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Fire guts Shearwater Adventures flat in Victoria Falls
A Fire burnt a flat at Bongoland in Victoria Falls on Friday evening.The flat is one of the block of apartments owned by Shearwater Adventures where the tour operating company's workers reside...Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 19:32hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean firefighters leave country for greener pastures
Zimbabwean firefighters continue to desert the country for greener pastures abroad, with two major cities, Harare and Bulawayo recording high numbers of resignations.Presenting his 2022 End-of...Published: 06 Jan 2023 at 19:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Firemen thwart armed robbery after hoax call
Hoax calls are usually frowned upon by the Bulawayo Fire and Ambulance Services Department because they cost ratepayers thousands of dollars, but in December last year, a nuisance 999 caller put firef...Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Inside tragic Munatsi fire death trap
HARARE City Council fire chief Clever Mafoti yesterday downplayed suggestions that his crews could have saved Zimbabwe Investment and Development Agency boss, Douglas Munatsi, who died in a shocking f...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 18:21hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Fellow Zimbabweans, could you please help me find my young children who were abducted in UK?
I live in Swansea, and have lived there since 2007. In March 2008, l met a woman who comes from Swaziland and we were blessed with our first girl in January 2009.In 2012, we were blessed with a ba...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 10:17hrs | | by Ryton Dzimiri
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 | | by Taurai J. Pachena
Firemen struggled to put out Beitbridge Border Post fire
AUTHORITIES at Beitbridge Border Post have started investigating the cause of a fire which razed down a State warehouse and property worth thousands of dollars at the port of entry yesterday. ...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 23:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
The bomb that strengthens the party and the country
The bomb attack on the White City Stadium in Bulawayo on the 23rd June 2018, was first and foremost an inhuman, undiscriminating attempt to massacre innocent, unsuspecting men and women attending a wa...Published: 30 Jun 2018 at 13:35hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Bulawayo to build two more fire stations
THE Bulawayo Fire Brigade has announced plans to construct two more fire stations to better manage emergencies in the city and surrounding local authorities without fire-fighting equipment.The...Published: 26 Mar 2018 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Vehicles reduced to shells as garage catch fire
Property worth thousands of dollars went up in smoke in Bulawayo on Saturday after a garage caught fire.Several cars mostly BMW's, a bus and a fuel tanker where reduced to shells at Kelvin ind...Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 09:24hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Tuku, Macheso UK venue up in flames
Former ZBC presenter Ezra 'Tshisa' Sibanda has said the UK venue for Oliver Mtukudzi and Alick Macheso Show, Corah Suite in Leicester, caught fire on the eleventh hour destroying many buildings....Published: 01 Aug 2016 at 18:23hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Granny seriously attacked by angry bees
A GROUP of naughty kids thought they had found the perfect target to throw stones at. But little did they know that they were messing around with a swarm of angry bees!Daily Sun reported t...Published: 08 Feb 2016 at 12:51hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Resolve succession issue now, and focus on uplifting people's lives
Never in its history has Zimbabwe been found at a more precarious situation as it is now, when its leaders are more concerned about power and positions than the lives of the people - not that they wer...Published: 26 Jan 2016 at 06:16hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zim airports nearly shut-down
A group of fire-fighters almost plunged the4 country's airports into chaos after they obtained a court order to attach fire engines at the facilities.The fire-fighters won a $3,1 million lawsu...Published: 23 Dec 2015 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Firemen turn to clowns as house burns down
Municipality of Gwanda firemen literally "turned themselves into clowns" as they dramatically failed to deal with a burning house over the weekend.A fully furnished four bedroom house belongin...Published: 14 Sep 2015 at 22:33hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo Fire Brigade swift action saves house from burning down
A prompt response by the Bulawayo Fire Brigade yesterday saved a Waterford house from burning following a frightening electrical fault that caused Zesa lines to spark overhead. While residents praised...Published: 29 Aug 2015 at 09:24hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Businessman dies a painful death
Prominent Masvingo businessman Abraham 'Abuja' Chikozho who owned the fast growing Bercam Bus Services reportedly died a painful death when he remained trapped in the wreckage of his car for three hou...Published: 19 Mar 2015 at 21:42hrs | 33 | by Tanzikwa Goto
1 killed, 4 injured in accident
ONE person died while four others were seriously injured when a Toyota Estima they were travelling in burst a tyre, veered off the road and plunged into the riverbed of the dry Gwayi River near the 25...Published: 15 Jan 2015 at 08:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fire guts passenger train
A Harare-bound National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) passenger train power coach was gutted by a mysterious fire at Somerby Siding Station near Snake World just outside Harare yesterday.The inc...Published: 05 Jan 2015 at 13:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
3 cattle drown as car plunges into a river
TWO men in their early 20s escaped death by a whisker, but three of the cattle they were transporting drowned and one was rescued when a Nissan Atlas truck vehicle they were travelling in veered off t...Published: 05 Nov 2014 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Veld fire destroys Bulawayo house
FIRE fighter yesterday could not stop a mysterious Veld fire from destroying a thatched double storey house in Bulawayo's Riverside suburb due to the windy conditions and long grass surrounding th...Published: 25 Sep 2014 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fire engulf old people's home, 110 year-old granny escapes unhurt
A 110-year old granny and 31 other elderly people escaped unhurt yesterday as an inferno engulfed an old people's home where they are resident.The granny laboured to safety on her own but many...Published: 14 Aug 2014 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Sifundiso Ndlovu
Zanu-PF MP loses $300 000 property in house fire
GOKWE - KABUYUNI MP (Zanu-PF) Owen 'Mudha' Ncube reportedly lost property worth $300 000 when his Kwekwe house was gutted by fire on Sunday night.Ncube said he was not at home when the fire br...Published: 01 Jul 2014 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwanda fire services proven inefficient as house burns
The Municipality of Gwanda Fire Services department was on Saturday proven to be extremely inefficient yet again.House number 492 Marriage Quarters of Jahunda Township went on fire shortl...Published: 17 May 2014 at 21:06hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Schneider Electric launches the largest ever survey into counterfeit electrical products in Africa
37 interviewers over a two-month period, 300 professionals questioned PARIS - Schneider Electric (...Published: 20 Feb 2014 at 08:53hrs | | by APO
Vietnam firework factory explosion kills seven
Hanoi - At least seven people died early on Saturday in an explosion at a fireworks factory within a military complex, state media reported.The explosion prompted the evacuation of about 2 000...Published: 12 Oct 2013 at 05:37hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Property worth millions up in flames
PROPERTY worth millions of dollars went up in flames when a fire gutted an industrial complex housing more than five companies between Lytton and Paisley Roads, Workington in Harare.The cause ...Published: 12 Aug 2013 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Train carrying petroleum products derails and explodes in Canada
A Quebec town was evacuated after a train carrying petroleum products derailed and exploded in the early hours of Saturday morning, setting a massive blaze that authorities said continued to burn as r...Published: 06 Jul 2013 at 16:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Another Zupco bus accident, 3 people dead
Three passengers on board a Nissan Vannette perished on the spot and another one was seriously injured when their vehicle collided head on with a Zupco bus near Munyati River along the Kadoma - Kwekwe...Published: 12 Jan 2013 at 17:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
More than 350 inmates killed in a massive fire at an overcrowded prison
Honduras President Porfirio Lobo has suspended the director of the Comayagua prison and the head ...Published: 15 Feb 2012 at 21:44hrs | | by AJ
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