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Tshinga Dube trashes 'baseless' claims on Zipra cadres snub
THE Government has dismissed as baseless claims that there is discrimination of former Zipra forces in Government.The Minister of Welfare Services for War Veterans, War Collaborators, Former P...Published: 31 Aug 2016 at 06:37hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
'Roadblocks must not be mounted less than 10 kilometres apart'
THE Government has said roadblocks must not be mounted less than 10 kilometres apart as it violates United Nations (UN) guidelines on road patrols.Home Affairs Deputy Minister Obedingwa Mguni ...Published: 30 Aug 2016 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Auxilia Katongomara
Mutsvangwa-led executive behaviour worrying
THE Government has condemned increasing unruly behaviour exhibited by the Christopher Mutsvangwa-led national executive of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association and its contempt fo...Published: 26 Aug 2016 at 06:36hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
Govt to clear out fraudsters 14 000 war veterans' children claim fees
THE Government is working to eliminate fraudulent claims and double dipping in school fees claims for children of war veterans with fresh statistics showing that there are over 14 000 fees claims for ...Published: 26 Aug 2016 at 06:35hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
'Name, shame corrupt officials'
THE president of the Senate, Edna Madzongwe, has urged the media and civil society organisations to name and shame corrupt public officials to foster accountability in the use of public funds....Published: 24 Aug 2016 at 06:39hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
Dokora reveals religious leaning
PRIMARY and Secondary Education Minister Dr Lazarus Dokora has said he is a Catholic, putting to rest speculation on social media that he was Muslim.Social media was rife with messages claimin...Published: 19 Jul 2016 at 06:20hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
Govt warns social media users
THE Government has warned unruly elements sending subversive messages and threats on social media that they can be traced back to them and expose the culprits to the full wrath of the law.Soci...Published: 06 Jul 2016 at 06:38hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili and Auxilia Katongomara
'Cellphone evidence can be used in court'
MOBILE phone evidence is admissible in court, Information Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services deputy minister, Win Mlambo, has said. Responding to a question by Chief Gampu in the Se...Published: 13 Jun 2016 at 06:37hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
Poison gas panic at high school
Pupils lost consciousness and two of them were rushed to hospital after they inhaled bromine gas in an Advanced Level laboratory at St Bernard's High school in Bulawayo's Old Pumula suburb.The...Published: 08 Jun 2016 at 07:13hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
Air Zimbabwe Boss 'murdered'
AIR ZIMBABWE public relations executive, Shingai Dhliwayo, has been found dead in a bush in Botswana.Family members, in a series of Facebook posts last week, seemed to suggest that Dhliwayo, w...Published: 09 May 2016 at 06:36hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
Mahatshula comes tops
THE Bulawayo City Council has named the top three and two worst performing municipal primary schools based on last year's Grade Seven results. Mahatshula Primary School has maintained pole pos...Published: 05 Mar 2016 at 07:42hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
Boy, 15, fights off crocodile
A 15-YEAR-OLD boy has told how he heroically fought off a crocodile after it lunged at his leg while swimming with friends in Gwayi River.Mpumelelo Tshuma, of Gwayi Range Farm and a Form 2 pup...Published: 22 Jan 2016 at 05:33hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara / Leonard Ncube
Archbishop of Bulawayo Diocese sued over $70,000
THE Archbishop of Bulawayo Diocese Alex Thomas has been sued over a $7,000 debt the church owes to one of its employees who allegedly used her personal money to run the church's office as well as serv...Published: 08 Jan 2016 at 05:34hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
Record high temperatures expected today
INTENSE heat is expected today as the country continues to be under the spell of a heatwave. People have been advised to drink a lot of water and to avoid prolonged stay under the sun during the time ...Published: 08 Jan 2016 at 05:31hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
Donkey kills goat, eats it
A DONKEY allegedly killed and ate a goat as horrified herd boys watched in Halali area in Maphisa. The incident which has become the talk of the area and beyond has been described as a bad ome...Published: 11 Dec 2015 at 05:29hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
Man left with protruding intestines after buffalo attack
A VICTORIA Falls man put up a spirited fight against a buffalo that had ripped his stomach open by clinging onto the beast's horns as it made a second charge to finish him off. Given Ndlov...Published: 30 Dec 2014 at 07:12hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
Stock theft decreases by 33%
The number of cattle stolen this year decreased by 33 percent countrywide, from 9 806 in 2013 to 6 618, police have said. In an interview, the Anti-stock theft national co-ordinator, pol...Published: 29 Dec 2014 at 09:07hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
Rapist claims he owns teen victim's privates
A seventeen-year-old teenager from Mayobodo area in Matabeleland South allegedly raped his 15-year-old cousin claiming that he owned her sexual organ.This was heard when the teenager appe...Published: 01 Sep 2014 at 08:21hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
Ben 10! A woman's Painkiller
MOVE over sugar daddies it's time for Ben 10!!It's either Ben Ten or Painkiller.This is the fashionable name given to younger men dating older women. The name Ben 10 had become very co...Published: 05 Apr 2014 at 08:45hrs | 4 | by Auxilia Katongomara
Bathabile to represent Bulawayo in Carnival Queen Zim contest
SHE is charismatic, confident and passionate at what she does.She was recently crowned first princess at the Miss National University of Science and Technology (Nust) beauty contest and is se...Published: 05 Apr 2014 at 19:12hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
NoViolet Bulawayo walks in Tsitsi Vera's footsteps
BULAWAYO has produced some groundbreaking artistes whose presence has been a noteworthy blessing to the country's arts and culture scene. In the arts, the City of Kings has been a shining jewel that h...Published: 14 Dec 2013 at 06:05hrs | 2 | by Auxilia Katongomara
Generations stars to party in Bulawayo
FANS and followers of the popular South African soapie, Generations, have a chance to mix and mingle with their television icons MJ and Senzo when they make a debut appearance in Bulawayo next weeke...Published: 02 Nov 2013 at 10:46hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara Saturday Leisure Correspondent
Ugliness craze hits Matabeleland South province
THIS year's search for the country's most hideous man, the Mr Ugly pageant is spreading to other parts of Matabeleland South Province. Ugly men in the two small towns can now smile as the sho...Published: 12 Jun 2013 at 06:27hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
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