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Israel bombs Qatar

Israel launched an audacious attack on Hamas leaders in Qatar on Tuesday, expanding its military actions that have ranged across the Middle East to include the Gulf Arab state where the Palestinian Islamist group has long had its political…

Published: 09 Sep 2025 at 15:36hrs | 394 | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo council flats 'a time bomb'

City officials in Bulawayo have expressed deep concern over the worsening service delivery and living conditions at Sidojiwe Flats, a colonial-era housing complex in the Belmont Industrial area that was declared unfit for human habitation …

Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 15:00hrs | 69 | by Staff reporter

Former Chitungwiza deputy mayor's home bombed

The home of former Chitungwiza deputy mayor and Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) member Rangarirai Mutingwende was bombed late Thursday night, in what appears to be a politically motivated attack.According to the family, the incident fo…

Published: 30 May 2025 at 09:57hrs | 1385 | by Staff reporter

Panic at Holiday Inn Bulawayo over 'bomb scare' - turns out to be mock drill

Guests at the Holiday Inn hotel in Bulawayo were briefly evacuated from their rooms on Tuesday morning following what was initially described as a "bomb scare," prompting swift emergency response from the police and military bomb disposal …

Published: 07 May 2025 at 10:47hrs | 989 | by Staff reporter

Cars firebombed outside Chivayo, Tagwirei's properties

A series of deliberate firebomb attacks rocked Harare's central business district overnight, targeting commercial properties linked to influential businessmen Wicknell Chivayo and Kudakwashe Tagwirei, as well as a service station believed …

Published: 28 Mar 2025 at 11:40hrs | 3584 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa orders reopening of White City bomb probe

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has ordered a consolidated investigation into criminal incidents targeting his family, including re-opening the stalled investigation into a grenade attack that almost killed him at White City Stadium in 2018.M…

Published: 24 Jul 2024 at 11:28hrs | 3170 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe says man who sent out airport bomb warning on e-mail arrested

Zimbabwe's presidency on Monday confirmed the arrest of a 26-year-old South African man alleged to be the sender of an email which caused travel chaos last Friday, including forcing President Emmerson Mnangagwa to abandon a trip to Victori…

Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 18:34hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

Airports operating normally after bomb, firearms threat

THE country's airports are now operating normally and stakeholders should use them without any reservations after the country's security systems were put on high alert yesterday in response to reports of a bomb or firearm threat targeting …

Published: 02 Mar 2024 at 07:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

CCC activist family survives petrol-bombing

A CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) activist, Lloyd Mkwara, and his family are lucky to be alive and that no valuable property was damaged after an unknown assailant threw a suspected petrol bomb in Chikonohono high density suburb.The i…

Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 08:36hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa bomb attack mystery deepens

Four years after President Emmerson Mnangagwa survived an assassination attempt it has emerged that a former soldier, who was convicted by the military for the grenade attack, was in India on the day it happened.Mnangagwa was leaving the V…

Published: 24 Jul 2022 at 10:03hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Petrol bombed pastor succumbs to burns

A PASTOR from Enaleni Village in Bubi District, Matabeleland North, who was petrol bombed and suffered burns to 97 percent of body has died. Bishop Ephraim Ndlovu (51) of Alive in Christ Pentecostal Church died on Saturday at Mpilo Central…

Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:12hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo bomb scare: Army called in

The Zimbabwe National Army bomb disposal squad and police were on Monday called to Bulawayo's Emganwini suburb after residents stumbled on a hand grenade believed to have been left in the area during the war of liberation. Zimbabwe Nationa…

Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:41hrs | | by Staff reporter

No leads on Mnangagwa White City bombing

ZANU-PF National Chairperson Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has said the people behind the bombing at White City Stadium in Bulawayo last year have not been accounted for so party members should remain vigilant. The cowardly attack on June 23, l…

Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 07:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa bombing victims send SOS

TWO people who were injured after a Zanu-PF rally at White City Stadium in Bulawayo was bombed weeks before the July 30 elections are appealing for assistance to settle medical bills and school fees for their children. Two people died and …

Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 17:37hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's health time bomb

