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Skeleton in bush sparks police investigation
DISCOVERY of skeletal remains of a man who could have died last year has sparked a police investigation in Bulawayo.Forensic examinations suggest the body, which was discovered in Umguza on 29...Published: 18 Aug 2023 at 18:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa son-in-law linked to attempt to seize CSC cold chain facility
Cold Storage Company (CSC) management in Harare is battling to ward off attempts by a close friend of President Mnangagwa's son-in-law Gerald Mlotshwa to seize control of a refurbished cold-chain faci...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 06:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean farmers to cash in on cannabis global boom
Zimbabwean farmers looking to cash in on a global boom in medicinal cannabis face a litany of costs and regulatory barriers, but growers like Munyaradzi Nyanungo are betting it will boost their fortun...Published: 11 May 2022 at 11:36hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt pampers army, police
ZIMBABWE plans to splurge millions of United States dollars to procure about 1 000 brand new vehicles for the security services sector next year, to bolster their operations in a move that is likely t...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:28hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Sand poachers degrade Bulawayo
RAMPANT sand poaching and chopping down of trees is causing environmental degradation in and around Bulawayo amid revelations that the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) only has five rangers instead of 74 n...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 05:53hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Africa is not as bad as is portrayed by media
I AM really concerned about the role of mass media in this century. Firstly, because there is so much of it, secondly, because it can easily distort perceptions and understanding of what is really goi...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 07:14hrs | | by Eddie Cross
What you need to get if you want to safely try recreational marijuana
Using recreational marijuana these days is a liberating and enjoyable experience. As more and more states are changing their stance on the use of marijuana for medical and recreational purposes, peopl...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 19:17hrs | 15 | by Staff writer
Mthuli's 'fantasy' budget: Here's how it will affect you
THE 2021 budget presented by the finance minister Mthuli Ncube to Parliament shows that the minister was living in a ‘fantasy world,' according to academic, Professor Austin Chakaodza."Some ...Published: 28 Nov 2020 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Economy snuffs out Zimbabwe smokers' income
Zimbabwean smokers lit up 8% fewer cigarettes this year, and the biggest drop is in the cheapest brands, as the economy snuffs out incomes.BAT, the country's biggest cigarette maker, saw sales...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bribery lands Ganja smoker in hot soup
The bid by a weed smoker to bribe police officers who had arrested him last week at Mazowe Agro chemicals complex backfired after the cops refused his bribery and took him to Concession magistrates' c...Published: 31 Aug 2019 at 21:09hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Smoking 'damages eyes as well as lungs'
Millions of people in the UK are putting their sight at risk by continuing to smoke, warn specialists.Despite the clear connection, only one in five people recognise that smoking can lead to b...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 08:48hrs | | by BBC
Guard against uncontrolled fires
Whilst EMA is doing a great job in public awareness on the dangers and damages caused by veld fires, everyone must do their bit in eradicating the menace. Boxes of matches and lighters are not...Published: 22 May 2019 at 20:24hrs | | by Thomas Murisa.
