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The power crisis farce: Unpacking Mnangagwa's broken promise to Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's power crisis has been a perennial problem, plaguing the country for decades.In August 2023, President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa proudly declared that the commissioning of the new ...Published: 08 Oct 2024 at 17:30hrs | 514 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
US$40,000 fraud trial continues
The trial of Harare businessman Michael Smith, accused of defrauding MA Auto Suppliers (trading as Mr Cruiser) of over US$38,000 and R124,000, continued with the State presenting three more witnesses....Published: 16 Aug 2024 at 08:11hrs | 120 | by Staff reporter
Man assaults nephew, locks him in freezer
A-28-YEAR-OLD Nyamandlovu man who allegedly assaulted his four-year-old nephew before locking him up in a freezer appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Maxwell Ncube facing assault charges.The a...Published: 17 Feb 2024 at 17:57hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man accused of murdering SA girlfriend and hiding body in freezer
A shocking and gruesome discovery in the Samora Machel community of Philippi, Cape Town, has led to the arrest of a Zimbabwean national, Brian Miripiri, who stands accused of murdering his 56-year-old...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police brutality victim's family demands 'supernatural' justice
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has been accused of covering up its officers' attack on a handcuffed suspect, who later died in holding cells at Banket Police Station, last month.The now de...Published: 14 Nov 2023 at 05:07hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Refrigerator features to look out for in 2023
Buying a refrigerator might seem like an easy task, but in reality, it needs a lot of planning and consideration. It is a significant expense and you do not want to end up with an ...Published: 12 May 2023 at 14:56hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
More misery for MA Auto Spares director Michael Smith
HARARE - A Harare-based motor spare company, MA Auto Spares director Michael Smith previously charged with six counts of fraud was back in court on Wednesday facing 10 more counts.Smith is now...Published: 27 Apr 2023 at 13:18hrs | 2 | by Paul Ndou
Fort Rixon cattle carnage: Ward records 262 deaths in 1 month
A 65-year-old Fort Rixon widow has so far lost more than 50 cattle as the dreaded theileriosis, commonly known as January disease, has ravaged through the area leaving peasants and small scale farmers...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 08:12hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
2 arrested for stealing church assets
TWO Bulawayo men have been arrested for allegedly stealing assets at a church.In a statement yesterday, police confirmed the arrest of Collet Nyati (50) and Moses Ncube (58) after they receive...Published: 28 Dec 2022 at 21:00hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa son-in-law linked to attempt to seize CSC cold chain facility
Cold Storage Company (CSC) management in Harare is battling to ward off attempts by a close friend of President Mnangagwa's son-in-law Gerald Mlotshwa to seize control of a refurbished cold-chain faci...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 06:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
The makings of Kuda Tagwirei
Businessman and serial investor Mr Kuda Tagwirei had endured an energy-sapping and disappointing 12-hour wait to refuel his car at a local service station sometime in 2003 when he had a moment of epip...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 08:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tagwirei's humble beginnings
ONE of Zimbabwe's most astute businessmen and Sakunda Holdings chief executive officer, Mr Kudakwashe Tagwirei, has given rare insights into how he started his flourishing business empire, revealing h...Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 09:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
5 armed robbers nabbed
A gang of five robbers raiding Masvingo, Beitbridge and surrounding areas since July has been rounded up and arrested as the hunt is on for the other three members of the gang.Charles Chekenye...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 19:38hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Thieves plunge Byo suburbs into darkness
BULAWAYO has been hit by a series of power outages with several suburbs going for weeks without electricity as organised copper theft syndicates continue to strike in the city. The Zimbabwe El...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Injiva robber killed, two injured in heist gone wrong
A suspected armed robber was killed with two others injured while trying to flee when a gang of six armed men believed to have travelled all the way from South Africa were involved in a dramatic early...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
How safe are Covid19 Vaccines?
I first heard of it in January 2020 that there was a viral disease which was killing people in China. I didn't take it seriously . I thought it was going to be a Chinese disease which was going ...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 19:57hrs | 1 | by Etiwel Mutero
How safe are Covid-19 Vaccines?
