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Man Roasted on Braai Stand for Drinking Alone
A Bindura man is recovering from severe burns after narrowly escaping death when he was allegedly grilled over open flames on a braai stand by fellow patrons, reportedly as punishment for drinking alo...Published: 14 Jul 2025 at 22:22hrs | 1862 | by Gideon Madzikatidze and Simbarashe Sithole in Bindura
Bulawayo man killed for touching meat on braai stand
Bulawayo police have arrested Tatenda Chida, 26, in connection with the murder of Sikhanyiso Bruce Dube, 30, from Pumula North. The incident, which occurred on October 22, 2024, reportedly stemmed fro...Published: 11 Nov 2024 at 11:36hrs | 1293 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi's life and health does not matter in Zimbabwe?
In Zimbabwe, when Emmerson Mnangagwa, President of Zimbabwe and his 1st VP, Constantino Chiwenga, get sick, all panic and emergency buttons are pressed. In a matter of urgency, they are swiftly airlif...Published: 18 Jun 2024 at 14:11hrs | 23 | by Israel Dube
Smith & apartheid regimes were angels compared to 44-Year-Old 'independent' Zimbabwe
Talking in terms of segregation, oppression and savagery towards those considered as foreigners or political undesirables, no present or past government in Southern Africa matches the black Shona supr...Published: 15 Apr 2024 at 15:56hrs | 28 | by Israel Dube
Man bashes friend over braai
The love of meat has landed a Plumtree man in prison after he struck his friend with a broken bottle on the occiput before biting his cheek in a meat dispute.The matter came to light at Plumtr...Published: 14 Jan 2024 at 19:23hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Shingi Munyeza loses property over debts
BUSINESSMAN and church leader, Shingi Munyeza, is now bankrupt after his upmarket house and an assortment of movable property was attached over debts.The development has turned him into a tena...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 19:42hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo bus operators bend the rules, flout BCC by-laws
WITH the words "Inter Africa" inscribed at the back, a silver Toyota Quantum vehicle makes a sudden stop and a tout bolts out, approaches two women and asks where they are travelling to. The tout tell...Published: 15 Jul 2023 at 11:38hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo fans caught in between stumps and goal posts as soccer, cricket clash
BULAWAYO finds itself in a perplexing situation this Sunday as two major sporting events vie for the attention of passionate sports fans.The clash is not just between different sports but also...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Intercity buses turn Bulawayo CBD into a Mbare
CALL it lawlessness or chaos. This is what several long-distance bus operators plying intercity routes are turning Bulawayo city centre into.For sometime, there has been rampant illegal pickin...Published: 08 May 2023 at 06:09hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Teenager breaks into police camp, steals car parts
BULAWAYO police were caught off guard last month after a 16-year-old boy from Makokoba high-density suburb allegedly broke into Ross Camp police station and stole car batteries.He was spotted ...Published: 19 Oct 2021 at 06:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown guards need guarding
Lockdown robbery. That's perhaps the best thing to call it.The setting is a once-famous nightclub off Old Mazowe Road on the outskirts of New Marlborough. The time is 10pm on a Friday evening....Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 07:02hrs | 4 | by Tawanda Majoni
Man's leg amputated after fight over woman
A SHURUGWI-based artisanal miner had his left leg amputated after rivals brutally axed him in a suspected love triangle. Mr Simon Vingirayia court heardlost consciousness as blood gushed from ...Published: 29 Apr 2021 at 06:16hrs | 1 | by Staff writer
Eccentric Luveve man causes a stir
HE's mad! He's a genius! He's creepy. He's amazingly gifted!The unassuming Mathamsanqa Tshuma (67), a bachelor from Gwabalanda in Bulawayo, ...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 08:29hrs | 2 | by Yvonne Ncube
Man bashes colleague with braai stand
A Bindura man was assaulted using a braai stand and a stone when he had gone to collect his debt.The matter came to light when Blessing Chabowoka (41) stood before Bindura Magistrate Morebless...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 13:17hrs | 4 | by Lloyd Rabaya/Simbarashe Sithole
18 died in holiday accidents
