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Zanu-PF Kariba activists injured in Uhuru accident seek help
Zanu-PF members from Kariba, who were recently injured in a horrific road traffic accident, are appealing for financial assistance to meet hospital bills and other needs.Among the injured is C...Published: 8 hrs ago | 101 | by Staff reporter
Bodies of seven miners retrieved from shaft
THREE nights of pumping water out of the 240-metre-deep shaft at Bucks Mine in Colleen where seven miners have been trapped underground since Saturday were met with dead silence when the first body wa...Published: 21 hrs ago | 866 | by Fungi Kwaramba
So tragic that Zimbabwe regime respects animals more than its own citizens!
This morning I watched, in profound amazement, a news report on the Zimbabwe government's impassioned pleading with the EU (European Union) to support the country's cause at this year's CITES Conferen...Published: 17 May 2022 at 11:01hrs | 1545 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Ex-UK envoy roasted over Mnangagwa links
FORMER British ambassador to Zimbabwe, Catriona Laing has been roasted by the United Kingdom Parliament for giving London misleading reports that portrayed President Emmerson Mnangagwa as a "reformist...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:38hrs | 4836 | by Staff reporter
Hope amid fear as relatives await fate of miners
FAMILY members of seven miners from Bucks Mine in Colleen Bawn sit around small fires and watch helplessly as rescue workers go in and out of the shaft where their relatives have been trapped undergro...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:34hrs | 274 | by Staff reporter
148 unregistered private schools face closure
So far 287 of the 435 private schools found operating illegally in Harare at the beginning of the year have gone through the licensing and other requirements, and now the authorities are moving agains...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:32hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
Southern African opposition parties need to form a shadow SADC to represent oppressed masses!
It has now become an open secret that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is nothing more than a leaders' club, which seeks to serve and protect the interests of those in power, at the e...Published: 16 May 2022 at 08:51hrs | 1189 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chegutu villagers relive night of terror
"THEY must rot in jail!" Selma Modi (38) of Kalembo Farm in Chegutu yelled as she narrated her harrowing ordeal of last Tuesday night at the hands of armed Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) personnel....Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:23hrs | 1036 | by Staff reporter
7 feared dead in mine collapse
SEVEN miners from Bucks Mine in Colleen Bawn are feared dead after hoisting ropes to a skip bringing them up the shaft from underground snapped, plunging them back on a free-fall of about 200 meters....Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:20hrs | 433 | by Staff reporter
Banks: If gold rusts, what will iron do?
Native Commissioner Oates, I presume!LORD Jonathan Oates' ambition is becoming a latter-day colonial Native Commissioner.Too late chum, both by age and history! Still both don't deter ...Published: 14 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | 886 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Is this the promised Canaan?
AM trying to write this article under a tree where there is shaky network on a Saturday afternoon.There is no electricity, so the vibe that usually punctuates our nearby Chikwanha shopping cen...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:05hrs | 65 | by Chief Chiduku
Zanu-PF Women's League members jostle ahead of congress
JOSTLING for posts has begun ahead of the Zanu-PF Women's League elective congress set for June with some aspiring candidates already campaigning.The party set May 15 as the deadline for submi...Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:30hrs | 221 | by Staff reporter
Nightshifts at Lake Gwayi Shangani
CONTRACTORS at Lake Gwayi Shangani are now working night shifts to ensure the construction of the dam wall is completed next month.Construction work at the Lake Gwayi Shangani dam wall and ear...Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:43hrs | 702 | by Staff reporter
Nyika inovakwa nevene vayo: are Matabeles co-owners of Zimbabwe?
It is of utimost importance for Matabeles to comprehend the true meaning of deceptive catchy phrases coined by the dubious Shona supremacist government of Zimbabwe and ZANUPF since the days of the Zim...Published: 08 May 2022 at 12:33hrs | 1463 | by Israel Dube
CCC congress debate: Whither democracy?
