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The Chemist Siziba and Oasis bar story
It is hard to find a patron who would mostly and consistently drink in one bar for 44 years - a whole generation; a lifetime.Yet Chemist Siziba, a local businessman and socialite, did. Before ...Published: 14 Mar 2024 at 17:01hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Gwayi-Shangani, Kunzvi dam works expedited
The construction of major dams such as the Kunzvi and Gwayi-Shangani to augment supplies to Harare and Bulawayo is being expedited.Most suburbs in the cities have been facing water challenges ...Published: 09 Nov 2023 at 05:54hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe struggles to contain spread of cholera outbreak
ZIMBABWE has been struggling to contain the spread of a cholera outbreak, with the government announcing measures amid fears of a repeat of its 2008 outbreak that sparked a "national emergency"....Published: 23 Oct 2023 at 06:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chinese miner compensates Buhera North villagers
LITHIUM mine, Sabi Star Mine (Sabi) has transformed Buhera North, upgrading roads, schools' as well as employing hundreds of villagers from Mukwasi and Tagarira villages.Sabi, which is partly ...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 10:51hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's perennial water crisis worrying
Zimbabwe's Perennial Water Crisis is worrying various stakeholders amid the observance of human rights, including socio-economic rights, participation rights and non-discrimination rights, is critical...Published: 16 Apr 2022 at 19:40hrs | 11 | by Stephen Jakes
Boy (4) drowns in well
Somber mood has engulfed Fula compound in Bindura following the death of a four-year-old boy who drowned in unprotected water well yesterday.Trust Sanco (4) was left home alone by her mother A...Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 20:02hrs | 11 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Minor drowns in a well
A one year old girl allegedly fell in a 30 metre deep well and drowned while following her father at Charles claim mine, Bindura on Wednesday....Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 14:59hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Ndebele royal family honours Cont Mhlanga
DESCENDANTS of King Lobengula have honoured arts doyen Continue Loving Mhlanga as an icon of the Matabeleland region, who has spearheaded the preservation and upholding of the Ndebele culture through ...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 08:16hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo, the Umthwakazi African City Concept
Bulawayo, the Umthwakazi African City ConceptAuthor: Prince Zwide KhumaloDate: 26 June 2019Isilo seNtuthuko Bulawayo and the identity of Umthwakazi or the Ndebele nation are inseparabl...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 20:57hrs | 1 | by Prince Zwide Khumalo
Zimbabwe to increase Mozambique power imports
ZIMBABWE will resume power imports after electricity generation plunged due to low water levels at Kariba dam.In March the Zambezi River Authority, which is jointly run by Zambia and Zimbabwe ...Published: 13 May 2019 at 08:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's Smelly legacy of patronage
Smelly Dube, a businesswoman from Midlands province who was once close to former president Robert Mugabe's family, has been throwing a stink over a controversial housing project that is now giving the...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 10:22hrs | 11 | by BRENNA MATENDERE
Water is a human right, It is illegal to disconnect domestic taps: a Petition to the UN
Water is a human right: It is illegal to disconnect domestic tapes: a Petition to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on the way to UN...Published: 04 Oct 2018 at 20:11hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mukupe off the hook as judge dismisses case
THE High Court has dismissed an application filed by six settlers at Caledonia, Harare, seeking to bar Finance deputy minister Terrence Mukupe from claiming ownership of some residential stands in the...Published: 28 Feb 2018 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt goes after borehole owners
Government is going after borehole and water wells owners who are defaulting on payments of levies for ground water extraction.According to the Water Act, all ground water is owned by governme...Published: 03 Sep 2017 at 16:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Water shortages strangle Zimbabwean townships
The smelling stench of stale urine, rot and disease pervades the smoke ridden, dust laden air of the Zimbabwean townships. In these dwellings the population is high, the demand for water is soaring,wh...Published: 06 Sep 2016 at 17:08hrs | | by Mbizo Chirasha
Biti urges Zimbabweans to carry their cross
The people of Zimbabwe should not delegate their fight against socio-economic challenges they are currently going through but should instead carry their own cross and fight the Zanu PF regime, Pre...Published: 05 Sep 2016 at 12:28hrs | 2 | by PDP
A girl-child's domestic chores; child labour? or acquiring a traditional woman's apprenticeship
Who has ever seen the agony of a woman in a maternity ward, having just delivered a girl-child instead of a boy-child she had hoped to get to solidify the marriage? She breaks down and cries, sh...Published: 24 Jun 2016 at 23:12hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Hence home! you idle creatures, get you home! Leave the Square Harare at once!
"Is this a holiday?" The play begins on the theme of not knowing one's proper place. Two Roman tributes, Flavius and Murellus, representative of the Roman nobility, a...Published: 26 May 2016 at 20:21hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
$13 robber falls down 30m well
A SUSPECTED robber, fleeing a crime scene, drowned in a 30-metre unprotected water well on Saturday night while his teenage accomplice escaped death by spreading his legs and hands and clinging to the...Published: 25 May 2015 at 07:10hrs | | by Patrick Chitumba
My Roots, my proud identity - Part two of three
Barely three moons had passed when the pale man started coming into my bedroom again, demanding as usual the fever of erotic longing. It did not surprise me at all as I was getting to know the purpose...Published: 18 May 2015 at 09:15hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata,
Cholera outbreak looms in Harare
The MDC Renewal Team is seriously concerned by the acute water shortages in Harare and exposing its residents to communicable diseases such as dysentery and cholera.A Local Government comm...Published: 17 Oct 2014 at 08:14hrs | 1 | by Emmanuel Chiroto
Job Sikhala spot on; seem we are getting some traction eventually
I fully support Job Sikhala's position and utterances of a possible way forward. That's true and fearless leadership. Zimbabweans missed such kind of leadership and direction for a long time. The ...Published: 05 Apr 2014 at 09:49hrs | 3 | by Zanda Shumba
MDC-T Statement on Hwange poaching
Statement by the MDC-T Shadow Minister of Environment on Hwange poaching The MDC notes with serious concern and strongly condemns the on-going massi...Published: 17 Oct 2013 at 11:55hrs | | by Thamsanqa Mahlangu (MP)
Young, Beautiful and Annointed: Zimbabwean girl transforming lives in Asia and Africa
Meet 23 year old Natasha Tanaka Thomas, who hails from Katiyo in Zimbabwe, yes that’s a real place...... in the remote villages of the Eastern Highlands. 23 year old Natasha ...Published: 15 Aug 2011 at 09:29hrs | 3 | by Ifeanyi Ekwem in Nigeria
Gaddafi's second youngest son buried
Tripoli, Libya - Libyans shouting for revenge have buried Muammar Gaddafi's second youngest son to the thundering sound of anti-aircraft fire, as South Africa ...Published: 03 May 2011 at 12:00hrs | | by Ndou Paul
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