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Zimbabwean boxer relocates to Zambia
Champion boxer-turned-promoter, Charles Manyuchi, has relocated his boxing academy and promotion business to Zambia, citing prohibitive fees in Zimbabwe that make it nearly impossible for promoters to...Published: 20 Sep 2024 at 07:52hrs | 172 | by Staff reporter
6 killed in Bulawayo-Plumtree Highway accident
A tragic accident occurred on Sunday morning along the Bulawayo-Plumtree Highway, where six people died instantly when a Nissan Caravan kombi carrying 19 church congregants veered off the road and ove...Published: 13 Aug 2024 at 07:00hrs | 775 | by Staff reporter
Jubilation as Media Commission opens office in Bulawayo
The Zimbabwe Media Commission marked a significant milestone with the official inauguration of its Bulawayo office on Thursday, hosted at the distinguished Windsor Park Complex. Attended by journalist...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 15:47hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Stolen goods recovered in church building
A caretaker from Plumtree, Ishmael Dube, found himself in legal trouble last week, resulting in the revelation of his stolen possessions hidden within a church building.Dube faced charges at t...Published: 14 Dec 2023 at 12:20hrs | 3 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Another former Dembare executive dies
The world of domestic football has suffered another loss this week with the passing of former Premier Soccer League board member and former Dynamos Treasurer, Harrison Mbewe, at the age of 81. Mr. Mbe...Published: 14 Sep 2023 at 12:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Drunk cop removed from guarding ballot papers at Matebeleland North school
A police officer was removed from guarding election materials at a school in Jambezi, Matebeleland North, after being found asleep and drunk on Sunday.For 30 minutes, senior police officers co...Published: 22 Aug 2023 at 06:40hrs | 23 | by Stafff reporter
Sello Maake kaNcube says Zimbabwe is rebuilding itself brick by brick
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa charmed veteran South African actor Sello Maake kaNcube, who has defied online critics to declare that indeed Zimbabwe is being built brick-by-brick.Maake kaNcube ...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 06:47hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Regional journalists and artists in True Zimbabwe Journalists (Media) Tour
The Zimbabwean government is basking in the glory of a public relations and marketing tour by regional journalists and artists being used as a publicity ploy by the Harare regime ahead of general elec...Published: 10 Aug 2023 at 19:26hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Machete gang lures and rob artisanal miner
Kadoma-based Machete gang, Steward Mbewe, and other two unidentified men robbed a seasoned artisanal miner Farai Chipfunde (25) after luring him from Kadoma to Bindura on Friday.Mbewe contacte...Published: 31 Jul 2023 at 13:43hrs | 6 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
4 bribe-sniffing cops arrested
FOUR police officers have been charged with theft and criminal abuse of duty after being caught red-handed soliciting for a bribe from a motorist and stealing his phone in Harare on Thursday last week...Published: 09 Jan 2023 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Four in soup for masquerading as detectives
Four suspects were arrested yesterday for impersonating CID Drugs and Narcotics detectives. Liberty Chigwida(74), Nyaradzai Chikoore(37), Fungai Matinenga (32) and Savious Mbewe (46) are the four in c...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 08:43hrs | 1 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Pumula Arts Awards nominees unveiled
It is awards season and excitement among artistes is at a fever pitch as they wait with bated breath to see who will triumph. With nominees being unveiled for the Roil Bulawayo Arts Awards, another aw...Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 05:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
19 000 robberies, 3 500 murders rock Zimbabwe
Nearly 19 000 cases of robbery and over 3 500 murders were recorded in Zimbabwe between January 2020 and December 2021, official statistics show.Data obtained from the Zimbabwe National Statis...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bees fend off illegal loggers
Tanaka Ngara (39), who lived in Watsomba village in Zimbabwe's Mutasa district, transformed his fortune through beekeeping, which also successfully helped safeguard his area's dwindling forests....Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 11:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sulu fails to pitch up for show
DENDERA musician Sulumani Chimbetu failed to pitch up for a scheduled family show at Spirtzkop Leisure Centre in Harare on Sunday.Instead, Afro-fusion musician Carlos Green ended up serenading...Published: 15 Feb 2022 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Till operators kill shoplifter
TWO till operators have been arrested after they fatally assaulted a man for shoplifting.Police on their twitter page confirmed the inc...Published: 20 Nov 2021 at 10:46hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
Rwanda keen on Zimbabwean teachers
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has said Zimbabwe and his country share a common history that gives impetus to current efforts to develop the two countries and consolidate existing relations.The...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Serial rapist in court
A KNIFE-WIELDING man who raped and robbed several women in Harare was arraigned before the courts yesterday.The rapist, Bessam Mahosi alias Kudzanai Gwaze Ambewe (37) appeared before magistrat...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sulu in political storm
SULUMANI Chimbetu has apparently always been a political animal, and is often seen in the company of prominent activists. His latest gambit, however, could prove disastrous.Pictures of the den...Published: 12 Jun 2021 at 07:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
