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How Bulawayo's townships reflect city's rich Ndebele heritage
IN 1894, Bulawayo had just one African township. Today, the city boasts close to twenty townships in the western suburbs. Bulawayo's first African township was Makokoba, also known as the "Location" o...Published: 11 hrs ago | 185 | by Fredrick Qaphelani Mabikwa
Why does test cricket still captivate fans?
Introduction Few sports can boast the international appeal of cricket, and while other versions of the game might have taken the limelight over the last dec...Published: 16 Aug 2024 at 10:23hrs | 289 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe sees attempts to instigate 'anarchy and despondency'
Zimbabwe's Information Minister Jenfan Muswere claims that there are attempts by the opposition to "instigate anarchy and despondency" and warns those involved in "subversive activities" that "their d...Published: 28 Jun 2024 at 14:01hrs | 113 | by Staff reporter
Criminal activities surge across Zimbabwe
Between January and March 2024, Zimbabwe recorded 221,704 criminal cases, according to the latest figures from the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat). The national crime rate slightly incre...Published: 11 Jun 2024 at 06:13hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt declares war against barons
THE government has issued a stern warning to land barons invading private and State land in Harare South and other provinces saying their days are numbered.Illegal land invasions have resulted...Published: 09 Apr 2024 at 06:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bedbugs menace hits Kwekwe
KWEKWE City has been hit by a cat menace which has seen most households having cats breeding at homesteads at an alarming speed leading to the speedy multiplication of the animal.The cats find...Published: 19 Mar 2024 at 20:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man got top job using fake SA permit
Home Affairs Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has called on the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to probe irregularities at the department.This comes after an illegal foreign national from Zimbabw...Published: 19 Mar 2024 at 13:00hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Explore diverse betting options in online roulette
Options for Online Roulette BettingOnline roulette offers a dynamic and immersive gaming experience, bringing the excitement of the casino floor directly to your fingertips. A...Published: 15 Mar 2024 at 18:13hrs | 7 | by Staff Reporter
Beitbridge-Chirundu Highway complete in 18 months
GOVERNMENT last week announced that it will complete the upgrading of Beitbridge-Chirundu Highway in the next 18 months.In an interview with NewsDay in Kariba on the sidelines of the office of...Published: 12 Mar 2024 at 05:15hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
CCC councillors chase stakeholders before boycotting same meeting
There was drama last week at Chiredzi Town Council Boardroom where the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) councillors chased all stakeholders from a special full council meeting to elect a new town c...Published: 02 Dec 2023 at 05:48hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Luxury apartments named after Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Monday broke ground at the US$100 million Millennium Park development in Borrowdale West signaling the construction of the premium luxury 86-unit block of apartments na...Published: 27 Nov 2023 at 05:51hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'ZRP forex dealers days numbered'
The police have issued a warning about cracking down on their own members involved in illegal foreign currency trading on the streets. National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi m...Published: 31 Oct 2023 at 05:50hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Misguided PSL find Peter Muduhwa found guilty for failing to protect match officials
Highlanders vice-captain and defender, Peter "21 Questions" Muduhwa, was found guilty by the Premier Soccer League disciplinary committee for failing to protect match officials against acts of violenc...Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cops who fled hooligans at Barbourfields not cowards, says police spokesperson
Bulawayo provincial police spokesperson Inspector Abednigo Ncube says anti-riot police and dog handlers who took to their heels with football hooligans in hot pursuit at Barbourfields stadium recently...Published: 07 Oct 2023 at 19:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bosso want abandoned match to resume
Highlanders FC, who recently appeared before a Premier Soccer League disciplinary committee, are requesting that their abandoned league match against Dynamos be resumed from the 39th minute. The match...Published: 01 Oct 2023 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa using David Coltart to play dangerous tribal political games in Bulawayo
Where is Welshman Ncube, where is Thokozani Khupe, where is Mqondisi Moyo of MRP, where is Sibangilizwe Nkomo of ZAPU? As for Cde Paul Siwela, I know he is pained and ashamed of what is happening in M...Published: 25 Sep 2023 at 06:29hrs | 6 | by Israel Dube
Hooliganism cannot be part of the beautiful game.
