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Mutonhori Rwodzi's family suspects foul play
Independent candidate for Gutu West Christopher Mutonhori Rwodzi (53), who died in a car accident last night, will be buried on Sunday at the family's rural homestead at Aarons' Village, formerly Mush...Published: 30 Jun 2023 at 15:49hrs | 114 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF primaries preliminary results out
RESULTS for the Zanu-PF primary elections are still trickling in, with a mixed bag of young Turks and the old guard sailing through.The results are however, still subject to confirmation by th...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 08:02hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Big surprises in Zanu-PF primaries
SOME ministers and veteran parliamentarians fell by the wayside in the Zanu-PF primary elections that were held over the weekend as the ruling party entrenches democracy and reenergises its base ahead...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 06:42hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Dr Qhubani Moyo seeking to represent Zanu-PF in Insiza
Former MDC and ex- Zimbabwe Electoral Commission official, Qhubani Moyo is now seeking to represent Zanu-PF in the Insiza North constituency of Matabeleland South. Dr Moyo was once Fairtalk Co...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 07:15hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF sets guidelines for primary elections
Zanu-PF has set the guidelines for next weekend's primary elections, which will select party representatives for the forthcoming polls. The primary elections are being held on the backdrop of ...Published: 11 Mar 2023 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
RBZ in dramatic U-turn on lending
THE central bank yesterday lifted its temporary suspension of lending services by banks after the policy triggered sustained protests from industry, commerce and the public in general.In a sta...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:23hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Bread price shoots to US$2 in Zimbabwe
A STANDARD loaf of bread now costs more than US$2 after its price shot up by 30% to $345.This follows an increase in the price of flour seven days ago by 17%.The Grain Millers Associat...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 11:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 hits 100+ schools
GOVERNMENT has intensified adherence to Covid-19 standard mitigation procedures in learning institutions amid reports that over 100 schools countrywide have been hit by new infections.Although...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Panic as Omicron variant cases spike
THERE is panic in the country after several institutions including Parliament, courts, schools and non-governmental organisations were forced to close after an outbreak of COVID-19 cases.Zimba...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:17hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Govt threatens crackdown on businesses fuelling forex black market
GOVERNMENT has threatened to suspend operating licences for business entities manipulating the official foreign currency rate, thus fuelling the high parallel market exchange rate.In a stateme...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:32hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's new $50 can't buy bread
LAST week, the Zimbabwean central bank introduced a $50 note, the country's highest denomination since a return to Zimbabwean dollars as the main currency in 2019.It joins other denominations ...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 09:15hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
More schools needed in Gwanda
GWANDA District in Matabeleland South province has a dire shortage of schools and existing institutions are crowded. Schools countrywide have closed indefinitely due to a spike of Covid-19 cases. ...Published: 27 Jan 2021 at 05:57hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Baboons terrorise Gwanda
Baboons are causing havoc in the mining town of Gwanda, where they are raiding homes for food and ambushing shoppers outside retail shops.The troops of baboons are also said to have been causi...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 20:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man arrested for stoning Zanu-PF offices
A MAN from Gwanda has been arrested for ganging up with his accomplices, who are still at large, to damage property at the Zanu-PF Matabeleland South provincial offices during last week's violence and...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 08:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe annual inflation rate surges to 236%
Renowned United States economist and currency expert Steve Hanke says Zimbabwe's annual inflation rate is at 236 percent, much higher than the official figure of 42,09 percent published by Zimbabwe Na...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zimbabwe heads for shutdown
Government could be headed for a complete shutdown if it does not urgently address the concerns of its employees who are downing tools to press for better pay and improved working conditions, analysts...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 09:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda used by Chiwenga to topple Mutsvangwa - fake news
Defence and War Veterans deputy minister Victor Matemadanda, who is also the ZNLWVA secretary-general, said the claims that he was being used by Chiwenga to topple Mutsvangwa were false. "Thos...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Change of currency not ideal to revive Zimbabwe economy
THE country's economic crisis has deepened since the recent fiscal and monetary measures announced by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube and Reserve Bank governor John Mangudya. The economy has plu...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 08:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Looters give Mnangagwa govt first test
The new government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, which has pitched the fight against corruption on top of its agenda, faces its first test in two weeks time when the extended deadline for those who...Published: 04 Mar 2018 at 17:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
He milks snake venom to save lives
In the laboratory at his Marlborough home in Harare Ben Vermulen was trying to milk a huge Cape cobra by manoeuvring its razor sharp fangs through a rubber sheath on a plastic vial - the way he had do...Published: 13 Feb 2018 at 08:32hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland South Grade 7 exams pass rate drops
THE pass rate in the Grade Seven examinations in Matabeleland South dropped from 52 percent to 49,39 percent last year.The province has 512 primary schools and nine schools recorded 100 percen...Published: 31 Jan 2018 at 05:36hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
To hell with your National Peace and Healing Commission Mnangagwa - MRP President.
