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Matabeleland in record wheat harvest
Wheat production has been rising fast in Zimbabwe and farmers in Matabeleland provinces are contributing immensely to a promising season.Across the country, wheat farmers have started harvesti...Published: 8 hrs ago | 241 | by Staff reporter
Mat North civil servants relocation imminent
GOVERNMENT is inching closer to fully relocating Matabeleland North civil servants to Lupane as construction of the Lupane Government Complex is now 88 percent complete with all works expected to be c...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 06:19hrs | 868 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions devastate rural communities
RURAL communities are among the worst areas affected by illegal sanctions as the embargo has led to limited opportunities for communities increasing poverty levels.Studies have shown that the ...Published: 20 Oct 2021 at 07:35hrs | 143 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora's MDC gears for congress
THE Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC-T has begun its restructuring exercise in preparation for an elective congress this year.Party spokesperson Witness Dube yesterday confirmed the restructuring exer...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:32hrs | 2468 | by Staff reporter
'Matebeleland politicians have let us down'
MATABELELAND human rights and political activists have blasted the ruling Zanu-PF party and the opposition MDC formations for letting the region down by not fostering development.This came out...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:30hrs | 695 | by Staff reporter
Phase Two Matebeleland North roads rehab intensified
GOVERNMENT allocated more than $700 million to the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure Development for rehabilitation of a 3 000km road network under the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme (...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 343 | by Staff reporter
Meet Zimbabwe's female rand millionaires
WHAT initially started as a social networking group to keep Zimbabwean women in touch while in foreign lands, has since blossomed into a huge multi-million dollar investment.The women involved...Published: 16 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 35662 | by Staff reporter
Work on Beitbridge - Bulawayo highway begins
Preparatory works on traffic surveys along the Beitbridge-Bulawayo-Victoria Falls Highway as part of a feasibility study for the rehabilitation and upgrading of the expressway have begun. ...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:20hrs | 1498 | by Staff reporter
World Vision transforms state of Lupane schools
THE era of learning under trees and carrying water to school for drinking and sanitation is over for children in Lupane after World Vision invested close to US$300 000 into learning infrastructure, wa...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:17hrs | 75 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa imposed as SRC leader
LUPANE State University (LSU) students have expressed concern at the alleged imposition of Kudakwashe Mnangagwa as the university student representative council (SRC) president.The students to...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | 1523 | by Staff reporter
Inside the forex cul-de-sac
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) will this week meet large producers and retail outlets to discuss rampant black market pricing of goods that has gripped the nation, and threatening to erode stabili...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:34hrs | 453 | by Staff reporter
Man catches wife pants down at in-laws
A man from Jotsholo, Matabeleland North Province, got the shock of his life when he caught his wife moaning in pleasure while indulging in sex with his neighbour.The court heard that Attalia K...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:29hrs | 4857 | by Staff reporter
Wartime bomb shakes Lupane
FIVE family members are lucky to be alive after a bomb exploded in their homestead, blowing off the roof of a house and damaging three huts at neighbouring homesteads in Lupane.The explosion o...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:46hrs | 1316 | by Staff reporter
Govt responsible for rights violations
The Civic Society organisations have lamented that three years after the adoption of Vision 2030 by the Zimbabwean government, ethnic, linguistic and indigenous communities in the country are facing a...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 19:35hrs | 356 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe govt improves student accommodation
CONSTRUCTION of students' accommodation has gathered momentum at higher and tertiary institutions around the country as the Government has secured $150 million for the development of residences at the...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:08hrs | 50 | by Staff reporter
Varsities ordered to strategise for Mnangagwa
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has reportedly ordered intellectuals and the academia from the country's State universities to come up with a document that will form the basis of President Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:06hrs | 81 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urges modernisation of rural communities
