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2 in court for stealing relief food
A human resources and administration officer from the Department of Social Development, a depot clerk at the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) in Bindura, and a truck driver have been charged with the theft...Published: 08 Oct 2024 at 07:22hrs | 135 | by Staff reporter
Stock theft prisoner escapes
POLICE in Mashonaland Central are hunting for Aaron Zongororo (25) of Desmond farm, Matepatepa in Bindura who escaped from Bindura prison on Tuesday....Published: 27 Jun 2024 at 23:43hrs | 155 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Senior Civil servant nabbed for poaching
A senior civil servant was last week arrested for poaching after being found in possession of zebra meat at a road block along Harare-Mukumbur...Published: 20 Sep 2023 at 09:06hrs | 2 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Suicidal woman dumps baby and sets house on fire
POLICE in Mashonaland Central have arrested a 22-year-old Bindura woman who attempted to kill herself by setting her bedroom hut ablaze after dumping her 1 year 1-month-old baby in a mining pit....Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 12:32hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Copper cable thieves jailed 60 years
Six copper cable thieves were sentenced to a combined 60 years in jail by Bindura regional magistrate Amos Mbobo yesterday. ...Published: 01 Sep 2022 at 16:39hrs | 5 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Tobacco company employees up for fraud
Two Bindura Tobacco company employees were dragged to court yesterday facing fraud charges.Takudzwa Mubariki (23) and Tiny ...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 20:37hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Chasi returns to private law practice
Former Energy and Power Development minister Fortune Chasi has gone into private practice as a lawyer almost two years after President Emmerson Mnangagwa fired him from his ministerial post.Mn...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Every dog has its day
It was a more-try, maybe in reverse. His name is obvious. Every dog has its day, even the titanic had its demise at the said end of times. Village youth games and clubs were very important and...Published: 10 Feb 2022 at 12:46hrs | 6 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa Matepatepa
We need at least five tractors complete with harrows
That cattle malady Thelerios has rebounded with never before seen determination. Again the few remnant livestock from the first wave are sacuumbing to this dreaded bovine pandemic. Never did w...Published: 10 Feb 2022 at 11:52hrs | | by Tincuts Matepatepa
When electricity is a visitor, not a resident
Electricity where are you? Shall I say Zesa or who? Chinehasha Business Centre and the learning institutions adjacent to the Centre have been without power for about four months now. Indeed fa...Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 18:12hrs | | by Tincuts Chinehasha
Munatsi worked in highly toxic operational environment
THE late Zimbabwe Investment Development Agency (Zida) chief executive Douglas Munatsi - who was close to President Emmerson Mnangagwa- worked in a volatile and toxic political environment around the ...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:16hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Munatsi family still to decide on burial
THE family of prominent banker and businessman Mr Douglas Munatsi is yet to decide on burial arrangements.Mr Munatsi died early on Monday morning in a mysterious fire at his Harare apartment w...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 05:25hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Police keen to question Munatsi's last contact
Police are keen to interview a woman believed to be among the last people to see prominent banker, Mr Douglas Munatsi alive before his death in a mysterious fire at his Harare apartment early Monday m...Published: 01 Dec 2021 at 05:35hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Police probe into death of businessman Douglas Munatsi
MEMORANDUMSUBJECT: SUDDEN DEATH BY FIRE OF DOUGLAS MUNATSI AT NUMBER C9 NORTHFIELDS FLATS, CORNER JOSIAH TONGOGARA AND FIFTH AVENUE, HARAREThis memorandum serves to put on record circu...Published: 30 Nov 2021 at 05:29hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
The clarion call is - back to the fields.
