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Why does Zimbabwe attract rogue Chinese investors?
Last night, I had the honor of being one of those invited for the launch of a report, in Harare, by the Center for Natural Resource Governance (CNRG) titled, 'Chinese Investments in Zimbabwe'....Published: 27 Sep 2024 at 22:57hrs | 4974 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Dr Zulu discharged
Regional Magistrate Bishard Chineka has officially discharged Dr. Noel Ralph Zulu, the Medical Superintendent at Masvingo Provincial Hospital, who was facing charges of culpable homicide related to th...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 10:32hrs | 406 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's Cowdray Park residents forced to use sewer water
Residents of Cowdray Park in Ward 15 have resorted to using sewer water for flushing toilets and other menial tasks as Bulawayo's water crisis deepens.Residents say the available water sources...Published: 14 Sep 2024 at 16:20hrs | 757 | by Staff reporter
Tenant stabs housemate over chores
In Harare, a tenant named Mike Mazungu has been brought before the courts on charges of attempted murder, following an altercation where he allegedly stabbed his colleague, Mark Mano, over house chore...Published: 30 Jun 2024 at 18:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Wife, man fight over children's welfare
A Harare man, brought to civil court by his wife on Friday, turned the tables by claiming their marital issues stemmed from her mistreatment of their children.Lameck Ndava told Harare magistra...Published: 06 Jun 2024 at 13:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Naked 'wizard' caught in the act
IT was at the crack of dawn when the screaming villagers drew the attention of an elderly man to a homestead, a few metres away from his.Mackenzie, as he described himself in a video that has ...Published: 02 Mar 2024 at 20:04hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa wants to change culture of installing chiefs
GOVERNMENT says it is committed to having women considered for traditional leadership roles to promote gender equality, Women's Affairs minister Monica Mutsvangwa has said.Mutsvangwa yesterday...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 05:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man hooks up with maid
A 42-YEAR-OLD Harare woman has implored the civil court in the capital city to protect her marriage after her husband allegedly hooked up with their maid.Media Kapfudza dragged her husband, Jo...Published: 11 Jan 2024 at 05:16hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
New firewood saving Tsotso stove introduced for tobacco farmers
Senior agronomist Lazarus Gatawa has introduced new technology of tsotso stove to small scale tobacco farmers in Chiweshe communal lands, Mashonaland Cent...Published: 11 Dec 2023 at 07:00hrs | 22 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe National Army gifts eyesight to grannies
GOGO Ellen Nyoni (78) from Chakamanga Village in Shurugwi in the Midlands Province was all smiles and could not contain her excitement after her sight was restored. Sitting with fellow cataract patien...Published: 17 Nov 2023 at 05:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Woman in brutal attack on stepson
IN a shocking incident a 48-year-old woman from Matikiti Village in Inyathi, Matebeleland North province appeared in court, facing charges of brutally assaulting her 14-year-old stepson with a broomst...Published: 27 Oct 2023 at 06:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa has no one to blame but wapusa wapusa
Growing up in the country's ghettos, playing plastic balls was commonplace. Young boys stripped to their shorts, sometimes with holes that revealed their nether parts, and ran in the scorching...Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 06:24hrs | | by Fungi Kwaramba
Granny killed over polls
A 74 year-old man stabbed his wife with a kitchen knife after accusing her of neglecting household chores to go and vote during the Wednesday election.The matter came to light at the Plumtree ...Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 12:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Senior citizen stabs wife for prioritizing voting
A 74-YEAR-OLD man is in trouble after he violated his wife's right to vote by stabbing her with a kitchen knife for voting while leaving house hold chores...Published: 24 Aug 2023 at 16:54hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Traditional 'DNA tests' confirm paternity
DRAMA recently erupted at Acting Chief Saunyama's court after a toddler became the subject of traditional "DNA tests".The tests were done by a group of elderly women.The father of the ...Published: 20 Jul 2023 at 16:18hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Rural women drive Zimbabwe's green transition
As a rural woman from Wedza, about 140 kilometers from Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, 53-year-old Adefi Mtambo never remotely imagined herself in the driver's seat."I could only operate an o...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nkayi snake bite victim gets artificial limb
LEONARD Cheshire Disability Zimbabwe has come to the rescue of a 16-year-old Nkayi girl who crawls to school following the amputation of her leg after she was bitten by a snake in 2016.Leonard...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rural electrification transforms Beitbridge West
