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WATCH: Alleged Plumtree witch violently bashed by Tsikamutandas in Matobo
A disturbing video has surfaced on social media showing two youthful men who describe themselves as traditional healers beating up an elderly woman, whom they accuse of being a witch, with tree ...Published: 4 hrs ago | 896 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Zimbabwe's female politicians having it rough'
SMALL and Medium Enterprises minister Sithembiso Nyoni says female politicians are struggling to get into top positions compared to their male counterparts, which is why female legislators occupy less...Published: 13 hrs ago | 260 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Air Force of Zimbabwe pilots
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday described the death of two Air Force of Zimbabwe senior pilots in a plane crash as unexpected, saying the nation had been robbed of experienced and committed officers....Published: 13 hrs ago | 402 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga 'bound by blood'?
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa and his deputy, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, are "bound by blood" and often laugh off "idiots" who try to sow divisions between them by alleging a non-existent rivalry....Published: 13 hrs ago | 754 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC says structures are old fashioned
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) says it will not be coaxed by Zanu-PF into forming party structures because the formations are "old fashioned".Since its formation in January...Published: 06 Feb 2023 at 04:55hrs | 657 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe starts stockpiling lithium, says Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe has to do more than ban export of lithium and other ores, insisting on processing locally before export, but now needs focused research and development towards transforming ores into domestic...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 23:40hrs | 2223 | by Staff Reporter
'I was told to stop supporting Mnangagwa'
WE today conclude our interview with Elphas Tshuma, a former guerilla who operated in Hurungwe in Mashonaland West Province and later on in Hwange in Matabeleland North. Tshuma, now a member of the ru...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 08:27hrs | 755 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in Lupane on National Youth Day
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is expected to be the guest of honour at this year's National Youth Day commemorations that will be held in Lupane where more than 5 000 youths from across the country will converg...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 08:26hrs | 118 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe maize harvest to hit three million tonnes?
Zimbabwe is poised to record its largest-ever maize harvest this year, with preliminary assessments indicating that production could hit three million tonnes.The previous record maize haul was...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 08:25hrs | 232 | by Staff reporter
Guruve Arts Marimba ensemble leaves for India
Traditional group Guruve arts Marimba ensemble left on Thursday to India for the 36th Surajkundi international craft mela festival.The ...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 06:31hrs | 186 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Fearless editor who first exposed the Gukurahundi killings
While there were a few local Zimbabwean journalists writing for periodicals and foreign correspondents like Peter Godwin for the Sunday Times (UK) and some filing for...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:11hrs | 578 | by Stephen Bates
Zimbabwe after Robert Mugabe
This opinion-editorial piece was written by Japhet Ncube, a Zimbabwean-born former editor of South African daily, The Star, in November 2017 during the coup which ousted the late former president Robe...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:10hrs | 294 | by Japhet Mathanda Ncube
Mubobobo man rubs manhood against woman in bank queue
A WOMAN who was queuing at a bank in the city centre nearly jumped out of her skin when she felt something hard and slimy sliding up and down her back.To her horror, when she turned to check, ...Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 19:15hrs | 1994 | by Staff reporter
Two pilots die as aircraft crashes in Gweru
Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) trainer aircraft crashed in Gweru, killing two pilots today.AFZ Wing Commander Donovan Muroyiwa said the AFZ SF260 trainer aircraft crashed in the Mlezu college gen...Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 15:13hrs | 897 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Business of Arts seminar for SADC artists planned
Upcoming music and film label Zhomba Entertainment is set to host a Business of Arts seminar for artists which is meant to empower artists on the business side of the entertainment industry.Th...Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 09:16hrs | 142 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF Matabeleland North starts campaigns for Mnangagwa
ZANU-PF Matabeleland North province has officially launched campaigns for President Mnangagwa as the sole party's candidate in this year's Presidential election amid calls for all party members to...Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 06:54hrs | 216 | by Staff Reporter
Councillors force premature Egodini Terminus opening
BULAWAYO councillors have resolved to open Basch Street Bus Terminus, popularly known as Egodini, for transport operators and vendors before construction has been completed as the project has dragged ...Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 06:50hrs | 2463 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo pursues Municipal Bank dream
