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Robbers hide in apostolic sect robes
TWO apostolic sect members on Saturday robbed a Midlands man of his vehicle after hiring his vehicle.Midlands provincial police spokesperson Inspector Emmanuel Mahoko yesterday confirmed the i...Published: 15 Nov 2023 at 05:12hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Man loses kombi to fake madzibaba
A Zvishavane man yesterday lost his Nissan Caravan mini-bus after he was hired by three robbers who pretended to be members of an apostolic sect, claiming to be travelling to a church gathering....Published: 15 Nov 2023 at 05:08hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Donkey-drawn carts ply Zimbabwe's abandoned remote routes?
From the Masvingo-Beitbridge highway in Zimbabwe at a spot popularly known as Turn-P, the road passing through Neshuro Township has been degraded, disused, and derelict for over two decades, with buse...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 09:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Polad donates cement to Matabeleland North school
THE Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) launched its historic outreach programme at Mbembeswana 1 Primary School in Bubi District, Matabeleland North on Saturday where it donated more than 50 bags of ce...Published: 14 Feb 2022 at 05:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Four suspected armed robbers arrested at police roadblock
POLICE arrested four suspected armed robbers believed to have been behind robbery incidents that happened in Kezi, Maphisa and Zvishavane.The four, found in possession of firearms, are Sizwenk...Published: 22 Oct 2021 at 20:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland South education director succumb to Covid-19
Matabeleland South acting provincial education director Lifias Masukume has become the latest high-profile people to succumb to Covid-19.Masukume, 52, died at the United Bulawayo Hospitals on ...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
High teacher, pupil turnout as schools open
SCHOOLS reopened yesterday for examination classes with more learners attending classes as teachers reported for duty unlike what happened last year. The reopening of schools last year was cha...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Schools reopen under strict health regulations
Examination classes went smoothly back to school yesterday with teachers and pupils following the World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines. The three examination classes, Grade 7, Form 4 and...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
More schools needed in Gwanda
GWANDA District in Matabeleland South province has a dire shortage of schools and existing institutions are crowded. Schools countrywide have closed indefinitely due to a spike of Covid-19 cases. ...Published: 27 Jan 2021 at 05:57hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Food shortages hit evacuation centres
FOOD Shortages have hit evacuation centres in Manicaland following the delay by government to disburse funds to cater for tropical storm villagers affected by Cyclone Chalane.The tropical depr...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland hit by a serious shortage of teachers
MATABELELAND is facing an acute teacher shortage, with some schools reportedly having three, often unqualified teachers, taking ECD classes up to Grade Seven.In an interview on Friday, Matabel...Published: 28 May 2019 at 18:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Girl stabbed for turning neighbour's love proposal
A TEENAGE girl is lucky to be alive after she was left clutching her intestines when she was stabbed for turning down a neighbour's love proposal.This was heard when Blessing Masukume of Londo...Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 20:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Policeman from hell molests 21 pupils
A Mpoengs police officer allegedly sexually molested 21 pupils while conducting an investigation into sexual abuse at a local primary school. The cop, who was only identified as Constable Muzulu stati...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 17:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government aims 5,000 Maths teachers target
GOVERNMENT is targeting to produce 5 455 Science and Mathematics teachers by 2023 following a $3 million intervention to alleviate a shortage of personnel by increasing intake and training institution...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Spy camera scandal rocks Falcon College
A SCANDAL has rocked Falcon College after some school boys allegedly placed a spy camera in the girls' changing rooms resulting in unsuspecting pupils from Girls College in Bulawayo, who had visited t...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 22:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwanda community chases away teachers in satanism scare
TWO teachers from Lumene Primary School in Gwanda have been ejected from the school by irate parents who are accusing them of practicing Satanism after pupils collapsed mysteriously.The incide...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 08:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mysterious deaths rock Mkwabeni schools in Filabusi
