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Bulawayo man killed for touching meat on braai stand
Bulawayo police have arrested Tatenda Chida, 26, in connection with the murder of Sikhanyiso Bruce Dube, 30, from Pumula North. The incident, which occurred on October 22, 2024, reportedly stemmed fro...Published: 11 Nov 2024 at 11:36hrs | 1279 | by Staff reporter
CCC factions lost 3 council seats to Zanu-PF in Bulawayo
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) lost three of the eight council seats it had won in August to Zanu-PF after five of its recalled councillors retained their seats from the eight contested wards...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 09:24hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF urges residents to shun chaotic opposition
Residents of Bulawayo have been encouraged to vote for development by supporting the ruling Zanu-PF in the upcoming December 9 by-elections and distancing themselves from the opposition, which has bee...Published: 06 Nov 2023 at 04:52hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Cowdray Park and the myth of irrational voting
Galatians 3 verse 1: "You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified." The verse is a rebuke to the Galatians for having embraced d...Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 09:58hrs | 2 | by Limukani Ncube
CCC's fortunes in Bulawayo depend on court ruling
THE main opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) risks being blindsided in the 2023 general election campaign, should the High Court disqualify 15 of the party's parliamentary candidates who f...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 21:44hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Cowdray Park race wide open
Bulawayo commentators say the battle for Cowdray Park constituency is an open contest with aspiring candidates such as Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, not guaranteed a victory.Ncube has spent b...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 10:36hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mpopoma's famous personalities
BULAWAYO city, just like other towns and cities in Zimbabwe, had residential areas allocated according to race before Independence. Europeans, Africans, referred to at that time as "natives," Indians ...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Real' Zimbabwe heroes struggling to survive
AS the country celebrates Heroes Day Monday, former Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) instructor, Grace Ethel Noko remains one of the unsung liberation struggle heroines despite having play...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC writes to Mnangagwa's govt over street name changes
THE Bulawayo City Council is waiting for Government approval on their own individual street name changes after the High Court ruled that they cannot adhere to the names that were effected through a St...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bosso members refute 'social media ban' reports
SOME Highlanders members that attended the club's mid-year review meeting last Sunday have refuted reports that they resolved to revoke membership of those that antagonise the club's leadership on soc...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
CIOs target Dabengwa's Director
Suspected state agents on Thursday launched a manhunt for Director General of the Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation Mthulisi Mduduzi Ncube Hanana for crimes including undermining the authority of the P...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 16:51hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Dabengwa, one of the last of a dying breed
WHEN the news of Dumiso Dabengwa's death filtered in, a colleague asked that I write an obituary, an offer I turned down politely because I hardly knew the former Home Affairs minister and our encount...Published: 30 May 2019 at 10:53hrs | 2 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Zanu-PF panics over Dabengwa refusal to be buried at Heroes Acre
When the world recognised and colourful heroes like Dumiso Dabengwa who spent more than 14 years in the trenches fighting for the independence of Zimbabwe refuse to be buried at the National Heroes Ac...Published: 27 May 2019 at 14:39hrs | | by Israel Dube
Mnangagwa's victory not free, not fair, not credible
When Zimbabwean soldiers shot civilians during riots against alleged election-rigging on August 1, 2018, many Zimbabweans were horrified - but they weren't surprised.The previous November, the...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 12:11hrs | | by Rahul Nagvekar
James Makamba lands top post in Swaziland
Business tycoon James Makamba has been appointed to serve as a member of the advisory committee to the Minister of Information, Communication and Technology (MICT) of the Kingdom of ESwatini. The appo...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 19:30hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Elected officials not your bosses'
CHURCH and Civic Society Joint Forum (CSCJF) has urged Zimbabweans to stop calling elected officials "bosses", indicating that this has ruined the nation as the all-too-powerful and invincible politic...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mvundlana homestead in Tsholotsho home attracts many admirers