I first heard of it in January 2020 that there was a viral disease which was killing people in China. I didn't take it seriously . I thought it was going to be a Chinese disease which was going ...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 22:54hrs | 1 | by Etiwel Mutero
8 robbers pounce on ex-minister Made
THE eight suspected robbers who pounced on former Agriculture minister Joseph Made's farm before stealing an assortment of goods worth thousands of dollars appeared before Marondera magistrate Patienc...Published: 28 Apr 2021 at 06:19hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans move into SA's deadly power's stations and make them home
Foreign nationals have made their homes in ageing City Power substations, despite the danger they pose.The power utility company has over 18 000 transformer chambers across the City of Joburg,...Published: 17 Dec 2020 at 17:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man locks 'cheating' wife in deep freezer
A KWEKWE man got himself into trouble after he forced his wife into a deep freezer filled with water before locking it for some time as punishment for allegedly cheating on him.Lyton Kanda of ...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 18:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Power outages affect medical drugs storage
Many Zimbabweans who are on self-administered medical drugs requiring refrigerated storage are going through a torrid time as crippling power outages continue unabated.Drugs that require stora...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Solar energy is forever
Working for yesteryears PTC was everyone's aspiration and great wish. The entity was in comfort zone, it considered postage stamp sales its cash cow and permanent source of huge revenues till 'boys ca...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 20:56hrs | 1 | by Thomas Murisa
Joshua Nkomo's love letter to MaFuyana
BEFORE WhatsApp, Facebook posts and text messages, there were hand-written love letters and apparently of all the intriguing love stories in the heat of the liberation struggle nothing is much sweeter...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 23:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
PM May resigns over Brexit and sheds a tear – ED Pfee will shed buckets of crocodile tears but never ever resign
"Brexit means Brexit!" said British Prime Minister Theresa May when she took over from David Cameron in 2016. After three years of blundering from pillar to post, she has failed to deliver Brexit and ...Published: 24 May 2019 at 21:23hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Cyclone Idai hits Manicaland business
THE devastating Cyclone Idai has affected Manicaland's agro-based industry thereby reducing exports, while players in the small to medium enterprises sector were either forced to close shop or downsca...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 23:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's ex-deputy minister's house auctioned off
Former Health and Child Care deputy minister Edwin Muguti is set to lose his house over rental arrears owed to Joyce Mako-Mashaninga.Last year, the court handed a default judgment after Muguti...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 13:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt to ban fridges, stoves, radios, TVs?
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) is set to impose a ban on the use of energy-guzzling appliances, a move that could leave many families without their most treasured household electrical...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe stews in legal bills
FOR over 37 years, former president Robert Mugabe had remained untouchable as many citizens suffered in silence at the hands of the autocratic leader. But when his rule came to a dramatic end nearly t...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 13:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's minister to lose property
Former Health deputy minister Edwin Muguti has once again drawn the High Court whip as he is set to lose property in a case between him and African Century Limited.In a notice published yester...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 10:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's costly lie
The biggest lie last week was that the violence in urban areas were protests over fuel prices in particular and living costs in general, when in fact the protests were enforced by a small bullying min...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
30 cops injured during riots
AT least 30 police officers were attacked, while some female cops were reportedly indecently assaulted during the recent violent demonstrations in Bulawayo last week.Some of the officers were ...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:19hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Police recover looted goods, culprits in court
POLICE in Bulawayo recovered property and groceries worth thousands of dollars in Entumbane suburb that were looted by violent demonstrators. The recovered goods include stoves, refrigerators,...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police launch 'Operation produce reciept' in Bulawayo
Members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police in Bulawayo have launched a door to door operation searching for looted goods and asking the owners to produce receipts for the goods failure which they confisc...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 10:54hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's re-engagement efforts with Western countries is dead
Zimbabwe is now entering unchartered waters following several deaths of innocent people and arrests of pro-democracy activists and senior opposition figures by security agents in the on-going clampdow...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 18:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo loses property worth millions to violent protests
BUSINESSES in Bulawayo lost goods and property worth millions of dollars after violent protestors went on a looting spree and in some cases torched the buildings after looting. Supermarkets, s...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 00:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimra puts cap on imported goods
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has set the maximum quantities of good cross-border travellers can import for personal use that can be covered under the traveller's rebate.Travellers re...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 11:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police ordered to pay $150,000 to Jestina Mukoko
A court in Zimbabwe has ruled that the state should pay pro-democracy activist Jestina Mukoko $150,000 (£115,000) for her torture and illegal detention in 2008.She was abducted, along with ot...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 17:35hrs | | by BBC
Zimbabwe, yet another opportunity gone begging? Possibly?
