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Churchill High fire: Bulldogs fight back
The Churchill Alumni Association has launched a fundraising campaign dubbed "From Ashes We Rise" to rebuild Winston Hostel at Churchill High School, which was destroyed by fire on Monday afternoon....Published: 29 May 2025 at 13:27hrs | 921 | by Staff reporter
Fire destroys property at RMS warehouse in Bulawayo
A devastating fire at the Road Motor Services (RMS) warehouse in Bulawayo destroyed property valued at approximately ZWG2 million yesterday morning. The blaze, which broke out at around 7:37 am, was s...Published: 13 Dec 2024 at 09:30hrs | 103 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's driver dies mysteriously at Bulawayo hotel
In a shocking turn of events, Ishmael Maburisa, the driver of Deputy Finance Minister David Mnangagwa, was found dead in his hotel room on Sunday, October 27, just hours after the conclusion of the Za...Published: 30 Oct 2024 at 08:32hrs | 5080 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo - Victoria Falls Highway now a death trap
Tragedy struck on Wednesday night when two people died, and their bodies were burnt beyond recognition following a head-on collision between two South African-registered haulage trucks on the Bulawayo...Published: 20 Sep 2024 at 07:57hrs | 870 | by Staff reporter
Drunk man dies in inferno
In a disturbing incident that happened at Nyika Growth Point in Bikita, a man died after his house caught fire while he was drunk on the night of August 17.A charcoal heater found in the house...Published: 24 Aug 2024 at 12:49hrs | 399 | by Staff reporter
Pastor Mboro's church set alight after school skirmish
Pastor Paseka Mboro's Incredible Happenings Church burned to the ground on Tuesday afternoon after a group of youths marched to its premises in Katlehong.Scores of schoolchildren bunked school...Published: 07 Aug 2024 at 11:25hrs | 460 | by Staff reporter
Man sets Range Rover ablaze as couple sleeps
While Thembinkosi Ndlovu (53) and his wife Soneni Ndlovu (51) were sleeping at their home in Selbourne Park, Bulawayo, they were awakened by a loud explosion and discovered their Range Rover engulfed ...Published: 21 Jun 2024 at 11:07hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
8 bus inferno victims named
The Anglican Diocese of Manicaland has released the names of eight congregants who tragically lost their lives in a bus fire on the Nyabandza-Gandanzara Road in Rusape over the weekend. The bu...Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 11:53hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Rats eat man's savings
A 20-YEAR-OLD Bulawayo man who had allegedly been saving money in tins at his home, went berserk when he opened his "banks" to find scraps as rats had eaten the money while some of it had been corrode...Published: 16 Feb 2024 at 15:25hrs | 49 | by Staff reporter
Fire destroys University of Zimbabwe campus block
On Friday morning, a destructive fire erupted at the University of Zimbabwe's main campus, consuming a building that housed the physics department. Social media photos depicted the structure engulfed ...Published: 28 Oct 2023 at 15:39hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
29 escape Mutoko bus inferno
TWENTY-nine passengers escaped death by a whisker after a bus they were travelling on caught fire near Mutoko business centre in Mashonaland East on Monday.Provincial police spokesperson Inspe...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 05:49hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Nkulumane post office gutted by fire
PROPERTY worth $3 million was reduced to ashes when Nkulumane Post Office in Bulawayo was gutted by fire. It is suspected that the fire was caused by an electrical fault. The incident occurred between...Published: 31 Jul 2021 at 05:48hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
One person injured as refueling car catches fire
A two- tonne truck was reduced to a shell after it caught fire at a service station in Zvishavane on Monday night.The driver Mr John Mhike sustained minor burns and was discharged from hospita...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 16:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe violent protests 'false flag' operations by ZANU PF to suppress opposition?
