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Zimbabwe police officers soaked as rains destroy tents
Scores of police officers in Chipinge, Manicaland, were left stranded this week after torrential rains destroyed their makeshift tent bases, leaving them without shelter or a place to operate from. Th...Published: 08 Nov 2024 at 07:03hrs | 401 | by Staff reporter
SA tighten screws on border crimes
Zimbabwe and South Africa have tightened screws on border crimes along the Limpopo River and at the Beitbridge port of entry, where cases of irregular migrations and smuggling of prohibited goods are ...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
161 arrested in anti-crime border operation
The Department of Immigration's Regional Compliance and Enforcement Unit has intensified operations at the Beitbridge Border Post to prevent illegal migration between Zimbabwe and South Africa....Published: 05 Jul 2022 at 21:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police launch another blitz
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has launched another operation code-named ‘Respect Other Road Users', targeting motorists who continue violating the traffic rules and regulations countrywide.So...Published: 02 May 2022 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police crackdown on pirate taxis nets 600
NEARLY 600 pirate taxis usually called mushikashika, unregistered cars, street kids controlling traffic and vendors operating at intersections were arrested in Harare yesterday on the first day of a m...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 08:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lack of machinery affects operations at Bulawayo landfill
LACK of machinery is reportedly crippling the Bulawayo City Council (BCC)'s landfill management activities amid calls by the city fathers for the removal of the Ngozi Mine squatters as their lives are...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, MDC Alliance clash
HARARE City Council has raised security fears as the fight for control of vending sites in Mbare hots up.A recent report by council's small-to-medium enterprises committee revealed that city f...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sangoma uses manhood to heal patient
A SELF-STYLED sangoma from Stoneridge in Harare has been arrested on rape charges and allegedly using his manhood to treat a woman who had menstruation problems.Stephen Nyashanu Mabviregudo (3...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mbare tender scandal rocks council
Harare City Council has awarded a tender for palisade fencing and refurbishment of Mbare Bus Terminus to a local company when the same work had already been done for free by transport operators recent...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:06hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
MDC trapped in history
Inasmuch as the opposition is necessary to maintain checks and balances on Government, the MDC Alliance has dismally failed in this regard. Instead of proffering alternatives, the political party has ...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 09:02hrs | | by Jasper Hloka
Wig thieves hit Harare
HARARE has been rocked by a syndicate of thieves who snatch women's wigs in the CBD.It has also emerged the syndicate works in cahoots with hairdressers who buy them for resale.The new...Published: 28 May 2018 at 16:04hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Can the NPRC overcome a legacy of failure?
Our country has witnessed great deal of violence. The liberation war claimed around 50 000 deaths. During the Gukurahundi atrocities, an estimated 20 000 people were killed. In 2005, Operation Muramba...Published: 11 Feb 2018 at 07:44hrs | | by Paul Themba Nyathi
Condemned chickens on sale
Chickens that were part of a consignment deemed unfit for human consumption are being sold to unsuspecting customers in Harare and its hinterland, raising serious health risks.The chickens, we...Published: 05 Oct 2017 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe fast turning into a coin country
Fears abound that further injection of the bond notes by the RBZ into the market could fuel inflation.IT is high noon in Harare and a young woman in strappy stilettos confidently walks out of ...Published: 27 Apr 2017 at 09:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Residents on flood alert
Beitbridge town's Civil Protection Unit has placed residents on flood high alert due to heavy rainfall in the region.Recently, Zhovhe Dam spilled and several smaller dams in Gwanda and B...Published: 11 Jan 2017 at 03:59hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
'Music is for vagrants' comment angers Zakaria
VETERAN sungura music gaffer, Nicholas Zakaria is set to launch his 27th album in South Africa barely three months after his former band member and musical sibling, Alick Macheso launched his much- ma...Published: 19 Jun 2016 at 12:26hrs | | by Joel Tsvakwi
Golfers condemn state of Masvingo Golf Club
Some 59 golfers who attended the Ok Zimbabwe Southern Tours Invitation Golf Tournament have condemned the state of Masvingo Golf Club whose ceiling is falling in and the roof leaking.Masvingo ...Published: 31 May 2016 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Seeking ethnic solutions in Zimbabwe is going global - Part four
We are in Germany today! Understanding the concept of multi-culturalism in German political landscape Is she now going crazy to think that African...Published: 30 Apr 2016 at 15:29hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
777 left homeless after flash floods hit Beitbridge town
A TOTAL of 777 people have been left homeless after flash floods hit Beitbridge town on Friday night. A majority of the flood victims slept on rooftops after the flash floods filled their hous...Published: 15 Mar 2016 at 06:00hrs | 2 | by Thupeyo Muleya
Beitbridge floods leave 568 stranded
AT least 568 people were left stranded after 200 houses were affected by flash floods in Dulibadzimu suburb in Beitbridge after heavy rains accompanied by a thunderstorm pounded the area since Friday....Published: 13 Mar 2016 at 07:37hrs | 2 | by Thupeyo Muleya
Maridadi is a dishonourable MP?
