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Hawks arrest man with explosives in his luggage at South Africa-Zimbabwe border
A 53-year-old foreign national is expected to appear in the Musina Magistrate's Court in connection with alleged possession of explosives.The Directorate for Priority Crimes Investigation (kno...Published: 17 hrs ago | 444 | by Staff reporter
Unpaid fees threaten food aid distribution
Transport operators engaged by the Zimbabwean government to distribute food aid across the country have raised serious concerns over unpaid fees, threatening the continuation of this crucial relief ef...Published: 17 hrs ago | 133 | by Staff reporter
Teachers cut off as Chiredzi schools are marooned
As schools reopened last week on Tuesday, excitement and anticipation filled the air for students eager to begin the new term. However, for many schools in Chiredzi South Constituency, Masvingo provin...Published: 17 hrs ago | 162 | by Staff reporter
Headmaster arrested for corruptly awarding US$155,000 tender
Vuti High School headmaster, Brain Chigudu, has been arrested and appeared in court for allegedly corruptly awarding a tender for the procurement of a 56-seater bus to Quest Motors Corporation....Published: 17 hrs ago | 228 | by Staff reporter
Man swept away while crossing flooded Umguza river in Bulawayo
A tragic incident in Bulawayo claimed the life of 30-year-old Richard Sibanda from Killarney Squatter Camp, who drowned while attempting to cross a flooded river near his home.According to Act...Published: 17 hrs ago | 188 | by Staff reporter
Highlanders finalize nomination process
Highlanders Football Club returning officer Peter Dube has announced that three candidates have successfully been nominated to vie for the positions of vice chairman and treasurer in the upcoming club...Published: 17 hrs ago | 64 | by Staff reporter
45 years of Zanu PF misrule have been 'season of darkness' and even darker years ahead if 2028 elections are postpone
Zimbabwe is one of the world's suppliers of cheap labour and our contribution is not always appreciated.I was talking to a Zimbabwean Doctor who has worked in SA. His pay and working condition...Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 22:16hrs | 541 | by Wilbert Mukori
Police recover stolen Boer goats
Police in Mashonaland East have launched a manhunt for a suspect who stole nine Boer goats from a farm in Beatrice on Sunday. The suspect reportedly gained entry to the farm by cutting through the sec...Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 19:32hrs | 1440 | by Staff reporter
R14 million Zimbabwe cigarettes intercepted at SA border
South African authorities have apprehended a 44-year-old migrant at the Beitbridge border post after intercepting a consignment of illicit Remington Gold cigarettes valued at an estimated R14 million....Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 19:31hrs | 747 | by Staff reporter
Siziba, Chenhamo to be buried at National Heroes' acre
Major General (Retired) Solomon Siziba and Chenhamo "Chen" Chakezha Chimutengwende, who both passed away last week, will be laid to rest at the National Heroes' Acre in Harare on Wednesday, January 22...Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 14:19hrs | 580 | by Staff reporter
Cracks in Insiza dam raise alarm among villagers
Villagers from Singwambizi in Insiza District, under Chief Mafu, have expressed safety concerns regarding their local dam, which is spilling water due to a crack in the dam wall.The community ...Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 10:26hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
'Migration to South Africa is nothing new,' says Zimbabwean ambassador
Zimbabwe's Ambassador to South Africa, David Hamadziripi, has described the migration of Zimbabweans to South Africa as part of a broader, global phenomenon.He emphasised that migration is nei...Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 10:25hrs | 201 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lifts ban on cloven-hoofed animal imports from South Africa
The Red Meat Producers' Organisation (RPO) and Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa (Agbiz) have welcomed Zimbabwe's recent move to lift the ban on the importation of cloven-hoofed animals an...Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 10:23hrs | 200 | by Staff reporter
Warriors midfielder Kundai Benyu joins CAPS United in surprising move
Zimbabwe senior men's soccer team, Warriors midfielder Kundai Benyu, has made a surprising move to join Castle Lager Premier Soccer League (PSL) giants CAPS United.Benyu arrived in the country...Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 10:20hrs | 143 | by Staff reporter
Chenhamo Chimutengwende remembered for alleged election violence
ZANU-PF nationalist and former Cabinet minister Chenhamo Chimutengwende, who passed away last week at the age of 81, has been remembered for his controversial involvement in orchestrating violence dur...Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 10:18hrs | 276 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland South farmers return to fields
Farmers in Matabeleland South province have taken advantage of above-average rains to cultivate 80% of the arable land in the region, following a severe drought that had devastating effects on livesto...Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 10:14hrs | 102 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo fire brigade responds to devastating rains and strong winds
The Bulawayo Fire Brigade has assured residents that they were prepared for the recent heavy rains and strong winds that caused significant damage to properties across the city.Bulawayo City C...Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 10:12hrs | 74 | by Staff reporter
Hit and run cases irks police
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has issued a stern warning to motorists to exercise caution on the roads amid a worrying rise in hit-and-run accidents, particularly during the night.In a st...Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 10:11hrs | 91 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents cry foul over ablution crisis
Residents of Iminyela in Bulawayo's Ward 13 have expressed frustration over the Bulawayo City Council's (BCC) failure to complete the construction of toilets, a project that began over a decade ago, a...Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 10:11hrs | 217 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa: 'We refused to be lured by trappings of power' - Why did you fail to implement even one token reform in 25 years?
