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UK opens visa centre in Bulawayo
Residents in the southern parts of Zimbabwe can now apply for UK visas closer to home following the official opening of a new application centre in Bulawayo.The facility, housed at the Bulaway...Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 16:08hrs | 752 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF orders Insiza North primary election re-run
Zanu-PF has ordered a rerun of its Insiza North primary election following allegations of ballot stuffing and logistical irregularities that marred the initial vote held on May 3, 2025.The rer...Published: 12 May 2025 at 14:00hrs | 618 | by Staff reporter
Goat Meat is in Short Supply in Zimbabwe: Sifiso Agbetorwoka
Sifiso Agbetorwoka, a well-known goat farmer in Zimbabwe and the owner of Bulembe Farm, recently hosted a Goat Breeding Masterclass at her farm. She highlighted the challenges facing goat farmers in Z...Published: 22 Jan 2025 at 10:14hrs | 1220 | by Mncedisi Nyathi
Sandra gets ready for roasting
Talented award-winning musician Sandra Ndebele, who is also Councillor for Ward 20 in Bulawayo, has contributed a lot to the local entertainment scene. As such, she will be celebrated uniquely...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 06:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi genocide workshop raises eyebrows over chief's role
An invitation to a sensitisation meeting in Bulawayo sent to media editors regarding the Gukurahundi outreach community programme has cast doubt on the National Chiefs Council's authority over the gen...Published: 19 Jan 2024 at 14:45hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt trying to create a certain narrative about Gukurahundi genocide
THE Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs will this month hold a Gukurahundi Community Outreach Programme in Bulawayo targeting the media sector where editors from different publication...Published: 19 Jan 2024 at 13:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
CCC recalls sign of party's internal problems, says Mwonzora
Douglas Mwonzora, the leader of MDC-T, has pointed out that the recent recalls carried out by Sengezo Tshabangu on behalf of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) highlight a deficiency in corporate...Published: 25 Oct 2023 at 13:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophet Edd Branson nominated Businessman of the year
Harare based Clergyman and businessman Ambassador Edd Branson has been nominated as the outstanding businessman of the year at the Megafest top 20 business awards to be held on the 24 of November at t...Published: 12 Nov 2022 at 13:06hrs | 23 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Some Zimbabwe embassies so broke they can't afford a flag'
Some of Zimbabwe's embassies around the world are so broke they cannot afford flags to display outside, diplomats said on Thursday.Responding to information minister Monica Mutsvangwa's commen...Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 05:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ambrose Mutinhiri to be named ambassador to Russia
Former National Patriotic Front (NPF) president Ambrose Mutinhiri is set to be appointed Zimbabwe's new ambassador to Russia, ZimLive reported.He will replace Nicholas Sango, a retired brigadi...Published: 03 Nov 2022 at 18:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
National hero Cont Mhlanga buried on ancestral lands
THE urban and rural worlds collided yesterday in Lupane District, Matabeleland North Province as villagers, artistes and high-profile dignitaries from various fields came to bid a spectacular farewell...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa agents hunt for Jonathan Moyo
From fierce clashes in the Zanu-PF politburo meetings after a bitter political fallout over a hotly contested leadership succession during the late former president Robert Mugabe's rule to resorting t...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 19:22hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Covid-19 cases rise to 712
Zimbabwe's Covid-19 infections spiked on Wednesday, on the same day as the country began restricting entry to all travellers.The 712 new infections reported by the health ministry were the hig...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 05:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF appeals for donations
THE Zanu-PF Bulawayo province is appealing for donations that will go towards the national and provincial annual people's conference which has been scheduled for October 26-31 this year.Both t...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:47hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Bus from SA intercepted, 49 quarantined
POLICE and health officials at Beitbridge Border Post on Sunday intercepted an inbound bus and quarantined all 49 passengers on board and the crew as a precautionary measure after a woman believed to ...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 06:18hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in Bulawayo to open Arts Festival
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa arrived in Bulawayo yesterday ahead of the official opening of the Bulawayo Arts Festival (Baf) and the launch of the Heritage Corridor in the city.The President will tour ...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 06:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
City of Kings celebrates Bulawayo Day
