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Mashonaland West chiefs humiliated at a hotel
There was drama at a local hotel this Thursday when Mashonaland West Chiefs' council members were humiliated after refusing to entertain Wasvosva, Chivare and Madzorera families over chief Chivero chi...Published: 11 Oct 2024 at 08:24hrs | 2001 | by Simbarashe Sithole/Gideon Madzikatidze
Villager, conservation clash overshooting of dogs
Chief Chundu, born Abel Mbasera, has urged constructive dialogue between Nyamakate villagers and Akashinga, a wildlife conservation organisation, following a disturbing incident involving the alleged ...Published: 07 Oct 2024 at 14:53hrs | 977 | by Staff reporter
Harare-Chirundu highway upgrade starts
THE long-awaited widening and upgrading of the 352-kilometre Harare-Chirundu highway has started with all the contractors on site. The upgrade has seen two of the five contractors identified t...Published: 01 Feb 2024 at 04:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Human trafficking Zimbabwe cop faces probe
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police has launched an internal investigation against a Chirundu-based officer who is facing a charge of human trafficking, NewsDay has gathered.Paul Chaza was recently g...Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Charumbira steps down
National Chiefs' Council president Chief Fortune Charumbira says he is not seeking re-election to the helm of the national traditional chiefs' body at polls that are scheduled for tomorrow.His...Published: 09 Aug 2023 at 08:07hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Villagers lose crops to buffaloes, elands
VILLAGERS in Hurungwe's Nyamakate area have lost substantial amounts of their maize crop to buffaloes and eland that have invaded the community.The affected villagers are under Chief Chundu in...Published: 10 Apr 2023 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Inflationary pressures choke Zimbabwe industry
A rising bout of inflation is posing a severe threat to Zimbabwe's industries amid growing fears most companies will struggle to restock, which could potentially trigger a significant reduction in pro...Published: 02 Jun 2022 at 09:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Farmer dies in freak accident
A HURUNGWE farmer died last week after falling from a truck ferrying tobacco bales to the market.The truck was side-swiped by a haulage truck at the 234km peg along the Chirundu-Harare Highway...Published: 25 Apr 2022 at 09:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Experts laud liberalisation of foreign exchange market
The move by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to liberalise the foreign exchange market by allowing banks to conduct foreign exchange transactions of up US$1 000 in which individuals and corporates c...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 09:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man strikes neighbour dead with log
POLICE in Mashonaland Central are hunting for a Concession man Imigrame Malaki (40) who allegedly struck and killed his neighbour with a log during an unk...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 06:45hrs | 7 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mashonaland chiefs demand change of title to kings
CHIEFS are lobbying government to urgently change the nomenclature of traditional leaders' titles from chiefs to kings.Chief Zvimba, born Stanley Urayayi Mhondoro, is leading the lobby....Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 06:04hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Lions wreak havoc in Kariba
THE Mola community in Kariba is living in fear of lions which have devoured several livestock.According to villagers under Nyaminyami Rural District Council, the lions have killed and eaten ei...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 05:45hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
'Hubby snatching' nurse humiliated in front of patients
A THEATRE nurse at a Mt Darwin hospital, has slapped one Rumbidzai Chundu with a $4 million defamation lawsuit after the latter assaulted and insulted her in front of patients for allegedly snatching ...Published: 28 May 2021 at 07:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Digitalisation to usher 12 new TV stations in ZImbabwe
INFORMATION, Media and Broadcasting Services minister Monica Mutsvangwa says the transformation of the media landscape from analogue to digital terrestrial television broadcasting will improve signal ...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe TV goes digital
ZIMBABWE will soon have free-to-air digital television services through 12 stations following the successful and historic switch-over yesterday, from the analogue signal to Digital Terrestrial Televis...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chief Chiwundura dies
CHIEF Tavengwa Zebediah D, better known as Chief Chiwundura passed on Wednesday aged 97.This was confirmed in a tweet Wednesday by Information Ministry permanent secretary Nick Mangwana....Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Floating of bond notes not a solution
