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Even the famed bass fish, the sought-after red bream, and other aqua-marine life are in great danger of extinction as the white elephant Lilstock Dam has now been over-fished to supplement incomes. En...Published: 18 Dec 2024 at 22:20hrs | 444 | by Cde Mutandawachingama
A life-giving greenbelt in Matabeleland South
AMID the anxiety and disillusionment occasioned by projections of below-normal rains in the 2023-2024 summer cropping season due to the El Niño weather phenomenon, some farmers opted not to plant any...Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Teenager arrested for kidnapping 3-month-old baby
POLICE in Shurugwi, Midlands Province, have arrested a 19-year-old woman who kidnapped a three-month-old baby at a bus terminus. Provincial police spokesperson inspector Emmanuel Mahoko yesterday conf...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 07:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo freezes
AS Zimbabwe experienced freezing weather that brought with it drizzles in some areas yesterday, Bulawayo city centre was adorned with images of people clad in an assortment of thick winter garb....Published: 12 Jul 2023 at 08:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Spilling Umguza dam reignites hope for good harvest
THE spilling of Lower Umguza Dam in Matabeleland North province has brought smiles among farmers and rekindled their hope of recording a bumper harvest. Lower Umguza Dam is a major source of p...Published: 31 Jan 2023 at 07:32hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
Civil servants grovelling for housing stands isn't economic development but shameful retrogression
It was one of the most painful and heartrending sights! There are very few incidents that are so harrowing and sink the heart, as watching grown-ups - grovelling for things which, in a normal ...Published: 05 Jan 2023 at 13:22hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Call for mine workers to register and vote opposition into power - last resort
HARARE - As the momentum for the electoral cycle nears 2023 Presidential, Parliamentary and Local Government General Elections, workers and their dependants have been urged to register to vote as Unio...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 19:42hrs | | by Maxwell Teedzai
Farmers need tractors, cattle have died
My rather heavy footsteps did not jolt the old farmer out of his deep thought, head rested on his bony knees, sort of mind comatose. The man was 'lost' in great thinking, pondering how he would tackle...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 19:16hrs | 2 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Nkiwane burial date set
THE late national hero, Abraham Nkiwane, will be buried tomorrow at his farm on the outskirts of Umguza District while burial arrangements for two other national heroes, Commander of the Zimbabwe Nati...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 10:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
When dreams take one up Mt Everest
Green mealies, fresh broccoli, green beans, 'Eish'! Have just awoken from a near realistic dream where all the fresh horticultural products were coming out from our Irrigation plots at Chinehasha Irri...Published: 06 Jul 2021 at 10:29hrs | 2 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Zimbabwe should've learnt how to run country from Rhodesians, not the wearing of colonial wigs
If ever there is anything in Zimbabwe that infuriates me to the core, it is the sight of a once prosperous nation - whereby (irregardless of the numerous glaring racial injustices) the economy was so ...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 10:22hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Man burns own children with plastics
Police have arrested a 31-year-old man in Madziva, Mashonaland Central province, on allegations of ill-treating his children aged six, seven and nine after accusing them of eating boiled mealies....Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 15:41hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Health crisis looms at Bulawayo's makeshift kombi terminus
WITHOUT a care in the world, a visibly intoxicated tout staggers out of a parked commuter omnibus with a plastic bottle filled with a yellowish liquid and tosses it on a heap of trash in an alley just...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 16:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Baby choked to death by maize grains
A NINE-MONTH-OLD Chivhu toddler died after he was choked by maize grains which he had picked from the ground.The minor was pronounced dead upon arrival at Chivhu General Hospital after he alle...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man tries to cook baby
An 18-year-old man from Chibuku village under Chief Nhema took his three-weeks-old baby and tried to shove him into a boiling three-legged pot but failed because the pot was full of pumpkins and meali...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 10:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa Law School set for Kwekwe
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has said Zimbabwe is not only Open for Business but for dialogue too, as it forges ahead with engaging locals and foreigners in its quest to attain a middle class economy by 2030....Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Christmas without Mugabe in State House. Meet me in Chimanimani
I had everything that I required for an unexpected voyage to green terrestrial ecstasy with me: a bag full of clothes, one sizzling hot music CD and plenty of passion for life. I left Harare at ten o'...Published: 08 Dec 2017 at 09:02hrs | 1 | by Tafi Mhaka