THE Vokola community in Filabusi, Insiza district, Matabeleland South has expressed concern over the "mysterious deaths" of pupils in their local schools in the past month. Two pupils have die...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 09:47hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Massive teacher shortage in Matabeleland South
MATABELELAND South Province primary schools are operating with only 210 qualified Early Childhood Development teachers out of an expected 1 294, an education official had said.Presenting a rep...Published: 03 Feb 2019 at 11:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Low pupil turn-out at schools
GOVERNMENT has appealed to parents to send their children to school as most schools recorded a low turn-out yesterday despite security guarantees by the authorities. Schools suspended lessons ...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 08:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parents skeptical about their children's safety
As normalcy returns to Bulawayo, parents who were traumatised by the violence, looting and destruction of property by hooligans remain skeptical about the safety of their children and have delayed sen...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 20:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Schools ready for new term
All is set for schools opening tomorrow as a high-powered Government team today meets civil servants' unions to discuss their salaries and conditions of service. Teachers have ruled out a premature st...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Schools demand groceries
SOME boarding schools are reportedly demanding that part of fees payment be in the form of groceries as they seek to cushion themselves against price hikes. Last term some boarding schools wer...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 11:02hrs | | by Staff rpeoirter
Second drowned Government official's body recovered
UNDETTERED Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education officials continued to search for their missing colleague whose vehicle was swept away in heavy rains on Monday and ended up finding the body yes...Published: 15 Dec 2018 at 09:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Government officials involved in accident
TWO Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education officials from Matabeleland South Province are feared dead after a vehicle they were travelling in was swept away by a flooded river. Matabeleland South...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 19:21hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Detectives beat suspects to death, shoot corpses in cover-up'
NINE Bulawayo police detectives allegedly fatally assaulted two suspected armed robbers and shot the bodies in a bid to claim that the suspects were killed while trying to flee from custody during ind...Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 05:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Schools demand top up fees
SOME boarding schools in Bulawayo, Matabeleland North and South provinces have written to parents demanding that they pay school fees top ups for the remaining three weeks of the term to cater for foo...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 08:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fired cop demands $56 000 compensation for wrongful arrest
A FORMER police officer who got arrested after testifying in court against fellow police officers in an inquest, has petitioned Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga to comply with the High Court...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 05:12hrs | | by Staf reporter
Satanism scare at Minda
SUSPECTED satanism cases have rocked one of Matabeleland South's prestigious boarding schools, Minda Girls High at Maphisa Growth Point in Kezi with reports that more than 60 pupils have allegedly bee...Published: 28 Oct 2018 at 08:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Goblins seize maternity ward
IN a strange incident, pregnant women and nurses were moved from Lupaka Clinic to a safe place and pupils at two primary schools stopped going to school after goblins allegedly sexually attacked them....Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZEC has not yet commenced voter education in Tsholotsho
Zanu-PF ward 2 Chairperson Moses Makumbe vice Francis Makumbe intimidated villagers in Goromonzi East,Murungweni Village Ward 2 On 16 July the Makumbe brothers forced villagers to convene in Murungwen...Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 16:21hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Mzingwane pupil in school suicide
A FORM Four pupil at Mzingwane High School, Umzingwane District in Matabeleland South allegedly committed suicide by hanging, fearing disciplinary action over alleged theft, an official has confirmed....Published: 08 Jun 2018 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsikamutandas recover school property
COMMUNITY members at Makupa resettlement area in Kezi, Matabeleland South province heaved a sigh of relief when stolen school roofing material was recovered through the services of a witch hunting ban...Published: 25 May 2018 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Zanu-PF candidates list
THE ruling Zanu-PF yesterday released the full list of its candidates who have been given the green light to battle it out in the primary elections, with some party bigwigs and businessmen from Bulawa...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 10:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland South pupils fail to get secondary school places
