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Matebeleland South sees 18% drop in crime rate
Matebeleland South Province has seen an 18 percent decrease in crime levels from January to September this year compared to the same period last year, according to recent police statistics. A total of...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 07:46hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
Bopoma dam Project moves upstream to protect sacred ponds
The construction of Glassblock Bopoma Dam in Matabeleland South must be preceded by traditional rituals to appease the ancestors, according to local traditional leaders. Initially, the dam's planned l...Published: 21 Oct 2024 at 07:45hrs | 880 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya does not have O-levels?
A potentially massive scandal is brewing in Zimbabwean football, as Prophet Walter Magaya and Gift Banda, a former Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) vice president, stand accused of attempting to m...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 16:11hrs | 5517 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to bury Tshinga Dube
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is today set to lead the nation in laying to rest Colonel (Rtd) Tshinga Dube, a national hero, former Cabinet Minister, and esteemed military strategist. Col (Rtd) Dube, w...Published: 09 Oct 2024 at 07:40hrs | 342 | by Staff reporter
Hwange show resilience in relegation battle
Hwange 2 - 2 FC PlatinumRelegation-threatened Hwange displayed immense fighting spirit as they came from behind to secure a crucial 2-2 draw with former champions FC Platinum at the Colliery Stadi...Published: 07 Oct 2024 at 07:50hrs | 55 | by Staff reporter
Man pleads guilty to armed robbery after night attack on Bulawayo couple
A 25-year-old Bulawayo man appeared in court this week facing armed robbery following a night attack on a Nketa couple's home with his accomplices to snatch cash and cell phones from their victims....Published: 05 Oct 2024 at 16:57hrs | 1118 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube rejects National Heroes Acre burial?
Former Minister and liberation struggle Zipra commander Tshinga Dube, who passed away on Thursday night, has expressed his wish not to be buried at the National Heroes Acre in Harare, according to his...Published: 05 Oct 2024 at 16:12hrs | 2749 | by Staff reporter
Chimombe, Mpofu challenge presence of 'old' High Court assessors
Businesspersons Mike Chimombe and Moses Mpofu, linked to the ruling ZANU-PF party, have contested the presence of two "old" High Court assessors at their trial concerning allegations of fraud involvin...Published: 04 Oct 2024 at 08:46hrs | 124 | by Staff reporter
JR Goddard roped in to construct Bopoma Glassblock Dam
The Zimbabwean government has endorsed the construction of the Bopoma Glassblock Dam in Matabeleland South province through a public-private partnership (PPP), aimed at bolstering bulk water supplies ...Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 07:49hrs | 2156 | by Staff reporter
Rugby returns to Bulawayo
Rugby made a glorious return to the iconic Hartsfield Grounds in Bulawayo on Saturday, marking a revival of the city's rich rugby heritage with Zimbabwe A's emphatic 80-6 victory over a Bulawayo Selec...Published: 16 Sep 2024 at 07:52hrs | 252 | by Staff reporter
Diaspora community form Funeral and repatriation service fund
Gwanda North community members based in South Africa have formed a funeral and bodies repatriation services group fund due to desperation of some colleagues whenever death strikes across the Limpopo....Published: 08 Sep 2024 at 12:54hrs | 596 | by Stephen Jakes
Ephraim Mwale to be buried in Bulawayo
Former footballer Ephraim Mwale, who passed away recently in South Africa at the age of 58, will be laid to rest tomorrow at Bulawayo's Umvutsha Cemetery. His sister, Cecilia, confirmed that all the n...Published: 08 Sep 2024 at 09:39hrs | 100 | by Staff reporter
Ephraim Mwale to be buried in Bulawayo
Former footballer Ephraim Mwale, who passed away recently in South Africa at the age of 58, will be laid to rest tomorrow at Bulawayo's Umvutsha Cemetery. His sister, Cecilia, confirmed that all the n...Published: 08 Sep 2024 at 09:30hrs | 103 | by Staff reporter
Ndebeles commemorate Mzilikazi Day
Ndebele people in Bulawayo, as well as those across Zimbabwe and abroad, are commemorating the 156th anniversary of the death of King Mzilikazi Khumalo, the founder of the Ndebele nation. The commemor...Published: 07 Sep 2024 at 15:53hrs | 3309 | by Staff reporter
Diesel fit and turner kills cyclist
