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2 Zimbabweans shot dead in South Africa's Vhembe
Police in Limpopo have launched a major manhunt following the fatal shooting of two Zimbabwean men in Ha-Rangani Village, Masisi policing area, Vhembe District, on Sunday morning.The victims, ...Published: 4 hrs ago | 202 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean elephants trample SA soldier to death near border?
A South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldier deployed on border patrol duty was killed after being trampled by a herd of elephants near the Limpopo River on Sunday night.The tragic i...Published: 29 Jul 2025 at 08:33hrs | 638 | by Staff reporter
South Africa water experts clear Limpopo River water of contamination
Water experts from Vhembe District Municipality have confirmed that the Limpopo River, which forms the natural border between South Africa and Zimbabwe, is free from contamination following recent lab...Published: 21 Jul 2025 at 12:12hrs | 66 | by Staff reporter
SA Police seize R8 million worth of dagga bound for Zimbabwe
A 27-year-old man was arrested by the South African Police Services (SAPS) on Friday last week after being caught transporting nearly one tonne of dagga worth an estimated R8 million. The consignment,...Published: 02 Jun 2025 at 09:05hrs | 343 | by Staff reporter
Man arrested at Beitbridge border, driving 'stolen' BMW into Zimbabwe
A 40-year-old foreign national is expected to appear in court after he allegedly tried to drive a luxury BMW across the border into Zimbabwe on New Year's Eve.Police said officers were on duty...Published: 05 Jan 2025 at 08:19hrs | 551 | by Staff reporter
Malema's EFF hits back at Ramaphosa
The EFF has hit back at President Cyril Ramaphosa's statement, saying he failed to address "pressing issues" they had brought up during the opening of Parliament debate.The Red Berets' respons...Published: 25 Jul 2024 at 07:38hrs | 587 | by Staff reporter
Cigarettes worth R100 000 seized in border operation
SOUTH African border security officials on Monday destroyed a wooden raft used by criminals to smuggle goods between Zimbabwe and the neighbouring country. The team also recovered smuggled cig...Published: 10 Apr 2024 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA authorities launch 'Operation Vala Umgodi' along the Limpopo River
THE smuggling of goods between Zimbabwe and South Africa has become a perennial headache forcing authorities in both countries to tighten screws on crime and at times running collaborative operations....Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 16:37hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean owned house where 19 cash-in-transit robbers were killed
A 19th body has been found inside the lavish house in Makhado (formerly Louis Trichardt) were alleged cash-in-transit robbers were killed during a shootout with different police units on Friday....Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 21:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean cigarette smuggler, SA police in shootout
A 28-YEAR-OLD Zimbabwean was nabbed in Musina, South Africa, following a shootout with police on Sunday after attempting to smuggle local cigarettes worth ZAR348 000 to the neighbouring country....Published: 31 Aug 2023 at 06:45hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to cap 1 000 Beitbridge graduates
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected to cap 1 000 women who underwent a goat rearing and information and communication technology (ICT) program in Beitbridge over the weekend.The training ...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 08:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa misses out as Beitbridge renames suburbs, streets
BEITBRIDGE Municipality has completed the process of renaming streets, suburbs and business centres in line with its modernisation drive.The exercise which involved the consultation of residents a...Published: 18 Jul 2023 at 06:19hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean national with cholera admitted to Musina Hospital
Limpopo has recorded its first cholera case, according to the provincial Department of Health.It said the 26-year-old Zimbabwean national reported to Musina Hospital on Friday after experienci...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 06:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Death penalty divides public opinion
BEITBRIDGE residents have expressed mixed feelings over whether or not the country should retain the death penalty on its statutesThe residents gave their views during one of the many public h...Published: 05 Apr 2023 at 09:33hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers support Mnangagwa's call for death penalty
In 2015, PRESIDENT Mnangagwa said he knows the tribulations faced by those on death row as he survived the hangman's noose when the Ian Smith regime sought capital punishment to stop him from fighting...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt moves in on Beitbridge roads
TRANSPORT and Infrastructure Development Minister Felix Mhona has said Government is working on a raft of measures to assist Beitbridge Municipality to repair and upgrade its major roads in line with ...Published: 17 Mar 2023 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
2 sisters die in house inferno
TWO sisters were burnt to death when a house they were sleeping in caught fire in the Vhembe-view suburb yesterday.The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained and police are investigating t...Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 05:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans among SA prison break trio
Limpopo police have launched a manhunt for three prisoners who escaped from police holding cells this week.The detainees escaped from police in Tshamutumbu outside Thohoyandou in the early hou...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man jailed for stealing Mnangagwa's Office AK-47 rifle
