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Ramaphosa's 'dodgy donator' 'already dead' at time of crash - report
A private pathology report has reportedly revealed that former Bosasa boss Gavin Watson was already dead before he crashed his company car into a concrete pillar at the OR Tambo International Airport ...Published: 22 hrs ago | 5409 | by Staff reporter
Schweppes US$60m new Beitbridge plantation
SCHWEPPES Zimbabwe Limited is set to establish a 4 000 hectare citrus plantation in Beitbridge with an estimated value of US$60 million in a development set to increase production and exports. ...Published: 23 hrs ago | 811 | by Staff reporter
Jealous hubby kills neighbour
A 42-year-old man from Silobela has been arrested for killing his neighbour after he found him seated with his wife.Shine Sibanda is expected to appear in court tomorrow to face murder charges...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 08:01hrs | 2310 | by Staff reporter
The installation of the Lozwi King at Emawabeni
FROM a high up vantage point along the highway leading from Bulawayo to Beitbridge one's attention is drawn to an expansive area down below that is covered by white tents. From here you see lots of pr...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:53hrs | 938 | by Pathisa Nyathi
7 run through fire to escape inferno
ABOUT seven people, including a seven-year-old child, ran through a raging fire to escape unscathed when a government house went up in flames in Beitbridge on Thursday night.The fire, which is...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 13:03hrs | 1145 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Mnangagwa aide dumps lawyer in favour of Jonathan Samkange
Former State house director Douglas Tapfuma has dumped his legal practitioner in favour of prominent lawyer Jonathan Samkange after an unsuccessful bail bid at the High Court.Tapfuma (53) who ...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 13:01hrs | 798 | by Staff reporter
South Africa mfecane 2 victim repatriated to Zimbabwe for burial
The remains of a Zimbabwean man who was killed in xenophobia-motivated violence in South Africa last week has arrived in the country via Beitbridge Border Post. Isaac Sithole's body arrived on Thursda...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 08:19hrs | 1240 | by Staff reporter
Preserve rather than bury RGM's good
In the play Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare, unarguably Britain's greatest playwright, pens lines that must serve as humankind's guidelines while still in this carnal world. In his eulogy a...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 08:07hrs | 166 | by Stephen Mpofu
Drama over the burial of Robert Mugabe
LIKE the rest of Zimbabweans, we are watching the unfolding drama over the burial of Zimbabwe's founding father, Robert Mugabe.This appears to be a game of brinksmanship between the family of ...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 14:06hrs | 3436 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sets up centre for xenophobia victims
Government has reactivated a reception centre at Beitbridge to handle Zimbabweans fleeing xenophobic attacks in South Africa. The first batch of 60 repatriates was expected to arrive last night....Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 14:05hrs | 636 | by Staff reporter
Mfecane 2: 96 Zimbabweans repatriated from SA as xenophobic attacks intensify
GOVERNMENT yesterday repatriated 96 Zimbabweans from Gauteng province in South Africa as xenophobia motivated attacks intensified in the neighbouring country. The group is part of the 171 Zimb...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 23:31hrs | 989 | by Staff reporter
General Sibanda welcomes South Africa army in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander General Phillip Valerio Sibanda last Friday officially welcomed the South African Nation Defence Forces (SANDF) contingent constructing two Bailey bridges at Kopa in ...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 08:59hrs | 4664 | by Staff Reporter
Mohadi ordered to appear in court in person
HIGH Court judge Justice Ester Muremba has ordered Vice-President (VP) Kembo Mohadi and his former wife Tambudzani Bhudagi Muleya to appear before her in person, on Wednesday next week, to explain the...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 07:40hrs | 1150 | by Staff reporter
Potraz seeks to protect public from radiation effects
THE Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (Potraz) is crafting a regulatory framework to protect the public from effects of electromagnetic fields (EMF) radiation from telecommunications ...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 07:38hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
