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Zimfest UK organisers deny viral human waste claims reports
Organisers of Zimfest UK, the annual celebration of Zimbabwean culture in the diaspora, have dismissed viral social media claims that they were fined £3,000 by British authorities over alleged hygien...Published: 29 Jul 2025 at 08:55hrs | 665 | by Staff reporter
Cowdray Park residents drowning in sewage
Residents of Section 1A in Bulawayo's Cowdray Park suburb say they are living in increasingly unbearable conditions as raw sewage floods their homes, a result of a crumbling drainage system that has l...Published: 22 Jul 2025 at 13:25hrs | 313 | by Staff reporter
The death of an African President: Advocate Edgar Lungu!
The philosophy of Ubuntu will not allow me to talk about former President Edgar Lungu using outdoor language. Africa is rid of a ruler that destroyed the image of the African continent; we are yet to ...Published: 23 Jun 2025 at 10:48hrs | 500 | by Nomazulu Thata
Convict claims he was forced to eat human waste
A 30-year-old man, Moses Makoni, who was convicted for theft earlier this week, stunned the court gallery when he claimed that the complainant had forced him to eat human waste. Makoni made the allega...Published: 04 Dec 2024 at 06:44hrs | 322 | by Staff reporter
'ZANU PF is a party of vagabonds,' says party councillor
Mazowe ward 6 councillor, Shamie Sande (51) has lambasted and labelled ZANU-PF party members as vagabonds following his arrest for allegedly stealing 100 bags of fertilizer reserved under the Presiden...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 20:04hrs | 1242 | by Paul Ndou
Murder suspect smears himself with faeces to avoid court
Tsepo Dlamini, a 24-year-old man accused of fatally stabbing his father, attempted to avoid appearing in court by smearing himself with feces. Dlamini was scheduled to appear before the Nkomazi magist...Published: 20 Jul 2024 at 12:05hrs | 425 | by Staff reporter
Human faeces found in 24 Harare boreholes
Tests conducted between January and June 2024 revealed traces of faecal matter in 24 out of 259 boreholes across several Harare suburbs, including Mbare, Highfield, Glen View, and Budiriro. These bore...Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 10:20hrs | 31 | by Staff reporter
Vendors relieve themselves in the open in Bulawayo CBD
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has expressed concern over the increasing practice of open defecation by vendors in the central business district (CBD) particularly in the streets and sanitary lanes....Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 09:45hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Harare water bombshell
Health authorities have identified at least four bacteria that cause water borne diseases such as cholera, typhoid and dysentery in some of Harare's water sources as the cholera outbreak that has grip...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:40hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
'Foreign' vendors turn Bulawayo streets into toilets
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has accused vendors of practising open defecation on central business district (CBD) streets and sanitary lanes.According to the latest full council minutes release...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 05:59hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Cholera breaches 3000 cases mark
ZIMBABWE has surpassed the 3 000 mark for new suspected and confirmed Cholera cases since an outbreak was reported in February this year with reports that a total of 57 people are hospitalised due to ...Published: 16 Jun 2023 at 08:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's recorded cholera cases surpass 2 000 mark
RECORDED cholera cases have surpassed the 2 000 mark in Zimbabwe with reports that the water-borne disease has killed 42 people so far. Of the 42 deaths recorded, 10 have been confirmed and 32...Published: 29 May 2023 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Open defecation at Harare's new passport offices
IT is a few minutes before midday and the new Makombe complex, which is now handling passport applications, is a hive of activity.Hordes of e-passport seekers patiently queue outside awaiting ...Published: 19 Apr 2022 at 06:40hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
'War veterans must show their unflinching war time vibrancy' - fighting whom and for what
When Robert Mugabe got into power in 1980, he was cocksure his scientific socialism would bring economic prosperity to the masses, "Gutsva ruzhinji!" as he never tired of saying. Instead of build on t...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 07:27hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
BCC public toilets are a horrible health hazard
Bulawayo City Council public toilets are a horrible health hazard, especially the one in Lobengula Street where people board the so-called ZUPCO buses to the high-density suburbs. I could not ...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 08:22hrs | 3 | by Clemen Moyo
Joshua Nkomo is remembered in diverse forms fairly and unfairly
In year 1980, Joshua Nkomo was the most hated persona in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland and some parts of Midlands. The first elections were so toxic, a tribal card was key to get most of the people vote for ...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 19:54hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa thinks white people are stupid!
