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Grace Mugabe finally shakes Mnangagwa's hand
THE late former President Robert Mugabe was yesterday honoured as one of Southern Africa's founding fathers at the ongoing Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) summit being held in the Democra...Published: 2 hrs ago | 674 | by Staff reporter
Lawyer on the run over US$400,000 fraud
HARARE lawyer Munyaradzi Nzarayapenga is on the run after he allegedly duped Matabeleland farmer and businessman, Henry Deudeny Simmons of US$400 000 in a botched investment deal.According to ...Published: 2 hrs ago | 193 | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe honoured by Sadc
FOUNDING fathers of the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) were honoured at the ongoing 42nd Summit of the regional bloc, home to 340 million people and a region that is now charting a new ...Published: 2 hrs ago | 49 | by Staff reporter
Manchester United fan kills man with machete after being taunted in 4-0 loss to Brentford
A man taunted over Manchester United's 4-0 drubbing by Brentford in the English Premier Soccer League killed a rival fan with a machete following a bar brawl, police said.Police are hunting Si...Published: 14 hrs ago | 1684 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says ministries driving black market
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has for the first time admitted that there has been massive pilferage and corruption in government departments which is driving the black market and prices of goods and se...Published: 16 Aug 2022 at 06:41hrs | 1457 | by Staff reporter
Jesse Halfway Hotel: The fall of a luxurious stopover
A pungent smell of urine engulfs the environs around Jesse Halfway Hotel, located right in the middle of Bulawayo and Beitbridge, in the West Nicholson area, at an equi-distance of 160 kilometres....Published: 16 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | 546 | by Staff reporter
Manama hit by water shortages
THE Manama business community in Gwanda has bemoaned the acute water shortages in the business centre amid reports that they fetch the precious liquid about 5 kilometres away.Boreholes a...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:24hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
Gwayi-Shangani pipeline excites villagers
THE Gwayi-Shangani pipeline is set to transform the lives of thousands of people in six districts in the Matabeleland North Province as well as benefit Bulawayo and Matabeleland South immensely as the...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:20hrs | 321 | by Staff reporter
Bosso road woes hit 32 winless matches
Herentals 1 - 1 HighlandersBULAWAYO giants Highlanders' struggles on the road continued yesterday when a late equaliser by Herentals striker forward John Zhuwao ended hopes that Bosso had of...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:20hrs | 134 | by Staff reporter
Illegal Malawi immigrants jailed
TWELVE illegal Malawi immigrants were sentenced to three months in prison by Mutoko magistrate Rumbidzai Mhandu for illegally staying in Zimbabwe....Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 19:28hrs | 966 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Chiwenga warns Innscor
A TENSE meeting between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Innscor Africa shareholders over allegations of fuelling currency volatilities rocking the market had a chilling effect after Vice-President Co...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 20:21hrs | 955 | by Staff reporter
Chief summons witch hunter
A TRADITIONAL leader in Kezi, Chief Nyangazonke has summoned a tsikamutanda (witch hunter) operating in the area to explain his activities.Tsikamutandas are reportedly wreaking havoc in Matabe...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 881 | by Staff reporter
Brito vows to end 31 match winless run
HIGHLANDERS coach Baltermar Brito has dismissed the 31-match winless streak that Bosso have endured outside Bulawayo as nothing more than a statistic and has vowed to bring it to an end when his team ...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:35hrs | 235 | by Staff reporter
Henrietta Rushwaya bizarrely acquitted
ZIMBABWE Miners Federation (ZMF) boss Henrietta Rushwaya has been cleared of wrongdoing in a case where she was accused of offering a US$5,000 bribe to an airport official in a bid to smuggle gold wor...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 18:13hrs | 2338 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt must promptly return Zipra properties
CALLS by Zanu-PF Bulawayo provincial chairperson Jabulani Sibanda this week that government should return all properties that it grabbed from former Zipra combatants at the height of the Gukurahundi m...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:45hrs | 815 | by Staff reporter
Fury over Heroes Day celebrations at Bhalagwe mass graves
MATOBO villagers have taken exception to government holding Heroes Day celebrations in Matabeleland South at Bhalagwe mass graves where Gukurahundi victims are buried.The infuriated villagers ...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:41hrs | 444 | by Staff reporter
Mphokos, Choppies legal wrangle rages on
THE legal battle pitting Choppies Enterprises Limited against former Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko and his son Siqokoqela over the 51 percent shareholding that they claim at the retail giant will ...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 410 | by Staff reporter
Illegal miners threaten railway tracks
