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Chief Dambisamahubo Mafu dismiss 3 village heads
The recent dismissal of three village heads by Chief Dambisamahubo Mafu in the Chetumbu area has raised alarm among local residents, who view the decision as indicative of "rapid institutional inertia...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 10:19hrs | 240 | by Staff reporter
KwaNtuthu Comedy takes shape
The KwaNtuthu Comedy Festival will take place from October 24 to 26 at the Bulawayo Theatre, featuring a theme of "Engage, Educate, Entertain." The festival's schedule includes a theatre performance o...Published: 21 Aug 2024 at 10:17hrs | 249 | by Staff reporter
QUEENS SPORTS CLUB SAGA: Zimbabwe Cricket Boss Singo faces suspension over strip club venture
Queens Sports Club, a prominent establishment in Bulawayo and Zimbabwe Cricket (an affiliate of International Cricket Council) is facing a major scandal as one of its senior members, Nicholas Sing...Published: 30 Dec 2023 at 16:43hrs | 47 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Ramaphosa wipes out political opponents
President Cyril Ramaphosa seems to have wiped out his political opponents by what many deem is the use of state organs to fight political battles. Arrests seem to have dampened the energy of the "RET ...Published: 27 Nov 2023 at 05:10hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Busi Ncube brings back Ilanga
BUSI Ncube must be a staunch Highlanders FC fan! This was evidenced by the black and white pants she wore at the Ilanga Tribute Concert held at The Place in Bulawayo on Sunday.At 60, one proba...Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Ndebele cultural champion envisions inclusive development
NKOSANA, a cherished member of his community, embraces his Ndebele heritage and wholeheartedly participates in cultural events. He understands the importance of his roots and acknowledges that his upb...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
KwaNtuthu Comedy Festival returns
After successfully staging the first edition of their festivities last year, KwaNtuthu Comedy Festival is set to return this year for their second edition which will run from 25 to 29 October, officia...Published: 05 May 2023 at 06:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZESA in renewed bid to take over Bulawayo City power station
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) has renewed its bid to take over the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) owned 120 MW thermal Power station.The BCC has been battling to regain control...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nust students coming up with innovative technological solutions
THE National University of Science and Technology (Nust) students and academics are coming up with innovative technological solutions to national problems, a testimony that they have adapted to the de...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
World Vision transforms state of Lupane schools
THE era of learning under trees and carrying water to school for drinking and sanitation is over for children in Lupane after World Vision invested close to US$300 000 into learning infrastructure, wa...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:17hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Busi Mhlanga drops Gqi Gqi Gqi single
MULTI-AWARD winning traditional singer Busi Mhlanga on Saturday released yet another cultural single.The Gqi gqi gqi single, which incorporates a popular Ndebele poem "Mzwazwa kankoviyo", is a...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Schools up reopening preps
SCHOOLS have heightened preparations for reopening for the second term with fumigation of buildings and grounds currently in progress.This comes a week after President Emmerson Mnangagwa said ...Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Even Lord Malvern failed to deliver water to Bulawayo
IN the old days, there was a special group of people called the Pharisees that did not particularly impress Jesus Christ.They were known for obsessively exhorting followers to be unstinting st...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:42hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazarus
Gwanda hookers now working from home
BEFORE the new normal, ladies of the night were much sought-after at various drinking spots in the mining town of Gwanda. Calling on sex workers' services was the order of the day for some men after i...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:23hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 stalls Gwanda Hlalani Kuhle sewerage piping
GARIKAI/HLALANI Kuhle housing scheme residents of ward eight in Gwanda have embarked on a project to install sewage pipes at their houses after their municipality failed to do so for 14 years since th...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:57hrs | | 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
Hubby torches property in infidelity row
A GWANDA woman has been left stranded after her husband set their property on fire on Sunday morning following a dispute over alleged infidelity. The man, Amos Phiri (37) from Matshetsheni are...Published: 23 Sep 2020 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man killed over woman
A GWANDA man has been arrested for allegedly ganging up with two accomplices, who are still at large, and beat up a man to death in a dispute over a woman.Alfred Moyo (21) from Guyu area was n...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 20:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo, the Umthwakazi African City Concept
Bulawayo, the Umthwakazi African City ConceptAuthor: Prince Zwide KhumaloDate: 26 June 2019Isilo seNtuthuko Bulawayo and the identity of Umthwakazi or the Ndebele nation are inseparabl...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 20:57hrs | 1 | by Prince Zwide Khumalo
July Moyo steps in to resolve BCC, ZPC rift
GOVERNMENT has stepped in to resolve the dispute between the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) and power utility Zesa Holdings over the ownership of the coal-fired Bulawayo Power Station.The BCC has...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Iconic towers part of Bulawayo's identity
SOMETIME last month it emerged that the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) was planning to demolish the thermal power towers situated at Zesa main, near the Railway Station. News of the impeding demolition ...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:41hrs | | by Raisedon Baya
'Oh Ntuthuziyathunqa, my heritage, kindly refuse to die!'
