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Shot in arm for Bulilima schools
TWO United Kingdom-based locals from Bulilima West have come to the aid of schools in the area by donating thousands of textbooks, bringing relief to pupils who were reportedly sharing textbooks....Published: 10 Apr 2021 at 04:59hrs | 1381 | by Gwizhikiti
At least 10 killed as Mnangagwa dialed up rights abuses in 2020: Amnesty International
Zimbabwean security forces killed at least 10 people last year as President Emmerson Mnangagwa exploited the Covid-19 pandemic to step up human rights violations, deploying agents to abduct and tortur...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 09:47hrs | 862 | by Staff reporter
Omalayitsha contribute to standards of living
BUSINESSES worldwide are in two major categories of size befitting the significant roles they play in satisfying different needs in an economy.There are those that are large and do well in sat...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 07:03hrs | 1193 | by Reinford Khumalo
Juveniles languish in remand prison
TWO Plumtree juveniles accused of murder are languishing in remand prison for a crime allegedly committed over a year ago as their case has been stalling at the courts. This was revealed...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 16:57hrs | 741 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's minister joins Bosso
ENVIRONMENT, Tourism and Hospitality Industry Minister Nqobizitha Mangaliso Ndlovu is now a card-carrying member of Highlanders FC after being charmed by newly elected club committee member Mgcini Maf...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 07:52hrs | 1809 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt increases Covid-19 vaccination sites
THE Government has introduced more Covid-19 vaccination sites across the country as part of efforts to decentralise the process and decongest existing service points. Wilkins Hospital, which h...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 07:49hrs | 380 | by Staff reporter
Polad member faces homicide charge
DEMOCRATIC Opposition Party (DOP) leader Peter Harry Wilson is facing a culpable homicide charge after he was involved in a car accident along the Bulawayo-Plumtree highway which claimed the life of a...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 09:48hrs | 1452 | by Staff reporter
Tsholotsho has highest HIV prevalence rate in the country
A NATIONAL Aids Council (NAC) 2021 Global AIDS Monitoring Report indicates that Tsholotsho district has the highest HIV prevalence rate in the country with the lowest being Binga.According to ...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 09:08hrs | 613 | by Staff reporter
Zimra blocks importation of used cars without deadline notice
Without any warning, the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) on Good Friday in the middle of the day blocked all imported cars that were manufactured before 2011 from leaving the border posts.C...Published: 03 Apr 2021 at 08:08hrs | 4888 | by Bhebhe Mandla
Highlanders more than a football entity
HIGHLANDERS FC is more than a football entity. It is life and everything to some and leaving Bosso in 1976 would have seen club legend Douglas Mloyi disowned by his own family. The decision no...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 09:14hrs | 256 | by Staff reporter
Zimra reviews vehicle clearance process
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has simplified import processes that had in the past been delaying the customs clearance of new and pre-owned vehicles at the country's ports. In a recen...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:12hrs | 1499 | by Staff reporter
75% of Bulawayo roads in bad state
AT least 75 percent of Bulawayo's road network has outlived its lifespan, with council revealing that the funds they received from the Zimbabwe National Road Authority (Zinara) was a mere drop in the ...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 06:45hrs | 250 | by Staff reporter
Bosso legends speak out on 1976 player defection
THE strength of Highlanders FC has always been its members and sympathisers in the last 95 years. True to what today's fans say: "Ubuhle lamandla eBosso kukubalandeli bayo" the club weathered a fierce...Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 09:08hrs | 839 | by Lovemore Dube
The economic toll of Covid-19 on Zimbabwe has deepened energy poverty
Zimbabwe's management of the Covid 19 pandemic on the health front seems to have scored positively compared to other countries but the gains on statistics should not deflect attention from the perils ...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 21:43hrs | 261 | by Taruberekera Masara in Pretoria
'174 000 Zimbabwean migrants have returned home'
OVER 174 000 migrants have returned to Zimbabwe since the onset of COVID-19 due to loss of employment and deportation.This was revealed by the International Organisation of Migration (IOM) in ...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 05:55hrs | 941 | by Staff reporter
Lockdowns reduce Zimra revenues
Zimra Region Two Manager Plumtree border, Mr Bekezela Majokojoko said the revenue authority had witnessed a reduction in revenue as a result of the Covid-19 induced lockdowns."In January we co...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:28hrs | 199 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe borders to open soon, says Mthuli Ncube
