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Diasporas gift Tsholotsho with private school
A dedicated group of Zimbabweans based in South Africa has mobilized resources to construct a state-of-the-art private boarding and day school in the Tsholotsho district of Matabeleland North province...Published: 29 Oct 2024 at 07:39hrs | 559 | by Staff reporter
Funding Shortages leave 'Mthuli' road unmarked
The road in Cowdray Park, constructed by Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion Minister Mthuli Ncube ahead of the 2023 elections, remains devoid of essential safety features due to a ...Published: 16 Sep 2024 at 08:14hrs | 533 | by Staff reporter
Rugeje caught up in bar CIO hunt for rights activist
Days before a summit of regional leaders, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's shock troops armed with AK47s stormed a bar where a retired top general and Zanu-PF politburo member was drinking on Wednesday,...Published: 09 Aug 2024 at 08:00hrs | 3473 | by Staff reportrer
America 'fugitive' diplomat shielded from Zimbabwe prosecution
A spokeswoman from the United States Embassy in Harare has refuted allegations by Harare that its diplomat is on the run after allegedly killing an 11-year-old girl in a road traffic accident in Dema,...Published: 02 Aug 2024 at 07:15hrs | 457 | by Staff reporter
Kombi driver wanted for hit and run accident
Police in Harare have launched a manhunt for a kombi driver who allegedly hit a man in the city centre and took him to Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals where he died upon admission but failed to report...Published: 04 Dec 2023 at 14:38hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo on high alert for cholera
WHILE Bulawayo has not recorded any cholera cases in the past four months, local health officials are on alert, urging residents to practise good hygiene and desist from shaking hands at public gather...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 05:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Names of fans suspected to be behind BF violence
The police have disclosed the identities of 19 individuals who have been apprehended in connection with the public unrest that occurred at Barbourfields Stadium during a league match between the home ...Published: 14 Sep 2023 at 19:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
CCC candidate up for contempt of court
Throwing his wife out of their matrimonial home has landed CCC National Assembly candidate for Mutoko East, Yeukai Kaseke, before a magistrate on charges of contempt of court for defying a court order...Published: 31 Jul 2023 at 06:52hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
One Bulawayo Movement urges citizens to put Bulawayo first and vote wisely
Chairman Sindiso Mazibisa of One Bulawayo Movement, a revolutionary social movement committed to the progress and upliftment of the people of Bulawayo and its surrounding provinces of Matabeleland...Published: 07 Jul 2023 at 15:58hrs | 9 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Law Society of Zimbabwe probes lawyer in property scam
The Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) is looking into a case in which prominent Mutare lawyer Cosmas Chibaya of Chibaya and Partners Legal Practitioners is accused of selling a residential stand he knew w...Published: 29 May 2023 at 19:35hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo runs dry, amid cholera fears
THE Bulawayo City Council has prolonged the disruption of water supplies to most city suburbs due to an electrical fault that happened at the Criterion water works.In a statement the City Coun...Published: 29 May 2023 at 19:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
New milestones in road rehab
REHABILITATION of the Harare-Chirundu highway will begin in May, while over 39 000 kilometres of road network have been spruced up under the Emergency Roads Rehabilitation Programme 2 (ERRP 2), as Gov...Published: 30 Apr 2023 at 08:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Navigating Masiyephambili Drive in Bulawayo
Masiyephambili Drive is a major road that connects various suburbs in Zimbabwe's second-largest city, Bulawayo. The road spans 17 kilometres, and it is an important route for both businesses and resid...Published: 17 Apr 2023 at 09:13hrs | 7 | by Mncedisi Nyathi
The Nkulumane Complex: A sleeping giant
The Nkulumane Mall is named after Nkulumane who was King Mzilikazi's son. Nkulumane was born in Mhlahlandlela, near modern-day Pretoria in South Africa. Nkulumane was named after Kuruman, where Dr. Ro...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 10:18hrs | 220 | by Mncedisi Nyathi
Ingwebu appoints new board members
THE Bulawayo Municipal Commercial Undertaking-owned Ingwebu Breweries recently had two members added to its eight-member board.Mr Kalani Ndlovu who owns Umjayeli Security and Mavuna Lodge and ...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 06:19hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
1 dead, 4 injured after driver fails to give way
A 60-YEAR-OLD man from Nkulumane suburb died on the spot while four others were injured in a car accident that occurred at the robot intersection at Masiyephambili and Nketa drives on Sunday last week...Published: 28 Feb 2023 at 11:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ingwebu Breweries hunts for board members