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected to officially open the Bulawayo Arts Festival (Baf) on Thursday during the Urban Heritage Tour and Eco-Tourism Programme and the Creative and Cultural Industri...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 08:03hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 hits Beitbridge
TWO doctors, several nurses and other staff at Beitbridge District Hospital have tested positive for COVID-19 as the pandemic hit the border town.Eighteen students from Mukaro Mission in Gutu ...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 07:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF launches dance like Mnangagwa competition
THE ruling Zanu-PF has called on the nation to compete in an Ngazviende Dance Challenge, where people replicate dance moves by the President Mnangagwa to win prizes to commemorate Anti-Sanctions Day. ...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
MRP members summoned by police
Two MRP members Cde Marshall Sibanda and Cde Luckson Maphosa have been summoned by police over the foiled ZANU PF v MDC demonstrations. We are yet not sure of the link between our Cdes and the said de...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 12:01hrs | 5 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Every generation has its heroes
Today I felt encouraged as well as hopeful as I watched our comrades being escorted like criminals from Khami prison. Seeing Zimbabwe prison services officers in their unusual anti riot gear carrying ...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 21:42hrs | 6 | by MRP Vice-president Ms Presia Ngulube
Motlanthe Commission protesters found guilty
Three MRP members who protested against ZANU PF Youths who stood up to silence Terrence Wisdom Mkhwananzi who was testifying at the Motlante Commission concerning the death of his parents at the hands...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 17:05hrs | | by Mbonisi Gumbo
Mnangagwa pursues Mthwakazi Republic Party official over Gukurahundi genocide
When we heard that ZANU-PF president and the commander-in-chief of the defence forces was in Rwanda last week at the commemoration of the 1992 genocide that took place there, we thought he had gone th...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 22:39hrs | 5 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Queen Loziba lecture series at gallery
A lecture series for, Queen Loziba, senior queen in the Ndebele Kingdom will be held at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo as a way to promote female narratives and profiling powerful histor...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 07:58hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Ndiweni praises Mnangagwa? Setting the record straight
Outspoken traditional leader, Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni - who has in recent months courted the ire of Zanu-PF apparatchiks with his stinging criticism of the government - has praised President Em...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and his shona speaking chiefs must blame Gukurahundi not Ndebele chiefs
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT PRESS STATEMENT01 JULY 2019As chiefs we are deeply disappointed by statements by some that Chiefs from the Midlands province were invited to a meeting with the Pres...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:42hrs | 3 | by Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni
Rainbow Tourism Group trading update
The company delivered a strong performance in 2018 achieving revenues of $34.3 million which was 27% above the prior year despite an increasingly challenging economic climate. This performance w...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 07:00hrs | 3 | by Rainbow Tourism Group
Shutdown documentary to premiere
ONLINE streaming organisation CITE director and human rights activist, Zenzele Ndebele, is set to showcase his new documentary, Zimbabwe Shutdown: The January Protests, at Rainbow Hotel in Bulawayo on...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
The death of Dr Dumiso Dabengwa - A fiting tribute to an enigma
1. Paying tribute to an enigma I was on a bus on Thursday morning, the 24th May 2019, travelling through Botswana from Kwa Bulawayo, Mthwakazi when news abo...Published: 30 May 2019 at 15:45hrs | 6 | by Dr Mpiyesizwe Churchill Guduza
RTG shells out $2,5m on Bulawayo hotel rehab
THE Rainbow Tourism Group (RTG) has invested about $2,5 million in the refurbishment of its Bulawayo hotel, an official has said.In a statement yesterday, RTG operations director Tichawona Hwi...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
11 Mthwakazi members in court
Eleven of MRP members today goes back to court, after the Magistrate yesterday refused to postpone the case to a later date as had been requested by Dube Dumisani who had other commitments. Dumi...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 08:15hrs | 1 | by Mbonisi Gumbo
Bulawayo Rainbow Hotel set to re-open after refurbishment
Rainbow Tourism Group has advised that the refurbishment of the Bulawayo Rainbow Hotel is progressing well, with the hotel set to re-open on 8 April 2019. The refurbishment, which necessitated...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 08:45hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Deployment of Shona civil servants in Matabeleland condemned
The government of Zimbabwe is not doing the people of Matabeleland any favour by withdrawing Shona teachers it deployed in Bulawayo primary schools, this should not have happened in the first place. M...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 08:42hrs | 3 | by Israel Dube
EXCLUSIVE: 'Rainbow hotel lied about Bulwayo's capacity'
