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Paramount, Alliance dispute over redress spills into court
Paramount Garment Works has taken its dispute with Alliance Insurance to the High Court, seeking enforcement of what it says was the insurer's commitment to rebuild its Southerton factory destroyed by...Published: 01 Aug 2025 at 13:14hrs | 98 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF arsonists pose as firefighters
On June 11, 2025, my friend sent me a message I'll never forget: his wife had delivered a stillborn baby. The young couple was shattered. He said delays at the Harare hospital had cost them their chil...Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 12:07hrs | 183 | by Reward Magadhi
Fire guts Bulawayo stock feed factory, truck destroyed
A devastating fire tore through a local stock feed manufacturing plant in Bulawayo yesterday, destroying hundreds of hay bales and gutting a truck and trailer after sparks from a welding machine ignit...Published: 25 Jun 2025 at 08:58hrs | 258 | by Staff reporter
Massive fire guts Steelworks Industrial yard in Bulawayo
A towering blaze tore through the Steelworks Industrial area in Bulawayo on Thursday afternoon, destroying property estimated to be worth millions of dollars and leaving a trail of devastation....Published: 24 Jun 2025 at 17:06hrs | 553 | by Staff reporter
Devastating fire ravages Magaba in Mbare
A fierce blaze erupted late last night at the bustling Magaba area in Mbare, leaving a trail of destruction and despair among Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) traders who lost equipment, stock, and t...Published: 17 May 2025 at 20:59hrs | 977 | by Staff reporter
Neighbours drag 'intoxicated teen' from burning house in Bulawayo
Residents of New Lobengula in Bulawayo were startled late yesterday by a raging fire that engulfed a house in the neighborhood, illuminating the night sky with bright flames.A teenager identif...Published: 17 Dec 2024 at 15:38hrs | 1728 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa declares Mbare inferno a disaster
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared the devastating fire that ravaged the Mbare Traders Market a state of disaster, paving the way for urgent assistance and resources to support thousands of tra...Published: 19 Nov 2024 at 08:56hrs | 1151 | by Staff reporter
Traditional healer attempts to kill client over $150
A popular traditional healer who operates in Mozambique and Zimbabwe has been arrested after he attempted to kill one of his clients in an inferno....Published: 12 Nov 2024 at 15:20hrs | 1058 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Dotito
Mbare fire evidence disappears
Investigations into the cause of the devastating fire that engulfed Mbare Musika last week have reportedly stalled as vendors rushed to clean up and reclaim the affected space, NewsDay has learned. Th...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 13:26hrs | 912 | by Staff reporter
Fire breaks out at Mbare Musika market
A massive fire broke out at Mbare Musika market in Harare on Tuesday night, wreaking havoc on the bustling informal trade hub and destroying countless properties and livelihoods. The blaze, which star...Published: 09 Oct 2024 at 07:57hrs | 1679 | by Staff reporter
Drunk man dies in inferno
In a disturbing incident that happened at Nyika Growth Point in Bikita, a man died after his house caught fire while he was drunk on the night of August 17.A charcoal heater found in the house...Published: 24 Aug 2024 at 12:49hrs | 399 | by Staff reporter
Fire guts Topics building in Bindura
SEVERAL small retailers were left counting losses after a fire ripped through Topics Building in the Bindura Central Business District (CBD) on Saturday night.One person was injured and proper...Published: 14 Jul 2024 at 21:34hrs | 318 | by Staff Reporter
Second fire in 5 days guts Matopo High School
A FIRE has gutted another building at Matopo High School in Matabeleland South, barely a week after a dormitory was razed to a shell by an inferno on Friday morning.In a message to parents, th...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 15:50hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
8 bus inferno victims named
The Anglican Diocese of Manicaland has released the names of eight congregants who tragically lost their lives in a bus fire on the Nyabandza-Gandanzara Road in Rusape over the weekend. The bu...Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 11:53hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mix up at South African mortuary, 2-year body swap resolved
IN September 2021, then-31-year-old Bongani Ngwendu was attacked by a vigilante group in a suspected xenophobic attack at an informal settlement in Pretoria, South Africa, where he was burnt to death ...Published: 12 Mar 2024 at 05:13hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Man throws 5-year-old into blazing hut
A MENTALLY ill man from Zaka in Masvingo went berserk and torched a grass-thatched hut before throwing a juvenile in the raging inferno resulting in the boy succumbing to the burns, police said yester...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 04:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
All set for DJ Tira and Holy Ten festival at Queen Sports Club
Brace yourselves, Bulawayo, for the most epic and adrenaline-pumping event of ...Published: 20 Dec 2023 at 19:42hrs | 20 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Mnangagwa after my farm,' says Kasukuwere
