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Zimbabwe to convert coal to fertiliser
A Zimbabwean government-owned entity, Verify Engineering, is preparing to use locally available coal to develop ammonia-based fertilisers as the country ramps up agricultural productivity."We ...Published: 14 May 2023 at 12:42hrs | 22 | by Takudzwa Changadeya
NUST student has solutions to power challenges
HE started with developing a unique dry biomass-powered prototype machine in 2020, which has the capacity to pump up to 60 000 litres of water per hour, a model that could be scaled up for use on larg...Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 06:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
3 die of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning
THREE people died after possibly inhaling carbon monoxide at Hwange National Park.Reports indicate that student tour guides at Hwange National Park lit a charcoal heater to warm themselves on ...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'We'll get him dead or alive': Reid's Mpiranya trail to Zimbabwe
A BESPECTACLED white man of medium height probably in his early 60s walks into the hotel restaurant where I am seated outside on patio couches basking in the sunshine while surfing social media platfo...Published: 22 May 2022 at 11:20hrs | 11 | by Dumisani Muleya
Panic over Hwange underground fires
Decades-old infernos spewing ash and smoke are causing sinkholes that have subsequently consumed a key trunk road linking Makwika Village (Number 3) and Hwange town.The road, which also links ...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:07hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Phosphorus grenade used in deadly Munatsi attack
AN incendiary phosphorus grenade which ignites and explodes when hurled, emitting fire and intense heat that burns fiercely, was used to destroy banker Doug Munatsi's home after his immobilisation, ra...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:20hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Political elites' vacuous populism not serving Zimbabwean people's interest
IN a recent eloquent but rather dense article titled "Dynamics of the Zimbabwe crisis in the 21st century" adopted from a 2003 academic paper of a similar title, Professor Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni ma...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:45hrs | 10 | by Dr Mike Chipere
Songs that liberated the country
The song Kubuhlungu Emoyeni (There is pain in my heart) by LMG choir evokes emotions of the liberation struggle and one of the singers, Happiness Sibanda, breaks into tears each time she explains the ...Published: 17 Aug 2021 at 07:15hrs | | by Bongani Ndlovu
Cold and drizzly weekend ahead
ZIMBABWEANS should brace for an extremely cold and drizzly weekend and vulnerable members of the public should be adequately dressed to avoid diseases like pneumonia. The relatively cold and d...Published: 23 Jul 2021 at 08:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gets tough with pirate kombis
President Mnangagwa yesterday directed the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) to continue manning security checkpoints to ensure that only designated transport operators such as the Zimbabwe United Passen...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's minister says, 'this is war' as coronavirus runs amok
ACTING Information minister, Jenfan Muswere, yesterday likened Zimbabwe's raging and deadlier second wave coronavirus storm as a war — amid the country's soaring deaths and infections.Speaki...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 18:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Joe Biden's debate guests run the only Zimbabwean restaurant in America
There were not many people in the audience at the final presidential debate, held in Nashville, Tennessee, last Thursday. To supplement the campaign staffers and family members, each candidate was all...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 18:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
GMB explosion - One body recovered, three workers missing
One body has been recovered and three workers are missing after an explosion at the Grain Marketing Depot (GMB) Lions Den Depot this afternoon.The explosion resulted in fire in the control tow...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 18:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
ZimCoke revives ZiscoSteel's Coke plant
ZimCoke (Pvt) Limited plans to invest $133 million towards resuscitation of the Coke Oven Battery plant segment of the defunct steelmaker, ZiscoSteel. At full tilt the project is expected to produce 5...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'I will make all residents needs a priority'
