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South Africa GNU sees +1,000 businesses shut down in less than a month
South Africa has shut down 1,041 mom-and-pop stores in a bid to stop people from consuming pesticide-laden food, which has led to the deaths of 38 children across the country.President Cyril R...Published: 21 Dec 2024 at 09:14hrs | 1085 | by Staff reporter
Ghana's ruling party falls
Ghana's vice president and ruling party candidate, Mahamudu Bawumia, conceded defeat Sunday to opposition candidate and former President John Dramani Mahama in the West African nation's presidential e...Published: 08 Dec 2024 at 17:43hrs | 4123 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean migrants lose jobs in SA after raid on spaza shops
Zimbabweans working in South Africa's spaza shops are facing hardship following a series of raids targeting foreign-owned tuckshops after allegations of food poisoning incidents, which have left child...Published: 04 Dec 2024 at 06:51hrs | 345 | by Staff reporter
Mondlane accepts Nyusi's invitation to meet
Venâncio Mondlane announced today that he has accepted the meeting requested by the Mozambican President with the four presidential candidates for the October elections, to resolve the post-election ...Published: 21 Nov 2024 at 18:49hrs | 1248 | by Staff reporter
Mozambique's Mondlane lodges appeal to annul vote in Zimbabwe constituency
Presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane has lodged an appeal with the Mozambican Constitutional Council asking for the vote in the Zimbabwean constituency to be declared null and void, claiming that...Published: 21 Nov 2024 at 06:37hrs | 1653 | by Staff reporter
Ghana's John Mahama projected to unseat ruling party in December election
Ghana's main opposition leader and former president, John Dramani Mahama, appears to be the front-runner in the upcoming December presidential election, according to an opinion poll released on Monday...Published: 11 Nov 2024 at 13:46hrs | 502 | by Staff reporter
Uproar in Ghana after president unveils his own statue
Ghana's outgoing President Nana Akufo-Addo is facing a backlash on social media after he unveiled a statue of himself during a tour of the country's Western Region.The monument is intended to ...Published: 08 Nov 2024 at 07:14hrs | 672 | by Staff reporter
Mozambique's ruling party wins landslide in disputed poll
Mozambique's ruling party, Frelimo, has won the country's divisive, violence-marred election, extending its 49-year grip on power in the southern African nation, according to official results....Published: 25 Oct 2024 at 08:52hrs | 727 | by Staff reporter
Wife busts hubby as he buys double bed, fridge for his lover
A dramatic scene unfolded in Harare yesterday when Togarasei Matemera was caught red-handed by his wife, Ruth, while trying to leave a shop with a double bed and refrigerator he had purchased for his ...Published: 12 Oct 2024 at 17:55hrs | 1582 | by Staff reporter
Sadc Election Observer Mission gives thumps up to Mozambique plebiscite
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Election Observer Mission (SEOM) has given Mozambique's 2024 presidential and legislative elections a clean bill of health, describing the process as ...Published: 12 Oct 2024 at 16:25hrs | 602 | by Staff reporter
Mayhem at mine leaves suspects hospitalised
Two violent suspected thieves are nursing injuries at Parirenyatwa group of hospitals while their accomplice is currently detained at Bindura prison...Published: 25 Jul 2024 at 18:07hrs | 988 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Cyclist bashes pedestrian to death
Police in Chiweshe are looking for a murder suspect who allegedly assaulted a fellow villager to death over a road dispute.The 49-year-...Published: 02 Jul 2024 at 17:29hrs | 13 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Japanese car makers falsified safety test results
Some of Japan's best-known automakers have admitted to committing fraud in safety tests to get new vehicles certified for sale. The disclosures come after an official and wide-reaching investigation w...Published: 05 Jun 2024 at 09:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Form 1 girl passes Cambridge O Level exams
A Form One learner at Atlantic Academy in Harare, Shalom Zingwe, took the Cambridge O Level exams last year aged only 14 and scored three A grades in Computer Science, Accounting and Economics with Bs...Published: 23 Jan 2024 at 04:37hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
2 men killed during beer drinking spree
TWO men died over the weekend in separate incidents following an argument during beer drinking sprees in Southlea Park and Hatcliffe in Harare.Some of the suspects have since been arrested whi...Published: 04 Dec 2023 at 14:39hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa reportedly eager to cut official Rufaro opening ribbon
ANTI-Riot police officers were Thursday ordered to stop Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume's commissioning of Rufaro Stadium, with unconfirmed reports indicating President Emmerson Mnangagwa was planning on do...Published: 10 Aug 2023 at 19:18hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Ghanaian minister resigns over Phala Phala-like scandal
Ghana's sanitation minister resigned on Saturday over reports staff found and stole stashes of local and foreign money from her home, she said in a letter to the president in which she denied any wron...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 12:19hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa expected at ceremony for Renamo
