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Lighters and matches are not toys, avoid veld fires
The chill is in the air heralding the onset of the winter season. A time when some orphans, widows, homeless and the aged find themselves with no refuge from the biting cold. You see kids shivering wi...Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 14:28hrs | 43 | by Thomas Murisa
Cold spell affecting Zimbabwe to continue until Tuesday
THE Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has said the cold spell, cloudy and windy conditions that affected Matebeleland South, Bulawayo, Masvingo and Manicaland provinces from yesterday will cont...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 06:52hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo fire tender destroyed by fire
TWO firefighters from Bulawayo City Council (BCC)'s Fire and Ambulances Services sustained severe burns while their fire tender was reduced to ashes as they battled to put out a veld fire at a plot in...Published: 15 Jun 2023 at 20:46hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Crashed Zimbabwe plane was carrying diamonds
THE light plane owned by mining giant, Murowa (Private) Limited, which force-landed near Beatrice on Monday afternoon, had a parcel of diamonds which were being transported under armed guard by police...Published: 15 Feb 2023 at 05:00hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Rise of Ngubra cattle breed
When others see a cow, they think of beef or draught power.But for this family, when they see a cow, they see an opportunity to make thousands of US dollars from breeding.To many, catt...Published: 29 May 2021 at 08:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Pension fund sued for US$4m
A LOCAL company has filed a lawsuit at the High Court demanding US$4 million from the Communications and Allied Industries Pension Fund (CAIPF). Nutriveg, which is under judicial management, t...Published: 03 Apr 2021 at 14:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
House gutted by fire
PROPERTY worth thousands of dollars was gutted after a thatched house was caught in a veld fire on Sunday evening.Muzarabani rural dist...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 07:22hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa's govt steps up Old Bulawayo restoration
GOVERNMENT has stepped up efforts in restoring King Lobengula's original capital, Old Bulawayo, which was gutted by a veld fire 10 years ago, with the reconstruction of 10 beehives among other civil w...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Elderly woman burnt by veld fires
A 64-YEAR-OLD Chikomba woman is battling for life at Chivhu General Hospital after she was recently burnt by a veld fire.The Environmental Management Agency (EMA) in Mashonaland East province ...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Problem farmers risk losing offer letters'
GOVERNMENT is pushing for productivity on the land and has said there is a need for stability on farms anchored on adherence to the law.In a statement yesterday, Lands and Agriculture and Rura...Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 08:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Problem farmers risk losing offer letters, Minister Shiri declares
GOVERNMENT is pushing for productivity on the land and has said there is a need for stability on farms anchored on adherence to the law.In a statement yesterday, Lands and Agriculture and Rura...Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Veld fire guts Cyrene High School
PROPERTY worth more than $40 000 was destroyed and a teacher's cottage was reduced to rubble when a raging veld fire swept through Cyrene High School in Figtree yesterday.There was a flurry of...Published: 26 Aug 2017 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa supporters worried -Mutodi
Controversial Zanu PF youth member Energy Mutodi has claimed that the Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa's supporters who are bidding for him to succeed President Mugabe ahead of the make or break harm...Published: 22 Feb 2017 at 07:49hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Old lady (72) burnt to death
A 72-year-old woman from Mount Panis farm in Centenary Mash-Central province died in an inferno from a veld fire yesterday (Sunday).Eye witnesses allege that the poor granny was trying to sojo...Published: 17 Oct 2016 at 14:45hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
18 cars lost in inferno
EIGHTEEN cars worth thousands of dollars were yesterday burnt to shells at a garage along Seke Road in Harare while the Fire Brigade officials who attended the scene watched helplessly after coming wi...Published: 24 Aug 2016 at 06:32hrs | | by Fungai Lupande and Magaret Matibiri
Khami inmate shot dead
AN INMATE at Khami Medium Prison who tried to escape from lawful custody was shot dead on Tuesday. Cabangani Simango, 22, took to his heels as he was working outside the prison premises with about 200...Published: 16 Jun 2016 at 07:20hrs | 3 | by Whinsley Masara
Chiredzi accounts for 70% of Masvingo's veld fires
Chiredzi District has accounted for 70 percent of Masvingo Province's total land gutted by veld fires last year, Environmental Management Agency provincial Manager Robson Mavhondo has said.Mas...Published: 12 Jun 2016 at 07:48hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe ally's farm destroyed by fire
40 hectares of sorghum and two hectares of seed maize have been destroyed by veld fire at Hurudza farm in Goromonzi.The cause of the fire, which also destroyed pastures, is yet to be ascer...Published: 13 Aug 2014 at 17:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Confusion over Old Bulawayo
CONFUSION reigns supreme over the reconstruction of the Old Bulawayo Cultural Village with the National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe (NMMZ) and royal Khumalo family giving conflicting statem...Published: 30 Mar 2014 at 09:50hrs | 6 | by Vusumuzi Dube
Poor nutrition affects Zimbabwe soldiers
MANY aspiring soldiers from Matabeleland South province could not make it into the Zimbabwe National Army during a recent recruitment exercise after failing to meet the mandatory body mass index due t...Published: 24 Sep 2011 at 13:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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