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Mnangagwa top aide warns aid looters
ZANU-PF legislators this Wednesday fumed over unfair distribution of food aid in several constituencies countrywide as authorities admitted something went wrong during the processes.Zimbabwe s...Published: 07 Sep 2024 at 10:23hrs | 2318 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on track to produce 600,000 tonnes of wheat
Zimbabwe is poised to achieve a record-breaking wheat harvest of over 600,000 tonnes, with farmers having planted 121 769 hectares this season, surpassing the national target of 120,000 hectares. ...Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 12:27hrs | 1 | by Tonderai Ndoro
'Zanu-PF to superintend food distribution'
The ruling Zanu-PF party has revealed that it will be superintending the distribution of food aid by either the government or its development partners to assist millions of citizens enduring the devas...Published: 16 Apr 2024 at 07:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu says he will not pursue partisan politics
CCC secretary general Mr Sengezo Tshabangu said yesterday he would not pursue partisan politics, but will push the national agenda interrogating issues that will help improve people's lives.In...Published: 06 Mar 2024 at 04:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu storms GMB depot
ZANU-PF Secretary-General, Dr Obert Mpofu, stormed the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) Lupane depot last Thursday after learning that three truckloads with Presidential inputs had been parked there for ab...Published: 04 Dec 2023 at 04:45hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Man of God sexually starves wife
Wonai Moyo from Thorngrove suburb in Bulawayo has accused her husband of sexually starving her as he spent night time reading the Bible and praying.She said when she demands her conjugal right...Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 18:38hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Wife accuses hubby of trying to rape her
A Harare woman has accused her husband of deliberately perforating condoms in an attempt to infect her with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).Elias Nyambira had dragged his wife Smolly Masi...Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 21:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala got US$40,000 Parly money against Chamisa's advise?
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists have risen to the defence of the party and its leader, Nelson Chamisa, in the row over the welfare of jailed legislator Job Sikhala.Sik...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 17:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's army savages Hopewell Chin'ono
Guns are out against journalist and activist Hopewell Chin'ono following a social media tirade between him and the Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) foot-soldiers.Chin'ono posted on his Twitt...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 17:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nasty fight threatens to tear CCC apart
CCC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa's hounds have ferociously turned on one of their party's biggest apologists, Hopewell Chin'ono, in a nasty fight that is threatening to rip apart the political outfit....Published: 12 Apr 2023 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge-Bulawayo-Victoria Falls highway on Government radar
GOVERNMENT has shifted focus to rehabilitating and modernising the Beitbridge-Bulawayo-Victoria Falls highway as the Second Republic continues accelerating infrastructural development.Yesterda...Published: 01 Sep 2022 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Top economists dismisse Biti over Duplum Rule effect on Zimbabwe's 200% interest interests
TOP economists have dismissed concerns by former finance minister, Tendai Biti, on the applicability of the in Duplum Rule in respect of hiked interest rates in Zimbabwe, saying that the principle is ...Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 06:42hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Goverment rolls out food distribution programme
GOVERNMENT has started distributing grain to needy communities across the country in line with its commitment to ensure that no household starves.The programme targets the elderly, child-heade...Published: 29 Jul 2022 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ban on intercity travel starves villagers
GOVERNMENT'S ban on intercity travel as part of COVID-19 containment measures has plunged villagers in rural Matabeleland North in serious food shortages as they can no longer receive supplies from re...Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 12:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Self-ordained 'Mother of the Nation' got it all wrong
SELF-ORDAINED Mother of the Nation Auxilia Mnangagwa has called for three days of national fasting."May I, as the Mother of the Nation, call upon all women in Zimbabwe and all those abroad who...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:44hrs | 2 | by Muckraker
Ignore retrogressive MDC Alliance protests, begs Muchinguri
ZIMBABWEANS should ignore the planned mass protests by the opposition MDC Alliance aimed at toppling the Government as this is retrogressive to development being spearheaded by Zanu-PF across the coun...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
$3 billion corruption while the nation starves
The agriculture sector has become a point of weakness in the Zimbabwean economy where over five million Zimbabweans are food-insecure despite billions public funds being invested in the sector....Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 19:25hrs | | by Rusty Markham
Mnangagwa's govt to register food insecure families
Government has started registration of all food insecure families and school children in need of food assistance ahead of the launch of an expanded food aid scheme countrywide in the wake of drought i...Published: 24 May 2019 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa addresses a divided ZANU PF caucus
President Emmerson Mnangagwa addressed a sharply divided ZANU PF parliamentary caucus at the ZANU PF headquarters on Wednesday.Information that reached this publication indicate that the...Published: 22 May 2019 at 15:50hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Is Zimbabwe the next Venezuela?
