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How Bulawayo's townships reflect city's rich Ndebele heritage
IN 1894, Bulawayo had just one African township. Today, the city boasts close to twenty townships in the western suburbs. Bulawayo's first African township was Makokoba, also known as the "Location" o...Published: 02 Nov 2024 at 08:39hrs | 749 | by Fredrick Qaphelani Mabikwa
Generation Z-led initiatives transform Highlanders
In today's rapidly changing world, the importance of youth leadership and the renewal of ideas cannot be overstated, particularly in the realm of sports organisations like Highlanders Football Club....Published: 11 Oct 2024 at 15:54hrs | 140 | by Tinashe Rufu
Touts and drivers bid fare well to their own
A large crowd of drivers and touts gathered at Umvutshwa Cemetery to bid farewell to Thembelani "Texas" Thwala, a well-known minibus owner from Matshobana. Thwala, a beloved figure in the loca...Published: 09 Sep 2024 at 13:24hrs | 2318 | by Staff reporter
King Mzilikazi preserved his heritage
South African historian, musician, and versatile creative Mbuso Khoza highlights that when Ndebele King Mzilikazi Khumalo kaMatshobana departed from what is now Zululand in 1821 after breaking away fr...Published: 08 Sep 2024 at 09:41hrs | 112 | by Staff reporter
Zesa switches off 17 Bulawayo Suburbs
A TOTAL of 17 Suburbs in Bulawayo will be without electricity for about 7hours between 9am to 4.30pm due to maintenance work.In a statement on X, The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Dist...Published: 27 Aug 2024 at 12:43hrs | 1286 | by Staff reporter
Preparations for King Mzilikazi commemoration underway
Preparations are underway for the 22nd annual commemoration of King Mzilikazi, known as "Umgubho weNkosi uMzilikazi," celebrating the rich Ndebele culture and identity. Organizers have begun c...Published: 12 Jul 2024 at 08:24hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Preparations for King Mzilikazi commemorations begin
Preparations are underway for 'Umgubho wenkosi uMzilikazi', the annual commemorations marking 156 years since the death of King Mzilikazi, founder of the Ndebele nation. The event will be held...Published: 22 Jun 2024 at 11:40hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa cannot run for a third term or benefit from term limit extension'
Zimbabwe's constitution prohibits President Emmerson Mnangagwa from running for a third term, as it limits the incumbent to two terms and forbids extensions, according to a legal expert, Matshobana Nc...Published: 24 Feb 2024 at 13:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
More water woes for Bulawayo
BULAWAYO residents should brace themselves for more water woes after the local authority announced a disruption in supply across the city due to maintenance works at Ncema Works and Pump Station....Published: 15 Jan 2024 at 05:14hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Western suburbs in power blackout
Today, Thursday, residents in the western suburbs of Bulawayo will experience a power outage from 9:30 am until approximately 3 pm. This outage is necessary for scheduled maintenance.The affec...Published: 26 Oct 2023 at 15:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ezra Tshisa changed Freddie Gwala's life
Zumba musician, Freddie Gwala, also known as Amadamara, is forever grateful to Zimbabwean veteran DJ Ezra Tshisa Sibanda for introducing him to the Zimbabwean crowd.Gwala successfully launched...Published: 13 Oct 2023 at 07:47hrs | 38 | by Staff reporter
Freddie Gwala sends solidarity message to Highlanders
As more acknowledgements from high-profile figures pour in for Zimbabwean football giants Highlanders, pressure for them to maintain their momentum on the local scene is also equally intensifying....Published: 15 Aug 2023 at 21:34hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Dembare fan found dead at Barbourfields Stadium after Saturday match
Employees of the City of Bulawayo made a distressing find at Barbourfields Stadium on Monday – the body of a 47-year-old Dynamos supporter apparently left behind as the stadium emptied following the...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 21:41hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Incomplete Luveve Road riles councillors
BULAWAYO councillors have expressed concern over Luveve Road rehabilitation project which has taken long to be completed.Their concerns were revealed in the latest council minutes.Coun...Published: 15 Jun 2023 at 07:39hrs | 42 | by Staff reporter
Mum stumbles on daughter indulging in sex on her bed
A WOMAN from Matshobana suburb in Bulawayo collapsed after she allegedly caught her daughter indulging in sex with her lover on her matrimonial bed.The incident happened this week on Tuesday a...Published: 03 Mar 2023 at 18:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
BCC starts repairing Luveve Road
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has started rehabilitating some sections of Luveve Road that are now impassable due to potholes that have been worsened by the rains.The local authourity needs US$9...Published: 12 Jan 2023 at 07:35hrs | 7 | by Staff Reporter
BCC proposes stringent by-laws
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has proposed new stringent by-laws that will see impounded vehicles unclaimed for 30 days being auctioned while dirty ones will be removed from the city roads or any area u...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe banishes death penalty
