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Gayton McKenzie takes his anti-immigrants vigilantism to the Limpopo River in Beitbridge
Recklessly xenophobic South African opposition Patriotic Alliance (PA) leader Gayton McKenzie and members of his right-wing party took their anti-immigrants vigilantism to the Limpopo River in Beitbri...Published: 06 Jan 2024 at 09:31hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Tobacco smuggling between Zimbabwe - SA now security threat
SOUTH Africa is drowning in illicit cigarette smuggling which has seen the neighbouring country losing at least R50 million (US$2.6 million) daily in potential revenue from well-coordinated syndicates...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 13:49hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
JZ Moyo's younger brother dies
FORMER Zipra senior commander David Moyo, nicknamed "Sharpshoot", has died.Moyo, was the younger brother to former Zapu vice-president Jason Ziyaphapha Moyo, died at Mpilo Hospital in Bulawayo...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 07:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Stubborn smugglers dice with death on treacherous Limpopo
DECENT Mbedzi (42) sits uncomfortably as he frantically nails together some wooden boards to make a wooden raft, just metres away from Dulibadzimu Gorge, about five kilometres south of Beitbridge bord...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
11 Zimbabweans feared dead after makeshift boat capsizes in Limpopo river
AT least 11 Zimbabweans who attempted to cross the crocodile-infested Limpopo River into South Africa are feared dead after a boat transporting them capsized, while three others were swept away in dif...Published: 08 Jan 2022 at 06:09hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, SA border tiff calls for urgent introspection
THE ongoing tiff between Zimbabwe and South Africa over border jumpers from this side of the Limpopo River does not only make sad reading, but demonstrates the gravity of the economic mess that the ci...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 05:58hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
2021 A year that never was
On January 30, 2020, the WHO declared the COVID-19 outbreak and most of the countries in Southern Africa went for fourteen days lockdown and a lot of them were not even prepared for this pandemi...Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 16:59hrs | 7 | by Leonard Koni
Looming SA deportations a wake-up call to Zimbabwe
THE decision by South Africa this week to stop extending the Special Zimbabweans Exemption Permits (ZEP) that first came into force in 2017, was inevitable as President Cyril Ramaphosa's government ha...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:36hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
50 000 arrested for cross-border crimes
ABOUT 50 000 people have been arrested since January for various cross-border crimes, particularly smuggling, a lucrative business that reportedly prejudices the country of hundreds of millions of dol...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bus operators defiant
SOME bus operators in Bulawayo have resorted to playing cat and mouse with authorities as they remain defiant, smuggling travellers and goods into the country to and from South Africa despite the clos...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teen mum throws baby into croc-infested river
IN an incident that has shocked villagers, a teen mother from Nyevedzanai Village in Chivi District, Masvingo Province allegedly threw her two-year-old baby into the crocodile-infested Tugwi River fol...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Thousands are arrested for border jumping
OVER 8 000 people have been arrested so far across the country as police intensify their fight against border jumpers at a time the nation's entry points remain closed in a move aimed at curbing the s...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 16:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dealing with Zimbabwe's hard lockdown
Zimbabwe started its a 30 day level four lockdown on Tuesday a move that is expected to save lives but have dire consequences on the economy and livelihoods. In announcing the lockdown measure...Published: 05 Jan 2021 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo vendors appeal to govt over lockdown
BULAWAYO vendors have appealed to the government to consider their plight during the newly introduced lockdown measures which they say will subject them to further poverty.Vice-President Const...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt must reduce COVID-19 testing fees, says travellers
INFORMAL traders have warned that the failure by government to reduce COVID-19 testing fees would result in more travellers risking their lives and illegally crossing the borders as they cannot afford...Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman falls into Limpopo as border jumper escapes crocodiles
