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Gold panners continue to invade Vumbachikwe Mine
Vumbachikwe Mine community members have complained over the random blasting occurring at the mine amid revelations gold panners continue to invade the min...Published: 22 Jun 2025 at 22:44hrs | 421 | by Stephen Jakes
Vumbachikwe Mine moves to evict workers still occupying company houses after 2022 closure
GWANDA, Matabeleland South - Management at the struggling Vumbachikwe Mine has filed court summons seeking the eviction of two workers from company-owned houses, despite hundreds of others still occup...Published: 20 Jun 2025 at 22:25hrs | 365 | by Stephen Jakes
Mine workers around Gwanda chronicle cocktail of unfair labour practices
Mine workers in Matabeleland South have reported facing threats of illness, death from diseases, violations of their labour and human rights, and horrific living conditions during their work in mines....Published: 12 Mar 2025 at 22:13hrs | 1966 | by Stephen Jakes
Illegal gold panners sneak into Vumbachikwe mine
PLUS or minus 100 Illegal gold panners reportedly sneaked into Vumbachikwe mine this week where about 38 of them have reportedly been arrested with cases pending in the courts.A local source r...Published: 13 Dec 2024 at 13:02hrs | 564 | by Staff reporter
Water crisis at Vumbachikwe poses serious health crisis
Water crisis that is as a result of a cocktail of challenges faced by the Vumbachikwe Mine community among them electricity disconnection by Zimbabwe Elec...Published: 07 Dec 2024 at 10:16hrs | 75 | by Stephen Jakes
Environmental crisis looms at Vumbachikwe... amid concern over management's non compliance
ENVIRONMENTAL crisis is reportedly looming at Vumbachikwe mine in Gwanda after the management set up an allegedly substandard elution processing facilities wrapped around by a sail above ground surfac...Published: 02 Dec 2024 at 15:58hrs | 461 | by Stephen Jakes
ZANU-PF losing candidate refuses to give up on Gwanda North
Despite his defeat in the recent elections for the Gwanda North constituency, Lungisani Costa TwoMinutes Ncube, a former ZANU-PF candidate, has vowed to continue serving his community through impactfu...Published: 24 Nov 2024 at 10:12hrs | 446 | by Staff reporter
Gold panners invade Vumbachikwe Mine
Illegal gold panners are reportedly sneaking into the closed Vumbachikwe Mine in Gwanda, Matabeleland South, to extract gold, NewsDay has learned.Last Saturday, one of the panners was struck b...Published: 12 Sep 2024 at 07:17hrs | 404 | by Staff reporter
Man kills wife over R300
A Gwanda man has been arrested after he killed his wife in a dispute over of money.Matabeleland South acting provincial police spokesperson, Assistant Inspector Thandolwenkosi Moyo confirmed t...Published: 18 Mar 2023 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Quailed-off Vumbachikwe Mine Spouse demo brews possible spontaneous strike
Tuesday the 8th of November 2022 saw more than five hundred disgruntled Vumbachikwe (known as Forbes and Thompson Duration Gold Mine) spouses of mine work...Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 13:30hrs | 5 | by Maxwell Teedzai
Hope amid fear as relatives await fate of miners
FAMILY members of seven miners from Bucks Mine in Colleen Bawn sit around small fires and watch helplessly as rescue workers go in and out of the shaft where their relatives have been trapped undergro...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
7 feared dead in mine collapse
SEVEN miners from Bucks Mine in Colleen Bawn are feared dead after hoisting ropes to a skip bringing them up the shaft from underground snapped, plunging them back on a free-fall of about 200 meters....Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Vumbachikwe Gold Mine hit by mass exodus of workers
A TOTAL of 23 senior and junior managers plus 140 general workers have quit Vumbachikwe Gold Mine in Gwanda, Matabeleland South, within the past two months.According to an internal memo seen b...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 06:36hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
We are called tribalists
When we complain that our region gets the last and least priority from government we are called tribalists and all sorts of names.Today's mega headline is that Government has sourced money for...Published: 28 Sep 2017 at 09:34hrs | 6 | by Bekezela Maduma Fuzwayo
Gold mine owner shot
A FILABUSI mine owner was shot on the leg by his colleague who accidentally discharged a firearm as they were repelling illegal gold panners at Epoch Mine in the district.The incident occurred...Published: 06 May 2017 at 12:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
150 armed gold panners invade Vumbachikwe Mine compound
MORE than 150 armed gold panners have invaded a compound at Vumbachikwe Mine in Gwanda, tunnelling under houses and raising fears that buildings might collapse.Residents at the compound yester...Published: 01 May 2017 at 12:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
AMWZ fight Vhumbachikwe workers’ dismissal after strike
Associated Mine Workers Union of Zimbabwe has engaged its lawyers after Vhumbachikwe Mine unilaterally dismissed 50 employees for engaging in a strike in December 2016.The employees were...Published: 30 Jan 2017 at 04:59hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Police order return of dead miner's body
POLICE in Gwanda last week ordered the return of the body of a miner from Mberengwa before it was buried for further investigations and a post-mortem, Sunday News has learnt. The miner, Mugovewashe Kw...Published: 21 Aug 2016 at 09:03hrs | | by Robin Muchetu
Mine worker falls 160 metres to death
A WORKER at Vumbachikwe gold mine in Gwanda died yesterday morning after plunging for about 160 metres down a shaft. The incident occurred as workers were reporting for duty.Matabeleland South...Published: 16 Aug 2016 at 07:00hrs | | by Richard Muponde
2 injured as school collapses
Two people were critically injured when heavy rains that pounded Gwanda yesterday totally destroyed a mine owned primary school.Sabiwa Primary Schools at Vumbachikwe Mine in Gwanda had 13 clas...Published: 16 Jan 2016 at 10:18hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mistress ordered to pay $2,500 adultery damages
A GWANDA magistrate has ordered a woman who committed adultery with the Vumbachikwe Mine Human Resources officer to pay $2,500 adultery damages to the man's wife.Magistrate Arafat Kozanai rule...Published: 16 Jan 2015 at 08:51hrs | 1 | by Marvelous Moyo
Woman sues hubby's lover for $8,000
A GWANDA teacher is claiming $8,000 from her husband's "small house" in adultery damages and for depriving her quality time with him.Thema Ndiweni, a teacher at Jahunda Primary School, dragged...Published: 19 Nov 2014 at 06:12hrs | 4 | by Marvelous Moyo
Man gets protection order against abusive wife
A GWANDA man was yesterday granted a protection order against his abusive wife who forced him out of their home after allegedly threatening, assaulting and insulting him.Lovemore Darawanda, 28...Published: 26 Aug 2014 at 18:05hrs | | by Marvelous Moyo
Kasukuwere shuts down Vumbachikwe mine
VUMBACHIKWE Gold Mine in Gwanda, Matabeleland South, has been ordered to stop operations for refusing to comply with the Environmental Management Ageny (EMA) rules and regulations.The mining c...Published: 14 Mar 2014 at 07:12hrs | 1 | by Pamela Shumba
Gwanda Residents Complain over Mtshabezi River bridge AGAIN!
