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South African fiber providers are gradually forming local monopolies
The South African fiber internet market, once praised for its Open Access model, is now seeing a rise in monopolistic practices by Fibre Network Operators (FNOs) that control neighbourhoods, estates, ...Published: 25 Oct 2024 at 14:27hrs | 99 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Water Crisis: Boreholes will cause more harm than good
This morning, as I watched a news report on the ongoing so-called ‘Presidential Borehole Drilling Scheme', my heart was troubled. Just how sustainable is the drilling of boreholes all over t...Published: 23 Sep 2024 at 18:29hrs | 2363 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa thanks military for loyalty
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has thanked the Zimbabwean military for remaining loyal to his rule as he pledged housing and car loan incentives to cushion members from a tough economy blamed on his poo...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 12:45hrs | 376 | by Staff reporter
Rugeje caught up in bar CIO hunt for rights activist
Days before a summit of regional leaders, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's shock troops armed with AK47s stormed a bar where a retired top general and Zanu-PF politburo member was drinking on Wednesday,...Published: 09 Aug 2024 at 08:00hrs | 3473 | by Staff reportrer
Event security essential to foil robberies and protect guests
Event security has always been important but never more so than at the present time when thefts and robberies have become so common. Targets at events may be the gate takings at the event or the cash ...Published: 26 Jun 2024 at 21:28hrs | 4 | by Agencies
Unveiling the Treasures of the Red Sea: Diving, History, and Culture in Jeddah
The bustling Red Sea coast city of Jeddah serves as both the business hub of Saudi Arabia and the entry point to the Mecca and Medina sacred sites. This vibrant city offers visitors a wide range of ex...Published: 21 Jun 2024 at 11:06hrs | 7 | by Staff Reporter
Harare to build up in height as housing demand rises
As the population in Zimbabwe's capital Harare grows, the city strives to meet the soaring housing demand.With a population of over 2.4 million, about 16 percent of Zimbabwe's population, the ...Published: 01 Feb 2024 at 05:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe braces for close election as early parliamentary results come in
Early parliamentary results in Zimbabwe showed the ruling party and the main opposition neck and neck on Friday, after an election in which President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF party was widely expe...Published: 25 Aug 2023 at 20:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe election results start to trickle in after delays
The first constituency results emerged on Thursday in Zimbabwe's election after delays forced a second day of voting in a small number of neighbourhoods and civil society activists were arrested....Published: 25 Aug 2023 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
There's life after Zimbabwe's August 23 polls
THERE is always a worrisome pattern that emerges particularly with each election.Generally, our elections are very competitive in nature. Sometimes members of different political parties tend ...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 06:40hrs | | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Diaspora should plan for post-Zanu-PF era
LAST week Wednesday was yet another heart-breaking day for me as I made my way through Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport to catch my flight.Many people, who came to greet me at the a...Published: 18 Jul 2023 at 06:22hrs | | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Mthuli Ncube gives CCC headaches in Cowdray Park
ZANU-PF's aspiring MP for Cowdray Park in Bulawayo, Professor Mthuli Ncube is fulfilling his promise of modernising the sprawling suburb and transforming it into a smart neighbourhood with the tarring...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Mayor calls for a vote for change in August 2023
Outgoing Mayor of Bulawayo, His Worship Solomon Madlala Mguni, has called on Zimbabweans to vote for a new government that will bring about a different way of governing both the country and the city. ...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 14:54hrs | 1 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Chiwenga promised swimming pools, but Mbare residents swim in sewage
OVERCROWDING, poor water reticulation, obsolete sewer systems, uncollected refuse and old inhabitable homes is the story of Mbare.It is also the story of Matapi Flats in the same suburb, built...Published: 20 May 2023 at 19:14hrs | | by Tatenda Manyinyire
American-based Hilda Dube launches campaign to help mentally challenged pregnant women
An American-based Zimbabwean woman and Founder of His Grace Foundation Hilda Dube has launched a campaign to assist financially struggling pregnant women who have mental disorders through providing ne...Published: 30 Mar 2023 at 08:29hrs | 6 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Schools concealing drug and substance abuse by students'
SCHOOLS in the country are reportedly concealing rampant drug and substance abuse by students to protect their reputation, NewsDay Weekender can reveal.This comes as the country has been exper...Published: 28 Jan 2023 at 19:10hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe voter registration requirements relaxed
CABINET has received and approved the Electoral Amendment Bill 2022 which relaxes registration requirements for voters.In the Bill, as presented by Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Min...Published: 06 Oct 2022 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans among four winners of 2022 Mandela social impact awards
