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Cop 'stabs wife 10 times'
A BIGAMOUS policeman stationed in Victoria Falls allegedly stabbed his estranged wife 10 times, killing her on the spot. Constable Bright Ndlovu (28) of ZRP Victoria Falls last Thursday followed Ms Mu...Published: 21 Jun 2021 at 06:02hrs | 1344 | by Staff reporter
Suspended town clerk gets windfall
VICTORIA Falls city fathers have resolved to pay suspended town clerk Ronnie Dube $200 000 in allowances, about $80 000 more than his basic salary, it has been established.Dube was suspended o...Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 07:27hrs | 1015 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland North farmers still planting wheat
WHEAT farmers in Matabeleland North were by yesterday still planting the winter crop following late delivery of inputs especially seed. The province is targeting to plant 1 000ha of winter whe...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 09:14hrs | 435 | by Staff Reporter
The Mauritius example on economic development
Mauritius is ranked by the World Economic Forum as the most competitive economy in Sub-Saharan Africa and high income country with a Gross National Income (GNI) per capita of US$12,740 (Sub-Saharan Af...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 08:48hrs | 456 | by Port Louis Riverfront, Mauritius
Mnangagwa tells security agencies to be vigilant
THE discovery of oil could pose a security threat to the country, which requires state security agencies to be always on high alert, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.Mnangagwa made the ca...Published: 18 Jun 2021 at 13:09hrs | 4551 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa challenges mining sector
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has challenged the mining industry to rise above the Covid-19 woes and focus on attaining the ambitious US$12 billion target by 2023.Addressing delegates during th...Published: 18 Jun 2021 at 12:59hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter
My last days with Jason Ziyaphapha Moyo
I knew Jason ZIYAPHAPHA MOYO, when I joined the National Democratic Party (NDP) in 1960, after my agricultural course at Tsholotsho Breeding and Experimental Station.The relationship between t...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 21:06hrs | 3540 | by Phelekezela Mphoko (Zimbabwe former Vice President)
Zimbabwe student jailed for lying
A ZIMBABWEAN student at the University of Namibia who lied to police that his laptop and mobile phone had been stolen in Victoria Falls after he sold the gadgets, has been sentenced to six months in p...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 18:20hrs | 1134 | by Staff reporter
ZimParks sues army company
THE Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) has taken a Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) company, Rusununguko Nkululeko (Pvt) Limited, to court demanding US$142 530 for use of its chal...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 06:23hrs | 1433 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has enough water for two years
ZIMBABWE National Water Authority (Zinwa) chief executive officer Engineer Taurai Maurukira has said the country has enough water to last for two farming seasons following rains that fell during the l...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 06:13hrs | 278 | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls girl (12) dies 'after typhoid jab'
A Grade Seven pupil (12) at Nyongolo Primary School outside Hwange died after her body started swelling and her family suspects she reacted to the new typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) she received rece...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:24hrs | 1057 | by Staff reporter
Damaged Matabeleland North roads rehab under way
THE rehabilitation of major roads is under way in Matabeleland North Province and the Government is providing the resources for the work so as to ensure smooth transportation and facilitation of inves...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:20hrs | 427 | by Staff reporter
Padenga to switch listing to the VFEX
CROCODILE breeding firm, Padenga Holdings Limited, will terminate its listing on the main board of the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) and relist on the Victoria Falls Stock Exchange (VFEX).VFEX...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:17hrs | 272 | by Staff reporter
Cabinet meetings by Ndaba Sibanda: A review by Banqobile Virginia Dakamela
The book kicks off with a scene featuring a technology-crazy old man who is drinking with a girl young enough to be his granddaughter. The old man's table manners do not endear him to the girl either....Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 12:13hrs | 556 | by Banqobile Virginia Dakamela
Moyo tipped for top post
Zimbabwean postal expert, Sifundo Moyo is in line to become the next Pan African Postal Union (PAPU) secretary-general after his candidature for the top continental post was overwhelmingly endorsed by...Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 07:27hrs | 6919 | by Staff reporter
Actress Paris Hilton visits Zimbabwe
AMERICAN singer and actress, Paris Hilton is in Victoria Falls on what appears to be a leisure tour in Zimbabwe.The New York It Girl was spotted in the resort city this week enjoying the subli...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 18:44hrs | 2342 | by Staff reporter
Lufthansa's Eurowings announces flights between Victoria Falls and Frankfurt
