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Bed bugs invade Bulawayo
The dreaded bed bug plague that haunted Harare earlier this year has now crept into Bulawayo, leaving residents of Mpopoma's Ward 9 in a state of panic, discomfort, and growing despair.The inf...Published: 09 Jun 2025 at 08:35hrs | 589 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo dismiss fong kong claims on Nkulumane bed bugs infestation
The City of Bulawayo has strongly refuted claims circulating on social media alleging a bedbug infestation in the Nkulumane suburb and surrounding areas. In an official statement, city authorities des...Published: 08 May 2025 at 20:03hrs | 1198 | by Staff reporter
Tsikidzi outbreak in Kwekwe clarified
Kwekwe Mayor Albert Zinhanga has addressed growing concerns over a reported outbreak of bed bugs (commonly known as tsikidzi) in the city, confirming that the issue is confined to specific areas withi...Published: 07 May 2025 at 16:15hrs | 1112 | by Staff reporter
Bed bug infestation spreads across Zimbabwe?
What started as a localized issue in Harare's Mbare suburb has now escalated into a nationwide concern, with several cities, including Mutare, Bulawayo, and Gweru, on high alert as the bed bug infesta...Published: 06 May 2025 at 08:53hrs | 21642 | by Staff reporter
Bed Bugs Appear to Have a Genetic Resistance to Pesticides
A mutation that helps insects survive our chemical onslaught has been found in one of the worst places imaginable: the genome of the common bed bug.For better or worse, we had these itchy litt...Published: 30 Apr 2025 at 09:16hrs | 2046 | by Erick Matotoba
Harare bed bugs resistant to insecticides
The Harare City Council is grappling with a persistent bed bug outbreak in Mbare, one of the capital's oldest and most densely populated suburbs, as efforts to fumigate affected areas continue to face...Published: 29 Apr 2025 at 17:37hrs | 1283 | by Staff reporter
City of Harare says bed bugs infestation confined to Mbare
The City of Harare (CoH) has responded to reports of bed bug infestations spreading to suburbs such as Mabvuku, Glen View, and Budiriro, confirming that investigations are underway but asserting that ...Published: 29 Apr 2025 at 07:15hrs | 335 | by Staff reporter
Bed bugs spread across Harare
Residents in several high-density suburbs of Harare are raising alarms over an ongoing bed bug (tsikidzi) infestation that has caused discomfort and growing health concerns.The problem, which ...Published: 22 Apr 2025 at 08:16hrs | 4433 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa must be arrested
Election Resource Centre (ERC) and Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) staff members and volunteers arrested on allegations of attempting to post the general election results have been free...Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 08:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Arrested ERC, ZESN observers ordered to lie on stomachs for three hours'
A Harare magistrate's court was Friday told of how 39 election observers seized Wednesday night by AK assault rifle wielding police officers were made to surrender their phones and passwords and furth...Published: 25 Aug 2023 at 19:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to Professor
There is a classic fable with a very moral lesson that comes to mind when it comes to one professor and his sidekick. We will repeat the fable here before talking to these two miscreants more directly...Published: 09 Jan 2018 at 05:56hrs | 2 | by Correspondent
Matobo Community Development complain over police, CIO harassment
Matobo Community Development has complained over police and Centyral Intelligence organisation (CIOs) harassment ahead of President Robert Mugabe's birth day celebrations slatted for next month ...Published: 29 Jan 2017 at 05:55hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
War vets aren't an opposition wing!
There are particularly two stories that have caught my interest over the past week. The stories regard veterans of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle, who, as we are all aware, held an indaba with their p...Published: 13 Apr 2016 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Tichaona Zindoga
High school lover letters
** MAY THE RECEIVER BE THE OPENER **** ROLL DOWN TO YOU ** KISS BEFORE YOU READ** " P D N F"--- please do no fold ** Roll down to you sweetiepie Babe!Time and abi...Published: 09 May 2014 at 19:50hrs | | by PDNF
How to Avoid Bed Bugs in Hotels
Bed Bugs: NOT the best souvenir!I am afraid of thousands of things in the horrifying, strange world of ours. Bed bugs are among them. For this reason, I am ...Published: 20 Jan 2012 at 08:32hrs | 30 | by Simone Smith
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