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Soldiers (39) bashes wife (44) for leaving him behind in the bar

A member of Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) was dragged to Plumtree magistrates courts after he assaulted his wife for leaving him behind while going to a bar.Arnold Nyoni (39) pleaded guilty to assault charges and malicious damage of propert…

Published: 16 Jul 2025 at 13:45hrs | 973 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole in Plumtree

180 graduate at Khumalo Barracks in Bulawayo

A total of 180 military personnel graduated yesterday from the Zimbabwe National Army's (ZNA) Ordnance and Transport Training School (OTTS), located at Headquarters One Infantry Brigade (Khumalo Barracks) in Bulawayo, following the success…

Published: 10 May 2025 at 16:03hrs | 1402 | by Staff reporter

Excerpts from 1968 and 1978 Sipolilo, Kachuta battles

In 1968 Comrades fought against Rhodesia Front soldiers in Sipolilo District. This was in Kachuta,  Bvochora Area specifically  Magama Village near Hunyani River. The battle was heavily fought between the Rhodesian Forces and ZIP…

Published: 03 May 2025 at 21:27hrs | 885 | by Givestar Kamuzonde

Soldier caught with 1kg of cannabis

Dzivarasekwa based soldier Peter Kamonera is in soup after he was  found in possession of one kilogram of dagga.The 38-year old soldier was arrested in Mazowe after the police suspected his movements.Kamonera was dragged to Concession…

Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 12:40hrs | 252 | by Simbarashe Sithole

Chamisa says ZEC clearly targeted Harare, Bulawayo

OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change  (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has expressed concern over the delay in delivering ballot material to polling stations by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) saying this was another ploy to "s…

Published: 24 Aug 2023 at 06:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa, Chiwenga 'bound by blood'?

PRESIDENT Mnangagwa and his deputy, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, are "bound by blood" and often laugh off "idiots" who try to sow divisions between them by alleging a non-existent rivalry.In an interview with the Third Eye magazine…

Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 04:59hrs | | by Staff reporter

'No room for chicanery in Zanu-PF,' says Mnangagwa

AHEAD of Zanu-PF Central Committee elections this weekend, President Mnangagwa has said there is no room for chicanery, name dropping, violence, or imposition of candidates in the ruling party.To fill positions in the Central Committee, wh…

Published: 06 Oct 2022 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter

Yaya Saru to grace Macheso's album launch dinner

Actress cum Afro Fusion musician Memo "Yaya Saru" Chinamasa will be part of the performing guests at the King of Sungura Alick Macheso's album launch dinner at Rainbow Towers on Thursday.Speaking to Bulawayo24.com Yaya Saru of Antique band…

Published: 06 Jun 2022 at 21:20hrs | 12 | by Simbarashe Sithole

Kamambo interrogates Afcon funding

Suspended Zifa president Felton Kamambo has questioned the SRC's move to fund the Warriors' preparations and participation at the Afcon finals held in Cameroon when the same Government has been failing to do so since 2018, the same year hi…

Published: 26 Feb 2022 at 18:33hrs | | by Staff reporter

US$40k heist: Two solders appear in court

TWO soldiers, who gunned down a man in a US$40 000 heist in Hatfield, Harare, appeared in court yesterday facing murder and armed robbery charges,Lameck Kabara and Christopher Charuma, both 39, appeared before magistrate Yeukai Dzuda who r…

Published: 29 Dec 2021 at 05:24hrs | 10 | 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, there is need to reflect on his contributio…

Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 11:56hrs | 12 | by Taurai Mutoti

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 and diarrhoea.Josphat Nyika told NewsDa…

Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:45hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

Soldier jailed for illegally entering Mugabe's Blue Roof residence

ZIMBABWE National Army (ZNA) solder has been sentenced to 16 months' imprisonment for illegally entering former president Robert Mugabe's Blue Roof mansion in Harare's Borrowdale area.Gunman Ngonidzashe Kapasura, 26, and accomplice Raymond…

Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 18:11hrs | | by newzimbabwe

Zimbabwe's succession quagmire and Chamisa Options

Being a fair student of history, I am going to apply a historical perspective to the current stage and events in our development towards a fully matured democratic and prosperous nation. I will use two nations that had similar struggles ag…

