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Accident victims named
Police have identified the five victims of a fatal road accident that occurred last Thursday night at the 106 km peg along the Karoi-Binga Road. The accident involved a Nissan UD truck carrying 38 pas...Published: 01 Jul 2024 at 03:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Social media comes to cop's rescue
A POLICEMAN who was facing imminent forced retirement for requesting to be transferred to Kadoma to look after his disabled child has been granted his will after Zimbabweans took to social media to fi...Published: 16 Apr 2024 at 07:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo fails to utilise Zinara funds
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) failed to utilise $2,3 billion in road rehabilitation funds from the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) yet the local authority is struggling to repair the city...Published: 01 Mar 2024 at 19:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
3 people killed in Harare-Chirundu accident identified
THREE people who died when a Nissan Caravan vehicle veered off the road and overturned before landing on its wheels on 28 December have been identified by their next of kin.The incident occurr...Published: 30 Dec 2023 at 08:16hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's electoral system water-tight to rig'?
Zanu-PF does not rig elections as claimed by opposition parties, due to water-tight electoral systems, but wins resoundingly on the strength of its popular support as evidenced by strong attendance at...Published: 09 Aug 2023 at 08:07hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa heads to Magunje for star rally
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa today heads to Mashonaland West for a star rally in the province that has in the past five years benefited immensely from the Second Republic-initiated programmes and projects....Published: 08 Jul 2023 at 08:22hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on alert for measles outbreak
Cabinet received an update on the Country‘s Response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and a report on the procurement and roll-out of vaccines, as presented by the Chairman of the National Covid-19 Inter-M...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiefs blast Zanu-PF govt for lack of infrastructure development in Kariba
TRADITIONAL leaders from Kariba's Nyaminyami Rural District have berated President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration for failing to push infrastructural development in the area.After 42 year...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cops resist 'punishing' transfers to rural outposts
AT least nine junior police officers have gone AWOL after resisting transfers to rural outposts.Confidential documents seen by NewZimbabwe.com indicate that the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) ...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
BaTonga cultural village for Kariba
NYAMINYAMI Rural District Council chief executive Cletus Matingwina says the local authority was working towards reviving the arts and culture industry in the district by opening a Tonga Cultural Vill...Published: 07 Mar 2022 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
$30bn for DDF roads rehab
GOVERNMENT has set its sights on accelerating infrastructure projects, including upgrading roads, airports and drilling of boreholes at a cost of about $30 billion.Through the District Develop...Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 05:23hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
$109m for Kariba rural electrification
THE Rural Electrification Agency (REA) has commenced electrifying parts of rural Kariba including Magororo-Musambakaruma and Mola-Siakobvu.Speaking to NewsDay yesterday, REA spokesperson Johan...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
NPA declines to prosecute Chamisa's councillor
POLICE were left embarrassed Wednesday after National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) officials in Karoi declined to prosecute Nyaminyami Rural District Council (NRDC) ward 3 councillor, Taiti Busumani (3...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 16:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance councillor arrested for snubbing chief in development projects
POLICE have arrested and detained Nyaminyami Rural District Council Ward 3 MDC Alliance councillor, Taiti Busumani for deliberately sidelining traditional leaders in developmental projects in the wild...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
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 | 7 | by Staff reporter
Living between a rock & hard surface - Brenda Manyoni Narrates her Story!
The quagmire that Brenda Manyoni (25) is living through is terribly deplorable. Brenda says she does not 'understand' how, her nylon skirt caught fire when she was just five. The girl reports that she...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 13:46hrs | | by Dumisani Mawere
Amnesty to decongest prisons
Cabinet received an update on the Covid-19 Outbreak, which was presented by the Minister of Defence and War Veterans Affairs as chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Task Force on the Covid-19 Outbreak. ...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kariba taps run dry whilst the ZETDC Network Development Engineer runs Whatsapp groups
Kariba residents continue with dry taps when the lake continues to rise with sufficient and all the water that is required to supply even the nation. Municipality of Kariba recently bought new pumps f...Published: 08 Mar 2021 at 10:34hrs | | by MuHwisiry ChaiyeChaiye
Heavy rains leave one dead
The incessant rains that have rendered some communities in Nyaminyami including Mola and Mayovhe inaccessible except through boats have left one person dead and damaged 16 homesteads. With com...Published: 04 Mar 2021 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa accelerates ease of doing business
Government says a fully-fledged Zimbabwe Investment and Development Agency (ZIDA) that will process investment approvals within a day will be fully operational this year. This is part of Gover...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 06:26hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga hails 'non-partisan' Red Cross
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga says government was ready to work with non-partisan non-governmental organisations that foster community development.In a speech read on his behalf by Defen...Published: 11 May 2018 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Doctors allowances cut by 87%
RETENTION allowances for doctors deployed at district hospitals have been cut by 87 percent following reduction of funding from the Government's development partners.The doctors are now gettin...Published: 12 Feb 2018 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Macheso invades Binga
Sungura musician Alick Macheso is headed for Binga this coming Thursday where he is expected to perform for a charitable cause.He recently launched his long awaited Tsoka DzeRwendo album....Published: 10 Apr 2016 at 11:25hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Road turning out to be a death trap
The road that links Siakobvu and Hurungwe with Gachegache safari area and fishing camps near Lake Kariba is turning out to be a death trap as it is fast losing its form due to erosion and poor workman...Published: 30 Mar 2016 at 22:14hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Farmers urged to make payment plans for electricity
THE MINISTER OF ENERGY AND POWER DEVELOPMENT Samuel Undenge has challenged the local farmers to pay for electricity debts they owe the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and distribution Company (ZETDC...Published: 01 Nov 2015 at 07:50hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Wanted man hangs himself
A Harare man who was on the police wanted list for killing his wife has been found hanging from a tree in his rural home of Gokwe.Lewis Matanda (45) of 101 off Fraser Road, Park Town in Waterf...Published: 29 Apr 2014 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Walter Nyamukondiwa
Woman killed by lions
GAME scouts on patrol in the Bumi Hills area of Kariba District last week stumbled upon the lower torso of a woman suspected to have been killed by lions. Members of the Bumi Hills anti-poach...Published: 11 Oct 2012 at 05:52hrs | | by Chinhoyi Bureau
'It's a nightmare when a relative dies in Kariba', grave fees too high - Villager
VILLAGERS in areas surrounding Lake Kariba have expressed concern over high fees being charged by Kariba Municipality for graves. The villagers who are regarded as aliens in the town are aske...Published: 16 Apr 2012 at 21:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Boyfriend crashes Husband's company car, woman claims car was highjacked
The Harare woman who claimed last week that she lost her husband's company car to carjackers near Banket had in fact given it to her boyfriend who later crashed it in Siakobvu. Shamiso Hether ...Published: 15 Nov 2011 at 09:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Girl (9) survives elephant attack
NINE YEAR OLD Kariba girl is lucky to be alive after a stray elephant pierced one of her legs with its tusks in a nerve wrecking incident that continues to elicit sympathy in the town.Moira Ma...Published: 18 Apr 2011 at 19:22hrs | | by Ndou Paul
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