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Fear grips Maphisa after mine spillage
The usually calm and serene community of Maphisa in Matobo District is currently on edge following a suspected chemical spillage from the Nevada 24 Mine dump site that has led to the contamination of ...Published: 22 Apr 2025 at 08:04hrs | 345 | by Staff reporter
Rampant deforestation blamed for climate change
The Africa Carbon Forum (formerly the Africa Voluntary Carbon Credits Market Forum, or AVCCMF) has blamed the rampant cutting down of trees and irresponsi...Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 07:09hrs | 120 | by Stephen Jakes
'Sadc must probe Dr Mumba'
SADC must immediately investigate the conduct of the head of its election observer mission to Zimbabwe, Dr Nevers Mumba, for attempting to aid illegal regime change in the country through fomenting a ...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere charms Zapu
SELF-EXILED independent presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere has charmed the opposition Zapu after he promised to return the party's properties seized by the Zanu-PF governemnt in the 1980s...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 13:21hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Cowdray Park race wide open
Bulawayo commentators say the battle for Cowdray Park constituency is an open contest with aspiring candidates such as Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, not guaranteed a victory.Ncube has spent b...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 10:36hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
BCC faces 7-day parking fee protests
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) and its vehicle parking management company face a week-long protest over high parking charges beginning Monday.The vehicle parking management company, Tendy Three I...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 06:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo motorists threaten CBD parking boycott
BULAWAYO's business community and motorists say they will boycott parking in the central business district in protest over the new pricing system introduced by Tendy Three Investment (TTI) and the cit...Published: 26 May 2023 at 18:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Call for suspension of Zimbabwe's 2023 polls
PEACE activist, pastor and businessman Anglistone Sibanda says the Zanu-PF-led government should consider postponing this year's polls because the situation on the ground demands it.Sibanda ma...Published: 03 Apr 2023 at 06:33hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
What happens to pupils who fail O-Level exams?
THE debate on the just released 2022 Ordinary Level examination results saw one central question popping up: what will happen to the over 70 percent of pupils who did not pass at least five ordinary l...Published: 13 Feb 2023 at 05:19hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Nkomo's son warms up to Zapu presidency
SIBANGILIZWE Nkomo, the son of the late Father Zimbabwe and former VicePresident Joshua, has warmed up to the proposals to elect him Zapu president following the death of Dumiso Dabengwa in 2019....Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 06:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo firm commercialises umsuzwane herb
A BULAWAYO company, Green Afrique Technologies, has ventured into processing green tea using umsuzwane/zumbani to promote local herbal remedies for various respiratory ailments.Umsuzwane recen...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 15:57hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Call for revival of Bulawayo industry
CIVIL society organisations have called on the government to formulate a policy aimed at reviving industries in Bulawayo.Zimbabwe's second largest city used to be an industrial hub before a co...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bhebhe in bid to stop MDC-T extraordinary congress
Expelled former MDC-T National Organising Secretary, Abednico Bhebhe has filed an urgent application at the Bulawayo High Court in an attempt to stop the party's extraordinary congress, set for this S...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Plumtree road fencing tender reeks of corruption
CIVIC society organisations (CSOs) have raised concern over the $320 000 Plumtree road fencing tender process, which they think was not transparent after villagers complained of a shoddy job.T...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe declared winner in MDC-T presidential nomination poll
The independent Election Management Body that conducted MDC-T's provincial presidential nomination election in Bulawayo last week declared interim party leader Thokozani Khupe the winner, despite repo...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's 'tribal' boards raises a stink
Civil society groups and political parties have accused the government of side-lining people from Matabeleland when appointing boards for parastatals and perpetuating the marginilisation of the region...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 14:25hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Plot to oust Bulawayo councillors thickens
A controversial activist is mobilising support for the ouster of Bulawayo councillors so that they could be replaced by a government-appointed commission.Anglistone Sibanda of the government-a...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 18:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa compares self to Biblical David?
