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Midlands sets target of 12 000 hectares of wheat

Farmers in Midlands have made impressive progress in the 2025 winter wheat planting season, with over 1,000 hectares already planted and 824 hectares having germinated. This early momentum signals a positive outlook for wheat production in…

Published: 20 May 2025 at 09:59hrs | 41 | by Staff reporter

Midlands quashes bed bug fears

A surge of anxiety has spread across Redcliff, Kwekwe and Gweru as social media posts raised fears of a bedbug outbreak, following a confirmed infestation in Mbare, Harare.But local authorities in the Midlands Province have moved swiftly t…

Published: 19 May 2025 at 09:25hrs | 199 | by Staff reporter

Wheat progress in Midlands province

Farmers in Zimbabwe's Midlands Province have made impressive strides in the ongoing 2025 winter wheat planting season, with over 1,000 hectares already sown and approximately 800 hectares having germinated successfully.Winter wheat plantin…

Published: 16 May 2025 at 10:13hrs | 47 | by Staff reporter

Flood warning for Matebeleland, Midlands provinces

The Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has issued a warning for heavy rains exceeding 70 millimetres within 24 hours, set to affect the Matebeleland region and the Midlands from Wednesday, 19 February, until Thursday morning. The int…

Published: 18 Feb 2025 at 03:38hrs | 2303 | by Staff reporter

Midlands province gets ambulances

The Midlands provincial Health and Child Care Ministry has received a significant boost in its efforts to enhance healthcare services with the acquisition of 15 vehicles worth US$305,000. These vehicles, funded through support from the Glo…

Published: 12 Dec 2024 at 06:49hrs | 121 | by Staff reporter

We are all Zimbabweans, we cannot continue like this

44 year on, Zimbabwe's political landscape has long been characterised by division and exclusion, particularly under various administrations. This trajectory of alienation began with the marginalisation of the white community, progressed t…

Published: 22 Nov 2024 at 12:39hrs | 691 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi

Rains cause flooding in Harare CBD

Heavy rains in Harare on Thursday have highlighted the city's ongoing drainage problems, rendering several areas of the Central Business District (CBD) impassable. Blocked drains led to extensive flooding at numerous intersections, disrupt…

Published: 31 Oct 2024 at 16:52hrs | 1513 | by Staff reporter

Woman's Mutilated Body Recovered in Kwekwe Mine

Police in the Midlands have revealed that a mutilated body of a woman was recovered at a mine in Kwekwe, amid fears of a possible ritual-related murder.According to authorities, the body was severely mutilated around the mouth.Midlands Pol…

Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 11:33hrs | 146 | by Stephen Jakes

Midlands is Zimbabwe's murder capital

The Midlands Province has recorded the highest number of murder cases in Zimbabwe, with a staggering 90 percent of these involving the use of lethal weapons, according to the National Prosecution Authority (NPA). The NPA recently released …

Published: 20 Sep 2024 at 07:55hrs | 150 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF tension grips Midlands

SIMMERING tension has absorbed the ruling Zanu-PF in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Midlands backyard, stoked by the party's provincial leadership's decision to block scheduled disciplinary hearings for his allies who lost in primary elect…

Published: 14 Dec 2023 at 16:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

MRP blasts Zanu PF over Conferment of Guti as National Hero

MTHWAKAZI  Republic Party leader Mqondisi Moyo has blasted President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa for conferring national hero status to the founder of Zaoga Church who died on July 5 in South Africa. He said many are wondering why the…

Published: 27 Jul 2023 at 15:34hrs | 25 | by Stephen Jakes

Mnangagwa's Midlands allies exempt from Zanu-PF primaries

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's close allies in his Midlands home province have been exempted from being challenged by other party officials in Zanu-PF primary elections in a development that has stoked political tension.Zanu-PF was initial…

Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 11:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Earthquake hits Gweru

AN earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale hit the Midlands province in central Zimbabwe yesterday morning, South Africa's Council for Geoscience (CGS) said yesterday.The earthquake, described as being of moderate magnitude, hit 15km…

Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 05:41hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Bones of Bhalagwe, arise!

The voice speaks to the bones that are scattered all over Matabeleland and Midlands. Arise! Bones that are in the stomach of Bhalagwe, stand up and refuse to be silenced. Arise and be counted! All the bones in shallow graves, rise up and f…

Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 20:10hrs | 14 | by Nhlanhla Moses

Machete wielding illegal miners kill one, leaves four in agony

A gang of machete wielding illegal miners from Midlands aboard two kombis descended on Shamva mine and attacked five people killing one on the spot yesterday.The gang was on a revenge mission after two of their colleagues were murdered las…

Published: 08 Jan 2022 at 17:33hrs | 9 | by Simbarashe Sithole

Zanu-PF factions in mudslinging campaigns

A BATTLE for the post of Zanu-PF Midlands provincial chairperson has ensued with party stalwarts already engaging in underground campaigns despite an official directive that members should desist from jostling for provincial positions, The…

Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 18:51hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF recommends admission of G40 movers

The Zanu-PF Midlands Provincial Coordinating Committee (PCC) has recommended the readmission of all former G40 cabals in the province, party provincial chair Daniel Mackenzie Ncube has said.He said those who have been cleared by the provin…

