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Catholic priest dies in Zimbabwe accident
A tragic accident early this morning claimed the life of a man, believed to be a Catholic priest from Murombedzi, after his vehicle collided with a truck on the Chinhoyi-Chegutu Road. The crash occurr...Published: 15 Sep 2024 at 09:55hrs | 726 | by Staff reporter
Over 4 500 learners fall pregnant in Zimbabwe
Over 4,500 students dropped out of school last year in Zimbabwe due to pregnancy, including 150 in primary schools, according to Primary and Secondary Education Minister Edgar Moyo. Moyo reve...Published: 06 Sep 2024 at 07:24hrs | 92 | by Staff reporter
Mashonalland police probe cattle rustling syndicates
Police in Mashonaland West have launched an investigation into a series of stock theft cases involving suspected syndicates that slaughter stolen cattle and sell the meat in urban areas.In a s...Published: 25 Aug 2024 at 11:23hrs | 338 | by Staff reporter
Poor road network cause for concern
On a late Thursday afternoon, commuters traveling on the Kadoma-Sanyati Road face challenging conditions with dusty roads, curves, and potholes. The poor state of the road has led to dangerous...Published: 21 Aug 2024 at 09:37hrs | 649 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF official probed for stealing food aid
Police are investigating Linet Chirwa, a Zanu-PF councillor for Mhondoro-Mubaira's Ward 5, and several Chegutu Rural District Council officials for alleged theft of food aid. The suspects are accused ...Published: 25 Jul 2024 at 07:46hrs | 338 | by Staff reporter
Farewell Chairman VK: Reflections of a dear friend
The late Vimbai Kamoyo (VK) was quite a character.They buried him last week in Chiunye village, Mt Darwin, Mashonaland Central. Between him and I, the title of "Chairman" took tu...Published: 18 Jun 2024 at 14:54hrs | 32 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Woman in court for poisoning pupils
A 37-year-old woman from Zvimba, Paidamoyo Makayi, appeared in Chinhoyi Magistrates Court on Saturday for allegedly attempting to poison her daughter's schoolmates. Makayi, who is from Murombe...Published: 11 Jun 2024 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
10 new IPPs to generate 271MW for Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE has licenced 10 more independent power producers (IPPs) to start generating 271MW of electricity in the next 12 to 24 months under the Government project support agreement which now holds clo...Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 04:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Our feelings matter too
I was fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to be a volunteer at an online free teen support hotline last year. It was a place where young individuals could seek solace, guidance, and a listeni...Published: 14 Nov 2023 at 19:29hrs | 7 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
4 die in Chinhoyi-Chegutu road accident
FOUR people died on the spot while two others escaped with injuries after a lorry rammed into the back of another lorry along the Chinhoyi-Chegutu road in Zvimba district, Monday evening.Polic...Published: 25 Oct 2023 at 13:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers arrested despite paying sangoma
Three armed robbers targeted a businessman at his residence in the Mahatshula suburb, purportedly making off with US$6,000 and P110,000, while also offering a traditional healer 1,800 pula as a gestur...Published: 21 Oct 2023 at 21:01hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns accident victims
President Mnangagwa expressed his condolences for the victims of the Murowa Diamonds plane crash in Mashava and the Bay Horse Mine accident in Chegutu, both of which occurred on Friday.During ...Published: 01 Oct 2023 at 07:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa youths guard party billboards
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) youths have camped at Marondera Bus Terminus to safeguard their party leader Nelson Chamisa's campaign billboards.The huge billboards were erecte...Published: 11 Aug 2023 at 06:44hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Fraudster who forged CCC officials' signatures in Kariba double candidature faces arrest
TROUBLE awaits a Kariba man, who allegedly forged signatures of two Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) top officials on his nomination papers as a parliamentary candidate at Chinhoyi Magistrates Cou...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's 'Lady of Steel' vows to humiliate Ziyambi in Zvimba West poll re-run
