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'Thievocracy' thriving in rural areas.
Wanton thieving, villages are under siege. It's so bad that no one trusts anyone anymore. The 'gold fingers', call them thieves, are striking almost every week. The treasure hunters move nocturnally l...Published: 17 Jun 2024 at 20:34hrs | 2 | by Murisa Chiweshe
BCC 'tie-up order' targets stray dogs
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) intends to introduce a "tie-up order" where stray dogs will be shot as part of efforts by the local authority to control the growing population of dogs roaming the streets....Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 09:30hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zambian radio caller arrested for complaining of harsh economy
POLICE in Kabwe have arrested a radio caller Chalwe Kaume who complained to the Central Province Permanent Secretary Milner Mwanakampwe for the UPND's failure to fulfill campaign promises. Thi...Published: 17 Nov 2023 at 20:55hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt ramps up anti-human trafficking efforts
What seemed to be a good escape from poverty back home in Zimbabwe quickly turned into a nightmare for Chipo* when she landed in Oman in 2022.Like many economically impoverished citizens, Chip...Published: 20 Apr 2023 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pumula South suburb under Zoonoses threat
ALTHOUGH expansion of cities to create more residential areas for the ever-growing population has ushered in development in Bulawayo and surrounding areas, the same is fuelling human-wildlife conflict...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 05:25hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Human trafficker in court
GOVERNMENT has rescued three female human trafficking victims after they were "unknowingly" transported to Oman for labour and sexual exploitation, a Harare magistrate heard yesterday.This eme...Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 06:41hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
'Most Zimbabwe productions are junk,' says Radio Zimbabwe station manager
GOVERNMENT came up with a deliberate policy to support indigenous content in the early, to mid 2000s; a 75% local content policy on both radio and television productions.The same policy howeve...Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chief Dakamela households in need of food aid
ABOUT 860 households under Chief Dakamela in Nkayi, Matabeleland North province are in acute need of food aid following the prolonged dry spell, which affected most crops in the region.Chief D...Published: 14 Apr 2022 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZBC employees should learn that a dog used to hunt down other animals is always given leftovers!
I never revel in others people's misery and suffering - since, due to the same compassion that drives me to fearlessly stand up, and speak out for oppressed and unjustly-treated Zimbabweans - I simila...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 16:54hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
How the West is plotting to exploit Africa
IF designs of global money are not stopped in their tracks, Africa is threatened with environmental degradation and nutritional poverty. If we, as Africans, do not begin to think deeply about what is ...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 05:40hrs | 1 | by Linda Apollo
Father, son kill mentally-challenged man for stealing isitshwala
A MASVINGO man and his son were last week sentenced to six and three years in jail, respectively, for killing a 20-year-old man who had stolen food leftovers from their kitchen hut.Simbarashe ...Published: 22 Feb 2022 at 05:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
A snake catcher's advice to homeowners, residents
SNAKES are increasingly invading homes in Bulawayo as the rains have disturbed their habitats, forcing them to seek refuge elsewhere.Experts say the country is in the snake season as the repti...Published: 08 Jan 2022 at 06:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Are ZANU PF and MDC shameful governance failures proving Rhodesia's Smith right that Blacks not ready to govern themselves?
There are issues that are so emotive and sensitive, that even I try my best not to provoke them unnecessarily - or, at least, tread very carefully, being alive to their potential explosiveness - nonet...Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 11:21hrs | 10 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Varakashi: New agents of terrorism
THERE'S a big, big omen of nasty things to come. The Zanu-PF government wants to revive the Green Bombers.You will remember the youth training programme at the turn of the new millennium....Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 09:25hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Businessman attempts to kill neighbour
A businessman and his two brothers recently appeared before Chipinge magistrate Bill Chineka on charges of attempted murder of a neighbour at one of his businesses at Gunura Township.Sidney (3...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 21:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gweru in typhoid scare
A TYPHOID fever scare has rattled the densely-populated Mkoba suburb in Gweru, with 19 new suspected cases reported at health centres in the city, council has confirmed.Mkoba was hit by a typhoid ...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
From whose hands will their blood be required?
