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Public service job fair a crowd puller
Hundreds of graduates converged at the Zimbabwe International Exhibition Centre in Bulawayo for a two-day job fair organized by the Public Service Commission (PSC). The event aimed to establish a nati...Published: 27 Jun 2024 at 06:49hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Notorious CIO operative perishes in crash
Gilbert Mhere, a prominent member of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) in Mpandawana Town, died early yesterday morning in a car accident on the Gutu-Roy highway.Mhere, who was 37, s...Published: 30 May 2024 at 19:26hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
US$300 Covid allowance goes permanent as salary
Civil servants will now be receiving the old US$300 Covid-19 allowances as part of their permanent pensionable salary, with the first batches of workers, including uniformed forces and health workers,...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 05:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF polling agents paid from CIO offices
Allegedly, Zanu-PF polling agents in Gutu have received their allowances from the CIO (Central Intelligence Organisation) offices at Mpandawana, suggesting a close connection between the ruling party ...Published: 23 Sep 2023 at 20:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
CIO linked FAZ abducts village head over cement
Three men from Forever Associates Zimbabwe (FAZ) on Wednesday allegedly abducted and threatened to kill Munamati Village head in Ward 8 Gutu Central, Wilfred Munamati, for receiving ten bags of cement...Published: 30 Jun 2023 at 15:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Teachers sleep in the bush after threats from Zanu-PF
Teachers at Guni Secondary School in Gutu South were on Wednesday last week forced to sleep in bushes after receiving death threats from a Zanu-PF ward chairperson.The threats rattled the teac...Published: 10 Jun 2023 at 18:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's 'terror' squad arrested
Police in Gutu have arrested four members of a Zanu-PF gang notorious for terrorising people in the district. Two of the members were arrested for allegedly obstructing the course of justice after the...Published: 13 May 2023 at 18:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
19 firms blacklisted for fuelling black market
NINETEEN contractors providing Government with goods and services have been blacklisted for channelling funds to the foreign exchange black market, Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor ...Published: 11 Nov 2022 at 05:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rowdy mob disrupts CCC presser
SUSPECTED Zanu-PF youths yesterday cordoned off the Media Centre in the capital to block opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party leaders from holding a Press conference.CCC spokes...Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 05:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF ropes in touts
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has enlisted the services of touts, popularly known as mahwindi in its 2023 electoral campaign.Fears abound that the touts could be used as a youth militia against pol...Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teacher witch-hunt continue
GOVERNMENT has embarked on a witch-hunt, scrapping the recruitment of teachers as enumerators for the national census exercise as punishment for participating in a strike action when schools opened fo...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 10:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt probes 22 000 absconding teachers
MORE than 22 000 teachers and headmasters are being investigated for failing to report for work while 1 220 have been suspended since schools opened in February, unions have said.Since the reo...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt to pay COVID-19 risk allowance in USD
GOVERNMENT will now pay civil servants a COVID-19 risk allowance starting January 2022.Under the scheme, the rest of the civil service will get US$75, while pensioners will be getting US$30, a...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 19:08hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'No aid for villagers who mourned MDC activist'
Zanu-PF councillor for Ward 24 Gutu, Mathias Takamira Rashai has threatened to withdraw food and other Government aid from mourners who attended the funeral of an MDC activist killed during political ...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 18:55hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland marginalisation
THE marginalisation of the Matabeleland region is viewed as a deliberate extension of the 1980s Gukurahundi massacres by the Zanu pF government, to punish the people in the southern parts of the count...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland is marginalised
FORMER speaker of Parliament Lovemore Moyo says the Matabeleland region continues to be marginalised with locals not benefiting from natural resources.Moyo, who now fronts the opposition Unite...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ingwebu Breweries makes a mistake, appoints Tyra Chikocho
COMEDIAN and actor Madam Boss (real name Tyra Chikocho) has been appointed as Ingwebu Breweries brand ambassador with the company saying they want to penetrate other markets, through her.Besid...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 22:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Some fallen heroes, battle sites lie forgotten'