THE remaining candidate challenging Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi in the upcoming Zanu-PF Zvimba West primary election re-run has vowed to hand him a humiliating defeat in the second round of votin...Published: 14 Apr 2023 at 07:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hwende stops campaigning over negative comments from CCC citizens on Twitter
THERE is internecine strife in the Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) party to the extent that top official, Charlton Hwende, has decided to stop campaigning for the party in Mhondoro.This c...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mohadi tours Mash West to whip traditional leaders
Zanu-PF vice president and second secretary, Kembo Mohadi, is set on a marathon tour of Mashonaland West province where he is expected to whip traditional leaders into ensuring their subjects vote for...Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 05:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hwende in alleged plot to impose his clique as CCC's 2023 election candidates
THERE is internecine strife in the Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) party amid claims top official, Charlton Hwende, is planning to impose his preferred candidates to contest the 2023 harmonised e...Published: 26 Sep 2022 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on alert for measles outbreak
Cabinet received an update on the Country‘s Response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and a report on the procurement and roll-out of vaccines, as presented by the Chairman of the National Covid-19 Inter-M...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Diaspora vote a logistical nightmare
Over the past four years, the Government has instituted high-impact legislative reforms to help strengthen the country's democracy and promote personal freedoms. Ahead of next year's harmonised electi...Published: 24 Jul 2022 at 09:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chegutu villagers relive night of terror
"THEY must rot in jail!" Selma Modi (38) of Kalembo Farm in Chegutu yelled as she narrated her harrowing ordeal of last Tuesday night at the hands of armed Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) personnel....Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Truck driver vanishes
A TRUCK driver, Masimba Murombo (48) working for Biltrans Transport, went missing last Friday while transporting a consignment of copper from Chirundu to Harare.Preliminary investigations indi...Published: 19 Apr 2022 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
20 buses drive to Mnangagwa's event empty
Zanu-PF Mashonaland West leaders are at loggerheads after 20 Zupco buses commandeered to ferry party supporters to Kadoma for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's event ended up driving to the venue virtual...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 10:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
1 killed, 22 injured after bus overturns and lands on its roof
One person was killed and 32 others injured when an Inter Africa bus overturned near Norton, 39km west of Harare, on Tuesday morning.Police said the bus, travelling from Murombedzi to Ha...Published: 05 Apr 2022 at 19:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's children stand their ground
CHILDREN of the late Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe have maintained that the traditional leaders who ordered the exhumation of their father's remains have no legal right to do so.This emerge...Published: 18 Mar 2022 at 05:41hrs | 5 | by Staf reporter
Suspected thieves shot dead
Two transformer thieves were shot and killed near Murombedzi Growth Point in a shoot-out with police after they failed to stop at a police checkpoint.The incident happened on Saturday morning....Published: 07 Feb 2022 at 05:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
8 Zimbabweans on Interpol wanted list
EIGHT Zimbabweans, including a Bulawayo woman who is charged for fraud and corruption, are currently on the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) most wanted list for allegedly committ...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
When it gets cold outside Zanu-PF
Last week various social media platforms and some online publications were awash with the news of a meeting in South Africa between former Zanu-PF members namely G40 kingpin, Saviour Kasukuwere, expel...Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 04:37hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
How quick Chamisa would win with a "Robot" party name?