Motorists are finding it difficult to ignore an eye catching design of a Mvundlana homestead as one approaches Tsholotsho business centre.Designed with scrap metals, one could mistake the uniq...Published: 30 Oct 2018 at 19:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kudzai Chipanga's Zanu-PF readmission issue still under continuous review
The Zanu-PF Politburo has resolved to admit Anastancia Ndlovu as an ordinary card carrying member, while Kudzai Chipanga's issue is still under continuous review.Innocent Hamandishe remains ex...Published: 25 Oct 2018 at 20:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bride-to-be captured in car romp with taxi driver
IT'S over!While preparing for her white wedding Sikhanyiso Tshuma was busy cheating on her husband-to-be Milton Furira.Her cheating game came to a halt when a local prophet found her l...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 06:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube quits politics
FORMER Makokoba legislator Tshinga Dube, who on Saturday held a farewell rally for this constituency, has thrown in the towel, saying he has had enough of active party politics after being let down in...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bosso members trash draft constitution
HIGHLANDERS club members have decided to stick to their current constitution after a proposed draft was trashed at Sunday's extra ordinary general meeting.A resolution was passed to dissolve t...Published: 24 Jul 2018 at 07:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Peter Dube, Gumede in Bosso board
TWO former Highlanders' chairmen Ndumiso Gumede and Peter Dube have bounced back into the club's leadership structure as board members following an endorsement by members at a poorly attended mid-year...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mpopoma legislator vows to retain seat
ZANU PF Mpopoma-Pelandaba legislator Joseph Tshuma has described himself as the candidate of choice in this year's forthcoming elections, claiming the constituency has benefited a lot from the ruling ...Published: 07 Jul 2018 at 09:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Putting God first pays for Pelandaba-Mpopoma
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's now famous catchphrase – the voice of the people is the voice of God – is what drives Pelandaba-Mpopoma legislator, Joseph Tshuma, so he said during an interview....Published: 30 Jan 2018 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Late Dr Sikhanyiso Ndlovu honoured
The late national hero, Dr Sikhanyiso Duke Ndlovu has been posthumously honored after a new science laboratory at Induna High School at One Infantry Brigade was named after him in honor of the contrib...Published: 29 Nov 2017 at 19:26hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Disgruntled soldiers urged to accept new dispensation
ZIMBABWE National Army (ZNA) Commander Lieutenant General Philip Valerio Sibanda has urged soldiers to accept the country's new dispensation and ensure a peaceful environment prevails for the country'...Published: 29 Nov 2017 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe fails to pay heroes' funeral toilets bills
Generally you are supposed to be lonely when you are dead - but the late national heroes John Nkomo and Sikhanyiso Ndlovu are yet to find rest as the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is trying frantically ...Published: 13 Sep 2017 at 15:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
How Zipra commander Ndlovu lost his eyesight
THIS week we round-up our interview with former Zipra adjutant-general and later on chief of technical engineering Jeffery Ndlovu pseudonym Kenny Murwiri. In the past three weeks Ndlovu has spoken abo...Published: 03 Sep 2017 at 10:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Grand coalition can reclaim Bulawayo seats'
The Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC's resolution to boycott by-elections in protest of electoral reforms may backfire as it would be a huge task to reclaim the seats it lost in Bulawayo.After its sh...Published: 31 Jul 2017 at 12:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe living in cloud cuckoo-land
President Robert Mugabe (93) in his election manifesto ahead of the 2013 general elections, promised to create 2,2 million jobs under an ambitious programme known as the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainabl...Published: 07 May 2017 at 22:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZDECO fined for city littering Bulawayo
THE Environmental Management Agency (EMA) on Thursday arrested and fined four more private colleges in Bulawayo, among them the Zimbabwe Distance Education College (ZDECO) belonging to the estate ...Published: 08 Apr 2017 at 11:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Community service for office sex with wife
A MAN from Bulawayo who was arrested for allegedly breaking into a safe-house for victims of domestic violence and had sex with his wife in an office, has been ordered to perform 315 hours of comm...Published: 24 Feb 2017 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man arrested for sex with wife
A MAN from Makokoba suburb in Bulawayo has been arrested for allegedly breaking into a safe-house for victims of abuse and engaging in sex with his wife in an office.Mthabisi Mpofu (24) wa...Published: 22 Feb 2017 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF on its way to the grave'
