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Boy (15) rapes five minors
A LOWER GWERU juvenile allegedly raped two sisters and three cousins aged between six and eight years, and ran away when the crimes were discovered.The boy allegedly raped his two sisters aged...Published: 14 hrs ago | 1968 | by Staff reporter
'Everyone can benefit from equitable resource distribution'
ZImBABWe has vast natural resources that if equitably distributed can meet the developmental needs of every citizen, a senior clergyman has said.A Zimbabwe Council of Churches official, bishop...Published: 14 hrs ago | 274 | by Staff reporter
Prophet rapes, impregnates congregant
A SELF-STYLED Gweru prophet (34) has been arrested for allegedly raping and impregnating a female congregant (21) after saying he was conducting a cleansing ceremony as she was having menstrual pains....Published: 22 Sep 2021 at 06:04hrs | 2977 | by Staff reporter
Bikers converge in Victoria Falls
THE Zimfreeriders Motor Cycle Club is set to hold its Victoria Falls Motor Bike Rally starting today and finishing on Sunday.Dubbed The Brave Hearts, this ride will be the longest inland ride ...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 21:54hrs | 1050 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean youths urged register to vote
YOUTHS have been urged to register in large numbers to vote in the 2023 general elections in order to safeguard and advance their interests. This came out during Friday's meeting on voter regi...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:19hrs | 366 | by Staff reporter
Gweru City Council electricity bill doubles
Gweru City Council's electricity monthly bill doubled to $27 million and failure to service it could lead to water shortages, mayor Josiah Makombe has said.Makombe said council owed the power ...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:14hrs | 87 | by Staff reporter
Smelly Dube scoops top award
Gweru businesswoman Smelly Dube scooped the outstanding business leader award at the inaugural Zimbabwe CEOs Network awards ceremony held in Harare last week.The Zimbabwe CEO's Network is an e...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:40hrs | 231 | by Staff reporter
Police hunt for Shurugwi serial armed robber, killer
POLICE in Shurugwi have launched a manhunt for a serial armed robber who is wanted for a spate of robberies and a murder case committed in and around the area.Midlands provincial police spokes...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:26hrs | 341 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PFs provinces endorse President Mnangagwa for 2023
Zanu-PF provinces have endorsed President Mnangagwa as the ruling party's sole presidential candidate for the 2023 harmonised elections, stressing that his desire to uplift the lives of Zimbabweans ha...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:13hrs | 150 | by Staff reporter
Abuse of authority by parliamentary committees
A number of small scale miners and big mining companies have complained about the total fragrant abuse of power and office by the chairman of the Parliamentary mining committee MR Edmund Mukaratigwa w...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 08:44hrs | 827 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe Catholic group gets global appreciation
UNITED KINGDOM-BASED Zimbabwean Catholic musical group recently mesmerised worshippers at a Marian Shrine of Walsingham labelled "England's Nazareth" that dates from the 11th century.The group...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:06hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa expels 14 more councillors
Fourteen Gweru urban and Vungu Rural District MDC Alliance councillors have been expelled from the party after they attended a meeting called by a rival faction led by Mr Douglas Mwonzora. Acc...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:04hrs | 374 | by Staff reporter
Bosso players undergo pre-training Covid-19 testing
LONG-SERVING Highlanders' goalkeeper Ariel Sibanda and midfielder Nqobizitha Masuku were among players that underwent Covid-19 tests yesterday in preparation for resumption of training. Bosso ...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:03hrs | 128 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC says it's no longer in charge of urban councils
THE MDC Alliance has admitted the opposition party, once in charge of all urban local councils, was no longer in control of the municipalities following the controversial recalling of most of its coun...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 19:42hrs | 347 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa fires councillors
The MDC faction led by Mr Nelson Chamisa has fired 10 Gweru urban and four councillors from Vungu Rural District Council after they recently attended a meeting which was called by MDC-T leader Mr Doug...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 05:52hrs | 839 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions won't hold us back, says Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said the alleged economic sanctions imposed on the country by Western countries should no longer continue to hinder government's economic turnaround plans.Spea...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:48hrs | 336 | by Staff reporter
Gweru defaulters face water cuts
Gweru City Council will from Monday start the process of disconnecting water to defaulting ratepayers.In a statement yesterday, the local authority said it could only offer adequate services i...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:45hrs | 71 | by Staff reporter
