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Investor pours US$44m into steel plant
Local investor BER–Pig Iron and Steel Company (BPISC) has committed US$43.8 million to establish an iron ore processing plant in Redcliff, Midlands province. This initiative will be operated under a...Published: 20 May 2024 at 07:48hrs | 64 | by Staff reporter
Robbers hide in apostolic sect robes
TWO apostolic sect members on Saturday robbed a Midlands man of his vehicle after hiring his vehicle.Midlands provincial police spokesperson Inspector Emmanuel Mahoko yesterday confirmed the i...Published: 15 Nov 2023 at 05:12hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Alleged cop drug mule acquitted
A police officer stationed at Buchwa in the Midlands province was acquitted on Friday of allegations that he conspired with drug syndicates to collect drugs from India while he was on leave.Ha...Published: 23 Oct 2023 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's iron and steel sector to create 40 000 jobs
The Dinson Iron and Steel Company (Disco) steelworks, valued at US$1.5 billion, situated near Mvuma in the Midlands province, is set to create nearly 40,000 new jobs, both directly and in downstream i...Published: 22 Oct 2023 at 09:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zisco to start iron ore mining ahead of revival
MOTHBALLED steel giant, Zisco, has procured the equipment it requires to start limestone and iron ore mining in Redcliff early next year ahead of the much-anticipated resumption of operations, a senio...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 06:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zisco set to start mining operations
THE Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (Zisco) intends to start mining limestone and iron ore near Kwekwe by the end of this year as part of the preparatory groundwork to revive the defunct former steel ...Published: 16 Jun 2023 at 09:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt splashes US$60m on police
GOVERNMENT has set aside US$60 million and several billions in local currency for police operations for next year.This comes ahead of elections next year, which are likely to be held in July o...Published: 21 Dec 2022 at 20:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police to get four new helicopters
Finance and Economic Develop minister Professor Mthuli Ncube has hinted that the Zimbabwean Police will receive vehicles including four helicopters to hel...Published: 21 Dec 2022 at 07:36hrs | 7 | by Mzingaye Nxumalo
Mnangagwa son-in-law, adviser botch ZimCoke deal
A COURT application is set to be filed any day from now to legally and officially cancel the US$225 million ZimCoke deal to acquire assets of the now defunct state-owned Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Compan...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 19:17hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Cop bashes pregnant wife to death
A POLICE officer based at Buchwa Support Unit appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court facing murder charges after he allegedly assaulted his pregnant wife to death.Hilary Gororo (30), who was...Published: 18 Feb 2022 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jwamu imali kakhondekitha kaZupco
KUCATSHANGELWA ukuba kuthe ngokuzwa indlala isihlasele lokuba lezikwelede, enye indoda yeZvishavane ijwamulele ukhondekitha wakoZupco imali, qede yacela ezinyaweni. Kubikwa uListon Kubvoruno ,...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 17:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zisco requires US$360m for resuscitation'
INDUSTRY and Commerce deputy minister Raheshkumar (Raji) Modi on Sunday said the defunct Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (Zisco) requires US$360 million for its resuscitation.Ziscosteel was on...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
4 die in mountain accident
FOUR members of an Apostolic church who were coming from an all-night prayer died after the vehicle they were travelling in rolled backwards after suspected engine failure before overturning and rolli...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
4 die after vehicle stalls and overturns several times
FOUR members of an apostolic church - coming from an all-night prayer - died after the vehicle they were travelling in rolled backwards and overturned several times in Buchwa mountain in Mberengwa. ...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 13:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police officer in soup over smuggling
A senior police officer, Inspector Elias Mawomba (47), has been arrested for conniving with one of his subordinates to divert two vehicles from offloading smuggled goods inside the Beitbridge Border P...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police release names of people who died in Masvingo - Mbalabala road accident
POLICE have released names of 15 of the 21 people who died in an accident which occurred on Monday at the 61-kilometre peg along the Masvingo- Mbalabala Road near Chitowa Business Centre.In a ...Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 16:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt mounts fresh plan to save Zisco
