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MDC Alliance MPs walk out on Khupe
THE circus within the opposition MDC continued yesterday when MDC Alliance MPs walked out on MDC-T interim leader Thokozani Khupe as she made her maiden speech in Parliament.Khupe, who recentl...Published: 8 hrs ago | 3797 | by Staff reporter
5 more die of Covid-19 in Zimbabwe
FIVE more people have succumbed to Covid-19 in Zimbabwe and 27 positive cases have been recorded. According to the Ministry of Health and Child Care, three of the latest deaths were recorded i...Published: 8 hrs ago | 567 | by Staff reporter
Farmers count losses as cattle die
VILLAGERS in some parts of the Midlands Province have started counting their losses following the death of more than 75 cattle in the past two months due to lack of pastures and water. Livesto...Published: 9 hrs ago | 518 | by Staff reporter
Bus and three cars pile up in Beitbridge
A 42-year-old Beitbridge man was killed, while three others were seriously injured in a road accident involving three light vehicles and a Zupco bus on Sunday evening. The incident occurred at...Published: 9 hrs ago | 645 | by Staff reporter
Diarrhoea spikes as Bulawayo water crisis deepens
BULAWAYO is recording a spike in diarrhoea cases in the middle of a deepening water crisis where most suburbs are receiving water for about 12 hours in a week. Mzilikazi, Magwegwe and Luveve c...Published: 9 hrs ago | 299 | by Staff reporter
Entumbane, Nkulumane lead in Covid-19 deaths
DISTRIBUTION of Covid-19 cases among the 25 most affected suburbs in Bulawayo shows that the virus is most prevalent in western suburbs but the city centre remains the hardest hit. The country has 264...Published: 9 hrs ago | 294 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF says violence instigators to be brought to book
ZANU-PF Politburo member Simbarashe Mumbengegwi has said perpetrators of violence which led to the abandonment of the Kwekwe Central Constituency primary election recently must be made to account for ...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 07:08hrs | 1094 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP dies of heart attack
Zanu-PF Member of the National Assembly for Mwenezi East Jusby Omar has died. He died yesterday after suffering a heart attack. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Makurira Memorial C...Published: 26 Oct 2020 at 06:41hrs | 2404 | by Staff reporter
Rapper Cal_Vin killed in Bulawayo hit and run incident
Rapper Cal_Vin has died aged 35.The Bulawayo-born singer was run over by a car at around 11.30PM on Saturday after watching a football match on TV at a bar near his home in Luveve, his family ...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 14:23hrs | 4406 | by Staff reporter
Brick molder kills colleague
A Guruve brick molder allegedly stabbed his colleague to death over brick funds.The stabbed Mike Adriana was pronounced dead upon arrival at Guruve hospital.The matter came to light at...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 07:51hrs | 545 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Traditional leaders take over Gukurahundi exhumations
TRADITIONAL leaders will now take over the exhumation and reburials of victims of Gukurahundi in Matabeleland and Midlands while the Government will now only be involved in funding the process as part...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 07:41hrs | 1168 | by Staff reporter
Boy (10) kills man attacking mum
IN a case that has left residents of Chief Ndanga in Zaka, Masvingo Province shell shocked, three children allegedly ganged up and attacked a man with hoes and an axe until he died, while trying to re...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 07:40hrs | 1036 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland chiefs take Mnangagwa to task
CHIEFS from the Matabeleland region Saturday took President Emmerson Mnangagwa to task and raised concerns over the marginalisation and underdevelopment of the area, Local Government Minister July Moy...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 07:34hrs | 426 | by Staff reportetr
Female Judge fighting a merciless Zanu PF regime: worse than that of Ian Douglas Smith!