While war veterans across the country are fighting for gratuities and other benefits for their participation in Zimbabwe's liberation struggle, some Zimbabweans believe they should be fighting for the...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Masvingo to name streets after war vets
Masvingo City Council and the Infrastructural Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ) intend to honour liberation war luminaries from the province by naming streets in the new suburb of Clipsham Views aft...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Young spirit medium unsettles Chief
Intriguing claims by a 24-year female spirit medium that the Munyaradzi chieftainship is in wrong hands could see Urayayi Munyaradzi losing his position as chief.The Munyaradzi chieftainship h...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 13:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt employees abandon politicised clean-up campaign in Gutu
Civil servants who turned up to clean the streets of the sprawling town on January 04 abandoned the exercise after it became highly politicised.This was after Zanu-PF supporters showed up in t...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 16:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF regalia banned in Mpandawana
Some MDC Alliance supporters in Ward 33 Gutu Central are alleged to be harassing anybody seen wearing Zanu-PF regalia in the sprawling town of Mpandawana.Ruling party supporters told TellZim N...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 15:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean men say condoms 'too small' for them - report
Men from a small Zimbabwean town have reportedly pleaded with condom manufacturers to supply them with larger condoms, saying those available in local shops were "too small for them".According...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 09:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man assaults wife for attending Zanu-PF celebrations
Tafadzwa Mufukidze (30) of Kandisai village under Chief Gutu recently appeared before magistrate Victor Mahamadi facing charges of assaulting his wife for attending Zanu-PF election victory celebratio...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 10:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teenager stuns court over rape
A Gutu teenager stunned a Masvingo regional court last week when he admitted to repeatedly raping his six-year-old Grade One sister, claiming that the minor was always pestering him for sex. The 18-ye...Published: 05 Feb 2018 at 04:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ultimatum gives hope to pyramid scam victims
A THREE-MONTH ultimatum issued by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to people who externalised money to return it within the grace period, has given hope to thousands of investors who lost millions of doll...Published: 06 Dec 2017 at 05:24hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
CSOs voter registration campaign nets thousands
THE countrywide dragnet of roadshows that were launched by the Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) and the Elections Resource Centre (ERC) in four days has reached thousands of people with v...Published: 21 Oct 2017 at 07:26hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
'Poison fears are over,' says Mnangagwa
VICE-PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said the worst was over concerning his health as he is making a tremendous recovery.Addressing hundreds of people at a memorial service for national...Published: 01 Oct 2017 at 10:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's open grave waiting for him
A Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) official Discent Collins Bajila has insinuated that during his last visit to National Heroes acre he noticed some empty graves and one of them was just close to ...Published: 25 Aug 2017 at 07:30hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Mphoko buries the 'Iron Lady of Masvingo'
It was a majestic send-off for national heroine Masvingo Provincial Affairs Minister Senator Shuvai Ben Mahofa, a veteran politician, who was laid to rest before thousands of people at the National He...Published: 21 Aug 2017 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Arts Awards winners - list
Outstanding Actress (Schools)Anita Moyo (Eveline Girls) Outstanding Actor (Schools)Nobert Makoche (Gifford Boys) &nb...Published: 01 Jul 2017 at 18:55hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
All set for Bulawayo Arts Awards
Bulawayo City Hall in the City of Queens and Kings plays host to the inaugural ceremony of the much-anticipated Bulawayo Arts Awards (BAA) on Friday.Given the socio-economic situation in the c...Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 12:05hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's army evicts 200 families, to convert land into a shooting range
MIDLANDS Provincial Affairs minister Jason Machaya yesterday said government had set up a special taskforce to stop the army from evicting over 200 Shurugwi villagers from Lazy Nine Farm after it emer...Published: 21 Jun 2017 at 07:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mujuru sweeps at graves in Gutu
