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Mozambique borders reopen as protests subside
Mozambique's border posts were reopened yesterday, and protests in Maputo and other cities have subsided - for now - as the country grapples with ongoing unrest following allegations of election fraud...Published: 11 Nov 2024 at 07:14hrs | 757 | by Staff reporter
Swift action by Bulawayo Fire Brigade saves trucks and buildings
The Bulawayo Fire Brigade responded promptly to a massive fire that broke out at Cotton Printers in the Belmont industrial area yesterday afternoon, managing to save three trucks and nearby buildings ...Published: 30 Sep 2024 at 07:30hrs | 770 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe reopens training schools
National carrier Air Zimbabwe has reopened its commercial and technical training schools in a bid to strengthen its human resources and increase revenue. The announcement was made by the airli...Published: 09 Sep 2024 at 16:53hrs | 5217 | by Staff reporter
Kombis, vendors desert eGodini
Bulawayo Mayor, Councillor David Coltart, has expressed concern over the abandonment of the Egodini Bus Terminus and Traders Market by informal traders and transport operators, which could lead to con...Published: 23 Aug 2024 at 06:39hrs | 1973 | by Staff reporter
Zuma says MKP has evidence to back its IEC vote-rigging claims
The Electoral Court case of rigging the elections against the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) will be reopened, uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party leader Jacob Zuma has warned, saying they have hu...Published: 08 Jul 2024 at 16:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Silalatshani irrigation secures a partner
Production at the Silalatshani Irrigation Scheme in Insiza, Matabeleland South province, is set to resume after farmers secured a partner to support their agricultural activities.The unnamed p...Published: 03 Jun 2024 at 08:10hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Masaraure sentencing deferred
The sentencing of union leader and activist Obert Masaraure has been postponed by Harare Regional magistrate Feresi Chakanyuka until Friday.In his plea for leniency, Masaraure's legal represen...Published: 24 May 2024 at 08:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Masaraure convicted
Obert Masaraure, an activist, awaits his sentencing on Wednesday following his conviction yesterday on charges of obstructing the course of justice.Masaraure, leader of the Amalgamated Rural T...Published: 23 May 2024 at 10:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to commission two small mines
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will commission two new mines this week - Pickstone Peerless' underground gold mine project in Chegutu today, and Kamativi Lithium Mine near Hwange in Matabeleland North on Friday....Published: 10 Apr 2024 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Vendors decry unfavourable conditions at Egodini
VENDORS operating at the newly refurbished Egodini Terminus have expressed concern over what they termed "unfavourable" business conditions after Bulawayo City Council (BCC) allegedly barred them from...Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 04:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Egodini Taxi Rank - The Heartbeat of Bulawayo
Bulawayo, the second-largest city in Zimbabwe, is a vibrant metropolis with a very rich cultural and historical heritage. At the heart of this bustling city lies the iconic Egodini Taxi Rank, formerly...Published: 02 Mar 2024 at 11:50hrs | 6 | by Mncedisi Nyathi
Bulawayo - Victoria Falls Highway rehab set to resume
THE rehabilitation of the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls Highway is expected to resume in the next two weeks as the Government commits to improving the country's road infrastructure in response to concerns b...Published: 19 Feb 2024 at 04:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
BCC orders vendors to vacate 5th Avenue by tomorrow
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has issued a stern warning to vendors who are operating illegally along 5th Avenue. They have until tomorrow to leave the road or have their wares confiscated b...Published: 17 Feb 2024 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
44 vehicles impounded in crackdown on errant kombis
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) in conjunction with police yesterday launched a blitz against pirate taxis and errant kombis defying a directive to move to the newly upgraded Egodini bus terminus and othe...Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 04:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council not going back on decongesting CBD
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) says there is no going back in decongesting the city centre and has directed informal traders and taxi operators to move to newly upgraded Egodini Terminus and other de...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo-Nkayi Road section opens
The Government has opened to the motoring public a completed section of the Bulawayo-Nkayi Road near Turk Mine in Bubi District with the Government committing to avail more funds to complete the targe...Published: 08 Feb 2024 at 04:28hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Biti a team of irreconcilable rivals
Zimbabwe's main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) led by Morgan Richard Tsvangirai, launched its campaign for the 31 July 2013 harmonised elections in Marondera, a small tow...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 08:57hrs | 7 | by Dr Phillan Zamchiya
