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Mnangagwa to commission Nust students' Complex
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is in Bulawayo today to preside over a series of significant events that underscore the Second Republic's commitment to infrastructural and educational development....Published: 15 Nov 2024 at 08:33hrs | 407 | by Staff reporter
Nust shifts graduation venue to ZITF
The National University of Science and Technology (Nust) has announced a venue change for its upcoming 30th graduation ceremony, moving the event from the university campus to the Zimbabwe Internation...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 09:46hrs | 605 | by Staff reporter
ANC introduces its version of Chitepo School of Ideology
As the African National Congress (ANC) works to rebuild its relationship with the electorate following significant electoral setbacks, the party has declared political education a top priority. All AN...Published: 29 Oct 2024 at 08:03hrs | 558 | by Staff reporter
Zille warns ANC of Ramaphosa
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has laid down the gauntlet and demanded the reinstatement of Cilliers Brink as Tshwane mayor.After holding the mayoral office in the City of Tshwane since March 20...Published: 28 Sep 2024 at 20:18hrs | 2307 | by Staff reporter
Construction of NUST library resumes after 20-year halt
Construction of the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) Central Library, stalled at 30 percent two decades ago, will resume next year following a Structural Integrity Assessment certi...Published: 09 Jun 2024 at 09:08hrs | 44 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to commission NUST Innovation Centre
President Mnangagwa will commission a new Technology Innovation Centre at the National University of Science and Technology (NUST), which has saved US$200,000 by taking over its construction projects....Published: 06 Jun 2024 at 07:52hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Slow progress of Nust projects
THE Government has raised concern over the slow pace that the administration at the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) in Bulawayo is taking in completing key development projects, s...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 16:43hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimpapers makes editorial changes
State-controlled media organisation Zimpapers, publishers of The Herald, The Chronicle, The Sunday Mail, Sunday News, Manica Post, H-Metro, B-Metro, Business Weekly, Kwayedza and uMthunywa, has made e...Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 19:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi genocide brigade was deployed on this day 41 years ago
Today in history: On this day 41 years ago and three years after Zimbabwe gained independence from Britain, the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA)'s Fifth Brigade was deployed in Matabeleland North on 2...Published: 20 Jan 2024 at 16:40hrs | 69 | by Staff reporter
Mbalula denies axing David Masondo over Zanu-PF criticism, Ibbo Mandaza lecture
THE ANC last week announced that its head of political education David Makhura has been appointed as the new head of the party's governance school, meaning that ANC National Executive Committee (NEC) ...Published: 23 Oct 2023 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bleak future for Zimbabwe's returning citizens
ZIMBABWEANS expected to return from South Africa in four months' time after the expiry of the Zimbabwean Exemption Permits (ZEPs) face a bleak future as the government has failed to put in place socia...Published: 27 Feb 2023 at 15:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa installed GSU Chancellor, caps first graduands
GWANDA State University (GSU)witnessed the installation of President Mnangagwa as its first Chancellor and the capping of 15 pioneer students at the institution's inaugural graduation ceremony yesterd...Published: 19 Nov 2022 at 06:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Xenophobic Gauteng Premier resigns
After 8 years in the top spot of South Africa's economic hub, Makhura will step down on Thursday.Makhura who made statements that encouraged xenophobic attacks once blamed foreign nationals fo...Published: 06 Oct 2022 at 06:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CIO training centre gutted in suspected arson attack
ZIMBABWE'S state security agency Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO)'s training centre in Harare's Msasa suburb along St Patrick's Road across Chiremba Road from Hatfield has been burnt down by fi...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe workers suffer in SA
ZIMBABWEANS, together with other foreign nationals, are continuing to bear the brunt of vigilante attacks by South African citizens, who are accusing them of taking their jobs and committing crime....Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 20:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Illegal miners strain SA - Zimbabwe relations
DIPLOMATIC relations between Zimbabwe and South Africa may soon reach a new low amid concerns in Pretoria that illegal gold miners from Mozambique, Lesotho and Zimbabwe are engaged in violent criminal...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 14:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Manama's radio dream comes alive
THE long-cherished dream of the Babirwa people in Manama to have a local radio station broadcasting in SeSotho is finally coming to life as the Ntepe-Manama Community Radio is expected to go on air ne...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:41hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo says bye bye to Rtd Major General Bhebhe
