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Mphoko dies
Former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko has died.He was 84. George Charamba, the Deputy Chief Secretary-Presidential Communications in the Office...Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 14:50hrs | 4674 | by Staff reporter
Mukwasha Chiwenga in Math-South improvements. Is development holistic?
Whatever development VP Chiwenga is bringing in Matabeleland South, that should never be interpreted as "Mukwasha inzunza". School children especially benefit from good and safe schools, health care f...Published: 04 Oct 2024 at 12:27hrs | 2062 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mr Kudzai Mutisi, the German 'Economic wonder' after the WW2 had multiple favourable factors!
I am writing this article as a reply to your article you wrote last week: My article is not in any way or form critiquing your own but including factors that must be known, but, however, adding to wha...Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 20:53hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Chiwenga launches AVM Prototype City Bus
The Vice President General (Rtd) Dr CGDN Chiwenga today witnessed the signing of an MOU between AVM Africa and Minsk Auto Mobile Plant of Belarus. The MOU aims to ease transport challenges through the...Published: 19 Feb 2024 at 13:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's aspiring MP told to stop promising heaven on earth after failing for 44 years
Residents of the Pelandaba - Tshabalala Constituency have emphatically conveyed to Zanu-PF candidate Joseph Tshuma that making promises holds no sway with them, as they have grown weary of the party's...Published: 23 Jan 2024 at 04:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'NRZ, Dunlop resuscitation on cards'
THE re-industrialisation of Bulawayo's major companies such as the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) and Dunlop are at the top of the agenda of the newly elected Zanu-PF Bulawayo Provincial Secretar...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 08:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo still reeling from illegal sanctions
THE tale of the demise of Bulawayo's industries is a story which cannot be separated from the illegal sanctions imposed by Western countries on Zimbabwe.Once considered the country's industria...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo industries on the mend, claims Parly
BULAWAYO industry is said to be on a recovery path after major biscuit and sweet manufacturer, Arenel recently got a US$3 million capital injection for new projects.The observation was made by...Published: 24 May 2021 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo mayor condemns Sidojiwe Flats
BULAWAYO'S overcrowded Sidojiwe Flats in Belmont have been condemned as unsafe for human habitation.Mayor Solomon Mguni called for immediate decongestion of the overcrowded flats during a meet...Published: 29 Apr 2021 at 06:20hrs | 1 | by Staff writer
Bring back the reed basket
Some of our African identity paraphernalia, artifacts, customs and traditions continue to vanish right under our noses. Time gnawing at them slowly as we all pretend not to notice, do not forget its s...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 18:10hrs | 8 | by Tondo Murisa
'They called me a dissident,' says Thambolenyoka
Tennyson Ndlovu is quite an enigma. Having joined the liberation struggle at 21, he quickly became a highly-respected instructor for the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA), only to be demobil...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:45hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Thambolenyoka speaks about war experiences
THE mere mention of the name, Thambolenyoka, who operated as a dissident in the districts of Matabeleland South in the 80s during the post-independence disturbances used to send shivers down the spine...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:07hrs | 57 | by Staff reporter
BCC engages business community to revive industry
Bulawayo City Council is engaging the local business community to spearhead the development and revival of industries.This was revealed by council spokesperson Bongiwe Ngwenya yesterday in a n...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 08:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Growing up in Bulawayo: Chronicles of a colourful childhood
Bulawayo celebrated 125 years of existence as a city last week. That should be put out there because there are those who believe that the authorities misfired since King Lobengula established it some ...Published: 15 Jun 2019 at 10:26hrs | | by Lenox Lizwi Mhlanga
Job losses spike as economy deteriorates
POOR government policies have led to the escalation of the country's economic crisis with an estimated 13 000 people in the western region losing their jobs in the past 12 months, a labour official ha...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 10:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to screen second-hand vehicles
GOVERNMENT is working on a policy to screen all second-hand vehicles to make sure they meet minimum standards before they can be imported into the country, a Cabinet minister said yesterday. O...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 09:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Forex shortages hinder start-up
In 2006, Bike and Boat Bar (BBB), a Bulawayo company, started manufacturing motor cycles, a first for the country and the region. Soon after, however, the economy tanked as hyperinflation rendered the...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 05:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police launch manhunt for car thief