In a major statement against political violence, former Vice President and National People`s Party (NPP) president Joyce Mujuru visited Gutu District last week, cleaned and swept at several graves of ...Published: 30 May 2017 at 13:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai tells Mugabe to stop privatising Zimbabwe
OPPOSITION MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai has accused President Robert Mugabe of privatising the country, making a few political elites enjoy at the expense of the majority.Addressing mour...Published: 11 Apr 2017 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Guard, undressed girlfriend found dead
A 44-YEAR-OLD security guard who was working for Guard Alert and his suspected girlfriend, all from Zaka in Masvingo, were found dead with their bodies lying on the floor in an advanced state of d...Published: 26 Mar 2017 at 10:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
4 Gutu sex workers fight over married man
Two women Nyaradzai Gijima (21) of Hillside in Harare and Fungai Mpandawana (26) of Hwiru, Gutu have appeared before Magistrate Edward Marecha facing charges of assaulting Hazvinei Mukeyoza (29)...Published: 01 Feb 2017 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mpandawana man ‘snatches’ best friend’s wife
Jairos Chingaira Nyandoro, a well known mechanic at Mpandawana in Gutu has been dragged to Chief Gutu's court by his friend on allegations that he snatched the later's wife.Allegations are tha...Published: 31 Jan 2017 at 05:07hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo councillors fume over 'fake' HIV statistics
Bulawayo city councillors, on Tuesday fumed over media reports that the city had become the country's HIV hotspot, saying the claims were false and likely to scare away potential investors....Published: 08 Dec 2016 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Former MDC-T MP's son hangs self
The son of the former MDC-T Member of Parliament for Gutu North Edmore Maramwidze Hamandishe was found dead after he hang himself in his room last week on Wednesday.Sources said that Takun...Published: 26 Nov 2016 at 17:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cheating wife drives man to haulage truck death
A GUTU man made his intention to take his own life known through a WhatsApp group before committing suicide by deliberately crashing his car into an oncoming haulage truck.Thomas Bhuru (31...Published: 12 Nov 2016 at 18:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cop loses AK47
A policeman guarding examination material at Mupandawana High School in Gutu, Masvingo, is battling for life in hospital after he was attacked by knife-wielding men who disarmed him and fled with ...Published: 10 Nov 2016 at 04:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
CIO imposter nabbed at Mpandawana
A man from Majengwa village in Gutu who allegedly forged Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) identity card which he used as a getaway passport from Police roadblocks since he had no license has be...Published: 06 Nov 2016 at 11:12hrs | | by Stephan Jakes
Businessman in court for attempted murder
Blessed Huni (31), a prominent Mpandawana businessman has been dragged to court for attempted murder after he severely assaulted a man he accused of having allegedly bedded each of his two wives....Published: 01 Aug 2016 at 06:57hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu PF MP's brother in court for leading stay away
James Matuke (38) who is understood to be a brother of Zanu PF Politburo member, Lovemore Matuke was last week arrested and detained for allegedly participating in a violent political stay away agains...Published: 25 Jul 2016 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Tsvangirai's appointments: A coup from the Mpandawana boys
Last week on Thursday, Morgan Tsvangirai cut a lone and frail figure as he addressed a handful of MDC-T supporters who had gathered outside Harvest House to give him moral support after his return fro...Published: 17 Jul 2016 at 16:29hrs | | by The Sharp Shooter Vukani Madoda
Toddler burnt to death in defunct vehicle
A THREE-year-old toddler from Gutu was burnt beyond recognition after he accidentally set a broken down vehicle he and his brother were playing in, alight.Blessing Mukombe of Card Location at ...Published: 22 Jun 2016 at 07:02hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
Mujuru is senior to Mugabe, claims Mavhaire
Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) elder Dzikamai Mavhaire has said Joice Mujuru joined the liberation struggle against minority white rule at least four years earlier than President Robert Mugabe.Ad...Published: 17 Jun 2016 at 13:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe just too junior to Joyce Mujuru
President Robert Mugabe is far too junior in terms of war credentials to his former deputy Joyce Mujuru.Former Zanu PF Politburo member, Dzikamai Mavhaire said Mugabe (92) was a mafikizolo in ...Published: 17 Jun 2016 at 09:11hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
School shutdown over 'protest incitement' teachers
THE Roman Catholic Diocese of Masvingo has closed Mukaro High School in Gutu with immediate effect in protest against the continued presence of two teachers accused of having masterminded pupils' prot...Published: 25 May 2016 at 07:13hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
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