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Bulawayo City Council moots 5 days water shedding schedule?
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is planning to introduce a new water-shedding schedule, which will see residents going for 120 hours without water with Government yesterday assuring residents that it ...Published: 07 Dec 2023 at 05:28hrs | 295 | by Staff reporter
Former UJ lecturer Lyness Matizirofa faces off against top attorneys at LPC
FORMER University of Johannesburg lecturer Lyness Matizirofa has launched a complaint against global law firm Eversheds Sutherland and two members of Group One Advocates for unfair treatment and acts ...Published: 30 Jul 2023 at 08:54hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
PPC grim warning for Zimbabwe operations
SOUTH Africa's biggest cement producer PPC, which has operations in Zimbabwe, has warned that its headline loss per share from continuing operations will widen to between 7,75c (Rands) and 8,25c to en...Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean glitterati and Nigerian husband wanted for drug trafficking
THEIR marriage ceremony at The Nest, an upmarket and exclusive venue in Harare, was dubbed wedding-of-the-year in Zimbabwe last year.It was attended by the who-is-who in the local social scene...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 15:25hrs | 246 | by Staff reporter
Fearless editor who first exposed the Gukurahundi killings
While there were a few local Zimbabwean journalists writing for periodicals and foreign correspondents like Peter Godwin for the Sunday Times (UK) and some filing for...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:11hrs | 2 | by Stephen Bates
Zimbabwe food inflation tops world, claims WB report
LATEST World Bank statistics indicate that Zimbabwe has the highest food inflation of 353%.Recently, Zimbabwe was ranked second to Lebanon, but it has since overtaken the Middle East country o...Published: 20 Sep 2022 at 06:05hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
ZimStat faces lawsuit
TEACHERS unions have threatened to resort to legal recourse following delays by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) to pay census enumerators their dues.The 2022 national populat...Published: 18 Aug 2022 at 06:47hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Foul play disguised as incompetence at the Competition and Tariff Commission
I am an avid reader and consumer of all things Competition and Anti Monopolies related. I believe in healthy competition and have learnt a thing or two from watching the American Sherman act evolve in...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 12:48hrs | 12 | by Thabo Nkiwane
Ndebele books in demand
BULAWAYO Public Library manager Pamela Mutasa has revealed that isiNdebele books are in demand with parents and schools complaining over the shortage of books in indigenous languages.Mut...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 05:50hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Safari hunting companies urged to consider human rights-focused rural development
The days of hunting season-focused employment of a handful of locals and hand-outs of a few chunks of protein-boosting game meat are over. This development approach is unfair to the Afri...Published: 24 Nov 2021 at 10:39hrs | 11 | by Emmanuel Koro
BaTonga communities sue for lack of development
HAVING been displaced during the construction of the Kariba Dam and now living at the peripheries of Zimbabwe's largest hydro-electric power project, Kariba, it is only logical that the Batonga people...Published: 31 Jul 2021 at 05:50hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
PPC receives US$11,2 million legacy debt payment from RBZ
CEMENT maker, PPC Zimbabwe, has acknowledged receipt of US$11,2 million from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe under the legacy debts repayment facility.The debt accrued as a result of cash flows g...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 18:47hrs | 2 | by Staff writer
Boy (4) hit by a truck
A four-year-old boy was hit by a haulage truck and died on the spot after bolting from his mother while they were waiting to cross the Harare-Chirundu highway in Nyamakate, Hurungwe District.T...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 19:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mawere stokes flames in SA judiciary
THE case of exiled Zimbabwean business tycoon Mutumwa Mawere, who was controversially muscled out of ShabanieMashaba Mine (SMM) Holdings, is now at the centre of judicial capture.Mawere was in...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
'King of Clay' Rafael Nadal the heavy favourite for the French Open
Let's face it, it will be a shock if Rafael Nadal is not the man lifting the French Open trophy on October 11th. The Spaniard has won the Paris Grand Slam a total of 12 times, and is the heavy favouri...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 14:45hrs | 2 | by Staff writer
Derek Hanekom's wife was a Zimbabwean spy?
