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Mnangagwa planned visit to Matobo riles Gukurahundi victims
SURVIVORS of Gukurahundi residing in Maphisa, Matobo district in Matabeleland South, feel insulted over reports that President Emmerson Mnangagwa will visit the area to kickstart the process of issuan...Published: 12 hrs ago | 311 | by Staff reporter
Leopard scare in Filabusi
VILLAGERS at Filabusi in Insiza district of Matabeleland South have expressed fears over a leopard and its puppies terrorising their area.Village head in Ndwangu area Godfrey Makhulumo Ndlovu ...Published: 12 hrs ago | 418 | by Staff reporter
Pasture depletion adds misery to Matabeleland South
A serious shortage of pastures for live stock has brought more misery to villagers in Maphisa, Matabeleland South, who are already affected by the socioeconomic im pact of the Covid19 pandemic...Published: 12 hrs ago | 149 | by Staff reporter
'Gukurahundi genocide fuelled regional illiteracy'
SURVIVORS of the Gukurahundi massacres in Matabeleland and Midlands have blamed high il-literacy levels in the provinces on a cocktail of setbacks, chief among them the mass killings led by the North ...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 08:08hrs | 732 | by Staff reporter
Tsikamutandas wreak havoc in Bulilima San community
SELF-PROCLAIMED witch-hunters, commonly known as tsikamutandas, have flooded the San community in Makhulela Village, Bulilima where they claim to be "cleansing the area". Notorious for preying...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 07:52hrs | 425 | by Staff reporter
Govt bans mining at Matobo Hills
GOVERNMENT has succumbed to pressure and cancelled a gold prospecting licence issued to Mazinahue Syndicate at the Matobo Hills World Heritage site following protests by villagers and local pressure g...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:35hrs | 1545 | by Staff reporter
Villagers resist eviction for city expansion
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's ally and Masvingo district development co-ordinator (DCC) Ray Hove was on Saturday reportedly booed by over 300 resettled farmers who refused to be forcibly evicted from...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 07:10hrs | 2546 | by Staff reporter
Boy (7) beheaded in suspected ritual murder
POLICE in Mashonaland East province have launched investigations into the suspected ritual murder of a seven-year-old boy, Tapiwa Makore, whose beheaded body was recovered outside the family's vegetab...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 07:07hrs | 2036 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga claims 'development for all'
THE Government will ensure no community in Zimbabwe is left behind in development in line with the devolution thrust enunciated by President Mnangagwa. Under the Second Republic, theGovernment...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 06:47hrs | 600 | by Staff reporter
Mastering art of 'villagising' cities
In Bishop Lazi's village, there lived this super-reclusive chap who, after a quarrel with his father over witchcraft, decided to build his own hut a spitting distance from the family homestead....Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:30hrs | 415 | by Bishop Lazarus
What's Mnangagwa and Auxillia up to?
QUITE a morsel of things doesn't add about the trip that Sheik Fayez Muhamad Salem Sultan Al Qassimi has just made to Zimbabwe, outside the winding name. The sheik arrived in Zimbabwe last Sun...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:59hrs | 1442 | by Tawanda Majoni
Senior citizen steals blankets
THERE was drama at Guruve court on Friday when a senior citizen appeared before Guruve resident magistrate facing theft charges.Nixon Muzemi (60) of Holland farm pleaded not guilty to the char...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 20:54hrs | 2382 | by Simbarashe Sithole
If I had married that man, I would be dead by now!