SMALL-scale chrome miners have invaded Mapanzure area in Zvishavane, Midlands Province, where they are conducting illegal mining activities along the Gweru-Zvishavane railway line, amid growing fears ...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 06:31hrs | 118 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa speech interrupted by power cut again
AN abrupt power cut yesterday interrupted President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Heroes' Day commemoration speech, the second power cut in three weeks to disrupt him during an address.On July 20, 2022...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:25hrs | 1720 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans commemorates Heroes Day
Zimbabweans from across the political divide, joined by Ministers, mayors and senior service officers, converged at venues across the country to commemorate Heroes Day and salute the fallen and living...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:19hrs | 93 | by Staff reporter
We know our heroes
THOUSANDS of people yesterday thronged the National Heroes Acre to remember the country's luminaries who sacrificed limb and life to liberate Zimbabwe and deliver freedom that flourishes today....Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:17hrs | 110 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF full of thieves, says Jabulani Sibanda
ZANU PF provincial chairman for Bulawayo and former War veterans leader Jabulani Sibanda said the party is full of corrupt individuals and thieves.Speaking on the sideline of the commemoration...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 20:28hrs | 3139 | by Paul Ndou
Jabulani Sibanda demands return of Zipra properties
Zanu-PF Bulawayo province chairperson Jabulani Sibanda has demanded that government returns all Zipra-owned properties to Zapu war veterans.Speaking on Friday during the official opening of th...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:50hrs | 3110 | by Staff reporter
2 500 hit-and-run accidents recorded in Zimbabwe
The numbers of motorists who hit pedestrians or other vehicles on the roads and speed off without rendering assistance is now on the increase with the police recording about 2 500 hit-and-run accident...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:44hrs | 232 | by Staff reporter
Econet to hike tariffs by 183%
LEADING telecommunications services provider, Econet Wireless Zimbabwe Limited (EWZL), is set to increase tariffs by a total 183% through staggered reviews in the next three months.The develop...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:45hrs | 1009 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa marches expose Zanu-PF fights
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is increasingly using parallel structures after some Zanu-PF organs resisted the imposition of his allies ahead of the ruling party's congress, insiders say.Mnanga...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:28hrs | 961 | by Staff reporter
Town house stand for Bulawayo Town Clerk
BULAWAYO Town Clerk, Mr Christopher Dube has been awarded a 2.4 hectare town house stand in the city as part of his conditions of service. Last year, the Local Government Board endorsed the Bu...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:21hrs | 198 | by Staff reporter
POETRY: Cont Mhlanga, The Legend
Cont Mhlanga, a fine fount of knowhow, Words, words are not adequate to describe howYou lived and touched the lives of many a soul, May your lovely legacy of ...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 09:21hrs | 406 | by Ndaba Sibanda
Zanu-PF MP survives road accident
Zanu-PF Mutasa South legislator Misheck Mugadza survived a road accident on Wednesday afternoon after his vehicle was involved in a head on collision with a haulage truck in Macheke, Mashonaland East ...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:42hrs | 3011 | by Staff reporter
Shona, Ndebele Highway Code launched, beware of Ndebele mistakes
The Highway Code has now been translated into Shona and Ndebele, and printed copies are available at a subsidised cost of US$5 each or the equivalent in local currency while Government is working on t...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
August 1 shooting victim wins $3m compensation
DEFENCE minister Oppah Muchinguri and her Home Affairs counterpart, Kazembe Kazembe, have been ordered to pay $3 million in compensation to a victim of the August 1, 2018 shootings by the army....Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:45hrs | 1469 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Cont
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has accorded late playwright Cont Mhlanga a State-assisted funeral and has given the family $2,5 million for funeral expenses.This was revealed by Bulawayo Minister of Stat...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:44hrs | 716 | by Staff reporter
6 family members die in crash
Six family members were killed when their South African-registered Land Rover Discovery collided head-on with an Iveco truck 22km from Beitbridge in the Tshapfutshe area along the Beitbridge-Harare Hi...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:41hrs | 1202 | by Staff reporter
Biti urges international intervention in 'abnormal' Zimbabwe situation
ON Monday, Zimbabwe marked the fourth anniversary of the August 1, 2018 tragedy when the military was unleashed to forcefully put down post-election violent post-election demonstrations resultin...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:54hrs | 2654 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Who will Continue your work?
