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Rwodzi tips of deploying escorts, establish caravans for rural tourism
Minister of Tourism and Hospitality Industry, Barbara Rwodzi has expressed the need for community involvement and engagement as prerequisites to realise viability of the lucrative sector; while announ...Published: 11 Jul 2024 at 19:45hrs | 61 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
King Lobengula fate mystery deepens
The mystery surrounding the fate of 19th century Ndebele King Lobengula - son of the nation's founder King Mzilikazi - is still a moot historical event to Ndebele people, some Zimbabweans and scholars...Published: 04 Apr 2024 at 10:30hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
Scott Sakupwanya's flamboyant campaign under the spotlight
A convoy of high-end vehicles led by police escorts snakes its way into Number One Grounds in Harare's Mabvuku high density suburb on a late Thursday afternoon.Brown dust rises as three ...Published: 23 Jul 2023 at 08:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Lupane, Binga battles relived
TODAY as we continue our interview with Lieutenant-Colonel (Retired) Stanford Moyo pseudo name Lloyd Zvanananewako or Mabhikwa, the former freedom fighter takes us through operations in the Zipra oper...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 07:03hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Shamwari Yemwanasikana launch campaign against early child marriages
In a bid to curb vulnerability of girls in Zimbabwe, Shamwari yemwanasikana launched awareness campaigns against early child marriages that have been worsened by the Covid 19 pandemic.In an in...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 20:21hrs | 3 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Chamisa's MDC calls for halt to UK deportations
Zimbabwe's main opposition MDC Alliance on Thursday urged the United Kingdom to halt the deportation of failed asylum seekers, warning that human rights abuses are "increasing" under President Emmerso...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 08:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
UK deportation flight to Zimbabwe takes off just one-third full on Wednesday
A controversial Home Office deportation charter flight to Zimbabwe took off at about 10.30pm on Wednesday evening with only around one-third of the passengers on board that officials had hoped to remo...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 08:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lawyer escorts client to prison
Guruve based lawyer Nancy Mabhoyi failed to spare a jail term to her client Takura Gora (39) who was slapped with a six-year jail term today on four counts of burglary by Guruve resident magistrate Ru...Published: 31 May 2021 at 19:32hrs | 1 | by Lloyd Rabaya in Guruve
Inauguration exclusion for Mnangagwa! so what?
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa will not attend this week's inauguration of U.S. President Joe Biden, the invitation list did not include the president of Zimbabwe. It must be clear to an...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 09:05hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
2020 vehicle imports marginally surpass 2019 despite COVID-19 shutdown
Vehicle imports marginally increased to 40,052 units between January and October this year up from 40,016 units recorded during the same comparative period last year despite the advent of the Covid-19...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 09:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge border post not ready for reopening, says Zimbabwe govt
GOVERNMENT officials at Beitbridge at the weekend said the border post was not yet ready for fully-fledged reopening and recommended a staggered process fearing seas of lockdown-weary crossborder shop...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Opening date for Ekusileni
EKUSILENI Medical Centre in Bulawayo will finally open its doors to members of the public on November 30 with a 50-bed capacity amid revelations that the institution is now ready to admit Covid-19 pat...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 16:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's fire brigade defies odds
Zimbabwe's widely respected fire brigade usually tackles house fires and traffic accidents, but it became a symbol of the regime during anti-government demonstrations that turned into violent looting ...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 16:27hrs | | by Ben Sheppard I AFP
UBH to offer free eye surgeries
UNITED Bulawayo Hospital, through its Richard Morris Eye Hospital in Bulawayo is expected to offer free eye surgeries to at least 500 patients next month as part of helping the underprivileged members...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Another Hwahwa-bound prisoner dies
The second of the three prisoners who jumped off a moving vehicle transferring four inmates from Harare to Hwahwa Prison in an escape bid has died, officials said.Zimbabwe Prisons and Co...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 09:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe goes into hibernation
Former president Robert Mugabe has retreated from his grand public life often characterised by first-class privileges of armed security escorts and helicopter jaunts across the country.Since h...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 12:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Abnormal load escorts: Road safety heroes