POLICE in Mvuma have launched a manhunt for a 23-year-old man who allegedly stole a motor vehicle after he had been given a lift by the car owner after he pretended to be stranded in Gweru.Act...Published: 27 Oct 2018 at 08:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
PJ Powers in Victoria Falls for albinism awareness
POPULAR South African musician Penelope Jane Dunlop - popularly known as PJ Powers or Thandeka - is in Victoria Falls for an awareness show for people living with albinism.PJ PowersPJ Powers t...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 08:39hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls awaits PJ Powers
INTERNATIONAL jazz music icon, PJ Powers, is expected to jet into Victoria Falls tomorrow morning ahead of her charity show in the resort town on Saturday. All proceeds from the show, which ha...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 06:42hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Street death body unclaimed since January
POLICE in Bulawayo are investigating a case of sudden death where a man was found lying on the pavement along 5th Avenue and Herbert Chitepo Street on January 11 this year.Bulawayo Metropolita...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Help me find Mr Mlilo who worked at Dunlop in Bulawayo
Greetings ngicela usizo, angazi if lingakwazi ukungisiza. My half brother has been looking for his father ever since. I just come across information about his father name, which also is not cl...Published: 08 Apr 2018 at 08:23hrs | | by S. Khumalo
Renewed political will gives hope for economic revival
THE new political dispensation has brought with it a renewed sense of hope for a genuine national economic turnaround that is expected to better the lives of the country's citizenry with economic anal...Published: 04 Feb 2018 at 09:33hrs | | by Vincent Gono
'Diasporans keen to revive Bulawayo industries'
THE revival of Bulawayo industries is likely to be a reality soon as Zimbabweans based abroad have shown interest in investing in the city, a minister has said.The Minister of State for Provin...Published: 30 Jan 2018 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dunlop gears for re-opening
AUTO TYRES Zimbabwe, previously known as Dunlop Zimbabwe, is set to resume operations at the beginning of next year after acquiring modern tyre-making equipment that will enhance competitive productio...Published: 24 Oct 2017 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
MLF condemns opening of donkey abattoir in Bulawayo
Mthwakazi Liberation Front has condemned the opening of the donkey abattoir.The party said the opening of a donkey abattoir is nothing less than an insult and declaration of war by Battl...Published: 03 Oct 2017 at 14:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Signs of a collapsed economy vivid in Zimbabwe, says Nkosana Moyo
The 2018 presidential aspirant Dr Nkosana Moyo has said the signs of a collapsed economic situation in Zimbabwe are so vividly that people have to wish for a better government to save their lives....Published: 18 Sep 2017 at 07:05hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zambezi water: Solution to Bulawayo's ills
Bulawayo City is a pale shadow of its former self. This is mainly because of closure or relocation or contraction of many commercial, industrial companies and social welfare organisations.Once...Published: 08 Jun 2016 at 07:15hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Zimbabwe police penalising motorists for different tyre brands
TRAFFIC police officers have no right to penalise motorists for having different tyre brands on their cars, national police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba has said. ...Published: 06 Jun 2016 at 06:35hrs | | by Pamela Shumba
Chief Ndiweni, police clash
CHIEF Ndiweni has petitioned police Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri following a fresh confrontation with police in Ntabazinduna after they shut down a vocational training centre opened at one o...Published: 02 May 2016 at 11:40hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
LISTEN: Mugabe 92 birthday interview
Tazzen Mandizvidza (TM): Hello and welcome to the programme, "The President@92", this is a special programme in which we talk to the president of the Republic of Zimbabwe who turned 92 on the 21st of ...Published: 05 Mar 2016 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
'I felt betrayed' by Beyonce says filmmaker
A South African filmmaker has said that Beyonce would be stealing her heritage if she made a movie about Sarah Baartman.Deidre Jantjies, from Cape Town said, "I felt betrayed when I heard she ...Published: 08 Jan 2016 at 14:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Rubber Products property worth $64 000 attached over workers pay
Property worth over 64 000 has been attached from Rubber Products Manufacturers Private Limited situated in the Belmont area in Bulawayo for the payment of salaries and allowances of sixteen workers....Published: 31 Dec 2015 at 08:35hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Dunlop dismisses about 85 employees
As the wave of dismissing the workers on three months notice since the ruling made by the Supreme Court granting employers to give notice of three months before dismissing workers hit the nation since...Published: 29 Jul 2015 at 14:55hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Barbourfields Stadium to erupt into ZAPU songs as Highlanders displays its new bus.