History teaches that things may get worse in both countries before they get better.This weekend's news that protesters were gunned down at Venezuela's border while pro-regime thugs burned truc...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 08:13hrs | | by John Fund I nationalreview.com
MRP supports Matabeleland Civic Society Resolutions
Mthwakazi Republic Party has said it is fully supports the more than 40 civic society organizations and pressure groups who converged at Bulawayo's large city hall last Saturday for the Matebeleland I...Published: 07 Dec 2017 at 07:36hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Aid agencies and civic organisations promoting government irresponsibility and community dependency
It was with great relief reading in Britain's Daily Express how calls by that country's taxpayers to ban aid to the so-called 'Third World' were growing louder - as these had had no positive impact....Published: 25 Oct 2017 at 07:19hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Let's mould our pupils into future leaders, not dictators and 'Black Watchers' - the tragedy of being a prefect
Having endured nearly 4 decades of a merciless and vengeful dictatorship - and as Zimbabweans anxiously wait for a new democratic dawn - we are always asking whether the country is doing enough to mou...Published: 05 Oct 2017 at 07:36hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Where is the Ndebele King's Council?
There are rumours that a king will be coronated soon, an eyebrow needs to be raised with such news on the way. The situation looks ridiculous, this king who ever it will be will be nak*d. We have neve...Published: 23 Aug 2017 at 07:40hrs | 2 | by Bhekuzulu Khumalo
Duo get 36 years for stock theft
Two Muzarabani cattle rustlers were convicted 18 years each for stock theft at Guruve magistrate today.The pair Obert Maweni (34) and Starves Kanyongo (24) were jointly sentenced 18 years each...Published: 18 May 2017 at 16:02hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zanu-PF binges as nation starves
At a time that long-suffering Zimbabweans are struggling to make ends meet, President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF is splurging up to $60 million on a new fleet of cars, trucks and buses, ahead of n...Published: 14 May 2017 at 15:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man beaten by wife, court saves him
A PLUMTREE man has been granted a protection order against his abusive wife who is in the habit of assaulting and insulting him.Mr Owen Mlambo told the court that his wife Salome Mutemachi...Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutharika joins Mugabe in a relentless race to the bottom
Malawi's President, Peter Mutharika shares much in common with Zimbabwe's nonagenarian leader, Robert Mugabe. Similarities have the capacity to evoke nostalgia, but when it comes to these two men, fam...Published: 03 Oct 2016 at 17:24hrs | | by Maynard Manyowa
Mugabe rubbishes human rights commission
President Mugabe yesterday rubbished as "absolute falsehoods" claims by the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission that Government officials were distributing food on partisan basis.Addressing the Z...Published: 10 Sep 2016 at 08:20hrs | | by Felex Share
'MDC-T playing a very dangerous game'
Vice President and Second Secretary, Comrade Emmerson Mnangagwa, Secretary for Administration, Comrade Ignatius Chombo, Members of the Politburo, Members of the Central Committee, Ladies and Gentlemen...Published: 10 Sep 2016 at 08:01hrs | | by Robert Mugabe
Violence begets violence
The people in Zimbabwe have learned that violence begets violence and it never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem; it merely creates new and more complicated ones. Thumbs up to Zimbab...Published: 01 Sep 2016 at 10:27hrs | | by Stewart Murewa
Hyped #ShutdownZim a monumental flop
A Shutdown called by shadowy opposition groups seeking to make Zimbabwe ungovernable pursuant to the illegal regime change agenda flopped dismally yesterday after Zimbabweans ignored it and went about...Published: 01 Sep 2016 at 06:28hrs | | by Tendai Mugabe and Elita Chikwati
Mugabe castigates violent demos
President Mugabe yesterday called for unity and peace amongZimbabweans saying violent protests being engineered by opposition parties and shadowy groups to subvert Government would come to naught....Published: 09 Aug 2016 at 08:45hrs | | by Felex Share
Zimbabwe going through difficult times because of drought - Grace Mugabe
The First Lady Grace Mugabe on Friday said the country is going through difficult times because of the drought.Mugabe was speaking at the Mazowe Children's Home during her 51st birthday celebr...Published: 29 Jul 2016 at 17:51hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
CONFIRMED: Zimbabwe govt to consider social media regulation
