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Zimbabwe plans to build new city for the rich
A brochure depicts pristine walkways, towering high rises and shining malls - all to be shared by a multiracial coterie of well-heeled residents. Plans also call for a solar plant, an important draw f...Published: 19 hrs ago | 4675 | by Staff Reporter
Harare fails to account for Zinara funds
Harare City Council has failed to acquit funds that have been allocated to it by the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) resulting in the local authority failing to access new disbursements...Published: 25 Jan 2023 at 10:31hrs | 105 | by Staff reporter
Harare fails to account for Zinara funds
Harare City Council has failed to acquit funds that have been allocated to it by the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) resulting in the local authority failing to access new disbursements...Published: 25 Jan 2023 at 10:31hrs | 155 | by Staff reporter
'Female CCC members fondled in prison vehicle'
LAWYERS representing 25 members of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) who were arrested last week in Harare's Budiriro suburb have accused the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services wardens o...Published: 24 Jan 2023 at 05:49hrs | 1501 | by Staff reporter
Charamba mocks Chamisa
PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson George Charamba has blasted Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa for promising a ‘new great Zimbabwe' while opposition led councils have failed t...Published: 23 Jan 2023 at 05:48hrs | 4962 | by Staff reporter
Police raid illegal alcohol warehouse
THE police have vowed to bring to book the supply network of Bulawayo businesses and beyond that are linked to the warehouse where US$110 000 worth of suspected smuggled alcohol consignment was seized...Published: 23 Jan 2023 at 05:45hrs | 864 | by Staff reporter
Car crash ends 10-day marriage
PAINFUL wails and heart-wrenching sobs filled a local mortuary hall in Bulawayo yesterday as two families that were brought together through marriage 10 days ago said their goodbyes to the couple that...Published: 23 Jan 2023 at 05:44hrs | 1373 | by Staff reporter
US$100,000 alcohol contraband seized
POLICE yesterday smashed a well-orchestrated smuggling racket and seized an assortment of alcohol worth over US$100 000 suspected to have been illegally brought into the country following the intercep...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:21hrs | 257 | by Staff reporter
Killer cop hit with another charge
MURDER suspect, Jaison Muvevi who made headlines last week after he shooting and killing three people, including a police officer in Wedza has been hit with another murder charge.Muvevi ...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 22:24hrs | 815 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo dam levels still critically low
BULAWAYO's major supply dams have received insignificant inflows of water since the onset of the rainy season, raising fears of more water woes in the city.According to the latest update by th...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 06:39hrs | 273 | by Staff reporter
'O' Level exam cheat ordered to perform 140 hours unpaid work
A CHINHOYI 2 High School Form Four learner, who was busted with an answer template to a Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC) Combined Science paper last year, has been sentenced to community ...Published: 19 Jan 2023 at 13:14hrs | 752 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF commandeers supporters to register en masse
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has reportedly been mobilising its supporters to get registered to vote in Harare and Bulawayo, with hundreds turning up daily at the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) regis...Published: 19 Jan 2023 at 07:33hrs | 1367 | by Staff reporter
Makandiwa says 'Mind your own business'
UNITED Family International Church (UFIC) founder Emmanuel Makandiwa says people must mind their own business and leave him alone after attracting attention with his purchase of a US$300 000 luxury ve...Published: 19 Jan 2023 at 07:28hrs | 1112 | by Staff reporter
Nust students complex awaits Mnangagwa commissioning
THE Government, through the Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ), has completed constructing the massive US$17 million student accommodation complex in Bulawayo.The multi-purpose...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 15:10hrs | 1924 | by Staff reporter
Illegal vendors crowding the city's streets are not originally from Bulawayo
A Bulawayo City Council top official has claimed that illegal vendors crowding the city's streets, blocking pavements and other roads are not originally from the city.Town clerk Christopher Du...Published: 16 Jan 2023 at 16:28hrs | 1512 | by Staff reporter
Push for return of Zapu properties intensifies
ZAPU and Zipra veterans are set to meet on January 28 to elect a substantive committee to spearhead engagement with government and other processes towards the return of their seized properties....Published: 16 Jan 2023 at 16:28hrs | 777 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa promises to end 'terror tactics'
The Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) has described an attack on a lawyer by police on Saturday as a "new low" for the country's checkered human rights record.In a statement, the LSZ demanded an i...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 11:24hrs | 1191 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cops flee Ganja farming ancestral spirits
TWO police officers fleeing down a flight of stairs with stark terror written on their faces at the crack of dawn is not an everyday occurrence.What was supposed to be a routine arrest went so...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:54hrs | 1042 | by Staff reporter
Fight stopper stabbed with broken beer bottle
A MAN who tried to break up a fight was left writhing in agony after he was stabbed in the face and neck with a broken beer bottle.Aleck Mhlanga (69) told a court that he saw his nephew Arnold...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:54hrs | 199 | by Staff reporter
Suspected wizards/witches usually found at people's homes suffer from mental health
THE grey-haired, half naked and stumbling elderly individuals who are usually found at people homes in the wee hours are not all wizards and witches but some suffer from mental health.A family...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:54hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
Dad terrorises family with murder-suicide threats
"I'LL kill you, myself and the children…"An abusive Bulawayo man has reportedly developed homicidal tendencies after his wife left him, to get peace of mind.It seems like a no-win si...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:53hrs | 222 | 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 | 375 | by Staff reporter
Harvest House builds US$42m auditorium
HARVEST House International church has poured US$42 million into the construction of the biggest conference centre in the country with a capacity to hold 10 500 people in Bulawayo's Selbourne Brooke s...Published: 13 Jan 2023 at 05:47hrs | 796 | by Staff reporter
BCC starts repairing Luveve Road
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has started rehabilitating some sections of Luveve Road that are now impassable due to potholes that have been worsened by the rains.The local authourity needs US$9...Published: 12 Jan 2023 at 07:35hrs | 939 | by Staff Reporter
Teen girl electrocuted after stepping on water
A 15-year-old girl was electrocuted while attempting to retrieve her slides lost in flowing water in Harare's Warren Park suburb, police said on Wednesday.The incident took place at around 7PM...Published: 12 Jan 2023 at 07:16hrs | 740 | by Staff Reporter
There is no main opposition party in Zimbabwe but opportunists!
When politics is discussed in Zimbabwe the focus is on the ruling party, Zanu pf, and their erstwhile rivals CCC led by Chamisa.CCC has its roots in the main MDC formed by the late Tsvangirai,...Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 18:08hrs | 1479 | by AT Kadada
Mob beats up Zesa cable thief
A 22-year-old man from Bulawayo's Nguboyenja suburb escaped death by a whisker after residents meted instant justice on him for stealing copper cables worth US$1 800.Mbekezeli Soleka was caugh...Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 16:50hrs | 387 | by Staff reporter
Makokoba trio beats suspected thief to death
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested three men from Makokoba suburb who allegedly beat a suspected thief to death.Kelvin Sakungani (23), Thulani Ndlovu (29) and Tanyaradzwa Mangani (21) beat up Ni...Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 16:48hrs | 211 | by Staff reporter
Heavy rains continue to destroy property
More damages to infrastructure and households have been recorded in various parts of the country as downpours persist with the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) expecting isolated thunderstorms...Published: 09 Jan 2023 at 06:58hrs | 656 | by Staff reporter
'Wizard falls from the sky'
RESIDENTS of Mahatshula suburb in Bulawayo woke up to a bizarre sight of a naked old man who claimed to be a wizard that fell from the sky.According to residents the man in his birthday suit w...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 16:28hrs | 3378 | by Staff reporter
City of Bulawayo to get rid of all informal traders in the CBD
The City of Bulawayo has advised all stakeholders that it will be conducting an exercise to rid the City of all informal traders in the Central Business District (CBD) with effect from Wednesday, 11. ...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 16:03hrs | 1677 | by Staff reporter
BCC embarks on Luveve road rehab
The flow of traffic along Luveve road in Bulawayo will be disrupted for the next three months as the local authority embarks on major rehabilitation works.The rehabilitation works will target ...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 15:34hrs | 460 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is being led by the Devil himself - please, dear God, intervene!
