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Harare churches, schools face closure
The Harare City Council has announced plans to shut down illegal churches and other indoor gatherings operating without Certificates of Place of Assembly, urging operators to comply with safety regula...Published: 23 Nov 2024 at 12:48hrs | 468 | by Staff reporter
How Bulawayo's townships reflect city's rich Ndebele heritage
IN 1894, Bulawayo had just one African township. Today, the city boasts close to twenty townships in the western suburbs. Bulawayo's first African township was Makokoba, also known as the "Location" o...Published: 02 Nov 2024 at 08:39hrs | 798 | by Fredrick Qaphelani Mabikwa
Bulawayo man jailed 20 years for raping job seeker
A 26-YEAR-OLD Bulawayo man has been sentenced to 20 years in jail after being convicted of raping a 17-year-old girl who was looking for employment, three times.The man was arraigned bef...Published: 02 Sep 2024 at 11:27hrs | 541 | by Staff reporter
Mafume, 2 directors named in corrupt rental of bars
Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume and two Rufaro Marketing Private Limited directors, Juma Ulete and Ngoni Chimbalu, have been implicated in rampant corruption and abuse of office within the Harare City Counc...Published: 18 Jul 2024 at 06:26hrs | 483 | by Staff reporter
Power challenges delay Go Beer re-opening
Gweru Mayor Martin Chivhoko announced at a recent full council meeting that the servicing of equipment at the city's beer concern, Go Beer, has been completed. However, plans for reopening are hindere...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 07:49hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Teens kill rival suitor over sex worker
High Court judge Justice Munamato Mutevedzi has sentenced Ashton Tadiwanashe Mandaza (19) and Kudakwashe Machingauta (18) from Chivhu to 10 years in prison for the murder of Onisimo Mavhungire, stemmi...Published: 30 Jun 2024 at 18:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Go Beer to reopen in 8 months
GWERU mayor Martin Chivhoko has announced that the local authority's beer concern, Go Beer will commence production in November this year.Chivhoko said a memorandum of agreement had been signe...Published: 07 Mar 2024 at 05:09hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Gweru to revive Go Beer Breweries
Gweru city council is locked in talks with an unnamed investor to revive the local authority's beer concern, Go Beer, in a bid to start operations this year, it has been established.Mayor Mart...Published: 11 Feb 2024 at 21:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
6 family members perish in car crash
A pregnant mother, her husband and four of their children travelling from Marymount in Rushinga to Chinhoyi, were among the nine people killed early Monday morning in the head-on collision between two...Published: 20 Dec 2023 at 06:11hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Big Bhawa gets facelift
THE township of Makokoba which sits just next to Bulawayo's Central Business District was once a hodgepodge of culture, diversity and the creative arts.And smack in the middle of Makokoba, it ...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 10:34hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Residents warn BCC against subcontracting services
THE BULAWAYO Progressive Residents Association (BPRA) has warned the local authority against plans to subcontract security services in the city saying it would cause problems for the residents and cou...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 14:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cash-strapped Municipality sells old properties
Chegutu Municipality has been forced to sell its dilapidated properties as the local authority swims in financial challenges including a debt overhang.In a meeting with the Combined Chegutu Re...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC goes after open-air worshippers
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has resumed its regular raids on open-air worshippers, particularly apostolic sect members who gather in areas with no ablution facilities.Deputy mayor Mlandu Ncube...Published: 07 Jun 2023 at 09:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda residents object to sale of recreational facilities
Gwanda residents have objected to council's plans to sell its recreational facilities, including parks and sports fields.In a notice, the local authority said it was selling a park located in ...Published: 20 May 2023 at 19:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Speed freaks turn Zimbabwe highways into racecourses
WITH a cigarette stuck between his shaking fingers, Moses Nerutanga (37) puffs up clouds of smoke into the air as he relives how he escaped death by a whisker in a recent bus accident.As he sa...Published: 24 Apr 2023 at 07:51hrs | 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
Council divided over Go Beer revival
Gweru City councillors have called on management to compile a report on the defunct Go Beer Breweries before the local authority entertains any plans of reclaiming the business.The brewery was...Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 07:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Councillor gets violent at booze joint
IN a dramatic incident which left imbibers shell-shocked, a Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) councillor for Ward 9 in Mpopoma suburb Donaldson Mabutho went haywire when he allegedly grabbed a resi...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 07:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Woman stripped naked, robbed
A short cut is often a wrong cut.This was at play when a woman was allegedly stripped naked and robbed of her clothes and a cellphone by an unidentified man she met while walking along a footp...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 07:04hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora's uncontested presidential nomination shrouded in controversy
THE uncontested nomination of Douglas Mwonzora (pictured)as MDC-T presidential candidate ahead of the party's upcoming congress was the result of brazen intimidation, The NewsHawks has learnt....Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 09:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora's uncontested presidential nomination shrouded in controversy
THE uncontested nomination of Douglas Mwonzora as MDC-T presidential candidate ahead of the party's upcoming congress was the result of brazen intimidation, The NewsHawks has reported.Sources ...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 18:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man stabs love rival for cuddling girlfriend
A 21-YEAR-OLD man from Njube suburb in Bulawayo allegedly stabbed his love rival several times with an okapi knife after he caught him cuddling his girlfr...Published: 12 Nov 2022 at 10:22hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo City Council turns beerhall into factory shells
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is transforming Inkunzi Beer Garden in the Belmont industrial area into factory shells for residents to undertake several income-generating projects.Renovations...Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 05:56hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
CCC quartet to spend weekend in remand
FOUR Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists will spend the weekend behind bars following their arrest in connection with political violence that occurred at the funeral of slain opposition acti...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 08:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mamombe nailed by owner of the Mercedes Benz in fake abduction trial
