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Plumtree villagers lose cattle due to damaged border fence
Villagers in Ward 16, Dombodema and Dombolefu areas of Bulilima District, Plumtree, are losing cattle due to a damaged fence on the Zimbabwe-Botswana border.The fence is believed to be comprom...Published: 06 Jun 2024 at 17:29hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
4 life sentences for killer mom
A CHIVHU woman, Emelda Marizani, who beheaded her four children in 2020 following a brawl with her husband, has been sentenced to four life sentences.Marizani was convicted by High Court judge...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Butchers and ordinary Zimbabweans count costs from 16-hour ZESA daily power cuts
The transmission and distribution arm of power utility ZESA this week announced new power cuts, blaming generation problems and curtailed imports.Ordinary Zimbabweans and small and medium ente...Published: 28 Sep 2022 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's dairy estates collapses
GUSHUNGO Dairy Estates has closed shop after former first lady Grace Mugabe sold about 700 dairy cows worth about US$1,4 million to a prominent butcher, rendering about 120 workers jobless.The...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 09:04hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
We need at least five tractors complete with harrows
That cattle malady Thelerios has rebounded with never before seen determination. Again the few remnant livestock from the first wave are sacuumbing to this dreaded bovine pandemic. Never did w...Published: 10 Feb 2022 at 11:52hrs | | by Tincuts Matepatepa
5 Games that people of Nigeria love to play
Nigeria is one of those countries that has a diverse, rich, and immersive culture. There are many benefits of having such a diverse culture that you will find all sorts of people in such countries. Ga...Published: 17 Aug 2021 at 16:01hrs | 2 | by Styaff Writer
Mutare man butchers neighbour over witchcraft
AN Old Mutare man, who appeared in court yesterday, was remanded in custody for striking his neighbour three times with a machete, accusing her of witchcraft.Chrispen Mutasa (24) from Plot 13,...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man butchers wife over soft drink
A QUARREL over a soft drink turned bloody between a Chinhoyi couple which led to the death of the woman. Nelson Nhunge (age not available) allegedly stabbed his wife, Faith Mhlanga (36) three ...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 05:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Uninspected meat floods butcheries
Some farmers and butchers are selling condemned meat from livestock affected by diseases such as January disease and anthrax, instead of burning the carcasses. Although cases of tick-borne diseases ar...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
New model could revive Bulawayo industry
The article of January 5, by Silas Nkala made for remarkably interesting reading. The sentiments expressed are true of the sentimental opinion of most of us who have made this part of the country home...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 15:40hrs | | by Muvirimi Francis Mangwendeza
Political freedoms are not respected in Zimbabwe
Dear EditorThe (SADC) congratulated Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa on his appointment as the chair of the Organ on Politics, Defense and Security and also called on the international co...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 14:11hrs | | by Bigboy Sibanda
Chamisa ramps up pressure on SADC
The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC will continue engaging Sadc in a bid to solve the country’s crisis although President Emmerson Mnangagwa will soon chair the bloc’s organ on Politics, Defence and Securi...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 08:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Death stalks Mnangagwa family
President Emerson Mnangagwa, former president Robert Mugabe, and all the architects of Gukurahundi - the 1980s massacre of unarmed civilians in Matabeleland and the Midlands - carry a deadly curse tha...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 17:35hrs | 1 | by Methusi Ncube
Zimbabwe chuff identifies from grain
What I find repulsive and impregnable even in the mind of a grade seven child is simple this, can you talk of restoring food from a robber who is busy robbing at the same time? There is somethin...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 09:37hrs | | by Manyevere M Andrew
Mnangagwa lands top SADC post
President Emmerson will soon be assuming the position of the Chairperson of the SADC organ on Politics,Defence and Security Cooperation it has been revealed.In a SADC communiqué after Double ...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 07:52hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe tax law a serious shame
