🚨 TRUE STORY: Shocking revelations in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial confirm General Mkhwanazi’s warnings about corruption and cover-ups! 🚨 This explosive video exposes the disturbing details of the Senzo Meyiwa murder case, highlighting how power…
🚨 TRUE STORY: Shocking revelations in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial confirm General Mkhwanazi’s warnings about corruption and cover-ups! 🚨 This explosive video exposes the disturbing details of the Senzo Meyiwa murder case, highlighting how powerful figures may be manipulating the justice system to protect the real culprits. We delve into the evidence suggesting that […]
Source: Firewood poaching threatens US$10m black pepper production –Newsday Zimbabwe FIREWOOD poaching is threatening a US$10 million black pepper production at Sable Ranch Farm, outside Marondera, NewsDay Weekender has learnt. The project is a joint venture between Sable Ranch Farm owners Tikley Enterprises and Switzerland-based ecosystem investors, Silva Terra AG. The project is reportedly going […]
FIREWOOD poaching is threatening a US$10 million black pepper production at Sable Ranch Farm, outside Marondera, NewsDay Weekender has learnt.
The project is a joint venture between Sable Ranch Farm owners Tikley Enterprises and Switzerland-based ecosystem investors, Silva Terra AG.
The project is reportedly going to earn approximately US$15 million annually in exports and is set to create 500 jobs for locals.
NewsDay Weekender is reliably informed that Silva Terra AG has since disbursed part of the money to kick-start the first phase of the project to be implemented on a 300-hectare piece of land.
Black pepper thrives in woodlands and creeps on trees.
Last week, officials from Tikley Enterprises announced that their security details had intercepted a UD truck belonging to the Zimbabwe Prison and Correctional Services (ZPCS) on the farm, loaded.
According to the head of security, they were ordered by police officers to ‘let the truck go.’
“Good evening, all. I thought it pertinent to advise you that this vehicle ferried freshly-cut indigenous timber from Sable Range through Auchenlarich Farm. Having been apprehended by my security, I was advised by the police in Marondera rural to allow them to proceed as it was, supposedly, for Heroes Day celebrations,” read a message by an official from Sable Ranch Farm.
A director at Tikley Enterprises, Edwin Masimba Moyo, described the move as ‘persecution and betrayal.’
“This is the persecution and betrayal I have had to undergo throughout my farming life. A whole truck from the prisons service invades my farm, cuts trees to sabotage my ecosystem joint venture with the Swiss. I am trying to get the economy working, but I am treated like a criminal. Pure sabotage,” Moyo posted on his X handle.
Speaking to NewsDay Weekender, Moyo confirmed that the black pepper project is under threat.
“It is under threat from firewood poachers. It is hurting to note that there is a choreographed poaching of firewood at Sable Ranch and nothing is being done by the law enforcers,” Moyo said.
Efforts to get a comment from both police and ZPCS in Mashonaland East Province were fruitless.
Source: Government lies about injured nurse exposed -Newsday Zimbabwe GOVERNMENT’S claims it has supported an injured rural nurse have been exposed after the nurse produced receipts and medical records proving she has been paying her medical bills for years. Progress Muzuva, who sustained fractures on her spine and leg in 2018 while saving a newborn […]
GOVERNMENT’S claims it has supported an injured rural nurse have been exposed after the nurse produced receipts and medical records proving she has been paying her medical bills for years.
Progress Muzuva, who sustained fractures on her spine and leg in 2018 while saving a newborn baby and her mother during a violent ambulance transfer, accused the Ministry of Health and Child Care of misleading the public to cover up years of neglect and bureaucratic failure.
Her ordeal, first revealed in a viral social media audio, occurred in an ambulance during a midnight transfer from Bikita Rural District Hospital to Silveira Mission Hospital, when the expectant mother suddenly became violent.
The nurse delivered the baby girl inside the moving ambulance while fending off repeated attacks from the mother, who at one point struck her with a bench.
She was holding the slippery newborn, whose umbilical cord had not yet been cut and the placenta in her hands to prevent the child from bleeding, even as she tried to shield herself from blows from the mother.
