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MP loses cash, property at shopping centre
Nomvula Mguni, the Bulawayo Metropolitan Member of Parliament, has fallen victim to theft after thieves broke into her car and stole US$600 along with several personal belongings at a popular stopover...Published: 23 Jul 2025 at 09:05hrs | 729 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's plan to make ZiG sole currency faces sharp criticism
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mushayavanhu has recently suggested making the local currency, the Zimbabwe Gold coin (ZiG), the sole legal tender in the country. Despite Mushayavanhu's c...Published: 18 Jul 2025 at 08:52hrs | 1187 | by Staff reporter
Mine owner fined for operating unregistered milling plants
MAPHISA - A 45-year-old Snake Bone Mine owner has been fined US$200 for operating hammer and ball milling plants without proper documentation for registration.Matebeleland South Provincial Mag...Published: 14 Jul 2025 at 21:45hrs | 566 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole in Kezi
Zimbabwean man uses live snake to scare and rape woman
A 25-year-old man from Chitungwiza has been arrested for allegedly raping a 23-year-old woman multiple times while threatening her with a live snake, a lizard, and alleged ritualistic paraphernalia, p...Published: 19 Jun 2025 at 07:13hrs | 582 | by Staff reporter
Prophetic rituals led to children's deaths and haunting by snake spirit
A 53-year-old woman from Hatcliffe, Harare, originally from Marembera in Uzumba, Murehwa, says two of her children mysteriously died after a prophet poured two buckets of water over her in a ritual me...Published: 17 May 2025 at 12:30hrs | 462 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean villagers climb mountains to make phone calls
Villagers in Nekavandama, Ward 12 of Hwange District, are enduring extreme hardships to access mobile phone network coverage, often scaling mountains and climbing trees in areas infested with wild ani...Published: 15 May 2025 at 09:02hrs | 98 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe invents herbal antivenom
In a potentially life-saving scientific breakthrough, Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT) has made significant progress in the development of a herbal-based polyvalent antivenom, with promising pr...Published: 06 May 2025 at 08:41hrs | 435 | by Staff reporter
The Second Republic: A Journey of Transformation and Unyielding Progress
In 2017, the Great Republic of Zimbabwe embarked on a transformative journey under the Second Republic, a bold and Visionary era led by HE Dr ED Mnangagwa. This new chapter was not merely a change of ...Published: 13 Mar 2025 at 16:26hrs | 149 | by Maxwell Haitengeswinyika Teedzai
Bulawayo registers 200 diarrhoea cases, one death
The City of Bulawayo reported over 200 cases of diarrhoea and one related death as of December last year, according to the latest council disease surveillance report. The city has implemented intensif...Published: 11 Feb 2025 at 06:45hrs | 163 | by Staff reporter
Chinese ambassador pledges more support to Zimbabwe
Creative presentations of modern and traditional Chinese and Zimbabwean music theatrical performances reverberated at the University of Zimbabwe's Beit Hall on Saturday, marking the celebration of the...Published: 13 Jan 2025 at 07:19hrs | 140 | by Staff reporter
Machakaire impressed by basic first aid training
Youth Minister Tino Machakaire has expressed admiration for the successful rollout of the free basic first aid training programme under the Presidential Emergency Medical Scheme, which is being facili...Published: 31 Dec 2024 at 13:48hrs | 71 | by Staff reporter
Woman accuses uncle of sexual abuse and witchcraft
In a deeply disturbing case of alleged sexual abuse and witchcraft, Margaret Muchuro, a 34-year-old disabled woman from Chimanimani, accused her uncle, Chrispen Muchuro, of demanding sexual favours as...Published: 21 Dec 2024 at 09:01hrs | 503 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Traditional healer claims black mamba aids in healing patients
A traditional healer from Silalatshani in Filabusi, known as Nzwisa, has sparked intrigue after claiming that a black mamba he keeps helps him heal his patients. The healer, who is known for his uncon...Published: 19 Dec 2024 at 17:06hrs | 1572 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF will be a different creature in next elections
If you grew up in the village as Bishop Lazi did, you learned to trust your instincts and nature.You also learned to appreciate that human beings have an innate biological alarm that is trigge...Published: 08 Dec 2024 at 09:27hrs | 180 | by Staff reporter
Man nabbed for killing python
A 52-YEAR-OLD Plumtree man who allegedly hunted a python to get its...Published: 13 Nov 2024 at 19:33hrs | 1282 | by Simbarashe Sithole
WATCH: Zimbabwe snake charmer succumbs to Puff Adder bite
A well-known Chinhoyi snake charmer, Show Chedhu, popularly known as "Mabhemba," tragically died early Thursday morning after being bitten by a Puff Adder, one of the most venomous snakes in the regio...Published: 09 Nov 2024 at 17:16hrs | 1631 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's celebrity snake handler dies of snake bite
One month after he was placed in an induced coma following a snake bite, South African YouTuber, Graham 'Dingo' Dinkelman, has passed away.In a statement, 44-year-old Dinkelman's wife Kirsty D...Published: 29 Oct 2024 at 09:24hrs | 3300 | by TimesLive
Mnangagwa stalling the return of ZPRA properties
