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Armed men rob Chinese Couple, appear in court
Two men have appeared in court in connection with an armed robbery in which a Chinese couple was robbed of US$35 000, cellphones, and other valuables worth US$5 000 in Southerton, Harare, last week....Published: 28 Aug 2025 at 22:37hrs | 195 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe FIU fines 4 banks over weak AML Controls
Zimbabwe's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) fined four banks up to US$30 000 each last year after uncovering serious lapses in anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CFT) system...Published: 22 Aug 2025 at 13:20hrs | 448 | by Staff reporter
Airtime vendors sue police for US$120,000
Three airtime vendors from Masvingo have filed lawsuits against the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) and the Ministry of Home Affairs, each seeking US$40 000 in damages for unlawful arrest and malicious...Published: 17 Aug 2025 at 12:09hrs | 440 | by Staff reporter
'Bathi ngitshontsh' imali' Kunuka santungwana kuBosso
KUNUKA santungwana emahofisini eHighlanders. Akusabonwa ngaso linye ngemva kokuvela kwecala lokutshontshwa kwemali, okucatshangelwa ukuthi yathathwa ngumaqhuzu uBrian Moyo.UMoyo uvele watshiya...Published: 10 Apr 2025 at 08:55hrs | 92 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko's obstruction of justice trial continues
THE trial of former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko on charges of abusing public office by forcing the release of two officials arrested on corruption charges will continue after the Supreme Court u...Published: 12 Jun 2024 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Council boss blows thousands on bling
Chiredzi Council, which is struggling to deliver standard services to its 300 000plus residents, is in the eye of a storm following revelations that the local authority could be pampering its executiv...Published: 16 Apr 2024 at 17:56hrs | 98 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube pleads for patience on ZiG
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has pleaded for patience with the recently introduced Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) currency amid an uproar from the public over the disruptions it has caused to transactions....Published: 12 Apr 2024 at 09:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
All eyes on new RBZ boss
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) new governor John Mushayavanhu is facing a tough challenge as he is expected to immediately halt the freefall of the Zimbabwe dollar and stop the economic implosion blam...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 16:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's niece arrested
ZIMBABWE Miners' Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya has been arrested on allegations involving an undisclosed mining transaction.Last night police said they would not release any details ...Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 06:29hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Bid to block judge from NSSA's US$30m saga flops
The Supreme Court has dismissed an application filed by a local housing company to bar a Supreme Court judge from hearing a case in which they are claiming US$30 million awarded to them by a lower cou...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 05:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa niece's legacy woes haunt ZBC
THE Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) is grappling with serious management challenges linked to Helliate Rushwaya - the newly appointed board chair - during her tenure as the acting chief execut...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 06:51hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
Yadah revel in Khama capture
Premier Soccer League side Yadah are revelling in their capture of Warriors legend Khama Billiat whom they stole from right under the noses of the more fancied Dynamos last week.Yadah official...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 05:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Money-lending company loses US$700,000 to robbers
POLICE in Harare have launched a manhunt for six armed robbers who raided a financial services company before making off with US$700 000.The suspects were armed with iron bars, explosives and ...Published: 27 Feb 2024 at 04:39hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Suspects drop US$5 000 at robbery scene
Police have launched a manhunt on a case of a robbery that happened at a financial service company in Harare."Police in Harare are investigating a case of robbery which occurred on February 25...Published: 26 Feb 2024 at 19:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Yadah to unveil Khama Billiat
ZIMBABWE Premier Soccer League side Yadah FC will on Thursday reveal their marquee signing, former national team attacker Khama Billiat, at their Heart Stadium in Harare.Billiat is set to beco...Published: 26 Feb 2024 at 04:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe mines officials up for extortion
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has arrested Mashonaland West's deputy provincial mining director Junior Mudyawabikwa and former surveyor Robson Farayi Chinanayi for extortion.T...Published: 21 Feb 2024 at 07:17hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Chegutu Pirates in turmoil
