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Jehovah's Witnesses in historic Gweru convention
JEHOVAH'S Witnesses over the weekend held a historic convention in Gweru, which saw thousands of Witnesses throng Midlands State University for the three-day spiritual occasion.The church has ...Published: 17 hrs ago | 741 | by Staff reporter
Man jailed 15 years for raping granny (59)
A GWANDA man, who raped a 59-year-old woman until she soiled herself, has been slapped with a 15-year jail term by the Beitbridge regional magistrate.Zivanai Ndlovu (28) of Tshanyaugwe denied ...Published: 17 hrs ago | 1038 | by Staff reporter
Armed robber in court for over R 567k robbery, shooting victim 8 times
A SOUTH AFRICA-BASED man has been taken to Beitbridge Regional Magistrates' Courts, facing armed robbery charges involving ZAR567 000, mobile phones and a Toyota Allex vehicle.Enock Nyamani (3...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 07:21hrs | 566 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest half a million rand robber
Police have arrested one of the five suspects who along with his accomplices pounced on a Beitbridge foreign currency dealer's house and robbed him over half a million Rands, US$4500 and a...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 16:48hrs | 2673 | by Staff reporter
SA firm seals US$2bn Beitbridge - Bulawayo-Victoria Falls highway dualisation deal
Construction group, Khato Holdings, has sealed a deal that will see the dualisation of Beitbridge-Victoria Falls highway at an estimated cost of US$2bn in a build, operate and transfer arrangement....Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 08:46hrs | 4495 | by Staff reporter
Sandra Ndebele fraudster's property auctioned
'GOD fights my battles' are the words that dancer-cum-singer Sandra 'Sandy' Ndebele-Sibindi said after the Sheriff of the High Court last week auctioned property belonging to a woman who defrauded her...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 07:44hrs | 842 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge court rebuffs Mohadi request
A BEITBRIDGE magistrate has dismissed an ex-parte application by Vice-President Kembo Mohadi seeking to have solitary access to a bank account he jointly holds together with two other businessmen he h...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 07:56hrs | 1701 | by Staff reporter
Soldier dies after hippo attack
A ZIMBABWE National Army serviceman on patrol on the banks of the Limpopo River was yesterday attacked and killed by a hippopotamus.The serviceman, identified as Pelious Moyo from Tongwe, was ...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:16hrs | 1655 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa directs Ministry to urgently invest in water reticulation
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has directed the Ministry of Finance to urgently invest towards the rehabilitation of water and sewer infrastructure in the face of acute water shortages across the countr...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:00hrs | 251 | by Staff Reporter
Getting Zimbabwe back on track
IT is extremely frustrating to sit on the sidelines of this game we are all playing called "getting Zimbabwe back on track".We are doing so many of the right things, our team is looking much b...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 09:16hrs | 3017 | by Eddie Cross
5 contractors gun for Harare-Beitbridge Highway tender
GOVERNMENT plans to speed up the refurbishment of the Harare-Beitbridge Highway beginning next month, with five contractors expected to be selected in a shortened tender process. Further, a fr...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 07:31hrs | 3148 | by Staff reporter
Bonyongwe suffers strange break-ins
POLICE are investigating two cases where unknown assailants broke into former Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) director-general Happyton Bonyongwe's offices and vehicle, getting away with docum...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:55hrs | 5147 | by Staff reporter
Govt speeds up Chirundu-Beitbridge road rehabilitation
Government has engaged four more contractors to speed up road rehabilitation works of the Harare-Beitbridge Highway.Since the ground-breaking ceremony held in Beatrice a few months ago, progre...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:30hrs | 1837 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, Botswana negotiate cattle repatriation
Government is negotiating with Botswana to have hundreds of livestock that stray into the neighbouring country repatriated instead of being put down.Villagers along the border in Matabeleland ...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:28hrs | 866 | by Staff reporter
Govt urged to expedite one-stop border concept at Beitbridge
The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Budget, Finance and Economic Development has challenged Government to expedite the implementation of the One Stop Border Post (OSPB) concept at Beitbridge to e...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:18hrs | 380 | by Staff reporter
Immigration tightens screws at Beitbridge border post
The Department of Immigration Services has tightened screws on wheeler dealers, human traffickers and border jumpers at Beitbridge border post in line with Government's thrust on the ease of doing bus...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 18:40hrs | 7559 | by Staff reporter
Zimra on course to surpass $4,8 billion target