SEX with 1,000 men
A CHITUNGWIZA woman has sensationally claimed that she slept with more than 1 000 men locally and abroad as a sex workerJoylene Musemwa of Unit N also stunningly revealed that she could lure m...Published: 15 Aug 2017 at 17:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Let's remain united,' says Mugabe whilst promoting G40 faction and resisting democratic reforms
President Mugabe continues to ignore the calls for democratic reforms and free and fair elections. He continues to concentrate on promoting his wife's political ambition in the name of Zanu PF party u...Published: 17 Jun 2017 at 20:54hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
What Independence, What Freedom- Mafa Sibanda
MDC-T Bulawayo Acting spokesperson Felix Mafa Sibanda has questioned as to what Independence can Zimbabwe talk of, when the liberators fought for themselves and their children?He said when peo...Published: 24 Apr 2017 at 12:03hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
What Independence, What Freedom
What Independence can Zimbabwe talk of, when the liberators fought for themselves and their children?When people preferred the Zanu-PF iron york to Smith's wooden yorkWhen the 1970s ch...Published: 20 Apr 2017 at 12:14hrs | | by Brave Ndebele
Stolen mealies 'cost man a leg'
CUT OFF his leg so he never moves around harvesting where he did not sow….Such was the agreement of a Pumula East mob which meted instant justice on a maize thief caught in action....Published: 24 Mar 2017 at 08:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa taunts Chinamasa
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa taunted Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa in humorous remarks last week, saying the frugal Treasury chief is pre-occupied with saving money. Taking pot-s...Published: 07 Mar 2017 at 16:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army roped in to provide temporary bridges
THE Government has engaged the Zimbabwe Defence Forces to erect dismountable bridges on the country's major highways where bridges were swept away by the heavy rains that have been pounding the countr...Published: 05 Mar 2017 at 09:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
West behind attempted mobile data tariff hike, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I notice that an ever-alert Cde Supa had to do a lot of fire-fighting after the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, which is u...Published: 19 Jan 2017 at 07:12hrs | 1 | by CZ
Liebenberg High in $2 000 drip irrigation scheme
Liebenberg High school has installed $2 000 equipment for a drip irrigation scheme for its Agriculture practical subject.The school is probably the first and only one in the district to h...Published: 26 Jun 2016 at 12:44hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Grace Mugabe waves magic wand
Chimhanda Irrigation Scheme in Rushinga was on the brink of collapse as much of its equipment was in a dilapidated state.Production had ground to a halt, with most of its members facing an unc...Published: 18 Oct 2015 at 09:48hrs | | by Kuda Bwititi
Mutasa in high stakes bid to get his Zanu-PF job back
Sacked party stalwart Didymus Mutasa is going to court to get his job back and to restore Zanu-PF to "legality'.Didymus Mutasa, the embattled former minister in the Zimbabwe presidency and th...Published: 03 Feb 2015 at 07:10hrs | | by M&G Online
Mutasa on a mission to 'cleanse' Zanu-PF
Didymus Mutasa, the embattled former minister in the Zimbabwe presidency and the ruling Zanu-PF's former secretary for administration, has staked his lifelong career in the party in a high-stakes bid ...Published: 30 Jan 2015 at 14:43hrs | | by Ray Ndlovu I M&G
Motorist rapes 11-year-old girl
An 11-year-old girl from Beitbridge was last week allegedly raped by an unknown motorist who lured her into his car while she was selling mealie cobs at a service station in the town. Matabele...Published: 11 Jan 2015 at 23:06hrs | | by Thupeyo Muleya
Shaky food security in Zimbabwe as more farmers turn to tobacco farming
The success story of tobacco farming in Zimbabwe can aptly be described as a heavily sugar coated pill; very sweet outside but bitter inside.Though lauded as one of the success stories of ...Published: 10 Oct 2014 at 07:35hrs | | by Andrew Mambondiyani
SA man escapes death after being lured to Zim by Satanic cult
35-year-old Donald Eunice of Orange Free State, South Africa, is lucky to be alive after a satanic cult alleged to be part of the Johane Masowe Echishanhu Church lured him to Zimbabwe.T...Published: 24 Apr 2014 at 21:33hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
From One Vice President to another - Salarygate
Cry the beloved Country! How sad it is that at a time when the people of Zimbabwe are looking forward to solutions from their leaders in terms of the economic and social hardships, they have t...Published: 12 Feb 2014 at 11:07hrs | | by Emilia Mukaratirwa
The 10 or more things I love about Zimbabwe
When Zimbabwe gets it right and opens up, you are going to wish you were hereIt's in the middle of winter in Harare, and the temperature is above 20 degrees Celsius outside. No need to wear h...Published: 03 Jul 2012 at 20:50hrs | | by Vince Musewe
Dry spell ends prospect of good harvest
A dry spell that has persisted for over a month, adversely affecting crops in many parts of Zimbabwe, could mean a lean year ahead for farmers. "I am not even look...Published: 11 Mar 2011 at 10:03hrs | | by Byo24News
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