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Mnangagwa rescues indigenous churches through education
Through her Angel of Hope Foundation in partnership with Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU) and enrolment support from Council for Churches in Africa (CCA), Z...Published: 24 Sep 2024 at 23:11hrs | 1126 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole in Bulawayo
Zulus demand 100 cows from ANC's Duma for his rogue behaviour
Zulu royal regiments have suggested that KwaZulu-Natal Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs MEC Siboniso Duma pay 100 cows as an apology to King Misuzulu for "disrespecting" His Maj...Published: 21 Mar 2024 at 08:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pitfalls of Liberation Movements in Zimbabwe
This paper seeks to provide an introductory general overview of the pitfalls associated with liberation movements in Zimbabwe up to a certain historical point. However, the most accurate and u...Published: 24 Dec 2023 at 08:30hrs | 12 | by Josh Mhambi
Mambo Dhuterere hits out at cyberbullies, again
Gospel musician Mambo Dhuterere, real name Darlington Mutseta, says deliberate attempts to inflict harm on his marriage through manipulation and damaging of his character online will not destroy his m...Published: 16 Dec 2023 at 12:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Data bundles, hotspoting won't destroy my marriage: Mambo Dhuterere vows
Gospel supremo, Mambo Dhuterere (real name, Darlington Mutseta) has once again trashed claims which were recently peddled on social media linking him to infidelity and gender-based violence vowing tha...Published: 11 Dec 2023 at 16:50hrs | 43 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole in Harare
Zimbabwe govtto roll out rural housing designs
THE Government will soon roll out the rural housing architectural transformation in the country's eight rural provinces after securing 15 best designs from local tertiary institutions as it moves to s...Published: 12 Nov 2023 at 11:44hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dangles citizenship to Mzilikazi royal family
The Mthwakazi kaMzilikazi Royal Crown Family, which includes the Mzilikazi Royal House and the Khumalo Clan, claims the Emmerson Mnangagwa-led government has shown them generosity by promising to rest...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 20:55hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Abortion: Pro-Choice; Pro-Nothing; Pro-Life - Study the law with Blessed Mupatsi
THE DEONTOLOGY Assisted by: Nompilo P. Nkomo. In Zimbabwe in the late 19th century, through the promulgation of the Termination of Pregnancy Act...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 21:12hrs | 8 | by Blessed Mupatsi
National languages critical in decolonising the mind
President Mnangagwa yesterday officially opened the National Languages Conference in Victoria Falls.Running under the theme: "Redefining the role of Zimbabwean languages for national developme...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 08:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Call for accident-free holidays
The Transport industry wants a collaborative effort to ensure an accident free Easter and Independence holidays this coming long weekend highlighting the significance of road safety and the need for e...Published: 14 Apr 2022 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Of CCC and symbols
I RECENTLY read an article in one of the State-controlled newspapers about the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) symbol in which the writer alleged that the symbol was a jihadist symbol.The ...Published: 14 Feb 2022 at 05:28hrs | | by The Semiotician
Mnangagwa rejects copies of stolen artefacts
Africa should insist that archives and museum objects of its heroes should be originals, not digital copies, with Zimbabwe one of the countries with the facilities ready to receive and protect this he...Published: 25 Nov 2021 at 09:34hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa must remove sanctions he has imposed on Zimbabwe first
A GROUP of academics last week announced that they had joined the anti-sanctions fight, and hoped to do something that the government and its shrill supporters have failed in nearly two decades: have ...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Academics call for the removal of sanctions
A GROUP of academics in Zimbabwe under the banner of Lecturers Anti-Sanctions Network, (LASN) have embarked on research to prove that sanctions imposed by the West were detrimental to ordinary people....Published: 07 Oct 2021 at 07:04hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chidavaenzi captures Mugabe's legacy in latest book
Title: Chasing The Wind ISBN: 978-0-7974-79594-6In November 2017, a "powerful wind" orchestrated by the military chased Zimbabwe's long-time ruler, the...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:45hrs | 1 | by Fungayi Sox
Nexus of politics, music and snoozing masses
A FEW weeks ago, the country's social media streets were abuzz with what I call the "resurrection act" of one self-styled prophet and, to some folks, a sacrilegious poseur.This act was the act...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 13:09hrs | | by Addy Kudita
Rural areas provide hurdles for Matabeleland female politicians
WHILE women's political participation has been shown to be particularly influential in communities in Zimbabwe, rural areas-based female politicians still battle male dominance.Senzeni Mpofu, ...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Soul Jah Love, Dambudzo Marechera: Drawing parallels and their contribution to Zim Culture and Cultural Diplomacy
After an avalanches of tributes have already written on and about Soul Musaka aka Soul Jah Love the Zimdancehall maestro, whose untimely demise on 16 February 2021 gripped the nation with sorrow, ther...Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 11:56hrs | 2 | by Taurai Mutoti
Motherhood used as political weapon against women in politics
