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Spirit medium stops operations at Zimbabwe gold mine
Mining operations at Renco Mine were halted for two days due to concerns following warnings from a local spirit medium. The medium had forewarned of potential worker fatalities if specific demands wer...Published: 14 Sep 2024 at 14:32hrs | 1393 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo school hit by water crisis
Ngwalongwalo Primary School in Pumula South, Bulawayo, is facing a water crisis due to pump failure, resulting in the school being without water for three days. This situation has compelled the studen...Published: 14 Oct 2023 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Plumtree gives residents water meter ultimatum
PLUMTREE Town Council has given pre-paid water users in the border town three weeks to revert to post-paid meters after some residents went for three years without paying for water.A number of...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Slain cop's mother berates ZRP
EMOTIONS ran high during the burial of former Hwedza Police Station officer-in-charge, Inspector Maxwell Hove, in Mberengwa district, Midlands province, over the weekend with the deceased's mother Loi...Published: 23 Jan 2023 at 05:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zacc torches storm in Karoi
KAROI residents have petitioned Parliament to rein in members of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) which they accused of unprofessional conduct and bias.The residents said the sus...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC reassures residents on service delivery
THE Bulawayo City Council has reassured residents that it is working round the clock to ensure improvement of service delivery in the country's second largest city.The local authority has in r...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:46hrs | 2 | by Pathisa Nyathi
Cop nabbed for insulting security guard
A police officer based at Shurugwi main camp was arrested for insulting a security guard over a malfunctioning thermometer yesterdayAccording to the charge sheet Albert Mombeyarara (31) went t...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 15:48hrs | | by Shelton Muchena / Simbarashe Sithol
Zanu-PF MPs jeered at party rally
Zanu-PF supporters in Chiredzi booed and hauled insults at the party's Masvingo provincial Women's League chairperson Alignia Samson and Chiredzi West MP Farai Musikavanhu at victory celebrations held...Published: 27 Apr 2019 at 07:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cyril Ramaphosa travels with own blanket
Heads of state are known for travelling abroad with a list of bizarre items such as their own toilets, furniture, drinking water and even gold-plated escalators.But President Cyril Ramaphosa a...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 09:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
41 arrested over Aug 1 post-election violence
Forty one people have been arrested in connection with the August 1 shootings that claimed six people in post-election protests that were met by a military crackdown, detective chief inspector Edmore ...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 13:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Plumtree residents threaten to boycott paying ambulance levies
PLUMTREE residents and businesspeople have threatened to boycott paying fire and ambulance levies if council fails to invest in state-of-the-art fire tenders for the town.The town has been hit...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
120 Plumtree High School A-Level pupils shelterless
A TOTAL of 120-A Level pupils at Plumtree High School could find themselves without shelter when schools open in three weeks following a fire that razed their hostel on Tuesday.The Government ...Published: 07 Apr 2018 at 09:22hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mliswa must Go! - Norton residents in demo
A united front consisting of apolitical Norton residents demonstrated at the end of last week in a direct tete a tete protest against Hon Peter Temba Mliswa and went on to surrender petitioning one to...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 19:31hrs | | by Agencies
Bulawayo - Joburg-bound Air Zimbabwe flight aborted
A JOHANNESBURG-BOUND Air Zimbabwe plane was yesterday reportedly forced to make an emergency landing at Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport in Bulawayo after it suddenly lost cabin pressure and...Published: 11 Jul 2017 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Drama mar tobacco opening selling day
Zimbabwe's tobacco marketing season opened today in a bizarre manner after the much talked about electronic auction system (e-auction) malfunctioned two hours into the first trading day....Published: 15 Mar 2017 at 12:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Red flag over Zimbabwe's biometric voter registration
Zimbabwe must not rush to implement nationwide biometric voter registration (BVR) before a pilot project, given the threat of hacking on technological infrastructure and the financial pitfalls tha...Published: 11 Mar 2017 at 08:18hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Two people die in road accidents
Muzarabani - Two people are alleged to have perished in two separate road accidents along Muzarabani-Centenary highway yesterday (Friday) according to an eye witness.An eye witness Gilbert Kan...Published: 05 Nov 2016 at 09:48hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Horrors behind crocodile killings in Zimbabwe - Video
Harare - A PETA US exposé of two factory farms in Zimbabwe and one in the United States that supply skins to Hermès-owned tanneries reveals that crocodiles are trapped in barren and severely crowded...Published: 24 Jun 2015 at 08:25hrs | | by Nirali Shah
Fake ZESA official up for installation of malfunctioned pre-paid meters
A man from Iminyela in Bulawayo is in trouble after he allegedly duped a South world resident into believing that he was a Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority official and installed a pre- paid ...Published: 20 Apr 2015 at 07:46hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Audit report nails Mugabe's office
The latest Auditor General's report says President Robert Mugabe's office has been violating public finance and asset management procedures.The report for the financial year ended December 31,...Published: 16 Jan 2015 at 19:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Four-legged chicken, photo goes viral online
THE PICTURE of a four-legged chicken at the Midlands State University (MSU) has gone viral on social networks after it was posted on the university's official Facebook page.The chicken that ha...Published: 27 Oct 2013 at 03:34hrs | 13 | by Staff Reporter
Plane skids off runway at Fiumicino airport in Rome
Rome - A plane skidded off the runway at Rome's Fiumicino airport on Sunday after its landing gear malfunctioned during a thunderstorm but no one was injured, Italian news agency ANSA reported....Published: 30 Sep 2013 at 06:08hrs | | by AFP
Asiana flight 214 evacuation slides 'malfunctioned'
San Francisco - The evacuation of Asiana flight 214 began badly. Even before the mangled jetliner began filling with smoke, two evacuation slides on the doors inflated inside the cabin instead of outs...Published: 08 Jul 2013 at 09:31hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Woman drags two doctors to court claiming $1,5 million
A HARARE woman has taken two doctors to court claiming $1,5 million in damages for the injuries she allegedly sustained while undergoing surgery at a private hospital two years ago.The woman, ...Published: 20 Jun 2013 at 04:22hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Iran Warns of Closing Strait of Hormuz oil route
Iran's navy chief warned on Wednesday that his country can easily close the strategic Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, the passageway through which a sixth of the world's oil flows....Published: 28 Dec 2011 at 13:13hrs | | by Moyo Roy
NATO acknowledges killing civilians in Tripoli
NATO has acknowledged responsibility for an air strike that killed a number of civilians in Tripoli, the Libyan capital.A statement from the alliance said that a military missile site was the...Published: 19 Jun 2011 at 21:21hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Osama bin Laden photos latest
Washington - Still-secret photos of the dead Osama bin Laden show a precision kill shot above his left eye, a US official said, as fresh details emerged of an...Published: 03 May 2011 at 13:33hrs | | by Nare Msupatsila
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