Zanu-PF gags 'qethu' minister

Zanu-PF Matabeleland North province has issued a prohibition order against Bubi legislator and deputy minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Innovation, Science and Technology Development, Simelis...

Whipping system in Parliament silencing Matebeleland MPs

The parliamentary whipping system employed by Zimbabwe's political parties is stifling the voices of legislators from the Matebeleland region, contributing to the region's continued marginalisation an...

Primary school pupils use buckets as chairs

Villagers in Bubi District Matabeleland North have clashed with their legislator Simelisizwe Sibanda after he told them that their contributions towards resolving a furniture crisis at Majiji Primary ...

Matebeleland calls for transparency in army, police recruitment

Residents of Matabeleland have called for a decentralized recruitment process for civil servants, including soldiers, police officers, and nurses, amid growing concerns that the region is being overlo...

'Sovereignty ego maintaining Zimbabwe's ailing ZiG'

Zimbabwe is facing a profound economic crisis largely rooted in its insistence on maintaining currency sovereignty, even as the nation clings to a failing local currency, experts warn. Nkanyezi Ndlovu...

Villagers fundraise to assist police dog attack victim

Villagers from Bubi, under the Bubi Community Parliament in Matabeleland North, have initiated a fundraising campaign to assist a 17-year-old boy, Sabelo Dube, who is struggling to receive medical tre...

'Bulawayo-Nkayi Road funds diverted'

Senator Sengezo Tshabangu from Matabeleland North has accused contractors of misappropriating funds meant for the Bulawayo-Nkayi Road project, which has remained incomplete for 31 years. Tshabangu, wh...

Zanu-PF bigwigs under fire

Zanu-PF-linked politicians are reportedly shielding errant miners in Matabeleland North's Bubi district from environmental laws, which is undermining the Environmental Management Agency's (EMA) abilit...

'Zimbabwe mining activity is organised crime,' says foreign funded Maguwu

Farai Maguwu, founding director of the Centre for Natural Resource Governance, has criticized the mining activities in Zimbabwe, particularly those involving Chinese companies, describing them as "org...

MRP rally in Bubi Community successful

The Mthwakazi Republic Party has claimed that its rally in Bubi was successful.Njabulo Ngwenya is MRP Foreign Affairs Secretary said it was encouraging and heart warming to see the people of N...

Inyathi hospital hires builders from Harare, ignores jobless locals

There is a potential explosive matter in Bubi district where villagers have complained over the importation of labour into the district while thousands of local youth are unemployed.This was r...

51% not enough says Mugabe's nephew

THE Minister of Youth Development, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Patrick Zhuwao has said the 51 percent shareholding for locals stipulated under the country's indigenisation law was not enou...