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Poor road network cause for concern
On a late Thursday afternoon, commuters traveling on the Kadoma-Sanyati Road face challenging conditions with dusty roads, curves, and potholes. The poor state of the road has led to dangerous...Published: 21 Aug 2024 at 09:37hrs | 654 | by Staff reporter
Mix up at South African mortuary, 2-year body swap resolved
IN September 2021, then-31-year-old Bongani Ngwendu was attacked by a vigilante group in a suspected xenophobic attack at an informal settlement in Pretoria, South Africa, where he was burnt to death ...Published: 12 Mar 2024 at 05:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Woman up for stock theft
A woman appeared in court facing charges of theft of livestock and property.Hezel Ndebele (21) was not asked to plead to charges when s...Published: 28 Feb 2024 at 06:24hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Colourful place names of Rhodesia and their origin
THE TRACING of place names in a country in Africa can be both fascinating and frustrating. One must know – or quickly learn – something about history, about geography and the origins of word...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 17:59hrs | 50 | by Phillippa Berlyn with some amendments by Tony Tanser
Zimbabwe soldiers cause stir in Gweru
HUNDREDS of soldiers have camped at a military base in Guinea Fowl, Gweru, stretching social amenities in the area where there are limited ablution facilities and erratic water supplies at a time ther...Published: 13 Nov 2023 at 21:26hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army conducts drills in Midlands
The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) is conducting a routine training exercise in the Midlands Province aimed at imparting knowledge to its members on contemporary warfare.Parts of the province wi...Published: 13 Nov 2023 at 05:46hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
40 workers trapped after mine shaft collapses
On Friday, a tragic incident occurred at the Bay Horse mine in the Chakari region of Chegutu, situated approximately 100 kilometers to the west of Harare, resulting in the loss of six miners' lives....Published: 30 Sep 2023 at 10:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bus catches fire
Forty-three passengers including learners on their way to school, yesterday escaped death by a whisker after an Inter Africa bus caught fire near Battlefields between Kwekwe and Kadoma. Most of the ba...Published: 08 May 2023 at 06:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Ministers cornered over false promise to military
MEMBERS of Parliament on Wednesday cornered the acting leader of government business in the National Assembly, Felix Mhona, and deputy Finance minister Clemence Chiduwa over an unfulfilled promise mad...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 11:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Plumtree pilot defies racial attitudes to pursue dream
FORTY years and still counting years of flying different aircraft types, heads of States, the late Prince Philip; husband to the late Queen Elizabeth II, and roles spanning basic flying, advanced flyi...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 04:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
UK can't find Nehanda's skull
London's Natural History Museum and Cambridge University have said that they are ready to co-operate with Zimbabwe to return human remains that were taken in the colonial era.The fresh stateme...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff rporter
Registrar's car hijacked
Kadoma District Registrar Cephas Murumbi (54) was robbed of his car and belonging at Munyati turn off while travelling from Kadoma to Kwekwe last night.Murumbi gave a lift to three unknown mal...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 15:21hrs | 8 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Mnangagwa's oligarchs: The heirs of Cecil Rhodes
As Zimbabwe's economy has spiralled down, with one million economic refugees in South Africa alone and ordinary people facing shortages of food, fuel, medicine and shelter, there is a class of people ...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:29hrs | 4 | by Phillip van Niekerk and a Zim-based Research Team
TelOne partners ZNA
STATE-OWNED telecommunications company TelOne has partnered the Zimbabwe National Army to modernise 58 sites countrywide under the US$1,2 million land-based network project.Speaking during the...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:18hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Man stabbed to death over shebeen queen
TWO Battlefields men have been arraigned before Kadoma magistrate Shingirai Mutiro for allegedly stabbing a drinking mate to death during a scuffle over a shebeen queen.Kennedy Madyo (23) and ...Published: 17 Aug 2021 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Battlefieds man stabbed to death over shebeen queen
TWO Battlefields men appeared before Kadoma resident magistrate Shingirai Mutiro after they allegedly stabbed their colleague several times with knives....Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 17:46hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa to empower Zimbabwe military with hi-tech hardware
THE Second Republic will continue equipping the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) with the latest technological equipment that responds to emerging threats threatening existing peace and stability in the ...Published: 11 Aug 2021 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kenneth Kaunda: His dream for southern Africa came true: hailed & sung with praises in heaven!
