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Zimbabweans in SA push for parliamentary representation
Zimbabweans in South Africa are pressing for representation in Parliament, arguing that their numbers warrant consideration.This call comes as the Zimbabwean government reviews the 2016 Nation...Published: 19 May 2024 at 19:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
25-year-old stabs wife to death
A 25-year-old Gweru man is on the run after he allegedly fatally stabbed his 22-year-old wife with a knife three times at their rented house in Mkoba 16 suburb following a domestic feud.Midlan...Published: 26 Feb 2024 at 04:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man rapes, impregnates ex-lover
A man from Kuwadzana in Harare, Arnold Murahwa (24) has appeared in court for allegedly raping and impregnating his 17-year-old ex-girlfriend whose name h...Published: 12 Jan 2023 at 07:29hrs | 6 | by Mzingaye Nxumalo
4 notorious armed robbers arrested
POLICE in Mutare have arrested four armed robbers who terrorised Destiny of Africa Network residents of Lot 1 in Dangamvura in the eastern border city.Acting Manicaland police spokesperson ass...Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 05:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Varun enjoys business boom
BEVERAGES producer, Varun Beverages says there is good demand for its products, including the newly-launched Aquaclear bottled water, due to its world-class quality and low price.Varun Beverag...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 07:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Exams cheating scandal rocks Zimbabwe army
AN examination cheating scandal has rocked the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) after more than 100 soldiers - including one with links to the Commander-in-Chief President Emmerson Mnangagwa - breached ru...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 20:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Embassy tribalism exposed!
The uncivil dance of tribalism is arguably the most wobbly and unentertaining spectacle at our embassies. This primitive practice of ethnicity is a debilitating epidemic currently eating into the inte...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Mnangagwa mourns Murahwa, Mpofu
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday sent condolence messages to the Murahwa and Mpofu families following the death of former Director in the Office of the President Beaven Shungu Murahwa and Member of Parli...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Schools reopen under strict health regulations
Examination classes went smoothly back to school yesterday with teachers and pupils following the World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines. The three examination classes, Grade 7, Form 4 and...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fear grips farmers
Fear has gripped local farmers following the government's ultimatum giving them up to the end of next week to submit production return forms with many believing it is a ploy by authorities to remove t...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Father's snakes feast on daughters
THERE are many relatives today who do not talk to each other anymore as they blame witchcraft for all their problems, with the "witches" being their relatives. There are those who believe in witchcraf...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 16:03hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Varun opens new production line
VARUN Beverages Zimbabwe Private Limited (VBZPL) has commissioned a new production line to ramp up production of its Aquaclear bottled mineral water.VBZPL is a subsidiary of the Indian headqua...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 20:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pepsi Zimbabwe increases production by 200%
PEPSI Zimbabwe, the local unit of Varun Beverages, says production capacity at its manufacturing and bottling plant in Harare has increased by 200% due to huge demand of its product, local and abroad....Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pepsi ups output in Zimbabwe
PEPSI Zimbabwe, the local unit of Varun Beverages, says it has more than doubled production at its manufacturing and bottling plant in response to the shortages of soft drinks being experienced in the...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 20:42hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Pepsi to double production in Zimbabwe
Indian soft drinks manufacturer, Varun Beverages has said it is doubling production at its recently-commissioned $40 million Pepsi manufacturing and bottling plant in Harare.The company, which...Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 12:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teacher runs amok
A HONDE VALLEY teacher must have been intoxicated with anger when she beat and injured a grade one pupil on the eye for making noise in class and later assaulted two police officers who had come to in...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man survives buffalo attack
A 35-year-old Chipinge man is lucky to be alive after a stray buffalo from Save Conservancy attacked him last Saturday.Mr Mbengo Maphosa of Mutorwa Village under Chief Musikavanhu was admitted...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 07:20hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
Congregant steals mobile phones at church
AN apostolic sect member who stole and sold 16 cell phones from his fellow church members at an all-night church gathering before spending the money on beer has been arraigned before the courts....Published: 18 May 2018 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Schools defy Govt on mobile money transfers
SOME schools in Mutare are resisting fees payments through mobile money transfers despite a directive by the parent ministry that they acquire merchant codes and cushion parents from the cash crisis, ...Published: 11 May 2018 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Econet and the mystery of disappearing data
REPORTS have emerged of increased disappearing data from Econet Wireless's mobile subscribers on the telecom company's daily and weekly data packages, which the company blames on subscribers' mobile p...Published: 25 Apr 2018 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reorter
Mnangagwa 'protégée' torments Makonde farmer
A SUSPECTED Makonde illegal miner is allegedly abusing President Emerson Mnangagwa's name to torment a resettled farmer, who now has endured illegal gold mining metres from his house.Gibson Li...Published: 24 Mar 2018 at 10:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pepsi starts production in Zimbabwe
INDIAN soft drinks manufacturer, Varun Beverages, has started manufacturing operations in the country, but says the cost of setting up its plant might spiral from the initial budget of $30 million to ...Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman squanders lobola with lover