The people of Zimbabwe have risked livelihoods, limbs and even their lives (over 500 were murdered by Zanu PF during the 2008 presidential run-off alone) to elect MDC/CCC leaders not power on the unde...Published: 19 Jan 2025 at 19:57hrs | 771 | by Wilbert Mukori
Ncube and Chamisa are one coin with two sides: Gugugu Magorira
Please do not play with our intelligence. Welshman Ncube is the worst politician we can think of today. Ncube is part of the problem too, just like Chamisa. Professor Mandaza told Chamisa to come clea...Published: 19 Jan 2025 at 19:50hrs | 656 | by Nomazulu Thata
Who shall tame the wayward youths?
Teenage delinquency has descended on rural business centers and high school institutions, creating a situation as alarming as it is frightening. Drug snorting, "apprentice" harlotry, and general resis...Published: 18 Jan 2025 at 11:17hrs | 175 | by Tondo Thomas Murisa
Zimbabweans brave flooded perilous Limpopo river
Desperate times continue to drive Zimbabweans into life-threatening risks as they attempt to escape the country's prolonged political, economic, and social crisis. Many are risking their lives crossin...Published: 18 Jan 2025 at 06:46hrs | 742 | by Staff reportetr
Zimbabwe's tobacco export earnings reach US$1.3 billion in 2024
Zimbabwe's tobacco export earnings reached US$1.3 billion in 2024, a notable increase from US$1.23 billion in 2023, marking the second consecutive year that earnings have surpassed the US$1 billion ma...Published: 16 Jan 2025 at 07:12hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo left to count the cost
Torrential rains accompanied by strong winds wreaked havoc in Bulawayo on Tuesday afternoon, leaving scores of families homeless as roofs were ripped off homes, schools, and a church. The storm, which...Published: 16 Jan 2025 at 07:06hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter
15 dead as heavy rains ravage Zimbabwe
At least 15 people have died, and 785 households have been affected across Zimbabwe as relentless rains continue to wreak havoc in many parts of the country. The devastation, recorded since September ...Published: 16 Jan 2025 at 06:57hrs | 943 | by Staff reporter
Innocent Mpoki, Zimbabweans do not deserve academic insults
Whoever read your today's article on Bulawayo24 is wondering on what planet you live on. I realized you live in USA: The hardships Zimbabwean are going through in that hellhole in Zimbabwe, you have n...Published: 15 Jan 2025 at 21:23hrs | 916 | by Nomazulu Thata
The dangers of colonial nostalgia and Amnesia
The legacy of colonialism remains a stain on our society - something that cannot be whitewashed. It remains a source of trauma - a source of collective pain. Four decades after independence, its...Published: 15 Jan 2025 at 11:21hrs | 425 | by Innocent Mpoki
ARTUZ boycott schools opening..plan mass protests, extra lessons
Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) has called upon its membership to further boycott schools opening, announce (plans for) mass protests and embark on extra lessons to force governme...Published: 15 Jan 2025 at 08:14hrs | 1010 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
'Ncube's term expired, my suspensions authority resides elsewhere,' Tshabangu
Citizens Coalition for Change faction led by Sengezo Tshabangu has claimed that according to their constitution, Welshman Ncube's term of office as either substantive or acting President expired and o...Published: 15 Jan 2025 at 08:13hrs | 2735 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
SA in record-high grain exports to Zimbabwe
The Port of Durban is currently receiving a shipment of imported white maize, marking the first import of the grain since March 2017 when South Africa was grappling with a severe drought.The A...Published: 15 Jan 2025 at 06:44hrs | 651 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo sewer ponds condemned
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has reported a worsening sewage crisis, with all sewage ponds in the city having collapsed, resulting in a surge in pipe bursts."We have got a major problem with se...Published: 15 Jan 2025 at 06:39hrs | 167 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya fights O' Level demand
Polygamous man, wives arrested for unlawful entryA 33-year-old man and his two wives have been arrested in Rusape over a series of alleged unlawful entry incidents.Manicaland provincial po...Published: 15 Jan 2025 at 06:39hrs | 544 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland dams spill
Several dams in Matebeleland South province, including Zhovhe Dam, Silalabuhwa Dam, and Tuli Makwe, have started spilling, providing much-needed relief to farmers who had endured a challenging year du...Published: 15 Jan 2025 at 06:36hrs | 1013 | by Staff reporter
Professor Gandiwa appointed new ZimParks boss
The Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) has ushered in a new era with the appointment of Professor Edson Gandiwa as its new director-general. He replaces Dr. Fulton Mangwanya, ...Published: 15 Jan 2025 at 05:49hrs | 379 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe maintains 6% economic growth target