GOVERNMENT is mounting a fresh plan on Friday to revive operations at the moribund steel maker Ziscosteel, the latest of a string of futile attempts to rebuild Africa's once largest integrated steelwo...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nzenza sets ambitious 2021 Zisco revival target
The Minister of Industry and Commerce, Sekai Nzenza, has set an ambitious target of turning the defunct steel giant, Zisco, around by the end of next year. The Zisco revival drive has twi...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 17:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police beefs up para-military unit
SOME 352 junior officers drafted into a police crack unit specifically to deal with protests earlier this year, have all been transferred to the ZRP's para-military Support Unit, NewZimbabwe.com repor...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The science of winning by-elections
URBAN folks are shocked how and why Zanu-PF is winning by-elections amid the economic turmoil. Again, their reasoning still stumbles back to how they mistakenly universalise city aspirations to assume...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 09:50hrs | | by Michael Mhlanga
Milestone in Harare-Bulawayo dualisation
GOVERNMENT has completed dualising another 12-kilometre section of the Harare-Bulawayo highway, with work on the road-over-rail bridge after the Norton tollgate expected to be completed in four months...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 09:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
The death of Zimbabwean economic giants
The market landscape of any country is shaped by a few companies that underpin socio-economic activities of that particular nation. These companies are mirrored on the competitive advantages that the ...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 14:16hrs | 1 | by Victor Bhoroma
Mnagagwa blocks MDC official on Twitter
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has blocked outgoing MDC Youth organising Secretary Shephard Dube (Shephard Ben Abraham) from interacting with him on Twitter.Posting on Facebook Dube said, ...Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 10:35hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Minister clarifies on Mberengwa Police District Office establishment
THE deputy MINISTER of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Mike Madiro has clarified the government's position of the establishment of Mberengwa district Police offices."Let me from the onset p...Published: 16 Oct 2018 at 09:11hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
List of Zimbabwe police officers being transferred
FROM COMPOL [HRA] TO ALL STNS CLASS ‘A’ RDO TM 375/18 DD 11/10/18'IMMEDIATE'SUBJECT: TRANSFERS: OFFICERS AND...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 20:02hrs | 11 | by Compol HRA
Zimbabwe road upgrades gather pace
THE modernisation of major roads, particularly the much-talked about Harare-Beitbridge highway, is gathering pace after Government officials met Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Corporation (AFECC)...Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lovers drag cops to maintenance courts
A MARRIED police officer has been dragged to the maintenance court by his ex-girlfriend who is demanding money for the upkeep of their two minor children.Ms Silethokuhle Nkomo was demanding $1...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Married cop in maintenance storm
A MARRIED police officer from Buchwa Police Station in Mberengwa has been dragged to court for the upkeep of one minor child by his ex-girlfriend who is also a police officer.Ms Rudo Moyo stat...Published: 07 Jun 2018 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Instructor arrested in fake licence scam
A Zvishavane-based instructor who was in the business of issuing out fake licences to his learners has finally been exposed and arrested after running his 'bogus' business for a couple of years....Published: 25 May 2018 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe security forces tension reach boiling point
THE expulsion of high-ranking Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) officers this week has escalated tension in the security forces amid revelations that some operatives who were tortured during the...Published: 09 Feb 2018 at 11:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Accident claims 2
Two people died on the spot while an unconfirmed number survived with various injuries when the vehicle they were travelling in veered off the road and overturned in the early hours of Thursday near S...Published: 07 Dec 2017 at 17:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Another Mugabe legacy of failure, neglect
There is no doubt that President Robert Mugabe's 37 years at the helm of Zimbabwe have been a disaster to the economy.Every sector of the country's economy has been affected directly or indire...Published: 05 Nov 2017 at 08:07hrs | | by Tapiwa Zivira
Man claims to be in love with aunt
AN alleged secret affair between an aunt and a nephew came to light when he was arrested for touching her without consent.Dumisani Ndlovu (39) of German village in Mberengwa reportedly had an ...Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 08:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chihuri defends roadblocks