A quick innovative miracle is needed in choosing Chamisa's new party name. The explorative process must consider ease to remember name, punch, humour, cross-age acceptability, cross-tribe acceptabilit...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 14:48hrs | | by Ryton Dzimiri
Chamisa's supporter suffers trauma after Zanu-PF violence
THE Alliance member, who was recently attacked at his homestead during the opposition party's leader Nelson Chamisa's tour of Mashonaland West Province, is suffering from severe post-traumatic stress ...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 05:56hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa partners ZTTU
DIVARIS Makaharis Group of Schools owner, Philip Chiyangwa, has partnered the Zimbabwe Table Tennis Union for their preparations for the upcoming USCP Games, in Gaborone, Botswana, next month. ...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:13hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Econet commissions new high-speed LTE base stations in rural areas
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe last week upgraded its base stations at Kutama, 80 km southwest of Harare, and at Murombedzi, about 110km west of the capital, to high-speed LTE/4G as part of a marathon rollo...Published: 04 Nov 2021 at 06:29hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC, Zanu-PF in violent clashes
VIOLENT clashes, pitting Zanu-PF and MDC Alliance activists, left scores of people injured after ruling party supporters attempted to block opposition leader Nelson Chamisa from meeting villagers in Z...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:02hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
You've failed us, villagers tell MPs
Zvimba villagers last Friday blasted legislators for failing to effectively play their oversight role on budgetary allocations in Parliament, resulting in the increase in poverty levels among communit...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Midlands leaders in bruising fist fight
FACTIONAL violence in Zanu-PF has turned physical in the Midlands province, with senior officials exchanging blows in public last weekend in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's troubled citadel.Pre...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 20:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Constituency petitions Biti to account for CDF
Residents of Harare East are up in arms against their legislator, Mr Tendai Biti, over alleged misappropriation of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF).Members of Parliament, Mr Bit include...Published: 07 Jun 2021 at 22:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace snubs Mugabe's reburial hearing
FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe has failed to turn up for a hearing before a Zvimba traditional Chief's court after being summoned for burying her late husband and late former President Robert Mugabe a...Published: 20 May 2021 at 18:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe exhumation bid chief bribed, says Chidakwa
FORMER Mines and Mining Development minister, Walter Chidakwa has described the attempt to desecrate late former President Robert Mugabe's grave as a "shameful drama by money-mongers seeking undeserve...Published: 17 May 2021 at 18:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hands off Grace, says the Mugabes
THE late former President Mugabe's family yesterday rubbished moves by a Zvimba traditional leader to summon former First Lady Grace Mugabe to appear before his traditional court on a charge of "impro...Published: 13 May 2021 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe petitioned over 'courtyard' burial of Robert
A Zimbabwean chief has summoned former First Lady Grace Mugabe to appear before a village court to answer charges of "inappropriately" burying the country's late former president, Robert Mugabe, at th...Published: 12 May 2021 at 10:46hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wife convoy biker's death linked to juju
SOCIAL media in Chinhoyi is abuzz with claims the sudden death of Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) executive escort motorbike outrider, Sergeant Freddy Chipato, was a result of witchcraft by a motorist ...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 11:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tribute to Morgan Nemadire the regional magistrate and a friend
On the 6th March 2021 one of the brightest lights in the Zimbabwean legal fraternity, MR Morgen Nemadire was switched off.But the sun has not set on the Nemadire's alone, Zimbabweans also mourn th...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 14:31hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa tightens grip on Masvingo
While the just concluded DCC elections could have dealt a body blow to unity in the ruling Zanu-PF party, in Masvingo Province President Emmerson Mnangagwa has tightened his power grip as all those wh...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 09:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga betrayed Zimbabweans' aspirations
THE year 2020 is coming to an end, my soul is speaking to the ever-suffering people countrywide. All of them seem to have spent the better part of the last three years reflecting on the tragedy that b...Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 21:33hrs | 12 | by Elijah Mangwengwende
Kidnapped baby found in Zvimba
A baby, who was kidnapped at Spar Montague Shopping Centre last month has been found in Murombedzi, Zvimba. Police have since arrested Gift Chemhuru in connection with the kidnapping. Chemhuru...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 05:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tizora laid to rest in a very emotional ceremony in Zvimba Murombedzi
The late CHISHAWASHA Mission headmaster Mr Simon Muzanenhamo Tizora who died in Harare last week was laid to rest in his home area of Zvimba near Murombedzi. He was laid to rest in a ceremony attended...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 08:04hrs | 5 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
The Chishawasha Mission headmaster Mr Tizora dies
The headmaster of Chishawasha Boarding School has died. Mr Simon Muzanenhamo Tizora passed on Monday 28th September in the morning at West End clinic in Harare.He is survived with his wife Ann...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 14:27hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
CICs turn communities into global village
John Mupangara (19) from Zaranyika village in Murewa is a delighted man.The establishment of a community information centre (CIC) at Murewa Centre is a blessing as he no longer travels to Hara...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:28hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa swears in uniformed forces commissioners
President Mnangagwa yesterday swore-in three six-member commissions for the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF), Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) and Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) at State ...Published: 15 May 2019 at 23:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
GMB corruption exposed
GMB is selling maize to Millers at $447 per tonne. Which is RTGS$13 410 per truck. Gvt is buying that maize from farmers at $726. Which is RTGS$21 780. Now GMB Depot managers were sell...Published: 15 May 2019 at 00:22hrs | | by Social media
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