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ZimParks culls 5 problematic elephants
In a relief to communities living under Chief Musikavanhu in Chipinge District, the Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Authority (ZimParks) recently culled five elephants that had been causing exten...Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 12:09hrs | 124 | by Staff reporter
Man survives hyena attack
A 34-year-old man from Mabaleni area in Dete, Matabeleland North province, is recovering at St Patrick's Hospital after surviving a vicious hyena attack last Thursday evening.The victim, Wisem...Published: 05 Jun 2025 at 10:12hrs | 520 | by Staff reporter
DDT's toxic legacy haunts Zambezi Valley
Five decades after Zimbabwe defied international regulations by continuing to use the pesticide Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), alarming signs of ecological and human health damage are emerging...Published: 03 Jun 2025 at 11:52hrs | 171 | by Staff reporter
Fisherman's remains found inside a crocodile
Tragedy struck the Chikuyu fishing camp at Lake Kariba last week after a local fisherman, Jethro Moyo, was fatally attacked by a crocodile. The grisly aftermath revealed the horrifying extent of the i...Published: 24 May 2025 at 08:57hrs | 189 | by Staff reporter
Husband fights crocodile to save wife
A courageous husband from Hwange is being hailed as a hero after he bravely rescued his wife from the jaws of a crocodile that attacked her while she was collecting water from the Zambezi River on Tue...Published: 03 May 2025 at 08:32hrs | 1667 | by Staff reporter
Lions wreak havoc in Marange
A series of lion attacks in Mutsago village, located in Marange, Manicaland province, has sparked fear and uncertainty among residents who are now grappling with the loss of livestock and growing safe...Published: 28 Apr 2025 at 12:45hrs | 827 | by Staff reporter
Tonnes of abandoned nets retrieved from Lake Kariba
Lake Kariba has seen a major environmental breakthrough with the retrieval of seven tonnes of ghost nets, marking a significant step in the fight against plastic pollution in Zimbabwe's water bodies....Published: 22 Mar 2025 at 12:13hrs | 2302 | by Staff reporter
Govt orders clearance of 'illegal' vending sites within 48 hours
The Government has directed all local authorities to clear illegal vending sites within 48 hours as part of a nationwide crackdown on unregulated trading activities, citing serious public health, secu...Published: 13 Mar 2025 at 06:56hrs | 253 | by Staff reporter
9 killed in Zimbabwe crocodile attacks in 2 months
The Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) has reported that nine people have been killed and 11 others injured in crocodile attacks over the past two months.In addition t...Published: 13 Mar 2025 at 06:54hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
Leopard strays into Bulawayo outskirts
Villagers in St Peters, a peri-urban community on the outskirts of Bulawayo near Old Pumula, are living in fear following reports of a suspected leopard roaming the area with two cubs.The big ...Published: 01 Mar 2025 at 08:59hrs | 187 | by Staff reporter
Mavetera under fire for leading Chiwenga diss song
ICT Minister Tatenda Mavetera is facing a firestorm of criticism after leading a controversial song that appeared to target Acting President General Constantino Chiwenga at the National Heroes Acre in...Published: 29 Jan 2025 at 08:52hrs | 2962 | by Staff reporter
Limpopo river flows still high
The flow rate of the Limpopo River, a crocodile-infested waterway that forms a natural border between South Africa and Zimbabwe, has stabilised at 754.216 cubic metres per second (m³/s) as of midday ...Published: 23 Jan 2025 at 18:46hrs | 766 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans brave flooded perilous Limpopo river
Desperate times continue to drive Zimbabweans into life-threatening risks as they attempt to escape the country's prolonged political, economic, and social crisis. Many are risking their lives crossin...Published: 18 Jan 2025 at 06:46hrs | 870 | by Staff reportetr
MK Party still wants Zuma in the ANC
The uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) in KwaZulu-Natal says the ANC has no leg to stand on in its disciplinary hearing of former president Jacob Zuma.The ANC's National Disciplinary Committee (NDC)...Published: 11 Jul 2024 at 08:05hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF dribble residents in Beitbridge jumbo meat share
There was an uproar in Beitbridge town on Monday regarding the distribution of elephant meat, with residents accusing government officials and Zanu-PF party members of hoarding more than their fair sh...Published: 06 Jul 2024 at 11:46hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to commission Kamativi Mine
As Zimbabwe showcases strength in lithium reserves, the largest in Africa, attention is drawn to Kamativi in Hwange District, Matebeleland North Province, where President Mnangagwa is tomorrow expecte...Published: 11 Apr 2024 at 08:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man got top job using fake SA permit
Home Affairs Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has called on the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to probe irregularities at the department.This comes after an illegal foreign national from Zimbabw...Published: 19 Mar 2024 at 13:00hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Police crackdown on border smugglers
ZIMBABWEAN and South African police have destroyed apparatuses found on the Limpopo River that are used for smuggling and human trafficking between the two countries.The gadgets that wer...Published: 03 Mar 2024 at 08:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Has Chamisa led Zimbabwe's opposition astray?
