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Man offers US$20 maintenance to ex-wife
A HARARE man yesterday offered to pay US$20 to his former wife as maintenance for two children they had together.The man accused the ex-wife of poisoning him and stealing his money when he ser...Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 06:24hrs | 218 | by Staff reporter
BCC confiscates 2 232kg of condemned meat
THE Bulawayo City Council's (BCC) department of health services has raided various grocery shops in the city, confiscating and destroying condemned meat weighing over 2 200kg.Council minutes s...Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 19:13hrs | 271 | by Staff reporter
Missing couple found dead
A Missing Mvurwi couple was found dead in their bedroom hut with their bodies in an advanced state of decomposition.Obert Aliyori and Freda Kandamara were reported missing by their neighbour G...Published: 24 Jan 2023 at 16:50hrs | 4604 | by Simbarashe Sithole
'Murder, armed robbery suspect dies in police custody after wife meal'
A 44-year-old suspect linked to murder and several armed robbery incidents in Bulawayo died of suspected food poisoning while in police custody hours after his wife had reportedly brought him some foo...Published: 23 Nov 2022 at 05:07hrs | 5333 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa relives poisoning ordeal
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday relived his food poisoning experience at a Zanu-PF campaign rally in Gwanda in 2017 and how he was airlifted to Gweru and later South Africa for urgent medicatio...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:20hrs | 2457 | by Staff reporter
Priest accused of poisoning headmaster
A PRIEST at St Paul's Musami High School in Mrehwa yesterday appeared in court for allegedly poisoning the school headmaster by lacing his cup with an unknown substance during a tea break while they w...Published: 21 Sep 2022 at 05:58hrs | 1012 | by Staff reporter
Madhuku should apologise, says Biti
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) deputy president and lawyer Tendai Biti has slammed Lovemore Madhuku over unsolicited advice the opposition party should abandon the current legal path and instead ...Published: 11 Sep 2022 at 15:25hrs | 1575 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala case haunts Mnangagwa govt
President Emmerson Mnangagwa was on Friday petitioned by prominent Zimbabweans who are demanding an end to the alleged persecution of two Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators and activists....Published: 11 Sep 2022 at 15:22hrs | 1425 | by Staff reporter
Phophi slams Mnangagwa's allies for seeking private hospitals in South Africa
Under fire MEC for Health in Limpopo, Phophi Ramathuba has defended her fierce rants at a Zimbabwean patient and further slammed Zimbabwe government officials for brazen free spending on their own tre...Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 07:38hrs | 3771 | by Staff reporter
Woman nabbed for poisoning grandfather
A Guruve woman is in soup after allegedly food poisoning her grandfather.Alice Phiri is facing a murder charge and she was ...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 19:43hrs | 1405 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Guruve
2 Zanu-PF members die in Nyatsime after CCC skirmishes
TWO Zanu-PF members have died in succession in the Nyatsime area since the murder of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist Moreblessing Ali early this month.Ali was allegedly murdered b...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 07:24hrs | 505 | by Staff reporter
Woman kills stepson (3)
A Bulawayo woman has been arrested for killing her stepson (3) through suspected food poisoning and physical abuse. Bulawayo Provincial Police Spokesperson Abednico Ncube confirmed...Published: 14 Mar 2022 at 07:49hrs | 1790 | by Stephen Jakes
Primary School poisoning: Grade 4 pupil dies, two hospitalised
Police said the owner of the food and drink offered them to the three girls during break time and did not consume the food herself.Confirming the tragedy yesterday, acting Bulawayo police spok...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 08:20hrs | 838 | by Staff Reporter
Mystery deaths deepen in Zimbabwe
DEATH is never easy and, whenever it strikes, the grief it causes is traumatic for family and friends who would have lost a loved one.This encounter with mortality always leaves the surviving ...Published: 04 Dec 2021 at 18:49hrs | 112 | by Staff reporter
Home wedding venues banned
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has barred homeowners from turning their properties in the city into weddings and functions venues amid revelations that only 21 of such venues are legally registered w...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:20hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Man (74) poisoned at lobola meeting
A 74-YEAR-0LD Guruve man allegedly drank a poisoned opaque beer and died on the spot while planning the lobola of his young brothers daughter on Sunday....Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 21:14hrs | 8 | by Simbarashe Sithole
What kind of beast is devouring Chiwenga's generals?
