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'Mnangagwa involved in blood rituals' Jonathan Moyo suggests
Exiled former G40 Kingpin Professor Jonathan Moyo has alleged that President Emmerson Mnangagwa is involved in black magic that might be the cause of the unexplained fires that are gutting various pla...Published: 4 hrs ago | 5494 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Goblins terrorise Makokoba residents
Residents of Makokoba suburb in Bulawayo are living in fear amid indications that some invisible objects suspected to be goblins are terrorising them especially at night and are now seeking divine int...Published: 5 hrs ago | 2030 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa's Post Cabinet media briefing - Full statement
The Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Monica Mutsvangwa addressed a Post Cabinet media briefing in the Cabinet room at Munhumutapa Building today.Mutsvangwa highligh...Published: 6 hrs ago | 1736 | by Staff reporter
National day of prayer set for 1 December
The Christian community in Zimbabwe has set 1 December as the National Day of Prayer in the wake of unexplained accidents and fires which have caused untold suffering to the people of Zimbabwe....Published: 6 hrs ago | 611 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe Airways loses one plane over delayed payment
Zimbabwe Airways, the controversial new state-owned airline being built with the help of aircraft retired by Malaysian Airways has lost one of the four Boeing 777-2H6(ER) aircraft that it had targeted...Published: 10 hrs ago | 1738 | by zimlive
Ginimbi's 'all-khaki party'
Businessman and socialite Genius "Ginimbi" Kadungure who spent the weekend in remand prison is now a subject of ridicule on social media.Famous for his expensive, flashy all-white parties mean...Published: 11 hrs ago | 4060 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Deadly fire burns Siyaso home industries
State Media has reported that Siyaso Home Industries has been gutted down by fire and several cars reportedly caught fire. The Harare City council have however said the fire has been contained....Published: 12 hrs ago | 6355 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mpilo, UBH to get facelift
MPILO Central and the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) will undergo massive renovations soon after the 2019 budget announcement to meet international standards, Minister of Health and Child Care Dr Oba...Published: 16 hrs ago | 336 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans rob,rape and kill South Africans?
There are unconfirmed reports that people speaking Shona language are terrorising people in neighbouring South Africa in a bid to rob, rape and kill them.Twitter whistleblower who use th...Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 10:35hrs | 4701 | by Mandla Ndlovu
PHOTOS: Airforce bus in head-on collision near Bindura
One person died on the spot when a Toyota sedan collided with an Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) bus some 5km outside Glendale along the Bindura-Harare highway.The driver of the Toyota Sedan, who ...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 19:00hrs | 5843 | by Staff Reporter
Train derails in Bulawayo
A train derailed near Cement Siding in Bulawayo on Saturday.A locomotive pulling another went off the railway tracks and under unclear circumstances, and they both overturned.The crew ...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 08:50hrs | 2384 | by zimlive
Smart Express driver locked up
THE Smart Express bus driver who fled the scene of the accident that killed 46 people – 45 of them on the spot – and later handed himself to police was on Monday denied bail by a Rusape magistrate...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 08:34hrs | 3883 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi Restoration takes Kambarami and MDC Alliance to court
Following our recent press release and media reports on the Movement's disgust and dissatisfaction over the disregard of law and due process by the respondents described above, 1893 Mthwakazi Restorat...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 08:25hrs | 1265 | by 1893 Mthwakazi Restoration Movement
Killer security guard jailed six months
A CHIPINGE security guard who in the course of duty, shot and killed a thief will taste freedom after the Mutare High court dropped murder charges and alternatively convicted him of culpable homicide ...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 07:59hrs | 535 | by Staff reporter
Smart Express owner speaks on juju use
STRONG talk doing rounds in the public sphere via social media claim that the recent spate of accidents involving Smart Express buses was a result of black magic or juju, which has now turned sour....Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 07:59hrs | 1264 | by Staff reporter
It was hell, says bus inferno survivor
ONIAS Ndlovu, a survivor of the Thursday night bus inferno near West Nicholson, has described the scene as one of absolute devastation and shock. Onias Ndlovu shows his hands Since then, Ndlov...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 07:50hrs | 982 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge - Masvingo highway closed
THE highway between Beitbridge and Masvingo will be temporarily closed today to allow for repairs on the railway line following an accident likely to cost Beitbridge-Bulawayo Railway (BBR) millions of...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 07:49hrs | 1451 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa finally declares West Nicholson accident a national disaster
Local Government minister July Moyo told journalists yesterday in Bulawayo that another person had died later on admission at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo, bringing the death toll to 33. ...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 07:47hrs | 345 | by Staff reporter
Bus inferno: 33 not 42 dead
The number of people burnt to death in a South Africa-bound bus on Thursday night has been revised downwards from 42 to 33 amid appeals for relatives of the dead to undergo DNA tests to help identify ...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 07:47hrs | 281 | by Staff reporter
Accident victims to be buried after two weeks
THE identification of the Brooklyn bus accident victims will take two weeks with the Government calling on families of the victims to be patient as authorities go about the meticulous process of ident...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 07:39hrs | 180 | by Staff reporter
'We saw fire consume fellow passengers'
A SOMBRE atmosphere fills the air as relatives and passers-by watch in disbelief at the charred remains of a bus which has somewhat been turned into a mass grave.The remains of people that hav...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 07:35hrs | 428 | by Staff reporter
Why has the West Nicholson accident not yet declared a national disaster?
