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Gold miner buried alive as flash floods hit river
A tragic accident unfolded in Umzingwane District when flash floods swept through the Lunga River, burying a 20-year-old illegal gold miner alive in a pit that was meant to be his livelihood. The mine...Published: 18 hrs ago | 158 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge border gears up for traffic surge
As the festive season approaches, Zimbabwe and South Africa's border authorities have begun implementing integrated plans to manage the anticipated surge in traffic at Beitbridge Border Post, ensuring...Published: 17 Dec 2024 at 06:33hrs | 344 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe boosts border efficiency for festive season
Beitbridge Border Post, one of the busiest entry points into Zimbabwe, is preparing for a surge in traffic as authorities reactivate the Border Efficiency Management Systems (BEMS) in anticipation of ...Published: 04 Dec 2024 at 06:43hrs | 102 | by Staff reporter
Mashonaland chief in legal trouble over abuse directed at woman
The national Council of Chiefs has been petitioned to act on an errant chief who was filmed verbally abusing a woman during a village court sitting.Chief Nyamaropa, of Shamva in Mashonaland Ce...Published: 02 Dec 2024 at 16:56hrs | 1511 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo court uncovers potential car theft syndicate
A Bulawayo magistrate has denied bail to prominent car dealer and socialite Brighton Chipunza, citing compelling evidence that he poses a flight risk and might interfere with witnesses. Chipunza, who ...Published: 29 Nov 2024 at 07:09hrs | 1259 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo car dealer to appear in court
Prominent Bulawayo car dealer and socialite Brighton Chipunza, known as "Dash," is set to appear in court today for a bail ruling following allegations of stealing a luxury vehicle from a car wash....Published: 28 Nov 2024 at 06:46hrs | 631 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo socialite awaits bail ruling amid stolen vehicle scandal
Bulawayo car dealer and socialite Brighton Chipunza, popularly known as "Dash," is set to hear the ruling on his bail application tomorrow. The 30-year-old faces charges connected to the theft of a So...Published: 26 Nov 2024 at 17:46hrs | 1383 | by Staff reporter
Thabani Mpofu not the complainant in the tribalist student's case
In an earlier version of this story, we erroneously reported that the National University of Science and Technology and its Director of Communications Mr Thabani Mpofu were the complainants in the mat...Published: 30 Mar 2024 at 14:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tribalist student caged for racial profiling
A NATIONAL University of Science and Technology (Nust) student will forever rue the day he decided to post a provocative tribal comment on his X page demeaning Ndebele people, as he has been arraigned...Published: 29 Mar 2024 at 19:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man bashes, breaks own grandmother's tooth
A daring nephew is in soup after he allegedly assaulted his grandmother for not greeting him.The matter came to at Plumtree magistrates courts today where Adam Sibanda (30) appeared before mag...Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 13:58hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwean firm develops 120 passengers seater bus
Returning to innovative solutions to help beat Zimbabwe's urban public transport woes, AVM Africa (Pvt) Ltd has developed a prototype 120-seater bus to provide the most cost-effective solutions on bus...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 05:49hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Apostolic Faith Church congregants flood Bulawayo
THOUSANDS of congregants from two Apostolic Faith Churches are gathered at two venues in Bulawayo for their annual conferences.The churches were once one congregation before splitting into two...Published: 06 Dec 2023 at 05:04hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Shingi Munyeza and wife ordered to repay US$100 000 with interest
Prominent Zimbabwean pastor, businessperson and political activist Shingi Munyeza and his wife Wilma have been ordered by the High Court to repay public relations strategist Marjorie Mutemererwa her U...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 19:38hrs | 32 | by Staff reporter
China intensifies lithium interest in Zimbabwe
CHINA has accounted for more than half of investment licences issued by Zimbabwean authorities during the first quarter of the year amid a boom in global demand for lithium as commercial and domestic ...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 14:25hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe targets US$60b worth of investment
The Zimbabwe Investment and Development Agency (Zida) is looking for more than US$60 billion worth of investment into various sectors of the country's economy, including infrastructure development....Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 10:38hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
China now Zimbabwe's largest FDI source
China has made huge inroads into the Zimbabwean economy in terms of investment, which is expected to grow further following the three-day ZimTrade organised Zimbabwe-China Business Forum, which ends t...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 06:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Shingi Munyeza 'ate' my US$85 000 severance package, says Mutemererwa