THE Mandela Rhodes Foundation (MRF) has announced four of its award winners for its social impact award the Äänit Prize.The four winners – all of them young leaders – are focused on soci...Published: 25 Sep 2022 at 16:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Safeguard takes measures to help neighbourhoods stay safe
With the increase in burglaries and robberies throughout the country, particularly in Harare, Safeguard Security has embarked on a number of community-based services to help keep neighbourhoods safe. ...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 12:11hrs | | by Agencies
Bulawayo tightens water rationing
BULAWAYO residents will now go for two days a week without water supplies after the local authority from yesterday effected a 48-hour water shedding schedule. The local authority has further p...Published: 31 Jul 2022 at 08:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare-Beitbridge highway project: A new big step in the right direction
AS we turn right off the Harare-Beitbridge highway - just before the intersection of the Harare and Bulawayo arteries five kilometres north of Beitbridge Border Post on the banks of the Limpopo River ...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
US$100k property recovered as cops raid Bulawayo machete gang
BULAWAYO residents say they are now afraid to sleep at night because of machete-brandishing robbers who have injured and killed people in the city.Last week, Langelihle Dube (53) from Bulawayo...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe engages South Africa over xenophobia
The Zimbabwean Embassy in South Africa has begun engaging authorities in Pretoria to immediately address the recent upsurge in xenophobic violence.South African gangs have recently unleashed a...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Top billing homes sprout in western suburbs
DRIVING through the high-density areas in Bulawayo one notices some stunning and magnificent houses that rival and even overshadow many in the low-density areas.Trendy neighbourhoods have spro...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa panics over criticism
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga on Friday issued a chilling threat to traditional leaders, warning that they would be stripped of their positions for criticising the Zanu-PF government.Pre...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 06:51hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo reels as ageing sewer system breaks down
IF anyone had told Sithuthukile Moyo that as an adult, she would be heading into the bushes when nature calls, she would have laughed it off as a bad joke.But nowadays, that is not an uncommon...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:57hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean eyes US Mayor's post
A ZIMBABWEAN-BORN businessman, Solomon Tembo, is running for the post of mayor of Allentown City in the United States (US).Tembo, who was born and raised in Kadoma, will contest against two ot...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:03hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Criminals descend on Bulawayo's affluent suburbs
BULAWAYO's affluent suburbs have been hit by a spate of housebreakings as organised criminal syndicates target businesspeople after cutting copper cables resulting in power blackouts. The gang...Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Home wedding venues banned
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has barred homeowners from turning their properties in the city into weddings and functions venues amid revelations that only 21 of such venues are legally registered w...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Violent storms in South Africa will not stop: a chance for new Zimbabwe Republic
A new republic we are talking about is not renewing Zanu or does it mean placing our hope and aspirations on MDC-Alliance, currently the only viable opposition, as the hope for our future. In any misf...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 19:37hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Robberies on the rise… police sets up specialised crack teams
AT least six robberies are being committed in Zimbabwe daily, highlighting the threats that citizens face from brutal criminals and thugs, latest statistics from the police have revealed.In re...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Only 4 players in Euro 2020 have parents born in England
ONLY four players in the starting line-up of Sunday's final Euro 2020 against Italy have parents and grandparents who were all born in the UK.As England football manager Gareth Southgate sugge...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 17:08hrs | | by Staff writer
Zanu-PF skeletons tumble
The government stopped the demolition of fancy houses at an alleged illegal settlement on the outskirts of Harare after it emerged that Zanu-PF bigwigs owned some of the housing stands.Several...Published: 04 Jul 2021 at 14:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt punishing the young through its Covid-19 lockdown measures
Emerson Mnangagwa's government has been making some anti young people decisions since April 2020. While it is agreeable the unprecedented nature of the Covid 19 pandemic has destroyed any forecasting ...Published: 23 Jun 2021 at 07:49hrs | | by Taruberekera Masara
Commuters bear brunt of Zupco's shambolic transport system
IT'S 5:10pm and Harare's Market Square bus terminus is teeming with commuters desperate to get home before dark, but there are no Zupco buses.Two young men exchange blows as they both wrestle ...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo prioritises schools in master plan
BULAWAYO needs an additional 52 pre-schools and more learning institutions to meet the growing population. In the Bulawayo City Council's (BCC) 2021-2033 Masterplan proposal, the city fathers ...Published: 20 Apr 2021 at 17:23hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Why are you fearful of your citizens?
