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Zimbabwe man jailed two years for smuggling cigarettes into SA
A 48-year-old Zimbabwean man has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment by the Polokwane Specialised Commercial Crimes Court for smuggling cigarettes worth R416 070 into South Africa.Max Ch...Published: 01 Dec 2023 at 18:24hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
US$110 000 to explore waste recycling in Bulawayo
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC)'s water and sanitation programme got a major boost after it secured about US$110 000 from a Dutch entity, Vitens Evides International (VIE), to conduct a one-year feasibili...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 06:46hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe schools to remain closed until Tuesday
SCHOOLS in provinces that are likely to be affected by Cyclone Freddy might be forced to remain closed until Tuesday as the affected areas are expected to receive heavy rains of over 65mm from today u...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 07:02hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Jumbo, croc attack victim seeks help
A BINGA man who miraculously survived an elephant and crocodile attack that left him clinging onto the straws of life is appealing for financial assistance to enable him to undergo further treatment o...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 09:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Boost for Bulawayo water supplies
BULAWAYO City Council will tomorrow sign a major deal with a Dutch company, Vitens Evides International (VEI) to implement key water projects that will ease the city's water woes.Recently, the...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Power shortages to ease this week
ZIMBABWE'S biggest power generation plant, Kariba South Power Station, will resume operating at full capacity this week, in a development that is expected to ease the crippling power shortages that ha...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 07:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean agriculture recovery in motion
ZIMBABWE is an agrarian economy and has huge potential to produce enough for its people and surplus that can be exported to generate foreign currency. However, there is a puzzling divergence between i...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 10:43hrs | 3 | by Dr John Basera
BCC threatens to punish water abusers
BULAWAYO City Council has threatened to penalise residents who abuse water and exceed their daily limits.The warning came after the local authority partially eased the water-rationing schedule...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 06:17hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Swept away car sighted, 6 feared dead
Six people, including the driver, are feared dead after a Toyota Hilux double cab vehicle was swept off a flooded bridge on Gweru River along the Gweru-Matobo Road yesterday morning. The autho...Published: 11 Jan 2021 at 08:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Thabitha Khumalo stoking tribal fires in Bulawayo
Thabitha Khumalo statement on Saturday that Matabeles must first change the constitution of the country and the Urban Councils Act if they want to fight Shona hegemony in Bulawayo is drunk talk....Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 08:07hrs | 2 | by Israel Dube
'Not My Job!' declares Kariba Mayor
Residents of Beira Blocks, a section of Mahombekombe suburb, falling under Ward 5, have resorted to using the bush to relieve themselves. The only toilet servicing this bustling community is in a stat...Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 22:38hrs | 1 | by Laiton Kandawire | Patsaka-Nyaminyami CR Environment and Tourism Series
Discipline mustn't be administered through brutality
The problem of child abuse is getting out of hand and our society must act now to stop the terrible crimes against innocent children.Recently, the Midlands community awoke to the shocking news...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 23:55hrs | | by Cuthbert Mavheko
Strive Masiyiwa to build house for Cyclone Idai heroine
TELECOMMUNICATIONS magnate and billionaire, Mr Strive Masiyiwa has pledged to build a house and pay a $1000 lifetime monthly allowance to an elderly woman from Harare who walked from Mbare to Highland...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 22:22hrs | 3 | by ZimLive
ED and Chamisa must not use the cyclone as a tool for political mileage
Traumatic events, including natural disasters, are distressing. Strong reactions immediately after the event are very common. Fear, sadness, guilt and anger are all common emotions felt by children, t...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 14:03hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mthuli Ncube guilty as charged
Community Water Alliance is greatly disturbed by Hon Minister of Finance Mthuli Ncube's disregard of his constitutional duties when it comes to loan agreements and guarantees.We read with sadn...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 13:40hrs | 1 | by Community Water Alliance
Boy (13) survives croc attack
A 13-YEAR-OLD Tongwe school pupil, Anymore Muleya, wrestled a crocodile in its watery home and lived to tell the tale on Friday last week.Muleya, who was hunting water ducks with his elder bro...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 09:33hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
