South African beauty contestant faces xenophobic backlash over Nigerian heritage

Chidimma Adetshina, a 23-year-old law student from Soweto, has recently found herself at the epicentre of a heated national debate, exposing a persistent strain of xenophobia within South African soci...

Panic over Hwange underground fires

Decades-old infernos spewing ash and smoke are causing sinkholes that have subsequently consumed a key trunk road linking Makwika Village (Number 3) and Hwange town.The road, which also links ...

Woman kills self in witchcraft allegations

A 46-YEAR-OLD Rushinga woman committed suicide by hanging after failing to face her mother in law whom.she labeled a witch.Beaty King o...

US hospital forming a sister relationship with Mater Dei

BOTH St. Francis Hospital in Columbus, US, and Mater Dei Hospital in Bulawayo, were opened by Franciscan nuns in the 1950s, and both are now led by community trustees.The two have teams of ded...