I have seen evil in this country before. In fact, I believe that my childhood experiences of watching those in my neighborhood of Redcliff being gruesomely beaten up, and their homes burnt to ...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 09:53hrs | 1778 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF aligned vendors in showdown with Bulawayo Council
A showdown between Bulawayo City Council and Zanu-PF aligned vendors is looming following the former‘s decision to get rid of all informal traders in the Central Business District (CBD)....Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 09:36hrs | 240 | by Staff reporter
Soul Brothers' visible footprints in Bulawayo
THEY adopted Zimbabwe, Bulawayo in particular, in the mid-80s as "expatriates" seeking refuge in the country, running away from the rigid apartheid rule by Pieter Willem Botha the then South African p...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 09:35hrs | 520 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo cop killed by lightning
A police officer stationed at Cowdray park police base in Bulawayo was struck and killed by lightning on Tuesday.Peter Gwaza (42) and her girlfriend Priority Dube (30) were walking along a foo...Published: 06 Jan 2023 at 18:10hrs | 288 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants grovelling for housing stands isn't economic development but shameful retrogression
It was one of the most painful and heartrending sights! There are very few incidents that are so harrowing and sink the heart, as watching grown-ups - grovelling for things which, in a normal ...Published: 05 Jan 2023 at 13:22hrs | 869 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Suspected robber shot dead
POLICE gunned down a suspected armed robber and arrested five others during a crackdown after the suspects raided a gold mine in Shurugwi in Midlands Province and went away with 400kg of crushed gold ...Published: 28 Dec 2022 at 20:33hrs | 647 | by Staff reporter
Wednesday water supply schedule for Bulawayo
The City of Bulawayo has released the water supply schedule for Wednesday 28 December 2022. The City introduced a water-shedding schedule in order to address a critical water shortage in the k...Published: 28 Dec 2022 at 10:18hrs | 1646 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe democratic space narrows ahead of 2023 polls
AS Zimbabwe inches closer to the 2023 general election, the democratic space is narrowing as authoritarian rule takes a toll on the political opposition and civil society.In December alone, cr...Published: 27 Dec 2022 at 06:50hrs | 981 | by Staff reporter
Typhoid outbreak hits Harare
Harare City has been hit by a typhoid outbreak with more than sixty confirmed cases.Harare City Health director, Dr Prosper Chonzi says the western suburbs of Budiriro, Glen View and Glen Nora...Published: 19 Dec 2022 at 21:14hrs | 1507 | by Staff Reporter
There is plenty of water in Redcliff, but it does not get to the taps in homes
Redcliff municipality has been reeling from acute water supply shortage, a situation that has been going on since the fall of Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (ZISCO) around 2010.The water cris...Published: 18 Dec 2022 at 11:23hrs | 507 | by Taruberekera Masara
John Landa Nkomo's son lover spared jail
FORMER Vice President John Landa Nkomo's son Sandlasami's ex-lover who broke into his house as punishment for dumping her was spared the agony of jail life when she appeared in court charged with unla...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:20hrs | 1065 | by Staff reporter
Tout arrested for biting cop
A 25-YEAR-OLD tout from Cowdray Park suburb in Bulawayo has been arrested for allegedly biting a police officer who had arrested him for touting for passengers.Nhlanhla Khumalo appeared before...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:19hrs | 354 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's councillor attacked by Zanu-PF land barons, car badly vandalised
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) councillor for Mabelreign, Denford Ngadziore, on Friday escaped a life threatening confrontation with some Zanu-PF land barons who he had tried to bar from invading...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:17hrs | 283 | by Staff reporter
Does the current water shedding mean a broken system in the BCC?
This year so far has not only been struck by the long hours of load shedding but water is being cut constantly with people having to go at least 72 hours ...Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 07:03hrs | 962 | by Mzingaye Nxumalo
Nkulumane market takes shape
A MASSIVE market place in Bulawayo, which will help decongest the city centre and redefine fruit and vegetable trading is taking shape in Nkulumane suburb.The fruit and vegetable produce distr...Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 06:30hrs | 321 | by Staff reporter
Man murders wife, rapes corpse in front of children
A 36-YEAR-OLD man from Cowdray Park suburb in Bulawayo mercilessly murdered his estranged wife and went on to sexually abuse her corpse in full view of their children before he later committed suicide...Published: 12 Dec 2022 at 18:37hrs | 794 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo suburbs go for 7 days without water
BULAWAYO has been hit by a serious water crisis with most suburbs going for more than a week without running water amid fears of a disease outbreak.The water crisis has also led to residents t...Published: 12 Dec 2022 at 18:37hrs | 444 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo wife killer commits suicide
Judge Evans Zinzombe, the Bulawayo man who callously murdered his wife Wednesday and went on to sexually abuse her corpse in full view of the couple's minor children, was found dead with police linkin...Published: 11 Dec 2022 at 08:57hrs | 1138 | by Staff reporter
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