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Poaching fears resurface in Hwange National Park
Wildlife authorities have launched a probe following the discovery of a male elephant carcass with a missing tusk in Hwange National Park. The Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimPark...Published: 30 Jun 2025 at 09:13hrs | 335 | by Staff reporter
Surge in wildlife road deaths alarms conservationists near Hwange Park
Wildlife conservationists have sounded the alarm over a sharp rise in road accidents involving endangered animals in and around Hwange National Park, warning that reckless driving, poor road design, a...Published: 26 Jun 2025 at 17:25hrs | 204 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo-Victoria Falls Road truck stops, a haven for prostitution
Dressed in tight-fitting, body-revealing clothes that leave little to the imagination, two young women take turns knocking on the driver's side door of a haulage truck at Gwayi Shopping Centre, along ...Published: 14 Mar 2025 at 06:46hrs | 524 | by Staff reporter
Mining companies initiate major overhaul for Cross Dete-Binga road
The Cross Dete-Binga Road is set for a major rehabilitation this month, following a partnership between the Government and two mining companies in Matabeleland North province. This development aims to...Published: 11 Mar 2025 at 07:16hrs | 368 | by Staff reporter
Mhona says Bulawayo-Victoria Falls road to be expanded, gives no timelines
Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Felix Mhona has announced plans to repair and expand the entire stretch of the Beitbridge-Bulawayo-Victoria Falls Highway, which has been in a deteri...Published: 08 Mar 2025 at 17:00hrs | 764 | by Staff reporter
Minister Mhona reminded of Victoria Falls-Beitbridge road bad state
Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Felix Mhona has come under fire in Parliament over the slow pace of rehabilitating the deteriorating Beitbridge-Bulawayo-Victoria Falls Highway, a cr...Published: 08 Mar 2025 at 16:09hrs | 443 | by Staff reporter
4 injured in Gatsheni bus accident along Bulawayo- Victoria Falls Road
Four people were injured in a collision between a Gatsheni Bus Services vehicle and a Howo truck at the 75-kilometer peg along the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls Road around 3 PM yesterday. The incident occu...Published: 04 Nov 2024 at 15:46hrs | 731 | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls Road set for immediate upgrade
The Government has approved a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) with Bitumen World to rebuild the Beitbridge-Bulawayo-Victoria Falls Road, with work set to begin immediately. This was announced by Info...Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 07:46hrs | 1443 | by Staff reporter
Police investigating Beitbridge murder case
Police in Beitbridge are investigating a murder that occurred on Saturday along the Beitbridge-Panda Mine Road near Tongwani village. Zimbabwe Republic Police spokesperson Commissioner Paul Ny...Published: 25 Jun 2024 at 10:46hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Police Recover Stolen Vehicle During Easter Holiday Operation in Kamativi
In Matabeleland North Province, police successfully recovered a stolen Honda Fit vehicle during an Easter holiday operation at a roadblock....Published: 06 Apr 2024 at 09:28hrs | 14 | by Peter Matuka
Man grows floppy breasts
IN an eerier than fiction story, a man from Cross Dete in Hwange District, Matabeleland North province developed huge lady-like breasts amid chilling revelations that at night they are being suc...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 06:03hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Tragedy Strikes as Stallion Cruise Bus Overturns Near Gwayi Bridge
In a devastating incident on Sunday early morning, a Stallion Cruise bus veered off course, rolling over to the deep side of the road near Gwayi Bridge, casting a somber cloud over Kamativi.Th...Published: 27 Dec 2023 at 09:28hrs | 64 | by Peter Matuka
Fortunate escape in Cross Dete-Binga Road Collision
In a recent incident along the Cross Dete-Binga road, a 41-year-old man, Justine Chunzu, narrowly avoided a fatal accident while driving a truck for Dinson Quarry Company in Hwange. The incide...Published: 21 Nov 2023 at 20:56hrs | 7 | by Peter Matuka
Man with mental health problems hit by bus
A tragic incident unfolded in Dete as an Extra city bus struck and fatally injured a pedestrian at the Cross Dete Business Centre in the early hours of Monday morning, casting a somber mood over the l...Published: 01 Nov 2023 at 11:55hrs | 11 | by Peter Matuka
Indlovu iyanyathela in no-show
INDLOVU IYANYATHELA FC did not turn up for their home match against Mosi Rovers at the Zimbabwe Saints Club yesterday.They alleged that they were given a short notice on the fixture.Th...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 06:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
CCC claims Matebeleland North youth are heading call to register to vote
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Youth Task Force, claims youths in Matebeleland North have headed the call to register to vote under their flagship programme – the Register, Elect and Protec...Published: 20 May 2023 at 19:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Community chases 5 teachers away