The news reaching us that the people of Zimbabwe in the Diaspora must pay tax to the Satanic Zimbabwe government is simply a shame and an indication beyond any doubt that the beautiful country indeed ...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 11:03hrs | | by David Magagula
Zimbabwe: A history in retrospect and precision
1980 was a definitive year in which Zimbabweans voted and gained independence after years of traumatic experiences under the white settler Government that maintained segregation and separate developme...Published: 04 Dec 2018 at 07:00hrs | | by Nhlanhla Dube
Soldiers' conduct soiled Zimbabwe image, analysts
HUMAN rights groups have called on the military to always remain disciplined and exercise restraint when assigned to deal with civilians, saying the recent fatal shooting of seven innocent civilians i...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Not My President - I am an Urbanite
Our hearts bleed with those who were slain by the trigger-happy military on Wednesday. What is more flabbergasting is the lack of sensitivity by those responsible of arming the soldiers with live bull...Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 06:51hrs | | by Dr Gus Manatsa
Man 'butchers' wife with machete
A 25-YEAR-OLD Honde Valley man was last week sentenced to four years in prison for brutally assaulting his wife with a machete over alleged infidelity. Cuthbert Wirimai appeared before Mutasa magistra...Published: 08 Mar 2018 at 05:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Another Gukurahundi Judas Iscariot humiliated in Mashonaland
A few days back we wrote, "We are aware of Judas Iscariots of our times who are enjoying blood money in the cult called Zanupf. They once believed that the surrender document called the Unity Accord h...Published: 01 Feb 2018 at 13:19hrs | 1 | by Wilson Mahlafuna and Khohliso Maqhoba
Coltart and Gukurahundi conspiracy against Mnangagwa
Last week, opposition politician and lawyer - one of Zimbabwe's few politically active white men - David Coltart, published on his blog a statement "on Rhodesian atrocities, his time in the BSAP and a...Published: 31 Jan 2018 at 05:24hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
How can Mthwakazi let bygones be bygones?
A new era: a new president Yet Mthwakazi seems to be back to square one so soon after the brief euphoria ushered by the timely departure of the Mugabes. Mth...Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 23:09hrs | | by Annitha Ndlovu
War criminals associated with the former regime of Robert Gabriel Mugabe
Mthwakazi Liberation Front has said war criminals associated with the former regime of Robert Gabriel Mugabe, including Mnangagwa should be detained for trial by an international chaired tribuna...Published: 19 Nov 2017 at 07:21hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
MLF attacks Mugabe, Grace over interface rally turned into Mnangagwa attacks
Mthwakazi Liberation Front spokesperson Chrispen Nyoni has attacked President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace for shifting their focus from issues affecting youths to dwell much on Vice President Emm...Published: 07 Nov 2017 at 06:39hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe: A history in retrospect and precision
1980 was a definitive year in which Zimbabweans voted and gained independence after years of traumatic experiences under the white settler Government that maintained segregation and separate developme...Published: 19 Aug 2017 at 12:44hrs | | by Nhlanhla Dube
MLF says Zanu-PF is a genocidal party that will never repent
Mthwakazi Liberation Front (MLF) Spokesperson Chrispen Nyoni has said the ruling Zanu-PF is a brutal and violent party whose violence started in the 1980s when it butchered over 20 000 people in Matab...Published: 27 May 2017 at 16:27hrs | | by StephenJakes
Zimbabwe: A history in retrospect and precision
1980 was a definitive year in which Zimbabweans voted and gained independence after years of traumatic experiences under the white settler Government that maintained segregation and separate developme...Published: 19 Dec 2016 at 08:33hrs | | by Nhlanhla Dube
Mugabe opens gates of hell
I ended this column last week by asking the tormented question of who will protect us "from a vengeful police force so emboldened by a culture of impunity that they can break people's skulls in br...Published: 06 Oct 2016 at 15:49hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
Teacher axes wife, butchers two children turns axe on himself
A COLD-HEARTED teacher based at Madume Secondary School in Matangombe Village in Gwanda District allegedly went berserk, axed his wife and callously butchered two children under his guardianship befor...Published: 24 Jul 2016 at 10:33hrs | 1 | by Dumisani Nsingo and Lynnia Ndlovu
'#ThisFlag Pastor Mawarire a fraudster' - claims State media
In a continuing character assassination attempt, the Zimbabwe state media on Saturday claimed that #ThisFlag Pastor "Mawarire is a fraudster who collected money from gullible believers in the United...Published: 23 Jul 2016 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Perpetrators of Gukurahundi dancing on the skeletons of their victims
