adminEloise strengthens to severe tropical storm, brings heavy rains
The tropical system Eloise, which strengthened to a severe tropical storm yesterday, is expected to make landfall in Beira today and while it weakens, moves west into Zimbabwe at the southern end of the Eastern Highlands, bringing heavy rains above 50mm to southern Manicaland, Masvingo and parts of Matabeleland South, the Meteorological Services Department has said.
Missing boy: Captors demand R50 000
NEARLY two months after a 16-year-old boy went missing from Crowborough, the mother is now receiving text messages demanding a ransom of R50 000 from the boy’s cellphone number, confirming the senders have his phone.
Covid-19: A personal experience
SOME weeks back just before Christmas, I was diagnosed with Covid-19 after developing what I thought was a very bad flu. I had just returned from a workshop in Gweru, where I had interacted with many colleagues. One of them being Foster Dongozi, secretary general of the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ). Dongozi passed away a few days after we returned from the workshop. May his soul rest in eternal peace.
Dead bats, harmless Warriors . . . A tale told by a fool, full of sound and fury but signifying nothing
IN the end, the doomed mission turned out exactly the way many had feared – a farce disguised as an adventure to represent this country at a major football tournament.
Cop in court over US$17 bribe
A police officer stationed at ZRP Goromonzi has appeared in court on allegations of demanding a bribe from a motorist he had arrested with a colleague while undertaking an unsanctioned lockdown Covid-19 enforcement deployment in Harare’s city centre.
Editorial Comment: ‘Big Three’ should lead in maintaining stadiums
THE current state of neglect at Rufaro and Gwanzura has brought back to the fore the debate whether we are a serious football nation.
Army clears air on Guinea Fowl shooting
The January 16 shooting in Guinea Fowl, of Tatenda Munetsiwa by 52 Infantry Battalion soldiers who were reacting to a report of theft of copper cables, was a case of mistaken identity.
Covid-19: The new norm, how lifestyle has been changed
In a world turned upside down, attitudes, preferences, habits and choices have to change.
SB Moyo: Epitome of Zim revolution’s finest cadre
Comrade Sibusiso Moyo, the General of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces who pronounced the demise of the four decade-old Mugabe dictatorship in November is no more.
Ex-minister Chigwedere, businessman Chigumba succumb to Covid-19
Former Education Minister and Mashonaland East Governor Aeneas Chigwedere has succumbed to Covid-19.