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Tough times for Matebeleland learners
Matebeleland North Senator Rebecca Fanuel has expressed growing concern about the safety of students in rural areas, particularly in Binga, where learners are at risk of being struck by lightning or f...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 09:49hrs | 177 | by Staff reporter
Strong winds leave families stranded in Matopo
Strong winds struck several wards in Umzingwane District on Sunday, leaving a trail of destruction and rendering many villagers homeless. The worst-hit areas were wards 1, 2, 9, and 20, with the villa...Published: 08 Nov 2024 at 07:04hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
As Zimbabwe's rail system collapses, vice thrives in the trains left behind
INSIDE the abandoned trains of Zimbabwe's once-proud railway system, sex workers try to catch the attention of passing men, while drug dealers sell codeine-laced cough syrup and homeless families sear...Published: 01 Sep 2024 at 10:22hrs | 413 | by Staff reporter
More than 100 street children roam Bulawayo
Bulawayo is experiencing a troubling rise in the number of children leaving their homes to live and work on the streets, often turning to illegal activities such as drug and substance abuse. Over 100 ...Published: 25 Jul 2024 at 07:40hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
Uninterrupted power supply for hospitals, clinics in Zimbabwe
Hospitals and clinics in Zimbabwe are set to be exempted from load shedding as the government plans to install solar power systems to ensure continuous power supply. This move aims to address the issu...Published: 21 Jul 2024 at 10:24hrs | 806 | by Staff reporter
Long-distance buses dessert Entumbane rank
Vendors at the Entumbane bus terminus in Bulawayo are experiencing a significant decline in business as many long-distance buses have shifted to other loading points. Pre...Published: 11 Jun 2024 at 06:19hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo landlords renting out verandas and toilets raises concerns
In Old Lobengula, Bulawayo, reports indicate that some property owners are resorting to renting out their verandas and toilets to desperate individuals seeking housing, raising concerns about the pote...Published: 21 Feb 2024 at 09:23hrs | 4 | by Stephen Jakes
Harare families evacuated from flooded areas
More than 100 families have been relocated to temporary shelters due to flash floods displacing residents in the Budiriro and Kuwadzana suburbs of Harare.Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume has urged th...Published: 30 Dec 2023 at 08:31hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean living in Israel says situation scary as defense forces, Hamas skirmishes intensify
A Zimbabwean resident in Tel Aviv described the tense situation in Israel as the country faces ongoing skirmishes with Hamas militants. The conflict has resulted in over 1,000 casualties, with 700 Isr...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 06:13hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
War vets tell Mnangagwa to improve their welfare
VETERANS of Zimbabwe's 1970s liberation struggle have called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to improve their welfare by addressing the socio-economic challenges currently facing the country.M...Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo named dogs after Ian Smith and his wife
WHAT Ian Smith and his Rhodesian Government had not anticipated was the resilience of the country's nationalists.They remained courageous and refused to regard the hardships and strenuous chal...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Absconding teachers contributing to poor pass rate in Lupane
Local government and public works Minister, July Moyo, has said that absconding teachers are a major source of poor examination results and has urged the Lupane community to report those who do not re...Published: 28 Feb 2023 at 09:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans danced when Mugabe fell, now life is worse than ever
For Jasmine Toffa, the hardest moment of her life was not being beaten black and blue by regime thugs. It came when the Zimbabwean MP appeared in parliament after surgery, broken hands in plaster, and...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:15hrs | 9 | by Christina Lamb for The Sunday Times (UK)
Black students in Ukraine subjected to racism
I was awakened by a loud sound. I looked out through the window from my 18th floor room and saw thick black smoke coming up I could not see where was it coming from. I then heard people screaming and ...Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 08:12hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Africans treated like animals in Ukraine'
Barlaney Mufaro Gurure, a space engineering student from Zimbabwe, had finally reached the front of a nine-hour queue at Ukraine's western border crossing of Krakovets after an exhausting four-day tri...Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 11:39hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe shelters 20 000 refugees, asylum seekers
ZIMBABWE is home to over 20 000 refugees and asylum seekers, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) revealed yesterday.In a statement, UNHCR ...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 05:43hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Good Samaritan brings home 15 stranded Zimbabweans
