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Body vanishes from grave
Villagers in Gokwe South were left shocked after they found the grave of villager Gideon Fitshane who was buried on Monday empty and shockingly without traces of footprints of people who could have ta...Published: 5 hrs ago | 1293 | by Staff reporter
Chiredzi villagers demonstrate at VP Chiwenga over ancestral land
Chiredzi South villagers on Wednesday raised placards in the presence of vice president Constantino Chiwenga to protest a lucerne grass farming project which is bound to displace over 1 000 families f...Published: 5 hrs ago | 1580 | by Staff reporter
Plumtree records first COVID-19 case
PANIC has gripped Plumtree after the border town recorded its first confirmed COVID-19 case on Sunday, amid reports that omalayitsha were aiding untested border jumpers from Botswana passing through r...Published: 03 Jun 2020 at 10:08hrs | 1318 | by Staff reporter
Truckers arrested over US$22 000 fuel theft
TWO Bulawayo truck drivers allegedly ganged up with three accomplices, one of them a South African trucker and stole 28 000 litres of diesel worth US$22 000 which was imported by a Beitbridge petroleu...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 10:31hrs | 1736 | by Staff reporter
Border jumpers arrested, sent to isolation centre
AUTHORITIES in Chikomba district at the weekend apprehended two returnees from South Africa who entered the country illegally in breach of COVID-19 safety measures, while four others were nabbed in Um...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 09:29hrs | 708 | by Staff reporter
George Floyd's killer already arrested, but Zimbabwe innocent civilians' killers not yet arrested since 1980!
As the furore surrounding the heinous and barbaric cold-hearted killing of unarmed African American George Floyd by a White United States (US) police officer Derek Chauvin, on 25 May 2020 in Minneapol...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 15:46hrs | 851 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Villagers stranded with HIV medication
Antiretroviral drugs are reportedly piling up in rural areas as parents are failing to send the critical drugs to their children and grandchildren in neighbouring South Africa and Botswana due to the ...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 09:56hrs | 1530 | by Stephen Jakes
Amagumaguma invade Plumtree school, turn it into criminal hideout
PLUMTREE border touts, popularly known as amagumaguma, have turned a school in Nxele along the border with Botswana into a base for criminal activities, a situation which has riled villagers.T...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 08:53hrs | 717 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe National Army rescues Binga villagers
THE Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has provided the Social Welfare department with transport to carry drought relief grain to villages in Binga so that vulnerable beneficiaries are not charged transport...Published: 27 May 2020 at 07:18hrs | 873 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF shadow MP in mealie-meal distribution storm
RETAILERS in Mutasa South have accused their Zanu-PF shadow MP Misheck Mugadza of using his political muscle to access subsidised mealie-meal and using the commodity as a campaign tool in the constitu...Published: 26 May 2020 at 08:30hrs | 650 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa lashes African leaders
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday called on African leaders to stop silencing citizens and undermining human rights and democracy as the continent commemorated Africa Day....Published: 26 May 2020 at 07:41hrs | 1697 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: Kasukuwere's special message to Africa
Happy Unity Day fellow African brothers and sisters! It has been an interesting road from the time our founding fathers formed the Organization of African Unity envisaging a united Africa 57 years ago...Published: 25 May 2020 at 14:18hrs | 2903 | by Saviour Kasukuwere
The excitement is difficult to hide
The tobacco selling 'season' is upon us and with it, 'Dollars are in the air'. There is visible excitement in the village, even kids are now laughing louder than before as if aware that once the tobac...Published: 24 May 2020 at 21:55hrs | 106 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Copper smuggling women caught in Beitbridge
Beitbridge - Two women from Karoi farming town we're arrested at Beitbridge border town on Thursday as they tried to smuggle copper using a donkey cart.According to Beitbridge police s...Published: 24 May 2020 at 10:29hrs | 2214 | by Naume Muza
Violent crimes rear ugly head in Matebeleland South
POLICE in Matebeleland South have recorded a case of man who was bludgeoned to death at his estranged wife's Beitbridge home, another of a violent machete attack on a miner in Gwanda and yet another o...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:58hrs | 627 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland South police recover 21 stolen cattle
POLICE in Matebeleland South have recovered 21 cattle that were stolen from two farms in Beitbridge and Bulawayo.Matebeleland South provincial police spokesperson Chief Inspector Philisani Nde...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:14hrs | 360 | by Staff reporter
