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'Better Schools Program Zimbabwe, a huge scam'
A damning audit has revealed that the Better Schools Program Zimbabwe (BSPZ) Fund in Masvingo Province is operating illegally, lacking a registered constitution and failing to secure mandatory approva...Published: 26 Jul 2025 at 15:12hrs | 281 | by Staff reporter
'Wangu Mazodze is not a serious team'
FC Wangu Mazodze head coach Philani "Beefy" Ncube has confirmed his sacking from the team, lashing out at his former employers and describing the club as a "circus" lacking the seriousness to secure P...Published: 24 Jul 2025 at 14:31hrs | 144 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF driver faces public violence docket
Zanu-PF driver Esau Mutanho, already facing a US$150,000 letter of demand for allegedly disrupting a book launch in Masvingo, is now under further pressure after a docket for public violence was opene...Published: 24 Jul 2025 at 09:19hrs | 283 | by Staff reporter
Ezra Chadzamira's driver faces outstanding police case
Esau Mutanho, driver to Zanu PF's Ezra Chadzamira and known leader of a terror gang, is embroiled in yet another police case at Masvingo Central, adding to a growing list of allegations against him....Published: 22 Jul 2025 at 13:00hrs | 220 | by Staff reporter
Shuvai Mahofa's family faces eviction threat
The family of the late Zanu-PF politician, Shuvai Mahofa, may soon be evicted from a farm she seized during Zimbabwe's land reform era, amid claims that Deputy Minister of Environment, Climate and Wil...Published: 28 Jun 2025 at 15:14hrs | 696 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 2 595 councillors to blow US$1 million
An estimated US$1 million of ratepayers' money is set to be spent as 2,595 councillors from Zimbabwe's 92 local authorities prepare to attend a brief meeting with President Emmerson Mnangagwa - the se...Published: 26 Jun 2025 at 09:08hrs | 143 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF is now a den of thieves
An 81-year-old former Zanu-PF Ward secretary from Mushagashe near Masvingo has publicly denounced the ruling party as a "den of thieves" and urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to step down to save Zim...Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 15:06hrs | 409 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Chair's car spotted in without number plates or insurance
A Toyota Fortuner belonging to Zanu-PF Harare Province youth chairman Emmanuel Mahachi has been caught on camera in Masvingo operating without a number plate, third plate, or valid insurance - a blata...Published: 10 Jun 2025 at 14:41hrs | 2201 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF candidate dismantles boreholes in Gutu East
A deepening water crisis has gripped Gutu East constituency after Zanu-PF parliamentary candidate Zvarevashe Masvingise allegedly caused the dismantling of community boreholes and failed to fulfil his...Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 11:59hrs | 413 | by Staff reporter
Sexworker 'murdered' over US$500
Police in Mberengwa have launched a manhunt for two men wanted in connection with the brutal murder of 20-year-old sex worker Viola Hove, whose body was found in an abandoned house five days after she...Published: 05 Jun 2025 at 10:08hrs | 1060 | by Staff reporter
Matthew Takaona arrested by Ferret team
Veteran journalist and opposition activist Matthew Takaona has been arrested by members of the Ferret team, a joint police and intelligence unit, while participating in a community road safety initiat...Published: 03 Jun 2025 at 14:41hrs | 2025 | by Staff reporter
Nemashakwe dies
Veteran educationist and traditional leader Chief Nemashakwe of Gutu, Clanous Devera Chirikure, has passed away at the age of 108.Chirikure died on May 14 at Mvurwi Hospital in Mashonaland Cen...Published: 02 Jun 2025 at 16:21hrs | 626 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans falsely registered to vote in Mozambique's 2024 election?
