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Mthuli Ncube backs budding artistes, describes arts sector as potential employer if capacitated
SEVEN-YEAR-OLD Sibonokuhle Sitsha is a young aspiring musician looking to make her name in the industry.But for all intents and purposes, this could very well be a dream that may not be attain...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 05:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Boost for Thorngrove Hospital
BULAWAYO's Thorngrove Infectious Diseases Hospital has received a donation of eight beds from stakeholders to increase its capacity in handling COVID-19 at a time the country is experiencing a surge i...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 22:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt blames Covid-19 spike on border jumpers
The government has blamed the spike in Covid-19 cases in Bulawayo to illegal immigrants as fears of a second wave of the outbreak of the respiratory disease in Zimbabwe grow.Health and Child C...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 21:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Stay away and Looting in Zimbabwe: A narrative created to push for a national dialogue
Zimbabwe does not get tired to engage into processes that will help the corrupt and governance failures survive another day. As I write this article I have no doubt in my mind that what is happening n...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 20:10hrs | 1 | by Dumisani Mpofu
Mnangagwa's plan to revive Bulawayo falters
Industries in the second city are still battling to survive despite pledges by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to breathe life into what was once the hub of the country's economy.Ahead of the har...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 22:36hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo de-industrialisation, ZITF success juxtaposed
The 59th edition of the Zimbabwe International Trade (ZITF) was by far the largest in decades both in terms of attendance by local and foreign exhibitors as well as the business activity.Not o...Published: 02 May 2018 at 11:49hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Bulawayo on the rebound
After decades of progressive decay, signs of recovery have started to show for Bulawayo's beleaguered industry as factories where birds had come to roost begin to rise out of their slumber.The...Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 12:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo: From industrial to church hub
ONCE regarded as the country's industrial hub, Zimbabwe's second largest city has suffered what probably ranks as the worst job carnage, occasioned by the deteriorating economic situation that has led...Published: 12 Jul 2017 at 13:09hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mum-in-law forces couple to sleep in separate rooms
IN a strange arrangement, a newly wedded couple from Nketa 9 suburb in Bulawayo is sleeping in separate bedrooms at the instigation of the man's mother who is allegedly refusing to bless the marriage....Published: 07 Jul 2017 at 09:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo on cholera, typhoid alert
BULAWAYO City Council is on high alert of a possible outbreak of cholera and typhoid amid looming water shortages, with the local authority, however, saying it was prepared to contain any occurren...Published: 30 Oct 2016 at 10:42hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Man beats up lover for complaining after finding him in bed with another woman
A man from Thorngroove in Bulawayo is in trouble after he assaulted his girlfriend after he complained when she found him engaging in sex with another woman at his house.Thabo Mabhena (23) ple...Published: 26 Feb 2016 at 05:52hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Thutshu ixoxo elilamazinyo eThorngrove
ZISELE zinkemile izakhamizi zelokitshini leThorngroove koBulawayo ngemva kokuba kuthutshe inkalakatha yexoxo elilamazinyo livela esifuleni esiseduzane andubana lihlaselwe ngamadoda engazi ukuthi sezit...Published: 24 Jul 2015 at 22:13hrs | 1 | by Cornelius Luphahla
Council charged with culpable homicide
The Bulawayo City Council has been dragged to court facing charges of culpable homicide following the death of a 16-year-old boy who drowned last year in a gravel pit in Entumbane allegedly dug and le...Published: 26 Mar 2014 at 09:13hrs | | by Tendayi Madhomu
Council revises water shedding to one day
The Bulawayo City Council will from Monday January 13, 2014 reduce reduce the water shedding period from 48 hours to 24 hours per week following significant inflows into the city's dams.City m...Published: 11 Jan 2014 at 22:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wayward son evicts mum from family house
WHOEVER coined the adage "an idle mind is the devil's workshop" seems to have had a 45-year-old unemployed Bulawayo man from Thorngroove in mind who stunned all and sundry when he allegedly chased a...Published: 28 Apr 2013 at 11:55hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Victim pulls rapist's jewels
A 25-YEAR-OLD Bulawayo man is feared to have been left with a permanent injury that could render him impotent after his crown jewels were pulled by a 49-year-old woman whom he allegedly attempted to r...Published: 28 Apr 2013 at 11:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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