SELF-EXILED former Zanu-PF national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere claims President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration is out to grab his ConCorpia Farm in Mazowe, Mashonaland Central provinc...Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 06:33hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Kariba finally receives new X-ray machine
GOVERNMENT will commission a new X-ray machine at the Kariba District Hospital to replace the one which was destroyed in an inferno four years ago.Kariba hospital's incapacity to handle heavy ...Published: 18 Jul 2023 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fire guts Mpilo Hospital office
Another fire gutted an office at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo, less than two months after an inferno destroyed property at the referral hospital.The latest fire incident, which was cause...Published: 29 Jun 2023 at 20:59hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
4 vehicles burnt to shells in accident
Four vehicles were yesterday reduced to shells after they caught fire in a pile up caused by a head-on collision of two haulage trucks along the Masvingo-Beitbridge highway.The accident occurr...Published: 16 May 2023 at 05:08hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo junior doctors move into new quarters
JUNIOR doctors in Bulawayo have moved into reconstructed Mpilo Central Hospital residence quarters which were destroyed by fire, a development that is expected to improve the delivery of health servic...Published: 15 May 2023 at 18:56hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Council cries foul over 'hijacked' projects
BULAWAYO councillors have accused central government of hijacking the local authority's projects for political mileage.The city fathers were making reference to the ongoing refurbishment works...Published: 30 Apr 2023 at 09:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fake news a tool used by detractors on Zimbabwe
Fake news is not a new phenomenon, for a long time, the mere mention of Zimbabwe in the global mainstream media (social media) has been associated with a negative story. Zimbabwe post-2000 ent...Published: 23 Mar 2023 at 07:09hrs | | by Grace Zvavamwe
ZimCopter inventor still wants to fly
"Since 1994, my social life has been a mess. The helicopter and African rifle project just consumed me."That's how the long-forgotten and probably never heard of by some – retired Flight Lie...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 06:15hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Failed leadership with nothing to offer nation allows corruption in order to appease restless population!
It is no secret that Zimbabwe has become a lawless country! Whenever I move around, observing laws being openly violated at every turn - I always say to myself, 'Mnangagwa is really not in cha...Published: 27 Dec 2022 at 19:07hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Man sets ablaze company vehicle in bid to stage robbery
A 31-year-old Harare man was recently given US$90,000 to deliver to Bulawayo by his employer but staged an armed robbery, setting a vehicle ablaze to conceal the crime.This emerged when Moffat...Published: 18 Oct 2022 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa finally offers State assistance
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has sent a message of condolence to families of 10 men who died in a veld fire in Esigodini, Matabeleland South Province, and directed that assistance, including funeral expenses b...Published: 12 Oct 2022 at 05:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC turn down $2m Ascot inferno waiver
THE Bulawayo City Council has turned down a request to waive a $2 million Fire and Ambulance Services bill by a business which lost bales of hay and property worth more than US$70 000 in an inferno in...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 06:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residential flat goes up in smoke
FOUR families in Bulawayo were last night left stranded after a block of flats in the city centre caught fire.The fire, which erupted at Ringwood Flats located at corner Second Avenue and George S...Published: 05 Oct 2022 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fire tragedy hits Zimbabwean family in Botswana
AN unidentified Zimbabwean family resident in Botswana was Sunday thrown into mourning after a toddler was burnt to death in a fire ball that engulfed their house.The mother, who accidentally ...Published: 13 Sep 2022 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Car highjaker dies in an inferno
A 22-YEAR-OLD Mount Darwin suspected car highjaker died on Sunday after the alleged car that he stole at a bar caught fire.According &n...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 06:25hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Chiwenga allies cry Mnangagwa betrayal
WHILE the poisoned relations between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga are hardly spoken about publicly, close allies say the former army commander feels betrayed by...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 17:06hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Kombani Lodge goes up in smoke
PLUMTREE'S 52-bed Kombani Lodge was yesterday razed by an inferno that started as a veld fire near a Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) depot before a whirlwind lifted burning debris, which landed ...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
When a president is forced to donate food to a starving nation then it proves he has failed as a leader!