Published: 25 Feb 2019 at 17:40hrs | 2 | by Terence Simbi

Mnangagwa has failed us

The recently held national shutdown that went full scale from the 14th to the 17th and has not completely ended today is a clear warning of what angry citizens can do. The government cannot continue to ignore the economic problems currentl…

Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 14:16hrs | 3 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo,

A responsible govt cannot ignore Its citizens Mnangagwa has failed us

The recently held national shutdown that went full scale from the 14th to the 17th and has not completely ended today is a clear warning of what angry citizens can do. The government cannot continue to ignore the economic problems currentl…

Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 10:36hrs | 2 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo

PHOTOS: Shock developments at Bhalagwe Gukurahundi shrine

A visit by Mthwakazi Republic Party leaders to the Gukurahundi mass graves in Bhalagwe revealed some shocking developments. The delegation which was accompanied by victims and international journalists was shocked to discover that the insc…

Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 08:31hrs | 1 | by Khethani Ndlovu

Simba Makoni, Nkosana Moyo emerged from defeat far, far better than Chamisa

I HOPE Chamisa's simmering and smarting hordes are now settled, after what by now should be a long enough cooling period. He is himself showing signs of recovering from zealous political Pentecostalism, which is why he is now asking for au…

Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 09:03hrs | 1 | by Igomombe

Chiwenga poised to topple Mnangagwa, as another coup imminent in Zimbabwe

The 30 July 2018 harmonized elections were like no other ever held in the country for so many reasons, but the most outstanding was the huge difference between the two-thirds majority won by the ruling ZANU PF party, and the very slim 50.8…

Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 19:48hrs | 1 | by Kudakwashe Sheddy Marangwanda

ROHR condemns Harare violence

Restoration of Human Rights (ROHR) Zimbabwe has strongly condemned the shooting of unarmed civilian protesters by soldiers of the Zimbabwe National Army in Harare, using live ammunition, on the 1st of August 2018. The organisations said th…

Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 15:45hrs | 5 | by Stephen Jakes

Election time; Is there hope for the security guard after the elections?

In a few days time Zimbabweans will be casting their votes to select a new president and everyone is just hoping for a win for the right candidate. A win that will see a turnaround of the economy for the better. In this hope and optimism I…

Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 10:37hrs | | by Cremio Mabauwa

In memory of Mrs Elsie Zulu: Trinity Explained

Mrs Elsie Zulu was the incarnate of Holy Messenger Janet from the night of 1 February 1961. This only became apparent to some in Guta Ra Mwari congregation (Guta Ra Jehovah then) in the afternoon of February 2 1961 when Janet proclaimed th…

Published: 20 Jun 2018 at 11:52hrs | 246 | by Mpumelelo Ncube

Grand National Unity?

"The turbulence in India this time hasn't come from foreign invasion or conquest; it has been generated from within. India cannot respond in her old way, by a further retreat into archaism. Her borrowed institutions have worked like borrow…

Published: 09 Jun 2018 at 15:38hrs | 2 | by Igomombe

Freedom Camp massacre: I saw 226 cadres gunned down

COMRADE Bulukani Masola (born 13-05-1959) , whose Chimurenga name was Peter Scotch last week narrated how he joined the liberation struggle and the establishment of the ZIPRA communications department. He spoke about how they used this dep…

Published: 06 May 2018 at 09:23hrs | 2 | by Staff rpeorter

Dear Mr Mugabe

I hope I find you well dear Former President of our Republic of Zimbabwe. I would like to make it glass clear dear Former President that you are misreading the moods of the people in Zimbabwe. I read with total dismay how misinformed you a…

Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 20:56hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata

The leaderless people of Matabeleland and part of the Midlands

In 1980 the people of Zimbabwe had a fearless leader who was humiliated in every way possible and saw his followers killed without any mercy in the name of dissidents. Joshua Nkomo, eventually rested with a disappointed tortured heart. He …

Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 13:31hrs | | by Clive Zulu

Mrs Masuku: she gaffed!