THE Government may be forced to regulate the social media to curb abuse that resulted in pockets of vandalism recently, a senior government official has said. Addressing Zanu-PF Provincial Coo...Published: 11 Jul 2016 at 06:58hrs | 6 | by Austin Nyathi
Regime change agenda behind Zimbabwe riots
It has become as clear as clean glass that the current riots obtaining in our beloved Zimbabwe were hatched by regime change agents who are puppets of the USA and Britain. These malcontents are using ...Published: 06 Jul 2016 at 15:07hrs | | by Chadzimura Mhute
Prof Jonathan Moyo donates computers
THE Member of Parliament for Tsholotsho North, Professor Jonathan Moyo, who is also the Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development has donated 35 computers to seven ...Published: 05 Jun 2016 at 11:20hrs | | by Dumisani Sibanda
Zimbabwe needs emancipation from self inflicted slavery
Former ZBC presenter Eric Knight has said while Zimbabwe has attained 36 of independence from colonial rule, people still need to emancipate themselves from self inflicted slavery.Zimbabwe cel...Published: 20 Apr 2016 at 06:52hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Man starves, fatally whips ailing daughter
A FOUR-YEAR-OLD girl has died in a Bulawayo hospital allegedly after being systematically starved and habitually beaten by her father. Nqobile Tembo, 31, of Emganwini suburb, has been charged ...Published: 02 Apr 2016 at 14:10hrs | | by Melody Baya
Man systematically starves, beats daughter to death
A FOUR-YEAR-OLD girl has died in a Bulawayo hospital allegedly after being systematically starved and habitually beaten by her father. Nqobile Tembo, 31, of Emganwini suburb, has been charged ...Published: 02 Apr 2016 at 09:24hrs | | by Melody Baya
Maize price slashed to $15 per 50kg
THE government has directed the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) to slash the price of maize from $23 per 50kg bag to $15 to enable the majority of people affected by the El Nino-induced drought this year ...Published: 02 Mar 2016 at 23:23hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
'Zanu-PF Youth League respects war veterans'
The Zanu-PF Youth League has hogged the limelight for the wrong reasons this week, with its officials making unfortunate statements at a time the country readies itself to mark the 21st February Movem...Published: 20 Feb 2016 at 17:44hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Rampant food aid looting probed
POLICE are set to probe allegations of food aid looting in the Midlands province starting with a depot in Zvishavane district before expanding to other districts.The grain was allegedly looted...Published: 15 Jan 2016 at 05:30hrs | | by Patrick Chitumba and Nqobile Tshili
Man ordered to stop abusing his wife
A Harare man who absconded court after signing summons acknowledging he would appear before it has been ordered in absentia to stop abusing his wife in any way.The ruling was granted by Ha...Published: 03 Nov 2015 at 05:27hrs | 2 | by Ivan Zhakata
Zanu-PF accused of destroying food production through farm invasions
Maize production drop has culminated to Zimbabwe being in need of $300 million for the import of maize from the neighboring countries such as Zambia and South Africa.This was revealed by Vic...Published: 17 Jun 2015 at 08:22hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
MDC-T members defect to Zanu-PF
AN MDC-T councillor and 75 MDC-T supporters have defected to Zanu-PF after openly denouncing the opposition party as useless.Clr Amon Nyathi of Shape area in Gwanda North constituency has rejo...Published: 30 Apr 2015 at 08:24hrs | | by Marvelous Moyo
Sex-starved woman attacks hubby
A BULAWAYO woman yesterday revealed in court that she physically attacked her husband as she was angry that he starves her of sex.Priviledge Chingwa was dragged to the Civil Court by her h...Published: 14 Mar 2015 at 15:55hrs | 1 | by Lethokuhle Moyo
'Mugabe obsessed with foreign health service'
President Robert Mugabe's revelation that his family uses its state-sponsored annual holiday in the Far East for medical check-ups have drawn strong criticism from political commentators.Mugab...Published: 25 Jan 2015 at 11:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe calls for futile faction inquiry to appease Mujuru whilst he await to deliver coup de grace!
Reports of the Zanu PF politburo meeting last week shows that some of the docile members have for the first voiced their displeasure at the way VP Joice Mujuru was been ill-treated. Sadly, it seems i...Published: 03 Nov 2014 at 08:29hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Economic meltdown is real Mugabe must step down or he will take it over the edge
"THE High Court has placed three firms in key industries under judicial management and provisional liquidation as the economic slowdown continues to stalk companies grappling with reduced capacity and...Published: 23 Sep 2014 at 15:25hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
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