Duo in soup for housebreaking, theft
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested two suspects for theft of property worth over $1,5 million.Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube yesterday said Cuthbert Mnyandi (18) and Gamuc...Published: 23 May 2020 at 08:46hrs | 501 | by Staff reporter
Omalayitsha feel Covid-19 pinch
IT'S a Tuesday morning and Dennis Dube, popularly known as Ndlesto, is basking in the sun gazing at the pride of his life, a spotless Quantum that is parked at a car park in Emakhandeni suburb. ...Published: 23 May 2020 at 08:33hrs | 1925 | by Staff reporter
Health experts, CSOs warn of spike in COVID-19 cases
HEALTH experts and civil society organisations have warned of a possible spike in COVID-19 cases due to reckless behaviour by citizens who are moving around without masks and ignoring social distancin...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:01hrs | 445 | by Staff reporter
Wheelbarrows thief jailed
Footprints sold out a Chiweshe wheelbarrows thief who used duplicate keys to open the complanaint's house.The thief Gift Mhendami (39) ...Published: 21 May 2020 at 17:19hrs | 555 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
'George Charamba, Mutodi plotted to remove Mnangagwa'
Former Herald Editor Tichaona Zindonga claims that Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba and ousted Deputy Government Spokesperson Energy Mutodi plotted to remove President Emmerson Mnangagwa work...Published: 21 May 2020 at 10:55hrs | 10344 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Justice Maphosa donates to distressed families
PROMINENT South Africa based Zimbabwean businessman Mr Justice Maphosa has donated food hampers and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to 1 100 vulnerable families who include returnees from South Af...Published: 20 May 2020 at 17:23hrs | 612 | by Staff reporter
Illegal entry points a cause for concern
Illegal entry points along the Zimbabwe-Botswana Boundary line in Bulilima may result in the unchecked community spread of Covid-19.According to Habakkuk Trust report villagers who are engaged...Published: 18 May 2020 at 15:45hrs | 931 | by Stephen Jakes
How Dabengwa Made me a Freedom Fighter - Confessions of a Zipra Cadre
I must have been 15 years old herding cattle EMlageni near Siwubu along the Manzamnyama river in 1967. I remember the year very well. It was a very hot day and it was schools holiday. So, it was aroun...Published: 17 May 2020 at 15:12hrs | 1297 | by ZAPU Department of Information Publicity and Marketing.
Opposition leader vows to defend Chiredzi villagers
ECONOMIC Freedom Fighters (EFF) Zimbabwe president Innocent Gagu Lutshutsha Ndibali has criticised plans by the government to displace thousands of villagers from Chiredzi to pave way for a lucerne pr...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:31hrs | 309 | by Staff reporter
Illegal entry points a cause for concern
Illegal entry points along the Zimbabwe-Botswana boundary line in Bulilima may result in the unchecked community spread of Covid-19. Local villagers, who are engaged in menial jobs as maids and herd b...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:29hrs | 310 | by Habakkuk Trust
Mnangagwa's son implicated in poaching
Kudakwashe, one of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's sons is allegedly involved in the poaching of wildlife in Nyangambe in Save Valley Conservancy, a Chiredzi magistrate has been told.The allega...Published: 16 May 2020 at 15:09hrs | 8364 | by Staff reporter
Time to hold MDC leaders to account
IT was in 2000 when I had just begun my "A" level studies at Rupare High school in Bikita, Masvingo.We were going towards the 2000 parliamentary election. Zanu-PF had just lost a constitutiona...Published: 15 May 2020 at 08:27hrs | 2660 | by Moses Tofa
Lion terrorises Beitbridge villagers
A LONE lion is causing sleepless nights for farmers on plots downstream of the Bubi River, north east of the Beitbridge town. The lion, whose origins are yet unknown, has to date killed some cattle be...Published: 13 May 2020 at 07:43hrs | 1881 | by Staff reporter
Chiredzi residents resist eviction for lucerne project
CHIREDZI, (CAJ News) - VILLAGERS in Chiredzi have vowed to resist reported plans to evict them from their ancestral lands and make way for a project to produce stock-feed.This puts the Chiredz...Published: 11 May 2020 at 08:38hrs | 1387 | by Sheluzani Makhese
Hungry villagers disturbing Mutodi's sleep
ZANU-PF Member of Parliament for Goromonzi West Energy Mutodi is irritated that hungry villagers in Domboshava are disturbing his sleep by knocking at his gate in the early morning begging for food....Published: 11 May 2020 at 08:12hrs | 1964 | by newzimbabwe
Grandpa covets, murders neighbour's wife
A 70-year-old grandpa has appeared in a Beitbridge court for allegedly fatally stabbing his suspected lover who was married to his friend and neighbour.Juta Makoni of Chabeta village under hea...Published: 08 May 2020 at 00:37hrs | 1496 | by Staff reporter
Traditional leaders want PPEs in rural areas
TRADITIONAL leaders in the Midlands province have bemoaned lack of personal protective clothing (PPEs) and the reluctance by villagers to exercise social distancing to prevent the spread of Covid-19. ...Published: 07 May 2020 at 11:16hrs | 76 | by Staff reporter
Machete and axe armed gangs terrorize people as police look other side
