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Chief Kandana dies at 72
Chief Kandana of Bulilima District, Matabeleland South Province, has passed away at the age of 72 after a brief illness at Plumtree District Hospital. Born Michael Magutshwa, he had been a traditional...Published: 02 Sep 2024 at 11:26hrs | 241 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF borehole campaign gimmick exposed
Residents of Bulawayo are urging the government to complete the drilling of boreholes in several city suburbs, which they believe were abandoned after the August 2023 elections. Critics have accused t...Published: 26 Jul 2024 at 06:36hrs | 516 | by Staff reporter
Diasporan intervenes in Mzilikazi water crisis
A UNITED KINGDOM-BASED Zimbabwean has come to the rescue of Mzilikazi residents after drilling boreholes to address the suburb's acute water shortages.Bulawayo residents are currently enduring...Published: 17 Feb 2024 at 17:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo man arrested for fatal assault of soccer fan
A BULAWAYO man has been nabbed in connection with the fatal assault of a soccer fan outside Babourfields Stadium on September 3.Police provincial spokesperson Inspector Abdenico Ncube said Bon...Published: 15 Nov 2023 at 05:12hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Till operators kill shoplifter
TWO till operators have been arrested after they fatally assaulted a man for shoplifting.Police on their twitter page confirmed the inc...Published: 20 Nov 2021 at 10:46hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Nkayi villagers to name, shame violence perpetrators
VILLAGERS in Nkayi, Matabeleland North province, have resolved to investigate and expose perpetrators of the 2002 to 2008 electoral violence.After compiling the names of the terror groups, the...Published: 03 Nov 2021 at 05:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Human bones found at Bubi torture camp
HUMAN remains suspected to belong to a member of the opposition, who was abducted and tortured for a month at a Zanu-PF torture camp in Bubi, Matabeleland North ahead of the violent 2002 election, hav...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 08:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt launches tillage scheme for smallholder farmers
GOVERNMENT, through the District Development Fund (DDF), has launched the Small Holder Farmers' Tillage Scheme that will see communal farmers benefitting from tillage services for an acre each for the...Published: 25 Dec 2020 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Scores of patients stranded as theatres undergo renovation
SCORES of patients in need of minor surgeries in the southern region have been left stranded as theatres in the two referral hospitals in Bulawayo have not been operational. The southern regio...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 06:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Machete-wielding makorokozas injure 8 people
EIGHT people were injured and four of them were hospitalised after they were attacked by machete-wielding artisanal miners in Esigodini during a three-day gold war that saw two alleged gold barons bei...Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Entumbane High School Bursar wreaks havoc
Mthwakazi Republic Party on Monday the 14th of May 2018 went on a fact finding mission at Entumbane High school in response to the sad outcry of the Entumbane Community and parents of students at the ...Published: 15 May 2018 at 10:26hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
How Zipra rose from the ashes
IN our previous instalments of our Column Lest We Forget we have been carrying out articles on former Zipra camp commander, instructor and a member of the High Command, Jack Mpofu. Mpofu, the late Rog...Published: 29 Oct 2017 at 07:31hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
The man who fired live bullets above trainees
I first met Eddie Sigoge Mlotshwa at Morogoro, which was a ZPRA training Camp in Tanzania. His pseudonym was Cassius Moya. Our group was composed of young men who had volunteered to join the armed str...Published: 16 Jul 2017 at 14:30hrs | | by Retired Brigadier-General Abel Mazinyane
uMthwakazi was one ofAfrica's best governed polities
One of the things Ndebele people pride themselves in is the efficient manner in which their pre-colonial Kingdom known as UMTHWAKAZI was organised. The kingdom was so intelligently structured that man...Published: 23 Jun 2017 at 11:30hrs | 6 | by George M Mkhwanazi
A list of Mthwakazi Chiefs
Here is a list of iZinduna zakoMthwakazi, ezinye sezakhothama. 1. Bakwayi - Stanley Sithole »Matobo2. Bango - Godin Dube »Mangwe3. Bankwe - Silinga Sibanda »Mberengwa...Published: 05 May 2017 at 13:21hrs | 159 | by Staff Reporter
Liberation struggle memory lane always triggers emotions
Going down the liberation struggle memory lane always triggers emotions. I find going down liberation struggle memory lane, lonely, sorrowful, sad and even sometimes amusing. When those who partic...Published: 14 Aug 2016 at 13:19hrs | 17 | by Retired Brigadier-General Abel Mazinyane
War hero Dube buried
LIBERATION war hero, Mkhululi Dube, who died in Nkayi last Thursday, was buried yesterday at the Nkulumane Provincial Heroes' Acre in Bulawayo.He was 56.Family spokesperson Mrs Irene M...Published: 04 Aug 2016 at 06:42hrs | | by Whinsley Masara
Liberation war hero Dube dies
LIBERATION war hero Mkhululi Dube has died.He was 56. Dube succumbed to kidney failure on Thursday in Nkayi and will be buried at the Bulawayo Provincial Heroes Acre tomorrow. Dube was...Published: 02 Aug 2016 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Under-14 impress at African tennis championships
ZIMBABWE'S second seeds Claire Machisa and Michael Happy settled for third place in the girls' and boys' categories of the Under-14 International Tennis Federation African Junior Championships Circuit...Published: 07 May 2016 at 08:04hrs | | by Nkosilathi Sibanda
Gift Banda in another scandal
Bulawayo Deputy mayor Gift Banda is once again embroiled in another messy scandal as he is accused of demanding bribes from people seeking jobs as street sweepers in his Ward 5.Banda is said t...Published: 29 Mar 2015 at 08:56hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Man's stomach ripped wide open over R2
A 31-YEAR-OLD man from Makokoba, Bulawayo, is battling for his life in intensive care at Mpilo Central Hospital after his stomach was ripped wide open at a shebeen on Sunday.Msilisi Magutshwa ...Published: 17 Feb 2015 at 05:02hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Man kills daughter over dog waste
A Gokwe man, Dingani Magutshwa, allegedly killed his daughter using a stick accusing her of failing to remove dog waste from the homestead.Magutshwa (37) was not asked to plead to the murd...Published: 08 May 2014 at 16:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Asilobanga sikhona
Mhleli ohloniphekayo. Ngiloba lolugwalo ngithanda ukuthi ngazise uluntu lonke ukubana thina abosendo lukaMakhobolondo sikhona, njalo kasitshabalalanga. Mina igama lami ngingu Nqobile Khuma...Published: 06 Apr 2014 at 16:15hrs | | by Nqobile Khumalo
Ndebele language under threat
The Ndebele language is under threat and risks becoming extinct amid concerns by its custodians that most teachers of the language in the country's primary schools do not speak it as their first ...Published: 11 Mar 2014 at 21:01hrs | | by Makhosi Sibanda
Satanism scare at school as pupils mysteriously collapse
ENTUMBANE High School in Bulawayo yesterday called an emergency meeting with residents from Entumbane suburb after a number of pupils mysteriously collapsed during lessons from hysteria in a suspected...Published: 07 Mar 2013 at 03:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
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