Gweru City Council struggles to pay December salaries
THE cash-strapped Gweru City Council (GCC) is struggling to pay its workers their December salaries including bonuses.The failure by the local authority to pay its 1 200 employees has had a ne...Published: 11 Jan 2024 at 05:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jacob Mafume's plan is to stabilise Harare
NEWSDAY reporter Sharon Buwerimwe (ND) caught up with recently re-elected Harare mayor Jacob Mafume (JM) for an interview to discuss his plans after bouncing back into office.The mayoral post ...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 07:33hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Tender out for Vic Falls Bridge rehabilitation
THE Emerged Railways Properties (ERP), a company constituted by National Railways of Zimbabwe and Zambia Railways is calling for proposals for contractors that can help carry out maintenance work on t...Published: 17 Nov 2023 at 05:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Artuz leader files for exception to obstruction charge
Obert Masaraure, the leader of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz), filed an application for an exception before Harare magistrate Feresi Chakanyuka in a case involving the obstru...Published: 16 Oct 2023 at 20:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC re-opens public pools
THE Bulawayo City council (BCC) has reopened all municipal swimming pools to the public for the 2023-2024 swimming season.In a statement Bulawayo town clerk Mr Christopher Dube said the pools ...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 14:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns accident victims
President Mnangagwa expressed his condolences for the victims of the Murowa Diamonds plane crash in Mashava and the Bay Horse Mine accident in Chegutu, both of which occurred on Friday.During ...Published: 01 Oct 2023 at 07:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chaos rocks swearing in of Harare councillors
THERE was chaos as newly elected Harare councillors yesterday took their oath of office.Unruly opposition CCC supporters who came to witness the ceremony wearing party regalia sang and threw y...Published: 08 Sep 2023 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
V11s saga: Polling agents under siege
State security agents have been accused of haranguing polling agents and observers whom they are allegedly forcing to amend V11 forms used in last week's elections amid allegations of rigging....Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 13:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga hails church partnership
Vice President and Minister of Health and Child Care Dr Constantino Chiwenga has hailed the Roman Catholic Church for partnering Government in human capital development towards meeting the demands of ...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 07:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt lifts ban on boarding school visits
THE Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has lifted a ban against parents and guardians visiting children learning in boarding schools but retained standard operation procedures to curb the spr...Published: 29 Jun 2023 at 06:28hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Doctors fume over PSMAS 'harassment'
The Medical and Dental Private Practitioners Zimbabwe Association (MDPPZA) has accused Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) and the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) of harassing docto...Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's amnesty to rapists raises a stink
Pressure is piling on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to reconsider the release of dangerous criminals, including rapists, who benefited from an amnesty that saw the release of 4 000 prisoners. R...Published: 28 May 2023 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers embark on 2-day working week
TEACHERS unions have declared that their members will only report for duty two days a week due to financial incapacitation.Schools reopened for the second term yesterday with educators under t...Published: 09 May 2023 at 06:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa mining ally ignored our traditions, says Chiefs
GOLD miner Pedzisai "Scott" Sakupwanya's Better Brands company reportedly ignored local traditional beliefs which led to several deaths of artisanal miners at his Redwing Mine in Manicaland province's...Published: 04 May 2023 at 06:14hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's ally in bizarre ritual
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's ally Pedzisai "Scott" Sakupwanya has performed traditional rituals to ostensibly appease the spirits of several artisanal miners who perished at his Redwing gold mine in...Published: 02 May 2023 at 09:01hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents camp at boreholes as week-long water crisis bites
Bulawayo City Council yesterday opened taps temporarily for about four hours after disconnecting supplies citywide last Thursday and blamed power cuts for the prevailing prolonged water cuts. ...Published: 06 Mar 2023 at 05:16hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans danced when Mugabe fell, now life is worse than ever
For Jasmine Toffa, the hardest moment of her life was not being beaten black and blue by regime thugs. It came when the Zimbabwean MP appeared in parliament after surgery, broken hands in plaster, and...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:15hrs | 9 | by Christina Lamb for The Sunday Times (UK)
Bulawayo - Victoria Falls highway rehab begins?
