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More than 20 pupils injured as lightning strikes two schools
On Monday morning, over 20 students at Fafi and Bhamala Primary Schools were hospitalized following lightning strikes at both schools. At Fafi Primary School, a lightning bolt struck a tree during les...Published: 25 Oct 2023 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
By-elections date for recalled Bulawayo councillors set
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has said by-elections for eight recalled Bulawayo Citizen Coalition for Change councillors will be held in December while the nomination court will sit next mon...Published: 25 Oct 2023 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
2 Mutsvangwas, 6 women and 3 Mnangagwas
With former television personality Tatenda Mavetera thrown into the mix, one needs very little imagination to describe Zimbabwe's Cabinet that was sworn into office early this week following a sham el...Published: 15 Sep 2023 at 22:09hrs | 5 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Watchers wait on Chamisa's next move
Zimbabweans and those around the world who have been watching the recently ended elections are wondering what Citizens Coalition for Change leader, Nelson Chamisa will do next after he rejected Emmers...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 22:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Archbishop Ndanga endorses elections
President of the African Christian Council International (ACCI), Archbishop Johannes Ndanga has endorsed the just ended Presidential elections saying allegations of rigging by Advocate Nelson Chamisa,...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 21:32hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Chamisa does not have all the 12,374 V11s: The case of Chirumanzu-Zibagwe
Factually it is not true that, unlike in 2018, Chamisa this time round has all the V11s from the 12,374 polling stations that were created for the 2023 harmonised general election, because he and his ...Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 15:16hrs | 1 | by Jonathan Moyo
Mnangagwa confident of victory
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa says he is confident of victory following yesterday's harmonised elections and has urged Zimbabweans to maintain the peace and tranquillity prevailing across the country.Pr...Published: 24 Aug 2023 at 06:38hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa scores own goals
CONFUSION and chaos characterised opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party's nomination process at the Harare Magistrate Court.The party's nomination finalization was still on goin...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF grassroots reject 2023 candidates
A protest vote is looming in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's backyard in Midlands where Zanu-PF grassroots are rejecting recently elected party candidates in more than 10 constituencies.Insider...Published: 21 May 2023 at 08:14hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Auxilia Mnangagwa: A throw back to Grace Mugabe‘s hey day
One of the reasons given by the military for ousting former president Robert Mugabe in 2017 was that he was allowing his wife Grace to run government affairs in violation of the constitution.G...Published: 16 Apr 2023 at 08:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Primaries: Remaining candidates announced
Zanu-PF has announced the final list of candidates who will represent the party in the forthcoming harmonised elections with 205 candidates cleared, and only five remaining to allow for reruns....Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo dams remain low
BULAWAYO supply dams remain critically low despite the heavy rains received across the country in the past few days.The percentage average for the city's major dams including Umzingwane, Upper...Published: 01 Mar 2023 at 07:03hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Dam levels break records
THE major interior dams currently hold 92 percent of their combined capacity with almost 65 percent now full as a result of the good rainy season.This ensures enough stored water for irrigatio...Published: 01 Mar 2023 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chebundo lauded for bringing opposition members to Zanu-PF
FORMER opposition legilslator Blessing Chebundo who defected to Zanu-PF about two years ago has earned the governing party's plaudits for bringing new members from the opposition.Zanu-PF polit...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
0% pass rate for Kwekwe primary schools
Nine primary schools in Kwekwe district registered a 0% pass rate at this year's ZIMSEC grade seven examinations, Bulawayo24.com has learnt.Most of the schools are in Kwekwe resettlement areas...Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 10:39hrs | 1 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Chamisa councillor fronts Zanu-PF MP's campaign in Silobela
A CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) councillor Willard Moyo shocked attendants at a prize giving day in Silobela after encouraging parents to vote for rival Zanu-PF's Mthokozisi Manoki-Mpofu at...Published: 20 Dec 2022 at 20:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Silobela district demands Ndebele speaking teachers as pupils produce poor results