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is well on course to surpass its half year revenue collection target with the final report for the period set for release at the end of this month, board chairpe...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 18:33hrs | 570 | by Staff reporter
'We don't eat Nationalism' says Mthwakazi President
So many people in Zimbabwe particularly shonas and some of our Ndebele speaking people do not really understand or comprehend with what is meant by the term "Nationalism". To Shonas, nationalism means...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 08:11hrs | 1179 | by Mqondisi Moyo
Sikhala's foot in mouth: Storm in a tea cup
THOSE who have been following Zimbabwean politics since the country's independence in 1980 are most likely wondering what all the hullaballoo is about over the statements made by ultra-controversial o...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 07:57hrs | 1151 | by Editorial - Newsday
Acting President Mohadi appeals to businesses on prices
Vice President Kembo Mohadi has appealed to local businesses to support the Government's economic realignment measures through implementing a fair pricing model to avoid causing unnecessary suffering ...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 07:56hrs | 746 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally warns on abuse of internet, social media
Minister of Information Communication Technology and Courier Services Kazembe Kazembe has encouraged Zimbabweans to use ICT facilities for innovation and economic development. He said it was important...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 07:53hrs | 1164 | by Staff reporter
Soldier steals car
A soldier and member of a neighbourhood watch committee in Beitbridge have been charged with armed robbery after they forced a motorist to surrender his car.The soldier Nobert Muringo (36) and...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:32hrs | 1198 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi want investors to exploit Beitbridge SEZ status
VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi has said there is a need to accelerate investment and industrialisation of Beitbridge Town in recognition of its rapid socio-economic growth in the last decade.He s...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:14hrs | 103 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe - SA should re-introduce day passes'
BEITBRIDGE East legislator Albert Nguluvhe has appealed to the Zimbabwean and South African governments to re-introduce passes for villagers to visit relatives across either sides of the border....Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 10:12hrs | 1484 | by Staff reporter
Revisiting the Beitbridge-Harare highway
The state of the Beitbridge-Harare (A4) Highway is now a cause for concern as the number of human fatalities grows by each day due to deadly accidents in the narrow strip that links Zimbabwe and South...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 08:06hrs | 2108 | by Victor Bhoroma
Mugabe wants Jehovah's Witnesses delegates to enjoy a rich & diverse spiritual programme
The Love Never Fails annual convention of Jehovah's Witnesses gets into high gear, with a bumper three-day programme beginning today in Harare and Chitungwiza, respectively.The spokesperson fo...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 08:21hrs | 2870 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF loyalist Chiwa dies
Beitbridge businessman and Zanu-PF loyalist Manu Chiwa has died.Chiwa died on admission at the Beitbridge Hospital after he was involved in an accident on Wednesday night.Matabeleland ...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 08:06hrs | 1388 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge businessman dies in 3-car pile-up
Renowned Beitbridge businessman, Mr Emmanuel Tawanda Chiwa (35) was on Wednesday night killed in an accident when his car was involved in a three vehicles pile up along the Beitbridge-Bulawayo road....Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 18:22hrs | 2974 | by Staff reporter
Why the smear campaign?
Zimbabwe has been under economic sanctions for nearly two decades.To date, it is still reeling under the effects of the ruinous Western economic embargo that is estimated to have cost the coun...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 08:25hrs | 405 | by Kudakwashe Mugari
Cop robs miners
A GWANDA-based police officer allegedly teamed up with eight accomplices to attack a group of artisanal miners and rob them of one tonne of gold ore. Ray Moyo (30), who is based at the ZRP Mat...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:14hrs | 377 | by Staff reporter
7 Zimbabwean teens living under a tree in SA
THEY say they have been living off food scraps in a nearby municipal bin, and it's actually been sustaining them.Seven Zimbabwean teenagers have been living under a big tree near Shoprite in L...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 11:55hrs | 3955 | by GroundUp
ZCTU 'disowns' shutdown
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has distanced itself from a national shutdown called by some pressure groups to force President Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured) to address the deteriorating ...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 07:57hrs | 993 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean drug smuggler denied bail in SA
A 38-YEAR-OLD Zimbabwean woman's bid for freedom has hit a brick wall after she was denied bail in South Africa following her arrest for allegedly smuggling drugs worth R2 million into the neighbourin...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 07:52hrs | 708 | by Staff reporter