Masvingo, Zimbabwe - In early 2024, journalists working in Zimbabwe's Masvingo province began hearing troubling rumours: Zimbabwe's ruling party, Zanu-PF, was allegedly registering support...Published: 26 May 2025 at 08:21hrs | 291 | by Staff reporter
2 senior security agents killed in pile-up accident
Tragedy struck last evening when two senior security service members lost their lives in a road accident involving a vehicle pile-up at the Mutimurefu Prison Bus Stop along the Masvingo-Mutare Road....Published: 22 May 2025 at 18:12hrs | 2207 | by Staff reporter
Zimra impounds buses from Beitbridge border post
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) has announced it is impounding buses cleared at Beitbridge Border Post for reinspection due to a surge in smuggling activities at the country's busiest entry poi...Published: 18 May 2025 at 12:14hrs | 1283 | by Staff reporter
Council keeps jailed directors on payroll
Zvishavane Town Council is set to pay a combined US$108,000 in back pay to three senior directors currently serving jail terms for corruption, after failing to formally terminate their contracts follo...Published: 10 May 2025 at 14:19hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
Masvingo Mirror journalists injured in horrific road accident
A serious road accident involving 16 journalists and support staff from The Masvingo Mirror has left several injured, including three senior bureau chiefs, following a devastating crash near Mutimuref...Published: 14 Apr 2025 at 14:23hrs | 567 | by Staff reporter
SADC's compromised chairmanship failing the people of Mozambique
The recent elections held on October 9 in Mozambique have proven to be a significant turning point in the country's history, but not for the reasons the Southern African Development Community (SADC) w...Published: 26 Dec 2024 at 16:59hrs | 1239 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mangwana threats unsettles media lobby groups
Media lobby organizations in Zimbabwe have raised alarm over recent threats made by Information Ministry Secretary Ndavaningi Mangwana against the Masvingo Mirror, a provincial newspaper, following it...Published: 16 Nov 2024 at 14:37hrs | 460 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's alleged US$2 million birthday under spotlight
The planned US$2 million birthday celebration for President Emmerson Mnangagwa, organized by Zanu-PF, is drawing sharp criticism from both the public and international community. The event, set to mar...Published: 15 Sep 2024 at 11:32hrs | 2034 | by Staff reporter
Foreign tourist arrested in Zimbabwe for spreading 'falsehoods'
Two foreign tourists have been arrested in Masvingo with one charged for allegedly recording a video "falsely" claiming the existence of continued water shortages and power cuts in Zimbabwe while the ...Published: 05 Aug 2024 at 07:33hrs | 2082 | by Staff reporter
Minister's husband running as independent after Zanu PF snub dies in accident
A candidate who was barred from standing in Zanu PF primaries in Gutu West before deciding to stand as an independent has died after his vehicle fell off a bridge.Christopher Mutonhori Rwodzi,...Published: 30 Jun 2023 at 14:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chaos at Masvingo Nomination Court
The nomination court for candidates eyeing National Assembly seats in Masvingo sat today with chaos marring the opposition CCC party led by Mr Nelson Chamisa as members almost traded blows outside the...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 06:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Drama, heartbreak at Nomination Court
ACROSS the country's 10 provinces, aspiring legislators and councillors filed their nomination papers before the closing of the Nomination Courts at 4pm yesterday with drama and heartbreak in some are...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 06:35hrs | 31 | by Staff reporter
10 divorce cases a day in Masvingo
Justice Garainesu Mawadze of the High Court in Masvingo presided over 10 divorce cases in a day from the usual four-five cases a week.A...Published: 20 Dec 2022 at 06:12hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Banks decline requests by MDC Alliance to open accounts?
SENIOR officials in the MDC Alliance in Masvingo Province have claimed that their request to open bank accounts for the opposition party have been turned down by CBZ.Zimbabwe's government has ...Published: 26 Aug 2021 at 19:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora labels Jonathan Moyo as yesterday politician
MDC-T President Douglas Mwonzora has mocked former Zanu-PF chief propagandist Professor Jonathan Moyo saying he was far from being clever as a political strategist.Mwonzora, whose party has a ...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 19:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
98 covid-19 positive out 123 tested: proof test regime wilfully inadequate - 'Seri kweguva!' Still, must learn lessons
Zimbabwe has handled the corona virus pandemic like it has everything else the characteristic blundering incompetence. "Masvingo marked a record single-day increase in the number of Covid-19 c...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 08:32hrs | 6 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mystery of the Mberengwa 'ambula-cart'
AS Zimbabweans wallowed over the weekend in the boredom induced by the second coronavirus lockdown, an unusual but interesting picture went viral on social media.The image featured an ordinary...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 07:57hrs | 21 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
'Zimbabwe not conducive for free and fair elections'
THE Ambrose Mutinhiri-led National Patriotic Front (NPF) wants Southern African Development Community (Sadc) and the African Union (AU) to deploy a peacekeeping force to monitor the situation ahead of...Published: 26 May 2018 at 07:16hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
EU demand 'public condemnation' of Rugeje for threatening 2008 violence - how naïve
I can understand why millions of ordinary Zimbabweans have embraced President Mnangagwa and his coup-cabinet as the real thing, the answer to all their prayers to be liberated from the corrupt, vote r...Published: 13 Jan 2018 at 20:14hrs | 2 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Sex worker walks around town in bra, panties only
