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3 die as truck ploughs into pedestrians
Three pedestrians died on the spot while a truck driver and two passengers were injured when a truck veered off the road and ploughed into four people.The incident occurred in Mutare on 14 Jul...Published: 15 Jul 2023 at 17:08hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF members caught pants down removing CCC posters in Dangamvura Chikanga Constituency
Zanu pf members in Chikanga Dangamvura were caught red handed removing Citizens Coalition for Change by election campaigning posters last week. ...Published: 17 Feb 2022 at 12:48hrs | 9 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Mutare begins door-to-door Covid-19 vaccination
Mutare City Council on Monday started rolling out a massive door-to-door Covid 19 vaccination programme in a bid to increase herd immunity and fight the pandemic.The programme, which is target...Published: 17 Feb 2022 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF candidates hijacks Council-ZINARA project
The Ministry has started the construction of Destiny road to Hob House tarred road.The construction of Hob House road was initiat...Published: 22 Sep 2021 at 06:25hrs | | by Fanuel Chinowaita
5 die in horror crash
Five people died on the spot while 10 others were injured after a Nissan Caravan carrying 22 passengers veered off the road, overturned and landed on its roof near the 97km peg along the Mutare-Masvin...Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Recalled MDC A MP help with harvest - lest forget, after 21 years MDC yet to implement one reform
There is no limit to the antics Zimbabwe's fallen corrupt and incompetent leaders will go to impress in a vain hope to be re-elected and secure the converted gravy train seat. They conveniently overlo...Published: 26 Apr 2021 at 17:59hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Recalled MDC Alliance MP helps harvest party member's field
Recalled MDC Alliance Chikanga Dangamvura Member of Parliament Prosper Mutseyami, Ward 17 Councillor John Nyamhoka and other party members harvest Beauty ...Published: 26 Apr 2021 at 06:41hrs | | by Fanuel Chinowaita
ZINARA diverts road fund from Mutare City Council to Government
Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (ZINARA) diverted road fund which was supposed to go to Mutare City Council and gave it to the Government Road department.This was after an order fom Zan...Published: 19 Apr 2021 at 08:05hrs | | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Open letter to the Minister of Defence Cde Oppah Muchinguri Kashiri
Dear Mom,I know you are still in grief after losing Manicaland Resident Minister Dr Ellen Gwaradzimba and other close comrades like Nyikayaramba, Shiri, Zimhondi, Sibusiso Moyo among others to...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 17:19hrs | | by Fanuel Chinowaita
2 Mutare men in court for assaulting cops
TWO Mutare men have appeared in court for assaulting two members of the police neighbourhood watch committee, who wanted to arrest them for not wearing face masks.Stanley Chifamata and Aaron S...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 15:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
3m python torments family
BUSINESS was recently brought to a halt in Mutare's Hobhouse high-density suburb after a self-styled prophet fished out a three-metre python, which was allegedly tormenting a family, from a cottage....Published: 18 May 2019 at 10:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman shoplifter pulls a shocker
A 38-year-old Mutare woman left workers at a local wholesaler stunned after she stole heavy duty vehicle batteries which she unbelievably stashed under her armpits and walked out of the shop unnoticed...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt launches urban mass transportation programme in Mutare
GOVERNMENT on Monday launched the urban mass transportation system in Mutare after it availed 40 Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) buses to ferry passengers to and from the Central Business Di...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 23:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Business back to normal
BUSINESS in Mutare returned to normal yesterday following a three day violent protest in which property worth thousands of dollars was destroyed and more than 80 hooligans arrested. A snap survey by T...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 12:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF candidates threatening to shut down churches in Hobhouse
Zanu pf candidates in Hobhouse are intimidating and threatening to shut down churches for not accepting them to campaign during church services.According to one of the church officials in Hobh...Published: 21 Jun 2018 at 15:12hrs | | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Econet slams greedy agents
Mobile telecommunication company Econet Wireless Zimbabwe has disowned agents who are charging punitive rates to the transacting public.A snap survey by The Herald in Mutare showed that some u...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe student fights deportation from UK