THE Bulawayo City Council has renewed its interest in establishing a Municipal Bank by broadening its scope in harnessing more insights from knowledgeable players towards setting up the finance instit...Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 06:48hrs | 445 | by Staff Reporter
Sex workers abused by police officers beg ZRP boss to intervene
LEGISLATORS have tasked the Economic Justice Women's Project (EJWP) to urgently facilitate an engagement meeting with the Commissioner General of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP)Godwin Matanga to ir...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 08:30hrs | 1217 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's $5 000 withdrawal limit no longer adequate'
THE transacting public has implored the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to consider increasing cash withdrawal limits saying the weekly $5 000 cap is no longer convenient given the exchange rate moveme...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 08:24hrs | 503 | by Staff reporter
KeYona TV starts fully fledged programming
KeYona TV yesterday started broadcasting live fully fledged programming with soapies such as Umntakabhudi and a morning show called New Dawn.KeYona TV which was officially launched in December...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 08:24hrs | 332 | by Staff reporter
'Civil servants forced to buy Zanu-PF cards'
Civil servants in some parts of the country have protested over what they have described as "coercion" by the ruling Zanu-PF party to buy the ruling party's membership cards at US$3 each.To av...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 07:44hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe desperately needs leadership renewal
GOOD day President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, as you are quite aware, the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) symbolises the antiquity of State-owned public institutions. It is ground...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 07:43hrs | 365 | by Cyprian Ndawana
Theileriosis kills hundreds of cattle in Matabeleland South
A widow and farmer Mrs Thulani Mpofu is left with only an empty kraal and cattle bells after Theileriosis, which has claimed hundreds of cattle in Insiza District, Matabeleland South Province, and the...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 07:41hrs | 237 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Govt declares quarantine... sends chemicals to contain disease
A widow and farmer Mrs Thulani Mpofu is left with only an empty kraal and cattle bells after Theileriosis, which has claimed hundreds of cattle in Insiza District, Matabeleland South Province, and the...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 00:01hrs | 1150 | by Staff Reporter
Reflecting on the export ban for raw lithium
Through Statutory Instrument 213 of 2022 (Referend to as Base Minerals Export Control for unbeneficiated Lithium Bearing Ores), Zimbabwe banned the export of raw lithium from the country. The regulati...Published: 31 Jan 2023 at 09:12hrs | 1422 | by Victor Bhoroma
Miner in bid to appease Zanu-PF
CHINESE company Chenjxi (Private) Limited, which was in partnership with a local miner exposed by The NewsHawks last year in April after conducting illegal mining activities on part of the picturesque...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:53hrs | 1237 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tightens the noose
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has started restricting operations of non-governmental organisations ahead of this year's elections as fears continue to grow that it will use ame...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:17hrs | 787 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans danced when Mugabe fell, now life is worse than ever
For Jasmine Toffa, the hardest moment of her life was not being beaten black and blue by regime thugs. It came when the Zimbabwean MP appeared in parliament after surgery, broken hands in plaster, and...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:15hrs | 1719 | by Christina Lamb for The Sunday Times (UK)
Manhize steel attracts huge interest
DINSON Iron and Steel Company (Disco), the Chinese firm developing the US$1,5 billion steel plant in Manhize, Mvuma, says it has been overwhelmed by inquiries for its products from the local and forei...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:09hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
NGOs under siege as Mnangagwa tightens noose
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has started restricting operations of non-governmental organisations ahead of this year's elections as fears continue to grow that it will use amendments to t...Published: 29 Jan 2023 at 08:14hrs | 1117 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe embassy gets land from Senegal for production of white maize
THE Zimbabwean Embassy in Senegal has been availed with more land to spearhead the production of white maize in a diplomatic show of food security initiatives that the continent is putting in place....Published: 29 Jan 2023 at 07:50hrs | 3623 | by Staff Reporter
ZERA Raises Fuel Prices
Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) has raised fuel prices in its latest review, which is effective January 26, 2023.In a statement seen by Bulawayo24.com, the regulator said petrol wo...Published: 27 Jan 2023 at 10:36hrs | 1728 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Mnangagwa's nonentity on global stage leaving Zimbabweans' continued oppression largely unnoticed!