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is today expected to join other Heads of State and Government in attending a closing ceremony of the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration phase for Renamo, a former insurg...Published: 23 Jun 2023 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa expected in Ghana
PRESIDENT MNANGAGWA is expected in Ghana today, where he will join continental and Caribbean leaders for the 30th African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) meetings.His participation symbolises...Published: 18 Jun 2023 at 08:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cop insults Mnangagwa, threatens to arrest Zanu-PF members
A police officer stationed at Tongwe base in rural Beitbridge is in trouble with the law for allegedly insulting President Emmerson Mnangagwa and threatening to arrest Zanu-PF members who were drinkin...Published: 26 May 2023 at 17:55hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt demands gold smuggling evidence from Al Jazeera
PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson George Charamba says government has written to Qatari news network, Al Jazeera demanding evidence of gold smuggling and money laundering alleged in its investigative document...Published: 04 May 2023 at 06:15hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Minister allays bread shortage fears
HIGHER and Tertiary Education minister Amon Murwira says the country will not experience wheat and bread shortages because it has 13 months wheat supply, signifying a good wheat harvest.Respon...Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 06:36hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Pay Africa reparations for slavery'
Ghana's President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called for slavery reparations to Africa and the African diaspora.Speaking at the Reparations and Racial Healing Summit on Monday, President A...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Top South African sangoma to consult live on Skyz Metro FM
Controversial South African traditional healer Dr. Khehlelezi, (real name is Bhongolethu Mzozo) will be consulting live on Skyz Metro FM in Bulawayo on the 3rd of March 2021. The program...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 20:22hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
UFO spotted in Gwanda
AN unidentified flying object (UFO) was sighted in Gwanda rural and urban on 20 January, B-Metro reported.An UFO is a mysterious object seen in the sky for which no orthodox scientific explana...Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 08:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pupil up for writing exam for friend
A 20-YEAR-OLD Form 6 pupil at Churchill Boys High School was arrested for writing the Ordinary Level Shona examination for a friend whom he charged US$3.Leon Chimufombo on Saturday appeared be...Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 05:46hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Marc Holtzman: His axis with Mnangagwa and CBZ Bank
ON Monday last week - 15 November - Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa travelled with a delegation of senior government officials and top business executives to the Intra-African Trade Fair in Du...Published: 27 Nov 2021 at 16:54hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa gets Hichilema invite
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has been invited to attend new Zambian leader Hakainde Hichilema's inauguration on Tuesday.Hichilema's United Party for National Development (UPND) has close...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 08:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Congo candidate dies of Covid-19 on poll day
Republic of Congo's top presidential opposition candidate Guy Brice Parfait Kolelas, who was hospitalised with Covid-19 complications on election day, has died, a spokesman said yesterday. The...Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 06:07hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
UFO sighted in Chipinge
AN Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) was spotted in Chipinge on Friday night sparking several theories. Residents told The Manica Post that the UFO moved fast downwards, exploding, sparking fla...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Africans have last laugh
Africans are responding to the chaos at the US Capitol with irony, sarcasm and humour. #Trump started trending on Twitter in places like Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya as the platform blocked the US ...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:24hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
5 killed in Ghana election violence - pray not slipping backwards to join likes of Zimbabwe
For many years now, Ghana has successfully held free, fair and credible elections, a successful and stable democracy. And the country has benefited greatly for with stable and functioning democracy th...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 08:44hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
Senior cop 'eats' junior's wife
A police officer's photographs kissing his junior officer's wife leaked and are circulating on social media.Inspector Meza Malunga's romantic pictures with his junior officer Constable Mafunga...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 19:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pope Francis begin Southern Africa visit this week, not coming to Zimbabwe though
