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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 | 324 | 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 | 1571 | 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 | 416 | 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 | 280 | 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 | 725 | 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 | 956 | 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 | 111 | 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 | 382 | 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 | 1401 | 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 | 470 | 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 | 2541 | 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 | 181 | 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 | 311 | 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 | 10 | 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 | 6 | 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 | | 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 | 1 | 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 | 14 | by Staff reporter
Panners invade school yard
ILLEGAL gold miners, who invaded Loreto High School in Silobela last month, have defied police eviction orders and clandestinely continued with their mining activities at the Catholic-run institution,...Published: 25 Sep 2021 at 06:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt urged urged to respect people's rights
DISPLACEMENT of villagers from their ancestral land to pave way for corporate activities is increasingly becoming one of the major human rights violations in the country, the Zimbabwe Human Rights Ass...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 21:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Wife catches husband raping 16 year-old daughter
"FOR better or for worse" is part of the common marriage vow but a woman from Zhombe in the Midlands province could not have anticipated that the worst scenario she can encounter in her marriage is to...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:29hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Silobela Gukurahundi plague vandalised
THE second Gukurahundi memorial plaque erected on Sunday at a site where 12 Silobela villagers were killed during the State-sanctionned massacres has reportedly been vandalised.What remains of...Published: 02 Sep 2021 at 06:17hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Cain Mathema battles Covid-19
Primary and Secondary Education minister Cain Mathema has been hospitalised after contracting Covid-19.The 74-year-old is "stable" at a private hospital in Bulawayo, a source told ZimLive....Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 17:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Pressure group vows to replace Gukurahundi plaques
BULAWAYO pressure group Ibhetshu LikaZulu has announced that it will replace the two Gukurahundi memorial plaques stolen from Bhalagwe and Silobela and would install five additional plaques at mass gr...Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Human bones found at Bubi torture camp
HUMAN remains suspected to belong to a member of the opposition, who was abducted and tortured for a month at a Zanu-PF torture camp in Bubi, Matabeleland North ahead of the violent 2002 election, hav...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 08:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to register virtual schools
THE Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education is working on mechanisms to register virtual schools as a means of complementing online classes being held as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. ...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 07:04hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
Chrome ore export banned
Exports of chrome ore have been banned with immediate effect and exports of chrome concentrates from July next year, as there are now enough smelters in the country to ensure that all exports are of f...Published: 04 Aug 2021 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mobile Covid-19 vaccination programme for rural areas
COMMUNITIES in the rural areas have pleaded with authorities to ensure that vaccines are made available at most vaccination centres for easy access.This comes at a time when the ongoing nation...Published: 01 Aug 2021 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Gukurahundi is number one conflict'
THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) yesterday said Gukurahundi is the "top conflict" that it is aiming to resolve while distancing itself from sentiments made by one of its commiss...Published: 29 Jun 2021 at 11:57hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Inhlokomo rolls up its sleeves
Inhlokomo YeSizwe sika Mthwakazi is rolling up its sleeves and getting hands on by setting regional structures on the ground. After taking a momentary and deliberate pause to give space for the Phuthe...Published: 17 Jun 2021 at 09:55hrs | 6 | by IYS
Mnangagwa under pressure to bring closure to Gukurahundi genocide matter
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is increasingly coming under pressure to bring closure to the 1980s Gukurahundi atrocities with Kezi traditional leader, Chief Bhidi yesterday saying piece-meal efforts ca...Published: 12 Jun 2021 at 07:54hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Ibhetshu LikaZulu fundraises for Gukurahundi plaques
BULAWAYO-BASED pressure group Ibhetshu LikaZulu yesterday said it had begun a programme to replace Gukurahundi memorial plaques that were stolen last month in Bhalagwe, Maphisa and Silobela.Th...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 07:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