Barbourfields Stadium in Bulawayo 'Emagumeni' is expected to be buzzing with Highlanders Football Club supporters coming to have a glimpse of Highlanders Football Club's newly acquired state of th...Published: 04 Jun 2015 at 23:08hrs | | by Themba Mthethwa
Evil destruction caused by Zimbabwe farm invasions of 1999
Coleen the daughter of a Zimbabwean white farmer: Evil destruction caused by Farm invasions of 1999Taken from the eBook, "Sweetmother" My...Published: 29 May 2015 at 16:05hrs | 3 | by Nomazulu Thata
Riot police called at Dunlop Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Republic Police Riot unit has camped at Dunlop Zimbabwe premises in Bulawayo as workers embark on strike said to be illegal.About three trucks packed with no-nonsense ...Published: 09 Mar 2015 at 06:22hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Mphoko haunted by his CIO past
DESPITE his strong liberation struggle credentials and his surprise ascension to the post of vice-president, Phelekezela Mphoko is haunted by his past - his secretive activities in the Central Intelli...Published: 19 Dec 2014 at 09:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Phelekezela Mphoko profiled
VICE President Phelekezela Mphoko was yesterday described as a humble man and disciplined soldier from the days of the liberation war. President Robert Mugabe yesterday appointed the 74-year-old form...Published: 11 Dec 2014 at 06:37hrs | 2 | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Top cop resigns under unclear circumstances
Senior police officer Commissioner Charles Mfandaedza resigned under unclear circumstances last month. Police sources said the senior cop, who has been linked to several cases of corruption an...Published: 01 Nov 2014 at 11:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Byo @ 120! - A celebration of 34 years of destruction
Popular disk jockey turned politician, Ezra 'Tshisa' Sibanda, on Friday said there was no reason to celebrate Bulawayo's 120 years of existence "when the last 34 years has been a nightmare."Si...Published: 01 Aug 2014 at 18:28hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Kombi driver breaks leg in Plumtree Road accident
BULAWAYO - There are unconfirmed reports that a kombi driver broke a leg when the commuter omnibus he was driving collided with a Lobels truck along Plumtree Road, near Dunlop on Monday evening arou...Published: 28 Jan 2014 at 04:32hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Chinamasa's golden chance to bury the Zimbabwe dollar
Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa presents the 2014 national budget this Thursday and it will be a golden opportunity to bury for good, fears and speculation that the Zimbabwe dollar might find its...Published: 17 Dec 2013 at 11:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Urban to rural migration increases in Zimbabwe
THERE is a reported increase of people migrating from urban to rural areas, following hardships prompted by de-industrialisation, which Bulawayo and the rest of the country is grappling with.U...Published: 05 Nov 2013 at 16:37hrs | | by Lulu Brenda Harris
Time to build and buy Zimbabwe
Buy Zimbabwe commends Zimbabweans for turning up in their numbers and for voting peacefully in the just ended harmonised elections.While we await details on the new Cabinet, expectations seem ...Published: 09 Aug 2013 at 04:36hrs | | by Vandudzai Zirebwa Buy Zimbabwe
Dunlop Zimbabwe gives striking workers ultimatum
THE strike by Dunlop Zimbabwe workers continued yesterday with reports that management has given the striking workers an ultimatum to return to work or risk being fired. According to th...Published: 17 Jul 2013 at 06:53hrs | | by Business Reporter
300 Dunlop employees down tools
Workers at Dunlop Zimbabwe in Bulawayo numbering about 300, yesterday downed tools in protest over the company's failure to increase their salaries since 2009. The strike was triggered by the ...Published: 12 Jul 2013 at 22:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Dunlop Zimbabwe introduces new range of tyres
DUNLOP Zimbabwe has introduced a new brand of tyres from Netherlands amid revelations that Apollo Vredenstein which owns a majority stake in the company has purchased six new presses for the productio...Published: 07 Jul 2013 at 06:57hrs | 1 | by Business reporter
Local vehicle market dominated by imports
ZIMBABWEANS imported cars worth more than US$200 million in the first five months of this year and the continued influx of secondhand cars might force the only two vehicle assembly...Published: 29 Jul 2012 at 03:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dimaf 'too' little to revive ailing Bulawayo companies
Simon Khaya Moyo, Zanu-PF chairman, says the $40 million set aside by government under the Distressed and Marginalised Areas Fund (Dimaf) is 'too little' to revive ailing Bulawayo companies.Ad...Published: 03 Jul 2012 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
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