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BCC orders pruning of 'suicide trees'
The City of Bulawayo has resolved to prune trees associated with suicide cases to deter climbing and make them less accessible to individuals contemplating taking their lives. This decision follows a ...Published: 08 Dec 2024 at 09:50hrs | 90 | by Staff reporter
Woman beats up naked would-be-rapist
A 20-year-old man from Chief Nyajena's area in Masvingo has been sentenced to five years in prison for attempting to rape a 37-year-old woman who was walking to Nyamande Business Centre.Accord...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 13:44hrs | 816 | by Staff reporter
2 friends commit suicide over wives' infidelity
The Bulawayo community is reeling from the heartbreaking suicides of two close friends, Khumbulani Dube and Nqobizitha Sibanda, whose untimely deaths have shone a light on the emotional struggles many...Published: 09 Nov 2024 at 17:09hrs | 764 | by Staff reporter
Man dies by suicide after catching wife pants down
A man from Old Lobengula in Bulawayo tragically took his own life on Tuesday morning after reportedly finding his wife in a compromising situation with another man upon returning home from work....Published: 08 Nov 2024 at 07:05hrs | 1937 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police name seven accident victims
Police have identified seven people who tragically lost their lives in two separate road accidents over the weekend in Masvingo and Rusape.The first accident occurred on Saturday at around 7:2...Published: 20 Sep 2024 at 07:52hrs | 135 | by Staff reporter
Chirumanzu chieftainship takes new twist
The Chirumanzu chieftainship dispute has escalated with the royal family filing an urgent High Court application to halt the appointment of Albert Nyamande Muzondo as the substantive chief. The Midlan...Published: 23 Jun 2024 at 10:30hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Chirumanzu chieftainship wrangle deepens
The Chirumanzu chieftainship dispute escalated as the Midlands provincial chiefs council appointed Nyamande Muzondo from the Mutizirapi house as the substantive traditional leader, bypassing Julius Ch...Published: 11 Jun 2024 at 06:13hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere ghost haunts Zanu-PF
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has cracked the whip on errant Zanu-PF top officials whom he either suspended or expelled from the party accusing them of backing former political commissar Sa...Published: 27 Mar 2024 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mutapa Investment Fund mustn't become conduit for looting'
AS prevalence of public sector corruption reaches alarming levels, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has demanded that Zimbabwean authorities ensure the newly-established Mutapa Investment Fund (M...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 09:09hrs | 31 | by Staff reporter
Bus route war turns bloody
GOODLUCK Nyakabau lies on his back in Harare's Stoneridge area pondering his next move.Around this time, he should be more than 300km away from the capital city on a bus heading to the northea...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 09:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rains leave trail of destruction
TORRENTIAL rains accompanied by strong winds left a trail of destruction in Dete, Hwange District in Matebeleland North and Masvingo where several homes had their roofs blown off and other property da...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 05:53hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
CIO-linked company gets raw lithium export permit
THE Ministry of Mines and Mining Development has reportedly awarded a firm with suspected links to the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), Terrestrial Holdings, a licence to export one million to...Published: 08 Dec 2023 at 20:53hrs | 59 | by Staff reporter
3 in court over US$100k extortion
THREE people have appeared in court on allegations of extorting US$100 000 from a suspected thief to stop them reporting her to the police.Elizabeth Nyamande (35), Evernice Nyamande (30) and E...Published: 29 Nov 2023 at 05:05hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Lawyer takes Mnangagwa to court
HARARE lawyer and businessman Frederick Nyamande has taken President Emmerson Mnangagwa to court following the promulgation of the controversial Mutapa Investment Fund which he argues allows the head ...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 13:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Presidential candidates concede defeat
SOME of the presidential candidates in Wednesday's harmonised elections last night conceded defeat, following the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission's pronouncement of President Mnangagwa as winner of the ...Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 09:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa reverses late Chidyausiku's 'errors'
The new Labour Law approved by President Emmerson Mnangagwa has made it tough for companies to undertake reckless and stage-managed retrenchments which place workers at the losing end as had become th...Published: 09 Aug 2023 at 08:09hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Police warn against recording videos of drunks
