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Zimbabwe schools appeal for PPE donations
THE Primary and Secondary Education ministry has appealed to the corporate sector to assist in the provision of COVID-19 equipment as schools open for examination classes later this month.Spea...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:46hrs | 478 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa promises funds for Bulawayo
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has promised to release funds for Bulawayo to address its perennial water challenges.According to the latest Bulawayo City Council minutes, Mnangagwa wants an end ...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 20:10hrs | 2327 | by Staff reporter
Role of government and Matabeleland Collective under scrutiny
For decades, successive Zanu-PF governments have attempted to introduce developmental and political programmes in Matabeleland without consulting the locals. In all instances these programmes ...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 11:01hrs | 735 | by Lovemore Moyo
Food crisis worsens in rural Matabeleland
THE food security situation in most parts of Matabeleland has reportedly worsened amid reports that some families are now only surviving on a single meal a day.According to the latest survey b...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 10:51hrs | 420 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to launch issuance of documents in Gukurahundi affected areas
THE exercise to officially launch the issuance of civic documents in communities affected by post-independence disturbances in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces will be held at Maphisa Growth Point ...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:30hrs | 237 | by Staff reporter
'Khami Dam sewage water good for drinking'
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has said tests have certified that Khami Dam water meets acceptable standards for drinking and is also considering a new aquifer which can supply the city with about 40 meg...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 07:26hrs | 735 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to launch programme at Gukurahundi hot spot
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is soon expected to launch a documentation programme for Gukurahundi victims in Matabeleland South province.This was revealed by the leader of the Matabeleland Col...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 18:07hrs | 2178 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa must apologise for Gukurahundi,' says Jenni Williams
UNDER FIRE Matabeleland Collective leader, Jenni Williams has challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to issue a public apology over the Gukurahundi atrocities committed by government soldiers during ...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 06:59hrs | 2238 | by newzimbabwe
Kezi Clinic lies derelict 10 years on
KEZI Clinic in Matobo District, Matabeleland South province, has been lying derelict for more than 10 years after local communities contributed material resources towards its rehabilitation.Ke...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 07:51hrs | 1119 | by Staff reporter
Man found dead along highway
A MAN from Nkayi in Matabeleland North was on Monday found lying dead along the Victoria Falls-Bulawayo road in Nyamandlovu, shortly after he was discharged from Mpilo Central Hospital where he was ad...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 16:14hrs | 2328 | by Staff reporter
Border-lying communities get tough on returnees
RURAL communities in Matabeleland provinces have taken it upon themselves to curb the increase in imported COVID-19 cases by apprehending returnees from South Africa and Botswana sneaking into the cou...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:39hrs | 804 | by Staff reporter
Why internationals visit Zimbabwe in peak tourist seasons
Zimbabwe reported 1.8 million international visits in 2018. This number was a 4 percent increase from 2017. Why are internationals interested in Zimbabwe, a country located in Southern Africa? The cou...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:12hrs | 352 | by Staff Writer
'Poverty could bring back machete gangs'
DISRUPTION of employment and increasing levels of poverty during the COVID-19 pandemic have forced artisanal small-scale miners to resume their activities, raising fear of the resurfacing of the dread...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:08hrs | 323 | by Staff reporter
20 Maphisa Hospital nurses test positive to COVID-19
TWENTY nurses at Maphisa District Hospital in Matabeleland South province tested positive for coronavirus this week, sending the settlement, predominantly occupied by civil servants, gold miners and p...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:17hrs | 1600 | by Staff reporter
Elderly barred from funerals
COMMUNITY leaders in Matobo have banned pregnant women and the elderly from attending funerals while consumption of food at such events is also no longer permitted as part of strategies adopted to pre...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:16hrs | 685 | by Staff reporter
13 arrests as army, police quash demo
PEACEFUL protesters, among them prominent novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga and MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere, were arrested yesterday as heavily armed soldiers and police crushed the planned pro...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:04hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
Criminals pounce on desperate commuters
POLICE have warned Bulawayo commuters against boarding private vehicles after it emerged that criminals were now driving around offering transport to desperate commuters and robbing them.Last ...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 09:21hrs | 1035 | by Staff reporter
Police tighten lockdown regulations
POLICE have started tightening lockdown regulations especially in major cities with 1 000 people having been arrested in two days for flouting measures that were put in place to deal with rising cases...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:19hrs | 2099 | by Staff reporter
Illegal returnees besiege Matobo, Bulilima
A SURVEY by civil society group, Habakkuk Trust, has revealed that Matobo and Bulilima districts in Matabeleland South were receiving an influx of illegal returnees, mostly from Botswana and South Afr...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 08:48hrs | 1803 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland South Covid-19 situation worrying
The Covid-19 situation in Insiza district is fast developing into a crisis as the number of cases soars. The rise in the number of local cases was alleged...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 07:49hrs | 1071 | by Stephen Jakes
Khupe, Chamisa peace deal on the cards?