Zimra collects $230m in Q1 at Beitbridge
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) has recorded a relative increase in revenue levied on commercial cargo which passes through Beitbridge Border Post in the first quarter of the year in comparison...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 07:32hrs | 703 | by Staff reporter
Harare-Beitbridge highway accident claims 19
NINETEEN people died while seven others were seriously injured yesterday in a head-on collision involving a haulage truck and a commuter omnibus at the 89km-peg along the Harare-Beitbridge Highway....Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 08:04hrs | 4298 | by Staff Reporter
Head on collision kills 19 people
Nineteen people died this morning in a road traffic head on collision involving a Toyota commuter omnibus and a haulage truck along the Harare-Beitbridge Road.The accident occurred at the 89km...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 22:55hrs | 904 | by Staff reporter
Head on collision kills 19 people
Nineteen people died this morning in a road traffic head on collision involving a Toyota commuter omnibus and a haulage truck along the Harare-Beitbridge Road.The accident occurred at the 89km...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 22:54hrs | 1288 | by Staff reporter
Police fire live bullets in Chinhoyi...kill 1 suspect
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has confirmed the arrest of three suspects and the death of another in a shooting incident which occurred while detectives from Vehicle Theft Squad(VTS) were in the proces...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 17:57hrs | 7177 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF MP chickens out of Parly feedback debate
Beitbridge West legislator Ruth Maboyi Mavhungu (Zanu-PF) on Tuesday stunned the National Assembly when she pledged to second a motion on a report of a Zimbabwean delegation to the Inter Parliamentary...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 07:02hrs | 1884 | by Staff reporter
38 injured in Munenzva bus accident
THIRTY-EIGHT people were injured when a Munenzva bus they were travelling on veered off the road and landed on roadside guardrails at the 140km peg along the Beitbridge-Masvingo Road on Tuesday....Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 06:55hrs | 1797 | by Staff reporter
Smuggling: the new corruption frontier in Zimbabwe
As the Zimbabwean economy rapidly slides into hyperinflation induced recession, the levels of smuggling at the country's border posts has reached alarming levels. Cross border traders, foreign nationa...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 20:27hrs | 3705 | by Victor Bhoroma
Zimbabwe, SA transporters in route wars
There is a looming route war between Beitbridge-based Zimbabwean Cross-border Transport Association (ZCTA) and South Africa's Beitbridge Taxi Association (BTA) after the groups clashed over passengers...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 21:20hrs | 3988 | by Staff reporter
Young sex workers get reprieve
At the age of 15, Tendai Dube* was heavily into drugs, dodging school and creating havoc among her peers along Ndema Road in Gweru's Ascot suburb where she stayed with her single mother. However, she ...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 21:14hrs | 1260 | by Staff reporter
Orap Zenzele Isuzu Champions Cup continues to grow
TREMENDOUS progress has been made in the Orap Zenzele Champions Cup over the years since its inception in 2014.This was said by Mike Blatch, the principal representative of Auto World Zimbabwe...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 21:06hrs | 147 | by Staff reporter
VID officers suspended
Government has - with immediate effect - suspended Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) officials from Marondera and Beitbridge depots on allegations of corruptly issuing provisional driver's licence...Published: 22 Jun 2019 at 20:27hrs | 2379 | by Staff reporter
MP subjected to series of suspicious car break-ins
FORMER president Robert Mugabe and Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) director of security Albert Ngulube, now Zanu PF MP for Beitbridge East, has been subjected to a series of suspicious break-i...Published: 22 Jun 2019 at 19:59hrs | 3824 | by Staff reporter
Marondera VID boss suspended
TRANSPORT and Infrastructure Development minister Joel Biggie Matiza has suspended the Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) depot manager for Marondera, Munyaradzi Kachere, and two other officers on al...Published: 22 Jun 2019 at 15:50hrs | 562 | by Staff reporter
Hawks take over Zimbabwe cocaine case probe
SOUTH Africa's specialised crime unit, the Hawks, have taken over investigations in a case where a 38-year-old Zimbabwean woman was arrested for allegedly smuggling of drugs worth R2 million into that...Published: 22 Jun 2019 at 01:17hrs | 2229 | by Staff reporter
'Married' Zambian woman faces deportation from Zimbabwe
A ZAMBIAN woman married to a Zimbabwean man was yesterday fined ZWL$100 or 10 days in prison for overstaying in the country for 15 months. She will be handed to the Immigration Department for deportat...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:29hrs | 3668 | by Staff reporter
Soldier, neighbourhood watch cop up for carjacking
A SERVING member of the Zimbabwe National Army stationed at One Indeep Barracks in Beitbridge and an active member of the neighbourhood watch committee in the Zimbabwe Republic Police, have been taken...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 08:04hrs | 1124 | by Staff reporter
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