Floating of the bond notes is not in itself the solution to the challenges currently bedevilling the Zimbabwean economy, but rather proper financial management fundamentals must be put in place as a w...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 08:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans demand more after Mugabe coup
As the country marks exactly a year since the military rose up against former president Robert Mugabe by way of a popular coup, long-suffering Zimbabweans say they want President Emmerson Mnangagwa an...Published: 15 Nov 2018 at 13:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa restores Mudzimu chieftaincy
President Mnangagwa has restored the Mudzimu chieftaincy, which was relegated to headmanship by the white minority regime 63 years ago. The has seen Headman Mudzimu - Mr Joseph Mudzimu - being...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiefs get roads to their homes
GOVERNMENT has started rehabilitating and opening up roads leading to chiefs' homesteads in Mashonaland West Province in a development that has been welcomed by the chiefs and the communities they lea...Published: 07 May 2018 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jury still out on bond notes
The introduction of bond notes led to an increase in exports but the surrogate currency has not alleviated Zimbabwe's foreign currency shortages, analysts have said.Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (R...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 09:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Work cut out for Mnangagwa
WORK is cut out for the new Cabinet as President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration bids to deliver, despite the existence of the old guard which has failed in the past.Last week, Mnangagwa a...Published: 06 Dec 2017 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man jailed for killing wife, son, nieces
A JILTED Mashonaland West province man, who was facing four counts of murder, was last Thursday slapped with a 35-year jail term after being convicted for killing his wife, son and two nieces in a fit...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bond notes have driven away good money from the formal market
A WEAK currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation, American business magnate Ross Perot once said.Zimbabwean depositors have watched helplessly as their ...Published: 29 Nov 2017 at 05:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
The origins of Doma tribes and their displacement
The Doma tribes originated from Doma North of Mhangura nine.The Doma of today are slightly different from the Domas of yesteryear, culturally, economically and socially.Today the Doma trib...Published: 20 Sep 2017 at 18:32hrs | 4 | by Givestar Kamuzonde
'Bus driver was speeding'
The driver of the 69-seater King Lion bus which killed 43 people mostly cross border traders and injured 31 others on Wednesday night was reportedly speeding despite pleas from passengers to exercise ...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 08:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Missing rangers found
The Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority rangers who were reported missing on Tuesday in the Mana Pools National Park were found alive yesterday after a search and rescue mission.H...Published: 09 Sep 2016 at 07:56hrs | | by Walter Nyamukondiwa
Bosso dismiss Border Strikers to close the gap
Border Strikers 1 2 HighlandersHIGHLANDERS came from behind to beat relegation-haunted Border Strikers in an entertaining Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match played before a near capacity cro...Published: 05 Sep 2016 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Thupeyo Muleya
Man loses $9k in stand deal
FOR allegedly defrauding his customer of $9 820 in a botched residential stand deal, a Penhalonga man was last week arraigned before the courts. Manica Post reported that Perfect Matika who re...Published: 06 May 2016 at 14:36hrs | | by Letwin Mubonesi
Mliswa fined for contempt of a traditional court, banished
Former Zanu-PF Mashonaland West provincial chairman Temba Mliswa has been fined for contempt of a traditional court and banished from areas under four chiefs in Hurungwe.Mliswa was tried in ab...Published: 02 Sep 2015 at 06:06hrs | | by Walter Nyamukondiwa
Samsung to set up TV, fridge plant in Zimbabwe
Korea-based telecoms manufacturing giant Samsung yesterday signed a $10 million deal with a local company, Cranbal Investments that will see the international firm setting up a television and refriger...Published: 08 May 2015 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kore Kore chiefs question Temba Mliswa roots
Chiefs in Hurungwe yesterday protested at the district administrator's office and disowned ousted former Zanu-PF Mashonaland West provincial chairman Mr Temba Mliswa saying he should leave the area fo...Published: 15 Apr 2015 at 07:09hrs | | by Walter Nyamukondiwa
