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Former radio 2 DJ appeals for help
Former Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) Radio 2 presenter Simon Pashoma Ncube has made a public appeal for financial assistance to prominent businessman and tenderpreneur Wicknell Chivayo. The ...Published: 19 Nov 2024 at 13:41hrs | 735 | by Staff reporter
Traffic congestion worsens in Bulawayo CDB
Commuters and motorists in Bulawayo are increasingly frustrated by the non-functioning traffic lights at the intersection of Khami Road and Basch Street, just outside the central business district (CB...Published: 04 Nov 2024 at 06:46hrs | 1633 | by Staff reporter
Foreign-funded NGO reports partisan distribution of food aid in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has raised alarming concerns over the politicization of food aid distribution in rural areas, with reports indicating that opposition supporters are being systematical...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 09:07hrs | 332 | by Staff reporter
Emganwini clinic downgraded to 'baby clinic'
A year after its opening, Emganwini Satellite Clinic in Bulawayo has significantly scaled back its operations, reportedly due to a critical lack of running water. The clinic, initially designed to ser...Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 12:25hrs | 105 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, central bank deliver damp squibs
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent State of the Nation Address (Sona) has come under heavy criticism from leading economists, who say it lacked concrete solutions to arrest the nation's spiraling e...Published: 11 Oct 2024 at 18:33hrs | 1320 | by Staff reporter
Ngozi Mine dumpsite fires choke Cowdray Park
Residents of Cowdray Park suburb in Bulawayo are grappling with thick smoke and health concerns as fires burn at the nearby Richmond landfill, commonly referred to as Ngozi Mine. For the past five day...Published: 04 Oct 2024 at 08:31hrs | 176 | by Staff reporter
Councils top ZACC corruption list
Councillors and local government officials were the largest contributors to corruption cases reported to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) last year, accounting for 13 percent of the tota...Published: 10 Sep 2024 at 07:21hrs | 201 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo water crisis worsens as boreholes break down
The Bulawayo City Council has reported the breakdown of 76 boreholes in the city, forcing residents to search for alternative water sources. The city is currently implementing a water-shedding program...Published: 08 Jul 2024 at 10:56hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland villagers appeal for govt intervention
VILLAGERS in Matebeleland region are appealing to the government to immediately intervene and save them from starvation as the food crisis reaches alarming levels.Several villagers have alread...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 11:34hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo water crisis worsens
BULAWAYO is sitting on a health time bomb as the city's water woes continue to mount with most suburbs going for weeks without running tap water, forcing residents to resort to unhygienic water source...Published: 27 Feb 2024 at 03:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents to get water 'as and when it's available'
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has been forced to suspend its 120-hour water shedding schedule indefinitely as the water situation worsens leaving supply dependent on availability until their system ...Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo water crisis worsens
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has been forced to suspended water suppies to most of the city owing to reduced pumping capacity at the Ncema Dam plant where there are ongoing maintenance works, plunging ...Published: 21 Feb 2024 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo city centre dumpsite worsens chaos, decay
AN illegal dumpsite, which resembles Bulawayo City Council (BCC)'s Richmond Landfill site, commonly known as Ngozi Mine has emerged, a stone's throw away from a busy road that connects the city centre...Published: 23 Jan 2024 at 04:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare garbage stench worsens
The piles of uncollected garbage in Harare city centre continue growing as more vendors sell vegetables and shops are operated without even a single bin.A concerned resident Mrs Patience Nyamu...Published: 04 Jan 2024 at 05:56hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Sexual harassment rampant in the Zimbabwean media
Sexual harassment is rampant in the Zimbabwean media and continues largely because the media ecosystem itself - the journalists, editors, media managers, Human Resources Departments and proprietors - ...Published: 10 Oct 2023 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa: A Beacon of Hope or a False Dawn for Zimbabwe?
