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10 more succumb to Covid-19 in one day in ZImbabwe
Ten more Covid-19 deaths were reported yesterday, the second highest daily toll after 12 passed on last Thursday, taking the death toll to 80 while 154 new cases were confirmed, all local infections, ...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:05hrs | 832 | by Staff reporter
Borehole drilling scam surfaces
A NUMBER of Zimbabweans, who are in need of borehole drilling services are made to pay exorbitant charges in foreign currency or give away livestock by a cartel of companies suspected to be of foreign...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:11hrs | 924 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's advisor Sam Malaba dies
Former Agribank Chief Executive , Somkhosi Mahamba Temba Malaba has died. He had been suffering from kidney illness for the past 12 years.Malaba was also a members of the PAC (Presidential Adv...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 13:20hrs | 10888 | by Mandla Ndlovu
From herdboy to professor
WHEN Solwayo Ngwenya was herding goats, cows and donkeys in rural Lupane in the 1970s, never did he imagine that one day he would be a celebrated obstetrician. But on Monday he was appointed a full ti...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 08:42hrs | 2816 | by Staff reporter
Varsity lecturer pounces on students: No sex, no trips
A SENIOR lecturer at Lupane State University (LSU) has been accused of allegedly demanding sex from students in return for university-facilitated trips that pay up to US$30 a day in allowances....Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 18:28hrs | 8420 | by Staff reporter
Solwayo Ngwenya now a professor of obstetrics and gynaecology
Acting Mpilo Central Hospital CEO Dr Solwayo Ngwenya has been awarded a professorship for his research, teaching and leadership qualities.The University of Science and Technology (NUST) has aw...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 19:08hrs | 2454 | by Staff reporter
Only 8 metres of Gwayi-Shangani dam wall has been constructed so far
TREASURY has released a further $200 million for the construction of the Gwayi-Shangani Dam in Matabeleland North with eight metres of the dam wall having been constructed so far.Located in Hw...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:37hrs | 500 | by Staff reporter
Man kills HIV+ maid lover
AN ex-Lupane State University laboratory technician who fatally assaulted his 52-year-old maid whom he was having an affair with after discovering that she was HIV positive, was yesterday sentenced to...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:10hrs | 2932 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec exam centres moved
Zimsec has established alternative centres for the June 2020 examinations that begin today to replace a handful of schools that were being used as Covid-19 quarantine centres. In a statement o...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:51hrs | 377 | by Staff reporter
Mat North schools ready for June exams
SCHOOLS in Matabeleland North province are ready for the Zimbabwe Schools Examinations Council (Zimsec) June exams, the Provincial Education Director Mr Jabulani Mpofu has said.Speaking during...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 13:30hrs | 621 | by Agencies
Boarding schools open today
BOARDING schools will open today to receive pupils who will be writing June/ July examinations that start on Tuesday.As part of ensuring the smooth running of examinations, the Government has ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:19hrs | 592 | by Staff reporter
'COVID-19 delays Zimbabwe wagons delivery from Russia'
TRANSPORT minister Joel Biggie Matiza has claimed that the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) was supposed to take delivery of 100 wagons from Russia in January, but the consignment has been delayed ...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:38hrs | 449 | by Staff reporter
Stampede as office burns at NRZ 24-storey building
A WOMAN was yesterday rushed to hospital after inhaling smoke while scores were evacuated from the 24-storey National Railways of Zimbabwe's Parkade Centre in Bulawayo's city centre following a fire i...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 06:56hrs | 893 | by Staff reporter
Corrupt leaders enabling price hikes
EARLIER this year Finance minister Mthuli Ncube (my neighbour) visited us in Lupane, the provincial capital of Matabeleland North province.Personally, I felt that he received a warm welcome he...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 07:06hrs | 1444 | by Martin Stobert
22 family members quarantined after harbouring 'returnee' relatives
TWENTY-TWO members of two families in Lupane have been quarantined after they failed to notify authorities about their two relatives who illegally returned into the country from South Africa and subse...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:10hrs | 1097 | by Staff reporter
Dr. Edison Zvobgo abolished lobola Mr Ziyambi: it has become commodified livestock with variable price tag!
