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8 anti-Mnangagwa Gokwe residents freed on US$200 bail
The High Court freed eight Gokwe residents on US$200 bail each yesterday.The eight were arrested on 16 August for expressing disapproval of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's assumption of the SAD...Published: 10 Sep 2024 at 12:42hrs | 1261 | by Staff reporter
Overzealous police boss slapped with US$500 fine
A police chief in Kamativi, Matebeleland North province, found himself in hot water after assaulting a female subordinate. On February 22, 44-year-old Stanley Siampongo became enraged when the...Published: 09 Jun 2024 at 09:04hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ZRP officer-in-charge assaults female colleague
Stanley Siampongo, the 48-year-old Officer in Charge of ZRP Kamativi, was arrested for allegedly assaulting a female subordinate in February this year. The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) reporte...Published: 04 Jun 2024 at 14:42hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Sangoma's US$30 000 wedding brings Harare to a standstill
SEKURU Tasvu's nuptials with his sweetheart Talent Qeliwe Mpofu last weekend were rare in more ways than one.Not only was it a spectacle to have a traditional healer opting to have a white wed...Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 07:08hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe dams water levels rise
The national dam level average has risen to 74. 8 percent, a 0. 89 percent improvement since December 13, 2023, the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA) said on Tuesday. In a statement, ZINWA cor...Published: 20 Dec 2023 at 12:48hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo dams remain low
BULAWAYO supply dams remain critically low despite the heavy rains received across the country in the past few days.The percentage average for the city's major dams including Umzingwane, Upper...Published: 01 Mar 2023 at 07:03hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Dam levels break records
THE major interior dams currently hold 92 percent of their combined capacity with almost 65 percent now full as a result of the good rainy season.This ensures enough stored water for irrigatio...Published: 01 Mar 2023 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Warrant of arrest for MP after militia attack on rivals
SANYATI police have issued a warrant of arrest for local MP and Mines deputy minister Polite Kambamura (Zanu-PF) after he allegedly unleashed a militia on party rivals holding a meeting at Nyimo busin...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
18 Binga schools record 0% passes
AT least 18 schools in Binga, Matabeleland North province, recorded a zero percent pass rate at Ordinary Level 2022 examinations, with teachers unions yesterday saying such results showed education in...Published: 15 Feb 2023 at 05:02hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: South Africa's Nombulelo Mhlongo charms Bulawayo
Celebrated South African actress , classical singer and businesswoman Nombulelo Mhlongo charmed the city Bulawayo when she appeared in the city over the weekend . Mhlongo, who was born in ...Published: 26 Oct 2022 at 09:41hrs | 16 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Operation Dudula targets foreign national drivers
Operation Dudula in KwaZulu-Natal has repeated calls for transport operators to stop hiring foreign national drivers.This comes after a horrific accident in Pongola, northern KwaZulu-Natal, wh...Published: 20 Sep 2022 at 18:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe dam levels 92% full, while Bulawayo is at 50%
THE recent wet spell experienced in various parts of the country has boosted water levels, with the country's major dams now 91,9 percent full on average. The national dam level had rise...Published: 01 May 2022 at 11:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Workers, employer deadlock on salaries ends
THE long-standing deadlock between the workers and Dinson Colliery Company in Hwange over US$ salaries, permission to meet their unions among other concerns recently ended with both parties comp...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 16:07hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Chinese steel plant roars to life in Zimbabwe
A NEW town is set to be born between Mvuma-Chivhu and Manhize where Tsingshan Group Holdings, a Fortune 500 listed company is set to build a world class iron and steel plant that will also come with f...Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police arrest Hwange community leader
POLICE in Hwange, Matabeleland North province on Thursday arrested a Dinde community leader for leading a protest the previous day against a Chinese coal-mining project in the area.Never Tshum...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 09:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Water crisis bedevils Gweru as dams spill
GWERU City Council has come under fire from residents for failing to address the perennial challenges bedeviling the city, especially now when supply dams are all spilling. For the past two ye...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Luxury car purchases rile Gweru residents
MRS Naome Mashoko is a resident of Mkoba 6 suburb in Gweru and for the past two weeks, she has been forced to walk a long distance to fetch water from a borehole at Mkoba Six Shopping Centre. ...Published: 15 Mar 2021 at 05:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gweru to maintain water cuts