Details of a major spy case - involving allegations of South African destabilisation of its neighbours so sensitive that the government did not want it mentioned even in an in camera court - emerged t...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 10:12hrs | 10 | by Weekly Mail Reporter
The Grand plan, gukurahundi, the Unity Accord 1987 - A program of invasion
This is a follow up of my Press Release released on 3rd July 2019. The focus today is Gukurahundi; its origins, meaning, and its role in the unprecedented influx of the Shona community in every part o...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 10:14hrs | 2728 | by King Mzilikazi II
Three children burn to death
THREE children from Tsholotsho were burnt beyond recognition while four others were saved by their 12-year-old sibling after a fire gutted a room they were sleeping in while their parents attended a f...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 06:17hrs | 474 | by Staff reporter
ZEC intensifies preps for elections
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has intensified preparations for the 2018 harmonised elections set for the 30th of this month with a total of 40 Hwange West ward election officers successfully...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 15:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs face uncertain future
Only two seating Members of Parliament in Manicaland Province are guaranteed of progressing to the do-or-die general elections to be held in July this year after their respective constituencies could ...Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 11:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pardoned convict arrested for theft
A Bulawayo man who was released from jail on the Presidential pardon on Monday was arrested hours later for allegedly stealing property worth $670 in Tshabalala suburb.On his way home from jai...Published: 30 Mar 2018 at 08:03hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Matabeleland communities seek apology over Gukurahundi atrocities
COMMUNITY members from Matabeleland South Province have asked for an apology on the Gukurahundi disturbances as part of efforts to ensure reconciliation and national healing.Speaking during a ...Published: 20 Feb 2018 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prominent lawyer dies in car crash, mystery surrounds accident
MYSTERY surrounds the circumstances leading to the fatal accident that claimed the life of prominent Harare lawyer, Edmore Jori in the early hours of Saturday.The accident is understood to hav...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 15:02hrs | 9968 | by Staff reporter
British policy towards Zimbabwe during Gukurahundi massacre: licence to kill
In January 1983 Robert Mugabe's government launched a massive security clampdown in Matabeleland. It was led by a North Korean-trained, almost exclusively chiShona-speaking army unit known as the Fift...Published: 18 Sep 2017 at 18:35hrs | | by Hazel Cameron, University of St Andrews
Healthcare stakeholders ponder healthcare ecosystem
The Healthcare Ecosystem and Quality of Life is the theme of this year's Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe (AHFoZ) Annual Stakeholders' Conference, which takes place at the Kingdom Hotel i...Published: 04 Sep 2017 at 13:41hrs | | by Agencies
Chimene blasts Makoni DA
Manicaland Minister of State for Provincial Affairs Mandiitawepi Chimene on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on Makoni District Administrator Mr Roland Madondo, describing him as not the right perso...Published: 19 Aug 2017 at 09:21hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mother's lover eyes son's wife
A MUTARE man is in trouble with the law after he broke his mother's laptop as punishment for the actions of her boyfriend who was proposing love to his wife.Roland Chifungo (22) appeared befor...Published: 11 Jun 2017 at 13:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pokello assaulted for attending 'brother's' party
SHE has off late been trying to keep a low profile, but social media would have none of that.Socialite Pokello Nare is trending on social media after she attended popular businessman and Harar...Published: 03 Jun 2017 at 11:20hrs | 1725 | by Staff reporter
Britain's vested interests in the newly independent Zimbabwe
THIS is the third in a series of articles of a detailed research paper by British academic Hazel Cameron on the state-sponsored killings of civilians by Zimbabwean security forces between 1982 and 198...Published: 19 May 2017 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Hazel Cameron ,British academic
UK 'turned blind eye' to Gukurahundi killings, Mnangagwa 'fully aware': Study claims
New research has claimed that UK officials apparently downplayed the massacre of up to 20,000 dissidents by Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe in the 1980s to protect the UK’s interests.According to ...Published: 16 May 2017 at 22:49hrs | | by Staff Reporter
BICC Bulawayo youth to hold 11the Mega camp
Brethren In Christ Church [BICC] youths in Bulawayo will, in less than four weeks, hold their 11th mega annual camp at Shalom Campsite in Matopo, as they continue seeking to encourage realignment to G...Published: 01 Sep 2016 at 17:15hrs | | by Mncedisi Buhali
Killer Zivhu wins unopposed
Businessman and Chivi Rural District Council chairperson Dr Killer Zivhu was on Thursday elected the Association of Rural District Council of Zimbabwe president uncontested at the associations' Bi...Published: 20 Aug 2016 at 09:35hrs | | by nnocent Ruwende
