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Let us restore our identity
Family bondage is crucial to our lives and contributes to the development of a solid and tranquil community. We Africans have abandoned certain customs and behaviours because we don't realise how effe...Published: 04 Jul 2025 at 22:30hrs | 129 | by Leonard Koni
Chiefs, Churches unite to promote religious tourism
CHIVHU - As custodians of culture working closely with clergymen, several chiefs and indigenous churches in Chikomba District (Mashonaland East province) coalesced into establishing infrastructures wh...Published: 21 Apr 2025 at 12:05hrs | 356 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole recently in Chikomba
Fresh fruits can be dried and get served at much time later
The last farming season was a fiasco, poor rainfall pattern translating to little or no harvest to write home about. The Elnino weather phenomenon wrecked havoc with crops especially grains, leaving f...Published: 31 Jul 2024 at 20:44hrs | 467 | by Thomas Murisa Chinehasha
Motorist ploughs into vendors, kills 2
TWO people died on the spot while eight others were seriously injured after a car veered off the road before ploughing into a group of vendors selling their wares by the roadside in Shurugwi on Wednes...Published: 12 Nov 2023 at 12:01hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
The creation of absolute poverty and suffering in post-colonial Zimbabwe
THERE is little doubt that the advent of Zimbabwe's independence in 1980 has paradoxically generated a new debate on the notion of freedom and justice, particularly from philosophical perspectives....Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 13:51hrs | | by Dr Admore Tshuma
Pressure to send money home creates many problems in UK
Pretty Matekenya sat with her children in their small apartment in Luton, United Kingdom, just gazing at her payslip.Since she moved to England, she felt pressure from her relatives in Zimbabw...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:20hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Minister of State markets masau at Africa Dubai Business
Minister of State for Mashonaland Central province Senetor Monica Mavhunga is on a province foreign investment at Africa Dubai Business summit in Dubai....Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 19:02hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwean ice cream maker a hit in SA
FROM a tender age, Dr Tapiwa Guzha (35), a Zimbabwean based in Cape Town, South Africa, loved cooking and eating indigenous fruits and vegetables from his grandmother's rich nutrition garden in Marlbo...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Binga, 41 years on but no development
AS by-elections beckon, underdevelopment continues unabated in Binga with very little imprints of positive strides within communities.By-elections will be held on March 26 and candidates from ...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 05:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Inkotha sihlangu, uMqeqenshi uMthuli Ncube uthi uMnangagwa yiNkosi yakhe!
I have always thought bootlicking is done by people with little or without education at all. To see a professor who has served in highest international institutions such as London School of Economic a...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 20:04hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Who knows the Brain Fruit?
Wild fruits are both exotic, tasty and in most cases packed with micro-nutrients and medicinal properties. Since they are not commercially grown, organic food is the most recommended for good health, ...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 17:25hrs | 2 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
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 | 3 | by Fungayi Sox
Zimbabwe's 2nd Republic of contradictions, inconsistencies
DEVELOPMENTS in the past few days and weeks have shown that those in charge of our so-called Second Republic are nothing more than a clueless bunch given to gross lies, glaring contradictions and emba...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:26hrs | 3 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Woman (61) dies after falling from tree fetching wild fruits
The need to fend for family ended in tragedy for a poor Binga woman who fell of a tree and died while gathering wild fruits.Sophia Mudimba (61) of Nampande village in Chief Sinakoma's area die...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 07:06hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe secretly deploys key special forces to Mozambique
FOLLOWING a recent military siege on the northern Mozambican town of Palma by Islamist insurgents, killing dozens, including a Zimbabwean, while leaving a trail of bloodshed and destruction in its wak...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 16:28hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Sweet smelling Zumbani has stolen the limelight
This wild fruit 'Mbhambhara', it's in seasons as we speak. Looking much like the famed olives, milky like Amarula but with a distant blend of sweet/sour taste. The tree with little shiney leav...Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 22:07hrs | 1 | by Tondo Murisa
Impala car rental goes to Nyanga
IT is past midday in Kagosa Village under Chief Ruwanga in Nyanga. At a rustic homestead punctuated by two grass-thatched mud and pole huts and wild trees, Ronica Kembo (52) drags herself across the y...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 18:43hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Missing woman found dead with hands tied
A missing Concession woman was found dead with her hands tied with a cloth near a stream yesterday.Mashonaland Central deputy police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Fidelis Dhewu confirmed th...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 08:53hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Bleak future for communal farmers