THE Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) was built around Morgan Tsvangirai's personality. It is personality politics or personality cultism. Similarly, Zanu-PF under the late former president Robert ...Published: 06 May 2022 at 19:28hrs | 214 | by Faith Zaba
Bosso players take blame for pathetic run
ALTHOUGH the buck stops with the coach and the gaffer takes the flake when results don't come, Highlanders' skipper and goalkeeper Ariel Sibanda says players are equally to blame for Bosso's faltering...Published: 06 May 2022 at 06:53hrs | 267 | by Staff reporter
ZUPCO faces court action over failing public transport system
The Passengers Association of Zimbabwe (PAZ) has given the government and ZUPCO a 24-hour deadline to provide adequate public transport in urban areas or face being dragged to court.The police...Published: 05 May 2022 at 20:58hrs | 751 | by Staff reporter
Sisters tormented by dead lover
IN a suspected case of a vengeful spirit, two sisters from the same family are being tormented by the spirit of a boyfriend, who died 24 years ago.The girlfriend, Chioniso Mabwe now 40, was in...Published: 05 May 2022 at 20:32hrs | 2221 | by Staff reporter
ZRP blitz claims four lives as Kombi overturns after cop throws spike
THE ongoing police blitz against commuter omnibuses and pirate taxis has claimed its first victims after a police officer threw a spike at a moving minibus, resulting in it overturning and killing fou...Published: 04 May 2022 at 20:07hrs | 1996 | by Staff reporter
Daggers out in MDC Alliance
DAGGERS have been drawn in the opposition MDC-Alliance (MDC-A) with party president Douglas Mwonzora's deputy, Elias Mudzuri and chairperson Morgen Komichi set to contest for the presidency at an elec...Published: 04 May 2022 at 07:02hrs | 1840 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo mayor says there is significant progress at the Egodini Mall project
BULAWAYO mayor Solomon Mguni yesterday said there was significant progress at the Egodini Mall project, with the first phase already completed."There is a difference from what we saw last time...Published: 04 May 2022 at 07:01hrs | 550 | by Staff reporter
Laying of pipes brings Gwayi-Shangani water closer
AN over a century old dream to bring water from Lake Gwayi-Shangani to Bulawayo is close to reality as some pipes for laying the pipeline that arrived in the country last week have been placed at stra...Published: 03 May 2022 at 15:38hrs | 504 | by Staff reporter
Car with 2 dead bodies found inside Runde River
Details of the ZRP The Sub-Aqua unit, with the help of villagers from Chilonga in southern Chiredzi, have retrieved the two bodies stuck in a pickup truck which drowned in Runde river on Saturday.&nbs...Published: 02 May 2022 at 19:52hrs | 2533 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Peter Ndlovu fails to pay maintenance...children drop out of school
Celebrated Zimbabwean soccer star and Mamelodi Sundowns team manager Peter Ndlovu has been dragged to court by one of his baby mamas who is pleading with the courts to grant her an order barring Ndlov...Published: 02 May 2022 at 08:55hrs | 8019 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chigubhu laid to rest
Anne Frank once said, "Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude ".In similar fashion and sentiment artists yesterday (Sunday) raised conc...Published: 02 May 2022 at 08:02hrs | 502 | by Staff reporter
Business community must be economic actors
IT is a fact that Zimbabwe is in a mess.The fuel and basic commodities' prices are adjusted on a daily or weekly basis.Inflation is at its all-time high in the post dollarisation...Published: 02 May 2022 at 08:02hrs | 61 | by Chief Chiduku
Fireworks expected at BF
ONE thing that any spectator is almost always guaranteed whenever these two Bulawayo rivals meet is goals.The last five league meetings between Chicken Inn and Highlanders have produced 18 goa...Published: 01 May 2022 at 11:09hrs | 51 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa: When the snake bites the charmer
Staring the abyssVery slowly but definitely quite surely, the world is drifting towards a scary nuclear abyss. The conflict in Eastern Europe now has all the makings of a major superpo...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 16:10hrs | 198 | by jamwanda
'Nelson Chamisa wants elections postponed for 7 years' Charamba says
CCC President Nelson Chamisa wants elections in Zimbabwe to be postponed for 7 years, Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba says. Writing on his weekly Saturday column in the state-owned H...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 09:49hrs | 10758 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Undiluted saints kill Highcourt
A 46-YEAR-OLD Guruve imbiber Highcourt Nyamhenda died on Monday after consuming eight undiluted saints beers.According to police, the now-deceased Highcourt was drinking the brandy after visti...Published: 29 Apr 2022 at 16:32hrs | 1002 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Guruve
Chigubu's death plunges showbiz into mourning
A DARK cloud hung over the local showbiz scene yesterday following the death of award-winning comedian Clive Chigubu.Chigubu succumbed to cancer in Bulawayo, aged 31.Chigubu is survive...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 09:00hrs | 258 | by Staff reporter
Water projects to boost Bulawayo investment
THE ongoing Government funded water projects will go a long way in enhancing Bulawayo's investment opportunities and spur its economic growth momentum, Bulawayo Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minis...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 08:58hrs | 109 | by Staff reporter
Clash against Bosso a huge test, says Antipas