Published: 12 Jul 2021 at 16:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Life though the eyes of a Gukurahundi survivor

This week I was back in the village after a week away in the city and as usual to get the best of the news of what happened in my absence the first point of call is the home of my uncle, apart from being my neighbor, he is a brother to my …

Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 14:58hrs | 4 | by Gifford Mehluli Sibanda

MDC trashes Midlands peace committee

THE MDC has trashed the Midlands provincial peace committee set by the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) chairperson, Justice Selo Nare, in Gweru on Friday, saying it was not inclusive and seems to be an extension of Zanu…

Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 08:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Midlands Peace Committee launched

The Midlands Provincial Peace Committee has been successfully launched, amid calls for the new peace advocates to spearhead resolution of conflicts mainly in the artisanal mining sector where conflict has often led to machete attacks in Kw…

Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 07:47hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Divisions rock MDC Midlands

DIVISIONS have rocked the MDC Midlands provincial executive over the imposition of members to represent the region in the party's highest decision-making body, the national executive council.Members of the provincial executive and structur…

Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter

Gukurahundi genocide victims compensation - a Possibility or an impossibility?

All peace loving people will agree with me that the disturbances which started in Zimbabwe soon after independence and saw approximately 20 000 people mainly of the Ndebele tribe constitute genocide and that victims of the government spons…

Published: 22 Oct 2018 at 11:14hrs | 4 | by Etiwel Mutero

These Elections are a Win-Win for Mthwakazi Voters

Why now? The harmonised elections taking part tomorrow in Zimbabwe present an opportunity for Mthwakazi voters. For the first time since independence, the voters from Matabeleland and Midlands are faced with a win-win situation. This may c…

Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 23:20hrs | 1 | by BMV

Gukurahundi: Walking in the deathly shadows of Kigali and Banjul

Should the architects of the Gukurahundi atrocities committed in Matabeleland and Midlands face legal action in an independent court of law convened in Zimbabwe, Africa or abroad? On May 30, 2016, HissÃ¨ne HabrÃ©, the former dictator of Ch…

Published: 20 Feb 2018 at 15:19hrs | 2 | by Tafi Mhaka

Sydney Sekeramayi: Trained to save lives and then trained to kill innocent people

The internal dog-eat-dog savage fights in Zanu-PF are real. For a long time the infighting has been predictably so because the ingredients of systemic dis functionality dramatically fall into place as the frail center fails to hold. Some o…

Published: 14 Sep 2017 at 10:23hrs | | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu

Midlands defies Mugabe: Mnangagwa draws cheers, Bob draws 'muted jeers'

Gweru (Khuluma Afrika) - ZANU PF's faction ridden Midlands province on Friday defied the party's protocol giving peripheral attention to President Mugabe and his wife Grace whilst heaping praises on the party's Vice President Emm…

Published: 01 Sep 2017 at 19:10hrs | | by Khuluma Afrika

Zanu-PF's Shiri bounce back

Zanu-PF Midlands Province has co-opted Central Committee member, Godwill Shiri to take over the position of a substantive provincial deputy chairman.Shiri replaces Kizito Chivamba who died in April this year.The decision to appoint Shiri w…

Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 18:14hrs | | by Staff reporter

Newborn dumped in hole

In an incident of suspected child dumping, a newly born baby has been discovered by a herdboy near Musiningira Primary School in Mberengwa, Midlands.It is so disheartening and pathetic how some are dumping children while some are going whe…

Published: 18 May 2017 at 12:13hrs | 1 | by Mberengwa Resident

PHOTOS: Facebook group 'Qoki' donates to Tsholotsho floods victims

A Facebook group for Matebeleland and Midlands women living in United Kingdom has donated to Tsholotsho floods victims.The group, 'Qoki, ZiNdlovukazi...Manina Amahle'(Matebeleland & Midlands Ladies in UK), on Thursday shared the photos…

Published: 09 Mar 2017 at 18:46hrs | 14 | by Moyo Roy

Stock theft drops by 37% in the Midlands Province

Stock theft in the Midlands Province has dropped by 37%, thanks to the branding of the herd which many farmers have adopted.This was said by the officer commanding Midlands, Senior Assistant Commissioner Abigal Moyo at the re-launch of the…

Published: 19 Dec 2016 at 05:50hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter

Msipa has no agenda

The former ZANU PF politiburo member and Midlands governor, Cephas Msipa is hallucinating and living in the world of fantasy and make belief. How can the former and elder member of ZANU PF turn against his colleague? The man is not sincere…

Published: 15 Sep 2016 at 09:26hrs | | by Stewart Murewa

Another sex video rocks Midlands State University

There are concerns that Midlands State University (MSU) in Gweru is sitting on a treasure of X-RATED pornographic videos circulating among students. Some of the videos feature students from the institution and a second video circulating at…

Published: 18 May 2012 at 13:10hrs | | by Staff reporter

A story of armed mayhem

In the recently published novel, The Guns of Matabeleland, the author, Skid Masuku displays incredible imagination.This is an action packed scintillating tale of armed mayhem, ruthless betrayal and incredible humour, âˆšÃ‰Â¬Â¢âˆšÂ¢â€šÃ„Ã¶Â…

Published: 29 Apr 2012 at 10:39hrs | 1 | by Corine Saunders

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