It is with utter dismay, sadness and inexplicable shock, to native Bulawayans and Matabelelanders in general, to hear through the grapevine, of the proposed monstrous intentions of the culturally inse...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 10:12hrs | 1 | by Nhlanhla Moses
'KoNtuthu Ziyathunqa' - Only two towers will fall, ZESA says
THE iconic cooling towers at the Bulawayo Power Station have over the years become the hallmark of the city that even visitors marvel at. It is from these gigantic Zesa towers that endlessly b...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 09:37hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Zesa will go ahead with demolition of Bulawayo residents property
THE power utility, Zesa, says it will go ahead with demolition of two of the six cooling towers at the Bulawayo Power Station as they have outlived their design lifespan and manifest advanced symptoms...Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Byo residents up in arms with Zesa
BULAWAYO residents are preparing for a bruising fight with ZESA Holdings over its plans to demolish the city's two iconic cooling towers at the council-owned thermal power station.Bulawayo's n...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 08:34hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo power station saga rages
The Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) has insisted that it plans to go ahead with the demolition of two cooling towers at the Bulawayo Power Station in spite of strong resistance from the c...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 21:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa to demolish Bulawayo Power Station towers
BULAWAYO residents are up in arms with power utility Zesa's plans to "demolish" two of the old cooling towers at the Bulawayo Power Station.Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association co-ordina...Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 08:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Girl axed in love triangle
A 14-YEAR-OLD girl from Tsholotsho is lucky to be alive after she was savagely attacked with an axe in the stomach and left with intestines protruding by one of her boyfriends in a suspected love tria...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pregnant woman found dead in river
A 20-YEAR-OLD Gwanda woman allegedly reportedly drowned in Mtshabezi River in a suspected suicide after falling pregnant out of wedlock. Matabeleland South provincial police spokesperson Chief...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 08:17hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Unity Accord was more about Zanu-PF than Zimbabwe,' says Jonathan Moyo
Exiled former G40 Kingpin Professor Jonathan Moyo has said "The Unity Accord was more about ZanuPF than Zimbabwe & more about the leader than the country."Moyo on Saturday tweeted "The Uni...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 17:03hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Open Letter to Bulawayo
Dear Bulawayo City Council, Bulawayo Residents, and MDC Alliance leadership in Bulawayo I propose that with immediate effect measures be taken to recall Bulawayo's Ward 24 Councillor Arnold Ba...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 08:43hrs | | by Ndaba Nhuku
Man murdered over lover
A ZIMBABWEAN man based in South Africa was viciously stabbed before being stoned to death in broad daylight over a woman.The vicious murder happened last week on Wednesday in Hillbrow South Af...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Vote without panties,' says Misihairabwi-Mushonga
OUTSPOKEN former legislator Mrs Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga has called on women to go and vote tomorrow without wearing panties so that whenever they think of voting for a man where there is a fem...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 10:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mqondisi Moyo never ceases to amaze
"Its Long walk to Freedom as Nelson Mandela said"My name is Mlungisi Ndlovu originally from Ntabazinduna. I am here to say a little few words about this fellow called Mqondisi Moyo. ...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 07:36hrs | | by Mlungisi Ndlovu
The 1979 Grandplan from a women's perspective
I have read the so called Shona's 1979 Grand Plan, each time I finish reading it I find myself getting emotional. I ,being a Christian sometimes I find myself praying and meditating against the Spirit...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 08:17hrs | 1 | by Presia Ngulube
My Dream
I am a born-free, I may not have endured through the hard struggles my grandfathers lived through and also the glory days that they lived through afterwards. I hear stories of Bulawayo the Great Bulaw...Published: 04 May 2018 at 09:34hrs | | by Ndabezinhle Ndatshi Nyathi
JR Goddard urges nation to be patient
NOT only does Mr Jim Ross Goddard have a gigantic frame but his company has over the years grown to attain such status and now his next step is to increase participation in making Zimbabwe an economic...Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 08:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Legalisation of shebeens: Who benefits the most?