NEW details emerged yesterday during the trial of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) members Joana Mamombe (Harare West MP), Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova who are accused of faking their abducti...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 06:49hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Clinic operating without toilets
A health time bomb is looming in a Roman run Mutora clinic which is operating without toilets.Ironically, a health facility is expected...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 11:09hrs | 7 | by Tarisai Mudahondo/Desmond Nhleya
'Beer brawl triggered CCC activist's disappearance'
The disappearance of a Chitungwiza woman three weeks ago, Moreblessing Ali, who was eventually found dead in the Nyatsime area last weekend, was triggered by a beerhall brawl between the deceased and ...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Open letter to Cde July Moyo
I write this letter to express the lack of common sense and even sense of reasonableness of Mvurwi Council. I have raised a complaint ...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 16:47hrs | 4 | by Dr Enock Sithole
Council approves construction of beerhall near a medical centre
In a rather unusual move, Mvurwi Town council approved construction of a beerhall near a medical centre, a situation which negatively affects patients....Published: 06 Jun 2022 at 21:15hrs | | by Desmond Nleya
Beer drinkers church: when the love of God and booze meet
THE inviting, melodious echoes flow downhill as we make the final ascend.In the absence of musical instruments to enhance output, they use their palms to issue out some rhythmic claps which bl...Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:41hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt pays $300k compensation for police brutality
HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe and police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga have "hastily"paid $300 000 as compensation to two victims of police brutality to avoid imprisonment for contempt o...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matanga, Kazembe escape jail
HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe and police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga have paid ZW$300 000 as compensation to two victims of police brutality to avoid imprisonment for contempt of court...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt pays $300,000 compensation for police brutality
HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe and police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga have "hastily"paid $300 000 as compensation to two victims of police brutality to avoid imprisonment for contempt o...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga berates opposition-led BCC
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga yesterday berated the opposition-led Bulawayo City Council (BCC) for allegedly running down the city through corruption and poor service delivery.Chiwenga m...Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 08:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chitungwiza demolishes more structures
Chitungwiza Municipality on Saturday demolished "illegal" vending structures in the dormitory town, leaving hundreds of informal traders counting their losses.The demolitions were done in a jo...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Spirit of Morrison Nyati still lives
IF you are as old as Bishop Lazi, you probably would never be able to banish the irrepressible memories of those chicken bus rides from the village to the city, or vice versa.However forgettab...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 07:41hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
78 health workers succumb to COVID-19
AT least 23 doctors, 30 nurses and 25 other professionals in the health sector have succumbed to the COVID-19 pandemic since its outbreak in the country last year, Vice-President and Health minister C...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Forex blackmarket: More arrests loom
More people illegally dealing in foreign currency will soon be arrested and more financial institutions charged as Government cracks the whip against those driving and manipulating the black market de...Published: 07 Oct 2021 at 07:01hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga commissions 'beerhall' turned into hospital
VICE PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga Wednesday commissioned the opening of a former Kwekwe City Council beerhall in the populous high-density suburb of Mbizo that has been turned into an infectious dis...Published: 07 Oct 2021 at 07:00hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga to commission hospital
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga, who is also the Minister of Health and Child Care, is set to officially commission the Kwekwe Infectious Diseases Hospital today.Kwekwe City Council conver...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
'ECD struggling under COVID-19'
EARLY childhood development (ECD) is key for development and deserves funding from government and stakeholders to ensure children are well groomed. In Zimbabwe and other third world countries, governm...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 05:28hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Students, teachers arrested over lessons
Enforcement of the Covid-19 lockdown is being intensified with 36 students and nine teachers from a private Harare college arrested on Tuesday, when police found the college operating in defiance of t...Published: 26 Aug 2021 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Some churches welcome reopening
Christian church leaders yesterday unanimously welcomed the resumption of services for fully vaccinated members saying they have been consistent in encouraging vaccination, but noting that some congre...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police threaten to impound pirate taxes
THE police have urged the public to comply with the government's COVID-19 regulations during the Heroes and Defence Forces Day holidays.National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police warn against intercity travel
Police have from July 1 impounded 67 buses countrywide, while several people have been arrested on allegations of travelling without the required documents and violating the national lockdown measures...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Please President, Stop the Spread of Covid 19 in Marange
Level Four national lockdown regulations have been introduced to curb the rising tide of Covid-19 infections.In his announcement, President Mnangagwa announced enhanced national lockdown...Published: 06 Jul 2021 at 15:26hrs | | by Fanuel Chinowaita
LOCKDOWN: 10 000 arrested in three days
MORE than 10 000 people have been arrested for contravening the enhanced Level Four national lockdown regulations introduced last week to curb the rising tide of Covid-19 infections.Figures ob...Published: 04 Jul 2021 at 14:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe hospitals choke under new COVID-19 admissions
HEALTH officials and police have scaled up surveillance to curb the further spread of COVID-19 infections following a spike in hospital admissions while isolation centres are said to be fast filling u...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 06:25hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Schools shocker!
AUDITOR-GENERAL Mildred Chiri has slammed the Primary and Secondary Education ministry's inefficiency, which has seen unregistered schools running classes in backyard garages and beerhalls.Chi...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
27 Covid-19 cases at Kwekwe home
A total of 27 people including children and members of staff at Mary Ward Children's home in Kwekwe have tested positive for Covid-19.The development comes in the wake of a surge in positive c...Published: 07 Jun 2021 at 06:03hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
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