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Lake Chivero water crisis deepens, cancer risk soars
Once a cherished symbol of Zimbabwe's natural heritage and a critical lifeline for the capital's water supply, Lake Chivero is now the epicenter of a deepening public health crisis, with new research ...Published: 22 May 2025 at 11:35hrs | 531 | by Staff reporter
Harare woman fined for attacking ex-husband
A Harare woman, Tyler Roxanne Rubenstein, has been fined US$150 after being convicted of assaulting her ex-husband, Ibbo Mandaza Junior, over a phone she claimed contained a picture of a nude person i...Published: 28 Apr 2025 at 12:35hrs | 395 | by Staff reporter
Girl scalded to death by uncle in brutal act of violence
A six-year-old girl from Nyanyadzi tragically died after allegedly being scalded with boiling water by her uncle in a shocking act of violence driven by a long-standing grudge. The incident, which occ...Published: 21 Dec 2024 at 08:49hrs | 966 | by Staff reporter
Water leak exacerbates Bulawayo's crisis
Bulawayo residents are enduring a challenging 170-hour water-shedding schedule as drought conditions worsened by El Niño continue to strain the city's water resources. With dam levels dwindling, resi...Published: 12 Dec 2024 at 06:49hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
Cholera outbreak in Kariba: A wake-up call for vigilance and prevention
The recent cholera outbreak in Gache Gache Fishing Camp, located in Kariba District, has thrust the community into a state of crisis, claiming one life and leaving five others battling the disease. Th...Published: 21 Nov 2024 at 14:11hrs | 185 | by Anashe Mupamombe
Cholera outbreak hits Hwange
Hwange has been hit by a cholera outbreak which has resulted in the Hwange Local Board shutting down all unlicensed food outlets and those operating from undesignated areas with immediate effect....Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 09:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Fears cholera outbreak may spiral out of control in Zimbabwe
THERE are fears that cholera may spiral out of control as latest statistics show that the outbreak worsened in recent weeks, with a number of cases reported in Manicaland and Harare provinces....Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 08:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean woman arrested in SA
A 27 YEAR-OLD Zimbabwean woman was arrested by South African police for allegedly killing her newborn baby before concealing the body in an empty stand at Ratsaka village in Morebeng area of Limpopo P...Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 18:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man caught wife red-handed at a lodge
A FREE drama played out at a lodge after a married man caught his wife red-handed having the time of her life with her alleged lover.The married man Charles Nyamuzinga from Glendale, Mashonala...Published: 26 May 2023 at 16:47hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Wife scalds husband's genitals in infidelity row
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.The old adage was aptly protraied when unnamed woman scorched her husband's genitals using boiling water.The woman appeared before Harare Magistr...Published: 28 Oct 2022 at 06:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Kuda Mahachi opens up on troubles
RARELY has he opened up about the troubles bedeviling his life!Following his court allegations of snatching and damaging his sister's iPhone as part of alleged efforts to destroy evidence in a...Published: 07 Oct 2022 at 05:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Schools order pupils to bring own water
SOME schools in Bulawayo have resorted to asking pupils to bring their own bottles of water to school to curb the spread of waterborne diseases following the prevailing water crisis in the city....Published: 15 Sep 2022 at 05:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kuda Mahachi cleared of theft
SUPERSPORT midfielder Kudakwashe Mahachi has been acquitted of theft charges after a Bulawayo magistrate established there was bad blood between the soccer star and his sister Meline who was the compl...Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 20:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mahachi's son taken by Social Welfare
THE Department of Social Welfare has reportedly taken into custody Kudakwashe Mahachi's four-year-old son pending the conclusion of the criminal proceedings against the embattled footballer.Ma...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mahachi in court for stealing iPhone?