Soldier beats up, kidnaps 2 cops
A ZIMBABWE National Army serviceman has appeared in court for holding captive two Beitbridge policemen he disarmed, assaulted and threatened with his firearm before bundling them into a donkey-drawn c...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 07:37hrs | 1301 | by Staff reporter
Parliament condemns inhumane police cells
PARLIAMENT has said conditions in the police holding cells are inhumane, conceding the rights of arrested people were being breached.This was brought into light by the Senate Thematic Committe...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 07:36hrs | 133 | by Staff reporter
'G40 using Mugabe burial as bargaining weapon to get amnesty from Mnangagwa'
Controversy continues to be associated with the late former president Robert Mugabe in his death, as was the case in his life – with his family and the government still poles apart yesterday with re...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 07:32hrs | 1384 | by Staff reporter
No funds yet for Harare-Beitbridge Road dualisation
Chinese firm, Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Group Limited (Afecc) says it is still mobilizing funds for the Harare-Beitbridge and Harare-Chirundu highways dualisation. Government last ye...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 07:31hrs | 548 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, China sign ICT pact
ZIMBABWE and China yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the advancement of ICTs between the two countries, in yet another sign of the growing interest of cooperation between the tw...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 06:54hrs | 99 | by Staff reporter
Impasse over Mugabe burial continues
SEVERAL meetings held between government and former President Robert Mugabe's relatives have reportedly failed to resolve the impasse over where the late nationalist leader would be buried, sources ha...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 21:52hrs | 1002 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi maintenance row
Vice President Kembo Mohadi is challenging his ex-wife Tambudzani's US$13 000 post-divorce spousal maintenance demand, arguing that the 67-year-old senator no longer has dependent children to support....Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 07:27hrs | 1369 | by Staff reporter
45 passengers cheat death
FORTY-FIVE passengers narrowly cheated death after a bus they were travelling in rolled back and fell on its side at Simangani River Bridge outside Hwange. Witnesses said the bus hit the side ...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 07:33hrs | 726 | by Staff reporter
Man finds wife pants down, kills lover
A man from Silobela could not control his anger and beat to death a man he caught in the act with his wife in his bedroom.Mdutsha Moyo of Village Dhegu in Silobela died upon admission to Dambr...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 23:16hrs | 6994 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF mourns former leader
Zanu-PF has described the death of former president Robert Mugabe as a great shock to the nation, continent and the world. The party's secretary for Administration Obert Mpofu said the entire ...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 09:56hrs | 137 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe will not be buried at Heroes Acre
FORMER president Robert Mugabe, one of the luminaries of the liberation struggle and the architect of the National Heroes' Acre Monument, which was supposed to symbolise sacrifice, bravery and triumph...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:26hrs | 11684 | by Staff reporter
Africa'second revolution whose time has come: Breaking-away from oppressive partisan poverty politics
The high-sounding and inspirational liberation of the entire of Africa by political parties and liberation movements that lost its cause! The law-abiding citizens that have been reduced to the level o...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 21:20hrs | 1463 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Industry raps Mthuli Ncube's half-hearted currency reforms
INDUSTRY has rapped Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube over his "half-hearted approach" to the currency reforms, saying the continued use of the United States dollar in the market ...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 08:35hrs | 1155 | by Staff reporter
Fatal crash at Umguza bridge
ONE person died on the spot while six others were injured when a Toyota Sprinter they were travelling in burst its rear left tyre and collided head on with an Isuzu King Cab at the 11km peg along the ...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 08:33hrs | 484 | by Staff reporter
Are South Africans our brothers?