Fraudulent inputs scheme sucks in Zanu-PF minister, MP
The resident minister for Mashonaland West Faber Chidarikire and Hurungwe East MP Sarah Mahoka have been sucked into a fraudulent scheme in which their names were allegedly used by a suspected fra...Published: 05 Jan 2015 at 08:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare City vs Highlanders - Live updates
Harare City 3 - 0 Highlanders FCGame over90 + 5' Poor poor free kick90+4' Freekick Bosso, Charles Sibanda to take it4 minutes up but still goingPoor defending ...Published: 19 Oct 2014 at 14:09hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Man fatally axes neighbour over witchcraft
A Hurungwe man fatally struck his neighbour with an axe on suspicion that he was bewitching him and his family, a daily reported today. The incident occurred on Wednesday in an are...Published: 13 Oct 2014 at 05:28hrs | | by Court reporter
Barter trade resurfaces in Zimbabwe
BARTER trade, an archaic system of exchanging good or services before money was widely accepted as medium of exchange, has resurfaced in Zimbabwe.To circumvent prevailing liquidity challenges,...Published: 27 Jul 2014 at 09:42hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe is the 'glue' holding Zimbabwe together - EU
President Robert Mugabe is the "glue" that is holding Zimbabwe's "contradicting forces" together, European Union (EU) Head of Mission Aldo Dell'Ariccia said Tuesday.Contributing at a one-day ...Published: 18 Jun 2014 at 14:20hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Malaria wreaks havoc rural areas
HURUNGWE - Half the population of Zimbabwe is at risk of being infected with the third most common illness, malaria, which has wreaked havoc in communal areas.Speaking at commemorations to mar...Published: 01 Dec 2013 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chief nabbed for impersonation
Former acting Chief Chundu of Hurungwe, Picture Chundu, was last week arrested for impersonation after he refused to hand over the chieftainship attire, insisting he was the rightful leader.He...Published: 26 May 2013 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chombo attacks Biti
Local Government, Rural and Urban Development Minister Ignatius Chombo has been accused Finance Minister Tendai of deliberately starving the agricultural sector in a bid to abet the MDC-T cause....Published: 15 Apr 2013 at 23:09hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF snubs Chavhunduka memorial
Zanu-PF yesterday snubbed as memorial service for the late former University of Zimbabwe vice-chancellor and Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers' Association president Gordon Chavhunduka. Za...Published: 15 Jan 2013 at 05:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim Chief drives out 'foreigners'
Nearly 300 families face eviction as a chief intensifies efforts to drive out migrant people he describes as foreigners in Chundu area.Acting chief Picture Chundu alleges that the "foreigners"...Published: 12 Aug 2012 at 12:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim War Vets collect samples from mass graves in Zambia
A total of 568 people who claim to be members of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) recently visited Zambia to collect samples from mass graves of former freedom fighte...Published: 09 Aug 2012 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man fatally assaults lover over missing money
A 34-year-old Hurungwe man appeared before a Karoi magistrate for allegedly fatally assaulting his 47-year -old girlfriend during a dispute over missing money.Roderick Chabayanzara of Campfir...Published: 12 Jul 2012 at 17:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Two brothers in court for rape
Two Hurungwe brothers appeared before a Karoi magistrate last week facing charges of raping a 23-year-old woman from Chief Chundu area. Garikai Joseph (31) and brother Aaron (27) of Nyakasika...Published: 23 May 2012 at 21:51hrs | | by
Two brothers take turns to rape girlfriend
Two brothers are suspected to have taken turns to rape a 23-year-old woman who was a girlfriend of one of them.Police said on May 13 at Village 6, Nyakasikana, under Chief Chundu in Hurungwe,...Published: 19 May 2012 at 17:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai invites Prophet TB Joshua
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has, through his close confidante Mr Ian Makone, officially invited controversial Nigerian prophet TB Joshua to come to Zimbabwe next month, as the desperate MDC-T le...Published: 22 Apr 2012 at 10:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Adam Ndlovu's Chicken Inn tops the log standings
Chicken Inn (2) 4 - (0) 1 Shooting StarsCHICKEN Inn is not inside but on top of the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League after beating Shooting Stars 4-1 at Luveve Stadium yesterday.The...Published: 25 Apr 2011 at 07:03hrs | | by Ndou Paul
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