019 at 12:20hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
The Zimbabwe Republic Police
During the Rhodesia era the police force then was called the British South Africa Police( BSAP). It was well trained, disciplined and efficient. More-so it had resources for use in combating crime. It...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 21:26hrs | | by Clemen Moyo
Handmade Zimbabwe shoes an unlikely global hit
IN a tiny factory producing handmade boots and shoes in southwestern Zimbabwe, leather cutter Misheck Sibanda is on another hectic shift as he tries to keep up with soaring global demand.Order...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 09:13hrs | 1 | by AFP
How the Motlanthe commission of inquiry shot itself in the foot
The seven-member commission of inquiry into the August 1 disturbances wound up its work last week and presented the executive summary of its report to President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday, three m...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 10:39hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Mphoko loses control of Choppies
Former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko and his son Siqokoqela Mphoko have no financial or operation say in the business of Nanavac Investments which owns 51% of Choppies brand in Zimbabwe , th...Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 08:05hrs | 12 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Raw sewage in streets of Harare
Raw sewage flows freely in some streets of Zimbabwe's capital, posing a deadly challenge to the recently elected president who has promised the troubled country a new dawn.A cholera outbreak h...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 12:28hrs | | by AFP
'Moyo's caretaker commissions illegal'
Commissions set up to run local authorities by Local Government minister July Moyo are illegal and should be abolished, constitutional and local government experts have said.This comes after M...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 15:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Load More Stories