TABITHA Khumalo's political journey is a perfect example of the trials and tribulations of women in politics.Khumalo, an MDC founding member and former legislator for Bulawayo east, confesses ...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 09:53hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Infertility: A shared responsibility
Being a parent is a desired part of adult identity in most societies. For many couples, the inability to bear children is a tragedy. The conflux of personal, interpersonal, social, and religious expec...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 12:01hrs | | by Heaven Munyuki
Ndebele villages or regiments: Organisational units within the state
FOR about 25 weeks now we have been investigating the phenomenon of naming, initially starting off at the cosmic level but later getting down to the terrestrial plane. Our interest has been to investi...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:56hrs | 2 | by Pathisa Nyathi
Queen Loziba lecture series at gallery
A lecture series for, Queen Loziba, senior queen in the Ndebele Kingdom will be held at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo as a way to promote female narratives and profiling powerful histor...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 07:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt must end forced displacements'
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has challenged the government to end forced internal displacements of citizens as Africa commemorated Africa Day.Africa Day was celebrated on Saturday ...Published: 27 May 2019 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
China is NOT building a base in Zimbabwe!
Alternative Media (Alt-Media) is once again being manipulated by infowar practitioners into spreading fake news, with the popular outlet South Front republishing a false report about a Chinese base in...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 13:35hrs | 2 | by Andrew Korybko
Mnangagwa starts public service sector reforms
GOVERNMENT has started the process of reforming the public service with a view to streamlining it in line with the Second Republic transformation agenda. This was said by the Chief Secretary t...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fear as 40 000 couples re-marry in the sacred of month of November
Fear has gripped some sections of the Zimbabwean community after reports that Forty thousand couples from over 200 countries will rededicate their marriages in Harare on Wednesday in a huge ceremony t...Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 09:19hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Army calls for 'ceasefire' in machete attacks
The Zimbabwe National Army has urged traditional leaders in the Midlands province to partner law enforcement agents in thwarting violent clashes between artisanal miners in and around Kwekwe. ...Published: 22 Oct 2018 at 06:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Lobengula did not disappear
INFORMATION diffused widely in this country after the extermination of the Allan Wilson Patrol by the heroic rear guard of King Lobengula under the command of Mtshana Khumalo was that the last Ndebele...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Factors impeding growth of industry in Bulawayo
IN my first submission I sought to unpack Bulawayo deindustrialisation and highlighted the political impact on the state of the manufacturing sector.Today I continue my submission with focus o...Published: 08 Aug 2018 at 06:31hrs | | by Obert Sibanda
Politics of entitlement: A threat to electoral democracy
The election season is upon us and Zimbabwe will go to the polls on July 30. This election is both critical and unique in the sense that it is now urgent that the country moves forward after a long pe...Published: 21 Jun 2018 at 07:04hrs | | by Terrence Muvoti
Corporate boardrooms: Where are the women?
A lack of diversity afflicts most companies' boardsWhen a woman rises to the top rung of the traditionally all-male corporate ladder in Africa, it's fro...Published: 15 Jan 2018 at 15:55hrs | | by Kwamboka Oyaro
Asante Sana #2018Resistance
WELCOME to 2018. Welcome to the year of the #2018Resistance. The #2018Resistance is under foot. #Kuiitiswa kwakasara muna2017. I am supporting the #2018Resistance. Consequently, I am reintroducing the...Published: 08 Jan 2018 at 10:42hrs | | by Patrick Zhuwao
Mugabe's nephew 'Zhuwao' launches #2018Resistance to Junta govt
Former Public Service Minister and nephew to ousted President Robert Mugabe Patrick Zhuwao has reportedly launched the 2018 Resistance movement against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF targeting...Published: 07 Jan 2018 at 10:23hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Tribe and the ism that fights unity in diversity
LAST week's issue of The Sunday News published a very thought-provoking article by Micheal Mhlanga on tribalism in which the author tried to justify that concept, and quoted a couple for what one can ...Published: 10 Dec 2017 at 05:28hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Father of 11 children in battle for birth certificates
A 53-year-old man from Robert Sinyoka in Bulawayo is struggling to get birth certificates for his 11 children who cannot access any official service in the country as they do not have identity particu...Published: 23 Oct 2017 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
What Makarau kneeling before Mugabe betrays
Last week at the launch of the voter registration exercise, chairperson of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), Rita Makarau, knelt before President Robert Mugabe.Generally speaking, in ot...Published: 01 Oct 2017 at 10:04hrs | | by Maggie Mzumara
New curriculum English Reading
Reading is one of the four skills required by the new curriculum English form (1-4) syllabus code 4005. Teachers and learners both have an important role to play in order to achieve reading objectives...Published: 08 Jun 2017 at 20:03hrs | | by Farirai Nyamana
Dr Brilliant Mhlanga's brilliant response: A bruising encounter between a Mthwakazian and a Zimbabwean.