INDEPENDENT candidate Temba Mliswa (TM) overcame the odds to win the Norton by-election held at the weekend. He speaks to the Financial Gazette's Online Editor, Paul Nyakazeya (PN), about the victory,...Published: 27 Oct 2016 at 09:33hrs | | by Paul Nyakazeya
ZimPF says no more to Zanuism
The opposition ZimPF has declared that there will be soon no more Zanuism in Zimbabwe and even dismissed alleged expectations by Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa to take over from President Robert Mu...Published: 16 Oct 2016 at 07:22hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Sikhanyiso Ndlovu estate offers BCC 20 hectares to settle debt
THE administrator of the late national hero and former Cabinet Minister Dr Sikhanyiso Ndlovu estate has offered the Bulawayo City Council over 20 hectares of land in Rangemore to offset a debt of over...Published: 18 Aug 2016 at 06:25hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Magic or Superstition? The myths and legends that made Joshua Nkomo
In times of war it is common to hear of legends and stories that give popular participants in battles superhuman qualities that seem to defy the rules of everyday life.Perhaps to drive fear in...Published: 13 Jul 2016 at 07:05hrs | 3 | by Bruce Ndlovu
Let's celebrate liberation icon Joshua Nkomo's life
Tomorrow, it will be 17 years since one of Zimbabwe's founding fathers, former Vice-President Dr Joshua Nkomo died. He was there when the first black-led political parties were formed in the count...Published: 30 Jun 2016 at 08:51hrs | | by Staff write
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 | | by Bongani Ndlovu
Zimbabwean banks removed from US sanctions list
The US has removed two Zimbabwean banks from its punitive sanctions regime against Zimbabwe. On Wednesday, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (Ofac), which falls under the Department of Treasury, is...Published: 08 Feb 2016 at 05:42hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
Govt, BCC in toilet payment storm
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is struggling to recover $138 from government after it provided a mobile toilet during the funeral wake of the late national hero, Sikhanyiso Ndlovu.Three months do...Published: 23 Nov 2015 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Heal Zimbabwe Trust highlights violence in Bulawayo
Heal Zimbabwe Trusted has highlighted the incidents of political violence that erupted in Bulawayo during the month of October this year among them being the violence within the MDC-T during the...Published: 18 Nov 2015 at 06:16hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
MP ask govt to consider Ex-Zipra members for pensions
Pumula House of Assembly member Godfrey Malaba Ncube has asked the government to consider the Ex -Zipra members who were at Botswana and Zambia camps during the war amid revelations most of them did n...Published: 24 Oct 2015 at 11:00hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Sikhanyiso Ndlovu properties to be auctioned
TWO commercial buildings belonging to the late Zanu-PF politburo member and national hero Sikhanyiso Duke Ndlovu have been attached by the Deputy Sheriff and are set to be auctioned over a $30 000 deb...Published: 21 Oct 2015 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Unconquerable' Grace T Shirts unveiled
Zanu-PF's ambitious Generation 40 (G40) have gone into overdrive to propel First Lady Grace Mugabe by printing new T Shirts which proclaim that President Robert Mugabe's wife is "unconquerable". ...Published: 07 Oct 2015 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mphoko slams Zanu-PF factionalists
VICE-President Phelekezela Mphoko has said people fanning factionalism in Zanu-PF are not progressive and are weakening the ruling party.At a thanks-giving service for Dr Sikhanyiso Ndlovu in ...Published: 04 Oct 2015 at 13:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe's allies receive threatening texts
ZANU PF's succession wars took a sinister turn on Sunday when cabinet ministers and legislators - all believed to belong to a faction fighting to block Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa's bid to succe...Published: 23 Sep 2015 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Was Mugabe's speech swapped?
FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe has reportedly demanded a massive clean-up in President Robert Mugabe's office, as the fallout over his wrong speech of last Tuesday boils over.Insiders privy to the go...Published: 22 Sep 2015 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF launches witch-hunt
ZANU-PF was has launched a witch-hunt on suspected faction leaders, who incited their supporters to engage in violence against fellow party members and caused ugly scenes at the burial of national her...Published: 21 Sep 2015 at 10:02hrs | | by Staf reporter
Jonathan Moyo blasts Mnangagwa faction again
Jonathan Moyo took to Twitter and appeared once again to take aim at a faction led by VP Emmerson Mnangagwa. This comes after two opposing groups within Zanu-PF shamelessly took each other...Published: 21 Sep 2015 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
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