IT'S been 6 273 days since Zimbabwe hanged a condemned person. For the gruesome murder of Themba Nkiwane, the High Court sentenced Never Masina Mandlenkosi to death in 2002 and he was executed...Published: 24 Sep 2022 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chief Fuyana: The warrior who delivered the fatal blow on Major Allan Wilson
DEEP down in the hills of rural Matobo District sits Mbembeswana, a humble and unassuming village. But, humble as it may appear, it is where the remains of one of the greatest Ndebele warriors, Chief ...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
SRC flagged offside
FORMER Zifa president Vincent Pamire has flagged the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) offside over the lifting of a ban on some of the Zifa board members before the forensic audit on the country...Published: 10 Jun 2022 at 07:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
33% drop in Bulawayo diarrhoea cases
THE City of Bulawayo has recorded a 33% decrease in diarrhoea cases from 148 in March to 97 in April this year.Latest Bulawayo City Council minutes state that although the city is still experi...Published: 06 Jun 2022 at 09:34hrs | 13 | by Staff Reporter
Vic Falls Town Clerk acquitted
THE State has withdrawn before plea, charges of criminal abuse of duty as a public officer against Victoria Falls Town Clerk Mr Ronnie Dube for lack of evidence.Hwange magistrate Ms Barbara Ph...Published: 11 Nov 2021 at 06:20hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Residents resist BCC tariff hikes
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) yesterday bowed to pressure from residents and slightly slashed its proposed 2022 budget by $900 million, with the tariff regime going down by 16 percent.During las...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Sand poachers degrade Bulawayo
RAMPANT sand poaching and chopping down of trees is causing environmental degradation in and around Bulawayo amid revelations that the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) only has five rangers instead of 74 n...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 05:53hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
BCC commits $43,7m to refurbishments
BULAWAYO City Council has utilised only $43,7 million out of the $63,5 million devolution funds that the city was allocated from 2019 to 2021.This was revealed in the 2021 budget review statem...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pathisa Nyathi, the forgetful man who reminds us about our heritage
"HELLO. I will be with you in a moment. I just want to finish this sentence," Pathisa Nyathi told a news crew that visited him at his home in Gwabalanda last week.Nyathi, who was seated in the...Published: 26 Jun 2021 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo epicentre of culture, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday said Bulawayo remains the country's epicentre of creative arts and a hot pot of diverse cultures and convergence of histories which confirms that Zimbabwe is a Unitary St...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 07:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers dig in to fight Mnangagwa
AS the government moved today to gazette controversial constitutional amendments to help President Emmerson Mnangagwa consolidate power as part of his 2023 re-election bid, agitated lawyers are diggin...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls Town Clerk to spend weekend in cells
VICTORIA Falls Town Clerk Ronnie Dube, who is facing a charge of criminal abuse of duty as a public officer, will spend the weekend in cells awaiting his bail ruling on Monday. Dube (54) was arrested ...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Broadcasters should speak all national languages'
Reaching 90 years of age on March 15 this year , retired veteran broadcaster and national languages enthusiast Amon Nyamambi, better known on the airwaves as 'uMaqhulayibambe' his grandfather's name, ...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:26hrs | 4 | by John Masuku
Residents livid with US$1,7m water levy
OVER 1 000 Bulawayo residents yesterday petitioned the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to come clean on the US$1,7 million raised from a water levy development initiative.The residents suspect tha...Published: 18 Mar 2021 at 05:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Flashy lifestyle exposes 'thieving maid'
AN insatiable appetite for a "flashy" lifestyle by a Bulawayo maid attracted the attention of the police, leading to her arrest on allegations of stealing US$23 000 from her employer.Bulawayo ...Published: 04 Mar 2021 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BCC exhausts US$33 million AfDB allocation
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) says it has exhausted the US$33 million received from the African Development Bank (AfDB) on various projects, forcing the contractor working on the Epping Forest water...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nodumo Nyathi never asked for favours
THE chairman of the Highlanders South African Supporters Chapter Nodumo Nyathi says he never asked for any favours from the Bulawayo giants after he led a spirited fundraising campaign to clear the cl...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Urgent Funding Appeal for Bulawayo Boreholes Drilling Project