By the time the ambulance stopped, she had sustained lasting injuries that left her unable to walk normally.
Truth Diggers, the investigative unit of Alpha Media Holdings, went beyond the viral account — visiting the nurse for a face-to-face interview, tracking down the patient and her family, and meeting the now eight-year-old child she saved that night.
What emerged is a story of extraordinary courage, a miraculous survival and deep neglect by the very health system she served.
A Health ministry Press statement on August 8, 2025, had painted a picture of comprehensive State support, including free medical care and timely benefits for Muzuva.
But Muzuva says she was deeply hurt the government saw it fit to issue a Press statement claiming she was on full State support at a time when she had appealed for public assistance.
This, she says, misled the public and turned potential well-wishers against her, with some accusing her of trying to profiteer from the situation
“The Ministry of Health and Child Care acknowledges the concerns raised by Ms. Progress Muzuva and reaffirms its commitment to treating her case with the seriousness, empathy and transparency it deserves,” the statement read.
“We recognise the impact of her injury sustained in the line of duty in 2018 and remain committed to ensuring that all matters are addressed in accordance with applicable laws, regulations and established procedures. As of January 21, 2020, Ms Muzuva was granted Government patient status, entitling her to free treatment in public health institutions. This status remains in effect to date.”
Muzuva says the government claims are false, detailing how she has repeatedly footed hospital bills, denied an audience with senior officials and left to survive on US$93 a month, while her retirement package remains unresolved.
She presented to Truth Diggers medical receipts as proof of payment made for medical expenses on the day before government made that statement.
“The Ministry indicated that they granted me Government patient status, which could be true on paper, but in practice, I have been footing my medical bills and did not get free treatment, even at Masvingo General Hospital. On August 7, 2025, a day before yesterday, I paid at Masvingo General Hospital a consultation fee of US$9 and US$20 for X-ray, proof of payment is attached to this statement and was shared with the issuer of the Ministry’s Press statement, Mr Mujiri.”
Muzuva said she went on social media to narrate her ordeal because she felt government had failed her.
She has knocked on the doors of several government officials who treated her badly, and at one point went to the Health minister’s office, but was denied an opportunity to see him.
Over the years, she has been using personal funds to cover all medical expenses. Muzuva said government has delayed processing her retirement package.
Despite this, the nurse says she has no vendetta against the family of the woman, Elizabeth Dunira, who injured her. The family, which lives in Kufakunesu village, ward 13, in Bikita district, offered to help her soon after her injury.
On one occasion, Dunira’s father-in-law, Augustine Gondo, offered to give Muzuva two beasts as compensation, but she could not accept, knowing the family already struggled to make ends meet.
Gondo said he learnt of the incident from the ambulance driver.
“The driver of the ambulance came to my house the morning after the incident,” he said.
“He had a swollen face because my daughter-in-law had punched him. He told me she had given birth, but that she had also injured the nurse.”
“I regret my poverty,” he added, his voice heavy with remorse. “If I had the means, I would have done everything possible to help the nurse recover. Every time I see my granddaughter, I am reminded of the nurse and the harm she suffered.”
Dunira, who was at the centre of the incident, expressed regret over the incident.
“I feel deeply sorry for what happened,” she said. “I don’t know what came over me. It was as if evil spirits took control. I never intended to hurt the nurse.”
Muzuva declined the family’s help, saying she could not demand payment for “national duty”.
“I was doing national service and I was overjoyed when I successfully delivered the baby,” she told Truth Diggers.
“The fact that the baby is still alive gives me joy. If I had been allowed to name her, I would have called her Minana. She was delivered under miraculous circumstances. I do not know why God would not come to my time of need, when I saved the baby wholeheartedly.”
Muzuva was determined to save the child despite the dangers posed by the mother, the dangers she had witnessed earlier in the ambulance.
The ambulance driver urged her to leave the struggling patient alone at the back, warning that her violence could injure her.
But she stood firm, refusing to abandon a woman on the brink of childbirth.
*This story was published under Truth Diggers, a journalism investigation unit under Alpha Media Holdings (AMH), publishers of NewsDay, Zim Independent, The Standard and Southern Eye. AMH also operates an online broadcasting channel, Heart & Soul TV.
