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Bolivia's Morales survives assassination attempt
Bolivia's Evo Morales said on Sunday his vehicle was hit by gunfire captured in a video, reflecting how political tensions have turned violent in the Andean nation between the former leader and his on...Published: 27 Oct 2024 at 14:42hrs | 797 | by Staff reporter
Mark Ngwazi survives freak car accident
Popular Sungura musician Mark Ngwazi is fortunate to be alive after surviving a car accident early Sunday morning. Details surrounding the incident remain unclear, but the musician took to his Faceboo...Published: 21 Oct 2024 at 15:28hrs | 1467 | by Staff reporter
Rugeje survives near-fatal bizarre car accident
Zanu-PF politburo member and retired army general Engelbert Rugeje narrowly escaped death last week in a harrowing car accident in Mt. Pleasant, according to sources within the ruling party. The incid...Published: 29 Sep 2024 at 11:31hrs | 2443 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe businessman survives murder attempt
Three men from Harare, Ronald Mpopoma (38), Trevor Chigumba (40), and Fungayi Razawu (58), have been charged with attempted murder following an alleged attack on local businessman Blessed Runesu. The ...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 13:34hrs | 765 | by Staff reporter
Can Zimbabwe ZiG-zag away from the USD?
ZIMBABWE'S economy has suffered immensely since 2008, when inflation exceeded a million percent.Since then, the government has made six attempts to adopt a local currency, with the latest comi...Published: 13 Sep 2024 at 16:04hrs | 2768 | by Nkosi Moyo
Chigumba survives road accident
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) chairperson, Justice Priscilla Chigumba was yesterday involved in a road traffic accident near Mapinga along the Harare-Chirundu Highway. Acting provinc...Published: 02 Sep 2024 at 12:01hrs | 1759 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man survives deadly shooting in South Africa
The man who survived the deadly Limpopo shooting, where two women lost their lives at a farm, has recounted the harrowing experience when he escaped and left his wife gasping for life."The fir...Published: 27 Aug 2024 at 12:51hrs | 1789 | by Staff reporter
Zimparks ranger survives 10 shoot-outs with poachers
The dedication and bravery of Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) rangers in protecting wildlife and natural habitats were recently recognized at the belated World Ranger Day c...Published: 25 Aug 2024 at 11:20hrs | 525 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF has betrayed Zimbabwe war heroes
Zimbabwe's opposition parties claim that the sacrifices of the country's heroes have been betrayed by those in power, who have shown brutality, violated human rights, engaged in rampant corruption wit...Published: 13 Aug 2024 at 17:14hrs | 296 | by Staff reporter
Man survives gun attack at illegal roadblock
In Silobela, Midlands, a 19-year-old man named Clever Siwawa narrowly escaped a life-threatening encounter with suspected armed robbers at an illegal roadblock. On June 21 at 1:50am, Siwawa a...Published: 27 Jun 2024 at 06:51hrs | 49 | by Staff reporter
Prof Ncube, another Mnangagwa's creation
A mystery takes time to unfold. A lot of people in the opposition sect, especially those who were in the CCC led by Nelson Chamisa, wondered what had really hit their political party when Sengezo Tsua...Published: 26 Jun 2024 at 21:18hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Granny, 74, survives rape by twisting attacker's privates
A 74-year-old Hwange woman survived a rape ordeal by grabbing and squeezing her 21-year-old attacker's privates, a Hwange court heard recently.The assailant was named as Mbonisi Ncube, a resid...Published: 15 Jun 2024 at 13:35hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Zanufication of the ANC on
AS South African general elections approach, the country's governing ANC is increasingly undergoing a further Zanufication process as it openly accepts offers of help from Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF wh...Published: 19 May 2024 at 11:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Community service for killing boyfriend
The High Court has sentenced a Kariba woman to 620 hours of community service after she fatally stabbed her jealous boyfriend with a broken beer bottle on the neck in front of police officers at the N...Published: 11 Apr 2024 at 08:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mafume survives a vote of no-confidence as Harare mayor
An attempt to remove Harare mayor Jacob Mafume failed today as councilors defied Chamisa and voted against vote of no confidence motion.As Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) factionalism expl...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 18:22hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Woman survives rape attempt
A Plumtree woman escaped from the clutches of a would be rapist by pulling the suspects' manhood.The matter came to light at the Plumtree magistrates courts where Khulekani Maphosa (23) appear...Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 22:57hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council moots 5 days water shedding schedule?
