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Zimbabwe flood victims stranded four years later
Four years after devastating floods ravaged Binga, the government has yet to allocate houses to some of the affected victims, despite repeated promises of assistance. In February 2020, heavy rains cau...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 14:06hrs | 72 | by Staff reporter
Rwanda donates maize meal to Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe has received a donation of 1,000 tonnes of maize meal from Rwanda as part of the global response to President Mnangagwa's appeal following the El Nino-induced drought that has affected the co...Published: 20 Sep 2024 at 07:54hrs | 398 | by Staff reporter
Eastern Cape floods: death toll spikes to 10
The South Africa Police Service (SAPS) confirmed that the number of flood victims in Eastern Cape has spiked to ten (10) following identification (in the afternoon) of another female body that went mi...Published: 05 Jun 2024 at 13:14hrs | 39 | by Gideon Madzikatidze in South Africa
Ramaphosa mourns Eastern Cape flood victims
President Cyril Ramaphosa conveyed his condolence message to families in the Eastern Cape who have lost loved ones following recent floods which swept awa...Published: 05 Jun 2024 at 07:20hrs | 35 | by Gideon Madzikatidze in South Africa
Mnangagwa's govt abandons flood victims
GOVERNMENT has availed accommodation for only 27 families in Budiriro, Harare that were affected by floods two years ago, leaving victims of the current flash floods stranded.Tens of families ...Published: 01 Jan 2024 at 08:13hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Harare flood victims moved to Dzivarasekwa flats
Families flooded out of their homes in Budiriro are set to be accommodated at the newly constructed flats in Dzivarasekwa Extension after their homes and household property were damaged by heavy rains...Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 22:51hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Rains leave trail of destruction in Zimbabwe
A SIX-year-old lost his life while infrastructure that includes bridges, roads, houses and electricity poles were swept away due to incessant rains that pounded most parts of the country during the we...Published: 30 Dec 2023 at 08:14hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Govt declares Binga safe from floods
THE government has assured flood victims in Binga district, Matabeleland North province that they are safe following their relocation."There are houses in Sungwano which were being built since...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:29hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Above normal rainfall forecast
Most parts of Southern Africa are expected to have normal to above-normal rainfall in the coming summer cropping season, especially the southern and central areas, which include Zimbabwe.The l...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 06:01hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on alert for measles outbreak
Cabinet received an update on the Country‘s Response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and a report on the procurement and roll-out of vaccines, as presented by the Chairman of the National Covid-19 Inter-M...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Mayor mourns KZN flood victims
Bulawayo Mayor Solomon Madlala Mguni has sent his condolence message to the Mayor of Ethekwini Thomas Mxolisi Kaunda over the tragic floods that killed hundreds of people in KZN Province of South Afri...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 09:02hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa mourns SA flood victims
President Mnangagwa yesterday sent a message of condolence to South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa following the death of over 300 people due to floods that hit KwaZulu-Natal province.In a s...Published: 14 Apr 2022 at 06:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Lumpy skin outbreak in Binga
BINGA in Matabeleland North province is experiencing an outbreak of lumpy skin disease, which has killed livestock, mainly cattle.Lumpy skin is a virulent disease spread by mosquitoes, especia...Published: 31 Jan 2022 at 05:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Qoki brings smiles to hundreds of households in Matebeleland
THE past few weeks have seen Qoki Zindlovukazi trending following a revelation that the group of Zimbabwean women in the diaspora are millionaires after investing so much in immovable property....Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 06:20hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Vapositori remembers Cyclone Idai Victims
Popular religious leader, Madzibaba Andby Makururu of Johanne the Fifth of Africa has donated an assortment of groceries and clothing to the ...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 11:04hrs | 4 | by King Makombe/Simbarashe Sithole
Floods alert as rivers rise
TSHOLOTSHO District is on high alert for floods as water levels in the Gwayi and Khami rivers are rising at an alarming speed. With the Meteorological Services Department predicting more rains...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Councils exposed by recent heavy rains
This cropping season's heavy rains have exposed the shortcomings of most local authorities that have been allocating home seekers stands in wetlands. Some of the culprits are land barons that ...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rains leave trail of destruction
