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Mnangagwa caps 1,708 at Lupane State University
President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday awarded degrees to 1,708 students at Lupane State University (LSU)'s 15th graduation ceremony, celebrating the institution's first cohort of students under the S...Published: 10 Nov 2024 at 10:43hrs | 86 | by Staff reporter
6 Zimbabwe Power Company employees up for cables theft
SIX Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) employees stationed in Hwange were arrested for stealing electricity transmission cables worth thousands at the company premises in the coal mining town.Tawand...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 07:30hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Bosso, Dembare clash
DOMESTIC football giants Highlanders and Dynamos will set the stage alight again this year when they clash in the Independence Trophy in a landmark outing in Mashonaland Central where this year's cele...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
DNA bank for exhumed victims on cards
The Government will set up a Biobank where DNA samples for all exhumed victims will be kept for future matching with potential relatives for easy identification.This will happen when the new p...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 06:56hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Construction of Hwange Teachers' College set for next year
CONSTRUCTION of Hwange Teachers' College, which will be the first training institution for teachers in Matabeleland North province, is set to begin early next year.This was revealed by Matabel...Published: 01 Dec 2021 at 05:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Suspected robber killed
A BULAWAYO man suspected to be a robber died in hospital while another believed to be his relative is battling for life after they were assaulted by armed unknown men at a mine compound in Inyathi, Bu...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 18:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Finding Zimbabweans in secret mass graves
ONE of my earliest memories is of violence and death.It happened in Harare in 1984 when I was about seven years old.I was supposed to meet a friend to play at a dump site together....Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:00hrs | | by Keith Silika
Hundreds ill after drinking sewage-contaminated water
MORE than 200 residents including school children in Empumalanga's DRC suburb in Hwange were on Thursday and Friday taken ill following a diarrhoea outbreak suspected to have been caused by a sewage l...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chief Binga dies
CHIEF Binga of Binga District in Matabeleland North has died. He was 74. Born Siakateya Siakulya Gasita, Chief Binga died at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo on Wednesday last ...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Hard work over miracles,' says Chiwenga
Tomorrow, Zimbabwe marks Heroes Day and on Tuesday Zimbabwe Defence Forces Day. The Sunday Mail News Editor Darlington Musarurwa spoke with Vice-President Dr Constantino Chiwenga about these i...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 09:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt releases $6m for digitisation project
GOVERNMENT has released $6 million to the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) to complete the digitisation project amid reports that most transmission sites countrywide are ready for migration fr...Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 08:34hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
$6m released for completion of digitalisation programme
GOVERNMENT has released $6 million to the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) to complete the digitalisation project amid reports that most transmission sites countrywide are ready for migration ...Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Hwange names streets after local chiefs
HWANGE Local Board has named streets in its suburbs in honour of its local traditional leaders as part of its efforts to preserve heritage and culture in communities.Speaking at the street nam...Published: 01 Apr 2018 at 20:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube's bootlicking frenzy takes aim at Dabengwa
Former War veterans minister Tshinga Dube has taken aim at Zapu president Dumiso Dabengwa saying he failed to address the Gukurahundi by utilising his office at the time he was a Cabinet minister....Published: 10 Jan 2018 at 13:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Anglo-Saxon enemies behind this, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I am unable to fully address you this week. You noticed that I was unable to join you in bidding farewell to Cde Shuvai, I am still in a state of sh...Published: 24 Aug 2017 at 17:48hrs | | by CZ
Man forges child birth certificate in adultery row
A Harare man forged a birth certificate for a child in a bid to prove that his wife was in an adulterous affair with the man whose name he put on the fake document as the father.The Harare Civ...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 08:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Ian Smith myth and other fallacies
There are many fallacies associated with the history of Zimbabwe. Let's start with one of the oldest.Rhodesia was not built on an empty veld. The fallacy that the land was empty is just that: ...Published: 15 May 2017 at 06:53hrs | | by Simon Massey
Man loses ear over spitting on food
A HWANGE man lost his right ear after he was struck with an unknown object on allegations of spitting on other people's food in a bar.This was heard when Godfrey Mathe (33) of Chibondo Vil...Published: 31 Mar 2017 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Beware of Mugabe coming to the people wearing Mujuru's face
I wonder why some genuine opposition cadres are quiet about this snake calling itself ZPF, which is coming into our house as we watch? Mugabe is slowly crawling into the opposition while putting on Mu...Published: 16 Jan 2017 at 10:59hrs | | by Albert Matapo
Man bashes neighbour over 'witchcraft'
A MAN FROM Chibondo Village in Hwange is in trouble after he pounced at his neighbour's home accusing her of bewitching him before assaulting her with a log.Luck Ncube (38) was not asked to pl...Published: 29 Oct 2016 at 08:28hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Hwange installs solar-powered street lights
THE Hwange Local Board is installing solar-powered street lights and tower lights as the town pushes for municipal status.Town Secretary Ndumiso Mdlalose said the solar lights project, which i...Published: 21 Apr 2016 at 05:19hrs | | by Kamangeni Phiri
Binga set to get digital signal