UZ student gives minister ultimatum
ALLAN Moyo, a University of Zimbabwe student, has filed an urgent chamber application at the High Court seeking an order to compel the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) to provide the ...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:43hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
23 disappear pending deportation
Authorities are investigating a case in which 23 Malawian border jumpers disappeared from Beitbridge main police station while awaiting transportation to Harare, pending deportation. Two of th...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 05:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
NewsDay senior reporter dies
NEWSDAY senior court reporter Charles Laiton has died. He was 48.Laiton, who is survived by his wife and five children, passed on yesterday mid-morning at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospita...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube, Chiwenga sued over prison conditions
INHUMAN conditions at the country's prisons have been exposed in a court application by human rights lobby group, the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum and a former inmate, Taurai Mbewe who are seeking ...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa adviser's company seeks TV licence
Interviews by the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) for six slots available for free-to-air television licences began on Monday and are expected to run until the 21st of this month.Four...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 06:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa swears in Zimbabwe Media Commission members
President Mnangagwa has sworn in members of the Zimbabwe Media Commission at the State House in Harare.The swearing in ceremony was attended by President Mnangagwa's two deputies Dr Constantin...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 20:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chaos rocks Zanu-PF Tsholotsho DCC polls
CHAOS has reportedly rocked Zanu-PF's Tsholotsho district with aspiring candidates flouting campaign guidelines ahead of the ruling party's district co-ordinating committee (DCC) elections.Zan...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
7 January protesters acquitted
SEVEN people, including an entertainment promoter-cum-DJ, alleged to have taken part in the violent January protests this year, which saw three cars belonging to Zanu-PF Bulawayo provincial Women's Le...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
2,4m Zimbabweans food insecure as drought, rising costs bite
The 150% fuel price hike that sparked mass public unrest across Zimbabwe last month sent the cost of living skyrocketing: the price of bread nearly doubled in a week.Worse is likely to come....Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:14hrs | | by IRIN
Losing MP granted bail
BULAWAYO South Constituency losing independent candidate in last year's harmonised elections Josphat "Mzaca" Ngulube, has been granted bail, in a case where he and 11 others were accused of fanning an...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wrong body buried, family forced to exhume
A NKAYI family in Matabeleland North has been forced to exhume a body of a Mosotho man it buried in December after it emerged that they collected a wrong body from a South African funeral parlour. ...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Losing MP, DJ arrested for burning cars, stoning clinic
BULAWAYO South Constituency losing independent candidate in last year's harmonised elections Josphat "Mzaca" Ngulube and popular former entertainment promoter and DJ Marshal Mpofu have been arrested f...Published: 03 Feb 2019 at 11:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Only 12 months in jail for Bulawayo looters
THREE Bulawayo men who were part of a gang of hooligans that looted and burnt shops during last week's violent protests, were yesterday sentenced to a combined seven years in jail. Liberty Moy...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's ex-minister fights default judgment
FORMER Health deputy minister Edwin Muguti, who was recently slapped with a default judgment for failing to pay over $13 600 in rental arrears for a property he allegedly left infested with pests and ...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hubby's girlfriend stab wife
A BULAWAYO woman was stabbed by her husband's girlfriend after she followed her husband who left their matrimonial home on the pretext of going for drinks with a friend the previous night.Chri...Published: 25 May 2018 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Suspect nabbed after breaking out of police cells
One of the suspects who allegedly broke out of Mvurwi police cells before fleeing together with his three partners in crime on Sunday night was finally arrested on Monday afternoon.Investigati...Published: 14 Feb 2018 at 10:18hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Lightning bolt strikes pupil, woman dead
A GRADE five pupil and a woman from Nkayi died on the spot while three other people suffered serious burns after they were struck by a bolt of lightning.One of the victims is said to be in a c...Published: 05 Feb 2018 at 04:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dembare ownership wrangle re-ignited
The battle to control Dynamos Football Club - one of the oldest football clubs in Zimbabwe - is raging on, seven years after an application was initially launched at the High Court.The case ha...Published: 09 Nov 2017 at 10:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dynamos property goes under hammer
Dynamos Football Club's property, including that belonging to four of its officials, will go under the hammer at an auctioneer in Harare tomorrow to recover part of a $250 000 debt owed to CBZ Bank. ...Published: 03 Nov 2017 at 04:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sulumani's ex wants reconciliation?