UNITED Kingdom: A 19-year-old student from Bath faces deportation to Zimbabwe despite living in the city for the past seven years.Mudiwa Madzima has set up a fundraising campaign to cover her ...Published: 12 Mar 2018 at 06:33hrs | | by Bath Chronicle
Two women in kidnap nightmare
TWO Mutare women - one of them six months pregnant - are lucky to be alive after they were last week kidnapped and brutally assaulted by assailants allegedly hired by a friend who accused them of stea...Published: 12 Jan 2018 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutare declared malaria zone
Mutare City has been declared a malaria zone following a high incidence of the disease, which saw 3 200 positive cases being identified and the resultant 31 deaths during this malaria season, a city o...Published: 19 Dec 2017 at 16:19hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
City of Mutare town clerk pledges cement to Devine Harvest Ministries
Mutare City Council town clerk Joshua Maligwa pledges 20 bags of cement to Devine Harvest Ministries at it's fourth Anniversary celebration in Hobhouse yesterday. Devine Harvest Ministri...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 13:00hrs | | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Footballer loses arm in attack
A 30-YEAR-OLD Buffaloes player, Kudzai Mwaramba, is lucky to be alive after his efforts to make peace between two feuding youths over car-wash space in Sakubva saw him losing his left arm in a machete...Published: 20 Oct 2017 at 09:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophet Makandiwa worker up for murder
WELL-known Mutare man - Munyaradzi Taonezvi Nyika - who is also an administrator at Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa's UFIC Church in the city, was yesterday hauled before the courts on allegations of fatal...Published: 29 Sep 2017 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Desperate hookers terrorise suburb
The proverbial expression "the law is an ass" might have considerable meaning to victims of rampaging prostitutes here in the mountainous city.Of course the ass being referred to here is the d...Published: 21 Sep 2017 at 14:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rapist offers victim $1
A 34-YEAR-OLD Buhera man who left his wife at home and raped a 12-year-old girl before giving her a $1 to buy her silence will spend the next 16 years behind bars after he was convicted of rape by a R...Published: 28 Jul 2017 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Female burglar hits 11 more houses
THE female jailbird who was recently slapped with a 12-year jail term by a Mutare court after stealing goods worth more than $10 000 from 29 households was back in the dock facing 11 more unla...Published: 21 Apr 2017 at 08:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Female burglar breaks into 29 houses
AN UNREPENTANT female burglar who tested freedom last year through Presidential pardon will return to prison after she was recently slapped with a 12-year jail term by a Mutare magistrate on 29 counts...Published: 15 Apr 2017 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'I enjoy wearing female panties'
AN 18-year-old teenager from Dora communal lands just outside Mutare escaped jail last week after he was convicted of stealing female panties. Mutare senior magistrate, Mrs Sekai Chiundura, sl...Published: 26 Mar 2016 at 11:12hrs | | by Collette Mukome
Man claim he enjoys wearing female panties'
AN 18-year-old teenager from Dora communal lands just outside Mutare escaped jail last week after he was convicted of stealing female panties. Manica Post reported that Mutare senior magistrat...Published: 18 Mar 2016 at 07:50hrs | | by Collette Mukome
Woman in trouble for ill-treating one year old baby
A CHIKANGA woman who was being accused of infidelity by her husband last week escaped a three-month jail term after she was convicted of ill-treating her one- year- old baby.Manica Post report...Published: 21 Feb 2016 at 06:25hrs | | by Letwin Mubonesi
Police officer points gun at nieghbours
A POLICE officer stationed at Mutare Rural is in trouble with the law after he pointed a gun at his neighbours threatening to shoot them.Felix Chemvumi (32) was not asked to plead when he appe...Published: 29 Jan 2016 at 19:57hrs | | by Tendai Gukutikwa
Johanne Masowe builds school
WORK has started on the construction of a private primary school owned by The Gospel of God International in Mutare's Hobhouse high-density area. The Johanne Masowe-run institution will be called Feri...Published: 02 Jan 2016 at 10:39hrs | | by Letwin Mubonesi
Workers get residential stands as salary compensation
Mutare's prominent businessman, Hlanganiso Matangaidze who owns Matan Holdings Group of companies, has serviced and allocated residential stands to former employees at his subsidiary; Gulliver's Night...Published: 21 Sep 2015 at 09:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dealer nabbed over illegal whisky
A MAN from Mutare's Hobhouse high-density suburb was recently hauled before the courts for possessing 200 bottles of banned Mozambican whiskey.Akele Akele was convicted on his own guilty plea ...Published: 18 Sep 2015 at 09:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Burnt to death over $2