When a country reaches a level - whereby, the president donating food to starving school pupils, who had cried out to him in desperation for help, is touted as a sign of good leadership and progress -...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 09:50hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Time to protect people from their churches
VERY little is known about one of the worst religion-related mass murders and tragedies that occurred in Uganda in 2000 in which 700 Ugandans died. More is known about the 1978 Jonestown massacre in G...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:20hrs | 1 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Temba Mliswa demands report on death of Banker Doug Munatsi
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has demanded the report of the investigation that probed the death of Banker Douglas Munatsi who died in November 2021 in a mysterious fire that gutted his apa...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 15:26hrs | 5 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabweans won't flee South Africa to return home
"WHEN you see a rat running into a fire, then you know that what it is running away from is hotter than the fire." - African proverb. Zimbabweans, who are in their millions in South Africa - som...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:41hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans honour Butau
ZIMBABWEANS yesterday hailed as a hero Sirizani Butau, who risked his life to save at least eight people from a bus that caught fire along the Harare-Mutare Highway on Christmas eve.Batau, who...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:18hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Munatsi legacy: To die in service
AMID the sombre atmosphere of Doug Munatsi's memorial service last week, the light-hearted eulogies delivered by his wife and first-born son were undoubtedly embedded in moral values that the late pro...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:16hrs | 14 | by Enock Muchinjo
Munatsi family speaks on banker's shock death
THE family of the late banker Douglas Munatsi yesterday said they were heartbroken and are still in shock over a fire incident that claimed his life last week.Munatsi, the Zimbabwe Investment ...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:18hrs | 10 | 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 | 14 | 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 | 11 | by Staff reporter
State-assisted funeral for Doug Munatsi
President Mnangagwa has accorded the late Zimbabwe Investment and Development Agency chief executive Mr Doug Munatsi a State-assisted funeral.Munatsi died in an inferno in his 9th floor apartm...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 15:48hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga mourns Munatsi
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has described as shocking and disheartening, the death of senior banker Mr Douglas Munatsi in an inferno at his luxury apartment in the early hours of Monday....Published: 01 Dec 2021 at 05:33hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Munatsi
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has consoled the Munatsi family following the death of prominent banker and Zimbabwe Investment Authority (ZIDA) Chief Executive Officer Douglas Munatsi who died in a mysterious in...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 16:09hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
$100m boost for Mpilo hospital from Govt
MPILO Central Hospital has received an additional $100 million from the Government for the ongoing refurbishment exercise meant to provide healthcare workers with decent accommodation at the public ho...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:32hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Petrol blast kills mother, child
A shopkeeper and informal petrol dealer from Chiwundura communal area died in hospital while her 5-year-old son was burnt beyond recognition after petrol and gas containers she kept in her shop at Muc...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa's home gutted by fire
A fire tore through the Borrowdale home of former finance minister Patrick Chinamasa on Friday, causing extensive damage.The Zanu-PF secretary for finance and acting political commissar said h...Published: 24 Oct 2021 at 14:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
War veterans fight turns nasty, chairman loses wheat
ZANU PF factionalism has apparently turned nasty in Mashonaland Central province following a clash between War veterans Association provincial chairperson Sam Parirenyatwa and war veterans league prov...Published: 19 Oct 2021 at 09:51hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
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