We are living in fear, says Minister
GOVERNMENT has conceded that the country is now overwhelmed by cases of armed robberies as criminal syndicates smuggle firearms via the country's porous borders.Home Affairs deputy minister Ru...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Another Gukurahundi genocide memorial plaque stolen
ANOTHER Gukurahundi memorial plaque has reportedly been stolen in Silobela, Midlands, barely a fortnight after unknown people removed a similar structure in Bhalagwe, Matabeleland South.The pl...Published: 07 Jun 2021 at 06:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP engages Jena Mine
ZANU-PF legislator for Silobela constituency, Mtokozisi Manoki Mpofu, has engaged gold producer, Jena Mines over concerns raised by the community, Business Times reported.Some of t...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 08:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man battles for life after being axed by wife's lover
A 42-year-old Silobela man is battling for life at Kwekwe General Hospital after he was axed on the forehead by his alleged wife's lover.Mr Tawanda Denhere was attacked by Mthokozisi Moyo when...Published: 24 May 2021 at 06:37hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Man hospitalised after attack by wife's lover
A 42-year-old man from Silobela is battling for his life at Kwekwe General Hospital after he was axed on the forehead by a man he had confronted for allegedly having an extra marital affair with his w...Published: 20 May 2021 at 18:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Man mauled by crocodiles
A SILOBELA man was reportedly mauled to death by crocodiles while fishing along the Gweru River. Midlands police spokesperson Inspector Emmanuel Mahoko could not be reached for comment but Sil...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 07:02hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa commends his wife
President Mnangagwa has hailed the philanthropic work by First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa through her Angel of Hope Foundation. The President said this during yesterday's 41st Independence Day ce...Published: 19 Apr 2021 at 06:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Silobela, a gold rich area with nothing to show for it
The 60km Kwekwe Nkayi road is supposed to be the shortest link between the two centres, but it has become the longest. So bad is the road that what should be a 30-minute drive has since transf...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 06:27hrs | 1 | by Michael Magoronga
Crocodiles wreak havoc in Silobela
VILLAGERS in Donsa area, Silobela, are living in fear of crocodiles along Gweru River that are killing people and livestock since the beginning of the rain season last year.Ward 29 councillor ...Published: 10 Apr 2021 at 04:58hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
At least 10 killed as Mnangagwa dialed up rights abuses in 2020: Amnesty International
Zimbabwean security forces killed at least 10 people last year as President Emmerson Mnangagwa exploited the Covid-19 pandemic to step up human rights violations, deploying agents to abduct and tortur...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 09:47hrs | 4 | 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 | 6 | by Staff reporter
'Broadcasters should speak all national languages'
Reaching 90 years of age on March 15 this year , retired veteran broadcaster and national languages enthusiast Amon Nyamambi, better known on the airwaves as 'uMaqhulayibambe' his grandfather's name, ...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:26hrs | 17 | by John Masuku
Kombi full of stolen goats intercepted at roadblock
POLICE in Kadoma have arrested a man who was intercepted at a roadblock while transporting 45 goats that his accomplices and him had allegedly stolen in Zhombe.The goats were loaded in a commu...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:14hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Family demands 30 herd of cattle to bury slain relative
A Silobela family is refusing to bury a slain relative, demanding 30 herd of cattle from the family of a man accused of having murdered him.Mthandazo Moyo (52) of Simana Village under Chief Ma...Published: 08 Mar 2021 at 18:30hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Teacher’s body found hanging from tree
THE body of a teacher in Silobela was found hanging from a tree in a suspected murder case. Mtandazo Moyo (52), of Simana Village under Chief Malisa, a teacher at Simana Primary School was fou...Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 20:31hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Fatal end to exorcism session
POLICE in Gweru have arrested two brothers on murder charges after turned violent during an exorcism session at a shrine, resulting in one of them fatally stabbing a son of a self-styled prophetess th...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 22:49hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Boy electrocuted at Nkululeko High
A 13-year-old boy from Nkululeko in Silobela was electrocuted after he leaned on a Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) power line pole.The deceased was herding c...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 15:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
People of Godlwayo retain identity and pride
Maduna Mafu, the chief of Godlwayo, led the armed struggle of 1896 in the eastern Ndebele State, together with other leaders such as Mahlahleni Mafu, Siminzela Mathema and Fezela Khumalo.Godlw...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 10:05hrs | 109 | by Phathisani Nyathi
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