IT has emerged that most schools in Silobela continue to produce poor results at Grade 7 due to lack of teachers who teach their native Ndebele language.Tererayi Dhiya, who heads Umelusi Prima...Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 08:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF commissar defends phoney affiliates under ED banner
Zanu-PF national political commissar, Mike Bimha has said there is nothing misplaced about people organising themselves and pledging support for President Emmerson Mnangagwa, whose astute leadership h...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 05:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube transforms from technocrat to political player
IF ever there was any doubt, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has fully abandoned his posture as a neutral technocrat after being elected a Zanu-PF central committee member last weekend.The centr...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 18:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Community rejects non-Ndebele speaking teachers
The Silobela community has rejected non-Ndebele speaking teachers deployed by the government to take early childhood development classes in Donsa-Donsa, a predominately Ndebele area.Donsa Coun...Published: 19 Oct 2022 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa backers hound church leaders
A group of pastors, who claim to be spearheading President Emmerson Mnangagwa's 2023 re-election campaign, are accused of ambushing church leaders across the country as they seek to recruit them to th...Published: 25 Sep 2022 at 16:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Shortage of Ndebele teachers hits Zhombe, Silobela
ZHOMBE and Silobela districts in the Midlands province have been hit hard by a shortage of Ndebele teachers, which has been blamed on speakers of the language that are hesitant on taking the language....Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 19:11hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa declines comfortable chair, opts for ground during apostolic church visit
President Emmerson Mnangagwa Saturday declined a comfortable seat and opted for bare ground alongside hundreds congregants of the African Apostolic Church led by Mutumwa Paul Mwazha in Chirumanzu....Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 20:38hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Multi-million-dollar road rehabilitation storm erupts in Zimbabwe
KWEKWE City Council in the Midlands has failed to account for millions of dollars poured into the local authority for the rehabilitation of roads amid revelations that politically connected comp...Published: 23 May 2022 at 13:18hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chebundo roped into Mnangagwa campaign squad
BLESSING Chebundo became "marked for death" in Kwekwe, his house razed down and forced into hiding for days as Zanu-PF hounds bayed for his blood.His sin was daring to challenge Emmerson Mnang...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chebundo vows to take Kwekwe seat back to Zanu-PF
FORMER MDC Kwekwe Central legislator Blessing Chebundo, who famously trounced current President Emmerson Mnangagwa during the 2000 parliamentary election, has vowed to help Zanu-PF reclaim the seat....Published: 05 Feb 2022 at 19:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora's MDC faces implosion?
DOUGLAS Mwonzora's MDC T party faces implosion as it emerges that the upcoming March by-elections have further widened divisions in his party, with some members openly defying him and taking sid...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 09:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora fails to find candidates to contest by-elections?
The Douglas Mwonzora led MDC-T led is reported to have failed to find candidates to represent it in the March 26 council by-elections in various parts of Matabeleland and Midlands.A website ca...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
EU rescues local authorities
THE European Union (EU) has availed €1,1 million to assist five local authorities, Mangwe, Mwenezi, Zibagwe, Lupane and Redcliff, update their information systems.Speaking during a conferenc...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinese steel plant roars to life in Zimbabwe
A NEW town is set to be born between Mvuma-Chivhu and Manhize where Tsingshan Group Holdings, a Fortune 500 listed company is set to build a world class iron and steel plant that will also come with f...Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt ropes in traditional chiefs to promote Chinese project
GOVERNMENT has roped in traditional leaders to convince reluctant villagers to agree to be evicted when a carbon steel project undertaken by a Chinese investor in the Chirumanzu area of the Midlands p...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 08:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's Magaisa succumbs to Covid-19
A MEMBER of the ruling Zanu-PF Kwekwe District Coodinating Committee (DCC), Niger Magaisa has succumbed to Covid-19 related complications. Magaisa, who was the Kwekwe DCC secretary for lands, ...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 09:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chebundo defeated Mnangagwa only to join him
BLESSING Chebundo was known in MDC circles and indeed throughout the country as Emmerson Mnangagwa's political nemesis.At a time when Mnangagwa was seen as the political godfather of the Midla...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 20:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mukupe eyes Hurungwe Parly seat
