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Is an underwear a leading economic indicator?
I was unfamiliar with the Men's Underwear Index - the MUI - until I heard it discussed this week on National Public Radio. Perhaps on the Marketplace Morning Report on WAMC. Or some similarly unassail...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 13:42hrs | 2 | by Ralph Gardner Jr.
Supreme Court tosses out ex-St John's College paedophile coach's appeal
THE Supreme Court has thrown out an appeal against conviction and sentence by a paedophile who used to work at St Johns School in Harare who was jailed for sexually abusing four teenage boys who were ...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 16:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cellphone thief dragged out of fowl run hide-out
THERE was drama when a man from Morningside suburb in Bulawayo, who was being pursued by a mob after he allegedly stole a cellphone, was found hiding under a fowl run.This was heard when Innoc...Published: 02 Mar 2024 at 20:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gardener up for indecent assault
A 25-YEAR-OLD Bulawayo man has been placed on remand for indecently assaulting his employers' daughter aged 14.Raynars Zenzo, who is employed as a gardener, was not asked to plead when he appe...Published: 01 Feb 2024 at 04:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean gardener accused of killing SA boss and son refuses legal counsel
THE Zimbabwean man who is being accused of murdering his employer and her nine-year-old son in cold blood in Johannesburg, South Africa last week has refused to get a lawyer.Instead, he has op...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 10:41hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Gardener steals 57 kg gold and forex from ex-employer
A BULAWAYO gardener who had access to his former employer's house in Killarney Suburb allegedly teamed up with a friend to sneak into the house on a number of occasions, where the duo stole about cash...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 20:52hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Student shares bed with giant snake
FEAR gripped students of Novena University, Ogume Delta State, in Nigeria, after a python invaded a female hostel in the school.The python was found early morning on the bed of an unnamed fema...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gardener steals employer's US$70 000
A MAN appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court charged with stealing US$70 000 and R95 000 in cash from his employer.Tatenda Ngirazi (30) appeared before magistrate Yeukai Dzuda, who remanded ...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 05:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Munatsi was killed'
IF he was not immobilised or held against his will, prominent banker and Zimbabwe Investment Development Agency CEO Douglas Munatsi could have escaped the fire that engulfed his luxurious 9th floor pe...Published: 04 Dec 2021 at 18:49hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Munatsi family still to decide on burial
THE family of prominent banker and businessman Mr Douglas Munatsi is yet to decide on burial arrangements.Mr Munatsi died early on Monday morning in a mysterious fire at his Harare apartment w...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 05:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Police keen to question Munatsi's last contact
Police are keen to interview a woman believed to be among the last people to see prominent banker, Mr Douglas Munatsi alive before his death in a mysterious fire at his Harare apartment early Monday m...Published: 01 Dec 2021 at 05:35hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Police probe into death of businessman Douglas Munatsi
MEMORANDUMSUBJECT: SUDDEN DEATH BY FIRE OF DOUGLAS MUNATSI AT NUMBER C9 NORTHFIELDS FLATS, CORNER JOSIAH TONGOGARA AND FIFTH AVENUE, HARAREThis memorandum serves to put on record circu...Published: 30 Nov 2021 at 05:29hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Darikwa's Wigan boost survival hopes
WARRIORS Tendayi Darikwa's struggling league one side Wigan athletic were in inspired form yesterday after they clobbered 4 – 1 Doncaster Rovers away from home to boost their chances of survival as ...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Faith is for low level Christians, to know God is the Apex
No one has ever seen oxygen, and yet, every second, we all breathe in oxygen. A very basic learner, needs to have Faith, as transition to know that oxygen exists. A lower than basic person, does not e...Published: 04 May 2019 at 23:44hrs | | by Ryton Dzimiri