NMBZ welcomes new shareholder partnership
NMBZ shareholders FMO of the Netherlands and Norfund of Norway have joined forces with Rabobank of the Netherlands to pool their investments in financial institutions across Africa. The new company fo...Published: 04 Aug 2016 at 12:35hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Dumisani Ramadu: A musical Journey - The interview
As someone once said, if you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street with no clothes on, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, the...Published: 27 Dec 2015 at 21:44hrs | 6 | by Tish Ncube Malaba
Emzini Wezinsizwa actor Magubane dies
The South African television industry must say goodbye to another veteran actor - Shadrack Ngema, who passed away on Saturday.Ngema made his mark with the role of Magubane on SABC1 sitcom Emzi...Published: 10 Dec 2015 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kirsty Coventry honoured again
NEW YORK - Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry survived an epic year by Egypt's Farida Osman to claim a record eighth Swimming World Female African Swimmer of the Year award.In a particularly difficult...Published: 01 Dec 2015 at 05:08hrs | | by Sports reporter
WANTED: Wife basher on the run
Roland Muchegwa (46) is on the run from police in Zimbabwe after savagely attacking his ex-wife, mother of two Mitchell Kawome, on the 16th of September leaving her fighting for her life.The p...Published: 19 Sep 2015 at 14:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Alexandra Forbes rebrands
Alexander Forbes Zimbabwe has rebranded to Willis Faber Dumas and Roland (WFDR) Risk Services (Pvt) Ltd and is eyeing a 25% market share by the end of 2016. WFDR general manager Mapiye Chi...Published: 18 Sep 2015 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
EMZINI Wezinsizwa star Mkhize laid to rest
EMZINI Wezinsizwa star Mkhize has been laid to rest.On Saturday his funeral service was led by Father Julian Davey of St Michael's Catholic Church in Red Hill, Durban.Daily Sun reporte...Published: 09 Sep 2015 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff Reporter
BICC Bulawayo youths to hold a mega camp
Brethren In Christ Church (BICC) youths in Bulawayo will be hosting their 10TH annual district camp at Shalom Campsite in Matopos as they foster realignment with God and use the platform to intercede ...Published: 06 Sep 2015 at 13:56hrs | 1 | by Mncedisi Buhali
Veteran Actor Mkhize to be buried on Saturday
THE funeral of legendary actor Roland Mqwebu will be held at St Michael's Catholic Church in Red Hill, north of Durban on Saturday. The service will start at 9am.Daily Sun reported that the 74...Published: 02 Sep 2015 at 07:25hrs | 4897 | by Staff Reporter
Mkhize of Emzini Wezinsizwa dies
Durban - Actor Roland Mqwebu, 74, has died.Known for his role as Mkhize on SABC1's sitcom Mzini Wezinsizwa, he died from renal failure at eThekwini Heart Hospital and Heart Centre on Friday mo...Published: 28 Aug 2015 at 15:53hrs | 33 | by Staff reporter
Majome excited about Marlborough High School Zebras national boys' soccer U 17
Harare West MP Jessie Majome has expressed excitement over the achievements made by the Marlborough High School Zebras to be the national boys' soccer under 17 Arenel 2015 champions again second year ...Published: 08 Aug 2015 at 08:51hrs | 3954 | by Stephen Jakes
Final list of Skyz Metro FM presenters released
Upcoming Bulawayo radio station Skyz Metro FM has finalised its list of 16 presenters, news anchors and DJs who will be joining the Skyz Metro FM family.Skyz Metro FM is expected to start bro...Published: 20 May 2015 at 10:44hrs | 11072 | by Ndou Paul
CBZ manager steal $370 000 from Chiwenga
A CBZ manager allegedly forged Jocelyn Chiwenga's signature and siphoned more than $300 000 from her account held at the bank and transferred it to several bank accounts and later withdrew the mon...Published: 30 Apr 2015 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya, Buyanga ranked among influential Zimbabweans
Too often, Zimbabweans are bombarded with "influential people" lists and the latest one being the "10 Independence Ngoda Game-Changers Under 35" survey.In the little-known list - compiled by B...Published: 16 Apr 2015 at 11:40hrs | 3693 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa flying Zimbabwean flag high
Although Zimbabwe is in the economic doldrums, a few distinguished and enterprising citizens continue to make waves on the continent in the world of business, and management.These feted Zimbab...Published: 08 Feb 2015 at 15:35hrs | 3199 | by Staff reporter
US Judge denies mistrial of Mugabe's lobbyist
Lawyers for a South Side activist accused of illegally lobbying on behalf of the oppressive regime in Zimbabwe asked for a mistrial today after a federal judge dismissed one of the only African Americ...Published: 08 Oct 2014 at 08:20hrs | | by Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune
Mugabe ready to testify in US court
LAWYERS for a Chicago man charged with illegally lobbying US officials on behalf of President Robert Mugabe told a federal judge Wednesday that the Zimbabwean leader has indicated he's willing to sit ...Published: 17 Sep 2014 at 22:09hrs | | by Chicago Tribune
World Cup stars donate their winning bonuses
The World Cup may be over for Germany and Argentina, but players on both teams are putting their cash winnings to good use by donating them to worthy causes.According to the UK-based Expre...Published: 17 Jul 2014 at 08:45hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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