President Mnangagwa has sent a message of condolence to families of 42 people who died on a Brooklyn Express bus which caught fire near West Nicholson in Matabeleland South Province on Thursday night ...Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 20:11hrs | 3993 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: SA registered kombi crushes at Khami road flyover
A South Africa registered vehicle overturned at Khami road flyover in Bulawayo on Saturday....Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 19:40hrs | 6072 | by Concerned Citizen
Minister visits bus burns victims
Matabeleland South Minister of State Abednico Ncube has been visiting some of the 24 people who suffered burns when a Brooklyn Express bus caught fire near West Nicholson on Thursday night.The...Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 12:18hrs | 833 | by zimlive
DNA profiling to identify burnt accident victims
GOVERNMENT will undertake DNA testing to identify victims of the accident that occurred near West Nicholson who were burnt beyond recognition on Thursday night. The National University of Scie...Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 06:35hrs | 516 | by Staff reporter
Official statement from Brooklyn Express on Gwanda bus disaster
Our heartfelt apologies go out to the relatives and families of the deceased whose lives were lost in an accident involving one of our Brooklyn express buses along the Bulawayo, Beitbridge highway. We...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 15:23hrs | 9089 | by Brooklyn Express
Mnangagwa mourns Gwanda bus disaster victims
President Emmerson has issued a condolence message mourning the victims of the bus disaster that occurred in Gwanda on Thursday night. At least 42 people were feared dead. Said Mnangagwa, "I w...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 13:33hrs | 3300 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Ginimbi involved in an accident before being arrested
Businessman Genius Kadungure was arrested on Thursday just hours after he was involved in an accident near Domboshava.Kadungure was grabbed by detectives as he left the Harare Magistrates Cour...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 06:21hrs | 7293 | by ZimLive
Tenager dies in scotch-cart accident
A WEDZA teenager died on the spot on Tuesday after a speeding ox-drawn scotch-cart overturned and hit him on the neck.Frank Muzvondiwa (17) of Sheffield Farm died on the spot while his colleag...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 05:50hrs | 1007 | by Staff reporter
8 injured in Siyepambili Drive accident
EIGHT people were injured after two vehicles collided at a controlled intersection in Nketa 7, Bulawayo yesterday. The accident occurred at the intersection of Nketa and Siyepambili Drives at around 7...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 05:37hrs | 1049 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa commissions police vehicles
President Mnangagwa yesterday commissioned 40 vehicles, the first batch from the 107 that have been bought to enhance the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP)'s operations. The vehicles, comprising ...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 05:24hrs | 1562 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to increase police highway patrols
Government will be stepping up police highway patrols to curb road carnage, Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa has said"Cabinet expressed grave concern over the recent road traffic acciden...Published: 15 Nov 2018 at 12:57hrs | 3744 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa disbanded MDC militia?