As 2018 is beckoning, the electorates must take stock of the contributions made by the people they voted into parliament to represent them. This should be done with a view to assuring quality represen...Published: 26 Nov 2015 at 12:49hrs | | by John Sigauke
Zimbabweans suffocating under unjustified levies
Dear Editor,Zimbabweans Suffocating under unjustified levies The spat of levies being introduced by government, the latest of which is the r...Published: 22 Nov 2015 at 08:47hrs | | by Ilos Nyoni, MDC National Executive member
Die hard Rhodies unrepentant
It dies hard among the Rhodesian incorrigible vagrants that Zimbabwe is no longer a colony and it can never be again. This week and in some few days to come a number of white Zimbabweans here and in t...Published: 12 Nov 2015 at 09:51hrs | | by Stewart Murewa
Zanu PF MP denies there has been mismanagement in govt
Zanu PF Chegutu MP Dexter Nduna has defened his party against claims that the country has economic crisis due to Zanu PF government's mismanagement.Nduna made the remarks in parliament after s...Published: 30 Oct 2015 at 09:08hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Chinotimba mocks wife 'snatcher' Maridadi
Buhera South MP Joseph Chinotimba (Zanu-PF) yesterday accused Mabvuku-Tafara MP James Maridadi (MDC-T) of being in the habit of snatching other people's wives before he was made to withdraw his ...Published: 29 Oct 2015 at 08:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP struggles to read prepared speech in Parliament
Newly elected Zanu PF Makokoba MP Tshinga Dube on Tuesday struggled to read his prepared maiden speech in Parliament and was forced to sit down after his extended time ran out.According ...Published: 15 Jul 2015 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Three gun-totting vagrants arrested for armed robbery
GWERU - Police in Gweru have arrested three more vagrants in connection with a case involving a fellow gun toting vagrant who was convicted in September.The three, Vincent Mutare,18, Tapi...Published: 06 Nov 2014 at 07:03hrs | | by Court Reporter
Omkhula, the funniest guys I have ever seen
NOW that the Intwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo 2014 edition has successfully come and gone, leaving the city with an "unforgettable" stamp of the beauty of the performing arts, I would like to take th...Published: 28 Sep 2014 at 18:39hrs | 1 | by Christopher Mlalazi
Notorious housebreaker sentenced to 10 years in jail
A notorious housebreaker in Victoria Falls who had for a long time evaded arrest by pretending to be speech impaired and hiding among street kids, has been arrested and sentenced to 10 years in jail....Published: 14 Jul 2014 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
SA man escapes death after being lured to Zim by Satanic cult
35-year-old Donald Eunice of Orange Free State, South Africa, is lucky to be alive after a satanic cult alleged to be part of the Johane Masowe Echishanhu Church lured him to Zimbabwe.T...Published: 24 Apr 2014 at 21:33hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Urban decay grips Harare
On Harare's hardscrabble streets, college graduates compete with peasants scratching out a living selling anything from mobile phone cards to herbal sex tonics, a measure of the decline of Zimbabwe's ...Published: 03 Apr 2014 at 10:31hrs | | by Reuters
Prophets challenged to 'real miracle' contest
A GWERU-based apostolic sect leader has branded emerging prophets "n'angas" and challenged them for a contest where they would focus on miracles that change people's lives for the better, like making ...Published: 08 Mar 2014 at 11:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pay toilets irks Bulawayo residents
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has been accused of gross hypocrisy in its call for cleanliness in the city when it has commercialised almost all public toilets in the city's central business distric...Published: 09 Dec 2013 at 08:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Vagrants syndicate in spate of break-ins
GWERU police have warned the local business community of a syndicate of vagrants which is allegedly working in cahoots with bent security guards to break into shops in the Central Business Distric...Published: 25 Nov 2013 at 02:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Street kids, vagrants invade Bulawayo CBD
THE city of Bulawayo is fast losing its glamour as scores of street kids, vagrants and mentally-challenged people have virtually invaded the Central Business District (CBD) in the past few months mak...Published: 18 Aug 2013 at 15:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T factionalism takes new tribal twist
Some aspiring MDC-T parliamentary candidates are calling on party supporters to vote only for individuals who originally come from their constituencies in the imminent primaries that are set to be ke...Published: 05 Apr 2013 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police swoop on homeless people and street children
Traffic came to a standstill in Harare as police officers swooped on homeless people and street children in an exercise meant to clean up the city.The clean-up, code named Usagara Mumugwagwa (...Published: 05 Feb 2013 at 14:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Amusement theme park for Bulawayo
BULAWAYO will become the first city in the country to have an amusement theme park measuring more than three hectares using solar energy.Residents will soon be treated to a number of entertain...Published: 09 Jan 2013 at 11:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Marange apostolic sect refuse to be counted
Scared of being counted in the just-ended census, members of Marange apostolic sect in Domboshawa fled into mountains yesterday when enumerators approached them as they were conducting a mop-up recoun...Published: 30 Aug 2012 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Population census ends
THE 2012 population census ended yesterday and Government was expected to release US$8 million towards payment of allowances to enumerators.Finance Minister Tendai Biti told journalists that a...Published: 28 Aug 2012 at 03:05hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo Police concerned about crime upsurge in city
POLICE in Bulawayo have appealed for co-operation from members of the community and the corporate world in the fight against crime.This comes amid reports that there is an upsurge of criminal ...Published: 03 Aug 2012 at 04:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe census to exclude those in diaspora
The population census, which will be conducted next month, will see all Zimbabweans who will be in the country between the 17th and 18th of August being counted but those who would have visited neighb...Published: 09 Jul 2012 at 16:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophet Makandiwa's judgement night creates furore
Charismatic preacher and founder of the United Family International Church (UFIC) Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa's much hyped Judgement Night has created furore among some sections of the Christian com...Published: 01 Apr 2012 at 09:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bank loses bid to seize Zim assets
A GERMAN bank KFW Bankengruppe’s bid to seize Zimbabwe’s six properties in South Africa to recover a debt in excess of 40 million Euro hit a snag after a Johanne...Published: 08 Dec 2010 at 16:45hrs | | by Daniel Nemukuyu
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