Pope Francis arrived late for his weekly address in St. Peter's Square on Sunday, explaining that he had been stuck in an elevator in the Vatican for 25 minutes and had to be freed by firefighters....Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 07:52hrs | | by Reuters
Mnangagwa gets down to business at TICAD
President Mnangagwa arrived here yesterday to attend the 7th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) which begins today, with principal focus on business and investment. He joins...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
West Africa bloc currency ECO to launch in 2020
Leaders of a 15-nation West African bloc have called for greater structural reforms as they step up efforts for the introduction of a shared currency, aimed to be launched in 2020.In a stateme...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 09:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gold worth billions smuggled out of Africa
Billions of dollars' worth of gold is being smuggled out of Africa every year through the United Arab Emirates in the Middle East - a gateway to markets in Europe, the United States and beyond - a Reu...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 08:18hrs | 1 | by Reuters
Grace Mugabe PhD Professor retires
The Chairman of the University of Zimbabwe Council, Dr Anxious J Masuka wishes to inform the University community, stakeholders and the public that Professor L.M. Nyagura retired as Vice Chancellor of...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 14:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Way forward is a10 year GNU with no election' - clever, punish nation to appease those rigging elections!
I have read some foolish things in my life but what Hopewell Chinono said in his recent article takes the biscuit!"Elections have done completely nothing democratic for Zimbabwe, except removi...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 22:25hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
A country of Simpletons
The single major problem with the Zimbabwean society is its predictability.Take all Zimbabwean newspapers and lay them on the table; the headline theme is simple: Corruption! The corruption sc...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 12:25hrs | | by Sam Wezhira
Tsikamutanda threatens to kill cops
A Gweru tsikamutanda who hogged the limelight after he stormed Gweru Magistrates' Court in a bid to kill two magistrates and an interpreter has threatened to kill police officers.The cops base...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Only a firm hand benevolent autocratic leader can save Zimbabwe
Eddie Cross's opinion piece of December 29, 2018 titled "How long oh Lord, how Long?", in which he lambasts lousy government, corruption, nonsensical monetary and macroeconomic policies, concludes tha...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 17:58hrs | 9 | by Makaita Noel Mutasa
Chamisa allies gun for Mudzuri
DIVISIONS rocking the MDC Alliance played out in the open yesterday when allies of party leader Mr Nelson Chamisa confronted vice president Engineer Elias Mudzuri, scolding him in public for having at...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns on manipulation of economy
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said his Government was aware and is gravely concerned by the manipulation of the economy by a group of people and some businesses aimed at destabilising the mar...Published: 20 Oct 2018 at 08:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dr President Mnangagwa to cap 1 719 at Bindura university today
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will today cap 1 719 graduates at Bindura University of Science Education's 17th graduation ceremony in Bindura. The university, which has produced 11 756 graduates to date...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Are African elections only free, fair when opposition wins?
This is a question I found myself asking after Zimbabwe's opposition - MDC Alliance - vowed to challenge the results of the July 30 elections in court after the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) dec...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 06:56hrs | | by newsday
Mnangagwa says looters returned $850m
Government has so far recovered US$850 million out of the US$1, 4 billion illegally externalised by corporates and individuals following a three-month moratorium given by President Mnangagwa upon his ...Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Followers abandon prophets' churches?
HAVING taken the gospel space by storm over five years ago, there is a feeling people are slowly abandoning the various churches led by prophets.Numbers at various churches have been dropping ...Published: 18 May 2018 at 16:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Trudy Stevenson quits MDC
Lottie Gertrude "Trudy" Stevenson is a remarkable political survivor, appointed as Zimbabwean Ambassador to Senegal in 2009 during the GNU as a deployee of the MDC led by Welshman Ncube.A form...Published: 04 Apr 2018 at 15:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pledges to remove business restrictions
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has pledged to change the face of the Zimbabwean economy by dealing with red tape in government to lure foreign investors.Speaking at the Africa CEO's Forum in Abi...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
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