Nelson Chamisa, the charismatic leader of Zimbabwe's opposition party, the leader of the Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC), has long been a popular figure in the country's political landscape. His ...Published: 27 Sep 2023 at 06:23hrs | | by Trevor Machete
Chamisa's double candidates headache worsens
ZIMBABWE'S main opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change has been caught between a rock and a hard place after it failed to resolve the issue of double candidates ahead of the forthcoming general ele...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 15:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar on the verge of complete rejection
THE Zimbabwe dollar, which was reintroduced by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) in 2019, is on the verge of collapse and complete market rejection.The local unit is incessantly plummeting ag...Published: 16 Jun 2023 at 07:54hrs | 1 | by Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development
Cholera worsens in Zimbabwe
As cholera worsens in Zimbabwe, Harare's poor high density suburb Mbare's New Lines area has been declared by government a national state of emergency, paving way for authorities urgently disburse fun...Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 08:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man axed to death by relatives in witchcraft row
A GOKWE man died after being axed by his two cousins who accused him of practising witchcraft and causing misfortunes within their family.Pondai Manyao (53) died on his way to Gweru Provincial...Published: 11 Apr 2023 at 14:10hrs | 11 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa must relinquish Ambassador At Large Angel's appointment
Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (ZIMCODD) has appealed to the Office of the President and Cabinet to immediately relinquish Ambassador At Large for Europe and the Americas, Uebert Angel of ...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 10:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wave of armed robberies hits Zimbabwe
There's been a spike in armed robberies in Zimbabwe.Police say criminals are being tempted by cash as people and businesses are not banking their money. Analysts say the situation may ...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 10:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs political tolerance during, after elections
ZIMBABWEANS yesterday woke up to the most surprising, but welcome news that the country's main political parties shared the same platform to condemn violence and to promote peace in the run-up to the ...Published: 12 Oct 2022 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kenya's William Ruto says sanctions impoverish ordinary Zimbabweans
Newly installed Kenyan president William Ruto has joined seemingly unyielding calls by his African peers to have western imposed sanctions against Zimbabwe lifted unconditionally.In his inaugu...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 19:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's diarrhoea outbreak worsens
Bulawayo has recorded 1,200 diarrhoea cases following at outbreak of the disease in July, council officials have confirmed.The first cases of diarrhoea were recorded in the Pumula surburb and ...Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Shot in the arm for people with albinism
Stanbic Bank has lived up to its reputation as a community-centric institution by donating ZW$24. 7 million worth of sun protection products to the Albino Charity Organisation of Zimbabwe (ALCOZ). ...Published: 02 Sep 2022 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe makes first journalist arrests under cybersecurity law
Zimbabwe's Press freedom credentials suffered further criticism with the arrest of two journalists from a privately-owned newspaper charged with transmitting "false data messages."The pair wer...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zesa switches off top officials, police in blitz
TOP government officials, critical security establishments, including police stations and ministry departments, were left in the dark last week after the country's power utility, Zesa, switched them o...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 08:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents spend 2 months with dry taps
BULAWAYO City Council's tight 48-hour water-rationing schedule has seen residents of the city's Pumula South suburb going for two months with drytaps.A water activist, Samantha Kahari, sai...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Load shedding worsens in SA
Unable to switch on lights or heaters, cook dinner or charge their phones, South Africans are spending their mid-winter evenings plunged in darkness and low-tech living.Power outages, known he...Published: 08 Jul 2022 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's rural charge shakes Zanu-PF?
