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Several Zimbabweans killed in Mozambique, the battle of palmer
Michael Chandada was so excited when he got a Job in Mozambique. His company is involved in extracting oil and gas and again runs marines in the area. Michael was posted to work from a plant in Palma ...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 11:19hrs | 4013 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mwanjale regrets not winning any league title
FORMER Zimbabwe senior national team captain, Method Mwanjale, who announced his retirement from playing football last week, has only one regret throughout his career, that is not winning the league t...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 07:46hrs | 368 | by Staff reporter
Pocock backs Sables World Cup 2023 bid
FORMER Australian rugby captain, David Pocock has donated a signed Wallabies shirt to Zimbabwe Rugby's fundraising initiatives for the country's senior national rugby team's bid to qualify for the 202...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:09hrs | 148 | by Staff reporter
Busi Ncube still in the groove
SHE is 58, has clocked 34 years on the music scene and despite having lost colleagues who were part of the much-decorated music outfit, Ilanga, that included Andy Brown, Don Gumbo and Dickson Chingair...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 07:03hrs | 950 | by Staff reporter
EMA urged to get tough on BCC
THE Environment Management Agency (EMA) in Bulawayo has been petitioned by a human rights organisation, Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) to release its charges against the Bulawayo City ...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 07:19hrs | 801 | by Staff reporter
David Chapfika and the Jatropha years, a memoir
David Chapfika came along as a snappy dresser- shiny suits and foreign cologne were the hallmark.As a rookie reporter with New Ziana then, I had the opportunity to mix and mingle with the elit...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 21:25hrs | 2501 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Garbage piles grow in Bulawayo
BULAWAYO is sitting on a health time bomb as council continues to struggle to collect refuse from both residential areas and the city centre. The failure by Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to coll...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:06hrs | 252 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's minister named African Female Swimmer of the Millennium
FOUR years after calling time on her competitive days, Zimbabwe's swimming icon Kirsty Coventry's exploits in the pool continue to follow her after she was named the African Female Swimmer of the Mill...Published: 28 Dec 2020 at 07:19hrs | 687 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge border chaos could fuel Covid-19 infections
Several truck drivers and other motorists have described as a nightmare, their experience at Beitbridge Border Post where they spent Christmas after getting stuck for days on the South African side of...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:27hrs | 420 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe suffers steep 30% job losses
BUILDING layer upon layer of tradition, pre-Christmas television and billboard advertisements and glittering decorations are now some kind of cultural event. Or so the advertising industry would have ...Published: 24 Dec 2020 at 17:01hrs | 194 | by Staff reporter
When local authorities become hopeless laggards
IF Bishop Lazarus' great-grandfather were to rise from the dead today God forbid! The man was just an unbearably torturous disciplinarianhe would pretty much be able to figure his way around Harare....Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 07:56hrs | 127 | by Bishoo Lazarus
ZimAchievers Awards light up South Africa
Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA) honored the year's high achievers at a glittering ceremony held at The Venue Melrose Arch graced by the Zimbabwean Ambassador to South Africa HE David Hamadziripi in Jo...Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 11:19hrs | 890 | by Agencies
Flash floods hit Bulawayo suburbs
FLASH floods yesterday hit parts of Bulawayo resulting in several houses and some roads being waterlogged following a heavy downpour that pounded the entire city for hours. The floods hit part...Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 06:30hrs | 526 | by Staff reporter
Floods hit Vic Falls
HEAVY rains that have been falling in Victoria Falls since Saturday have exposed the municipality's poor drainage system after flash floods swept through houses and destroyed roads in Mkhosana suburb....Published: 07 Dec 2020 at 06:55hrs | 1911 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo receives record rains
BULAWAYO residents were left stranded yesterday after a record breaking 29mm was recorded in 20 minutes in the Central Business District. Due to poor drainage systems, the flash floods made it...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 06:51hrs | 1274 | by Staff reporter
CMG presents ZAA Global Virtual Summit
