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'Thief' beaten to death
SEVEN men from Pumula South in Bulawayo have been arrested for heavily assaulting a suspected thief they caught at a house in the suburb, leading to his death in a cell at Pumula Police Station on the...Published: 6 hrs ago | 407 | by Staff reporter
7 arrested for fatally assaulting suspected burglar
SEVEN men from Pumula South in Bulawayo have been arrested for heavily assaulting a suspected thief they caught at a house in the suburb leading to his death in a cell at Pumula Police Station on the ...Published: 21 hrs ago | 531 | by Staff reporter
Fatal end to exorcism session
POLICE in Gweru have arrested two brothers on murder charges after turned violent during an exorcism session at a shrine, resulting in one of them fatally stabbing a son of a self-styled prophetess th...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 22:49hrs | 2353 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance officials exposed to Covid-19 in police cells
THERE are fears that 11 of the 12 MDC Alliance officials, recently arrested for holding a meeting in defiance of Covid-19 regulations, could have contracted the deadly virus while detained at Chinhoyi...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 05:45hrs | 277 | by Staff reporter
Brothers kill Good Samaritan in infidelity fight
TWO brothers who were fighting each other at a shrine after the elder brother accused his sibling of having an affair with his wife allegedly turned on a Good Samaritan who had tried to stop the fight...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 20:19hrs | 958 | by Staff reporter
Parents fume over expensive uniforms
PARENTS of Form One pupils yesterday called on the government to intervene and stop school authorities from swindling them of their money by demanding mandatory purchase of "overpriced" uniforms at th...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 06:50hrs | 1600 | by Staff reporter
12 MDC Alliance activists granted $5 000 bail
CHINHOYI magistrate Ms Tracey Muzondo today gave bail to 12 MDC-A provincial leadership members who were arrested last Saturday in Chinhoyi for contravening Level Four lockdown regulations.The...Published: 22 Feb 2021 at 21:31hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
400 storm Police station over US$80 000 pyramid scam
More than 400 residents of Mvuma and nearby areas thronged the local Police Station this week after they allegedly lost US$80 000 to a pyramid scam (mukando) operated by an organisation called Devine ...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 07:19hrs | 2697 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance officials arrested for meeting during lockdown
TWELVE MDC Alliance officials were Saturday afternoon arrested at the opposition party's Chinhoyi offices in Mzari suburb, where they were preparing to hold a strategic meeting.They are part o...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 06:54hrs | 267 | by Staff reporter
Shock as prophet declares bulging tummy not pregnancy
A woman from Kensington plots on the outskirts of Bulawayo, who thought she was pregnant because of her stomach which started swelling five months ago, was shocked when it was revealed to her by a pro...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 08:24hrs | 2608 | by Staff reporter
Mob bays for pyramid scheme founder's blood
MORE than 400 people besieged Mvuma Police Station baying for the blood of a 60-year-old woman who initiated a pyramid scheme that collapsed and prejudiced them of more than US$80 000. Police ...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 06:49hrs | 552 | by Staff reporter
Mob holds police officers hostage
POLICE in Chiwundura, Midlands province, are investigating a case in which a group of beer drinkers mobbed and held hostage three police officers while demanding the immediate release of a colleague a...Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 11:32hrs | 2424 | by Staff reporter
Boy electrocuted at Nkululeko High
A 13-year-old boy from Nkululeko in Silobela was electrocuted after he leaned on a Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) power line pole.The deceased was herding c...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 15:03hrs | 984 | by Staff reporter
Gokwe man loses US$4 000, R18k to robbers
THREE suspected robbers last week allegedly attacked a 28-year-old Gokwe man and robbed him of more than US$4 000 and R18 000 before speeding off in a getaway car.Midlands provincial police sp...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 06:26hrs | 888 | by Staff reporter
Man forces girlfriend to drink poison, kills self
A FORMER Midlands State University (MSU) student died after she was forced to drink poison by her boyfriend, a money changer, who then committed suicide by drinking the same poison in a fight over all...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 06:48hrs | 2048 | by Staff reporter
BCC reassures residents on service delivery
THE Bulawayo City Council has reassured residents that it is working round the clock to ensure improvement of service delivery in the country's second largest city.The local authority has in r...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:46hrs | 195 | by Pathisa Nyathi
SADC silence on trade in wildlife embarrassing
Why does it take people in power seemingly forever to accomplish something good for the people they serve and the wildlife they look after? Are our leaders so concerned with taking care of the...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 19:03hrs | 636 | by Emmanuel Koro
