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2017 coup targeted 'criminals around Mugabe' and now it's payback time - we are but mice to these Zanu PF thugs
Three years ago at 04.00 hours local time on 15th November 2017 Zimbabwe Defence Force (ZDF) spokesman, Major General Sibusiso Moyo, addressed the nation and the world at large, live on Zimbabwe Broad...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 20:50hrs | 470 | by Nomusa Garikai
What 'crisis' in a low crime Zimbabwe?
Despite the misleading and destructive narrative that there is a crisis in Zimbabwe, the country's crime rate has remained relatively low. Most countries in Africa and the entire world at large, are g...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 05:20hrs | 395 | by Pardon Muzawazi
Terrorist threat to region - Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
President Mnangagwa has said Zimbabwe will help Mozambique in its struggle against Islamic terrorists in the north of the country. The Mozambiquan government has appealed for international assistance ...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 16:44hrs | 1904 | by ZimVigil
Nigerian billionaire to mine Platinum in Zimbabwe
Bravura Holdings Ltd., owned by Nigerian billionaire Benedict Peters, has $1 billion available for the development of a platinum mine in Zimbabwe, its country manager said.The 3,000 hectare (7...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:42hrs | 708 | by Bloomberg
One last big bash for Ginimbi Kadungure
The final party to be thrown for Zimbabwean socialite and businessman Genius "Ginimbi" Kadungure will be on Friday, but this time guests will have to bring their own champagne because he won't be ther...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:39hrs | 3458 | by Staff reporter
When God uncovers mortal men
The true length of a frog is known on the day it dies. Such has been wisdom since time immemorial. Juxtaposing that with the recent deaths of Genius 'Ginimbi' Kadunungure and Lazarus '...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 12:51hrs | 4242 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Chamisa, Khupe and Mnangagwa must leave politics; the people shall govern
Failed politicians must pack and go! What a breath of fresh air to read your todays article "No single or individual group can stage a revolution on its own".An Alliance of Democratic ...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:56hrs | 4867 | by Nomazulu Thata
SA billionaire Motsepe to run for Caf job
South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe has been nominated as a candidate for the leadership of the Confederation of African Football as the race for the top post in African soccer gathers momentum....Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:42hrs | 595 | by Staff reporter
Africans taken aback by US election turmoil
FOR some Africans, President Donald Trump's actions in the aftermath of the US election have been a cause for dark humour, while others reacted with dismay or disbelief.In countries whose own rece...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 18:40hrs | 3466 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ally listed amongst 100 'Most Influential Young Africans' of 2020
PR & Rating firm, Avance Media and Africa Youth Awards have announced the 5th annual publication of the 100 Most Influential Young Africans list for 2020. The list is curated to recognise young Af...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 20:54hrs | 3273 | by Staff reporter
'Bigwigs fooling Mnangagwa on graft'
PEOPLE surrounding President Emmerson Mnangagwa pretend to love him when in reality they will be masking their corrupt tendencies, opposition legislators have said.This comes after Mnangagwa h...Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 18:20hrs | 5378 | by Staff reporter
Criminals around Mnangagwa will surely bring him down
ONE night in November 2017, a chubby soldier donning a red beret and military fatigues appeared on ZBC-TV. It was immediately clear something was amiss. His demeanour immediately betrayed what mischie...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:44hrs | 5943 | by Staff reporter
King 98 ropes in 'Assurance' producer
Hip Hop star King 98 has enlisted the services of popular Nigerian producer Speroach Beatz born Obi Prosper on his upcoming album.Speroach Beatz is behind some of Nigeria's smash hits among th...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 18:40hrs | 499 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Mnangagwa should remove the sanctions
It is shocking and really surprising to learn that Emmerson Mnangagwa still blames his poor governance on sanctions. These sanctions which he is blaming, can be easily removed by Mnangagwa himse...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 17:59hrs | 4125 | by Charles Mararirakwenda
Kamambo, Chiyangwa take war to Caf
ZIFA have refused to work hand-in-hand with Cosafa ahead of the upcoming 2021 Caf elections where the majority of the member associations on the continent have backed incumbent president Ahmad Ahmad t...Published: 26 Oct 2020 at 06:42hrs | 1772 | by Staff reporter
African media in limbo
A lot of newsrooms have had to buckle up until the last hole due to the economic constraints that have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.Although many media experts have agreed that CO...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 14:06hrs | 130 | by Daniel Itai
SAA awaits approval to repatriate blocked funds from Zimbabwe
The airline's rescue practitioners, Les Matuson and Siviwe Dongwana, have already accepted the mining company's offer to pay South African Airways (SAA) in exchange for access to its funds in Zimbabwe...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:33hrs | 1066 | by Staff reporter