THE ugly infighting that has divided the MDC could soon come to an end, amid renewed attempts to unite Thokozani Khupe and Nelson Chamisa ahead of the party's planned extra-ordinary congress.A...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:19hrs | 11929 | by Staff reporter
Dilapidated Gwanda - Maphisa road needs urgent upgrade
THE 66km Gwanda-Maphisa Road remains dilapidated, forcing Government officials and other travellers to drive for 464km via Bulawayo to access the two districts of Matabeleland South Provin...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 20:51hrs | 1115 | by Staff reporter
Chinese company compensates shot employee
A Chinese company whose senior manager shot at an employee over a pay dispute has so far paid out US$20 000 for medical bills towards the victims' family while the Asian national implicated in the cas...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 08:03hrs | 5464 | by Staff reporter
Anxiety as schools open for June exams
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is reportedly ill-equipped to smoothly run the June examinations as the Education ministry has not deployed equipment to combat the spread of COVID-19....Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:48hrs | 1079 | by Staff reporter
MATTER OF FACT: Matopo local leadership blocks eviction of local miner
IN our edition of June 19 2020, we published a story headlined, Matopo local leadership blocks eviction of local miner, where Bulawayo businesswoman Siphiwe GatshaDube claimed that she was being force...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:04hrs | 718 | by Editor
Retail shops reject local currency
Reports from Habakkuk Trust Community Advocacy Action Teams in Matabeleland Province indicate that a significant number of shops are refusing to transact in local currency.The trust in a repor...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 08:24hrs | 3986 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabweans beaten raped and held as slaves in their own country
Zimbabwe is the only country we can call ours in the whole world. There is no other country we can call ours besides Zimbabwe. Having stayed outside Zimbabwe for a long time I became aware of the fact...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 10:35hrs | 2471 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Matopo leadership blocks eviction of local miner by Mashonaland people
A mine wrangle pitting a Bulawayo businesswoman and Mines ministry officials has drawn the attention of Zanu-PF, traditional leaders, ex-combatants, villagers and the opposition from Matabeleland who ...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:45hrs | 1706 | by Staff reporter
MRP, Chief Nyangazonke, Chief Malaba defends Falcon Gold mine from Mashonaland looters
MRP President, Chief Nyangazonke and Chief Malaba join Hands in defending Falcon Gold mine.Today the 18th of June 2020 saw the MRP President Mqondisi Moyo, his members of the Security departme...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 17:02hrs | 1504 | by Velile D Moyo
Government to recruit development officers in Matabeleland
GOVERNMENT has invited applications for 56 vacant posts for community development coordinators in Matabeleland North and South provinces. In a public notice by the Ministry of Women's Affairs,...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 07:23hrs | 721 | by Staff reporter
The Republic of Matabeleland (ROM) beckons
With Ambazonia's final breakthrough in their quest for self-determination, it has become abundantly clear that after experiencing a series of tragedies under Zimbabwe's colonial rule Matabele people c...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 20:15hrs | 2795 | by George Mkhwanazi
Sikhala to lead rolling mass demonstrations against Mnangagwa
AS POLITICAL tensions in the country continue to escalate, combative MDC Alliance deputy chairperson Job "Wiwa" Sikhala has renewed his threat to lead rolling mass demonstrations against President Emm...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 16:45hrs | 5335 | by Staff reporter
VACANCY: 56 job opportunities unveiled in Matabeleland
Team 2020 notes that the Ministry of Women's Affairs Community, Small and Medium Enterprise Development (MWACSMED) has advertised 56 vacancies for Community Development Coordinator in Matebeleland Nor...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 14:49hrs | 3034 | by Team 2020
Preparation for schools opening commences in Matobo
Preparations for the reopening of schools are underway in some rural communities amid fears of an increase in COVID-19 infections. ...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 07:44hrs | 330 | by Stephen Jakes
MDC reaches breaking point
THE MDC's latest ructions have now reached a point of no return, after the party's interim leadership expelled Nelson Chamisa from the movement - in a development that could have far-reaching implicat...Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 17:54hrs | 1188 | by Staff reporter
