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Insimbi ZeZhwane's album launch draws an oversubscribed crowd
Fans of Insimbi ZeZhwane are urging the popular Zimbabwean band to consider stadium venues for future album launches following an overwhelming turnout at their 10th album launch held on Saturday at th...Published: 04 Nov 2024 at 15:49hrs | 1086 | by Staff reporter
Macheso to sample new album in Diaspora
Renowned Sungura musician Alick Macheso has announced an exciting lineup of shows in South Africa and the United Kingdom ahead of his album launch on August 2nd. The tour kicks off in Johannesburg at ...Published: 23 Jun 2024 at 10:40hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Bosso unveil Try Ncube
HIGHLANDERS officially unveiled Try Ncube as the incoming assistant coach to Zambian Kelvin Kaindu as per the Zimpapers Sports reports earlier during the month. In a statement, Highlanders sai...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 04:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Thomas Mapfumo makes retirement U-turn
Uncertainty continues to cloud Chimurenga musician Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo's retirement arrangement following his affirmation of two shows slated for South Africa early next month and possibly, one i...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Macheso to stage two shows in SA
Sungura kingpin Alick Macheso returns to South Africa for two live performances next month and his management has promised top drawer performances. The October 9 and 10 shows come after earlie...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Macheso back on live stage
TOP local performers are making a beeline for South Africa following the relaxation of Covid-19 lockdown regulations across the Limpopo.Leading the pack is sungura maestro Alick Macheso, who i...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 19:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chebundo departure is good riddance
IN response to MDC bigwigs Chebundo, Timveos defect to Zanu-PF: I am really surprised that former Kwekwe Central MP Blessing Chebundo, of all the people, has decided to join the ruling Zanu-PF party....Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:36hrs | 3 | by Chief Chiduku
BCC tables 144-hour water shedding plan
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) yesterday released a 144-hour weekly water shedding programme which will see most suburbs receiving water twice a week. The industry, city centre and mining are...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora fails in MDC Alliance Kwekwe office takeover
A "HIT SQUAD" allegedly belonging to MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora on Saturday morning violently stormed the MDC Alliance Kwekwe offices intending to effect a hostile takeover.Milto...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Khupe youths violently clash over Kwekwe offices
YOUTHS aligned to MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa and his political rival in MDC-T interim president Thokozani Khupe Saturday had violent clashes over the control of the party's offices in Kwekwe....Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 18:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Great Zimbabwe: At the centre of Soweto!
As the wave of violence, threats of violence and looting against foreign nationals and their businesses subsided in Johannesburg, it finally arrived in Soweto!Just after sunset on Wednesday 14...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:36hrs | | by Walter Nyabadza
Zimbabwe Embassy in SA monitors Johannesburg situation
THE Zimbabwean Embassy in South Africa is monitoring the situation in Gauteng province mainly Johannesburg where police in that country have been rounding up foreign immigrants in the wake of recent c...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Walsh premiership side donates to Tsholotsho team
IT'S AN awful long way from Mid Wales to northern Zimbabwe – but now in a small corner of this southern African country there's a village football team with a stronger connection to Powys than most....Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 09:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africa in a fix over blood electricity
South Africa has come under fire over the Grand Inga Dam, a mammoth hydroelectric project, on the Congo River in the western Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).International Rivers, an NGO ded...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 11:19hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jah Prayzah returns to South Africa
MUKUDZEI Mukombe aka Jah Prayzah will this Easter weekend make a much-awaited return for two dates with his fans in Cape Town and Johannesburg.The lanky artist is one of the most-loved artists...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 14:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man hangs self over cellphone use
A 29-YEAR-OLD man from Bulawayo's Cowdray Park allegedly burnt his clothes before committing suicide after being reprimanded for using his 16-year-old cousin's cellphone.Newton Maphosa hanged ...Published: 10 Oct 2017 at 01:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean artists' participation in politics
The 'Arts' sector has for years complained that the government and politicians are not respecting them by not listening to their demands. Since 1980 the Zanu PF government has never appointed a cabine...Published: 12 Jun 2017 at 19:24hrs | 1 | by Silvanos Mudzvova
Boy (12) missing
A Kwekwe family is appealing for information that will help them find a 12-year-old boy who went missing on January 9, while on his way from a clinic.Tadiwanashe Ndlovu lived with his gran...Published: 02 Feb 2017 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Boy (12) goes missing
A KWEKWE family is appealing to Zimbabweans for information that will help them find a 12-year-old boy who went missing on 9 January while he was coming from a clinic.The missing boy, Tadiwana...Published: 29 Jan 2017 at 08:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
It's that time of the year again for the Johannesburg International Comedy Festival!