THE Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC)'s rural mobilisation strategy which, for a while, received backlash from Zanu-PF has reportedly left ruling party officials in Mashonaland province battling to...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 06:50hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's forex currency crisis worsens
An outlet in Harare's Graniteside industrial area has been turning away customers using local currency through point of sale (POS) platforms on the pretext that they are experiencing network failure....Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 09:16hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Hit hard by storms and forest loss, Zimbabweans building stronger homes
For Florence Panda, the best thing about her new house in eastern Zimbabwe is not the modern design or the size, big enough for her family of nine.It's the fact that the house is built with ce...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe power crisis worsens
STRUGGLING national power utility Zesa Holdings has extended a plea for help to big miners by constituting a group called the Energy Intensive Users Group (EIUG) to provide off-take guarantees in hard...Published: 06 May 2022 at 19:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Fuel hikes to worsen economic woes
GOVERNMENT yesterday increased prices of petrol and diesel by 23.78% and 18.23% respectively, a move that economists said will result in a hike in prices of basic goods and services and further erode ...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Future of Zimbabwe health sector looks gloomy
The Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development has said the future of the health sector looks gloomy and the government must make efforts to address the crisis."Comparatively, the regional key...Published: 22 Apr 2022 at 14:52hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Stubborn smugglers dice with death on treacherous Limpopo
DECENT Mbedzi (42) sits uncomfortably as he frantically nails together some wooden boards to make a wooden raft, just metres away from Dulibadzimu Gorge, about five kilometres south of Beitbridge bord...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt, companies challenged to adopt policies that advance female waste pickers
Government and various companies have been challenged to adopt policies that advance female waste pickers business as a way of empowering them.The call was made by the Matabeleland Institute f...Published: 18 Mar 2022 at 09:14hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Student shares bed with giant snake
FEAR gripped students of Novena University, Ogume Delta State, in Nigeria, after a python invaded a female hostel in the school.The python was found early morning on the bed of an unnamed fema...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Umzingwane Dam chokes
TWO unregistered dams built in the Umzingwane Dam catchment area and gold panning activities along Umzingwane River have contributed to the Bulawayo supply dam not impounding adequate water since the ...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 05:43hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
MDC factionalism worsens ahead of March elections
SOME members of the opposition MDC-T led by Douglas Mwonzora say factionalism is worsening in the party ahead of the forthcoming council and parliamentary by-elections following claims of widespread r...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe the new Cold War front
ON February 5, 2018 United States President Donald Trump wrote to the US Congress that he was extending sanctions on Zimbabwe by another year. This year President Joe Biden did the same.The gi...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:28hrs | 12 | by Nevanji Madanhire
Zimbabweans trek to rural areas as city life worsens
AN ESTIMATED 1,5 million Zimbabweans are reported to have abandoned life in the city as the country's economic situation continues to deteriorate.The International Labour Organisation (ILO) sa...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mpilo opens heart unit for children
MPILO Central Hospital opened a pediatric cardiac centre yesterday, the second in Zimbabwe as Government pushes to ensure that those suffering from congenital heart diseases (CHD) are attended to loca...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF factional firestorm worsens
THE Zanu-PF factional firestorm has continued raging, with officials blatantly defying last week's injunction by the politburo - its highest decision-making organ between congresses - as they continue...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 18:53hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Defying global trends, Zimbabwe bets on coal
COAL dust fouls the air in Hwange, a mining town in the Matabeleland North province, about an hour's drive southeast of Victoria Falls. Black smoke and a throat-closing odour saturate the atmosphere....Published: 11 May 2021 at 06:39hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Scramble for Hwange
COAL dust fouls the air in Hwange, a mining town in the Matabeleland North region of Zimbabwe, about an hour's drive southeast of Victoria Falls.Black smoke and a throat-closing odour saturate...Published: 02 May 2021 at 09:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF disowns housing co-operatives
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday said it was supportive of government and Harare City Council's proposed demolition of illegal structures, including those under co-operatives led by party members....Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 15:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Help in cleaning up urban settlements - Zanu-PF
ZANU-PF has urged all its structures to cooperate with the Government team set-up to bring normalcy to urban settlements that had become feeding troughs for land barons and some councillors. T...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Diaspora attacked by covid and loneliness in lockdown times
Imagine a day in your life or is it going to be every day of your remaining life?. You are now stuck in a room and the pace of life has slowed. You get up early in the morning and sit in your favorite...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 14:05hrs | 9 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
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