Time for African youths to silence the gun
Africa as a continent needs a fresh start with new crop of leadership who are not necessarily militant or use their muscles to solve the problems facing their nations but who will use their brains....Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 07:41hrs | 1250 | by Leonard Koni
Khupe a leader sent from hell
Zimbabwe's politics can be easily compared to Nigerian Movies in the sense that, it is quite predictable to the extent that even those that did not study politics (101) can even tell you that Zanu Pf ...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 09:27hrs | 3622 | by Knowledge Hakata
Zimbabwe Tops Southern Africa as ATU Ends African-wide Competition to Reward Innovators Targeting Solutions to Fight COVID-19
Zimbabwe's Kudakwashe Clinton Nyamhuka was among finalists of the ATU Africa Innovation Challenge 2020. The 24 year old topped the Southern Africa region together with fellow contestant Tiisetso Masil...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 16:29hrs | 300 | by Agencies
'Zanla cadres were poorly trained'
FORMER Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary (Zipra) fighter Esau Ncube has sensationally claimed that his Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (Zanla) counterparts were poorly trained so much so that ...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 06:52hrs | 2982 | by Staff reporter
Econet, PanaBIOS unveil new applications to digitise COVID-19 Certificates, ease cross-border travel in Africa
HARARE - Econet and PanaBIOS have unveiled two new applications that will assist travellers across Africa comply with COVID-19 safety protocols.The applications - the Travel Pass and the PanaB...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 08:41hrs | 1150 | by Agencies
Econet unveils travel apps
THE Econet Group and PanaBIOS have unveiled two new applications that will assist travellers across Africa comply with Covid-19 safety protocols.The applications Travel Pass and PanaBIOS App h...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:42hrs | 440 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean appointed director of Africa at Sony Music UK
NEWLY-APPOINTED director of Africa at Sony Music UK, Taponeswa Mavunga says she is proud of Zimbabwean artistes who market the country's talent through collaborations with other African artistes. ...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 06:57hrs | 461 | by Staff reporter
Loga back at work
WARRIORS coach Zdravko Logarusic, who arrived in the country yesterday, will have no time to waste to assemble a team scheduled to travel to Malawi for an international friendly match.The 54-y...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 06:46hrs | 702 | by Staff reporter
'We are not here to fight Indian Borehole Driller', Local Drillers Speak out
"We are not here to fight Indian Borehole Drillers, but to create a fair playing ground beneficial to locals as well", the Borehole Drillers Apex Council of Zimbabwe (BODACOZ) has spoken out. ...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 08:14hrs | 2532 | by Trevor Namenda
Demystifying false narrative of a 'crisis' in Zimbabwe
For the past few months, Zimbabwe's internal and external detractors have been in overdrive, pushing a concocted narrative that there was a "crisis" in Zimbabwe. This false narrative is premis...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:19hrs | 210 | by Pardon Muzavavi
Prioritise locals over Chinese contractors for the benefit of Zim economy
Kenyan law professor Patrick Lumumba gets animated when he talks about China's rising influence on the African continent where governments get blinded by their fraternal ties with the Communist Party ...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 10:51hrs | 1144 | by Anthony Matutu
Jonathan Moyo threatens to publish Cabinet minutes
SELfEXILED former minister Jonathan Moyo has threatened to publish Cabinet minutes to prove that G40 elements were not taking instructions from the late for mer president Robert Mugabe's wife, Grace....Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:51hrs | 10590 | by Staff reporter
Morgan Tsvangirai must be turning in his grave
Morgan Tsvangirai, the late icon of Zimbabwe's tenuous democratic struggle, is a man I knew so well, having served as his spokesperson and trusted lieutenant for almost a decade until his untime...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 09:34hrs | 6611 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Musona opens goal-scoring account
BELGIUM-BASED Warriors skipper, Knowledge Musona, opened his goal scoring account for this season when he found the target for Pro-League side KAS Eupen in a drawn game against Antwerp.The 30-...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 19:13hrs | 1594 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu invites Zimbabweans to join the ZANU PF #JerusalemaDanceChallenge
ZANU PF Secretary for Administration Obert Moses Mpofu has invited Zimbabweans to join the party in doing the #JerusalemaDanceChallenge which has taken the world by storm. Posting on Twitter, ...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 16:28hrs | 1944 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Nigerian youths to petition Mnangagwa over rights abuses
NIGERIAN youths have vowed to mobilise civic organisations in Africa's most populous nation to picket the Zimbabwean embassy in Abuja over human rights abuses by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's governm...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 06:38hrs | 1793 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa: Quiet diplomacy 2.0