Fighting corruption is everyone's child
The 'corrective' austerity measures occasioned by the on going reforms can pull Zimbabwe out of the black hole we find ourselves in. It was never going to be easy turning back our fortunes after corru...Published: 10 May 2019 at 22:44hrs | | by Thomas Murisa
'IPSOS poll exaggerates 'illicit cigarette' market share'
Following the publication of an Ipsos survey on the "illegal cigarette market" and related issues, which was carried by various South African publications, an impression was given that British A...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 16:18hrs | 1 | by Lekan Ayo-Yusuf
Mnangagwa resurrects Beitbridge District club
THE Beitbridge District Club, once a social assembly point for white commercial farmers prior to independence, and the entire Beitbridge community after independence, relived its past glory last week....Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe fire incidents explained
Zimbabwe Republic Police has urged members of the public to be cautious of individuals or groups who are trying to link recent fire incidents to all sorts of speculations yet facts on the ground are c...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 20:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Chain smoker’ dies in slum fire
A MAN from Bulawayo was burnt to death after a room he was sleeping in caught fire in a slum in Trenance suburb. Siphosiso Moyo (46), an alleged drunkard and a chain smoker, died following a fire that...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
$200 000 property up in smoke
PROPERTY worth an estimated $202 000 was reduced to ashes on Tuesday when Empire House in Bulawayo was gutted down by fire.The building houses several flea markets.Bulawayo chief fire ...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Joshua Nkomo's Turning Point
COMRADE Elison Mupamawonde (born 1950 in Bikita), whose Chimurenga was Soft Magarasadza last week spoke about how ZIPRA out-gunned Rhodesian forces at Chirundu during the liberation struggle and how t...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 07:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
How to maximize and change your tailgating experience
It is without a doubt that tailgating is an American tradition. Drinking, eating, and hanging with friends right before watching an exciting game of ...Published: 08 Jun 2018 at 14:07hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Cannabis farming has come to the land
The carte blanche to lawfully grow 'weed' has attracted huge interest from bona fide overseas investors and locals. Forget the 'for medicinal purposes' clause, cannabis has been legalized, period. ...Published: 16 May 2018 at 13:36hrs | | by Thomas Murisa
Tobacco farmers get $25m in 9 days
Tobacco farmers have grossed $25,8 million from 8,9 million kg of the golden leaf delivered, nine days into the 2018 marketing season.In 2017, farmers had delivered 10,4 million kilogrammes wo...Published: 08 Apr 2018 at 09:15hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Cops run for dear life as mbanje smoker goes haywire
TWO police officers from Bulawayo ran for dear life after a man they found smoking mbanje turned violent and set upon them with a baton.Constable Marshall Chigwida and Const Brighton Mutasa, b...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and David Stannard led Gukurahundi, says Mugabe
Former President Robert Mugabe has opened on several high profile secrets Zimbabweans have always had questions on.In a wide ranging interview with The Independent newspaper, Mugabe takes a sw...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 08:52hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe blame 'Ndebeles' and Zapu for Gukurahundi
Q: What role have you played in the formation of the National Patriotic Front, the new opposition party led by Retired Brigadier-General Ambrose Mutinhiri? Are you a member? Is the former first lady a...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 14:37hrs | | by Staf reporter
Mugabe one-on-one interview
Q: What role have you played in the formation of the National Patriotic Front, the new opposition party led by Retired Brigadier-General Ambrose Mutinhiri? Are you a member? Is the former first lady a...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 09:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's appeal to sympathy only exposes his many evils
I wonder what part of the human emotion and body that Robert Mugabe and his handlers wanted to appeal to. It was certainly not the brain.(This article first appears on Hopewell Chin'ono Facebo...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 15:21hrs | 1 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Weed smoker bashes mom
A woman from Queens Park in Bulawayo was seriously assaulted by her son after she found him smoking cannabis at home and told him to leave the house to smoke his weed somewhere else.Trevor Nya...Published: 05 Feb 2018 at 07:29hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Challenges that have faced dialogue around Gukurahundi genocide
"The creation, arming and dispatching of Gukurahundi to this part of the country was not my role. It was the role of the security committee chaired by Mugabe whose members were Emmarson Munangwagwa, S...Published: 16 Jan 2018 at 13:35hrs | 1 | by Dumisani Mpofu
Our chiefs can now campaign for us, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I am glad that as we prepare for the upcoming elections which we have no excuse not to win by the 98 percent margin now standardised by peer d...Published: 02 Nov 2017 at 12:18hrs | | by CZ
People only die from what's meant to kill them
'Something must kill a man!' As heartwarming and pleasant as that phrase sounds, it's a nagging reminder that neither of us will be lucky to get out of Earth alive! Well, of course, except the Astrona...Published: 03 Aug 2017 at 12:24hrs | | by Nimi Princewill
Woman tortures, murders minor
A 42-YEAR-OLD Bulawayo woman, Gladys Sibanda, appeared in court yesterday charged with killing a minor child through torture and burying the body in a shallow grave behind her Pumula South house....Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cancer overtakes HIV as top killer
Over 80 percent of cancer cases are diagnosed at end stage in Zimbabwe, amid revelations that an average 5 000 new cases are recorded every year.Underfunding and information gaps are worsening...Published: 15 Jul 2017 at 11:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Stop smoking' plea as habit kills 50,000 South Africans every year
Smoking kills more than 50,000 people in South Africa each year, about a third of them before the age of 60, it was revealed on Tuesday as health experts and anti-smoking campaigners (Madiba Youth Org...Published: 30 May 2017 at 22:40hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Juju at Dynamos
Zimbabwe's global avatar has maxed out on grand narratives and pop consumables but occasionally underestimated the place of biography as a long night of the soul.Dynamos Football Club legend M...Published: 15 May 2017 at 06:51hrs | | by Stanely Mushava
PHOTOS: Ganja farmer nabbed
Photos of a ganja farmer who ran out of luck and got arrested by the Zimbabwe Republic Police have surfaced online. It is not clear where the massive plantation was geographically located, alt...Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 12:50hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Dagga smoker flees in handcuffs
A brave marijuana smoker, Lisani Nyoni aged 34 fled while in handcuffs at night after he overpowered a police officer who had arrested him. Nyoni was however later re-arrested at his home...Published: 31 Dec 2016 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff Reporter
This below the belt kind of thinking! Stinks to high heaven!
