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Leopard terrorises Insiza
VILLAGERS at Ndwangu line in Insiza, Matabeleland South, are being terrorised by a leopard which is attacking their livestock amid complaints that authorities are taking long to respond to the problem...Published: 2 hrs ago | 81 | by Staff reporter
Bosso to restart training
HIGHLANDERS will restart training this morning at White City Stadium after meeting requirements for resumption of fine tuning.Bosso players, technical staff, office staff as well as executive ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 76 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo requests for more Covid-19 vaccines
BULAWAYO City Council's (BCC) Covid-19 vaccination drive is beset by inadequate distribution of doses, forcing the local authority to adopt a deliberate strategy not to actively promote the inoculatio...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 23:34hrs | 485 | by Staff reporter
Manhunt for escaped prisoner
POLICE in Bulawayo have launched a manhunt for a suspected robbery suspect, who escaped from the holding cells at Western Commonage Courts at the weekend. Provincial police spokesperson ...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 23:00hrs | 671 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo newspaper vendor killed
A NEWSPAPER vendor in Bulawayo was found dead with his privates ripped open, metres from his home in the early hours of Wednesday. Farai Mazhindu popularly known in Luveve as Dread or Rasta wa...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:19hrs | 766 | by Staff reporter
Bosso crowd-fund for Covid-19 tests
A group of Highlanders FC members and supporters has embarked on an initiative to raise US$1 500 to cover the team's Covid-19 tests to enable the first team to start training. Twelve Premiersh...Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 08:42hrs | 188 | by Staff reporter
Bosso have 18 contracted players
Highlanders currently have 18 first team players contracted to the club, with only one Under-20 slot filled.Seven players that left the club last year and Bosso only concluded deals for Winsto...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 15:42hrs | 796 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa could bounce back at Zifa
FORMER Zifa president and property magnate Phillip Chiyangwa could make a spectacular return to 53 Livingstone Way if an audacious plan by some councillors to bring him back succeeds.Chiyangwa...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 16:54hrs | 1105 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's minister joins Bosso
ENVIRONMENT, Tourism and Hospitality Industry Minister Nqobizitha Mangaliso Ndlovu is now a card-carrying member of Highlanders FC after being charmed by newly elected club committee member Mgcini Maf...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 07:52hrs | 1802 | by Staff reporter
Bosso gear up for upcoming season
HIGHLANDERS players and officials will this week undergo COVID-19 testing, medicals and start training in preparation for the resumption of the league next month.The Independence Trophy final ...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 22:30hrs | 221 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City chairman on why he voted in Highlanders elections
BULAWAYO City Football Club chairman Jerry Sibanda has provided clarity on why he voted in last Sunday's Highlanders elections to choose three executive committee members.Sibanda was one of th...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 09:07hrs | 528 | by Staff reporter
'Why Mhlophe lost Bosso chairmanship'
LAST Sunday saw Highlanders Football Club finally hold elections for three executive committee posts whose much talked about result was for the chairmanship where Johnfat Sibanda edged Kenneth Mhlophe...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 09:06hrs | 637 | by Staff reporter
Court sets trial date for 'MDC Alliance 12'
THE trial of 12 Mashonaland West MDC Alliance officials is expected to kick off on 13 April.The officials were arrested last month at the party's Chinhoyi offices while holding a meeting which...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 18:17hrs | 708 | by Staff reporter
Highlanders more than a football entity
HIGHLANDERS FC is more than a football entity. It is life and everything to some and leaving Bosso in 1976 would have seen club legend Douglas Mloyi disowned by his own family. The decision no...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 09:14hrs | 255 | by Staff reporter
Farmer loses 340 tonnes of maize to con artist
A HARARE man was yesterday arraigned before the courts after he allegedly duped a farmer of 340 tonnes of maize worth US$131 400.Hugh Tinashe Sibanda (37) appeared before magistrate Vongai Muc...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:18hrs | 1073 | by Staff reporter
Experts warn of third Covid-19 wave after Easter
HEALTH experts have warned of the possibility of an explosion in Covid-19 cases immediately after the Easter holidays if the public fail to comply with lockdown regulations. Easter holidays ar...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:00hrs | 488 | by Staff reporter
Churches suspend Easter gatherings
Churches will not be hosting their traditional large Easter processions and gatherings, keeping the number attending each service to below the 50 limit imposed by Government under lockdown rules. ...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 06:55hrs | 521 | by Staff reporter