The level of violence in Zimbabwe is alarming: domestic violence accompanies the life of a married woman daily. Daily we read depressing news about the growing number of cases of femicide. Today again...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 17:58hrs | 1838 | by Nomazulu Thata
3 men on the run after killing relative over witchcraft
THREE Chimanimani villagers are on the run after allegedly murdering their 65-year-old female relative accusing her of witchcraft.They allegedly dumped her body in a motor vehicle at their hom...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 06:30hrs | 660 | by Staff reporter
Notorious thief bashed to death
A Daring Chiweshe suspected thief who was caught in a house trying to steal was bashed to death by five villagers.Auction Makumbe (26) of Goteka village in Chiweshe was caught in Nathan Bonga'...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 16:15hrs | 4383 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Gukurahundi survivors demand answers from Mnangagwa
RELATIVES of Gukurahundi victims and survivors in Lupane, Matabeleland North province, have demanded that President Emmerson Mnangagwa should go to them to explain why people in the region were tortur...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:34hrs | 947 | by Staff reporter
'Bomb' explodes kills Nyamandlovu children
TWO siblings from Majindane Village Three in Nyamandlovu, Matabeleland North died when a suspected "bomb" exploded at their homestead on Friday.National police spokesman Assistant Commissioner...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:45hrs | 973 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa halts Gukurahundi hearing
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday caused the postponement of a court hearing where survivors of the Gukurahundi massacres wanted to interdict him from tampering with the survivors' mass graves un...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:17hrs | 1456 | by Staff reporter
Villagers receive free tests at a funeral
Chiweshe villagers today received free High Blood pressure, Sugar diabetes tests and personal protective equipment from Natbake during the funeral of Grain Millers' Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 12:18hrs | 2186 | by Simbarashe Sithole/Tarisai Mudahondo
Masvingo evictions: Govt under fire
A MASVINGO-BASED pressure group has raised a red flag over government-backed evictions of desperate villagers in the province, saying the orders flout efforts to slow down the devastating effects of C...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 07:51hrs | 1673 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's minister in land row
FORMER Industry and Commerce minister Mike Bimha is embroiled in a land dispute with resettled ward 8 villagers in Chivhu, who are accusing him of seizing State land which was gazetted by government f...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:41hrs | 2717 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa can't lead Gukurahundi reburials, says Survivor
GUKURAHUNDI survivor Charles Thomas, Ibhetshu LikaZulu and Zapu have filed a High Court chamber application seeking to bar President Emmerson Mnangagwa from conducting the exhumations of victims of Ma...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:40hrs | 1735 | by Staff reporter
Cops, villagers flee businessman's 'goblins'
VILLAGERS and two police officers scurried for cover after they allegedly stumbled on goblins in a businessman's suitcase while searching for poison that allegedly led to the death of several communit...Published: 29 Aug 2020 at 16:44hrs | 4742 | by Staff reporter
President Mnangagwa, you need to attend to Political acumenship, legacy & perceptions !!!
In 2013, the former Zimbabwe President, Robert Mugabe, upon his arrival at Harare International Airport, speaking to journalists, shortly after his arrival , he said in Shona , " Nhai weduwe imi, tonz...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 16:06hrs | 1591 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Mnangagwa insincere on Gukurahundi
THE Matabeleland Forum (MF), a consortium of civic society organisations (CSOs), which recently snubbed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's meeting with other regional civic groups, has dismissed governmen...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 07:33hrs | 856 | by Staff reporter
'Witch hunters' wreak havoc in Binga during lockdown
A group of self-styled 'witch hunters' are extorting livestock, cash and other property from Binga villagers, taking advantage of Covid-19 restrictions that have reduced police visibility to enrich th...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 20:28hrs | 2085 | by Staff reporter
'Pungwes were not Zipra culture'
He made sure the long-standing rivalry between Zipra and Zanla cadres would not derail the objective of the guerrilla war. Daylight Mabanga (DM)'s strategy was for his platoon to move from Mashonaland...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 11:10hrs | 488 | by Staff reporter
Liberators turned mercenaries
War veterans are currently lobbying the Minister of Finance to for a salary increment as they are the 'Reserve Force' of the Zimbabwe National Army. The average age of our WarVets is 65yrs. WarVets de...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 09:12hrs | 1250 | by Ms Tendayi Lynnette Mudehwe
Kezi Clinic lies derelict 10 years on
KEZI Clinic in Matobo District, Matabeleland South province, has been lying derelict for more than 10 years after local communities contributed material resources towards its rehabilitation.Ke...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 07:51hrs | 1119 | by Staff reporter
Communities plunged into vulnerability
The prevailing harsh economic conditions coupled with the devastating impacts of climate change have plunged communities into the doldrums of vulnerability. Habakkuk Trust in its latest ...Published: 19 Aug 2020 at 07:46hrs | 305 | by Stephen Jakes
Imbiber dies on heroes day
A 40-YEAR-OLD Mount Darwin man died on Heroes Day after consuming excessive illicit brew Kachasu.Golden Chimbodza of Manzou village, chief Kandeya in Mount Darwin was lying unconscious by his ...Published: 15 Aug 2020 at 18:03hrs | 1822 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Villagers arrest transformer thieves
VILLAGERS at Dillion farm, Shamva teamed up and effected citizen arrest on three Harare suspected Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC), transformer thieves.The ma...Published: 15 Aug 2020 at 07:43hrs | 2470 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe security sector reforms debunked
US-funded studies on security sector reform in Zimbabwe have largely taken the radical view that more often than not, the military has acted undemocratically through uttering and overseeing an array o...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 09:15hrs | 7382 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: July Moyo gives villagers 4 months to leave Hwange
SI 2020-188 Communal Land (Setting Aside of Land) (Batoka Township) Notice, 2020THE Minister of Local Government and Public Works, in terms of section 10 of the Communal Land Act [Chapter 20:0...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 14:22hrs | 5327 | by SI 188 of 2020
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 | 264 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
America slaps notorious African army General with stiff sanctions
United States of America has responded to a global call by the United Nations for all UN member states to implement sanctions on Bi Sidi Souleman who leads the Central African Republic (CAR)-based mil...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 19:42hrs | 3176 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The price of tribal politics in Zimbabwe is dangerous and costly: A warning to the people of Mashonaland once more!