THE people of Binga are excited about the digitisation programme, which will see the district, together with many others countrywide that had never received radio and TV signal, getting coverage....Published: 18 Mar 2016 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wife beats hubby's girlfriend at workplace
AN ESTRANGED Hwange woman, Moreblessing Musekwa, attacked her husband's girlfriend at her workplace, leaving her half-naked after accusing the complainant of having an extra-marital affair with her hu...Published: 06 Nov 2015 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Peter Ndlovu dragged to court, mental examination ordered
POLICE have arrested a Hwange man on suspicion of malicious damage to property after he went on a spree of removing front badges of Mercedes Benz cars. Peter Ndlovu, 38, from Empumalanga subur...Published: 29 Sep 2015 at 06:38hrs | | by Leonard Ncube
Harare man kills three people in one night
A Harare man has appeared in court facing allegations of murdering three people in one night in Chinamhora.Peter Dirai, who was on the run, allegedly committed the crime in the company of Bles...Published: 15 Jul 2015 at 19:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
American soldiers singing at Gono's farm
APOLOGIES for going AWOL for the past two editions of the only readable Sunday paper. You see, I could quote several Bible verses on the necessity of resting but I don't want to hypnotise you dear rea...Published: 15 Feb 2015 at 11:57hrs | | by Bishop Lazarus
Zanu-PF primaries candidates list (2013)
ZANU PF LIST OF RECOMMENDED CANDIDATES FOR THE 2013 HARMONISED ELECTIONSMASVINGO...Published: 21 Jun 2013 at 13:41hrs | 86 | by Staff Reporter
Man beats naked wife in full view of their children
A 36-year-old Chitungwiza man who bashed his naked wife in full view of their children during a domestic dispute escaped a prison term with a $300 fine.Tichafa Muchemwa of 7 Chivangu Road in ...Published: 01 Jun 2013 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Call to expose fake war veterans
A FORMER Zipra combatant and co-minister of the Organ of National Healing, Integration and Reconciliation Moses Mzila Ndlovu has urged those who took part in the struggle for the country's...Published: 18 Feb 2013 at 05:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unlicensed Zimbabwean newspaper operator fined $50
A HWANGE man is lucky to have survived a jail term after he published a community newspaper without an operating licence, an offence that attracts 18 months imprisonment, a US$5 000 fine or both....Published: 26 Aug 2012 at 13:38hrs | | by Court reporter
Would SADC and the AU endorse a military coup in Zimbabwe?
Media reports that Mugabe and his Zanu-pf party are again pushing for elections before the end of the year despite lack of key electoral reforms point towards what looks like a military coup. ...Published: 11 Jan 2012 at 21:06hrs | | by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri | Political Analyst, London
Man kills cousin, stashes corpse under bed
A SELOUS man is on the run after allegedly killing his cousin and stashing the corpse under a bed in a bid to conceal the crime.Farai Chitsinde allegedly committed the murder after his cousin...Published: 11 Sep 2011 at 08:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Was General Solomon Mujuru assassinated!
There are growing calls for a probe into the suspicious death of General Solomon Mujuru amid fears that the Chimurenga revolution may now be devouring its own sons and daughters.The key issu...Published: 17 Aug 2011 at 12:10hrs | | by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri
700 former liberation war fighters reburial in progress
THE reburial of the remains of over 700 former liberation war fighters that were buried at disused mine shafts at Chibondo in Mt Darwin began on Friday, state controlled 'The Herald' reported....Published: 13 Aug 2011 at 10:54hrs | | by
Zim govt starts reburial of over 700 exhumed bodies
The National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe, in conjunction with the Fallen Heroes Trust of Zimbabwe has started the reburial of the remains of over 700 freedom fighters and supporters that wer...Published: 11 Aug 2011 at 07:18hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Is Jonathan Moyo regretting his anti Mugabe stance?
Yes it's true that Jonathan Moyo hates his past because proof lies in his writings in which he passionately castigated Robert Mugabe, the President of Zanu-PF. Moyo said and did things that he now w...Published: 15 Jul 2011 at 16:16hrs | | by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri, Political Analyst, London
Their bones shall rise
LAST Wednesday, the High Court in Bulawayo ruled that the exhumation of thousands of bodies dumped in disused mineshafts at Chibondo by the Rhodesians during the liberation war, be discontinued....Published: 13 Apr 2011 at 10:17hrs | 1 | by Alex Kanengoni
Zimbabwe exhumations must be done by forensic specialists
As the Bulawayo High Court this week ordered a halt to the exhumation of bodies from a mass grave by Zanu-PF, Amnesty International stepped into the fray and called for forensic experts to be in...Published: 10 Apr 2011 at 06:27hrs | | by Byo24News
Only impeachment can guarantee Mugabe a dignified exit
It is said a week is a long time in politics. This has indeed been an eventful week especially in Africa. For instance, nobody thought that the Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi would ever write US...Published: 07 Apr 2011 at 08:05hrs | 1 | by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri
ZILIWACO donates 8 coffins to rebury over 800 exhumed bodies in Mt Darwin
The Zimbabwe Liberation War Collaborators (ZILIWACO) has donated 8 coffins to the Fallen Heroes of Zimbabwe Trust to assist in the re-burial of remains being exhumed in Mt Darwin.Josephine Gan...Published: 02 Apr 2011 at 07:24hrs | 5 | by Matthews Estell
Zanu-PF MPs must defect to MDC- T to avert a Tunisia
Any hopes that the Troika would read the riot act to Robert Mugabe were dashed before the meeting had even started when Zambian Foreign Minister indicated that SADC was likely to stick to prev...Published: 01 Apr 2011 at 08:25hrs | | by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri
Zim govt to take over exhumations
The Home Affairs co-Minister, Kembo Mohadi told the state controlled ZBC News that President Robert Mugabe and Vice President Joice Mujuru had instructed him that his ministry, should take over ...Published: 28 Mar 2011 at 21:23hrs | | by Byo24News
Zimbabwe in shock as 200 more remains exhumed
There were about 200 more remains exhumed in Mt Darwin on Tuesday. Over the weekend, 280 remains were exhumed from Chibondo Mineshaft, about 32km out of Mount Darwin.Zanu-PF secretary for in...Published: 16 Mar 2011 at 20:11hrs | | by Byo24News
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