Female pilot makes history
For the first time in the Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) history, the Sword of Honour, an award for exceptional performance in flying training was yesterday presented to a female officer graduate Air Lie...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:11hrs | 363 | by Staff reporter
Zacc persues properties in Isle of Man
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has instituted legal processes to seize properties valued at US$6,5 million (ZW$75 581 395) owned by Zimbabweans in the Isle of Man.The Isle of M...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:38hrs | 2864 | by Staff reporter
Smelly Dube rehabilitates roads
A GWERU land developer, River Valley Properties, is complementing council efforts in the rehabilitation of roads and drainage in a bid to minimise the effects of flash floods that usually hit the city...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:22hrs | 623 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwewide construction, upgrade of bus terminuses
Shelters at bus terminuses countrywide will be repaired, replaced or installed before the next rains as part of a Government programme to upgrade urban public transport President Mnangagwa announced y...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:16hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
Gweru councillors in trouble for attending Mwonzora meeting
AT least 11 Gweru urban and four Vungu Rural District MDC Alliance councillors who last week attended a meeting chaired by MDC-T secretary for local government Faith Musarurwa Kamutsungira have expell...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 06:17hrs | 2304 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa in trouble
A FACTION of the MDC led by Mr Douglas Mwonzora says it will take legal action against Mr Nelson Chamisa if he clings on to the name MDC-Alliance. It is understood that Mr Mwonzora, who is the country...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 06:09hrs | 6239 | by Staff reporter
Unpaid bills delay construction of Gweru fire sub-stations
GWERU City Council has said defaulting residents have delayed plans to raise $5 million required to kick-start the construction of two fire sub-stations in Mkoba and Senga suburbs.Speaking at ...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 06:15hrs | 107 | by Staff reporter
War in Mnangagwa's back yard, daggers drown in war for positions!
Political tension has risen in the Midlands Province as ZANU PF structures are gearing towards restructuring of all organs of the party up the provincial echelon.Reliable information emanating...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 22:01hrs | 4417 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chamisa's MDC probes mass defections
THE MDC Alliance says it is investigating the defection of 11 of its Gweru councillors to the rival MDC-T last week.Media reports indicated that at least 11 Gweru Urban and four Vungu Rural Di...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 18:28hrs | 2588 | by Staff reporter
More buses to boost ZUPCO fleet
GOVERNMENT is moving with speed to comprehensively address challenges in urban transportation through procuring hundreds of large volume buses, with the country set to take delivery of a consignment o...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 06:49hrs | 206 | by Staff writer
Chamisa's 11 councillors defect to Mwonzora's MDC-T
AT least 11 Gweru Urban and four Vungu Rural District MDC Alliance councillors have defected to the MDC-T party led by Douglas Mwonzora, Southern Eye reported.The councillors who left the Nels...Published: 04 Sep 2021 at 19:48hrs | 1656 | by Staff reporter
Gweru council in drainage clean-up
Gweru City Council has embarked on a storm drain clearance exercise ahead of the rainy season in a bid to reduce the effects of flash floods that usually hit the Midlands capital during the rainy seas...Published: 02 Sep 2021 at 06:21hrs | 372 | by Staff reporter
10 protesting teachers arrested
TEN teachers were arrested yesterday in Wedza, Mashonaland East province, for protesting against non-payment of salaries by government.Their lawyer Gift Mtisi of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 06:34hrs | 2020 | by Staff reporter
Clothes thief beaten to death
A MAN has been arrested for beating up a man to death after accusing him of stealing his clothes. Police in their twitter page confirmed the incident which occurred in Gweru on August 25. "Pol...Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 19:34hrs | 614 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's chopper in hair-raising emergency landing
IN a hair-raising incident which might leave heads rolling at the Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ), President Emmerson Mnangagwa's presidential helicopter was dramatically forced into an emergency landing ...Published: 28 Aug 2021 at 21:31hrs | 9243 | by Staff reporter
MDC mayor moves into mansion
GWERU residents this week came out guns blazing against mayor Josiah Makombe who moved into the mayoral mansion (pictured top) despite his suggestion in past years that the white elephant built in the...Published: 28 Aug 2021 at 21:29hrs | 1447 | by Staff reporter
Man swindles church mate of US$43 000
