Search / Vagabonds
'ZANU PF is a party of vagabonds,' says party councillor
Mazowe ward 6 councillor, Shamie Sande (51) has lambasted and labelled ZANU-PF party members as vagabonds following his arrest for allegedly stealing 100 bags of fertilizer reserved under the Presiden...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 20:04hrs | 1229 | by Paul Ndou
Brisk firewood business as cold spell bites Bulawayo
In Bulawayo, firewood vendors and sports bar owners experienced increased business activity due to the coldest day of winter so far. Vendors in the western suburbs set up braziers early in the morning...Published: 09 Jun 2024 at 09:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
5 years on, no leads on White City bombing
INVESTIGATIONS into the White City bombing in Bulawayo during a Zanu-PF rally in 2018 have turned into a cold case with no leads, five years on.Zanu-PF has been avoiding using White City Stadi...Published: 19 Aug 2023 at 16:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Public toilets shortage blamed for filthy Bulawayo alleys
THE shortage of public toilets in the Bulawayo Central Business District (CBD) has been blamed for filthy alleyways as people are forced to relieve themselves anywhere leading to the spread of disease...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:41hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Lukashenko joins Zimbabwe lithium rush
BELARUSIAN President Alexander Lukashenko this week travelled 7 982 kilometres, the distance by air from his capital Minsk to Harare, in his first sub-Saharan visit to meet President Emmerson Mnangagw...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa bomb attack mystery deepens
Four years after President Emmerson Mnangagwa survived an assassination attempt it has emerged that a former soldier, who was convicted by the military for the grenade attack, was in India on the day ...Published: 24 Jul 2022 at 10:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Households must Arm up and protect themselves
Zimbabweans must take matters into their hands as the rate of thieving, prostitution, drug use, and homosexuality by our country's youth reaches unprecedented levels. Our leaders have decided to look ...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 15:42hrs | | by Sam Wezhira
3 VID officers remanded in custody
THREE Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) examiners arrested for issuing provisional drivers' licences to people who had failed were remanded in custody to Tuesday next week.The trio was arr...Published: 15 May 2021 at 09:54hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
War vets want more cash
WAR veterans in Karoi have demanded more cash from Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, instead of being given loans for income-generating projects.The issue arose during a public hearing on the 202...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
A White City bomb victim's cry for help
LIKE many Zanu-PF youths, 34-year-old Coreen Mazokera felt duty-bound to provide ushering services during the ill-fated ruling party campaign rally addressed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in Bulaway...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
The 'scania' operator who became a businessman
PHINIAS GOMBA hates the sport of soccer. FOR the first 20 years of his life, he had loved it like most young men in soccer mad Zimbabwe. This all changed one night after another heavyweight bout betwe...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
White City bombing: Two Bulawayo men to appear in court tomorrow
Two suspects arrested for White City bombing will appear in court tomorrow amid revelations mere vagabonds were picked up to save face by the military.Sources said the two suspects from old Pu...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 17:05hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
German's CDU of Angela Merkel: no coalition with Neo-Nazi party! And opposition parties in Zimbabwe?
Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Party is having a horrendous task in forming a coalition government: in Zimbabwe, Zanu PF was spoilt for choices: who in the opposition can they pick-and cherry: t...Published: 10 Dec 2017 at 14:38hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
'We retreat, attend to wounded soldiers' - Dzamara attends, rescues old lady from 'SATANISTS' cops
Patson Dzamara has described how he rushed to rescue an elderly woman in her 60s from "vagabonds masquerading as riot police" yesterday in Harare.Dzarama described the men in uniform as "SATAN...Published: 27 Aug 2016 at 09:23hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Taxes only good for the government and not ordinary citizens
TAXES were, of course, good for the government and not so good for the ordinary citizen who barely understood what was happening. To him, it was a simple case of the government extending its high-hand...Published: 17 Jul 2016 at 17:10hrs | | by Clerk Ndlovu
Minister wants fines for those who help street kids
The Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Services plans to remove displaced children from the streets by arresting or fining people who are found feeding or giving such kids money. De...Published: 14 Jun 2016 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Auxilia Katongomara
Tshinga Dube clarifies Mutsvangwa 'ouster'
TSHINGA Dube, the Minister of Welfare Services for War Veterans, War Collaborators, Former Political Detainees and Restrictees yesterday said he has no authority to decide the fate of Zimbabwe Nationa...Published: 08 Mar 2016 at 06:21hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Silly season for Didymus Mutasa
Inasmuch as laws are like sausages which most of us would not want to witness their manufacturing, the same goes with democratic processes which certainly involve the toleration of a plurality of idio...Published: 09 Feb 2016 at 13:01hrs | | by Morgan Ngomwa
Retrenched GMB workers disappointed by latest offer
HARARE - Grain Marketing Board (GMB) workers, who were retrenched recently, have vowed to stand for their rights to the bitter end, as they expressed grave misgivings with the latest offer by their fo...Published: 19 Dec 2015 at 09:52hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Retrenched GMB workers disappointed by latest offer
Grain Marketing Board (GMB) workers, who were retrenched recently, have vowed to stand for their rights to the bitter end, as they expressed grave misgivings with the latest offer by their former empl...Published: 18 Dec 2015 at 08:28hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Employee sues company for dumping him at dump site
A man from Chimanimani in Manicaland who was dismissed by Springbrake Services Private Limited in Bulawayo after insulting boss' son is suing the employer demanding over $4500 in back pay....Published: 28 Jun 2015 at 08:13hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Remembering Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo: On this day, a giant was born
Well, it's not official yet but today, June 19, marks the birthday of Father Zimbabwe, the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo who was born on this day in 1917.He died on July 1, 1999, leaving be...Published: 19 Jun 2015 at 15:23hrs | | by Christopher Charamba
Tsvangirai, Welshman Ncube should resign and pave way for young generation
Tsvangirai, Ncube and all other members who have been at the fore front for the struggle to remove President Robert Mugabe should all resign and pave way for a young and vibrant generation to rescue Z...Published: 30 Mar 2015 at 10:16hrs | | by Musavengana Hove
Another CIO loses case in farm wrangle
THE Bulawayo High Court has dismissed an urgent chamber application by a senior intelligence officer who sought a provisional order to stop an Esigodini white commercial farmer from kicking him out of...Published: 19 Mar 2015 at 07:50hrs | 10 | by Court Reporter
Street kids rapes a woman
Two street kids were yesterday arraigned before the courts after they allegedly raped and robbed a woman in Gweru.The two, a minor aged 17 and Taurai Chigavakava, 18, who have no known addres...Published: 02 Jul 2014 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
What is next for the Ndebele Youth Brigade?
Elections have come and gone, winners are still on cloud nine while losers are in a dire state of confusion, panic, witch-hunting and despair as expected in any political race. The question that still...Published: 22 May 2014 at 10:18hrs | | by Khumbulani Malinga
God's call to end Ndebele and Shona hostility
I want to address this issue because the Lord has always put it in my heart for a long time, but l have always avoided it because l thought it was too sensitive and perhaps divisive such that it ...Published: 20 Feb 2014 at 15:03hrs | | by Sikhulile Tjinjika Nyathi
Pay toilets irks Bulawayo residents
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has been accused of gross hypocrisy in its call for cleanliness in the city when it has commercialised almost all public toilets in the city's central business distric...Published: 09 Dec 2013 at 08:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Rethinking the Matabeleland question (What next for youths in Matabeleland?)
Elections have come and gone, winners are still on cloud nine while losers are in a dire state of confusion, panic, witch-hunting and despair as expected in any political race. The question that ...Published: 08 Nov 2013 at 07:56hrs | | by Khumbulani Malinga
Calvin Dondo Spins Colonial Photography On Its Head
Have you ever driven down a street and had an epiphany that you could be on the right track to witness something spectacular? Its not that you have a particular intuition, but the Phil Collins track...Published: 20 Jun 2013 at 11:53hrs | | by A.A.V. Amasi
This and that with Maluphosa: Amagugu eGoli ayosala emaflatini
Yes, the panic is almost tangible. The police have declared war on Zimbabwean immigrants. Last week I had a brush with ama-volontiya.They scrutinised my asylum paper and discovered something t...Published: 16 Jul 2011 at 09:00hrs | | by Clerk Ndlovu
Load More Stories
