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Man busted with 2 deadly Cobras
A GOKWE man has landed himself in trouble after he was found in possession of two Cobra species, which he claims he uses to heal sick people.Polite Ncube was arrested last week and appeared at...Published: 30 Mar 2024 at 14:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Former Highlanders defender Magungubala dies
Former Highlanders FC defence stalwart Edward 'Magungubala' Dlamini has died. He was in his Sos. According to a family friend Edios Masundire-Shumba, Dlamini died in the early hours of yesterd...Published: 14 Sep 2023 at 15:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
More police deployed to deal with festive season crimes
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has deployed more details countrywide to protect and serve citizens during the festive season.Police said the festive season is synonymous with an upsurge in...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe peddles a world-class Constitution that guarantees
The truth however, is this is just for show and is rarely enforced. How then can we use the beautiful...Published: 31 Dec 2021 at 16:49hrs | 5 | by Sam Wezhira
Unionisation of teachers a millstone in delivery of remarkable kids' performance
We all get it that teachers want to be compensated more.My brother was a teacher for more than 30 years; I have some experience in the daily life of a teacher. For a long time, for him, it has...Published: 28 May 2021 at 14:43hrs | | by Brian Sedze
Snake bites require urgent medical attention
WHEN summer comes, many animals that have been in hibernation or rarely seen during the winter, come out. These include snakes. As a result, cases of snake bites are often high during summertime....Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:05hrs | 1 | by Cimas iGo
Exchange rate upward pressure on
Exchange rate upward pressure onTHERE were signs this week that the grey market was slowly returning from its brief sabbatical following the monetary policy dawn raid of June 24 that called out th...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 08:51hrs | | by Brett Chulu
Building national confidence
And so the old Indian tale is told. When the country became infested with venomous cobra snakes, government, in its wisdom, reacted with a smart snake stabilisation programme.A dollar for ever...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 08:38hrs | | by Zifiso Masiye
Bosso, Dembare face collapse
TIME is up for community clubs to continue to run on the old template of members whose contributions are just a drop in the ocean.Many great names in sport have gone extinct because the so cal...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Soccer stars lost to the war
THE liberation struggle was an inevitable development in the history of the country.So many sporting talents were lost to the war because of the call to serve. Football was among the biggest l...Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 07:42hrs | 1 | by Lovemore Dube
13 people die from snake bites
HARARE - At least 13 people have died from snake bites since the beginning of the year, statistics from the ministry of Health and Child Care reveal."The total snake bite cases reporte...Published: 29 Apr 2018 at 17:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Poisonous snakes on the prowl in Zimbabwe
Poisonous snakes are on the rampage, particularly in the country's snake belt regions, biting 320 people in the first four weeks of the year.Statistics from the ministry of Health and Child Ca...Published: 31 Jan 2018 at 14:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prohibitive blood prices do not support life- Nduna
Chegutu West MP Dexter Nduna has bemoaned that the prohibitive blood prices in the country do not support life and there is a need for a solution to curb the problem.Speaking in parlaiment Ndu...Published: 10 Jun 2016 at 07:22hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
The dictator is just the dominant snake on Medusa, the monster, the dictatorship
The people of Zimbabwe are making one big mistake in pinning their hopes of getting out of this political and economic hell-on-earth the nation finds itself on the on-going factional wars destroying Z...Published: 23 Feb 2016 at 20:23hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Snake keeper killed by cobra in Gweru
A Gweru man who had an affinity for snakes died on Monday after he was bitten by a banded cobra which he had caught at a neighbour's house in Brankhurst suburb of his hometown.Fayaz Motala's d...Published: 17 Oct 2015 at 09:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Formation of Mujuru party will be the demise of Zanu PF - cobras will not wrestle but bite!
Didymus Mutasa says that he together with Mai Mujuru and others are going to form a new political party. He warned that the proposed new party would rock the ruling party since it had the backing of ...Published: 07 Apr 2015 at 19:02hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Witchcraft scare as strange creatures drop from ceiling
RESIDENTS of Mutare's Dangamvura high-density suburb were last Thursday left shell-shocked after a pack of "mysterious mongooses" were exposed after dropping from a ceiling at a house in the Area 14 s...Published: 11 Jan 2014 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Pet Cobra kills owner!
A snake collector died when his Red Spitting Cobra spat in his face in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape police said on Monday.Captain Mali Govender said the snake attacked while the 29-year-old man ...Published: 20 Sep 2011 at 01:09hrs | | by Mafu Sithabile
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