POLICE have warned members of the public against recording videos of people who are in a state of vulnerability, saying it is a criminal offence and those caught doing so will be liable to arrest....Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 08:21hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dangles citizenship to Mzilikazi royal family
The Mthwakazi kaMzilikazi Royal Crown Family, which includes the Mzilikazi Royal House and the Khumalo Clan, claims the Emmerson Mnangagwa-led government has shown them generosity by promising to rest...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 20:55hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
There is no Ndebele King! Lobengula Royal Trust declares
The row over the rightful heir to the Ndebele kingdom took a new twist with the King Lobengula Royal Trust declaring that the throne and they will soon announce the rightful king. This i...Published: 26 May 2023 at 17:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man rapes friend's niece (7)
A 28-YEAR-OLD Muzarabani rapist was on Friday jailed 18 years by Bindura regional magistrate Mr Amos Mbobo after he raped his friend's niece....Published: 16 May 2023 at 19:40hrs | 13 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Cop dodges paying maintenance
A Harare police officer was ordered to bring his payslip and bank statement to court after he refused to disclose his salary to avoid paying maintenance.Hillary Nyamande was offering US$...Published: 30 Apr 2023 at 08:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe yet to comply with regional electoral guidelines
AFTER President Emmerson Mnangagwa inadvertently announced August as the month for this year's harmonised elections, various researchers, journalists as well as politicians wondered whether this elect...Published: 30 Mar 2023 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Lyandra Nyamande
Man sells residential stand using fake title deed
A 62-YEAR-OLD man was yesterday arraigned before a Harare magistrate facing charges of selling a residential stand using a fake title deed.The accused, Lovejoy Nyamande was arrested on January...Published: 27 Jan 2023 at 15:25hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Trio claims severe assault while in police custody
A TRIO from Parirewa village in Domboshava, Mashonaland East province, facing kidnapping and armed robbery charges yesterday claimed that they were severely beaten and harassed while in police custody...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 04:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiefs openly back Zanu-PF candidate
TWO traditional leaders in Buhera, Manicaland province, are openly campaigning for an aspiring Zanu-PF candidate ahead of the 2023 elections.Chiefs Chitsunge and Chimombe have openly backed Ph...Published: 01 Oct 2022 at 06:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe locks up 550 Malawian migrants
ABOUT 550 Malawian citizens are languishing in Zimbabwean prisons after being arrested in the country en route to or from South Africa without adequate travelling documents, The NewsHawks has establis...Published: 18 Sep 2022 at 16:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man beaten to death by angry SA mob
A Zimbabwean immigrant accused of raping a middle-aged woman from Matangari in Limpopo province was recently beaten to death by an angry crowd, it has emerged.The tragic incident occurred earl...Published: 12 Sep 2022 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Two-decade-old U.S. sanctions leave Zimbabweans suffering, triggering protests
Opposite the U.S. embassy northwest of the Zimbabwean capital of Harare sits an anti-sanctions camp marking 1,200 days of protest.On July 4, the organizer of the camp — Broad Alliance Agains...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 19:50hrs | 7 | by Tichaona Chifamba, Zhang Yuliang, Cao Kai
'DNA tests will resolve Ndebele kingship wrangle'
ONE of the claimants to the Ndebele kingship, Stanley Raphael Tshuma Khumalo, has challenged other contestants to a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) test to determine genuine heirs to the throne.Al...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 08:39hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
MSU's skewed retrenchment scheme backfires
Midlands State University (MSU) faces a massive staff exodus after implementing a skewed and controversial employee voluntary retrenchment scheme, which was unexpectedly oversubscribed leaving the ins...Published: 31 May 2022 at 12:38hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Harare youths get drunk on sanitary pads powder
Zimbabwean youths grasping to survive the prevailing harsh economic conditions have turned to drinking sodium polyacrylate to get high and forget their problems. sodium polyacrylate is found in di...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 11:50hrs | 11 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Gold ore robbers appear in court
Eight suspected armed robbers who on Tuesday stormed Empress Gold Mine in Mashava before getting away with 1kg of gold-rich ore have appeared before a Masvingo Magistrates Court today.Initiall...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 05:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gwinyai Chingoka dies
FORMER Zimbabwe Davis Cup tennis team player, Gwinyai Chingoka, has died.Chingoka, the son of the late former Tennis Zimbabwe president and ex-president of the Zimbabwe Olympic Committee, Paul...Published: 28 Jan 2022 at 05:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Men 'find' used condoms in Scud
