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Jonathan Moyo doesn't need Nelson Chamisa
Two days after former President Robert Mugabe fired Professor Jonathan Moyo, I received a meeting request from the former information and publicity minister. It was a crazy, unpredictable time....Published: 21 hrs ago | 4804 | by Tafi Mhaka
Zanu-PF councillor in soup over alliance with opposition
ZANU-PF leadership in Chikomba District wants council chairman Isarel Dhikinya stripped of his post for working closely with MDC Alliance councillors, which the leadership says was not in line with pa...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 14:29hrs | 1817 | by Staff reporter
Sex-starved teacher bashes wife
ASSAULTING his wife for denying him conjugal rights earned a Buhera teacher three months imprisonment.On Wednesday last week, Charles Kufakwatenzi (52) appeared before Chipinge magistrate Mr P...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 08:52hrs | 1504 | by Staff reporter
Unfolding challenges of Muteswa's domestic abuse: Trials & tribulations of single women in Zimbabwe and the law of Karma!
What Chantelle Muteswa is currently going through and the amount of emotional challenges and humiliations she must cope with is just unimaginable by common sense. In her case, common sense is no longe...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 20:50hrs | 1616 | by Nomazulu Thata
BCC clinics overwhelmed as hospitals' OPDs close
BULAWAYO City Council clinics are overwhelmed with patients after the city's central hospitals closed their Out Patients Departments (OPDs) and started attending to emergency cases only. ...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:25hrs | 167 | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus to push Zimbabwe to the brink?
With Zimbabwe's health-care sector crippled by a strike by doctors and nurses, underfunding and years of general neglect, fears are growing that Covid-19 will hit the troubled country very hard....Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:20hrs | 237 | by Financial Mail
Kariba power generation remains constrained
ELECTRICITY generation at Kariba Hydropower Station remains constrained despite the dam level rising by 97 centimetres between January and March this year, data from the Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) ...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 07:27hrs | 502 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 scare at Zimbabwe Police Station
OFFICERS at Bulawayo Central Police Station pressed the panic button when a local returning from South Africa, who is also a fraud suspect, started coughing uncontrollably in the holding cells leading...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 07:24hrs | 604 | by Staff reporter
Eskom confirms that Zimbabwe has paid off all its debts
Eskom spokesperson Sikonathi Mantshantsha confirmed that Zimbabwe has paid off all its debts. He said Zimbabwe had settled its historical obligations. "Eskom can confirm th...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 13:58hrs | 1464 | by Staff reporter
High lockdown compliance on Day-One
THE majority of Zimbabweans yesterday complied with the Government's lockdown directive as most of them stayed at home while a few visited shopping centres to buy essential goods.President Mna...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 07:54hrs | 201 | by Staff reporter
Amacimbi harvester killed by elephant
A woman (58) from Lukange community in Beitbridge East was trampled to death by an elephant while two other villagers watched helplessly on Saturday morning. Elisa Chivalaula died while harves...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:14hrs | 746 | by Staff reporter
Hive of activity as residents do last-minute shopping
THERE was a hive of activity in Bulawayo and Gweru yesterday as hundreds of people made last-minute shopping to beat the Government 21-day lockdown to flatten the coronavirus curve. President ...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:12hrs | 254 | by Staff reporter
Shebeens boom after bars closure
People huddled in groups, chatting and drinking without loud music are scenes that characterised shebeens in the high-density areas of Bulawayo last weekend. Following the ban on public gather...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:09hrs | 363 | by Staff reporter
Strict new curbs on life begin countrywide
AHEAD of the 21-day lockdown starting today to contain the spread of Covid-19, thousands of people yesterday thronged Mbare Musika bus rank in Harare and many other pick-up points seeking transport to...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 07:49hrs | 269 | by Staff reporter
Government-led lockdown not enough for Zimbabwe’s fight against Coronavirus
It took a while for the Zimbabwean government to meaningfully respond to the Covid19 pandemic, better late than never.Now that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has decreed that there shall be a 21...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 10:36hrs | 810 | by Edzai Zvobwo
Bulawayo braces for Covid 19
I love walking the streets of my hometown, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Every street, edifice and alley way holds many memories for me. Memories of happier times, when our now old and frail parents...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 08:56hrs | 436 | by Terence Msuku
Fear as HIV, coronavirus collide
AS the world scales up public health and all other kinds of responses to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, the fear is palpable.Stores have sold out obvious items like hand sanitisers and f...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:28hrs | 552 | by Shamiso Yikoniko
Zimbabwe's problems keep piling - from starvation to coronavirus
THE COVID-19 outbreak is expected to worsen Zimbabwe's problems as the southern African country grapples with a tanking economy, the worst food shortages in decades and a collapsing health system, obs...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:25hrs | 149 | by Staff reporter
Scores throng Beitbridge border ahead of lockdown
SOUTH AFRICA failed to close its border at midnight on Thursday as droves of Zimbabweans resident in that country thronged the Beitbridge border post to return home involuntarily.Thousands of ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:44hrs | 2581 | by Staff reporter
Eddie Chivero sucked into match-fixing scandal?
