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1 killed, 2 injured in plane crash
A Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) plane, which went missing in the Zambezi Valley on Friday afternoon, was found crashed in Chewore Safari Area in Mbire on Sunday afternoon...Published: 5 hrs ago | 346 | by Staff reporter
Man fatally crashes baby on floor
A Bindura man allegedly gruesomely murdered his one year old child by smashing him on the ground after a domestic dispute with his wife and mother....Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 22:22hrs | 2934 | by Simbarashe Sithole
3 Zimbabweans die in horrific car crash in Cyprus
IN a tragic incident, three Zimbabwean students from the European University of Lefke in Cyprus died Tuesday night while returning from an outing.Cyprus is an island country in the Eastern Med...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:23hrs | 1069 | by Staff reporter
Battle for control of MDC-T intensifies
Rival candidates have heightened their campaign activities ahead of MDC-T's extraordinary congress as the battle to control the party intensifies.Early this month, the Supreme Court gave MDC-T...Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 11:27hrs | 7291 | by Staff Reporter
4 killed in Kuwadzana plane crash
FOUR people were killed and three others seriously injured when a Kariba-bound private plane crashed and extensively damaged two houses in Kuwadzana 5 suburb in Harare yesterday morning.The fo...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 23:41hrs | 12059 | by Staff reporter
Kombi crash kills three
THREE people died on the spot this morning at Ealing farm, Mvurwi when a Nissan Caravan kombi veered off the road and overturned after a tyre bust....Published: 18 Oct 2020 at 21:33hrs | 3149 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Nyanga horror crash death toll rises
The death toll from the horrific accident that occurred in Nyanga on Saturday has risen to six after Lesley Matizakurima (5) succumbed to her injuries yesterday. Lesley died at Victoria Chitep...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 06:47hrs | 1480 | by Staff reporter
5 die near Regina Coeli crash site
FIVE people died in a road accident that occurred at the 34km peg along the Nyanga-Nyamaropa while at Mupedzanhamo, in Harare, a Zupco contracted Trip Trans bus veered off the road and hit some vendor...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 09:57hrs | 606 | by Staff reporter
Car thief crashes in escape attempt
A CAR thief was apprehended after he crashed a vehicle he had stolen as he was pursued in high-speed chase by members of the public in Beitbridge.Matabeleland South provincial police spokesper...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 22:12hrs | 2570 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa puts 10 000 teachers on standby
Government has put around 10 000 qualified, but unemployed, teachers on standby to replace those that are holding the State to ransom by engaging in an illegal industrial action. Primary and S...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 07:16hrs | 1225 | by Staff reporter
Govt recruits 6 000 teachers
Government has scrapped Second Term school fees, while 6 000 teachers are being recruited ahead of the phased reopening of schools starting tomorrow.This comes amid reports that a crash progra...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:12hrs | 493 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe may hold solution to Africa's energy crisis
BACK in the early 1990s, Mobil was exploring for oil in Zimbabwe when it came across large hydrocarbon resources in the Cabora Bassa Basin.The petroleum giant explored over an area extending a...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 20:44hrs | 1943 | by Staff reporter
'King of Clay' Rafael Nadal the heavy favourite for the French Open
Let's face it, it will be a shock if Rafael Nadal is not the man lifting the French Open trophy on October 11th. The Spaniard has won the Paris Grand Slam a total of 12 times, and is the heavy favouri...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 14:45hrs | 373 | by Staff writer
Those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
Before the July 30 elections in 2018, MDC Alliance's swashbuckling and technophile public relations machine nourishingly fed us the optics of what we were told were the makings of a political tsunami ...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:26hrs | 251 | by Staff reporter
Exams likely to spill into January
GOVERNMENT will this week announce the date when schools will reopen following an assessment done by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education on their preparedness to reopen under new condition...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:25hrs | 682 | by Staff reporter
