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Cabinet meetings by Ndaba Sibanda: A review by Banqobile Virginia Dakamela
The book kicks off with a scene featuring a technology-crazy old man who is drinking with a girl young enough to be his granddaughter. The old man's table manners do not endear him to the girl either....Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 12:13hrs | 4 | by Banqobile Virginia Dakamela
Mnangagwa two years on
THE Second Republic under President Mnangagwa has, in the two years of its span, recorded a number of milestones across sectors towards the achievement of Vision 2030 to transform the economy and impr...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 06:47hrs | 6 | by Nqobile Tshili, Nduduzo Tshuma and Prosper Ndlovu
Zimbabwe is the only country we have, please stop being so negative about it!
Memories that will Never Go. It was a day that l will never forget. Sitting in the classroom our teacher was busy teaching us. All of a sudden, we saw the whole school was covered in green and red. Se...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 10:49hrs | | by Sinqobile Sibanda
Endorsement of Military rule by AU and SADC
I hope in the near future the Lord's intervention in Zimbabwean politics would save lives given the current inhuman treatment of citizens which has been going on unabated for three solid decades is st...Published: 22 Jul 2018 at 10:29hrs | | by Sinqobile Sibanda
Letter from Zimbabwe
Dear Editor,This may seem like an everyday casual statement but I think this is the thinking of most Zimbabweans as they endure hard times while President Mugabe continues living his life in t...Published: 16 Mar 2017 at 11:27hrs | | by Sinqobile Ndlovu-Tessa
Mujuru falls sick, rushed to hospital
ZIMBABWE People First leader Dr Joice Mujuru fell ill over the weekend in Bulawayo and was rushed to Harare for treatment.Dr Mujuru was supposed to attend a People's Democratic Party (PDP) ral...Published: 13 Sep 2016 at 16:04hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Chinamasa calls for second National Skills Survey
THE Government has said the country needs to conduct a National Skills Survey (NSS) to identify any skills shortage and inform policy making and implementation activities. Presenting the Mid–ter...Published: 13 Sep 2016 at 16:00hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Nera confirm Western sponsorship
OPPOSITION parties under the banner, National Electoral Reform Agenda (NERA) yesterday confirmed their western sponsorship, which the Government has said is aimed at illegal regime change.This...Published: 12 Sep 2016 at 11:20hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili/Mashudu Netsianda
Civil servants say 'NO' to pay cuts
CIVIL servants have said it would be illegal for the Government to cut salaries and suspend bonuses for the next two years as part of austerity measures to bring the economy back on track.Yest...Published: 10 Sep 2016 at 08:16hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Industry commends Chinamasa
CAPTAINS of industry and economic analysts have commended Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa's boldness in tackling the country's economic challenges and called for speedy implementation of the propos...Published: 10 Sep 2016 at 08:11hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu and Nqobile Tshili
Hunger forces HIV patients to default on drugs
SOME people living with HIV are allegedly defaulting on antiretroviral (ARV) treatment due to food shortages in Bulawayo, a local HIV support group has said.Skipping the taking of the life-pro...Published: 08 Sep 2016 at 06:36hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Zanu-PF will never reform itself out of power, Prof Moyo declares
ZANU-PF has no intention of creating an environment that will ensure it loses elections, ruling party Politburo member and Cabinet Minister, Professor Jonathan Moyo, has said.He told journalis...Published: 06 Sep 2016 at 08:09hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Tsholotsho schools get help for science education
ZIBUNGULULU Secondary School in Tsholotsho North had gone for five years with no single candidate passing Ordinary Level public examinations until only one pupil managed to pass five subjects last yea...Published: 05 Sep 2016 at 06:49hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Zimbabwe partners Botswana, Mozambique in 2 000km project
THE Government has partnered Botswana and Mozambique in a $600 million project to roll out nearly 2 000km of railway line cutting across the three countries to facilitate trade. Ministers repr...Published: 03 Sep 2016 at 09:35hrs | 2 | by Nqobile Tshili
Zanu-PF MP a traditional healer
A man from Tsholotsho who allegedly killed his neighbour's son by hitting him on the head with a hammer before ripping his stomach open with a knife was being treated for a mental problem by Tsholotsh...Published: 01 Sep 2016 at 06:32hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Police arrest Barbourfields pitch invader
POLICE have arrested a 33-year-old man from Bulawayo's North End suburb who invaded the pitch at Barbourfields Stadium during a soccer match between Highlanders and How Mine on Sunday.The matc...Published: 30 Aug 2016 at 09:06hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
6-yr-old bludgeoned with hammer, gut ripped open