The former Vauxhall Labour MP Hon. Kate Hoey said: Mnangagwa is Mugabe mark two. This week has been spectacular by proving this statement as more or less correct but in reverse. In a feat of rage, Mug...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 13:48hrs | 119 | by Nomazulu Thata
Kambarami: A limping goat with one horn on its forehead!
The uncanny and hellish school boy behaviour by one Tinashe Kambarami of unknown origin, who by the devil's design, strangely found himself being the self-proclaimed godfather of Bulawayo, is exceedin...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 00:31hrs | 4 | by Muntukaziwa
Chicken project thrives on human waste
Kenyan farmer Victor Kyalo's chickens have doubled the number of eggs they are laying. The reason: Human excrement.He is feeding them food from a Nairobi-based organics recycling company. Sane...Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 07:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reportrer
Eating soil, a pregnancy craving that can kill . . .
The smell of soil after light rains is divine. I like to think of it as the smell of nature, pure and fresh. Many women experience iron deficiency during pregnancy and subsequently develop a craving f...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 13:12hrs | 36 | by Andile Tshuma
Mahlalela ropes in Omkhula in new film
AFTER making waves last year with short films, South Africa-based Zimbabwean producer Mthulisi Moyo has returned with a rib-cracking film titled Mahlalela Wants His Faeces Back, where he features popu...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 22:25hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Pupils force headmaster off school premises
THERE was pandemonium at Chakohwa High School last Wednesday after the headmaster's attempt to administer corporal punishment on a pupil backfired when the pupil, with the help of aggrieved teachers, ...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 05:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Water is a human right, It is illegal to disconnect domestic taps: a Petition to the UN
Water is a human right: It is illegal to disconnect domestic tapes: a Petition to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on the way to UN...Published: 04 Oct 2018 at 20:11hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Bulawayo safe from Harare cholera
BULAWAYO has not recorded any cases of cholera or typhoid with officials calling on travelling residents to practise good hygiene and desist from shaking hands at funerals, churches and other public g...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo on high cholera alert
BULAWAYO City Council is on high cholera alert following the declaration of a cholera outbreak in Harare on Thursday. BCC senior public relations officer Mrs Nesisa Mpofu, responding to questi...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 08:00hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Typhoid spreads towards Harare
TYPHOID, which has killed nine people in Gweru, has spread to Kadoma and Masvingo amid calls for residents to practice maximum hygiene. Three new cases were reported in Kadoma and two in Masvi...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 06:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Open air churches banned
Mutare City Council (MCC) has banned open air church gatherings unless the churches provide ablution facilities and taped water as it moves to eliminate any risk of disease outbreaks.MCC publi...Published: 30 Aug 2018 at 12:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Infant killer jailed
A WOMAN from Kezi who subjected her three-year-old step granddaughter to torture and physical abuse for soiling herself resulting in the toddler's death, has been sentenced to seven years in jail....Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa is seriously fake and dishonest
Comrade Douglas Coltart said in his twitter "This kind of sexist joke might get the crowd laughing but it detracts overall message: worst of all it is the patriarchal norms that women are property," h...Published: 08 May 2018 at 19:35hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Council dodges faeces protest
THE Bulawayo City Council yesterday averted a "faeces protest" by angry residents in Entumbane suburb who say they have been living with raw sewage flowing through their homes for almost two weeks....Published: 11 Apr 2018 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Diaper disposal a headache for stakeholders
ILLEGAL dumping sites have become common in Harare and other parts of the country, with the reckless disposal of diapers causing a major headache.Among those rubbish being dumped by residents ...Published: 30 Mar 2018 at 09:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Faeces war' raises stink for Kezi family
A FAMILY from Sontala Ward 12 in Kezi under Chief Bango's area is accusing one of theirs of setting up a homestead in an area where they have been defecating for generations.Out of anger, two ...Published: 12 Jan 2018 at 14:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Toddler forced to eat own faeces
A GIMBOKI man allegedly forced his two-year-old niece to eat her own waste as punishment after she had soiled her diapers. Takemore Muti Sithole (25) denied the charges of ill-treating his niece when ...Published: 15 Dec 2017 at 07:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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
Bulawayo on high typhoid alert
BULAWAYO City Council is on high alert of a possible outbreak of typhoid following reports of an outbreak of the disease in Harare last week.At least 21 cases of typhoid were recorded in the c...Published: 29 Oct 2017 at 21:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Faeces-laced love potion poisons hubby
IN a bizarre twist of events, a woman from Chikondori Village under Chief Ndanga in Zaka nearly killed her husband after she poisoned him by allegedly lacing his food with a love potion prepared with ...Published: 20 Oct 2017 at 06:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Was Rhodesia's Ian Smith right - African rule will lower the country's standards?