Business nearly came to a standstill at Beitbridge Border Post on Wednesday morning when a suspected illegal migrant slipped and fell into the crocodile-infested Limpopo River, while walking on an eng...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's new republic, worse than Mugabe era
THE country looks like a civilian regime where everything is run by civilians in which democratic institutions exist in form, but not in substance, because the electoral, legislature, judicial, media ...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 07:03hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
The tipping point
When we reach that tipping point, we feel we are loosing it. We feel hopeless, we feel life has reached its end. We feel like it is now a matter of days. We feel we are being chocked, we can't breathe...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 16:49hrs | 1 | by Dr Takesure Tazvishaya
ANC piles pressure on Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF
SOUTH Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), is reportedly mobilising liberation movements in the Sadc region to pile pressure on Zanu-PF over rampant state-sponsored human rights...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge records 4 sudden deaths
BEITBRIDGE has in the last seven days recorded four sudden deaths, with two-suspected suicides.An 84-year-old man from Nuli, who cannot be named, allegedly took his life in an apparent case of...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 15:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Crocodile rips off fishmonger's privates parts
In an incident that shocked Beatrice villagers, a 27-year-old Harare fishmonger was attacked and killed by a crocodile before his body was discovered with his private parts missing.Paul Nyamha...Published: 16 May 2019 at 07:04hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
Villager eaten by crocodiles
A 40-YEAR-OLD Zvishavane man died over the weekend after he was devoured by crocodiles while on a fishing expedition in the Runde River.Tawanda Ranganai's body parts were discovered the follow...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Gukurahundi roll of dishonour
Had the brave and forthright Bulawayo24News existed at the time of Gukurahundi so many lives could have been saved. Indeed the latter-day revisionists who are shouting that it was a war are being trut...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 16:49hrs | 1 | by L. Dube
The dynamics of smuggling in Zimbabwe
Catch me if you can, is a phrase that may describe the goings on at Zimbabwe's ports of entry as the Treasury continues to lose millions of dollars in revenue due to smuggling and other criminal activ...Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 16:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Boy (13) survives croc attack
A 13-YEAR-OLD Tongwe school pupil, Anymore Muleya, wrestled a crocodile in its watery home and lived to tell the tale on Friday last week.Muleya, who was hunting water ducks with his elder bro...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 09:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Famous Bishop stranded on tree for 6 hours after car crash
APOSTOLIC Christian Council of Zimbabwe (ACCZ) leader Bishop Johannes Ndanga and a colleague spent six hours perched on a tree in the crocodile-infested Bubi-Lupane Dam after a vehicle they were trave...Published: 25 Sep 2018 at 00:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt revives abandoned road projects
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has intensified efforts to revive road and bridge projects that were abandoned more than 30 years ago.The country's road infrastructure is in dire nee...Published: 24 Jul 2018 at 14:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Ritual' bath in flooded Zambezi nearly ends in tragedy
A "RITUAL" bath in the flooded Zambezi River nearly ended in tragedy for a 29-year-old Victoria Falls woman after she was swept away by its rising tide.An undressed Yvonne Dube of 1340 Chinoti...Published: 07 May 2018 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabweans living in SA in Catch-22 situation
With a big basket, Hitele Hlalathi furiously picks grapes in a vast plantation that goes as far as the eye can see at a farm on the outskirts of South Africa's largest city.It is still 6am, bu...Published: 04 Nov 2017 at 05:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge suffers neglect, could have looked like Victoria Falls
THE dusty small town of Beitbridge now pins its hopes for development on the proposed one-stop border post (OSBP).Yet with all its attributes, the town could have done better.Beitbridg...Published: 26 Oct 2017 at 06:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe condemned after SA extends Zimbabweans' permits
The decision by the South African government to extend the permits of Zimbabweans working, studying and operating businesses in the country has come as a huge relief to thousands of the foreign nation...Published: 15 Sep 2017 at 08:53hrs | | by Savious-Parker Kwinika
Who funds Mugabes' lavish lifestyles?
