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Beitbridge bus robbers jailed 84 years each
Two armed robbers who terrorized passengers on a Beitbridge-bound bus in July have each been sentenced to an effective 84 years in prison by the Chiredzi regional court. Ashton Siziba (26) of Peterwen...Published: 06 Nov 2024 at 06:51hrs | 347 | by Staff reporter
Baby kidnapper jailed
A Chiredzi woman, Prosperity Hobyani (35), has been sentenced to three years in prison for kidnapping a 7-day-old baby.Hobyani appeared before the Chiredzi Magistrates' Court on kidnapping cha...Published: 05 Sep 2024 at 16:53hrs | 393 | by Staff reporter
ZETDC notifies of power outage
ZETDC has warned of a power outage that is affecting Chiredzi after a mainline fault.In a notice on its X page, ZETDC said there were a number of areas affected and engineers are working flat ...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 04:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Apostolic member (65) marries wife's niece (10)
POLICE in Chiredzi have re-arrested an apostolic sect member Never Muzorora (65) of village 7, Matedzi, accusing him of taking in his wife's 10-year-old niece as his seventh wife.Muzorora and ...Published: 24 May 2023 at 06:01hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mubobobo dream stokes gruesome murder rage
IN a shockingly bizarre development, a man from Chiredzi in Masvingo province was a fortnight ago gruesomely murdered and his head crushed with an axe handle by a fellow villager who had sensationally...Published: 03 Mar 2023 at 18:25hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Nurse caught pants down on-duty, married lover runs away
GETTING it on with your lover at work can feel naughty, steamy, and hot but, it can also be a risky "affair" since there can be consequences if you are caught in the act.In a rather strange in...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP fined for by-passing electricity
Chiredzi West Zanu-PF Member of Parliament, Farai Musikavanhu was recently caught with hands in the cookie jar by Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) for allegedly by-pa...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 15:26hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Wife sells veggies, raises hubby's versity fees, he gets degree and weds another woman
A woman who claims to have paid her husband's fees until he got a University degree was shocked on Friday when she found the latter wedding another woman at Chiredzi Magistrate Courts.Albert N...Published: 22 Dec 2021 at 17:46hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
Journalist 'steals' security document
A journalist has appeared at the Chiredzi Magistrates Courts facing a charge of stealing a classified document from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Law and Order office at Chiredzi Police ...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:27hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Men arrested for smuggling corpse
TWO men from Chiredzi District in Masvingo were last week arrested after they allegedly smuggled a corpse into the country from Mozambique through an illegal point at Chisuma along the border in Chipi...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pfumvudza, bond notes: Mnangagwa's saviour
THE gigantic lake TugwiMukosi is spilling. This is a rare phenomenon for a water body so big to spill less than four years after commissioning.It holds a promise that is too big to hide or ign...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 08:55hrs | | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Doctor stabs his 3 children to death
Tragedy hit the small sugar farming town of Mkwasine in Chiredzi last night when William Phiri, a medical doctor allegedly stabbed three of his children to death following a domestic dispute with his ...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 20:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gutsaruzhinji villagers feel neglected
MASVINGO Centre for Research Advocacy and Development (Macrad) handed out food hampers to 52 homeless Gutsaruzhinji families in Chiredzi North.Livestock, houses and food were burnt during the ...Published: 23 Dec 2020 at 07:09hrs | 1 | by Masvingo Centre for Research, Advocacy and Development
Masvingo evictions: Govt under fire
A MASVINGO-BASED pressure group has raised a red flag over government-backed evictions of desperate villagers in the province, saying the orders flout efforts to slow down the devastating effects of C...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
US$5,2bn coal fuels project left to rot
PARLIAMENT yesterday grilled Finance ministry officials over a US$5,2 billion coal project spearheaded by Verify Engineering which failed to attract investors due to the poor investment climate prevai...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 08:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Woman murders co-wife as hubby watches
A polygamous marriage in Mkwasine turned ugly as two co-wives engaged in a fight which led to the death of another over the husband's laundry.Juliet Matongo (33) and Maonei Mugaro (21) engaged...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police hunt co-wife killer