If my memory serves me well, not long ago ZRP was allocated some state-of-the-art helicopters to assist in their policing duties which at times can be quite challenging. One would think those ...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 23:23hrs | | by Thomas Murisa
Indian election observer mission says Zimbabwe election was transparent and generally credible
A five-member delegation from the Election Commission of India, led by Shri Manoj Kumar Meena, Chief Electoral Officer, State of Karnataka, India (an Indian State), visited Zimbabwe as Observer Missio...Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 22:05hrs | | by Indian election observer mission
Chamisa can fight back
CITIZENS Coalition of Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has told his supporters to avenge the death of slain supporter Tinashe Chitsunge by voting out Zanu-PF in the August 23 elections.He sa...Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 06:51hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Landlord vs lodger: The battle continues
"LANDLORD fatally stabbed by lodger over rent!" screamed a newspaper headline.In 2021, Prayer Banda (22) of Mbizo 18 in Kwekwe, was fatally stabbed by his lodger Victor Moyo (24), following a ...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 08:19hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo named dogs after Ian Smith and his wife
WHAT Ian Smith and his Rhodesian Government had not anticipated was the resilience of the country's nationalists.They remained courageous and refused to regard the hardships and strenuous chal...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Village mob assaults fhief
Villagers believed to have been hired have allegedly assaulted Chief Murinye, Mr Ephias Munodawafa, accusing him of refusing them permission to bury a deceased relative at a place of their choice in h...Published: 30 Jun 2023 at 14:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa singles out Innscor pricing system
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday singled out diversified conglomerate Innscor as one of the businesses that have been unjustifiably raising prices of basic commodities such as bread leading to the suffer...Published: 16 Jun 2023 at 08:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'One year under arbitrary detention in my oppressor's prison'
Chikurubi Maximum Security PrisonChikurubi FarmHarareTo My DEAR Zimbabweans,Regional and Worldwide FriendsWhere ever they may be found14 June 2023DEAR Z...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 12:24hrs | 1 | by Job Wiwa Sikhala
Only PhD holders should lecture at university
WHEN I completed my Master of Philosophy in Linguistics degree, I was a teaching assistant at the University of Zimbabwe. My two colleagues and I celebrated because we had spent four hard years resear...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:42hrs | 2 | by Jairos Kangira
ZANU PF youth PC hires thugs to attack Chamisa
Suspected hired illegal miners were reportedly hired by ZANU PF youth political commissar Tsungai Makumbe to attack Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) president Nelson Chamisa on Wednesday last week....Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 09:32hrs | | by Paul Ndou
Zanu-PF claims to have amassed 4,5 million voters
Zanu-PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa claims the ruling party has already amassed 4,5 million registered voters, 500 less than its target of five million votes in the upcoming elections....Published: 22 Mar 2023 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Dunderhead' Chiwenga asking WHO to stem nurse haemorrhage - Wasting time treating symptom, treat the Mafiosi disease
Zimbabwe's VP and Minister of Health, Dr Constantino Chiwenga ask the World Health Organisation (WHO) to help stem the haemorrhage of Zimbabwe health care workers. "One of the problems we disc...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 18:00hrs | 7 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Unsettled Chamisa spies on all Matabeles in the CCC top leadership
Many people in Zimbabwe were shocked when news filtered that Nelson Chamisa recently acquired intelligence gathering equipment and busy spying on top CCC leaders more than his purpoted ZANUPF rivals. ...Published: 27 Feb 2023 at 14:41hrs | | by Israel Dube
Mnangagwa says days numbered for name-droppers
NAME-droppers, the corrupt and malcontents who pursue narrow selfish interests at the expense of broad-based development, will face the full wrath of the law, with Government departments on high alert...Published: 16 Feb 2023 at 04:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Commonwealth has appalling human rights record
This written article by Professor Jonathan Moyo, then an academic at the University of Zimbabwe, was published by the Financial Gazette on 10 October 1991, a few days...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:07hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
Polad gobbles millions in taxpayers' money
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's creation, the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad), hangs in the balance after gobbling millions of dollars in taxpayers' money as Zimbabwe hurtles towards make-or-break ge...Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 19:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimra goes after buses smuggling goods
Crews and owners of buses caught smuggling goods across the border at Beitbridge face rising fines and the possible seizure of the bus involved as Zimra step up compliance of customs and increasingly ...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 04:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police arrest 3 suspects in probe into How Mine gold robbery