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is planning to introduce a new water-shedding schedule, which will see residents going for 120 hours without water with Government yesterday assuring residents that it ...Published: 07 Dec 2023 at 05:28hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Baby snatched by baboon survives after brave mum chases after animal
A mother has told how she chased after a baboon and forced it to give up its unusual prey - her 18-month-old son.Petronella Moyo was doing cleaning her house in West Nicholson on November 16 w...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 07:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mqondisi Moyo survives Mthwakazi Republic Party coup
The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has criticized certain members who recently declared the dissolution of the committee, characterizing them as power-hungry ...Published: 26 Sep 2023 at 20:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Visually impaired 87 old survives rape scare
A visually impaired 87 old woman from Plumtree under Chief Masendu was nearly raped by her neighbour, a magistrate's court heard on Thursday.Appearing before Mr Joshua Nembaware on Thursday, t...Published: 15 Sep 2023 at 14:54hrs | | by Desmond Nleya
If peace overshadowed justice, then there wouldn't have been a liberation struggle!
There is a common thread that defines oppressive leaders. They subjugate the population - stripping them of all their rights, whilst unleashing some of the most horrendous injustices - thereaf...Published: 11 Sep 2023 at 20:11hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chief Charumbira survives PAP ouster bid
AN attempt to unconstitutionally dethrone Pan-African Parliament (PAP) president Chief Fortune Charumbira, led by his second vice president Dr Ashebiri Gayo from Ethiopia, fell apart spectacularly aft...Published: 10 Sep 2023 at 09:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Faz backfires on Mnangagwa?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's reliance on a shadowy organisation to spearhead his re-election campaign has come back to haunt him after foreign observer missions cited it as one of the plethora of th...Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 13:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sekeramayi slogan rattles Zanu-PF
FORMER Defence minister and Zanu-PF Council of Elders chairperson Sydney Sekeramayi has sent shivers down the spine of ruling party supporters after he denounced thieves, while chanting a slogan....Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 06:51hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
CCC activist family survives petrol-bombing
A CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) activist, Lloyd Mkwara, and his family are lucky to be alive and that no valuable property was damaged after an unknown assailant threw a suspected petrol bomb i...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 08:36hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Afrobarometer survey, a huge indictment on Zanu-PF and CCC
SURVEY results released by pan-African research group, Afrobarometer, on the likely outcome of Zimbabwe's August 23 elections came as no surprise at all.They merely reflected what analysts suc...Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 07:45hrs | 6 | by Tendai Mbofana
Afrobarometer survey a huge indictment on both ZANU PF and CCC!
The survey results released by pan-African research group, Afrobarometer, on the likely outcome of elections in Zimbabwe, came as no surprise at all. They merely reflected what analysts as mys...Published: 12 Jul 2023 at 08:57hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
DJ Levels survives freak accident
Seasoned music producer DJ Levels, real name Rodger Tafadzwa Kadzimwe, is alive and well despite getting involved in a freak road accident earlier today.The award-winning wheel spinner was inv...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 16:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Exodus continues as Zimbabwean economy lies in ruins ahead of elections
Soaring inflation and collapsing ‘bond notes' are forcing more and more qualified people and professionals to flee the country.Zimbabwe's poor economic performance and depreciation of the su...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 07:02hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Tenant publicly taunts HIV-positive landlady
A HARARE woman yesterday approached the civil court seeking a peace order against her tenant whom she accuses of emotionally abusing her because of her HIV status.The complainant told Harare m...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 06:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Primary school pupil survives kidnapping incident
A pupil at Shabani Primary School in Zvishavane survived a kidnapping attempt by two masked men who seized the minor on her way home and tried to shove her in their vehicle.The shock incident ...Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 12:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere: Red herring, Chamisa's double
Becoming a political clichéGustave Flaubert of the 19th Century licentious novel, Madame Bovary, said this of language: "Language is indeed a machine that continually amplifies emotion."...Published: 10 Jun 2023 at 17:46hrs | 1 | by @Jamwanda2 0n Saturday
Woman grabs car steering wheel to survives kidnapping attempt
A 21-year-old Bulawayo woman survived a scary kidnapping attempt by a private motorist Thursday when she seized the steering wheel of the moving vehicle and forced it into crashing stop outside the ro...Published: 28 May 2023 at 16:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
When the rich fight over the poor
A SLEEK Toyota Prado VX V8 off-road vehicle makes a rumbling sound along a gravel road as it negotiates its way into the poverty-stricken Chihota communal areas.A group of people, mainly Zanu-...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 17:06hrs | | by Jairos Saunyama
Dog eat dog in Zanu-PF primaries
It will be a dog eat dog scenario in Zanu-PF primary elections initially set for Saturday (March 18) but have been postponed to a later date, with big wigs and some completely new faces set to clash i...Published: 18 Mar 2023 at 08:32hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
What's the point of 'performance contracts' when the regime always blames sanctions for its failures?