Communal and subsistence farmers in most parts of rural Zimbabwe are facing a bleak farming season due in two months as the military government has resorted to distributing seed and other inputs such ...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 21:44hrs | 2 | by Makho Precious Moyo
Reliving Gukurahundi and need for reparations by
It is now nearly four decades after the Gukurahundi genocide that saw more than twenty thousand people killed in a seemingly ethnic cleansing act in the Midlands and Matabeleland north provinces. Ghos...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 14:33hrs | 2 | by Makho Precious Moyo
Man, wife jailed for rape
A Shurugwi couple has been sentenced to 20 years each for kidnapping a 14-year-old girl before the wife assisted her husband to rape her. The couple gave the girl 50 cents and wild fruits to buy her s...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Reliving Gukurahundi and need for reparations
It is now nearly four decades after the Gukurahundi genocide that saw more than twenty thousand people killed in a seemingly ethnic cleansing act in the Midlands and Matabeleland north provinces. Ghos...Published: 29 May 2019 at 13:22hrs | | by Makhoprecious Moyo
Police arrest kidnap & rape couple
POLICE in Shurugwi have arrested a couple that allegedly kidnapped a 14-year-old girl before the wife assisted her husband to rape the minor. The couple gave the girl 50 cents and wild fruits ...Published: 29 May 2019 at 07:52hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Binga community resort to eating roots as hunger bites
Communities in rural Binga the largest district in Zimbabwe have returned to their nomadic lifestyles by eating wild fruits and other nutritious tubers to ward off hunger that has stalked the district...Published: 22 May 2019 at 07:23hrs | 2 | by MakhoPrecious Moyo
Harvesting of wild fruits must be controlled
The countryside flora and fauna is being decimated at an alarming rate with some urbanites sojourning in bakkies to collect firewood for resale. Robust trees are hacked down carelessly leaving areas b...Published: 10 May 2019 at 22:44hrs | | by Thomas Murisa
56 pupils eat jatropha fruits, hospitalised
FIFTY-SIX Grade Four pupils from Sigombe Primary School in Bulawayo's Nkulumane suburb have been hospitalised with one reported to be in a criticial condition at Mpilo Central Hospital after eating po...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 00:52hrs | | by Satff reporter
Fugitive prisoner arrested
Police have arrested one of the three hard-core criminals who escaped after they allegedly assaulted prison officers while in transit, before jumping off a moving prison truck. Timothy Muhari ...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 00:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Do not strip our forests
Commercialization of wild fruits has left creatures of the wild with no food. Attendant to this 'tragedy' is the wanton cutting down of trees that is destroying the natural habitat of animals and bird...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:17hrs | 6 | by Tondo Murisa.
What foods shall people eat?
Dieticians, nutritionists and doctors have left humanity more confused than informed on what is 'healthy eating'. Some of the so called experts advise against eating eggs yet sounds from the same corn...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 11:41hrs | | by Thomas Murisa.
'Minor girls rapist tells kids to do likewise'
A MAN from Madlambuzi in Bulilima district, Matabeleland South province, allegedly raped his neighbours' daughters aged five and six in the presence of three other minor boys.After raping the ...Published: 31 Jan 2018 at 05:38hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
A day in the life of a Lupane beekeeper
Promoting apiculture as an environment-friendly livelihood alternative Dressed in an overall and a protective h...Published: 23 Nov 2017 at 09:47hrs | 3 | by Gabriele Ranieri
Family pressures create many graves for Zimbabweans in the UK
Life for immigrant communities in the UK remains gloomy, but many put on brave faces when they talk to those back home. All is not rosy abroad.In January this year, a Zimbabwean woman's body w...Published: 04 Oct 2017 at 04:54hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe kids hunt mice and sell them as tasty snacks
With headlamps to peer through the darkness, children in rural Chidza village in central Zimbabwe scamper through the night to trap mice, which they roast and sell to motorists on the road to neighbou...Published: 29 Sep 2017 at 16:47hrs | 25 | by AP
The origins of Doma tribes and their displacement
The Doma tribes originated from Doma North of Mhangura nine.The Doma of today are slightly different from the Domas of yesteryear, culturally, economically and socially.Today the Doma trib...Published: 20 Sep 2017 at 18:32hrs | 11 | by Givestar Kamuzonde
10 year old boy kills schoolmate
A TEN-YEAR-OLD Rusape primary school pupil allegedly fatally assaulted his nine-year-old schoolmate over wild fruits last Thursday evening.The pupils were on their way home from St Luke's Prim...Published: 18 Sep 2017 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya warm heartfelt on Madoma People
Life is in categories/levels. There are people who are born with silver platter in there mouth, others struggle to get a single meal a day. The Doma or vaDoma (singular muDoma), also known as Dema, ar...Published: 29 Aug 2017 at 15:07hrs | 7 | by Enos Denhere
Mugabe and his Zanu PF colonised us- Masarira
A civil and democracy activist Linda Masarira has said the manner in which President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF are running the country have made the people realise that they are colonised by their...Published: 06 Apr 2017 at 06:45hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Are we at the end of Zimbabwe?
