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Rugby returns to Bulawayo
Rugby made a glorious return to the iconic Hartsfield Grounds in Bulawayo on Saturday, marking a revival of the city's rich rugby heritage with Zimbabwe A's emphatic 80-6 victory over a Bulawayo Selec...Published: 16 Sep 2024 at 07:52hrs | 255 | by Staff reporter
CIA plot to kill Venezuela's Maduro foiled
Diosdado Cabello claims the arrested suspects, including a US serviceman, were planning to conduct acts of terrorismVenezuela's security service has thwarted a CIA-backed plot to assassinate P...Published: 15 Sep 2024 at 20:34hrs | 869 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe businessman wins US$10,000 damages for unlawful arrest
A BUSINESSMAN has been awarded US$10 000 damages following his unlawful arrest and detention at the Bulawayo Central Police Station, about three years ago. Prod Software Enterprises director Jos...Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 08:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Z.A.A South Africa Nominations Announced
The nominees shortlist for the Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA) South Africa 8th Edition has been released, featuring some of the most enterprising personalities in South Africa as well as a list of ho...Published: 27 Sep 2023 at 19:58hrs | 10 | by Agencies
Mnangagwa inauguration under a dark cloud
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa will today be inaugurated in Harare for a second term after his hotly-disputed re-election under a dark cloud of illegitimacy as the main opposition abandoned i...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 21:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo 'buries Gravedigger' to win Redcliff Constituency
LOCAL Government and Rural Development Minister July Moyo won the Redcliff Constituency in the just-ended harmonized election after outclassing three other contestants including outgoing legislator Ll...Published: 25 Aug 2023 at 20:17hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Maradona vs. Messi: Who Is Better?
Debate rages over who's better between Maradona or Messi, both famed for their skills, number 10 jerseys, and left-footed play. Read our blog to find the answer. In the world of soccer, two...Published: 30 Jun 2023 at 10:31hrs | 23 | by Staff Reporter
Woman stones 2 daughters to death
A mother in Masvingo teamed up with her brother to stone her daughters aged two and five to death.This was after Modina Mavhunga (28) and Clever Mavhunga (35) had assaulted their father accusi...Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Reflecting on the export ban for raw lithium
Through Statutory Instrument 213 of 2022 (Referend to as Base Minerals Export Control for unbeneficiated Lithium Bearing Ores), Zimbabwe banned the export of raw lithium from the country. The regulati...Published: 31 Jan 2023 at 09:12hrs | 2 | by Victor Bhoroma
Mwonzora says MDC-T 'will rise like a Phoenix'
MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora on Monday said his party would "rise like a Phoenix" after suffering a by-election drubbing last Saturday.Running under the banner of MDC Alliance, Mwonzora saw h...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 11:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-SA cricket star appointed Zimbabwe batting coach
FORMER South Africa all-rounder Lance Klusener has re-joined the Zimbabwe senior men's national team as batting coach after recently quitting his job as Afghanistan head coach in December.Klus...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 18:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Telecel's monumental collapse
TELECEL Zimbabwe's troubles have continued to mount with indications that the telecoms firm is now recruiting graduate trainees to plug the staff exodus necessitated by the company's unsustainable deb...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 21:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ignores Mnangagwa's 'quarantine' directive
Zimbabwe was yet to quarantine any travellers by midday on Thursday, nearly two days after President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced drastic new measures to contain the spread of the Omicron coronavirus ...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 18:01hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Gazette clarifies quarantine measures
The new 10-day quarantine requirements for returning residents and visitors, and the nine-hour extended curfew were gazetted yesterday, along with the legal backing for the present policies that bar a...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 05:27hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans react to Mnangagwa's new Covid-19 restrictions
Zimbabwe's latest Covid-19 have been met with condemnation, as citizens have questioned the logic behind asking travellers to quarantine for 14 days even if they produce a negative PCR result....Published: 01 Dec 2021 at 11:48hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Shona managers dominate PicknPay leadership in Matabeleland