HERENTALS FC have reason to smile after the Premier Soccer League (PSL) disciplinary committee acquitted them of match-fixing allegations levelled by Bulawayo Chiefs. The scandal had sucked in...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:39hrs | 360 | by Staff reporter
South Africa, Zimbabwe clear travellers
Zimbabwean and South African immigration authorities yesterday worked round the clock to clear the final batch of travellers entering the country through Beitbridge Border Post. Human traffic ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:34hrs | 594 | by Staff reporter
Man jumps 10 floors to his death
A 29-YEAR-OLD man allegedly committed suicide by jumping from the 10th floor building in Harare's Central Business District (CBD), the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) confirmed yesterday.Police...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 15:41hrs | 3799 | by Staff reporter
Business as usual as Covid wreaks havoc
Hundreds of thousands of people in the five southern provinces of Zimbabwe continue to do business as usual including gathering in overcrowded places, selling food in the streets, hugging and clubbing...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 12:26hrs | 1389 | by Staff reporter
Overlook Chivayo's criminal record, Undenge ordered ZPC
Former Energy minister Samuel Undenge reportedly ordered the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) management to overlook Intratrek boss Wicknell Chivayo's criminal record and award him the US$183 million Gwan...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 07:52hrs | 1515 | by Staff reporter
Woman bashes taxi tycoon hubby over 'relative lover'
WHILE many men can get away with telling lies to their spouses, that was not so for a Bulawayo businessman who had his entire world apparently turned upside down after his wife discovered that the wom...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:26hrs | 723 | by Staff reporter
Council refutes negligence over COVID-19 fatality
The Harare City Council (HCC) has refuted allegations from the Makamba family which insinuate that Zororo Makamba, the first casualty of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic in Zimbabwe died due to lac...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 18:24hrs | 755 | by Daniel Itai
Mnangagwa called to shut down Zimbabwe for 14 days
THE Zimbabwe Medical Association (Zima) has called for a 14-day lockdown and self-isolation for individuals with a compromised immune system to mitigate the effects of Covid-19.Zima secretary-...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 15:19hrs | 7752 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa approved Chivayo's Gwanda solar project
THE final forensic audit report on Zesa Holdings (2019) by PricewaterouseCoopers has revealed that former Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa approved the proposal to award Wicknell Chivayo's Intratrek...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 08:41hrs | 1426 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa is sucked into multi-million Zisco assets stripping
A fresh probe has revealed that the government facilitated a shady US$225 million deal meant to strip the comatose Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (Zisco) of its critical assets.The investigat...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:41hrs | 1073 | by Everson Mushava
Government awaits technical report on Gwanda solar project
THE Government is awaiting a technical report from Zesa Holdings to make a decision on the way forward with regards to the commencement of work at the proposed 100-megawatt Gwanda Solar Farm project i...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:30hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Makandiwa foretold coronavirus in 2015
A series of prophecies made by United Family International Church (UFIC) leader Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa about the deadly coronavirus have shaken the faith world in the wake of an outbreak of the pa...Published: 22 Mar 2020 at 10:25hrs | 6733 | by Staff Reporter
HIV positive man jailed for rapping niece (15)
A 28-YEAR-OLD Mvurwi man was sentenced to 5 years for bedding his nephew several times purporting that he was curing his HIV status by having sex with the...Published: 22 Mar 2020 at 06:56hrs | 2103 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Zanu-PF councilor rapes mentally-challenged woman
A sadistic appetite for sex has landed a Zanu-PF Chipinge Rural Ward 13 councilor in the dock after he was slapped with a 15 years jail sentence for raping a mentally challenged woman.David Ch...Published: 21 Mar 2020 at 06:19hrs | 535 | by Staff reporter
Maringwa wanted to play for Bosso
Former Dynamos captain Desmond "Gazza" Maringwa wanted to play for Highlanders but felt he was not going to be accepted at the Bulawayo giants because of the rivalry between the two giants. He was als...Published: 21 Mar 2020 at 05:48hrs | 1068 | by Staff reporter
Police to enforce Mnangagwa decree
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) says it will ensure President Emmerson Mnangagwa's decree banning gatherings of more than 100 people is religiously followed by "conducting patrols, surveillance and...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 20:52hrs | 2351 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF councillor jailed
A ZANU-PF councillor for ward 13 in Chipinge will spend the next 12 years in jail for raping a mentally-challenged patient, who cannot be named for ethical reasons, on three different occasions after ...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 20:40hrs | 286 | by Staff reporter
Government urges Zimbabweans to stop sleeping with prostitutes
Deputy Government Spokesperson Energy Mutodi has urged Zimbabweans to stop soliciting for services from prostitutes due to the global outbreak of coronavirus. Speaking after the launch of the ...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 10:08hrs | 4842 | by Mandla Ndlovu
We are fine with our culture and traditions!