Heavy rains have spawned a humanitarian crisis in Chivi where homes and infrastructure such as bridges have been destroyed across the district over the past week.Chivi is one of the districts ...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 16:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Binga latest flood victims left alone, says MP
BINGA South legislator Joel Gabbuza (MDC Alliance) has slammed government for its failure to assist flood victims in Binga amid revelations that the affected communities are in desperate need of assis...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 07:04hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Blocking aid to flood-hit Iran 'displays US malevolence'
Iran's Defence Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami says the United States' attempts to block international humanitarian aid from entering flood-hit Iran lays bare America's malevolence. Add...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 06:32hrs | | by Press TV
Mnangagwa's currency 'joke in bad taste'
AN off-hand comment regarding the local RTGS currency, by President Emmerson Mnangagwa has left the country's biggest opposition party, the MDC fuming.Mnangagwa told victims of Cyclone Idai in...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 08:35hrs | 1 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa to hand over Tsholotsho houses built by Jonathan Moyo
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will officially hand over houses that were built by the Government for Tsholotsho flood victims in Matabeleland North Province before the end of November.This was revealed ...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 08:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tugwi-Mukosi: All that glitters is not gold
WHEN the 1,8 billion cubic metre Tugwi-Mukosi Dam, the largest inland water reservoir in the country, was completed in December 2016, many thought the perennial woes of the drought-prone Masvingo prov...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Army chief assures the nation
Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) Commander General Philip Valerio Sibanda yesterday assured the nation that the country remains safe and secure despite the recent politically motivated violence that erup...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga to take over construction of Tsholotsho Stadium
GOVERNMENT has resolved to take over the construction of Tsholotsho Stadium with Matabeleland North expected to be transformed into the country's prime tourism and energy hub, Vice President General (...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chingwizi ghost still haunts Bhasikiti in Mwenezi East
THE ghost of 18 000 Tokwe-Mukosi flood victims dumped in the inhabitable Chingwizi Ranch and unfairly treated by government lurks over former Masvingo Provincial Affairs Minister Kudakwashe Bhasikiti ...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 07:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Khupe ally blasted on Twitter
Thokozani Khupe's led MDC -T spokesperson Linda Masarira has been blasted on micro blogging Twitter for saying her president is the only presidential candidate who visited remote Mbire district....Published: 14 Jun 2018 at 07:27hrs | 3 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zanu-PF slmans Chamisa for politicking
The Zanu-PF Masvingo provincial leadership has castigated MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa for trying to make cheap political capital out of Tugwi-Mukosi flood victims at Chingwizi who have been ...Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bhasikiti to represent MDC Alliance
The MDC- Alliance's bid to make inroads into the Zanu-PF stronghold of Mwenezi ahead of the forthcoming harmonised elections is under threat after the alliance's candidate for Mwenezi East Mr Kudakash...Published: 11 Jun 2018 at 08:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Only 954 900 potential voters registered so far
AT least 954 900 potential voters had registered under the ongoing biometric voter registration exercise by close of business yesterday although some outlying centres had not yet submitted their retur...Published: 23 Oct 2017 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo concerned
The government is working to ensure the construction of all the 319 homesteads for Tsholotsho flood victims is completed before the onset of the rainy season.This came out after a tour by the ...Published: 18 Oct 2017 at 18:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsholotsho flood victims get houses
The Deputy Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Christopher Chingosho has handed over a house to flood victims Robert Ncube and his wife Auxillia at Tshino Village in Tsholo...Published: 09 Oct 2017 at 19:50hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Govt shifts goalposts on Masvingo dualisation compensation
GOVERNMENT has started shifting goalposts on who will compensate thousands of villagers and businesspeople likely to be displaced during the dualisation of the Harare-Beitbridge Highway, with Transpor...Published: 01 Sep 2017 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Development and democracy has been killed in Zimbabwe