Source: Gimboki serial housebreaker finally arrested – herald Tendai Gukutikwa Post Reporter A SERIAL burglar who has been tormenting Gimboki residents, stealing property and cash worth US$25 250, has been arrested, bringing relief to the community that had endured seven months of break-ins. Macdonald Saidi Bwanali, of Area C, Dangamvura, has since appeared at […]
A SERIAL burglar who has been tormenting Gimboki residents, stealing property and cash worth US$25 250, has been arrested, bringing relief to the community that had endured seven months of break-ins.
Macdonald Saidi Bwanali, of Area C, Dangamvura, has since appeared at the Mutare Magistrates’ Court, facing 12 counts of unlawful entry into premises as defined in Section 131 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act (Chapter 9:23). The offences allegedly occurred between January and July this year.
Bwanali appeared before Mutare magistrate, Mr Poterai Gwezhira last Thursday, where he was not asked to plead to the charges. He was not legally represented, and the State was represented by Ms Sandra Mlambo. He was remanded in custody to August 21 for initial remand.
Mrs Mlambo said detectives closed in on Bwanali after receiving a crucial tip-off from a well-placed informant. “He was arrested in Dangamvura on July 24, through the assistance of an informer, who was put to task by detectives to supply information on his whereabouts. On July 26, Bwanali was sent to court on a warrant of arrest, and was remanded in custody. He was then retrieved from remand prison and interviews were conducted, leading to the clearance of 12 more counts of unlawful entry into premises,” said Ms Mlambo.
The court heard that the offences followed a similar pattern, with Bwanali allegedly targeting homes left unattended, forcing entry using unknown objects, and stealing a mixture of electrical appliances, household goods, clothing, groceries and cash. “In the first case, which occurred on January 28, Bwanali allegedly broke into the home of Mr John Marutanana while the complainant was away at training.
He stole cash amounting to US$15 000 and Rands 14 000, an inverter, blankets, wheelbarrow, clothing, shoes, and cellphone among other items. Property worth US$4 500 was recovered after his arrest, including a Toyota Wish allegedly bought from the proceeds,” said Ms Mlambo. On April 4, he is alleged to have raided the home of Ms Yvonne Madzirashe, making off with a television set, battery, blankets, pots, clothing, and US$160. Goods worth US$585 were recovered.
Bwanali is also alleged to have broken into Mrs Febbie Muringwe’s home on March 28, while she was away in the rural areas, taking nine blankets, sheets, groceries, clothing, and cash. “He later led detectives to recover some of the stolen blankets and sheets,” said Ms Mlambo.
“On May 10, he allegedly targeted the home of Mr Phineas Nemaunga, stealing US$3 800 cash, a 42-inch television set, subwoofer, DVD player, bank cards, clothes, blankets, and groceries. Goods and cash worth US$850 were recovered.
“Less than a month later, on June 9, he allegedly broke into the house of Ms Tracy Marange, taking baby blankets, comforters, pots, cups, cellphones, groceries, and US$80. Some comforters, pots, and cups were later recovered. Another break-in was recorded on June 18 at the home of Mr Edmore Chikoshana, who lost blankets, brown suit, and clothing. Recovery efforts yielded blankets and bank cards,” she said.
The spree allegedly continued on June 26 at the home of Mrs Rita Machiri, who was away on business. Ms Mlambo said Bwanali stole lithium batteries, blanket, and cushion covers, and only the blanket was recovered. “On July 4, Bwanali allegedly struck at Mr Kudakwashe Makone’s home, taking a television set, flash drive, blankets, comforters, pots, and US$250 cash. Two blankets and a comforter were recovered. Two days later, on July 6, the home of Ms Sevia Nyapimbi in Nyanga was allegedly broken into. Bwanali took a gas tank, cellphones, blankets, radio, and other items. A gas tank and blankets were recovered,” said Ms Mlambo.
On July 9, while Ms Betty Mutasa was at work, and Bwanali allegedly forced entry into her house at night, stealing blankets and comforters. One blanket was later recovered. In another incident sometime in May, Mr Juma Yard returned from Harare to find his home broken into and property including dinner plates, coffee mugs, a gas stove, buckets, blankets, and clothes missing.