It should never escape me to comment on what Justice Minister Ziyambi previously said about lobola in our diverse cultures. Talking about lobola nowadays, almost every society in Zimbabwe upholds trad...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 18:50hrs | 3434 | by Nomazulu Thata
The commodification and tribalisation of Bulawayo politics
The current imported and tribalistic nature of politics in Matabeleland generally and Bulawayo in particular, is cancerous and anti-development. This commodification and tribalisation of politics is a...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 09:44hrs | 1866 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Constitutional Amendment Bill hearings begin
People in Lupane in Matabeleland North and Mt Darwin in Mashonaland Central who attended the public hearings on the Constitutional Amendment Bill gave a range of views from enthusiastic support or eve...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 06:35hrs | 176 | by Staff reporter
Parliament defends Bill public hearings
PARLIAMENT of Zimbabwe yesterday challenged the urgent chamber application filed by Habakkuk Trust seeking an interdict to stop the august House from conducting public hearings on Constitution of Zimb...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 09:35hrs | 155 | by Staff reporter
'2 000 Zesa transformers stolen in 2 years'
OVER 2 000 Zesa transformers were stolen over the past two years throughout the country, with thieves in Maphisa alone also vandalising 100km of cables, Energy and Power Development minister Fortune C...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 07:48hrs | 496 | by Staff reporter
Government to recruit development officers in Matabeleland
GOVERNMENT has invited applications for 56 vacant posts for community development coordinators in Matabeleland North and South provinces. In a public notice by the Ministry of Women's Affairs,...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 07:23hrs | 719 | by Staff reporter
Managing English Language Examinations
During this time when many students are marooned at home due to covid-19 restrictive measures, it behoves on us who can help our children to progress with their education until the new normal is clear...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 19:25hrs | 319 | by Mr Bigboy Mthombeni (MA)
Lusumbami descendant 'discovered' in Botswana
This week my focus was supposed to be on the controversy-clouded 3-kilometre road stretch along the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls highway, which is rather surprisingly clocking its third year of being rehab...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:15hrs | 1535 | by Burzil Dube
Lupane varsity rocked by nepotism, tribalism storm
Lupane State University (LSU) vice-chancellor Pardon Kuipa is in an eye of a storm after it emerged that his daughter, who only has a Master's degree was appointed a lecturer ahead of PhD holders with...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:05hrs | 1142 | by Staff reporter
Cop disciplined for insulting Mnangagwa
APOLICE constable Taison Hove (30) stationed at the Lupane Police Station, who is accused of insulting President Emmerson Mnangagwa, was convicted by the police disciplinary court and sentenced to 14 ...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:35hrs | 1000 | by Staff reporter
The Republic of Matabeleland (ROM) beckons
With Ambazonia's final breakthrough in their quest for self-determination, it has become abundantly clear that after experiencing a series of tragedies under Zimbabwe's colonial rule Matabele people c...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 20:15hrs | 2789 | by George Mkhwanazi
Jonathan Moyo: Lupane's untapped poetic talent
AT first glance, his demeaner deceives one to think Jonathan Moyo (29) is a mere villager fixed on rural life, devoid of ambitions. But once he takes to the stage and starts speaking, all assumptions ...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 07:43hrs | 612 | by Staff reporter
Nust announces reopening date
The National University of Science and Technology (Nust) has postponed the commencement of lectures to next week.Educational institutions in the country closed prematurely on March 24 due to t...Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 17:44hrs | 3932 | by Staff reporter
Lupane State University VC's daughter in recruitment scandal
Lupane State University (LSU) has been sucked into a recruitment scandal after the institution's management allegedly fraudulently employed the Vice Chancellor's daughter as a full-time lecturer....Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 08:28hrs | 4707 | by Staff reporter
VACANCY: 56 job opportunities unveiled in Matabeleland
Team 2020 notes that the Ministry of Women's Affairs Community, Small and Medium Enterprise Development (MWACSMED) has advertised 56 vacancies for Community Development Coordinator in Matebeleland Nor...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 14:49hrs | 3005 | by Team 2020
ZCIEA starts distribution of Masks
The Zimbabwe Chamber of Informal Economy Association (ZCIEA) has started distribution of Masks, Gloves, Sanitisers, Infra-Red thermometers, COVID-19 Information Posters to informal workers and traders...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 13:20hrs | 518 | by Stephen Jakes
Universities reopen under strict guidelines
SOME of the country's institutions of higher learning will start opening doors for students in their final semesters tomorrow, while the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) in Bulaway...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 08:20hrs | 784 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Zimbabwe govt releases names of quarantine absconders
