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BCC launches major effort to clear clogged sewer pipes
In response to growing public concern over frequent sewer blockages, the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has launched an extensive programme aimed at clearing the city's clogged sewer pipes, which have lo...Published: 22 Feb 2025 at 11:59hrs | 524 | by Staff reporter
Man rapes minor in vegetable garden
A 38-YEAR-OLD Chiweshe man was convicted of rape yesterday at Bindura magistrates courts.Romeo Nzvimbo was sentenced to 15 years in jail after he raped a 15-year-old girl in a vegetable garden...Published: 30 Jan 2025 at 12:01hrs | 779 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Bulawayo City grapples with surge in stray cattle
The City of Bulawayo is contending with an influx of stray cattle that have been invading both western and eastern suburbs in search of green pastures. With the ongoing drought affecting much of Zimba...Published: 11 Nov 2024 at 07:06hrs | 252 | by Staff reporter
Council boss blows thousands on bling
Chiredzi Council, which is struggling to deliver standard services to its 300 000plus residents, is in the eye of a storm following revelations that the local authority could be pampering its executiv...Published: 16 Apr 2024 at 17:56hrs | 98 | by Staff reporter
Man faces in trouble for possession of explosives
A 45-year-old resident of Binga finds himself in legal trouble for the unauthorized possession of explosives.The individual, Lingani Ncube, appeared before Hwange Magistrate Ms Munamati on Thu...Published: 30 Dec 2023 at 18:08hrs | 28 | by Peter Matuka
'Brick by brick, a country is built by its owners'
The two often repeated philosophies of the Second Republic - "A country is built by its owners" and "Leaving no one and no place behind" - are not mere rhetorical statements to pontify the niceties of...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 08:06hrs | 1 | by Stephen Mpofu
Glamping Adventures head awarded for fostering inclusive rural tourism and conservation
Johannesburg - Gugu Sithole, CEO of Glamping Adventures was recognized with two awards for leading her organisation with conservation strategies that turn the focus on host rural communities within to...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 14:53hrs | 33 | by Agencies
July Moyo dragged into stand row
LOCAL Government minister July Moyo has been dragged to the High Court in a case where he faces charges of illegally allocating a piece of land belonging to a Harare businesswoman to the acting Chitun...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police block Zapu 60th anniversary celebrations in Kezi
POLICE last week blocked Zapu's 60th anniversary celebrations that were set to take place at the home of the late Father Zimbabwe Joshua Nkomo in Kezi, Matabeleland South province.Nkomo led PF...Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 07:28hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Army truck overturns on road to Mnangagwa garden visit
An army truck heading to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's launch of what was described as a "market gardening project" in Makorokoro, Matabeleland South, overturned on Wednesday killing two soldiers and...Published: 16 Dec 2021 at 23:32hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Protect Girls From the Climate Change Scourge
Stakeholders advocating for climate change and girls' rights have called for urgent intervention in the fight against climate change.Sp...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 10:24hrs | 1 | by Shelton Muchena
Albert Nyathi in life-saving projects
ALBERT Nyathi is working wonders at Kafusi Village - his rural home - in Gwanda, Matabeleland South.The renowned poet, musician, writer, actor and philanthropist seldom opens up about his pers...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 07:28hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF hijacks govt's pfumvudza programme
GOVERNMENT'S input scheme, pfumvudza has brought its own package of rights violations in the country's provinces with the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) claiming the process was being managed along part...Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Brain, eyes, ears removed in gruesome city murder
IN a chilling incident, a man was attacked by yet to be identified assailants who cut open his head and removed the brain, gouged his eyes, slashed off his right ear and stabbed him all over the body ...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 19:01hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa demands courts to speed up trial of child gruesome murder
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has condemned the brutal killing of young children for ritual purposes in the wake of the death of a sevenyearold Murewa boy, whose mutilated body was found while being fe...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:13hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Boy (7) beheaded in suspected ritual murder
POLICE in Mashonaland East province have launched investigations into the suspected ritual murder of a seven-year-old boy, Tapiwa Makore, whose beheaded body was recovered outside the family's vegetab...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 07:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Furniture, diapers dumped in Bulawayo sewers
