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Zesa apologises to residents
ZESA has apologised to residents of suburbs that have spent a week without power after it failed to meet a Saturday deadline to restore power following a major fault at Glenville Substation in Richmon...Published: 2 hrs ago | 293 | by Staff reporter
Motorists, pedestrians can cross border tomorrow
PREPARATIONS have been made for private motorists and pedestrians to use safely the land border posts from tomorrow with the deployment of more staff and equipment on course, and strict health safety ...Published: 2 hrs ago | 301 | by Staff reporter
Borders reopen tomorrow
Preparations have been made for private motorists and pedestrians to safely use the land border posts from tomorrow with the deployment of more staff and equipment and strict health safety measures in...Published: 2 hrs ago | 125 | by Staff reporter
SA deploys soldiers to stop truck attacks
CRISIS talks about trucking violence were continuing on Saturday after police minister Bheki Cele said soldiers would patrol roads targeted by saboteurs.Violent attacks have claimed the life o...Published: 16 hrs ago | 1391 | by Staff reporter
Shot women complain against police conduct
TWO women from Hwange in Matabeleland North have petitioned the Zimbabwe Republic Police to carry out investigations into incidents in which they were allegedly shot by law enforcement officers during...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:27hrs | 871 | by Staff reporter
All eyes on Mthuli Ncube's budget
VENDORS, teachers and retailers are pinning their hopes on today's budget presentation by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to address key issues affecting their constituencies that have been hard hit by ...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:16hrs | 772 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans mend shabby dollar notes amid economic crisis
Albert Marombe takes a grimy, tattered US$1 note and delicately, expertly glues it back into one piece, holding it up for inspection."I don't care how torn it is. All I want to see is the seri...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 06:20hrs | 6842 | by AP
Zimnbabwean vendor resorts to buying torn dollars
A vendor displaying a banner advertising that he buys old and torn US dollar notes. As the economy slowly redollarises, small denominations for change are a nightmare and soiled notes are often reject...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 05:00hrs | 1701 | by Staff reporter
Anxiety over freak Zupco accidents
"Naturally, when you get into a Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) bus, safety, with regards to the fitness of the vehicle, should be the least of your worries. We are made to believe the buses...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:38hrs | 240 | by Staff reporter
NetOne unveils new service
State owned mobile network operator, NetOne has unveiled a new platform that allows individuals and vendors to sell and buy electronic airtime at a discount. Addressing delegates at an appreci...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 06:46hrs | 2186 | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus worsens plight of city's informal traders
FOR six years, Reuben Dube earned his keep selling secondhand shirts, trousers and shoes in this city's central business district.Then came the coronavirus crisis, which shut down Zimbabwe - a...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 21:21hrs | 147 | by Staff reporter
Harare's growing garbage problem
HARARE, renamed from the colonial Salisbury, in the early days of independence, was widely referred to as the Sunshine City owing to its squeaky-clean streets and orderly, smart and clean residential ...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 06:25hrs | 340 | by Staff reporter
Auxillia Mnangagwa's business partners listed on Covid-19 fund for the poor
FIRST lady Auxillia Mnangagwa's business partners, among them a ruling Zanu-PF senator, are on the list of people meant to benefit from a $600 million (US$25 million) fund to cushion vulnerable popula...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:41hrs | 2635 | by Staff reporter
Auxillia Mnangagwa's business partners listed on multi-million Covid-19 fund for the poor
FIRST lady Auxillia Mnangagwa's business partners, among them a ruling Zanu PF senator, are on the list of people meant to benefit from a $600 million (US$25 million) fund to cushion vulnerable popula...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 08:26hrs | 1278 | by Staffg Reporter
Zimbabwean accused of attacking 10 hikers and murdering 2 in Cape Town
The double-murder trial of the alleged "Table Mountain killer" is set to resume next Monday in the Cape Town high court.Thirty-five-year-old Zimbabwean national Blessing Bveni is accused of at...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 18:12hrs | 2454 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers refuse to return to work
AN acute shortage of sanitiser, PPE and clean water is putting pupils and school staff at risk of Covid-19, say unions.Teachers in Zimbabwe are refusing to return to work after the resumption ...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 16:53hrs | 2707 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt fails to account for COVID-19 allowances
A ZANU-PF MP last week heckled Finance deputy minister Clemence Chiduwa, demanding that he explains to Parliament how much money the government had so far disbursed to assist vulnerable citizens facin...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 06:50hrs | 789 | by Staff reporter
