Columnist / Makhosi sibanda
Bulawayo protestors granted bail
THE 88 protestors, including three juveniles, arrested following last Wednesday's nationwide stay-away, have been granted $80 bail each and are set to appear in court on July 21, 2016 to answer crimin...Published: 11 Jul 2016 at 13:38hrs | | by Makhosi Sibanda
BUPTA dismisses commuter omnibus strike claims
THE Bulawayo United Public Transport Association (Bupta) has distanced itself from social media reports they will down tools late Monday owing to mistreatment by police on the roads with the secretary...Published: 04 Jul 2016 at 14:13hrs | | by Makhosi Sibanda
Tsvangirai bans MDC-T members from WhatsApp
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai has issued an order barring party from using social media platforms - WhatsApp and Facebook - saying they must shut down these accounts with "immediate effect."...Published: 06 Feb 2015 at 21:40hrs | | by Makhosi Sibanda
Bulawayo clinics hit by nursing staff shortages
Bulawayo City Council's clinics have been hit by nursing staff shortages amid reports that the health facilities operated with a 62 percent staff compliment during the year 2014.According to t...Published: 06 Jan 2015 at 17:40hrs | 15 | by Makhosi Sibanda
'Esigodini hospital does not meet demands'
Adequate health care service delivery is still a dream for Umzingwane constituents amid revelations that the district's hospital is an old farm house which is not equipped enough to serve the people, ...Published: 24 Dec 2014 at 02:21hrs | | by Makhosi Sibanda
Emakhandeni residents deplore poor service delivery
RESIDENTS in Bulawayo's Emakhandeni suburb say service delivery is far from satisfactory in their ward and more efforts are required from the local councillor and the city council.In interview...Published: 14 Dec 2014 at 16:28hrs | 1 | by Makhosi Sibanda
Housemaids: Are they an evil lot?
The video of an 18-month Ugandan toddler who was brutally tortured by her helper which went viral on social media has been received with utter rage, with some still insisting that domestic workers are...Published: 26 Nov 2014 at 12:37hrs | 2 | by Makhosi Sibanda
Lions wreaks havoc eTsholotsho
TSHOLOTSHO villagers in Sipepa area are living in fear of five stray lions who are wrecking havoc and have reportedly devoured a cow.Sipepa village herdman Norman Ncube said the pride of...Published: 12 Nov 2014 at 19:48hrs | | by Makhosi Sibanda
Jilted lover hangs self
A BULAWAYO man from Emakhandeni suburb is understood to have meditated for weeks and "apologised" to family members before committing suicide by hanging himself, it has been learnt.Reports com...Published: 10 Nov 2014 at 17:13hrs | | by Makhosi Sibanda
eThekwini business delegation to visit Bulawayo
The mayor of eThekwini Municipality in Durban, South Africa has proposed to lead a business delegation to Bulawayo next year to scout for business opportunities in the city grappling with de-industria...Published: 28 Oct 2014 at 17:17hrs | | by Makhosi Sibanda
MDC-T youths bay for suspended Hlalo's blood
Members of the MDC-T Bulawayo province youth executive Monday took a dig at suspended Senator Matson Hlalo who successfully contested the results of provincial elections and barred recently elected ch...Published: 20 Oct 2014 at 18:40hrs | 1 | by Makhosi Sibanda
MDC-T MP denies joining MDC Renewal
MDC-T Binga North House of Assembly representative Dubeko Prince Sibanda, Thursday denied reports linking him to the breakaway renewal faction.Sibanda was one of the three MDC-T members who we...Published: 09 Oct 2014 at 15:51hrs | | by Makhosi Sibanda
Irate depositors besiege AfrAsia Bank Bulawayo branch - Video
There were bouts of violence at the embattled AfrAsia Bank Limited, formerly Kingdom Bank in Bulawayo as angry depositors stormed the banking hall demanding their cash.AfrAsia, which reb...Published: 09 Oct 2014 at 15:47hrs | | by Makhosi Sibanda
'Tsvangirai massive support base, a myth,' says Nkomo
The belief that Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC has more numbers than any other opposition political party is a myth says national chairperson of the MDC Renewal Samuel Sipepa Nkomo amid more defections of MD...Published: 06 Oct 2014 at 20:29hrs | | by Makhosi Sibanda
Residents urged to acquire title deeds to their properties
Bulawayo United Residents Association (Bura) has implored residents to acquire title deeds for their houses amid reports that over 70 percent of home owners in western suburbs do not hold the legal do...Published: 05 Oct 2014 at 09:05hrs | | by Makhosi Sibanda
Bosso coach Kaindu resigns?
