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Mnangagwa extends road rehab
President Mnangagwa has extended the state of disaster for Zimbabwe's road infrastructure network until December 31, 2026, following the initial declaration on February 23, 2021. This extension is for...Published: 08 Sep 2024 at 09:30hrs | 104 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's Leadership Filled With Failure Weakness and Chaos
Looking at the Zimbabwean situation seems confusing at first glance yet in Zimbabwe, like any other country, the road to freedom and prosperity is long journey. It took the United States at least a ce...Published: 13 Aug 2023 at 12:47hrs | 7 | by Sam Wezhira
Chamisa invades Zanu-PF hunting ground
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) says 80% of its leader Nelson Chamisa's campaign rallies will be held in the rural areas, which is traditionally viewed as a Zanu-PF stronghold....Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 06:39hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa targets majority win in Zanu-PF strongholds
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) President Nelson Chamisa has embarked on a whirlwind tour of Zimbabwe's rural constituencies in a final push that he says will ensure the opposition wins big in pre...Published: 20 Jul 2023 at 06:58hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa rally barred venue booked by Zanu-PF
POLICE has banned another Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) rally which was slated for Friday at Chivi Growth Point.The opposition was also barred from holding a rally in Chiredzi, Tshovani ...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 20:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Popular mshika shika driver killed in accident
Popular Mshika shika driver Tatenda Ziramba (26) who plied the Masvingo-Zvishavane route died yesterday after his Toyota Wish burst a rear right tire and overturned.Masvingo Police Spokesperso...Published: 18 Mar 2023 at 08:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man dated business women to kill & rob them
POLICE in Shurugwi have arrested a man who allegedly targeted single business women with whom he entered into love relationships before killing them and taking their properties such as vehicles as wel...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 06:28hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Police recover baboon skulls from suspected car thief's house
Police in Shurugwi have recovered three baboon skulls from a suspected car thief Panganai Sithole (23)'s house.Sithole of Mhangami Village under Chief Banga in Shurugwi appeared before local m...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:38hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF caught pants down
The Editor,This talk about an opposition sweep in Zimbabwe is misguided. Let us not waste time talking about oppression, changing people's votes, killing, closure, arresting, torture, ce...Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 19:42hrs | | by Thembani Maphosa
Corrupt VID depots fingered over horror crash
Masvingo and Zvishavane Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) depots are playing the blame game after details emerged that the Toyota Wish that was involved in the Mhandamabwe road carnage which claim...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 08:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Byo makes emergency roads rehabilitation inroads
Roadworks in Bulawayo under the Government-funded US$400 million Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme 2 (ERRP2) recently launched by President Mnangagwa, have gathered pace with significant progres...Published: 24 Jun 2021 at 09:41hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
MDC Alliance councillor arrested for organizing football tourney
MDC Alliance Councillor for Ward 33, Bernard Chimwango was recently arrested for allegedly organizing a football tournament sometime in March, contravening the set Covid-19 regulations which prohibit ...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 16:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Massive power outage hits Zimbabwe
A CRIPPLING power outage has hit the eastern, western and southern regions of Zimbabwe following a fault on the 330kV powerline between Gweru and Mashava.This has affected several cities and t...Published: 24 Mar 2021 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Amnesty to decongest prisons
Cabinet received an update on the Covid-19 Outbreak, which was presented by the Minister of Defence and War Veterans Affairs as chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Task Force on the Covid-19 Outbreak. ...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Floods undercut Midlands highway
THE Shurugwi-Mhandamabwe Highway is set to be closed to traffic after flooding undercut part of the road at the Musavedzi River bridge leaving it hanging precariously - posing danger to humans and veh...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 06:26hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chivi-Mhandamabwe roadwork resumes
WORK on the Chivi-Mhandamabwe Road upgrading is set to resume after Government sealed a deal with the contractor to complete outstanding work. Completion of the project dovetails with Governme...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa calls for completion of Mhandamabwe Road
President Mnangagwa has ordered Treasury to release funds for the completion of rehabilitation works on the Chivi-Mhandamabwe Road which links Beitbridge Border Post to western parts of the country. ...Published: 28 Dec 2020 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
5 robbers stage daring in-transit-cash heist
Five armed robbers yesterday, November 30, attacked a Safeguard in-transit-cash vehicle which was about to deliver cash at a Mukuru money transfer agent booth at N.Richards Wholesale and fled with a c...Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Safeguard loses US$35 000 to armed robbers
POLICE yesterday said they were investigating a case of armed robbery which occurred on Monday morning when five suspects armed with pistols ambushed a Safeguard cash-in-transit vehicle delivering cas...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Robbers pounce
A gang of five unidentified armed men yesterday morning pounced on a Safeguard cash-in-transit vehicle at Chivi Growth Point and got away with $US35 000, 350 000 rand and $ZW2000 cash.The susp...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 18:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Child prostitution rife in Masvingo
MASVINGO province is grappling with disturbing phenomena of child prostitution at most busy leisure spots, fuelling incidents of Sexually Transmitted Infections, an official has said. In an in...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 11:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
8 months ban for fatal crash driver
A DRIVER has been fined $300 and prohibited from driving for the next eight months after causing the death of a passenger in an accident. Liberty Nqobizitha Ngwenya (27) from Masvingo was conv...Published: 29 May 2019 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Christopher Mutsvangwa, the Mhofus and the PPI
I was in Harare responding to the Zimbabwe is Open for Business call by the President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa and stayed at the Cresta Lodge. For a man from Mhandamabwe, this was one of the mo...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 13:30hrs | 1 | by Sam Wezhira
Individuals don't live to be a hundred years old; tribes do.