Movement for Democratic Change leader Nelson Chamisa says his continued call for street confrontation against the Zanu-PF led government was not at odds with his calling as a pastor, NewZimbabwe.com r...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 09:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa should leave for Syria if he is serious with causing violence
Churches and Civil Society Forum chairperson Anglistone Sibanda has blasted MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa for his confrontational attitude and has urged the firebrand opposition chief to make a conscious...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 08:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hints on Dabengwa hero's status
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has strongly hinted that the former Zipra intelligence supremo and Zapu leader Dumiso Dabengwa will be declared a national hero following his death in Nairobi, Kenya, yest...Published: 24 May 2019 at 06:51hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Top Pastor blasts Jonathan Moyo
Exiled former cabinet Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has come under fire from a prominent Bulawayo pastor Anglistone Themba Sibanda who is accusing him of grandstanding over Gukurahundi genocide. ...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 13:17hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
'ZANU PF did not steal anything in Chimanimani'
Bulawayo based Pastor Anglistone T. Mthiyane Sibanda has absolved ZANU PF from allegations that its officials have been looting aid meant for victims of Cyclone Idai in Chipinge and Chimanimani. ...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 16:38hrs | 5 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Govt under fire over plans to scrap 'useless' degrees
CIVIC society, human rights groups and students have slammed government plans to scrap what it termed "useless" degrees from State universities, saying the move might impact negatively on those that h...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 07:27hrs | 2 | by Staf reporter
Chiwenga must be deported back to Zimbabwe
DISGRUNTLED Zimbabweans living in South Africa yesterday ratcheted up pressure on President Cyril Ramaphosa's government to deport Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, who was reportedly admitted to a...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 06:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Who will guard the guards themselves?' - without the rule of law, no one; hence our mess
All who blame the barbarism of the Police and Army of the last two weeks on the stay-away organisers, the street protesters and/or looters have missed the point completely. The point being that Zimbab...Published: 02 Feb 2019 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'SADC, AU have let us down'
OPPOSITION political parties and civic groups have called on the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) and the African Union (AU) to drop brotherhood approach which is preventing them from eff...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 09:45hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC-Alliance fingered
Civic Society and Churches Joint Forum (CSCJF) - a human rights organisation - yesterday said MDC-Alliance and its affiliate non-governmental organisations were to blame for last week's violent demons...Published: 26 Jan 2019 at 17:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Youths beat up church and civic society members in parliament
There was pandemonium in parliament on Tuesday when angry MDC Youths clad in party regalia came and beat up some petitioners whom they accused of belonging to one of the factions in the MDC-Alli...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 13:37hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Linda Masarira disowns article...fingers pastor
MDC-T spokesperson Linda Masarira has disowned an article that is making rounds on social media which is attacking civic society and MDC as being the problems that are behind the Zimbabwean crisis. Ma...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 11:58hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Matemadanda torches storm
MDC Bulawayo provincial spokesperson Felix Magalela Sibanda yesterday lambasted the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) secretary-general Victor Matemadanda over his comment...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 05:59hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Elected officials not your bosses'
CHURCH and Civic Society Joint Forum (CSCJF) has urged Zimbabweans to stop calling elected officials "bosses", indicating that this has ruined the nation as the all-too-powerful and invincible politic...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 06:17hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Push for citizens' participation in governance issues
CHURCHES have joined hands with civic society organisations (CSOs) to roll up an educational programme aimed at mobilising citizens to increase their participation in governance issues and stop leavin...Published: 02 Oct 2018 at 09:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa must take responsibility for shootings'
CIVIC society organisations (CSOs) and opposition political parties yesterday challenged President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa to take responsibility for the fatal shooting of seven civilians by soldiers...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 06:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Khupe fights cost opposition votes