Goods worth US$250 were recovered. Count 12 relates to the June 18 break-in at the home of Ms Netsa Karimu, in which Bwanali allegedly stole comforters, blankets, clothes, and shoes.
Two comforters were recovered. In total, property and cash worth US$25 250 was allegedly stolen during the spree, with goods worth US$7 405 recovered after Bwanali’s arrest. He remains in custody awaiting trial.
Source: Why This Year’s UZ Graduates Might Struggle Abroad – Zealous Thierry Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo is a social justice activist, writer and blogger. The University of Zimbabwe’s graduation this year unfolded with all the usual fanfare. Families travelled from across the country to see their children receive caps and gowns. Students smiled […]
Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo is a social justice activist, writer and blogger.
The University of Zimbabwe’s graduation this year unfolded with all the usual fanfare. Families travelled from across the country to see their children receive caps and gowns. Students smiled for the cameras, speeches were made, and the air was thick with pride. Yet beneath the celebration, there was an unease that would not vanish with the tossing of mortarboards.
This was not an ordinary graduation. It was one born in the shadow of a lecturers’ strike, dragged through a courtroom, and stained by questions that a judge’s ruling could not wash away.
To the casual observer, the story might seem simple: lecturers demanded better pay and conditions, went on strike, and when the university decided to proceed with graduation, they went to court to try to stop it. The case was dismissed as “moot,” the ceremony went ahead, and the graduates walked out into the world with their degrees.
But stories that seem simple at first often conceal deeper fault lines. The real story is about reputation, credibility, and the way suspicion clings to documents in the international arena. For this class of graduates, the dispute may follow them long after the confetti has been swept away.
The lecturers’ strike at UZ was not a minor disruption. It stretched across crucial months. When final-year students needed guidance, supervision, and assessment. Projects were left half-marked. Dissertations sat on desks without feedback. Exams were overseen by replacement staff hastily hired, often without the experience or authority to properly evaluate work at that level.
Lecturers argued that this created a situation where degrees were being awarded without the rigour that gives them value. Their union’s decision to approach the High Court was a dramatic escalation, a public declaration that the ceremony itself risked becoming a farce.
The university administration pushed back, insisting that protocols had been followed. They wanted to send a clear message: academic calendars would not bend to strikes. To them, delaying graduation would be an admission of failure, and failure was not an option in a political environment that prizes stability above honesty. So the ceremony went on, guarded by the authority of a court dismissal but shadowed by doubts that could not be dismissed as easily.
Here lies the problem: legal outcomes do not settle reputational disputes. A judge may dismiss a case on technical grounds, but the world of international education does not read judgments; it reads headlines. Once a story is out there that exams were compromised or supervision was absent, it becomes part of the institutional record in the eyes of those abroad.
An admissions officer in the UK or Canada may not know the details of Zimbabwe’s legal system. What they will remember is a short line in a briefing: “UZ graduation contested in court over compromised exams.”
That one line is enough to create doubt. Doubt travels quickly, faster than clarifications, faster than corrections. And once it lodges itself in the bureaucratic imagination of an overseas admissions committee, it hardens into policy.
Applications from that university may start being flagged for additional verification. Requests for notarised transcripts become standard. Evaluations by third-party credential assessors become compulsory. At the margins, where time is short and competition high, rejection becomes the easier option.
For a young graduate eager to study or work abroad, this shift is devastating. A certificate that was supposed to open doors now carries an invisible footnote. A postgraduate office in London, Toronto, or Melbourne may look at the year “2025” on the degree and recall the controversy. The application is not read as a record of achievement but as a potential risk. And risk is rarely rewarded in systems already flooded with applicants.
The cruel irony is that the students did nothing wrong. They sat through lectures disrupted by strikes, wrote exams under chaotic conditions, and handed in projects without the guidance they deserved. Yet the documents they now hold may be read with suspicion not because of their own efforts but because of the circumstances of their institution. In global education, trust is collective: one scandal can taint thousands.
