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Maid wins house in Econet promotion
In a remarkable turn of events, Ropafadzo Msipa, a 25-year-old housekeeper employed at a local lodge in Chiredzi, has won a stunning smart house and an Econet Smart House security system through the 2...Published: 15 Oct 2024 at 10:25hrs | 19751 | by Staff reporter
Whose son are you young man?
Exaggeration of one's skills and achievements in CVs to land a dream job is a common trend. Church adverts overselling what will happen if you attend certain services or conferences have left the expe...Published: 15 Apr 2024 at 15:52hrs | 1 | by Mthokozisi Gwizi
Mnangagwa to fly from Harare to Lupane to commission just a clinic
PUPU Clinic in Lupane District is now complete and ready for commissioning by President Mnangagwa, with authorities now set to deploy the medical personnel next week. Funded by the Government ...Published: 07 Mar 2024 at 05:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
51 counts of fraud couple on the run
SENSING a high possibility of being locked up in jail, a couple that was facing 51 counts of fraud has allegedly fled and Bulawayo police have spread a dragnet to arrest them.Melusi Ndlovu (36...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 04:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Why would SADC risk confrontation with Zim regime whilst citizens act as if all is well?
So, another meeting of SADC (Southern African Development Community) heads of state has come and gone without the much anticipated 'resolution on flawed elections recently held in Zimbabwe'!Of...Published: 01 Nov 2023 at 15:40hrs | 10 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa afraid of live-streamed court proceedings?
THERE is something that happened in Zanu-PF in 2017. The play is about to be staged in a court of law.So many skeletons will pop out of the political cupboard. It is understandable why Preside...Published: 24 Sep 2022 at 06:15hrs | | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
SA returnee finds success in dad's footsteps
SOON after completing his O-Level studies in 1996, Mr Killion Mafuruse (43) of Mpopoma suburb in Bulawayo decided to follow in the footsteps of his late father who was a full-time carpenter.Al...Published: 23 May 2022 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwanda, Beitbridge, Botswana villagers beat up, kill rustlers
A GROUP of 23 villagers from Gwanda and Beitbridge districts allegedly ganged up with 11 Botswana nationals and brutally assaulted seven suspected stock thieves, killing one of them during skirmishes....Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 06:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
22 Gwanda villagers on the run after rampage
POLICE in Matabeleland South province have launched a manhunt for 22 villagers alleged to have kidnapped and assaulted fellow villagers whom they accused of stocktheft.This was revealed in a G...Published: 06 Apr 2022 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
11 Batswanas involved in murder and stocktheft in Guyu
The Zimbabwe Republic Police have said they are investigating cases of murder, kidnapping, malicious damage to property, assault, stocktheft and unlawful entry into premises and theft which occurred i...Published: 05 Apr 2022 at 17:35hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Let's modernise our ICT systems at the London embassy
There is great news coming from Zimbabwe on how the Government has made it "easy" to obtain identification documents, especially the passport. We ICT professionals feel very excited ab...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 11:41hrs | 1 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
ZIFA councillors vow to fight on
THE ZIFA councillors have vowed they will go ahead with the proposed special Extraordinary General Meeting despite the spirited attempts by some members of the association's suspended board to block t...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Phosphorus grenade used in deadly Munatsi attack
AN incendiary phosphorus grenade which ignites and explodes when hurled, emitting fire and intense heat that burns fiercely, was used to destroy banker Doug Munatsi's home after his immobilisation, ra...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:20hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Munatsi was killed'
IF he was not immobilised or held against his will, prominent banker and Zimbabwe Investment Development Agency CEO Douglas Munatsi could have escaped the fire that engulfed his luxurious 9th floor pe...Published: 04 Dec 2021 at 18:49hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Munatsi death: New details emerge
POLICE yesterday said they had started investigations into the mysterious fire incident that claimed the life of Zimbabwe Investment and Development Agency chief executive Douglas Tawanda Munatsi on M...Published: 01 Dec 2021 at 05:39hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Police probe into death of businessman Douglas Munatsi
MEMORANDUMSUBJECT: SUDDEN DEATH BY FIRE OF DOUGLAS MUNATSI AT NUMBER C9 NORTHFIELDS FLATS, CORNER JOSIAH TONGOGARA AND FIFTH AVENUE, HARAREThis memorandum serves to put on record circu...Published: 30 Nov 2021 at 05:29hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Two homes burn in love triangle bust-up
A MAN from Emthunzini suburb in Bulawayo assaulted his wife with fists and a rope accusing her of having an affair with their neighbour before he later set his and his alleged love rival homes ablaze....Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 07:01hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimra executives in US$585m tax evasion corruption scam