A BRAWL over a missing $2 note ended tragically on Sunday afternoon after an angry Hobhouse man set a wooden cabin on fire resulting in a fierce fireball that killed one person and seriously injured a...Published: 26 Jun 2015 at 07:57hrs | | by Ray Bande and Liberty Dube
'My son beds his mother'
A MUTARE man stunned court officials recently when he revealed before a packed gallery that his son was engaging in sex with his wife - his mother.Samuel Magada dragged his two sons - Kudakwa...Published: 20 Jun 2015 at 14:28hrs | 5 | by Tendai Gukutikwa
Mnangagwa sells dummy in commissioning reservoir
Mutare residents have accused Vice-President Emerson Mnangagwa of selling them a dummy when he commissioned the $10 million Chikanga water reservoir in February this year while quite aware that t...Published: 07 Apr 2015 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sucked into a controversy
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been sucked into a controversy after it emerged that he commissioned a water reservoir for the Hobhouse high density suburb although he knew it was non-functional...Published: 01 Apr 2015 at 16:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Marriage-wrecker trapped, caught pants down
RESIDENTS of Hobhouse high-density suburb in Mutare witnessed real-life drama when a man with a knack for bedding married women ran out of luck and got caught in the bedroom of a married couple follow...Published: 22 Nov 2014 at 14:37hrs | 1 | by Ray Bande
Soldier douses wife with petrol, sets her on fire
RESIDENTS of Mutare's Sakubva high-density suburb were left awestruck last week after a soldier doused his wife with petrol before setting her on fire, in a horror incident that also left him heavily ...Published: 26 Oct 2014 at 10:55hrs | 3 | by Mercy Ngwebvu
Witchcraft torments family
IN the real world, we often live by a saying that "seeing is believing", but in the supernatural world the opposite is true.While disputes of witchcraft and juju have always been open to diffe...Published: 06 Sep 2014 at 10:31hrs | | by Ngoni Dapira
Man tires of cheating wife's shenanigans
THE husband of Laiza Kangoma, a Hobhouse woman who in June 2012 hogged the limelight for the wrong reasons after she was arrested for aborting her boyfriend's child using a traditional herb, has decid...Published: 25 Jul 2014 at 10:00hrs | 1 | by Liberty Dube
Man hangs self after nightmare
A HOBHOUSE man allegedly committed suicide after having nightmares.Police confirmed the death of Calvin Bhebhe who hanged himself on Monday. It is alleged that after attending his girlfriend's...Published: 11 May 2014 at 09:49hrs | 1 | by Tatenda Makombe
Woman sells family house, marries pastor
A MUTARE woman allegedly sold a family house before marrying a pastor with Revival World Missions Church.Police have since launched a manhunt for Diana Sarudzai Matika (55) who sold a family h...Published: 11 May 2014 at 09:43hrs | 10 | by Liberty Dube
Man divorces wife over affair with church leader
A SEVEN-YEAR marriage of a Mutare couple is irretrievably broken down after the husband filed for divorce following the wife's alleged love affair with a Christ Embassy Church leader in the city'...Published: 17 Feb 2014 at 21:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Water crisis worsens in Mutare
THE water situation worsened in Mutare this week with most parts of the city experiencing low supplies.Businesses in the Central Business District that always received normal supplies wer...Published: 13 Sep 2013 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff Reporter
ZEC vehicle used in an attempted robbery
A VEHICLE hired by the Zimbabwe Election Commission was stolen in Nyanga on Sunday night and was used in an attempted robbery, which was foiled after the passengers fought back resulting in it overtur...Published: 18 Jul 2013 at 18:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Breakaway Anglican Church formed
MOST members of the Bishop Elson Jakazi-led Anglican Diocese of Manicaland have established a new ministry, Evangelical Anglican Church International.Investigations this week revealed that the...Published: 22 Mar 2013 at 10:01hrs | | by Sfatt reporter
Four gold panners trapped to death
FOUR illegal gold panners were trapped to death in Penhalonga last Thursday after a mine tunnel they were working in collapsed and buried them alive.Four other panners who were in the same sha...Published: 09 Feb 2013 at 06:05hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Prostitute exposes R25,000 fake notes
An attempt by a 22-year-old suspected criminal to impress an alert prostitute whom he was trying to hire by paying a fake note upfront backfired terribly, leading to the arrest of a five-member gang ...Published: 26 Jun 2012 at 09:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cheating woman nabbed for abortion
A married but cheating Mutare woman who supposedly could not live any longer without playing the bedroom game chose to have unprotected sex with her boyfriend, while her husband was still in South Af...Published: 18 Jun 2012 at 05:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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