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Did Mtukudzi speak his troubled life in song?
"TATSAUKA pano nekuti paita Tuku, (We passed by because you are playing Tuku music)" my late brother Johannes and his friend Evaristo Chiwara once told merrymakers in Rimuka, Kadoma, in the late 1990s...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 09:03hrs | 3595 | by Moses Chibaya
Uber driver recounts near-death experiences
BRIAN Moyo (not real name) remembers the night when a gang of four men hijacked him, tied him up,and drove around on the streets of Johannesburg in South Africa while still deciding whether to kill hi...Published: 18 Aug 2024 at 12:19hrs | 248 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo water crisis worsens
BULAWAYO is sitting on a health time bomb as the city's water woes continue to mount with most suburbs going for weeks without running tap water, forcing residents to resort to unhygienic water source...Published: 27 Feb 2024 at 03:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man kidnapped over wife's sins
A HARARE man said his life almost ended after he was kidnapped by armed men, who threatened to kill him over his wife's promiscuity.Rodwell Nhata made these allegations before Harare magistrat...Published: 11 Feb 2024 at 21:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teachers shun Sizalendaba School
THE deplorable working conditions at Sizalendaba Secondary School in Khami district, Bulawayo province, have been blamed for chasing away teachers from the institution.Sizalendaba school was e...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 09:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Modi donates US$120 000 computer bus
JUBILATION punctuated by singing and ululations was the order of the day on Sunday as scores of residents in Sizinda under Bulawayo South constituency received a US$120 000 mobile computer bus donated...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Couple robbed, woman raped on picnic
A Kadoma couple was last Saturday afternoon mugged by two unknown assailants as they were having a picnic near a local hotel. The couple was handcuffed and robbed of phones, US$150 and other v...Published: 15 May 2023 at 19:42hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Heavy police deployment during Easter
Police are being extensively deployed countrywide during the Easter holidays to protect the public from criminals and to ensure traffic rules and regulations are enforced to keep the roads safe. ...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Africa: Embattling a Continent
When the IMF goes to warSo the International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff has decided to grant Ukraine some whooping USD15,6 billion?Ukraine is at war with Russia.A war funded and...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 12:59hrs | | by Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Bulawayo's Renkini a white elephant as intercity buses shun it
Renkini Bus Terminus was, for years, the nerve centre for Bulawayo's transport system with people intending to travel to other cities and towns trooping to the station to board buses.Many othe...Published: 10 Feb 2023 at 05:39hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
2 Zimbabweans, 5 SA police crime gang nabbed
IN a sting operation this week South African Police Services (Saps) arrested two Zimbabweans and five Saps serving members over a violent crime wave in Johannesburg's Fordsburg area.In a state...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police descend on touts ahead of Christmas
POLICE has launched a countrywide operation at bus termini to monitor touts who usually harass travellers during the Christmas holidays.National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Zimbabwean who dressed Queen Elizabeth and Princess Diana
ALMOST half of Bulawayo has been plunged into darkness, with residential areas the most affected, after heavy rains that were accompanied by thunder and lightning damaged three substations.The...Published: 29 Oct 2022 at 19:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police raid on park pirates nets 16 buses
POLICE in Bulawayo yesterday impounded 16 buses, 13 pirate taxis and five private vehicles for picking up passengers at undesignated areas.There has been rampant picking of passengers at undes...Published: 02 Sep 2022 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Census in bumpy ride
THE past seven days of the 2022 national population and housing census have been bumpy for some Zimbabwe Statistical Agency (ZimStat) enumerators who have been reportedly threatened and mugged in the ...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 12:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Respondents beat census enumerators in Zimbabwe
THERE are fears that data being collected from the ongoing census could be heavily compromised amid reports that enumerators are heavily disgruntled and have encountered violent hostilities from...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 09:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa party's spokesperson mugged
VIOLENT thugs smashed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) national party spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere's vehicle and got away with all her belongings late Friday night.The perpetrators are...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 07:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 travel restrictions frustrate cross border traders
THE renewed travel restrictions on the back of the emergence of the latest Omicron Covid-19 variant is a huge blow to cross border traders who are staring at loss of business during the festive season...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:01hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
2 more pregnant women raped in hospital
TWO more pregnant women were yesterday morning raped at Maphisa District Hospital in Matobo District, Matabeleland South Province by yet to be identified alleged criminals who broke into the maternity...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 07:53hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Truckers block traffic at Limpopo bridge
COMMERCIAL traffic going into South Africa and Zimbabwe through the Beitbridge border post was yesterday delayed by more than four hours after truck drivers staged a sit-in at the New Limpopo Bridge d...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 05:57hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo vaccination centres overwhelmed
COVID-19 vaccination centres in Bulawayo are overwhelmed as scores of residents continue to flock to local clinics to get inoculated under the ongoing mass vaccination programme which started on Monda...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 09:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Couple savagely attacked, husband dies
A COUPLE from Pelandaba suburb in Bulawayo was attacked by robbers, leading to the death of the husband in a case that brings to the fore an alarming rise in crime and the collapse of the city's emerg...Published: 17 May 2021 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo woman jailed for theft
A 52-YEAR-OLD woman from Bulawayo has been jailed for eight months for stealing a cellphone and cash.Lindiwe Ncube of Makokoba suburb and her accomplice, who is still on the run, hatched a pla...Published: 11 May 2021 at 16:41hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt must admit Zupco failure'
GOVERNMENT should admit that its mass public transporter, Zupco, is failing to cope with demand, a consumer watchdog and commuters said in response to the transport shortages bedevilling Bulawayo. ...Published: 29 Apr 2021 at 06:24hrs | 5 | by Staff writer
NRZ awaits govt relaxation of lockdown measures to resume commuter trains
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) says it is still waiting for government to announce further COVID-19 lockdown relaxation measures so that it can reintroduce its passenger train service....Published: 19 Apr 2021 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police on high alert
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has warned that it will descend heavily on traffic offenders and violators of Covid-19 regulations during the Easter Holiday.This comes after President Emmer...Published: 03 Apr 2021 at 14:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police warn lockdown violators
POLICE have warned the public, including visitors to the country, to comply with COVID-19 safety and health measures during the Easter holidays or face arrest.In a statement, national police s...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 09:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC: What went wrong?
