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Pupil commits suicide after boyfriend rejects pregnancy
A tragic incident occurred at Nketa High School in Bulawayo where a female student, whose name is withheld, reportedly took her own life after her boyfriend allegedly rejected her pregnancy. The girl,...Published: 20 Jul 2024 at 12:06hrs | 827 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa commissions fruit juice plant
On Thursday, President Emmerson Mnangagwa officially inaugurated the Mutare Teachers College Fruit Juice and Water Processing Plant in Manicaland Province.The plant was constructed by Masvingo...Published: 04 Jul 2024 at 15:00hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Teens terrorise community
FEAR has gripped St Peters, on the outskirts of Bulawayo, with residents divided on whether attacks on residents by three minors are acts of robbery or satanism.The three minor brothers, aged ...Published: 07 Jul 2023 at 07:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
The creation of absolute poverty and suffering in post-colonial Zimbabwe
THERE is little doubt that the advent of Zimbabwe's independence in 1980 has paradoxically generated a new debate on the notion of freedom and justice, particularly from philosophical perspectives....Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 13:51hrs | | by Dr Admore Tshuma
Ramaphosa's R62m farmgate scandal puts spotlight on David Mabuza
The $4 million (about R62m) farmgate scandal, which threatens to cut short President Cyril Ramaphosa's presidency, has thrust his deputy David Mabuza into the spotlight as a possible replacement....Published: 10 Jun 2022 at 20:25hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo comedian bashed over 'dry joke'
Bulawayo comedian Zex Mdawini Sibanda was reportedly assaulted last week on a Zupco bus after he joked about lodgers in a manner which did not go down well with some of the passengers.Sibanda ...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 04:28hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Qatar offers fresh market for Zimbabwe products
LOCAL exporters should take advantage of the direct flights between Zimbabwe and Qatar to tap into the US$25,8 billion Western Asian market. Early this month, Qatar Airways announced the introduction ...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 06:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans now opting for traditional remedies
AS Zimbabwe continues to record an increase in Covid-19 cases and deaths, many people, especially those in the country's informal sector, are contemplating downgrading on funeral and medical aid cover...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 06:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Sibusiso B. Moyo, the man who read Mugabe the riot act
November 15, 2017 is not an ordinary day in Zimbabwe's political history. The day was characterised by action-packed events that culminated in the resignation of former president Mr Robert Mugabe....Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 18:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 home remedies gain popularity
TRADITIONAL herbs and steaming have become popular home remedies against Covid-19 which has killed 772 people in Zimbabwe. Social media platforms are daily awash with messages on the efficacy ...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 05:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Town clerk tests Covid positive
BULAWAYO town clerk Mr Christopher Dube has contracted Covid-19. Mr Dube tested Covid-19 positive on Monday but did not need to be admitted to hospital. Over 24 000 people have contracted the ...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 'advisory'
DO not put your suffering or sickness to waste. Your greatest template on just how to conduct yourself both in health and in hardship and adversity is none other than Jesus Christ.Is not our g...Published: 03 Jan 2021 at 07:47hrs | 13 | by Zii Masiye
Zimbabwe Covid-19 patients resort to home remedies
Clara Tandi felt feverish. Worried she was sick with the coronavirus, she grabbed handfuls of lemon, guava and mint leaves from her garden and boiled them into a liquid.Then Tandi (59) strippe...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Khaya Moyo applauds Mnangagwa's wife
FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has proven that she is indeed an angel of hope following her philanthropic work that has been extended to the once marginalised and forgotten San community in Bulilima di...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Aid finally reaches Zimbabwe's 'death' village
Surprised members of a cyclone-hit community in Zimbabwe paused from retrieving and burying their dead to welcome the first humanitarian aid from the outside world as it arrived nearly two weeks after...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 20:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's attempting to scare his way to State House
Zimbabwe has, in the past week or so, been awash with claims and tweaked pictures as well as videos purportedly showing runaway prices, acute shortages and a country on the brink of collapse. ...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Nicole Hondo
Zesa hammered for negligence in electrocution cases
Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC), a subsidiary of Zesa Holdings, has been ordered to pay $23 805 to a Harare widow who lost her husband due to electrocution. ...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Defence Forces defend territory
CHAPUNGU midfielder Brighton Mugoni scored the solitary goal that counted for the Zimbabwe Defence Forces Select (ZDF) side to beat Malawi Defence Forces (MDF) to the Defence Forces Trophy at the Nati...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man dies after land developer chops down trees
HEARTBREAK hotel!An elderly man is said to have collapsed to his death after land developers who purchased a piece of land, which he had for long used as his orchard, cut down his fruit trees....Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa preserving Joshua Nkomo legacy?