CMG International Media Group has announced a two-day ZAA Virtual Summit penciled for 26 and 27 November, to create an engagement platform for diaspora home-based stakeholders.The online event...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 10:10hrs | 380 | by Agencies
Harare's growing garbage problem
HARARE, renamed from the colonial Salisbury, in the early days of independence, was widely referred to as the Sunshine City owing to its squeaky-clean streets and orderly, smart and clean residential ...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 06:25hrs | 366 | by Staff reporter
Plans to transform King Lobengula's Inxwala venue
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is in the process of engaging stakeholders towards turning the large expanse of land at corner Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Street and Masotsha Ndlovu Avenue where King Lobengu...Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 05:51hrs | 589 | by Staff reporter
Govt mulls legislated clean-up campaign
LOCAL Government secretary Zvinechimwe Churu yesterday suggested legislated clean-up days to enforce anti-littering, saying that Zimbabweans had a habit of littering.Churu made the call when h...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 07:01hrs | 321 | by Staff reporter
Khupe pleads with Mnangagwa
MDC-T acting President Thokozani Khupe has pleaded with state President Emmerson Mnangagwa to relieve suffering Zimbabweans of their poverty nightmare and taking them to the promised land.Khup...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:35hrs | 10048 | by Staff reporter
How Lionel Messi became a billionaire
LIONEL Messi made history last week after becoming football's second billionaire - topping Forbes' richest athletes list ahead of rival Cristiano Ronaldo.While Ronaldo achieved the feat first,...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:54hrs | 5274 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi can only be resolved with the victims
The Gukurahundi sanitisation project fronted by Jenni Williams and her cabal is a dismal failure except for its obscenity and vulgarity of holding vile celebrations in Bhalagwe - a scene of heinous cr...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 23:04hrs | 1063 | by Lizwelethu Dube
'Zimbabwe problems won't lead to civil war'
AS pressure mounts for the regional grouping Sadc to end Zimbabwe's long running crises, University of Zimbabwe's politics expert, Eldred Masunungure, says South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa and h...Published: 24 Aug 2020 at 19:40hrs | 2099 | by Staff reporter
Roadblocks, tollgates should have bins: EMA
GOVERNMENT environmental overseer, the Environmental Management Agency (EMA) has said all roadblocks and toll stations should have bins to dispose of used personal protective equipment in light of the...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 08:32hrs | 592 | by Staff reporter
Bruce Grobbelaar seals Norway move
ZIMBABWE and Liverpool legend Bruce Grobbelaar has made a return to football coaching after completing a surprise move to the newly formed Norwegian second-tier (1. Divisjon) side Øygarden FK as spec...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 08:43hrs | 4452 | by Staff reporter
Many Mutodis in Mnangagwa's government
The Zimbabwean government is still grappling with many incompetent and inexperienced government officials due to appointments made through nepotism and regionalism.It is unfortunate that we st...Published: 25 May 2020 at 13:51hrs | 6282 | by Leonard Koni
Coronavirus & govt of Zimbabwe: two enemies that Matabele must fight aggressively
As we fight the invisible enemy, covid- 19, let us not forget the more visible and more truculent enemy which is the Shona supremacist government of Zimbabwe.The terrorist government of Zimbab...Published: 29 Apr 2020 at 10:48hrs | 1128 | by Israel Dube
Beitbridge opens for returning immigrants without conditions
ZIMBABWE will this week open the Beitbridge Border Post to receive without conditions more than 3 000 of its citizens most of whom crossed the border illegally into South Africa and have requested tha...Published: 19 Apr 2020 at 07:54hrs | 1553 | by Staff reporter
BCC's refuse collection department applauded for their job even in face of fuel shortages
Bulawayo City Council's refuse collection department and committees have been hailed for theoir job of cleaning the city despite the serious problem of fuel shortage faced by the city.The loca...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 11:37hrs | 502 | by Stephen Jakes
Holding Zimbabwe Independence celebrations in Matabeleland in the face of coronavirus smells of evil
Zimbabwe government decision to hold its 40th Independence Anniversary in Bulawayo, Matabeleland, in the face of an infectious disease such as coronavirus smells of evil intentions.Besides spr...Published: 13 Mar 2020 at 10:31hrs | 1416 | by Israel Dube
Chiwenga, Mohadi take gospel of cleanliness to Mvurwi, Binga
It was a hive of activity yesterday across the country as citizens took part in the national clean-up campaign, with Vice Presidents Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi leading the exercise in Mvurw...Published: 07 Mar 2020 at 06:42hrs | 145 | by Staff reporter
Green Day launched on 29 February. We make Bulawayo the cleanest city again!