ZIMBABWE is in turmoil. It is facing the twin political and economic challenges again. Political tensions are high and activists are paying the price. Inflation, while now a bit stagnant, but it is ab...Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 09:32hrs | 1265 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Stanbic IBTC Institutes Scholarship Awards For Nigerian Undergraduates
Stanbic IBTC Holdings PLC, a member of the Standard Bank Group, has called for applications for the maiden edition of its 2020 Scholarship Programme.The Stanbic IBTC 2020 Scholarship Programme...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 13:48hrs | 441 | by Simbarashe Sithole
10 Top Takeaways from the August 2020 Protein Challenge Webinar
The disruption precipitated by the coronavirus pandemic has driven the world virtual. Digital meetings and webinars (seminars on the web) are now the new normal.While there are now webinars fo...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 20:29hrs | 487 | by Staff Reporter
POSB to partially privatise and list by February 2021
POSB anticipates having identified ideal investors by the end of February 2021, which will culminate in its partial privatisation and subsequent listing on the stock exchange. In its resu...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 18:42hrs | 892 | by Staff reporter
Car opens abductions can of worms
A leading Harare-based car rental company has been drawn into an abduction and torture saga involving a 22year-old university student ahead of the July 31 protests.Tawanda Muchehiwa, a Midland...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 11:11hrs | 5465 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and the cult of mediocrity in Zimbabwe politics
ZIMBABWE has finally arrived at its Idi Amin moment in history.This is a moment where the vulgar, obscene and grotesque performances of leaders get tragically normalised. It is a true "gods mu...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 07:23hrs | 1208 | by Dinizulu Macaphulana
African jurists angry over Mtetwa 'victimisation'
THE Africa Judges and Jurists Forum (AJJF) has called on the Zimbabwean government to immediately stop victimising human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa and blocking her from representing detained journ...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 07:18hrs | 1618 | by Staff reporter
Unicef launches US$70m aid appeal for Zimbabwe
THE United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) has appealed for US$70,9 million to meet Zimbabwe's increased humanitarian needs as hunger and a collapsing economy take a huge toll on the long-suffering c...Published: 22 Aug 2020 at 08:34hrs | 896 | by Staff reporter
Genocide happens when democracy is absent
Tali Nates founded the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre (JHGC) in 2008 to foster an understanding of the history of genocide, which happened between 1939 an...Published: 22 Aug 2020 at 07:59hrs | 382 | by Kingsley Ighobor
Zimbabwean born executive takes over as MTN's President and CEO
MTN has announced the appointment of Zimbabwean born Ralph Mupita as its new group CEO. Mupita will be taking over from Rob Shuter, who is set to step down at the end of August. Mupita, the gr...Published: 19 Aug 2020 at 10:11hrs | 11850 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19: TB Joshua 'heals' Zimbabwean member of parliament
A Zimbabwean Member of Parliament, Dr Ruth Labode, was among those who 'received healing' from COVID-19 during an online prayer session on TB Joshua's Emmanuel TV on Sunday 16th August 2020.Dr...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 12:34hrs | 4627 | by Staff Reporter
A petition to Mnangagwa to free Chin'ono
His Excellency,President Emmerson MnangagwaMunhumutapa Building76 Samora Machel Avenue HarareZimbabweYour Excellency,The African Freedom of expression exchange (AFeX) p...Published: 16 Aug 2020 at 08:21hrs | 4316 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe among African countries to start testing for COVID-19 antibodies
Seven African countries will start administering coronavirus antibody tests from next week, a regional body said on Thursday, as part of efforts to understand the extent of the outbreak on the contine...Published: 15 Aug 2020 at 16:59hrs | 462 | by Staff reporter
'SA leaders, including Mandela, toothless to solve Zimbabwe crisis' - Not true, especially of the big man
"So, why is it that Vorster could bring about real change, twisting Smith's arm to engage in negotiations with his liberation movement opponents that eventually led to a settlement and a transition to...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 23:50hrs | 1441 | by Wilbert Mukori
South Africans after Peter Ndoro's job?
South Africans want their unemployed Journalism graduates must go replace Zimbabweans at the South African Broadcast Corporation (SABC) because reading news is not a critical skill. A shadowy ...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 20:20hrs | 12148 | by Staff reporter
South Africans want Ramaphosa to cancel special visas for Zimbabweans
A shadowy organization called #PutSouthAfricansFirst is organising a nationwide mass demonstration on the 29th of August to call for the mass deportation of illegal immigrants in South African and the...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 15:10hrs | 3520 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe Covid-19 death toll breaches 100 mark
Zimbabwe's coronavirus deaths breached the 100 mark on Friday as the health ministry reported five new deaths.The latest data came as the number of Covid-19 cases in Africa rose to over one mi...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 19:37hrs | 635 | by Staff reporter
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