This boot-licking is so contagious it has become a disease; it's pandemic: this disease does not belong to any political party of ethnic group in the country. Be it Shona or Ndebele or of white race they went out of their way to embrace th…

Published: 31 Jan 2018 at 20:56hrs | 3 | by Nomazulu Thata

â€ŽMnangagwa why not ask the victims of Gukurahundi genocide if you are genuine?

Mthwakazi Republic Party has questioned as top why is President Emmerson Mnangagwa still behaves like Robert Gabriel Mugabe?The party said if Mnangagwa is truely innocent on the Gukurahundi genocide issue like he wants them to believe as a…

Published: 21 Jan 2018 at 08:26hrs | 4 | by Stephen Jakes

I fear to be Emerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa's son-in-law because of his crimes

Mr President Emerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa may I put it to you that you are a very brave man, you were once sentenced to death by the Smith regime, you survived but you didn't quite politics, several years later you were then sentenced to sev…

Published: 02 Jan 2018 at 08:23hrs | 2 | by Mbonisi Gumbo

Only if, he listens to Mutsvangwa and Matemadanda, will Mnangagwa succeed

The War Veterans from Zanla and Zipra who mobilised the people of Zimbabwe during the war, know what they promised. The Zanu hierarchy who were holed in Mozambique exhibit a very divergent view of what the people of Zimbabwe want. Mugabe a…

Published: 07 Dec 2017 at 20:08hrs | 2 | by Multiverse Dungani

The Zimbabwean cabinet militarized

Mthwakazi Republic Party has said it is concerned with the deliberate militarization of cabinet and government by the coup leaders of this country."As well as recycling dead wood, this therefore means that there wont be any change like we …

Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 10:19hrs | | by Stephen Jakes

Mthwakazi party raps Mnangagwa over new cabinet

Mthwakazi Republic Party  has said it notes with concern the deliberate militarization of cabinet and government by the coup leaders of this country."As well as recycling dead wood, this therefore means that there wont be any change l…

Published: 01 Dec 2017 at 11:18hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes

Mnangagwa, my insanity, Gukurahundi and celebrating his dishonarable demise

If someone treats you disproportionately unlawful and you can't report to any Government on planet Earth, it means the word "Civilisation" is absent in your country. I openly raise my right hand today on the seventh of September to declare…

Published: 07 Nov 2017 at 21:26hrs | 3 | by Ryton Dzimiri

Mnangagwa needs a bit of respect! - What respect, to a murderer?

It smacks of good sense and reasoning to be told to respect a human being who is responsible for 20,000 innocent victims of ethnic cleansing. Bishop Lazarus Mnangagwa's hands are full of blood of innocent victims of Mathebeleland and Midla…

Published: 23 Oct 2017 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata

Soldiers team to bash makorokoza

Four members of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) allegedly pounced on one illegal miner who had assaulted their colleague last night at Doxford bar in Mazowe.Allegations are that the jail normard Handsen Tsanyau reportedly attacked the pin…

Published: 19 Aug 2017 at 12:38hrs | 4 | by Simbarashe Sithole

The Zimbabwe army regiments are now led by warlords

Zimbabwe is in state of a political crisis and decay. The political authority, influence, responsibility and control has debilitated and collapsed. The central power holder is now shrunken and malfunctioning exhibiting diminished administr…

Published: 04 Aug 2017 at 21:23hrs | 3 | by Themba Mthethwa

Letter to SA Home Affair Minister Hlengiwe Buhle Mkhize - MRP

MATABELELAND CRY FOR JUSTICE Madam Honorable Minister Professor Hlengiwe Buhle Mkhize, the Matabeleland people based in your country and those in Matabeleland would like to draw your attention to matters that affect them in their daily liv…

Published: 19 Jun 2017 at 15:32hrs | 3 | by Ackim Gasela Mhlanga - MRP Foreign Affairs Secretary

MRP President visits former Zipra gun repairer

Mthwakazi Republic Party leader Mqondisi Moyo and his team has visited  an Ex-Zipra cadre Ndabezinhle Dube in Khozi village of Gwanda North who is credited with the ability of repairing the AK 47 guns during the liberation struggle.Ac…

Published: 17 May 2017 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes

Mbalula's claims about Ex Zim soldiers crime in SA must not be taken at face value- MRP