How do you measure a cabinet minister's performance over a particular period?How does one judge whether a local government CEO (chief executive officer) has done a good or terrible job?...Published: 15 Mar 2023 at 10:16hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Is White monopoly capital turning against its own in SA?
PAUL Mashatile was sworn as South Africa's deputy president on March 7 alongside other new ministers in a long-awaited Cabinet reshuffle. The Cabinet reshuffle was necessitated by several factors, amo...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 22:02hrs | 1 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Mr. President, Zimbabweans leaving country not because of good education system but your failed leadership!
Self-delusion is a very dangerous trait! One can easily become reckless in his life decisions, or never able to address his own shortcomings - if he does not realize and admit where he lacks -...Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 10:21hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabweans man survives SA horror bus crash that claimed 21 lives
One of the survivors of the bus crash that claimed at least 21 lives and left more than 60 people injured has described the accident as the "worst event" he has seen in his 59 years of life.Ja...Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 17:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man jumps off 9th floor of CBD building, survives
AN UNIDENTIFIED Harare man survived a suicide attempt at Tanganyika House along 3rd Street, Harare, Tuesday. He was rushed to hospital.The man threw himself from the rooftop of Tanganyika hous...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 05:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's Mayor defends Harare-Minsk twinning arrangement
Harare mayor Jacob Mafume has defended his decision to meet a Belarusian delegation led by President Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday, where he signed a memorandum of understanding to twin the capital ...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 08:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe High Court judge survives shooting outside Harare home
A High Court judge was unhurt after gunmen opened fire at her vehicle in Harare on Tuesday night, police said.Justice Emilia Muchawa was meters from her home in Goodhope, Westgate, when two me...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 19:44hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans danced when Mugabe fell, now life is worse than ever
For Jasmine Toffa, the hardest moment of her life was not being beaten black and blue by regime thugs. It came when the Zimbabwean MP appeared in parliament after surgery, broken hands in plaster, and...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:15hrs | 8 | by Christina Lamb for The Sunday Times (UK)
Government policy destroying the formal economy
Policy missteps and inconsistency has turned the Zimbabwean economy on its head against the formal sector, posing a threat to business continuity, domestic resource mobilization and formal employment....Published: 16 Dec 2022 at 00:06hrs | 5 | by Victor Bhoroma
Things not looking good for Chamisa's CCC
The events that are taking place within CCC coupled with the party's defeat by Zanu-PF in the by-elections held in Binga, Gweru and Mberengwa over the weekend show that things are falling apart in the...Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 05:05hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
America, Europe easing their stance on Zimbabwe
The current economic stability prevailing in the country is indirectly forcing the West to mend its relations with Zimbabwe, economic analysts have said.Economic analysts, Abednigo Matsika sai...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 09:59hrs | | by Innocent Mujeri
Zanu-PF survives on donations
Zanu-PF has been mainly surviving on donations, with little contributions from membership fees and subscriptions as well as government grants and investments, a central committee report presented at t...Published: 06 Nov 2022 at 12:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
4-day hell in mine shaft
When 22-year-old Mr Rania Moyo left home at around 4am on Thursday last week for work at Velocity 36 Mine in Silobela, he never bothered to bid his parents goodbye as he believed he would return home ...Published: 03 Nov 2022 at 05:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man survives elephants and crocodile attacks
FOR Mr Winders Sianene (43), the only thing that mattered to him was coming out alive as he escaped five elephants that saw him as an obstacle to getting water only to fall right into the jaws of a hu...Published: 03 Oct 2022 at 06:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa survives Chinhoyi 'bomb' scare, defiant crowd throngs rally
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa Sunday survived what the party insists was an assassination attempt by suspected Zanu-PF assailants.Occupants of a silver sedan with t...Published: 12 Sep 2022 at 19:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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