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Lake Gwayi-Shangani project to begin round-the-clock operations
Construction at the Lake Gwayi-Shangani multi-purpose dam has entered an intensive new phase, with contractors set to begin round-the-clock operations as government funding ensures uninterrupted progr...Published: 04 Aug 2025 at 08:51hrs | 418 | by Staff reporter
Devolution funds ‘bankrolling' Zanu P F campaigns
The ruling Zanu-PF party has been accused of diverting devolution funds towards promoting party interests in Masvingo Province as the nation gears towards the March 26 by-elections. Zanu-PF has embark...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 18:15hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo sued over floods
TWO Chitungwiza residents have taken Local Government minister July Moyo and the local authority to court over the poor drainage system in the town, which is causing flooding. Several houses i...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:48hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Sewerage horror for Nkulumane granny
GOGO Minah Sibanda (74), of 1552 Nkulumane suburb is living on a health time bomb as a sewerage manhole that is located right next to the door behind her house spills regularly and has not been attend...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:44hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo receives record rains
BULAWAYO residents were left stranded yesterday after a record breaking 29mm was recorded in 20 minutes in the Central Business District. Due to poor drainage systems, the flash floods made it...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 06:51hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Harare resident sues council over parcelling of stands in wetlands
A HARARE resident has approached the High Court to compel the Harare City Council to cease the allocation of stands and construction of houses in Mabvuku wetland.In his application, Ephraim Mu...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mash Central MDC youth leader out on bail
Jailed MDC Mashonaland Central youth chairperson Tonderai Samhu, together with four accomplices, were finally granted $100 bail each to challenge their six-year jail sentence.High Court judge ...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere's brother spends weekend in jail
FORMER Zanu-PF Mashonaland Central provincial chairperson and a key member of the infamous G40 cabal, Itai Dickson Mafios, spent the weekend in prison after he was remanded in custody last week on cha...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 10:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Captured prison escapee battling for life
ONE of the three prisoners who jumped off a moving vehicle in transit from Chikurubi Maximum Prison to Whawha Prison over a fortnight ago, before being captured last week, is battling for life due to ...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 08:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe 'desperately tried to reappoint Mnangagwa'
An aide to former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has revealed how generals warned him to step aside as protests against him grew, or face being "lynched" like Libya's Muammar Gaddafi.Massi...Published: 16 Jan 2018 at 07:01hrs | 2 | by AFP
Evangelist Ezekiel Guti Junior dies at 35
Evangelist Ezekiel Guti Junior, son of the founder of Zimbabwe Assemblies of God Africa (ZAOGA Forward in Faith) church, Archbishop Ezekiel Guti, has died.Guti Jr (35) died yesterday in South ...Published: 28 Dec 2017 at 01:29hrs | 15 | by Staff Reporter
Open defecation out of hand in Harare
Last Sunday marked World Toilet Day (WTD), amid rising concerns for proper human waste management as prescribed in the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 with special focus on underd...Published: 26 Nov 2017 at 09:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
BCC spruces up pavements
BULAWAYO City Council (BBC) on Thursday embarked on a pavement refurbishment exercise using the recently introduced retention fund, Southern Eye has learnt.Ward 1 councillor Mlandu Ncube said ...Published: 25 Nov 2017 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
The fall of the Zimbabwe dictator is gathering speed
A soft political coup led by G40 has taken place in Zimbabwe. The dictatorship of Robert Mugabe and his patronage political machine linked to the liberation struggle is now crumbling at a fast pace dr...Published: 15 Nov 2017 at 08:15hrs | 1 | by Themba Mthethwa
Mbare homes flooded again
Fuming Mbare residents yesterday subjected a City of Harare (HCC) engineer to all manner of insults after incessant rains flooded their homes and destroyed their property again.The local a...Published: 10 Mar 2017 at 14:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Angry residents barricade roads with huge stones and logs in Rusape
A TENSE atmosphere engulfed Rusape's sprawling Vengere high-density suburb as angry residents barricaded roads with huge stones and logs protesting over dusty red soils being used by the local authori...Published: 02 Jul 2016 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Thugs causes traffic jam
WHEN the M1 South Highway in Joburg came to a standstill yesterday morning, many motorists and taxi commuters thought roadworks were again to blame.But those closer to the action had ringside ...Published: 04 Mar 2016 at 05:39hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Woman torments hubby
A MARRIED man bolted out of the house shouting for help from his neighbours after his wife attacked him.Brian Tafirenyika could not stomach the abuse in the hands of his wife Anastacia Muponda...Published: 17 Mar 2015 at 08:19hrs | 4 | by Blessing Masakadza
Getting a passport still a hassle in Zimbabwe
THE lack of effective measures to ensure that the process of acquiring a passport or national identity card is speedy and hassle-free has allowed corruption to continue unabated. The system favours t...Published: 15 Jan 2015 at 06:25hrs | | by Tendai Makaripe
Chopped off, uprooted tree mysteriously 'resurrects' to original position
A tree that was chopped off and uprooted six months ago in Harare's Budiriro 5 has mysteriously returned to its original position.Stranger than fiction or is there a scientific explanation for...Published: 28 Dec 2014 at 18:00hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Man falls into drainage pipe, sues city council
A 40-year-old Harare man who broke his leg after falling into an unsecured drain has dragged the Harare City Council to the courts claiming compensation.Evaristo Mungate, who allegedly fell in...Published: 26 Sep 2014 at 11:33hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Unity Day My Foot Part II - The Notorious Bhalagwe Detention Center
Detainees were fed only once every second day, when mealie meal would be dished up on dustbin lids, with between 10 and 20 people per lid. Sometimes people would be forced to eat w...Published: 24 Dec 2012 at 05:28hrs | | by Ndzimu-unami Emmanuel Moyo
Muammar Gaddafi's tribe demand body for burial
Cairo - The tribe of slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi urged on Saturday the National Transitional Council to hand over his body to to be buried in their hometown of Sirte according to Islamic rule...Published: 22 Oct 2011 at 21:19hrs | 12 | by -
Alleged thief thrown from 3rd floor
The theft of a cellphone might be behind the death of a young man who was pushed from the third floor of a block of flats in Pietermaritzburg's CBD in the early hours of Wednesday morning.Poli...Published: 05 May 2011 at 07:23hrs | | by Moyo Roy
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