"We ran for our dear lives when we saw the sun falling down and suddenly our cattle were lying on the ground." These are the words of 13-year-old Thabo Ndlovu after he and his friend Andrew Mpunzi cheated death when a bolt of lightning struck.
By Matabeleland North Correspondent
VICTORIA FALLS: Zanu PF is planning to make inroads and reclaim all parliamentary and local council seats in the MDC Alliance-dominated Hwange district.
For years, Hwange and Binga districts in Matabeleland North province, have been MDC strongholds with the opposition commanding 100% national assembly seats and more than 95% of local authority seats.
The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance is in charge of 11 wards in the Victoria Falls city council while Zanu PF has no ward in the Hwange Local Board and Binga Rural District Council (RDC).
The ruling party finds solace in Hwange Rural District Council where it has only two seats.
In a heartbreaking development, what was meant to be a fun swimming experience ended in tragedy after a 10-year-old boy drowned while swimming in a stream in Victoria Falls.
Faceofmalawi has established from a local publication New Zimbabwe that the now deceased Pardon Nyoni, who was doing Grade Five at Chimbombo Primary School drowned on Friday while swimming with his friends at Malayitha stream. Pardon is alleged to have suddenly drowned. His friends tried to save him but it was all in vain.
Following the incident, the other children did not report the drowning to the elders as they could not comprehend what had happened. The incident only came to light after a villager found his lifeless body floating under a small bridge.