Mthwakazi Republic Party spokesperson Mbonisi Gumbo has said South Africa's Minister Fikile Mbalula's claims that Zimbabwean ex soldiers were contributing to a lot of crime in South Africa must not be taken at face value because even in Zi…

Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 10:03hrs | 4 | by Stephen Jakes

Chiwenga's utterances treasonous

The recent utterance by Army General, Constantine Chiwenga that he will not salute a "President with no liberation war credentials.." after harmonised elections next year, should be dismissed as ancient and tired treasonous rhetoric. A Pre…

Published: 13 Apr 2017 at 12:34hrs | 2 | by Igwee Musona

Warrant of arrest for violent soldier issued

Freedom Sigauke aka 'Fifteen' a soldier based at 4 Brigade in Masvingo is on the run and a warrant of arrest was issued against him by a Chiredzi magistrate.Sigauke, a notorious street fighter was issued with the warrant of arrest after de…

Published: 22 Mar 2017 at 15:44hrs | | by Midlands Reporter

What Stuff and Nonsense! Trump is a white supremacist: loathes homosexuality equally as African race!

Dear Herbert Marufu I beg to differ with your article of today's Bulawayo24.com the 2nd February 2017. Trump has nothing in common with African race. He is a racist, white supremacist and wants to rekindle the good old days of slave-master…

Published: 02 Feb 2017 at 21:02hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata

If all these Churches were companies Zim will be flourishing- Barbara Nyagomo

Progressive Democrats Zimbabwe leader Barbara Nyagomo has compiled a list over 559 Churches in Zimbabwe and expressed her wish that if these denominations were companies in the country the nation will be flourishing with wealth.The list sh…

Published: 08 Jan 2017 at 05:30hrs | 47 | by Stephen Jakes

Mujuru's impending trip to Chatham House where she hopes to impress her British benefactors

THE Tongas have a good saying: Hearts are not far from concord when noses have already fraternised. Let me open my gonamombe, pull out the lid of the cow-horn canister, so you the reader and me, can share the snuff by which we summon our a…

Published: 17 Sep 2016 at 12:29hrs | 8 | by Nathaniel Manheru

Sexual abuse of women in the struggle, it must be told and give closure to it!

Taken from eBook "Meme no cry"I thank the author Mangosuthu Mbele for his very moving article of today in Bulawayo24 " In response to Cde Rutanhire's Sunday mail article Mujuru exposed" His article gave me courage to publish a capital in m…

Published: 28 Aug 2016 at 18:27hrs | 4 | by Nomazulu Thata

Mugabe held hostage

Zanu-PF replicates many of the doctrines that defined the Rhodesia colonial regime by devoting much of its energy to victimize and demobilize the popular constituency that brought the independence of Zimbabwe through personal sacrifices an…

Published: 26 Aug 2016 at 21:10hrs | 29 | by Themba Mthethwa

Successful anti-Mugabe protests will ONLY happen as a Citizen Driven Project.

The Citizens of this country have now reached a new maturity which draws lessons from the failures of all those Parties we mandated to lead and to oppose the Government. Those that we trusted to lead, led against us and those we trusted to…

Published: 25 Jul 2016 at 14:31hrs | 17 | by Rakanga Danble

Scheduled steps to Mugabe's exit

Dictators cannot walk out, regardless of what, they can only be helped with a push. That push has to be designed by experts, and the Nation has to learn to trust the experts. True expects do not create an exit strategy so that they take ov…

Published: 15 Jun 2016 at 22:00hrs | 7 | by Rakanga Danble

Mbuya Nehanda's chilling Six Commandments

COMRADE Julian Maodza Murenga Mukomawashe, last week said things that have divided many Zimbabweans, regarding Mbuya Nehanda. That debate is still raging.This week, Murenga continues this "stranger than fiction narration" to our team compr…

Published: 05 Jun 2016 at 11:11hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Big belly soldiers irk senator Mlotshwa

Matabeleland South MDC-T senator Sithembile Mlotshwa has expressed his dissatisfaction of the capability to discharge duties by some soldiers who have big bellies.Asking the Defence Minister Sydney Sekeramayi in parliament, Mlotshwa said, …

Published: 22 Mar 2016 at 05:27hrs | 3 | by Stephen Jakes

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