POLICE have launched a manhunt for a 33 year-old Masvingo woman who allegedly fatally struck her husband's second wife with a cooking stick following a dispute over household chores. The suspe...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parly committees probe Chiredzi child prostitution
THREE parliamentary thematic committees on Tuesday descended on Chiredzi on a fact-finding mission on child prostitution as well as sexual reproductive health and rights.The committees that ca...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe secures funding for mapping farms
Government has secured funding for the mapping of farms to enable the issuance of 99-year leases, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa has said. The exer...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 23:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Low-lying Chilonga Bridge claims Chiredzi RDC employee's life
A CHIREDZI Rural District Council (RDC) employee was recently swept away at the low-lying Chilonga Bridge, as he tried to cross the flooded Runde River.Chiredzi RDC chief executive Isaac Matsi...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 17:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa garnishes Bhasikiti account over $133 000 debt
POWER utility Zesa Holdings' subsidiary, Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (Pvt) Ltd (Zetdc) has successfully obtained an order compelling Mkwasine Estate to garnish former Ma...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Massive power outage hits southern Zimbabwe
A MASSIVE power outage lasting more than 50 hours hit southern Zimbabwe at the weekend after poorly maintained pylons near Chiredzi succumbed to heavy storms, cutting electricity trunk lines in the so...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 18:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean businessman sues SA investor
A ZIMBABWEAN national, Ryan Chinyangare, is suing South African firm, Nkosikhona Holdings, for failing to pay him $3 million in consultancy work in securing the controversial 'CTX Project' with govern...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 08:49hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
News farmers are lazy, says Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF Masvingo provincial vice chairperson, Ailes Baloyi has savaged resettled farmers in the district for just sitting idle on the land without producing anything of value.Speaking during t...Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 14:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa guns for Bhasikiti
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (Pvt) Ltd (ZETDC) has approached the High Court seeking an order to compel Mkwasine Estate to garnish former Masvingo Provincial Affairs ...Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZBC rapped for 'skewed coverage'
Secretary for Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Mr George Charamba has castigated the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) for failing to unify the country because of its apparent failur...Published: 18 May 2018 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man drives spear into wife's suspected lover
IN a series of bloody fights spanning 10 hours, a Chiredzi man allegedly drove a spear through the shoulder of a villager who suspected he was bedding his wife.The victim died soon after admis...Published: 07 May 2018 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt expresses concern over under-use of sugarcane plots
Government has expressed concern over the level of under-utilisation of sugarcane plots in the Lowveld, leading to a massive drop in Zimbabwe's annual sugar production.Lands, Agriculture and R...Published: 17 Dec 2017 at 23:34hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Satanic' Grade three pupil brings school to standstill
IN a suspected case of Satanism, a Grade Three pupil at Chipiwa Primary School in Mkwasine, Chiredzi District, reportedly disrupted lessons when she started manifesting as strange occult-related happe...Published: 25 Nov 2017 at 15:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Couple lose $80 000 to armed robbers
A Harare couple lost $80 000 cash in Madokero suburb to armed robbers on Saturday, as it emerged that businesspeople who do not bank money are being targeted by criminals.Police sources said r...Published: 08 Jun 2017 at 06:34hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Load shedding to affect Masvingo on Tuesday
Masvingo will be in darkness on Tuesday as the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company announced.ZETDC advised its customers in Masvingo that there will be a shutdown of Mkw...Published: 29 May 2017 at 14:01hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Major Zimbabwean sugarcane estate crumbling
Mkwasine, one of the major sugarcane estates is crumbling at the hands of new farmers who took over the land from Tongaat Hullet.The new sugarcane farmers themselves have said in separate inte...Published: 30 Apr 2017 at 11:45hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Mkwasine man dies from snake bite
A 23-year-old man from Mkwasine died after he was bitten by a snake while chasing away a monkey from a sugarcane field last Sunday.The type of the snake is not known.Jelousy Remhunga who...Published: 20 Apr 2017 at 09:35hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Liquid Telecom rolls out network all-over Zimbabwe