ORCHESTRA Dendera Kings leader, Suluman Chimbetu, claims his former wife is continuously taking him to court as a way of forcing him to reconcile with her.Sulu told the court that Marygold Mut...Published: 21 Jun 2017 at 19:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dembare ownership wrangle resurfaces
ALMOST seven years after filing an urgent chamber application seeking to interdict some of the Dynamos Football Club's founding fathers from interfering with the club's operations, the matter still re...Published: 28 May 2017 at 09:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Methembe set for dugout return
BANTU Rovers director Methembe Ndlovu is set to make a sensational return to the dugout when he takes charge of his side this season.Rovers won the Zifa Southern Region Division One champi...Published: 18 Jan 2017 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
DJ assaulted over music
A DJ at a bar at Empumalanga in Hwange was seriously assaulted by a reveler after he refused to play the music of Winky D.The assailant was later arrested following the assault and dragg...Published: 12 Dec 2016 at 04:32hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Boardroom coup at Dynamos
AGE-OLD Dynamos ownership wrangles came back to haunt the country's most successful football club after a rival faction made up of former players elected a new board to take over the running of th...Published: 11 Dec 2016 at 08:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dynamos property to be auctioned
Property belonging to Dynamos and a number of their officials will be auctioned today in the capital to recover a $250 000 debt owed to CBZ Bank Limited.According to a notice published in ...Published: 03 Nov 2016 at 13:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
How money is siphoned out of Dembare
Following the loss of Dynamos' property and that of former executive members due to a $250 000 debt, an insider has revealed to the Daily News how money is siphoned out of the club.T...Published: 29 Oct 2016 at 17:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dynamos in turmoil over 2011 debt
Dynamos' off-field problems continue to mount after CBZ Bank Limited was awarded a writ of execution to attach the club's property and that of former executive members owing to a 2011 debt.Wit...Published: 26 Oct 2016 at 12:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sipepa Nkomo promised the vice presidency at ZimPF
OPPOSITION People's Democratic Party (PDP) faces a massive exodus of senior members in Matabeleland region amid reports that its vice president Dr Samuel Sipepa Nkomo on Thursday announced he was ...Published: 10 Oct 2016 at 08:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chicken INN beats Harare City
Chicken Inn 2 Harare City 0 Home side Chicken Inn, with a little help from the visitors collected three points by posting a two nil victory.Munyaradzi Dironyenye scored an own goal to ...Published: 31 Jul 2016 at 17:42hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Business as usual, Govt tells workers
Government says civil servants and other workers should report for duty today as usual and refuse to be used by malcontents seeking to destabilise the country.Agents of illegal regime chan...Published: 06 Jul 2016 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Child maid suffers demonic abuse
A ZIMUNYA 15-year-old girl can hardly walk after sustaining two deep wounds on both legs when she was allegedly assaulted by a guardian with a cooking stick.Manica Post reported that the girl,...Published: 30 May 2016 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Tendai Gukutikwa
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