THE Commissioner General of Police Dr Augustine Chihuri yesterday fired a vitriol at people criticising high police presence on national roads, saying such characters had sinister motives and ev...Published: 12 Jul 2017 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Senior police officer breaks arm and leg fleeing fellow officers
A senior police officer broke a leg and an arm while fleeing fellow officers who had mistaken him for a thief after he had sneaked into the wrong house while looking for his girlfriend.The cop...Published: 24 Jun 2017 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff Reporter
30 pupils trapped for 18th day
THIRTY pupils in Mberengwa have failed to return home from school since February 22 because of floods which left three vital bridges destroyed and roads impassable.Scores of pupils are als...Published: 11 Mar 2017 at 07:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo-Masvingo Highway closed to traffic
THE Government will soon airlift aid to stranded communities after widespread flooding left one person dead, extensively damaged roads and destroyed bridges, leaving parts of the country isolated....Published: 28 Feb 2017 at 06:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gumbo defends Mnangagwa
JORAM Gumbo, the Zanu-PF provincial chairman for the Midlands, has sprung to the defence of under fire Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who has been receiving brickbats from fellow party cadres ...Published: 26 Jan 2017 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Transport ministry targets major rehabilitation projects
Transport and Infrastructural Development Minster Dr Joram Gumbo says the ministry is aware that most damaged roads have outlived their lifespan.Dr Gumbo told the ZBC News that the state o...Published: 11 Jan 2017 at 20:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cop loses AK47
A policeman guarding examination material at Mupandawana High School in Gutu, Masvingo, is battling for life in hospital after he was attacked by knife-wielding men who disarmed him and fled with ...Published: 10 Nov 2016 at 04:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chihuri warns corrupt police officers
POLICE Commissioner-General Dr Augustine Chihuri has conceded that corruption is bedevilling the police force adding that they are working flat out to weed out corrupt elements from the organisation. ...Published: 17 Jul 2016 at 12:07hrs | | by Munyaradzi Musiiwa
Violence will never be tolerated, says Chihuri
Police Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri says violence and the misuse of social media will never be tolerated in Zimbabwe.He said this during the commissioning of housing units in Buc...Published: 15 Jul 2016 at 20:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man dies in crocodile attack
A MAN from Masvingo was attacked and killed by a crocodile while fishing aboard a home-made canoe in Lake Kyle, police confirmed yesterday.Langton Chikwaya, 53, of Rukovo Village under Chief C...Published: 29 Mar 2016 at 06:35hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
River claims 19th teacher . . . as couple drowns
A MBERENGWA teacher and his wife drowned after the car which they were travelling in was swept away at a flooded bridge at a river now commonly known as Gwamateacher following incessant rains on Thurs...Published: 13 Mar 2016 at 07:09hrs | | by Munyaradzi Musiiwa
48 digital transmitters installed to improve broadcasting services
Zimbabwe has started installing 48 digital transmitters to improve access to broadcasting services countrywide in a development that is expected to revolutionarise the availability of Internet servic...Published: 01 Aug 2015 at 18:37hrs | | by George Maponga
List of companies that are currently offering apprenticeship
The Deputy Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Dr Gandawa yesterday released a list of Zimbabwean companies that currently offer apprenticeship.The companies recr...Published: 20 May 2015 at 20:35hrs | 36 | by Ndou Paul
YA FM must challenge Zvishavane underdevelopment
Almost a month has elapsed since Ray of Hope media group was awarded a radio license to operate as YA FM in Zvishavane. Zimbabweans and particularly youths from Zvishavan...Published: 25 Mar 2015 at 16:25hrs | | by Musavengana Hove
Policeman guilty of receiving bribe
A MEMBER of the Zimbabwe Republic Police in the support unit based in Buchwa was yesterday convicted by a Gweru magistrate for receiving $20 bribe from a chicken hawker who had no permit to trade the ...Published: 12 Feb 2015 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why Mat'land kids would rather go Egoli than attend school - WhatsApp update
Please note that Bulawayo24 does not edit WhatsApp updates. We publish them as sent by our readers and we do not disclose the sender's telephone number....Published: 20 Sep 2014 at 20:38hrs | 1 | by Talmud Dlodlo Msindazi
8 people die in Kombi crash - WhatsApp update
Please note that Bulawayo24 does not edit WhatsApp updates. We publish them as sent by our readers and we do not disclose the sender's telephone number....Published: 25 Jul 2014 at 11:29hrs | | by Concerned Citizen
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