The people of Beitbridge West are already enjoying the benefits of the government's rural electrification programme, which has seen the installation of solar-powered street lights and household connec...Published: 21 Apr 2023 at 16:25hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo hit by water crisis
RESIDENTS in Bulawayo have been hit by a serious water crisis with most suburbs going for weeks without running water amid fears of a disease outbreak.The city is enduring a prolonged water-sh...Published: 21 Mar 2023 at 08:41hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Harare woman up for slavery
A Harare woman Daisy Machiha (34) is facing human trafficking charges for allegedly "enslaving" a juvenile from Chitungwiza.Machiha appeared before Chitungwiza Magistrate Court charged with vi...Published: 18 Mar 2023 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pastor faces sex worker murder charge
A Seventh Day Adventist Church (SDA) pastor based in Francistown, Botswana has been linked to the alleged murder of a suspected Zimbabwean commercial sex worker who was found dead in her house in Ma...Published: 17 Feb 2023 at 20:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fort Rixon cattle carnage: Ward records 262 deaths in 1 month
A 65-year-old Fort Rixon widow has so far lost more than 50 cattle as the dreaded theileriosis, commonly known as January disease, has ravaged through the area leaving peasants and small scale farmers...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 08:12hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Vote ED to live peacefully, Zanu-PF warns mourners at slain prophet's funeral
A Zanu-PF official in Wedza has threatened villagers that they risk living in political turmoil if they do not vote for President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the up-coming elections.The Zanu-PF orga...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans mock Mnangagwa over election promises as blackouts worsen
The announcement by the Zambezi River Authority, which runs the Kariba Dam, that Zimbabwe had used up its share of the water in the world's largest man-made reservoir sounded a death knell to an alrea...Published: 09 Dec 2022 at 05:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube pays US$8 500 for Sandra Ndebele's latest album
November 12, 2022, will go down in the history of the arts in Bulawayo and Zimbabwe, not only as a celebration of Sandra Ndebele's 20-year career but as the day an album launch united the arts sector....Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZESA says NO to Chiwenga's 2023 budget address
VICE President and health minister Constantino Chiwenga's 2023 budget presentation was Monday afternoon interrupted by a ZESA power in a poignant moment for the country's top leadership.Ordina...Published: 25 Oct 2022 at 19:40hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli told to include minors in budget processes
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Caucus on Children's Rights, Mathew Nyashanu, has called for the inclusion of minors in the budget process to ensure that their needs and welfare are prioritised....Published: 03 Oct 2022 at 06:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sex workers' paradise at Cross Dete
"Life around here starts exciting from 9pm," a middle-aged truck driver, whom I later got to know as "JR", said as he sipped his not-so-cold beer as we sat in one of the sports bars at Cross Dete in H...Published: 01 Oct 2022 at 06:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man bewitched as a mysterious insect eats his foot
When a mysterious ailment attacked his left foot and left a big gaping hole in it Emson Mkhwananzi from Zamatove village in Mberengwa, Midlands province, pictured a dark future and being amputated....Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 19:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman drags jealous hubby to court
A woman has dragged her husband to court for insulting and assaulting her for wearing a see-through dress at home in the presence of their gardener.Thelma Sibanda (34) stays with her husband, ...Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt must introduce social safety nets for unpaid care givers
VENDORS Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (Viset) is part of a steering committee working group on unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW).The working group is convened by the Wom...Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 06:43hrs | | by Viset
Zimbabwe's 70 year old historic painting depicts Jesus as a black man
For the first time in his life, Gift Livingstone Sango, 65, saw a painting by his father depicting Jesus as a Black man."My father used to draw Jesus as Black because God is for all of us. He ...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 18:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare residents go 5 days without water
Heroes' Day will be celebrated in Zimbabwe on Monday — a time to celebrate the liberation war heroes and heroines of the country. But for more than one-million people in the capital, Harare, who hav...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Manager bashes wife, strips and dumps her
A MANAGER at a Bulawayo clothing company was on Monday brought before provincial magistrate Nobuhle Ndlovu to face charges of abusing his wife after accusing her of denying him his conjugal rights....Published: 21 Jul 2022 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Businessman in fierce battle with armed robbers
