US says it will accept a Mugabe election victory
THE UNITED States will accept a win by President Robert Mugabe in the forthcoming elections - provided the polls are held in a free and fair environment, U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe Bruce Wharton has...
View ArticleUS's $10 million tax fraud fugitive living large in Zimbabwe
He is a fugitive from justice in the United States of America where he is wanted on a $10 million tax fraud charge.But Zimbabwean-born Julius Marimbire is living large in his homeland's oldest urban ...
View ArticleCain Mathema refuses to meet US ambassador
Bulawayo provincial governor Cain Mathema refused to meet the United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Bruce Wharton because his government slapped targeted travel and financial restrictions on members of...
View ArticleWorld Bank considers restoring credit lines to Zimbabwe
The World Bank says it is considering restoring credit lines to key economic sectors after being impressed by government's macro-economic turn-around policies.The sentiments by the World Bank are bein...
View ArticleOn the Moyo - Lozwi or Rozwi: Are they a Kalanga or Shona?
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can only be maintained for such a time as the State can shield the people from the political, ec...
View ArticleFake passport ring nabbed
FOUR people, including an immigration officer, were arrested last week after being found in possession of more than 10 fake security date stamps and blank copies of various registration forms.The gang...
View ArticleMan (33) gets 8 months in jail for child trafficking
The 33-year-old Bulawayo man who was arrested for attempting to smuggle 16 children aged between three and 17 into South Africa through the Beitbridge border post on Saturday was yesterday imprisone...
View ArticleWoman (73) killed by grandson (20) over a handful of groundnuts
A 73-YEAR-OLD Gokwe woman died when she was struck with a machete on the head by her 20-year-old grandson following an argument over a handful of groundnuts, police have said.Police identified the now...
View ArticleMan fatally stabbed outside at city nightclub
Police in Gweru are investigating a murder case in which a 26-year-old man was fatally stabbed with a knife outside a city nightclub during the early hours of yesterday.The now deceased has been i...
View ArticleNdebele poet publishes debut anthology
Poet Bolsheviks Ndlovu has released a Ndebele language anthology that seeks to alert the youth on the sacrifices of the country's leadership during the struggle for independence.The book, Ndlovu's fir...
View ArticleMan hangs himself after suspecting wife of infidelity
A Tsholotsho man who suspected that his wife was having an extra-marital affair hanged himself in his bedroom hut.The incident, which occurred between Saturday at about 9pm and Sunday morning, was con...
View ArticleTwo children killed, one seriously injured after unwittingly playing with...
TWO children were killed while the third was seriously injured when they picked up a suspected bomb which later exploded.The incident happened on Sunday at the Lezy Nine Range in Prazeni Village under...
View ArticleNyambirai steps down as Econet chairman with immediate effect
Tawanda Nyambirai has announced that he is stepping down as chairman and member of the Econet Wireless Zimbabwe board with immediate effect. It was also announced that Econet now has close to 100% sh...
View ArticleAnti TB Joshua at it again on the state of African Christianity
T.B. Joshua is undoubtedly one of the greatest prophets in this century. He is anointed with a peculiar prophetic anointing that has attracted a lot of envy from all quarters.There is a particular gr...
View ArticleParade Magazine back on streets despite trademark wrangle
Parade magazine is now back on the streets, nine years after it stopped publishing.Zimbabwe Publishing House, owners of the magazine that has been in publication since 1953, re-launched it amid a bitt...
View ArticleMangoma trial for saying 'die Mugabe die' opens
THE trial of Energy and Power Development Minister Elton Mangoma on allegations of undermining the authority of the country's President opened yesterday at the Bindura Magistrates' Court. He is accus...
View ArticleResidents likely to go for 6 days without water
BULAWAYO residents are likely to go without water for six days a week by Christmas as a third supply dam might be decommissioned in the next 10 days.In an interview after a water crisis committee mee...
View ArticlePassenger train derails
SCORES of passengers were left stranded on Tuesday night when a Bulawayo bound National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) passenger train from Victoria Falls derailed.The passenger train had five economy coa...
View ArticlePassport office overwhelmed by people collecting passports
THE Bulawayo passport office is overwhelmed by the number of people collecting their passports forcing officers to issue them with collection numbers in order to control congestion.In the past the off...
View ArticleNMB Bank manager in court for allegedly sodomising a deaf pupil
A manager with NMB allegedly sodomised a 10-year-old deaf pupil of Emerald Hill School of the deaf on four occasions after buying him food and clothes, a Harare magistrate heard yesterday. George We...
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