5 die near Regina Coeli crash site
FIVE people died in a road accident that occurred at the 34km peg along the Nyanga-Nyamaropa while at Mupedzanhamo, in Harare, a Zupco contracted Trip Trans bus veered off the road and hit some vendor...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 09:57hrs | 615 | by Staff reporter
Harare vendor killed by lightning
A HARARE vendor was fatally struck by a bolt of bolt lightning on Tuesday night at Wood farm, Mazowe while selling his products at the farm.Brian Chifamba (31) of Marlborough, Harare died on t...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 16:38hrs | 2219 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Chaos as intercity travel resumes
MAJOR bus termini, depots and popular hiking spots in Bulawayo were yesterday a hive of activity as transport operators resumed inter-city routes amid jostling by travellers as they boarded buses. ...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 07:19hrs | 1030 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa still to decide on Beitbridge Border Post re-opening
THE Government is still deliberating on whether to re-open its land borders especially Beitbridge Border Post to international travellers following an announcement by South Africa that it will re-open...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:35hrs | 4730 | by Staff reporter
BCC fails to relocate vendors
BULAWAYO city fathers are failing to re-allocate vending bays owing to lack of financial resources needed for marking the trading spaces to meet COVID-19 guidelines on social distancing.The Bu...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:21hrs | 312 | by Staff reporter
Chivhu shooting: Details emerge
Chivhu residents were left in awe of the manner in which security services tracked, shot and killed two gunmen who had attacked two other soldiers on Saturday, killing one and seriously wounding anoth...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 06:48hrs | 3184 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF threatens ministers
ANU-PF politburo member Patrick Chinamasa yesterday said the Cabinet must answer to the ruling party, and threatened they would fire ministers that do not file reports with the secretariat, igniting a...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:43hrs | 9341 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo power outage: Woman electrocuted while relieving self
A WOMAN who was electrocuted while relieving herself at a Zesa sub-station in Bulawayo City Centre on Thursday afternoon has been identified as Ms Samukeliso Moyo of Fort Rixon.Bulawayo police...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:52hrs | 1942 | by Staff Reporter
Police round up and fine vendors who cheered on Chamisa
Police in Murehwa on Monday rounded up 15 vendors suspected of having cheered on MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa when he passed through the area on Saturday.Chamisa's convoy was mobbed by s...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 07:50hrs | 5951 | by Staff reporter
Commuters swindled in tap-card scam
Problems in recharging Zupco tap-cards in Norton have seen vendors using their own cards, and some have a lot, charging desperate passengers $50, more than twice Zupco's $24, which now on many routes ...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:00hrs | 990 | by Staff reporter
Informal traders dump Matabeleland Collective
BULAWAYO'S informal traders representative organisation has cut ties with the Matabeleland Collective (MC), a grouping of civic groups and the clergy that has been meeting President Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 10:50hrs | 613 | by Staff reporter
Sex panners invade mines
After finding the going tough in the city, sex workers have devised a new way of survival as they have invaded mining areas in a bid to eke out a living as some of them were now failing to pay rent an...Published: 29 Aug 2020 at 16:43hrs | 3686 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo groups blast 'provocative' Mnangagwa meeting
SOME Bulawayo based civic society groups and political parties have described President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Saturday's meeting with fellow organisations as provocative to the people of Matabeleland w...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 15:51hrs | 4296 | by newzimbabwe
Stunner takes dig at Zimbabwean rappers
It has taken a brush with death to reawaken rapper, Stunner's prowess on the mic as he, days after recovering from an undisclosed ailment, released a track in which he says the local hip hop industry ...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 08:28hrs | 921 | by Staff reporter
Mawarire raps Monica Mutsvangwa over attack of Archbishop Robert Ndlovu
National Patriotic Front spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire has rapped Minister of Information Monica Mutsvangwa over attacks on Archbishop Robert Ndlovu."The tribal diatribe by Monica Mutsvangwa ...Published: 16 Aug 2020 at 18:30hrs | 4391 | by Stephen Jakes
'Suicidal Protest'
Protests are part of humanity as long as we have leaders and followers, the rich and poor and inequality. Protests can take any shape or colour and size. Zimbabwe was born out of a protest against Col...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 07:05hrs | 1213 | by Tendayi Lynnette Mudehwe
Cross-border traders push for border re-opening
VENDORS and cross border traders in Bulawayo who are facing starvation have appealed to the Zimbabwean and South African governments to partially re-open Beitbridge Border Post to enable them to resum...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 07:09hrs | 1082 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police fret over curfew breakers