GOVERNMENT is rehabilitating the most affected sections of the Beitbridge-Bulawayo-Victoria Highway before embarking on a large-scale fixing of the road.The Beitbridge-Bulawayo-Victoria Falls ...Published: 09 Jan 2023 at 06:58hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Triple C: Puny-wise, Pint Foolish!
Obdurate immaturityIT is not like Nelson Chamisa had not been warned, whether by living men or by past circumstances. Both did; yet he still hurtled headlong towards yet another blunder, which...Published: 11 Dec 2022 at 08:56hrs | | by Jamwanda
Zimbabwe gold deliveries climb to 26 tonnes
Gold deliveries to Fidelity Gold Refinery in the nine months to September 2022 grew by 36 percent to 25,7 tonnes, from 18,9 tonnes in the same period a year earlier, raising the prospect that Zimbabwe...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 07:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chaos on 5th Avenue gives Bulawayo city a perennial headache
GAINS made from the recently concluded Bulawayo City Council Spring Cleaning exercise could be quickly reversed as authorities continue to struggle to bring sanity along 5th Avenue where illegal...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
The importance of parastatals
WHEN State-managed institutions work well they are often not recognised or rewarded and are taken for granted. When they fail, everyone suffers the consequences.At independence in 1980, 40% of...Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 05:53hrs | | by Eddie Cross
All Zimbabwe qualified health professionals recruited
ALL qualified health professionals seeking employment in the public sector have been hired, giving that group a zero unemployment rate as the Health Services Board (HSB) acts to upgrade the public hea...Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo schools operating without water
MORE than half of Bulawayo's schools are operating without water after council disconnected supplies due to non-payment of rates amid reports that they owe council a combined $100 million while those ...Published: 25 Sep 2022 at 10:38hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Traffic nightmare as kombi crews create 6th Avenue rank
DRIVING on Bulawayo's streets has become nightmarish as rowdy kombi crews violate road rules causing congestion.Roads such as 6th Avenue Extension and Herbert Chitepo streets from 5th Avenue t...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:05hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Schools order pupils to bring own water
SOME schools in Bulawayo have resorted to asking pupils to bring their own bottles of water to school to curb the spread of waterborne diseases following the prevailing water crisis in the city....Published: 15 Sep 2022 at 05:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
'West deceived poor nations with Ukraine grain export deal'
Russia President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday accused Ukraine and its western allies of sending most of the grain from its reopened Black Sea ports to Europe instead of poorer, food insecure countries....Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo dam levels critically low
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has said water levels at its supply dams that are 52 percent full as well as a drastic drop in supplies from Epping Forest due to vandalism of infrastructure have worsened ...Published: 17 Aug 2022 at 18:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gold smuggling on the rise: Parly
Parliament's Mines Portfolio Committee yesterday raised concern over the proliferation of gold mines amid reports that gold smuggling to South Africa and the Middle East had increased.The comm...Published: 16 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dembare cuts gap
Tenax 0 - 2 DynamosTwo late goals by substitutes Ralph Kawondera and Emmanuel Paga ensured an important and dramatic win for Dynamos over a spirited Tenax in a league match at Vengere Stadium in R...Published: 15 Aug 2022 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe school dropouts skyrocket
ZIMBABWE has recorded a 20% increase in school dropouts since 2020 when schools were closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report by the Union of Education Norway in conjunction with the Zimbabwe...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:23hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Artuz leader granted $50 000 bail
AMALGAMATED Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) leader Obert Masaraure was yesterday granted $50 000 bail at the High Court in a case he faces charges of obstructing justice.Masaraure, wh...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:41hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Border jumping, smuggling between Zimbabwe, SA persist
ILLEGAL travel between Zimbabwe and South Africa has persisted, despite joint efforts to thwart the practice by both countries, it has emerged.The two governments recently launched a joint ope...Published: 30 May 2022 at 07:07hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
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