WHEN Marjorie Mutemererwa left Seed Co. Ltd last year after some years of dedicated and long service where she was public relations and special programmes manager, she was paid some cool US$85 000 sev...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 17:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF primaries were utter fiasco for ED thx Mafia' said Mliswa. ED's turn to sleep with one eye open
If one, Right Honourable Temba P Mliswa, MP for Norton, is to be believed, then the Gold Mafia is certainly bigger then Zanu PF and they are the ones behind President Mnangagwa's humiliating defeats i...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 11:12hrs | 3 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa promotes 40 senior military officers
Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, President Mnangagwa, has promoted 40 Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) senior officers.Twenty Lieutenant Colonels were promoted to full Colonels w...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 04:54hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Co-wives trade blows over witchcraft accusations
A woman from Bulawayo's Entumbane suburb was fined $5 000 for attacking her co-wife, accusing her of bewitching her.Silibaziso Moyo appeared before Western Commonage Courts magistrate Jeconia ...Published: 28 Oct 2022 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Female chief endorsed
THE late Chief Mvuthu's daughter Ms Silibaziso Mlotshwa could be one foot closer to succeeding her father after the Chiefs Council endorsed her.Chief Mvuthu, born Nyangayezizwe Mlotshwa of Mvu...Published: 21 Oct 2022 at 06:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints ZIDA executive team
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed a new Zimbabwe Investment Development Agency (ZIDA) top management executive team charged with the responsibility to attract meaningful investments into the ...Published: 07 Oct 2022 at 06:02hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo reindustrialisation ongoing
The Zimbabwe Investment and Development Agency (ZIDA) has licensed three companies under the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) initiative in Bulawayo but there are growing concerns implementation is movin...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
From Zimnyama village to South Africa
THE power of collaboration between the media, promoters and artistes has yielded fruitful results as fast-rising artistes Muntuza and Sobancane have earned their first professional gig across the Limp...Published: 26 Mar 2022 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man Killed with his own knobkerrie
A man from Bulawayo suffered the indignity of being killed by his own weapon after a man waylaid him as he headed home, snatched his knobkerrie and hit him on the head with it, resulting in his death....Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 06:50hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Police, soldiers implicated in cattle rustling racket
CATTLE farmers in Matabeleland South province have been losing their livestock to rustling syndicates that they believe were working in cahoots with soldiers and police officers.Farmers told S...Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 06:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Storm leaves trail of destruction in Matebeleland South
STRONG winds have left a trail of destruction in Umzingwane and Gwanda districts and other parts of Matebeleland South province.Affected villagers told Southern Eye that homes, schools and chu...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:32hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Women pressure groups abandon Marry Chiwenga in her hour of need
WOMEN'S rights groups have remained silent over the mounting struggles Marry Mubaiwa, the estranged wife of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, has been facing for the past 18 long months.In ...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:44hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Toponymic identity in Bulawayo and the need to recognise Black women
Histories of many states and nations in the world are generally histories of men and in some cases a few outstanding women, seemingly those whose absence in the historical narrative may discredit hist...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 14:42hrs | 2 | by Staff
Court dismisses lockdown challenge
The attempt by an organisation claiming to represent the informal sector to end the Level Four national lockdown failed after the High Court dismissed the urgent application on several grounds with th...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Magaba, Siyaso traders defy COVID-19 regulations
BUSINESS has resumed at Mbare's Magaba home industry with informal traders defying COVID-19 lockdown regulations and going about their usual operations.This is despite that the government rece...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Informal traders challenge lockdown order
THE Zimbabwe Informal Sectors Organisation (Ziso) has approached the High Court challenging the constitutionality of the recently imposed 30-day lockdown by government to contain the spread of COVID-1...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Yesteryear songbirds who kept us going
I wish life could be rewinded backwards anti-clockwise the days we used to gather together in our dining rooms playing music on our one deck radio cassette player listening to those great songbirds....Published: 07 Dec 2020 at 15:12hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Cassper Nyovest mourns Cal_Vin