The city of Bulawayo was once recognized as the cleanest city in the world. Until 90s, the city proudly ranked as the cleanest city in the region. Now most Bulawayo residents look around them, feel ov...Published: 05 Mar 2020 at 18:57hrs | 1459 | by Keep Africa Beautiful
Crocodiles in Runde River are vicious and always hungry
Yesterday is gone, never to come back again but what I saw yesterday keeps criss-crossing my mind like a video game. On my early morning 'brisk walk' exercise to the shores of Ruya dam, there ...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:27hrs | 637 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
MLO applauds Sudanese government for handing over genocidist Omar al Bashir to ICC
MLO would like to commend the brave decision taken by the government of Sudan to handover genocidist former President, Omar al Bashir and others to the International Criminals Court to face the charge...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 09:04hrs | 1240 | by Israel Dube
Polyfoil Zimbabwe to invest US$1m in equipment
Packaging material manufacturer and supplier, Polyfoil Zimbabwe plans to invest US$1 million in plant and equipment at its factory in Bulawayo over the next three years to improve on operational compe...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 05:36hrs | 182 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean coaches ignore Warriors job
THE Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) technical development committee met yesterday in the capital to deliberate on the next Warriors coach. The Warriors have been without a substantive coa...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 05:26hrs | 2391 | by Nigel Matongorere
Zimbabwean startup takes home best AgriTech Prize
The 19 winners in this year's Southern Africa Startup Awards (SASAWARDS) were announced at a glittering event held in Johannesburg on Thursday, 28 November 2019. Now, they will go through to the Globa...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 21:56hrs | 423 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda RDC to issue amacimbi harvesting permits
Gwanda Rural District Council (RDC) says it has crafted access and utilisation of natural resources by-laws that will among other things ensure the sustainable harvesting of Mopani worms.With ...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 10:30hrs | 2768 | by Staff reporter
The glue that keeps Zanu-PF intact
THE need for political parties to build themselves into formidable units where oneness, loyalty, discipline and an unambiguous unidirectional course is followed has remained a huge pie in the sky with...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:16hrs | 1134 | by Vincent Gono
ZRP urged to come up with anti-litter unit
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has been called upon to come up with an environmental law enforcement unit to curb littering and dumping of waste at undesignated places. This was said by Acting P...Published: 02 Nov 2019 at 07:01hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter
Nust students urged to come up with diaper recycling methods
BULAWAYO councillors have resolved to engage students from National University of Science and Technology (Nust) to come up with diaper recycling methods to address increasing levels of litter in the c...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 06:40hrs | 232 | by Staff reporter
Harare's disgraceful water can be clean
Greater Harare's water supply is probably the worst managed and the most unfairly distributed in Zimbabwe; yet even in a severe drought, it should be possible to provide every household and every busi...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 06:37hrs | 129 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo gets US$34 million for service delivery
GOVERNMENT has allocated US$34 million and ZWL$18 million to the City of Bulawayo to improve service delivery.This was revealed by Bulawayo Metropolitan Affairs minister Judith Ncube while add...Published: 07 Oct 2019 at 09:45hrs | 2685 | by Staff reporter
Cry our beloved 'Sunshine City'
In the mid-1990s, I left my village in Guruve to work in Harare and it was a city of bliss and flamboyance. My uncle Obedience Masakara, who was streetwise aat the time, took me around the city centre...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 06:56hrs | 106 | by Isdore Guvamombe
The Christian attack against the native family and The Native Religion Beyond Jerusalem! Rome and London
"I have travelled across the length and breath of africa and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief such wealth I have seen in this country such high moral values, people of ...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 22:36hrs | 1115 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Zimra told to spruce up Beitbridge Border Post
Vice President Kembo Mohadi has directed the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) to spruce up Beitbridge Border Post in line with global standards to enhance the ease of doing business. He said...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 09:44hrs | 731 | by Staff reporter
ZAA break new ground with Canada edition
Zimbabwe Achievers Awards International (ZAA) have spread their wings further with the launch of the ZAA Canada edition which was held on Saturday at Radisson Hotel in Edmonton in a glittering ceremon...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 19:25hrs | 939 | by Staff reporter
'5 minutes with Mnangagwa'
MEETING Zimbabwe or any country's Head of State does not happen every day. In fact, for a large majority of Zimbabwe's estimated 16-and-a-half million citizens, it will probably not happen in their li...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 21:07hrs | 836 | by Staff reporter
How tourism led Dubai from poverty to riches
Dubai was once one of the world's best-kept travel secrets, but today, it is the travel hotspot on everyone's lips. In the past, Dubai was one of the poorest cities in the world. Since its tourism boo...Published: 14 May 2019 at 17:47hrs | 1501 | by Staff Writer
Mnangagwa's wife in no-show
FIRST LADY Auxillia Mnangagwa on Saturday stood up scores of Beitbridge civil servants and her ruling Zanu PF party supporters gathered for what has become a traditional national clean-up exercise rec...Published: 06 May 2019 at 08:18hrs | 5206 | by Staff reporter
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