THE Bulawayo Municipal Commercial Undertaking, Ingwebu Breweries, is hunting for three new board members to fill gaps created by the expiry of the term of office of previous members.The board'...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu says Bulawayo has been turned into a 'growth point', mayor hits back
Bulawayo mayor Solomon Mguni has hit back at Obert Mpofu following claims by the Zanu-PF secretary for administration that sitting councillors have turned the city into a growth point.Speaking...Published: 06 Jan 2023 at 18:08hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo to get speed limit cameras
BULAWAYO could be the first city in the country to have speed limit cameras installed and traffic lights reconfigured to enforce speed limit between intersections.The developments is part of a...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rains expose Bulawayo council's shoddy job
SEVERAL roads in Bulawayo are riddled with potholes making them a death trap following the onset of the rainy season, a development that has exposed the city council for doing a shoddy job in terms of...Published: 10 Nov 2022 at 04:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Stray donkeys terrorise Bulawayo's Lobengula residents
Residents of Bulawayo's Lobengula high density suburb have raised concern over an increase in donkeys reared in the area which have become a menace, destroying gardens and fields.The donkeys a...Published: 03 Oct 2022 at 20:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF thugs in court
Three Zanu PF youths were dragged to Mutoko magistrates courts yesterday after allegedly assaulting Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) members.Innocencia Kapanga (35), Patson Dzenza(25) and B...Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 10:44hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole/ Tarisai Mudahondo
Magriza Made Me Cook takes township tourism to another level
IN our African society, grandmothers play an integral part in the family. From telling folktales to disciplining, and taking care of grandchildren, these matriarchs are the glue that strengthens blood...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 06:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
In defense of the Bulawayo parking system
Greetings to all the citizens of the Great City of Bulawayo: The City of Kings and Queens.We note with deep and grave concern as the Concerned Citizens of Bulawayo that there has arisen in our...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 17:38hrs | 12 | by Qaphelani Sikhangele Sibanda
Vusa Mkhaya releases lockdown production
EVERYBODY hates the dark. So does the ancestor of Bulawayo's music sector, Vusa Mkhaya who has released his fourth studio album titled Khanyisa.His latest offering consists of a dozen songs wh...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sha Sha 'divorces' DJ Maphorisa
WHEN songbird Sha Sha emerged as a force in what was then a bubbling amapiano scene in 2019, few would have imagined that she would ever leave the protective wing of Maphorisa, the man who discovered ...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:27hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
FULL LIST: Bulawayo records 20 divorce cases in 1 day
Bulawayo High Court was on Thursday inundated with twenty (20) cases of people intending to divorce. According to a survey infidelity has been cited as the major cause of family break-ups in the...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 08:59hrs | 6 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Man killed with hammer in cigarette fight
A dispute over a cigarette ended in murder after a Filabusi man struck another with a hammer on the head.Police on their twitter page confirmed the incident which occurred at Sidzibe Business ...Published: 01 May 2022 at 14:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hit and run driver kills 30-year-old Bulawayo man
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has reported that it is investigating a suspected hit and run road traffic accident in which the body of a 30-year-old man was found lying in the middle of the road near S...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:17hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Police arrest suspected car jacker
POLICE have arrested a suspect who is part of a three man gang which stole a vehicle at an intersection in Bulawayo.Police on their twitter page said Cain Nkala (30) and his two accomplices wh...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kombi, truck collision, 1 dead, 24 injured
A four-year-old child was killed in a three-vehicle collision which left 24 others injured near the Nkulumane Complex in Bulawayo on Tuesday morning, police said.The vehicles collided at the t...Published: 09 Mar 2022 at 06:58hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Major strides in road rehabilitation
Rehabilitation of roads under the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme 2 (ERRP2) is set to gain momentum as an additional $6 billion from last year, which will add to this year's budget, will be re...Published: 20 Feb 2022 at 08:48hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Govt splashes $30 billion on Harare-Beitbridge road
THE Government has spent more than $30 billion on funding the reconstruction of over 260km of the Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge highway, while an additional $1,3 billion has been directed towards the reh...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:14hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Court acquits ex-Harare town clerk Mahachi
