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More evil to visit Zimbabwe under Mnangagwa
THE ousting of former President Robert Mugabe by political and military elites will result in more of the same abuse of Zimbabweans unless the Sadc joins forces with world powers to effect real change...Published: 11 hrs ago | 1545 | by Mondli Makhanya
Remembering Jason Ziyapapa Moyo
ON Tuesday marks 42 years since the death of Zapu Vice-President Jason Ziyapapa Moyo (JZ) in a parcel bomb in Lusaka, Zambia. JZ Moyo became the Secretary of the new ANC of Southern Rhodesia, which wa...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:23hrs | 316 | by Rtd Brig-General Mazinyane
Bulawayo among key HIV hotspots
HARARE, Bulawayo and three other towns have been identified as HIV hotspots in Zimbabwe by an international study. Avert, a United Kingdom-based research organisation said Bulawayo, Harare, Ru...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:24hrs | 766 | by Staff reporter
Honest Moyo leaves Bosso
FORMER Highlanders Captain Honest Moyo is believed to be searching for greener pastures in the neighboring countries after parting ways with the Bulawayo giants.Bosso announced Moyo's departur...Published: 16 Jan 2019 at 20:15hrs | 675 | by Staff reporter
Woman hangs self after HIV infection accusation
A 25-YEAR-OLD till operator from a leading supermarket in Gweru committed suicide by hanging on Sunday evening after a fight with her boyfriend who accused her of infecting him with HIV. This ...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 07:10hrs | 1002 | by Staff reporter
Gandawa in hiding
Former Higher Education deputy minister Godfrey Gandawa has for the first time spoken out on why he is on the run, claiming he had received credible information to the effect that state security agent...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 09:47hrs | 2270 | by Staff reporter
Austerity does not bring prosperity - ED, stop destroying our lives, please!
Ever since the current economic crisis bedeviling Zimbabwe started, sometime around October, the Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa regime has been at pains trying to reassure the nation that they were on to...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 14:33hrs | 997 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Boy (13) survives croc attack
A 13-YEAR-OLD Tongwe school pupil, Anymore Muleya, wrestled a crocodile in its watery home and lived to tell the tale on Friday last week.Muleya, who was hunting water ducks with his elder bro...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 09:33hrs | 2470 | by Staff reporter
Man 'axes' wife, hangs self
A SILOBELA man fatally struck his sleeping wife with an axe on the head before committing suicide after discovering she was taking contraceptive pills without his knowledge. Busani Mandava (35...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 09:04hrs | 590 | 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 | 2947 | by Makaita Noel Mutasa
Zimbabwean couple found dead in London
Detectives from the Metropolitan Police have appealed for information after a Zimbabwean couple was found dead Friday morning at their East London home.The deceased have been identified as Sim...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 10:24hrs | 4857 | by newzimbabwe.com
Ginimbi buries brother, Marry Chiwenga attends burial
The year 2019 has started on a bad note for Harare businessman Genius "Ginimbi" Kadungure who lost his brother Andrew Kadungure on New Year's Eve. Andrew died during the early hours of Monday ...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 20:37hrs | 6403 | by Staff reporter
Pregnant woman found dead in river
A 20-YEAR-OLD Gwanda woman allegedly reportedly drowned in Mtshabezi River in a suspected suicide after falling pregnant out of wedlock. Matabeleland South provincial police spokesperson Chief...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 08:17hrs | 1078 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa in fix over Motlanthe report
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is in a catch-22 situation over whether to implement recommendations of the commission of inquiry into the August 1 post-election violence, which urged him to engage oppos...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 11:32hrs | 5437 | by Staff reporter
Many of our leaders are just like that baboon
We seem to have been putting up with a lousy government, forever besetted corruption, nonsensical monetary and macroeconomic policies forever. First, we had the Rhodesian government from 1960 onwards,...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 11:21hrs | 523 | by Eddie Cross
MDC calls for its members to die for Chamisa
The opposition Movement for Democratic Change has called upon its members to engage in mass action in 2019 and to be courageous enough to die in defense of MDC leader Nelson Chamisa.The call w...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 09:07hrs | 4253 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Woman axes hubby to death
HOMICIDE detectives in Mutare are looking for a Chikanga woman who disappeared soon after axing her husband to death following a domestic dispute on December 24.The chilling incident, which sh...Published: 29 Dec 2018 at 17:43hrs | 719 | by Staff reporter
Khupe, Mnangagwa for Tsvangirai memorial
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe have been officially invited to the memorial of the late former Prime Minister and MDC founding leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, it h...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 10:03hrs | 6547 | by Staff Reporter
Axcil Jefferies charms Hollywood star Will Smith
THE year 2018 is one 24-year-old Zimbabwe racing sensation Axcil Jefferies describes as bitter-sweet.Bitter, because Lady Luck seemed to desert him in crucial events and sweet in that he compe...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 10:18hrs | 516 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai memorial, Mnangagwa roped in?