SPECULATION is mounting that Highlanders head coach Kelvin Kaindu is on his way out with reports indicating that the Zambian tendered his resignation letter after a spell of poor results, with the lat...Published: 30 Sep 2014 at 20:16hrs | | by Makhosi Sibanda
Sand poachers causing serious environmental degradation in Tsholotsho
Sand poachers and brick moulders are wreaking havoc in Tsholotsho causing serious environmental degradation with most parts of the Matabeleland North district slowly turning into gullies.Local...Published: 14 Jul 2014 at 15:19hrs | | by Makhosi Sibanda
Solar street lights, LED street name signs for Bulawayo
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has agreed to partner with a South African company to instal solar powered street lights and LED street name signs in the central business district, a move set to reduc...Published: 10 Jul 2014 at 16:36hrs | | by Makhosi Sibanda
Couple mysteriously stuck while having sex at rented home
AN Old Lobengula couple has become the talk of the suburb, after they mysteriously got stuck to each other while engaging in sex at their rented home.What seemed like routine sex between Cai...Published: 07 Jul 2014 at 19:31hrs | | by Makhosi Sibanda
Man mysteriously dies in police custody
MYSTERY surrounds the death of a Pumula Old man in Bulawayo who reportedly committed suicide at police holding cells in the suburb.Bulawayo police have not yet given an official account of eve...Published: 29 May 2014 at 08:00hrs | | by Makhosi Sibanda
Fugitive rabbi deported
BULAWAYO Magistrate, Sibongile Msipha Wednesday ordered the wanted Israel rabbi, Eliezer Berland out of Zimbabwe with immediate effect, for flouting immigration laws.The rabbi who is wanted o...Published: 09 Apr 2014 at 11:59hrs | 1 | by Makhosi Sibanda
City cemeteries in bad state
Cemeteries are important elements of societies' collective history, religious beliefs, cultural and ethnic influences, community origins and landscape design principles, ...Published: 07 Apr 2014 at 21:46hrs | 8 | by Makhosi Sibanda
Mtshabezi High students excel in public speaking competition
STUDENTS from Mtshabezi High School in Gwanda dominated this year's Contemporary Affairs Foundation (CA-F) schools' public speaking challenge grand finale, with two boys coming first and second...Published: 15 Mar 2014 at 08:49hrs | 1 | by Makhosi Sibanda
Police defend use of spikes
Bulawayo police have have defended the actions of some traffic officers who spiked a commuter omnibus resulting in it overturning and injuring 16 passengers, saying "the spikes have been in use i...Published: 13 Mar 2014 at 20:38hrs | | by Makhosi Sibanda
Ndebele language under threat
The Ndebele language is under threat and risks becoming extinct amid concerns by its custodians that most teachers of the language in the country's primary schools do not speak it as their first ...Published: 11 Mar 2014 at 21:01hrs | | by Makhosi Sibanda
Grass Pastor cancels Bulawayo tour over security issues
The South African based preacher famed for making his congregants eat grass, Pastor Lesego Daniel of Rabboni Centre Ministries who was expected in Bulawayo for a two day crusade has cancelled his tri...Published: 26 Feb 2014 at 10:40hrs | | by Makhosi Sibanda
Bulawayo Council abandons its coffin selling business
The Bulawayo City Council has abandoned its coffin selling business, as it is not bringing in any profits, with no coffin sold in as many months.According to a confidential council report glea...Published: 19 Feb 2014 at 17:02hrs | | by Makhosi Sibanda
Witchcraft scare, woman to take the serpents to Beitbridge for rituals
Miriam Ndlovu, the owner of the Lobengula house where two huge snakes were found on Friday, in what is suspected to be an act of witchcraft, says she wants to take the serpents to Beitbridge, he...Published: 17 Feb 2014 at 21:40hrs | 7 | by Makhosi Sibanda
Grass Pastor not welcome, says Bulawayo residents
BULAWAYO residents have reacted angrily to the news that the South African pastor Lesego Daniel of Rabboni Centre Ministries who became popular after making his congregants eat grass, will grace ...Published: 16 Feb 2014 at 15:51hrs | | by Makhosi Sibanda
Grass Pastor heads for Bulawayo
The South African based preacher famed for making his congregants eat grass,Pastor Lesego Daniel of Rabboni Centre Ministries is expected in Bulawayo for a two day crusade.The pastor from Pr...Published: 13 Feb 2014 at 16:45hrs | | by Makhosi Sibanda
MP turns Parliament office into brothel
Mpopoma residents are up in arms with their House of Assembly representative, Bekithemba Nyathi, accusing him of exhibiting "uncouth behaviour and setting a bad example to other youths in the constitu...Published: 04 Feb 2014 at 16:56hrs | | by Makhosi Sibanda
'Bring your dead relatives for resurrection,' says Prophet Chiza
Bulawayo-based Prophet Blessing Chiza yesterday dared his Faith in God (FIG) Eagle Life Assembly flock to bring their dead relatives to the church so that he can ‘resurrect' them.Prophet mad...Published: 03 Feb 2014 at 14:37hrs | | by Makhosi Sibanda
Prophet Chiza foresaw 'furore' involving Warriors
The storm involving Bulawayo based Prophet Blessing Chiza, presently facing a public backlash for incorrectly predicting the Zimbabwean Warriors scoreline against Libya during the African Nations Cha...Published: 02 Feb 2014 at 14:31hrs | | by Makhosi Sibanda
Missing baby's mother enlists a sangoma
THE Mzilikazi woman whose seven-day old baby was stolen from her house by a stranger last week has enlisted the services of prophets and inyanga as part of efforts to recover her baby.In...Published: 15 May 2013 at 03:00hrs | | by Makhosi Sibanda
Woman kills daughter over 'boyfriends'
A DISCIPLINARY measure by a woman from Bulawayo's Pumula South suburb ended in tragedy when she allegedly killed her 15-year-old daughter for going out with "boyfriends".Bulawayo provincial sp...Published: 08 May 2013 at 03:20hrs | | by Makhosi Sibanda
Zimbabwe turns 33
THOUSANDS of Zimbabweans from all walks of life are today expected to converge at various centres to celebrate the country's 33rd Independence Day Anniversary.The main event will be held at th...Published: 18 Apr 2013 at 04:19hrs | | by Makhosi Sibanda and Pamela Shumba
Vendor attacks policeman
A vendor in Bulawayo’s Cowdray Park suburb took the law into his hands and attacked a policeman who was part of a group of officers raiding their stalls. The incident occurred on ...Published: 02 Dec 2010 at 09:10hrs | | by Makhosi Sibanda
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