The independent candidate for ward 10 in Entumbane Bulawayo Edmonic Max Mkandla has revealed a host of plans which he intend to do for the ward among them that he will make young people a priority and...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 14:06hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Diaper disposal a headache for stakeholders
ILLEGAL dumping sites have become common in Harare and other parts of the country, with the reckless disposal of diapers causing a major headache.Among those rubbish being dumped by residents ...Published: 30 Mar 2018 at 09:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Illegal gold miner dies of carbon monoxide
An illegal gold miner at Mazowe, Masasa mountains reportedly inhaled carbon monoxide and died yesterday during a shaft gold panning, Bulawayo24.com has learnt.Reliable sources allege a miner o...Published: 26 Mar 2018 at 13:07hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Man (70) 'commits suicide' by drinking dip chemical
A Nyamandlovu man allegedly committed suicide by drinking a dip chemical.The body of the 70-year-old Mr Doubt Maseko was on Wednesday found in a stream near his homestead at Red Leaf village u...Published: 09 Sep 2017 at 09:21hrs | | by Staff Reporter
16 Zimbabwean miners die in SA mine explosion
SIXTEEN of the 31 people who died after a mine shaft collapsed in South Africa have been identified as Zimbabweans.The mine explosion killed 29 people while 11 others were rescued.The ...Published: 20 May 2017 at 12:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Illegal Zimbabwean miners feared dead in SA shaft explosion
ZIMBABWEANS are feared to be among the people who died in a blast that happened at a disused mine in South Africa where 29 bodies have been retrieved while 11 people were rescued.The accident ...Published: 19 May 2017 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
3 Zimbabweans killed in SA mine war
AT least three Zimbabweans are suspected to be part of 14 illegal miners that were shot dead in Benoni, Ekurhuleni, about 20km outside Johannesburg in South Africa in vicious fights over gold....Published: 08 Mar 2017 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean migrants feared dead in SA
South African Police are investigating murder cases after six bodies, all with gunshot wounds and believed to be illegal miners, were found in an open veld next to a railway line in Benoni, Ekurhu...Published: 07 Mar 2017 at 05:54hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Brig Muchemwa recounts horror at Chimoio
BORN in Mhondoro, Ngezi in 1945 in a family of four girls and three boys, the late national hero Retired Brigadier General Felix Muchemwa started his education at Nehanda Primary School, then went to ...Published: 19 Jun 2016 at 12:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
2 more die in mineshaft
TWO gold mine workers died in Kwekwe yesterday after a mineshaft they were working in collapsed. Midlands province police spokesperson Inspector Joel Goko said a third miner survived the mishap and is...Published: 31 May 2016 at 06:39hrs | | by Patrick Chitumba
2 miners gassed to death in shaft
TWO gold miners have died from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning while searching for gold in a mine shaft. Lypson Musandipa, 32, from Gokwe and Vincent Ngonya from Kwekwe met their death at Mount Mo...Published: 24 May 2016 at 07:08hrs | | by Patrick Chitumba
Seeking ethnic solutions in Zimbabwe is going global - Part four
We are in Germany today! Understanding the concept of multi-culturalism in German political landscape Is she now going crazy to think that African...Published: 30 Apr 2016 at 15:29hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Fossils and oil barons - a tragedy in Africa!
Since the beginning of industrial revolution. Africa has been at the receiving end of the effects of bad energy culture and use. The introduction of automobile industries, production industries and th...Published: 26 Apr 2016 at 14:41hrs | | by Mbizo Chirasha
Go for Clean Energy in Zimbabwe - with Solar civilization
Everyone who was born some years after and before independence and was born in both the villages , townships and cities understand how forests ended up cleared and how the wildlife has gone inst...Published: 21 Apr 2016 at 10:40hrs | | by Mbizo Chirasha
'Mugabe a massive culprit in causing climate change'
MDC leader Welshman Ncube has claimed that Zanu PF and rival President Robert Mugabe is massively contributing to climate change.Ncube said Mugabe is a culprit in causing air pollution due to ...Published: 04 Dec 2015 at 10:56hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Zanu-PF cannot afford perpetual 'self cleansing'