Police on Wednesday made a breakthrough in their investigation into Tuesday's gun attack on a security convoy from How Mine during which 11.9kg of gold worth US$650,000 was taken.Three men sus...Published: 05 Oct 2022 at 21:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cop killer sentenced to 25 years in jail
TWENTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD Charles Chauluka who in 2019 killed a police officer stationed at Entumbane Police Station, Constable Eckson Mane, has been sentenced to 25 years.Bulawayo High Court judge...Published: 18 Sep 2022 at 16:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa activist boycotts court
THE police now have leads on the whereabouts of one of the five CCC members who disappeared during their trial on charges of staging an illegal demonstration in Warren Park, Harare, in May 2020, the S...Published: 17 Sep 2022 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zec 'frustrating' first-time voters
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has been accused of "deliberately frustrating" aspiring first-time voters by unnecessarily delaying processes and offering poor service at registration centres....Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
New league warns against reversing gains of struggle
WAR veterans yesterday warned the country's detractors and their willing tools in the form of puppet opposition parties that Zimbabwe's liberators will not sit and watch mischievous elements trying to...Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 06:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi Victims pays US$20 parking fees for top lawyer Masamvu over his fight with BCC/TTI
Gukurahundi Victims Trust has paid US$20 to the City of Bulawayo and its Technical Partner Tendy Three Investments (TTI) on behalf of Bulawayo top lawyer Bruce Israel Masamvu who was challenging an in...Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 10:44hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Police officer testifies in trial of CCC members
ASSISTANT Inspector Tevedzerai Shonhai, who led a police reaction team from Warren Park police station in Harare on the day five CCC members allegedly staged an illegal demonstration during the lockdo...Published: 21 Jul 2022 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo was a strategist, says Tshinga Dube
THE late Vice-President, Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, was a shrewd military strategist who championed military training initiatives for several freedom fighters, which led to the country's independence in...Published: 08 Jul 2022 at 07:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zec to consider new voters blitz
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) says it will consider another voter registration exercise after statistics showed a 2% increase in registered voters from 2018.On Tuesday, Zec released ...Published: 07 Jul 2022 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Makeshift border footbridge demolished
Another makeshift bridge that was being used by smugglers and border jumpers to cross into Zimbabwe and South Africa, has been destroyed by the National Security Task Force (NTF) to curb illegal activ...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
CAPS Utd to replace Chitembwe
AILING Castle Lager Premiership football giants CAPS United have identified Bulawayo Chiefs assistant coach Thulani Sibanda as a possible replacement to Lloyd Chitembwe should the latter fail to redee...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:42hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Trial of CCC members opens
FIVE CCC members accused of staging an illegal demonstration in Warren Park, Harare, during the national lockdown in 2020, yesterday denied the charges when their trial opened at the Harare Magistrate...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is July Moyo new face of corruption?
THE government has willfully violated the country's constitution by abusing devolution funds without the required legislation amid fears that the abuse of millions of dollars meant for other services ...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 19:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chitungwiza turned into war zone as residents mourn slain activist
Six men sat in a tuckshop at a shopping centre in the Nyatsime where residents were roaming around waiting for the police to bring Pius Jamba to indicate how he allegedly killed Citizen Coalition for ...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 10:09hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, CCC youths in running battles
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters yesterday clashed with their Zanu-PF counterparts, leaving a trail of destruction as tempers flared over the murder of activist Moreblessing A...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi petitions over State brutality
THE Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa over State brutality on its members following incarceration of nine members for violence.Last week, Bulawayo magi...Published: 10 Jun 2022 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hararians hail Pomona deal suspension
HARARE residents and property rights advocates have thrown their weight behind the Jacob Mafume-led council decision to suspend the controversial Pomona waste management deal.The project has c...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
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