CHEGUTU Pirates are caught between a hard place and a rock as they are yet to register their 2024 technical team and players with the Premier Soccer League.Promoted from the ZIFA Northern Regi...Published: 16 Feb 2024 at 04:56hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Traders reject Zimdollar
THE Zimbabwe dollar has continued to depreciate in 2024, with traders in some areas now refusing to accept the local currency, while parallel market exchange rates have been differing across the count...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt sets new US$ fees for lost documents
GOVERNMENT has introduced a basket of new fees exclusively pegged in United States dollars for citizenship application or replacement of lost identity documents.According to Statutory Instrume...Published: 01 Feb 2024 at 05:00hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Foreigners to pay U$5,000 for Zimbabwean citizenship
Foreigners applying for Zimbabwean citizenship on the basis of permanent residence will be required to pay US$5 000 cash for both adults and minors while those who seek restoration of citizenship afte...Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 04:47hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Scammed by Zimbabweans in the diaspora, job seekers lose fortunes
ARMED with a smartphone, a lone vigilante confronts an alleged scammer in Birmingham, United Kingdom clicks "record" on the device and demands that the woman pays back thousands of British pounds that...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 05:53hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Adulterous cops ordered to pay US$5 000 to long-suffering wife
SHE has borne the agony of seeing her seven children go hungry and fail to attend school because her police officer husband has forsaken her for his work colleague.She has endured taunts from ...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 04:46hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
5 arrested for spate of robberies
POLICE in Gweru have arrested five suspects that had been terrorising residents through armed robbery, and unlawful entry and theft cases.The five, according to the Midlands provincial police ...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 05:39hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
How a Zimbabwean business coach went from artisinal miner to CEO
"I am always busy from Monday to Friday working for the Youth Miners Foundation, and on other days I will be at my own gold mine…" Payne Farai Kupfuwa, the 36-year-old CEO of the Young Miners Founda...Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 08:57hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Jacob Mafume's plan is to stabilise Harare
NEWSDAY reporter Sharon Buwerimwe (ND) caught up with recently re-elected Harare mayor Jacob Mafume (JM) for an interview to discuss his plans after bouncing back into office.The mayoral post ...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 07:33hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
'Car jackers' turn tables on ‘robbed' taxi driver in court
IN a shocking turn of events, one of the three suspects on trial for allegedly stealing a Honda Fit claimed that the taxi driver's accusations that they robbed him of the vehicle were false because th...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabweans are already overtaxed'
AMERICAN financial literacy website, Investopedia defines 'wealth tax' as a tax based on the market value of assets owned by a taxpayer.A wealth tax is typically put on a 'high-net-worth' indi...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 17:37hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa connections spared Rushwaya jail
A FORTNIGHT ago, we boldly declared "Rushwaya exhausts nine lives" in one of our headlines. How wrong we were!At the time, it seemed the chickens had finally come home to roost for Henrietta R...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe secure cancer treatment machines
The GOVERNMENT has purchased a set of new advanced radiotherapy machines used to treat cancer, which will soon be installed at two major public hospitals.Funding has also been secured to procu...Published: 12 Nov 2023 at 11:40hrs | 39 | by Staff reporter
Intern steals client's car
WHAT a disgrace!A 19-year-old student on attachment in Bulawayo has appeared in court facing charges of allegedly stealing a Mercedes Benz that belongs to a client.Adonia Muzondi from ...Published: 27 Oct 2023 at 06:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Biased Harare fines Bosso US$5 000, given up to 17 October to pay
HIGHLANDERS have been fined US$5 000 by the Premier Soccer League disciplinary committee with US$500 being suspended for the rest of the season and have up to October 17 to pay the effective US$4 500....Published: 11 Oct 2023 at 17:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Dog bite victim sues brick-making company over savage attack
A ZIMBABWEAN man is suing a brick manufacturing company for more than US$15 000 in damages after he sustained severe injuries when he was brutally mauled by some vicious dogs owned by the Harare-based...Published: 09 Aug 2023 at 13:09hrs | 18 | by Stephen Jakes
7 armed robbers wanted for high profile cases
SEVEN suspected armed robbers who are on police's most wanted list for committing a spate of high profile criminal cases countrywide are believed to be operating and hiding in South Africa where most ...Published: 05 Jul 2023 at 07:12hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean national found with US$153 000 at King Mswati III International Airport