Eighteen people were killed, while 73 others were injured in 147 road accidents on Christmas Day and Boxing Day holidays. During the same period last year, 17 were killed, while 174 others were injure...Published: 28 Dec 2020 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ginimbi bar accused of littering, noise pollution
Mount Pleasant residents are up in arms against a trendy upmarket bottle store at Pendenis Shopping Centre - Liquor Boys - owned by socialite Genius Kadungure aka Ginimbi which they allege is responsi...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 10:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa flying on broken wings
Following the passing on of Tsvangirai, the late leader of a faction of the MDC, I had an animated discussion with some opposition figure whose identity I shall not disclose. Congenitally boisterous a...Published: 02 Jun 2018 at 15:28hrs | 1 | by Igomombe
Business as usual across Zimbabwe
It is business as usual in the Midlands mining town of Zvishavane with residents saying they are going about on their daily routines.Today is just an ordinary Thursday in Zvishavane.Go...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 15:46hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Lecturer invents unique stove
A MUTARE Polytechnic College body work lecturer has invented a unique four-in-one charcoal or sawdust powered stove.Named Brastogen, a hybridised term for being a braai stand, stove, geyser an...Published: 07 Sep 2017 at 14:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Webster Shamu's safari property faces the hammer
SAFARI company, HHK Safaris, reportedly co-owned by former Zanu-PF political commissar Webster Shamu and millionaire Charles Davy, will have its properties, which include vehicles, fridges, animal ski...Published: 23 Aug 2017 at 07:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Nobuntu lightens Amagugu festival
OBABES Bembube, better known as Nobuntu, rocked the stage at this year's Amagugu festival that was held at the Amagugu International heritage Centre in Matopo last week.The Amagugu organised M...Published: 13 Aug 2017 at 12:39hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Hungry Zimbabweans eat 12 tonnes of meat at Biggest braai
ZIMBABWE is right on track to breaking a Guinness World Record as history was made on Saturday when Delta Beverages' quest of braaing 10 tonnes of meat was surpassed with a total of 12 463kgs braa...Published: 31 Oct 2016 at 06:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man stabbed over braai meat
A man from Mufakose has been dragged to court for assaulting another man for who confronted him after he picked pieces of meat on a braai stand without his consent.Michael Muziwi (38) denied t...Published: 22 Jun 2016 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Dead body dumped at 'attacker's' homestead
A FUNERAL turned into theatre art on Thursday when the family of a man who was fatally assaulted dumped his body at 'his attacker's' homestead in Chidobe, Hwange district demanding compensation before...Published: 27 Jun 2015 at 08:11hrs | 2 | by Leonard Ncube
'Soldier' catches wife red handed, goes beserk
A FORMER soldier went berserk, allegedly destroying property, smashing cars and assaulting a man whom he found being intimate with his wife on their matrimonial bed.The ex-soldier's wife, Li...Published: 17 Oct 2014 at 15:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bellevue Spar gives away 8 cars
EIGHT lucky shoppers on Saturday won a car each in the Bellevue Spar Silver Jubilee promotion.The draw was conducted at one of the group's supermarkets, Raj Spar at the Nkulumane Complex in Bu...Published: 21 Jan 2013 at 05:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
This and that with Maluphosa:- Khukhulawun
The setting sun always brings over me an enigmatic melancholy - the one that must have been felt by the great king Lobengula when it dawned on him that he had lost his vast kingdom to Rhodes, for eve...Published: 24 Jun 2012 at 19:03hrs | 1 | by Clerk Ndlovu
A club dedicated to Zimbos opens its doors in Jo'burg
A new club called GT Camp, that seeks to cater for Zimbabweans in Johannesburg has opened its doors in Yeoville, (Rocky Street and Bezuidenhout streets) next to Tandoor. This is a significant developm...Published: 06 Feb 2012 at 12:53hrs | 1 | by Bheki Nkomo
Typhoid forces Mereki Shut Down
The Harare City Council has shut down one of Harare's most popular drive-in joints, kwaMereki, citing control of the typhoid outbreak in the city, NewsDay reports.Mereki in Warren Park D, was ...Published: 31 Jan 2012 at 07:43hrs | 2 | by Ndou Paul
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