On January 25, exactly two years and three days after Zimbabwe's main opposition party the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) was launched, its leader Nelson Chamisa quit, leaving the party in turmoi...Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 16:20hrs | 17 | by Ish Mafundikwa
Chamisa surrenders hard-won political and democratic space
"THIS is to officially, and under my hand, inform you fellow citizens of Zimbabwe and the world, that, with immediate effect, I no longer have anything to do with CCC."With these words, Zimbab...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 06:22hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa drops a political bombshell
Zimbabwe's main opposition CCC leader Nelson Chamisa, who has given President Emmerson Mnangagwa a good run for his money in two tightly-contested and disputed presidential elections, has abandoned hi...Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 19:44hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Floods wreak havoc in Chitungwiza
Strong rains in and around Chitungwiza over the past few days brought up the Nyatsime River and its tributaries flooding lower lying areas and damaging or destroying homes in the town.The floo...Published: 30 Dec 2023 at 08:13hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Colourful place names of Rhodesia and their origin
THE TRACING of place names in a country in Africa can be both fascinating and frustrating. One must know – or quickly learn – something about history, about geography and the origins of word...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 17:59hrs | 123 | by Phillippa Berlyn with some amendments by Tony Tanser
Without Zimbabweans, Musina is going to be a big ghost town
By 7AM, lines of customers snake down the block outside stores on the main commercial strip in Musina, a bustling South African border town where thousands of people arrive daily from neighboring Zimb...Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 08:46hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Richard Branson enjoys Zimbabwe's wildlife during two week visit
British billionaire Richard Branson – the founder of the Virgin Group – and his family spent considerable time touring Zimbabwe's prime wildlife resort areas during his visit to the country....Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 07:39hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa plots Angel retribution for embarrassing him
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's biographer Eddie Cross says the Zimbabwean leader is plotting revenge against name-dropping Zimbabwe Ambassador-at-large Eubert Angel for embarrassing him through incrim...Published: 02 May 2023 at 22:10hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimparks kill problem Gutu crocodile
Zimparks rangers have shot and killed a notorious crocodile that recently attacked and seriously injured two teenage boys in Chivake River in Gutu.The two unnamed boys were hospitalised at Chi...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jail has cost Job Sikhala a fortune already
Just before the presidential elections of early 2002, two young MPs from the united MDC, Job Sikhala and Tafadzwa Musekiwa, arranged a meeting with the late Perrance Shiri, who was then commander of t...Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:15hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Boy (13) fights crocodile
A 13-YEAR-OLD boy from Checheche bravely fought a giant crocodile with bare hands after it had attacked him while he was crossing Save River with his friends recently.Danmore Gwenzi escaped fr...Published: 19 Nov 2022 at 06:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Jumbo, croc attack victim seeks help
A BINGA man who miraculously survived an elephant and crocodile attack that left him clinging onto the straws of life is appealing for financial assistance to enable him to undergo further treatment o...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 09:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why a Formula One racetrack in Zimbabwe is a pipe dream
It was all a dream for Zimbabwe to have a Formula One racetrack.A dream sold by politicians who argued it could be a major tourist attraction, especially if it was built near the country's pri...Published: 12 Oct 2022 at 19:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man survives elephants and crocodile attacks
FOR Mr Winders Sianene (43), the only thing that mattered to him was coming out alive as he escaped five elephants that saw him as an obstacle to getting water only to fall right into the jaws of a hu...Published: 03 Oct 2022 at 06:09hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
e-passort centre relief for Beitbridge residents
THE new e-passport bio-enrolment centre in Beitbridge opened last month has brought relief to the Beitbridge community and thousands of Zimbabweans living in South Africa who used to incur costs trave...Published: 26 Sep 2022 at 05:55hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Makeshift border footbridge demolished
Another makeshift bridge that was being used by smugglers and border jumpers to cross into Zimbabwe and South Africa, has been destroyed by the National Security Task Force (NTF) to curb illegal activ...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiefs blast Zanu-PF govt for lack of infrastructure development in Kariba