One of the most efficient and effective strategies of dictatorships - that has been used since time immemorial - to suppress any form of opposition, has been the employment of 'false flag' operations,...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 07:47hrs | 1 | by Taurai J. Pachena
'We saw fire consume fellow passengers'
A SOMBRE atmosphere fills the air as relatives and passers-by watch in disbelief at the charred remains of a bus which has somewhat been turned into a mass grave.The remains of people that hav...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 07:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Popular nightspot goes up in flames
PROPERTY worth thousands of dollars was destroyed when a fire gutted Power House Nightclub popularly known as Takarangana at Mkoba Village Six Shopping Centre.Officials at the club said they l...Published: 30 Aug 2018 at 06:13hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Wi-fi technician engulfed in flames after electrocution
A TELCO employee was allegedly electrocuted while his colleague was injured when an aluminium pole they were using to install Wifi at a house in Mkhosana suburb in Victoria Falls accidentally came in ...Published: 09 Apr 2018 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman catches hubby pants down with another woman in a bottle store
ONE person reportedly died while four others got injured after a fight erupted between a husband and wife at a bottle store when the woman caught her better-half having sex with a girlfriend.T...Published: 28 Jul 2017 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
$1.6million worth of NRZ property up in flames, workers arrested
A fire at the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) main station has reportedly caused up to approximately $1.6million of damage after over ten wagons were engulfed in flamesThe incident, which ...Published: 14 Jul 2017 at 20:31hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe and Zanu-PF have harmed society by poisoning tribal relations
Nomusa Garikai agrees that under the leadership of then Prime Minister Robert Mugabe, Zanu-PF committed genocide in Ma...Published: 25 May 2017 at 21:33hrs | 1 | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu
Woman axes hubby to death
A 33-YEAR-OLD woman from Masvingo Mavis Madenga allegedly axed her husband to death while he was sleeping before burning the body beyond recognition. Madenga of Madenga village under Chie...Published: 16 May 2017 at 03:59hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Fire guts couple's house in Sunninghill suburb in Bulawayo
A Makhanda family in Sunninghill suburb of Bulawayo has lost property worth thousands of dollars after their house caught fire.According to Mr Samson Makhanda, the family home was reduced ...Published: 22 Mar 2017 at 14:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Lightning strikes 3 homes, 1 dead, another critical
A WOMAN from Bulilima died and a 33-year-old man was severely burnt when three homesteads in the area were struck by lightning. Gugulethu Dube, 23, failed to escape from a burning hut and was ...Published: 18 Jan 2016 at 05:29hrs | | by Sukulwenkosi Dube
Fire wipes out family
A GWERU businessman, his wife and daughter from Lundi Park low density suburb were burnt beyond recognition while his son escaped without injuries when their double storey apartment was gutted by fire...Published: 18 Dec 2015 at 05:53hrs | | by Munyaradzi Musiiwa
Mzingwane library burns down to ashes
THE library at Mzingwane High School in Matabeleland South was last Wednesday reduced to ashes after catching fire following a suspected electrical fault.The fire that engulfed the library cou...Published: 26 Oct 2015 at 05:07hrs | 4 | by Nqobile Tshili
ISIS burned Jordanian pilot alive in cage
Beirut - The Islamic State group released a video on Tuesday purportedly showing the burning alive of a Jordanian pilot it had captured in December.The video released online showed images ...Published: 03 Feb 2015 at 18:29hrs | | by AFP
Mystery inferno guts house
A HOUSE in Gweru's Ivene suburb was reduced to ashes by a mysterious inferno. The house, belonging to Miriam Gumbo and her husband Tatenda Mabeza, was on Saturday morning engulfed in flames under uncl...Published: 06 Oct 2014 at 20:20hrs | | by Sukoluhle Ndlovu
200 schoolchildren escape death
TWO HUNDRED primary schoolchildren escaped unhurt when a fire gutted a Victoria Falls lodge they were booked in for a school trip on Wednesday night.Tatenda Safari Lodge in the tourism hub of ...Published: 03 Oct 2014 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Cop's wife sets self, son, husband on fire
A policeman and his son were severely burnt when his wife, who also sustained serious burns, allegedly doused herself with paraffin and set herself on fire in a suspected suicide attempt following a d...Published: 02 Sep 2014 at 06:59hrs | 1 | by Oswell Moyo
