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Community pushes for official recognition of Tji Zhawunda
The community of Gwanda District in Matabeleland South Province is taking steps to have Tji Zhawunda officially recognised as one of Zimbabwe's national languages.Tji Zhawunda is spoken in par...Published: 13 Aug 2025 at 12:22hrs | 156 | by Staff reporter
Chief Marupi burial deferred to Wednesday
Chief Marupi of Gwanda District, who passed away last Sunday, will now be laid to rest on Wednesday at his rural home in Mbuzimbili Village, Selonga area. Originally scheduled for burial today, the ar...Published: 28 Oct 2024 at 07:00hrs | 391 | by Staff reporter
Chief Marupi to be laid to rest on Sunday
Gwanda District's youthful Chief Marupi, who passed away after a brief illness, will be laid to rest this Sunday at his rural home in the Mbuzimbili area of Matabeleland South. Chief Marupi, born Oahe...Published: 25 Oct 2024 at 08:45hrs | 223 | by Staff reporter
Selonga High gets donation
Gwanda - Selonga high, a school in Matebeleland South, has received a donation of books from it's former students. The donation was handed over on 27/10/2021 by Mr Morgan Mavuna Moyo who is one ...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 14:28hrs | 193 | by Dalubuhle Beauty Ndlovu
Police clears Gwanda MRP rallies
Police in Gwanda have cleared the MRP road shows and rallies to be held from the 10th to 12th of January 2018.MRP - Organising secretary Mat south Province Ngqabutho Mpofu said the campaign pr...Published: 10 Jan 2018 at 06:42hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Abalobi Bakithi Sebebuye Bagadla Njalo
8 kuLwezi 2016 Salibonani. Inhlanganiso esungulwe ngoMabasa ka-2013, Abalobi Bakithi izakhipha ugwalo lwesitshiyaga...Published: 10 Nov 2016 at 11:24hrs | 18 | by M. Vodloza
Bicycle thief blames starvation
A MAN from Gwanda has been jailed for four months for stealing a bicycle and an electric stove after breaking into another villager's homestead.Mlungisi Sibanda (27) of Selonga village appeare...Published: 11 Aug 2016 at 07:43hrs | 1 | by Richard Muponde
LMG founder buried
REVOLUTIONARY music group Light Machine Gun (LMG Choir) founder Give Nare was buried on Saturday at his rural home in Buvuma, Gwanda South. Nare, 79, who had four children, died last Wednesday at Gwan...Published: 26 Apr 2016 at 06:53hrs | 1 | by Bongani Ndlovu
Woman spends 14 hours in labour, dies
MATABELELAND South provincial medical director, Dr Brian Abel Maponga, has dispatched a team to Manama Mission Hospital to investigate claims that a pregnant woman, 26, died in labour at the instituti...Published: 10 Nov 2015 at 05:16hrs | 1 | by Marvelous Moyo
Drama as chief flees from vengeful villager
A chief from Matabeleland South who is famous for whipping his subjects, got a taste of his own medicine when he had to flee for life after a villager retaliated and assaulted him.Villagers ga...Published: 05 Mar 2015 at 21:07hrs | 7 | by Staff Reporter
Man stabs ill wife over food
A 58-YEAR-OLD Gwanda man will perform 105 hours of community service for stabbing his ill wife with an okapi knife on the hand for failing to prepare him a meal. Gift Ndlovu of Selonga area pleaded g...Published: 15 Feb 2015 at 07:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Prophet' nails stock thief
A GWANDA man has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for stealing 11 head of cattle.Reason Ncube, 33, of Shanyaugwe area, had pleaded not guilty to stock theft charges but was convicted and sen...Published: 29 Jul 2014 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Marvelous Moyo
Herdman jailed for stabbing fellow villager
A Gwanda herdman from Guyu, Livias Dube, 23, has sentenced to 36 months in prison for stabbing a fellow villager following a misunderstanding.Dube of Selonga area in Guyu was convicted on his...Published: 16 Jan 2014 at 04:39hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
HIV+ adult patients given children's medication
THE shortage of cotrimoxazole at the country's public hospitals has forced some health, centres in Gwanda District to issue children's drugs to the HIV positive adults.Some health centres in G...Published: 29 Apr 2013 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Luveve High School reach Copa Coca-Cola finals
Luveve High School will represent Bulawayo in the Copa Coca-Cola Under-20 football finals while Dzivarasekwa stunned Churchill in the Harare provincial finals to book a place in the Victoria Falls ext...Published: 14 Jul 2012 at 18:54hrs | 4 | by Sports Reporters
Woman ripped open her 11-day-old baby with a kitchen knife
A Gwanda women committed suicide by throwing herself into a flooded Dam. This was after she had gruesomely ripped open her 11 day old baby with a kitchen knife.The Gwanda ZRP (Police) co...Published: 24 Dec 2010 at 04:39hrs | 2 | by Byo24
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