Bosso, Dembare clash in Independence Cup
Independence Cup holders Highlanders and their arch rivals Dynamos will open the 2021 football season when they clash in this year's Uhuru Cup final at a venue yet to be decided.The announceme...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 18:41hrs | 585 | by Staff reporter
Cops implicated in spate of robberies
THREE Harare police officers have been implicated in a spate of robberies which occurred in Nyanga where they allegedly robbed and assaulted several people involved in timber business.An inter...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 06:44hrs | 1484 | by Staff reporter
Zapu congress hangs in balance
ZAPU structures in Bulawayo, Matabeleland North and South provinces have petitioned the opposition party's top leadership to postpone the elective congress set for next month amid reports of sharp div...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 06:42hrs | 543 | by Staff reporter
No Easter conferences for churches
CHURCHES will not hold conferences usually held during the Easter period but will resort to virtual meetings with only a limited number of congregants gathering on Sunday. Church leaders yeste...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 06:33hrs | 796 | by Staff reporter
Johnfat preaches unity
NEWLY elected Highlanders supremo Johnfat Sibanda has called on the club's followers to put the election season behind them and move forward as one united family. He said differences, which seemingly ...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 06:32hrs | 318 | by Staff reporter
SK Moyo too junior to be Vice president
In November 2017 Zapu Harare provincial secretary-general Elphacy Dube said the province was throwing its weight behind Khaya Moyo. Zapu Harare province jumped the gun and suggested SK Moyo without co...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 16:26hrs | 2720 | by Colin Khumalo
Magwizi eyes Zapu vice presidency
ZPRA Veterans Association secretary-general Buster Magwizi has been suggested to contest for the vacant Zapu vice presidency post at the opposition party's elective congress next month.The par...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 08:08hrs | 2380 | by Staff reporter
The Liberation War in Nkayi, Matebeleland: The Agenda by Rhodesian Army & State to starve 'terrorists', a personal experience!
In today's Africa, we often ascribe the violation of African rights to only African governments and easily forget a long-standing history of wanton violation of African rights by gun-ho racialist geno...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 22:38hrs | 1429 | by Thembani Dube
Zapu plots SK Moyo, Mathema, Nyoni parly recalls
OPPOSITION Zapu is contemplating its own round of recalls from Parliament on all its former members, including Zanu-PF national spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo, who went in the august House through the ...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:33hrs | 10484 | by Staff reporter
Johnfart Sibanda elected new Bosso chair
JOHNFART Sibanda has been voted into office as the new executive chairperson of the popular Highlanders Football Club in a close contest where he challenged the incumbent Kenneth Mhlophe.Siban...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 16:24hrs | 1161 | by Staff reporter
Khupe turns heat on Mwonzora
FOrMEr MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe still wants her successor Douglas Mwonzora to be prosecuted over the alleged theft of $6,3 million belonging to the party despite claims that the two have closed ra...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 07:06hrs | 5146 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to issue Covid-19 'passport'
ZIMBABWE will be among the first countries in the world to issue out Covid-19 certificates that will be linked to the person's passport and National Identify Document.The certificate will also...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 06:49hrs | 1357 | by Staff reporter
Bosso members finally get to choose chairman, secretary, committee member
THERE was excitement ahead of the original date of the Highlanders elections, then disappointment when the polls were postponed as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.That excitement is upon us ...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 06:46hrs | 141 | by Staff reporter
Mhlophe, Sibanda lock horns over Bosso top seat
HIGHLANDERS executive committee elections take place tomorrow with both incumbent chairperson Kenneth Mhlophe and challenger Johnfat Sibanda fighting for the top post.Mhlophe has been at the h...Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 09:14hrs | 312 | by Staff reporter
Bosso legends speak out on 1976 player defection
THE strength of Highlanders FC has always been its members and sympathisers in the last 95 years. True to what today's fans say: "Ubuhle lamandla eBosso kukubalandeli bayo" the club weathered a fierce...Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 09:08hrs | 829 | by Lovemore Dube
Bosso shed light on Madinda deal
HIGHLANDERS have said they will confirm the inclusion of Madinda Ndlovu into their technical structures once a sponsorship deal is finalised.Ndlovu was Highlanders head coach before he quit mi...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 18:26hrs | 1366 | by Staff reporter
'Courts should help end domestic violence'