He left his mark: he left a void in southern Africa just like Mandela, we are struggling to get the calibre of leaders to take over from where they left. KK was an indisputable great son of the soil. ...Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 15:20hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
ED Mnangagwa did well for our Unsung Freedom Fighters Of Zimbabwe Who Deserve Our Salute
Feel Proud! As Zimbabwe immortalised the spirit of Chimurenga through several statutes erected and more recently the one for Nehanda Charwe Chihera the fighting spirit. For here you are now. A...Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 14:31hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Kwekwe police arrest machete gang leader
POLICE in Kwekwe last week arrested a notorious leader of a machete gang in connection with attempted murder and murder in the Midlands city.Cripwell Marandure (26), alias Tafadzwa of Mbizo in...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
7 Zimbabweans on Interpol Red Notice
SEVEN Zimbabweans, including a man from Gweru who brutally murdered his wife and left their six-month-old son suckling from the corpse, have been placed on the International Police Organisation (Inter...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sexually transmitted leadership will not take us anywhere
My previous article regarding the nomination of Sibangilizwe Nkomo to contest the Zapu presidential candidacy could have come across as too emotional for some people to appreciate my perspective....Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 06:55hrs | 3 | by Nomazulu Thata
Sexually transmitted leadership will not take us anywhere: flouting democratic values
My previous article regarding the nomination of Sibangilizwe Nkomo to contest the Zapu presidential candidacy must have been too emotional to appreciate my perspective. What is disturbing is that be i...Published: 10 Apr 2021 at 16:10hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Police warn against mob violence
Police have warned members of the public against mob violence on any suspects they apprehend for committing crimes countrywide, as murder cases continue to increase. According to police, the p...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Power hungry DCC members causing chaos in Zanu-PF, says Matemadanda
THE newly-elected Zanu-PF district coordination committees (DCCs) countrywide have become battlefields for power-hungry members who are fanning divisions in order to ascend to senior leadership positi...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zipra cadres eulogise SB Moyo
FOREIGN Affairs and International Trade Minister Major-General (Rtd) Dr Sibusiso Moyo (SB), was yesterday described as a brave and intelligent soldier whose military prowess both during and after the ...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
US$2,7m heist suspect killed in shoot-out, three still on the run
A suspect in the US$2,7 million ZB Bank cash-in-transit heist died in Zaka on Thursday in a shoot-out with detectives, while three others appeared in court yesterday. So far, police have arres...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
8 more arrested in US$2.5 million heist
EIGHT more suspected armed robbers have been arrested in connection with the US $2,5 million heist which occurred along the Harare-Chinhoyi Road Wednesday last week.This brings to 11, the numb...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 09:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Josiah Magama Tongogara 41 years on
A day after celebrating christmas swimming through the stiffed hard but good festive seasons on the 26th December 1979 duty called. In the call of duty the son of the soil breathed his last breath....Published: 26 Dec 2020 at 17:42hrs | 9 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
An open letter to all former ZIPRA cadres
Greetings to you all! 2020 has been a very challenging year. Many people lost their loved ones to the COVID-19 pandemic and others fell ill due to it. But probably the worst impact of the pand...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 16:47hrs | 1 | by Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
40 trapped in collapsed Bindura mine
ABOUT 40 illegal miners were yesterday trapped at Ran Mine in Bindura after a disused mine shaft collapsed. Six miners were retrieved and rushed to Bindura Hospital for treatment, according to Zimbabw...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unsung Freedom Fighters Of Zimbabwe who deserve our salute
Feel Proud! For here you are now. At a comfort zone uncomplainingly busy with personal goals and aspirations. The everyday troubles that you face, you call them miseries.But there are ...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 07:41hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Judgment for 'killer' soldier set for today
THE judgment in the case of a soldier who allegedly shot dead his wife, her two siblings and injured his 18-month- old daughter before shooting himself in a failed suicide attempt last year, has been ...Published: 03 Jun 2019 at 07:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The death of Dr Dumiso Dabengwa - A fiting tribute to an enigma
1. Paying tribute to an enigma I was on a bus on Thursday morning, the 24th May 2019, travelling through Botswana from Kwa Bulawayo, Mthwakazi when news abo...Published: 30 May 2019 at 15:45hrs | 2 | by Dr Mpiyesizwe Churchill Guduza
