KWEKWE - A sophisticated gold smuggling syndicate operating under the guise of a legitimate mining venture in Silobela, Kwekwe District, is believed to have siphoned more than 120 kilograms of gold, valued at over US$10 million, from Zimbabwe’s formal market within two years.
HARARE - Supreme Court of Zimbabwe judge Justice Tendai Uchena has granted interim relief to ferrochrome producer ZIMASCO (Pvt) Ltd in its ongoing corporate rescue dispute, ordering controversial lawyer Wilson Manase to cease acting as the company's corporate rescue practitioner pending a full appeal hearing.
KWEKWE - Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) president Nqobile Magwizi has praised Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader Prophet Walter Magaya for constructing the second stadium built in Zimbabwe after independence in 1980.
KWEKWE – Amaveni High School in Kwekwe has purchased a second school bus for US$195 000 and plans are to use the bus commercially to reduce the amount of school fees paid by guardians.
A local family in Kwekwe is desperately seeking help in finding their missing father, 71-year-old Mr Witness Chimanikire, who was last seen on Monday, October 7th. Concerned family members and friends have organized search parties and have been searching the area around Kwekwe, Redcliff, Gokwe, Zhombe, Kadoma and Gweru since he was reported missing after he failed to pitch up to where he was supposed to be on that day and did not return home.
KWEKWE – Minister of State for Midlands Provincial Affairs and Devolution, Owen Ncube made a tour of Kwekwe on Friday last week and called for the local authority to build free public toilets in the sprawling but generally dirty city.
Police in Kwekwe, the Midlands province are investigating a suspected ritualistic murder in which a teacher from Rio Tinto High School was found dead on Friday with his eyes gouged out, ears and nose missing and head skinned near a business centre in Zhombe.
In an incident that can easily pass for a Nigerian Nollywood movie, four murder suspects were on Monday arrested at a Kwekwe witchdoctor’s house while seeking divine intervention to be shielded from the crime.
The government is exploring ways of dealing with the issue of Kwekwe town, in the Midlands province, where the ground underneath it has become weak due to illegal mining activities in disused mines, a senior official said on Thursday. In March, one of the classrooms at Globe and Phoenix Primary School caved in, resulting in 18 pupils being injured.
A self-styled prophet from Amaveni township in Kwekwe, the Midlands province only known as Chikandamina, allegedly bolted from his shrine with his trousers in his hands after he was caught attempting to rape a follower.