A BEITBRIDGE magistrate yesterday said courts should play a leading role in curbing domestic violence by imposing deterrent sentences on perpetrators.Magistrate Toyindepi Zhou said this while ...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 18:25hrs | 139 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga speaks on deaths of fellow generals
VICE PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga says he feels hurt after losing his fellow former military generals, Perrance Shiri, Sibusiso Moyo and Paradzai Zimondi describing them as "great friends."A...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 05:59hrs | 7809 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's' MDC implodes, Thanks to Zanu-PF
WHAT is in a name? The rumbling dispute over the proprietary rights to the name - Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) - looks set to blow Zimbabwe's opposition out of the political water.Acti...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 16:18hrs | 2949 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda boy takes over as Delta Corporation's CEO
Zimbabwe's biggest brewer, Delta Corporation's CEO, Pearson Gowero, is stepping down from his position with effect from June 30, 2021 after eight years at the helm of the beverages manufacturer, the c...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 16:09hrs | 2406 | by Staff reporter
Fresh milk shortage hits major retail stores
MAJOR supermarkets in Bulawayo have run out of fresh milk and by yesterday only a few retail outlets had imported milk from South Africa on the shelves. For weeks now, only imported milk was on the sh...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 05:46hrs | 875 | by Staff reporter
'Joshua Nkomo's son not a Zapu member'
THE nomination of Sibangilizwe Nkomo, son of the late Vice-President Joshua Nkomo, as one of Zapu's presidential candidates has been challenged by other party members who accused him of not being a ca...Published: 24 Mar 2021 at 06:42hrs | 3364 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube allays Bosso capture fears
HIGHLANDERS long-time benefactor Tshinga Dube has allayed fears that the club had been captured by the ruling Zanu-PF party after government recently granted a mining claim to the Bulawayo football gi...Published: 24 Mar 2021 at 06:41hrs | 2022 | by Staff reporter
NetOne boss Muchenje trial deferred to April 28
REINSTATED NetOne chief executive Lazarus Muchenje has been remanded to April 28 for trial on criminal abuse of office charges.Muchenje is jointly charged with NetOne interconnection and roami...Published: 24 Mar 2021 at 06:12hrs | 260 | by Staff reporter
Bosso on verge of new sponsorship
HIGHLANDERS are working on securing a main sponsor following the exit of NetOne last year and is hopeful a deal could be struck soon. Presenting the chairman's report to members at the club's ...Published: 24 Mar 2021 at 06:11hrs | 401 | by Staff reporter
NetOne boss abandons application
NETONE chief executive officer, Lazarus Muchenje, yesterday abandoned an application for exception to one of the charges in which he is alleged to have entered into an agreement with a Mauritanian fir...Published: 24 Mar 2021 at 06:10hrs | 974 | by Staff reporter
Warriors pair miss flights
South African-based Warriors' midfielder Butholezwe Ncube and United States of America-based defender Tendai Jirira are expected to join camp late after missing their flights.The duo is part o...Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 10:56hrs | 2244 | by Staff reporter
Peacemaker fatally stabbed
A 20-year-old man from Silobela in Kwekwe died on the spot while another man from the same area is battling for life after the two were stabbed with knives while trying to restrain people from fightin...Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 10:56hrs | 2051 | by Staff reporter
Bosso struggling to get main sponsor
Highlanders continue struggling in pursuit of a main sponsor following the exit of NetOne last year, but the club remains hopeful of securing sponsorship soon.Presenting the chairman's report ...Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 10:55hrs | 690 | by Staff reporter
8 000 border jumpers arrested
At least 182 border jumpers were arrested over the weekend countrywide bringing the total number so far to 8 299 of suspects nabbed under the ongoing operation as the police continue to increase patro...Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 06:10hrs | 620 | by Staff reporter
Nkomo's son warms up to Zapu presidency
SIBANGILIZWE Nkomo, the son of the late Father Zimbabwe and former VicePresident Joshua, has warmed up to the proposals to elect him Zapu president following the death of Dumiso Dabengwa in 2019....Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 06:16hrs | 2825 | by Staff reporter
How to wreck a political party
One of the issues that MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa raised during his Agenda 2021 address last week were claims that Government was gunning for a one party State in Zimbabwe using some oppositi...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 06:05hrs | 576 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Musona expected to join Warriors camp today
WARRIORS captain Knowledge Musona is expected to join camp today ahead of the 2021 AFCON penultimate round qualifier against Botswana in Francistown on Thursday. There is also a ray of hope th...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 06:02hrs | 416 | by Staff reporter
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