AHEAD of this year's agricultural season, President Mnangagwa has called upon farmers to start land preparations as he assured them of access to well-resourced provincial agriculture mechanisation hub...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 07:54hrs | 97 | by Staff reporter
Mechanisation hubs set up for farmers
AHEAD of this year's agricultural season, President Mnangagwa has called upon farmers to start land preparations as he assured them of access to well-resourced provincial agriculture mechanisation hub...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 07:52hrs | 31 | by Staff reporter
Vehicles boost for Education Ministry
The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education on Monday received 13 off-road vehicles and 34 motorbikes from the United Kingdom's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) in partnership w...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 07:13hrs | 138 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube commits to Nkayi Road completion
FINANCE and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube, has said the upgrading of the 158km Bulawayo-Nkayi Road is a top priority among key infrastructure projects being championed by the G...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:08hrs | 411 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt accelerates NDS1 projects
The GOVERNMENT is accelerating efforts to achieve benchmarks that were set under the National Development Strategy 1 (NDS1) and the Vision 2030 target for the country to become an upper middle-income ...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 19:32hrs | 49 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa abandons plane ...takes the road
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday showed that he is a listening leader in touch with the people when he travelled by road from Bulawayo to Lupane and also returned by road in order to have a personal feel...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 07:40hrs | 6002 | by Staff Reporter
Matabeleland marginalisation
THE marginalisation of the Matabeleland region is viewed as a deliberate extension of the 1980s Gukurahundi massacres by the Zanu pF government, to punish the people in the southern parts of the count...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:47hrs | 1123 | by Staff reporter
Bikers converge in Victoria Falls
THE Zimfreeriders Motor Cycle Club is set to hold its Victoria Falls Motor Bike Rally starting today and finishing on Sunday.Dubbed The Brave Hearts, this ride will be the longest inland ride ...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 21:54hrs | 1070 | by Staff reporter
Zinara disburses more than $4,7bn for ERRP2
THE Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) has disbursed more than $4,7 billion for the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme (ERRP2) with road rehabilitation works now 50 percent complete....Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:11hrs | 207 | by Staff reporter
Govt to correct Battle of Pupu story
GOVERNMENT has taken a bold step to correct a one-sided narrative of the famous Battle of Pupu, which for many years deliberately overlooked the African perspective. Under President Mnangagwa, the Sec...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:10hrs | 713 | by Staff reporter
Poor roads haunt region
WHILE roads development brings social, cultural and economic changes in the lives of people in terms of providing connectivity between places and reducing poverty, in rural Matabeleland it is a privil...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:40hrs | 141 | by Staff reporter
Why I wrote Mnangagwa book
Former MDC politician Eddie Cross says he could not turn down an opportunity to write President Emmerson Mnangagwa's autobiography because he was impressed with his attitude.Cross (EC), the au...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:34hrs | 455 | by Staff reporter
Intercity travel resumes
MAJOR bus termini, depots and popular hiking spots in Bulawayo have burst into life after Government gave transport operators plying intercity routes the greenlight to resume services in line with the...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:04hrs | 548 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland is marginalised
FORMER speaker of Parliament Lovemore Moyo says the Matabeleland region continues to be marginalised with locals not benefiting from natural resources.Moyo, who now fronts the opposition Unite...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:50hrs | 352 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's student accommodation complex takes in first batch
THE Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ)-owned Bulawayo Student Accommodation complex is expected to take in its first students this month with one of the wings now at 96 percent complet...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:45hrs | 261 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF embarks on massive voter mobilisation drive
ZANU-PF Vice-President Kembo Mohadi has said the party will reach five million votes in the 2023 elections as people have seen the fruits of developmental projects being implemented by the Second Repu...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 06:10hrs | 183 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF will reach 5 million votes, says Mohadi