Top South African hip hop artiste, Cassper Nyovest who gave Cal Vin's career a much-needed boost after remixing his popular Zikhupan' track some five years ago, has just paid his condolences to the la...Published: 26 Oct 2020 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chief Mvutu succession war rages
THE wrangle within the Mlotshwa family in Monde outside Victoria Falls is far from over after the family failed to agree on who should succeed Chief Mvutu who died six years ago. Chief Mvutu, ...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 07:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
2019 Africa Day Celebrations @ Valley Crest Academy - 'What it means to be African'
The Interact Club at Valley Crest Academy (VCA) in Waterfalls-Park town in Harare hosted the 25th of May 2019 Africa Day celebrations in style. Huxton High school based in Waterfalls added the hive of...Published: 03 Jun 2019 at 07:29hrs | 4 | by Brian Maregedze
Woman storms hubby's wedding reception
TONGUES were left wagging at a wedding in Cowdray Park after a Pumula woman stormed a wedding reception to claim back "her husband".The woman stormed the event claiming the groom was also her ...Published: 03 May 2019 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chief Mvuthu's family in fresh wrangle
THE late Chief Mvuthu's family in Hwange District has approached Government seeking permission to remove Mr Bishop Matata Sibanda who has been acting chief for the past four years. The family ...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 08:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Imprisoned 'looters' approach High Court
THIRTY-FIVE suspects who are languishing in remand prison for allegedly participating in violent protests and looting shops have approached the High Court challenging the court's refusal to grant them...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 10:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-Immigration Dept officials face sexual harassment probe
Zimbabwe Gender Commission acting chairperson Mr Paul Kadzima yesterday said they have set up a commission of inquiry to conduct hearings into allegations of sexual harassment being levelled against f...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Umithisa unina! . . . 'Sasisithi siyadlala'
KULEMULI yeDzivarasekwa eHarare esele ithwele imikhono emakhanda kulandela ukuba enye indoda imithise unina omncane besithi bayadlala.Inina leli kubikwa seliseduze ukuthi libelethe.Abemuli le ...Published: 27 Oct 2018 at 18:20hrs | | by Umlobi woMthunywa
Mugabe endorses rigged elections as 'will of the people' after ED guarantees of fabulous wealth
A team of top notch scientists must be dispatched immediately to Blue Roof Mansion, Harare; the task is to take and test blood samples, urine samples, test all medicine, perfume, test all the fo...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 06:32hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Man bludgeoned to death over soya chunks
A MAN armed with an iron bar allegedly bludgeoned a Lupane businessman to death for refusing to sell him some soya chunks last year.Ndumiso Mlilo allegedly killed Mr Fanet Ndlovu (41), who ope...Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZEC voter educators injured in car crash
FIVE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) voter educators have been hospitalised, with the driver said to be in critical condition, after they were involved in an accident along the Deka-Jambezi Road i...Published: 24 Jul 2018 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says, 'Zim poised to be jewel of Africa'
President Mnangagwa yesterday assured Zimbabweans that Government was revamping the economy to ensure the country becomes the Jewel of Africa through sheer industry. Addressing a bumper crowd ...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grave opened, corpse stolen
In a suspected case of juju, an 18-month-old baby's corpse was exhumed within a day of burial at the crowded Granville cemetery (kuMbudzi) in the capital.Stains of blood were also found on a r...Published: 14 Jul 2018 at 13:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa showcases his lighter side
President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week was in one of his most jovial moods, dedicating the bulk of his speech at the St Noah College Stadium and Sports Centre ground-breaking ceremony to jokes that le...Published: 27 May 2018 at 10:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
5 die in road crash
Five people died when a vehicle - Renault - they were travelling in side-swiped a Mercedes Benz Sprinter commuter omnibus driving in the opposite direction and encroached into the opposite lane, resul...Published: 03 May 2018 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Kidnapper arrested after three years
A 36-YEAR-OLD man from Mbuyazwe area in Umguza district has appeared in court for allegedly kidnapping and assaulting his ex-wife's lover three years ago.Western Commonage magistrates' court m...Published: 02 Apr 2018 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Immigration boss scoffs at bribe allegations
The Immigration Department has said it will remain resolute and steadfast when discharging its duties, despite reports by some disgruntled former officers who have gone on a crusade alleging that the ...Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
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