The songs we danced to. The classrooms we shared. The goals we cheered. A source-backed scrapbook of moments from 1980 to 2026, waiting for your memories.
Was it Makorokoto on the radio? School jazz bands, Jah Prayzah's early performances, a cricket victory, the first cellphones—or that Friday evening out? These are real, dated histories. Your memories can add the people and places that the newspaper archive missed.
Share your memory ↗The Zimbabwean writer was named the 2026 Caine Prize winner for The Blue Fighter, as questions about the story’s authorship remain under review.
Read the story ↗A September 2026 report documents book donations by the Rotary Club of Harare Central to four rural primary schools in Zvimba.
Read the story ↗Milestone College won the Robokorda International Robotics Competition in Zimbabwe with a prototype for agricultural and mining tasks.
Read the story ↗Team Apex Nexus won the 2026 Zimbabwe national Future Engineers Senior competition, while fellow MSU entrants placed third.
Read the story ↗Zimbabwe Chess Federation reported Tanaka Dziyanyi taking the SADC rapid and blitz honours at a 2026 Mozambique tournament.
Read the story ↗Zimbabwe Chess Federation reported Shepherd Kukudzarema winning the sixth Minerva Zimbabwe Open in August 2026.
Read the story ↗Harare topped the Block 1 medal standings in Marondera, while athletes and coaches from all Zimbabwe's provinces competed across multiple sports.
Read the story ↗In July 2026, the ICC reported that all-rounder Sikandar Raza had become Zimbabwe's most-capped international cricketer.
Read the story ↗The chapter's midyear report documents GreenZi, entrepreneurship activities, training and the search for outstanding young Zimbabweans.
Read the story ↗Josephine Nkomo was confirmed as Zimbabwe women's national cricket captain in July 2026, with the team hosting South Africa later that year.
Read the story ↗The Zimbabwe men's volleyball team beat Zambia in a five-set final in Harare to win the 2026 CAVB Zone VI Nations Championship.
Read the story ↗Beitbridge Parish Choir topped a 28-choir Masvingo Catholic diocesan competition, with its conductor also recognised.
Read the story ↗Junior Chamber International awarded a 2026 Crocodile Foundation grant to JCI City Zimbabwe's CHIDE community education project.
Read the story ↗Zimbabwean hospitals reported delivery and commissioning preparations for modern cancer-treatment equipment during 2026.
Read the story ↗Tracy Njanji received the women's MVP honour at the 2026 CAVB Zone VI championship, with three Zimbabwean teammates named in the event's Dream Team.
Read the story ↗Zimbabwe’s National Institute of Allied Arts 2026 music programme recorded more than 3,000 entries, from African choirs and marimbas to school jazz bands.
Read the story ↗A school progress report documents 20 finalists, nine major awards and teacher recognition at the 2026 Zimbabwe Science Fair.
Read the story ↗An international Rotary partnership supported a borehole and water tanks serving St. Ludger School near Marondera and its community.
Read the story ↗From club meetings to community service, Zimbabwean Rotaract members form part of a regional youth-service network whose projects deserve proper documentation.
Read the story ↗A Zimbabwean science student researched a plastic alternative made with cow-dung fibre and an apple-waste-derived plasticiser, earning international recognition in 2026.
Read the story ↗The 2025 FIRST Global team described overcoming hearing barriers while representing Zimbabwe at an international robotics event.
Read the story ↗Zimbabwe defeated Namibia in the Rugby Africa Cup final to qualify for the 2027 Rugby World Cup, returning after a 36-year absence.
Read the story ↗Zimbabwe's seven-time Olympic medallist became the first woman and first African to lead the International Olympic Committee in June 2025.
Read the story ↗Manicaland's FutureSight team won Zimbabwe's 2025 World Robot Olympiad Senior national category with a locally adapted accessibility concept.
Read the story ↗The International Ranger Federation recognised Margaret Darawanda with a Young Ranger Award in 2024.
Read the story ↗Tinotenda Nicole Bango carried Zimbabwe's flag and ran the women's T47 100m at Paris 2024.
Read the story ↗Kudakwashe Paidamoyo Chigwedere reached the men's T47 100m Paralympic final in Paris 2024.
Read the story ↗Isaac Mpofu finished 19th in the men's Olympic marathon in Paris, running 2:10:09.
Read the story ↗Makanakaishe Charamba made the Paris 2024 men's 200m final with fellow Zimbabwean Tapiwanashe Makarawu.