November, 2018, another heart stopping moment for Zimbabwe. Could that be the long awaited moment? Many wondered. The long dreamed about dawn when the nation would rediscover its soul? Hadn't the nati...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 06:51hrs | | by Dr Ralph Mguni
Chatunga's butchery business collapses
Former president Robert Mugabe's son, Chatunga Bellarmine, is set to lose property after failing to pay rentals for his butchery in Chitungwiza.A writ of execution has since been issued for th...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 15:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Poultry import permits remain frozen - Shiri
GOVERNMENT is not issuing any permits for importation of chickens, Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement Minister, Perrance Shiri, has said."Permits are issued under my signature and so fa...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 07:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Listeria now affecting us'
Since its inception in January 2017 listeria has relatively taken the lives of more than 180 people including children and babies in South Africa. The disease is mainly contracted through sausages, ba...Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 10:54hrs | | by Daniel Itai
Wife slayer died a bitter man, left 5-paged suicide note
Elisha Murimba (54), who sliced open his wife's throat in a blood-curdling murder and later committed suicide, died a bitter man and laid a host of allegations against Mrs Victoria Murimba.The...Published: 23 Sep 2017 at 09:18hrs | 13 | by Staff Reporter
Webster Shamu's safari property faces the hammer
SAFARI company, HHK Safaris, reportedly co-owned by former Zanu-PF political commissar Webster Shamu and millionaire Charles Davy, will have its properties, which include vehicles, fridges, animal ski...Published: 23 Aug 2017 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe defies death hoaxes, prophecies
"Robert Mugabe's biological clock will not tick beyond this year". Those were the infamous utterances of Malawian prophet Austin Liabunya in 2015.The controversial prophet joined a band of...Published: 21 Jan 2017 at 11:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Couple in court for theft from businessman
A COUPLE from Cowdray Park suburb in Bulawayo has been arrested for stealing property worth $1 472 from a city businessman.Khumbulani Moyo (44) and his wife Eunice Munsaka (28) are said to...Published: 13 Jan 2017 at 05:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dynamos property to be auctioned
Property belonging to Dynamos and a number of their officials will be auctioned today in the capital to recover a $250 000 debt owed to CBZ Bank Limited.According to a notice published in ...Published: 03 Nov 2016 at 13:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru - Tsvangirai: When a widow decides to go out on a binge with a long-time lover
Ice cubes in the freezer can never change the weather in the kitchen, I keep telling people. In politics, anything goes, more so for people who delight in pelting opponents. It is downright foolish to...Published: 20 Aug 2016 at 09:37hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Donkeys stolen and slaughtered for medicine
FOR months donkeys kept disappearing in Mmakau Village, North West....Published: 19 Jul 2016 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa saves collapsed Samsung deal
KOREA-based telecommunications manufacturing giant Samsung's deal to set up a television and refrigeration assembly plant in Zimbabwe nearly collapsed due to corruption and bureaucratic bungling in go...Published: 07 Jul 2016 at 10:35hrs | 1 | by Business Reporter
A Life Changing Motivational Lesson I Learnt From A Security Guard
A lady worked at a meat distribution factory. One day when she was done with her work schedule she went into the meat cold room (Freezer) to inspect something. But in a moment of misfortune, the door ...Published: 27 Jun 2016 at 22:36hrs | 2 | by Mthokozisi Gwizi
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