LIQUID Telecom has started rolling out its fibre optic network in the southern and eastern parts of Zimbabwe to meet the growing demand for internet services, an official said.The project,...Published: 14 Mar 2017 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiredzi farm supervisor found loitering undressed
The farming community at Mapanza near Mkwasine was shocked recently when a prominent farm supervisor was found undressed at a house in the neighborhood.Farm workers who witnessed the incident ...Published: 24 Feb 2017 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Former Tongaat agric director enters political fray
Daggers are drawn in Zanu PF for the 2018 plebiscite.Dark horses are entering the race and in Chiredzi District, the most notable political newcomer seeking a seat in 2018 is former Tongaa...Published: 16 Feb 2017 at 05:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Heavy rains delay end of sugarcane harvesting
The heavy rains received in Chiredzi have seen farmers failing to complete harvesting their crop by mid-December as expected.Some will now complete their harvesting at the end of this month....Published: 10 Jan 2017 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chiredzi accounts for 70% of Masvingo's veld fires
Chiredzi District has accounted for 70 percent of Masvingo Province's total land gutted by veld fires last year, Environmental Management Agency provincial Manager Robson Mavhondo has said.Mas...Published: 12 Jun 2016 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff Reporter
2 000 to lose jobs as Govt takes over 4000 hectares
The country which is facing a serious unemployment crisis could see another 2 000 employees losing jobs in the next few weeks as Government has started moves to take away a further 4 000 hectares ...Published: 27 May 2016 at 15:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Sugar industry in crisis as cash shortages bites
Sugarcane farmers are facing a serious crisis with the current cash shortages as they are failing to pay for implements most of which requires foreign currency.Masvingo Mirror reported that se...Published: 18 May 2016 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Woman found 11 days after being killed by elephant
A woman from Mkwasine village in Triangle was found dead and buried after the elephant killed her.Masvingo Mirror reported that the body belonging to Enia Makuta (75) from Angus Mkwasine Villa...Published: 23 Feb 2016 at 05:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Masvingo stampede to donate towards Mugabe's birth day party
The Zanu PF provincial chairman for Masvingo, Ezra Chadzamira says three quarters of the resources needed for President Mugabe's 92nd birthday party to be held in Masvingo are now secured follow...Published: 07 Feb 2016 at 11:10hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe faces a shortage of sugar
Zimbabwe faces a shortage of sugar as the drought has severely affected sugar cane production in the Lowveld. Two dams that supply water to the Lowveld have since been decommissioned due to low water ...Published: 01 Feb 2016 at 05:54hrs | | by George Maponga
Dad, 60, 'rapes' daughter, 2
A 60-YEAR-OLD man from Chiredzi allegedly raped his two-year-old daughter and ruptured her bladder. The girl now has complications in relieving herself. Timothy Chisengwe, a member of the Chip...Published: 30 Nov 2015 at 05:40hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
Dad rapes 2 year old daughter on the sofa
A 60 YEAR old man from Chiredzi who is the chairman of the Chipiwa Sugarcane Farmers' Association in Chiredzi raped his two-year-old daughter.The man (60), who cannot be named to protect the m...Published: 24 Nov 2015 at 09:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Farmer killed over spilt beer
A Chiredzi farmer died in hospital after he was allegedly struck with a stone on the forehead by a fellow farmer who accused him of spilling four litres of Chibuku Super over the weekend. Howard Masen...Published: 17 Nov 2015 at 16:30hrs | | by George Maponga
'Mugabe deserves honour,' says Mphoko
President Mugabe deserves to be honoured for his bravery when he embarked on the land reform programme that saw tens of thousands of previously marginalised blacks getting prime farming land, Vice Pre...Published: 02 Nov 2015 at 05:23hrs | | by George Maponga
Mphoko says NO to corruption!
Acting President Phelekezela Mphoko says corruption is disrupting development in the country.Mphoko said this while addressing the Mkwasine community during his ongoing tour of Masvingo provin...Published: 30 Oct 2015 at 17:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Married woman tries bribing cops with sex
A FEMALE dagga peddler, Siziba Sikhonzile, 44, of Maguga village under Chief Sitaudze in Beitbridge, offered cops sex in exchange for her freedom after she was arrested at a Triangle road block wh...Published: 21 Sep 2015 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Female cop steal $111 exhibit money
A FEMALE police officer based at Mkwasine Police Station in Chiredzi -Jennifer Mabuyawa (34), stole $111 exhibit money while she was on duty at a police station.She a appeared before Magistrat...Published: 29 Aug 2015 at 14:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
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