German airline Lufthansa will connect the Victoria Falls to Europe with three-times-a-week flights to the tourism hub starting in March 2022.The flights - with a connecting stop in Windhoek, N...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 18:43hrs | 1065 | by Staff reporter
Bosso players accept offer
TENSIONS in the Highlanders' camp have eased after the players agreed to accept US$70 salary top-ups and give the club time to find a solution to their demands of an upward review.Bosso player...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 06:33hrs | 449 | by Staff reporter
Goalkeeper takes Highlanders to FUZ
HIGHLANDERS goalkeeper Wellington Muuya has approached the Footballers Union of Zimbabwe (Fuz) to help him get a clearance from the club citing breach of contract.The 24-year-old signed a thre...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 06:32hrs | 214 | by Staff reporter
Wellington Muuya wants out of Highlanders
GOALKEEPER Wellington Muuya has written to Highlanders seeking to terminate his contract, citing breach of contract by Bosso.The 24-year-old goalie signed a three-year deal with Highlanders at...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 21:24hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
OK suffers write-downs as crisis deepens
REVENUES at the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed retail giant, OK Zimbabwe Limited came off slightly to $34,3 billion during the year ended March 31, 2021 as consumer spending came under pressure as a r...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 06:35hrs | 993 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt calls for vigilance as oil firm makes headway
THE discovery of oil could pose a security threat to the country, which requires State security agencies to be always on high alert, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.Mnangagwa made the ca...Published: 09 Jun 2021 at 07:17hrs | 1238 | by Staff reporter
Bosso players resume strike
HIGHLANDERS players resumed their industrial action yesterday after temporarily calling off the strike on Saturday morning to focus on Sunday's Chibuku Super Cup match against Bulawayo City.Th...Published: 09 Jun 2021 at 07:12hrs | 218 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe resumes regional flights
Air Zimbabwe is set to resume Harare-Johannesburg flights on June 16.The national flag carrier will initially start by flying the Harare-Johannesburg route every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and ...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 19:45hrs | 843 | by Staff reporter
Mineral output forecast to jump 11%
Mining companies expect an 11 percent growth output in the second half this year, after seeing production fall across key minerals in the first quarter, the Chamber of Mines of Zimbabwe (CoMZ) has sai...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:30hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
World Bank in deal to boost Vic Falls flights
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a unit of the World Bank, will partner the Ministry of Environment, Climate, Tourism and Hospitality Industry in efforts to attract more airlines and fligh...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:30hrs | 223 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance youth leader trial deferred again
THE trial of the MDC Alliance Midlands deputy treasurer, Knowledge Makiwa, who is being accused of insulting President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been postponed to next month by Zvishavane magistrate Arch...Published: 07 Jun 2021 at 06:04hrs | 234 | by Staff reporter
Grief-stricken man hangs self
A 37-YEAR-OLD Bulawayo man hanged himself in the family's Nkulumane house after receiving news of the death of his uncle.A maid, who had just arrived from Victoria Falls, discovered the body o...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 09:56hrs | 503 | by Staff reporter
Petrol attendant shot as violent crime wave sweeps Bulawayo
A petrol attendant was shot in the chest on Friday after armed robbers targeted a Flo garage in Bulawayo's Tshabalala suburb – the latest in a series of violent robberies in Zimbabwe's second city....Published: 05 Jun 2021 at 09:15hrs | 992 | by Staff reporter
Hanging Tree evokes Mnangagwa death escape
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday reflected on the brutality of the settler regime, which punished sons and daughters of the land seeking freedom with all forms of cruelty including hanging, a sentence he...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 07:08hrs | 2050 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe fleet expansion gets boost
Air Zimbabwe's desire to expand its fleet by acquiring a second Embraer aircraft has received a major boost after Government released funds.The purchase of a second ERJ145 is expected to widen...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 07:03hrs | 656 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe's Embraer completes maiden commercial flight 2-years on
Air Zimbabwe's only Embraer ERJ145 finally completed its first commercial flight on Wednesday – more than two years after it was delivered to Harare.The aircraft, with a capacity of 50 passe...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 18:36hrs | 699 | by Staff reporter
Hwange radio takes Baz to court over licence
A HWANGE community radio initiative has dragged the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (Baz) to the Administrative Court challenging its decision to deny it a licence in the wildlife and coal rich-dis...Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 07:25hrs | 247 | by Staff report
