Former Zimbabwe captain Sean Williams’ international career is over after he entered a rehabilitation programme to treat drug addiction, the country’s cricket association has announced. Zimbabwe Cricket said the all-rounder had made himself unavailable for national selection – and that it would not pick him again. Williams, 39, has scored almost 9,000 runs and taken…
The youngest son of Zimbabwe’s late former President Robert Mugabe has been formally charged with attempted murder at a brief appearance in a South African court. Bellarmine Mugabe, 28, was arrested last week after a 23-year-old man was shot and injured at a property in an upmarket suburb of Johannesburg last Thursday. He was then…
– ADVERTISEMENT – These community-based, commercially run village business units (VBUs) are located in rural areas to generate income and improve livelihoods through agricultural activities such as horticulture and fisheries. Each centre is equipped with a piped water scheme, washing slabs, cattle troughs, and two fishponds. Speaking to Farmer’s Weekly, Tinotenda Mhiko, CEO of Zimbabwe’s state-run…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s prisons are holding nearly 10,000 inmates beyond their designed capacity, prompting Prosecutor General Loice Matanda-Moyo to issue a sweeping directive urging prosecutors to aggressively pursue bail, fines and community service instead of custodial sentences. In an internal memo dated January 7, 2026, seen by ZimLive, Matanda-Moyo revealed that the country’s prison population…
HARARE – Superdad Temba Mliswa says he has confirmed through DNA testing that some of his reported 20 children are not biologically his. The former Norton MP says he has elected to continue supporting the children even as he admits that “it’s hard.” Mliswa previously admitted to having 19 children with 10 women. “Some of…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has hit a major economic milestone. Annual inflation has dropped into single digits for the first time since 1997. READ: Inflation puts damper on Christmas celebrations in Zimbabwe Inflation slowed sharply to just over 4% last month from 15% in December. The development is central to the government’s plan to make the…
0:50’I’m sorry on behalf of my father,’ abuser’s daughter says The daughter of the man believed to be the most prolific serial abuser to be associated with the Church of England (CofE) says finally learning the truth about his attacks on 130 boys was shocking and horrifying. Fiona Rugg, 47, is the youngest daughter of…
17 dead in head-on collision between minibus taxi and truck in Zimbabwe, police say A head-on collision between a minibus taxi and a haulage truck killed 17 people in northeastern Zimbabwe on Tuesday police said. Police spokesman Paul Nyathi said all 17 victims, including some pedestrians, died at the scene of the crash, which happened near Chitungwiza,…
The United States is ending its health programmes in Zimbabwe, including HIV treatment for one point two million people. The US embassy said Harare had pulled out of negotiations over a new health aid agreement which would have provided 367 million dollars over five years. The US has been renegotiating aid to Africa following the…
Mutumwa Dziva Mawere, the Zimbabwean South African industrialist who assembled one of the most influential business networks in his country’s post independence era, has died in Johannesburg at age 66, his family confirmed Friday. Mawere had been receiving medical care following a stroke he suffered in 2024, relatives said. His death marks the end of…