A 33-year-old man from Gutu has been jailed seven years for breaking into two houses where he stole an assortment of goods that included an AK-47 rifle belonging to a member of the President's Office....Published: 07 Sep 2022 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man jailed for stealing Mnangagwa's Office AK-47 rifle
A 33-year-old man from Gutu has been jailed seven years for breaking into two houses where he stole an assortment of goods that included an AK-47 rifle belonging to a member of the President's Office....Published: 06 Sep 2022 at 14:33hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Rural home turned into tourist hub
MOTIVATED by the desire to change the face of his rural home in Makakavhule, Beitbridge District, Matabeleland South, Mr Prison Ndou (46), has transformed his home into an outstanding and cost-effecti...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 06:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean illegal miners wreak havoc in Botswana, SA
To the residents of Matsiloje in northern Botswana, no foreigner is unwelcome unless they commit a crime.This is due to their own lives being deeply linked with their fellow clan members in Zi...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 09:24hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man arrested after shooting two dead in South Africa
The National security Task Force (NTF) has arrested a 28-year-old Zimbabwean man who was on the run after killing two people in Limpopo Province. Tawanda Simango, whose given address was Masis...Published: 25 May 2022 at 17:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Residents raise alarm over pole in road
BEITBRIDGE town residents have raised alarm following the construction of a road on an electricity line where one pole has been left in the middle of the road.In separate interviews, the resid...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:18hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Plot to disrupt CCC Beitbridge rally
RIOT police were yesterday deployed into Beitbridge where a potentially explosive Sunday beckons after Zanu-PF supporters organised a meeting at the scheduled venue of a rally by the Citizens Coalitio...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans choking South Africa's health system
SOUTH Africa's Department of Health in Musina has raised concern over the influx of Zimbabweans seeking treatment, especially maternity services in that country.This emerged during a Zimbabwe-...Published: 09 Feb 2022 at 05:25hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Man steals firearm, knocked down by a car in a botched robbery
THE trial of a 33-year-old man from Gutu, Masvingo who was recently arrested in Beitbridge after allegedly breaking into two houses and stealing an assortment of goods among them an AK-47 rifle belong...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:10hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Man steals AK47 rifle
A 33-year-old man from Gutu has been arrested in Beitbridge for breaking into two houses and stealing an assortment of goods, including an AK47 rifle belonging to a member of the President's Departmen...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cigarette smugglers fined $12 000
THE 34 smugglers arrested while smuggling 76 cases of export quality Remmington Gold cigarettes into South Africa last week were each fined $12 000 (or three months) by Beitbridge resident magistrate ...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
37 in court for attempting to smuggle cigarettes into SA
Thirty-seven suspects who were arrested while attempting to smuggle 76 cardboard crates of export quality Remmington Gold cigarettes out of the country into South Africa appeared before Beitbridge Res...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chunga jailed for life in SA over highway crimes
A 41-year-old Zimbabwean man believed to be part of a syndicate of armed robbers who have been terrorizing motorists along the N1 highway between Musina and Makhado towns in Limpopo province has been ...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 18:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
COVID-19-free certificates fraudsters jailed
A SHIPPING clerk in Beitbridge and a student were jailed an effective one-year sentence each for fraudulent issuing of COVID-19 negative certificates to travellers.Morgan Sigxoza (21), a clear...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Bus from Joburg to Zimbabwe overturns
There are unconfirmed reports that a bus which left Johannesburg for Zimbabwe yesterday overturned in Louis Trichardt South Africa today in the morning.The accident happ...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 08:32hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Potraz boosts Govt's e-learning initiative
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) donated 10 computers and 100 backpacks to five schools here on Wednesday to complement Government's e-learning initiative. ...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge businessman dies in 3-car pile-up
Renowned Beitbridge businessman, Mr Emmanuel Tawanda Chiwa (35) was on Wednesday night killed in an accident when his car was involved in a three vehicles pile up along the Beitbridge-Bulawayo road....Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 18:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans leave after xenophobic attacks in Vuwani
"I miss my fellow Zimbabweans. We used to stay as a family but we are now scattered in Limpopo"A number of Zimbabweans who had been living and working in Tshino village, Thohoyandou, Vuwani, h...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 22:30hrs | 3 | by GroundUp.