CHICKEN INN coach Joey Antipas says their clash against Highlanders in a Castle Lager Premier Soccer League at Barbourfields Stadium on Sunday will be a huge test to their title credentials.Th...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 08:56hrs | 104 | by Staff reporter
'Clive Chigubu last joke mocked Zim health system'
It begins with a C. It isn't Clive or Chigubu. It's cancer. That he was in pain and couldn't get medical attention should never escape our minds. That he had been booked for an appointment and arrived...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 08:32hrs | 682 | by Robert Mukondiwa
Bard Santner Markets to tap diaspora investment capital
BARD Santner Markets Inc, a new Harare-based international banking and finance advisory firm, has come up with a plan to tap into diaspora investment capital seeking new opportunities in pro...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 18:46hrs | 437 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabweans won't flee South Africa to return home
"WHEN you see a rat running into a fire, then you know that what it is running away from is hotter than the fire." - African proverb. Zimbabweans, who are in their millions in South Africa - som...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:41hrs | 1503 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cops resist 'punishing' transfers to rural outposts
AT least nine junior police officers have gone AWOL after resisting transfers to rural outposts.Confidential documents seen by NewZimbabwe.com indicate that the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) ...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:00hrs | 1133 | by Staff reporter
2 shot dead as robbers, police exchange gun fire
TWO armed robbers died upon admission at Kadoma General Hospital after they were shot during a shootout with police detectives in Kadoma Tuesday.Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) confirmed the sh...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 12:59hrs | 273 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans snub Zec voter registration programme
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has bemoaned low turnout during the ongoing mobile voter registration blitz which ends on Saturday as analysts called for the exercise to be extended."F...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 12:49hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter
Suicide death spikes in Bulawayo
Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has urged the public to seek councelling following a spate of suicide cases in Bulawayo this month. ...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 15:36hrs | 1697 | by Stephen Jakes
Bulawayo Mayor mourns KZN flood victims
Bulawayo Mayor Solomon Madlala Mguni has sent his condolence message to the Mayor of Ethekwini Thomas Mxolisi Kaunda over the tragic floods that killed hundreds of people in KZN Province of South Afri...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 09:02hrs | 355 | by Mandla Ndlovu
2 dead as train ploughs into Honda Fit at Harare railway crossing
Two people were killed when a train ploughed into a vehicle at a railway crossing in Harare on Tuesday morning.The driver of a Honda Fit vehicle drove into the path of the train at a railway l...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:52hrs | 1039 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean drivers fear being targeted by a xenophobic groups in SA
"I prayed for them to let me live because some who found themselves in similar circumstances, were reported dead," says Richard Mudhara, a Zimbabwean truck driver working in Johannesburg.He wa...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:35hrs | 491 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Horrific accident kills 6 in Bulawayo
About 6 people are reported to have died in a horrific accident involving a commuter omnibus carrying passengers and a haulage truck at the Nkulumane Shopping Complex traffic lights ...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 07:28hrs | 4209 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bosso condemn pitch invasion
HIGHLANDERS have condemned pitch invasion by a section of fans and lashed out at "overzealous" police details for firing tear smoke resulting in abandonment of their Castle Lager Premier Soccer League...Published: 25 Apr 2022 at 08:47hrs | 369 | by Staff reporter
Grudge man up for killing drinking mate
A PLUMTREE man who picked a grudge with a drinking mate he accused of assaulting his young brother has been arrested for the murder of the same....Published: 24 Apr 2022 at 14:59hrs | 1275 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe to issue biometric title deeds
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has promised the residents of Epworth that he will give them biometric title deeds so as to deal with fraudsters who may print their own title deeds. He was speaki...Published: 23 Apr 2022 at 13:31hrs | 2253 | by Mandla Ndlovu
South Africa mob kills Nkayi man in Midrand
A man from Nkayi was last Tuesday killed by a mob in South Africa for allegedly attempting to hijack a car on Allandale Road near Chloorkop open field.His other two accomplices managed to flee...Published: 22 Apr 2022 at 15:27hrs | 4818 | by Staff Reporter
Gwanda man arrested for killing drinking mate over beer
A 24 year old man from Sigodo area in Gwanda has been arrested for killing a drinking mate in a dispute over beer.Matabeleland South Police Spokesperson Inspector Loveness Mangena said Mkhulis...Published: 22 Apr 2022 at 14:47hrs | 678 | by Stephen Jakes
South Africa sentences Zimbabwean killer to two life sentences
A 32-year-old Zimbabwean man, Andrea Imbayarwo has been slapped with two life sentences by a South African High Court for raping and killing a British businesswoman in Thabazimbi in the Waterberg Dist...Published: 22 Apr 2022 at 13:21hrs | 1293 | by Staff Reporter
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