Search / Young
Bulawayo residents protest alleged sale of Youth Sports Field
Residents of New Lobengula in Bulawayo have expressed outrage over reports that a local youth sports field is being sold for development, warning the move could deprive young people of a safe recreati...Published: 4 hrs ago | 48 | by Staff reporter
Rich Dad Poor Dad author set for Harare
Harare is set to host one of the world's most influential financial thinkers next month when Robert Kiyosaki, the celebrated American businessman, investor, and best-selling author of Rich Dad Poor Da...Published: 4 hrs ago | 22 | by Staff reporter
Harare-Mazowe Road dualisation begins
Work has begun on the long-awaited dualisation of the Harare–Mazowe Road, with contractors now on site to transform one of Zimbabwe's busiest highways.The project is expected to ease congest...Published: 20 hrs ago | 306 | by Staff reporter
Man pushes ex-wife into oncoming vehicle
A Masvingo man, Sadam Rutsvara (36), has been sentenced to three years and four months in prison for assaulting his ex-wife and pushing her into an oncoming vehicle after she declined his plea for rec...Published: 27 Aug 2025 at 22:59hrs | 1003 | by Staff reporter
Spur to open second outlet in Zimbabwe
Spur Corporation will open a new Doppio Zero restaurant in Harare this November, marking the brand's second outlet outside South Africa as the company pursues an expansion strategy across multiple cou...Published: 27 Aug 2025 at 19:34hrs | 318 | by Staff reporter
Schoolgirl's suicide stuns community
The Highfield community is reeling after the death of a 12-year-old Grade Seven pupil, who took her own life on August 15 in a cabin at her family home.Anesu Mudzukuri, a prefect at Houghton P...Published: 27 Aug 2025 at 06:06hrs | 1572 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate sentences armed robbers to 12 additional years
Magistrate Noel Mpeiwa has sentenced two armed robbers, already serving lengthy prison terms, to 12 years each following a full trial.Tafadzwa Richard Marondera (21) and Luke Zinyengere (45), ...Published: 26 Aug 2025 at 08:06hrs | 774 | by Staff reporter
Thomas Mapfumo bids goodbye to UK fans
It was a night heavy with emotion as Chimurenga music legend Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo bid farewell to his fans in the United Kingdom with a sold-out performance at New Bingley Hall in Birmingham on Sa...Published: 26 Aug 2025 at 08:05hrs | 1226 | by Staff reporter
Zvigananda laugh while words replace justice in Zimbabwe
In Zimbabwe, corruption is no longer an occasional scandal; it has become a daily torment. Every time Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga steps up to speak, Zimbabweans are treated to fiery speeches c...Published: 23 Aug 2025 at 18:01hrs | 527 | by Staff reporter
Sipho Mazibuko awaits judgment
All eyes are on the Bulawayo Magistrates Court today as prominent businesswoman and activist Sipho Mazibuko awaits judgment in her high-profile case over an illegal demonstration held last month....Published: 23 Aug 2025 at 14:57hrs | 426 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean student dies after brutal attack in India
A Zimbabwean student, Ziweya Leeroy, has died after spending eight days in hospital following a violent attack outside Guru Kashi University in Talwandi Sabo. Leeroy, 22, passed away on Thursday at AI...Published: 22 Aug 2025 at 09:46hrs | 979 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo records 500 teen pregnancies in 8 months
Bulawayo has recorded more than 500 teenage pregnancies since January, sparking renewed calls for stronger collaboration between churches and government institutions to tackle the growing crises of ea...Published: 21 Aug 2025 at 09:07hrs | 403 | by Staff reporter
Stanbic Bank sponsored Stragglers Cricket week returns with 540 players
Zimbabwe's flagship junior cricket development initiative, the Stragglers Junior Cricket Week, is set to commence on 25 August, bringing together 540 aspiring cricketers for a week of immersive traini...Published: 20 Aug 2025 at 22:32hrs | 133 | by Agencies
Mohadi visits mass grave of 300 ZIPRA fighters in Angola
Vice President Colonel (Rtd) Kembo Mohadi has expressed Zimbabwe's gratitude to the people of Angola's Moxico Province for sheltering ZIPRA freedom fighters during the liberation struggle, pledging th...Published: 20 Aug 2025 at 14:46hrs | 341 | by Staff reporter
Malema urges Zimbabweans to seek jobs at home
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has urged Zimbabweans to seek employment opportunities within their own municipalities, such as Harare, instead of South Africa, while reiterating ...Published: 19 Aug 2025 at 14:30hrs | 766 | by Staff reporter
Degrees in law and medicine are a waste of time
As undergraduate degrees have lost their payoffs thanks to AI, young people have turned to advanced schooling to unlock jobs with salaries exceeding $200,000 (or in some cases, a $100 million signing ...Published: 19 Aug 2025 at 10:07hrs | 2285 | by Staff reporter
Young female entrepreneur turns NDS1 clean-up dream into thriving youth-led business
REJOICE Tatenda Phalula, Director and Founder of Phal Cleaning Legacy, is a young business leader whose dream has been planted firmly in the soil of the Second Republic under the astute leadership of ...Published: 19 Aug 2025 at 07:42hrs | 126 | by HMedia - Maxwell Haitengeswinyika Teedzai Taskforce
It's Poverty Professor Mapfumo and Not a Plot