Hätte der Hund nicht geschießen, hätte der Haufen nicht gegeben, this is a German adage it means we regret bitterly the decisions we made in previous times. Indeed if the dog had not shot, th...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 22:22hrs | 4331 | by Nomazulu Thata
Wife kills hubby, torches corpse
POLICE in Centenary, Mashonaland Central province, have arrested a woman who on Tuesday allegedly bashed her husband to death before conniving with her boyfriend to burn the corpse to conceal the murd...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:51hrs | 707 | by Staff reporter
Wife bashes hubby to death, boyfriend implicated
Police in Centenary, Mashonaland Central arrested a woman who allegedly bashed her husband to death before conniving with her boyfriend to burn the ...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 20:26hrs | 5707 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Hunger stalks Plumtree villagers
BULILIMA traditional leader Chief Masendu has called on the government and non-governmental organisations to strengthen social protection systems to complement traditional leaders' efforts in assistin...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:22hrs | 875 | by Staff reporter
2 die in anthill collapse
TWO Rusape brothers died on Monday after an anthill they were digging collapsed and trapped them.Manicaland provincial police spokesperson Inspector Tavhiringwa Kakohwa confirmed the incident ...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:19hrs | 1706 | by Staff reporter
Border jumping escalates at Beitbridge
THE number of desperate Zimbabweans using illegal entry points along the Limpopo River to access medical treatment and cheap basic commodities and drugs from South Africa has shot up, a Beitbridge leg...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 08:01hrs | 2018 | by Staff reporter
Panic as Covid-19 suspect dies
Villagers in Makakhavhule in Beitbridge's Ward 6 are in panic mode after a 51-year-old man who illegally returned from South Africa reportedly died of suspected Covid-19. The local Covid-19 Ta...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:54hrs | 1520 | by Staff reporter
Borehole drilling scam surfaces
A NUMBER of Zimbabweans, who are in need of borehole drilling services are made to pay exorbitant charges in foreign currency or give away livestock by a cartel of companies suspected to be of foreign...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:11hrs | 949 | by Staff reporter
Woman commits suicide over sadza
VILLAGERS in Nyakudya village, Bindura, are in shock after a 19-year-old woman committed suicide following a dispute with her husband over sadza.Mashonaland Central police spokesperson Inspect...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:02hrs | 453 | by Staff reporter
Speeding scotch cart kills minor
A 4-YEAR-OLD boy was run over by a speeding Scotch cart he was travelling in at Jenami village on Thursday.Mashonaland Central police spokesperson Inspector Milton Mundembe confirmed the case....Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 20:50hrs | 1430 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Border jumper's death triggers panic
Villagers in Makakhavhule area in Ward 6 here are panicking after a 51-year man who illegally returned from South Africa died and they suspect he was infected with Covid-19. The local Covid-19...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 07:53hrs | 5407 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cattle, donkeys border jumps into Botswana, shot dead
OVER 180 cattle and 109 donkeys from Mashaba in Gwanda and Beula in Kezi were shot in Botswana in the past week after they strayed into the neighbouring country. In 2006, Botswana introduced a...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:30hrs | 162 | by Staff reporter
'Gukurahundi victims celebrate the death of Perrance Shiri'
Victims of the Gukurahundi genocide that took place in the 1980s are celebrating the death of former 5th Brigade Commander Perrance Shiri, Ibhetshu lika Zulu Secretary-General Mbuso Fuzwayo has said. ...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 11:50hrs | 1887 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MaShurugwi wreak havoc in Mbembesi
MBEMBESI villagers are living in constant fear of violent illegal gold panners, popularly known as MaShurugwi, who have reportedly invaded the area and are digging around homesteads and gravesites in ...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:07hrs | 522 | by Staff reporter
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