Part One Wednesday, 1st August 2018 will forever be a day to forget for many Zimbabweans who found themselves in the Harare City Centre that fateful aft...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 23:19hrs | | by Patrick Tendayi Huni
Chamisa flying on broken wings
Following the passing on of Tsvangirai, the late leader of a faction of the MDC, I had an animated discussion with some opposition figure whose identity I shall not disclose. Congenitally boisterous a...Published: 02 Jun 2018 at 15:28hrs | 1 | by Igomombe
Jonathan Moyo's false hope from Malaysia
I have just been reading Deluze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. It's a big book, one quite opaque and thus requiring stout intellect and a liberal outlook to digest it....Published: 19 May 2018 at 14:40hrs | 1 | by Igomombe
A dramatic increase in street kids and ladies of the night in Bulawayo CBD
Bulawayo CBD has become a haven of high drama as each night sees an increase in the number of children that abandon family life but instead opt for life in the streets . Not to be outdone ladies of th...Published: 25 Jul 2017 at 14:58hrs | | by Enos Denhere
Pythons 'ransack' teachers' bins
FOUR large pythons measuring between three and six metres are giving Rukweza villagers and pupils sleepless nights as they are seen roaming the area in broad daylight and feeding on leftover sadza and...Published: 23 Jun 2017 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africans wake up to the horror of white interests in the rainbow
My deepest, heartfelt condolences to the Chidyausiku family on the loss of Godfrey, our recently retired Chief Justice. He was a fine character, an enormous lawyer by any measure.Above all, he served ...Published: 06 May 2017 at 12:27hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
The height of political oppression in Zimbabwe
The situation in Zimbabwe need people to unite and take action, there should be a change or reshuffle in the Governance. Besides changing the President, some ministers must be changed too. Not changin...Published: 05 May 2017 at 20:25hrs | 10 | by Belinda Chowa
MultiChoice launches rewards programme for DStv customers
MULTI-CHOICE has launched a new continent-wide incentive programme called DStv Thanks, aimed at offering rewards to DStv customers.Commenting on the incentive, MultiChoice Zimbabwe chief e...Published: 08 Mar 2017 at 18:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
PDP official savages Mavhaire for poaching Sipepa Nkomo
A People's Democratic Party official Fortune Mlalazi has savaged ZimPF national Coordinator Dzikamai Mavhaire for poaching his party's Vice President Samuel Sipepa Nkomo at a time when the two parties...Published: 19 Oct 2016 at 07:00hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mujuru's impending trip to Chatham House where she hopes to impress her British benefactors
THE Tongas have a good saying: Hearts are not far from concord when noses have already fraternised. Let me open my gonamombe, pull out the lid of the cow-horn canister, so you the reader and me, c...Published: 17 Sep 2016 at 12:29hrs | 6 | by Nathaniel Manheru
ZANU PF are masters at serving foreign interests
Ever since Zimbabwe attained her independence in 1980, the ZANU PF government has always had the uncanny habit of accusing anyone who opposes its draconian rule as 'serving foreign interests' - in thi...Published: 30 Jul 2016 at 08:23hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu PF certain of massive 2018 victory - Charamba
State media columnist Nathaniel Manheru has declared that ZANU PF is set for an emphatic 2018 election victory.Manheru, widely thought to be President Robert Mugabe's spokesperson George Chara...Published: 30 Jul 2016 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
MDC-T member assaulted for refusing to board bus to Heroes acre
An MDC-T member in Maroindera Central Tendai Nungu was recently allegedly assaulted by Zanu PF member Gift Midzi for refusing to board a bus which was transporting people to the Heroes acre in D...Published: 31 May 2016 at 07:04hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Harare woman sold for $10 000 to Kuwait
One of the trafficked woman to Kuwait was sold for $10 000 by a 38-year-old Harare man.The jobless woman was further sold to an elderly woman in the Middle East country.She was only al...Published: 30 May 2016 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Open letter to Lenox Lizwi Mhlanga
Dear Lenox, I read your article "Where have the good maids gone?" on Bulawayo 24 7th May 2016 with great excitement because the plight of maids in Zimba...Published: 08 May 2016 at 19:29hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Mujuru People First - Same script different puppet
Joice Mujuru held her inaugural Press conference as the leader of the Zimbabwe People First party at Meikles Hotel in Harare.Mujuru looked rather smart and intelligent before she started her P...Published: 10 Mar 2016 at 05:35hrs | | by Nicole Hondo
Goblins haunt village heads over food aid
In a shocking development that has left many traditional leaders frightened in Masvingo's Mwenezi district, two village heads from Chief Neshuro's area are being haunted by goblins demanding their mas...Published: 21 Nov 2015 at 17:01hrs | 7 | by Johannes Chin'ombe
No to senseless divisions, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I really meant what I said when I addressed members of the party's Youth League…that you should stop causing fresh divisions within the part...Published: 02 Jul 2015 at 14:21hrs | | by CZ
Domestic work in Zimbabwe means modern slavery of the 21st Century
Case study: Sibusisiwe Dlodlo I was born in Bulilimangwe in 1955. I managed to pass standard six well with division two. I did not have the money to...Published: 02 May 2015 at 19:12hrs | 16 | by Nomazulu Thata
Grade 5 pupil 'trades sex for bread and butter'
A 19-YEAR-OLD man raped a grade five pupil on three separate occasions after enticing her to follow him into a bush by giving her money to buy food, a court heard.The man allegedly threatened ...Published: 30 Mar 2015 at 08:53hrs | 1 | by Thandeka Moyo
'Why you mustn't marry any Zim woman who is 25 years older' author dressed down
An article titled 'WHY YOU MUST NOT MARRY ANY ZIMBABWE WOMAN WHO IS OLDER THAN 25' has caused some consternation online with people lashing at the author of the article. The article evokes intense em...Published: 29 Jan 2015 at 18:33hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
When the village witch wails over a tender death
"IT is evident that our fears are being vindicated as there are blatant violations of the electoral law. We are worried about ZEC and we have lost our institutional respect despite our respect for ind...Published: 20 Jul 2013 at 08:03hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Man lives in a tomb for 15 years
There's no place like home, and for Bratislav Stojanovic, his home is in a tomb.The homeless Serbian man has been living in an old, seemingly abandoned, cemetery in the southern city of Nis fo...Published: 12 Feb 2013 at 20:20hrs | | by Staff Reporter
10 cheap shortcuts to good health
10 budget-friendly ways to improve your health and fitnessIf you think getting fit and healthy will blow your budget, it may be time to think again. Luc...Published: 20 Nov 2012 at 22:24hrs | | by realbuzz.com
This and That with Maluphosa - Siyidla ngaphi?
Siyidla ngaphi lamhlanje? Well, this used to be such a common question emakhaya during those 'good old days'. And at times an invitation to a wedding or Christmas party would already have been sent o...Published: 25 Dec 2011 at 11:40hrs | 1 | by Clerk Ndlovu
Waiters fired for eating left overs
The four employees, Sello Tseane, Josthat Gumbo, Mmapula Matamela and Jocinda Moshomane have accused the lodge of firing them for eating leftovers after a conference by government officials.O...Published: 08 Nov 2011 at 06:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cash crunch looms as bank workers threaten strike
Zimbabweans must brace for a Christmas cash crunch if the country’s banking sector makes good their threat to strike next week....Published: 10 Dec 2010 at 13:33hrs | 1 | by Victoria
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