Mthwakazi Republic Party leader Mqondisi Moyo has told President Emmerson Mnangagwa to to to hell with his National Peace and Healing Commission if he does not acknowledge wrong doing through his part...Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 08:04hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe urged to embrace GMOs
Zimbabwe has been urged to embrace genetically modified (GM) crops to improve harvests and reduce crop production costs.This comes as government has remained rigidly averse to GM crops, common...Published: 28 Aug 2017 at 13:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube tells off Mphoko
WAR Veterans minister Tshinga Dube has scoffed at calls by Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko for him to dump the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association led by his predecessor and Zanu-P...Published: 07 Aug 2017 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Emmerson Mnangagwa 'Ngwena': The incoming call
The year was 2005, the month was April and the weather was slightly chilled and sunny. As the clock struck towards 12 midday; a calm, dejected but undeterred gentlemen walked into a bare and completel...Published: 28 Dec 2016 at 10:10hrs | 4 | by Charles Munganasa
Pupil's hunt, eat live lizards
Pupil's at the once prestigious government run St Christopher's Primary in Gwanda are reportedly eating live lizards.The pupil's are said to be hunting down the reptiles.The tren...Published: 08 Dec 2016 at 10:36hrs | 4 | by Tsepo Makhurane
Madluphuthu expected in Gwanda this Saturday
SOUTH African comedian and actor, Madluphuthu - (real name Vuyo Mgudlwa) - is expected in Gwanda on Saturday for a family fun day.According to local media, the talented actor who made an a...Published: 23 Nov 2016 at 22:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teacher encourages pupils to eat lizards
An unnamed grade six teacher at St Christopher's Primary School in Gwanda is reportedly encouraging pupils to eat lizards allegedly because the world will soon run out of food and people will be force...Published: 23 Nov 2016 at 14:46hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Boyfriend demands to be unlocked
A man who claims to have been centrally locked is refusing to end the relationship with his erstwhile girlfriend saying he can no longer have sex with any one besides her.Christopher Ngirazi a...Published: 01 Jul 2016 at 04:43hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Parents want Shona to be taught in a Gwanda school
Strayed Minutes of a grouping in Gwanda purporting to be meeting as Dynamos Football Club supporters have revealed that parents of Shona speaking children at St Christopher's Primary School in Gwanda ...Published: 21 Jun 2016 at 09:42hrs | 3 | by Ndou Paul
National Pledge gets mixed response
THERE was a mixed response on the inaugural National Pledge recital yesterday with government schools reciting it while most private schools did not embrace it. At government schools, some parents bro...Published: 04 May 2016 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff Reporters
Zimbabwe horror of 2008 back, says Analysts
Analysts say Zimbabwe has once again hit the depths of humanitarian and economic despair that were last experienced in 2008, when the country's seemingly unending political crisis precipitated an eco...Published: 12 Aug 2015 at 12:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa flying Zimbabwean flag high
Although Zimbabwe is in the economic doldrums, a few distinguished and enterprising citizens continue to make waves on the continent in the world of business, and management.These feted Zimbab...Published: 08 Feb 2015 at 15:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man adds zeros to $5 note
A 32-YEAR-OLD man will spend three months in jail for adding a zero to a $5 note to make it $50.Godness Owen Godha, of no fixed abode was arrested as he tried to buy a pint of beer using the f...Published: 07 Feb 2015 at 07:03hrs | | by Marvelous Moyo
Matabeleland South 2014 Grade 7 Schools ranking - list
FIFTEEN primary schools in Matabeleland South province recorded zero percent pass rate in the 2014 Grade Seven public examinations up from 13 the previous year.According to a Zimbabwe Schools ...Published: 02 Feb 2015 at 13:15hrs | 14 | by Thandeka Moyo
Matabeleland schools record awful results