A ZIMBABWEAN woman based in South Africa has assisted 15 locals who had become destitute in the neighbouring country by facilitating their return home.Nobuhle Virginia Ajiti from Sizinda, Bula...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:39hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Private firms to repair Bulawayo bus shelters
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has begun scouting for companies interested in repairing and maintaining the city's bus stops in order to protect the commuting public from harsh weather conditions....Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Detractors will never break the spirit of Zimbabweans, says Mnangagwa
Detractors will never break the spirit of Zimbabweans, as the Second Republic continues on its journey to build the economy through provision of transport services and other infrastructural developmen...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo to spruce up bus stop shelters
THE Bulawayo City Council is seeking to revamp, and put up new bus stop shelters in the city amid concerns about vandalism of similar structures installed by Zupco.Council's town planning depa...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:49hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Smelly Dube rehabilitates roads
A GWERU land developer, River Valley Properties, is complementing council efforts in the rehabilitation of roads and drainage in a bid to minimise the effects of flash floods that usually hit the city...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:22hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwewide construction, upgrade of bus terminuses
Shelters at bus terminuses countrywide will be repaired, replaced or installed before the next rains as part of a Government programme to upgrade urban public transport President Mnangagwa announced y...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:16hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Songs that liberated the country
The song Kubuhlungu Emoyeni (There is pain in my heart) by LMG choir evokes emotions of the liberation struggle and one of the singers, Happiness Sibanda, breaks into tears each time she explains the ...Published: 17 Aug 2021 at 07:15hrs | | by Bongani Ndlovu
Shamwari Yemwanasikana launch campaign against early child marriages
In a bid to curb vulnerability of girls in Zimbabwe, Shamwari yemwanasikana launched awareness campaigns against early child marriages that have been worsened by the Covid 19 pandemic.In an in...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 20:21hrs | 3 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
110 pregnant women catch Covid-19
MORE than 100 pregnant women have been quarantined in Matabeleland North after they tested positive for Covid-19. Matabeleland North Provincial Medical Director Dr Munekai Padingani confirmed that 110...Published: 29 Jul 2021 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans living in SA's Musina's streets finding it tough
BETWEEN the N1 and the Musina Refugee Reception office is an open space dotted with trees. One of these is a small baobab. This is home for Dickson Bwititi. He sleeps here on blankets.Bwititi,...Published: 03 Jul 2021 at 10:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Murambatsvina is back at MDC led councils
Hundreds of informal traders who had built shacks and shelters on road verges and the sides of the roads in Harare Metropolitan province had their structures demolished yesterday after they failed to ...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Local Govt to align laws with Constitution
THE Local Government ministry has said it will this year align the majority of its laws with the Constitution as part of efforts to complement the National Development Strategy 1 and stimulate develop...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 17:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe lobbies for cushion fund for teenage mothers
MDC-T legislator Dr Thokozani Khuphe has lobbied the government to assist young girls who fell pregnant during the course of the Covid-19 induced national lockdown period in order to enable them to su...Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 18:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
15 base stations to increase coverage
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ), is spearheading the construction of 15 base stations in rural areas to enhance connectivity and access to e-learning facili...Published: 10 Mar 2021 at 05:46hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Wetland evictees to stay in tents'
GOVERNMENT says it is planning to house people who were settled on wetlands and illegal settlements in temporary shelters pending proper relocation. Housing and Social Amenities minister Daniel Garwe ...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Betting shops gamble with lockdown restrictions
Licensed betting house Moors World of Sport (MWOS) continues to operate some of its branches across the country in theory as internet operations but in practice having staff continually going into the...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 07:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Councils exposed by recent heavy rains
This cropping season's heavy rains have exposed the shortcomings of most local authorities that have been allocating home seekers stands in wetlands. Some of the culprits are land barons that ...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gweru revises water rationing