WATER-SHEDDING is set to continue in Gweru despite the city receiving incessant heavy-rains that have seen most of its supply dams spilling.This was revealed last week by Gweru mayor Josiah Ma...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man fights for life after assault over goats
A 35-YEAR-OLD man from Kamativi in Hwange district is battling for life in hospital after a neighbour assaulted him with a metal bar in a fight over goats that strayed into a maize field.Mr Bo...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 06:43hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
BCC eases water shedding
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has eased its water shedding schedule reverting to the 144 hour per week timetable, with indications that they will continue to ease it further as dam inflows continue ...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 06:57hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
7 dams reach full capacity
SEVEN of the country's 23 largest dams have reached full capacity, with the country's largest inland water body, Tugwi-Mukosi, spilling for the first time since commissioning in 2017.Data from...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gweru dams at full capacity
THE water levels at Gweru City Council's four supply dams are at full capacity following heavy rains that pounded most parts of the midlands province in the last few weeks.In a statement yeste...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 20:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dam levels continue on to rise
Zimbabwe dam levels continue on to rise with the national dam level average now 62%. Sanyati Catchment has the highest dam level average at 94.5%, Gwayi 75.7%, Manyame 59.7%, Mazowe 41.9%, Mzi...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 09:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gweru dam levels increase
THE water levels at Gweru City Council supply dams Gwenoro and Whitewaters have significantly increased following good rains.This has seen taps that have been dry for several weeks now being o...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gweru residents told to brace for tighter water rationing
GWERU residents have been told to brace for more water rationing amid indications that water in the city's three supply dams is fast dwindling at a time when the pumping capacity has been reduced to 6...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Water situation gets dire
GWERU'S water situation has worsened amid reports that the main water supplier, Gwenoro Dam, is now below 15% with a pumping capacity at 37 megalitres per day, Southern Eye has established.In ...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cities left with less than a year of water supply
WATER supplies in many cities and towns in the country are dwindling, while local authorities face additional challenges of shortages of chemicals and broken down pipes and pumps, Lands deputy ministe...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gweru water supplies to normalise soon
FOUR Indian-manufactured water pumps valued at over R6 million arrived in Gweru yesterday via South Africa in a development that is set to end the city's perennial water crisis.The pumps will ...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 08:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gweru shelves prepaid water meter project
GWERU City Council says it has shelved plans introduce prepaid water meters this year as the local authority is facing serious financial challenges.Town clerk Elizabeth Gwatipedza said prepaid...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Join demos, 'cowards sin by silence' - village idiots sin by ignorance, they know not destination
Man is a creature of reason, our superior brain should be our greatest strength but, like everything else, in the wrong hands a blessing is a curse. "In 1918, Eller Wheeler Wilcox the gre...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 20:49hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Join demos, 'cowards sin by silence' - village idiots sin by ignorance, they know not destination
Man is a creature of reason, our superior brain should be our greatest strength but, like everything else, in the wrong hands a blessing is a curse. "In 1918, Eller Wheeler Wilcox the gre...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 15:50hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
MDC 16 August Demonstrations: Why there shall be a huge turnout!
In 1918, Eller Wheeler Wilcox the great American author once said "to sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of many" . Subsequently, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has call...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:41hrs | | by Erasmus Pongo
'Zanu PF is denying us the right to demos' - true, but thick jail wall is not why we are stuck
Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess for one over-riding reason – ignorance. What makes ignorance such a difficult, a near impossible, failing to cure is that the ignorant are rarely awar...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 22:11hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
The real reason why Civil Servants are being neglected!
