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Girl (12) dies in a scotchcart accident
Chatyora village under Chief Rusambo in Rushinga has been plunged into mourning after a twelve-year-old girl died in a scotchcart accident.Tinevimbo Kurima died yesterday upon admission at Rus...Published: 10 Jul 2025 at 13:32hrs | 488 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Man, oxen swept away while trying to cross flooded river
A tragic incident unfolded in Nyagari Village, Chirumhanzu, when a 44-year-old man, Munashe Muzinda, drowned while attempting to cross the flooded Nyagari River with his ox-drawn cart. His body was di...Published: 25 Feb 2025 at 08:42hrs | 899 | by Staff reporter
Boy dies in a scotch cart accident
A 10-YEAR-OLD Muzarabani boy died on the spot in an accident involving an ox-drawn cart on Monday.Leornard Makenzie of Kamhinnga Mukoma...Published: 15 Jun 2024 at 18:32hrs | 15 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Teenager commits suicide after failing to drive scotch cart
A 19-YEAR-OLD Guruve man decided to end his life by hanging after he was scolded by his father for failing to drive an ox-drawn cart.Tinashe Kufakunesu of plot 34 Amajuba farm, Guruve committe...Published: 02 Mar 2024 at 12:02hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Rural women drive Zimbabwe's green transition
As a rural woman from Wedza, about 140 kilometers from Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, 53-year-old Adefi Mtambo never remotely imagined herself in the driver's seat."I could only operate an o...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
2 minors die in scotch cart mishaps
Two children died in Gokwe and Zvishavane respectively in two separate incidents involving ox-drawn carts.Midlands Police Spokesperson, Inspector Emmanuel Mahoko confirmed the incidents saying...Published: 09 May 2023 at 19:19hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Violent thunderstorms, localised hail expected today
Violent thunderstorms and localised hail, which may damage property, are expected countrywide today and tomorrow, the Meteorological Service Department forecast yesterday.Bulawayo, Tsholotsho ...Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 04:58hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
116-year old Inyathi Mission still exudes medieval charm
WITH walls of red-coloured rustic clay face bricks, the medieval 116-year-old Inyathi Mission, the country’s oldest Christian mission station and first to offer education to blacks in Zimbabwe still...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 08:31hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
116-year Inyathi Mission still looks charming
WITH walls of red-coloured rustic clay face bricks, the medieval 116-year-old Inyathi Mission, the country's oldest Christian mission station and first to offer education to blacks in Zimbabwe still l...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 06:49hrs | 26 | by Staff Reporter
Two stabbed over scotch cart toll fee
Police are hunting for three unknown men who mounted an illegal toll gate on a strip road near Sidhakeni Business Centre in Zhombe before they started collecting toll fees from motorists and those wit...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 15:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Scattered thunderstorms expected
Mostly cloudy and warm conditions are expected in the northern half of the country; Midlands, Matabeleland North, all Mashonaland provinces, Harare Metropolitan and northern parts of Manicaland with s...Published: 04 Jan 2022 at 05:53hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Boy dies in cart accident
A LOWER Gweru juvenile on Monday died on the spot after an ox-drawn cart he was in hit a tree stump and overturned hitting him on the head.Midlands provincial police spokesperson, Inspector Em...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Senior citizen dies in scotch cart accident
A 63-YEAR-OLD Muzarabani man died on the spot after an ox-drawn cart he was travelling in overturned and trapped him to death.James Fatizo of Mukwombe village,Muzarabani died on the spot after...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 11:53hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Let's banish the urban-rural chasm
Devolution now steadily but surely underway in our country, with provincial ministers of state also tasked with implementation of the new beginning, must sooner rather than later see rural areas where...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 07:17hrs | 4 | by Stephen Mpofu
Mystery of the Mberengwa 'ambula-cart'
AS Zimbabweans wallowed over the weekend in the boredom induced by the second coronavirus lockdown, an unusual but interesting picture went viral on social media.The image featured an ordinary...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 07:57hrs | 21 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Chaos, corruption in councils
THIS continues from last week as we look at actual examples of some of the rot happening in councils reported in the Auditor-General's Report for Local Authorities 2018.The report shows the ex...Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 14:28hrs | | by Miriam Tose Majome
Accident scene looters escape jail
FIFTY-two villagers from Hwange in Matabeleland North province, who appeared in court for looting food stuffs from a Victoria Falls-bound truck that overturned, have escaped imprisonment.The v...Published: 30 May 2019 at 07:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Idai donation; Chamisa lies
So devastating are the damages caused by Cyclone Idai which left a trail of deaths, destructions and displacement in the country's Manicaland Province. Bodies continue to be discovered, while those st...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 08:03hrs | 6 | by Jasper Hloka
Tenager dies in scotch-cart accident
A WEDZA teenager died on the spot on Tuesday after a speeding ox-drawn scotch-cart overturned and hit him on the neck.Frank Muzvondiwa (17) of Sheffield Farm died on the spot while his colleag...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 05:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Two die in stolen car crash
A MAN from Tsholotsho who went on a joyride with friends in a Toyota Hilux Twin Cab he had stolen from his uncle, was involved in an accident that killed two people and seriously injured five others....Published: 12 May 2017 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
7 accident victims named
Police have named seven people who died recently when vehicles they were travelling in were involved in separate road accidents in Kwekwe and Banket on Sunday and Monday, respectively.In a sta...Published: 11 May 2017 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Minister acts against Maleme Ranch and Cyrene Mission land dispute
LANDS and Rural Settlement Minister Dr Douglas Mombeshora has sent a delegation to Matabeleland South to gather facts on land disputes that have rocked the province.Last week this paper re...Published: 15 Mar 2015 at 09:19hrs | 2 | by Lungile Tshuma
Father-in-law killed over lobola
A 42-YEAR-OLD Gokwe man will spend an effective 12 years in prison for killing his father-in-law who had threatened to take back his daughter over non-payment of lobola.Stane Ncube of Si...Published: 03 Jun 2014 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Thief settles debt with loot
AN "enterprising" thief broke into a neighbour's home, stole an assortment of household property and loaded them onto a stolen ox-drawn cart which he pulled to his homestead in the neighbouring villag...Published: 07 May 2014 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Boy killed in fatal scotch cart accident
A seven-year-old boy died on the spot when an ox-drawn cart he was travelling in hit a tree stump and overturned. Midlands police spokesperson Inspector Emmanuel Mahoko said the incident ...Published: 25 Oct 2013 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mentally ill woman (32) sets herself on fire
A mentally ill Buhera woman, 32, could not endure her fast deteriorating health and decided to set herself ablaze last week.Lina Vhiriri of Masvingise Village under Chief Nyashanu poured paraf...Published: 03 Sep 2012 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man guns down suspected love rival
A Chinhoyi man is on the run after shooting and killing a man passing by his homestead who he accused of having an adulterous affair with his wife.Elias Munhundowarwa (28) of Plot 2, Ringari...Published: 18 Jun 2012 at 10:38hrs | | by Chinhoyi Bureau
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