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Gweru to set up modern crematorium
The Gweru City Council has announced plans to establish a modern crematorium at one of its cemeteries as part of efforts to improve burial services in the city.Mayor Martin Chivhoko confirmed ...Published: 24 Jun 2025 at 09:19hrs | 69 | by Staff reporter
6,000 teenagers were impregnated in Matebeleland South last year
Approximately 6,000 teenagers from Matebeleland South fell pregnant last year, with Beitbridge and Insiza districts recording the highest numbers, according to recent statistics. The province also doc...Published: 18 Mar 2025 at 12:52hrs | 448 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's highways: A deadly gamble for travelers
Zimbabwe's highways, once celebrated as vital connectors across the nation, have turned into perilous traps, claiming thousands of lives over the past decade. A spate of bus accidents has sparked a na...Published: 31 Dec 2024 at 13:32hrs | 60 | by Staff reporter
BCC orders pruning of 'suicide trees'
The City of Bulawayo has resolved to prune trees associated with suicide cases to deter climbing and make them less accessible to individuals contemplating taking their lives. This decision follows a ...Published: 08 Dec 2024 at 09:50hrs | 92 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police bust 1000-member gay group
Harare police have uncovered a 1,000-member gay syndicate using a WhatsApp group named "Private Lounge" to promote illegal same-sex relationships. This revelation comes after the arrest of a 25-year-o...Published: 09 Oct 2024 at 07:37hrs | 7086 | by Staff reporter
We will prioritise inclusive tourism: Murare travel and tours
The 2024 Sanganai Hlanganani World Tourism Expo's first (1st) Runner up in Best Car Hire stand, Murare Car Rental has expressed their organisation's commitment to serve diverse tourists (amongst all t...Published: 21 Sep 2024 at 10:56hrs | 818 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
Gang rape victim demands GOAT! as compensation
IT'S a crazy and insane world. But you have to believe it because it is true.A woman from Matobo District, Matabeleland South Province, who alleged that she was gang-raped by four men while he...Published: 26 Jul 2024 at 09:04hrs | 1214 | by Staff reporter
Historical background of forceful evictions of villagers of Gota of Sipolilo
The promulgation of land settlement Act of 1957 by Sir Godfrey Huggins’s government in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) witnessed the forceful evictions of Villagers from their ancestral land of Gota ar...Published: 14 Jul 2024 at 17:26hrs | 343 | by Givestar Kamuzonde
Ndebeles will never be good enough for the rabid tribalists
Being born into a Ndebele, Kalanga or Sotho family in Zimbabwe can be a bewildering, challenging and frustrating affair. If you were born in Bulilima, Matabeleland South, like Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo ...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 08:15hrs | 12 | by Tafiranyika @tafimhaka
Understanding suicide among diaspora-born youths
The prevalence of media reports highlighting the suicides of young Zimbabweans born in the Diaspora is a deeply concerning issue. The time has come for us as Zimbabweans to understand the underlying f...Published: 15 Mar 2024 at 13:10hrs | 2 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Believing in ancestral spirits is a myth
At death the body and spirit or the material and immaterial separate. In African society the spirits of the dead, variously known in sub-Saharan Africa as amahlozi or amatongo (Zulu), Xhosa), balimo (...Published: 24 Feb 2024 at 17:59hrs | 1653 | by Dr Onesimus A. Ngundu
Bulawayo Council urges cremation or rural home burials
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) which is fast running out of burial space is calling on residents to either cremate or bury their loved ones at their rural homes.The call also comes amid revel...Published: 07 Jul 2023 at 07:53hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Virginity and the Johanne Marange religious customs
THE state has outlawed virginity testing as a human rights violation.However, it is surprising to note that Johanne Marange Apostolic Church (JMAC) still teaches and conducts mandatory virgini...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 19:54hrs | 6 | by Matthew Mare
Condom distribution blitz in Bulawayo suburbs
THE Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council (ZNFPC) is moving around Bulawayo suburbs distributing condoms, mostly to youths as part of its Sexual Health and Reproduction campaign.The week-l...Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 05:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teenage pregnancies shoot up
A total of 4 475 pregnancies have been recorded for girls aged between 15 and 19 years in all eight districts in Mashonaland Central during the lockdown period stretching from March 2020 to February t...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo, Harare, Matebeleland South top HIV stats
MATABELELAND South has the highest HIV prevalence in the country at 21,9 percent, latest official statistics show, in what experts attribute to spousal separation caused by migration to neighbouring S...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chilonga evictions: State capture at play