Zimbabweans flee Limpopo village after xenophobic attacks
A number of Zimbabweans who had been living and working in Tshino village, Thohoyandou, Vuwani, have moved to other areas of Limpopo or returned to Zimbabwe after xenophobic violence erupted last mont...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 11:25hrs | 2 | by GroundUP
Councillors block road project
BEITBRIDGE councillors have resisted the development of a road they say had "jumped the queue", because it does not serve residents.The road links the Shule Shule Shopping Centre, goes past a ...Published: 25 Feb 2019 at 08:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
7 die, 40 injured in accidents
SEVEN Zimbabweans died yesterday in three separate accidents in Musina, South Africa and in Bulawayo as the country continues to witness a spate of road accidents that have claimed the lives of nearly...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 08:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Smugglers cash in on porous Beitbridge border
SMUGGLING across the dry Limpopo riverbed has never been this high. Queues of vehicles loading goods illicitly brought into the country have turned dirty village road networks into busy streets....Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZBC set to introduce security service channel
THE Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) says it will soon introduce a security services channel as part of a cocktail of programmes planned for digital television broadcasting.ZBC chief ex...Published: 21 May 2018 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF leader booed, heckled
ZANU-PF Matabeleland South leader Rabelani Choeni was on Wednesday booed and heckled by his supporters who accused him of allegedly backstabbing his friend, Tambudzani Mohadi, by challenging her in th...Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 20:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA chief calls for the removal of Zimbabweans
A SOUTH African female traditional leader has called for the removal of Zimbabweans staying at Dididi Village in Thohoyandou in Limpopo Province, sparking fears of xenophobic attacks in the neighbouri...Published: 03 Apr 2018 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt urged to decongest Beitbridge
A TOP official at Beitbridge Town Council has urged the South African and Zimbabwean governments to urgently establish another border post at Maramani village, to ease congestion at the country's main...Published: 05 Mar 2018 at 05:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe set to supply treated water to South Africa
South Africa and Zimbabwe have opened negotiations through the Bi-National Commission, which will see Zimbabwe supplying treated water to the neighbouring country's northern region, Vice President Phe...Published: 11 Aug 2017 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Filthy rich Ramaphosa donate buffalos
The ANC Youth League (ANCYL) in Limpopo has lambasted Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa for donating buffalos to a game farm in Makhado, near troubled Vuwani.Spokesperson for the Limpopo ANCYL,...Published: 30 Apr 2017 at 21:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
SA warns against illegally crossing Limpopo River
Johannesburg - The Limpopo Department of Health has warned of the danger of drowning in the Limpopo River which is commonly used as a crossing point into South Africa from neighbouring Zimbabwe and Bo...Published: 06 Jan 2017 at 20:54hrs | 1 | by IOL
Sexual predator's trial moved to May 31
The trial of a -26-year-old Beitbridge man accused of bedding several underage pupils from local secondary schools has been postponed to May 31.Rayson Rushwaya is alleged to have impregnated m...Published: 23 May 2016 at 08:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Naming of roads, suburbs in Beitbridge almost complete
THE naming of streets, suburbs and business centres in Beitbridge Town is now at its final stages, the town secretary, Mr Loud Ramakgapola, said on Friday.He said the programme was being imple...Published: 23 May 2016 at 08:30hrs | 2 | by Thupeyo Muleya
'Civil servants need national pledge'
A programme similar to the recently introduced national pledge in schools should be developed for civil servants so that they become patriotic and service oriented, Home Affairs Deputy Minister Obedin...Published: 06 May 2016 at 08:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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