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has implored residents to stop dumping solid waste including broken down television sets, furniture and diapers in sewer manholes which is causing blockages and sewer p...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 09:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khaya Moyo applauds Mnangagwa's wife
FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has proven that she is indeed an angel of hope following her philanthropic work that has been extended to the once marginalised and forgotten San community in Bulilima di...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's multiple VPs, tribalism and elusive democracy
The generality of Zimbabwe's political parties are strangely filled with multiple posts for vice presidents. At face value this could allude to deep-seated democratic orientation. Conversely, the conc...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 09:41hrs | | by Nhlanhla Moses
T.C Hardy High School Child MP hits the ground running
The newly-elected Goromonzi South Junior MP, Fadzai Makuvise of Terence Cecil Hardy High School in Ruwa, Mashonaland East province of Zimbabwe has hit the ground running, already leading other student...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 09:05hrs | 9 | by Brian Maregedze
Hippo wreaks havoc in Bulilima
A ROGUE hippopotamus has wreaked havoc in Huwana, Plumtree, destroying crops and also charging at villagers who try to drive it away.The hippohas reportedly destroyed many crop fields, leaving...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Residents dump looted goods in bush
SOME Bulawayo residents who looted groceries from shops in last week's riots have resorted to dumping them in bushes around the city as police investigations intensify. Police investigations h...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 08:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cheating wife kills baby
A woman in the Bangira area under Chief Musikavanhu in Chipinge has been arrested on allegations of killing her newly born baby and burying her in a vegetable garden on the banks of Musirizwi River....Published: 14 May 2018 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mum kills newborn buries body in garden
A WOMAN from Bulawayo allegedly killed her newborn baby by wrapping the tot in a plastic bag before burying it in her vegetable garden.Evelyn Dube (32) from Emakhandeni suburb allegedly buried...Published: 27 Dec 2017 at 07:25hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Grace Mugabe gives Mazowe villagers 24-hour eviction notice
Suspected Zanu-PF militia guarding Arnold Farm in Mazowe yesterday reportedly assaulted some villagers and gave them 24 hours to leave the property which was allegedly grabbed by First Lady Grace Muga...Published: 04 Oct 2017 at 08:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe seals Arnold Farm
Eviction of Arnold Farm villagers to pave way for the expansion of First Lady Grace Mugabe's business empire went a notch up yesterday, with suspected Zanu-PF militia guarding the farm where they dest...Published: 02 Oct 2017 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man kills neighbour over stray cattle
A 53-YEAR-OLD woman from Chiwundura, who hit her neighbour with a log in a dispute over stray cattle was lucky to escape prison after she was ordered to perform community service for the offence....Published: 17 Jul 2017 at 06:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is greater than any single individual
One day king Ahab came back home, sullen and refusing to eat, to which Jezebel his queen inquired as to the source of his gloom. Ahab's responded precisely, 'Naboth has refused to sell me his vineyard...Published: 08 Apr 2017 at 17:59hrs | 1 | by Zanda Shumba
Evicted Villagers suffer human rights violations
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has expressed concerns about the dire human rights situation at Manzou farm were families have been evicted and the Rivers farm where they have been relocated....Published: 31 Mar 2017 at 09:17hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Stray cattle causing road accidents
DESPITE repeated threats by Plumtree Town Council officials to impound all livestock seen roaming in the border town, the menace of stray cattle continues unabated, a situation which causes road accid...Published: 14 Sep 2016 at 10:08hrs | 10 | by Moses Chuma
WITCHCRAFT: 3 die over chicks
The Gwehava community in Gokwe has been seized with shock after three children from one family died mysteriously in a space of a week under a suspected case of witchcraft.The matter currently ...Published: 13 Jul 2016 at 18:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Murdered woman’s phone cracks case
A 22-year-old mother from Bluetown in Francistown has been found murdered, her body dumped half naked in a vegetable garden along the banks of Tati River.The Voice reported that Police discove...Published: 05 Jun 2016 at 08:46hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Non-Zanu PF villagers excluded from food aid
Partially deaf, 65-year-old Edgar Nhondo (not real name), of Mukarakate Township in Murehwa South in Mashonaland East province is wallowing in poverty with no steady means of a livelihood.Rely...Published: 17 Jan 2016 at 06:18hrs | 9 | by Stephen Jakes