AFTER a 17-year-long wait, Ekusileni Medical Centre, a brainchild of one of the founding fathers of the liberation, Dr Joshua Nkomo will finally open its doors thanks to the new administration led by ...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 08:12hrs | 1 | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Meet the soldier who read Mugabe the riot act
November 15, 2017 is not an ordinary day in Zimbabwe's political history. The day was characterised by action-packed events that culminated in the resignation of former president Mr Robert Mugabe....Published: 21 Apr 2018 at 11:54hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa heads for Mashonaland Central
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is heading to Mashonaland Central Province tomorrow where he is expected to tour Siyalima Farm in Guruve South.Minister of State for Mashonaland Central Provincial Affairs ...Published: 06 Feb 2018 at 05:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chimene denies fleeing #Zimbabwe, says she will be back on Wednesday from China
Minister of State for Manicaland Provincial Affairs, Mandi Chimene has denied fleeing Zimbabwe for China following the military coup that saw President Robert Mugabe being put under house arrest....Published: 20 Nov 2017 at 16:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Shamu lays into 'lazy' civil servants
MASHONALAND West Minister of State for Provincial Affairs Webster Shamu has read the riot act to civil servants in the province, saying they should shape up and spearhead development in line with Pres...Published: 06 Nov 2017 at 05:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe and wife snub solidarity march
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace stayed away from a solidarity march with the embattled first lady organised by a grouping of war veterans and Zanu PF supporters yesterday.H...Published: 31 Aug 2017 at 23:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Schweppes to invest $10m into fruit processing in Esigodini
SCHWEPPES Zimbabwe's Norton Based fruit processing subsidiary, Best Fruit Processors (BFP), says its board of directors has approved a $10 million investment to establish a similar operation at Esigod...Published: 17 Mar 2017 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
3,000 jobs at revamped tomato canning plant
A JOINT-VENTURE tomato and fruit processing investment between Schweppes Zimbabwe and the Agricultural and Rural Development Authority (Arda) is targeting to create at least 3,000 direct and indirect ...Published: 24 May 2016 at 06:42hrs | | by Oliver Kazunga
Man, 85, 'caught pants down raping' four-year-old niece
AN 85-year-old Gokomere man was allegedly caught pants down raping his four-year-old niece.The man who cannot be identified for ethical reasons but of Matova Village under Chief Zimuto area al...Published: 01 Apr 2016 at 10:24hrs | 2 | by Walter Mswazie
Bosso coach thrilled to see mango tree, eat guava
Highlanders FC Dutch coach, Erol Akbay has claimed to have seen a mango tree for the first time in his life.That was at Ntabazinduna Flats, where he had gone to visit his assistant Cosmos Zulu...Published: 25 Mar 2016 at 10:42hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Girl, 13, hangs over church service ban
A 13-YEAR-OLD girl from Gweru allegedly hanged herself yesterday after her mother stopped her from attending church services at night.Joyce Taga, a Form One school drop-out, was found hanging ...Published: 23 Mar 2016 at 05:36hrs | | by Elizabeth Tsuro
Girls grow 'penis at 12'
In the small village of Salinas in the Barahona Province of the southwestern part of the Dominican Republic, at puberty one in 90 children born there makes a natural transformation from girl to boy....Published: 23 Sep 2015 at 21:29hrs | 6 | by Srtaff Reporter
Granny sexually abused by a 3 metre python on a daily basis
A MARANGE granny's more than two decades ordeal of being sexually abused by a three-metre-long python on a daily basis finally ended recently following the killing of the reptile. The horrific incide...Published: 27 Mar 2015 at 12:20hrs | | by Ray Bande
Hired killers targeted Mugabe
Forty years after the murder of Zanu Chair Herbert Chitepo, a functionary in Ian Smith's colonial establishment has revealed that the same assassin elimated Zapu's deputy chief Jason Ziyapapa Moyo - a...Published: 22 Mar 2015 at 09:49hrs | 1 | by Morris Mkwate
Zimbabwean tables must serve what Zimbabwean farms produce