Johannesburg, 18th August 2016: After a historic and groundbreaking inaugural instalment in 2015, the Annual Johannesburg International Comedy Festival returns for its second take, taking the funny ba...Published: 18 Aug 2016 at 09:25hrs | 2 | by Mthobisi Dladla
Orlando shooting, an act of terror and hate says Obama
Washington - President Barack Obama decried the deadliest mass shooting in American history on Sunday as an "act of terror" and an "act of hate" targeting a place of "solidarity and empowerment" for g...Published: 12 Jun 2016 at 20:49hrs | | by AP
Mbira artiste releases album
UPCOMING Penhalonga-based 35-year-old mbira artiste, popularly known as Maka-B last week released his first album, Maka-B Shoma. Manica Post reported that the six-track album was recorded at N...Published: 13 May 2016 at 12:07hrs | | by Blessing Rwizi
Zimbabwean criminals in SA target visiting compatriots
FARAI (not real name) migrated to South Africa in 2007 when he had just finished his printing course at a local technical college in Zimbabwe.A 35-year-old breadwinner in a family of 11, said ...Published: 13 Mar 2016 at 09:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Robbers cornered at a Mall
IN THE early hours of yesterday morning, a gang of about 10 heavily armed thugs stormed the Bridge City Shopping Centre in KwaMashu.Daily Sun reported that they first took packs of cigarettes,...Published: 04 Mar 2016 at 05:55hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean robber attacks UK cop
A "physically imposing" robber who claimed he had a gun before violently attacking two shopkeepers is today behind bars.Melusi Marozwa, originally from Zimbabwe, demanded money from one corner...Published: 09 Feb 2016 at 09:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Stop imitating Jamaicans,' Mapfumo tell Zimdancehall artistes
Chimurenga music legend Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo says Zimdancehall musicians must stop imitating Jamaican dancehall musicians.Mukanya, who has often attacked Zimdancehall artistes for lacking ...Published: 31 Aug 2015 at 19:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean buses burning in South Africa - Video
6:56pm, Jun 27 - +44 **** ******: Zim news latest ; JHB fire broke out at newtown zim bus rank. It started when a bus belongs to Elite coaches cought fire due to mechanical fault , the fire spr...Published: 29 Jun 2015 at 08:49hrs | | by Majast
'US not cured of racism,' says Obama
President Barack Obama says the United States has not overcome its history of racism and is using the N-word to make his case.In an interview, Obama weighed in on the debate over race and gun...Published: 22 Jun 2015 at 10:35hrs | | by AP
Toddler accidentally shoots mom in the head
Los Angeles - The accidental fatal shooting of a US woman by her own 2-year-old son at a Walmart store has left her family devastated and again raised questions about gun safety in America.Ver...Published: 01 Jan 2015 at 14:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Omalayitsha at Park Station forcing travellers to board kombis - WhatsApp update
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: 23 Jul 2014 at 07:44hrs | | by Diasporian
MDC-T Intelligence Leakages
While Zanu PF was busy preparing for the July 31 2013 harmonised general elections the MDC-T house was on fire. Even though it tried to show a united front in public deep within their hearts they ...Published: 02 May 2014 at 10:38hrs | 18 | by Unknown
ZAPU hailed for prompt response to mine disaster
Families of the 25 Zimbabweans who were retrieved dead from a disused Roodepoort mine west of Johannesburg last week have hailed the Dumiso Dabengwa led Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) Sou...Published: 06 Mar 2014 at 18:50hrs | | by Staff Reporter
US: High school shooting, gunman kills himself
A gunman has killed himself after opening fire at a Denver high school near to the site of the Columbine High School massacre.One 15-year-old student was injured at the Arapahoe High School i...Published: 14 Dec 2013 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Poverty forces parents to marry off daughters early
Children living in farming areas are being married off at an early age, with approximately 50 percent being married below the age of 18.Moira Ngaru, director of Farm Orphan Support Trust...Published: 24 Sep 2013 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean model found dead in Johannesburg
THE mystery surrounding the unidentified body of a woman found on the grounds of Legae Gardens block of flats in Newtown, Joburg, has been solved.Sunday World has established that preliminar...Published: 23 Sep 2013 at 09:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Scandal's Cain Gumede is Zimbabwean
We chat with Scandal! actor Getmore Sithole to learn more about his character, Cain Gumede. He was once on Generations a long time ago and now he was recently shot dead on Scandal where he featured ...Published: 27 Jun 2013 at 09:14hrs | 1 | by Arts reporter
US school shooting survivors return to class or the first time since a gunman killed 20 of their classmates
Students from Sandy Hook Elementary school in Connecticut have returned to class for the first time since a gunman killed 20 of their classmates there in a shooting last December.With their o...Published: 04 Jan 2013 at 05:42hrs | | by AL
Former mayor faces eviction from council property
KWEKWE City Council has engaged its lawyers as it moves a gear up in its battle to evict former Executive Mayor, Mr Stanford Bonyongwa, out of the controversial mayoral mansion, the incumbent mayor, C...Published: 01 Jan 2013 at 08:35hrs | | by Midlands Bureau Chief
Zuma warns SA mining firms
Marikana - President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday warned mining firms they could lose their licences if they failed to provide decent housing for workers, a week after 44 miners died when what started...Published: 23 Aug 2012 at 02:03hrs | | by AFP
Gold dealer robbed of $100 000
A Kwekwe-based gold dealer's birthday celebrations turned into a nightmare at the weekend when five unidentified armed men robbed him of more than $100 000 at his party, police have said. Police said ...Published: 23 Feb 2012 at 13:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man (28) exposes buttocks in public and decks female officer
A man accused of exposing his buttocks in public and knocking a female police officer unconscious has appeared in a Sydney court.Damian James Joyce, 28, of Newtown, is charged with assaulting ...Published: 23 Jan 2012 at 22:52hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Two Britons killed in Florida as part of 'gang initiation'
Two British friends, James Cooper, 25, and James Kouzaris, 24, were in Florida, USA when they were killed at 3am in a gangland area rarely visited by tourists.They apparently accepted a lift f...Published: 18 Apr 2011 at 22:35hrs | | by Matthews Estell
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