A HARARE man appeared in court on allegations of fraud after he allegedly defrauded a Gweru businessman of US$43 000 in a fuel deal.Tapiwa Joy Vengai (30) appeared before magistrate Dennis Man...Published: 26 Aug 2021 at 06:36hrs | 822 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC raps Mwonzora 'sellouts'
THE MDC Alliance has accused legislators who became MPs on its ticket and dumped the party for the MDC-T led by Douglas Mwonzora in order to retain their positions of being sellouts who sacrificed the...Published: 24 Aug 2021 at 06:37hrs | 3205 | by Staff reporter
Sandra Ndebele appointed representative for young women in Economic Development by Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF women's league in Bulawayo has appointed Sandra Ndebele as the Bulawayo representative for young women in Economic Development.Ndebele in 2018 endorsed Zanu-PF and its presidential can...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 15:54hrs | 2780 | by Staff reporter
Chunga decries white players' absence
Local football legend Moses Chunga believes the country is missing out on a lot of untapped talent, especially in private schools and former Group A learning institutions.Chunga, who is also f...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 07:49hrs | 719 | by Staff reporter
US$1 billion steel plant ready for take off
SEVERAL arms of Government in the Midlands Province say they are ready to smoothen the way for the birth of the US$1 billion Mvuma steel plant expected to be commissioned next year.Set to be A...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 07:48hrs | 534 | by Staff reporter
MP in sanitary pads project
CHIRUMANZU legislator Barbara Rwodzi (Zanu-PF) has introduced a sanitary wear manufacturing project in her constituency to benefit poor girls and women.Rwodzi told NewsDay that the constituenc...Published: 17 Aug 2021 at 07:22hrs | 286 | by Staff reporter
Zacc arrests raise eyebrows
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is in the eye of a storm after it summoned four Midlands provincial government officials over charges that are already before the courts. The case has no...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 09:03hrs | 930 | by Staff reporter
Bosso snubbed at Maphepha burial?
FORMER Highlanders' manager and chairman Ernest "Maphepha" Sibanda was yesterday laid to rest at Lady Stanley Cemetery with the Bulawayo giants' leadership sidelined at the main service held earlier a...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 08:56hrs | 848 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe liberation icons deserve a political leadership worthy of their sacrifice
I was quite young a grade two, eight year old boy, in 1981 when the ZANU choir, led by the late Comrade Chinx (Dickson Chingaira), came to sing at Torwood Hall (Redcliff), whereby they stayed at our h...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 06:44hrs | 182 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Fourwinds armed robbers appear in court
Three of six suspected armed robbers who were involved in a shootout with the police Saturday morning in Bulawayo's Fourwinds suburb have appeared in court charged with armed robbery.The suspe...Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 06:40hrs | 1196 | by Staff reporter
Shootout armed robber dies at UBH
A THIRD armed robber has died in hospital following a shootout with police on Saturday morning in Fourwinds Suburb in Bulawayo, it emerged in court yesterday. Two of them were shot dead while ...Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 06:38hrs | 1289 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF mourns heroine Jane Ngwenya
Zanu-PF has described the late veteran nationalist, Jane Ngwenya as an astute and unflinching revolutionary who played an integral role in the liberation of the country. Ngwenya, who is ...Published: 09 Aug 2021 at 07:31hrs | 87 | by Staff writer
How MDC-T lost a safe constituency
One of the most sensational stories of the 2013 harmonised elections the MDC-T primary election fraud at Mutungagore never saw the light of day in Zimbabwe's media.Zanu-PF secured victory as a...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:37hrs | 661 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
ZACC aiming for 99% convictions
FIRSTLY, I want to say that as ZACC we recognise the importance of meeting shareholder expectations. ZACC is wholly funded by Treasury and is, therefore, expected to account for the monies that it has...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:18hrs | 217 | by Staff reporter
Boy dies in cart accident
A LOWER Gweru juvenile on Monday died on the spot after an ox-drawn cart he was in hit a tree stump and overturned hitting him on the head.Midlands provincial police spokesperson, Inspector Em...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 07:06hrs | 400 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to register virtual schools
THE Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education is working on mechanisms to register virtual schools as a means of complementing online classes being held as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. ...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 07:04hrs | 393 | by Staff reporter
Harare the most corrupt province in Zimbabwe, says ZACC
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption commission (ZACC) says Harare is the most corrupt province in the country, with an astounding 93,2% of the total cases received in 2020.In its progress report for ...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 07:38hrs | 152 | by Staff reporter
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