A fast-thinking and quick acting businessman and his family managed to fight off and repel a determined attack by four robbers in Dema Phase 3, Seke, on Wednesday night.The businessman put his...Published: 20 May 2022 at 06:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man disguises as woman, gets married for 16 months
A Honde Valley man disguised himself as a woman and got married for 16 good months while performing all the duties expected of a new bride, only being caught when playing for a women's soccer team and...Published: 14 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
DJ Fantan arrested
Music producer DJ Fantan was arrested on Tuesday after his wife told police he beat her and locked her up at their home.Fantan, real name Arnold Kamudyariwa, was detained at Waterfalls Police ...Published: 11 May 2022 at 11:27hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
ZPCS's female officer found passion in panel beating
AT around 5:30AM daily, Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) Correctional Officer Grade 1 Petronella Chadenga wakes up, does her household chores, prepares lunch boxes for her five childre...Published: 02 Apr 2022 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Form 3 pupil commits suicide
A 16-YEAR-OLD school pupil at Ndarama High School in Masvingo died after he drank poison after he had allegedly been summoned for a hearing by school authorities.The incident which happened on...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Tuku's unreleased music stolen
TODAY marks exactly three years to the day legendary music icon and national hero Dr Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi breathed his last. The revered and highly decorated musician died at the age of 66, and had ...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 07:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man caught pants down with brother's daughter (12)
Masvingo - Nickel Chikwanda from village 15B Chamanhure who was caught pants down with his brother's 12-year-old daughter has been sentenced to 16 years in prison.Chikwanda raped the girl on s...Published: 22 Dec 2021 at 17:27hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
If Zimbabweans not angry enough over their oppression and suffering, then I don't know what we really want!
After another bout of involuntary strenuous morning exercises - engaging in some heavy lifting of several twenty litre (20lt) plastic containers [weighing about twenty-five to thirty kilograms (25-30k...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 09:26hrs | 7 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Khaya Moyo, a freedom fighter par excellence
LIBERATOR, bureaucrat, corporate communications expert, politician, author and diplomat all rolled into one.Simon Khaya Moyo was a top functionary during the struggle and thereafter, continued...Published: 16 Nov 2021 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khaya Moyo: Selfless freedom fighter
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has mourned nationalist and liberation struggle stalwart Simon Khaya Moyo, who has been declared a national hero, as a true patriot, courageous and selfless freedom fighter....Published: 16 Nov 2021 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Khaya Moyo
President Mnangagwa has sent condolences following the death yesterday of politburo member Simon Khaya Moyo.Moyo succumbed to cancer after a long battle with the disease."The tragic de...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 18:43hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Woman appeals for help to find missing daughter (1)
A 29-YEAR-OLD woman is appealing for information about the whereabouts of her one-year-old daughter who went missing yesterday morning in Budiriro 4 high-density suburb.Prisca Dindinga told Ne...Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti assault case postponed to next week
THE State has challenged Tendai Biti's seventh application for postponement of trial in a case the MDC Alliance vice-president is accused of assaulting a Russian national, Tatiana Aleshina at the Hara...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga endorses Mnangagwa wife's initiative
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday attended First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa's educative Gota/Nhanga/Ixhiba programme at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) and concurred with her tha...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:15hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Tsotso stoves will save our forests
In the picture - Mrs Walter Murinyu doing what she knows best, building Tsotso Stoves. The new special bricks and mortar tsotso stoves are user-friendly, cleaner, produces less smoke, are very secure,...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 06:53hrs | 3 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Illegal harvesting of natural resources sparks conflict
The Kenilworth community, in Bubi ward 19 has raised ire over the indigent harvesting of locally available natural resources by villagers from neighboring districts.Premature harvesting of bro...Published: 26 Aug 2021 at 12:10hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
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