Zanu-PF Vice President Kembo Mohadi has said the party will reach five million votes in the 2023 elections as people have seen the fruits of developmental projects being implemented by the Second Repu...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 06:03hrs | 186 | by Staff reporter
Man dies after being hit by a truck
A 40-year-old man from Sikhobokhobo area in Nkayi died on admission to hospital after he was hit by a truck while crossing the road in Lupane on Monday.Police confirmed the accident which occu...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 18:24hrs | 454 | by Staff reporter
3 perish in Bulawayo-Vic Fall Highway accident
Three people died while four others were seriously injured when a vehicle they were travelling in burst a tyre and veered off the road before hitting a tree at the 138km peg along the Bulawayo-Victori...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 06:55hrs | 1784 | by Staff reporter
3 die in Limousine crash
Three people died on the spot when a vehicle they were travelling in from Bulawayo to Victoria Falls, a Limousine Lincoln, burst its rear left tyre, veered of the road and hit a tree at the 138km peg....Published: 02 Sep 2021 at 19:38hrs | 1844 | by Staff reporter
Police impound nine buses
POLICE in Lupane impounded nine buses for operating without permits and flouting Covid-19 regulations."On 29 August police in Lupane impounded nine buses for operating without permits and flou...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 17:56hrs | 410 | 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 | 324 | by Staff reporter
Universities re-open next week
UNIVERSITIES and tertiary institutions have set dates for opening and commencement of examinations and face to face tutorials, as they also prepare to re-open.However, the Government announced...Published: 29 Aug 2021 at 07:09hrs | 451 | by Staff reporter
Lupane tables mall project, again
MATABELELAND North provincial capital, Lupane, is still seeking potential investors to construct a multi-purpose shopping mall that will assist in attracting more business and investment towards the g...Published: 26 Aug 2021 at 06:35hrs | 374 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF hijacks internet service providers for its virtual conference
Zanu-PF has commandeered several internet services providers to provide free internet services during the ruling party's annual conference to be held virtually in October.Due to the Covid-19 p...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 06:49hrs | 544 | by Staff reporter
Nkayi Community Parliament: The model for peace in Matabeleland
The recently established, Nkayi Community Parliament, which fosters community involvement, participation and the development of Nkayi District, is a haven of ideas, peace, mutual respect and political...Published: 16 Aug 2021 at 09:24hrs | 790 | by Nhlanhla Moses
105-year-old granny dies
ZANU-PF Politburo member Headman Moyo has lost his mother, Mrs Thenjiwe Moyo (nee Ncube) who passed on at the age of 105.She succumbed to pneumonia at home in Mbembesi under Chief Mabhikwa are...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 09:55hrs | 1918 | by Staff reporter
High internet tariffs push online learning out of reach of many
THE rising cost of internet services at a time when learners countrywide are required to engage in online learning as a Covid-19 mitigation measure is a cause for concern. Schools have been closed sin...Published: 12 Aug 2021 at 06:39hrs | 134 | by Staff reporter
Man kills self after beating wife to death
A 37-YEAR-OLD bigamist from Lupane allegedly committed suicide by hanging on Sunday after fatally assaulting his first wife who he suspected of having an extra-marital affair, police have said....Published: 11 Aug 2021 at 18:01hrs | 1139 | by Staff reporter
Resident petitions govt over Lupane Local Board appointees
LUPANE resident Martin Stobart has petitioned Matabeleland North Provincial Affairs minister Richard Moyo, challenging the appointment of Pardon Kuipa and Ennet Sibanda as caretakers of the Lupane Loc...Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 08:53hrs | 547 | by Staff reporter
Amacimbi processing plant set up in Beitbridge District
GOVERNMENT in conjunction with development partners has set up the country's first state-of-the-art mopani worm processing plant in Matshiloni area in Beitbridge District, Matabeleland South. The amac...Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 06:37hrs | 807 | by Staff reporter
Lupane's long wait for hospital
IT is now exactly 17 years since the construction of the long-awaited Lupane Provincial Hospital began, with annual budgetary allocations and deadlines set but on the ground the project remains a drea...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:27hrs | 249 | by Staff reporter
Transport ministry employees go for four months without pay
Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development employees in the Matabeleland North Province are complaining of not receiving their salaries for the past four months, CITE reported.The w...Published: 05 Aug 2021 at 07:10hrs | 1179 | by Staff reporter
Schools up reopening preps
SCHOOLS have heightened preparations for reopening for the second term with fumigation of buildings and grounds currently in progress.This comes a week after President Emmerson Mnangagwa said ...Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 07:25hrs | 2353 | by Staff reporter
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