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Ngozi Mine dumpsite fires choke Cowdray Park
Residents of Cowdray Park suburb in Bulawayo are grappling with thick smoke and health concerns as fires burn at the nearby Richmond landfill, commonly referred to as Ngozi Mine. For the past five day...Published: 04 Oct 2024 at 08:31hrs | 180 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF abusing State resources'
CIVIL Society Organisations (CSOs) and opposition political parties have accused the ruling Zanu-PF party of abusing State resources by transporting its supporters to rallies across the country using ...Published: 10 Jul 2023 at 07:16hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
A critical review of Al Jazeera's Gold Mafia documentary
APRIL, famously characterised as "the cruellest month" by distinguished poet and literary critic TS Eliot in his critically acclaimed essay "The Wasteland" - not because its first day celebrates fools...Published: 28 May 2023 at 17:07hrs | 4 | by Jonathan Moyo
Zimbabwe highway 'mysterious' bus demystified
Today, Zimbabweans are being treated to yet another story of a "talking bus" that has been parked by the roadside along Harare-Nyamapanda Highway for over three years.Tales of "talking" buses ...Published: 06 May 2023 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC's politics of a scavenging bird
A vulture is a scavenging bird. It feeds from and thrives in the dead, dirt, smelly and foul.A green parrot, on the other hand is an adorable creature of magnificent beauty. It blends with and...Published: 18 Aug 2022 at 20:45hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
CCC, Zapu speak on Nkomo's persecution by Zanu-PF
OPPOSITION political parties yesterday accused the ruling Zanu-PF party of persecuting the late Vice-President and former PF Zapu leader Joshua Nkomo after independence despite his selfless sacrifice ...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ngozi Mine smoke chokes Bulawayo suburb
THICK plumes of smoke billowing from a sprawling Bulawayo City Council (BCC) landfill site popularly known as Ngozi Mine in Richmond suburb are a daily sight. The hazardous smoke is now encroa...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 05:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
When the undertaker wishes you long life
This time Africans have abjectly disappointed the world.For Pete's sake, why can they not simply die?At least that is what the world expected after the outbreak of the coronavirus....Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 09:57hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
Mine scavenger axed on the head in fight for loot
A 35-YEAR-OLD man from Ngozi Mine in Bulawayo has been arrested for axing his neighbour on the head over a mosquito net they had picked up from a dumpsite. Mr Clement Zulu (39) was injured aft...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hyena snatches, kills boy (6)
TERROR has engulfed Buhera after an aggressive hyena snatched a six-year-old boy from his parents' doorstep, viciously killed him and dropped off his mutilated skeleton in a nearby riverbed in the mid...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gweru residents fume over dumpsite blaze
AN environmental disaster is looming in Gweru's Woodlands suburb following yesterday's outbreak of a fire at the city's largest dumpsite, Southern Eye has established.The fire is emitting a th...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The bones that haunt Mnangagwa
At the bottom of a crevice in the rocks - just as the eyewitness had said - was a parcel of bones, wrapped in a shirt. It was a shirt just like the one Fanta Ndlovu was wearing when he went missing 33...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 07:47hrs | | by BBC
Same old Bob, same old Joice?
