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04/07/2025

HARARE - Sydney Gata, the Executive Chairman of Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) Holdings (Pvt) Ltd, passed away on Thursday evening at a local hospital after a short illness.

Full Story: 🔗 https://nehandaradio.com/2025/07/04/zesa-mourns-sydney-gata-its-first-black-gm-and-long-serving-chairman/

04/07/2025

HARARE - Controversial Zimbabwean tenderpreneur Kudakwashe Tagwirei was reportedly asked to leave a Zanu-PF Central Committee meeting held in Harare on Thursday, an incident that has shed light on internal party dynamics and simmering succession debates.

Sources within the ruling party revealed that Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga raised concerns about Tagwirei's presence before President Emmerson Mnangagwa's arrival, leading to officials requesting him to depart.

Full Story: 🔗 https://nehandaradio.com/2025/07/04/tagwireis-central-committee-ejection-by-chiwenga-exposes-deepening-fissures-in-zanu-pf/

04/07/2025

HARARE - During his lifetime, Genius “Ginimbi” Kadungure dazzled Zimbabwe with his extravagant lifestyle, his jaw-dropping mansion, and — perhaps most famously — his multimillion-dollar car collection.

But now, almost four years after his untimely death, that once-revered fleet of luxury vehicles has reportedly vanished.

Full Story: 🔗 https://nehandaradio.com/2025/07/04/he-could-be-turning-in-his-grave-ginimbis-expensive-car-collection-vanishes/

04/07/2025

Outspoken Zimbabwean mixed martial arts fighter Themba Gorimbo has said that he has received threats from people who do not want him to speak on the social and economic conditions prevailing in his native country.

Full Story: 🔗 https://nehandaradio.com/2025/07/04/im-getting-threats-for-speaking-up-themba-gorimbo-vows-to-fight-for-zimbos/

04/07/2025

LONDON – Four days after his Arsenal contract expired, Ghanaian midfielder Thomas Partey (32) has been charged with five counts of r**e and one count of sexual assault by authorities in the UK.

According to the Metropolitan Police the offences are reported to have taken place between 2021-2022 and involve three women.

Full Story: 🛑 https://nehandaradio.com/2025/07/04/thomas-partey-charged-with-r**e-four-days-after-expiry-of-arsenal-contract/

03/07/2025

Michael Madsen whose career spanned more than 40 years and was a staple of many Quentin Tarantino classics was found unresponsive in his Malibu home on Thursday, July 3 and pronounced dead by emergency services.

Prolific actor Michael Madsen, best known for films like Kill Bill, Reservoir Dogs, Die Another Day and Sin City, has passed away at the age of 67.

Full Story: 🔗 https://dailymast.com/2025/07/03/michael-madsen-star-of-reservoir-dogs-kill-bill-and-donnie-brasco-dies-aged-67/

03/07/2025

ActZim comment on address by Blessed Geza

03/07/2025

JOHANNESBURG – Former South Africa Deputy President David Mabuza has died aged 64, the public broadcaster the SABC confirmed on Thursday. Mabuza, who served as deputy president from 2018 to 2023, died in a Johannesburg hospital.

Full Story: 🔗 https://nehandaradio.com/2025/07/03/david-mabuza-a-former-south-african-deputy-president-has-died-at-age-64/

03/07/2025

“This is a moment where I struggle! There must be a bigger purpose! But I can’t see it!

“I’m heartbroken to hear about the passing of Diogo and his brother André. Diogo was a not only a fantastic player, but also a great friend, a loving and caring husband and father! We will miss you so much!

“All my prayers, thoughts and power to Rute, the kids, the family, the friends and everyone who loved them! Rest in peace – Love.” Klopp wrote in a statement.

Former Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has paid tribute to his former player Diogo Jota after the Portuguese forward and his brother died when their Lamborghini vehicle burst into flames.

Full Story: 🔗 https://footyhawk.com/2025/07/03/former-liverpool-manager-jurgen-klopp-heartbroken-by-death-of-diogo-jota/

03/07/2025

🗣 Cristiano Ronaldo on the death of Diogo Jota:

"It doesn't make sense. Just now we were together in the National Team, just now you had gotten married.

"To your family, your wife, and your children, I send my condolences and wish them all the strength in the world. I know you will always be with them. Rest in Peace, Diogo and Andre. We will all miss you."

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03/07/2025

HARARE - Former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has assured his supporters that he is "not idle" and is actively "consulting" and "building" a new political strategy following his departure from the opposition party in January 2024.

In a lengthy appreciation post, he asserted that despite facing a "tyranny held together by state abuse, repression, and coercion," the "seed of change has been sown" and "the harvest has been delayed, but it cannot be denied."

Full Story: 🔗 https://nehandaradio.com/2025/07/03/chamisa-declares-he-is-not-idle-after-ccc-exit-hints-at-new-political-strategy/

03/07/2025

BULAWAYO - A devastated Brian Banda’s mother seen here on her son’s portrait at the Amphitheatre following the FC Platinum midfielder’s burial at Lady Stanley Cemetery earlier today.

The moment turned even more heartbreaking when she tearfully asked for the portrait, before FC Platinum General Manager Denzel Mkandla, gently explained it belonged to Brian Banda's family and would be placed in a car to be taken back home.

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