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Shona teacher terrorises pupils at Nejambezi Secondary school
A Shona speaking teacher by the name Huggins Makiwa based at Nejambezi Secondary school situated 28 km from Victoria Falls town is reportedly terrorising pupils that he teaches, by constantly remindin...Published: 1 min ago | | by MRP
Evidence that Shonas arrived in Zimbabwe 300 years ago (1700's)
Dr. George MacCall Theal, Translator of Portuguese Documents to EnglishLet us start off t...Published: 24 hrs ago | 5747 | by Ndzimu-unami Emmanuel Moyo, PMP
Chiefs, pastors meet on Gukurahundi
THE Zimbabwe Council of Churches last week held a consultative meeting with chiefs and church leaders to support the Government's efforts in bringing national healing and reconciliation through the Na...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 21:11hrs | 336 | by Staff reporter
Orap Zenzele Isuzu Champions Cup continues to grow
TREMENDOUS progress has been made in the Orap Zenzele Champions Cup over the years since its inception in 2014.This was said by Mike Blatch, the principal representative of Auto World Zimbabwe...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 21:06hrs | 115 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe discovers rare minerals
Zimbabwe sits on bountiful and lucrative deposits of minerals known as rare-earth elements (REE), some of which sell for more than US$1 000 for a single kilogram and where investors are seeking altern...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 21:03hrs | 1355 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland - Zimbabwe border to be redrawn with blood
It must be unequivocally stated that Matabeleland is our motherland. We we will never seek Mnangagwa or any other Shona supremacist's permission to restore her independence and sovereignty.On ...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 17:17hrs | 4090 | by Israel Dube
MRP engages it's grassroots in Bulawayo
Mthwakazi Republic Party "MRP" yesterday held a public meeting in Ward 28 Cowdray park Bulawayo's biggest Ward. The meeting was held as part of the party's restructuring exercise as well as thanking t...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 17:10hrs | 395 | by MRP
Obedingwa Mguni buried
Former Home Affairs Deputy Minister and Mangwe legislator, Obedingwa Mguni has been buried at his rural home in Macingwane, amid glowing tributes of his humility and impeccable work ethic.Judg...Published: 22 Jun 2019 at 20:30hrs | 2712 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe energy master plan anchored on solar'
THE government said it has developed a rural electrification master plan, mainly anchored on harnessing solar power that will see most rural communities electrified by 2030.This was said by En...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:30hrs | 1001 | by Staff reporter
1 200 get employment at Zupco
THE revival of the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) has created jobs for more than 1 200 people and more drivers and conductors are set to be hired countrywide starting next month. Zu...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:17hrs | 1021 | by Staff reporter
Mguni declared liberation war hero
FORMER Home Affairs Deputy Minister and Mangwe MP, Obedingwa Mguni, who died on Tuesday has been declared a liberation war hero and will be buried at his homestead tomorrow. Mguni (57), who wa...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:16hrs | 802 | by Staff reporter
9 to contest in Lupane East by-election
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has said preparations for the Lupane East constituency by-election are at an advanced stage after nine candidates successfully filed their papers at the Nominat...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 07:53hrs | 792 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF mourns 'humble cadre' Mguni
Zanu-PF has sent a condolence message to the Mguni family following the death of Deputy Chief Whip and legislator for Mangwe Obedingwa Mguni in Harare on Tuesday. Mguni, who was also Zanu-PF p...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 07:52hrs | 384 | by Staff reporter
Zapu youth leader dies
THE opposition Zapu party has again been plunged in mourning following the death of its youth leader Thamani Ncube in a road traffic accident last week.Ncube died on Saturday in an accident th...Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 17:05hrs | 5438 | by Staff reporter
Cops acquitted in $5 bribery case
Two Matabeleland North highway patrol police officers who were facing abuse of office charges for allegedly receiving a $5 bribe from a bus conductor have been acquitted.The two officers, Noms...Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 17:04hrs | 971 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF will lose'
Zanu PF will lose in the Lupane East by-election in August because of breach of processes done in the selection of its candidate, a frustrated aspirant has declared. It has since emerged that&...Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 20:07hrs | 6096 | by Staff Reporter
BREAKING: Zanu PF legislator dies
A Zanu PF legislator from Matabeleland South has reportedly died after falling ill in Parliament on Tuesday. The name of the legislator has been withheld pending confirmation.More deta...Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 20:03hrs | 10152 | by Staff Reporter
MDC bigwig crashes his Toyota Hilux
On Monday this week, the MDC said its chairman for Matabeleland South Solani Moyo had crashed his vehicle, a Toyota Hilux, while travelling from rural Plumtree to Bulawayo. He is in a stable c...Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 19:27hrs | 5781 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's Obedingwa Mguni collapses and dies?