MATABELELAND provinces schools once again failed to impress in last year's Advanced Level examinations, with no school making it into the top 10, while only six made it to the top 100.Accordin...Published: 27 Jan 2015 at 07:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru's plans to challenge Mugabe in 2018 rattles Zanu-PF
FORMER Vice President Dr Joice Mujuru's plans to launch a political party to challenge President Mugabe on the back of blaming him for the prevailing economic challenges is the height of hypocrisy...Published: 19 Jan 2015 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Baboons (and rank touts) a menace in Gwanda
Residents of Gwanda have raised a concern about the influx of baboons in the greater parts of the town particularly the CBD area.Complaints sent to Bulawayo24 News by residents claim that ...Published: 08 Jan 2015 at 15:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa finally arrives
After years of struggle and suffering some debilitating defeats, Justice minister Emmerson Mnangagwa was finally appointed Zanu-PF's first Vice President yesterday, a position that sets him up to suc...Published: 11 Dec 2014 at 14:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Woman sues hubby's lover for $8,000
A GWANDA teacher is claiming $8,000 from her husband's "small house" in adultery damages and for depriving her quality time with him.Thema Ndiweni, a teacher at Jahunda Primary School, dragged...Published: 19 Nov 2014 at 06:12hrs | 6 | by Marvelous Moyo
Total chaos in Zanu-PF
As Zanu-PF's escalating factional and succession wars turn increasingly violent, there are growing fears that President Robert Mugabe's party may soon implode altogether, taking the country down with ...Published: 12 Nov 2014 at 12:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Total chaos in Mugabe's Zanu-PF
As Zanu-PF's escalating factional and succession wars turn increasingly violent, there are growing fears that President Robert Mugabe's party may soon implode altogether, taking the country down with ...Published: 11 Nov 2014 at 20:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Let us pray, says Mujuru
As Zanu-PF's escalating factional and succession wars turn increasingly violent - with the country's economy once again teetering on the brink - embattled Vice President Joice Mujuru yesterday implor...Published: 10 Nov 2014 at 14:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe warned
Analysts have warned President Robert Mugabe and his misfiring government that Zanu-PF's increasingly violent factional and succession wars will sink Zimbabwe's ailing economy to levels witnessed five...Published: 09 Nov 2014 at 11:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF squabbles spill into court
ZANU-PF Bulawayo provincial deputy chairperson Christopher Mdingwa Dube has been dragged to court by a party district chairperson to block him from allegedly spreading falsehoods against the junior pa...Published: 06 Sep 2014 at 09:56hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
Economy haunts clueless Zanu-PF
Any hope that Zimbabweans had of a quick economic recovery were dashed last week when government admitted that it had failed to pay its external debt - amounting to over $10 billion amid concerns of m...Published: 04 May 2014 at 14:06hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Another pay delay irks civil servants
Civil servants have described as "unacceptable" the second delay in a row in their pay dates, demanding that government immediately puts its house in order.This followed...Published: 19 Apr 2014 at 16:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe needs a united opposition'
Zanu-PF, which won last year's contested elections, sealing its autonomy to continuously rule for 38 years, has begun preparations for the watershed 2018 polls, the Daily News is reliably informed....Published: 14 Apr 2014 at 10:10hrs | 1 | by John Kachembere and Tendai Kamhungira
Yen, Yuan - no more condoms for change?
ONCE known for its billion dollar notes and hyper-inflation, Zimbabwe must be the only place in the world to have eight currencies as legal tender - none of them its own.For the last five year...Published: 07 Feb 2014 at 06:22hrs | | by Brian Hungwe I BBC
Shamed Gwanda schools record 0% pass rate
GWANDA district primary schools recorded a slight increase in the Grade 7 pass rate last year with 21,5% of the children passing against last year's 18%.Six schools recorded a 0% pass rate. Jo...Published: 22 Jan 2014 at 06:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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