We wish we could talk nicely to one cartoonist from a private daily and his publishers for the reproduction of a wonderful cartoon they carried a couple of days back. It's too late, unfortunately. ...Published: 07 Feb 2018 at 06:39hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
Nightmare of Mugabe and his allies' Matabele atrocities
The first details of a shock report of Zimbabwe's government troops' atrocities in camp Bhalagwe and elsewhere has emerged despite Mugabe's curtain of silence, writes David BeresfordOne of the...Published: 08 Dec 2017 at 10:42hrs | 1 | by David Beresford
Govt closes squatter camp school
THE Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has closed an informal primary school at Ngozi Mine Squatter Camp in Bulawayo with almost 200 pupils being reintegrated into the formal education system...Published: 30 Oct 2017 at 04:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dog meat is not part of nation's food culture
The recent arrest of a Bulawayo man on allegations of selling parts of dogs' carcasses he retrieved from some rubbish dumping sites was a very unusual occurrence.The dogs had been put down by ...Published: 23 Aug 2017 at 07:58hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
More elephants poisoned in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park
More than 14 elephants, including a mother and her young calf, have been poisoned in and around Zimbabwe's premier game reserve, Hwange National Park. Most of the poisoned elephants died near the sout...Published: 22 Jun 2017 at 10:09hrs | | by Adam Cruise
Single men on the rampage
THEY roam the streets of the squatter camp like scavengers.The single men wait for women's husbands to disappear and then they pounce. But the situation has now become an open war and hu...Published: 05 May 2017 at 11:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hell hath no fury like 'political elders' scorned
…. as Mutasa, Gumbo forages like headless chickenBattle lines were drawn when Zimbabwe People First (Zim PF)'s interim president Joice Mujuru expelled...Published: 27 Feb 2017 at 14:36hrs | | by Patience Rashai
On Mugabe's lavish bash at a time of great suffering
President Robert Mugabe is soon to wine and dine with a potion of his supporters at a time the nation is reeling under myriad problems. Just like last year the lavish bash will be held at a ...Published: 27 Feb 2017 at 09:25hrs | 2 | by Nqobizitha Dumakude Khumalo
On Mugabe's lavish bash at a time of great suffering for the nation
President Robert Mugabe is soon to wine and dine with a potion of his supporters at a time the nation is reeling under myriad problems. Just like last year the lavish bash will be held at a time...Published: 20 Feb 2017 at 19:32hrs | | by Nqobizitha Dumakude Khumalo
VP Mnangagwa interview makes troubling reading- Moyo
Higher and Tertiary Education Minister Jonathan Moyo has said the piece that features an interview with Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa was making a troubling reading on many fronts and was terri...Published: 04 Jan 2017 at 05:39hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe blamed for teenage boys turning scavengers: Pictures
Sprouting illegal dumpsites in most residential areas in Bulawayo have turned into prime scavenging zones for some people.Today Bulawayo24.com spotted two teenage boys digging up trash in one ...Published: 02 Jan 2017 at 10:56hrs | | by Alice Dube
MRP joins the world in commemorating the 16 days of gender activism against women abuse
The people's Republic party which is grounded on respect for women as equal citizens with men join the world in commemorating 16 days of activism against gender based violence.Mthwakazi Republ...Published: 26 Nov 2016 at 09:05hrs | | by Mecktai Gondwe
For how long shall we cry fowl?
Life in Zimbabwe is becoming worse everyday.For how long shall we continue crying fowl ? Who will listen to us when we are crying not resisting ZANU-PF oppressive lawsFor how long shall we...Published: 21 Nov 2016 at 06:25hrs | | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo
Zimbabwe's centralization of power has failed dismally
Recent media reports of Negasha Primary School in Hwange District which failed to open due to non-availability of teachers forcing students to miss out on vital learning opportunities that could have ...Published: 15 Sep 2016 at 10:38hrs | | by Campaigners for Devolution
PHOTOS: Mujuru at Ngozi Mine squatter camp
Pictures have emerged of Zimbabwe People First interim leader Joyce Mujuru's visit to Ngozi Mine squatter camp in Bulawayo last week.Several ex-Zipra carders are staying at the dumpsite....Published: 13 Sep 2016 at 13:46hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Ex-Zipra war veterans are scavengers at Ngozi Mine - Mujuru
Zimbabwe People First interim leader Joice Mujuru has said several ex-Zipra war veterans are scavengers as they are living at a garbage dumpsite in Bulawayo.Addressing thousands of ZimPF suppo...Published: 11 Sep 2016 at 08:09hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Dangers of Zimbabwe's politicism & egopolitics
THE spirited search for Lucifer and other expelled angels has taken Zimbabweans so many years and cost them many lives and lots of spirit, energy and property. The Zimbabwean economy and polity ha...Published: 31 Aug 2016 at 09:00hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Man kills friend over joke
A 23-year-old squatter appeared at the Harare Magistrates' Court facing allegations of killing his friend by setting alight his makeshift grass house, over a joke.Ignatius Bomba, of Chimom...Published: 25 Aug 2016 at 08:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hyena spotted dragging a human body near Victoria Falls
Harare - Two motorists approaching Victoria Falls this week were horrified to see a hyena dragging a human body, a conservationist told News24.According to the publication, it later emerged th...Published: 23 Jul 2016 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe: The Dangers of Politicism and Egopolitics
The spirited search for Lucifer and other expelled angels has taken Zimbabweans so many years. And cost them many lives and lots of spirit, energy and property. The Zimbabwean economy and polity have ...Published: 06 Jul 2016 at 16:27hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Zimbabwe National Shutdown Day declared
As Civil servants' unions are preparing for a crippling strike starting Tuesday, the day has been 'declared' National shutdown Day.All the 14 civil servants unions, including doctors and a...Published: 04 Jul 2016 at 09:28hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Politics of factionalism
THE pestiferous culture of factionalism makes the concept itself a complex one, and it is not easy to give an easy definition of this inevitable scourge in politics. It is neither true nor fac...Published: 21 Jan 2016 at 05:16hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
Zimbabweans lost their jobs after asking R10 for 5 hours overtime: Stranded and abused away from home
The total emasculation of the migrant farm worker's labour, social and economic power has been complemented into a plan stratagem which inevitably beyond any reasonable doubt, trims down the farm work...Published: 02 Jan 2016 at 11:13hrs | 3 | by Tapiwa Diamond Chadya
Look East Africa Mr President Sir!