You would have hoped that the post-Mugabe establishment could - at least - get one or two things right. But, ouch, this so-called "new dispensation" is as crude, primitive and self-serving as such reg...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 08:16hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Padare advocates for female vice-president
Female participation in politics has remained a contentious issue with various women organisations and pressure groups pushing for adherence to the Zimbabwean constitution that stipulates equal repres...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 08:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chilonga villagers challenge eviction
THE Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (Zela) has filed an urgent chamber application at the Masvingo High Court seeking to interdict government from going ahead with its plan to displace more tha...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 06:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe political terrain tough for disabled persons
DISABLED women, especially in rural set ups, aspiring to take up leadership positions are facing a double blow to their ambitions.Barbra Nyangairi, Deaf Zimbabwe Trust executive director, said...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 08:57hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 patient sues government over burial restrictions
A COVID-19 patient has taken the government to court contesting recent burial restrictions as he claims they would violate his cultural beliefs in the event that he dies and is not buried at his rural...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 14:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
WHO warns of severe COVID-19 related mental problems
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has predicted a surge in severe mental health cases as COVID-19 cases continue to rise worldwide, including in Zimbabwe.WHO director of the department of Me...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chief Ndiweni told to quit chieftaincy & join politics
CHIEF Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni of Ntabazinduna has been accused of abusing his position to further the agenda of the opposition MDC Alliance with the ruling Zanu-PF party challenging him to step down ...Published: 16 May 2019 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chief Ndiweni stage-manages attack?
Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni of Ntabazinduna, with the aid of known anti-Government activists, yesterday stage-managed an attack on himself by people he claimed to be Zanu-PF youths in Bulawayo....Published: 15 May 2019 at 23:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt guns for Chief Ndiweni
Government has castigated Ntabazinduna Chief Nhlanhla Felix Ndiweni for calling on Western countries to impose more sanctions against the country to consolidate the existing embargoes, which he claime...Published: 13 May 2019 at 08:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Discipline mustn't be administered through brutality
The problem of child abuse is getting out of hand and our society must act now to stop the terrible crimes against innocent children.Recently, the Midlands community awoke to the shocking news...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 23:55hrs | | by Cuthbert Mavheko
BCC faces questions over lavish spending
CASH-STRAPPED Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has set itself on a collision course with residents after it approved a plan to splash US$900 each per day on hotel accommodation for four council officials f...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 07:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'No urgency in cremation row'
A HIGH Court judge has ruled that the application by a Bulawayo family seeking a court order blocking the cremation of the remains of their relative was not urgent. Mr Amos Nkomo died on Decem...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Body stuck as cremation divides family
A Bulawayo man's body is stuck in mortuary due to family squabbles, with his surviving spouse and daughter demanding cremation while other members are opposed saying it is alien to their culture. ...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Many Zimbabweans in the UK abandon their professions to become nurses
Nurses do enjoy a diverse and rewarding career that really makes a difference. Nurses act as leaders, carers and clinicians, taking responsibility for the care they provide to patients. They are life ...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 20:51hrs | 12 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'24 women raped daily in Zimbabwe'
As Zimbabwe joins the rest of the world in commemorating 16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence, which commenced on November 25, the nation continues to record high rates of violence agains...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 22:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mvurwi's six Nyaus, a place shrouded with mystery.