When we say our thinking and our ways of life has not changed to better ourselves and our communities this is one classical example. It is just sad and backward to say a girl-child does not dese...Published: 05 Dec 2016 at 20:19hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
'Secretive' bureaucracy controlling WHO Tobacco Treaty is 'a threat to public health' - new report
A recent report from the Royal College of Physicians concluded that vaping is "at least 95% safer" than smoking ...Published: 28 Sep 2016 at 09:15hrs | 1 | by APO
Chimene responds to Chiwenga attack
MANICALAND Provincial Affairs minister Mandiitawepi Chimene has downplayed statements by Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander, General Constantino Chiwenga that seemed to attack her after she tore in...Published: 14 Aug 2016 at 14:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rahman Gumbo quits
Chicken Inn new coach Rahman Gumbo has quit his old habit for good.Gumbo who is now an elder with Rhema Gospel Light Ministry church is no longer a chain smoker."I stop...Published: 10 Jun 2016 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Understanding the concept of multi-culturalism in German political landscape
Part four: 4.1 East Germany's multi culturalism When Germany was occupied by the Soviet Union and the Western allies it was divided into four parts...Published: 05 May 2016 at 19:26hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Miss Schools saga rages on
The outcry over hosting of Miss Schools pageant in a bar recently has grown louder with stakeholders in the industry, parents and promoters condemning organisers of the event and calling for action fr...Published: 20 Apr 2016 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Our chiefs are lying, we openly smoke mbanje - Binga villagers
Ordinary villagers in Binga have attacked their traditional leaders for claiming that it was a myth that the district is highly associated with smoking mbaje.Villagers said they would openly s...Published: 10 Apr 2016 at 12:42hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Woman divorce hubby for being addicted to smoking cannabis
A TWENTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD business woman of Lusaka West has sued her husband addicted to smoking cannabis on grounds that he is insane and threatens to kill her.Times of Zambia reported that Gorret M...Published: 25 Feb 2016 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Seven-year-olds now hooked to smoking - Health ministry says
The Ministry of Health and Child Care has made shock revelations that children as young as seven years have started smoking.A Global Youth Tobacco Survey carried out from 2014 to last year by ...Published: 14 Feb 2016 at 09:47hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Fire wipes out family
A GWERU businessman, his wife and daughter from Lundi Park low density suburb were burnt beyond recognition while his son escaped without injuries when their double storey apartment was gutted by fire...Published: 18 Dec 2015 at 05:53hrs | | by Munyaradzi Musiiwa
'Of Mega Deals and Mega Poverty'
As leader of a political party which is working tirelessly to win the confidence of the people of Zimbabwe, I have substantive interest in anxieties and expectations emanating from the litany of unful...Published: 11 Dec 2015 at 09:10hrs | | by Professor Welshman Ncube
Public smokers to be jailed
SMOKING in public will attract a fine of $500 or six months in jail after the country has aligned the Public Health Act on Tobacco Control Regulation 264 of 2001 with the World Health Organisation sta...Published: 20 Sep 2015 at 08:40hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo is the City of boozers
BULAWAYO Metropolitan Province has once again emerged as the place with the highest figures of heavy drinkers of alcoholic beverages, with a consumption rate of 38.3 percent compared to the national a...Published: 13 Jun 2015 at 12:48hrs | 1 | by Leonard Ncube
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