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Street kid-turned-vendor convicted of fraud, theft
A former street kid who rose to prominence as a popular airtime vendor in Masvingo town has been convicted of fraud and theft after swindling two victims out of more than US$1,600. However, sentencing...Published: 14 Jul 2025 at 15:58hrs | 670 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo is not a shanty town
BULAWAYO is not a shanty town where trade shambles are wont to be germane.No, the City of Kings and Queens, alias royal palace of international trade fairs, should not be turned into an eyesor...Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 09:31hrs | 571 | by Stephen Mpofu
Turf wars among Bulawayo's street kids highlight struggle for survival
As the sun dips below the horizon in Bulawayo, known as the City of Kings and Queens, the city's lively streets transform into tense battlegrounds. Once places of laughter and connection, the pavement...Published: 08 Feb 2025 at 12:38hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: 'Churches, Mermaids flood Mukuvisi River'
Several churches, mermaid spiritual agents (MaNjuzu), traditional healers and street kids illegally settled and grabbed land along the Mukuvisi river while living in harmony with each other despite di...Published: 11 Jan 2025 at 08:54hrs | 2200 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe's ballooning US$21 billion debt spirals out of hand
Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) Mbizo Member of Parliament (MP), Corban Madzivanyika, has raised alarm over Zimbabwe's escalating public debt, which has now surpassed US$21 billion. During a recent...Published: 15 Sep 2024 at 10:06hrs | 1866 | by Staff reporter
More than 100 street children roam Bulawayo
Bulawayo is experiencing a troubling rise in the number of children leaving their homes to live and work on the streets, often turning to illegal activities such as drug and substance abuse. Over 100 ...Published: 25 Jul 2024 at 07:40hrs | 317 | by Staff reporter
African children are wood, and water collectors for the whites: nothing has changed!
I wish I lived in another planet and certainly not planet Earth because this one has painful contradictions. Africa, especially, a continent that was ravaged by slavery for centuries. The white popula...Published: 23 Jul 2024 at 16:48hrs | 655 | by Nomazulu Thata
Street children overrun Bulawayo CBD
The business community in Bulawayo has expressed serious concerns about street children in the central business district, citing them as a significant health hazard and disruption to operations. ...Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 08:28hrs | 1787 | by Staff reporter
Street kids terrorise pedestrians in CBD
The Harare central business district has been plagued by a group of street children, aged between 10 and 20, who are involved in snatching wigs, jewelry, cell phones, purses, and other valuables from ...Published: 11 Jul 2024 at 07:18hrs | 8 | by Staff reportyer
Community service for killing boyfriend
The High Court has sentenced a Kariba woman to 620 hours of community service after she fatally stabbed her jealous boyfriend with a broken beer bottle on the neck in front of police officers at the N...Published: 11 Apr 2024 at 08:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police track, identify booze drinking minors
POLICE say they have identified two of the 10 minors who were caught on video on Christmas Day drinking beer in central Harare.In a statement yesterday, national police spokesperson Assistant ...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 07:31hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Police identify juveniles abusing alcohol
Police have identified two minors aged 13 and 11 years who were part of a group of children seen abusing alcohol in a video clip that has gone viral on social media.The footage was taken in ce...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 07:28hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Serial killer arrested
The Zimbabwe Republic police arrested the suspected serial killer Thandolwenkosi Ndlovu (20) today in connection with five murder cases in the Harare Central business district between August 28 and 4t...Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 19:48hrs | 2 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Harare goes after litterbugs
HARARE City Council (HCC) says it is intensifying enforcement of its anti-littering by-laws with culprits caught in the act being penalised.The central business district (CBD) has become an ey...Published: 28 Apr 2023 at 06:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo a pale shadow of its former self
