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Uber driver recounts near-death experiences
BRIAN Moyo (not real name) remembers the night when a gang of four men hijacked him, tied him up,and drove around on the streets of Johannesburg in South Africa while still deciding whether to kill hi...Published: 18 Aug 2024 at 12:19hrs | 249 | by Staff reporter
4 Zimbabweans jailed 65 years in SA
Four Zimbabwean nationals and one Mozambican have each been sentenced to 65 years in prison by the Polokwane High Court in South Africa for a series of violent crimes, including murder, robbery, attem...Published: 22 Jun 2024 at 11:42hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe poised for record platinum haul
THE World Platinum Investment Council (WPIC) says Zimbabwe is on track to ramping up output of the white metal to an all-time high of 502 kilo ounces (koz) following massive investment by one of the c...Published: 02 Dec 2023 at 14:37hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo police target briefcase companies
POLICE in Bulawayo have launched a campaign to encourage businesses to operate within the law by registering their enterprises after noting that many people are being swindled by briefcase companies....Published: 22 Sep 2022 at 05:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF has run short of ideas
ZUPCO and the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) collaboration is another command transport system that will further cripple the already ailing public transport system.Transport, Communicatio...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 16:22hrs | | by Fanuel Chinowaita
'NRZ machines, equipment belong to the scrapyard'
TRANSPORT and Infrastructural Development Minister Felix Mhona has expressed dissatisfaction with the state of affairs at the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) and challenged the parastatal's board ...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fred Shava's criminal past clouds future
NEWLY-appointed Zimbabwean Foreign Affairs and International Trade minister Frederick Shava, who has an unsavoury dark and criminal past, has his work cut out for him.Shava replaced retired Lieute...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:53hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance nomination process exposes party's lack of democracy
THE forthcoming opposition Movement for Democratic Change Alliance congress set for 24-26 May is fast turning into a farce following the withdrawal of secretary general Mr Douglas Mwonzora from the pr...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 07:02hrs | | by Editorial - chronicle
Raw sewage in streets of Harare
Raw sewage flows freely in some streets of Zimbabwe's capital, posing a deadly challenge to the recently elected president who has promised the troubled country a new dawn.A cholera outbreak h...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 12:28hrs | | by AFP
Boeing demands $2,7m for Mugabe Airways plane manuals
AMERICAN aircraft manufacturer Boeing is demanding $2,7 million from the government in order to supply manuals for four Boeing 777 jetliners which Harare is controversially acquiring from Malaysia on ...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 16:28hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Bulawayo's unmployment levels alarming, Zanu PF
Zanu PF Bulawayo Province chairman Dennis ...Published: 12 Dec 2016 at 06:29hrs | 63 | by Alice Dube
Five things to restore the City of Kings
Once Zimbabwe's economic hub, the city of Bulawayo today lies in an eyesore state, with most of its industries closed and its buildings left to decay or turned into Pentecostal churches. However, it i...Published: 22 Jul 2016 at 12:52hrs | | by Bulawayo Resident
Bulawayo is a dead City
Bulawayo is a dead city and teachers are increasingly turned into panning for survival, Mines minister Walter Chidhakwa has declared.Speaking at the ongoing MineEntra Expo in Bulawayo, Chidhak...Published: 21 Jul 2016 at 13:00hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Police sieze cars and cables
CABLES stolen from traffic lights were seized in raids on illegal Jozi scrapyards yesterday.Daily Sun reported that Joburg Metro Police, emergency services and the SAPS swooped in a joint oper...Published: 18 Feb 2016 at 14:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Stolen Underpants curse!
RICHARD believes he has been cursed by his own dirty underpants."Since my dirty underwear got stolen in 2008 I have been condemned to a life of misery and poverty," said Richard Dlamini (57) f...Published: 04 Sep 2015 at 09:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cowdray Park resembles a rural area, says Zanu-PF MP
LUVEVE MP Ntandoyenkosi Mlilo (Zanu PF) has said Cowdray Park resembles a rural set-up and needs modernisation due to lack of necessary amenities such as toilets, electricity and clinics among ot...Published: 07 Aug 2015 at 13:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Big wigs suck Zimbabwe banks dry
The majority of banks that folded over the past five months choked on souring loans extended to top executives and serial debtors, The Sunday Mail reported.AfrAsia is the latest victim of toxi...Published: 22 Mar 2015 at 07:09hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
SA girls' 'satanic' killing
Johannesburg - Two schoolgirls who were on Wednesday found dead in Dobsonville, Soweto, after an alleged Satanism-related killings were inseparable.Three black candles and razor blades were f...Published: 21 Feb 2014 at 06:24hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo industries won't re-open, says Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF House of Assembly representative for Kwekwe constituency Masango Matambanadzo has vowed that no single closed factory in Bulawayo will re-open as they are owned by whites.Contrib...Published: 27 Jan 2014 at 15:15hrs | | by zimbabwefocus
CAAZ markets Joshua Nkomo Airport
THE Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (Caaz) has said it is working with the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) to market multi-million dollar Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport on the outsk...Published: 13 Dec 2013 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Influx of SA imports stifling Bulawayo industries
Bulawayo industrialists have cried foul over Zimbabwe's over reliance on imports, arguing that uncontrolled imports, arguing that uncontrolled imports are driving the industry into deeper recession. ...Published: 06 Dec 2013 at 07:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zambezi water for Bulawayo by 2018'
THE 2018 completion of the much-talked about but stalled National Matabeleland Zambezi Water Project to end Bulawayo and the region's water woes is among the major highlights of the ambitious list of ...Published: 22 Nov 2013 at 05:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
AAG to petition President Mugabe over Bulawayo's deindustrialisation
THE AFFIRMATIVE Action Group (AAG) says it will petition President Robert Mugabe in a fortnight over a plethora of challenges besetting local businesses, particularly Bulawayo's deindustrialisation....Published: 18 Oct 2013 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe clarifies the controversial indigenisation policy
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe yesterday sought to clarify the controversial indigenisation policy - which has destabilised the economy and divided his officials - saying while the 51/49% equity model Zanu-...Published: 23 Aug 2013 at 09:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Bulawayo a scrapyard,' says Mugabe
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe yesterday said Bulawayo's industrial base had shrunk to scrapyard level and said the water crisis bedevilling the city should be addressed.Speaking during his seventh ...Published: 23 Aug 2013 at 03:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
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