After the November 2017 military coup d'état - which ousted long-time dictator Robert Gabriel Mugabe, and ushering in his protégé Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa as new president - the plight of oppres...Published: 27 Jan 2023 at 07:26hrs | 1855 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Oscar Pambuka jailed 12 months
FORMER Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation television (ZBC-TV) presenter Oscar Pambuka was yesterday slapped with a one year jail term for attempting to defraud Croco Motors of R36 000.Pambuka w...Published: 25 Jan 2023 at 10:36hrs | 953 | by Staff reporter
Sue Nyathi's novel translated to Arabic
LOCAL best-selling fiction author from Bulawayo, Sukoluhle "Sue" Nyathi has achieved yet another milestone after her sophomore novel, The Gold Diggers was translated to Arabic by theatre director and ...Published: 25 Jan 2023 at 10:34hrs | 132 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe schools go digital
At least 35 percent of the schools in Zimbabwe have been connected to the Learning Passport as the Government and its partners continue to adapt learning to the new digital innovations that ensure no ...Published: 25 Jan 2023 at 10:32hrs | 157 | by Staff reporter
Substance abuse not necessarily due to idleness but poor socialization and mindset!
With the scourge of drug and alcohol abuse on a worrying upward trajectory, the question of how to deal with this pandemic had been, understandably, uppermost on the nation's lips.There have b...Published: 23 Jan 2023 at 16:33hrs | 654 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Stella Chiweshe to be laid to rest tomorrow
The late mbira music icon Mbuya Stella Chiweshe is set to be laid to rest tomorrow in Chiweshe, Masembura village.Chiweshe succumbed to brain cancer at her home in Kuwadzana on Friday, she was...Published: 23 Jan 2023 at 16:07hrs | 792 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
COVID-19 hits 3 boarding schools
A FRESH wave of COVID-19 has hit three boarding schools in Mashonaland East province, with 80 students and teachers testing positive last week, NewsDay has learnt.The development comes a fortn...Published: 23 Jan 2023 at 05:46hrs | 1860 | by Staff reporter
Car crash ends 10-day marriage
PAINFUL wails and heart-wrenching sobs filled a local mortuary hall in Bulawayo yesterday as two families that were brought together through marriage 10 days ago said their goodbyes to the couple that...Published: 23 Jan 2023 at 05:44hrs | 1389 | by Staff reporter
Deputy prosecutor general an arrogant and biased pathetic liar - property developer
Property developer George Katsimberis wants the court to order cross-examination of Acting Deputy Prosecutor general Michael Reza in order to expose his deceit, falsehoods and subversion of just...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 18:06hrs | 1456 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Stella Chiweshe granted state assisted funeral
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sent condolences and further granted a state assisted funeral on late Mbira music pioneering sensation Stella Chiweshe who succumbed to cancer aged of 76 at her Harare...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 13:09hrs | 400 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga mourns Stella Chiweshe
Acting President Dr Constantino Chiwenga has described the late iconic songstress, Stella Chiweshe, as a cultural ambassador who worked hard to preserve Zimbabwe's culture and promote the country's tr...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 12:11hrs | 161 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe loses second ODI by 46 runs
Gary Balance's 50 was in vain as Zimbabwe lost the second One Day International by 46 runs at Harare Sports Club leaving the series poised at one all with the decider set for Monday.The Chevro...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 17:52hrs | 533 | by Staff Reporter
Jah Lemmy mourns Stella Chiweshe
Traditional musician Ginatsia "Jah Lemmy" Nyanhete of Guruve Arts marimba ensemble has mourned the late renowned Mbira artiste Stella Chiweshe who passed ...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 15:33hrs | 374 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Chamisa left the fact-finding Mission deeply unimpressed
One Morris too manyWhat it's a name?The name of the old Triple C activist "beaten" in Murehwa is Morris Seremani. Morris as also the name of one turncoat freedom fighter who betrayed t...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:22hrs | 533 | by Jamwanda
Pressure to send money home creates many problems in UK
Pretty Matekenya sat with her children in their small apartment in Luton, United Kingdom, just gazing at her payslip.Since she moved to England, she felt pressure from her relatives in Zimbabw...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:20hrs | 998 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Gun crime rattles Zimbabwe's security sector
THE sudden spike in gun crimes across the country has pushed the security sector into panic with indications that police have since flooded the streets with detectives expected to sniff out menacing c...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 22:28hrs | 1254 | by Staff reporter
ZESA switches off Harare industrial area
HUNDREDS of industrial workers in Harare's busy Workington area have been laid off by different companies struggling to operate due to an electricity crisis that has seen the area going almost a month...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 06:43hrs | 1547 | by Staff reporter
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