Cash-in-transit with toy guns, security companies rob clients
PRIVATE security companies contracted to provide cash-in-transit services are ill-equipped to the extent that some of them use toy guns while transporting clients' money, police have revealed....Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 07:13hrs | 630 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants should remain patient, says PSC
THE Public Service Commission (PSC) says civil servants should be patient and understand efforts being made to improve their livelihoods and working conditions as Government strives to balance between...Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 07:10hrs | 1000 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe resumes domestic flights today
AIR ZIMBABWE resumes domestic flights today, initially between Harare, Bulawayo and Victoria Falls, after a long break from January last year due to operational challenges and the clampdown on interci...Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 07:06hrs | 571 | by Staff reporter
Buttock spanking man assaulted
A VICTORIA Falls man, who beat up a stranger that had spanked his girlfriend's buttocks, has been sentenced to nine months in prison for assault.Bornwell Sibanda and his girlfriend, whose deta...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 18:12hrs | 2108 | by Staff reporter
Mines endorse RBZ move
MINING industry executives yesterday commended the central bank's move to give the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) the sole mandate to collect fees and commissions previously paid to the Minerals M...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 08:05hrs | 396 | by Staff reporter
City of Kings celebrates Bulawayo Day
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected to officially open the Bulawayo Arts Festival (Baf) on Thursday during the Urban Heritage Tour and Eco-Tourism Programme and the Creative and Cultural Industri...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 08:03hrs | 349 | by Staff reporter
3 killed in car accident along the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls road
THREE men were killed in an accident when a Mazda BT50 twin cab they were travelling in side-swiped with a haulage truck at the 37 km peg along the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls Road.Zephania Moyo (...Published: 31 May 2021 at 06:40hrs | 1244 | by Staff reporter
First Tonga Amapiano song out
Amapiano is a hybrid of deep house, jazz and lounge music characterised by synths, airy pads and wide and percussive basslines, originally a South African genre.The genre has been accepted in ...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:37hrs | 139 | by Staff reporter
Mbuya Nehanda is a Zimbabwean heroine - Archivist
The erection of Mbuya Nehanda statue in Harare had created a lot of debate in Zimbabwe. Some people are of the view that the gesture was long overdue whil...Published: 30 May 2021 at 07:12hrs | 274 | by Etiwel Mutero
Congolese fined for fake passport
A CONGOLESE man was on Monday fined $10 000 for forging a passport to bypass immigration at Victoria Falls Border Post.Tshitshi Tshiswaka (38) of Kasai Province in Democratic Republic of Congo...Published: 28 May 2021 at 07:42hrs | 228 | by Staff reporter
Lake Kariba water levels rising steadily
WATER levels in Lake Kariba are rising steadily as the second peak arrives from the Upper Zambezi catchment and the live storage, the upper levels of the lake between the inlets to the two power stati...Published: 28 May 2021 at 07:36hrs | 481 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube furious as locals sidelined in Bulawayo-Victoria Falls road rehab tender
Despite the government's claims that it is committed to devolution of power, some people in Harare received a contract to clear the bushes along the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls highway road, defying a pol...Published: 26 May 2021 at 19:35hrs | 3720 | by Staff reporter
Passengers thrown off truck
FIVE people cheated death and two of them sustained injuries when they were thrown out of a moving truck's load box after the driver lost control of the vehicle along the Victoria Falls-Hwange highway...Published: 26 May 2021 at 18:29hrs | 1440 | by Staff reporter
Woman stabs 'meddlesome' cousin
A 26-YEAR-OLD peacemaker from Lupinyu near Victoria Falls Airport was left nursing a stab wound after her cousin, who had a misunderstanding with her boyfriend, stabbed her with a broken beer bottle f...Published: 25 May 2021 at 17:32hrs | 1412 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe Airport works on course
The refurbishment and expansion of the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport is progressing well with the works expected to be completed next June, Transport and Infrastructural Development Mini...Published: 25 May 2021 at 07:12hrs | 180 | by Staff reporter
Senior Zanu-PF official's son trampled to death by elephant
THE son of a senior Zanu-PF official was trampled to death by an elephant in Hwange.Ronald Mzamba, son to Cde Ellias Mzamba of Dunu Village, Masue Resettlement area and three colleagues were a...Published: 24 May 2021 at 06:44hrs | 2796 | by Staff reporter
Schools investigated for demanding teacher incentives
GOVERNMENT has warned schools against fleecing parents by demanding fees in foreign currency and payment of incentives to teachers saying this remains illegal and a chargeable offence.This com...Published: 23 May 2021 at 07:30hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter
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