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NUST enlists police to combat illegal gold mining on campus
The National University of Science and Technology (NUST) has called in the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) to help tackle a growing crisis of illegal gold panning that has infiltrated its main campus i...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 22:56hrs | 198 | by Staff reporter
Neighbours fight over property in squatter camp
A woman from Mount Hampden has been granted a peace order against her neighbours, whom she accused of harassment, violence, and destruction of property.Ms Revai Gatsi approached the Harare Civ...Published: 12 Apr 2025 at 12:53hrs | 57 | by Staff reporter
Man swept away while crossing flooded Umguza river in Bulawayo
A tragic incident in Bulawayo claimed the life of 30-year-old Richard Sibanda from Killarney Squatter Camp, who drowned while attempting to cross a flooded river near his home.According to Act...Published: 21 Jan 2025 at 13:42hrs | 353 | by Staff reporter
Illegal gold miners invade Bulawayo suburbs
Certain suburbs in Bulawayo are experiencing severe land degradation due to illegal gold mining activities. This destructive mining, which includes both open cast and deep shaft operations, ha...Published: 22 Aug 2024 at 07:14hrs | 928 | by Staff reporter
Man kills wife, buries corpse in shallow grave
Police in Insuza, Lupane, Matabeleland North province, have arrested Tryforward Mpofu (35) for the murder of his wife, Revai Rusive (36), whom he accused of infidelity. The incident occurred o...Published: 18 Jun 2024 at 06:55hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean jailed for life in SA
A ZIMBABWEAN man who committed a series of crimes in South Africa, including murder, armed robbery, rape, kidnapping, housebreaking, escaping from jail and unlawful possession of a firearm, was yester...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 05:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Prophet' nabbed for killing client
A BULAWAYO man died after allegedly drinking a poisonous concoction he got from a self-proclaimed prophet whom he had consulted in a bid to cure an undisclosed ailment, a magistrate heard yesterday....Published: 25 Aug 2023 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean family buries four Boksburg gas victims
A SOMBRE atmosphere engulfed Lushongwe Village in Gwanda as relatives and friends of four family members who were part of the 17 people who died from gas inhalation at an informal settlement in Boksbu...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 06:55hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Man dies in inferno
AN unidentified man died when a makeshift shelter he was sleeping in caught fire at Rangemore squatter camp in Bulawayo.The incident happened last week but the victim, Solomon Moyo's remains w...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA can turn into another Zimbabwe, hallucinates Mozambique linked Mashaba
Prominent South African opposition politician Herman Mashaba says he is fighting to stop the neighbouring country from turning into another Zimbabwe because of failed leadership.Mashaba (HM), ...Published: 30 Apr 2023 at 08:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man killed in squatter camp attack
A MAN was attacked at Killarney squatter camp in Bulawayo after being accused of burning down a shack and he later died from his injuries at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH).The deceased ha...Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-convict arrested for killing rival suitor
AN ex-convict has been nabbed in connection with the killing of a Bulawayo man in an alleged love triangle last week.Malcom Wilson Martin (44) of Queens Park West suburb and Bonakele Tshabalal...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 10:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Squatter camp escapes Covid-19
KILLARNEY Squatter Camp in Bulawayo has not recorded any Covid-19 cases since the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020.Zimbabwe has recorded more than 233 000 Covid-19 cases since the outbre...Published: 21 Feb 2022 at 05:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ngozi mine fires worry human rights group
THE outbreak of prolonged fires at the Ngozi Mine dumpsite in Bulawayo have worried the Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights which has since started to engage stakeholders over measures to cu...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 13:01hrs | 10 | by Stephen Jakes
Tikoloshe with giant manhood spotted at Ngozi Mine
SETTLERS at Ngozi Mine squatter camp in Bulawayo are living in fear after a short hairy man-like creature with a giant manhood was spotted early Sunday morning roaming the illegal settlement before it...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:18hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Traditional leaders urged to join hands in fight against land barons