Details emerging are that the TM Pick n Pay stores in Matabeleland have Shona managers dominating the leadership amid concerns by activists in the region.An activist Nkululeko Mpofu said it wa...Published: 24 Oct 2021 at 12:51hrs | 12 | by Stephen Jakes
'COVID-19 situation remains dire in schools'
THE Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) yesterday said the COVID-19 situation remained bad in schools and accused government of failing to deal with the situation.Two weeks ago, seve...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe democracy under siege'
GOVERNMENT has been urged to promote democratic governance processes by among others, lifting a suspension on elections as the country joined the rest of the world in commemorating the International D...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zifa prod Aston Villa over Nakamba
ZIFA are pressing for the release of Marvelous Nakamba from Aston Villa and are hopeful that the midfielder will be allowed to travel to Harare for Friday's World Cup qualifier against South Africa....Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Boy dies in cart accident
A LOWER Gweru juvenile on Monday died on the spot after an ox-drawn cart he was in hit a tree stump and overturned hitting him on the head.Midlands provincial police spokesperson, Inspector Em...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Queen Lozikeyi: The force behind Ndebele uprisings
THE grave of a matriarch viewed by many historians as one of the major forces behind the second Umvukela (uprising) that culminated in independence for the country is situated at KoNkosikazi in Matabe...Published: 05 Aug 2021 at 06:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Woman kills ‘second hubby' to go back to first one
A WOMAN from Njube suburb in Bulawayo allegedly stabbed her live-in boyfriend to death with a kitchen knife because she wanted to reconcile with a man she was once married to. Ntombikayise Ndl...Published: 18 Jun 2021 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fake Covid-19 certificate drama on bus from SA
Authorities in Beitbridge yesterday ordered the quarantining of 49 returnees from South Africa after intercepting a passenger on a bus, who had come from India and was travelling with a fake Covid-19 ...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 06:11hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga bans all gatherings except funerals
Health minister and Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has imposed new restrictions citing a "surge in cases". All gatherings except funerals are banned, all workshops and meetings to be held...Published: 12 Jun 2021 at 20:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga announces stricter COVID-19 enforcement measures
ZIMBABWE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND CHILD CARE PRESS STATEMENT BY THE HONOURABLE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZIMBABWE AND MINISTER OF HEALTH AND CHILD CARE: 12 JUNE 2021 MEASURES TO CURB THE...Published: 12 Jun 2021 at 20:04hrs | 1 | by Dr Constantino Guveya Dominic Nyikadzino Chiwenga
Covid-19 cases in schools drop
ONLY 41 Covid-19 cases remain active in the country's schools as mandatory quarantining of some boarding schools to prevent the deadly pandemic is lifted, allowing learners to return home.The ...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mass testing for Bondolfi community
A mass testing of villagers around Bondolfi Teachers' College for Covid-19 has started following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus at the institution, which has become a provincial hotspot for the...Published: 29 May 2021 at 08:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teachers, nurses forced to join Zanu-PF
TEACHERS and nurses in Bikita are reportedly being forced to join local Zanu-PF structures and meetings as the ruling party goes on a massive recruitment drive ahead of the 2023 polls.Some of ...Published: 28 May 2021 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt should bear full responsibility for Indian variant in country, as its negligence and indifference has placed our l
So, the government of Zimbabwe, through its minister of health (who is also vice president) Constantino Chiwenga, in all its "profound wisdom" has finally decided to take some concrete action against ...Published: 21 May 2021 at 12:55hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The centre is not holding in ED's government
It seems the centre is not holding in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new republic. What he promised people as soon as he got elected is somewhat different from the people's expectations.Presid...Published: 24 Mar 2021 at 20:36hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Somewhere, along the line, we lost the magicians
WHEN we mourn the dearth of quality players, standards and coaching methods, we are perennially accused of being too obsessed with the past. The ''Know-it-all" brigade of nostalgic, and disgruntled fo...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 06:46hrs | 3 | by Phillip Zulu
Can we use ZUMBANI A traditional medicine for treatment of COVID19?