IN the years gone by, Bulawayo, with its charming architecture in the form of Victorian-style buildings, stood tall across the country as a better-organised and cleanest city in southern Africa. ...Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 05:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Former Miss Zimbabwe now staying on the streets of Joburg
FORMER Miss Zimbabwe 2003, Phoebe Monjane, is now a pale shadow of herself.According to H-Metro, the model is now staying on the streets of Joburg.She is said to be dining with street ...Published: 16 Aug 2022 at 16:19hrs | 12 | by Staff Reporter
Politicians must not politicise development
CHIREDZI residents have urged elected officials and politicians to end polarisation and collectively focus on serving the community in a transparent and non-partisan manner.Speaking during a c...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 08:26hrs | 5 | by Alexio Rashirai
Police launch another blitz
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has launched another operation code-named ‘Respect Other Road Users', targeting motorists who continue violating the traffic rules and regulations countrywide.So...Published: 02 May 2022 at 07:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police impound 1 600 pirate taxis
Over 1 600 illegal pirate taxis (popularly known as mushikashika) and unregistered vehicles have been impounded in an operation launched by police on Thursday to bring order to towns and cities....Published: 01 May 2022 at 11:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Private transporters, police clash
THE Passenger Association of Zimbabwe (Paz) and the police have clashed over an ongoing operation targeting pirate taxis.Police in Harare metropolitan province yesterday declared war on pirate...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 09:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police crackdown on pirate taxis nets 600
NEARLY 600 pirate taxis usually called mushikashika, unregistered cars, street kids controlling traffic and vendors operating at intersections were arrested in Harare yesterday on the first day of a m...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 08:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BCC tackles dirt in the city
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has started cleaning up sanitary lanes in the city centre as it moves to reverse general decay in a bid to regain lost glory as the country's cleanest city.The sani...Published: 07 Jan 2022 at 05:54hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, is Zimbabwe a sovereign state or a pariah, failed state?
What is sovereign about Zimbabwe whose government fails to give its people basics such as food securities for all, good education for all, basic health facilities, good all-weather roads, water & ...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 11:48hrs | 13 | by Nomazulu Thata
Council recruits more traffic cops
Harare City Council has certified 166 new municipal police officers to boost traffic management in the CBD and assist in reducing congestion during peak hours.Speaking at the certification of ...Published: 01 Dec 2021 at 05:36hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Tiri pama one: Now it's the people of Mashonaland demanding a cake for all
You can't help but wish Joshua Nkomo was alive. This is exactly what he prophesized. Josh said in his own words: "This tribalism will not take you anywhere Robert. This pasi newe, pasi naye cannot be ...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 20:27hrs | 3 | by Nomazulu Thata
Police thwart war vets demo, arrest 30
RIOT cops heavily descended on war veterans protesting their paltry monthly allowances in Harare Monday morning, arresting 30.The easily irritable ex-combatants once again took to the streets ...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 18:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora councillors resolve to back Mnangagwa wife
The MDC-T dominated Harare City Council has resolved to support first lady Auxilia Mnangagwa's projects amid accusations that the Douglas Mwonzora-led outfit is abusing the local authority's resources...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jane Ngwenya the first black woman nationalist to join active politics in Rhodesia
Comrade Jane Ngwenya was the first woman who dared the men spaces, a domain of male occupation: politics. When my mother came to Zambia running away from the obvious incarceration at Chikurubi prison ...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 13:44hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Open letter to Jean Gasho!