Dear, They are so daring that they move around armed with machetes and big axes during broad day light. They terrorize, rob, rape, beat and kill villagers boasting that nothing will happen to ...Published: 07 May 2020 at 07:29hrs | 1212 | by Concerned Citizens
78-year-old arrested for stocktheft
A 78-year-old man and his grandson have been arrested for allegedly stealing nine head of cattle from a farm in Gwanda. Cetshwayo Nyathi, his grandson Ndumiso Nyathi (28) and Sibangilizwe Ncube (42) a...Published: 07 May 2020 at 00:34hrs | 676 | by Staff reporter
4 injured in suspected bomb blast
FOUR Tsholotsho villagers - one adult and three children - were injured when a suspected bomb the children were playing with detonated after they struck it with a hammer.Richard Moyo of Zamaza...Published: 07 May 2020 at 00:16hrs | 1397 | by Staff reporter
Man stabs neighbour's wife in 'love triangle'
A 69-YEAR-OLD MAN from Siyoka area in Beitbridge West has been arrested for allegedly fatally stabbing his neighbour's wife (52) on Saturday evening. The man is reported to have stabbed the wo...Published: 06 May 2020 at 07:43hrs | 1276 | by Staff reporter
'Subsidised mealie-meal not reaching remote areas'
BULAWAYO residents and villagers in parts of Matabeleland South, who have not benefitted from the subsidised roller meal are facing starvation.In urban areas, the government, working with Grai...Published: 05 May 2020 at 08:58hrs | 317 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi orders social welfare to expedite food deliveries
Maize distribution to vulnerable people, especially in rural areas, must be expedited to ensure no one goes hungry, Vice President Kembo Mohadi has said. He said it was important for Government to tak...Published: 05 May 2020 at 07:36hrs | 144 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean elephants cause havoc in SA village
Government's plans to secure the border with Zimbabwe as part of the Covid-19 regulations have not stopped marauding elephants from destroying crops in a South African village, writes Chester Makana...Published: 04 May 2020 at 10:57hrs | 2920 | by Chester Makana
Chiwenga courts private sector, commercial farmers
FACED by a huge food import bill, government is retracing its steps by inviting the private sector and white commercial farmers to grow the staple food.This was revealed by Vice-President Cons...Published: 04 May 2020 at 08:24hrs | 4540 | by Staff reporter
Man dies trying to stop thief
A Beatrice man died after he was run over by a truck while trying to stop the driver from getting away with stolen firewood.Mashonaland East police spokesperson Inspector Tendai Mwanza could n...Published: 03 May 2020 at 10:01hrs | 3510 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland South villagers in the dark about pandemic
parts of Matebeleland South are in the dark about the spread of the Covid-19 disease as they have no access to local media, including radio and television stations, it has emerged.Villagers in...Published: 03 May 2020 at 09:30hrs | 426 | by Staff reporter
Lupane gas project remains a pipe dream
Asea of poverty pictures Lupane in Matabeleland North, a district sitting on an untapped lucrative coal bed methane gas resource, which has witnessed several ribbon-cutting ceremonies ostensibly to ki...Published: 03 May 2020 at 09:25hrs | 364 | by Staff reporter
1 000 villagers to pave way for grass project
OVER 1 000 families in Chiredzi South and East are set to be displaced from their land to pave way for a lucerne production project by private milk producer, Dendairy.Sources close to the matt...Published: 01 May 2020 at 08:25hrs | 1685 | by Staff reporter
After internal strife, Zapu reorganises
Following the split in ZAPU in 1971, it was time to reflect and analyse the situation in order to meaningfully analyse and interpret events that led to the fallout. Armed with analysis and interpretat...Published: 01 May 2020 at 07:55hrs | 581 | by Pathisa Nyathi
The lost industrial glory of the city of Bulawayo
AFRICAN nationalism demands that the history of British colonialism must be condemned at every opportunity and I must be counted among those who lose no opportunity to condemn this phenomenal episode ...Published: 01 May 2020 at 07:53hrs | 864 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Mnangagwa heads to Mozambique after government kills 129 people
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's is expected to meet Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi after Mozambican contract killers gunned down 129 extremist Islamic rebels. According to reports Nyus...Published: 30 Apr 2020 at 14:22hrs | 11132 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Abused' man hangs self
A 73-year-old visually impaired man from Mabale in Hwange allegedly committed suicide by hanging at his homestead in the presence of a three-year-old grandchild after allegedly being abused by family ...Published: 29 Apr 2020 at 07:45hrs | 1093 | by Staff reporter
148 samples collected in Mhondoro, 13 quarantined in Hurungwe
AT least 148 more people from villages in Mhondoro-Mubaira are being tested for Covid-19 after a cluster of three known cases in the area while 13 Zimbabweans returning home through Chirundu Border Po...Published: 29 Apr 2020 at 07:41hrs | 425 | by Staff reporter
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