FORMER Deputy Home Affairs Minister Obedingwa Mguni reportedly collapsed and died late Tuesday. While officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were not immediately available for comment, N...Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 19:23hrs | 9201 | by newzimbabwe.com
Drummond Ranch: A tale of modern-day slavery
A WATERBORNE disease outbreak is looming at Beitbridge-based Drummond Ranch following revelations that workers are forced to drink unpurified water from an inland dam at the farm.The workers a...Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 08:08hrs | 2262 | by Nkululeko Sibanda
Police bust Plumtree cattle rustling syndicate
POLICE in Plumtree have smashed a cattle rustling syndicate operating in Bulilima and Mangwe districts that reportedly stole over 200 beasts.This follows the arrest last week of alleged gang l...Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 08:07hrs | 1362 | by Staff reporter
'Matabeleland should be renamed Guruuswa'
President of The African Democrats (TAD) Marco F Machona has called for the compensation of Shona people by the Ndebele for what he Ndebele invasion under the leadership of King Mzilikazi. Mac...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 11:36hrs | 6208 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Man returns returns $100,000 accident scene cash
A Good Samaritan on Saturday retrieved over US$100 000 and three pistols which he handed over to a security company whose cash-in-transit vehicle had been involved in a fatal accident near Lupane. ...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 09:20hrs | 1402 | by Staff reporter
Ingwebu's remarkable turnaround
BULAWAYO Municipal Commercial Undertaking (BMCU)'s beverages manufacturing unit, Ingwebu Breweries, which has close to a decade been reeling under massive losses, has had a remarkable turnaround....Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 09:38hrs | 615 | by Sytaff reporter
High Court blocks teacher deportation
THE High Court has temporarily blocked the deportation of a Canadian expatriate teacher at John Tallach High School in Ntabazinduna pending the resolution of issues to do with the refusal by immigrati...Published: 15 Jun 2019 at 10:28hrs | 3711 | by Staff reporter
Police deployed to quell bloody gold wars
The government is deploying more police officers to mining areas to deal with the violent clashes between illegal miners popularly referred to as makorokoza. The deployment follows an upsurge ...Published: 15 Jun 2019 at 08:31hrs | 393 | by Staff Reporter
Cop arrested after high speed chase
A POLICE officer, who allegedly led a heist at former Gwanda mayor, Knowledge Ndlovu's Ettrick Mine and allegedly stole gold ore worth thousands of United States dollars, was reportedly arrested after...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 08:01hrs | 1752 | by Staff reporter
Zapu urges supporters to attend Gukurahundi hearings
ZAPU has urged its supporters and Gukurahundi victims to attend hearings on national healing to share accounts of the 1980s mass killings to ensure the "truth is not hidden".The opposition par...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 07:58hrs | 356 | by Staff reporter
Government lays out Gukurahundi exhumations & reburials procedure
GOVERNMENT has said no Gukurahundi exhumations and reburials should be carried out until the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) completes consultations on how the process should be un...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 07:52hrs | 321 | by Staff reporter
School sues Minister Cain Mathema over deportation
John Tallach High School has taken Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Cain Mathema to court challenging the looming deportation of its Canadian expatriate teacher following the refusal by imm...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 08:07hrs | 2372 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police buy 4 000 AKs, sniper rifles
POLICE have acquired an assortment of weapons - including 3 343 AK-47 assault rifles and about 600 sniper rifles - as they prepare to quell looming street protests against President Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 07:43hrs | 1174 | by Staff reporter
Haulage truck carrying cobalt overturns, killing one
One person died, while several others were injured on Monday when a South Africa-bound haulage truck carrying bags of cobalt veered off the road, overturned and landed on its roof at the 60km peg alon...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 07:11hrs | 1888 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa and the pretence to unity
AT the burial of liberation icon Dr Dumiso Dabengwa in Ntabazinduna recently, MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa postured as a unifying figure vowing to work towards uniting the people of Zimbabwe....Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 06:59hrs | 744 | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Chief Binga dies
CHIEF Binga of Binga District in Matabeleland North has died. He was 74. Born Siakateya Siakulya Gasita, Chief Binga died at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo on Wednesday last ...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 06:59hrs | 1058 | by Staff reporter
BCC decommissions main supply dam