SIX Karoi men were left shocked when they discovered used condoms at the bottom of a sorghum beer container, popularly known as a ‘scud', on Wednesday last week.Garikayi Musakambeva, Sheppar...Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 05:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Electoral reforms must dominate political discourse in 2022
AS we bask on the cusp of a new year, Zimbabweans appear to have gone agog about the pending by-elections and what many deem to be the watershed plebiscite of 2023.And yet for some of us, high...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 05:32hrs | | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Victoria Falls wants more bicycles than cars in CBD
Victoria Falls could soon be the first "green city" in the country with more bicycles than cars in the city centre.Pedestrians and electric cars will also be part of the new normal in the envi...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 05:52hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Gold rush spawns fresh displacements
THOUSANDS of Domboshawa villagers on the outskirts of Harare face imminent displacement to accommodate a clique of gold miners with strong links to the ruling Zanu PF party and top government official...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa remembers Muzenda
On the 18th anniversary of the death of Vice President Simon Vengesai Muzenda yesterday, President Mnangagwa said the best that the country can do to honour him is to always remember the sacrifices th...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ndebele King says his legitimacy was confirmed by Njelele
CLAIMANT to the ancient Ndebele kingdom, Stanley Raphael Khumalo, who has christened himself King Mzilikazi II, has claimed his legitimacy as a king was confirmed by ancestral spirits at the sacred Nj...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 20:38hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sweats over SA protests
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has acknowledged that the ongoing violent protests in neighbouring South Africa could trigger regional instability, and called for a peaceful resolution to the impasse....Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man killed over unpleasant bar jest
Police in Makosa, a ward in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland East province are investigating a murder case in which a 29-year-old man, Johane Jambo was allegedly killed by his friend Zviitei Tsigaro (23) who ac...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 14:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to launch labour migration policy
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is tomorrow expected to officially launch the country's labour migration and disability policies, whose development was funded by the International Organisation for Migrat...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Farmers call for ban on private cattle sales
LIVESTOCK farmers from Matabeleland South Province have called on the Government to set a standard price for a beast and abolish private cattle sales as buyers are underpaying them for their animals....Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Celebration of Queen Lozikeyi goes full on today
One of Zimbabwe's most powerful queens, Lozikeyi Dlodlo's life and exploits will be spelt out through song and dance at the Bulawayo Arts Festival (Baf) today.The event dubbed Songs of Queen L...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
UK sanctions scuttle ambulances export to Zimbabwe
CONTRARY to Western propaganda that sanctions do not affect ordinary Zimbabweans, a United Kingdom-based businessman was barred from purchasing medical equipment at an auction because of the punitive ...Published: 05 May 2021 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance legislator launches scholarship programme
NJUBE-LOBENGULA MDC Alliance legislator Gift Banda on Thursday unveiled a scholarship programme for the academically gifted primary and secondary school students in his constituency who are from poor ...Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls housing backlog hits15 000
VICTORIA Falls City's housing backlog currently stands at over 15 000 at a time when the local authority is struggling to secure land for housing development.Housing director Brian Nyamande ye...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Elderly couple killed over witchcraft allegations
POLICE have launched a manhunt for a man who allegedly killed a Mhondoro couple after accusing them of witchcraft. The incident occurred last week in Mhondoro, under Chief Chivero. Fredd...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:15hrs | 10 | by Staff repporter
Man kills mother (89), uncle (87) over witchcraft
POLICE in Murewa, Mashonaland East province, have launched a manhunt for a man who allegedly murdered his biological mother and uncle on Monday last week after accusing them of practising witchcraft....Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Tribute to King Zwelithini by King Nyamande Lobengula II
Tribute to Isilo SamaBandla, King Goodwill Zwelithini wesizwe samaZulu who passed on Friday March 12....Published: 18 Mar 2021 at 16:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
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