THE City of Gweru has said it will revisit its tight water-rationing regime following the delivery of three high lift pumps from South Africa which are expected to increase water supplies.In a...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Shelters in Limpopo overwhelmed by stranded Zimbabweans
Shelters for displaced foreign nationals in and around Musina, Limpopo, say they are overwhelmed with requests to take in stranded Zimbabweans.The Beitbridge Border Post has experienced heavy ...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 07:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Weakened Chalane lashes Zimbabwe
Tropical Depression Chalane moved into Zimbabwe early yesterday and is now moving across the country towards Botswana, losing strength as it downgrades from a tropical storm to a tropical depression. ...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 10:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Weakened Chalane hits Zimbabwe
Tropical Depression Chalane moved into Zimbabwe early yesterday and is now moving across the country towards Botswana, losing strength as it downgrades from a tropical storm to a tropical depression....Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 07:58hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
Fighting HIV and AIDS in times of COVID-19
The World AIDS Day is marked every on 1st December every year to raise awareness about the disease. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is the UN entity tasked with fighting HIV in...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 17:37hrs | | by Zipporah Musau
Council lies on bus terminuses exposed
Harare City Council has been exposed for what now appears to be empty talk on sprucing up bus terminuses across the city, leaving passengers exposed to rains and scorching heat due to lack of shelter....Published: 07 Dec 2020 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
More families evicted from Cyrene Farm
THE Messenger of Court, assisted by the police last week evicted 12 families from Cyrene Farm in Figtree which is owned by the Anglican Province of Central Africa Church in the Diocese of Matabeleland...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:52hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Govt steps up kombi seizures
Government has warned private kombis which are not under the Zimbabwe United Passengers Company (ZUPCO) service that they risk having their vehicles seized if they operate outside the state transport ...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 06:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
A country in 'crisis' cannot guarantee access to land
The term "crisis" is the latest buzzword in Zimbabwe meriting the attention of scholarly researches to establish if it is being used in the proper context. Opposition political parties are in overdriv...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 06:52hrs | | by Pardon Muzavazi
Botswana: A base for future US military control of Southern Africa
The Zimbabwe Communist Party is seriously concerned about the continuing links between the Botswana Defence Force (BDF) and Africa Command (AFRICOM) of the United States Army.We were alerted b...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 20:05hrs | 49 | by Zimbabwe Communist Party
Pregnant pupils divide Parliament
Parliament was left divided on Wednesday over a clause in the Education Amendment Bill which bans the expulsion of girls who fall pregnant while in school. Primary and Secondary Education Mini...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 09:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Use of bicycles and decongestion of the CBD
Recently the new Minister of Energy suggested that the use of bicycles could alleviate the fuel shortage in the country. But the fact is that the use of bicycles is another venture of going-back-to-th...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 09:22hrs | | by Eng Bernard Musarurwa
Dabengwa: A hero who rejected 'our time to eat'
APART from his phenomenal liberation struggle exploits and heroics that earned him the nickname "Black Russian" and his principled politics, former Zipra intelligence supremo Dumiso Dabengwa, who died...Published: 31 May 2019 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
The scourge of greedy political businesspeople
Zimbabweans are on tenterhooks as unscrupulous businesspeople pursuant to aiding and abetting the ambitions of some political losers who are seeking to blackmail government into a political union of s...Published: 30 May 2019 at 15:34hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Cyclone Kenneth cannot be avoided but can be prepared for
Southern Africa has been ravaged by a wave of cyclones at a proportion never experienced before. preparing for a cyclone can start before there is an immediate threat.The aftermath of Cyclone Idai wer...Published: 25 Apr 2019 at 00:51hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zapu cranks up pressure on Mnangagwa
Scores of veterans of the liberation struggle who fought on the side of the Zipra - the military wing of-PF Zapu- yesterday converged in Bulawayo to explore ways of recovering their party's property w...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sanctions the ultimate disaster
On Wednesday March 20, The Washington Post published an article written by Tatenda Chitagu, Paul Schemm and Siobhan O. Grady entitled; "It was too late . . . Hundreds are dead as rescue efforts stall ...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 23:34hrs | | by Obi Egbuna Jnr Simunye
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