CIVIC society groups based in Matabeleland have blamed the two warring MDC-T factions, led by Nelson Chamisa (left) and Thokozani Khupe (right), for selling out their parliamentary seats to the ruling...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 07:42hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
CSOs, political parties condemn Njelele bombing
CIVIC Society Organisations (CSOs) and political parties have sternly condemned the bombing and desecration of the sacred Njelele rainmaking shrine, a traditional and cultural heritage site, in Matobo...Published: 07 Jul 2018 at 09:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Churches were given $1,5m to comply with NPRC programmes'
Shalom Project Trust director Anglistone Sibanda has challenged the Mthwakazi Republic Party to prove its claims that the church bodies were given $1,5 million to comply with the National Peace and Re...Published: 01 Mar 2018 at 07:56hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mthwakazi activists accused of misdirecting their anger
CHRISTIAN lobby group, Shalom Project Trust, has rapped Mthwakazi activists for disrupting a National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) outreach programme in Lupane on Monday, describing the ...Published: 28 Feb 2018 at 06:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Disruption of gukurahundi commission meetings worrisome
THE recent disruption of national healing consultative meetings by separatist Mthwakazi Republic Party activists, is a worrisome development and should be condemned in the strongest terms.The ...Published: 28 Feb 2018 at 05:45hrs | | by newsday
Shalom Project Trust condemns attack on Khupe
Shalom Project Trust director Anglistone Sibanda has condemned in strongest terms the tribal and physical attack on MDC-T Vice President Thokozani Khupe by party's acting President Nelson Chamisa's su...Published: 23 Feb 2018 at 07:23hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Misihairabwi-Mushonga a championing Matabeleland concerns
OPPOSITION parties and civil society groups in Matabeleland have saluted Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga, MDC's proportional representation legislator for Matabeleland South, for single-handedly champ...Published: 11 Oct 2017 at 17:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Vote Tsvangirai, raise objections later'
THE recently-launched MDC Alliance risks giving Zanu-PF an easy victory in next year's elections if opposition parties in the coalition deal fail to urgently address internal fissures centred around s...Published: 07 Sep 2017 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Axe hangs over Sandi-Moyo
Provincial Affairs minister Eunice Sandi-Moyo's future in President Robert Mugabe's government hangs in the balance after pressure was brought to bear on her to resign from her position in the powerfu...Published: 05 Jul 2017 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
A Sibanda 'demand reforms before elections' - get Shalom Project to come out of the closet!
Dear Anglistone SibandaThank you very much for your insightful article "A Case for reforms ahead of the 2018 watershed elections" in The Zimbabwean. Whilst most people have made the mistake of...Published: 25 May 2017 at 21:24hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Student in gun suicide after accident
A 28-year-old National University of Science and Technology (Nust) student allegedly shot himself and died at his Hillside suburb lodgings in Bulawayo after being involved in a road accident in th...Published: 12 Mar 2017 at 09:17hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Regional focused political parties doomed - analysts
THE mushrooming of more opposition political parties in Zimbabwe ahead of next year's general elections is not adding any value to people, but are just projects of individuals trying to push their...Published: 05 Feb 2017 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe birthday bash moved to Cecil John Rhodes' school
IN an ironic twist, President Robert Mugabe's birthday bash has been moved from Matopos National Park to the Rhodes Estate Preparatory School (Reps), named after Cecil John Rhodes, who spearheaded...Published: 04 Feb 2017 at 12:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwanda activist blast Linda Massara
Gwanda based Human Rights activist Bekezela Fuzwayo has lashed out as a fellow activist Linda Masara for claiming that Ndebeles are cowards.He said this is disgusting to say the least....Published: 16 Dec 2016 at 07:07hrs | 3 | by Stephen Jakes
'I will take Mujuru to Bhalagwe' - Apostle Anglistone Sibanda
Popular Bulawayo Apostle cum activist Anglistone Sibanda has vowed that he will take Zimbabwe People First President Joice Mujuru on a controversial trip to Bhalagwe Gukurahundi mass graves site....Published: 18 Sep 2016 at 19:05hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Joshua Nkomo's son blasts politicians
BULAWAYO - Late vice president Joshua Nkomo's son, Sibangilizwe Nkomo, has said politicians have lost their way unlike his father who united Zimbabweans across the political divide during and after th...Published: 21 Jul 2016 at 10:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Youth to ignore Independence Day celebrations
Most Bulawayo residents have said this years independence day is not worth celebrating due to grinding poverty.The country turns 36 on Monday Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association...Published: 14 Apr 2016 at 13:09hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
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