"Covid -19 complications", is the cause of the death of army generals. At least that is what we are told by the government of Zimbabwe and the state media.Zimbabwe must be having a new covid- ...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 08:35hrs | 15 | by Israel Dube
Zanu-PF bigwigs come face-to-face with Zimbabwe's crippled healthcare system
ON January 20, Zimbabweans were shocked to hear the news of the death of Foreign Affairs Minister Sibusiso Moyo, the latest government official to succumb to Covid-19.The 61-year-old, who rose...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 06:58hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
18 died in holiday accidents
Eighteen people were killed, while 73 others were injured in 147 road accidents on Christmas Day and Boxing Day holidays. During the same period last year, 17 were killed, while 174 others were injure...Published: 28 Dec 2020 at 07:18hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwig in poisoning scare
Zanu-PF commissar Victor Matemadanda is recuperating after he fell seriously ill amid suspicious that he was poisoned at a ruling party event a week ago.Matemadanda was taken ill after attendi...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 05:03hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
My Analysis of the SDA Church Pastor Chipunza food Poisoning Story
Yesterday morning I woke up to read a WhatsApp news story alleging that Pastor Chipunza an SDA Church Pastor in the North Zimbabwe Conference of the SDAs was battling for life in the hospital after he...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 23:49hrs | 178 | by Etiwel Mutero
Poisoning fears spook Zanu-PF bigwigs
THE fear of poisoning has once again come to the fore within Zanu-PF and government circles following allegations by Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's close associates that the ailing former Zimba...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:44hrs | 2571 | by Staff reporter
Africa'second revolution whose time has come: Breaking-away from oppressive partisan poverty politics
The high-sounding and inspirational liberation of the entire of Africa by political parties and liberation movements that lost its cause! The law-abiding citizens that have been reduced to the level o...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 21:20hrs | 1483 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Diarrhoea outbreak shuts Harare council offices
Harare City Council was yesterday forced to close its Remembrance, Mbare District and Harare Municipal Police offices in Mbare after at least 55 workers contracted diarrhoea when they drank water from...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Middleton Nyoni turning in his grave: His office of excellence is reduced to despicable genital-mother insults and death treats
We are watching on the sidelines seeing the gross mismanagement of Bulawayo residents' rates payments squandered to the extent that Bulawayo City council cannot resuscitate the water works for weeks a...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 17:50hrs | 4157 | by Nomazulu Thata
'Unequal marriage triggered Mugabe’s fall'
ZANU-PF national chair Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has chided elderly male politicians who targeted ambitious young women for marriage and warned that they risked having their political careers derailed....Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 05:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo police foil Gukurahundi march
BULAWAYO police yesterday foiled a march to the High Court by Gukurahundi survivors who intended to petition for the setting up of a special commission to address the 1980's mass killings. The march w...Published: 29 Nov 2018 at 11:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo police foil Gukurahundi march
BULAWAYO police yesterday foiled a march to the High Court by Gukurahundi survivors who intended to petition for the setting up of a special commission to address the 1980's mass killings. The march w...Published: 29 Nov 2018 at 07:50hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Expired goods flood Harare
EXPIRED goods, including food items, are being sold openly on the streets of Harare, a situation experts say poses a serious health hazard to citizens.An investigation by Standardbusiness reve...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 10:04hrs | 1504 | by Staff reporter
Woman kills, dumps newborn
A MARRIED 37-year-old woman from Tsholotsho has been arrested after she allegedly gave birth, slit her baby's throat and dumped the body in a dam.Future Ncube of Tshabanda village, under chief...Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tips for improving your kitchen
Kitchen is usually overlooked when doing the interior décor for the house because lots of people think the kitchen should only be practical and safe. However, the kitchen need not dull and boring and...Published: 24 May 2018 at 13:44hrs | 887 | by Staff Reporter
Mahofa daughter eyes late mother's Parly seat
FUNGAI Masendeke, the daughter of the late Masvingo Provincial Affairs minister and Gutu Senator Shuvai Mahofa, has thrown her hat into the ring to contest in the Zanu-PF primary elections in a bid to...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 07:16hrs | 709 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on WHO listeriosis watch list
ZIMBABWE is among the 16 African nations chosen by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to provide support for preparedness and response to a possible listeriosis outbreak in Africa.The disease...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe dispels listeriosis fears
