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Govt hails Chahwanda Stadium progress
The Zimbabwean government has highlighted the pivotal role of private players in developing the country's sporting infrastructure, with Deputy Minister of Sport, Recreation, Arts, and Culture Emily Je...Published: 11 Dec 2024 at 06:33hrs | 265 | by Staff reporter
Rains sweep away bridges, roads
INCESSANT rains being experienced across the country have left a trail of destruction with reports of bridges and school infrastructure being swept away by the heavy storms.In Harare, the city...Published: 30 Dec 2023 at 08:23hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Storms wreak havoc Zimbabwe-wide
HEAVY storms swept across most parts of the country on Monday leaving a trail of destruction with the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) warning of more thunderstorms particularly in eastern and...Published: 13 Dec 2023 at 20:14hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Hwahwa Prison roof blown off
A thunderstorm accompanied by strong winds blew off the roofing of a section of Hwahwa Prison in Gweru last Friday, prison authorities said.Prisoners were moved to buildings that remained inta...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 09:29hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter
Esigodini fire victims identified
Police have released the names of the 10 victims who died while trying to extinguish a raging veld fire at Rodrose Farm, Esigodini yesterday.In a statement, national police spokesperson Assist...Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 19:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo blasts ZANU PF over National Hero status
Professor Jonathan Moyo has accused the ruling party ZANU PF of engaging in political fraud when it comes to the conferment of the National Hero status to fallen former liberation war fighters. ...Published: 02 May 2022 at 12:50hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
2 armed robbers rearrested after Chivhu attack
TWO notorious armed robbers, who escaped from police custody in November and went on to terrorise citizens across the country, were rearrested by police in Chivhu last week following a robbery on Janu...Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 04:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
3 suspected rapists escape from Bulawayo police station, officers charged
Three men charged with rape, unlawful entry and robbery have escaped from a police station in Bulawayo.Pardon Makuni, 19, Mernard Gwatiedza, 22, and Ashley Moses, 21, all of Gweru, sprang free...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:15hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo's ally dies
The late vice president Joshua Nkomo's ally Steady Kakora Mhindurwa has died.He was 90.Mhundurwa's son Edward confirmed the dea...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 19:03hrs | 15 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
Before the July 30 elections in 2018, MDC Alliance's swashbuckling and technophile public relations machine nourishingly fed us the optics of what we were told were the makings of a political tsunami ...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
'MDC building structures in prisons'
MDC politicians who were recently arrested and jailed by the State say they have used their time behind bars to convert fellow inmates into ardent party supporters as well as build structures inside p...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 07:45hrs | | by newzimbabwe
War heroes who died in vain
The war was raging on. Every person in the village had had an encounter with the freedom fighters. We all knew the drill. The arrival of the freedom fighters in a village was so secret but an open one...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 07:52hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Khupe is dancing Nobert Kunonga music
Not so long ago the Anglican Church in Zimbabwe had tasted abhorrent deep factional fights pitted embattled cleric Bishop Nobert Kunonga and the then incumbent Chad Gandiya cabal. Kunonga, a stan Muga...Published: 18 May 2019 at 08:44hrs | | by Benny Gudo
Teacher jailed for assaulting pupil
Kwekwe magistrate Tayengwa Sangster has sentenced a female teacher who assaulted a five-year-old pupil to an effective 12 months in prison.Mejulla Matina (51) was convicted on her own plea of ...Published: 24 Mar 2019 at 14:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa takes Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi head on again
Norton MP Temba Mliswa has called upon Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi to clean himself from the allegations that he is behind the transfer of former Bikita MP Munyradzi Kereke.The matter sta...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 15:53hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC MPs languish in Hwahwa prison