THE late Major-General (Rtd) Sydney "Yengani" Bhebhe was among a crop of visionary leaders whose credentials are not questionable, going down the annals of history as people who served the nation dili...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 10:06hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: 'King' Bulelani Khumalo attends Elvis Nyathi death Indaba with Bheki Cele
AmaNdebele King Bulelani Lobengula KaMzilikazi on Friday was among delegates that attended an Indaba between Diepsloot commuty and and South African home affairs Motsoaledi, minister of police Bheki C...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 15:55hrs | 5 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Nust receives $125m for construction works
GOVERNMENT has released $125 million to the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) for construction works, a development that will positively impact on the construction industry in Bulaw...Published: 15 Feb 2022 at 05:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Construction to resume at NUST
CONSTRUCTION work at the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) that had stalled for almost two decades is set to resume after Government allocated $1 billion to the institution of highe...Published: 01 Feb 2022 at 05:29hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean serial killer appears in SA court
THERE were emotional scenes at the Seshego Magistrate's Court, outside Polokwane, Limpopo, on Thursday where an alleged serial killer appeared.For Kenneth Makhura and Takana Chigoyi, the sight...Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 18:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe family can't bury victim of SA serial killer
The brother of one of the victims of the alleged Limpopo serial killer is frustrated and struggling to survive in South Africa since leaving his country to retrieve the body of his sister allegedly ki...Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 04:34hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
SA police hold Zimbabwean serial killer in deaths of 7 women
South African police say a Zimbabwean man arrested for possession of a stolen mobile phone is in fact a serial killer responsible for the deaths of at least seven women.Themba Prince Willard D...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 18:40hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Late Professor Phineas Makhurane's wife dies
LATE national hero and National University of Science and Technology (Nust) founding Vice Chancellor Professor Phineas Makhurane's wife Lydia has died. Mrs Makhurane died last Thursday at the United B...Published: 16 Aug 2021 at 17:10hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Cyril Ramaphosa appears to be using the ANC's step-aside rule to target, purge political opponents
President Cyril Ramaphosa increasingly appears to be using the ANC's "step-aside" rule to target and purge his political opponents, while affirming his untouchable supporters, before next year's elect...Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 09:25hrs | 1 | by Clyde Ramalaine
Mnangagwa accords wife national honour
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has awarded his wife, First Lady Auxillia a gold medal for her "outstanding performance in her philanthropic activities among 99 other outstanding institutions, civilians ...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa awards his wife with 'Order of the Great Zimbabwe Silver'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has created national awards to honour outstanding Zimbabweans - and one of the first recipients is his wife, Auxillia.Mrs Mnangagwa was awarded an Order of the...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 14:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Worst violence in years spreads in South Africa as grievances boil over
Crowds clashed with police and ransacked or set ablaze shopping malls in cities across South Africa on Tuesday, with dozens of people reported killed, as grievances unleashed by the jailing of ex-pres...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 19:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
CIO big shot behind Malunga farm grab
A TOP Zimbabwean Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) director and senior ruling Zanu-PF officials in Matabeleland North province are behind the illegal seizure of a farm belonging to a local inter...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 15:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Xenophobic tensions surge in South Africa
As the coronavirus outbreak has slammed the South African economy and pushed unemployment to a 17-year high, it's awakened a recurrent social demon: xenophobia.Anti-immigrant groups have stage...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 18:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Xenophobia death toll rises to five
SOUTH African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, has warned his compatriots that the violence they are meting out to fellow Africans can be dealt out to them when they visit other countries. Five peo...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 08:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mass arrest of foreigners in South Africa
At least 600 foreign nationals were arrested by police on Wednesday, South African media reports.In the targeted search operation carried out in the main city, Johannesburg, police also confis...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 15:22hrs | | by BBC
Reflections on the life of Dr Dumiso Dabengwa: highs and lows