Bare footed Tsikamutanda flees from police
There was drama in Kazunga village,Guruve when an unidentified Witch hunter popularly known as Tsikamutanda took to his heels in his regalia while bare fo...Published: 08 Feb 2021 at 19:40hrs | 3619 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Woman found with tongue missing
A 45-year-old Mberengwa woman was found dead near her homestead with her tongue missing. The killing, which the police suspect could be ritually motivated, occurred last Sunday night in Butete...Published: 08 Feb 2021 at 05:47hrs | 3129 | by Staff reporter
'Mass school dropouts looming'
TEACHERS unions have warned of looming massive school dropouts as pupils are gradually losing commitment towards education due to the prolonged suspension of learning as a result of the COVID-19 pande...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 21:51hrs | 1177 | by Staff reporter
VID 'inspectors' dupe job seekers
FAKE Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) officials have been on the prowl in the Midlands Province where they targeted and duped desperate jobseekers of money after promising them jobs. Severa...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 06:14hrs | 862 | by Staff reporter
RBZ 'officials' arrested
Police in Midlands have arrested two Harare men driving around the country with fake Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe identity cards, swindling businesses after accusing them of using the wrong foreign exchan...Published: 02 Feb 2021 at 06:31hrs | 2930 | by Staff reporter
BCC: What went wrong?
"BULAWAYO'S success story is not something from outer space but a result of the constructive approach taken by councillors and the existence of a harmonious relationship between them and their elector...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 06:56hrs | 1196 | by Vusumuzi Dube
Man killed after being caught with another man's wife
A suspected adulterous man from Mvuma was killed by his lover's husband after being caught in the act in the woman's matrimonial home, police have confirmed.Midlands Police Spokesperson Inspec...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 06:54hrs | 1202 | by Staff reporter
Mozambican community's promising hunting revenue powered development
Wildlife hunting is increasingly becoming the main 'driver' for not only socio-economic development but also for wildlife and wildlife habitat conservation, in southern African communities that co...Published: 27 Jan 2021 at 17:03hrs | 3718 | by Emmanuel Koro
COVID-19 vaccine only for the chefs
GOVERNMENT yesterday revealed that it was failing to import enough vaccines for citizens, and would prioritise Cabinet ministers and senior government officials, Members of Parliament (MPs), the secur...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 07:31hrs | 4084 | by Staff reporter
Moral ambivalence in the midst of darkness
OH, what a sad, heavy and dark week! The COVID-19 pandemic has eventually stamped its indelible wound on our nation. It has been with us since the first quarter of last year, though. But it was hittin...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:30hrs | 132 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Obadiah Moyo linked Klosad shuts down over Covid-19 scam
KLOSAD Clinical Diagnostics Lab, whose staff members were last week exposed by this publication for issuing fake Covid-19 certificates, has been shut down to pave way for full investigations.T...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 23:27hrs | 1576 | by Staff reporter
Why movement to restore American democracy is needed
Wildlife-rich and climate change-vulnerable Sub-Saharan Africa has been following the political events unfolding in the United States with great interest. What happens in America still has worldwide c...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 09:07hrs | 387 | by Emmanuel Koro
Bulawayo needs its own online TV
MUSICIANS in the City of Kings are advocating for a Bulawayo version of 'Nash TV' saying the Harare television station has greatly assisted artists in the capital during the Covid-19 lockdown....Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 07:17hrs | 326 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents demand transparency in awarding tenders
THE Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BPRA) has demanded that the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) must explain the rationale behind the awarding of a tender to three contractors to develop housi...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 07:56hrs | 329 | by Staff reporter
Police call off search for bodies
Police have called off the search for the bodies of four passengers still missing after an Isuzu double cab was swept off the low-level Gweru River Bridge on Sunday. The vehicle was discovered...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 07:48hrs | 521 | by Staff reporter
Two retrieved in Gweru mishap
The Gweru District Civil Protection Unit working with the police sub aqua unit and other private players have managed to retrieve two bodies out of six people who were swept away together in their car...Published: 11 Jan 2021 at 15:59hrs | 1640 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers demand urgent salary review
TEACHERS have called on government to urgently review their salaries this month as per government tradition at the beginning of each year, owing to the rise in the cost of living.Zimbabwe Nati...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:28hrs | 1025 | by Staff reporter