Bulawayo-bound bus engulfed in flames
A Bulawayo-bound Zebulon bus coming from South Africa was engulfed in flames on Christmas Eve between the 20km and 30km peg along the Beitbridge-Bulawayo Road, there were no fatalities.Police...Published: 27 Dec 2013 at 01:26hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Four children burnt beyond recognition in house fire, mother battling for life
THE mother of the four children who were on Tuesday morning burnt beyond recognition when the room they were sleeping in caught fire in Pumula South suburb in Bulawayo, sustained serious burns when sh...Published: 24 Jul 2013 at 22:21hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Zupco bus catches fire 10 passengers injured
A total of 10 passengers were injured, three of them seriously, when passengers broke windows and jumped out of a burning bus that was going down the slope without the driver at Esigodini yesterday....Published: 09 Jul 2013 at 20:50hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Man jailed for burning down father's hut
A 33-year-old Beatrice man, Garikai Hoboya, who set his father's hut ablaze at the height of a domestic dispute was last week thrown behind bars for 20 months. Property worth US$300 was destroye...Published: 05 May 2013 at 20:51hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Plain crash caught on camera - Video
A Boeing 747, which had just taken off from Bagram airbase near the Afghan capital Kabul destined for Dubai, exploded in flames after crashing to earth on Monday, killing all seven people on...Published: 01 May 2013 at 17:36hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Property worth thousands of dollars destroyed in petrol-diesel fire
SIX people were luck to escape death when property worth thousands of dollars, which included two trucks was destroyed by fire yesterday at a house in Bulawayo's Emganwini suburb where 41 drums of fue...Published: 17 Apr 2013 at 00:33hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Visually impaired 91-year-old burnt to death while sleeping
A visually impaired 91-year-old Chimanimani man was on Wednesday burnt to death while sleeping in his bedroom hut after his blankets caught fire.Manicaland police spokesperson Inspector Enock...Published: 25 Dec 2012 at 05:34hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Jilted lover sets woman ablaze
A 46-year-old adulterous Sanyati woman died recently after being sprinkled with petrol and set ablaze by a neighbour she had dumped for a younger lover. The lover went on to hang himself with a shirt ...Published: 12 Dec 2012 at 04:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wife burns small house's home
A MWENEZI woman will rue the day she said yes to a love proposal by a married man when she and her three children survived death by a whisker after her boyfriend's wife torched the hut they were ...Published: 01 Sep 2012 at 21:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Polygamous hubby, businessman sets wife ablaze
A Zaka woman, 20, escaped with first degree burns after her polygamous husband poured petrol on a thatched bedroom hut she was in with another villager before setting it on fire....Published: 21 Jul 2012 at 04:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Esigodini girl (17) burnt beyond recognition
TRAGEDY befell an Esigodini family when its 17-year-old daughter was burnt beyond recognition when a grass-thatched hut kitchen she was in caught fire.Matabeleland South provincial police spo...Published: 11 May 2012 at 00:15hrs | | by Staff reports
Girl torches house with cigarette stub, stabs self to death
Tragedy has struck a Gweru family after a 15-year-old Gweru girl who reportedly wanted to smoke mbanje accidentally torched the family house before committing suicide by stabbing herself with a kitche...Published: 18 Apr 2012 at 04:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Five-month-old baby dies in fire after power surge
A five-month-old baby died at Mpilo Central Hospital from burns she sustained after a fire, gutted the room he was sleeping in at the family house in Sauerstown suburb in Bulawayo.The fi...Published: 31 Mar 2012 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
UK, 26-Vehicle Motorway Pile-Up
Britain - Several people are feared dead and as many as 30 injured in a collision involving 26 vehicles in England, United kingdom.According to BBC up to 40 people have been injured, seven of ...Published: 04 Nov 2011 at 21:26hrs | 2 | by Foreign correspondent
Man burnt to death in a Lamborghini
Durban - A man in his thirties died after the Lamborghini he was driving left the road in Durban, South Africa North on Sunday morning and burst into flames, paramedics said.Netcare911 spokes...Published: 06 Jun 2011 at 05:38hrs | | by Moyo Roy
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