TRADITIONAL leaders have been urged to join hands in combating illegal land sales that are fast gaining prominence in most communal areas surrounding Harare.The issue was raised in the Senate ...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 06:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans & other foreign nationals forced to seek refuge at Katlehong police station
"It is a shame - especially in a country like South Africa where everyone has been up in arms bemoaning the scourge of violence against women - that South African women are now complicit and at times ...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 22:05hrs | 1 | by City Press
Army boss up for rations theft
The commander of One Commando regiment in Harare was arrested last week for allegedly stealing army rations valued at more than $500 000.Zimbabwe National Army spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel ...Published: 31 May 2019 at 07:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man fined for exposing genitals to minors
A 42-YEAR-OLD man has been fined $30 for exposing his privates to two minors. Jabulani Moyo appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Mr Franklin Mkhwananzi who fined him $30 or five days in prison....Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 07:06hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo council defends selling stands in US$
THE Bulawayo City Council has defended the sale of residential stands in low density areas in foreign currency, saying the pricing was on a cost recovery basis at no profit. The city council s...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 07:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Wrong body buried, family forced to exhume
A NKAYI family in Matabeleland North has been forced to exhume a body of a Mosotho man it buried in December after it emerged that they collected a wrong body from a South African funeral parlour. ...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
EFF commends Mnangagwa
We as EFF in Zimbabwe we would like to commend the President of the second Republic of Zimbabwe, His Excellency Emmerson Mnangagwa for taking a positive direction of taking land from those who stole i...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 07:49hrs | | by EFF Zimbabwe
Man axes rival, kidnaps ex-girlfriend
A MAN from Bulawayo allegedly axed another man he found talking to his ex-girlfriend before setting the man's shack on fire and kidnapping the woman and her younger sister. Nqobizitha Ndlovu w...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Byo teen bashes live-in girlfriend
A TEENAGER from Ngozi mine squatter camp on the outskirts of Bulawayo has been arrested for allegedly beating up his live-in minor girlfriend after she failed to get him some drinking water that he ha...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Man 'assaults' live-in girlfriend
A TEENAGER from Ngozi Mine squatter camp on the outskirts of Bulawayo has been arrested for allegedly beating up his live-in minor girlfriend after she failed to get him some drinking water that he ha...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is MDC a better alternative, I wonder!
Dear Zimbabweans, My fellow countrymen i salute you in the name of peace and love.Is MDC a cursed political party or its just a grouping of ideological deficient and emotionally charge...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 10:22hrs | 1 | by Munya Shumba
Family moves to squatter camp after being evicted from inherited property
A FAMILY from Bulawayo has for the past three years been living under squalid conditions in one of the city's infamous squatter camps in Killarney after being evicted from a property it inherited from...Published: 26 Aug 2018 at 11:06hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo squatters pin hopes on Mnangagwa
SQUATTERS in Bulawayo have said that they have faith that the new Government led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa will provide decent accommodation for them.Lack of accommodation has seen a num...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Elections must not divide us'
BULAWAYO East House of Assembly aspirant for the newly formed Zimbabwe Rainbow Democratic Party (ZRDP) Mr Cuthbert Ncube has said Zimbabweans must not be divided by the elections but must see polls as...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man 'rapes' neighbour's wife
A Harare man reportedly took advantage of his neighbour's absence and stormed into his house before raping the wife, a court heard.Isaac Sithole, 43, appeared before Harare magistrate Edwin Ma...Published: 02 Jul 2018 at 12:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Squatter camps turned into Sodom, Gomorrah
From illegal settlements in Crowborough, Churu and Eyestone farms to poky informal shelters built on undesignated sites, there are now a huge number of squatter camps mushrooming across Zimbabwe's cap...Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 16:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Life in jail for robber
ONE of the three suspects who were captured on closed circuit television (CCTV) while killing and robbing a security guard at a company in Bulawayo's Thorngrove industrial area, was yesterday sentence...Published: 25 May 2018 at 07:13hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