AFTER hiding from the media and the public since his forced return from South Africa, Kudakwashe Mahachi had no choice but to appear at the Bulawayo Magistrates' Court yesterday to answer charges of t...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kudakwashe Mahachi appears in court
AFTER hiding from the media and the public since his forced return from South Africa, Kudakwashe Mahachi had no choice but to appear at Bulawayo's Tredgold Magistrates courts for malicious damage to p...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 16:12hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Kuda Mahachi in the news again for wrong reasons
TROUBLED winger Kudakwashe Mahachi allegedly snatched and smashed his sister's iPhone XR yesterday afternoon as part of concerted efforts to destroy evidence nailing him for purportedly scalding his f...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kuda Mahachi evades journalists
WITH bated breath, Zimbabweans are waiting for Kudakwashe Mahachi to appear in public, to face the media and to have his day in court as he responds to allegations that he deliberately scalded his fou...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 07:48hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Kuda Mahachi spotted in Cowdray Park
A DAY before his two hired doctors physically examined his scalded son at Mpilo Central Hospital on Thursday morning thanks to a court order secured by his lawyers, Warriors and Supersport midfielder ...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 07:46hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Kuda Mahachi returns home, goes into hiding
KUDAKWASHE Mahachi has returned to Zimbabwe but has gone into hiding as he is terrified over the possibility of reprisals from people who are convinced that he scalded his four-year-old son with boili...Published: 27 May 2022 at 06:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mahachi readies for court battle
WARRIORS forward Kudakwashe Mahachi has denied allegations of scalding his four-year-old son with boiling water and has threatened legal action in a bid to be allowed access to the boy.Mahachi...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:21hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mahachi denies allegations of scalded son with boiling water
SOUTH African-based footballer, Kudakwashe Mahachi, who stands accused of having scalded his four-year-old son Diego, with boiling water has denied the allegations.It has also emerged that con...Published: 17 May 2022 at 19:59hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
SuperSport suspends Kuda Mahachi over child abuse allegations
WARRIORS forward Kuda Mahachi has been suspended by his South African club SuperSport over allegations of abusing his four-year-old son.The Pretoria-based outfit confirmed on Friday night they...Published: 14 May 2022 at 19:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiza prays for Mahachi
EAGLE Life Assembly leader Prophet Blessing Chiza has revealed that he is praying for troubled Warriors winger Kudakwashe Mahachi, who is accused of having scalded his four-year-old son with boiling w...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:20hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Sangoma wife terrorises hubby
WHEN it comes to abuse in a relationship, we typically imagine the survivor as being female.But that is not always the case. Mzingaye Ncube from Nketa 6 suburb in Bulawayo is one of a growing ...Published: 06 May 2022 at 19:30hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
Parirenyatwa Hospital in negligence storm
THE mother of a four-year-old girl who died from severe burns while admitted at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals in Harare has alleged that staff at the health institution neglected attending to her ch...Published: 27 Feb 2022 at 07:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bosso boss in battle against Covid-19
AT the beginning of this year, a video showing Highlanders Football Club vice-chairman Modern "Voltage" Ngwenya encouraging Zimbabweans to steam as a way of avoiding contracting the coronavirus went v...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 07:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean is in great pain!
The report of today's Bulawayo24 is about two young men who beat a man of 72 years to death because he refused to share information about soccer results! Our citizen loses his life because of a trivia...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 13:06hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Elections have already been rigged
IN rural areas, men and women, just as cattle and donkeys, are beasts of burden.Life doesn't come cheap and easy in the village.Success also often comes from or after unavoidable physi...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman rips hubby's scrotum
IN a shocking incident of domestic violence, a Bulawayo woman allegedly ‘severed' her estranged husband's scrotum and penis with her nails apparently in anger after she was reportedly served with a ...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 09:19hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Customer scalding shebeen queen spared jail
A 34-YEAR-OLD shebeen queen from Ntabazinduna Flats in Mzilikazi suburb escaped jail for scalding her colleague who was demanding US$2 change from her. Brilliance Hlomayi took a kettle from th...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean woman drowns baby in boiling water in SA
THE trial of a 29-year-old Zimbabwean woman who is accused of drowning her newly born baby girl in a 20-litre bucket of boiling water in South Africa has been set for May 14 at the Brits Magistrates C...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 16:13hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean woman kills her newly born baby in South Africa
A ZIMBABWEAN woman employed as a maid in Hartbeesportdam in South Africa's North West province allegedly killed her newborn baby boy by submerging him in boiling water soon after giving birth, before ...Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 10:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Businessman 'divorces' wife over witchcraft
A Bulawayo businessman is embroiled in a bitter marital battle which has all elements of a soap opera after his wife sensationally claimed her marriage had been turbulent and fraught with fights, quar...Published: 02 Jan 2021 at 13:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ubuntu/Hunhu is misplaced in African societies: Give me signs of...?