If the so called statesman, President Robert Mugabe was like 'The Bulldozer' in his 35 years rule, Zimbabwe could be by now next to none in Africa in the area of opulence. If all African presidents we...Published: 27 Nov 2015 at 11:53hrs | 8 | by Godwin Tshetu Mupakairi
Scavengers stumble on body of newborn at dump site
A GROUP of scavengers stumbled on a body of a new born baby hidden among rubbish that had been disposed by employees of the Plumtree Town Council sanitation gang at the Plumtree dump site. The...Published: 06 Sep 2015 at 06:08hrs | | by Sukulwenkosi Dube
As the Nation Burns, Mugabe Embarks on Another Costly Jamboree to New York
The MDC is deeply appalled by the decision of Robert Mugabe to embark on another costly and completely unnecessary jamboree to New York in the United States to attend some low key conference on Ebola....Published: 09 Jul 2015 at 14:48hrs | | by Obert Gutu
Elton Mangoma a Political Scavenger
Elton Mangoma, the rover politician, is migrating from one political entity to another with no room to achieve his elfish political ambitions. He dragged Tendai Biti out of MDC-T, only to party w...Published: 23 Jun 2015 at 15:18hrs | | by Suitable Kajau
Mugabe, Grace not in Zimbabwe's 50 richest people's list
A report on the 50 richest Zimbabwean people produced by a firm called X Research has excluded President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace but included Information Communication minister Supa Mand...Published: 27 May 2015 at 08:38hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
MDC-T: Last Supper Petition - Step down Mr Mugabe
THE OFFICE OF THE Movement for Democratic ChangeYouth Assembly South Africa MDC-TSVANGIRAI 20th Febr...Published: 26 Feb 2015 at 20:52hrs | | by Tapiwa Diamond Chadya
All politicians are ugly
When you really want to stoke the furnace of misanthropy, the thought-ages to visit are the Augustans and the Romantics. But that is to reckon time by way of literary movements, something decidedly es...Published: 02 Nov 2013 at 07:18hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
We need to bury our dead and then bring Gukurahundi perpetrators to justice
It is our duty to remember and honour the Gukurahundi victims. We need to bring perpetrators of the genocide to justice then bury our dead before we can talk about any compensation whatsoever. Those ...Published: 23 May 2013 at 14:19hrs | | by Velempini Ndlovu
Crayfish breeding out of control in Lake Kariba
SCIENTISTS say a fresh water crayfish brought from Australia is breeding out of control in Lake Kariba, devouring the food sources of other fish and putting the nation's entire aquatic ecosystem at r...Published: 08 May 2013 at 04:23hrs | | by Angus Shaw I AP
Zimbabwe faces fresh water crayfish crisis
Scientists in Zimbabwe say a fresh water crayfish brought from Australia is breeding out of control in the northern Lake Kariba, devouring the food sources of other fish and putting the nation's entir...Published: 13 Feb 2013 at 06:27hrs | | by AP
Matebeleland and the emergent Generational Challenges
The current political trends obtaining in Matebeleland and calls for different systems of governance and policies, such as devolution of power, should be understood as offshoots of...Published: 03 Sep 2012 at 09:45hrs | | by Dr Brilliant Sigabade Mhlanga
Army, CIO battle Zanu-PF bigwigs
SECUROCRATS are increasingly tightening their grip on Zanu-PF amid further indications several members of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), police and retired army officers are battling to ...Published: 28 Apr 2012 at 13:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF is desperate, misguided and unthankful
Imagine if the donor community had not joined hands and mobilised textbooks to the country's primary and secondary schools, where would education be now? The voices that denounced Coltart are the very...Published: 15 Apr 2012 at 10:15hrs | | by Bob Gondo
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