Sleeping man dies after jumping out of a moving bus
A 30-year-old man from Chiredzi died on the spot after he jumped off a moving bus along the Beitbridge-Masvingo Road. The incident occurred at around 10pm near Bubi village. It is understood that Just...
View ArticlePoliceman gets 10 years behind bars for raping a paralysed woman
A CHINHOYI police officer who raped a partially paralysed woman after dragging her into his brothers' house on the pretext that he wanted to collect his cellphone was yesterday jailed for an effective...
View ArticleFacebook experiences 10 - 20 mins outage
The giant online social network Facebook appears to be down right now. It's the second big outage of the day after Google's.For now, mobile apps are still working. You can still technically access y...
View ArticleZim govt bemoans high microfinance interest rates
GOVERNMENT is concerned with the punitive interest rates charged by microfinance institutions at a time the tide of inflation has been tamed, Acting Secretary for Small and Medium Enterprises andCo-op...
View ArticleNyarai Makone laid to rest
Nyarai Makone, the daughter of senior MDC-T officials Ian and Theresa Makone, who committed suicide on Saturday after battling with clinical depression for years, was laid to rest at Glen Forest Mem...
View ArticleMan bashes prophet for snatching his wife
A PLUMTREE man, Mike Tshuma, who gave a self proclaimed prophet a thorough hiding for snatching his wife has appeared before magistrate Mr Livared Philfimon facing assault charges.It is reported that...
View ArticleIt's heartbreaking to see Mandela's spirit and sparkle fading says wife
Cape Town - Graça Machel said on Monday that it is painful for her to see her husband Nelson Mandela's health deteriorate.Machel told eNCA that it's painful to see him grow old - one understands that...
View ArticleSingle-sex schools: do they encourage kids to be homosexuals? - Live Debate
For days I have been thinking of a better way to ask this question, following the "Lesbian scandal rocks St James Girls High".A reader commented: "The single sex schools always had this problem altho...
View ArticleZanu-PF pushes for the return of the Zim dollar
Zanu-PF ended its conference in Gweru on Sunday by adopting a resolution to push for the re-introduction of the local currency and adoption of other currencies including the Chinese yuan as legal tend...
View ArticleExcommunicated Bishop Kunonga loses appeal
ARCHBISHOP Nolbert Kunonga's Anglican Church of the Province of Zimbabwe's fresh bid to control Anglican Church properties yesterday hit a snag after the High Court threw out his church's urgent cham...
View ArticleAnother Bishop fights to control the Anglican Diocese
Bishop Elson Madoda Jakazi of the Anglican Diocese of Manicaland is seeking to revive his battle to control the diocese, a month after his Supreme Court appeal was struck off the roll.In October, Just...
View ArticleZim surgeon in New Zealand deaths probe
A Zimbabwean surgeon is under investigation in New Zealand after being linked to two suspicious deaths and two separate botched operations.The 59-year-old Mike Parry - who says treating victims of the...
View ArticleKamushinda gets Namibian banking license
Namibia - The long-awaited SME Bank yesterday quietly opened its doors for business in Windhoek after the Bank of Namibia (BoN) finally granted its banking license on Friday.SME Bank chairman Frans K...
View ArticleMan nabbed for attempting to smuggle 19 kids into SA
Police have arrested a 33-year-old Bulawayo man for attempting to smuggle 19 children aged between three and 17 into South Africa through the Beitbridge border post. The children had been collected fr...
View ArticleKFC wants to return to Zim on condition it imports chickens from SA
INTERNATIONAL fast food giant KFC will reopen restaurants in Zimbabwe in the new year - but the company that holds the franchise is lobbying ministers to be allowed to import chickens from South Afric...
View ArticleBeitbridge congestion, travellers tear-gassed by SA police
Police are set to meet their South African counterparts following an incident in which the South African officers used tear gas to control travellers at their side of the border last Friday morning. ...
View ArticleMiner (37) drowns in cyanide tank
POLICE in Kwekwe have launched investigations into the death of a 37-year-old Kwekwe miner George Mambambare who allegedly drowned in a cyanide tank at Ivan Hoe Mine last month.The mine is owned by bu...
View ArticleLightning strikes three, one dead
THREE teenage boys from Makoni in Manicaland were on Saturday struck by lightning which instantly killed one of them while the other two sustained burns.Police in Manicaland confirmed the incident and...
View ArticleBulawayo man extradited to SA on murder charges
A ZIMBABWEAN man, who allegedly broke into a fellow national's home in South Africa and fatally stabbed him before fleeing back home, was last Friday extradited to South Africa for trial.Nkosiyabo Du...
View ArticleSunduza's founder member dies
BULAWAYO artist Sam Banda, founder member of Imbube group Sunduza Boys popular in the 1980s, died yesterday morning after a short illness.The Pumula-based group became one of the first local groups to...
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