FORMER Harare City town clerk Tendai Mahachi has been acquitted by the Supreme Court in a matter where he was accused of criminal abuse of office by corruptly awarding millions of United States dollar...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:37hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
US$12 000 compensation can't soothe activist for unjustified imprisonment
AT the age of 28, Linda Musiyamhanje was charged with the murder of a police officer and spent almost a year in prison.She left her two-year-old son in the care of her siblings and together wi...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Vusa Mkhaya drops video for Lalela
VUSUMUZI Mkhaya Ndlovu popularly known as Vusa Mkhaya has released visuals for his song Lalela.The Masiyephambili hitmaker shot the video at Ubuntu Crawl in Soweto, South Africa.The so...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 07:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Return to normal hours excites business
Businesses and traders have returned to their normal working hours following the extension of operating hours under the new Level Two lockdown measures announced by President Mnangagwa on Tuesday. ...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 06:05hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo councillors slam 'shoddy' government road repairs in city
Bulawayo councillors on Wednesday slammed a government-led road rehabilitation exercise, questioning the workmanship which they said was shoddy.Speaking during a full council meeting, the coun...Published: 02 Sep 2021 at 11:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Emergency roads rehab starts ko Bulawayo
THE first phase of roadworks in Bulawayo under the Government-funded US$400 million Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme (ERRP) recently launched by President Mnangagwa, has started. Bulawa...Published: 11 May 2021 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls songstress, collabos Vusa Mkhaya
VICTORIA Falls-based Afro-fusion songstress, Cingi (born Cinginkosi Ncube) is preparing to release a single titled Ngikhuseliwe which features veteran imbube singer, Vusa Mkhaya. This is the s...Published: 20 Apr 2021 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt floats Gwayi-Shangani tender
THE Government has floated a tender for the construction of the 260km Gwayi-Shangani Dam-Bulawayo pipeline, which marks the implementation of the Second Phase of the National Matabeleland Zambezi Wate...Published: 20 Apr 2021 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Monarchy: The cornerstone of African existence
PRINCE Phillip is no longer in our midst. Some dark cloud seems to envelope Britain. May his soul rest in peace. A couple of weeks back, Southern Africa seemed to stand still under a similar dark clou...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Zii Masiye
Woman gang raped
A FOUR-MAN gang travelling in a silver Honda Fit in Bulawayo robbed a Cowdray Park man and woman before taking turns to rape the woman at Nkulumane Heroes Acre.The two victims aged 51 and 32, ...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 06:47hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
BCC gets over $15m for road maintenance
GOVERNMENT, through the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara), recently disbursed over $15 million to the Bulawayo City Council for routine road maintenance works that includes pothole patchi...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
75% of Bulawayo roads in bad state
AT least 75 percent of Bulawayo's road network has outlived its lifespan, with council revealing that the funds they received from the Zimbabwe National Road Authority (Zinara) was a mere drop in the ...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zapu dismisses Zanu-PF defection claims
ZAPU has dismissed as cheap propaganda, claims by Zanu-PF that 28 of the former's members have defected to the ruling party.Zanu-PF Matabeleland South province Saturday reportedly welcomed 28 ...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Broadcasters should speak all national languages'
Reaching 90 years of age on March 15 this year , retired veteran broadcaster and national languages enthusiast Amon Nyamambi, better known on the airwaves as 'uMaqhulayibambe' his grandfather's name, ...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:26hrs | 5 | by John Masuku
Are you clumsy at prayer like me?
Our budding socialisation is keen on teaching us math, geography and science as critical skills of life and sundry tools of solving ours and the problems of the world we grow into. Many of us have rea...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:27hrs | 8 | by Zifiso Masiye
Mathema appoints new Zimsec board
A 14-member Zimbabwe Schools Examinations Council (Zimsec) board was appointed recently by Primary and Secondary Education minister Cain Mathema to steer the country's public examinations until 2024....Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Civics must drive the VP's office
In our new kind of normal, where restraint, moral integrity and sound values have been replaced by lumpen orgy, profanity and clown foolery, I meet the question: So what do you think of the latest VP ...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 08:15hrs | | by Zifiso Masiye
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