AFTER losing hope of reclaiming his Harare East constituency seat, former Finance minister Terrence Mukupe is reportedly plotting a major political comeback to contest the Hurungwe North parliamentary...Published: 03 Jul 2021 at 10:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has enough water for two years
ZIMBABWE National Water Authority (Zinwa) chief executive officer Engineer Taurai Maurukira has said the country has enough water to last for two farming seasons following rains that fell during the l...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 06:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Councillor, wife murdered by mentally challenged grandson
A councillor from the Zibagwe Rural District Council died together with his wife died after they were assaulted with a log by their mentally challenged grandson on Sunday evening.Ward 8 Counci...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 12:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man mauled by crocodiles
A SILOBELA man was reportedly mauled to death by crocodiles while fishing along the Gweru River. Midlands police spokesperson Inspector Emmanuel Mahoko could not be reached for comment but Sil...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa commends his wife
President Mnangagwa has hailed the philanthropic work by First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa through her Angel of Hope Foundation. The President said this during yesterday's 41st Independence Day ce...Published: 19 Apr 2021 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chebundo departure is good riddance
IN response to MDC bigwigs Chebundo, Timveos defect to Zanu-PF: I am really surprised that former Kwekwe Central MP Blessing Chebundo, of all the people, has decided to join the ruling Zanu-PF party....Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:36hrs | 3 | by Chief Chiduku
Raging bulls trample man to death
VILLAGERS in the resettlement area of Moyo Ranch, Ward 30 under Zibagwe Rural District Council (RDC) are living in fear after bulls that have reportedly gone wild and are attacking villagers.T...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 17:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe dams gain record inflows in more than 5 decades
Dams in the country have gained a record 47,5 percent inflows since 1974 following improved rains in the current 2020–2021 summer season, the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA) says. ...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo shelves water shedding
THE Bulawayo City Council will this week temporarily shelve its excruciating water shedding programme to allow residents to enjoy the festive holiday.The city has been failing to supply adequa...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo dam levels rise
Water levels in Bulawayo dams have risen by 34,7% as of December 14, bringing relief to the city that has been struggling to supply its residents with tap water.According to the Zimbabwe Natio...Published: 17 Dec 2020 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Elderly couple marooned by rains while panning for gold
AN elderly couple was Sunday marooned by heavy rains along Gweru River while panning for gold.This follows heavy rains that have been pounding the country forcing floods in some areas....Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP tells youths yo demonstrate against govt and get bashed
ZANU-PF MP for Chirumhanzu-Zibagwe Prosper Machando has warned youths they will be beaten up if they dared protest against government.Machando was speaking at Thursday's National Association o...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tormentor loses MDC Alliance Kwekwe Central primary elections
FORMER Kwekwe Central MDC MP Saturday lost in Kwekwe Central MDC Alliance primary elections to Judith Tobaiwa.The MDC Alliance held the internal party elections ahead of impending parliamentar...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 19:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sparks fly in Chirumhanzu chieftainship row
A fight has erupted over the replacement of Chief Chirumhanzu of the Midlands following the death of substantive chief Jerald Mudzengi in February. The succession battle has reached fever pitch with t...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 07:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC Midlands on the mend
THE MDC Midlands has embarked on an outreach programme to mend cracks that emerged in districts ahead of the party's fifth elective congress with the major aim of winning the rural vote in the next po...Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP offers $50 for maintenance
The Member of the House of Assembly for Chirumanzu-Zibagwe constituency, Prosper Machando, was dragged to the Civil Court by his estranged mistress over maintenance.Machando shocked the court ...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 23:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP offers ZWL$50 child maintenance
Chirumanzu Zibagwe MP, Prosper Machando (Zanu-PF) stunned the court early this week when he offered to pay ZWL$50 for the upkeep of a four-year-old child he sired with a Mvuma woman.Clara Taru...Published: 15 Jun 2019 at 08:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
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