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Beer drinking spree turns bloody
TWO Silobela men are on the run after they fatally assaulted their friend following a misunderstanding during a beer-drinking spree.The incident occurred at Nyakwati Business Centre in Silobel...Published: 30 May 2023 at 11:34hrs | 1098 | by Staff reporter
Killings flare up in Kwekwe
THE recent callous murder of two people in Mbizo, Kwekwe has sent residents into panic mode as they fear for their lives.The body of veteran educationist and retired teacher Mr Lovemore Marume...Published: 25 May 2023 at 06:18hrs | 515 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF grassroots reject 2023 candidates
A protest vote is looming in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's backyard in Midlands where Zanu-PF grassroots are rejecting recently elected party candidates in more than 10 constituencies.Insider...Published: 21 May 2023 at 08:14hrs | 648 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Villagers arrest notorious Silobela thief
Notorious suspected Silobela thief Thulani Siwela was arrested by villagers in paka village 2, Silobela yesterday.Villagers effected citizen arrest on him and he implicated his brothers Khaula...Published: 15 May 2023 at 11:04hrs | 1525 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Construction of 12 large dams accelerated in Zimbabwe
Construction of 12 large dams is being accelerated to put at least 350 000 hectares under irrigation by 2025 as the need to boost crop production grows.The rolling out of dam construction coun...Published: 25 Apr 2023 at 06:31hrs | 331 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Primaries: Remaining candidates announced
Zanu-PF has announced the final list of candidates who will represent the party in the forthcoming harmonised elections with 205 candidates cleared, and only five remaining to allow for reruns....Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:38hrs | 522 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's ex-councillor wins Zanu-PF primaries
Former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) councillor Willard Moyo who recently ditched the opposition outfit won in Zanu-PF's primary elections.Moyo, who was Silobela Ward 29 councillor, ditc...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 10:19hrs | 4970 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's former councillor to contest in Zanu-PF primaries
Former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) councillor Willard Moyo who recently ditched the opposition outfit is set to contest in Zanu-PF's weekend primary elections.Moyo, who was Silobela Wa...Published: 17 Mar 2023 at 07:40hrs | 1453 | by Staff reporter
Man stabbed over beer dispute
A GOKWE man is battling for his life after he was brutally assaulted and stabbed over refusing to buy his friend's beer.Midlands Provincial police spokesperson Inspector Emmanuel Mahoko confir...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 14:57hrs | 322 | by Staff reporter
Nkayi roadworks resume
WORK on the rehabilitation of a 15km stretch of the Bulawayo-Nkayi Road is set to resume with contractors now in the process of mobilising machinery and other equipment, and expected to be on the site...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 05:29hrs | 351 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers raid Mukuru outlet
SIX armed men raided a Mukuru money transfer outlet in Silobela in Midlands Province and handcuffed a cashier and security guard manning the booth at gunpoint before they got away with US$1 800, R7 80...Published: 02 Mar 2023 at 05:45hrs | 1282 | by Staff reporter
MP fumes over delayed construction of Vungu Dam
SILOBELA MP Mthokozisi Mpofu has expressed disappointment over government's continued delay of Vungu dam construction which is expected to alleviate the constituency's water woes and create employment...Published: 17 Feb 2023 at 04:59hrs | 455 | by Staff reporter
'I was told to stop supporting Mnangagwa'
WE today conclude our interview with Elphas Tshuma, a former guerilla who operated in Hurungwe in Mashonaland West Province and later on in Hwange in Matabeleland North. Tshuma, now a member of the ru...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 08:27hrs | 841 | by Staff reporter
NSSA shouldn't act as if they derive some depraved pleasure from elderly's suffering
Whenever I witness the sad plight of the elderly in Zimbabwe, the adage, ‘there's no rest for the weary' always comes to mind.Having gone to the local Kwekwe branch of the state-owned POSB (...Published: 29 Dec 2022 at 20:23hrs | 808 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Gang beats man to death for stealing 11 donkeys
A gang of five from Silobela which beat to death a 23-year old man for stealing seven donkeys sometime in 2020 and dumped his body at a headman's homestead has been arrested, NewZimbabwe.com has learn...Published: 28 Dec 2022 at 20:35hrs | 565 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi memorial ban sparks outrage
THERE is outrage in Bulawayo after police banned pressure group, Ibhetshu LikaZulu from hosting a Gukurahundi memorial on Unity Day and arrested three of its members.The group organised a memo...Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:13hrs | 162 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's councillor pulls a shocker