ZIMBABWE will next week receive another consignment of Covid-19 vaccine procured by Government from China to bolster the country's inoculation efforts to achieve the herd immunity, Minister of Finance...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:28hrs | 872 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland converted into Mberengwa
The people of Matabeleland are up in arms with a ploy that is at an advanced stage to make part of Gwanda South be merged with Mberengwa. The person behind this gambit is a senior Zanu PF official who...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 09:57hrs | 3530 | by Sibangilizwe Moyo
Zimbabwean refugees return from Botswana
FORTY-EIGHT Zimbabweans who were refugees in Botswana returned home yesterday following a joint initiative by Government, Botswana as well as the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Most of...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 06:26hrs | 759 | by Staff reporter
Bulilima boy defies all odds as he becomes one of the best upcoming Hip Hop Artist in South Africa
The Zimbabwean-born artist Wise Ngwenya AKA King Durrie defies all odds as he managed to drop 7 tracks and 1 music video of South African hip hop.Following his impressive work of years as a bu...Published: 15 Mar 2021 at 07:49hrs | 1298 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Zimbabwe's porous borders 'now a security threat'
ZIMBABWE's porous borders are posing a serious security risk as they expose the country to a litany of illegal activities, including smuggling and criminal syndicates roaming undetected, a damning rep...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:32hrs | 2248 | by Staff reporter
Survey shows Zimbabweans reluctant to get Covid vaccine
A Zimbabwe Christian Alliance (ZCA) survey has revealed that the majority of the country's citizens, particularly those in outlying areas, are unwilling to take the Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine....Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | 950 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge town faces demolition
IN a shocking revelation, more than 300 structures in Beitbridge Town, including part of the border post, a hospital, police base, schools, Dulibadzimu Stadium and hundreds of houses were built on wet...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:08hrs | 975 | by Staff reporter
Concern over open defecation increase
MATABELELAND North and South provinces are failing to shed off the tag of having the highest number of people practising open defecation in the country, a latest ZimVAC report has revealed. Th...Published: 13 Mar 2021 at 06:41hrs | 465 | by Staff reporter
Man 'gangs up' against rival
A Plumtree man allegedly ganged up with a friend who is still at large and stabbed his rival five times using a knife for allegedly dating his ex-girlfriend. Innocent Moyo (25) of Madlambuzi a...Published: 09 Mar 2021 at 06:20hrs | 634 | by Staff reporter
Radio initiative petitions Parly over licences
A BULAWAYO-BASED community radio initiative has petitioned Parliament demanding licensing of "real" community radio stations.Y Star FM was snubbed by the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BA...Published: 08 Mar 2021 at 05:45hrs | 479 | by Staff reporter
Civics must drive the VP's office
In our new kind of normal, where restraint, moral integrity and sound values have been replaced by lumpen orgy, profanity and clown foolery, I meet the question: So what do you think of the latest VP ...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 08:15hrs | 373 | by Zifiso Masiye
Zinara has turned a new leaf
THE Grant Thornton Forensic Audit commissioned by the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development in 2016 highlighted several corporate governance deficiencies at the Zimbabwe National Road ...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:51hrs | 983 | by Staff reporter
Residents oppose councillors' salary hike
PLUMTREE residents have warned Local Government minister July Moyo against awarding hefty salaries and allowances to councillors, saying the move would cripple service delivery in local authorities....Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 06:17hrs | 703 | by Concerned
Heavy rains spell doom for Plumtree villagers
After receiving poor rains in the 2019-2020 forming season which culminated in hunger, Macingwane, Ezimnyama, Ngwanyana and other villages in Mangwe, Matabeleland South province, remain in despa...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:55hrs | 727 | by Staff reporter
Family buries wrong body, forced to exhume
A FAMILY from Lobengula West suburb was left speechless after they were given a wrong body by a funeral parlour and had to travel all the way to Plumtree to exhume the body of their loved one for rebu...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:29hrs | 493 | by Staff reporter
4 suspected rustlers arrested for possessing stolen cattle
POLICE in Matabeleland South Province have arrested four suspected rustlers who were found in possession of three cattle stolen from a farm in Gwanda.Provincial police spokesperson Inspector L...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 16:01hrs | 428 | by Staff reporter
Road infrastructure decay needs policy change
The pace of Zimbabwe's road infrastructure decay has reached alarming levels which call for a policy change by the government. The country's major highways and urban roads have become a living hazard ...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 14:34hrs | 747 | by Victor Bhoroma
