– 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…
Walter Magaya is seen arriving at the Harare Magistrates Court on January 26, 2026, following his second arrest on allegations of raping four women HARARE – Televangelist Walter Magaya was dramatically arrested on Monday as he was leaving court, this time facing new rape allegations involving four women. Magaya’s lawyer, Admire Rubaya, had earlier applied…
Zimbabwe’s ex-President Robert Mugabe may have had financial ties with Jeffrey Epstein, according to the latest batch of files related to the convicted US sex offender. In an email exchange from 2015 with Japanese entrepreneur Joi Ito, the disgraced financier suggested they approach then-President Mugabe to provide Zimbabwe with a new currency after the local…
Prominent Zimbabwean opposition leader Job Sikhala has been granted bail by the Pretoria Magistrates Court and will return to court on February 3, 2026. The former Zengeza West Member of Parliament was arrested alongside his elderly uncle, Alexander Ferrowst Thema (78), in South Africa for allegedly travelling with explosives. He said that he was the victim of a Zanu…
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,…
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…
GWERU – Shesham Football Club midfielder Frankson Bushiri died in a horror accident in Gweru early Sunday after his vehicle careered off the road, hit a fence and a tree which cut the vehicle in half. Witnesses said the former TelOne player was unrecognisable after the 6AM crash. He was driving into Gweru from Kwekwe…
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…
Yoga in a Zimbabwe tavern is the latest mental health outreach in a struggling It’s before sunrise on a Saturday and a small group has gathered at Socialite Bar in on the outskirts of Zimbabwe’s capital. Instead of nursing hangovers, they sit with eyes closed and bodies in meditative poses on the bare floor. It’s…