Another funeral for Chamisa as his secretary for security and defence dies
The MDC Alliance Secretary for Security and Defence former Police Assistant Commissioner Emmanuel Chimwanda has died. Chimwanda reportedly succumbed to an undisclosed illness in Harare last ni...Published: 02 Jan 2021 at 14:44hrs | 3117 | by Staff reporter
Missing policeman feared dead
Police in the Midlands are investigating a case in which a police officer on duty went missing in Gweru last month and body parts suspected to belong to him being found in Zvishavane three days ago. ...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 07:22hrs | 960 | by Staff reporter
Plot to extort Makandiwa exposed
A leaked video has exposed Spirit Life Church in South Africa founder, Jay Israel's plan to blackmail Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa by concocting a lie that businesswoman Blessing Mashangwa was the Unite...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 10:48hrs | 1085 | by Staff reporter
'Demand Arrest Of Chicken Thieves Not Wildlife Poachers' - Animal Rights Tell Africans
One of the most curious and harmful lessons that Western animal rights groups continue to teach African rural communities co-existing with wildlife and the African public, in general, is 'demand the a...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 12:54hrs | 1347 | by Emmanuel Koro
Gwanda villagers form livestock production company
GROUP of villagers in Gwanda North, Matabeleland South have formed a company, which is largely into livestock production, in a bid to economically empower themselves and develop their community....Published: 12 Dec 2020 at 06:58hrs | 272 | by Staff reporter
BCC blames govt for poor service delivery
THE failure by government to approve a $2,85 billion Bulawayo City Council (BCC)'s 2020 supplementary budget has hit the city's ability to provide efficient service to ratepayers, an official said yes...Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 06:34hrs | 283 | by Staff reporter
Flash floods hit Bulawayo suburbs
FLASH floods yesterday hit parts of Bulawayo resulting in several houses and some roads being waterlogged following a heavy downpour that pounded the entire city for hours. The floods hit part...Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 06:30hrs | 519 | by Staff reporter
High Court robber denied bail
ONE of the eight suspects linked to the recent botched armed robbery at the Bulawayo High Court has been denied bail pending trial. Linience Clifford Nyoni (38) of Makokoba suburb in Bulawayo ...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 06:28hrs | 216 | by Staff reporter
Human wildlife conflict stops agriculture where hunting brings hope
Co-existing with wildlife can be both a curse and a blessing. The human-wildlife conflict has brought the century-old culture of agricultural production to a sad and difficult end in Bots...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 18:21hrs | 243 | by Emmanuel Koro
Open Letter to the heads of state of SADC nations
More than business as usual needed to save wildlife and people from covid-19 destructionYOUR EXCELLENCIES:We are facing an unprecedented wildlife conservation crisis. With COVID-19 imp...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 14:33hrs | 860 | by Emmanuel Koro
Bushiri's extradition: A humbling experience for Mzansi
The extradition request for Shepherd Bushiri by South African authorities to the Malawian government early last week seems to be a sobering reminder for the greater good of cooperation within the regi...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 14:24hrs | 4002 | by Daphine Zulu
Nomboka lands Mining Union's Vice-Presidency Post
National Mine Workers Union of Zimbabwe (NMWUZ), the only Mining Union affiliate of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions - ZCTU, recently appointed new executives to fill National Executive Board pos...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 05:50hrs | 634 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF official takes over Harare dam
HARARE City Council officials are in the eye of a storm after awarding a 23-year lease of Harava Dam at a cost of $3 000 to a Zanu-PF official, who is now using the water for brick moulding at a time ...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:59hrs | 1037 | by Staff reporter
Where wildlife produces medical doctors
In Africa, some communities still don't have a single person who has graduated as a medical doctor. The reasons are many. It could be a lack of funds for brilliant children to further their ed...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 07:32hrs | 1914 | by Emmanuel Koro
Drugs-theft Bulawayo doctor arrested for practising without a licence
A medical doctor who was suspended for stealing drugs at Mpilo Central Hospital has been arrested for practising without a licence at a city clinic.Emmanuel Mucheni, 35, was arrested last Frid...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:47hrs | 1140 | by Staff reporter
Residents reject BCC 2021 budget
THE Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BPRA) has rejected the council's 2021 budget proposal, arguing that the budget formulation process was flawed.Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is pro...Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 05:52hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter
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