ZIMBABWE'S hospitals lack basic equipment such as thermometers and painkillers while the working conditions for nurses are deteriorating, Parliament heard on Friday.The rot in the health sector was exposed during a 2018 pre-budget public h…

Published: 28 Oct 2018 at 08:16hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

War time anti-tank mine rocks Gweru police station

AN explosion which rocked Gweru Rural Police Station sending tremors across the Central Business District was allegedly caused by a war time anti-tank mine planted inside the station. The explosion sent officers at the station, which is si…

Published: 29 Sep 2018 at 12:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa opens up on bomb scare

President Mnangagwa has for the first time opened up on circumstances surrounding his 1964 arrest after bombing the Rhodesian steam locomotive in Fort Victoria (now Masvingo), revealing how he was forced to hold an explosive device during …

Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter

Bombing will not deter Zanu-PF, says Rugeje

Zanu-PF's campaign juggernaut will continue to roll peacefully ahead of July 30 harmonised elections as the ruling party was unperturbed by the heinous bombing at White City Stadium in Bulawayo last Saturday, the party National Political C…

Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 07:19hrs | 120 | by Staff reporter

Minister relives bomb attack horror

MINISTER of State in the President's Office Responsible for National Scholarships Christopher Mushohwe, who was among the Zanu-PF top brass that survived a bomb blast at White City Stadium (Bulawayo) that claimed two and injured 47 others,…

Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 07:08hrs | 320 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF bombing: Barwe feeds reckless ethnic narrative

At the height of the Oscar Pistorius murder trial, I read about an interesting concept in South Africa, "swart gevaar" (black danger), as the athlete's defence was that he thought there was an intruder - probably a black one, the day he sh…

Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 07:22hrs | 3 | by Nqaba Matshazi

Blast at Zanu-PF rally raises more questions than answers

QUESTIONS abound over the weekend explosion that rocked a Zanu-PF rally at White City Stadium in Bulawayo. For starters, the Zimbabwean police seem clueless about both the cause of the explosion and the culprits behind it.The offer of an u…

Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 07:13hrs | 2 | by Lulu Brenda Harris

Cricket Australia monitoring Zimbabwe after blast

A bomb blast has heightened political tensions in Zimbabwe ahead of a landmark election, but Australia's cricket tour of the troubled African nation will proceed at this stage.Australia face England this week in a one-off Twenty20 then are…

Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 06:58hrs | 413 | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo White City explosion: Dereliction of duty

In every election, be it in Zimbabwe, Africa or any other country, there are pre-election furores, these are events and pronouncements that either shock or intrigue the masses before the election.However, it would be insensitive and inhuma…

Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 06:55hrs | 6 | by Wilton Nyasha Machimbira

Mnangagwa's body guards die in bomb attack

CONDOLENCE MESSAGE BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT, CDE E.D. MNANGAGWA, FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF TWO OFFICERS IN A BOMB BLAST.  I learnt with a heavy heart of the death yesterday of our two brave security officers who succumbed to injur…

Published: 26 Jun 2018 at 15:29hrs | 8 | by Emmerson Mnangagwa

'Mnangagwa bomb an inside job'

THE opposition Zapu party has sensationally claimed that the fatal explosion that occurred during a Zanu PF campaign rally at White City Stadium in Bulawayo on Saturday was stage-managed to portray residents of Matabeleland as violent.The …

Published: 26 Jun 2018 at 07:12hrs | 2 | by Staff rpeorter

Zimbabwean cricketers refuse to come back home

NINE local cricketers who are playing in the Shpageeza Twenty20 Cricket League in Kabul, Afghanistan have refused to return home as they believe that they are safe in the war torn Asian country.Zimbabwe Cricket announced last Wednesday tha…

Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 09:51hrs | 37 | by Staff reporter

Ditched man 'bombs' girlfriend's house

IF I can't have you, no one can!A Gwanda man allegedly petrol-bombed his girlfriend's lodgings after she dumped him for another man.Emmanuel Mathuthu (46) allegedly carried out the arson attack last Tuesday.His girlfriend, Grace Hlongwane …

Published: 30 Jun 2017 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter

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