The latest Monetary Policy Statement & Fiscal Measures intend to rob Zimbabweans again
There is no doubt that ZANU PF government, Mthuli Ncube and John Panonetsa Mangudya are now running out of ideas. It is now clear in my mind that I had overrated Mthuli Ncube prior to his appointment ...Published: 02 Oct 2018 at 11:24hrs | 1 | by Don Chigumba
Polygamist drown while fishing
A Mutorashanga polygamist drowned while fishing at a local dam on Sunday.Sources familiar with the incident allege that Washton Kwashu (34) drowned at Bharoni dam after a tyre tube he was usin...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 11:52hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
I saw the Queen of the sea waters
Today on July 21, 2018 the spirit of THE LORD JESUS had me encounter The Queen of the Sea Waters, she whom the bible in Revelation 17 calls ..."the great prostitute, who sits on many waters." May the ...Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 16:18hrs | 111 | by Tendai Tagarira
Municipality worker steals water meters
A Chitungwiza Municipality worker has been brought before a Chitungwiza magistrate facing allegations of stealing three water meters worth $150.Represented by her defence counsel Phillip Hamun...Published: 26 Mar 2018 at 16:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chimanimani's illegal miners dilemma
Opinion is divided over gold mining in Allied Timbers' Tarka Forest.For two decades, illegal artisanal miners have maintained a stranglehold on the commercial forest - disrupting operations an...Published: 01 Mar 2018 at 14:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fisherman drowns while using homemade canoe
An 18-year-old Mvurwi fish monger allegedly drowned at Forester E dam in Mvurwi on Tuesday afternoon (yesterday).Sources close to investigations allege the fish monger was using an unsafe home...Published: 25 Oct 2017 at 10:10hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Unpaid sangoma holds children for ransom
A SELF-STYLED traditional healer in Gweru has detained two minor children for four years after their mother failed to pay two beasts for the treatment of a rare foot disease.The kids, now aged...Published: 13 Sep 2017 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mine worker drowns during swimming competition
Swimming competition ended tragic when a miner drowned in a river on Saturday in Mazowe.Sources privy to the development allege a Mazowe mine employee Mathias Mandikisi had gone for swimming c...Published: 12 Sep 2017 at 20:24hrs | 3 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Beyonce gives birth to twins, boy and girl
American pop star Beyonce has given birth to twins, according to media in the US.Entertainment Weekly, Us Weekly and People magazines confirmed the news, but the date of birth and gender of th...Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 14:13hrs | 1 | by BBC
Fish monger drowns, body found under water two days later
A 32 year old Mvurwi fish monger drowned whilst fishing in a reservoir and was under water for 2 days Bulawayo24.com has heard.Allegations are that Jadwell Ranjisi from Kamusha farm Mvurwi dro...Published: 19 May 2017 at 12:00hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Sangoma 'uses baboons, snakes to bring back lost love'
A Harare based Malawian Sangoma who is a member of Zimbabwe National Practioners Association (ZINPA) claims to use baboons and snakes to bring back lost love or in punishing thieves.Kamw...Published: 09 May 2017 at 18:59hrs | 13 | by Staff Reporter
Prophet returns tsikamutanda's goblins
IT was a baby-come-back moment for a Gweru tsikamutanda who had lost his goblins to a prophet whom he accused of using them.Musiiwa Denhere of Mkoba 20 in Gweru says he is excited that...Published: 21 Apr 2017 at 09:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Woman tired of living 'under water with mermaids'
A 35-year-old Chitungwiza woman, Chikerema, who hails from Mhondoro-Ngezi has told Kwayedza newspaper that she is fed-up with the life of staying under water where mermaids feed her flies, worms and u...Published: 15 Apr 2017 at 19:48hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Water, a top priority human right
A water-wise Good Samaritan has been offering clean water for free to strangers along Samora Machel Avenue West in the vicinities of Belvedere's Marimba shopping centre for decades now. Possibly that ...Published: 23 Mar 2017 at 07:28hrs | 3 | by Chigumbu Warikandwa
Workmen on roads should be blamed for the poor roads- MP
A legislator Joel Gabbuza has said the workmen hired to do the road surfacing and bridges."The issue that I would want to draw the attention of the Executive is the issue of checking on our br...Published: 21 Mar 2017 at 06:04hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
WATCH: 'I spent 6 weeks under water,' says Chinotimba
Buhera South Zanu-PF MP Joseph Chinotimba has said he once spent six weeks "under water" training in the Black Sea.Chinotimba said this during an interview with Ruveneko. He said he was under ...Published: 20 Mar 2017 at 15:22hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Council not suspending water rationing