The 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM) hereby makes an urgent public funding appeal via Gofun...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 19:26hrs | 1 | by 1893 Bayethe Board of Directors
'Chamisa should seriously consider forming another party'
A ZIMBABWEAN human rights lawyer says the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa is unlikely to seek a court order to stop the Thokozani Khupe MDC-T from using the Alliance to f...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 19:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ndebele 'King' Bulelani Khumalo hits back at Mnangagwa
Leading claimant to the Ndebele throne Bulelani Lobengula KaMzilikazi has hit back at Presidnet Emmerosn Mnangagwa over his statements that he will never allow the revival of the Ndebele Kingdom....Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 09:14hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
When a Nguni Kingship chases his own agenda to undo other Ndebele Kings
We have been saying it for a long time that the Nguni Kings are chasing their own agenda but will want to ride at the backs of the Ndebele populations so that they get recognition by Zanu Government. ...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 17:11hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa says no to Ndebele king
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says his government will not allow the reviving of a Ndebele king or any other kingdom under his rule.He was addressing a Zanu-PF Midlands Provincial Coordinating ...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
MRP petitions govt over police harassment
SECESSIONIST Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has petitioned government to register its displeasure over harassment and physical abuse of Bulawayo residents by State security agents, particularly at roa...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ndebele villages or regiments: Organisational units within the state
FOR about 25 weeks now we have been investigating the phenomenon of naming, initially starting off at the cosmic level but later getting down to the terrestrial plane. Our interest has been to investi...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:56hrs | 2 | by Pathisa Nyathi
Why Bulawayo will not get a Commission
Some section of Bulawayo residents congregated at Bulawayo City Hall on Monday and passed a resolution that they want the Bulawayo City Councillors to be fired and replaced with a Commission to run th...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 18:11hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Bosso chairman okayed CEO contract termination letter'
SUSPENDED Highlanders executive committee members, Modern Ngwenya and Israel Moyo have argued that the club has failed to point at the exact stipulations of the constitution that are being used to cha...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Highlanders hearing turns into nightmare for Bosso supremo
WHAT was supposed to be a routine evidentiary participation by the Highlanders FC chairman, Kenneth Mhlophe, turned into a nightmare yesterday when the disciplinary committee presiding over the suspen...Published: 18 May 2019 at 08:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
More fuel supplies for Bulawayo
BULAWAYO will during the internationally-acclaimed exhibition, the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) receive adequate fuel supplies to ensure the smooth running of the show, officials have said...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 14:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man catches daughter pants down with neighbour
A MAN from Matshobana in Bulawayo was arrested after he severely beat his daughter and her boyfriend whom he found having sex in his house.Zanele Hadebe (22) brought her neighbour cum boyfrien...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 01:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Abducted boy dies in hospital
A FAMILY from Matshobana suburb in Bulawayo was plunged into mourning after their 18-year-old son was abducted by unknown men who severely beat him and he later died at a hospital. A dejected ...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Vocational training for Bulawayo women and girls
Inspire Women and Children is excited to announce that its long-anticipated inaugural vocational training school will commence on Monday the 7th of January here i...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 11:56hrs | 10 | by Staff Reporter
Christmas Eve Murder!... Neighbourhood watch members beat man to death
A 23-year-old man from Cowdray Park was on Christmas Eve found dead after he was allegedly attacked by an angry mob including a prison officer and members of the neighbourhood watch committee. ...Published: 27 Dec 2018 at 07:44hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Man fatally stabs uncle with kitchen knife on Christmas Eve
A JAILBIRD from Bulawayo's Matshobana suburb fatally stabbed his uncle with a kitchen knife following a dispute revolving around a protection order granted against him. The incident occurred o...Published: 27 Dec 2018 at 07:38hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
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