Residents of Gwanda have yet again expressed their frustration over the Mtshabezi River Bridge.The bridge which links Gwanda Town to its three major mining operations, Blanket, Vumbachikwe...Published: 03 Feb 2014 at 22:40hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter in Gwanda
Gwanda Residents complain on Mtshabezi River Bridge
Residents of Gwanda have expressed serious displeasure at the condition of Mtshabezi River Bridge in the town.The very narrow bridge linking the town with Blanket Mine, Vumbachikwe Mine an...Published: 26 Dec 2013 at 09:22hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Nhema urges companies to comply with indigenisation
THE Government will move swiftly to ensure that all companies comply with the requirements of the Indigenisation Act and expedite the release of outstanding funding under the Community Share Ownership...Published: 04 Oct 2013 at 15:50hrs | 1 | by Mafu Sithabile
Vumbachikwe Mine given 21-day ultimatum
THE National Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Board (NIEEB) has issued a 21-day ultimatum to Vumbachikwe Mine to comply with the Indigenisation Act.Vumbachikwe Mine, located 16km fr...Published: 04 Oct 2013 at 15:32hrs | 1 | by Mafu Sithabile
Duration Gold gives in to indigenisation
Gwanda-based Vumbachikwe Gold Mine's foreign shareholder, Duration Gold, has capitulated to government demands and pressure from the local community to cede controlling shareholding to locals....Published: 24 Jan 2013 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Here and There - ibhavu yemalokitshini
A Chronicle roving photographers on an assignment to cover Makopo's (Emakhandeni's) water woes on Tuesday captured a woman proudly holding her waist in front of a queue waiting for a water bowser fro...Published: 16 Jul 2012 at 18:07hrs | 1 | by Courtesy of the late William Phiri
Furious driver speeds and jumps off a moving truck leaving 7 passengers on board
SEVEN passengers In Gwanda cheated death when the driver of a Toyota pick-up truck they were travelling in reportedly jumped off from the moving car in protest over fares....Published: 14 Jul 2012 at 04:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Domestic violence cases on the rise in Zimbabwe
REPORTED cases of domestic violence in the country have steadily increased since 2008 where 1 940 cases were reported, with recent reports showing that 10 351 cases were reported last year.How...Published: 27 Jun 2012 at 09:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hubby, girlfriend murder wife
A 28-year-old man from Vumbachikwe Mine in Gwanda allegedly teamed up with his girlfriend and severely assaulted his wife who later died in hospital.Nkosana Dube (28), of Number J1 Vumbachikwe...Published: 23 Jun 2012 at 10:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere initiates mine takeover for defying indigenisation
The Zimbabwean government has made moves to take over Vumbachikwe Gold Mine in Gwanda, Matabeleland South for allegedly defying the country's indigenisation laws.Speaking to journa...Published: 11 Jun 2012 at 14:22hrs | 1 | by Ndou Paul
Zanu-PF calls for Vumbachikwe Mine takeover
THE Government should immediately take over Vumbachikwe Mine in Gwanda because the mine authorities have demonstrated that they are against the Government's indigenisation programme, the Governor for ...Published: 29 May 2012 at 05:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe threatens Zimbabwe mine grabs
President Robert Mugabe has warned miners who resist Government's Indigenisation programme saying they risk being thrown out of the country the same way white commercial farmers lost their farms durin...Published: 19 May 2012 at 09:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mat South ready for Community Share Ownership Scheme launch
THE Matabeleland South Community Share Ownership Trust/Scheme (CSOT/S) will be launched at Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) in Colleen Bawn in Gwanda on Friday.The CSOT/S is a countrywide Govern...Published: 15 May 2012 at 05:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zinwa claims that Gwanda water safe
THE Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) yesterday assured Gwanda residents that the water the town is being supplied with is safe and meets World Health Organisation (WHO) standards....Published: 17 Dec 2010 at 17:47hrs | | by Gwanda correspondent
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