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Airtime vendors sue police for US$120,000
Three airtime vendors from Masvingo have filed lawsuits against the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) and the Ministry of Home Affairs, each seeking US$40 000 in damages for unlawful arrest and malicious...Published: 17 Aug 2025 at 12:09hrs | 440 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa critic set free
The assault case against former Zanu-PF member Sybeth Musengezi has been withdrawn by a Harare magistrate due to the absence of the key state witness.Musengezi faced charges of assaultin...Published: 22 Jun 2025 at 09:11hrs | 398 | by Staff reporter
Trio defrauds Econet US$54 800
Three airtime vendors from Mutare have appeared in court facing allegations of stealing US$54,863 through a sophisticated EcoCash airtime scam after allegedly discovering a system loophole that allowe...Published: 17 May 2025 at 12:15hrs | 214 | by Staff reporter
Are Zanu-PF and ANC Siamese twins?
BIOLOGICAL Siamese twins, are those born conjoined to each other, usually at the chest, pelvis or backside. Their conjoinment, unfortunately, is not of their own making.This results from parti...Published: 24 May 2023 at 06:03hrs | 3 | by Mutemo Pisa
Econet unveils international airtime transfer service
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe has launched an international airtime transfer service that allows Zimbabweans living in South Africa to buy airtime for their family and friends back home.The innovat...Published: 15 Sep 2022 at 21:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Econet launches 'Smart US dollar Bundles'
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe yesterday launched ‘Smart US Dollar Bundles' that will allow its customers to buy airtime, data and SMS products in US dollars. The company said the development, whi...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans plot to boycott over-pricing shops
BEITBRIDGE residents have threatened to boycott shops and service providers they feel are unfairly overpricing goods and services.The residents, who have formed social media groups, also want ...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe parliament sets up enquiry into mobile data costs
PARLIAMENT will next month institute an enquiry into mobile data costs amid concerns from consumers that network operators have astronomically raised charges.In an interview, Parliamentary Por...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 07:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
30 July: Zanu-PF has lost the battle for common sense
In an intelligent but unpublished BA Honours dissertation titled "The Challenges faced by Opposition parties in rural Zimbabwe: The case of MDC in Gutu South, 2000-2006", John Mutumburanzou examines t...Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 07:24hrs | 3 | by Munyaradzi Ziburawa
'New dispensation', same old lies
Ag shame! On the 6th of July I came across a shockingly screaming newspaper headline ED creates 60 000 jobs, I was in the sprawling border town of Beitbridge.Being one not to quickly believe o...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 07:43hrs | 1 | by Ishemunyoro Mupokosera
'New dispensation', same old lies
Ag shame! On the 6th of July I came across a shocking Sunday Mail headline screaming ED creates 60,000 jobs. I was in the sprawling border town of Beitbridge. Being one not to quickly believe or write...Published: 22 Jul 2018 at 09:44hrs | 6 | by Ishemunyoro Mupokosera: MDC Alliance Candidate for Mudzi South Constituency
Econet demands cash payments from airtime vendors
ECONET Wireless Zimbabwe, the largest mobile network operator in the country, is demanding cash payments only from airtime dealers in a move that has sparked outrage from airtime vendors in Bulawayo....Published: 25 Oct 2017 at 06:22hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Is Zimbabwe opposition ready to remove Mugabe regime?