PARENTS and guardians with children at Ndangababi Primary School at Cross Dete in Hwange District have chased away five teachers accusing them of incompetence, insubordination and disrespecting tradit...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 06:40hrs | 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 | 3 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland North roads have outlived lifespan
MOST public roads especially in Matabeleland North need reconstruction as they have outlived their lifespan, a Cabinet Minister has said.Speaking on the sidelines of a review meeting for all p...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa back in Binga today
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will be in Binga, Matabeleland North, today to officially commission and handover the Binga-Kariba fishing rigs to the local community in a bold empowerment intervention that is ex...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wows Binga folks with fluent Tonga
BINGA District, particularly Siabuwa Business Centre was yesterday a hive of activity with multitudes of people turning the place into a sea of green and gold as they attended a Zanu-PF's star rally....Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rehabilitation of Binga-Cross Dete and Binga-Siabuwa commences
GOVERNMENT has started rehabilitating Binga-Cross Dete and Binga-Siabuwa roads under the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme (ERRP2).On the 150km Binga-Cross Dete road, works involve potho...Published: 14 Mar 2022 at 20:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
9 year-old killed by police car
VILAGERS in Dete have appealed to the Government to come up with ways to reduce accidents at Cross Dete following a spate of fatal accidents in the area.This follows the latest incident in whi...Published: 24 Oct 2021 at 09:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Phase Two Matebeleland North roads rehab intensified
GOVERNMENT allocated more than $700 million to the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure Development for rehabilitation of a 3 000km road network under the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme (...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Binga roads threaten district tourism
MEMBERS of the public in Binga have implored Government to urgently rehabilitate Cross Dete to Binga road, saying the tourism district risks being isolated from the rest of the country if the road is ...Published: 22 May 2021 at 07:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hwange school neglected two years after storm
The state of Ndangababi Primary School in Cross Dete reflects that of many rural schools in Hwange district. Lack of furniture and dilapidated classroom blocks are commonplace.Attending lesson...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 09:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Good road network vital to revive domestic tourism
THE tourism industry has implored the Government to urgently fix the country's major roads that have been damaged by heavy rains to ensure smooth domestic travel. A majority of the country's r...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 06:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Bus falls in a ditch, scores injured
AN unconfirmed number of passengers reportedly suffered varying degrees of injuries, some with fractures after a CAG Travellers Bus going to Binga from Bulawayo failed to go up the steep ascent on Gwa...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 20:25hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Speeding bus rams into cart, kills boy (10)
A speed race for passengers between two bus companies plying the Bulawayo-Binga route ended in tragedy after a CAG Travelers bus hit a donkey drawn scotch cart and killed a juvenile on the spot while ...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 20:12hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Elderly women jailed for blocking road
TWO elderly women from Dete in Hwange district have been each sentenced to 12 months in prison for blocking the Dete-Cross Dete road using stones and tree branches. Ruth Dube and Angeline Moyo...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:06hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Detectives arrested with 4 tonnes of fertiliser
TWO police officers stationed at Binga Criminal Investigations Department were recently arrested at Cross Dete in Matabeleland North after they were found in possession of nearly four tonnes of fertil...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 05:54hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zupco buses in head on collision
TWENTY six people were injured when two Zupco buses were involved in a head-on collision at the 91KM peg along the Binga-Cross Dete Road. The injured were rushed to Binga District Hospital whe...Published: 16 Oct 2018 at 06:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
19 MDC Alliance supporters injured
NINETEEN MDC Alliance supporters were seriously injured after a truck they were travelling in overturned in Binga as they were coming from a rally addressed by their leader, Advocate Nelson Chamisa, a...Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Khupe takes over MDC-T Bulawayo offices
