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How our love for violent entertainment is breeding a violent Zimbabwe
Entertainment may seem like harmless fun, but the evidence shows it can unravel the very fabric of a society.Three recent stories from Zimbabwe have pierced my heart this past few days-tragic ...Published: 13 Aug 2025 at 20:59hrs | 177 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Jilted lover rapes lover's Grade 5 daughter twice
A Dzivaresekwa man, who had been dumped in a failed relationship, is on the run for allegedly raping his erstwhile lover's daughter.The jilted lover identified only as Blessing, had been follo...Published: 13 Aug 2025 at 09:09hrs | 385 | by Staff reporter
Top cop in rape storm!
A SENIOR Lupane police OFFICER (39) is facing serious rape and indecent assault charges after allegedly preying on a 16-year-old schoolgirl. Adding to the shock, the victim is reportedly the daughter ...Published: 02 Jul 2025 at 12:02hrs | 654 | by Staff reporter
Mentally ill man rapes villager
A 21-YEAR-OLD mentally ill man was dragged to court after he allegedly raped a 24-year-old woman in the bush.Philip Mhosva appeared before ...Published: 09 Jun 2025 at 16:25hrs | 521 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Plumtree
Man (26) rapes grandmother (50) on Independence day
A 26-YEAR-OLD Plumtree man is in trouble after he allegedly raped a 50-year-old woman who was coming from fetching water.Cleator Gumbo was dragged to Plumtree magistrates courts yesterday, whe...Published: 21 Apr 2025 at 11:53hrs | 1267 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Woman missing after crocodile attack
A woman is missing and feared dead after being attacked by a crocodile while fetching water from Lake Kariba near Fothergill Island on Thursday evening, in yet another tragic incident on the country's...Published: 04 Apr 2025 at 08:26hrs | 300 | by Staff reporter
Water shortages hits Zimbabwe's cities
Residents across Zimbabwe are enduring severe water shortages, as the ongoing El Niño drought exacerbates an already strained water supply system. In cities like Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second-largest c...Published: 01 Jan 2025 at 10:20hrs | 712 | by Staff reporter
Man locked up for raping own baby still in diapers
A 23-year-old Mutare man has been locked up on allegations of raping his daughter who is barely two years old.The man whose identity is being withheld to protect the victim has appeared before...Published: 25 Dec 2024 at 08:23hrs | 988 | by Staff reporter
Elderly couple reunites with granddaughter 4 years after abduction
Mavava Village in Tsholotsho was the scene of mixed emotions as an elderly couple, Bartholomew and Elizabeth Hadebe, reunited with their granddaughter, who had been abducted four years earlier at the ...Published: 14 Dec 2024 at 10:25hrs | 162 | by Staff reporter
Harare, Chitungwiza meet over water crisis
The Harare City Council (HCC) is set to hold a crucial meeting with Chitungwiza Municipality this week to address the ongoing water crisis in the dormitory town, which worsened following the decommiss...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 12:17hrs | 39 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents resort to swamps for water
Bulawayo is facing a severe water crisis, with many suburbs going weeks without running tap water. Residents are forced to use unhygienic water sources in swampy areas and practice open defecation due...Published: 04 Sep 2024 at 07:52hrs | 147 | by Staff reporter
Artisanal miner caught pants down raping mental patient
There was drama at Kandeya village in Mount Darwin where an artisanal miner was caught raping a mental patient.To make matters worse the victim has hearing and speech problems.James Mu...Published: 31 Jul 2024 at 15:06hrs | 926 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Tribalist stabs Shona man
A man from Matebeleland has been sent to jail for stabbing a Shona-speaking man in Plumtree.Daniso Dube (22) was sentenced to two years in jail by Plumtree magistrate Joshua Nembaware....Published: 03 Nov 2023 at 15:46hrs | 12 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Stepdad strangles one–year-old daughter
A 47-year-old man stands accused of fatally strangling his one-year-old stepdaughter yesterday morning while his mother was away fetching water from a nearby borehole, in a horrifying incident that ha...Published: 30 Sep 2023 at 09:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Filabusi villagers on edge as loose lion preys on livestock
GOGO Janet Nkala has never seen her two grandkids so scared to the extent that they asked to sleep in the same bedroom with her hours after what they had witnessed in the afternoon.The boys we...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 08:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Rural women drive Zimbabwe's green transition
As a rural woman from Wedza, about 140 kilometers from Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, 53-year-old Adefi Mtambo never remotely imagined herself in the driver's seat."I could only operate an o...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
A dunderhead leader believes what he can't do is impossible for everyone else to accomplish!