The Second Republic, a new Genesis, a new dawn. This year the Pfumvunza programme is an inputs galore. No household shall retire to bed on empty bellies. The whole of Zimbabwe wanna be a one g...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 09:19hrs | 8 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Bring sanity to the three tier pricing system
"Vabereki" are crying in the village. Most had their payments for maize delivered to GMB paid through banks. The exchange rate for goods and services paid for using mobil money transfer and swipe is p...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 05:40hrs | 4 | by Tondo
Ruya Dam wall needs completion
Ruya Dam at Chinehasha area of Matepatepa in Chiweshe, Mash. Central, is an awesome water-body with great potential to change livelihoods. Massive Irrigation Projects can be set up with amazing result...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 13:41hrs | 1 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Reckless drinking is destroying the youths
Cenosillicaphobia is the fear of having an empty glass of beer, so the seasoned drinker or connoisseur is always topping up the glass with more beer after every swig. Not so with 'Musombo' or 'Kambwa'...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 07:43hrs | 5 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Man commits suicide after being accused of possessing goblins
A 61-year-old man from Torero compound at Ledbury farm in Matepatepa committed suicide after being accused of possessing goblins and blamed for causing mysterious fires at the farm by a traditional he...Published: 26 Aug 2021 at 17:56hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Soldier defrauds district Command Agriculture scheme
A 31-YEAR-OLD Soldier allegedly hatched a plan to defraud Bindura District Command Agriculture Scheme of inputs valued at US$6 400 in connivance with four other accomplices.The soldier Lawrenc...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 18:02hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Hailstorm ravages tobacco in Bindura
ELEVEN tobacco farmers are counting their losses after approximately 15hectares of tobacco was ripped off by a hailstorm that hit the farming community of Matepatepa in Bindura over the weekend....Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 09:19hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
'Inspect dams to avert disasters'
Minister of State for Mashonaland Central Provincial Affairs and Devolution Senator Monica Mavhunga has urged farmers in the province to ensure that their dams are inspected regularly by the Zimbabwe ...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
The white man behind Mnangagwa's Pfumvudza/Intwasa programme
Zimbabweans have embraced the Pfumvudza/Intwasa programme that is turning out to be the trump card for this summer cropping season. However, not many people know the man behind the concept. Last week,...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 08:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZIMTA Mashonaland Central Boss Acquitted
Zimbabwe TeachersÂ’ Association (ZIMTA) Mashonaland Central Provincial Executive Officer Lewis Banda (55) and his co-accused Tafadzwa Muchenje (33) have been acquitted by Magistrate Mrs Chifamba after...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 10:13hrs | | by Lloyd Mangoh
Chasi excelled as Energy Minister, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has inadvertently admitted he fired a competent minister, Fortune Chasi, who ensured the country had uninterrupted power supplies during his tenure.Chasi was relie...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
A non winning horse is a liability to Uncle Sam
The writing is on the wall and the die has been cast. Big brother has changed his mind. The seemingly charismatic but useless yet hopeful youthful presidential aspirant seem to have lost favour in the...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 20:27hrs | | by Gabarinocheka
He taught us to listen, not simply hear
Murisa Village in Chiweshe, Mash. Central was plunged into great mourning after the passing on of Morris Murisa, a grandfather, father, bee farmer, unifier and fountain of wisdom. He was 'literally a ...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 22:33hrs | | by Thomas Tondorindo Murisa
Abusing NSSA funds is no different from witchcraft
Abusing NSSA funds is never different from witchcraft especially considering that NSSA pensioners are wallowing in abject poverty. The once off cushioning payout they received this month did h...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:33hrs | | by Tondorindo
Should the Marriage Certificate incorporate an Expiry Date?
This may induce laughter then extreme anger as it steeps and sink in. There is this other person, a fellow human being who thinks the Marriage Certificate should have an expiry date, yes, expiry so an...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 12:18hrs | | by Tondorindo
At sixty years its not death but expiry
In reality, at sixty years one does not die but 'expires'. It is age at which one has done it all and seen it all hence retirement and peacefully waiting for God. Having said that, NSSA pensio...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 21:03hrs | | by Gabarinocheka
Some dreams are so strong they can be real
At a time most workers are jostling to present their requests for pay rise on the back drop of soaring prices of goods and services, NSSA pensioners can only watch. Not because silence mean co...Published: 18 May 2019 at 08:50hrs | | by Gabarinocheka
The oldest profession is no profession
Reports of two members of the ZNA dying in Bindura at the hands of gold panners is very sad. Some got injured during the fracas in which machetes, knives and an assortment of weapons were used...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 09:00hrs | | by Tondorindo
Make bread 'reachable' to NSSA pensioners
This morning today, yes, today at around 9 a.m Mr Marufu a NSSA pensioner walked in front of me into a local supermarket in our area for bread. The senior citizen headed straight for the deli ...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 16:50hrs | | by Gabarinocheka
Sons and daughters of the soil
The former white commercial farmers will be receiving compensation for lost farms soon, or so it is said. This is happening when gratuities or tokens of appreciation for war collaborators are still a ...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 06:37hrs | 5 | by Tondo
A yawn, a cough and the shaking of heads
It would be a noble idea for NSSA pensioners to form or have a representative body or committee to 'ring fence' their interests and push for a living pension payout. As of now these elders 'have no vo...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 15:05hrs | | by Gabarinocheka
Fuel crisis grounds road projects
THE on-going fuel crisis has crippled road construction projects, as contractors say they are failing to complete works within the required time frame.Briefing journalists during a tour of roa...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 00:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Social media, a blessing or curse?
