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Zimbabwe political parties, citizens geared for poll
ZIMBABWEANS in their millions will today cast their votes across the country to determine their future in an election that has largely been peaceful.Yesterday, political parties from across th...Published: 23 Aug 2023 at 06:32hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
British-Zimbabwe comedian playing the former Prince Charles in Channel 4 satire
When a drag queen called Baga Chipz is selected to play Margaret Thatcher in a TV show, and that's not even the most delicious bit of casting, you know you're onto a winner.In Channel 4's...Published: 27 Nov 2022 at 14:55hrs | 2 | by Agencies
Return to normal hours excites business
Businesses and traders have returned to their normal working hours following the extension of operating hours under the new Level Two lockdown measures announced by President Mnangagwa on Tuesday. ...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 06:05hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Remembering 27 June
Emmerson Mnangagwa was the chief election agent for Zanu PF in the 2008 election which they had a campaign of violence under themes "Mugabe muOffice" "Operation Wakavhotera papi literally ...Published: 27 Jun 2021 at 10:44hrs | 2 | by Leonard Koni
News vendor killer arrested
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested the man behind the murder of a city newspaper vendor last week. Jongumuzi Lobati (age not given) of Woodville assaulted the now deceased Farai Mazhindu of Luveve subur...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 06:25hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo newspaper vendor killed
A NEWSPAPER vendor in Bulawayo was found dead with his privates ripped open, metres from his home in the early hours of Wednesday. Farai Mazhindu popularly known in Luveve as Dread or Rasta wa...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Damaged urban roads need urgent attention
Importance of roads Recently I read an article by my former employer, the World Bank. The article explains that roads are the arteries through which the economy pulses. By linking producer...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 06:17hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Dan Tshanda dies
Music fans are in mourning on Saturday after news broke that musician and producer Dan Tshanda passed away in Johannesburg after suffering heart failure at age 54.He was reportedly certified d...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 19:42hrs | 1 | by Staf reporter
A false new dawn for Zimbabwe
The afternoon after Zimbabwe's historic Monday July 30 elections, I was trying to assuage the fears of Jason Burke, the correspondent for the London newspaper, the Guardian, that chaos and violence wo...Published: 03 Aug 2018 at 10:59hrs | 1 | by David B. Moore
Snake in pastor's car causes stir
VENDORS and passersby in Bulawayo's city center scurried for cover after a 60cm long snake slithered from a car's boot.The car is rumoured to be belonging to a pastor from one of the country's...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
The People Vs Obert Mpofu and Emmerson Manangagwa: We must march for Zephaniah Nhamo and finish what Morgan Tsvangirai started
A casual attempt to buy toothpaste and camphor cream two weeks ago, on a Sunday morning, was welcomed by demonstrators gathered outside Dischem Pharmacy in Midrand, Johannesburg. Undeterred by...Published: 08 Mar 2018 at 08:33hrs | | by Tafi Mhaka
Bulawayo, Gweru in '#Mugabe must GO' marches
THOUSANDS of people in Bulawayo and Gweru yesterday marched in the two cities' Central Business Districts, demanding the immediate resignation of President Mugabe.In Bulawayo, police had to tempor...Published: 19 Nov 2017 at 08:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZimPF activist not guilty of insulting Mugabe
MUTARE magistrate Langton Mukwengi on Tuesday granted an application for an exception to the charge made by Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) activist, Clemence Marabada, who was facing a charge of un...Published: 04 Aug 2016 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe going plastic
Cash shortages on the market have forced everyone including the worst technophobes who heavily distrusts a system where money is only a small chip on a credit card. Admittedly there is just a certain ...Published: 14 May 2016 at 09:15hrs | 1 | by Monica Cheru-Mpambawashe
Airtime, sweets vendors to pay monthly rentals in Bulawayo
Bulawayo City Council is set to erect thousands of special vending bays for airtime, newspaper dealers in the central business district and charge monthly rentals in a move seen as efforts to raise mo...Published: 04 Nov 2015 at 15:31hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
'Zimbabwe unemployment at 5.42%,' says UN agency