THE Ministry of Health and Child Care has assured Zimbabweans that they are safe from listeriosis as appropriate measures have been put in place at the Beitbridge Border Post to avoid importation of p...Published: 14 Mar 2018 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe must not import listeriosis'
It is easy to accept that the people who have opened tuckshops all over Zimbabwe are simply enterprising individuals who want to fend for their families. But these outlets could be breeding ground for...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:18hrs | 167 | by Shamiso Yikoniko
Mnangagwa finally emerged out of Mugabe's shadow in Davos only to prove what a fool he is
For 37 years President Mnangagwa has lived in the shadow of Mugabe, rarely seen, much less, heard. The odd occasion he has opened his mouth, many thought him a fool but they were not 100% certain of t...Published: 25 Jan 2018 at 14:29hrs | 19401 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Democracy demands E Roosevelt's 'great minds'" and not Zimbabwe's Lewis Carroll's Dodos
It was the wife of US President Roosevelt, Eleanor who said, "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."Zimbabwe is in a political and economic ...Published: 09 Jan 2018 at 22:20hrs | 705 | by Wilbert Mukori
Sekeramayi ditches Mugabe
Defence minister Sydney Sekeramayi, pictured, has thrown his weight behind Emmerson Mnangagwa's presidential bid, saying he never wanted to succeed President Robert Mugabe as widely alleged.Se...Published: 21 Nov 2017 at 21:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Urgent need to avert political instability in Zimbabwe
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) has said it is worried by the increasing signs of potential instability of a political nature in Zimbabwe.This follows the intensification of ...Published: 13 Nov 2017 at 12:58hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa, wife denied Gushungo ice-cream
THE stand-off between President Robert Mugabe and Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa over alleged food poisoning, took a new twist on Saturday when the under-fire Vice-President and his wife, Auxilia, ...Published: 06 Nov 2017 at 05:27hrs | 8388 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa under probe on 39 counts of fraud; Mugabe to stand trial on 20 000 murder charges
The ideology ZANU PF is a proponent of a conservative socialist ideology, Pan Africanist and anti- imperialist western values, doctrines and democracies. Pu...Published: 03 Nov 2017 at 05:38hrs | 16994 | by Themba Mthethwa
'Grace Mugabe must not run for VP'
First Lady Grace Mugabe must not stand as vice president at Zanu-PF's extraordinary congress in December, a move veteran political analyst and civil society leader Brian Kagoro described as a potentia...Published: 31 Oct 2017 at 13:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally disowns controversial Facebook page
Businessman Mr Energy Mutodi has disowned the Facebook page on which two Cabinet ministers - Dr Sydney Sekeramayi and Dr David Parirenyatwa - were accused of poisoning Vice President Emmerson Mnangagw...Published: 31 Oct 2017 at 04:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa feels the heat, Mugabe party suspends his four top allies
ZANU PF yesterday wielded the axe and suspended Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa's four top allies in Masvingo and Midlands provinces, amid speculation that the purge was meant to weaken him in his p...Published: 28 Oct 2017 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff Reporter
EXCLUSIVE: Mugabe to step down before 2018 elections
President Robert Mugabe, is reportedly planning to announce his shock departure from power before the watershed 2018 presidential and parliamentary elections, as the ruling Zanu PF strongman is now be...Published: 27 Oct 2017 at 06:22hrs | 15195 | by Itai Mushekwe, Nancy Mabaya, Mary-Kate Kahari and Malvin Motsi
Mnangagwa poisoning saga deepens, Mugabe tried to conceal medical findings
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe initially wanted Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa to conceal medical findings in his poisoning saga, fearing the issue could rock the boat in the ruling Zanu PF party, but the...Published: 11 Oct 2017 at 09:39hrs | 13912 | by Staff Reporter
Why Mnangagwa is now speaking out
Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa touched a raw nerve when he chose to use the late Masvingo Provincial Affairs minister Shuvai Mahofa's memorial service to reveal, for the first time, that he was "po...Published: 09 Oct 2017 at 13:46hrs | | by Staff Reporter
MDC-T official backs Mnangagwa
HARARE - Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is facing an uncertain political future, has received backing from the unlikeliest source, the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T)....Published: 09 Oct 2017 at 13:39hrs | | by DailyNews
Mugabe's Zanu-PF fights overshadow economic ruin
Dust was still settling from Grace Mugabe and Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko's grenade attack on Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, when a neat trio of grim economic indicators slipped out....Published: 08 Oct 2017 at 15:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cry the beloved Zimbabwe, as Zanu-PF closes shop
When the gigantic snake repeatedly misses the target and all its venomous blows land upon itself, in the presence of highly mobilised enemies, it surely becomes easy prey even to the oldest and fully ...Published: 06 Oct 2017 at 15:53hrs | | by Reginald Thabani Gola
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