Bulawayo city council is not suspending water rationing in the city any time soon, the local authority has said.The city has been enforcing the measure for more th...Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 04:43hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mermaid kidnaps two boys and brings them back alive in Gokwe
IN a rather stranger than fiction case, which left people at Village Seven under Chief Nemangwe in Gokwe shocked, two boys died under unclear circumstances after they were reportedly snatched by a...Published: 03 Mar 2017 at 10:48hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Dineo update - Insiza Marvel bridge flooded (video)
Insiza river was overflowing this afternoon and Marvel bridge was covered under water making Filabusi-Silalatshani route inaccessible. Nkankezi bridge, along Zvishavane road, also stayed under water f...Published: 17 Feb 2017 at 18:47hrs | 3 | by Moyo Roy
Mutambara narrates Zanu-PF horror attack
He might have dodged bullets during the war of independence in the 1970s and escaped enemy wrath - but retired brigadier general and former diplomat Agrippah Mutambara was last Sunday caught betwe...Published: 03 Oct 2016 at 16:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo crew takes Hip-Hop to another level
In Ndebele we say "Okuhle kuyabukwa" - Bulawayo musicians have for years been struggling to get air play on national radio stations but that has never stopped some of them from following their dreams....Published: 16 Aug 2016 at 16:30hrs | 1 | by Moyo Roy
Bulawayo runs out of water
Bulawayo City Council has warned of an imminent crippling water rationing regime in three months time.Officials say the city with more than one million residents is only left with three month ...Published: 03 Aug 2016 at 07:53hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Inyanga uses three pythons to heal the sick
INYANGA Sibusiso Ngobese says his three big pythons serve as a link to his ancestors and without them he doesn’t think he can do his spiritual job of healing his patients.“My ancestors tal...Published: 24 Feb 2016 at 13:38hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Tempers rise as Gwanda boy drowns fending for water
Gwanda is this morning reaching boiling point as a twelve year old child has died while fetching water from Mtshabezi river following another weekend without water in the town.Sources in Gwand...Published: 12 Oct 2015 at 11:12hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Another teacher impregnates Form 3 pupil
One would wonder where this devilish spirit filling Sianzyundu ward is raining from. Its just less than 24hrs after the police fished out a senior staff from Siansundu Sec for indulging into sex...Published: 20 Sep 2015 at 09:06hrs | | by Citizen Journalist via WhatsApp
Drunk Zimbabwean student drowns in Canada
AUTHORITIES in Canada say a body has been found in the search for a Zimbabwean student who went under water in a Western Quebec river and never resurfaced.The 23-year-old man whose identity ha...Published: 06 Sep 2015 at 17:35hrs | 4 | by Agencies
Ritual fails to save teen abducted by mermaid
IT was a ceremony that never was for a Chipinge family in Manicaland Province after a 16-year-old girl believed to have been abducted by a mermaid in the mighty Save River could not be released seven ...Published: 28 Jun 2015 at 09:46hrs | 6 | by Peter Matika
Prophet drowns after baptising congregants
THE body of a self-styled Zvishavane prophet who drowned after baptising some of his church members in the Shave River last Sunday was retrieved by the police's sub aqua unit after a two-day searc...Published: 27 Nov 2014 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
CIOs harass UZ student leaders over Grace Mugabe's PhD
Suspected Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) operatives have been calling and trying to visit Zimbabwe National Students Union (Zinasu) president, Gilbert Mutubuki and his spokesperson Avoid Masi...Published: 12 Oct 2014 at 11:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
City water woes set to ease
BULAWAYO City Council yesterday commissioned a $1,3 million water purification plant at Criterion Water Works. Acting Mayor Councillor James Sithole said the rehabilitated plant has increased dr...Published: 02 Aug 2014 at 08:44hrs | 1 | by Sifundiso Ndlovu
Maize harvest up 30%
ZIMBABWE's 2013/2014 maize production is set to increase by at least 30 percent from last year's harvest of 799 000 tonnes to between 900 000 and one million tonnes. Despite predictions of a b...Published: 17 Apr 2014 at 08:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA borders closed after floods
JOHANNESBURG - Three border gates between South Africa and Botswana remain closed due to flooding. They were closed last week after the Limpopo River overflowed.Home Affairs spokesperson Sam M...Published: 18 Mar 2014 at 06:51hrs | 2 | by SABC
Bus plunges into flooded river, 50 passengers escape death
MORE than 50 passengers on Monday narrowly escaped death by drowning when an Ajay Motorways bus they were travelling in attempted to cross the flooded Embakwe River in Mangwe following a three-day...Published: 05 Mar 2014 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zupco bus accident, two feared dead
Two people died, while two others were swept by water when a Zupco bus they were travelling was trapped in a gully along the Gweru- Mandamabwe road this morning.The bus that was travelling f...Published: 07 Feb 2014 at 14:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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