Those who follow my articles are now all too familiar with how I regard with utter disdain those who make excuses for failing to fulfill their mandates.Quite frankly, I seriously doubt if ther...Published: 31 Mar 2023 at 10:33hrs | 13 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Bulawayo water woes set to worsen
THE water situation in Bulawayo is set to worsen as two of the city's six supply dams are set to be decommissioned soon.Already, the city's residents spend most of their time fetching water fr...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo hit by water crisis
RESIDENTS in Bulawayo have been hit by a serious water crisis with most suburbs going for weeks without running water amid fears of a disease outbreak.The city is enduring a prolonged water-sh...Published: 21 Mar 2023 at 08:41hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Even a five year old can tell that Mnangagwa has failed!
I remember when my son was still a little child, in the early 2000s, whereby we had to give him millions of Zimbabwe dollars to buy sweets and 'freezits' ...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 19:24hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Diarrhoea hits Gweru
The city of Gweru has reported increased cases of diarrhoea since the beginning of September, NewsDay has learnt.In a statement yesterday, council attributed the increase to climatic changes....Published: 15 Sep 2022 at 05:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean villagers cross into Botswana to fetch water
VILLAGERS from four villages in Ward 10, Bulilima District in Matabeleland South have been forced to illegally cross to neighbouring Botswana to fetch water from Maitengwe River after the wall of Fuba...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 06:01hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mozambican community's conflict with safari hunting company ends in success - a lesson for all
Mozambique's international hunting challenges and opportunities , including those of other African countries come under the spotlight when it hosts the African Wildlife Consultative Forum in Maputo in...Published: 22 Aug 2022 at 11:09hrs | 11 | by Emmanuel Koro
Kezi villagers accuse local leaders of stifling development
VILLAGERS in ward five, Humbana in Kezi district, Matabeleland South province, have blamed their councillor Madalaboy Ndebele and legislator Saul Mahalima Ncube for stifling development by failing to ...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 08:31hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa borehole water free for all
All Chitungwiza residents are accessing water freely from the Presidential boreholes, without any checks or tests, contrary to some messages being circulated by naysayers on social media that water wa...Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 11:32hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Jubilation as more boreholes are sunk in Harare
THERE was jubilation in Glen Norah yesterday after President Mnangagwa dispatched borehole drilling equipment with the aim of providing clean water to residents.It was the same in Epworth, whe...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:34hrs | 3 | by Staf reporter
Binga residents turn to Lake Kariba for water
VILLAGERS from Govera in Binga are risking crocodile and hippopotamus attacks fetching water from Lake Kariba five kilometres away after their taps went dry over a month ago.Binga is located w...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
We are not abandoning Merry Chiwenga-Mubayiwa
To be a woman activist in Zimbabwe is totally different from being an activist in the comforts of Germany. I have come to terms with this fact. Women activism especially in our societies does not mean...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 14:56hrs | 10 | by Nomazulu Thata
Vote overwhelmingly to counter rigging
The 2023 election is going to be the most interesting do or die battle for both the main two political rival parties Zanu PF and MDC-Alliance who are playing their cards right on their chests....Published: 28 Apr 2021 at 15:34hrs | 15 | by Leonard Koni
Let us stop child sacrifice
The death of a child of any age is devastating. The pain and anguish can be compounded when the death comes at the hands of another human being. Parents and family members can face many complicated is...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 11:18hrs | 26 | by Heaven Munyuki
Matabeleland South men take up women's domestic roles: Report
MOST men in Matabeleland South have assumed the role of fetching water for domestic use, a task usually regarded as feminine, a recent research has established.A Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessm...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 07:44hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Teen mum throws baby into croc-infested river
IN an incident that has shocked villagers, a teen mother from Nyevedzanai Village in Chivi District, Masvingo Province allegedly threw her two-year-old baby into the crocodile-infested Tugwi River fol...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Luxury car purchases rile Gweru residents
MRS Naome Mashoko is a resident of Mkoba 6 suburb in Gweru and for the past two weeks, she has been forced to walk a long distance to fetch water from a borehole at Mkoba Six Shopping Centre. ...Published: 15 Mar 2021 at 05:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Are we heading for disaster? - An Open conversation