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is intentionally delaying the return of properties confiscated from ZPRA veterans, according to Andreas Ethan Mathibela, a faction leader of the Zimbabwe National Liberati...Published: 21 Oct 2024 at 14:42hrs | 1535 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo diarrhoea cases surge 700%
The City of Bulawayo has experienced a concerning spike in diarrhoea cases, with approximately 555 reported as of August 2024. This marks a staggering 693% increase from the 370 cases recorded in July...Published: 11 Oct 2024 at 17:58hrs | 331 | by Staff reporter
14 die from snake bites in Zimbabwe this year
Fourteen people have lost their lives due to snake bites in Zimbabwe since the beginning of the year, according to the Ministry of Health and Child Care. The current snake season, which runs from Sept...Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 09:09hrs | 466 | by Staff reporter
Woman divorces husband over mubobobo claims
IN a shocking incident, a 38-year-old woman from New Harrisvale suburb in Bulawayo divorced her husband after claiming to have caught him, through a vision, using a sex charm popularly known as mubobo...Published: 26 Jul 2024 at 09:05hrs | 2418 | by Staff reporter
CCC recall legal battles far from over
The legal battles surrounding the recall of elected officials dismissed from office last year are still pending in the courts and have yet to be finalised, acting leader of the Citizens Coalition for ...Published: 28 Jun 2024 at 09:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Berita officially divorced from Nota Baloyi
In 2022, SA Music Award (Sama) award-winning singer Gugulethu Khumalo, better known as Berita, announced that she had split from her husband, controversial pop culture commentator and podcaster Nhlamu...Published: 22 Jun 2024 at 12:38hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
DA's Moonshot Pact rebranded under GNU name
The Government of National Unity (GNU) appears to be nothing more than the failed Democratic Alliance (DA)'s Moonshot Pact, rebranded under a different name.The African National Congress (ANC)...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 14:09hrs | 5 | by Junior Lebese
Zuma calls out 'snakes' in Ramaphosa's ANC
LEADER of the uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) Jacob Zuma says the formation of the party was to protect the ANC against President Cyril Ramaphosa.Zuma used a snake as an analogy, saying a man of ...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 08:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
CCC and MDC were led same corrupt leaders and both accomplished nothing. Same again are leading new blue party!
There is an eye-catching Zimbabwe Daily cartoon depicting a Yellow Kobi with three drivers (the three rotational presidents in the Tshabangu CCC faction). The Kobi has no wheels and resting on bricks....Published: 20 Feb 2024 at 11:15hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa surrenders hard-won political and democratic space
"THIS is to officially, and under my hand, inform you fellow citizens of Zimbabwe and the world, that, with immediate effect, I no longer have anything to do with CCC."With these words, Zimbab...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 06:22hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Witch hunters wreak havoc in Mhondoro-Ngezi
Stories of witch hunters wreaking havoc in rural areas have been told repeatedly, but gullible villagers continue to fall victim to the scammers.Known as tsikamutandas or gauras, the purported...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:40hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
Man grows floppy breasts
IN an eerier than fiction story, a man from Cross Dete in Hwange District, Matabeleland North province developed huge lady-like breasts amid chilling revelations that at night they are being suc...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 06:03hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
Without Zimbabweans, Musina is going to be a big ghost town
By 7AM, lines of customers snake down the block outside stores on the main commercial strip in Musina, a bustling South African border town where thousands of people arrive daily from neighboring Zimb...Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 08:46hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa in a catch-22 situation
I MUST begin by apologising, dear reader, for not informing you that I will no longer deliver my instalment weekly as had become the tradition.I received a few inquiries and some scolding from...Published: 27 Oct 2023 at 19:16hrs | | by Ntando Dumani
'UK fomented Gukurahundi genocide in Zimbabwe'
Former members of the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) who served during the post-independence disturbances in Matebeleland claim that the British government, angered by the property acqui...Published: 27 Oct 2023 at 06:20hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Bid to kill a mysterious snake claims two
TWO men died last week after trying to kill a mysterious snake in a deep well in Shamva.Lesly Shangwa (31) and Prosper Mambodza (27) di...Published: 06 Oct 2023 at 05:57hrs | 4 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Family in close shave with death
A BULAWAYO family is lucky to be alive after a close shave with a venomous snake on Wednesday afternoon at their home in North End suburb. The snake was reportedly hiding in a water vase. ...Published: 07 Jul 2023 at 07:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa was desperate to see the back of Tendai Biti?