At the recently held University of Zimbabwe 44th graduation ceremony, Professor Paul Mapfumo stood before graduates, dignitaries, and the President. He insisted that his "transformation agenda" would ...Published: 19 Aug 2025 at 07:17hrs | 410 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
How could Chiwenga be so near a religious institution
The Zimbabwean Catholic Church is compromised seriously! My reply to your article while still very fresh; about three hours old on Bulawayo 24 social media. I loved reading your input today regarding ...Published: 19 Aug 2025 at 07:15hrs | 2080 | by Nomazulu Thata
Chiwenga takes fresh swipe at Wicknell Chivayo
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has taken a fresh swipe at controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo, warning that his practice of doling out vehicles and cash handouts to individuals of his choo...Published: 18 Aug 2025 at 16:23hrs | 1831 | by Staff reporter
Harare's sex work industry expanding
Zimbabwe's faltering economy has pushed an increasing number of young women into sex work, heightening concerns over public health risks and HIV transmission.Theresa*, 23, from Chitungwiza, tu...Published: 18 Aug 2025 at 12:48hrs | 1451 | by Staff reporter
Dynamos crush Kwekwe United
Dynamos turned back the clock with a convincing 3-0 victory over struggling Kwekwe United in a Castle Lager Premier Soccer League clash at Ascot Stadium yesterday, a performance that rekindled memorie...Published: 18 Aug 2025 at 08:41hrs | 534 | by Staff reporter
Will the Jesuits groom another President for Zimbabwe?
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's recent praise of the Jesuit Society and the Roman Catholic Church raises more than just platitudinous acknowledgments of their role in education - it invites a de...Published: 17 Aug 2025 at 12:30hrs | 599 | by Mafirakureva Chokwadi
Zimbabwe has tragically become a lootocracy
Zimbabwe has been reduced to a shadow of its former promise - a jewel of Africa, a nation of hope and prosperity now lies bruised and exploited under the weight of a political elite that robs its peop...Published: 16 Aug 2025 at 16:22hrs | 557 | by Jacob Mutisi
Man stabs patron for speaking to his bartender ex-wife
A Heroes' Day celebration in Chiredzi ended in tragedy after a violent incident at Farai Bar in Tshovani on Monday evening left a young man dead.Cornelius Garawaziva, 20, was fatally stabbed o...Published: 16 Aug 2025 at 13:34hrs | 506 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Davis Cup team relegated
Zimbabwe's Davis Cup team has been relegated to World Group IV following a third successive 3-0 defeat in the Group III Africa tournament, which the nation has been hosting.The latest setback ...Published: 16 Aug 2025 at 13:30hrs | 77 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean businessman launches soccer team in Botswana Premiership
Zimbabwean businessman Tendani Sebata has officially launched his new football club, Black Lions FC, which will compete in the Botswana Premiership.Sebata's latest venture into the football sc...Published: 15 Aug 2025 at 21:52hrs | 1999 | by Staff reporter
Man arrested for sexual abuse of child victims
A PAEDOPHILE from New Lobengula suburb allegedly carried out sickening sex acts with children, having threesomes with minors as young as nine years old.Amendo Nyathi is accused of also strippi...Published: 15 Aug 2025 at 08:47hrs | 421 | by Staff reporter
'Gold war' in Filabusi
Residents of Filabusi in Matabeleland South are calling on the Ministry of Mines and other authorities to urgently address deep-rooted problems driving violence in the gold mining sector.They ...Published: 14 Aug 2025 at 19:51hrs | 1159 | by Staff reporter
'Cop' orders all Chinese nationals to leave Zimbabwe within 48 hours
Police in Zimbabwe are conducting a manhunt for Assistant Inspector Mandizvidza, who allegedly stole a marked Ford Ranger from the Police General Headquarters (PGHQ) in Harare.According to an ...Published: 14 Aug 2025 at 19:31hrs | 2245 | by Staff reporter
If Zimbabwe Wants Rugby Glory, We Must Play All Year Round
Now that Zimbabwe is back in the Rugby World Cup final 2027, countries that dominate the world rugby stage share one common trait, they play the sport throughout the year. Whether it is New Zealand, S...Published: 14 Aug 2025 at 16:48hrs | 92 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Zifa unveils merit-based selection strategy
The Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) has announced a new merit-based selection strategy to assemble a competitive squad for the upcoming Cosafa Under-17 Boys Championship, which Zimbabwe will host...Published: 14 Aug 2025 at 10:38hrs | 111 | by Staff reporter
The Silent Killer in Zimbabwe's Medicine Cabinet
Walk into any pharmacy in Zimbabwe and you will find them. Antibiotics sold for headaches, for colds, for a sore throat after a night in the rain. No lab test, no prescription from a doctor who has ch...Published: 13 Aug 2025 at 21:04hrs | 893 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
How our love for violent entertainment is breeding a violent Zimbabwe
Entertainment may seem like harmless fun, but the evidence shows it can unravel the very fabric of a society.Three recent stories from Zimbabwe have pierced my heart this past few days-tragic ...Published: 13 Aug 2025 at 20:59hrs | 177 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
How can Mnangagwa preach selflessness when his regime is master of self-interest and plunder?