Dear Jean, Its already August 2021; incredible how time has flown!My recent conversation with you was uplifting it is one of those rare telephone calls one gets out of the blue we comm...Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 23:44hrs | 7 | by Nomazulu Thata
Council spurns Mnangagwa wife project
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has backtracked on its pledge to support First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa in the conversion of Chambuta Refugee Camp into a rehabilitation facility for street kids.Gov...Published: 28 May 2021 at 07:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MPs push for split of Health and Child Care ministry
MEMBERS of Parliament have launched a campaign to push for the Health and Child Care ministry to be split into two portfolios following public concerns that the current structure was prioritising heal...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 09:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Garbage piles grow in Bulawayo
BULAWAYO is sitting on a health time bomb as council continues to struggle to collect refuse from both residential areas and the city centre. The failure by Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to coll...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC rejects Mrs Mnangagwa donation request
BULAWAYO City Council has expressed reservations over expending resources to a project spearheaded by First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa to transform a refugee centre at Chambuta in Chiredzi into a rehabil...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 05:48hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Restore teachers' dignity and pay their dues
The disdain that this new dispensation government has against it's own people boggles the mind. The ruling party has failed and is not in sync with the current economic turmoil bedevelling everyone in...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 16:04hrs | 2 | by Leonard Koni
Mnangagwa fears Sudan-style protests will rock Zimbabwe
GOVERNMENT'S deep-seated fears of massive Sundanese-style protests over the deteriorating political and economic emergency have been exposed after it moved yesterday to block mass demonstrations calle...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 11:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's image dented by police brutality
The violent crackdown by the police on opposition activists that gathered in Harare on Friday awaiting a court judgement on a planned demonstration once again put President Emmerson Mnangagwa's commit...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:48hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Abductions, torture, dragnet arrests amid vicious crackdown against dissent
Blessing Kunotonga is one of scores of opposition supporters left nursing serious injuries after state security agents launched a crackdown against the MDC ahead of the banned August 16 protests....Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans must ignore Chamisa's calls for anarchy
TODAY is the day for peace-loving and patriotic Zimbabweans to shame merchants of violence by ignoring calls for violent demonstrations by the Mr Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance whose agenda is to try...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 00:00hrs | 1 | by Editorial - Chronicle
Zanu-PF youths slam Zimbabwe spring protests
THE Zanu-PF Youth League in Matabeleland South yesterday slammed the planned MDC Alliance demonstration set for tomorrow, saying it is an unwanted political gimmick bent on causing anarchy in the coun...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Violence, anarchy will not solve Zimbabwe's problems
WE are alarmed by reports that the opposition Movement for Democratic Change Alliance has roped in foreigners to shore up its planned demonstrations aimed at toppling the legitimately elected Governme...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 07:39hrs | | by Editorial - Chronicle
Zimbabwe police warn foreigners
Government has warned foreigners to either stay away from local politics or be ready to face the full wrath of the law. Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Ambassador Cain Mathema, who...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
War vets offices bombed
ELEMENTS believed to be linked to the opposition, MDC-Alliance that has called for nationwide demonstrations this week against the Government early yesterday morning raided and petrol-bombed war veter...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Are we enjoying the fruits of our independence-Zimbabwe?
The Zimbabwe is on standstill not because of sanctions. The real matter is on "CORRUPTION" and Zimbabwe to go forward need to adhere to its "Constitution".. In the Zimbabwean scenario, a certain secti...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 21:26hrs | 12 | by Enos Denhere
'Taming the Shrew' - Deaths on our Roads
Driving in Harare and in the highways of Zimbabwe has become distressful. Recent reports of high profile road traffic deaths refer. The traffic chaos has become a 'shrew.' There is urgent need to 'tam...Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 07:53hrs | 2 | by Engineer Tororiro Isaac Chaza PMP
4 street kids refuse to let go of Mnangagwa's wife
Some homeless children from the streets of Harare have found a new home at Upenyu Hutsva Children's Home in Highfield following the intervention of the First Lady, Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa through her ...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 09:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Enact sanction-busting measures
Editor,Following the Unilateral Declaration of Independence by Ian Smith on November 11, 1965, the international community imposed economic sanctions on Rhodesia. The Rhodesian said, "if we ha...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 14:28hrs | | by Nyonyana Gwabini
NUST graduate turns plastic waste into diesel
A National University of Science and Technology graduate is turning Harare's plastic waste into diesel in a pioneering project that could go a long way in addressing Zimbabwe's chronic fuel shortages....Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 08:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kombi drivers refuse to leave bus terminus
COMMUTER omnibus drivers are refusing to pave way for ZUPCO buses at terminuses.ZUPCO and other buses were blocked by kombis from using Harare Central Charge Office Bus Terminus in protest aga...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 16:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe won't die, the youth will save it
What really caught Ian Smith unawares was presumptuous complacency and his government's arrogance of incumbency… a deeply entrenched sense, both of class entitlement and invincibility based, not so ...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:40hrs | 4 | by Zifiso Masiye
Teachers group hires street kids to boost wage demo
TEACHERS under the firebrand Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) Friday hired street kids to blow vuvuzelas and also bang pots as they continued pressing for US dollar wages outside F...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 08:44hrs | | by newzimbabwe
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