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Zimbabwe govt raises alarm over skills gap

The Zimbabwean government has raised alarm over the widening gap between academic qualifications and practical skills in the country, warning that the mismatch is stalling economic growth and leaving many graduates unfit for the demands of…

Published: 08 Jul 2025 at 19:11hrs | | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo residents raise alarm over council procurement processes

Bulawayo residents have voiced growing concern over the Bulawayo City Council's (BCC) procurement and tender procedures, accusing the local authority of a lack of transparency that has led to shoddy work, abandoned projects, and financial …

Published: 07 Jul 2025 at 08:45hrs | 116 | by Staff reporter

Police raise alarm over transformer theft

Police in the Midlands Province have raised concern over a growing trend of electricity infrastructure vandalism following the theft of two transformers in the Mutenderende and Chirumhanzu areas.Midlands Provincial Police Spokesperson, Ins…

Published: 24 Jun 2025 at 12:35hrs | 180 | by Staff reporter

CZI sounds alarm over substandard goods in Zimbabwe

The Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) has raised concern over the continued flood of substandard and mispriced goods entering the country, despite the existence of the Consignment-Based Conformity Assessment (CBCA) programme â€” a…

Published: 20 Jun 2025 at 06:05hrs | 130 | by Christopher Mutambirwa

Zimbabwean communities raise alarm over lithium mining impacts

As global demand for lithium surges to power electric vehicles and household solar batteries, the scramble for Zimbabwe's rich lithium deposits is exposing deep-rooted tensions between economic interests and the rights of rural communities…

Published: 19 Jun 2025 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter

Matabeleland faces severe shortage of Headmaster?

Matabeleland is grappling with a critical shortage of school heads, with 173 vacancies needing urgent filling across both primary and secondary schools in the region - a reflection of Zimbabwe's ongoing education sector brain drain fuelled…

Published: 09 Jun 2025 at 08:33hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter

MP raises alarm over overcrowded classrooms

Opposition legislator for Mkoba South, John Kuka, has raised concern over the worsening pupil-teacher ratio in Zimbabwe's schools, which has forced many institutions to adopt hot-sitting due to classroom shortages.Speaking during a visit t…

Published: 09 Jun 2025 at 08:32hrs | 52 | by Staff reporter

Council bleeding funds over unrepaid travel allowances

Chinhoyi Municipality could be losing thousands of dollars amid revelations that councillors are benefiting from advance subsistence allowances for official trips they never undertook - and are not repaying the funds as required.According …

Published: 30 May 2025 at 08:54hrs | 121 | by Staff reporter

Alarm over Zimbabwe's new media blueprint

Media advocacy groups have raised serious concerns over what they describe as the veiled criminalisation of journalism in Zimbabwe's new National Media Policy, launched by President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday at State House in Harare.…

Published: 30 May 2025 at 08:53hrs | 133 | by Staff reporter

Alarm over major city dam's low water inflows

Bulawayo's water supply faces a growing crisis as one of its main water sources, Inyankuni Dam, has received only 6% of its designed inflows, a situation worsened by rampant illegal gold mining in the dam's catchment area. With the rainy s…

Published: 09 Mar 2025 at 13:20hrs | 202 | by Staff reporter

Army deployment causes alarm in Lupane

Tshongogwe villagers in Lupane, Matabeleland North, were gripped by fear after the unexpected deployment of a large contingent of soldiers to their area.Villagers have expressed alarm at the heavy military presence, with many unsure of the…

Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 17:32hrs | 3490 | by Staff reporter

Lawyers raise alarm over police conduct at court

Human rights lawyers representing jailed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Jameson Timba and 65 party activists have expressed serious concerns regarding the conduct of anti-riot police officers stationed at the Harare Magistrates…

Published: 18 Sep 2024 at 08:27hrs | 526 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa's lawyer writes to Sanyatwe, demands Genaral sit down

Nelson Chamisa's lawyer and close ally, Thabani Mpofu has written to army commander Lt Gen Anselem Sanyatwe demanding that he retracts statements made at a rally where he vowed that 'Zanu-PF will rule until donkeys grow horns' by using 'co…

Published: 03 Jul 2024 at 13:35hrs | 39 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe police's 'shoot to kill policy' raises alarm

LAWYERS have raised alarm over increasing cases of fatal shooting of suspects by police officers under controversial circumstances saying taking the life of the suspected criminals before trial was unconstitutional.This month alone, five s…

Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 12:58hrs | 41 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe police redflags rampant armed robberies at schools

The Zimbabwe Republic Police has expressed alarm regarding a series of robberies that transpired at three schools in Harare and Goromonzi. Armed gangs targeted security personnel and absconded with substantial amounts of money, as well as …

Published: 27 Sep 2023 at 20:06hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Alarm over rise in brothels

Residents have called on the Municipality of Gwanda and police to act on illegal activities which have resulted in the increase in crime in the mining town.Residents said they were being terrorised by people armed with machetes and axes. A…

Published: 15 May 2022 at 06:12hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Chiefs raise Covid-19 alarm

CHIEFS have raised alarm over Zimbabweans sneaking into communities from neighbouring countries where they are based amid strong suspicions that some of them are border jumpers who are evading Covid-19 screening at the borders.The traditio…

Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 07:26hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Alarm as private aircrafts sneak in, out of Zimbabwe undetected

PRIVATE aircraft have been sneaking in and out of the Robert Gabriel Mugabe (RGM) International Airport and other Zimbabwean flight ports without detection due to poor air traffic control, investigations have revealed. An association of lo…

Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 19:51hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Suicide cases trigger alarm in Zimbabwe

"It is so hard to take it in because I could not hear him scream or anything, it is too painful," those are the heart-breaking words from Farai Munemo's mother Felistas Mundere.Munemo would have turned 10 next year, but in unclear circumst…

Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Alarm over Harare flyover bridge

HARARE City Council yesterday admitted it was not inspecting its infrastructure due to resource and skills constraints, a development that could prove disastrous following claims that a bridge on a busy Harare road has developed structural…

Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Alarming growing trend of sugar mummies

THERE is a developing trend of Bulawayo school boys depending on sugar mummies for their upkeep in exchange for sex, exposing the minors to HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.The disturbing revelation was made during a National …

Published: 23 Aug 2017 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter

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