Social media, its a free for all with gossipers, rumour mongers, 'tweemboz and netizens' all trying to bring out the supposedly scoop on breaking news. Despite the whispering from the sixth sens...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 09:40hrs | | by Tondorindo
Multi-million dollar theft of tax payer's money exposed
Whistleblower Prisca Mutema has exposed an alleged multi-million dollar theft of taxpayers money involving government paymaster Brighton Chiuzungo and Ngoni Masoka who served as the permanent Secretar...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 10:29hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bonus payment for NSSA pensioners?
Last year around this time NSSA pensioners were 'whistling and ululating' after receiving a 13th pension payout (bonus). This year it seems different, the 'cheer' appears to have been taken away from ...Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 06:47hrs | | by Tondo Gabarinocheka
ZANU PF activists in court over political violence
Two Bindura ZANU PF activists are set to appear at Bindura magistrate court today after they reportedly assaulted MDC supporters who were pasting their president's posters in Matepatepa.Vengai...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 09:48hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Champion Mugweni for Mazowe North
The Zanu-PF 'MP Designate' for Mazowe North in Mashonaland Central, Campion Mugweni stands for development and progress. The young and vibrant comrade exudes confidence and visible hope for our consti...Published: 14 Jun 2018 at 12:30hrs | | by Tondorindo Murisa
Campion Mugweni for Mazoe North
Mazoe North in Mash Central has spoken, Comrade Champion Mugweni for Mazoe North. As Team Zanu-PF matches forward, let's rally behind our chosen parliamentary candidate for unity and development. ...Published: 28 May 2018 at 12:55hrs | 1 | by Thomas Murisa
Kasukuwere lose farm property
FORTY-THREE head of cattle belonging to Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare ministry secretary Ngoni Masoka are set to go under the hammer today to pay off a debt he owes to the Zimbabwe Farmers...Published: 28 Aug 2017 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge-Bulawayo highway to be dualised
Government is expected to announce the winning bidder for the dualisation of Beitbridge -Harare and Harare-Chirundu highways in the next two weeks after which work on the massive projects will start. ...Published: 12 Oct 2015 at 06:13hrs | | by Tendai Mugabe
Transport Minister embarks on nationwide roads' tour
Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Joram Gumbo has embarked on a countrywide tour of assessing the state of the roads with a view to see areas that require urgent attention.His...Published: 08 Oct 2015 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Peace monitors express concern over Zanu-PF intra-party clashes
THE Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has expressed concern over the upsurge in cases of intraparty clashes with 299 cases recorded in the month of July as the country's main political parties Zanu-PF and...Published: 02 Sep 2014 at 09:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Land reform Zim economy's game changer'
The land reform programme is a game changer in Zimbabwe's economy that has resulted in the positive transformation of people's livelihoods.New farmers in Mashonaland Central are creating vast employme...Published: 14 Oct 2013 at 03:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Meal gives away 8-man armed robbery gang
EIGHT suspected robbers armed with machetes on Thursday afternoon raided a game park in Bindura and stole five guns and other valuables before forcing a 69-year-old housemaid to prepare them food at g...Published: 16 Mar 2013 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe's Defence Forces Day speech: Full text
Full text of President Robert Mugabe's speech to mark Defence Forces Day delivered at the National; Sports Stadium on August 14, 2012:...Published: 15 Aug 2012 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Robert Gabriel Mugabe
Their bones shall rise
LAST Wednesday, the High Court in Bulawayo ruled that the exhumation of thousands of bodies dumped in disused mineshafts at Chibondo by the Rhodesians during the liberation war, be discontinued....Published: 13 Apr 2011 at 10:17hrs | | by Alex Kanengoni
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