This dynamic is not unfamiliar. Zimbabweans have lived it in another sector: driving licences. For years, the UK accepted Zimbabwean Class 2 licences. Then doubts arose about how those licences were issued, recorded, and categorised. The UK authorities responded by tightening recognition. Suddenly, drivers who had done nothing wrong found themselves unable to convert their licences. They were forced to retest or go through convoluted procedures just to continue working. The policy did not target individuals; it targeted the system. But the individuals were the ones who suffered.
That is how reputational spillover works. Once doubt creeps in, it does not discriminate. It treats every certificate, every licence, every piece of paper from the affected system as potentially flawed. In the same way, if foreign universities or employers begin to see UZ’s 2025 graduation as disputed, the entire cohort of graduates will pay the price.
The deeper cruelty of this story is that suspicion often lasts longer than evidence. A headline about compromised exams will be remembered years after detailed clarifications are forgotten. A rumour whispered in an academic office can linger long enough to derail a scholarship application. Graduates who should be thinking about building careers will instead be forced to gather proof of their own competence, scrambling for supervisor letters, copies of marked scripts, or endorsements from external examiners. They will spend months defending themselves against doubts they did not create.
The university administration may argue that these fears are exaggerated, but international recognition bodies are notoriously conservative. They prefer to over-scrutinise than to take risks. And in a world where credentials are currency, once that currency is suspected of being counterfeit, its value plummets quickly.
It is easy to condemn the lecturers for their decision to challenge the graduation. To many, it was an act of cruelty, a betrayal of the very students they had taught. In trying to force the university’s hand, they painted the entire class with the brush of illegitimacy. That accusation, once made, cannot be withdrawn. It has entered the bloodstream of global reputation.
Yet their desperation must also be understood. Lecturers at Zimbabwean universities have endured collapsing salaries, dwindling resources, and administrative neglect for years. Their attempts at dialogue with authorities have been ignored. Standards have slipped, and with them the pride of professionals who once saw themselves as guardians of knowledge. When every avenue is closed, the courtroom becomes the only stage left. Their move may have been destructive, but it was also a signal: the value of a degree itself was in danger. As reckless as it seemed, it was born of desperation, and desperate times call for desperate measures.
The real tragedy is that none of these explanations matter to the institutions abroad that will decide the fate of these graduates. What they will see is a class of degrees conferred in a year when lecturers claimed exams were compromised. That is enough to trigger policies that treat the graduates as suspects rather than scholars. It does not matter that the court dismissed the case. It does not matter that many students worked hard despite the strike. International systems are not built to separate nuance from noise. They are built to protect themselves from risk.
So the 2025 graduate from UZ faces an uphill climb. Applications may be slowed. Opportunities may vanish. Employers may pass over résumés for fear of future complications. The collateral damage is real, immediate, and deeply unfair.
There are measures the university could take. It could invite external auditors to verify assessments, publish transparent marking records, or issue independent statements of validation for this year’s cohort. Such actions might reassure some institutions abroad, though they come with cost and complexity. In the meantime, the burden will fall on graduates themselves to provide proof of legitimacy. They will need to keep every scrap of academic evidence, be ready to explain their circumstances, and prepare to wait longer for responses.
The damage may eventually fade, but reputational stains linger longer than administrators admit. For many of these graduates, the shadow of doubt will stretch across years, shaping the trajectory of their careers.
The University of Zimbabwe’s 2025 graduation was a contested moment that revealed the fragility of academic trust. A strike, a lawsuit, and a court dismissal may seem like temporary drama, but in the world of international recognition, they are enough to leave scars. Degrees are not judged solely by what is printed on them but by the stories attached to their institution. This year’s story is one of dispute and doubt.
The lecturers’ decision to challenge the ceremony was harsh, even cruel, to the students who now carry the burden of suspicion. Yet it also came from a place of despair, born of a system that has ignored its own rot for too long. In the end, it is the graduates who suffer most, forced to defend themselves against rumours that spread faster than truth.
And as this generation of UZ students steps into the world, they will learn quickly how fragile credibility can be, and how one institution’s crisis can become an entire cohort’s lifelong obstacle. That is the cost of a strike that turned into a courtroom battle and a graduation that may not be fully believed.