Zimbabweans are no longer confident of themselves when they are on the international arena. I write this article with a heavy heart considering how Zanu Pf Government has ran down all state institutio...Published: 17 Jul 2017 at 15:39hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Safety concerns for Sipepa hospital staff
STAFF at Sipepa Rural District Hospital in Tsholotsho North, are risking their lives by staying in structures that have been condemned by government as unfit for habitation following the heavy rains t...Published: 12 Jul 2017 at 12:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko bemoans timber looting
VICE President Phelekezela Mphoko has said chiefs and MPs must ensure that locals benefit from resources in their areas.The VP said this as he warned corrupt business people who loot timber fr...Published: 07 Jul 2017 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mphoko launches national ID programme for Tsholotsho
Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko has reiterated the importance of assisting villagers in Tsholotsho acquire identity particulars, saying it is part of the peace and reconciliation process. VP Mphoko ...Published: 05 Jul 2017 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mphoko commissions Tsholotsho new settlement scheme
Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko says the work of relocating Tsholotsho flood victims requires cooperation from all government ministries and development partners so that the process is completed bef...Published: 03 Jul 2017 at 19:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cops, nurses steal victims' food
POLICE officers and nurses stole food and other donations meant for flood victims in Matabeleland North, a senior official has said.Matabeleland North Provincial Administrator Ms Latiso ...Published: 03 Jul 2017 at 06:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Busi Ncube speaks on Cde Chinx, career
IF True Love, that irresistible jam that has lit up Zimbabwean weddings and parties since the 80s, is Ilanga's greatest accomplishment, then it is also without question Busi Ncube's finest hour as a p...Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 12:17hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa tells flood victims dump Zanu-PF
ZIMBABWEANS should dump Zanu-PF come 2018 elections because of the ruling party's insensitivity to the plight of flood victims, opposition Zapu leader Dumiso Dabengwa said.Dabengwa made the re...Published: 29 May 2017 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Villagers in fresh freedom bid
HIGH Court Judges Justice Charles Hungwe and Justice Edith Mushore will on Tuesday preside over an appeal against the conviction and sentence of four internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Chingwizi...Published: 22 May 2017 at 19:28hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Tsholotsho flood victims set to relocate to new homes
THE relocation of Tsholotsho flood victims from the transit camp to new homes is set to start after the completion of a water and sanitation programme in July.More than 800 people were to be e...Published: 20 May 2017 at 12:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZCC sources donations for Tsholotsho flood victims
The Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) has sourced donations meant for Tsholotsho flood victims which they will distribute tomorrow.The ZCC coordinator pastor Calvin John Mpofu told Bulawayo24...Published: 03 May 2017 at 17:19hrs | 5 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Flood victims resist relocation
Scores of Masvingo villagers who were left homeless by Cyclone Dineo-induced floods last month, are resisting relocation citing ancestral connection , it has emerged. Villagers in ...Published: 30 Mar 2017 at 04:55hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Tsholotsho flood donations abused
Tsholotsho flood victims have accused officials of unfair distribution of donations particularly sanitary pads and food amid reports of starvation at holding camps. Minister of Women Affa...Published: 28 Mar 2017 at 05:54hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
Government intervenes in mining violence
Zvishavane-Government has set up a committee that will look into the increasing number of violent clashes, over gold claims in most mining communities, the Minister of Mines and Mining Development Wal...Published: 27 Mar 2017 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff Reporter
It's time up for tired Mugabe
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe is wasting time and resources globe-trotting to attend low-key conferences like the just-ended African Economic Platform held in Mauritius when he is supposed to be spearhe...Published: 25 Mar 2017 at 14:41hrs | 1 | by The Independent
Youth loan beneficiaries skip to SA, govt loses $80,000
THE majority of youths in Tsholotsho who received loans from the Government to start income generating projects skipped the country and headed to South Africa resulting in only $7 000 being repaid...Published: 20 Mar 2017 at 05:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe fumes over biscuits donation
TOP Zanu-PF politicians reportedly donated biscuits and children's snacks to thousands of flood victims in Matabeleland North's Tsholotsho district purporting the goods were coming from President ...Published: 17 Mar 2017 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
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