Justice Erica Ndewere is alone, fighting the evil regime of Mnangagwa's Zanu, worse than that of Smith's UDI. There is not a single women's organisation fighting on her side to give her emotional assi...Published: 24 Oct 2020 at 23:24hrs | 3046 | by Nomazulu Thata
Man demands $1m for wife's death
A HARARE man has claimed $1 million from a motorist who killed his wife in a road accident and never contributed during her funeral.Norman Ziyambe sued Simbarashe Ganha in summons filed before...Published: 24 Oct 2020 at 18:20hrs | 3052 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Bosso coach dies
FORMER Highlanders coach Reuben Tsengwa has died.Tsengwa died on Thursday of a yet to be confirmed ailment.Highlanders chairman Kenneth Mhlophe confirmed Tsengwa's death in a statement...Published: 24 Oct 2020 at 07:54hrs | 1021 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF won't give up power, says Mudzuri
TOP MDC-T official Elias Mudzuri Friday said President Emmerson Mnangagwa was fronting a Zanu-PF military government that would not relinquish power if it lost in national elections.Mudzuri wa...Published: 24 Oct 2020 at 07:51hrs | 1001 | by Staff reporter
Sex prophet preys on flock
A self-styled prophet who started a virtual church on WhatsApp has admitted bedding several female congregants who came to him for prayer and confided in him about problems they were having in their r...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 18:44hrs | 2960 | by Staff reporter
75 cattle succumb to drought in Midlands
AT least 75 cattle have succumbed to drought in parts of the Midlands province in the past two months and farmers have been urged to de-stock and by supplements for the remaining beasts.Midlan...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:29hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest High Court 'armed robber'
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested a man from Makokoba suburb who is linked to the botched armed robbery at the Bulawayo High Court earlier this month. Evidence at hand has led police to believe...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:28hrs | 955 | by Staff reporter
7 die in head-on collision
Police have released the names of seven people who died when a Honda Fit collided head-on with a Toyota Raum 192km from Harare on the highway to Mutare on Tuesday morning. Five who were seriou...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:23hrs | 994 | by Staff reporter
3 Zimbabweans die in horrific car crash in Cyprus
IN a tragic incident, three Zimbabwean students from the European University of Lefke in Cyprus died Tuesday night while returning from an outing.Cyprus is an island country in the Eastern Med...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:23hrs | 1071 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge gunman death leads to five gangsters' arrest
POLICE in Beitbridge have arrested five men suspected to have been part of a gang of armed robbers that was terrorising Beitbridge residents together with the notorious John Sithole alias Kedha who wa...Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 14:52hrs | 4646 | by Staff Repoter
Zanu-PF primaries worsen party wars
ZANU-PF has failed to announce the results of its elections to choose the party's parliamentary and council candidates for Harare, amid claims that the polls were riddled with bribery and rampant chea...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 22:19hrs | 1278 | by Staff reporter
'You like us dead' unions tell government over new US$500 funeral cover
Public sector workers accused the government of being "insensitive" on Tuesday after a new US$500 funeral cover was announced.Information ministry spokesman Ndavaningi Mangwana announced the n...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:59hrs | 691 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's loudest cheerleader dies
FORMER Cabinet minister and diplomat Florence Chitauro (79) has died.Chitauro died on Monday night after she collapsed at her Borrowdale home with relatives suspecting she suffered a severe st...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:57hrs | 2957 | by Staff reporter
Man survives brutal stabbing
A 32-year-old Harare man escaped death by a whisker after he was suddenly stabbed seven times with a knife while drinking beer in Epworth, Harare, a court heard yesterday. Privilege Rumbe (24)...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:45hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
'MDC got more than US$10m to defend Western interests'
It is beyond debate that for the past decades or so, Zimbabwe has been reeling under the disastrous and debilitating effects of illegal sanctions that were imposed against the country by some powerful...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:44hrs | 254 | by Obert Chaurura Gutu
Teen boy sentenced to 18 years for murder
A TEENAGE boy from Nyamandlovu who strangled his 13-year-old cousin to death and set the body alight using paraffin before burying it in a shallow grave has been sentenced to 18 years in jail....Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 13:30hrs | 2796 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe records another Covid-19 death
ONE more Covid-19 related death was reported in Matabeleland South bringing to 233 the number of people who have succumbed to the pandemic in Zimbabwe.The Ministry of Health and Child Care sai...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 13:09hrs | 2794 | by Staff Reporter
Female miners exposed to mercury poisoning
THE Environmental Management Agency (Ema) has raised the red flag after a recent survey revealed that over 33% of illegal miners operating in the Midlands province were women and were at high risk of ...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 08:40hrs | 1543 | by Staff Reporter
'Zupco buses a death trap' - PAZ
THE Passenger Association of Zimbabwe (PAZ) has condemned the state of most conventional buses operating under the Zupco franchise, describing them as unroadworthy and death traps to the commuting pub...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 08:13hrs | 1860 | by Staff Reporter