The standard of living for the generality of the people of Zimbabwe has worsened and the ordinary citizen now survives on less than US0.35 cents per day. The Government of Zimbabwe is however reluctan...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:29hrs | | by Pongo
Open letter to Nelson Chamisa
Attention : Advocate Nelson Chamisa The Movement for Democratic Change has become the most powerful political organization in Zimbabwe. This influence h...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 19:54hrs | | by Pongo
Gweru rejects $200k roads plan
GWERU city fathers have rejected a deal put forward by the local authority's management to channel over $200 000 from its coffers to pay a private company to complete rehabilitation of roads in the de...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gweru's Gwenoro Dam at 18% capacity
GWERU'S main water source, Gwenoro Dam is now at 18% capacity, with city fathers expressing concern that the Midlands capital could face an unprecedented water crisis if urgent solutions for alternati...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 08:15hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to Tajamuka leaders
Attention: Promise Mukwananzi and your entire mercenary leagueYour pseudo campaign for an indefinite stayaway has dismally failed. The failure has erase...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:52hrs | 18 | by Erasmus Pongo
Velaphi Ncube's unheralded journey
ON Thursday, Misheck Ntunduzakovelaphi Velaphi Ncube was laid to rest at the National Heroes Acre in Harare following his declaration as a national hero.Born on 25 July 1937 in Matobo District...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:36hrs | 8 | by Pathisa Nyathi
Gweru to decommission Gwenoro Dam
Gweru City Council has announced plans to decommission its major supplier, Gwenhoro Dam, by October as the water source is left with only six months' supplies, a senior council official has said....Published: 01 May 2019 at 08:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Starving villagers' skin neighbour's cow
TWO villagers from Siampongo in Binga have been jailed nine years each for skinning and stealing the carcass of their neighbour's cow, which had died on its own.Tedious Mudenda (38) and Fanuel...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Christians must get involved in politics'
TOMORROW, Zimbabweans decide in a historic election pitting 23 presidential candidates with 5, 5 million voters registered to cast the ballot.The country has been trapped in election mode sinc...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 09:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Binga man jailed 30 years for raping disabled daughter
A BINGA man has been sentenced to a 30-year jail term for raping his disabled teenage daughter following advice from a traditional healer, who claimed that the dastardly act would make him wealthy....Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 08:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Workers rights are Human Rights
The United Nations organization recognizes that people have a "human right to work, or engage in productive employment, and may not be prevented from doing so". This concept enshrined in the Universal...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 19:57hrs | | by Linda Tsungirirai Masarira
Tsikamutandas planted strange objects
FAKE Tsikamutandas in Chakohwa Village are placing witchcraft paraphernalia in villagers' homesteads and accusing people of possessing goblins in an attempt to lure clients.This was revealed b...Published: 04 Nov 2017 at 05:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Strange objects shock village
VILLAGERS in Chakohwa Village in Chimanimani West were on Monday left weak-kneed after mysterious creepy-looking goblins and witchcraft paraphernalia, popularly known as gona, were discovered at two h...Published: 28 Oct 2017 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Joshua Nkomo - Tell No Lies speech on Unity.
In memory of the First Commander in Chief of ZAPU and ZIPRA Forces. In memory of the Father of the Nation.POLITICAL REPORT OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE PATRIOTIC F...Published: 01 Jul 2016 at 07:06hrs | 9 | by Cakes Vundla
Soldier nabbed with diamond ore in Chiadzwa
A SOLDIER from Chitungwiza was last week nabbed with diamond ore in Chiadzwa by police officers manning the vast diamond fields.Manica Post reported that Fungai Gilbert Mandidewa (51) of House...Published: 28 Mar 2016 at 10:05hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Cities dam levels remain critical
WATER levels for dams that supply cities and towns in the southern parts of the country remain critical and may not last until the next rainy season despite the rains received in most parts of the cou...Published: 20 Mar 2016 at 09:22hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Reminescing the Zhii era
One of the pioneers of the armed struggle that freed blacks in this country from colonial bondage was Clark Mpofu (CM) an ex-Zipra combatant. Sunday News Correspondent, Dumisani Sibanda (DS), ...Published: 07 Feb 2016 at 08:14hrs | | by Clark Mpofu
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