Read the story ↗Denilson Cyprianos represented Zimbabwe in the men's 200m backstroke at the Paris Olympics.
Read the story ↗Stephen 'Steve' Cox represented Zimbabwe in the men's single sculls at the Paris Olympics.
Read the story ↗African Wildlife Foundation profiled ZimParks ranger Brenda Tafadzwa Muchichwa for her conservation work on World Ranger Day 2023.
Read the story ↗The African Conservation Awards named Amos Gwema the 2023 Best Game Ranger.
Read the story ↗Nyaradzo Auxillia Hoto received a 2022 International Ranger Award for her work protecting Zimbabwe's ecosystems.
Read the story ↗The former Zimbabwe national volleyball captain carried his experience from Harare to professional clubs in Japan, becoming a head coach in 2021.
Read the story ↗A Zimbabwean wicketkeeper-batter who became his country's first inductee into the ICC Hall of Fame in 2021.
Read the story ↗Zimbabwe's women's netball team brought song, energy and high-level competition to its first Netball World Cup.
Read the story ↗After a long interruption, a February 2016 surgical programme at Parirenyatwa became an important attempt to rebuild services.
Read the story ↗Raised in Zimbabwe, actor and playwright Danai Gurira wrote the Broadway play Eclipsed and played widely recognised film and television roles.
Read the story ↗A Zimbabwean-American storyteller working in theatre, television and film.
Read the story ↗Elizabeth Simbi Petros flew with Chipo Matimba in Air Zimbabwe's first all-woman Boeing 737 flight-deck crew.
Read the story ↗Remembering the cultural space and the musicians, writers and audiences who considered the Book Café a creative home.
Read the story ↗The Zimbabwean bassist and singer released the Utonga album in 2010 and helped shape a distinctive live-band sound.
Read the story ↗Zimbabwean actor Tongayi Chirisa played Hekule in Leon Schuster's Mr Bones 2 and later appeared in Crusoe and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.
Read the story ↗With multiple Grand Slam doubles titles and a world No. 1 ranking, Cara Black created a distinguished Zimbabwean tennis legacy.
Read the story ↗Zimbabwean vocalist Prudence Katomeni-Mbofana performed for years with Jazz Invitation and appeared with the Cool Crooners.
Read the story ↗Tatenda Taibu became the youngest Test cricket captain in history in 2004, holding the distinction until the record was broken in 2019.
Read the story ↗A look back at Zimbabwe's urban grooves era, its collaborators, producers and the sound young people made their own.
Read the story ↗Singer and songwriter Rockford Josphats, known as Roki, helped shape Zimbabwe's urban grooves sound in the early 2000s.
Read the story ↗How Josh Hozheri's Jazz 105 and its festivals connected groups, young performers, school bands and bigger audiences.
Read the story ↗The Zimbabwean-born founder of Econet helped build mobile and digital communications businesses across Africa and internationally.
Read the story ↗NetOne traces its beginnings to 25 September 1996, before Econet opened Zimbabwe's first private mobile network in July 1998.
Read the story ↗Chipo Matimba became one of the trailblazing women of Zimbabwean aviation, later flying Air Zimbabwe's historic all-women flight deck.
Read the story ↗An introduction to the Zimbabwean entrepreneur associated with the founding of Kingdom in 1994 and a changing financial-services sector.
Read the story ↗A peer-reviewed account documents how international cooperation and Zimbabwean clinicians established continuing open-heart operations in 1989.
Read the story ↗From independence-era celebrations to BBC radio sessions, a Zimbabwean guitarist-driven sound travelled far beyond home.
Read the story ↗A novelist and filmmaker whose work has helped readers see Zimbabwean lives in new ways.
Read the story ↗The stone-built city tells a story of architecture, trade and African statecraft.
Read the story ↗Another chapter of remarkable stone architecture near Bulawayo.
Read the story ↗The Harare School of Radiography was asked to begin specialist ultrasound training in 1984, helping services reach beyond one hospital.
Read the story ↗Wildlife, river landscapes and the importance of conservation.
Read the story ↗In Zimbabwe's first Cricket World Cup appearance in 1983, the team defeated Australia by 13 runs at Trent Bridge.
Read the story ↗A published radiography history credits Josephine Matsika as the first Zimbabwean radiographer to receive specialist ultrasound training in 1981–82.
Read the story ↗The 16-player team won Zimbabwe's first Olympic medal in Moscow, and the first women's Olympic hockey gold.
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