The government has released a list of people who escaped from quarantine centresMashonaland WestCaroline ChirozviLoveness KamwendoMolline ChimuchekaJudith Masuku (Kadoma)...Published: 06 Jun 2020 at 19:24hrs | 3752 | by Staff reporter
FULL LIST: Names of Coronavirus escapees realeased
The government has released a list of people who escaped from quarantine centres. The list come a few days after Secretary for Information Nick Mangwana threatened that all escapees will be published....Published: 06 Jun 2020 at 17:33hrs | 2728 | by Mandla Ndlovu
11 quarantine escapees fined $2 000 each
ELEVEN people who escaped from Mabhikwa High School in Lupane where they had been quarantined after returning from South Africa have each been fined $2 000. Mabhikwa High School is one of the provinci...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 09:05hrs | 429 | by Staff reporter
ZPRA's Jeremy Brickhill narrates untold stories about Dabengwa
I have chosen to commemorate the life of Comrade Dumiso Dabengwa on the first anniversary of his passing by sharing some recollections of my own involving his less well known role in preserving the le...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 15:02hrs | 2797 | by Jeremy Brickhill
Skyz Metro FM applies for TV license
Fairtalk Communications, the proprietors of Skyz Metro FM (Bulawayo) and Breeze FM (Victoria Falls) have applied for a television license in response to a call for application the regulatory Bro...Published: 28 May 2020 at 15:04hrs | 1096 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Govt further decentralises COVID-19 testing
GOVERNMENT has decentralised COVID-19 testing with areas such as Tsholotsho and Lupane receiving gene-expert machines which will see the country conducting about 1 000 tests per day following concerns...Published: 28 May 2020 at 08:05hrs | 188 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe National Army rescues Binga villagers
THE Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has provided the Social Welfare department with transport to carry drought relief grain to villages in Binga so that vulnerable beneficiaries are not charged transport...Published: 27 May 2020 at 07:18hrs | 877 | by Staff reporter
How Dabengwa Made me a Freedom Fighter - Confessions of a Zipra Cadre
I must have been 15 years old herding cattle EMlageni near Siwubu along the Manzamnyama river in 1967. I remember the year very well. It was a very hot day and it was schools holiday. So, it was aroun...Published: 17 May 2020 at 15:12hrs | 1316 | by ZAPU Department of Information Publicity and Marketing.
Army generals pay tribute to national hero Masuku
THE late national hero, Brigadier-General Crispan Masuku has been described as a steadfast, humble and hardworking soldier who gave his life to the country.The Zimbabwe Defence Industries (ZDI...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:22hrs | 616 | by Staff reporter
Brig-Gen Masuku declared national hero, buried at Lady Stanley Cemetery
ZIMBABWE Defence Industries (ZDI) general manager Brigadier-General Crispan Masuku who died on Wednesday at United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) has been declared a national hero. He was buried at Lady Sta...Published: 16 May 2020 at 07:20hrs | 829 | by Staff reporter
Brigadier-General Crispan Masuku burial today
Zimbabwe Defence Industries general manager Brigadier-General Crispan Masuku who died on Wednesday at United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) will be buried today at Lady Stanley Cemetery. He was 61. ...Published: 15 May 2020 at 06:59hrs | 1666 | by Staff reporter
'Gwayi-Shangani dam to solve Bulawayo water problems’
GOVERNMENT is committed to permanently addressing Bulawayo's perennial challenges through the construction of the Gwayi-Shangani Dam project with at least US$122 million having been channelled so far ...Published: 15 May 2020 at 06:56hrs | 845 | by Staff reporter
Overcrowding worries at isolation centres
HEALTH officials have been urged to speed up Covid-19 testing of returnees so they can be discharged to avoid crowding at quarantine centres. This comes as the quarantine centre at Mosi-oa-Tun...Published: 13 May 2020 at 07:26hrs | 223 | by Staff reporter
Welshman Ncube told to quit politics
Former MDC Chief Communications Strategist Gifford Mehluli Sibanda has urged MDC Alliance Vice President to retire from politics and focus on building a legacy in the legal fraternity. Writing...Published: 10 May 2020 at 17:09hrs | 5399 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Homeless troop back to CBD
HOMELESS people in Bulawayo, who disappeared soon after the announcement of the total national lockdown on March 30, are back on the streets capitalising on the Government's decision to downgrade to l...Published: 08 May 2020 at 00:28hrs | 415 | by Staff reporter
More returnees released from quarantine
NINETEEN more Zimbabweans were released from the Mosi-oa-Tunya High School Covid-19 quarantine centre yesterday bringing to 34 the number of discharged people. The Social Welfare Department wh...Published: 07 May 2020 at 00:34hrs | 651 | by Staff reporter
Ban on second-hand clothes to be enforced
The ban on second-hand clothes imports must be strictly enforced after Cabinet was briefed on smuggling rackets in south-eastern Zimbabwe that could see more Covid-19 cases as a result. ...Published: 06 May 2020 at 07:37hrs | 447 | by Staff reporter
Detective 'rapes' daughter for 7 years
A 43-YEAR-OLD police detective has been arrested for allegedly raping his 17-year-old daughter on several occasions from the time she was 10 years old. The cop, who cannot be named for ethical...Published: 05 May 2020 at 07:39hrs | 1103 | by Staff reporter
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