TRADITIONAL leaders from Kariba's Nyaminyami Rural District have berated President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration for failing to push infrastructural development in the area.After 42 year...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matobo councillor, villagers clash over land
VILLAGERS in Ward 24, Matobo North in Matabeleland South are at loggerheads with their councillor for allocating land to a white man.The villagers told Southern Eye that they believe that thei...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 09:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
UN wildlife protection agency 'violates' its own trade regulating rules
The United Nations international wild trade regulating agency, CITES, continues to go through a dark passage from which it will likely emerge as the destroyer, rather than the saviour, of the world's ...Published: 23 Mar 2022 at 09:22hrs | 7 | by Emmanuel Koro
Zimbabweans risk police, crocodiles in desperate bid to reach SA
A BUSHY pathway leads to the crossing points along the Limpopo River that are the most treacherous part of the journey for Zimbabweans seeking a better life in neighbouring South Africa.The ri...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 18:22hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Crossing the Limpopo River
NKANYEZI Dube is a 25-year-old young woman from Lubhangwe in the Matobo District of Matabeleland South. She attended Lubhangwe primary and secondary schools. She did not qualify to proceed to universi...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 08:56hrs | 2 | by Pathisa Nyathi
DDF worker dies in croc attack
A BINGA District Development Fund (DDF) employee was attacked and killed by a crocodile while collecting fishing worms at the council sewage pond on Saturday morning.Matabeleland North police ...Published: 11 Jan 2022 at 18:38hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Boy (5) dies in croc attack
IN an incident that has left villagers in Nyamapanda shell-shocked, a five-year-old boy was killed by a crocodile and remains suspected to be his were discovered two days later.The boy was fro...Published: 04 Jan 2022 at 05:59hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 travel restrictions frustrate cross border traders
THE renewed travel restrictions on the back of the emergence of the latest Omicron Covid-19 variant is a huge blow to cross border traders who are staring at loss of business during the festive season...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:01hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Crocodile attacks on the rise
COMMUNITIES around water bodies that are home to crocodiles have been urged to be vigilant as the number of attacks by the reptiles is on the rise. The attacks have been attributed to human- w...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 07:09hrs | 33 | by Staff reporter
A red card or exit package for ED and his ZANU-PF Govt in 2023
The ground is shaking for EDiot and his cronies as they crave to hold onto power in 2023 when their fall is imminent. The sudden rise and revival of ZAPU with Sibangilizwe as the man- of - the...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 14:25hrs | 1 | by Mjibha Ndlovu
Man feared dead after croc attack
A 33-YEAR-OLD man is feared dead after he was attacked by a crocodile at the Lake Harvest harbour in the resort town of Kariba.Witnesses yesterday said the victim, Bernard Nyabadza, was fishin...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Nehanda must be brought back but what about gukurahundi victims, post-2000 election victims?
I don't cope and usually don't quote fellow bloggers but on this one, I will quote Nomazulu, who said "I used to think bootlicking,hero-worshipping was for the uneducated but even the highly educated ...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 19:41hrs | 3 | by Phosiwe Ncube
South African soldiers destroys makeshift Limpopo River bridge
South African security agents had to shoot at crocodiles on Thursday afternoon that wanted to attack them as they destroyed a makeshift bridge built by smugglers and border jumpers along the Limpopo R...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 18:57hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mines troop to VFEX
GOVERNMENT says several mining firms have indicated plans to list on Zimbabwe's year-old bourse, the Victoria Falls Stock Exchange (VFEX).VFEX, which exclusively trades in foreign currency, ha...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 06:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zesa, Kariba reach agreement
Kariba Municipality has worked out an agreement with the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) which has seen electricity being restored to water intake and pump stations. As a result of the disc...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 06:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'On land, Mugabe travelled a path Mandela did not dare' - Yes, but look where he landed Zimbabwe!
There is overwhelming evidence out there to show Nelson Madiba Mandela was a visionary leader his greatest legacy to South Africa is a stable democratic system of government. On the other hand, Robert...Published: 09 Aug 2021 at 13:53hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
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