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has decommissioned one of its main supply dams, Upper Ncema, as the city's water situation continues to deteriorate. However, the 48-hour water shedding schedule will remai...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 06:58hrs | 359 | by Staff repoirter
Bail for fake CIO officers
THREE men from Kwekwe who allegedly masqueraded as officers from the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) sent by President Mnangagwa to take over a mine in Shangani were yesterday granted bail of ...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 06:57hrs | 767 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Lupane East candidate bites policeman
Zanu-PF Lupane East by election candidate Mbongeni Dube has a pending criminal case over violence after engaging in a fist fight with a police officer, it has emerged.Dube was controversially ...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 22:41hrs | 3415 | by Staff Reporter
Sindiso Mazibisa leaves MDC
This is it. The wait is over. While I do not have a legal duty to issue this personal and political announcement I know that a moral and political reposes upon me to do so. Deliberately I am doing so ...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 16:19hrs | 3922 | by Sindiso Mazibisa
Zapu Presidency Refutes Speculations on the Leadership Storm and Factions
The Zapu Presidency wishes to categorically dismiss the so called looming leadership storm following the death of its President Dumiso Dabengwa. Whereas speculations are expected after the fall of any...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 12:07hrs | 1249 | by Mkhululi Zulu - Zapu Presidential Spokesperson
Man loses R500k to armed robbers
A BEITBRIDGE man on Sunday reportedly lost more than half a million rand to armed robbers, who shot him seven times before driving away in his car.Muchineripi Hlaringo, a known money-changer a...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 07:16hrs | 2796 | by Staff reporter
Death in fight for hooker at brothel
POLICE in Hwange have arrested four people, two of them twin brothers, for allegedly fatally assaulting an unidentified man at a brothel in Hwange. The brothers Ashford and Joseph Nasile...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 06:58hrs | 779 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's name used in illegal mine takeover bid
THREE Kwekwe men have been arrested for allegedly masquerading as officers from the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) sent by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to take over a mine in Shangani. ...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 06:57hrs | 348 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland independence will come through the barrel of the gun
That Matabeleland will be an independent state very soon is no longer a question of if or how, but a mere when.One bullet one settler, one necklace one traitor! That is the trajectory the revo...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 07:39hrs | 3828 | by Israel Dube
'Chinese bosses beat up Zimbabwean workers'
THE Amalgamated Mine Workers' Union of Zimbabwe (Amuz) has accused Chinese investors of allegedly abusing workers and failing to adhere to the country's laws. Giving his solidarity messa...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 07:17hrs | 1647 | by Staff reporter
Smugglers wreak havoc in Plumtree
PLUMTREE villagers say they are being terrorised by gangs involved in the smuggling of goods from neighbouring Botswana who rob them of their valuables.The smugglers, who operate from illegal ...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:45hrs | 1802 | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa's story is one of dream betrayal
The passing of Dumiso Dabengwa comes as a reminder to all of us that our dreams of a peaceful and prosperous Zimbabwe were betrayed from the beginning.The fact that we were all conned by the g...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:45hrs | 1519 | by Staff reporter
Chief Ndiweni pushes for Dabengwa honour
OUTSPOKEN Matabeleland North traditional leader Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni has said local traditional leaders are working on rewarding the late national hero Dumiso Dabengwa's clan with a chieftainship....Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:38hrs | 1015 | by Staff reporter
Reflections on the life of Dr Dumiso Dabengwa: highs and lows
Chief spies are not famous for mingling easily with the public: they tend to be aloof; secretive and in glamorised Western films have notoriety for keeping everyone guessing about everything in the wo...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:36hrs | 318 | by Dr Mandla Nyathi
31 year old selected Zanu-PF Lupane East candidate
THE Zanu-PF Matabeleland North Province has unanimously endorsed the candidature of Mbongeni Dube (31) the current National deputy secretary for education from the Youth League to represent the party ...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 08:16hrs | 1600 | by Staff reporter
Veteran Freedom Fighter who escaped the Rhodesian hangman's noose
The former Zanu-PF Member of Parliament for Nkayi Constituency who served between 1995 and 2000 belongs to the first group of freedom fighters that was trained in the People's Republic of China. The g...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 08:14hrs | 1039 | by Staff reporter
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