Miriam Majome: Barely 36 hours of writing about medieval traditions and cultural "beliefs" in our communities, we read today once more in Bulawayo24 about a classic case of the power of Sangomas and c...Published: 18 Mar 2020 at 16:26hrs | 1254 | by Nomazulu Thata
New measures to regulate amacimbi harvesting on cards
Bulilima District in the southern part of the country is taking practical steps to control the harvesting of amacimbi (imbrassia belina), a delicacy which is facing a high risk of extinction in the wi...Published: 18 Mar 2020 at 06:33hrs | 426 | by Staff reporter
Cop's wife produces panties to prove rape by hubby
An allegedly abused Mvuma woman had to produce her torn panties in court to prove that her husband, a Police officer at Chivhu was in the habit of raping her.Agfa Madhume (33) who is married t...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 13:23hrs | 1600 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's health problems resurface
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga was airlifted to China on Sunday after his health deteriorated.The 63-year-old disappeared from the public eye more than two weeks ago – missing three off...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 13:11hrs | 4202 | by Staff reporter
Molested, caressed and disembowelled by the 5th Brigade!
It all went wrong at the birthing of Zimbabwe, or just before. It is exactly what happens when a cow encounters dystocia during parturition. The calf refuses to come out properly by arrogantly facing ...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 09:19hrs | 2023 | by Nhlanhla Moses
BREAKING: Chiwenga airlifted to China
Ailing VP Constantino Chiwenga was in fact airlifted to China Sunday, as health woes continue to dog the powerful former military commander. This comes after Chiwenga was reported to not feeli...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 06:49hrs | 18804 | by Staff reporter
Villagers bemoan partisan distribution of food
VILLAGERS in Chikomba district in Chivhu have bemoaned partisan distribution of food aid and agricultural inputs, accusing Zanu-PF officials of hijacking government programmes to deny opposition suppo...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 06:42hrs | 212 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga forced to abandon state duties
LINGERING health concerns forced Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, pictured, to abandon his State duties last week, compelling his doctors to order him to rest at home, the Daily News can reveal....Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 17:32hrs | 5796 | by Staff reporter
Health concerns retard Chiwenga
LINGERING health concerns forced Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, pictured, to abandon his State duties last week, compelling his doctors to order him to rest at home, the Daily News can reveal....Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 07:08hrs | 26636 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's maternal deaths decline
MATERNAL deaths in Zimbabwe have decreased from 614 per 100 000 live births to 462 since 2014, a new survey has revealed.According to a multiple cluster survey (MICS) conducted by the Zimbabwe...Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 06:59hrs | 99 | by Staff reporter
Treacherous Harare-Beitbridge highway
A HAULAGE truck hobnobs, huffs and puffs, swerves and suddenly drops its speed to an uncharacteristic crawl. Several other vehicles behind it screech to near halt and one-by-one, they weave past dotte...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 20:42hrs | 3336 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's defence minister claims coronavirus God's revenge for sanctions
Zimbabwe's defence minister has sparked outrage after claiming that the new coronavirus is God's punishment on countries that imposed sanctions on the southern African country.Oppah Muchinguri...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 09:26hrs | 1583 | by Staff reporter
81 people under Covid-19 watch in Bulawayo
EIGHTY-ONE people who arrived in Bulawayo through the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport recently have been placed under surveillance for Covid-19, a Cabinet Minister has said.Health a...Published: 14 Mar 2020 at 08:09hrs | 8052 | by Staff Reporter
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