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2 dead, several injured in separate Zupco bus accidents
In a tragic turn of events on Wednesday, two separate accidents involving Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) buses claimed two lives and left multiple passengers injured along the Harare-Mutare...Published: 07 Nov 2024 at 20:31hrs | 728 | by Staff reporter
5 arrested for smuggling stolen Toyota Land Cruiser into Zimbabwe
A group of five suspected car thieves has been arrested after allegedly stealing a Toyota Land Cruiser in South Africa, forging documents, and attempting to smuggle the vehicle into Zimbabwe.I...Published: 09 Sep 2024 at 13:24hrs | 770 | by Staff reporter
Colourful place names of Rhodesia and their origin
THE TRACING of place names in a country in Africa can be both fascinating and frustrating. One must know – or quickly learn – something about history, about geography and the origins of word...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 17:59hrs | 45 | by Phillippa Berlyn with some amendments by Tony Tanser
Dealer's body dumped at suspected killer's house
The body of a Beatrice fuel dealer who recently died a few hours after he was involved in a fierce fight with his business partner over fuel dealings, was dumped at the same partner's house by his agg...Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man kills stepson over $50 airtime
A CHITUNGWIZA man has been arrested for smashing and killing his 11-year-old stepson with a hammer after the boy mistakenly bought $50 airtime instead of $20.Owen Nyamukachi allegedly grabbed ...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 20:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Met Dept warns of flash floods
THE Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has warned the public to take necessary precautions as it anticipates heavy rains that could cause flash flooding in certain areas across the country....Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 06:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Teen dies aboard bus
A 17-YEAR-OLD girl died on Tuesday morning while aboard a Masvingo-bound bus.Mashonaland East police spokesperson Inspector Tendai Mwanza confirmed the incident, saying they were yet to establ...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Domestic dispute ends in tragedy
A 23-YEAR-OLD Chivhu woman on Monday allegedly struck her husband with a log during a dispute over a towel, which resulted in his death.Mashonaland East police spokesperson Inspector Tendai Mw...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 05:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwig loses bid to evict Mnangagwa aide
FORMER Zanu-PF Mashonaland East provincial chairperson Bernard Makokove's bid to evict President Emmerson Mnangagwa's aide Alfred Chagonda from his Rushfontain Farm in Chivhu was dis missed at the Civ...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Revisiting the Beitbridge-Harare highway
The state of the Beitbridge-Harare (A4) Highway is now a cause for concern as the number of human fatalities grows by each day due to deadly accidents in the narrow strip that links Zimbabwe and South...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 08:06hrs | | by Victor Bhoroma
Police name Featherstone crash victims
Police have released names of 14 people who were killed in the Featherstone Bus Disaster last week. The 14 were part of the 19 who died in a head-on collision involving a commuter omnibus and ...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa declares Featherstone accident national disaster
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared the Featherstone accident that killed 16 people and injured others a national disaster.The accident occurred yesterday near Chivhu, on the Harare-Masv...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 20:24hrs | | by Staff Reporter
19 die at Featherstone road accident
Nineteen people have perished at an accident that happened at Folkestone. The President Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared the accident a national disaster. In a statement the Ministry of Informa...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 16:32hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Head on collision kills 19 people
Nineteen people died this morning in a road traffic head on collision involving a Toyota commuter omnibus and a haulage truck along the Harare-Beitbridge Road.The accident occurred at the 89km...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 22:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Head on collision kills 19 people
Nineteen people died this morning in a road traffic head on collision involving a Toyota commuter omnibus and a haulage truck along the Harare-Beitbridge Road.The accident occurred at the 89km...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 22:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe robbed by armed men
TWO men, armed with a rifle, allegedly broke into former First Lady Grace Mugabe's Chivhu rural bedroom in Mazhawidza village on Thursday.The suspects, Simbarashe Chokera (25) of Chivhu and Ju...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 07:05hrs | 1 | by Staff
Married woman follows rapist for more sex
In a stranger than fiction case, a 22-year-old Featherstone woman last week asked Chivhu Magistrates Court to withdraw two counts of rape against a man who raped her, claiming that they were now in lo...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 16:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 'bloody' police station
Featherstone Police Station's backyard is not for the faint-hearted.Accident-damaged vehicles, some blood-stained, can invoke scary images, fear and especially traumatic memories for survivors...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 08:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why technocrats succeed or fail in the Zanu government
Apologies for boring you with citing in full Mukoma Muzivazvose Google's definition of technocrats. However, this will help some of us to know a bit about technocrats in view of recently appointed min...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 07:01hrs | | by Ndaba Nhuku
Bull sold for $24,000 at livestock auction
