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Mnangagwa vows to remove barriers to modernisation
Zimbabwe is ready to embrace modern technology to accelerate its modernisation and industrialisation agenda, and the government will remove any obstacles that hinder this objective, President Mnangagw...Published: 08 Oct 2024 at 07:24hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
Ntabazinduna poised to become a smart city
The Umguza Rural District Council (RDC) is transforming the Ntabazinduna area into a smart city, with the industrial corridor along the Ntabazinduna Road turn-off from the Bulawayo-Harare Road already...Published: 19 Sep 2024 at 07:30hrs | 1086 | by Staff reporter
CCC activists' judgment set for January
Judgment in the case involving Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) deputy national spokesperson Gift Siziba and four others has been set for January 9 next year.Siziba, who is the former Tshab...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC activists' trial deferred
THE trial of five Bulawayo Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists and two party legislators accused of defacing campaign posters ahead of the August elections has been deferred to December 5....Published: 17 Nov 2023 at 05:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CCC MPs, activists' trial deferred
The trial of six Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists and two party legislators from Bulawayo, who are accused of criminal insult and defacing campaign posters, has been postponed. The trial ...Published: 16 Oct 2023 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Business Network commends Ministry of Industry for inclusive consultations
In a concerted effort to elevate Zimbabwe to an upper-middle-income economy by 2030, the new administration led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa has embarked on a journey of economic transformation. Th...Published: 29 Sep 2023 at 18:01hrs | | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Bulawayo Business Network commends Ministry of Industry for inclusive consultations
In a concerted effort to elevate Zimbabwe to an upper-middle-income economy by 2030, the new administration led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa has embarked on a journey of economic transformation. Th...Published: 29 Sep 2023 at 18:01hrs | 4 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Victoria Falls residents say 'NO'
VICTORIA Falls residents yesterday disrupted the process to elect a new mayor for the resort city accusing the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Mr Nelson Chamisa of dictatorial tendencies an...Published: 20 Sep 2023 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC members in court after turning on each other in election fallout
Six members of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), including Members of the National Assembly Surrender Kapoikulu (Bulawayo Central) and Gift Ostallos Siziba (Pelandaba-Tshabalala), appeared in a...Published: 15 Sep 2023 at 17:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ostallos Siziva taken to court for abusing a CCC 'sellout'
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) deputy spokesperson and Pelandaba-Tshabalala MP Gift Ostallos Siziva, along with other party members, appeared before a Bulawayo magistrate and were also released o...Published: 15 Sep 2023 at 17:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Race on for Gweru mayor's post
BATTLE lines in Gweru's upcoming mayoral race have been drawn among CCC councillors amid strong interference from the party leadership which has a preferred candidate.CCC won 18 wards in the c...Published: 09 Sep 2023 at 11:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Commute death sentence to prison terms'
A RECENT High Court ruling condemning Tapiwa Makore Senior and accomplice Tafadzwa Shamba to death for the brutal murder of then seven-year-old Tapiwa Makore Junior has once again revived debate on th...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 06:42hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Teachers defy ban on extra lessons
GOVERNMENT officials and teachers are engaged in cat-and-mouse games over extra lessons.Government banned extra lessons in 2021, while the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) in the sam...Published: 20 Apr 2023 at 07:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Competence-Based Curriculum set for review
THE Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education says the current cycle of the Competence-Based Curriculum is coming to an end this year.Speaking at the presentation of the Secretary's Merit Aw...Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 16:55hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC cracks
CRACKS are emerging in the Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) amid allegations of imposition of candidates in Bulawayo and Masvingo provinces which are threatening to rip apart the recently rebrande...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man killed, body parts missing
RESIDENTS of Gwanda were left in shock after a man was allegedly lured to five men who beat him up and stabbed him to death.After committing the spine-chilling act, they dumped his body in a t...Published: 13 Feb 2022 at 16:15hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Duty-free boost for agric
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has listed import duty and Value Added Tax (VAT)-free agricultural equipment while the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development has...Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo man killed over cigarette
A-57 YEAR old man from Mpopoma suburb in Bulawayo was murdered by an unknown suspect during a misunderstanding over a cigarette, which he was smoking and refused to share it with him.Bul...Published: 15 Dec 2021 at 06:40hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Graft scandal rocks govt agency