As my dear wife Tinta and I were taking a stroll in our neighbourhood - which used to be a 'Whites only' suburb during the colonial era - we started discussing how standards had greatly deteriorated s...Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 09:55hrs | 20 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Avian influenza is in Southern Africa, concerted regional approach required to manage it
The first ever confirmation of outbreaks of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in southern Africa (so far reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, in that or...Published: 31 Jul 2017 at 12:32hrs | 4 | by Chimimba David Phiri and Moetapele Letshwenyo
'Mubobobo man found with 76 panties?'
A CHITUNGWIZA woman has sensationally claimed that her father-in-law was found with 76 women's panties in a case of mubobobo.This came out when Constant Muchena, 42, was accusing her father-in...Published: 11 Jul 2017 at 13:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Typhoid hits Harare
SIXTEEN cases of typhoid have been reported in some parts of the country, with 14 recorded in Harare, a weekly diseases surveillance report by the Ministry of Health and Child Care has indicated....Published: 21 Jun 2017 at 07:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man throws faeces at, beats up landlord
A BULAWAYO man allegedly relieved himself at a gate of another man's house before spattering the owner of the property with faeces for ordering him to remove his excrement, a court heard....Published: 16 May 2017 at 06:42hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Man curses a dead woman, says he is not done yet
LAMECK Makwiramiti has no regrets for the barrage that saw him cursing a dead woman on her funeral wake accusing the deceased of being evil.In a video that has gone viral on social media, Lame...Published: 02 May 2017 at 16:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Soldier forces wife to eat faeces
A 30-year-old soldier is facing allegations of assaulting his wife whom he also forced to eat his faeces following a divorce dispute. Machisa Jani was arraigned before Miss Perseverance Makala recentl...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 11:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Greeting-culture of shaking hands in our societies must go: It's a health scare: Our water sources too!
It is our culture too to shake hands when we great, this gesture of greeting peoples are global, is found in almost all cultures of the world. Hand-shaking is the easiest and the fastest vehicle of mi...Published: 03 Apr 2017 at 09:19hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Linda Masarira condemns Harare-Copakabana hygienic conditions!
She is dead right for once. I agree with Linda Masarira that the conditions in our capital Harare-Copacabana are a serious threat to health. But it is not in Harare alone: in all town and cities...Published: 30 Mar 2017 at 15:56hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Bulawayo on typhoid alert
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has raised a typhoid alert following an outbreak in Harare's Mbare suburb that claimed two lives and left dozens hospitalised.Last Friday, council spokesperson,...Published: 10 Jan 2017 at 06:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
BCC issue advice to residents on prevention of typhoid
Bulawayo City Council has advised the residents on the prevention of ty[hoid but indicated that the city's tap water was safe and not contaminated to cause typhoid.Typhoid is an infectious dis...Published: 09 Jan 2017 at 03:51hrs | 11 | by Stephen Jakes
Woman 'throws human faeces' into drinking well
Two Epworth men appeared at the Harare Magistrates' Court yesterday on allegations of assaulting a 19-year-old woman, who had thrown human faeces down their drinking well.Brian Makoni (25)...Published: 22 Nov 2016 at 09:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bosso's reaction to Placardgate duplicitous, unacceptable, irresponsible
On Friday Zimeye.com published further reactions from Bosso CEO, Ndumiso Gumede , this, after comments Gumede had allegedly given The Herald on Thursday following The Herald's first edition of the ‘...Published: 18 Sep 2016 at 14:50hrs | 2 | by Xoxani Ngxoxo
Bosso questions selective publishing of placard pictures
HIGHLANDERS executives yesterday questioned the motive behind what they believed was the sensationalism around the publication of the picture in some sections of the media. They questioned why a s...Published: 16 Sep 2016 at 09:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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