INTABA enkulu idilikile sums up the impact of the death of one of the country's icons of the arts, Cont Mhlanga.Cont (64) died yesterday morning at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) after be...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:46hrs | 517 | by Staff reporter
Cont Mhlanga mourned
One of the country's icons of the arts, Cont Mhlanga, died yesterday morning at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) after being admitted 10 days ago.He was 64.His family said he succum...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | 454 | by Staff reporter
Zapu top officials seek to overturn new leadership
The Zimbabwe African People's Union (Zapu) members have revived their bid to overturn the results of a congress which ushered in the party's new leadership.The members include Matthew Sibanda,...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 15:09hrs | 1639 | by Staff reporter
High Court blocks Umguza evictions
BULAWAYO High Court has ordered the Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development minister Anxious Masuka and the Agriculture and Rural Development Authority (Arda) to stop interfering wi...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | 835 | by Staff reporter
Bosso shoots blanks in front of home crowd
Highlanders 0-0 Tenax SC HIGHLANDERS FC coach Baltemar Brito was brave enough to go to the disappointed fans at the Soweto end of Barbourfields Stadium to apologise for a lethargic performance tha...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 06:34hrs | 349 | by Staff reporter
Ex-BCC workers resist eviction notices
FORMER Bulawayo City Council (BCC) employees who were recently served with eviction notices to vacate council rented properties in Makokoba have resisted the move arguing that they have housing files ...Published: 31 Jul 2022 at 08:12hrs | 158 | by Staff reporter
Brito expects tough battle against relegation candidates Tenax
DESPITE their opponents Tenax languishing on the wrong end of the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League log standings, Highlanders coach Baltemar Brito is anticipating a tough battle this afternoon when ...Published: 31 Jul 2022 at 08:12hrs | 56 | by Staff reporter
Bogus ZIFA fighting a losing battle
ZIFA lawyer Chenaimoyo Gumiro insists the association's recent Congress was in line with their constitution, and the April 23 resolutions, which included revoking Felton Kamambo's mandate, are not onl...Published: 31 Jul 2022 at 08:10hrs | 119 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga commends Church
Government values the Church's role in moulding responsible and model citizens, with authorities prepared to strengthen relations between religious organisations and the State, Vice President Dr Const...Published: 31 Jul 2022 at 08:09hrs | 204 | by Staff reporter
Kamambo and crew are not thieves, crooks still at Zifa
SUSPENDED Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) executives have said they are eager to stand trial and clear their names after their suspension by the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) on a number...Published: 30 Jul 2022 at 19:11hrs | 606 | by Staff reporter
Makokoba residents fight eviction
OCCUPANTS of BMC houses in Makokoba, owned by Bulawayo City Council (BCC), have refused to engage the local authority as individuals to stop their eviction, saying this will promote corruption....Published: 30 Jul 2022 at 19:08hrs | 235 | by Staff reporter
Brito is brewing something beautiful at Highlanders
SOMETHING is brewing at Highlanders and the brew master is Portuguese expatriate Baltermar Brito who has so far not only proved to have a good eye for the finest ingredients but a brewmaster of the hi...Published: 30 Jul 2022 at 19:07hrs | 250 | by Staff reporter
MRP appeal to UN over 'victimisation'
Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) youths on Wednesday called on the United Nations to intervene in the plight of its members who it claims are being continually arrested and threatened with death....Published: 29 Jul 2022 at 06:53hrs | 1040 | by Staff reporter
Monalisa Sibanda retains WIBA title
FINALLY, boxer Monalisa "Queen of the Jungle" Sibanda had her day in the ring.She had waited for what appeared to be like eternity to have a chance of defending her WIBA intercontinental light...Published: 29 Jul 2022 at 06:45hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean villagers climb trees to make cellphone calls
Villagers in many districts in Matabeleland South province have appealed to telecommunications companies to install cellphone signal towers to improve network coverage in their areas.According...Published: 28 Jul 2022 at 06:43hrs | 13173 | by Staff reporter
Report Mphoko never deserted Zapu to join Zanu
The former members of the Rhodesian special branch are the ones who claimed that I deserted the struggle in 1976, to join ZANU.They forget that ZANU was banned in Zambia, Tanzania, and Mozambi...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 19:54hrs | 1781 | by Phelekezela Mphoko
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