Busisa Moyo: Voice of reason on industrial matters in Zimbabwe
HE is the chief executive officer (CEO) of one of Bulawayo's most successful companies, United Refineries Limited (URL). Mr Busisa Moyo is the board chairman of the Zimbabwe International Trad...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 07:03hrs | 478 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown defiance rife in Matabeleland South
THERE is widespread defiance of lockdown regulations in most parts of Matabeleland South province, a development that health authorities and police say is worrisome. Areas such as Gwanda, Mbal...Published: 04 Feb 2021 at 05:58hrs | 2132 | by Staff reporter
Plumtree soccer player axes rival over match results
A SOCIAL soccer player from Nsingo village under Chief Masendu in Plumtree allegedly struck a rival team with an axe after a misunderstanding over the results which he claimed had been tampered with....Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 06:33hrs | 1394 | by Staff reporter
Floods leave a trail of destruction in Bulilima
DOZENS of villagers in Ngwala village in Huwana ward 8 in Bulilima district, Plumtree escaped death by a whisker after 12 houses curved in due to the incessant rains that pounded the area during the w...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 06:55hrs | 949 | by Staff reporter
China: Zimbabwe 'all weather friend'
Antipathy between Zimbabwe and the West led to the Mugabe government to look east. As he said " We have turned east where the sun rises, and given our back to the west where the sun sets" In the midst...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 16:24hrs | 768 | by Rumbidzai Zimunya
Businesswoman up for murder
POLICE have arrested a Plumtree businesswoman and her two accomplices for allegedly beating a suspected burglar to death. Sinanzeni Mpala (38) who operates a shop in Madlambuzi under Chief Gam...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:23hrs | 1521 | by Staff reporter
Businessman breaks up marriage
THE serial bed-hopping antics of Plumtree-based businessman Bhekisisa Bhebhe, who was chucked out of his in-laws' house after his shenanigans were exposed, caused the marriage dissolution that befell ...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:18hrs | 1742 | by Staff reporter
Married serial bed-hopping businessman exposed
A SERIAL bed-hopping Plumtree-based businessman was chucked out of his in-laws' house where he was residing and has been forced to stay with one of his girlfriends whenever he is in Bulawayo after his...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 18:41hrs | 4084 | by Staff reporter
LP gas shortage hits Bulawayo
BULAWAYO is facing an acute shortage of liquefied petroleum (LP) gas resulting in its price shooting up by 80 percent since mid-December. For the past week Bulawayo residents who use LP gas ha...Published: 11 Jan 2021 at 07:51hrs | 684 | by Staff reporter
Over 41 000 returnees pass through Beitbridge
OVER 41 800 people and 7 012 commercial trucks passed through Beitbridge border post during the festive season amid fears that the influx of travellers contributed to the current spike in coronavirus ...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 08:03hrs | 573 | by Staff reporter
Vehicle radiation checks to start
Food and water testing for cancer causing radiation elements in imported foods will begin this year as the Government has already set up a Gamma Spectrometry Laboratory in Harare which is expected to ...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 07:45hrs | 446 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe saw influx of festive travellers
ZIMBABWE'S 11 entry ports including airports recorded 103 097 entries during the December festive season with Beitbridge border post topping the list with over 40 000 people and 7 012 commercial truck...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:45hrs | 289 | by Staff reporter
Truck drivers give border authorities torrid time
PANIC has gripped Matabeleland South Province as there has been an increase in cases with truck drivers reportedly returning without valid Covid-19 free certificates, Provincial Medical Director Dr Ch...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:06hrs | 387 | by Staff reporter
Boost for Thorngrove Hospital
BULAWAYO's Thorngrove Infectious Diseases Hospital has received a donation of eight beds from stakeholders to increase its capacity in handling COVID-19 at a time the country is experiencing a surge i...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 22:26hrs | 315 | by Staff reporter
Government decentralises Covid-19 testing
THE Ministry of Health and Child Care has decentralised Covid-19 testing to ensure the services are closer to the people and has so far approved 58 laboratories. Twenty six of the labs are at ...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:21hrs | 164 | by Blessings Chidakwa
Subdued Christmas for Plumtree
RESIDENTS of Plumtree who are used to thronging popular hangouts on Christmas Day experienced subdued celebrations this year due to a number of factors.Traditionally, residents celebrate the d...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:04hrs | 285 | by Staff reporter
Slump in activity at Plumtree border
PLUMTREE Border Post has recorded a slump in the number of travellers passing through it this festive season compared to previous years owing to the Covid-19 pandemic. An average of 1 000 peop...Published: 25 Dec 2020 at 07:10hrs | 648 | by Staff reporter
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