This October, Zim-Asset has reached a two-year milestone. Last year at this time, this column covered the hits and misses of this great five-year programme. So another year on, it would have been the ...Published: 20 Oct 2015 at 09:28hrs | | by Nick Mangwana
15 Zimbabweans feared dead in SA mine blast
Emergency teams had by yesterday recovered the bodies of six illegal miners, five of them Zimbabweans who died in a mine blast in Benoni, 35km outside Johannesburg, South Africa. At least 15 Zimbabwea...Published: 29 Aug 2015 at 09:02hrs | | by Thupeyo Muleya
Couple falls to death during sex
Moans of pleasure were replaced by screams of terror when a horny couple lost their balance while poking and fell to their deaths!, independent.co.uk reported.The French man and woman were lov...Published: 25 Aug 2015 at 07:45hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mujuru death: Family plans fresh probe
FOUR years to the day Zimbabwe's most decorated soldier, Retired General Solomon Mujuru died in a mysterious inferno that gutted part of his farm house at Almein Farm in Beatrice, the Mujuru family is...Published: 14 Aug 2015 at 19:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kombi driver in exhaust fumes suicide
A COMMUTER omnibus driver from Bulawayo's Entumbane suburb yesterday allegedly committed suicide by inhaling vehicle exhaust fumes after accusing his wife of infidelity, police confirmed.The d...Published: 23 May 2015 at 11:22hrs | 1 | by Auxilia Katongomara
Goblins beat Bulawayo woman to death
A Bulawayo woman from Cowdray Park was allegedly beaten to death by goblins while preparing supper for her family last Friday.Everjoice Chimuriwo, 42, was found dead by her son while still...Published: 15 Mar 2015 at 19:36hrs | 4 | by Bhebhe Mandla
400 Zimbabweans die in SA every month
AN estimated 400 bodies of dead Zimbabweans are repatriated into the country every month from South Africa, with most of the deaths being a result of murder.Horror stories are told of Zimbabw...Published: 05 Mar 2015 at 09:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Synagogue Inquest: Oh What A Tangled Web Lagos Weaves
Recent revelations have left questions about the credibility of the witnesses at the Lagos State Government Inquest into The Synagogue Building disaster accentuated rather than assuaged.I...Published: 09 Nov 2014 at 23:40hrs | 1 | by Marelise Van der Merwe
Fierce fight over dead miners
SOME of the 22 Zimbabweans who died at a disused South African mine last week arrived in Bulawayo yesterday morning amid a war of words between the country's main political parties desperate to claim ...Published: 09 Mar 2014 at 12:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T MP to highjack 22 miners' bodies welcome
BULAWAYO EAST MP Tabitha Khumalo has been deployed by her MDC-T party to receive the 22 bodies of illegal Zimbabwean miners who died in a disused mine shaft in South Africa.The miners died aft...Published: 07 Mar 2014 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dead illegal Zimbabwean miners named
SOUTH African authorities have released the names of 22 Zimbabweans who suffocated to their deaths in a mining accident last week.Twenty-seven bodies were retrieved from a disused shaft at Roo...Published: 05 Mar 2014 at 06:39hrs | | by Thandeka Moyo
Man suffocates in a 7,5 metre deep well
A 40-year-old Mutoko man suffocated last week after inhaling carbon monoxide from an engine he was using to drain water from a 7,5 metre deep well.Acting Mashonaland East police spokesperson A...Published: 28 Oct 2013 at 03:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'My brother Solomon was not buried in a manner that I accepted': Joel Mujuru
The elder brother of the late Gen Solomon Mujuru told Daily News on Friday that the family did not believe that this brother died in a fire caused by a candle, as claimed by the police....Published: 19 Feb 2012 at 10:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru to be exhumed
The Mujuru family through their legal representative, Thakor Kewada, from Scanlen and Holderness have formally requested for the exhumation of the remains of the late Retired General Solomon Mujuru t...Published: 03 Feb 2012 at 21:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru may have died before the fire broke out
Harare — Allies of retired General Solomon Mujuru wants a prominent South African private forensic pathologist, Dr Reggie Perumal to get to the bottom of what h...Published: 31 Jan 2012 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru family calls for SA forensic expert to question local pathologist
THE family of the late former army General Solomon Mujuru has requested the court to call in South African forensic expert to question the local pathologist who examined the remains his remains....Published: 27 Jan 2012 at 23:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
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