One riotous evening in the eighties, the late Dambudzo Marechera started his vivid address to a writers' indaba by what seemed a senseless, irreverent postulate: "We are a sexually active nation!"...Published: 14 Feb 2015 at 11:49hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Police boss demands guava juice during visit to police stations
THE officer commanding police in the Midlands province Senior Assistant Commissioner Shadreck Mubaiwa has demanded that he be bought 100% guava juice during his four-day visit to police stations i...Published: 18 Nov 2014 at 07:04hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Prophet' steals $4 000 lobola money
A University of Zimbabwe lecturer lost $3 800 bride price to his church leader and a self-styled prophet belonging to an apostolic sect during prayer sessions.Archiford Kurauone Mtetwa (34) o...Published: 24 Apr 2014 at 06:10hrs | | by Lovemore Meya
Maid gives birth, bury foetus under a tree, sent to rehabilitation
A 15-year- old housemaid from Bulawayo's Gwabalanda suburb allegedly gave birth, tied the foetus in a plastic bag before burying it under a guava tree within the yard, a Bulawayo magistrate heard...Published: 13 Apr 2014 at 19:31hrs | | by Tendayi Madhomu
Girl buries new-born baby at employers' house
A 15-YEAR-Old from Bulawayo's Lobengula West suburb allegedly gave birth to a baby and buried it under a guava tree at a house where she was employed. The juvenile yesterday appeared before Bu...Published: 08 Apr 2014 at 06:27hrs | | by Plaxcedes Hove
Our spirit of resilience, says Tendai Biti
Wananchi, the goat month draws to an end and not many will shed tears to see the echoes of its ironic laughter.It has been a long month, with even longer scars and shadows of pain planted acro...Published: 03 Dec 2013 at 08:52hrs | | by Tendai Biti
A love letter to all Zimbabweans
NOVIOLET Bulawayo's exquisite debut novel, We Need New Names, has propelled its author into the limelight. Short-listed for the Man Booker prize (which it did not win), this globally relevant narrativ...Published: 22 Oct 2013 at 06:09hrs | 1 | by Liesl Jobson
Chipinge business community urges Govt to help establish processing plant
THE Chipinge business community has urged Government to consider establishing a processing plant in the district in order to tap and utilise various fruits abundant there.In an interview, Chip...Published: 15 Aug 2013 at 21:51hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Man kills self, three sons
A 51-YEAR-OLD man from Zaka in Masvingo went berserk and killed his three children before committing suicide under unclear circumstances, police confirmed yesterday. Masvingo provincial polic...Published: 04 Jul 2013 at 08:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man beats up, sodomises juveniles for stealing guavas
A Chitungwiza man, 20, who beat up a juvenile and sodomised another as punishment for stealing guavas at his place was on Monday jailed for an effective seven years.Liberty Matswai caught th...Published: 17 Apr 2013 at 19:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Luveve residents fear for their children after 12-yr-old developed boils after 'seeing' goblin
Luveve residents in Bulawayo fear for their children's lives following a blood curdling incident where a girl's eyes closed after allegedly seeing a goblin at her home and since then a number of chil...Published: 31 Mar 2013 at 13:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Grandpa (77) whips minor to death, jailed
A 77-YEAR-OLD Buhera grandfather was on Wednesday sentenced to 18 months in jail for assaulting his granddaughter to death over allegations of indiscipline.Nyasha Gwese of Rusere village unde...Published: 02 Nov 2012 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Naked Live Zesa Power Cables Burn Grade 4 Pupil
On Thursday a ten-year old grade 4 pupil from Tomlison Primary School in Harare was severely burnt after falling into a ditch with naked Zesa power cables. The cables were left unsecured by w...Published: 29 Mar 2012 at 22:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Twenty-one fruit trees planted at Milton High School
MBIRA Tours and Safaris in conjunction with the Forestry Commission and Miss Zim Environment have planted trees at Milton High School in Bulawayo.A total of 21 fruit trees which included lemon...Published: 10 Mar 2012 at 09:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
It means not eating fruits after your meals! Fruits should be eaten on an empty stomach
Eating Fruit on an empty stomach Dr Stephen Mak treats terminal ill cancer patients by "un-orthodox" way and many patients recovered. He explains: before he ...Published: 04 Nov 2010 at 10:27hrs | 1 | by Dr
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