DRIVING at 40km/hr along the busy Harare-Masvingo highway, Emmanuel Machikwa (35) is not bothered by the long queue of vehicles behind him.Before him is a haulage truck carrying an abnormal lo...Published: 27 Oct 2018 at 08:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimra to acquire modern liquid testing devices
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) says it will acquire advanced testing equipment to monitor liquid imports in a bid to curb smuggling.At the moment, the department cannot monitor the liq...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman celebrates ex's elections defeat
South Africa based businesswoman Vimbai Chakanyuka who claims to have used her fortunes on the electoral campaign for Mabvuku-Tafara Zimbabwe Partnership and Prosperity Party (ZIPP) House of Assembly ...Published: 06 Aug 2018 at 16:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Truckers give residents sleepless nights
Long haulage truck drivers some carrying highly inflammable fuels continue to dodge the weigh bridge in Mutare by diverting from the designated route via Dawson Street.The once quiet neighbour...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Another shake up at ZRP
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has effected yet more changes in the force, with senior officers in the Police Protection Unit (PPU) - who were providing security to the Mugabes - being redeployed....Published: 06 Mar 2018 at 09:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cross-border truck drivers threaten to shun Zimbabwe routes
ZIMBABWE is likely to lose millions of dollars in potential revenue as cross-border truck drivers, particularly those in transit to other regional countries, have threatened to shun local routes in pr...Published: 29 Sep 2017 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Panties expose cheating cop, cop assaults wife with electric cable
A police officer who assaulted his wife with an electric cable after a dispute over a pair of panties found in his car has been fined $200 by a Chitungwiza Magistrate.Clearance Lunga (39) of U...Published: 04 Sep 2017 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe fears attacks and the assassination of her children?
IN the August of the year of Our Lord two important politicians found themselves in South Africa facing two different but equally grave protocols.One faced serious medical protocols after inge...Published: 22 Aug 2017 at 14:00hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Reptiles and Eagles in High Noon
In the August of the year of Our Lord two important politicians found themselves in South Africa facing two different but equally grave protocols. One faced serious medical protocols after ingesting a...Published: 20 Aug 2017 at 17:23hrs | 26 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
ZBC sued over vehicle maintenance
A LOCAL vehicle maintenance and selling firm, Croco Motors (Pvt) Ltd, has taken the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) to the High Court seeking to compel the national broadcaster to service a $1...Published: 12 Aug 2017 at 11:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Calls to repeal of Mugabe motorcade law
Zimbabwe's opposition is pushing for the repeal of a State law that makes it a crime to gesture rudely or swear at President Robert Mugabe's high-speed, heavily-armed motorcade.The Road Traffi...Published: 17 Jul 2017 at 16:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe gears for retirement
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe, on his final political campaign in eastern Zimbabwe on Friday told thousands of supporters that he had delivered political and economic freedom since he came to power in 1980....Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 10:29hrs | | by Peta Thornycroft
Mazhindu crowned Miss CUT 2017
Chinhoyi University of Technology International Marketing student, 21-year-old beauty Tino Mazhinhu was crowned Miss CUT 2017 taking over from Rumbi 'catness' Chigama at a ceremony that was held at th...Published: 30 May 2017 at 13:22hrs | | by CUT Fate Club
ZIMRA escorts fuel trucks to curb excise duty evasion
ZIMRA has resorted to escorting fuel trucks in transit from the Forbes Border post to Plumtree and Chirundu border posts after it recently came to light that fuel trucks purporting to be in transi...Published: 31 Mar 2017 at 14:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Lawyer exposes Grace Mugabe, police
LAWYERS representing Lebanese businessman Jamal Ahmed insist that First Lady Grace Mugabe invaded their client's private property and is now using "rogue elements in the Zimbabwe Republic Police" to s...Published: 13 Jan 2017 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe orders police off her Mazowe farm
FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe has ordered the withdrawal of Police Protection Unit members from one of her Mazowe farms after four officers manning the property were caught and charged with possession o...Published: 05 Nov 2016 at 17:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
High Court gives greenlight to Nera demo, organisers cancel event