Man killed over dog dispute
Police in Mashonaland West have launched a manhunt for two suspects who fatally assaulted a man who had confronted them for shooting his dog with a catapult at Cuba Shopping Centre in Battlefields, Ka...Published: 02 May 2019 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa attacks journalists
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has come out guns blazing against journalists who are paid brown envelope by Ministers to write fake stories involving non-existent 9nvestments. ...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 10:29hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC Alliance official left for dead
An MDC-Alliance official from Mashonaland West Province was recently attacked with machetes by suspected party hooligans for questioning the conduct of district elections to choose delegates to the pa...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa wants MPs to push for Department of Civil Protection reform
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa wants his legislators to push for capacitation and reform of the Department of Civil Protection (DCP) in the aftermath of the devastating Cyclone Idai.Currentl...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Makorokoza vow terror if chased out of Battlefields mine claims
BATTLEFIELDS artisanal miners who survived last month's mine disaster that killed 24 people have warned that cases of robbery, theft, murder and cattle rustling could increase if government chases the...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 07:00hrs | 3 | by newzimbabwe.com
2 more bodies of trapped miners retrieved
Two more bodies of artisanal miners trapped at Cricket Mine in Kadoma two weeks ago have been retrieved bringing the death toll in the disaster to 26.Deputy Chief Government Mining Engineer Ta...Published: 28 Feb 2019 at 15:15hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa snubs dead miners
ONLY a few hours after his rally criticism of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's failure to visit the site of a recent mine disaster that killed 24 artisanal miners in Battlefields, Mashonaland West, MDC ...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 06:45hrs | | by newzibmabwe
Chamisa, Mnangagwa stampeded to Mtukudzi funeral but snubs dead miners
ONLY a few hours after his rally criticism of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's failure to visit the site of a recent mine disaster that killed 24 artisanal miners in Battlefields, Mashonaland West, MDC ...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 06:24hrs | | by newzimbabwe
MDC National Council Resolutions
The MDC National Council met today, 22 February 2019 at the party headquarters Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House, 44 Nelson Mandela Avenue and made the following resolutions1. The National Situa...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 20:02hrs | | by MDC
Zimnat assists families of deceased miners
Zimnat, one of the leading players in the Zimbabwean life assurance and short-term insurance industries since 1946, has donated funeral services worth $10 000 for the burial of 10 of the miners killed...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 16:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
4 miners still trapped underground
First Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa yesterday visited Cricket Mine in the Battlefields area, the scene of the recent mine shaft disaster that has so far claimed 24 lives.Four artisanal miners are sti...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 15:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Dead miners worked for a top polical cartel' Mliswa alleges
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has alleged that there is a cartel of politicians who are behind the illegal mining activities that led to the death of miners recently in Mashonaland West....Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 13:27hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Makorokozas to be regulated
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has told Parliament that the forthcoming Mines and Minerals Bill will include provisions that will regulate the conduct of artisanal miners, and ensure their safety wh...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 10:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cleansing ceremony for Battlefields mines
Traditional leaders and spirit mediums from Mashonaland West Province will conduct a cleansing ceremony at Silvermoon and Cricket 3 mines in Battlefields, Mhondoro-Ngezi, where 24 artisanal miners die...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 22:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to replace POSA with Peace & Order Bill
CABINET yesterday approved the Maintenance of Peace and Order Bill which seeks to repeal the Public Order and Security Act (POSA), Protection of Personal Information Bill and the Freedom of Informatio...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 22:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt regrets Battlefields disaster
The fourth cabinet sitting of 2019 has regretted the Battlefields mine disaster and decided to institute thorough investigations.24 bodies were retrieved from the mines, while 8 people were pu...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 20:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
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