A TSHOLOTSHO man pounded his neighbour's six year-old son to death with a hammer before tying his body to a bicycle frame and ripping his stomach open with a knife.Thereafter, Lizwe Ncube alle...Published: 29 Aug 2016 at 06:59hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Illegal settlers given ultimatum
THE Government has given squatters nine days to vacate illegal rural settlements or risk being evicted and prosecuted.In a statement yesterday, the Minister of Lands and Rural Resettlement Dr ...Published: 29 Aug 2016 at 06:52hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Drug ring busted, 85kg mbanje seized
POLICE in Bulawayo have busted three suspected drug dealers, one of them a woman, and recovered 85kg of mbanje with a street value of about $86 000. Detectives arrested Simangeni Ndlovu (34), the ...Published: 27 Aug 2016 at 08:00hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
'Capacitate teachers for new curriculum'
THE Government has said practising teachers need to be retrained in preparation for the new education curriculum being introduced by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education next year. The Mini...Published: 26 Aug 2016 at 06:36hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Armed robbers hammer security guard
TWO armed robbers pounced on a Redan Fuel Station in Bulawayo's Mpopoma suburb and got away with $150 and a cellphone after attacking a security guard with a hammer.Police sources said the Mon...Published: 25 Aug 2016 at 08:02hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
HIV scare for 12 minors, Grade 6 pupil plays nurse, injects playmates
A GRADE Six pupil at a school in Bulawayo allegedly injected 12 children from Pelandaba suburb with an unknown substance, spreading panic among parents that the kids could have been infected with ...Published: 24 Aug 2016 at 06:35hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Death as kids drop grandpa into 23m well
A 75-YEAR-OLD man from Redwood in Umguza District died after he plunged headlong into a 23-metre deep well trying to retrieve a water bucket while being assisted by three children under the age of 15....Published: 24 Aug 2016 at 06:34hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
'Civil service posts freeze hurts education sector'
TWO schools in Matabeleland North have each been operating with one teacher taking Grades One to Six due to a Government freeze on posts.The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education said th...Published: 24 Aug 2016 at 06:31hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Police ban people from carrying dangerous weapons
POLICE in Bulawayo have banned people from carrying dangerous weapons in the city's western suburbs for the next three months.The ban starts today and ends on November 23.The police sa...Published: 23 Aug 2016 at 07:16hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Former Hillside principal Wilson Bako dies
FORMER Hillside Teachers' College principal and businessman Mr Wilson Garikai Bako has died.(image)He was 67.Mr Bako collapsed and died at his home in Bulawayo's Fortunes Gate suburb o...Published: 20 Aug 2016 at 09:47hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Girl (16) fights off would-be rapist
A 16-YEAR-OLD pupil at a Bulawayo school fought off a pirate Honda Fit driver who wanted to rape her by stabbing him with a pen before kicking his private parts. The teen boarded a black Honda...Published: 20 Aug 2016 at 08:45hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Bulawayo police arrest 210 'robbers' in two days
POLICE in Bulawayo arrested 210 suspects in just two days this week in connection with a series of theft cases that rocked the city recently. Detectives recovered stolen property worth thousan...Published: 20 Aug 2016 at 08:26hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Relatives of Gukurahundi victims urged to contact Ministry on reburials
RELATIVES of victims of political disturbances in the 1980s in Matabeleland and the Midlands provinces seeking to exhume remains of their family members for reburials should approach the Ministry ...Published: 19 Aug 2016 at 06:18hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
75% of plain robberies committed by Honda Fit drivers
POLICE in Bulawayo have said 75 percent of plain robberies that occurred in the city in July were committed by drivers of pirating Honda Fit vehicles.A total of 91 plain robbery cases were rec...Published: 18 Aug 2016 at 15:27hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Sikhanyiso Ndlovu estate offers BCC 20 hectares to settle debt
THE administrator of the late national hero and former Cabinet Minister Dr Sikhanyiso Ndlovu estate has offered the Bulawayo City Council over 20 hectares of land in Rangemore to offset a debt of over...Published: 18 Aug 2016 at 06:25hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Ex-Old Nic Mine workers owed 15 months salaries
FORMER Old Nic Mine workers in Bulawayo's Killarney suburb yesterday camped outside the company's premises demanding their 15 months outstanding salaries.Following a directive by Zesa to reduc...Published: 17 Aug 2016 at 08:26hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Ringleader arrested, 4 questioned over B/F violence
ONE person has been arrested while four others have been picked up for questioning in connection with skirmishes that erupted at Barbourfields Stadium in Bulawayo on Sunday.The violence starte...Published: 16 Aug 2016 at 07:14hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
War vets dump Mutsvangwa