CORRUPTION skeletons involving a series of multi-billion-dollar tax evasion scandals are tumbling out of the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) cupboard amid a new corruption scam involving Chinese di...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 11:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe resuscitation scandal explodes
EFFORTS to resuscitate the troubled national flag carrier, Air Zimbabwe (AirZim), are effectively dead in the water after the exposition by the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) of a systemati...Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 10:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Stanbic equips Sally Mugabe Hospital
STANBIC Bank has donated equipment worth US$37 000 to Sally Mugabe Central Hospital's maternity wing.The bank also availed $2 million towards refurbishment of the wing.This initiative ...Published: 29 Apr 2021 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff writer
Stanbic resuscitates Sally Mugabe Hospital maternity theatre
Leading financial services institution, Stanbic Bank has purchased equipment to resuscitate operating procedures in theatre number 1 at the maternity wing, and also refurbished its recovery room at Sa...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 10:16hrs | | by Agencies
How can a brutalised nation stand with abusive regime?
YOUR Excellency, President ED Mnangagwa,At times I believe the main reason Zimbabweans are still standing today in spite of the political, economic, physical, and emotional brutalisation they ...Published: 10 Mar 2021 at 06:05hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
How can a brutalized Zimbabwean nation be expected to stand with their abusive regime in international re-engangement?
At times I believe the main reason Zimbabweans are still standing today, in spite of the political, economic, physical, and emotional brutalization they have endured at the cold-hearted and blood-drip...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 08:31hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Can we use ZUMBANI A traditional medicine for treatment of COVID19?
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines traditional medicine as "the sum total of the knowledge, skills, and practices based on the theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different cultu...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 18:15hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
The bittersweet toxicity of the new media
In 1982, when Steve Jobs was asked if he was keen on doing market research, he said, "No, because customers don't know what they want until we have shown them." His instincts, whether good-natured or ...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 19:38hrs | | by Mandlenkosi Siziba
Chaotic MDC-T congress spells doom for opposition
THIS week's chaotic MDC-T extraordinary congress which was controversially won by party secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora against rivals Thokozani Khupe, Elias Mudzuri and Morgan Komichi dealt the op...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 11:06hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
PG Industries relocates its Bulawayo Centre
GIANT building materials producer and supplier, PG Industries, has relocated its Bulawayo PG Centre branch from Donnington Industrial Area to Belmont Industrial Area. For many years, the compa...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
When local authorities become hopeless laggards
IF Bishop Lazarus' great-grandfather were to rise from the dead today God forbid! The man was just an unbearably torturous disciplinarianhe would pretty much be able to figure his way around Harare....Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 07:56hrs | 10 | by Bishoo Lazarus
Drugs-theft Bulawayo doctor arrested for practising without a licence
A medical doctor who was suspended for stealing drugs at Mpilo Central Hospital has been arrested for practising without a licence at a city clinic.Emmanuel Mucheni, 35, was arrested last Frid...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Civil service undergoing massive overhaul
Public Service Commission (PSC) chairperson Vincent Hungwe has revealed that the civil service is under massive transformation to improve professionalism and efficiencies.In an exclusive inter...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gloves off in Zanu-PF, Mnangagwa's anti-corruption crusade widens rifts in Zanu-PF
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's anti-corruption crusade has widened rifts in Zanu-PF with some bigwigs in the ruling party accusing him of dumping them despite playing key roles in his ascendency to po...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Safe use of LPG in the Home
Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) is a clean, safe and portable form of energy, which has been fully embraced in Zimbabwe by domestic and industrial users. However, like all other flammable fuels, it has ...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 21:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo attacks General Sibanda
Exiled Professor Jonathan Moyo has condemned Army Commander Philip Valerio Sibanda for encouraging youths to emulate the late coloniser Cecil John Rhodes. Commenting on an article that appeare...Published: 13 May 2019 at 11:46hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