This article is an open conversation that touches the many issues that have brought our country to where it is today. It is not an article of opposition but a call to introspection. It is a call for u...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 12:19hrs | 17 | by Liverson Mdongo wa Habe
Binga residents beg Zinwa over water
Residents of Binga have accused the local rural district council (RdC) of failing to provide water to the ratepayers and appealed to the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) to take over the serv...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 09:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
3 Bulawayo supply dams recommissioned
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has recommissioned three of its six supply dams decommissioned last year due to low water levels.This follows increased inflows into the water bodies since the onse...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:41hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
No water supply to Binga despite settling part of Zinwa debt
BINGA residents have gone for four months without running water despite paying $300 000 of the $1,5 million debt owed to the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa).Water supply was cut on S...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pregnant woman, boy (14) die in croc attacks
A pregnant woman and a 14-year-old boy were attacked and killed by crocodiles in separate incidents in Mhangura over the weekend. Although efforts to get a comment from acting Mashonalan...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Building a new Zimbabwe is possible
A new Zimbabwe is possible. It is up to every Zimbabwean, those who are based at home, and in the Diaspora, to find each other, and come together for one goal and one goal only, change the course of t...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:19hrs | 2 | by Anele Ndlovu
As long as Zimbabweans accept crumbs from ruling elites' table, we will forever suffer
I am sure we have all heard those nearly hysterical screams of unbridled joy - echoing throughout our neighbourhoods - whenever electricity supply is restored, usually after a long spell of load shedd...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 20:24hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Water crisis ravages Bulawayo
Women carry the burden of collecting water for households...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 07:48hrs | 3 | by Brezhnev Malaba
China Aid installs 200 boreholes in Zimbabwe
MANICALAND Province's perennial water challenges are set to ease following the commissioning of 200 boreholes under a programme to enable rural communities access clean water.The program...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:50hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Brain, eyes, ears removed in gruesome city murder
IN a chilling incident, a man was attacked by yet to be identified assailants who cut open his head and removed the brain, gouged his eyes, slashed off his right ear and stabbed him all over the body ...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 19:01hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Residents turn to sewer water
A HEALTH disaster looms in Umguza district after Mbundane residents, banned from fetching water from boreholes in Nketa 8, have resorted to sewer dams as Bulawayo's water crisis gets worse.Mbu...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 07:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Women Kill robber
Mathew Gunungo was disarmed of his iron bar and hit by one of the ladies after attempting to strangle the other. The two women, Phoebe Tembo and Petronella Ndlovu, have, however, been arrested...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 18:27hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Power crisis turns night into day for Zimbabweans
Around 9 p.m., a siren pierces the pitch-black night at the Willowvale industrial park in Zimbabwe, signalling that power has been restored after a day-long outage.Moments later, eight men in ...Published: 01 Aug 2019 at 16:38hrs | | by Reuters
Zimbabwe power outages a manifestation of endemic corruption in govt
THE massive daily power outages rocking the country have had a devastating impact on an already fragile economy, throwing into disarray President Emmerson Mnangagwa's mantra that "Zimbabwe is open for...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 09:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Lying’ Zanu-PF MP exposed
OFFICIALS representing Newfield Investments, involved in granite stone mining in Mutoko, have denied reports that they sealed off boreholes they had sunk in the area, leaving villagers stranded for wa...Published: 06 May 2019 at 22:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare borehole poisoned
Residents from Harare's Mabvuku suburb who depend on the Kamunhu Shopping Centre borehole were left without water for four days after the borehole was allegedly poisoned.The incident was disco...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 00:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Pupil crushed by sand poacher truck
A GRADE Two pupil at Farai Primary School in Chitungwiza died on her way to school after she was crushed by a Seddon Atkinson 10-tonne truck believed to be owned by an illegal sand dealer which failed...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 21:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
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