THE beleaguered CCC party is teetering on the brink of another split just a few hours before the Nomination Court sits ahead of the 23 August harmonised elections.Fissures, for long papered by...Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 06:42hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Enraged Biti calls CCC colleague 'a snake whose head must be crushed' - just another Zanu PF thug 'vafanana'
In his book David Coltart acknowledged the sheer of participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy. He explained that it was greed that forced him and his follow MDC friends to participa...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 12:14hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa claims the resurgent skyrocketing inflation is a calculated political attack
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa claims the resurgent skyrocketing inflation - which has seen the country plunge into a third hyperinflation wave in 15 years - is a calculated political attack ...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 09:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's son in-law is a major shareholder at Trevor Ncube's AMH
The attached video clip below is interesting with important revelations from Trevor Ncube about himself, AMH and Gerald Mlotshwa. Three such revelations stand out:First, while Ncube and AMH ha...Published: 10 Jun 2023 at 18:48hrs | 1 | by Jonathan Moyo
Nkayi snake bite victim gets artificial limb
LEONARD Cheshire Disability Zimbabwe has come to the rescue of a 16-year-old Nkayi girl who crawls to school following the amputation of her leg after she was bitten by a snake in 2016.Leonard...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Girl who crawls to school seeks artificial leg
A 16-YEAR-OLD girl from Nkayi district in Matabeleland North Province who had her leg amputated after being bitten by a snake is appealing for help to get US$1 500 for an artificial leg so that she co...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 08:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'CCC and MDC are two different entities!' How naïve! Different in name and regalia, yes, but not in deeds!
"CCC and MDC are two different entities so please your arguments have no basis, and it lacks facts. We are in 2023. MDC then was Tsvangirai and ZANU was Mugabe," complained Jimmy Marunza.Nelso...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 07:43hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
This and that with Mal'phosa: Ngayende ngabude! What?
Malema is very crafty, just like that red fox, neh? He has outsmarted everyone this time around. He can hide behind load shedding, rise in crime, Phalaphalagate etc as reasons he wants Ramaphosa gone....Published: 26 Mar 2023 at 20:34hrs | 2 | by Clerk Ndlovu
Mliswa portrayed as a two-headed snake
Former Zanu-PF Mashonaland West provincial chairperson and Norton legislator Temba Mliswa recently got emotional after being ridiculed for his Zanu-PF links by a ZimbabweDaily cartoonist. The ...Published: 19 Mar 2023 at 10:05hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans must stay away from occult wealth seeking
IMAGINE being instructed by an inyanga or sangoma to take soil from a stranger's grave that will be used to perform a ritual to invoke the spirit of a dead person to help you get instant wealth and po...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 08:02hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Prophets clash over dead snake
TWO Kuwadzana Phase 3 Johann Masowe eChishanu prophets have appeared in court following an altercation over a snake. Madzibaba Matthew Matenga went to court seeking a protection order against ...Published: 10 Feb 2023 at 19:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Holy Ten opens up on Winky D beef
The 24-year-old Harare rapper, songwriter, and producer Holy Ten (real name Mukudzei Chitsama) has for the first time opened up about the controversy surrounding his collaboration with award winning a...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 08:11hrs | 19 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Big snake scares Bulawayo residents
A HUGE black snake is scaring people at the traffic light controlled intersection along Robert Mugabe Way and 12th Avenue in Bulawayo.The fact that the snake is dead, is not making a differenc...Published: 06 Feb 2023 at 04:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mubobobo man rubs manhood against woman in bank queue
A WOMAN who was queuing at a bank in the city centre nearly jumped out of her skin when she felt something hard and slimy sliding up and down her back.To her horror, when she turned to check, ...Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 19:15hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
SHOCKING: A'level pupil dies after a snake bite in classroom
A sixth form student at Rushinga High was bitten by a snake in the classroom yesterday while coming from sports and died in the evening.The shocking incident was confirmed by Rushinga legislat...Published: 13 Jan 2023 at 12:36hrs | 16 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Snake feeder and handler job ad trends in Zimbabwe
Would you apply for a job as a snake feeder and handler who has to look for lost snakes, help reptiles breed and take care of hatchlings at a snake park in Zimbabwe?No?Would you still ...Published: 12 Jan 2023 at 09:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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