President Mugabe's use of gukurahundi genocide as a point of reference in the Zanu-PF succession wars has raised glorification of this unjustifiable gruesome act to new unacceptable levels in Zimb...Published: 14 Jun 2016 at 16:37hrs | | by Israel Dube
Man butchers three siblings
IN a bizarre incident, a Masvingo man went berserk and axed three family members aged two, four and eight to death before attacking the siblings’ parents.Munyaradzi Kudzizvara (39) struck th...Published: 28 May 2016 at 07:02hrs | | by Liberty Dube
Thriving goat project at Sankonjana
IT took the combination of technical support from a non-governmental Organisation (NGO) and indigenous knowledge to transform the fortunes of Meli Nyathi through his goat rearing project. Today he boa...Published: 26 Apr 2016 at 06:41hrs | | by Pathisa Nyathi
SA based Zimbabwean donate toys to hospital
A Zimbabwean based in South Africa has challenged his compatriots working in that country to make meaningful contributions to the development of the country by donating to key institutions like hospit...Published: 27 Mar 2016 at 13:16hrs | | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo
Child abuse alert: 'Teachers dating pupils' - WhatsApp update
Please note that Bulawayo24 does not edit WhatsApp updates. We publish them as sent by our readers and we do not disclose the sender's telephone Number....Published: 06 Jan 2015 at 07:38hrs | | by Concerned Citizen
'Satanist' butchers pregnant wife - WhatsApp update
Please note that Bulawayo24 does not edit WhatsApp updates. We publish them as sent by our readers and we do not disclose the sender's telephone number....Published: 16 Aug 2014 at 14:36hrs | | by Concerned Citizen
Tsikamutandas wreak havoc
Self-proclaimed witch-doctors commonly known as tsikamutandas are causing havoc in Chief Mudavanhu's area in Mberengwa where they are reportedly demanding livestock from villagers whom they accuse of...Published: 29 Aug 2013 at 05:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF and the Chindori Chininga saga
The issue started when Edward Chindori Chininga (ECC) was killed in a phony accident whose elements could not add up from an objective consideration. Airbag intact. Windscreen intact. Rammed tree inta...Published: 25 Jun 2013 at 15:30hrs | | by Wilkins Mugofora
The secret war raging on amongst the Zimbabwe - diaspora
Currently within Toronto a debate is being discussed on whether sex-education needs to be overhauled to include homosexuality, and transgender updates in the curriculum; whilst also introducing ...Published: 05 Jun 2013 at 16:27hrs | | by Tsungai Chipato
Man butchers daughter to death during fight with wife
A 30-year-old Mutoko villager, Nhamo Ngavapfume, who, in a fit of rage, beat up his daughter to death after she tried to stop him from assaulting his wife, appeared at the High Court last week facing ...Published: 22 May 2013 at 03:20hrs | | by Charles Laiton
Man butchers wife to death over a solar panel
Police in Masvingo have arrested a 31-year-old man from Bikita who allegedly fatally assaulted his wife following a misunderstanding over a solar panel before dumping her body into a nearby dam....Published: 05 May 2013 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man butchers step mum over a chair, buries her in a shallow grave
A Chipinge man, 24, is on the run after he allegedly butchered his step-mother over a chair which was allegedly broken by the latter before he buried her in a shallow grave in a maize field on Mo...Published: 23 Feb 2013 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff Reporter
74 year old fraudster appears in court
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested a 74-year-old man who was allegedly going around pretending to be a cattle dealer and defrauding people, especially butchery owners, of their money.Esau Sabelo...Published: 07 Feb 2013 at 04:26hrs | | by Court Reporter
Byo born beauty queen to grace Miss Global International Zim 2012
Cynthia Moyo a 23 year-old Bulawayo beauty queen started modeling at a tender age of twelve and is currently a Media and Communications student with Zimbabwe Open University.She is on...Published: 13 Jul 2012 at 12:48hrs | | by Mafu Sithabile
Ditched man butchers wife, cut body into pieces
A ditched Lupane man Petros Ncube (52) could not control his anger and resorted to slicing his wife with a machete into pieces. Ncube allegedly butchered his 50 year old wife Shirmy Nkiw...Published: 08 Jun 2012 at 04:38hrs | | by Alois Sibanda
Beef prices plummet
BEEF prices that soared in December last year have started plummeting in Bulawayo amid revelations that cattle buyers are facing losses because of the new prices. Players in the beef industry yesterd...Published: 01 Mar 2012 at 22:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
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