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) councillor Willard Moyo left attendants at a prize-giving day in Silobela last week shocked after encouraging parents to vote for rival ZANU PF's Mthokozisi Manoki-...Published: 21 Dec 2022 at 14:09hrs | 2596 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Chamisa councillor fronts Zanu-PF MP's campaign in Silobela
A CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) councillor Willard Moyo shocked attendants at a prize giving day in Silobela after encouraging parents to vote for rival Zanu-PF's Mthokozisi Manoki-Mpofu at...Published: 20 Dec 2022 at 20:44hrs | 1788 | by Staff reporter
Silobela district demands Ndebele speaking teachers as pupils produce poor results
IT has emerged that most schools in Silobela continue to produce poor results at Grade 7 due to lack of teachers who teach their native Ndebele language.Tererayi Dhiya, who heads Umelusi Prima...Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 08:30hrs | 1171 | by Staff reporter
Tragic end to mjolo
A 26-year-old man has been arrested after he allegedly shot and killed another man on Thursday last week who had confronted him on allegations of having an extramarital affair with his wife.Mt...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 04:59hrs | 688 | by Staff reporter
Man shot dead by wife's boyfriend
A SILOBELA man was shot dead after he approached his wife's alleged boyfriend questioning him about the two's alleged extra marital affair.The incident happened on Thursday last week when Trym...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 19:27hrs | 675 | by Staff reporter
4-day hell in mine shaft
When 22-year-old Mr Rania Moyo left home at around 4am on Thursday last week for work at Velocity 36 Mine in Silobela, he never bothered to bid his parents goodbye as he believed he would return home ...Published: 03 Nov 2022 at 05:06hrs | 942 | by Staff reporter
Community rejects non-Ndebele speaking teachers
The Silobela community has rejected non-Ndebele speaking teachers deployed by the government to take early childhood development classes in Donsa-Donsa, a predominately Ndebele area.Donsa Coun...Published: 19 Oct 2022 at 06:06hrs | 2406 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo resumes campaign for Redcliff seat after shock 2018 defeat
LOCAL Government Minister July Moyo is dishing out donations in the dormitory town of Redcliff amid reports that the Midlands Zanu-PF godfather has resumed campaigns to regain the peri-urban parliamen...Published: 16 Oct 2022 at 19:30hrs | 997 | by Staff reporter
Women jailed for assaulting husband with burning log
A Silobela woman, who was in the habit of beating up her husband, has been slapped with a two-and-half-year jail sentence for assaulting her husband with a burning log.Early this year, Shamiso...Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 06:17hrs | 115 | by Staff reporter
Mutami will be waiting for Mnangagwa at UN General Assembly
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will fly into a storm if he attends the 77th United Nations General Assembly in New York, United States, next month as Susan Mutami, the Australian-based local woman who a...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 19:43hrs | 4952 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa visited Mutami at school?
A FORMER boyfriend of Susan Mutami and her school friends at Loreto High School in Silobela, Midlands, have validated claims that a man believed to be President Emmerson Mnangagwa she now accuses of r...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 08:42hrs | 5689 | by Staff reporter
Plot to oust Wadyajena exposed
DESPITE growing pressure for him to step down from the parliamentary committee on Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement to pave way for an investigation involving alleged abuse of office, G...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 18:51hrs | 850 | by Staff reporter
Shortage of Ndebele teachers hits Zhombe, Silobela
ZHOMBE and Silobela districts in the Midlands province have been hit hard by a shortage of Ndebele teachers, which has been blamed on speakers of the language that are hesitant on taking the language....Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 19:11hrs | 1138 | by Staff reporter
Australian police open probe into Mnangagwa over rape complaint
Australian police on Tuesday said they would work with international bodies to investigate rape allegations against Zimbabwe's president Emmerson Mnangagwa.Mnangagwa, 79, was accused of sexual...Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 20:45hrs | 5982 | by Staff reporter
Zacc probes Mayor Wadyajena
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has launched an investigation into a case involving cotton farming inputs which were stocked at a warehouse linked to Gokwe-Nembudziya legislator Justice...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:13hrs | 3261 | by Staff reporter
Man arrested after five years on the run
THE long arm of the law finally caught up with a fugitive that had been on the run for allegedly murdering a man at a nightclub back in October 2017.Braveman Twala from Silobela in the Midland...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:12hrs | 182 | by Staff reporter
Gold panners dig up school premises
Kwekwe Central MP Judith Tobaiwa (Citizens Coalition for Change) has called on authorities to take action against gold panners causing environmental degradation at a primary school in the gold m...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:29hrs | 336 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu torches Gukurahundi storm