YOUR Excellency, President ED Mnangagwa.One thing that always bewildered us as we grew up was watching on the main news bulletin the president moving around surrounded by hordes of bodyguards....Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 06:40hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Lockdown or no town?
Since the outbreak of corona, many countries embarked on strict lockdowns as a way of flattening the curve.Back home, the national lockdown has been extended by a further two weeks to curb the...Published: 02 Feb 2021 at 14:56hrs | | by Shelton Muchena
Can South Africa come to Zimbabwe's rescue by ending 'quiet diplomacy'?
Zimbabwe's worsening economic and political crises seem to be never-ending and still getting worse. The misplaced expectations that the "new dispensation" would provide an escape route following the 2...Published: 01 Feb 2021 at 19:03hrs | | by Ian Scoones
Coronavirus and the mystery of infection
He waited by the bus-stop, all day, shaking his car keys rather impatiently, pacing up and down as each bus arrived, as each bus left. Only a dishevelled tramp sat by the benches, mumbling incoherentl...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 22:45hrs | 1 | by Zifiso Masiye
Gwanda hookers now working from home
BEFORE the new normal, ladies of the night were much sought-after at various drinking spots in the mining town of Gwanda. Calling on sex workers' services was the order of the day for some men after i...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Council properties being leased for a song
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is leasing out its land to sporting clubs for a song with some club owners reportedly paying as little as $700 in local currency while at the same time illegally sub-lettin...Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 06:17hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
As long as Zimbabweans accept crumbs from ruling elites' table, we will forever suffer
I am sure we have all heard those nearly hysterical screams of unbridled joy - echoing throughout our neighbourhoods - whenever electricity supply is restored, usually after a long spell of load shedd...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 20:24hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
BCC fails to meet own water restoration schedule
THE Bulawayo City Council has been slammed by residents for failing to adhere to its own provisional water supply restoration schedule published daily with suburbs tabled to have water supply not rece...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Violence rocks Harvest House again
VIOLENCE has once again rocked the MDC after youths aligned to the Nelson Chamisa camp allegedly broke into the party's Morgan Richard Tsvangirai (MRT) House headquarters on Sunday night in an unsucce...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 08:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
A country in 'crisis' cannot guarantee access to land
The term "crisis" is the latest buzzword in Zimbabwe meriting the attention of scholarly researches to establish if it is being used in the proper context. Opposition political parties are in overdriv...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 06:52hrs | | by Pardon Muzavazi
Chamisa's statement on South Africa's Afrophobia
WE MUST BUILD A NEW AFRICA!The attacks against fellow Africans in South Africa are appalling and heartbreaking. We call upon our African brothers and sisters to show a full sense of brotherhoo...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 15:17hrs | | by Nelson Chamisa
When Excellencies grace Chitungwiza shebeen
What a couple of weeks of diplomatic intrigue.Epoch-making, maybe.Hallelujah! Praise be to the living God!We had desperately reckless American diplomats abandoning their airy a...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:37hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
'Egodini mall to accommodate 1 000 vendors'
Once completed, the Egodini mall project is set to accommodate over 1 000 informal traders, a move that will ease decongestion in the central business district, the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has not...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 08:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Council to decongest CBD
THE Bulawayo City Council is working on plans to limit informal trading in the central business district to reduce congestion, the mayor Solomon Mguni has said.In a state of the city service d...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
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