A Zimbabwean national was found with foreign currency equivalent to E2.8 million cash at King Mswati III International Airport.Masiyakurima Agrippa Bopela (Masiya), a losing candidate for Nati...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 08:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's most wanted robber arrested
One of the country's most wanted suspected robber Cornwell Junior Kasambarare, who is believed to have masterminded a spate of armed robbery, including the famous Mashwede Holdings heist and housebrea...Published: 29 Jun 2023 at 06:26hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar in first time gain on RBZ Auction
THE ZW$ value firmed up by 8,6% on the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Auction platform , signalling improved widespread usage of the local currency on the back of the economy's swift response to economic me...Published: 28 Jun 2023 at 20:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Headmen earning less than US$1
Zimbabwe's 36 000 village heads who have been accused of intimidating their subjects to support Zanu-PF are earning a paltry $5 000 in allowances, which is less than US$1 at the official exchange rate...Published: 25 Jun 2023 at 09:38hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Trio in court over pangolin
THREE Bulawayo residents have been dragged to court over illegal possession of a pangolin worth US$5 000.Sehliselo Dube (37) of Nketa, Nkosinamandla Dube (28) and Bhekimpilo Ncube (43) both of...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Businessman up for car theft
Harare businessman Malvern Chimutashu, who was recently arrested and charged with theft of a motor vehicle, has been denied bail at the High Court and will be in prison pending trial.Chimutash...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 06:17hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Lithium war erupts in Zimbabwe
THE scramble for lithium in Zimbabwe - which boasts Africa's largest and the world's fifth-biggest reserves of "white gold" - is escalating against the backdrop of soaring demand for the lucrative min...Published: 18 Jun 2023 at 15:15hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Parliament turns heat on Mthuli Ncube
LEGISLATORS have taken Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube to task over the galloping inflation and the crumbling local currency, which they say has eroded salaries of government wo...Published: 15 Jun 2023 at 06:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Protests loom over Zimdollar implosion
Workers unions are agitating for a nationwide strike over the continued economic implosion that has been characterised by the spectacular collapse of the Zimbabwe dollar.The country is facing ...Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 21:34hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Patriotic Bill: The guilty are always afraid
If you are a law-abiding citizen of Zimbabwe or a bona fide organisation, why should you panic over a law that seeks to ring-fence the foreign policy of your country? Your own country?After al...Published: 07 Jun 2023 at 06:06hrs | 1 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Zanu-PF youths block Victoria Falls from selling stands
Zanu-PF youths in Victoria Falls have blocked the local authority from selling 900 housing stands in Kazungula area, accusing the opposition-led council of using the gesture as a "vote-buying" gimmick...Published: 20 May 2023 at 20:18hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimgold unfazed by SA imports
ONE of Zimbabwe's leading cooking oil producers, Zimgold Oil Industries said this week it was not worried about prospects of stiffer competition after government's decision to lift restrictions on the...Published: 19 May 2023 at 20:42hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Hundreds in Vic Falls flock for housing stands
Hundreds of homesteaders have gathered at the Victoria Falls City Council housing offices to apply for housing stands.The local authority advertised last month inviting homesteaders to approac...Published: 15 May 2023 at 18:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, Council in fierce clash over 900 stands
Zanu-PF youths are locked in a vicious battle with the Victoria Falls City Council after the local authority announced plans to sell over 900 housing stands with the ruling party members accusing the ...Published: 14 May 2023 at 11:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Gold tokens will unlikely save Zimdollar'
THE recently-announced gold-backed digital tokens will neither strengthen the local currency nor reduce chronic inflation because of waning market confidence and trust in government, an economic watch...Published: 08 May 2023 at 06:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gold digital tokens to hit market on Monday
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s will release its gold-backed digital tokens into the market on Monday to serve as both an instrument for store of value and transacting.The bank has since ...Published: 05 May 2023 at 20:22hrs | | by Staff reportr
CCC Alderman name removed from the nomination list
The newly installed Alderman for Chiredzi Town Council, Gibson Hwende's name was missing among other nominated candidates, causing confusion and chaos during the Citizen's caucus at Dorman hall, Hippo...Published: 01 May 2023 at 10:03hrs | 1 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
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