The theory and practice of educational games as a means to promote better education
When educators and parents think about games, they see them as tools of distraction. They instantly imagine kids glued down to their smartphones, paying zero attention to what's going on outside that ...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 11:03hrs | 1 | by William Steward
Walsh premiership side donates to Tsholotsho team
IT'S AN awful long way from Mid Wales to northern Zimbabwe – but now in a small corner of this southern African country there's a village football team with a stronger connection to Powys than most....Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 09:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
S&P blow for Zimbabwe indices
Zimbabwe will be removed from the S&P African Indices on December 24, 2018, S&P Dow Jones Indices announced in a December 14 statement.Citing inflation and foreign currency shortages, ...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 15:05hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Drowned CIO's body retrieved from Ncema dam
GOVERNMENT has commended the Bulawayo Power Boat club for its assistance leading to the retrieval of the body of Brian Umera, a Central Intelligence Officer, a week after he drowned in Lower Ncema Dam...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
PDP Mourns Abisha Nyanguwo
The People's Democratic Party joins the MDC-T, the Nyanguwo family and all the democrats in mourning the untimely passing of Mr Abisha Nyanguwo.Mr Nyanguwo was a veteran trade unionist who dem...Published: 19 Oct 2017 at 12:06hrs | | by Jacob Mafume, PDP Spokesperson
Maid stabs gardner in the heart after rape attempt
A Harare housemaid jailed for stabbing a gardener in the heart after he tried to rape her at a house in Chisipite, has been granted bail pending determination of her appeal against sentence and con- v...Published: 05 Jun 2017 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean-born analyst targeted over South Africa's S&P downgrade
South African politician, Sello Rasethaba, has targeted a Zimbabwean-born Standard and Poor's analyst as the man behind South Africa's sovereign ratings downgrade by S&P Global on Monday....Published: 04 Apr 2017 at 15:38hrs | 3 | by Mary Charamba
Maid stab gardener to death
A 31-YEAR-OLD Chisipite maid appeared at the Harare Magistrates' Court yesterday charged with fatally stabbing her male workmate, which she said was in self-defence.Benhilda Dandajena plea...Published: 09 Feb 2017 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Murder suspect in court
The man accused of killing a Chinhoyi farmer and robbing him of his car, cash and clothes was a fugitive from justice after a conviction for stocktheft a month ago, it has emerged. Kudakwashe ...Published: 28 Jun 2016 at 06:30hrs | | by Walter Nyamukondiwa
Ungrateful man murders 90-year-old farmer
An ungrateful Chinhoyi hitch-hiker and former convict has been arrested in connection with the gruesome murder of a 90-year-old farmer who had offered him a lift last week on Monday evening.Ku...Published: 27 Jun 2016 at 22:09hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Farmer murdered in cold blood
TWO men murdered a 90-year-old farmer who had offered them a lift by crushing his head with a big rock before dumping his body in a bushy area along the Chinhoyi-Baguta Road.The assailants mad...Published: 27 Jun 2016 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Walter Nyamukondiwa
Gardner arrested for killing boss
The KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Task Team has arrested a 67-year-old gardener for the murder of his boss Nadarajan Nayager (65).The arrest happened yesterday following an intensive investigation....Published: 17 Jan 2016 at 12:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Pastor stones police officers
A Heartfelt Ministries International pastor who was part of a gang of MDC supporters who allegedly stoned police officers in the city centre last week was granted bail yesterday.Stephen Kalima...Published: 17 Nov 2015 at 20:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
1 000 families face eviction
The High Court has ordered more than 1 000 families settled around the Aspindale area in Harare to stop housing developments and vacate the site owned by a land developer, Marimba Industrial Prope...Published: 18 Aug 2015 at 09:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Convicted child molester working with children again
