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Chinamasa, please also explain why ZANU PF imposed sanctions on my one-year-old son!
I cannot stand it when the powerful and wealthy whine over clearly banal ‘injustices' inflicted upon their high and mighty little angels - yet, these same people have, themselves, perpetrated the mo...Published: 28 Dec 2022 at 16:22hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Woman jailed 12 years for indecent assault
A 27-YEAR-OLD Bulawayo woman has been sentenced to 12 years in prison on two counts of aggravated indecent assault.Moderate Tichavavamwe (27), who had challenges of conceiving, raped a 15-year...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 06:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mbudzi roundabout contractor dismisses Chin'ono's US$42m claims
The designer of the Mbudzi Traffic Interchange in Harare, DNMZ, has dismissed social media claims by discredit activist Hopewell Chin'ono that the ongoing project will cost US$42 million saying althou...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Can Caterpillars Save Us?
For as long as anyone can remember, mopane worms have provided a critical source of nutritional and financial sustenance for Zimbabweans, especially in the country's southernmost provinces.In ...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 19:24hrs | 10 | by Fortune Moyo
Council presses on with mayor's mansion
BULAWAYO City Council has resubmitted plans to build a $25 million mayoral mansion despite claiming to have put the project on hold citing financial constraints.Construction of the mansion for...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 08:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tonga people are black Jews
For many years historians have failed to trace or state the origin of Tongas the ethnic group of Southern Province. Not even archaeology and oral traditions could give a clue of where Tongas came from...Published: 01 May 2019 at 15:58hrs | 1 | by Abraham Shalome
Religious leaders must pray for bloodless separation of Matabeleland and Zimbabwe
China's revered revolutionary, Mao Zedong, was spot on when he said, "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun". Zimbabwe is the product of the barrel of the gun so is the 2nd Republic tha...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 07:30hrs | | by MLO
How one could be ZIPRA, without being ZAPU
Last week, Comrade Agrippah Gava (born 1956) narrated how ZIPRA gunned down Rhodesian Viscounts in 1978 and 1979 and went on to give details about ZIPRA's plan after this attack.In this interv...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 09:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zipra's plan after downing Rhodesian Viscounts
Last week, Comrade Agrippah Gava (born 1956) narrated how he left Tekwane High School with a group of 34 other students to join the liberation struggle in 1976. He narrated how he went for military tr...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 10:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
8 things you should know before you go to Zimbabwe
Unless you have been living under a rock, you know there have been political changes afoot in Zimbabwe. Robert Mugabe is out and there's a new president...Published: 15 May 2018 at 13:51hrs | 8 | by Lynn Houghton
Why a Gukurahundi victim is against public hearings
FOR Charles Thomas, an ex-Zipra activist, the five days between February 3 and 8 1983, will remain etched in his mind forever.These are the days when Thomas came face-to-face with the brutalit...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 14:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The uncaring father, who should care
It is 2005 25 years after my papa won independence, Independence for transparency of governance Instead, show affection like a father, To your family you stir commotion rather ...Published: 02 Jun 2017 at 21:53hrs | 19 | by Poseidon Tsautsau
Villagers not benefiting from their natural resources
Villagers in Matabeleland regions have complained that 37 years after independence they were still not benefiting from natural resources close to them as people from outside the region descend into th...Published: 30 May 2017 at 08:00hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Game changer or another Zanu-PF dummy?
IT is almost impossible to dispassionately describe the panorama. But elementary geography informs that some inestimable years ago, igneous rock lava inruded into this part of the world, resulting in ...Published: 26 May 2017 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff writer
Zimbabwe faces locust invasion
Zimbabwe faces a red locust invasion which further threatens maize and wheat yields as the country battles to control fall army worm that has ravaged crops. The red locusts are aggressive and ...Published: 15 Feb 2017 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Southern and Eastern Africa Regional Technical Meeting on Emerging High Impact Trans boundary Crop Pests and Animal Disease
The Minister of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development, Zimbabwe – represented here by the Permanent Secretary Ringsong Chitsiko.Representatives from the Southern...Published: 14 Feb 2017 at 10:12hrs | | by Dr. David Phiri - FAO Sub-regional Coordinator for Southern Africa
Emergency conference on fall armyworm
Cereal crop-eating caterpillars have infested maize fields in Namibia, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. While pest identification is still being awaited in some countri...Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 10:18hrs | | by FAO
16 people dead over 'amacimbi tax'
At least 16 people have been killed in a row over a disputed charge on the sale of caterpillars in the Democratic Republic of Congo.The larvae were being sold for food in south-eastern Kat...Published: 19 Oct 2016 at 16:22hrs | | by BBC
GMB defies Govt grain directive
There is a wide misconception that floods are solely a natural happening. But town planning and disaster preparedness are key factors.Poor town planning and a shambolic drainage system are to ...Published: 27 Mar 2016 at 10:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
A Nation off the radar: #ZanuPFMustFall
The nauseating and stomach-churning duplicity is that when it comes to Robert Mugabe and Zanu-PF what is good for the goose is not high-quality for the gander - is always tellingly displayed by the tw...Published: 05 Nov 2015 at 10:15hrs | | by Tapiwa Diamond Chadya
Young Tsholotsho chief ill-treats residents - 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: 09 Oct 2014 at 06:51hrs | | by Concerned Resident
90 is just a number says Mugabe
Zimbabweans will be poor for centuries if they repeat the mistake of letting foreigners own the country's natural resources, 90-year-old President Robert Mugabe has said.Speaking at a b...Published: 23 Feb 2014 at 10:40hrs | | by Staff Reporter
94kg of caterpillars seized at London airport
London - British customs agents made a creepy discovery when an airline passenger was found with 94kg of caterpillars in his luggage.The man claimed they were intended as food for personal con...Published: 02 Mar 2013 at 11:52hrs | | by Sapa
Man stopped at Switzerland customs for carrying dead caterpillars - amacimbi - madora
The thought of munching through this festering mound of dried dead caterpillars would be the stuff of stomach churning nightmares.But one man was so determined that his rare but banned 'delic...Published: 29 Aug 2012 at 04:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo-Nkayi Road construction resumes after a decade
THE construction of the Bulawayo-Nkayi Road, which has been in limbo for more than a decade, has resumed.Millions of United States dollars are required to complete the widening of the road, wh...Published: 28 Dec 2011 at 17:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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