In 1980 Zimbabwe got independent and we were happy, very happy. However, South Africa,Namibia and another country on the horn of Africa were still under colonial rule.I remember when I joined ...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 18:02hrs | 1094 | by Etiwel Mutero
Violence is ingrained in MDC-Alliance’s DNA
THERE is consensus among those who read Zimbabwe's political landscape correctly that the country has exhibited conspicuous signs of dynamism under the visionary leadership of President Emmerson Mnaga...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 07:48hrs | 233 | by Cuthbert Mavheko
Education permanent secretary Tabela's husband dies
VETERAN educationist and husband to Primary and Secondary Education permanent secretary Tumisang Tabela, Ketso Calvin, has died.He was 63.Tabela died in Zvishavane on his way home from...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 07:58hrs | 1769 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to issue 40 community radio licences, claims Mangwana
Government has started working on licensing 40 community radio stations countrywide as it steps up efforts to achieve total broadcasting coverage, an official has said. Secretary for Informati...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 07:41hrs | 222 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe engages Japan on major roadworks
GOVERNMENT has applied to the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for multi-million dollar funding for four major road projects including the construction of missing links on Harare Drive, P...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 07:38hrs | 318 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, SA to implement programmes under Trans-Limpopo initiative
Matabeleland region is poised for economic growth following a crucial meeting in Polokwane, South Africa to operationalise programmes under the auspices of the Trans-Limpopo Spatial Development Initia...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 07:38hrs | 289 | by Staff reporter
Ex-soldier's horror abduction story
Fifty-two-year-old Wilbert Verenga considers himself lucky to be alive after he was abducted by gunmen from his home who beat him up and left him for dead.Verenga said at one point his attacke...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:57hrs | 765 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youth praise 'hardworking' Chitando
The Zanu-PF youth here have praised the Gutu Central Member of Parliament (MP) and minister of Mines Winston Chitando for his exploits in the development of the constituency and district at large....Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:54hrs | 218 | by Staff reporter
Ndabaningi Sithole immortalised
In a show of common purpose never experienced in Chipinge district for years, thousands of people of different statuses poured at Freedom Farm at Mount Selinda for the official launch of the Friends o...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:53hrs | 394 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland roads get facelift
The District Development Fund (DDF) has embarked on a massive rehabilitation of roads and bridges in Matabeleland to improve infrastructure in the region.The government department, which falls...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:49hrs | 756 | by Staff reporter
Government releases $46m for water projects
TREASURY has released $46 million to the District Development Fund (DDF) to help drill 600 boreholes that will provide clean water for consumption and irrigation, especially in the country's eight rur...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:46hrs | 102 | by Staff reporter
Green dupes Bindura fans
AFRO FUSION musician Carlos Green aka "vakuru vemasmart" of VMV band did not show up for his advertised Bindura show at Club 1160 and decided to partner Andy Muridzo on Friday night at Pagomba Café i...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 06:23hrs | 824 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Obliquity and politics of re-engagement
A man called John Kay is one of Britain's leading economists. His work — widely acclaimed — is centred on relationships between economics, finance and business while his career has spanned academi...Published: 31 Aug 2019 at 18:25hrs | 121 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Zinara mobilises funds for Harare-Beitbridge Highway
ZIMBABWE National Road Administration director Kudzanayi Chinyanga yesterday said his department was mobilising resources to repair damaged sections of the Harare-Beitbridge Highway, which have turned...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 20:28hrs | 2256 | by Staff reporter
Former ZPC board chair convicted over Chivayo
Former Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) board chair Stanley Kazhanje was yesterday convicted of concealing a US$10 000 transaction he received from controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo's Intratrek Z...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:20hrs | 1720 | by Staff reporter
Wife dumps 'flamboyant' Zimra official
Former Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) revenue officer Kennedy Nyatoti's woes are mounting after his wife, Tatenda Spiwe Nyatoti (nee Chisadza), recently approached the High Court seeking divorce, ...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:16hrs | 2682 | by Staff reporter
Deadly fight over woman
A 26-YEAR-OLD man from Jalukange area some 135 km west of Beitbridge town has been arrested for allegedly fatally stabbing a fellow villager in a fight over a woman. Justice Ndlovu of Chief St...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:08hrs | 688 | by Staff reporter
'Keep your EU Brexit and I will keep my Zimbabwe'
HISTORY has a tendency to repeat itself, but in Zimbabwe, the frequency is just phenomenal. The country has twice in a decade suffered hyperinflation as a result of bad governance.For the seco...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:48hrs | 10405 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Beitbridge records 520 drought-related animal deaths
BEITBRIDGE district has recorded at least 520 drought-related animal deaths while children in the district face stunted growth due to food shortages.This comes at a time food distribution to d...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:41hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
Kariba fined over sewage discharge
Kariba Municipality has been fined $2 000 for discharging raw effluent into streams and the environment. The magistrates' court in the resort town also directed the local authority to repair a...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:28hrs | 116 | by Staff reporter
Man killed in fight for girlfriend
A 26 year old man from Jalukange area some 135 km west of Beitbridge town has been arrested for fatally stabbing a fellow villager in a fight over a woman.Justice Ndlovu who resides under chie...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 18:32hrs | 3443 | by Staff reporter
Introducing a new currency was Zimbabwe's only viable option
Zimbabwe, the country I serve as finance minister, has been in the news for restricting the use of the US dollar and other international currencies as legal tender. Why would we want to return to our ...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 18:24hrs | 9283 | by Prof Mthuli Ncube
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