THE family of the late MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has announced plans to hold his memorial service February 14 next year, which would mark an exact full year since his death.Family spokesper...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 19:52hrs | 6317 | by newzimbabwe
Birth certificate issuance for diasporans relaxed
Zimbabweans living abroad can now apply for birth certificates for their children born on foreign soil through the country's embassies, Registrar-General Mr Clemence Masango has said. Mr Masan...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 06:32hrs | 498 | by Staff reporter
Corpse dumped at 'killer's' homestead
THERE was drama in Lower Gweru when relatives of an artisanal miner who was killed in suspected amakorokoza battles dumped the body at the alleged assailant's homestead demanding compensation. ...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 05:48hrs | 954 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Important Speech
In times gone by, any major Zanu PF convention or rally was one in which us political neutrals, and those who stood firmly in the opposition camp, would cover our ears. It was belligerent, b...Published: 15 Dec 2018 at 14:33hrs | 9556 | by Tom Nkala
Infrastructure, Education and Technology key for growth
In his book entitled, The Price of Inequality, revered economist, Joseph Stiglitz, contends that Government investments in infrastructure, education and technology form the basis of economic growth....Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 13:42hrs | 380 | by ViewsFromMatopos
Form 3 pupil dies in Bulawayo gang violence
A FORM Three pupil at Founders High School in Bulawayo died during suspected teenage gang violence after an alcohol binge and his assailants dumped his body in a bushy area near Nketa High School in N...Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 04:39hrs | 2033 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF celebrates terror leader return
ZANU-PF last week threw a lavish party to welcome back its official after he was released from jail, having spent 14 years behind bars for killing an MDC activist in the run-up to the 2002 general ele...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 05:54hrs | 5259 | by Staff reorter
'In politics, treachery is inevitable'
The book 'Junctions' in one way is a celebration of the coup that toppled long-ruling Robert Mugabe, ushering in President Emmerson Mnangagwa - for a long time the former president's right hand man. ...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 14:08hrs | 286 | by Staf reporter
'Chamisa clause' no stroll in the park
Of all the problems facing the country, the Zimbabwe War Veterans' Association felt the most pressing concern is the age limit of presidential candidacy in the Constitution, which they feel needs to b...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 06:27hrs | 2863 | by Paul Kaseke
Matemadanda torches storm
MDC Bulawayo provincial spokesperson Felix Magalela Sibanda yesterday lambasted the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) secretary-general Victor Matemadanda over his comment...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 05:59hrs | 2340 | by Staff reporter
'Unequal marriage triggered Mugabe’s fall'
ZANU-PF national chair Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has chided elderly male politicians who targeted ambitious young women for marriage and warned that they risked having their political careers derailed....Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 05:55hrs | 9428 | by Staff reporter
Linda Masarira blasts War Veterans
MDC-T spokesperson Linda Masarira is up in arms about the decision taken by War veterans to call for the revision of the minimum presidential age limit from 40 to 52 years. "In that case ...Published: 04 Dec 2018 at 14:47hrs | 5910 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa pays Monte Cassino surprise visit
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa on Saturday made a surprise visit to Monte Cassino Mission School in Macheke where he urged teachers and pupils to maintain the high standards of education that have seen school ou...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 07:00hrs | 1131 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sex vendors dollarise
GRIEF is the real price men pay for sex!With the festive season around the corner, some commercial sex workers in Bulawayo are literally running a promotion in which they are reportedly offeri...Published: 01 Dec 2018 at 14:29hrs | 2798 | by Staff reporter
Falling In Love - Part 1
Her desire is deepest in the morning. She is too much woman for me, at sunrise. But I sip eagerly from her cup and inhale her essence. She is my thick cup of creamy coffee.We both wake up earl...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 22:40hrs | 3920 | by Jerà
Africa's richest woman
No it's not Grace Mugabe, though Grace is not short of money or farms or houses or cars or diamonds. It's someone rather younger - 45-year-old Isobel dos Santos who apparently accumulated a fortune of...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 18:59hrs | 5009 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
The untold horror stories of the July 30 Zimbabwe elections
Forty-three-year-old Givemore Madziva Kanyurira looked dejected when he recalled his "worst experiences" ahead of the July 30, 2018 harmonised elections that exposed Zanu-PF's coercion and intimidatio...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 12:58hrs | 1232 | by Staff reporter
Grade 1 Zimbabwean stabbed to death in SA
A grade one learner of Zimbabweans origin has been stabbed to death in Makapanstad, North West, allegedly by a learner from another schoolBasic education department spokesperson Elijah Mhlanga...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 17:54hrs | 3487 | by Times Live
Cremations 'threaten' Zimbabwe's ancestral spirits
Cremation is provoking a huge debate in Zimbabwe, bringing cultural and religious beliefs to the fore, journalist-turned-barrister Brian Hungwe writes from Harare."For you were made from dust,...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 06:12hrs | 981 | by Brian Hungwe
Zimbabweans rob,rape and kill South Africans?
