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Unsafe wiring, blocked hydrants blamed for Glenview fires
A fire broke out at the Glen View 8 SMEs complex in Harare early yesterday morning, destroying several market stalls. Authorities suspect the blaze was sparked by illegal electricity connections....Published: 3 hrs ago | 35 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo hit by wave of lithium battery fires
Lithium batteries meant to power homes are instead turning them into death traps, as a surge of fires linked to poorly installed solar systems sweeps across Bulawayo.So far this year, 10 homes...Published: 08 Aug 2025 at 17:38hrs | 792 | by Staff reporter
Ajax redefines future of smart protection for homes and businesses
In a time where security is of utmost importance, the Safeguard Security Group is continuing to provide Zimbabwe with unparalleled security products and services that can meet the challenge to curtail...Published: 09 Jun 2025 at 16:01hrs | 182 | by Agencies
Zimbabwe introduces rebate for EV Charging systems
In a bid to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and strengthen sustainable energy infrastructure, the Government of Zimbabwe has introduced a duty rebate on imported equipment used to s...Published: 04 May 2025 at 09:13hrs | 389 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe introduces rebate on solar equipment for EV charging stations
In a bid to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and bolster the country's transition to cleaner energy, Zimbabwe has introduced a duty rebate on imported equipment for the establishment...Published: 28 Apr 2025 at 12:34hrs | 194 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's dodgy mandatory electrical inspections suspended
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) has proposed a temporary suspension of mandatory electrical inspections for households and commercial buildings, citing the need for broader consultatio...Published: 05 Apr 2025 at 14:58hrs | 3772 | by Staff reporter
ZETDC introduces dodgy mandatory $25 electrical inspections fee
The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) has announced a mandatory US$25 fee for inspections and re-inspections of electrical installations across the country. This measu...Published: 29 Mar 2025 at 08:28hrs | 903 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean innovator showcases self-powering vehicle to Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has hailed Zimbabwean innovator Maxwell Chikumbutso for his groundbreaking invention of self-powering vehicles and motorbikes that run on radio waves, describing the feat ...Published: 29 Jan 2025 at 08:45hrs | 1006 | by Staff reporter
Smelly uplifts orphans
Gweru-based businesswoman and philanthropist, Smelly Dube, has refurbished an early childhood development (ECD) classroom block for orphaned children in the Midlands capital. The classroom block, esta...Published: 21 Nov 2024 at 06:32hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man locked up in Botswana for car theft
A Zimbabwean man has been detained in a Botswana remand prison following his arrest for allegedly stealing a Honda Fit vehicle after it ran out of fuel.His alleged accomplice escaped from law ...Published: 03 Jun 2024 at 08:08hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Corrupt Ran mine workers in illegal miners death scandal
Residents of Bindura have come out guns blazing at Ran mine management over the tragic mine accident that killed five gold panners last week. ...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 14:41hrs | 3 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Bindura
Mr. President, you can't make the nation suffer simply because of your ego!
Pride comes before a fall! When I had the inspiration for this article, a certain scenario played out in my mind.I imagined an egoistical father - who was adamant that every 'respectab...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 07:23hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mthuli Ncube inspired road rehabilitation at full throttle in Cowdray Park
THE Zanu-PF candidate for Cowdray Park constituency, Professor Mthuli Ncube has set the ball rolling in his development agenda of the area with road rehabilitation works, borehole drilling and Wi-Fi i...Published: 07 May 2023 at 07:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa expands empire in Kwekwe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, members of the First Family and his close allies, who include former State Security minister Owen Ncube, have amassed significant wealth in the form of immovable property...Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 17:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean glitterati and Nigerian husband wanted for drug trafficking
THEIR marriage ceremony at The Nest, an upmarket and exclusive venue in Harare, was dubbed wedding-of-the-year in Zimbabwe last year.It was attended by the who-is-who in the local social scene...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 15:25hrs | 206 | by Staff reporter
Govt goes all out to complete Lupane Hospital
WORK on Lupane Provincial Hospital, the first public referral health institution in Matabeleland North Province, has gained pace as the Government steps up efforts to meet the end of year deadline to ...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 23:45hrs | 126 | by Staff Reporter
PowerChina Supports Cultivation of Highly Skilled Talent in Zambia