After 40 years, still failing to hold free and fair elections: 'to find the strait gate and narrow way'
The root cause of Zimbabwe's economic and political crisis is the country's failure to hold free, fair and credible elections. For 40 years the nation has beeb stuck with corrupt, incompetent and tyra...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 07:32hrs | 877 | by Wilbert Mukori
Diarrhoea rocks Queens Park
BULAWAYO'S Queens Park suburb has recorded diarrhoea cases as more suburbs register outbreaks of the disease which claimed 13 lives in Luveve in July and infected nearly 2 000 people.Water sho...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:21hrs | 1186 | by Staff reporter
Man murdered over torn R10 note at gambling school
TWO men have been arrested for allegedly beating their friend to death for placing a bet using a torn 10 rand note during a gambling game. Thulani Nkomo (19) and Peter Dube (26) both from Fila...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:16hrs | 675 | by Staff reporter
Woman collapses and dies on busy Bulawayo street
A woman collapsed and died suddenly on a busy Bulawayo street on Monday.The unidentified woman had just walked out of a shop close to the Tredgold Magistrates Court at about 2PM when she slump...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:14hrs | 3861 | by Staff reporter
Man kills co-tenant
A MAN from Bulawayo allegedly severely assaulted his co-tenant until he fainted, rushed him to hospital where he pretended to be his next of kin and disappeared when doctors called and informed him th...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 23:39hrs | 863 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF has mastered art of rigging can't be removed with ballot' - rubbish, above all else, they are mortals
Albert Einstein defined insanity as "doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result." He was right! What he should have said too, is how easy it is to fall into this tra...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 08:10hrs | 1759 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa's rogue state agents warned
PERPETRATORS of state-sponsored violence, abductions and torture are not immune to prosecution and can face their day in court in whatever capacity to answer to charges, a top human rights defender ha...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:20hrs | 1413 | by Staff reporter
Oskido's father buried
OPPOSITION stalwart and father of music legend Oscar "Oskido" Mdlongwa, Esaph Mdlongwa was buried in Bulawayo yesterday.MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa and his MDC-T rival Thokozani Khupe b...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:19hrs | 1112 | by Staff reporter
Unmasking sanctions promoters
Many had hoped that the coming of a new administration led by President Donald Trump in America was going to usher in a fresh foreign policy trajectory. This deduction was wrong. Let me ...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:13hrs | 961 | by Ranga Mataire
Tribalism at its best: Khuphe a leader sent from hell! My reply!
They see everything is wrong and going wrong because of Thokozani Khuphe. But who ignited the whole shenanigans going on in the MDC opposition parties? Indeed tribalism is embedded, it is entranced in...Published: 18 Oct 2020 at 15:10hrs | 5756 | by Nomazulu Thata
Separation of Matabeleland from Zimbabwe will end in bloodshed and tears
"Zimbabwe is a liberated country. It did not come through democracy, there was no vote to say Zimbabwe now wants to become independent. It was fought for." This is word of mouth by Patrick Chinamasa, ...Published: 18 Oct 2020 at 09:05hrs | 6665 | by Israel Dube
Man kills aunt over missing luck charms
POLICE in Mutoko, Mashonaland East province have arrested a 23-year-old man who allegedly axed his aunt to death, accusing her of misplacing his talisman.Piniel Tinomuda, of village 43 Hoyuyu,...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 16:31hrs | 1789 | by Staff reporter
Opening date for Ekusileni
EKUSILENI Medical Centre in Bulawayo will finally open its doors to members of the public on November 30 with a 50-bed capacity amid revelations that the institution is now ready to admit Covid-19 pat...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 16:27hrs | 922 | by Staff reporter
Activists, parties blast 'sell-out' Obert Mpofu
MATABELELAND based pressure groups and political parties have angrily reacted to Zanu-PF top politician, Obert Mpofu's contemptuous dismissal of anti-Gukurahundi activists he claimed were least qualif...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 16:26hrs | 3601 | by Staff reporter
Unpacking Professor Stephen Chan's interview with Bernard
There are no imaginative skills on how to move the country forward internally and externally, be it economic and political in both the ruling party and the opposition of Nelson Chamisa. In 2018,...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 11:58hrs | 1752 | by Nomazulu Thata
Obert Mpofu argues that Gukurahundi genocide was dealt with by 1987 Unity Accord
IN VIEWS that are set to be a major talking point in the coming days and weeks, former Cabinet minister Obert Mpofu, says it is time to forgive and move on from the Gukurahundi killings of the 1...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 20:31hrs | 1928 | by Staff reporter
Esaph Mdlongwa: Obituary from the General Secretary of the Zimbabwe Communist Party
I have learnt with a heavy heart the passing away of Comrade Esaph Mdlongwa, the founding Organising Secretary of the Movement for Democratic Change, a trade unionist and a former Member of Parliament...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 11:39hrs | 1950 | by Ngqabutho Nicholas Mabhena.
De-listing wave hits ZSE
FIVE counters have announced plans to de-list from the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE), precipitating fears that a new forex-denominated bourse planned for Victoria Falls could ground one of Africa's ol...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 07:19hrs | 3397 | by Staff reporter
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