There are unconfirmed reports that people speaking Shona language are terrorising people in neighbouring South Africa in a bid to rob, rape and kill them.Twitter whistleblower who use th...Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 10:35hrs | 4860 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa guns for Mwonzora, Mudzuri
OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has reportedly triggered a fresh bid to elbow out senior party leaders suspected of plotting to challenge him for the party presidency at congress next year, NewsD...Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 06:17hrs | 3297 | by Staff reporter
A year after Mugabe, hopes for a new Zimbabwe still low
A year since a trio of army generals held former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe under house arrest as part of a 10-day military operation that enabled his protege, Emmerson Mnangagwa, to take powe...Published: 15 Nov 2018 at 09:19hrs | 952 | by Aljazeera
Sisters fight in court over husband
A CHISHAWASHA woman is at loggerheads with her elder sister who snatched her husband.Muchaneta Zhou opened up at the Harare Civil Court where she applied for a protection order against her sis...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 15:13hrs | 4258 | by Staff reporter
NUST student run over by train
A National University of Science and Technology (NUST) student has committed suicide by throwing herself in front of a train.Police were called to railway tracks in the New Stands area of Cowd...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 19:08hrs | 5640 | by ZimLive
MDC implodes as Chamisa clings to power
Following the death of the MDC founding leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, in February this year and the drubbing the party received at the hands of ZANU PF during the 30 July 2018 harmonised elections, the p...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 13:32hrs | 3837 | by Elijah Chihota
Polygamist ALMOST DIES during sex with churchmate
SEX took me to the ER! (Emergency Room).That's what happened to a polygamous Bulawayo man who is also a member of a popular Apostolic sect was admitted to an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) after he...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 06:18hrs | 7034 | by Staf reporter
Zimbabwe's de facto challenge
This week, US Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of African Affairs, Tibor P Nagy is visiting four African and two European countries; United Kingdom, France, Togo, Mali, Ethiopia and Nigeria...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 06:25hrs | 597 | by Pearl Matibe
Kereke demands apology from Mliswa
Jailed former Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke has petitioned parliament to censure Norton legislator Temba Mliswa for allegedly maliciously slandering him by accusing him of impregnating his ...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 14:59hrs | 3640 | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti's prophecy on Mugabe comes to pass
MDC Deputy Chairperson Tendai foretold that Zimbabweans will realise the importance of Former President Robert Mugabe when he is gone. Minister Biti, who used to be a fierce critic of President ...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 17:08hrs | 14684 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Man tries to burn family in house
A MAN from Bulawayo yesterday appeared in court for attempting to burn his family in their house alleging that his grandmother bewitched his younger sister. Tatenda Mutakura (21) of Mahatshula...Published: 03 Nov 2018 at 08:43hrs | 325 | by Staff reporter
How a Customary Marriage is dissolved in South Africa
In South Africa, the definition of a customary marriage by the Recognition of Customary Marriages Act 120 of 1998 (RCMA) is that it is one that is "negotiated, celebrated or concluded according to any...Published: 03 Nov 2018 at 08:03hrs | 695 | by Velempini Ndlovu
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