The Construction Industry Federation for Zimbabwe(CIFOZ) has responded to a statement by the Bulawayo Rainbow Hotel manager Innocent Kufa that Bulawayo companies do not have the required experti...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 16:09hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Innocent Kufa must be sent back to Mashonaland
It is an insult directed to Mthwakazi people for Kufa to say they lack the capacity to land renovation jobs in Rainbow Hotel and that should be given the strongest condemnation it so deserves....Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 17:38hrs | 2 | by David Magagula- MLF
Bulawayo companies do not have required expertise, says Rainbow Hotel
Bulawayo Rainbow Hotel has lamented the lack of qualified personnel to take up employment at the hotel during its massive renovation project.The hotel has closed its doors to the public as it ...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 16:32hrs | 1 | by Cite.org
Rainbow Hotel Manager Innocent Kufa a pathetic liar
There has been an outcry by many Matabeleland activists and the general public over a story published by online publication called CITE which has since gone viral. Mr Innocent Kufa is alleged to have ...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 16:11hrs | 22 | by Mbonisi Gumbo
ZESN joins RTG in sidelining and marginalizing Matabeleland people
Yesterday we witnessed scores of unemployed Bulawayo citizens coming with their CVs to try their lucky at the Rainbow Hotel. This was following the arrest of 11 MRP members on Friday who exposed...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 09:49hrs | | by Presia Ngulube
Activists arrested for invading Rainbow hotel
Mthwakazi Republic Party activists have been arrested an hour ago by Bulawayo Police at Rainbow Hotel in Bulawayo. The activists thronged the Hotel after getting information on the exportation of Labo...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 15:42hrs | | by MRP
RTG Bulawayo facelift to meet ZITF opening dates
RAINBOW Tourism Group (RTG) says the refurbishment of its Bulawayo Rainbow Hotel will be completed by March 31, in time for the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair. RTG corporate communica...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Rainbow Hotel closes
The Rainbow Tourism Group will temporarily close the Bulawayo Rainbow Hotel to make way for renovations.Rainbow Tourism Group Corporate Communications and Innovations Manager, PrideKhu...Published: 03 Feb 2019 at 11:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa leads Clean-Up from Parirenyatwa Hospital
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa today heads to Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals in Harare for the national monthly clean-up exercise as Government intensifies efforts to build sustainable environment management an...Published: 31 Jan 2019 at 22:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Open Letter to Motlante
Date: 15th December 2018 Mr Kgalema Motlanthe Chairman of The Zimbabwe...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 07:29hrs | 6 | by The 1893 MHRRM-UK Leadership
Zanu-PF conference to gobble millions
THE Zanu-PF national people's conference scheduled for December 10 to 15 at Umzingwane High School in Esigodini, Matabeleland South is projected to gobble over$1 million, with provinces expected t...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Court punches holes in MRP activist case
The state says it is not ready to proceed to trial in a case in which a Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) activist, Wisdom Mkhwananzi, accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of murdering his parents during...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 17:08hrs | 2 | by Abigirl khupe - cite.org.zw
Commission of inquiry into sale of State land heads to Matebeleland
The commission of inquiry into the sale of State land which was sworn-in in February will be visiting Matebeleland North and South provinces next week as part of their inquiry into the sale of State l...Published: 03 Nov 2018 at 09:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi Activist who 'fingered' ED gets treatment
Wisdom Terrence Mkhwanazi the Mthwakazi activist who was arrested for pointing at the portrait of President Mnangagwa accusing him of killing his parents during Gukurahundi has finally been give...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 18:53hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Harare shootings hearing abandoned in Bulawayo
RIOT police armed with assault rifles and water cannons had to be called in yesterday when violence broke out at Rainbow Hotel in Bulawayo during hearings conducted by the commission of inquiry invest...Published: 27 Oct 2018 at 08:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Three Mthwakazi Activists arrested
The Zimbabwe Republic Police have unlawfully arrested three Mthwakazi Republic Party Activists at the Rainbow hotel in the presence of the international commission of Inquiry. Party security&n...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 14:27hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Potraz to host innovation drive workshops
Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) is calling for ICT Innovators to attend its innovation Drive workshops to be taking place this week and next week in Bulawayo an...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 20:28hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
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