A CHEATING woman is at odds with her husband amid revelations that she squandered money meant for her lobola with her married lover.Shupikai Patience Mutembo, 35, separated with her husband, N...Published: 13 Jul 2016 at 10:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prisoner escapes from Mutare Prison
A 31-year-old male prisoner who was serving an 18-month jail term escaped from Mutare Farm Prison last Saturday and is still at large. Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services, Manicaland Re...Published: 27 May 2016 at 16:08hrs | | by Liberty Dube
Diamond deposits discovered at Showgrounds
A RICH diamond belt has been discovered at Mutare Show Grounds and lands overlooking the Murahwa Hills in Chikanga.manica Post reported that the discovery is a confirmation of a recent geograp...Published: 03 Apr 2016 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Warped eyes see Zanu PF shadow everywhere
I read a story from my home province of Manicaland that was quite disturbing on two fronts. Firstly the behavior of the youths who abducted the Vapositori members was indeed very deplorable. However, ...Published: 19 Feb 2016 at 08:53hrs | | by John Sigauke
Apostolic sect members detained, drugged
A MISUNDERSTANDING over a shrine in Murahwa Hills turned nasty recently when some youths and members of an apostolic sect clashed over a shrine resulting in the cheeky youths detaining the congregants...Published: 19 Feb 2016 at 06:41hrs | | by Tendai Gukutikwa and Letwin Mubonesi
Prison break in Mutare
A Convict escaped from Mutare prisons on Wednesday amid revelations the Mutare Show Grounds were cordoned off as scores of prison officers tracked down a convict who escaped and disapp...Published: 31 Jul 2015 at 13:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya's followers kidnapped
THIRTEEN followers of Prophetic Healing Deliverance Ministries were reportedly kidnapped by a Nyazura inyanga who accused the church of broadcasting one of her tools of the trade on Yadah Television c...Published: 14 May 2015 at 06:59hrs | 3 | by Fidelis Munyoro
Teens in court for sex escapade
A 17-year-old boy on Thursday appeared in court after he allegedly engaged in sex with his 14-year-old girlfriend as her birthday present. Enoch Murahwa appeared before Mbare magistrate Anita ...Published: 21 Mar 2015 at 08:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Motorist swallows driver's licence
THERE was drama at a police roadblock near Murahwa Green Market in Mutare on Sunday morning after a motorist who had produced a fake driver's licence went on to swallow the document after cops queried...Published: 30 Jan 2015 at 21:30hrs | | by Staff Reporter
War vet who died in 1978 demands a decent burial
A LIBERATION war fighter who died at the battlefront in 1978 has demanded a decent burial together with his colleagues after his spirit recently manifested in a Chikanga woman, saying if the process i...Published: 17 Jan 2015 at 12:02hrs | | by Mercy Ngwebvu
Floods displace five families
Five families have since been relocated from ZIMTA area of Chikanga following a heavy down pour which occurred on Wednesday night in which a 6-year-old child died while more than 150 houses were affec...Published: 19 Dec 2014 at 12:37hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'CIO agent' jailed 52 years
A SERIAL rapist who posed as a member of the Central Intelligence Organisation and raped 13 women will spend the next 52 years behind bars after he was found guilty of committing the crimes.Mo...Published: 15 Nov 2014 at 16:43hrs | | by Abel Zhakata
Rampant corruption at Labour Office in Mutare
Please note that Bulawayo24 does not edit WhatsApp updates. We publish them as sent by our readers and we do not disclose the sender's telephone number. ...Published: 04 Jul 2014 at 18:21hrs | | by Concerned Citizen
Mupositori denied bail
HARARE - The number of Vapositori arrested for beating up police officers and journalists last week, is now 28 after one of them was yesterday denied bail.Just like the rest of the Vapositori...Published: 05 Jun 2014 at 16:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Vapositori 'tortured' while in custody
HARARE - Members of the of the Madzibaba Ishamea Mufani's Johanne Masowe Church, who thumped police officers and journalists last week, have made sensational claims that they were tortured while in cu...Published: 04 Jun 2014 at 14:30hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'CIO man' rapes 13 women looking for jobs
A suspected serial rapist on Thursday appeared in court in Mutare on charges of raping and abusing 13 women while posing as a member of the Central Intelligence Organisation, the State secret service....Published: 11 Jan 2014 at 21:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Herd-boy (17) jailed for raping girl (11)
A 17-YEAR-OLD teenager who was employed as a herd-boy in Chipinge was last week sentenced to nine years imprisonment for raping a 11-year-old girl at Buffledrift Woodlands. Sherpard Murahwa of...Published: 29 Nov 2013 at 03:22hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Female rapists pounce on a 21 year old man
FEMALE rapists, on Easter Sunday pounced on a 21-year-old man from Chikanga high-density suburb, kidnapped him before raping him once in a maize field.Police confirmed the incident which happe...Published: 05 Apr 2013 at 11:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Failure to control sex drive lands 17-yr-old boy in trouble
A 17-YEAR-OLD Chipinge boy appeared in court last week for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl on March 1.Prosecuting, Mr Witness Nyamundaya, said on the day in question, Shepherd Murahwa of B...Published: 22 Mar 2013 at 21:28hrs | | by Staff Reporter
My Own Boss reality show update
Harare contestant Godwin Gogwe (23) got one step closer to winning the grand prize of US$25 000 in the My Own Boss - Buy Zimbabwe edition entrepreneurship television reality show after leading his tea...Published: 12 Oct 2012 at 05:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
'My Own Boss' reality show contestants named
At least 20 contestants for ZBCTV's upcoming entrepreneurial reality show "My Own Boss", have been announced just eight days before they go into bootcamp.While in camp, several business execut...Published: 10 Jul 2012 at 16:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Traffic cop nabbed for demanding $10 from undercover detectives
A corrupt traffic cop based in Bulawayo's Traffic West station has been nabbed for demanding a $10 bribe from undercover detectives.Stanley Murahwa ( 33) appeared before magistrate Victor Mpo...Published: 27 Feb 2012 at 08:51hrs | | by Alois Sibanda
Zim Rastafarians to hold national prayer meeting
The Cherutombo Rastafari House in Marondera will next Saturday hold a national worship meeting to pray for the country and its leadership.In an interview last week, Cherutombo Rastafari House ...Published: 19 Nov 2011 at 20:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
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