Frustrated man produces mother-in-law's panties in court
A Bulawayo man - George Dhliwayo who was fed up with her mother-in-law's antics of 'drying' her panties in his garden produced the undies in court.Dhliwayo suspected that his mother-in-law had...Published: 27 Nov 2015 at 09:46hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
FORD: 6 700 Hours Spent On Community Work During Global Month of Caring
Ford celebrates its 10th year of Global Week of CaringOver 30 projects selected across Sub-Saharan Africa...Published: 02 Oct 2015 at 11:56hrs | | by Alisea Chetty
Zimbabweans skip meals to save scant food
Villagers in Zimbabwe are skipping meals and foraging for wild fruit as food stocks run out after a poor harvest blamed on drought and controversial land reforms."Even if the children complain...Published: 26 Sep 2015 at 17:03hrs | | by AFP
Prison escapee found dead in river
A GWANDA Prison escapee was found dead in Mtshabezi River last week on Sunday afternoon, almost two weeks after his disappearance. The body was found floating in the river close to Mtshabezi ...Published: 23 Aug 2015 at 12:29hrs | | by Marvelous Moyo
Welshman Ncube on Friday: It Maybe Free, But Someone Pays For It
In the early 1980s, I was a young man in my twenties listening and reading with keen interest as nationalist politicians promised us unlimited access to free education, health and such other thing...Published: 03 Jul 2015 at 10:26hrs | | by Prof Welshman Ncube
Teacher rapes pupil, wipes off semen using chalk duster
A Nyamandlovu grade five teacher, Bonfas Ndlovu reportedly wiped off his dripping semen from one of his pupils' private parts using a chalk duster after allegedly raping her.The incident hap...Published: 24 Apr 2015 at 07:58hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Hail Dr Grace Mugabe
For so long there are some pertinent issues negatively affecting the day to day lives of the generality of our populace whose solutions are below our nose but have gone unaddressed nor publicly sp...Published: 22 Oct 2014 at 07:46hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Museve
Man loses arm in crocodile fight
A 42-YEAR-OLD Chiredzi man lost an arm and sustained multiple fractures on his other hand as he wrestled a crocodile that attacked him and tried to pull him into Chiredzi River.Pascal Dyangwe ...Published: 30 Sep 2014 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man jailed for axeing neighbours' cattle
A 72-YEAR-OLD man from Siachilaba in Binga was on Wednesday slapped with an effective 20 months in jail for axeing six cattle belonging to five villagers after they destroyed his vegetable garden and...Published: 15 Sep 2014 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF chefs are feasting alone'
While President Robert Mugabe and Zanu-PF chefs would be waxing lyrical about the liberation struggle and those who fought it during next week's Heroes Day and Defence Forces Day holidays, inevitably ...Published: 08 Aug 2014 at 12:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Squatters swamp Bulawayo industrial area
SQUATTERS are fast emerging in Bulawayo's industrial area as hundreds of people who lost their jobs when their companies folded are now building shacks in the environs of their former employment. ...Published: 03 Mar 2014 at 10:30hrs | | by Yoliswa Dube
Bulawayo Mayor castigates proposal for a new private cemetery
BULAWAYO mayor Councillor Martin Moyo has castigated a proposal to have a new private cemetery in the city, saying it was outrageous and would affect the value of land and buildings in the suggested a...Published: 18 Nov 2013 at 18:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man rapes neighbour in vegetable garden
A 32-year-old Rusape man from Gwasira Village under chief Makoni has been arrested for allegedly raping his 21-year-old neighbour in a vegetable garden, Manicaland police said.Manicaland p...Published: 20 Oct 2013 at 02:29hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Elephants force four women into premature labour
FOUR women were forced into premature labour as a result of fear after getting unlikely visitors at Ndolwane Hospital's maternity ward - a herd of elephants.The herd that has over the past we...Published: 22 Sep 2013 at 04:32hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Man fataly assault wife for failing to make bed
A 33-year-old Wedza man was arrested recently, after he allegedly fatally assaulted his 28-year-old wife for failing to spread the bed.Mashonaland East province acting police spokesperson, Ass...Published: 08 Sep 2013 at 15:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fishery and vegetable projects roll into Nyamandlovu
UMGUZA District is set to benefit from fishery and irrigation vegetable gardening projects which are being spearheaded by HOCIC a non governmental organisation.These projects are focusing on e...Published: 29 Aug 2013 at 13:48hrs | | by Business Reporter
Angry councillor removes fence after defeat in primaries
THERE was an exchange of harsh words in Bulawayo's Old Lobengula suburb yesterday, when the councillor for the area, Clr Thembeni Khoza, reportedly sent people to remove a fence from the vegetable ga...Published: 25 Jun 2013 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
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