A Diesel fit and turner from Barloword Zimbabwe Company fatally ran over a cyclist in Mvurwi yesterday.Casico Masuku (22) allegedly ran over Edson Foya (48) at the 7-kilometer peg along Mvurwi...Published: 03 Sep 2024 at 21:10hrs | 650 | by Simbarashe Sithole
ANC mayor wants foreign nationals to be recruited as JMPD officers
Newly elected Joburg mayor Dada Morero may have started his tenure on the wrong foot.This was after he suggested that documented foreigners be recruited as Johannesburg Metro Police Department...Published: 26 Aug 2024 at 12:30hrs | 1066 | by Staff reporter
Harare City Council officials sentenced 10 years
The High Court has sentenced two senior Harare City Council officials, Stanley Ndemera and Emmanuel Mutambirwa, to 10 years in prison each for criminal abuse. ...Published: 17 Aug 2024 at 12:39hrs | 171 | by Staff reporter
Enos Nkala widow gets peace order
Last week, the legal dispute over Mbalabala Properties took a new turn when the Esigodini Magistrates Court granted a peace order to Thandiwe Nkala, widow of the late nationalist and National Hero Eno...Published: 04 Aug 2024 at 14:05hrs | 599 | by Staff reporter
MPs want local languages at schools
Lawmakers have underscored the importance of teaching local languages in schools to foster inclusivity, comprehension, and national unity. During a debate on promoting the development of previously ma...Published: 25 Jul 2024 at 07:44hrs | 334 | by Staff reporter
Chiefs oppose 'King Munhumutapa's shrine tour
Some Chiefs in Matabeleland have called on the National Chiefs Council to investigate the alleged King Munhumutapa seeking to conduct rituals at some of the spiritual shrines.The ruling party ...Published: 22 Jul 2024 at 15:29hrs | 2018 | by Staff reporter
I am suffocating and sick of crying
I am suffocating and sick of crying and dying for fresher air. I died in May, June and July, last year, and died forever in a shallow swamp on April 18, 1983. Later on, I died in a river full of class...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 09:17hrs | 28 | by Tafi Mhaka
Traditional leader remembered for blocking Mugabe farm takeover
The late Chief Malaki Masuku of Kezi has been commemorated for his courageous actions in defending Maleme Ranch from government seizure during the era of former President Robert Mugabe. Jospha...Published: 02 Jul 2024 at 06:34hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
MK Party emboldened by arrest of Ramaphosa linked IEC official on fraud charge
The uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) says it isn't surprised that a top official of the Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) has been charged with fraud.This simply underlined their belief that some I...Published: 24 Jun 2024 at 08:46hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in King Lobengula jibe
President Emmerson Mnangagwa stirred controversy this week when he made a joke about the revered Ndebele King, Lobengula, suggesting he was ignorant. Speaking at Mak...Published: 03 Jun 2024 at 08:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army commander calls for discipline within ranks
Lieutenant-General Anselem Sanyatwe, the commander of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA), yesterday presided over the pass-out parade of 1,196 military recruits who completed an intensive eight-month tr...Published: 24 May 2024 at 08:43hrs | 75 | by Staff reporter
Sandi Moyo's hero status rebuff sparks outrage
The government's decision not to grant the late former Bulawayo Provincial Affairs Minister, Eunice Sandi Moyo, national heroine status has ignited outrage in Matabeleland, with accusations that the r...Published: 21 May 2024 at 08:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Lithium haulage trucks chaos in Zimbabwe
Heavy trucks transporting lithium ore from Sandawana to the Gwanda lithium mine (plant) in Mandiwongola are leaving a perilous trail of boulders along the Causeway/Ntalale road, posing significant ris...Published: 09 Apr 2024 at 20:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Lookout Khalisabantu Masuku remembered
ZIMBABWE People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) ex-combatants yesterday held a memorial service in remembrance of their commander Lookout Masuku who died in 1986 shortly after his release from prison....Published: 06 Apr 2024 at 16:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa awards Chemist Siziba liberation war hero status
The funeral service of the late Zimbabwean businessman Chemist Siziba, who died last Saturday, was held this morning at his Borrowdale (Hogerty Hill) home in Harare.Siziba died of kidney failu...Published: 14 Mar 2024 at 16:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
United States sanctions on Zimbabwe: who is off the list, who is on?