LUSAKA, Zambia, PRNewswire/ -- On the Kafue River about 90 km south of Zambian capital Lusaka, Zambia's first large-scale hydropower station is humming sm...Published: 05 Jan 2023 at 07:01hrs | 128 | by PRNewswire
Beyond Beijing's 'gift' to Zimbabwe
On November 23, 2022, the President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa gave the state of the nation address at the new iconographic parliament building that was designed, funded, built and "donated" by C...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:12hrs | 2 | by Gorden Moyo
Prepaid Zesa for all next year
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) has procured 100 000 prepaid meters as it targets to complete the placement of all its customers under this system by June next y...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:43hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Foreign banks troop to Zimbabwe forex auction
UNITED States-based multinational investment outfit JP Morgan was among global lenders that repatriated a combined US$30 million through the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s forex auction system by th...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Hwange Power Station expansion 65% complete
The major expansion of Hwange Thermal Power Station by the addition of units 7 and 8, each of 300MW, is now 64,63 percent complete despite Covid-19 amid finance challenges that have pushed back comple...Published: 19 May 2021 at 06:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi New Year message
New Year Greetings to all!As we leave the year 2020 behind and begin a new year journey in our struggle for freedom in Mthwakazi, it is important to reflect and highlight the obstacles that we...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 19:39hrs | 11 | by Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Residents threaten rates payment boycott
GWERU residents have threatened to boycott payment of rates citing numerous cases of revenue leakages, which have affected service delivery.A recent council internal audit revealed that severa...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporte
Biti challenges Ramaphosa
MDC Deputy National Chair Tendai Biti says President Ramaphosa has a key role to play in resolving the crisis in Zimbabwe. And he warned: 'If Zimbabwe implodes South Africa will suffer'.Biti w...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 19:44hrs | | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Biti warns Mnangagwa
MDC vice-president Tendai Biti has warned that President Emmerson Mnangagwa will eventually face street protests if he does not initiate dialogue with the opposition party.Biti told MDC suppor...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Opposition parties under threat, says Biti
MDC vice president Tendai Biti, believes that opposition parties in southern Africa are under threat from governments that are failing to follow democratic principles. Speaking while in the Un...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 07:19hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Of a book on democracy and democracy hypocrites
Last week MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa was on cloud nine when he officially co-launched with former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo the book, Democracy Works – Re-wiring politics to Afr...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 13:44hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga
'Zimbabwe invented State Capture and SA refined it,' says Tendai Biti
Zimbabwean opposition MP and constitutional lawyer Tendai Biti told a Durban audience on Tuesday night that his country had invented state capture and South Africans had merely refined it. "I ...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by African News Agency (ANA)
Southern Africa's problem of political elite impunity
Former South African deputy foreign affairs minister Aziz Pahad's support for the Maduro regime in Venezuela throws into sharp relief the acceptance by political elites in Southern Africa of die-hard ...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:25hrs | 1 | by Tendai Biti and Mills
Cabinet gives nod to POSA amendments
Cabinet yesterday approved principles for the amendment of the Public Order and Security Act (POSA), a development that underscores Government's commitment to the reform agenda in the Second Republic....Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF 'smuggled' money to China for regalia
The ruling Zanu-PF party claims that the United States of America tried to sabotage their campaign by blocking them from wiring their transaction to a Chinese firm which printed the party's regalia un...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 15:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Govt cracks whip on gold milling centres
GOVERNMENT has suspended operations at a gold milling centre in Bindura in what it warned was the beginning of a crackdown on milling centres it accused of underhand dealings ranging from understandin...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unity Village goes up in smoke
PROPERTY worth more than $300 000 was destroyed when a huge fire gutted Bulawayo's biggest flea market, Unity Village. The flea market, which is located at the corner of Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo S...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 08:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Reforms are rallying and clarion call,' says MDC - so what happened to WIRE?
In Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends, the nation is stuck with individuals who are corrupt and incompetent; set in their ways they are now immovable concrete blocks. They believe in their own rhet...Published: 08 Sep 2017 at 16:22hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Kenya elections 'must be free', says MDC and yet accept rigged ones in Zimbabwe
Everything MDC says and does smacks of political naivety, hypocrisy and even criminal duplicity.Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends may like to compare themselves with Raila Odinga his Natio...Published: 01 Sep 2017 at 21:51hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Kasukuwere lose farm property
FORTY-THREE head of cattle belonging to Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare ministry secretary Ngoni Masoka are set to go under the hammer today to pay off a debt he owes to the Zimbabwe Farmers...Published: 28 Aug 2017 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Outrage over Grace Mugabe's SA episode
HARARE - Zimbabweans have reacted angrily to First Lady Grace Mugabe's brush with the law in South Africa where she faces charges of severely assaulting a 20-year-old model, Gabriella Engels she had f...Published: 20 Aug 2017 at 17:43hrs | | by Zodwa Wabantu
Bond notes running out
Long-suffering Zimbabweans are now being forced to accept huge sackfuls of coins from their banks and mobile money agents as bond notes vanish from the local market on the back of currency dealers who...Published: 20 Jun 2017 at 13:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Requirements for vehicles in Zimbabwe
In terms of Statutory Instrument 154 of 2010, members are reminded that requirements for reflectors and other markings necessary, plus equipment to be carried by motorists in vehicles in Zimbabwe, inc...Published: 05 Jun 2017 at 15:40hrs | 89 | by Victoria Falls Guide
Govt donates to Nketa family
THE government yesterday donated $1,000 to assist a family from Nketa 6 suburb in Bulawayo that lost five members in a house fire last week.The five family members were burnt to death while th...Published: 10 May 2016 at 07:24hrs | 1 | by Bongani Ndlovu
'What is wrong with being Black?
Whereas the Bible has been faulted as being complicit in the subjugation of the black people, everywhere they appear in its passages, it is with respect to mission or majesty.A question often ...Published: 02 May 2016 at 11:31hrs | 2 | by Stanely Mushava
Prison guard orders 'wife's lover' to hang self
A FORMER prison officer from Gwanda has been jailed for 18 months for ordering a man he suspected to be cheating with his wife to hang himself from the roof trusses with the alleged love rival only su...Published: 15 Mar 2016 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Richard Muponde
Ex-prison officer detains wife's lover 17hrs, orders him to hang himself
AN ex-prison officer detained and tortured a man he suspected to be his wife's lover for 17 hours before ordering him to hang himself, a court heard yesterday. Douglas Kamasha, 36, of Hla...Published: 31 Dec 2015 at 08:15hrs | 2 | by Marvelous Moyo
Tikoloshi bans man from cooking
A man from Johanneburg has claimed that tikoloshi has forced him to go on diet as each time he tries to cook the tikoloshi would trip power.Michael Mputhi (42) while others are already in the ...Published: 20 Dec 2015 at 12:11hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
'Mugabe a massive culprit in causing climate change'
MDC leader Welshman Ncube has claimed that Zanu PF and rival President Robert Mugabe is massively contributing to climate change.Ncube said Mugabe is a culprit in causing air pollution due to ...Published: 04 Dec 2015 at 10:56hrs | 1 | by Thobekile Zhou
Man hangs self after kraal-head threatens to impound his cattle
A man from Waris Estate in Hwendedzo near Nerupiri in Gutu hanged himself after a kraal head threatened to impound two heads of cattle from him for assaulting his wife.Morgan Magarabha sto...Published: 11 Sep 2015 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe misses digitalisation switch on date
Zimbabwe bought digital transmission equipment worth $6 million using part of a $125 million facility signed between the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe and China's Huawei International.Th...Published: 17 Jun 2015 at 08:11hrs | 16 | by Target Shumba
Zimbabwe requires $1 billion for rural electrification
The Rural Electrification Agency (REA) requires substantial amounts of money to connect the country's rural communities to the national grid. Zimbabwe currently has a backlog of 1,5 millio...Published: 23 Apr 2015 at 08:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Highway traffic cops outwitted
THERE was drama in Mutare's Hospital Hill low-density suburb on Monday morning when a highway traffic police patrol Mercedes Benz caught fire during a high speed chase with a commuter omnibus that had...Published: 06 Feb 2015 at 14:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman arrested with explosives at Beitbridge border post
Johannesburg - A woman was arrested at the Beitbridge border post when mining explosives were allegedly found in her bag on Monday, the SA Revenue Service said.Customs official conducted a ran...Published: 29 Dec 2014 at 09:31hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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