Finance, Economic Development and Investment Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube has reaffirmed Zimbabwe's 6% economic growth projection for 2024, despite the country facing late rains this agricultural s...Published: 15 Jan 2025 at 05:48hrs | 104 | by Staff reporter
'There is no friction between Zanu PF and CCC!' boasted Mnangagwa
In Zimbabwe there is no friction between Zanu PF and the opposition party!" Mnangagwa boasted at the festive party held at his Kwe kwe farm to celebrate that Zanu PF and CCC opposition MPs had agreed ...Published: 14 Jan 2025 at 22:27hrs | 298 | by Wilbert Mukori
Open Letter to Mr Songezo Tshabangu
Sir good morning and Compliments of the new season. We hope you had a wonderful year, 2024, and you will also have a great year ahead 2025.We hope that you have counted and identified ...Published: 14 Jan 2025 at 12:56hrs | 520 | by Cosmas Ncube
Boy drowns in Tsholotsho
An eight-year-old boy from Nhlangano Village, Tsholotsho District, in Matabeleland North Province, tragically drowned while attempting to cross a flooded Godzo Stream near the Jahe area.The in...Published: 13 Jan 2025 at 17:34hrs | 962 | by Staff reporter
So the opposition in Zimbabwe is effectively dead!
It was such a heartbreaking moment. In fact, it was not only arguably the darkest day in Zimbabwean history but an undeniable sign that democracy in Zimbabwe was finally dead.This real...Published: 13 Jan 2025 at 14:00hrs | 957 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chivayo proves that the love of money is the root of all evil
The pursuit of wealth and material possessions has long been a source of fascination, aspiration, and, indeed, controversy throughout human history. The Bible succinctly captures this paradoxi...Published: 13 Jan 2025 at 13:32hrs | 1472 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Migrants, army face-off along South Africa-Zimbabwe border
EVERYDAY, Fadzai Musindo walks across the border between Zimbabwe and South Africa - sometimes via the official border post but usually by taking the more dangerous informal route.Streams of m...Published: 13 Jan 2025 at 07:25hrs | 1304 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu suffers setback as CCC MPs boycott Mnangagwa farm tour
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim secretary-general Sengezo Tshabangu suffered a significant setback yesterday after most of the party's lawmakers snubbed his call to tour President Emmerson...Published: 13 Jan 2025 at 07:20hrs | 2646 | by Staff reporter
Gata pushes for anti-bullying laws in schools
Mutema-Musikavanhu legislator Angeline Gata has raised serious concerns over the rising incidents of bullying in schools within her constituency. This follows ongoing research being conducted in colla...Published: 13 Jan 2025 at 07:20hrs | 293 | by Staff reporter
Chinese ambassador pledges more support to Zimbabwe
Creative presentations of modern and traditional Chinese and Zimbabwean music theatrical performances reverberated at the University of Zimbabwe's Beit Hall on Saturday, marking the celebration of the...Published: 13 Jan 2025 at 07:19hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's name-dropping extortion trial date set
The trial of a five-man gang accused of impersonating military intelligence and police officials to extort money from mining firms in Matabeleland has been set for January 23.The accused - Mun...Published: 13 Jan 2025 at 07:19hrs | 424 | by Staff reporter
Collapsed Majazi bridge sparks concerns in Bulilima District
The collapse of Majazi Bridge along the Plumtree-Bambadzi Road has sparked significant concern among residents and authorities. The bridge, located in Hingwe ward, is now completely impassable and det...Published: 13 Jan 2025 at 07:16hrs | 259 | by Staff reporter
Kariba Dam water level rises slightly
The Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) has reported a steady rise in water levels at Kariba Dam, reaching 475.87 metres as of January 6, reflecting a 2.61% improvement in usable storage capacity for power ...Published: 13 Jan 2025 at 07:11hrs | 1843 | by Staff reporter
China's meddling in Zimbabwe's internal politics unwelcome and against international law
China's actions in Zimbabwe are becoming increasingly disturbing, with its flagrant interference in the country's internal political affairs going beyond what is acceptable under international law. ...Published: 12 Jan 2025 at 23:11hrs | 575 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chinese Foreign Minister to visit Zimbabwe
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi's current visit to Africa is a demonstration of the strong and deep-rooted bond between China and Africa, a Zimbabwean expert said Wednesday.Munetsi Madakufamb...Published: 12 Jan 2025 at 17:35hrs | 392 | by Staff reporter
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