The United States on Monday sanctioned Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa, first lady Auxillia Mnangagwa and other government officials for their alleged involvement in corruption and human...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 19:39hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt yet to declare Bulawayo water crisis a national disaster
GOVERNMENT says it will only declare Bulawayo a water crisis area after a committee appointed to assess the water situation in the city completes its work and is satisfied there is need to make such a...Published: 03 Mar 2024 at 08:50hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Cleopas Dube wants Bosso comeback
FORMER Highlanders striker Cleopas "Balotelli" Dube is inching closer to a comeback amid revelations that he is training with the Bulawayo football giants.An impeccable source told this public...Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Matanga bemoans ZRP uniform, plans overhaul
The Zimbabwe Republic Police boss, Commissioner General Godwin Matanga has expressed discomfort with officers' STU caps, describing them (the STU cap) as the Achilles heel on the force's intention to ...Published: 22 Feb 2024 at 17:33hrs | 26 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Bulawayo landlords renting out verandas and toilets raises concerns
In Old Lobengula, Bulawayo, reports indicate that some property owners are resorting to renting out their verandas and toilets to desperate individuals seeking housing, raising concerns about the pote...Published: 21 Feb 2024 at 09:23hrs | 4 | by Stephen Jakes
Police chief's interests in gold mine raise stink
Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Commissioner-General, Godwin Matanga, has been accused of using his influence to deploy members of the support unit (SU) to guard a gold mine in Midlands where he allege...Published: 18 Feb 2024 at 09:20hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
No Chicken Inn for Mahachi
CHICKEN Inn head coach Joey Antipas says they are not keen to reunite with their former midfielder Kudakwashe Mahachi.The left-footed former Warriors player recently left Ghanaian top-flight l...Published: 08 Feb 2024 at 04:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MPs praises ZEC praise for holding 'free and fair' elections
Zanu-PF MPs Tuesday reduced parliament into a chorus of superfluous praise on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) for conducting what they claim were free and fair elections, condemned as a fraud ...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 18:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
There is neither second republic nor new dispensation
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Your Excellency, from where I stand, there is neither a new dispensation nor a second republic to talk about. As I see it, the late former President Robert Muga...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 04:43hrs | | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
ZAPU demands inclusion in Gukurahundi resolution process
ZAPU and its former military wing, ZIPRA, have declared that as the primary victims of the Gukurahundi genocide, they should be involved in finding a solution arguing that current efforts to resolve G...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 16:34hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt mobilising US$16m for Harare, Bulawayo water
The Government is mobilising US$13 million to improve the water situation in Harare in addition to the US$1,6 million that has already been disbursed to the local authority for the procurement of wate...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 04:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SAPS arrest 4 Zimbabwe men with R313,000 smuggled cigarettes
South African authorities have arrested four Zimbabweans aged between 25 and 45, in the Modjadjiskloof police area, for possession of suspected smuggled cigarettes worth R313 050 as they clamp down on...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 19:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Vandalised sporting facilities rile Bulawayo residents
Stakeholders in Bulawayo have raised concern over the rampant vandalism of sporting facilities and infrastructure in the city amid calls on the authorities to tighten security to avert the situation....Published: 21 Jan 2024 at 08:26hrs | 1 | 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 | 55 | by Staff reporter
4 Zimbabweans arrested for illicit cigarettes and bribery in Limpopo
Four Suspeected are facing charges of possession of illicit cigarettes and bribery after they were arrested by the Police in Limpopo on Wednesday. The suspects, identified as Kudzai Mungate (40), Eshl...Published: 20 Jan 2024 at 08:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
How Princess Zinkabi attempted a coup on King Lobhengula
Princess Zinkabi was King Mzilikazi's daughter. She was married to Mbiko the son of Madlenya Masuku. Mbiko was a powerful warrior who was respected in the northern Ndebele kingdom.Mbiko Masuku...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 16:24hrs | 8 | by Thomas Sibanda
Ex-'dissidents' advocate for inclusion in Gukurahundi hearings
Former dissidents have suggested the government should have included them in efforts to solve Gukurahundi alongside chiefs as they were the target of the government-sponsored mass killings.The...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 16:23hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
King Lobhengula: The Statesman Par Excellence
The man who is credited to have expanded Buthwakazi until it covered virtually the whole of Budlanondo (present day Zimbabwe and parts of present day Botswana) is King Lobhengula (named after Prince N...Published: 11 Jan 2024 at 17:31hrs | 18 | by George Mkhwanazi
CCC councillor, Zanu-PF MP clash over stolen transformer
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) ward 23 councillor Noumusa Moyo has accused Insiza North legislator Farai Taruvinga (Zanu-PF) of stifling development in the Matebeleland south area.Moyo ac...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 05:53hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland South declares war on rustlers
LIVESTOCK farmers in Matebeleland South, operating under the Beitbridge-Gwanda Anti- Stock Theft Association (BB-GASTA) are intensifying their campaign against cattle rustlers following rampant stock ...Published: 04 Jan 2024 at 06:01hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabweans yet to enjoy genuine unity'
OPPOSITION parties and critics said there was nothing to celebrate on Unity Day yesterday when government critics face threats of abductions, arrest and political violence.Zimbabwe declared De...Published: 23 Dec 2023 at 09:52hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
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