Zimbabwe's research institute under the Higher and Tertiary Education, Innovation Science and Development ministry has been rocked by reports of graft, maladministration and corporate misgovernance co...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 08:03hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Graft scandal rocks govt agency
Zimbabwe's research institute under the Higher and Tertiary Education, Innovation Science and Development ministry has been rocked by reports of graft, maladministration and corporate misgovernance co...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 08:26hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
Apostolic Faith Church fights over Ntabazinduna temple land
THE Apostolic Faith Church of Portland Oregon is locked in a protracted land wrangle with a Ntabazinduna villager whom it accuses of illegally setting up a homestead on its land acquired through the l...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Soldiers up for murdering villager
Two army officers and four civilians were arrested by police for allegedly assaulting and killing a local man following an altercation.The soldiers, Vitalis Dube of Shamva and Terence Kagogoda...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 08:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Elephants wreak havoc
PEOPLE living in Masocha village in Zvishavane district are living in fear after a herd of marauding elephants invaded the community, damaging crops in the droughtprone area.A villager, Beatri...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 10:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
New restaurant opens in Bulawayo
Check out this unique new establishment, The Good Place Restaurant, situated downtown of Bulawayo, offering a coterie of dishes that include western and traditional African menu.The restaurant...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 11:38hrs | 6 | by Jamela
Kasukuwere 'blasted' for being sympathetic to Chin'ono
Exiled former minister Saviour Kasukuwere has come under fire on microblogging Twitter for being sympathetic to incarcerated journalist Hopewell Chin'ono.Kasukuwere said he is praying for Chin...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 17:13hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Cop, four others in court for robbery
A suspected police officer and his four accomplices who masqueraded as passengers and a taxi driver, have been arraigned on allegations of robbing six unsuspecting passengers and an airtime vendor in ...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chaos as MDC Money Club crumbles
A grocery importation club run by the MDC Bulawayo Provincial Women's Assembly has spectacularly crumbled amid widespread allegations that the head of the scheme has misused an estimated R7000 c...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 08:44hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
HIV scare hits MDC
The Opposition MDC Bulawayo Province has been rocked by infighting as it gets near to its Provincial Congress which has seen a camp aligned to National Chairperson Tabitha Khumalo hatching a plot to b...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 06:16hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
'She failed to give me a male child'
A Glen View 7 woman claims her husband fired her from a company they co-owned and dumped her for not giving him a male child.The matter came to light at the Harare Civil Court where Emily Maso...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 20:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa prepaid system woes hit consumers hard
Egrina Magura (25) had come all the way from Unit O Seke, in Chitungwiza, about 35km south-east of the capital to purchase pre-paid electricity tokens which are unavailable now owing to a breakdown of...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Massive reshuffle of senior cops in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP)has reshuffled at least 700 senior officers from ranks between superintendent and senior assistant commissioner as part of an ongoing restructuring exercise. Of the 7...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police recover 400 car batteries
Six burglars who were terrorising Gweru residents were recently arrested after they were found in possession of 400 car and motor cycle batteries, which they were reselling in Mozambique. Acti...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Highway robbers arrested after robbing Malawi inyanga
NEVER rob an inyanga, especially from Malawi.This advice rang true for a gang of five armed robbers that has been pouncing on motorists along the Beitbridge-Masvingo and Beitbridge-Bulawayo hi...Published: 06 May 2018 at 09:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cyclist knocked down by a Land Rover, dies on the spot
A Harare cyclist was fatally knocked down by a Land Rover this afternoon in Waterfalls, Harare.Eye witnesses told Bulawayo24.com that the deceased was a strong Dynamos supporter. The f...Published: 07 Oct 2017 at 18:54hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Police arrest notorious sodomising armed robbers in Gweru
POLICE in Gweru have arrested four men believed to be behind 15 cases of murder, rape, sodomy and armed robbery in the Midlands capital, The Chronicle reported.The quartet allegedly sodomised ...Published: 09 Aug 2017 at 09:32hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Car manufacturer to set up plant in Bulawayo
ONE of the world's leading automotive manufacturing companies, FAW Group Corporation will this year set up an automobile assembly plant in Bulawayo, a development that will boost efforts underway to r...Published: 30 Apr 2017 at 14:17hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
This below the belt kind of thinking! Stinks to high heaven!