Curfew breaking is widespread in Harare, with a growing number of cars seen driving around northern suburbs late at night, although shopping centres are abandoned in these suburbs, and with vending an...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 06:43hrs | 727 | by Staff reporter
BVTA condemn harassment of vendors by police
Bulawayo Vendors and Traders Association (BVTA) have strongly condemned an incident of violence that occurred to one of the vendors and the systematic harassment of vendors and informal traders in the...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 09:39hrs | 856 | by Stephen Jakes
Vending tariffs hike will fuel bribery: Wild
Bulawayo City Council (BCC)'s recent Hawkers and Vendors' tariff hikes, will encourage bribery and sextortion scandals as female informal traders are incapacitated to pay these fees.This came ...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 07:34hrs | 458 | by Stephen Jakes
We remain a nation of heroes
Today, Zimbabweans celebrate Heroes Day; that day when national valour is honoured and cherished on our land.It is that day when we remember, salute and commemorate the huge sacrifice th...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 15:21hrs | 319 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Counterfeit drugs poses threat to Covid -19 cure
The rise of novel coronavirus Sars-CoV-2 pandemic cases could lead to a spike in counterfeit pharmaceutical deals in Africa and the world over following suggestions that hydroxychloroquine could...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 14:31hrs | 884 | by Liberty Pazvakawambwa
NetOne crisis deepens
TROUBLED state-owned mobile phone operator NetOne has been beset by a myriad of problems that include network failure and a shortage of airtime recharge cards, which are attributed to a board wrangle....Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:02hrs | 2732 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 regulations continue to be flouted
COVID-19 curfew regulations, which prohibit members of the public from remaining outside their homes after 1800 hours as part of measures by the government to curb the spread of the pandemic in the co...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 17:20hrs | 680 | by Staff reporter
Politburo Bulletin: We are under attack comrades
The candid truth is that we are now hanging by a thread; we are on our own now. It is no longer a matter of if, but when, and when that happens will we be ready to face the tide, or even the Hague? Th...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:22hrs | 11086 | by Robert Sigauke
10 more succumb to Covid-19 in one day in ZImbabwe
Ten more Covid-19 deaths were reported yesterday, the second highest daily toll after 12 passed on last Thursday, taking the death toll to 80 while 154 new cases were confirmed, all local infections, ...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:05hrs | 838 | by Staff reporter
Government must be taken to task over informal traders
Zimbabwe has been on an economic free fall since the turn of the millennium. The comatose economy led to most industries closing shop and as a result countless jobs have been lost. The persisting and ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 09:08hrs | 1704 | by Nkosikhona Dibiti
System glitch leaves scores of Zesa clients stranded
SCORES of consumers were left stranded in Bulawayo yesterday, failing to buy prepaid power tokens as the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) online system had some techn...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:49hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe tragedy is the psychological warfare and propaganda machinery: Manyika
Build Zimbabwe leader Noah Manyika has said the tragedy in Zimbabwe is the psychological warfare and the propaganda machinery."The tragedy of this moment in the life of our nation is not just ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:39hrs | 487 | by Stephen Jakes
13 arrests as army, police quash demo
PEACEFUL protesters, among them prominent novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga and MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere, were arrested yesterday as heavily armed soldiers and police crushed the planned pro...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:04hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa staves off threat to his rule for now
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has staved off national demonstrations that could potentially have loosened a few screws anchoring his faltering rule as there were no reported acts of any significant pub...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 18:58hrs | 9948 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents fume over steep council fines
RESIDENTS here have shot down proposals by the local authority to hike fines for alleged illegal vending and flouting other by-laws governing the operations of informal traders.The proposal by...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 17:09hrs | 897 | by Staff reporter
Telecoms industry set to offer better service from USD-indexed tariff adjustments
Telecommunication companies operating in the country must have breathed a heavy sigh of relief last week after regulator Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) allowed...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 09:56hrs | 607 | by Agencies
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