MDC-T Bulawayo provincial chairperson and deputy mayor Gift Banda has dragged party deputy president, Thokozani Khupe, to court for allegedly grabbing the opposition party's provincial offices....Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 06:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's campaign message betrays political immaturity
The MDC Alliance is in the campaign mode and it has been gathering people for rallies. The alliance presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa's message has exposed him for who he is - a political novice....Published: 14 Mar 2018 at 06:08hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
MDC Alliance hails Matabeleland North over Dete rally
MDC Alliance has hailed people of Matabeleland North Province, leadership at all levels from branch to National and the general membership for efforts made to make the rally a success.MDC Secr...Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 06:05hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa's first 100 days and traffic police
Last weekend I left Harare for Victoria Falls - that international crib of tourism - by road and indeed, it made me reflect on the past. The last time I had done Harare-Victoria Falls by road was in O...Published: 12 Mar 2018 at 05:44hrs | 2 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Khupe continues to stretch Chamisa's patience
MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa says defiant MDC-T vice president Thokhozani Khupe continues to stretch his patience but has however pledged to engage and give her more time to reconsider joining ...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 18:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Desperate Welshman Ncube defends Chamisa
DESPERATE Constitutional law expert Professor Welshman Ncube has defended election of Nelson Chamisa as MDC-T president as the latter extended an olive oil to his defiant deputy.MDC-T deputy p...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa threatens to expel Khupe
MDC-T president Advocate Nelson Chamisa has threatened to expel party deputy president Dr Thokozani Khupe for her continued defiance to recognise him as the leader chosen by the party's National Counc...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi will never go away, Biti tells Mnangagwa govt
The People' Democratic Party (PDP) President Tendai Biti said the state should apologize Gukurahundi since it is a national shame which the perpetrators should come clean for redemption and communitie...Published: 10 Mar 2018 at 21:48hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Pictures of the MDC Alliance, Cross Dete Rally in Hwange
Dete - MDC Alliance Rally...Published: 10 Mar 2018 at 18:44hrs | | by Staff Reporter
MRP takes campaign to Victoria Falls
Mthwakazi Republic Party led by its President Mqondisi Moyo, Ackim Gasela Mhlanga the Secretary General, Ntombizodwa Mguni secretary for women Affairs and the other 18 strong MRP delegation have taken...Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 06:38hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Two die in road accident
TWO people died on the spot while two others were injured when a vehicle they were travelling in overturned near Cross Dete along the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls road at around 2AM yesterday.Polic...Published: 24 Feb 2018 at 21:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Two die on the spot in road accident
TWO people died on the spot while two others were injured when a vehicle they were travelling in overturned near Cross Dete along the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls road at around 2AM yesterday.Polic...Published: 24 Feb 2018 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Harare-Victoria Falls shorter route opened
Government has opened a shorter route that links Harare and Victoria Falls under the Emergency State Roads Rehabilitation Programme.The Harare-Kwekwe-Gokwe Chirisa-Cross Dete to Victoria Falls...Published: 25 Sep 2017 at 08:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fuel dealer found dead, killers at large
AN illegal fuel dealer at Cross Dete in Matabeleland North province was on Sunday morning found dead with injuries on the head and legs, police confirmed.Residents at the business centre said ...Published: 20 Sep 2017 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Truck overturns, spills 34 000ltrs of sulphuric acid
A ZAMBIAN truck overturned near Cross Dete along the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls road on Monday, spilling 34 000 litres of deadly sulphuric acid.Police officer commanding Hwange district, Chief Su...Published: 27 Jul 2017 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu, Tsvangirai meet
MDC-T president Morgan Tsvangirai with Obert Mpofu at the funeral of MDC-T official Thembinkosi Sibindi.Sibindi died in a car crash in Hwange on Saturday and was buried at his rural home in Si...Published: 10 Apr 2017 at 14:41hrs | | by Social media
Lost and found Passport for Obvious Chuma
I picked up a passport belonging to Obvious Chuma in Cross Dete, Hwange district.Anyone who knows him contact me 00263713368742 or WhatsApp 0027718430000...Published: 23 Feb 2017 at 07:39hrs | 2 | by Concerned Citizen
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