It often seems that before lecturing others on morality, some people should first look in the mirror.President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Heroes Day interview with the state-controlled broadcaster Z...Published: 12 Aug 2025 at 21:24hrs | 459 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
History will judge us by our social media timelines
When the story of Zimbabwe in these years is finally written, I suspect it will not be remembered for what we suffered, but for how lightly we took it. The record will not be one of famine, misman...Published: 12 Aug 2025 at 20:59hrs | 262 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Chiwenga accused of adulterous affair by ex-maid
Controversial preacher Apostle Talent Chiwenga is facing serious allegations from Tsitsi Chendambuya, a former house help, who claims she was involved in a three-year adulterous relationship with him ...Published: 12 Aug 2025 at 19:56hrs | 3019 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo hit by juvenile mothers, women drug cartels overload
Minister of State for Bulawayo Provincial Affairs and Devolution, Judith Ncube has sensationally alleged that Zimbabwe's second largest city has recorded a worrisome surge in both under age (juvenile)...Published: 12 Aug 2025 at 12:17hrs | 585 | by Gideon Madzikatidze in Bulawayo
Punish errant liquor operators
Bulawayo councillors have called on the Liquor Licensing Board to revoke licences of bottle stores and bars that operate outside the law, particularly those located in residential areas.Ward 2...Published: 12 Aug 2025 at 08:21hrs | 122 | by Staff reporter
Lab-grown diamonds causing havoc
South Africa's cabinet has approved participation in an international effort to boost the marketing of real diamonds, responding to the increasing appeal of lab-grown gems and funded by a 1 percent le...Published: 11 Aug 2025 at 10:16hrs | 774 | by Staff reporter
Machakaire leads drug bust in Mbare
Government's anti-drug crackdown intensified in Mbare last week when law enforcement agents raided suspected drug dens, arresting two peddlers in an operation witnessed by Youth Empowerment and Develo...Published: 11 Aug 2025 at 08:45hrs | 171 | by Staff reporter
Legal fraternity mourns Advocate Mlaudzi
``The legal community across Zimbabwe and beyond is mourning the passing of Advocate Sampson Mlaudzi, a revered legal mind remembered not only for his profound knowledge of the law but also for his hu...Published: 10 Aug 2025 at 19:28hrs | 621 | by Staff reporter
To be President is the highest job most Africans dream of
The best job an African dream of is to become a President: not medicine, not teaching, not becoming a university professor, not engineering or physicists, Chemists, social scientists or whatever. What...Published: 10 Aug 2025 at 15:50hrs | 244 | by Nomazulu Thata
Something is wrong at Zifa
AT one time, we thought everything was well at Zifa until information filtered through that the Zimbabwe Under 17 and Under 20 teams are still to be paid their allowances three months or so after thei...Published: 10 Aug 2025 at 12:02hrs | 318 | by Michael Kariati
Bulawayo industrial decay raises alarm
Once a proud hub of Zimbabwe's industrial might, Bulawayo now stands as a hollow shell of its former self. The city's industrial parks, once teeming with workers and humming with production, are large...Published: 10 Aug 2025 at 10:13hrs | 728 | by Staff reporter
Potraz rolls out digital inclusion programme
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) has launched a far-reaching programme aimed at addressing digital exclusion among persons with disabilities, as the country ...Published: 09 Aug 2025 at 13:12hrs | 57 | by Staff reporter
Tourists flock to Heroes Acre
The National Heroes Acre is alive with activity as both local and international visitors flock to the historic shrine in anticipation of the upcoming Heroes Day holiday. The national monument, current...Published: 08 Aug 2025 at 08:35hrs | 253 | by Staff reporter
Girl (12) rescues 3 minors from burning house
A 12-year-old girl from Chitakatira, Mutare, is battling for her life at Victoria Chitepo Provincial Hospital after sustaining severe burns while rescuing three young relatives from a raging house fir...Published: 08 Aug 2025 at 08:32hrs | 447 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF warns affiliate organisations
Zanu-PF has issued a stern warning to its affiliate organisations, urging them to focus on mobilising new members for the party and refrain from causing divisions within its structures. The warning wa...Published: 07 Aug 2025 at 17:43hrs | 457 | by Staff reporter
Kemi Badenoch is bad enough: Thanks to Socialist East Germany: GDR!
I was about 22 years old when I landed in East Germany on scholarship to study metallurgy. To put everything into context, I was facilitated with a Zapu PF scholarship to study in East Germany, a soci...Published: 07 Aug 2025 at 17:10hrs | 386 | by Nomazulu Thata
Load More Stories