MATABELELAND pressure group Ibhetshu likaZulu has blasted Zanu-PF bigwig Obert Mpofu for downplaying the Gukurahundi massacres in a video that went viral this week.Gukurahundi is a thorny issu...Published: 31 May 2022 at 06:32hrs | 1585 | by Staff reporter
Gold panners dig under Kwekwe school
AUTHORITIES at Globe and Phoenix Primary School in Kwekwe have expressed concern that its classroom blocks face collapse as gold panners were digging under the school.Globe and Phoenix school ...Published: 31 May 2022 at 06:29hrs | 427 | by Staff reporter
Rural communities shun COVID-19 vaccine
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is still rife in some communities in the Midlands province with reports that in the first COVID-19 vaccination blitz, some parents and religious groups were deliberately wit...Published: 11 May 2022 at 09:12hrs | 291 | by Staff reporter
Married man kills self after being jilted by a lover
A MARRIED man from Silobela tied explosives to his head before blowing himself up after being chased away by his girlfriend on Friday.The incident occurred at Mahari business centre in Lower G...Published: 01 May 2022 at 12:31hrs | 741 | by Staff reporter
Govt says Zimbabwe faces deadly famine
Deputy minister of agriculture, Douglas Karoro, has said the drought experienced during the 2021/22 farming season has adversely affected the country's food security situation.In a speec...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 09:08hrs | 968 | by Staff reporter
Huge turnout for IDs campaign
The ongoing mobile registration for identity documents has seen high turnouts at most of the 59 extra points across the Midlands, provincial registrar Ms Agnes Gambura has said.Government laun...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 06:24hrs | 119 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa chides his corrupt officials looting gold
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has admitted top government officials were plundering gold through illegal mining activities.He warned punitive action will forthwith be taken against such errant ...Published: 17 Feb 2022 at 05:33hrs | 395 | by Staff reporter
Horrific tales of murderous weapons in Zhombe, Silobela
ON 21 January, a team of police officers and journalists led by Officer Commanding Midlands province Commissioner Winston Muza descended on Silobela to meet community leaders, who included those from ...Published: 07 Feb 2022 at 21:21hrs | 1425 | by Staff reporter
'Gukurahundi survivors vote for Zanu-PF out of fear'
HUMAN rights pressure group Ibhetshu LikaZulu has claimed that Gukurahundi survivors voted for the ruling Zanu-PF party in the past elections out of fear of a repeat of the genocide.The pressu...Published: 01 Feb 2022 at 05:31hrs | 482 | by Staff reporter
Brothers stab 2 to death over woman
TWO brothers from Silobela allegedly ganged up and stabbed two imbibers to death in a major fight over a woman.The tragic incident occurred at Crossroads Business Centre on Friday.The ...Published: 31 Jan 2022 at 05:49hrs | 2554 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gold deliveries jump 56%
Gold deliveries to Fidelity Printers and Refiners, Zimbabwe's sole authorised buyer of bullion, jumped by 55,5 percent to 29,6 tonnes in 2021, figures from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) show....Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:08hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
Man offers daughter (15) to appease avenging spirits
A man from Zhombe area in Kwekwe district allegedly married off his minor daughter to appease an avenging spirit while another one from the same area is reportedly forcing his under-age daughter to en...Published: 22 Dec 2021 at 04:40hrs | 334 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told to stop grandstanding on gukurahundi
GUKURAHUNDI pressure group, Ibhetshu LikaZulu has urged the government to assist the families of 12 Silobela villagers who were killed in 1985 during the government sanctioned Gukurahundi atrocities....Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 05:56hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
One Day in 1985
I watched and followed the proceedings at the launch of the CITES Documentary on the abduction of the 11 Silobela men by Government forces on the 1st of January 1985. Dispite the incident having happe...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 20:06hrs | 21 | by Israel Dube
NPRC not probing theft of Gukurahundi plaques
MATABELELAND-BASED human rights groups have expressed concern over revelations by the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) that it was not going to investigate the destruction of Gukura...Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 06:24hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi survivors demand closure
FAMILIES of the 12 Silobela villagers who were killed in 1985 during the Gukurahundi massacres in the Midlands province have called on government to provide healing services and compensation for the l...Published: 20 Oct 2021 at 07:39hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Silobela community demands share of Jena Mine
VILLAGERS in Silobela are demanding that the redundant Jena Gold Mine claims be allocated to them as they are living in poverty while their area is endowed with gold deposits.The Jena Mine cla...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 05:58hrs | 45 | by Staff reporter
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