The shortage of secondary schools in Matabeleland South province has in some cases resulted in pupils who complete their Grade 7 failing to access secondary education.This was revealed by the ...Published: 24 Feb 2018 at 19:11hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Pupil bites 14 classmates
A FORM One pupil at Tshazi Secondary School in Filabusi, Matabeleland South, allegedly bit 14 of his classmates, seriously injuring one amid suspicions that he is rabid.School authorities yest...Published: 20 Feb 2018 at 07:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland South Grade 7 exams pass rate drops
THE pass rate in the Grade Seven examinations in Matabeleland South dropped from 52 percent to 49,39 percent last year.The province has 512 primary schools and nine schools recorded 100 percen...Published: 31 Jan 2018 at 05:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Witch hunter in search of goblins shuts school
A SELF-PROCLAIMED tsikamutanda allegedly shut down a school in Matobo District in Matabeleland South on Tuesday and performed rituals in teachers' houses, saying he was searching for goblins which wer...Published: 12 Jan 2018 at 05:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Goblins force female teachers to wear male underwear
FOUR female teachers have left Gohole II Primary School in Kezi, Matabeleland South this term after complaining that they were being sexually terrorised by suspected goblins resulting in them waking u...Published: 29 Oct 2017 at 21:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Goblin terror at church boarding school
SUSPECTED goblins have struck at Minda High School in Maphisa, Kezi with teachers and pupils living in fear of midnight attacks from invisible creatures.Minda pupils who spoke to B-Metro said ...Published: 15 Sep 2017 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Horror crash death toll rises to 15
ONE more person has died following last week's horrific accident that occurred near the National University of Science and Technology, bringing the death toll to 15.Enert Sibanda who had b...Published: 15 Mar 2017 at 05:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
7 crash victims burial 'tomorrow'
SEVEN of the 14 people who perished in a horror crash in Bulawayo last week are likely to be buried tomorrow at Luveve Cemetery, a family spokesperson has said.The family which has receive...Published: 13 Mar 2017 at 05:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
13 pothole horror deaths victims named
THE Government has said relatives of 14 people who died in a horror crash at the 8 kilometre peg along the Bulawayo-Gwanda road on Wednesday night will receive assistance from the State to bury th...Published: 11 Mar 2017 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Family member speaks on horror crash
THE 14 people from two families who perished in an accident in Bulawayo on Wednesday night were travelling to Masvingo to bury their teenage child.The young boy, Hopewell Masukume (14), pa...Published: 10 Mar 2017 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man caught red handed in bed with step mother
A MAN from Gokwe - Keledious Majaji (24) was caught red-handed by his wife allegedly engaging in sex with his lonely step mother.He had abandoning his family for two days. Ma...Published: 05 Aug 2016 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T supporter's home destroyed by Zanu PF member
An MDC-T supporter in Matiyi Village ward 11 Mberengwa North had his house destroyed by a Zanu PF member who accused him of being an opposition member.Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) reported in ...Published: 25 Dec 2015 at 08:15hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Village head assaulted by Zanu PF supporter in Mutasa South
A Villager head in Grange Resettlement Ward 21 Mutasa South was allegedly assaulted by one Danger Chikwariro for having links with the People First project lead by ousted former Vice President Joice M...Published: 20 Dec 2015 at 08:53hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
World Cup 2010 in South Africa 'triggered baby boy boom'
The 2010 World Cup in South Africa triggered an increase in the number of boys born in the country nine months after the event, a study says.The ratio of boys to girls born in that period was ...Published: 07 Nov 2015 at 15:18hrs | | by BBC
Prophetess sucked into death of neighbour's son
A SELF-STYLED prophetess from Mwenezi belonging to the Johanne Masowe Wechishanu Apostolic sect has been sucked into the death of a neighbour's son who drowned in a dish recently, Chief Maranda has co...Published: 15 Dec 2014 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Man marries small house after sending wife on Prophet TB Joshua trip
A ZIMBABWE Power Company employee from Hwange who made headlines last week after sending his wife to controversial prophet TB Joshua in Nigeria so that he could marry his longtime lover while she...Published: 05 Oct 2014 at 08:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF primaries candidates list (2013)
ZANU PF LIST OF RECOMMENDED CANDIDATES FOR THE 2013 HARMONISED ELECTIONSMASVINGO...Published: 21 Jun 2013 at 13:41hrs | 86 | by Staff Reporter
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