For 37 years Zimbabweans have endured ZANU rule. Are things about to change? For any political party that is serious about dislodging ZANU PF from power the first step should be to gain an indepth...Published: 23 Sep 2017 at 20:03hrs | 1 | by Sakhile Sibanda
'Day time' prostitution rife in city
WHILE the so-called oldest profession usually takes place under the cover of the night daring teens in Bulawayo have established their own prostitution rings that operate in broad daylight, a Sunday N...Published: 28 May 2017 at 09:14hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Plastic money puts airtime vendors out of business
Thousands of Airtime vendors are crying foul as the cashless society is slowly coming into existence in Zimbabwe.Vendors who spoke to Bulawayo24.com in Harare and Bulawayo respectively bemoane...Published: 04 May 2017 at 21:12hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Starting a mobile phone repair business
LAST week I had an opportunity to visit a reputable mobile phone service centre in Harare and yes it was quite a revelation. Having spent more of my working career around software, computers, laptops,...Published: 25 Apr 2017 at 13:58hrs | 1 | by Robert Ndlovu
Zimbabweans now taxed to death
President Robert Mugabe's cash-strapped government is going for broke - slapping long-suffering poor Zimbabweans with a raft of new taxes in its desperate efforts to raise revenue to meet its obligati...Published: 02 Apr 2017 at 18:29hrs | | by John Kachembere
Pick n Pay, OK Zimbabwe reject new bond notes in early trade
Zimbabwean supermarkets rejected the newly-introduced bond notes in early trade on Monday, despite banks offering the local currency to depositors and excitement on the streets of Harare, ...Published: 28 Nov 2016 at 12:52hrs | 4 | by Fin24.com
Mphoko's Choppies gives away 14 cars
FOURTEEN lucky shoppers went away with a car each in the Choppies Zimbabwe national promotion draw which was attended by hundreds of people at Nkulumane Shopping Complex in Bulawayo yesterday....Published: 20 Nov 2016 at 12:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Of stayaways and demos via #tag movements
The stay away called for 31st of August 2016 by the now famous Hash tag aligned movements took off to a slow start so far in Bulawayo. A quick survey of Bulawayo's eGodini terminus or City Hall showed...Published: 01 Sep 2016 at 10:24hrs | | by Mangosuthu Mbele
Zimbabweans ignore stay-away calls, claims ZBC
As expected, ZBC decided to turn a blind eye on the protests and they viewed it differently. In its report, ZBC insinuates that all business was normal through out the country. Below is its re...Published: 06 Jul 2016 at 17:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mobile phone operators ordered to scrap the use of airtime scratch cards
MOBILE telephone operators are headed for a clash with the Government after they failed to heed a December directive which had set June as the deadline to scrap the use of airtime scratch cards as par...Published: 26 Jun 2016 at 19:15hrs | 2 | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Confidence in rand plummets among Zimbabweans
CONFIDENCE in the South African rand continues to plummet in Bulawayo as businesses are inflating its cross rate against the United States dollar to discourage people from using it.The officia...Published: 14 Jan 2016 at 05:30hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
Elnino effect a blessing in disguise for Zimbabwe
The current dry spell being experienced in Zimbabwe and other southern African countries which is attributed to the Elnino effect will definitely act as a precipitant to a revolution in Zimbabwe the s...Published: 08 Jan 2016 at 07:41hrs | 2 | by Musavengana Hove and Edward Dzimbanhete
Airtime, sweets vendors to pay monthly rentals in Bulawayo
Bulawayo City Council is set to erect thousands of special vending bays for airtime, newspaper dealers in the central business district and charge monthly rentals in a move seen as efforts to raise mo...Published: 04 Nov 2015 at 15:31hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Telecel employees' statement on cancellation of licence
STATEMENT BY TELECEL ZIMBABWE (PVT) LTD EMPLOYEES ON THE CANCELLATION OF THE NATIONAL CELLULAR TELECOMMUNICATIONS LICENCE BY THE POSTAL AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS REGULATO...Published: 04 May 2015 at 12:04hrs | | by Telecel Zimbabwe (Pvt) Ltd Employees
Mugabe destroying Zimbabwe's last treasure
Lectures and non-teaching staffs at state universities have put tools down again over non-payments of December bonuses and February salaries.The resumption of the strike by Lecturers marks...Published: 17 Mar 2015 at 10:36hrs | 1 | by Musavengana Hove
Zimbabwean youths want jobs not Border Gezi
