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Rapist jailed 20 years
A 33-year-old Mt Darwin man was jailed 20 years yesterday by Bindura regional magistrate Amos Mbobo.Tsungai Kakondo lured the complainant to h...Published: 2 hrs ago | 189 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mental health patient kills own father
Police in Zaka have arrested a suspected mental health patient who allegedly murdered his father with an iron bar and a wooden log.Arifas Chin...Published: 5 hrs ago | 451 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Stolen Zim truck recovered near Mozambique border
LUCK ran out for three carjackers after police in Chipinge intercepted a Nissan UD truck stolen at Birchenough Bridge recently which they were attempt...Published: 6 hrs ago | 999 | by Staff Reporter
Midlands inches closer to 2030 rural electrification target
The Midlands Province is inching closer to the 2030 target for all rural areas to have electricity as three-quarters of public schools, clinics, exten...Published: 6 hrs ago | 50 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa appoints Chief Maduna
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has appointed Mr Dambisamahubo Mafu as substantive Chief Maduna in Insiza district, Matabeleland South province.Chief Madu...Published: 6 hrs ago | 138 | by Staff reporter
Zimasco readies to commence production
KWEKWE-based ferrochrome producer, Zimasco, is in the process of switching on three of its furnaces as it seeks to resume operations.The ferro...Published: 6 hrs ago | 74 | by Staff reporter
Woman kidnapped, drugged and robbed by Honda Fit crew
A 36-YEAR-OLD woman from Emganwini suburb was kidnapped, drugged and later dumped in a bush on Sunday after boarding a silver Honda fit bound for the ...Published: 6 hrs ago | 182 | by Staff reporter
Theileriosis kills hundreds of cattle in Matabeleland South
A widow and farmer Mrs Thulani Mpofu is left with only an empty kraal and cattle bells after Theileriosis, which has claimed hundreds of cattle in Ins...Published: 6 hrs ago | 122 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga in Tanzania
Vice President and Minister of Health and Child Care, Dr Constantino Chiwenga, has arrived in Tanzania to lead Zimbabwe's participation at the Politic...Published: 6 hrs ago | 165 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Lukashenko to visit Victoria Falls today
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa and his Belarusian counterpart President Aleksandr Lukashenko are expected to visit the tourism city of Victoria Falls this mornin...Published: 6 hrs ago | 82 | by Staff reporter
Gold thief killed at girlfriend's house
A group of illegal miners allegedly bashed a suspected gold thief to death in Mazowe before setting the cabin of his girlfriend ablaze on Sunday....Published: 6 hrs ago | 425 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Mazowe
Chamisa promises to turn Zimbabwe around in no time
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has promised to turn Zimbabwe around in no time....Published: 12 hrs ago | 1182 | by Moyo Royo
Apostle nabbed for duping pastor
A SELF-STYLED apostle with the God of Fire International Ministries was arrested on Sunday for allegedly duping a Zambian pastor of US$400.Apo...Published: 13 hrs ago | 746 | by Staff Reporter
No to lip service, says Zanu PF
ZANU PF has warned its members against lip service support, saying the true meaning of a party supporter is one who is a registered voter and who will...Published: 14 hrs ago | 337 | by Staff Reporter
Bush sex lands man in jail
A 20-YEAR-OLD Chiweshe man was caged 10 years today by Bindura regional magistrate Shingirai Mutiro for raping a 19-year-old woman in the bush....Published: 21 hrs ago | 2928 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Bindura
'Sikhala was advocating for violence,' says last State witness
THE State's last witness in the trial of Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala (CCC) for allegedly inciting public violence sometime in 2018, yesterday ...Published: 31 Jan 2023 at 09:34hrs | 2320 | by Staff Reporter
Wedza man masquarades as woman rapes minor
A Wedza man Moses Munyoro (21) from Chidende village appeared before Marondera magistrate c Ignatius Mhene facing allegations of raping an 11-year-old...Published: 31 Jan 2023 at 09:26hrs | 1478 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
We can't disclose Mnangagwa proposals, says ZEC
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has declined to disclose the recommendations that President Emmerson Mnangagwa (ED) made on its controversial ...Published: 31 Jan 2023 at 09:00hrs | 1352 | by Staff Reporter
Headmaster swindles exam fees
A headmaster at Usavi Primary School, Ward 22 Buhera Central Constituency is being accused of swindling US$315 meant for grade seven examination fees....Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 20:39hrs | 1491 | by Zebedi Mupuranga/Simbarashe Sithole
Man commits suicide after severely bashing wife
The fear of getting arrested has cost the life of a Bindura man Wilbert Chikwana (42) who had severely assaulted his wife on Friday night during a dom...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 13:04hrs | 2567 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mliswa attacks violent ZANU PF youth league
Former ZANU PF Mashonaland West provincial chairperson Temba Mliswa has castigated the top five Mashonaland West youth league saying they are just goo...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 12:02hrs | 2494 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Chamisa's CCC worried over Job Sikhala's continued detention
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) national spokesperson Fadzai Mahere, Friday expressed discontent over the continued detention of the party's legis...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 08:05hrs | 1547 | by Staff reporter
Shadowy group sends shivers down voters' spines
A Zanu-PF-affiliated organisation, Forever Associates Zimbabwe (FAZ), has deployed tens of its members in Masvingo province to collect personal voter ...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:53hrs | 2430 | by Staff reporter
Miner in bid to appease Zanu-PF
CHINESE company Chenjxi (Private) Limited, which was in partnership with a local miner exposed by The NewsHawks last year in April after conducting il...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:53hrs | 1229 | by Staff reporter
Malema threatens to shutdown South Africa
EFF leader Julius Malema has threatened to unleash the "mother of all protests" which he said would bring South Africa to a standstill on March 20, as...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:39hrs | 3230 | by Staff reporter
What Zondo's Commission did not want South Africa to know
An explosive affidavit that turned the state capture narrative on its head never made it to the final report of the state capture commission of inquir...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:37hrs | 2667 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe, police boss escape jail term
Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe and Police Commissioner General Godwin Matanga have escaped imprisonment for failing to pay over US$60,000 ...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:28hrs | 996 | by Staff reporter
President Lukashenko heads for Zimbabwe
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko is heading to Zimbabwe this coming week reportedly to cement relations with his country's new found ally....Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:27hrs | 773 | by Staff reporter
Missing ECD teacher found dead
Budiriro 4 Primary School ECD teacher, Josephine Magdalene Mandivei, who went missing nearly a week ago, was Saturday found dead in a maize field by a...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:27hrs | 1274 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tightens the noose
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has started restricting operations of non-governmental organisations ahead of this year's electi...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:17hrs | 771 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa allies turn heat
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's allies that are members of a platform ostensibly set up to improve the country's electoral environment after the disput...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:17hrs | 832 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo's empire crumbles
Literature pundits, especially those who have read William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar would be familiar with the reason Brutus participated in the mu...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:16hrs | 2607 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF forces teachers, nurses to buy party cards
Zanu-PF took it's intimidation tactics to a higher level following reports that the ruling party is forcing teachers and nurses to buy party cards in ...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:16hrs | 615 | by Staff reporter
PWDs4ED launched
As the country is moving towards the 2023 general elections, women with disabilities have said during election periods some people have a habit of exp...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:16hrs | 525 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans danced when Mugabe fell, now life is worse than ever
For Jasmine Toffa, the hardest moment of her life was not being beaten black and blue by regime thugs. It came when the Zimbabwean MP appeared in parl...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:15hrs | 1615 | by Christina Lamb for The Sunday Times (UK)
Can Chamisa turn the yellow movement into votes?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu-PF party are in panic mode because of the resilience of opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leade...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:14hrs | 1272 | by Staff reporter
China-Zimbabwe trade surges nearly 30 percent to US$2.4 billion
Trade between Zimbabwe and China surged 29.2 percent year-on-year to a record high of 2.43 billion US dollars in 2022, the Chinese Embassy in Zimbabwe...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:14hrs | 412 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa compensates 258 ZIPRA cadres fired from ZNA during Gukurahundi
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has reportedly ordered payment of compensation of 258 former ZIPRA combatants who were summarily dismissed from the Zimba...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:14hrs | 1758 | by Staff reporter
48 4ED affiliates meet Zanu-PF leadership in Bulawayo
Zanu-PF leadership Friday met with the party's recently formed controversial structures known as 4 ED affiliates at the Zimbabwe Internati...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:13hrs | 153 | by Staff reporter
Chigumba guns for 'rogue' Zec commissioners
SEVEN Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) commissioners, who reportedly refused to append their signatures to the electoral body's preliminary delimit...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:13hrs | 942 | by Staff reporter
Attempt to corner top judge hits brick wall
A CHEGUTU man's efforts to have the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) probe top judge, Justice Tendai Uchena for allegedly fraudulently releasing susp...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:12hrs | 539 | by Staff reporter
Power outages vex Potraz
THE Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) says the country's prolonged power cuts are causing network problems in ma...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:12hrs | 94 | by Staff reporter
Knives out for provincial magistrate
CHINHOYI provincial magistrate Langston Ndokera has been reported to the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) and the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:12hrs | 309 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa refuses to hand over phone evidence
THREE Zanu-PF party members who were arrested for inciting other party activists to commit acts of violence against Norton legislator Temba Mliswa (in...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:11hrs | 669 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's party lobby international organisations to intervene
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) says it has sent an appeal to Southern African Development Community (Sadc) and African Union (AU) ...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:11hrs | 501 | by Staff reporter
Zesa workers in bribes storm
BULAWAYO residents have accused the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) staff of demanding bribes for them to repair el...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:11hrs | 613 | by Staff reporter
Couple 'plot' 16-year-old girl's rape
A BEATRICE couple has been arraigned before the Chivhu magistrates' court facing rape charges.The duo (names withheld to protect the minor) we...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:10hrs | 454 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe aims for top spot in carbon steel production
ZIMBABWE is now on a sustainable economic growth path following a number of interventions and is set to become one of the top carbon steel producers i...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:10hrs | 159 | by Staff reporter
Appointment of 81 year old Col Dube to NRZ board clarified
THERE is nothing irregular about the appointment of former Cabinet Minister and freedom fighter Colonel (Retired) Tshinga Dube to the board of the Nat...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:10hrs | 399 | by Staff reporter
Manhize steel attracts huge interest
DINSON Iron and Steel Company (Disco), the Chinese firm developing the US$1,5 billion steel plant in Manhize, Mvuma, says it has been overwhelmed by i...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:09hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
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