Zimbabwe's unemployment rate is 5.42 percent, the United Nations said on Tuesday.Unemployment rates in Zimbabwe are often reported to be between 80 and 90 percent, but these rates did not take...Published: 20 Jan 2015 at 16:47hrs | | by Sapa
Dumped python baffles
RESIDENTS of Harare's usually sleepy and serene Borrowdale suburb yesterday woke to a horrifying sight of a two-metre-long dead python dumped by the roadside in their neighbourhood.Conspiracy ...Published: 12 Mar 2014 at 10:49hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Latest on the python dumped by woman driving a Landrover D4
An unidentified seemingly well-to-do woman yesterday morning reportedly dumped a dead python along Borrowdale Road near the race course in harare before immediately confessing that her husband ha...Published: 12 Mar 2014 at 07:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cops devise new roadblock bribe tricks
ZIMBABWE Republic Police (ZRP) traffic officers have devised a new trick to avoid being caught with bribe money by their superiors through reportedly working in cahoots with some kombi crews and ...Published: 04 Mar 2014 at 07:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
3-yr-old boy miraculously escaped death as cars collide
A THREE-YEAR-OLD boy miraculously escaped death when his grandmother swiftly jumped and rescued him from a rolling car, which was involved in an accident.The accident occurred at the corner o...Published: 25 Feb 2014 at 01:20hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Newspaper vendor threatened, copies seized
Emmanuel Mhorombe, a newspaper vendor with the privately-owned NewsDay was on Tuesday, 18 June 2013 reportedly threatened with unspecified action by suspected ZANU-PF supporters in HarareÂ’s...Published: 20 Jun 2013 at 03:48hrs | | by Nyasha Nyakunu
Baby boy dies on street pavement while mother attending to a client
A seven-month old baby boy died mysteriously while sleeping on the street pavement while its mother, an airtime vendor was attending to a client.The incident, which witnesses are now suspectin...Published: 10 Apr 2013 at 02:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
R5 000 bravery award for Zim vendor who foiled an SA jail break
Twenty-eight year-old Zimbabwean newspaper vendor in South Africa, Aaron Mhukahuru, has been awarded by South African Correctional Services for alerting prison officials that dangerous criminals were ...Published: 02 Mar 2013 at 18:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Convicted jail escapee Moyo's trial back on
Johannesburg - The trial of convicted escapee Bongani Moyo and two others was expected to resume in the Pretoria Central Prison Court on Wednesday.Moyo, Khumbulani Sibanda and Leon Ncube face...Published: 11 Jul 2012 at 05:33hrs | | by Sapa
VMCZ Statement on threats against newspaper vendors
The Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe (VMCZ) condemns in the strongest terms the attack on Masvingo Mirror news-editor, Passmore Kuzipa, by a car dealer based in Masvingo. The VMCZ also notes with c...Published: 29 May 2012 at 09:04hrs | | by Loughty Dube
Serial jail escapee Bongani Moyo back in court in May
Pretoria - Serial escapee Bongani Moyo and three others appeared on charges of armed robbery in the Pretoria Magistrate's Court on Wednesday.SABC radio reported that Moyo, Leon Ncube, Khumbula...Published: 28 Mar 2012 at 13:52hrs | | by Sapa
SA's most wanted Zim criminal - Bongani Moyo - tries to escape - again
Pretoria - Serial jail-breaker Bongani Moyo was one of the three men who allegedly tried to escape from Pretoria Central Prison on Wednesday morning, a correctional services official said.A ne...Published: 14 Mar 2012 at 10:38hrs | | by Sapa
Female rank marshal relieves herself in public and sits on her faeces to resist arrest
A Gweru female rank marshal who is also a well known vendor at Kudzanayi Long Distance Bus Terminus in Gweru on Tuesday stunned fellow vendors and travellers when she relieved herself in the open foll...Published: 21 Dec 2011 at 04:33hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Econet prepares to make Zimbabwe a cashless society
Econet Wireless will at end of the month launch a mobile payment system that makes it possible for Zimbabweans to pay for anything using their cellphones.The company has spent millions of doll...Published: 06 Sep 2011 at 09:07hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Zimbabwe journalists blast Mutambara for intolerant and hate language
The Zimbabwe Union of Journalists, ZUJ, condemned what it called the use of intolerant and hate language by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Mr Arthur Mutambara.The DPM h...Published: 15 Jun 2011 at 06:00hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Local Paper's Vendors Attacked - HARARE
NewsDay reports that on Monday some of their newspaper vendors were attacked by suspected Zanu PF youths demonstrating against foreign businesspeople in Harare.The youths tore copies of the po...Published: 08 Feb 2011 at 12:34hrs | | by Byo24NEWS
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