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Zesa to install cameras on transformers
ZESA Holdings has launched a nationwide anti-vandalism initiative that will see the installation of surveillance cameras, alarms, and sensors on electricity transformers in a bid to curb the rampant d...Published: 23 Jul 2025 at 09:08hrs | 225 | by Staff reporter
Matonga acquitted
Former Information Deputy Minister Bright Matonga was acquitted on Tuesday by Chegutu magistrate Ms. Evelyn Mashawakure on charges of stealing two tractors valued at nearly US$200,000 from a white far...Published: 06 Mar 2025 at 14:52hrs | 146 | by Staff reporter
Ex-minister Matonga denies US$500k theft case
Former Information Deputy Minister Bright Matonga, who was arrested in June last year on charges of stealing farming equipment valued at over US$500,000, denied the allegations on Thursday before Cheg...Published: 11 Jan 2025 at 08:24hrs | 82 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents acquire vehicle for neighbourhood watch patrol
Residents of Sunninghill suburb in Bulawayo have come together to add a fifth vehicle to their crime patrol fleet, in response to growing concerns over safety and security in the area. The collaborati...Published: 15 Nov 2024 at 08:36hrs | 674 | by Staff reporter
CCC councillor, Zanu-PF MP clash over stolen transformer
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) ward 23 councillor Noumusa Moyo has accused Insiza North legislator Farai Taruvinga (Zanu-PF) of stifling development in the Matebeleland south area.Moyo ac...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 05:53hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo tips Prof Ncube for Cowdray Park seat
FORMER Cabinet Minister and Zanu-PF Politburo member Professor Jonathan Moyo has tipped Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube to win the Cowdray Park seat in the forthcoming...Published: 26 May 2023 at 06:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube drills 24 boreholes in Cowdray Park
ZANU-PF Politburo member and Finance Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube has set his Cowdray Park Development Agenda in motion with the drilling of 24 boreholes. The boreholes are part of a number of deve...Published: 16 Apr 2023 at 07:41hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe becomes lithium giant
Zimbabwe continues to consolidate its position as a major lithium producer globally, with Bikita Minerals having ramped up petalite production to 60 000 tonnes annually after a Chinese firm, Sinomine,...Published: 14 Feb 2023 at 05:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Safeguard takes measures to help neighbourhoods stay safe
With the increase in burglaries and robberies throughout the country, particularly in Harare, Safeguard Security has embarked on a number of community-based services to help keep neighbourhoods safe. ...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 12:11hrs | 2 | by Agencies
Man found dead near transformer
POLICE in Dema, Mashonaland east province, are investigating a case of a man found dead near an electricity transformer that had been tampered with in Seke communal lands.The body of Phillip M...Published: 20 May 2022 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers kill farm security guard
Police in Mashonaland Central have launched a manhunt for a gang of 11 robbers that pounced on three security guards at Harvey Farm in Glendale annd fatally assaulted one them.Provincial polic...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 05:54hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Oldest Chief Nyamondo dies aged 102
The Zimbabwe's oldest Chief Nyamondo born Runesu Solomon Gore (102) of Mberengwa has died.The chief attracted the attention of a nearby Chief Ngungumbane's subject Nothiwani Dlodlo last year w...Published: 09 Mar 2022 at 14:09hrs | 13 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa declares war on electricity transformer vandalism, theft
Anybody who vandalises a transfer or electricity equipment is not fit to be a citizen and legislation should be in place to put away such people so the country can develop without them, President Emme...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 17:23hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Tobaiwa Mudede in fresh arm Wrangle
FORMER Registrar-General Tobaiwa Mudede is involved in a bitter fight over land boundary at a farm in Mazowe, Mashonaland Central with a fellow farmer, Roti Gadzikwa.Gadzikwa, this week issued...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 18:18hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans move into SA's deadly power's stations and make them home
Foreign nationals have made their homes in ageing City Power substations, despite the danger they pose.The power utility company has over 18 000 transformer chambers across the City of Joburg,...Published: 17 Dec 2020 at 17:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
2 smugglers nabbed after high-speed chase
Two smugglers towing a trailer of smuggled goods and mbanje were arrested following a high-speed chase along the Beitbridge-Bulawayo Highway on Sunday morning after they smashed through security booms...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa on brink of collapse
ZIMBABWE'S state-owned power utility Zesa Holdings (Zesa) is on the brink of collapse due to a plethora of problems.It is beset by multiple crippling factors, including rampant power theft, no...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 20:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Treasury released funds to procure 2 000 transformers
GOVERNMENT is set to procure 2 000 electricity transformers to address power transmission gaps, which are negatively affecting service in critical sectors, the Minister of Energy and Power Development...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 18:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mudzuri visits detained MDC cadres
Acting MDC President Hon. Engineer Elias Mudzuri today spent over three hours with the three MDC activists currently languishing at Chikurubi Maximum security prison on trumped-up charges of murder....Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 14:38hrs | 2 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Boy (7) severely burnt by electricity
A Kadoma boy is admitted at Harare Central Hospital's Severe Burns Unit after sustaining serious burns when he was burnt while playing near a ZETDC transformer near Rimuka.Abbie (7) of 23 Sihw...Published: 16 Dec 2017 at 11:46hrs | 5 | by Stephen Jakes
Power outages after Mpopoma power station fire
A ZESA power substation in Bulawayo's Mpopoma suburb caught fire yesterday causing power outages in some parts of the city.Two electricity transformers were destroyed in the inferno, an of...Published: 08 Feb 2017 at 05:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Makorokoza occupy ex-minister Kuruneri’s farm
Former Finance and Economic Development Minister Dr Christopher Kuruneri is crying foul over the occupation of his Mazowe farm by three people who are extracting gold there without his consent. ...Published: 29 Apr 2016 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Daniel Nemukuyu
Deadly blast at shopping mall in Australia
Sydney - One person was killed and several injured in a blast at a shopping mall in Western Australia, a media report said on Tuesday.An electricity transformer exploded in the Galleria ce...Published: 03 Feb 2015 at 11:47hrs | | by Sapa
Man electrocuted, burnt to ashes trying to steal electricity transformer
Johannesburg - A man was killed when he tried to steal an electricity transformer in Bokfontein in South Africa, police said on Friday.The man apparently scaled poles supporting a transformer...Published: 28 Jun 2013 at 17:14hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Oil dealers jail for stealing Zesa transformer oil
Two notorious oil dealers, who have been wreaking havoc in and around Chipinge draining electricity transformer oil, finally met their fate last week when they were jailed for an effective 10 years....Published: 19 May 2013 at 10:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gen Mujuru contemplated sleeping in the car the night he died
A STAR witness in the ongoing inquest into the death of General Solomon Mujuru yesterday told the court that the General sometimes slept in his car and had contemplated doing so the day he died in an ...Published: 18 Jan 2012 at 21:26hrs | 3 | by Staf reporter
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