Two Movement for Democratic Change Members of Parliament Amos Chibaya and Settlement Chikwinya are languishing in Hwahwa prison after they were remanded in custody to 28 January afte...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 15:49hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: ZANU PF Youth leader Pupurai Togarepi involved in an accident
There are reports that ZANU PF Youth Leader Pupurai Togarepi has just been involved in an accident close to Hwahwa prison along Mvuma road.More to follow…...Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 19:14hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Drama at sex worker's burial
HOOKERS stopped a Catholic priest from giving a graveside speech with their seductive dances arguing that their departed friend was never into church.Sex workers accommodated in the Avenues hi...Published: 20 Nov 2018 at 14:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
100-year-old man ready to vote in Zim election
AT 100 years old, John Makanjera is still full of life. You could say he is young at heart.He is a registered voter, an avid newspaper reader, and does not shy away from expressing his thought...Published: 27 May 2018 at 10:14hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
MDC-T councillor dies
POLITICAL prisoner and MDC-T councillor Weston Masiya has died after battling a long illness since his release from prison on bail pending appeal early last year.Masiya, who was slapped with a...Published: 13 Sep 2017 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Trial date set for Mvuma Killer Driver
The trial of Regis Mungwari (29) a driver of Transmech Logistics a South Africa-registered haulage truck, which on 05 April 2017 sideswiped a Johannesburg-bound Proliner bus, killing 21 people on the ...Published: 15 May 2017 at 07:34hrs | | by Stsff Reporter
Armed robbers arrested
Three notorious armed robbers have been arrested in connection with a spate of robberies that have been occurring in Gweru for the past three months.Police arrested the notorious robbers after...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 19:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kwekwe deputy mayor dies
Kwekwe deputy mayor Aaron Sithole (MDC-T) has died, hardly a month after he was released from prison on bail.Sithole died in Harare yesterday morning at a private hospital, after his healt...Published: 15 Mar 2017 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Better to die in battlefield'
COMRADE Gilbert Musekiwa Simon Majiri, whose Chimurenga name was Chabudaishudhu Kufahakuurayi is an unassuming war veteran. Born in 1938, Chabudaishudhu who now stays in Mvurwi, grew up in Shamva,...Published: 12 Mar 2017 at 08:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU mourns Landcart Gumpo
The nation and ZAPU in particular is plunged into yet another episode of mourning as we learnt of the sad passing on of Landcart Gumpo who died in Bulawayo after a long illness after he suffered strok...Published: 23 Nov 2016 at 10:46hrs | | by Iphithule kaMaphosa
ZAPU mourns Arthur Chadzingwa
The Zimbabwe African Peoples' Union learns with regret and sadness the passing on of Nationalist Arthur Chadzingwa. Cde Chadzingwa passed on in Harare yesterday the 10th November 2016. ...Published: 11 Nov 2016 at 12:31hrs | | by Iphithule KaMaphosa
13-year-old HIV+ boy rapes 5 pupils, walks free
A FRAIL 13-year-old HIV positive boy from Zvishavane, who raped five pupils one after the other, yesterday walked scot free because of ill-health.The Grade Seven pupil from Kwirirai Village in...Published: 30 Jul 2016 at 09:15hrs | | by Patience Mutsiwi
Mbuya Nehanda's chilling Six Commandments
COMRADE Julian Maodza Murenga Mukomawashe, last week said things that have divided many Zimbabweans, regarding Mbuya Nehanda. That debate is still raging.This week, Murenga continues this "str...Published: 05 Jun 2016 at 11:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Orbituary Message - Mvikeli Mathema
Umhlahlo we Sizwe sika Mthwakazi , convey with sadness the passing away executive member Pastor Mvikeli Mathema who died yesterday after a struggle with kidney failure. By the time of his death he hel...Published: 18 Apr 2016 at 21:29hrs | 3 | by Mkhululi Sibindi
Zapu's first intelligence officers
COMRADE Fox Adolphus Urayayi Ndambakuwa Muwani whose Chimurenga name was Larry Dube is one interesting comrade. He joined the liberation struggle from Ndola, Zambia on February 3, 1965 and went on to ...Published: 14 Feb 2016 at 10:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti urges ConCourt to review life sentence - PDP
Renowned lawyer and People's Democratic Party (PDP) President, Tendai Biti today told the Constitutional Court that handing down life sentences to convicted prisoners was an unconstitutional, oppressi...Published: 27 Jan 2016 at 13:17hrs | | by Staff Reporter
34 prisoners escaped, 14 recaptured in 2015
More than 30 prisoners escaped from the country's prisons last year, with 14 of them being recaptured, while the others still remain unaccounted for, Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) ...Published: 14 Jan 2016 at 05:19hrs | | by Nyemudzai Kakore