Nelson Chamisa's MDC yesterday claimed it has disbanded a youth-led outfit called The Order of the Vanguard (Vanguard).Describing it as "an otherwise peaceful and disciplined team of MDC youth...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 14:17hrs | 5576 | by Staff reporter
Derailed goods train still at crash site
The Beitbridge Bulawayo Railway Company (BBR) is still working on modalities to remove its crashed goods train and repair the damaged track at the rail-road crossing in the border town.It is D...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 11:12hrs | 2091 | by Staff reporter
A 'Operation restore citizen-power' only path to Zimbabwe's prosperity
As Zimbabwe commemorates last year's military intervention that led to the removal of long-time president Robert Gabriel Mugabe, and replaced by his then recently expelled deputy Emmerson Dambudzo Mna...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 08:56hrs | 992 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
WATCH: MDC Chamisa youths had a pistol and killed 2 people
EX-MDC MP Gabriel Chaibva returned Tuesday to haunt his erstwhile colleagues through sensational claims they armed some party youths to kill two people during the August 1 post-electoral violence....Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 07:38hrs | 5592 | by newzimbabwe
'MDC youths killed 2 people on 1 August'
Former MDC Spokesman and Leader of an NGO called Free & Fair Foundation Gabriel Chaibva has sensationally claimed that MDC youths had a pistol and since they did not know how to use it...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 12:56hrs | 7594 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa's private security details slammed
Many people - including MDC Alliance supporters - have regularly bemoaned the overzealousness and unnecessary heavy-handed approach of MDC leader Nelson Chamisa's private security details to their wor...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 10:59hrs | 4089 | by Staff reporter
MDC security chief summoned over Chamisa 'kidnap' scuffle
ZIMBABWE POLICE have summoned MDC President Nelson Chamisa's head of security for questioning in connection a dramatic tussle that saw the opposition leader survive what the party claims was a kidnap ...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 07:31hrs | 2797 | by Staff reporter
MDC fears for Chamisa's life
The MDC yesterday said it feared for the life of its leader Nelson Chamisa, whom it claimed has narrowly escaped kidnapping by suspected State security agents over the weekend. But the governm...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 06:25hrs | 2424 | by Staff reporter
VID to roll out electronic learner’s licence exams
The Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) will soon introduce electronic Provisional Drivers' Licence aptitude examinations as part of a raft of new measures to reduce rampant corruption in the acquis...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 05:43hrs | 553 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Another bus accident in Zimbabwe
Another bus accident in Zimbabwehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7XtU5TZzGo...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 17:50hrs | 6506 | by Staff reporter
Passerby killed as cars collide
FIVE people were injured yesterday when a Bulawayo-bound Extra City Bus from Victoria Falls veered off the road and overturned while a pedestrian died in Bulawayo when two cars collided at an intersec...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 17:30hrs | 1243 | by Staff reporter
MDC concerned about Chamisa's security
There is a continuous threat to President Nelson Chamisa's life and we note with concern a perpetual invasion of his privacy. While we understand that he is a public official, we are extremely w...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 10:52hrs | 2028 | by Jacob Mafume, MDC National Spokesperson
Chamisa faces assault probe
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa faces arrest after an unnamed person made a counter police report of attempted kidnapping and assault at Marondera Police Station.This came shortly after Chamisa's se...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 05:47hrs | 2718 | by Staff reporter
Survivors recall harrowing horror crash
SURVIVORS of the fatal accident involving Smart Express and Bolt Cutter buses — which killed 50 people — at the weekend recalled the harrowing experiences of the horror night and said the memories...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 05:43hrs | 3454 | by Staff reporter
Driver disappears after strange car crash
MYSTERY surrounds a suspected accident where a Mercedes Benz E class 450 plunged onto the railway line at the Emakhandeni fly-over in Bulawayo, forcing residents to panic and intercept a speeding good...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 05:23hrs | 1138 | by Staff reporter
Bus conductor jumps out of moving bus, run over
A BUS conductor from Nkayi died on the spot after he was run over by a bus when he jumped off the moving vehicle to run after a passenger.Mr Mayibongwe Ncube (21) of Mfume village, under Chief...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 20:12hrs | 6189 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge woman dies in freak accident
A WOMAN died on the spot while a man was seriously injured when a small sand-laden old truck ploughed into hitch-hikers in a freak accident at Beitbridge on Thursday.The injured man was rushed...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 11:12hrs | 1549 | by Staff reporter
'Most accidents attributed to human error, speeding'
THE newly-refurbished Plumtree-Mutare Highway has become Zimbabwe's deadliest road, with Wednesday's Rusape bus disaster, which claimed 50 lives being one of the many fatalities along the road....Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 11:09hrs | 236 | by Staff reporter
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