In the midst of the political confusion that has gripped our country many people are wondering if we have come to the end of Zimbabwe.The answer is simple: the thing called an "end" does not e...Published: 05 Apr 2017 at 08:59hrs | | by Linda Masarira
An appeal to Zimbabwe's war veterans
If there is any time that requires that same spirit that drove you into to the bush it is now. This is not time to claim monies or material benefits from those who do not respect your sacrifices and h...Published: 17 Nov 2016 at 10:13hrs | | by Vince Musewe
Selfish individuals have usurped the liberation struggle as theirs - Musewe
A political commentator Vince Musewe has lamented that after years of suffering and possible death during the liberation struggle wagged by many war veterans living and those who have since died, it w...Published: 17 Nov 2016 at 07:21hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
UN agencies scale Up efforts to save lives in Southern Madagascar
Following findings from a recent food security assessment across southern Madagascar, UN agencies are scaling up closely coordinated efforts to prevent an already dire situation from becoming a ca...Published: 20 Oct 2016 at 15:57hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Who’s the tortoise now? - Zim Vigil
On Friday Botswana celebrated 50 years of independence. There has been a transformation. In 1966 it was the poor relation in the region. Some of us at the Vigil recall travelling through Botswana by t...Published: 03 Oct 2016 at 10:19hrs | | by Zim Vigil
Binga villagers compete for wildfruits with baboons
Starving Binga villagers are reportedly competing for wild fruits known as African Ebony fruit or Nchenje in Tonga for survival.The fruit is said to be in abundance during the dry season and h...Published: 30 Aug 2016 at 08:35hrs | 5 | by Thobekile Zhou
'In Zanu-PF we used to demand kickbacks from investors,' says Mujuru
OPPOSITION Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) leader Joice Mujuru has accused Zanu-PF ministers of frustrating several multi-million-dollar investors keen to invest in the country by demanding bribes....Published: 26 Jul 2016 at 07:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt still examining Quill birds
Minister of Environment and Climate Change Oppah Muchinguri has said the government is still examining the quill birds to establish if people may not contract diseases from them."W...Published: 21 May 2016 at 10:20hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Herdboy sodomises neighbour's son
A NKAYI teenager has appeared in court facing charges of sodomising his neighbour's son after he tricked him to help him rescue his beast which was stuck in the fields.Emmanuel Luphahla (18), ...Published: 01 May 2016 at 07:39hrs | 1 | by Tatenda Gapare
The hellhole that Zimbabwe has become
As Zanu PF bigwigs continue to bludgeon each other politically, while the stampede to succeed President Robert Mugabe gets ever uglier, the lot of the majority of Zimbabweans is getting worse by the d...Published: 30 Apr 2016 at 20:37hrs | | by Ndakaziva Majaka and Mugove Tafirenyika
Zimbabwean are starving in their independence- ZimFirst leader
ZimFirst Leader Maxwell Shumba has said that despite the fact that Zimbabwe is an independent country it was without doubt that many families were starving and eating what can only be eaten by hungry ...Published: 18 Apr 2016 at 11:13hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Macheso's new album to cost $1 to fight piracy
Sungura musician, Alick Macheso will release his new album titled 'Tsoka Dzerwendo,' on the 21st of this month with half of the proceeds set to be channelled towards charity.Briefing the media...Published: 12 Mar 2016 at 16:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Masvingo rocked by farm disturbances
Zimbabwe Peace Project has reported that Masvingo has been rocked by farm disturbances which has not been restrained by the government."Farm disturbances have been taking place in Masvingo wit...Published: 05 Mar 2016 at 07:54hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
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