I should be excused once more for critiquing African values or should I say the African philosophy of humanism – Ubuntu/Hunhu. There are no traces of this noble philosophy in our culture: instead, w...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 13:32hrs | 16 | by Nomazulu Thata
Woman scalds hubby for not picking her from church
A BULAWAYO woman allegedly severely scalded her husband with boiling water, peeling most of the skin from his body, in a fit of rage after he forgot to pick her from church.Mr Davies Chitagu h...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 13:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Epileptic toddler falls into fire burns to death
AN epileptic 18-months old boy allegedly died from severe burns he sustained after he fell into a fire in his grandmother's kitchen.The incident that left the little boy with serious injuries ...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Cop's wife burns hubby over girlfriend
A 24-year-old woman who is married to a police officer appeared before resident magistrate Florence Nago last Friday and was convicted for scalding her husband with boiling water over allegations of i...Published: 31 May 2019 at 18:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Woman scalds co-wife with water
A Chitungwiza woman has appeared in court for allegedly scalding her husband's second wife and her six-year-old child with water following an altercation that arose when she visited the accused's home...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Discipline mustn't be administered through brutality
The problem of child abuse is getting out of hand and our society must act now to stop the terrible crimes against innocent children.Recently, the Midlands community awoke to the shocking news...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 23:55hrs | | by Cuthbert Mavheko
Woman ties up 11-year-old daughter and burns her with boiling water
A 46-YEAR-OLD woman from Bulawayo allegedly tied up her 11 year old daughter and poured boiling water on her hands and feet as punishment for failing to cook supper on time. Sithwe...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 19:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman scalds daughter with boiling water
A 46-YEAR-OLD woman from Bulawayo appeared in court on Wednesday for allegedly scalding her 11 year old daughter with boiling water for failing to cook on time. Sithweleni Ngwenya of Pumula So...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 22:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Top cop jailed 4 years for attempted murder
A HARARE magistrate yesterday jailed Borrowdale police officer-in-charge Simbarashe Sibanda to four years for attempted murder of his police girlfriend in a dispute over relish.Sibanda (40) wa...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 07:14hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Woman scalds hubby with 10 litres of cooking oil
A MAN from Gweru suffered 35 percent burns after he was scalded with hot water and cooking oil by his girlfriend because he had received a phone call from his ex-wife. This was heard yesterday...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tredgold Building gutted by fire
THERE was commotion yesterday afternoon at Tredgold Building in Bulawayo when personnel operating in Government departments housed there scurried for cover following a fire outbreak at one of the offi...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rainy season to worsen cholera
The fast-approaching rainy season will most likely worsen the cholera outbreak in the country, health experts have warned.The rainy season is closely linked to the spread of cholera as sewage ...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 13:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
How to stop spread of cholera
The best way to stop the spread of cholera is to stop the transmission routes.Hand washing with soap, ash or chlorine solution: Hand washing should be done after visiting the toile...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 07:25hrs | 2 | by Unicef
Gukurahundi skeletons tumble out of the closet
AS Zimbabwe inches towards critical general elections on Monday, skeletons of Gukurahundi massacres - which remain an emotive political and electoral issue in the country - are tumbling out of the clo...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 11:19hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Top cop denied bail in attempted murder case
A police officer, who is facing attempted murder charges for allegedly scalding his wife with water following a misunderstanding over meat, has been denied bail. Simbarashe Sibanda, who is sta...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 07:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
How MDC-T engineered economic sanctions affect poor people
Zimbabwe has suffered under severe sanctions for a very long time. I t has become a song to an extent that people think it's a tired song. The reality of the matter is that people are suffering and in...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 11:33hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
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