Mr Obert MC Makore a Zimbabwean put a number of questions to Dr Brilliant Mhlanga, a fearless Mthwakazian. The response was informative and instructive to an extent that Mr Makore ended up agreeing wi...Published: 06 May 2017 at 12:45hrs | 2 | by Thulani Nkala
Putin secures cocktail of Zimbabwe minerals, in return for Harare's security
COLOGNE - Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has reportedly scored a silent success by managing to secretly secure for Moscow a cross-section of Zimbabwe's rich...Published: 14 Feb 2017 at 07:45hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe
Donald Trump administration pushing regime change in Zimbabwe--Sekeremayi suggest
Defence Minister Sidney Sekeramayi has indirectly suggested that new United States of America president Donald Trump administration is pushing regime change agenda in Zimbabwe. Seke...Published: 07 Feb 2017 at 05:31hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Zimbabwe's peace, security under threat'
Zimbabwe is a stable county, but its peace is being threatened by a sustained regime change agenda sponsored by the West that seeks to counter the successful land reform programme initiated by the...Published: 07 Feb 2017 at 05:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Vasco da Mugabe jets off again
President Robert Mugabe has left Harare for Malabo, Equatorial Guinea to attend the 4th Africa Arab Summit.He was seen off by the two Vice Presidents Phelekezela Mphoko and Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 21 Nov 2016 at 14:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army will 'remaining apolitical' - Gen Chiwenga
The Zimbabwe Defence Forces will never accept any unconstitutional change of Government and will stand firm and unequivocal by President Mugabe who was duly and democratically elected by the people of...Published: 09 Aug 2016 at 07:48hrs | | by Innocent Ruwende
Former ZBC presenter ordered to give back estate
THE High Court has ordered former Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) radio presenter, Alice Masuku, to get her hands off an estate she fraudulently inherited from her late half-brother, Mbizo Mas...Published: 02 Jun 2016 at 06:27hrs | | by Mashudu Netsianda
Mphoko meets Botswana envoy
Zimbabwe has a robust education system despite the economic challenges it is facing and its students are well behaved as compared to other countries, Botswana Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Kenny Kapinga h...Published: 20 May 2016 at 06:25hrs | | by Felex Share
Caritas sustainable livelihoods diversity and resilience project for Bikita
A project goal to improve livelihoods diversity and resilience for targeted vulnerable women, men, boys and girls has been initiated in Wards 12 and 22 of Bikita District.Masvingo Mirror repor...Published: 18 May 2016 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Drought threatens to worsen agro - based economy of entire Southern region
ZIMBABWE's agro-based economy is bound to be negatively affected by the drought facing the region South of the Zambezi River, a region comprising South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique, Swaziland...Published: 09 Mar 2016 at 05:37hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Political intolerance tops the nature of conflicts
Heal Zimbabwe Trust has reported that political intolerance topped the nature of conflicts affecting communities in the country in October 2015."The political conflicts recorded include both i...Published: 20 Nov 2015 at 06:11hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Low profile violation recorded in Mutoko in October
Heal Zimbabwe Trust has reported that In this month of October, low profile violations were recorded, generally distributed evenly across 9 districts."Most conflicts were politically motivated...Published: 18 Nov 2015 at 06:07hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mashonaland Central No go area for opposition Grace remarks made in October
Heal Zimbabwe Trust has reported that the violence provoking statements made by first lady Grace Mugabe that Mashonaland Central was a no go area for the opposition were made during the month of Octob...Published: 17 Nov 2015 at 14:14hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
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