"BULAWAYO'S success story is not something from outer space but a result of the constructive approach taken by councillors and the existence of a harmonious relationship between them and their elector...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 06:56hrs | | by Vusumuzi Dube
Fake Zacc official to appeal against sentence
THE High Court has allowed an application to appeal against sentence by a man who was charged and convicted of impersonating a Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) official.Aaron Muzungu...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 19:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Water crisis ravages Bulawayo
Women carry the burden of collecting water for households...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 07:48hrs | | by Brezhnev Malaba
Motorists face nightmare in Tollgates
Motorists are facing a nightmare in tollgates, it is just so frustrating, motorists get delayed trying to navigate in the heavy rains, they then face horror at tollgates when are told swipe machines a...Published: 07 Dec 2020 at 05:53hrs | | by Michael Mdladla Ndiweni
Muthi ritual scare hits suburbs
FEAR gripped residents of Makokoba and Mzilikazi suburbs in Bulawayo after muthi (charms) suspected to have been used in performing a ritual was found tied to a tree near a bridge connecting the two s...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Robbers strike in Beitbridge again
Police are looking for three men who fatally struck a 29-year-old man with stones and robbed him of four cell phones and money last Thursday afternoon. The attack occurred after Andy Culkin Ma...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
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 | | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Zimbabwe loses US$34m through illicit financial flows - Report
SOUTHERN Africa is prejudiced of a staggering US$30 billion annually as a result of illicit financial flows, with Zimbabwe losing US$34 million every year due to trade under-invoicing while also losin...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube confirms new grand fiscal heist
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday unwittingly confirmed government committed a grand US$7 billion fiscal heist - by design or accident - when it banned without warning the multi-currency system ...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 15:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Chiwenga, Mohadi must explain electricity crisis'
KAMBUZUMA MP Willias Madzimure (MDC Alliance) yesterday demanded that Vice-President Kembo Mohadi or his counterpart, Constantino Chiwenga, should come to Parliament to explain the gripping electricit...Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 14:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
7 Zimbabwean teens living under a tree in SA
THEY say they have been living off food scraps in a nearby municipal bin, and it's actually been sustaining them.Seven Zimbabwean teenagers have been living under a big tree near Shoprite in L...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 11:55hrs | | by GroundUp
Police urged to intensify patrols
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has been implored to intensify patrols to monitor crime hotspots in and around Harare, particularly bus termini and streets where people are being mugged. Se...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's soldiers used excessive force against protesters
Zimbabwe security forces used excessive lethal force to crush nationwide protests in mid-January 2019. President Emmerson Mnangagwa's sudden announcement of a fuel price increase of 150 percent result...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 21:56hrs | | by Human Rights Watch
Indian trust seeks to build specialist hospital in Zimbabwe
KIRAN HOSPITAL, one of India's top specialist and health research centres, is seeking to construct a 550-bed sanatorium in Zimbabwe, which will serve local patients and those from other African countr...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Border jumpers kill gun totting robber
A man believed to be part of a gang terrorising border jumpers and smugglers along the Limpopo River was last week fatally assaulted by a group of illegal immigrants he had attempted to rob at gunpoin...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Armed robber disarmed, killed
A 24-YEAR-OLD man was on Friday morning fatally assaulted by a group of illegal immigrants he attempted to rob at gun point at the confluence of Umzingwane and Limpopo rivers. It is reported t...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tinashe Kambarami lights up Bulawayo
The Deputy Mayor of Bulawayo Tinashe Kambarami has proved to be a councillor par excellence after being the first City father in the current council to do meaningful development to his ward. ...Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 04:01hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
'ED punishing nation for rejecting him' - nonsense, ED has failed to rig economic recovery
Chamisa is incapable of making a rational argument. "He (Chamisa) said President Emmerson Mnangagwa is punishing the nation for not voting for him on July 30," reported the Daily News....Published: 25 Oct 2018 at 07:16hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Machete attackers target students
Kwekwe Polytechnic College students have become the latest target of machete attacks that have become synonymous with the mining town.Two students were reportedly seriously injured after mache...Published: 24 May 2018 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Crime rate spikes in Beitbridge
The crime rate in Beitbridge is now a threat to council's revenue collection efforts and should be addressed as a matter of urgency, acting town clerk, Loud Ramakgapola has said.Ramakgapola to...Published: 20 Mar 2018 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge now 'a haven of crime'
Beitbridge residents have called on the police to act decisively on reducing crime here.In separate interviews yesterday, the residents said the town was fast becoming a haven for criminals....Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man 'butchers' wife with machete
A 25-YEAR-OLD Honde Valley man was last week sentenced to four years in prison for brutally assaulting his wife with a machete over alleged infidelity. Cuthbert Wirimai appeared before Mutasa magistra...Published: 08 Mar 2018 at 05:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa comes to teachers' rescue
President Emmerson Mnangagwa will help over 30 000 teachers recover money they were fleeced of by micro-finance firms.Many micro-lenders provide loans to civil servants, mainly teachers, at in...Published: 17 Dec 2017 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
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