MPs' office broken into
Daring suspected thieves broke into an office in the central business district shared by Chiredzi South MP Kalisto Gwanetsa and Chiredzi East MP Denford Masiya, during the Easter holidays and got away...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mpilo doctor 'steals' drugs
A DOCTOR at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo has appeared in court for allegedly stealing drugs worth $110 from the hospital theatre while on duty. Emmanuel Mucheni (33) yesterday appeared b...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
When seers failed to see the Ides of March
Bishop Lazi always tells his followers that as a people, we have been involved in a brutal rat race for the past two decades as we struggled for survival in choppy economic conditions.But the ...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 22:24hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
'Police raided my groceries'
An Advanced Level student who is part of eight suspects arrested for looting at Choppies Supermarket in Luveve suburb yesterday claimed that police raided groceries that had been sent by his mother fr...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 16:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Threats and blackmail: The real story behind the doctors' return to wards
They stood their ground against government threats, but it took coercion from one of their own to end the junior doctors' 40-day strike.At one time they were fired by Vice-President Constantin...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 10:40hrs | | by Everson Mushava
'Trevor Ncube supported killers' says Jonathan Moyo
Exiled former G40 Kingpin Professor Jonathan Moyo has came out guns blazing at Alpha Media Holdings owner Trevor Ncube accussing him of supporting President Emmerson Mnangagwa whom he accused of...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 20:58hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Falling In Love – part 2
Late at night, Patie and I would call each other and talk for hours, until we fell asleep or our phone batteries mutinied. Once a month, I would book a room at a hidden-away bed and breakfast in Famon...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 22:53hrs | 3 | by Jera
Businessman begs cheating wife back home
THE higher a monkey climbs, the more its behind is exposed, the elders say!In recent years, their company registered phenomenal growth, and naturally that turned the lenses on the young busine...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 05:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man waters garden at midnight, commits suicide
A MAN from Bulawayo's New Lobengula suburb removed all household property from his family home, watered the garden in the middle of the night before allegedly committing suicide. Mr Togarepi M...Published: 25 Oct 2018 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Majome eyes PG post
Former MDC Member of Parliament Jessie Majome is among the legal minds gunning to become Zimbabwe's next Prosecutor-General (PG).Majome will battle it out with 10 other legal experts, who have...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, yet another opportunity gone begging? Possibly?
November, 2018, another heart stopping moment for Zimbabwe. Could that be the long awaited moment? Many wondered. The long dreamed about dawn when the nation would rediscover its soul? Hadn't the nati...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 06:51hrs | | by Dr Ralph Mguni
MDC Alliance breaking election rules
A top opposition party official has just equated rival party members to cockroaches that must be crushed and exterminated. The party's leader and presidential candidate has openly declared that he wil...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 06:59hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
Mnangagwa govt not telling the truth Zimbabwe Airways
The government of Zimbabwe is not telling the nation the truth with regards to the purchase of new planes, analysts contend.Last week, a Zimbabwe Airways plane, registered as Z-RGM, arrived at...Published: 15 Apr 2018 at 11:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Call for Grace Mugabe's arrest
Liberation war fighters are piling pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to arrest former first lady Grace Mugabe over her attainment of a doctorate degree under controversial circumstances but ana...Published: 31 Mar 2018 at 11:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, a dictator in the making
Little by little, Nelson Chamisa is exhibiting traits of a dictator, he is imposing conditions on the MDC-T party and its members, making unilateral decisions and going back on his word, one too many ...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 15:11hrs | | by Prosperity Mzila
Mnangagwa 'doesn't have a team fit for purpose yet'
When President Emmerson Mnangagwa came into office after his former boss, Robert Mugabe, had been forced to resign following a military intervention, he could have done anything that he wanted to do a...Published: 20 Mar 2018 at 10:27hrs | 2 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Who exactly was former President Mugabe?
The late VP Nkomo warned us in his 1984 book that there is a Robert Mugabe we don't know, but we were too consumed by the dummy we had been sold by the dominant liberation war discourses. These warnin...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 08:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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