THE Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association (ZNLWA) Matabeleland North provincial executive has broken ranks with the Christopher Mutsvangwa-led group as the fall-out over the communiqu...Published: 16 Aug 2016 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Nqobile Tshili
Jonathan Moyo sources fees for pupils from 11 schools
Tsholotsho North MP Professor Jonathan Moyo has sourced more than $10 000 to pay examination fees for Form Four pupils from 11 schools in the constituency. The pupils were in danger of failing to writ...Published: 15 Aug 2016 at 07:02hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
BCC introduces palisade fencing, to get rid of security guards
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has introduced palisade fencing, doing away with security guards, in a development expected to save the municipality about $1 million a year in overtime allowances. ...Published: 15 Aug 2016 at 06:48hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Civil servants August pay dates out
THE Government has announced civil servants' pay dates for this month, underlying its commitment to timeously fulfil its salary obligations to its workers.According to the payment schedule, me...Published: 13 Aug 2016 at 08:41hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili and Felex Share
Jonathan Moyo calls for policy review at polytechnics
THE Government has challenged polytechnics to start offering programmes that address community needs in line with the country's industrialisation and modernisation drive.Speaking during the Bu...Published: 12 Aug 2016 at 08:18hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Ndebele Kingdom on agenda as regional monarchs meet
THE Khumalo clan, who are descendants of King Lobengula, are in consultation with other Nguni monarchs on ways to revive the Ndebele State.The revival of the Ndebele kingdom has stirred contro...Published: 11 Aug 2016 at 08:11hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Zanu-PF stalwart's son commits suicide
A FORM Three pupil at Mpopoma High School, son to Bulawayo's Zanu-PF provincial secretary for information and publicity, allegedly committed suicide by hanging on Tuesday morning.Christopher S...Published: 11 Aug 2016 at 07:40hrs | 1 | by Nqobile Tshili
BCC agrees to provide Mbundane with water
THE Bulawayo City Council has agreed to a $2,1 million project to connect water and sewer services to suburbs on the outskirts of the city that fall under Umguza Rural District Council. Suburb...Published: 09 Aug 2016 at 07:35hrs | 1 | by Nqobile Tshili
Four held for gang rape of fourteen-year-old at party
BULAWAYO police have arrested four men, including a married nurse, who allegedly gang-raped a 14-year- old Form Two girl at a party.The incident happened last week on Thursday at a house in Ba...Published: 08 Aug 2016 at 10:16hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
3 bridesmaids injured in wedding eve crash
TRAGEDY struck a wedding party in Bulawayo yesterday when three bridesmaids sustained injuries after a vehicle they were travelling in veered off the road and plunged into a ditch. The bride, ...Published: 08 Aug 2016 at 06:47hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
'Zimra scaring away SMES'
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority has been slammed for being too heavy handed, thereby causing businesses to hide earnings to evade tax. The National Assembly heard recently that exorbitant taxes and the...Published: 06 Aug 2016 at 11:19hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Ex-BCC accountant wanted for $100k stands swindle
POLICE are looking for a former Bulawayo City Council accountant for allegedly swindling home seekers of $108 000 in a bogus residential stands scheme.Freddy Ndabalime Dube (42) allegedly misr...Published: 05 Aug 2016 at 07:04hrs | 1 | by Nqobile Tshili
Businessman arrested over gang violence
PROMINENT Esigodini businessman, Baron Dube has been arrested for allegedly inciting a group of illegal gold panners to attack his rivals in a fight to control goldfields.Dube (41) and Mthulis...Published: 30 Jul 2016 at 09:42hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili and Mashudu Netsianda
MDC-T to counter #ThisFlag Pastor
DESPERATE MDC-T has launched a crusade named #My Zimbabwe campaign, apparently to counter Pastor Evan Mawarire's #ThisFlag movement which has overshadowed opposition parties on social media. This ...Published: 27 Jul 2016 at 07:59hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Surge in thefts
PROPERTY worth over $2 million was stolen in Bulawayo between April and June this year with police saying there was a steady increase in theft cases within the three months. Police said in...Published: 27 Jul 2016 at 07:54hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Usiphatheleni loses $10 000
AN usiphatheleni (illegal forex dealer) allegedly lost more than $10 000 to thieves who broke into his car outside his flat in Bulawayo's Paddonhurst suburb. Benard Moyo is said to have parked...Published: 23 Jul 2016 at 13:11hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Woman slits newborn baby's throat soon after giving birth
A WOMAN from Mpopoma suburb in Bulawayo has been arrested for allegedly killing her newborn baby, minutes after giving birth. Alaika Dube (21) is said to have given birth to a baby boy at home...Published: 23 Jul 2016 at 07:50hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
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