In Mhandambabwe, Chivi area, the community is paramount. I drive my perspective from the community, not from me to the community; that to me is a western culture. Tribal survival and prosperity are al...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 19:50hrs | | by Sam Wezhira
Chinese businessman sets dogs on workers demanding payment
A Chinese businessman reportedly fired shots before setting vicious dogs on three employees that had approached him demanding payment.Xu Lei, 36, appeared before Harare magistrate Milton Serim...Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 16:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF slmans Chamisa for politicking
The Zanu-PF Masvingo provincial leadership has castigated MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa for trying to make cheap political capital out of Tugwi-Mukosi flood victims at Chingwizi who have been ...Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
'I will beat Mnangagwa hands down'
OPPOSITION MDC-T and MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa yesterday told supporters in Chiredzi that indications on the ground were that he would beat Zanu PF leader President Emmerson M...Published: 11 Jun 2018 at 08:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Tsvangirai visited me in my sleep'
MDC-T deputy president Elias Mudzuri has claimed he dreamt of the late MDC-T president Morgan Tsvangirai smiling, urging them to continue with the grand coalition and telling him victory was certain i...Published: 08 Jun 2018 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mnangagwa clash in Masvingo
MASVINGO will be the centre of attention at the weekend as both Zanu-PF presidential candidate and his MDC Alliance rival Nelson Chamisa (left) take their campaigns to the province as the election dat...Published: 07 Jun 2018 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Ex-Zanu-PF MP storm polling station, destroy ballot papers
Former Zanu-PF Chivi North legislator Tranos Huruva faces arrest after he allegedly stormed a polling centre in the constituency where people were voting in the ruling party primary elections and dest...Published: 02 May 2018 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man smokes weed in taxi
A daring Chivi man recently caused a stir after he openly smoked marijuana in a pirate taxi, before he severely assaulted the driver for trying to reprimand him. Pride Hapazari (27) of Hapazari Villag...Published: 23 Nov 2017 at 00:02hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
The so-called experts!
Things are unfolding at a hectic pace that it is impossible to maintain objectivity in analysing the daily events. For me however, the problem lies with the so-called experts on Zimbabwe. They are the...Published: 09 Nov 2017 at 16:19hrs | | by Sam Wezhira
Zimbabwe must brace themselves for a real opposition political outfit
The incessant bickering among opposition and many other serious missteps by the Zimbabwean opposition leaders have left me with no choice but to launch a smart opposition party by September 2017. The ...Published: 09 Aug 2017 at 22:03hrs | | by Sam Wezhira
Touts arrested for littering
FIVE touts were yesterday arrested in Masvingo for allegedly throwing litter at a local bus terminus amid calls for vendors in rural areas to form waste management committees. They were found throwing...Published: 09 Jan 2016 at 07:26hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
Pupil dies in hit-and-run accident
AN Upper Six Mwenezi High School pupil died recently in a hit-and-run accident on the 50km peg along Masvingo-Zvishavane Road while on an educational trip to Victoria Falls. The schoolboy was ...Published: 22 Sep 2015 at 06:27hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
Businessman dies a painful death
Prominent Masvingo businessman Abraham 'Abuja' Chikozho who owned the fast growing Bercam Bus Services reportedly died a painful death when he remained trapped in the wreckage of his car for three hou...Published: 19 Mar 2015 at 21:42hrs | 33 | by Tanzikwa Goto
Zimbabwe police hunt for female rapists
Police have launched a manhunt for three women and a man on allegations of sexually abusing and robbing a 22-year-old man in Chivi last Sunday night.The man, who is based in South Africa, lost...Published: 09 Jan 2015 at 08:35hrs | | by Crime Reporter
Injiva robbed, forced to have sex with female rapists
A 22-YEAR-OLD injiva was on Sunday robbed of R4, 000, $150 and a Nokia Asha cellphone at gun point before three female members of the gang allegedly took turns to have sex with him after injecting h...Published: 08 Jan 2015 at 08:40hrs | | by Patrick Chitumba
Female rapists strike again, man raped at gun point
Women forcing men to have sex with them at gun point along the country's highways have resurfaced along the Masvingo-Beitbridge road.Three cases have so far been reported with the latest bein...Published: 07 Jan 2015 at 17:43hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Woman mauls workmate's lips
CHIVI - A Mhandamabwe woman in Chivi District last week stunned the local people when she allegedly mauled her workmate's lips, tearing off a chunk which onlookers then failed to locate, the Masvingo ...Published: 12 Jul 2014 at 08:40hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Bus plunge into river, 4 dead
FOUR Unki Mines employees died on the spot when a bus ferrying them from work plunged into Mutevekwi River in Shurugwi early yesterday morning.The incident occurred at around 5AM, at Mutevekwi...Published: 24 Feb 2014 at 06:22hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Zupco bus accident victims named
POLICE have released the names of the four accident victims who perished when a Zupco bus they were travelling in was swept away while trying to cross a flooded Musavezi River in Shurugwi last Friday...Published: 11 Feb 2014 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rekai Tangwena's wife dies
The wife of national hero Rekai Tangwena, Mrs Matadzisei Tangwena has died. She was 82.She died early Wednesday morning at Parirenyatwa hospital where she was being treated for high blood pres...Published: 24 Apr 2013 at 14:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kombi owner abducts boy (5), draws his blood using a syringe
POLICE in Shurugwi have arrested a commuter omnibus operator and his employee after the two recently allegedly abducted a five-year-old boy at his home during the night and went on to draw his blood ...Published: 22 Mar 2012 at 04:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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