SA-based contract killers jailed 2 years
Two South Africa-based men hired to kill a Zimbabwean man by his jilted lover will spend the next two years in jail.Fanuel Machando, 42, of Poortye Vaalrand, in Johannesburg and his neighbour,...Published: 03 Feb 2018 at 20:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Girlfriend hires foreign hitmen
TWO South Africa based men, who had been hired by a South African woman to rob her Zimbabwean ex-boyfriend, were last week nabbed after a tip-off.The duo was not asked to plead to charges of c...Published: 12 Dec 2017 at 15:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Woman gets beating for asking husband about girlfriend
A VICTORIA Falls man has been sentenced to a wholly suspended three months in jail after he assaulted his wife for asking him about his girlfriend.Alvine Mlilo (45) pleaded guilty to physical ...Published: 29 Nov 2017 at 05:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Whites should not play victim
I'm an Afrikaner of Free State farm stock, the descendant of Voortrekkers and Boer warriors (and concentration camp survivors) during the South African War - Du Preezs, Krugers, Van der Walts, Saayman...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 08:55hrs | 5 | by Max Du Preez
Man jailed for raping sister
A 24-YEAR-OLD man from Ngozi mine squatter camp in Bulawayo has been sentenced to 14 years in jail for raping his 12 year-old sister.The court heard that the man was caught in the act on Monda...Published: 02 Nov 2017 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Team MRP in Matobo North Campaign
Mthwakazi Republic Party President Mqondisi Moyo led some NEC and Matabeleland South provincial executive members to a campaign in his constituency giving villagers party fliers.Moyo told vill...Published: 22 Oct 2017 at 09:01hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Wife slayer died a bitter man, left 5-paged suicide note
Elisha Murimba (54), who sliced open his wife's throat in a blood-curdling murder and later committed suicide, died a bitter man and laid a host of allegations against Mrs Victoria Murimba.The...Published: 23 Sep 2017 at 09:18hrs | 17 | by Staff Reporter
Government, council must act on squatter camp school
PART of the country's national objectives as pronounced by the Constitution of Zimbabwe zero in on education. The section on education says; "The State must take all practical measures to promote (a) ...Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Gruesome murder - Hubby slices wife's throat
WHAT was meant to be a homecoming gathering for a father who had spent almost two decades in the Diaspora ended up being a funeral gathering after the man did the unthinkable and sliced open his wife'...Published: 15 Sep 2017 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Squatters set up illegal school
SQUATTERS at Ngozi Mine in Bulawayo have established an illegal school within the camp as they shun formal education arguing that not only is it expensive but their children are also subjected to ster...Published: 10 Sep 2017 at 09:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'I'm not violent,' claims Tabitha Khumalo
MDC-T Bulawayo East legislator Tabitha Khumalo claims she is a misunderstood person and does not subscribe to violence.Khumalo is not a stranger to controversy in both speech and eccentric beh...Published: 02 Sep 2017 at 19:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Amakholwa agwazwa ekhuthuzwe imali lamafoni ecaweni
AMAKHOLWA esigabeni seBeitbridge alokhu eqhaqhazela kulandela ukuba amabandla ambalwa ehlaselwe yizigelekeqe ngengqamu kanye langemibhobho ngesikhathi esenkonzweni.Isiga lesi esihlasimulisa um...Published: 14 Jul 2017 at 16:05hrs | 1 | by Umlobi
Lovestruck teen elopes to squatter camp
A love-struck teenager reportedly chose to abandon school and her home just to co-habit at Ngozi Mine, an informal municipal dumpsite settlement, with her newly found love.Tinashe Mutengwa (35...Published: 26 May 2017 at 09:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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
Bulawayo's disused factories turned into squatter homes
A couple of years ago I posted that while I was driving around the industrial areas in Bulawayo on a Sunday morning the place was abuzz with sounds of musical instruments and people deep in prayer ins...Published: 09 Mar 2017 at 05:51hrs | | by Bekezela Maduma Fuzwayo
Pressure group assists youths to get identity documents
BULAWAYO-BASED youth pressure group, Education Forum for Youths in Zimbabwe (EDUFYZ), has launched a programme to assist its members acquire identity documents to enable them to register as voters...Published: 26 Jan 2017 at 05:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zapu, Mujuru feud over Gukurahundi
DUMISO Dabengwa's Zapu has implored ZimPF leader, Joice Mujuru to join forces in advocating for the operationalisation of the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) in order to deal w...Published: 10 Dec 2016 at 17:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
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