President Robert Mugabe recently announced the re-establishment of the youth service.The last memory Zimbabweans have of the initiative is of a militant Zanu-PF aligned gang infamous for t...Published: 10 Mar 2015 at 12:07hrs | 1 | by Musavengana Hove
Mphoko out of touch with reality
FEARS that Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko was out of touch with the plight of Zimbabweans, having spent so much time abroad as a diplomat, were confirmed last week during his charm-offensive in the...Published: 30 Jan 2015 at 09:54hrs | | by Stewart Chabwinja
Olonga returns to Zimbabwe
Speed was essential to the Olonga boys. It was an inborn thing, and ran deep through their veins.At the time Henry Olonga was considered the quickest bowler in the Zimbabwe cricket t...Published: 18 Jan 2015 at 10:39hrs | 63 | by Staff reporter
Truck driver: What is happening at kazungula? - WhatsApp
Please note that Bulawayo24 does not edit WhatsApp updates. We publish them as sent by our readers and we do not disclose the sender's telephone number. ...Published: 30 Jul 2014 at 11:24hrs | 1 | by Concerned Citizen
Airtime and street vendors to pay $1 a day State levy
It has been reported that the Zimbabwe government is planning to step up its revenue collection efforts with a crackdown on all informal traders.According to TechZim, this blitz will also rope...Published: 29 Jul 2014 at 17:35hrs | | by TechZim
Zimbabwe's clueless Parliamentarians
When university graduates sell airtime on street corners to survive while grade two drop-outs discuss national issues in parliament, the results are too ghastly to contemplate. However, when a univers...Published: 07 Jul 2014 at 14:35hrs | 1 | by Moses Chamboko
'Prophet' flees angry mob after a stage-managed healing event
A BOGUS Pentecostal pastor, fled an angry mob recently at the popular Egodini rank in Bulawayo after his fake miracles were exposed when one of the "healed cripples" who was used to stage-manage the e...Published: 15 Jun 2014 at 09:00hrs | 11 | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Workers' Day Message from Oliver Mtukudzi
Fellow Zimbabweans,About two weeks ago our country celebrated the 34th anniversary of its hard won independence. It was indeed a time for all of us to pause and reflect on the journey we h...Published: 30 Apr 2014 at 09:38hrs | 1 | by Oliver Mtukudzi
Foreign currency dealer shot dead
A group of armed robbers shot and killed a foreign currency dealer in Ngungu, Masvingo on Boxing Day.Police have arrested the two suspects (names withheld) and recovered part of th...Published: 26 Dec 2013 at 17:48hrs | | by Staff Reporter
King Mzilikazi Reloaded: A story of how we begin to remember
"NO NO NO I will never say progress is being made....If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches there's no progress..you pull it all out ...Published: 23 Apr 2013 at 06:07hrs | 39 | by Tshepo Mabalane Mabalane
Another armed robber shot in the stomach during a shoot-out
Notorious armed robber Richard Timba's road ended on Saturday afternoon when he was nabbed after a shoot-out with detectives in Queensdale.Timba (48) failed to evade the alert detectives as th...Published: 08 Jan 2013 at 11:22hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
The Zimbabwe economy: new perspectives
The fascinating development over the last five years or so has been the emergence of a static and retrogressive first economy accompanied, surprisingly, by a somewhat resilient second economyI...Published: 14 Jul 2012 at 07:48hrs | | by Vince Musewe
Teacher, Fake policeman, Robber gets three and half years behind bars
A fake policeman, Chenjerai Masviba (33) from Hurungwe who robbed two airtime vendors a total of US$315 worth of air time and US$292 cash, has been jailed an effective three and half years.Ma...Published: 07 Nov 2011 at 22:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Army, ZRP Besiege Court
MEMBERS of the Zimbabwe National Army and the Zimbabwe Republic Police have besieged Bulawayo's Tredgold Magistrate Courts after information leaked the prosecutors and magistrates were planning a demo...Published: 11 Oct 2011 at 13:35hrs | 1 | by Bekithemba Nhlanhla Ncube
Zimbabwe banks ready to issue out new US dollar bills
Zimbabwe Banks are ready to issue out new US dollar bills to replace old, dirty and defaced notes in circulation if the public and corporates deposit the money, the Bankers Association of Zimbabwe has...Published: 13 Jul 2011 at 00:29hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Frustrated vendor urinates in policeman’s hat
An airtime vendor, Margaret Maromoavabvunza from Mucheke suburb was handed a suspended three-month jail term by a magistrate here after she was convicted of criminal assault for stripping before urina...Published: 03 Jul 2011 at 21:30hrs | 2 | by Moyo Roy
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