THE High Court yesterday gave opposition parties under the banner of the National Electoral Reform Agenda (Nera) the green-light to stage another demonstration in Bulawayo, but the organisers of the p...Published: 03 Sep 2016 at 09:30hrs | | by Mashudu Netsianda
Renamo rejects VP position
Maputo - Leader of the opposition Mozambique National Resistance (Renamo) Afonso Dhlakama has rebuffed a proposal to offer him the position of a deputy president.If accepted, the proposal ...Published: 25 Aug 2016 at 08:03hrs | | by Agencies
$56,000 heist: One more arrested
The driver of a car that went through a fake Belvedere roadblock to allay the suspicion of an Indian businessman robbed of $56 000 has now been arrested. The police special constabulary member station...Published: 08 Aug 2016 at 06:39hrs | | by Tendai Rupapa
$57,000 cops heist new twist
A POLICE special constabulary stationed at Mbare has been arrested after being implicated in a case in which six policemen reportedly connived with five civilians and mounted a fake roadblock in Belve...Published: 06 Aug 2016 at 11:30hrs | | by Tendai Rupapa
No bail for $56,000 heist cops
Four of the six policemen who reportedly connived with five civilians and mounted a fake roadblock in Belvedere, Harare, where they robbed an Indian businessman over $56 000 have not been reporting fo...Published: 05 Aug 2016 at 06:47hrs | | by Tendai Rupapa
Cops in $56k heist at fake roadblock
Six policemen reportedly connived with four civilians and mounted a fake roadblock in Belvedere, Harare, where they robbed an Indian businessman of over $56 000 and splashed the loot on vehicles. Thre...Published: 02 Aug 2016 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Tendai Rupapa
Zimra intensifies fight against smuggling
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has come up with various measures towards curbing the smuggling of goods and laid down incentives for the manufacturing and value adding companies which have bee...Published: 17 Apr 2016 at 10:06hrs | | by Noble Ncube
Hubby assaults wife for showing more respect to pastor
A Harare man is reportedly tormenting his wife saying she is in love with their church pastor and calls her a goblin.Angeline Jonera is accusing his hubby Denford Sada of humiliating her in fr...Published: 22 Feb 2016 at 09:49hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Met department warns of heavy rains and flash floods
Beitbridge - A total of 49 Zimbabweans, believed to be mostly ex-convicts, jumped off moving buses as they were being deported from South Africa by road on Thursday morning. The group was amon...Published: 12 Dec 2015 at 09:03hrs | | by Elita Chikwati
49 Zimbabwean deportees jump off moving buses
Beitbridge - A total of 49 Zimbabweans, believed to be mostly ex-convicts, jumped off moving buses as they were being deported from South Africa by road on Thursday morning. The group was amon...Published: 12 Dec 2015 at 08:55hrs | | by Thupeyo Muleya
Jay-Z, his nose, your nose, and the Pope's black Fiat
At the Washington DC's Joint Base Andrews Airport, President Barack Obama and his cavalcade of men in black shepherded Pope Francis through an ecstatic crowd to a tiny black Fiat. Inane questions ping...Published: 06 Oct 2015 at 21:53hrs | 4 | by Field Ruwe
NRZ demonstrations blocked by police
POLICE have barred National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) workers in Bulawayo and Harare from holding planned peaceful demonstrations tomorrow to protest non-payment of salaries.The police turned...Published: 01 Aug 2014 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Syria ships first quantity of chemical weapons
Damascus - A first shipment of material has been removed from Syria under a deal to rid the country of its chemical weapons arsenal, the joint mission overseeing the disarmament said on Tuesday....Published: 07 Jan 2014 at 14:54hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Malema accuses ANC of trying to silence him
Johannesburg - EFF leader Julius Malema has accused the ANC of trying to silence him by bringing fabricated charges against him."They accuse me of stealing because they are failing to match m...Published: 18 Nov 2013 at 08:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Deportation of a Zimbabwean man from the UK aborted
Promising rugby player, Moses Mazomba was put on an Ethiopian Airlines plane on Thursday night but kicked such a fuss that the pilot ordered him off the plane.The 24-year-old who has been li...Published: 21 Sep 2013 at 08:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rape cases decline in Bulawayo
BULAWAYO has recorded a 10 percent decrease in rape cases from 115 to 103 between January and August this year, compared to the same period last year, with a majority of victims being children....Published: 16 Sep 2013 at 12:03hrs | | by Mafu Sithabile
Zim-Escorts recruits first male hookers
ZIMESCORTS agency, the foreign based company that has set up a prostitution website that advertises sex workers in Zimbabwe, has recruited its first male prostitutes to cater for female clients, Sunda...Published: 08 Sep 2013 at 06:43hrs | 76 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe motorcade in another crash
Two people were injured on Friday afternoon when a police outrider in President Robert Mugabe's motorcade collided with a Peugeot 206 at the intersection of Prince Edward Street and Josiah Tongogara...Published: 04 Mar 2013 at 05:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
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