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3 weeks ago | 
southerneye.co.zw | Rex Mphisa |Nizbert Moyo |William Vundla |Mpumelelo Moyo
GWANDA April 1 (NewsDay Live)- The Zimbabwe Mining Safety Health Environmental Council (Zimshec has described the death of Insiza legislator and miner Farai Taruvinga as a huge loss to the sector and the people of Matabeleland South province as a whole.
Taruvinga died at his Hillside home in Bulawayo on Sunday after a long battle with cancer.
He was 53.
Taruvinga operated several gold mines in the province where he employed hundreds of workers.
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1 month ago | 
southerneye.co.zw | Rex Mphisa |Peter Dube |Sharon Sibindi |William Vundla
BEITBRIDGE, Mar 24 (Newsday Live) – Beitbridge police have arrested a traditional healeron allegations of raping and impregnating a 13-year-old child from his neighbourhood in the Chamnanga Village in Beitbridge.
Acting on a tip-off from a concerned villager, police pounced on the polygamous traditional healer on Monday morning.
"We have made the arrest after a worried villager alerted us. The suspect is expected in court soon and we commend this villager who tipped us.
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1 month ago | 
southerneye.co.zw | Rex Mphisa |Sharon Sibindi |William Vundla |Nizbert Moyo
Local News HARARE 30 March (Newsday Live) Veteran journalist Geoffrey Nyarota has died aged 74.
He died in Harare after a long illness. His death was confirmed by his son, according to reports.
Nyarota, also an author of note with several published books, is famous for his exposure of the 1980s Willogate Scandal when he worked with journalist Tichaona Mkuku at the State run Chronicle.
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1 month ago | 
southerneye.co.zw | Rex Mphisa |Silas Nkala |Bongile Moyo |Mpumelelo Moyo
HARARE, March 12, (NewsDayLive) - A cross-border truck driver was struck by a machete and robbed at a treacherous detour that has taken ages to complete between Rutenga and Ngundu on the highway from Beitbridge to Harare.
Apparently, that stretch of the road was declared complete by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in 2024.
The driver from Mother Truckers, only identified as a Swazi national, had 20 centimetre sutures administered on him at Beitbridge Rural District Hospital.
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1 month ago | 
southerneye.co.zw | Rex Mphisa |Silas Nkala |Bongile Moyo |Mpumelelo Moyo
BEITBRIDGE, March March (Newsday Live) A 48 year-old Zimbabwean man was on Tuesday arrested on the South African side of Beitbridge Border Post on allegations of smuggling R618 200 worth of explosives from Zimbabwe.
The arrest was made during a routine profiling and search of cross-border haulage trucks, according to a South African Police Service ( Saps) press release Wednesday.
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1 month ago | 
southerneye.co.zw | Rex Mphisa |Silas Nkala |Patricia Sibanda |Sharon Sibindi
SMALL-SCALE and artisanal gold miners want government's support modelled along the command agriculture fashion to help them maximise output and generate more foreign currency for the country.
The miners, who produced 65% of Zimbabwe's 36,5 tonnes of gold in 2024, also want Fidelity Gold Refineries to assist them with exploration and target extraction that protects the environment.
They also requested Fidelity to increase gold buying points by contracting banks to be gold buyers.
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1 month ago | 
southerneye.co.zw | Patricia Sibanda |Silas Nkala |Rex Mphisa |Sharon Sibindi
QUEENSPARK West residents are up in arms with the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) over the local authority's decision to demolish their houses because of sewage problems.
A resident who declined to be named told Southern Eye that they are not going to allow the local authority to destroy their properties because of some houses that were recently built on a manhole.
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1 month ago | 
southerneye.co.zw | Silas Nkala |Rex Mphisa |Patricia Sibanda |Sharon Sibindi
The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) is closing its southern Africa office in the wake of the Trump administration’s aid cuts.
In a statement, a spokesperson said the office in Johannesburg would close and the WFP would consolidate its southern and east Africa operations into one regional office in Nairobi, Kenya.
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1 month ago | 
southerneye.co.zw | Silas Nkala |Rex Mphisa |Patricia Sibanda |Sharon Sibindi
Business The National Building Society (NBS) is optimistic that its growth strategies will allow it to serve the unbanked population, following the official launch of its new Chiredzi branch.
The NBS Chiredzi branch, located in the Masvingo Province, will serve clients such as farmers, corporate entities, small and medium enterprises and individual customers.
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1 month ago | 
southerneye.co.zw | Silas Nkala |Rex Mphisa |Patricia Sibanda |Sharon Sibindi
The World Bank has proposed a broad set of policy reforms to arrest the country’s growing informalisation.
The growing informalisation, which authorities had mistakenly referred to as the new economy and the real deal after the death of the old economy, is threatening formal businesses and in the process disrupting revenue inflow to Treasury coffers through taxes.
This comes as the government appears to have no solution in sight to encourage the informal sector to pay taxes.