Chief spies are not famous for mingling easily with the public: they tend to be aloof; secretive and in glamorised Western films have notoriety for keeping everyone guessing about everything in the wo...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:36hrs | | by Dr Mandla Nyathi
Chamisa berates Mnangagwa over 'his intolerance'
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has berated President Emmerson Mnangagwa, saying the failure by the Zanu-PF leader to attend liberation war hero Dumiso Dabengwa's funeral showed his intolerance.Dabe...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 17:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bury heroes at National Shrine- surviving ZAPU members told
Bulawayo-based prominent independent political commentator, Zifiso Masiye, has warned that ZAPU/ZIPRA history risk being obliterated if National Heroes who are declared continue to reject being buried...Published: 28 May 2019 at 11:30hrs | 2 | by ViewFromMatopos
Dabengwa's body expected in Bulawayo today
LIBERATION war icon and former Cabinet Minister, Dr Dumiso Dabengwa, who died in Nairobi, Kenya, last Thursday has been declared a national hero. Dr Dabengwa was enroute to Zimbabwe from India...Published: 27 May 2019 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe heroes and heroines conferment process explained
THE presser is a sequel to inquiries on the critical matter of heroes and heroines conferment by the ruling Zanu-PF and matters inherently connected to that important phenomenon. The declarati...Published: 25 May 2019 at 21:40hrs | | by Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo
Dabengwa's photo on wheelchair explained
The Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation has explained that the photo of the former ZIPRA Supremo Dumiso Dabengwa on a wheelchair was taken after Dabengwa complained of fatigue and it does not mean he is now un...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 13:35hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Wonders never cease
AFTER watching the-PFeesident's sidekick Victor Matemadanda's soporific homily on one online television, one gets an abiding feeling that indeed Zimbabwe is a God-forsaken country. Things are ...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 18:10hrs | | by Hon Criss
SA plans border drone patrols to keep illegal immigrants out
SA may soon turn to drones to help it to protect its porous borders from illegal immigrants.Defence minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said on Sunday the country could consider using the unmanned ae...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 06:52hrs | | by TimesLive
Zimbabwe should pay medical bills for its citizens in SA, says ANC bigwig
The South African government should start billing foreign countries whose citizens pop into the country to take advantage of free services.The foreign countries should also be sent invoices if...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 17:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Xenophobic Makhura blames foreigners for crime in Gauteng
Foreign nationals should start paying for the health services they receive in Gauteng if Premier David Makhura has his way.Speaking on Wednesday at post-budget discussions, Makhura hit out at ...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 17:41hrs | | by eNCA
When burying people becomes a lifestyle
Sporting a blue work suit and safety shoes, Margaret Nyakudya (50) is the centre of attraction at a funeral wake in Mt Darwin.The male villagers cannot help it, but are surprised by her braver...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa taken 'ill' to SA
ZAPU president Dr Dumiso Dabengwa is reportedly ill and is in South Africa where he is receiving specialist treatment, his party has revealed. In an interview on Wednesday, Zapu's secretary ge...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Peace and healing can only move us forward'
Zimbabwe's Unity Day, which is celebrated on 22 December every year, lays background to the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC).After the political conflict which took place in...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 08:31hrs | | by Retired Justice Selo Nare
Prof Makhurane hero declaration 'another first'
THE awarding of a national hero status to Professor Phinias Mogorosi Makhurane by the ruling party, the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) on 5 November, 2018 was a very apt and...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 07:03hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Phinias Mogorosi Makhurane: A hero of many talents
Phinias Mogorosi Makhurane was a giant in terms of his contributions to society, and is very difficult to encapsulate in a mere obituary.He was simple and highly approachable while at the same...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 06:51hrs | | by Emeritus Professor Ngwabi M Bhebhe
Makhurane buried
The founding Vice Chancellor of the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) Professor Phineas Makhurane has been laid to rest at his rural home in Gungwe, Gwanda South.Professor M...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 15:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Makhurane's body flown to Gungwe
The body of the late national hero Professor Phineas Makhurane has now been flown to his homestead in Gungwe, Gwanda South.Earlier on, the National University of Science and Technology (NUST),...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 15:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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