FOR years in the post-colonial era, politicians and a range of civic/residents' associations in the city have campaigned for the legalisation of shebeens.In particular, shebeens have been defe...Published: 23 Feb 2018 at 05:46hrs | | by Langalakhe Mabena/Nkosilodumo Ndebele
Bulelani is willing and able to serve Mthwakazi
CROWN PRINCE BULELANI COLIN LOBHENGULA KHUMALO IS WILLING, ABLE AND READY TO SERVE HIS PEOPLE IN THE ...Published: 03 Feb 2018 at 08:48hrs | | by The Real) Royal Information Department
MRP delegation visits Ntshamathe Primary School on fact finding mission
An Mthwakazi Republic Party delegation led by its foreign affairs Secretary Njabulo Ngwenya and National youth chairman Xolani Ncube, has visited Ntshamathe Primary school on a fact finding mission, f...Published: 24 Jan 2018 at 16:09hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Bus war kidnap drama
A BUS crew from Bulawayo has been arrested after it allegedly kidnapped and beat up a rival company's team before damaging the bus in a fight over passengers.The drama saw passengers being str...Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe industry must start functioning'
VETERAN nationalist Angeline Masuku has bounced back into Government having been appointed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa as the Minister of State for Provincial Affairs in Bulawayo taking over from ...Published: 17 Dec 2017 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
2 Zimbabwean artists among Africa's Top 10 most bankable artists
Forbes Africa has named 2 Zimbabwean artists named in its Top 10 most bankable artists in Africa list....Published: 28 Sep 2017 at 13:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
How can we (amaNguni) be called Mthwa-kazi?
Editor, Greeting my brethren. I hope you are well and fit as I write to you. Thank you for giving us news from ko Ntuthu ezazithunqa, bt kakusela ma firms that are manufacturing that is why ng...Published: 30 Aug 2017 at 20:52hrs | | by B Timothy Mathuthu Ndlela
Progressive Democrats of Zimbabwe leader in door to door campaign in Bulawayo
Progressive Democrats of Zimbabwe leader Barbra Nyagomo has embarked on a door to door campaign in Bulawayo.This was revealed by the party official Morgan Nare who said the programme was going...Published: 16 Aug 2017 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Pupils expelled for failing to bring food to school
A school headmaster in Insiza South is reported to have expelled pupils from school because they failed to bring food for the feeding scheme at the school.Zimbabwe Peace Project reported that ...Published: 16 Jul 2017 at 09:14hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Ditched man 'bombs' girlfriend's house
IF I can't have you, no one can!A Gwanda man allegedly petrol-bombed his girlfriend's lodgings after she dumped him for another man.Emmanuel Mathuthu (46) allegedly carried out the ars...Published: 30 Jun 2017 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bosso, Majaivana and other taboos
A number of political philosophers and sociologists of the Global South have noted how sport and religion were used by colonialists to divert the minds and energies of natives from politics.Of...Published: 30 May 2017 at 09:24hrs | | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena writes from South Africa
Peace and Reconciliation must begin with truth- MRP.
Mthwakazi Republic party spokesperson MbonisiGumbo has said for proper Peace and Reconciliation to take place the truth must be said.He said it is surprising that the Bill which they want to p...Published: 16 Mar 2017 at 05:47hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Ukubambisana sisakha umuzi wethu wakoMatupula
Matupula Primary SchoolP O Box 16Tsholotsho23 December 2016Kini Matupula OmuhleRef: Ukubambisana sisakha umuzi wethu wakoMatupula....Published: 10 Jan 2017 at 20:53hrs | | by Lameck Zapu Ncube
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