Chicken Inn crowned Zimbabwe champions
Chicken Inn are the 2015 Castle Premier Soccer League champions after beating Harare City 3-1, while FC Platinum were held 1-all at home to Caps United.Going into the match, Chicken Inn needed...Published: 21 Nov 2015 at 16:07hrs | | by Sports reporter
Resign before we beat you up - Bosso fans tell Mafu
Dejected Highlanders Football Club fans have called on coach Bongani Mafu to immediately resign from the team or they will beat him up if he remains at the club.According to information leaked...Published: 24 Aug 2015 at 14:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Midweek PSL results
Hwange 3-0 HwahwaDynamos 2-0 TriangleChicken Inn 2-0 BuffaloesZPC 1-1 How MineChapungu 1-1 Harare CityDong 0-0 Flame Lilly ...Published: 19 Aug 2015 at 19:19hrs | | by Sports reporter
PSL Live - updates Bosso trails Harare City at BF
Highlanders 1 - 1 Harare CityDynamos 1 - 0 FC Platinum Hwange 2 - 0 Flame Lily Triangle 6 - 0 HwahwaBuffaloes 0 - ...Published: 10 May 2015 at 17:51hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Massacre at Barbourfields
How Mine 6 - 0 WhawhaWHEN Luke Masomere claimed that his How Mine side could have hammered Caps United by six goals he was accused of smoking palm leaves.However, the gold miners yesterday...Published: 03 May 2015 at 04:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Its on: Bosso, Caps United live on SuperSport 9
CAPS UNITED players have made the trip to Bulawayo for today's epic clash against Highlanders at Barbourfields despite earlier threats to boycott the fixture.The players are owed winning bonus...Published: 03 May 2015 at 04:22hrs | | by Sports reporter
ZPC Kariba players top goals chart
The Castle Lager Premier League entered its firth round this past weekend which produced some shocking results.A total of 14 goals were scored in two days of action....Published: 13 Apr 2015 at 08:15hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Bosso fall to Chapungu as Dembare march on
Highlanders 0-1 ChapunguDynamos 1-0 Flame LillyTriangle 4-0 Caps UnitedHwange 0-0 BuffaloesHwahwa 0-2 Tsholotsho ...Published: 12 Apr 2015 at 19:56hrs | | by Sports reporter
Zanu Ndonga joins Zanu-PF
FORMER opposition party Zanu Ndonga has finally seen the light and joined the ruling party, Zanu-PF, it emerged at the weekend.Former Chipinge South legislator Wilson Tarugarira Khumbula and o...Published: 27 Feb 2015 at 06:51hrs | | by Luthando Mapepa
PSL season kicks off March 7
THE 2015 Castle Lager Premier Soccer League will kick off on March 7 as defending champions Dynamos begin their quest for an unprecedented fifth title in a row.This will be a week after FC Pla...Published: 17 Jan 2015 at 12:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Black Rhinos and Shabanie Mine relegated
Triangle . . . . . . . . . (1)2Shabanie Mine . . . (0)1Black Rhinos . . . . (1)2Bantu Rovers . . . . . . . 1SHABANIE Mine and Black Rhinos bade farewell to the Castle Lager Pre...Published: 24 Nov 2014 at 03:37hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's engages prison officers
ZANU PF central committee member Auxillia Mnangagwa wife of Justice minister Emmerson Mnangagwa has engaged female prison officers and spouses of male officers in income-generating projects, which she...Published: 23 Jun 2014 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Another seniors Zanu-PF member dies
Former Deputy Minister of Health and Child Welfare and former Member of Parliament for Mbare Dr Edward Munatsireyi Pswarayi has died. He was 87. Dr Pswarai died at St Anne's Hospital on Sunday....Published: 10 Jun 2014 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
The life of Robert Mugabe
Robert Gabriel Mugabe was born on February 21, 1924, in Kutama, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).His birth came just months after Southern Rhodesia had become a British Crown colony. As a resu...Published: 21 Feb 2014 at 13:25hrs | 7 | by biography.com
GMB worker arrested using fake ID in bid to dupe ZIPEDRA
A 46-year-old man employed by the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) has been hauled before the courts for attempting to dupe the Zimbabwe Ex Political Prisoners, Detainees and Restrictees Association (ZIPED...Published: 26 Jan 2014 at 01:21hrs | | by Court Reporter
Didymus Mutasa lashes out at Zanu PF members
ZANU PF national secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa has warned party activists against grabbing other people's properties, saying the move was against the government's empowerment policy and ...Published: 30 Dec 2013 at 00:42hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Gumbura case opens can of worms as 10 more church leaders are accused of sexual abuse
An increasing number of women are coming forward to report cases of sexual abuse they have suffered at the hands of their church leaders following the ongoing trial of RGM Independent End Time Me...Published: 21 Dec 2013 at 19:34hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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