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines traditional medicine as "the sum total of the knowledge, skills, and practices based on the theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different cultu...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 18:15hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
No Covid-19 results, no passage for truck drivers
Commercial truck drivers and cross border transporters, commonly referred to as Omalayitsha must produce a certificate when they arrive at a Zimbabwean border post indicating they are Covid-19 free or...Published: 08 Feb 2021 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
15 years on, no sanitation for Hlalani Kuhle beneficiaries
Thabo Siziba of the Garakai/ Hlalani Kuhle area, ward 8, in Gwanda Urban, has stayed for the past 14 years without access to water. Residents in the area have waited for the past 15 years for the Gwan...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Maps to release debut maskandi album
FLEDGLING maskandi musician Busani "Maps Mabhayi" Maphosa will next month launch his debut album titled Enqameni close to a year after shelving the plans owing to COVID-19 lockdown.Known for h...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Success favours the Undaunted - Book review
Book Title: Undaunted Authour: Tafadzwa Mahachi Edited: Philip Chidavaen...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:19hrs | 4 | by Energy Mavaza
Esigodini miners case against ED in false start
The case of the Esigodini miners who were trapped at Matshetshe Mine had a false start at the High Court as Justice Christopher Dube Banda indicated that the court has no jurisdiction in the matter be...Published: 03 Jan 2021 at 07:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'One year needed to retrieve Esigodini trapped miners'
THE families of six illegal miners, including four from one family, that were trapped underground when a mine collapsed in Matshetshe, Esigodini, will conduct a burial ritual at the site, as authoriti...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Smugglers intercepted
At least 38 people have been arrested in Beitbridge in separate incidents on allegations of crossing into South Africa illegally before attempting to smuggle various goods worth over R156 000 into the...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 05:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt blasted for abandoning trapped miners in Matebeleland
GOVERNMENT has been rapped for its failure to retrieve six bodies of miners trapped in a shaft at Matshetshe Mine in Esigodini since November 10.Today marks day 17 after the miners got trapped...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt unwilling to rescue 10 trapped Esigodini miners on tribal grounds?
Mthwakazi Democratic Alliance is concerned with the attitude of the ruling party concerning the trapped miners at Matshetshe mine at Esigodini, which is located under UMzingwane District in Matebelela...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 06:14hrs | | by Mandlenkosi Nkomo
6 workers trapped in collapsed Esigodini mine
SIX mine workers are reportedly still trapped in a mine shaft which collapsed last Tuesday at Matshetshe Mine in Esigodini.Indications are that no efforts have been made so far to rescue them ...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to open Beitbridge border post on 1 December 2020
Government announced Tuesday that it intends to phase the re-opening of Beitbridge, Plumtree, Victoria Falls, Chirundu, Nyamapanda, and Forbes border posts from 1 December.Zimbabwe which is us...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 18:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Phased border reopening proposed
The Department of Immigration has advised the Government on health grounds to consider phasing the reopening of land borders for passenger traffic, especially at Beitbridge Border Post where 500 000 p...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Confusion over Beitbridge border reopening
Zimbabweans and South Africans who had failed to leave either country at the onset of the Covid-19 lockdown are with immediate effect allowed to travel to their countries without going through their e...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimplats warns of possible tax dispute with govt
MINING concern Zimplats has warned that a possible dispute over payment of taxes with the government could have an impact on future financial results.This was revealed by the platinum miner in...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
The great hero dies almost unnoticed tribute to Timothy Gandire Mhuri
The only certainty in a hero's life is that it could end at any moment. As a hero, Comrade Timothy Gandire could not banish dangers, but could banish fears.But Cde Gandire the hero who was not...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 23:07hrs | 13 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mhlauri opens up on coaching career, poultry business
GROWING up and playing football in the grubby streets of Mpopoma high-density suburb in Bulawayo, all Charles Mhlauri wanted to do was to be a footballer of note.It didn't therefore come as a ...Published: 26 May 2019 at 13:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man kidnaps stranded woman
A 32-YEAR-OLD man from Bulawayo has been sentenced to four years in jail for kidnapping a stranded woman and keeping her hostage for two days after she approached him seeking help. Ndumiso Ncu...Published: 11 May 2019 at 14:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mushekwi faces China exit
Zimbabwe international forward Nyasha Mushekwi insists he is not worried about speculation surrounding his football future following reports that he could be on his way out of Chinese Super League sid...Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 22:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
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