GWERU - A woman believed to be a sex worker reportedly caused a stir in Gweru with her occasional strolls in the city centre clad in just a bra and panties.Sources to Masvingo Mirror identifie...Published: 20 Oct 2017 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff Reporter
New machines lying idle at Zimbabwe's State hospitals
Expensive medical equipment acquired by government for its struggling hospitals has been gathering dust for four years, forcing hundreds of patients to seek private services, because there are no tech...Published: 26 Jun 2017 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwenezi villagers engage lawyer as National Parks tries to take over conservancy
Some 200 villagers who lay claim to the Majingwe Wildlife Conservancy in Mwenezi have engaged a lawyer to fight National Parks and Wildlife Authority which they allege is trying to wrestle their proje...Published: 20 Mar 2017 at 05:58hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Daily Old Testament Questions and Answers with Witness Dingani
QN To what extent do men in Zimbabwe suffer in marriages just like Hosea?(25)COMMENT OVERVIEW• The above question might be challenging. The reader will realize that after reading the...Published: 18 Jan 2017 at 13:21hrs | | by Witness Dingani
Sex for a plate of sadza at Mataga Growth Point
The economic hardships at Mataga Growth Point in Mberengwa have become so acute that commercial sex workers and hordes of little girls that have dropped out of school as a result are engaging in sex j...Published: 14 Dec 2016 at 03:47hrs | 14 | by Staff Reporter
Chivi Growth Point goes 6 weeks without water
There are fears of disease outbreaks at Chivi Growth Point where residents have now gone for more than six weeks without water, Masvingo Mirror reported.Chivi District Medical Officer Dr Willi...Published: 22 Nov 2016 at 05:55hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Gwanda Police to be firm on late nightclub closures
The failure by nightclubs to close early and at the stipulated times is one of the factors that has contributed to high crime rate in Gwanda Urban, a senior Police officer has said.Secretary f...Published: 22 Nov 2016 at 05:47hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Activist Tiringindi appeals against conviction
Masvingo human rights defender and chairperson of Masvingo Residents Trust, Prosper Tiringindi who was recently convicted of malicious injury to property together with an accomplice has made an appeal...Published: 05 Nov 2016 at 11:20hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Former Gutu CPS teacher dies in car crash
Factional fights went a gear up when Zanu PF Politiburo member, Paul Mangwana and provincial secretary for commissariat Jeppy Jaboon got close to blows at a Masvingo provincial meeting to assess progr...Published: 18 Oct 2016 at 06:11hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Man stones mother (68) to death over isitshwala/sadza
A man from Chivhu who was furious that his mother had not prepared him isitshwala when he got back home from a neighbouring business center picked up bricks and stoned the later until she collapsed an...Published: 03 Oct 2016 at 09:10hrs | 9 | by Staff Reporter
MP 'receives death threats'
The MP for Chiredzi West, Darlington Chiwa has allegedly received death threats from several people including those in the State security sector for his resistance to the planned takeover of Tongaaat ...Published: 11 Sep 2016 at 13:08hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Man pays $100 fine over $2
A stitch in time saves nine. A 31-year-old man from Chikombezi Village under Chief Zimuto, who slapped a woman after she demanded $2 for the eggs he borrowed was fined $100 for the assault by a Masvin...Published: 08 Sep 2016 at 10:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Black 'Sangoma' possessed by white men's spirit
A self-proclaimed healer from Zaka is possessed by the spirit of two white men that take charge of him from 1am to 8am nearly every day. Although he claims to have only gone as far as grade 5, Elias G...Published: 16 Aug 2016 at 12:56hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Victoria Foods closes branch in Gweru
Some 15 Victoria Foods employees based in Gweru were handed dismissal letters last week by their employer.It is understood that those dismissed include managers.According to one worker...Published: 11 Aug 2016 at 09:29hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Servicing of Clipsham housing stands to be completed by year-end
Work for the servicing of the Clipsham low density residential stands under the Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe is on course and will be completed by year-end.Construction of roads...Published: 10 Aug 2016 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chief forced to return 5 cattle he impounded
Governance issues surrounding traditional leadership came to the fore once again when Chief Serima, born Vengai Rushwaya, was forced to return five herds of cattle he impounded from a man staying in M...Published: 01 Aug 2016 at 08:10hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Town Council managers stay away from work
Three senior Zvishavane Town Council managers have been accused of spending most of their time on trips, sick leave or other missions despite that it is now seven months into the year and the 2016 ann...Published: 26 Jul 2016 at 08:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
General Chiwengwa grace Mbuya Makamure's burial
Mbuya Vongai Makamure who was declared a provincial liberation heroine got a deserved honour when the Commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, General Constantine Chiwenga and his wife Mary Chiwenga ...Published: 26 Jul 2016 at 08:04hrs | 9 | by Staff Reporter
Muchadehama tells investigative journalists to be brave
Prominent human rights lawyer who is also the chairman of the Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe (VMCZ), Alec Muchadehama has called upon investigative journalists to be brave as their work will some...Published: 30 Jun 2016 at 06:50hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
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