School teacher and triathlon coach David Gardner is allegedly still involved in the coaching of young children at another elite boys' school despite having been convicted and sentenced to two years in...Published: 25 Jan 2015 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Prostitute dies soon after sex with gold panner
A suspected prostitute who was allegedly plying her trade at Clairemount in Fort Rixon in Matabeleland South Province reportedly collapsed and died shortly after having a sex session with her cli...Published: 29 Mar 2014 at 14:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Senior Cop dies at girlfriends house
Police in Chinhoyi yesterday said they are investigating a case where a senior police officer, Inspector Gardner Chabvuta, died mysteriously on Sunday shortly after entering his girlfriend's house in ...Published: 05 Feb 2014 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Facebook begins adding warning messages to decapitations and other violence
Facebook has begun adding warning messages to videos on its site showing decapitations and other instances of extreme violence.The alert states: "Warning! This video contains extremely graphi...Published: 22 Oct 2013 at 18:45hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Takudzwa Ngwenya, in Barbarians XI squad
ZIMBABWE-BORN American Eagles winger, Takudzwa Ngwenya, has been named in the starting line-up of the Barbarians rugby side set to take on the British Lions in Hong Kong tomorrow.The Barbaria...Published: 31 May 2013 at 03:52hrs | | by Paul Munyuki
Surgeons remove 22.9cm fork from man's stomach TEN years after he swallowed it
Surgeons in the United Kingdom have removed a 22.9cm fork which was lodged in a man’s stomach for a decade.Lee Gardner, who was vomiting blood and had ...Published: 18 Aug 2012 at 09:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Girl (10) confesses to witchcraft
A 10-year-old ...Published: 29 Jul 2012 at 10:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Sables crowned African rugby champions
AFRICAN rugby has new champions in the form of the Zimbabwe Sables.The Sables steady progress on the international scene finally brought the African title to Zimbabwe after the national rugby ...Published: 16 Jul 2012 at 04:58hrs | 10 | by Sports reporter
Mother 'hooked' 14 yr old daughter on Heroin
Brandi Baumgardner, 38 from Pennsylvania US, allegedly hooked her 14-year-old daughter on drugs, including heroin, and injected her with them hundreds of times when the teen was too sick to do it hers...Published: 16 Jun 2012 at 09:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hookers turn water drains, car parks, roadsides into love nests
HARARE - 30 kilometers from the red lights districts of the Central Business District of Harare lay a sprawling commercial haven for sex workers. Bhobho Farm is an informal settlement w...Published: 09 Apr 2012 at 11:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Garden boy posing as gynae 'examines' women
A gardener has been charged with rape after he apparently pretended to be a gynaecologist and "examined" two heavily-pregnant women.The 30-year-old man from Jagersfontein went to the Diamant H...Published: 29 Sep 2011 at 09:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Sables on a roll, dismiss Kenya in Kenya
Zimbabwe claimed revenge over hosts Kenya when they beat them 26-21 to complete their home and away sweep of the Victoria Cup at the the Nyayo National Stadium Saturday.The Sables didn't displ...Published: 24 Jul 2011 at 07:41hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Zimbabwe Sables ready for Kenya, departs today
THE vastily improved Zimbabwe Sables are confident of maintaining their unbeaten run in the Victoria Cup when they take on Kenya in the final game of the rugby tri-nations tournament in Nairobi on Sa...Published: 21 Jul 2011 at 06:23hrs | | by Moyo Roy
The Mighty Zimbabwe Sables wins again
Zimbabwe (20) 49 - (7) 21 UgandaZimbabwe Sables defeated Uganda in a match at Bulawayo's home of rugby, Hartsfield Grounds yesterday.This is Zimbabwe Sable's t...Published: 03 Jul 2011 at 05:49hrs | | by Mafu Sithabile
Zimbabwe Sables demolish the Lions of Kenya
Zimbabwe (20) 42 - (5) 24 Kenya ZIMBABWE SABLES continue to make the nation proud after humiliating the Lions of Kenya in an entertaining Victoria Cup test encounter in fron...Published: 26 Jun 2011 at 05:39hrs | | by Nare Msupatsila
Zimbabwe heavyweight boxing champion get sponsorship
Zimbabwe heavyweight boxing champion Thamsanqa Dube has finally secured a manager, sponsor and promoter which will see him returning to the ring after being on the sidelines for over a year....Published: 06 Apr 2011 at 09:15hrs | 2 | by Byo24News
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