When we say our thinking and our ways of life has not changed to better ourselves and our communities this is one classical example. It is just sad and backward to say a girl-child does not dese...Published: 05 Dec 2016 at 20:19hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Bulawayo beats Mutare
Bulawayo City 1 - 0 Mutare City Rovers FOR a second consecutive game, Bulawayo City finished with 10 men, only that this time around they were on the winning side, seeing off Mutare City in ...Published: 04 Sep 2016 at 08:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Caps demolish hapless Mutare
Caps United 4 - 1 Mutare CityVETERAN striker Leonard Tsipa struck a brace as Caps United registered their biggest victory of the season in style to close the gap between them and log leaders FC Pl...Published: 28 Aug 2016 at 10:46hrs | | by Langton Nyakwenda
High Court reserves council salaries judgment
BULAWAYO High Court judge Justice Maxwell Takuva has reserved judgment in the case of 12 Bulawayo City Council bosses challenging the slashing of their salaries and allowances by the Government....Published: 12 Aug 2016 at 08:20hrs | | by Mashudu Netsianda
Tsholotsho in six-goal thriller
Mutare City 3 - 3 TsholotshoIT was two points dropped rather than a point gained for Mutare City Rovers as they surrendered a 3-0 lead to settle for a stalemate in a six-goal thriller played at Sa...Published: 08 Aug 2016 at 06:43hrs | | by Ray Bande
Mutare humble Bosso
Highlanders 1-2 Mutare City RoversRELEGATION threatened Mutare City Rovers put on a disciplined performance to upset Highlanders in a Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match at Barbourfields ...Published: 05 Aug 2016 at 06:56hrs | | by Ricky Zililo
Highlanders silenced at BF
Highlanders succumbed to its second successive defeat as visitors Mutare City made lightweight of them.Mutare City humbled Bosso by two goal to one at Barbourfields Stadium today. Kuda...Published: 04 Aug 2016 at 16:25hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
12 council bosses fight Govt over pay cuts
TWELVE Bulawayo City Council bosses have taken their employer and the Government to court challenging the slashing of their salaries and allowances.The reduction of the salaries and perks foll...Published: 26 Jul 2016 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by Mashudu Netsianda
Mutare City shock How Mine
Mutare City Rovers 1-0 How MineRUSAPE-BASED referee Brighton Chimene's highly questionable decisions against Mutare City Rovers could not stop the 10-man home team coast to victory against a compl...Published: 09 May 2016 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lions stalk Bikita village
A PRIDE of lions is wreaking havoc in Bikita's Mashoko area, targeting villagers' livestock, with three head of cattle and 11 goats having been killed so far.Masvingo police spokesman Inspecto...Published: 04 May 2016 at 07:07hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
Dembare labour to this narrow victory over PSL debutants
Mutare City Rovers 1 - 2 Dynamos DYNAMOS finally remembered how to win when they laboured to this narrow victory over Castle Lager Premiership soccer debutants at Sakubva yesterday to bring ...Published: 25 Apr 2016 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Ray Bande
Chaka Rural Hospital to be electrified-MP
Funds for the electrification of Chaka Rural Hospital have been mobilised, Chirumanzu North constituency MP, Innocent Pedzisai Munanzvi has said.Masvingo Mirror reported that the electrification p...Published: 09 Mar 2016 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Churches gravitate towards human worship
WALKING in Harare's busy streets, one cannot help but notice colourful banners on high rise buildings of smartly dressed men and women with the caption, "Come and witness miracles, deliverance and rec...Published: 07 Oct 2015 at 11:17hrs | | by Learnmore Chizuzu
Prophet caught pants down servicing deaconess
A SHAMED preacher who s-exually assaulted members of his flock is back in the fold at the church he helped create.Self-styled "prophet" Walter Masocha dodged a jail term earlier this year for ...Published: 02 Oct 2015 at 15:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
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