First lady Grace Mugabe's shameful behaviour in South Africa where she allegedly assaulted a model she found in a hotel room with her wayward sons, inadvertently helped bring back to the fore the firs...Published: 10 Sep 2017 at 15:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Crocodiles eat 16 people in Zimbabwe
Crocodiles are proving to be a huge menace in Zimbabwe with 16 people succumbing to horrific attacks by the reptiles in seven months, the Daily News reported.A study by the Zimbabwe Parks and ...Published: 24 Aug 2017 at 18:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cigarette smuggler killer acquitted
ONE of the four cigarette smugglers who had been accused of forcing a member of a rival group to jump into the flooded Limpopo River resulting in him drowning, has been acquitted.Isheunesu Ndh...Published: 02 Jun 2017 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
South Africa deports over 10 000 Zimbabweans
Over 10 000 Zimbabweans have been deported from South Africa since last year, with the country's neighbour north of the Limpopo River spending R33 million every month on extraditing illegal immigrants...Published: 18 May 2017 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man recounts crocodile attack
A 28-year-old Chipinge man is lucky to be alive following a deadly attack by a crocodile while he attempted to cross the crocodile-infested Save River on Saturday morning.Vhusani Munyire put u...Published: 21 Apr 2017 at 08:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans risk life and limb to cross into South Africa
Jumping into a swimming pool is an insurmountable task for many - but Sithembile Moyo (34)* dares crocodiles and other dangerous reptiles found in the Limpopo River at least four times a month as she ...Published: 19 Feb 2017 at 10:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
PDP President Tendai Biti Address at the signing of the Coalition of Democrats (CODE) Agreement
Anglican Cathedral of Saint Mary's and All Saints Church HarareThursday, February 16, 2017PresidentsGilbert Dzikiti Elton Mangoma Edwin Mushoriwa Laura Makuzha ...Published: 16 Feb 2017 at 13:54hrs | | by Tendai Biti
Zanu-PF MP told to 'go hang'
OPPOSITION parties yesterday said Zanu PF Mpopoma legislator, Joseph Tshuma should "go hang" after he insinuated that Bulawayo people were lazy and not aggressive enough in grabbing opportunities,...Published: 09 Sep 2016 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
When life becomes a living hell
Owen Dzapasi (28) of Village 4A in Simoona, Bindura must be could be cursing the gods. His fortunes - which appeared to be on the rise - have just crushed with a thud. The young man is admitted in...Published: 07 Aug 2016 at 10:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Blitz on smuggling welcomed
Smuggling has become an albatross around the country's economy as leakages of goods in and out of the country on our borders and illegal points of entry has impacted negatively on our efforts to resus...Published: 08 Jun 2016 at 13:35hrs | | by Tapiwa Maware
Zimbabwean criminals in SA target visiting compatriots
FARAI (not real name) migrated to South Africa in 2007 when he had just finished his printing course at a local technical college in Zimbabwe.A 35-year-old breadwinner in a family of 11, said ...Published: 13 Mar 2016 at 09:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Murder convict undresses for judge
A CONVICTED murderer yesterday caused a stir at the Bulawayo High Court when he undressed and turned violent as he attempted to jump out of the dock moments before he was sentenced to life in jail....Published: 18 Feb 2016 at 07:00hrs | | by Mashudu Netsianda
'There are no sacred cows,' says Jonathan Moyo
Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo has dismissed the notion that the security sector cannot be scrutinised by journalists as fears of a government crackdown on the private media moun...Published: 17 Jan 2016 at 09:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Gukurahundist-in-Chief has not repented: A response to Mugabe's Kalanga jibe
Robert Mugabe's unsolicited lie that Kalangas are uneducated criminals wreaking havoc in South Africa defies logic and common sense combined but reveals the man's true character. Mugabe hates the...Published: 30 Apr 2015 at 18:55hrs | | by Kudzani Ndlovu
3 Zimbabweans arrested in SA for smuggling
THREE Zimbabweans and a South African were arrested in Limpopo province for allegedly teaming up and smuggling cigarettes worth $200,000 into the neighbouring country.The Zimbabwean trio, Tak...Published: 18 Mar 2015 at 05:47hrs | 1 | by Mashudu Netsianda
'Zimbabweans in SA fear Zanu PF,' says Mohadi
Some Zimbabweans in South Africa did not get special dispensation permits when these were introduced in 2010 as they thought it was meant to identify them for persecution by the ruling party, Zanu-P...Published: 08 Jan 2015 at 18:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF chefs are feasting alone'
While President Robert Mugabe and Zanu-PF chefs would be waxing lyrical about the liberation struggle and those who fought it during next week's Heroes Day and Defence Forces Day holidays, inevitably ...Published: 08 Aug 2014 at 12:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Crocodile mauls woman to death
A 36-YEAR-OLD woman from Sovelele in the Sandawana area on the border between Mberengwa and Masvingo province was mauled to death by crocodiles during a fishing expedition at Mwenezi River.Jan...Published: 06 Jul 2014 at 11:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe exposes Kasukuwere
As the economic crisis in Zimbabwe reaches boiling point, President Robert Mugabe's move to push for amendments to the controversial indigenisation policy has left former minister of Indigenisatio...Published: 26 May 2014 at 11:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
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