Gatecrashers kill party host
A birthday party turned tragic in Gweru on Saturday after the host was attacked and killed by four men who had gatecrashed the family gathering became violent after being denied food. The quar...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 06:45hrs | 1814 | by Staff reporter
RBZ directs sale of 20% shop forex
Twenty percent of all new foreign currency taken by Zimbabwean businesses from local customers must now be liquidated at the official exchange rate, when deposited in a domestic foreign currency bank ...Published: 22 Aug 2020 at 08:25hrs | 1623 | by Staff reporter
'Military role in politics cannot be wished away' argue Biti - always paid lip service to democratic changes
"Biti says military role in Zimbabwe politics cannot be wished away!" screamed the headlines in Bulawayo24."There must be dialogue that takes care of military concerns. In 2008 after the MDC w...Published: 22 Aug 2020 at 08:02hrs | 1140 | by Wilbert Mukori
Gold buyer killed in head on collision
Popular Mazowe gold buyer in died after a Toyota vehicle he was travelling in crashed with a Telecel company vehicle at Mazowe Citrus yesterday.Witnesses told Bulawayo24.com that the gold buye...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 16:24hrs | 8298 | by Simbarashe Sithole
'Church, Zanu-PF, bond unbreakable'
THE bond between Zanu-PF and the Church formed during the country's protracted liberation struggle cannot be broken by some men of God hiding behind the pulpit to push a "nefarious" political agenda, ...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 07:21hrs | 299 | by Satff reporter
Zimbabweans in horror crash
At least three Zimbabweans died after being involved in a three-truck pile up at the treacherous Kapiringozi Escarpment along the Chirundu-Kafue Road in Zambia.The accidents occurred in the ea...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 18:47hrs | 3272 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF declares 'Green Bomber' a liberation hero
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has made surprise conferment of liberation hero status on a perennial rabble-rouser within its ranks in Mashonaland West province.On Friday, Zanu-PF declared the late ...Published: 15 Aug 2020 at 17:03hrs | 3232 | by newzimbabwe
Politburo Bulletin: We are under attack comrades
The candid truth is that we are now hanging by a thread; we are on our own now. It is no longer a matter of if, but when, and when that happens will we be ready to face the tide, or even the Hague? Th...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:22hrs | 11059 | by Robert Sigauke
Border jumping escalates at Beitbridge
THE number of desperate Zimbabweans using illegal entry points along the Limpopo River to access medical treatment and cheap basic commodities and drugs from South Africa has shot up, a Beitbridge leg...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 08:01hrs | 2018 | by Staff reporter
Roy Bennett foundation launches fund for prodemocracy activists
A FOUNDATION started by the late opposition MDC stalwart Roy "Pachedu" Benett says it will support prodemocracy and political activists.The Roy Bennett Foundation (RBF), a self-funded pro-demo...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:55hrs | 364 | by Staff reporter
Movie-style robbery at Harare private hospital
OVER a dozen suspected armed robbers pounced movie-style on the affluent Borrowdale Hospital Trauma Centre yesterday -an incident that was captured on CCTV. National police spokesperson Paul N...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 16:19hrs | 1883 | by Staff reporter
Daring suspect tries to disarm detectives
A BULAWAYO man was shot dead after he allegedly tried to disarm detectives arresting him for a spate of robberies and theft cases.According to a police internal memorandum dated July 17, Webst...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:06hrs | 982 | by Staff reporter
6 die in horror crash
Six people including two Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT) fourth year students died on the spot when the vehicle they were travelling in rammed into a haulage near Banket along the Harare-Chiru...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 20:02hrs | 4368 | by Staff reporter
'Chiwenga's accident was a planned attack'
APOSTLE Talent Chiwenga, who recently survived a car accident near Norton Monday, has issued a statement assuring his followers that he is well and recovering.However, his church, Jesus Revela...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 08:50hrs | 5564 | by newzimbabwe
Zanu-PF youths to arrest protesters?