ZIMBABWE's annual premier breeding livestock auction, National Bull Sale, saw the price for the most expensive beast in the bulls category vault 195 percent to $24 000 up from the $8 400 recorded at l...Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 07:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi's aide dies of bomb injuries
Vice President Kembo Mohadi's aide Nelson Dube, who succumbed to injuries sustained during last week's White City Stadium blast and was declared a liberation war hero, was buried yesterday. Du...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Six arrested for cattle rustling
SIX men have been arrested for stealing cattle from farms in Beatrice and Featherstone and selling the meat to unsuspecting customers in Harare. Canaan Kanyota, Fidelis Kachere (33), Peter Wad...Published: 30 Jan 2018 at 05:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Villager killed at rain-making ceremony
Police in Featherstone have arrested two local men on charges of killing a fellow villager following a brawl at a rain-making ceremony.The siblings - Victor (43) and Milton Mushure (34) of Man...Published: 10 Jan 2018 at 05:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Decentralisation of tobacco auction floors noble
Growing tobacco has been the boon for the Zimbabwe's economy and its farmers. The golden leaf is truly one of the country's major foreign currency earner generating an average of 800 million dollars a...Published: 23 May 2017 at 12:45hrs | 3 | by Tendai Guta
Mushrooms kills Chivhu girl (5), grandma critical
A pupil attending Riversdale Primary School in Featherstone has died and her grandma is battling for life at Parirenyatwa Hospital after eating poisonous mushroom picked from the bushes....Published: 22 Feb 2017 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff Reporter
54 escape burning bus
FIFTY-FOUR passengers travelling on a Proliner Luxury Bus from Johannesburg, South Africa, cheated death when the vehicle went up in flames near Chivhu along the Harare-Beitbridge highway yesterday mo...Published: 23 Aug 2016 at 07:17hrs | | by Patrick Chitumba
Raw as chieftainship is created for Min Mombeshora's father
Five chiefs are clashing in Chikomba District as two new chieftainships including that to be presided over by the biological father of Lands and Rural Ressettlements Minister Dr Douglas Mombeshora hav...Published: 09 Jul 2016 at 06:40hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
Am the messiah - Zimbabwean man declares
A Chikomba man Takaedza Mundione has declared himself as the foretold saviour sent to deliver Zimbabwe."Elijah manifested in the New Testament as John the Baptist, now Jesus is manifest ...Published: 22 May 2016 at 11:42hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Jailed murderer faces more charges
A Chivhu serial murderer currently serving a 20-year jail term has appeared at the High Court facing two more counts of murder.Bryan Mupayiki of Rufu village under Chief Nyoka of Featherst...Published: 07 Oct 2015 at 20:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Serial goat thief locks victim's bedroom from outside before stealing
A daring thief from Epworth in Harare who specialised in stealing goats dared lock his victims' bedroom doors from outside and slaughtered goats at the pens as family members screamed and shouted ...Published: 17 Aug 2015 at 09:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru invaded Nyambirai's 3 farms
BUSINESSMAN Tawanda Nyambirai has accused ousted former Vice-President Joice Mujuru and her late husband Retired General Solomon Mujuru of pushing him out of his three farms in Mashonaland East....Published: 17 Jun 2015 at 08:05hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Businessman dies a painful death
Prominent Masvingo businessman Abraham 'Abuja' Chikozho who owned the fast growing Bercam Bus Services reportedly died a painful death when he remained trapped in the wreckage of his car for three hou...Published: 19 Mar 2015 at 21:42hrs | 33 | by Tanzikwa Goto
Police destroy spot fine records
TRAFFIC police are not abiding by any structure when charging spot fines and some documents detailing how they use the money they collect have been destroyed. Officers at Featherstone, Chivhu, Shamva,...Published: 08 Mar 2015 at 12:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Haulage truck accident along Harare-Masvingo highway - WhatsApp update
Please note that Bulawayo24 does not edit WhatsApp updates. We publish them as sent by our readers and we do not disclose the sender's telephone number ...Published: 07 Apr 2014 at 13:56hrs | | by Concerned Citizen
Mavhaire's brains are as diminutive as his stunted body
The diminutive Dzikamai Mavhaire's brains are as diminutive as his stunted body. I met him last week at the Mnandi Restraunt owned by Walter Mzembi at the 22km peg to Chivhu after Featherstone and he ...Published: 06 Oct 2013 at 05:38hrs | | by Job Sikhala
Scientists in Australia identify 280 craters on the moon
Australian scientists have identified 280 craters on the moon that have never been mapped before, utilizing ultra-high resolution mapping techniques.The researchers at Curtin University in Wes...Published: 18 Jun 2013 at 10:49hrs | 2 | by Tech Reporter
Girl Child Network Endorses Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative
Full Text UK Foreign Secretary, William Hague Speech: Good evening and welcome to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. E...Published: 07 Feb 2013 at 09:01hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Festive season death toll rises to 162
The holiday accident death toll has risen to 162 up from 150 people as of Friday.This follows another accident which claimed four people in Mashonaland East province and the death of 8 other ...Published: 29 Dec 2012 at 17:30hrs | | by Staff Reporter
MDC-T official in hospital after a horrific road accident, 2 people killed
The Movement for Democratic Change led by Morgan Tsvangirai's Masvingo provincial chairperson, Wilstaff Sitemere is recovering at home after he was involved in a horrific road accident along the Harar...Published: 16 Apr 2012 at 17:29hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Studio 263, Tendai Jari, now a mother
Former Studio 263 actress Tatenda Mavetera is now a mother! The 25-year-old socialite and businesswoman was recently blessed with a bouncing baby boy weighing 3,6kgs at New Cranborne Maternity Home in...Published: 03 Sep 2011 at 04:29hrs | | by Entertainment reporter
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