Mysterious fire erupted at six nyauz of Mvurwi (Umvukwes) with an ear splitting sound. This happened not long ago. Nobody could explain the origin of the fire. The vegetation was reduced to nothing. P...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 13:29hrs | 5 | by Givestar Kamuzonde
Liberate and free the last colony of Africa
Dear Mr. S. Sibanda, "Very true that woman are marginalized" by S. Sibanda That was your article on the 8th of August 2018 on Bulawayo24: I wish to express my sincere gratitude for the...Published: 11 Aug 2018 at 17:45hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
'Central locking' reduces STIs'
GOKWE North and Binga has lower levels of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) because of their cultural beliefs; National AIDS Council of Zimbabwe has revealed.Speaking at a workshop held i...Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 17:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ndebele King installation case drags on
Proponents of the Ndebele King have remained adamant not to give up on their push to install Lobengula's heir despite government condemning the act as unconstitutional.Home Affairs minister Ob...Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 16:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The People Vs Obert Mpofu and Emmerson Manangagwa: We must march for Zephaniah Nhamo and finish what Morgan Tsvangirai started
A casual attempt to buy toothpaste and camphor cream two weeks ago, on a Sunday morning, was welcomed by demonstrators gathered outside Dischem Pharmacy in Midrand, Johannesburg. Undeterred by...Published: 08 Mar 2018 at 08:33hrs | | by Tafi Mhaka
Mashona vs AmaNdebele: A legacy of disgusting racism
Being born into an Ndebele family in Zimbabwe can be a bewildering, challenging and frustrating affair. If you were born in Bulilima, Matabeleland South, like Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo was, in 191...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 09:37hrs | | by Tafi Mhaka
Gukurahundi public hearings welcome - ZCGG
The Zimbabwe Campaign For Good Governance (ZCGG) welcomes the enactment of the National Peace, Healing, and Reconciliation Commission Act and the commencement of public hearings into the Gukurahundi c...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 07:19hrs | 1 | by M. M. Changamire
Open defecation out of hand in Harare
Last Sunday marked World Toilet Day (WTD), amid rising concerns for proper human waste management as prescribed in the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 with special focus on underd...Published: 26 Nov 2017 at 09:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mzilikazi II, clansmen clash over rainmaking ceremony
SELF-IMPOSED Ndebele king, Stanley Raphael Khumalo, has triggered a fierce storm with fellow clansmen after he announced plans to conduct a rainmaking ceremony, inxwala, on November 5 in violation of ...Published: 02 Nov 2017 at 05:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF govt offers incentive for voters to register
THE Government has availed 300 tonnes of rice to entice people to register as voters in the ongoing Biometric Voter Registration programme, a Cabinet Minister has said.In each province the dis...Published: 28 Oct 2017 at 07:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in diaspora make Zimbabwe a cemetery
When people left Zimbabwe for the UK their minds were clouded by the idea of getting rich. Most had believed that they would work for six months and buy a Kombi, then go back home. Nobody had plans to...Published: 18 Oct 2017 at 10:10hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe traditional healer wants Pope meeting
Sekuru Kamwelo Banda - the popular Harare-based traditional healer, herbalist and spiritualist - has a burning desire to one day travel to Vatican City and meet Pope Francis, from whom he said he draw...Published: 30 Sep 2017 at 23:56hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zodwa ban - Too much censorship emerging in Zimbabwe
The Aeneas Chigwedere-led Board of Censors has unleashed controversy by banning South African socialite Zodwa Wabantu from performing at the Harare International Carnival.Apparently, the board...Published: 06 Sep 2017 at 13:36hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
The Bulawayo Declaration on the restoration of the Mthwakazi monarch
WHEREAS the Mthwakazi nation was founded under the leadership of King Mzilikazi; AND WHEREAS King Mzilikazi ruled until his death on the 9th of September1868; AND WHEREAS, as per Mthwakazi tra...Published: 03 Aug 2017 at 11:10hrs | 2 | by Inkosi uLobengula Forum
Man exhumes over 2 000 graves from Mugabe's diamond fields
UPFUMI Hwepasi Kuvatema leader Mathew Mundondo, the man involved in the exhumation of human remains from diamond mining sites in Chiadzwa and Marange since 2009, has aptly described his job as "not or...Published: 24 Jul 2017 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Majority of Zimbabweans believe in the spirit world'
MOST Zimbabweans conceptualise their life experiences in a spiritual context through which they usually ascribe misfortunes to a form of witchcraft, a local study has revealed. The findings were drawn...Published: 09 Jul 2017 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe targets boys in HIV response
Zimbabwe, with support from its partners, is targeting boys in its sexual reproductive health rights programmes as part of its HIV response amid concerns that the response was more focused on young wo...Published: 21 Jun 2017 at 19:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Bona Mugabe Censorship Board unconstitutional'
The new Censorship Board installed by Home Affairs minister Ignatius Chombo is not provided for in the new Constitution, legal experts said yesterday.The new Board of Censors will be led by fo...Published: 26 May 2017 at 14:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bona Mugabe Censorship board to 'regulate and control' media
A new Board of Censors has been put in place to regulate and control the media and film industry in the digital era. According to The Herald edition of 24 May 2017, the Minister o...Published: 25 May 2017 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
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