ZANU-PF youths have threatened to work hand-in-glove with police in "arresting malcontents" planning to stage anti-government protests on July 31. The protests are being organised by citizens,...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 08:50hrs | 2274 | by Staff reporter
Chingwena accident sucks in top cop
A SENIOR police officer based in Harare allegedly attempted to cover up a road traffic accident involving prominent businessman Moses Chingwena, who ran over and killed a pedestrian, Shephard Mukatira...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 08:43hrs | 2293 | by Staff reporter
Talent Chiwenga kills a couple driving to sister's funeral
A very sad day ended badly for the Madzimgira family in Harare. A couple was killed in a car crash while driving to a funeral of their sister who had passed on suddenly in Harare Zimbabwe. ...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 20:39hrs | 14376 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Businessman fatally runs over pedestrian
PROMINENT Harare businessman Moses Chingwena could be charged with obstructing the course of justice after he allegedly fatally knocked down a pedestrian on Saturday night and went on to assist with t...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:44hrs | 1600 | by Staff reporter
ZSE resumes trading
The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) will resume the trading of shares next week minus three fungible securities, nearly a month after the local bourse was forced to suspend trades on allegations of spec...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 08:03hrs | 2954 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt has no plans to abandon Zimdollar'
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi yesterday told Parliament that government had no immediate plans to abandon the Zimbabwe dollar, totally crashing any hopes by civil servants of having their salaries ...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 07:50hrs | 3379 | by Staff reporter
Conventional economics do not often apply to the Zimbabwean economy
CONVENTIONAL economics do not often apply to the Zimbabwean economy. If we take as an example the period during the government of national unity (GNU) from 2009 to 2013, the hard currency revenues to ...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 07:49hrs | 1503 | by Eddie Cross
Zanu PF blame west for 31 July protests - paranoia, why would west abandon reforms for violent protests
"And for Cde Matemadanda to then to say we are sponsored by the west…so the people of Zimbabwe are sponsored by the west because on their own they cannot think of the need to fight against corruptio...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 23:13hrs | 1553 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Jason Machaya's son dies in car crash
THE son of former Midlands Provincial Affairs minister Jason Machaya, Foster, died in a car crash on Wednesday night along the Gweru-Mvuma Road in an accident that also claimed the life of a popular G...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:11hrs | 3805 | by Staff reporter
Drunk driver dies on the spot in car crash
A speeding drunk driver died at 19km peg along Mvurwi-Kanyemba after failing to control his Toyota Esteem vehicle registration ADE 4778 on Saturday.Mashonaland Central deputy police spokespers...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 10:24hrs | 3744 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Who is in control of Zimbabwe's crashing economy?
LAST month, in an unprecedented Press conference, military generals said they didn't plan to topple President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Yet weeks later, security leaders sidelined his administration to forc...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:08hrs | 2816 | by Bloomberg
4 die in horror kombi crash
Four people died and 13 others were injured when a Harare-bound kombi collided with a lorry near Waddilove Mission School in Marondera yesterday. Police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Pau...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:05hrs | 913 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe security chefs fingered in mobile money suspension
Zimbabwe's security force leaders sidelined the nation's economic chiefs and forced the government to close the stock exchange and halt most mobile-money transactions, people familiar with the situati...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 22:44hrs | 5874 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told to engage rivals
RETURNING Zanu-PF liberation stalwart, Rugare Gumbo, pictured, has implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa to join hands with the opposition and other social formations to end the country's deepening po...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 18:50hrs | 3489 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar continues to tumble
A forex dealer brandishes wads of $2 and $5 notes in Harare. The Zimdollar has continued losing value against stronger currencies like the rand and the United States dollar.THE Zimbabwe dollar...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:46hrs | 4278 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army, Chinese deal collapses
The military is terminating its platinum mining deal with a Chinese firm to pave the way for new investors after over a decade of unfruitful engagement.The development comes after Global Plati...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 16:37hrs | 2613 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean arrested in US for murder
Police in Louisiana, the United States investigating a crashed SUV found a dead woman in the back seat and have arrested and charged Zimbabwean Dexter Mutongerwa (31) of Tolleson, Arizona, on charges ...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 06:52hrs | 1310 | by Staff reporter
New US$ pricing sparks confusion
THERE was massive confusion yesterday as retail shops were meant to start charging their goods in both American dollars and the local currency, the Daily News reports.Instead of making life ea...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 17:22hrs | 4075 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar tumbles
THE Zimbabwe dollar shed nearly 79% of its value on the first day of being floated under a foreign currency auction system launched yesterday.At the close of the auction, the official exchange...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:28hrs | 4386 | by Staff reporter
'Chinese are treating us as junk in our mother land' - a microcosm of omnipresent and omnipotent Zanu-PF
"Several Zimbabweans have been treated like junk in their own country. The Chinese have been left to do as they please in our mother land," wrote Dr Masimba Mavaza, in a recent article."While ...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 19:35hrs | 1807 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
China opens up chrome market for Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean chrome miners will resume exports to China following revelations that the Asian economic giant has started opening up its chrome market which was halted due to the Covid-19 pandemic and dep...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 17:35hrs | 956 | by Staff reporter
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