Justice in traditional courts put on hold
The Covid-19 pandemic has placed the justice system in limbo as traditional courts remain closed in response to the global pandemic.Traditional leaders play a key role in dispute resolution an...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 10:12hrs | 449 | by Stephen Jakes
Fire razes Cecil John Rhodes stables
ONE of the revered relics of the Cecil John Rhodes era, the Rhodes Horse Stables at Matopos National Park in Matabeleland South, was extensively damaged after fire broke out and property worth US$25 0...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 09:04hrs | 613 | by Staff reporter
Khupe, Chamisa escalate mindless wars
IN A surprising development at the weekend, the interim leader of the MDC - Thokozani Khupe - paid a visit to the rural home of the main opposition party's late founding father, Morgan Tsvangirai, as ...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 15:56hrs | 1505 | by Staff reporter
Khupe vows to take over Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House after coronavirus lockdown
INTERIM MDC president Thokozani Khupe, pictured, has upped the ante in the war for the control of the country's main opposition - vowing yesterday that she will eject her rivals from the party's iconi...Published: 26 May 2020 at 20:20hrs | 3308 | by Staff reporter
Lovemore Moyo warns brawling MDC officials
THE former Speaker of Parliament and MDC national chairperson, Lovemore Moyo, has warned brawling MDC officials that they risked losing their relevance unless they urgently heal their rift.Spe...Published: 24 May 2020 at 16:49hrs | 8926 | by Staff reporter
People living with HIV in dilema-ZPP
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has revealed that in a survey conducted in various districts respondents were at pains to explain that people living with HIV and AIDS are struggling to have the recommended...Published: 22 May 2020 at 11:51hrs | 1757 | by Stephen Jakes
Food aid transport fee, a burden to the vulnerable
Rural communities in Matabeleland have expressed concerns over the transport costs incurred in receiving food handouts from Social WelfareAccording to reports obtained from Habakkuk Trust Communit...Published: 22 May 2020 at 11:46hrs | 612 | by Stephen Jakes
Health experts, CSOs warn of spike in COVID-19 cases
HEALTH experts and civil society organisations have warned of a possible spike in COVID-19 cases due to reckless behaviour by citizens who are moving around without masks and ignoring social distancin...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:01hrs | 449 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urges peace in time of coronavirus
President Mnangagwa has urged Zimbabweans to remain peaceful during this time of Covid-19 and avoid endangering the lives of other citizens through illegal demonstrations to score cheap political mile...Published: 21 May 2020 at 07:13hrs | 356 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa castigates illegal demos
President Mnangagwa has urged Zimbabweans to remain peaceful during this time of Covid-19 and avoid endangering the lives of other citizens through illegal demonstrations to score cheap political scor...Published: 21 May 2020 at 07:04hrs | 319 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Social distance burial for Absalom Sikhosana
National hero Absalom Sikhosana was laid to rest at the revered national shrine in Harare on Wednesday at a colourful event president upon by President Emmerson Mnangagwa. The burial was done ...Published: 20 May 2020 at 11:50hrs | 4947 | by Mandla Ndlovu
7 cops arrested for extortion
SEVEN police officers in Gweru were arrested for allegedly extorting cash, fuel and opaque beer from bottle store and shop operators who had allegedly violated lockdown regulations in and around Gweru...Published: 20 May 2020 at 06:53hrs | 747 | by Staff reporter
Sikhosana death 'shakes Zanu-PF'
Vice-President Kembo Mohadi has said the late national hero Absolom Sikhosana was a dedicated and loyal cadre with unquestionable credentials. He made the remarks yesterday while delivering a condolen...Published: 18 May 2020 at 07:23hrs | 3008 | by Staff reporter
Absolom Sikhosana declared national hero
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared Absolom Sikhosana, a Zanu-PF Politburo member who died yesterday a national hero.Sikhosana (70), who was also acting Zanu-PF chairman for Bulawayo Pro...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:20hrs | 467 | by Staff reporter
2 800 malaria cases in Matebeleland South
Matebeleland South province has reported 2 823 cases of malaria and 11 deaths since the beginning of the year, with Beitbridge contributing 89 percent of the cases. In 2019 the province recorded 583 c...Published: 14 May 2020 at 07:30hrs | 490 | by Staff reporter
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