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Notorious robbers jailed 87 years
Two serial robbers who unleashed a reign of terror across rural Makoni District in 2024 have been convicted and sentenced to a combined 87 years in prison after being found guilty of 14 counts of robb...Published: 17 May 2025 at 12:17hrs | 197 | by Staff reporter
Sakhile Dube unveils finale dress
With just hours to go before the Miss Universe 2024 grand finale in Mexico City, Zimbabwe's representative, Sakhile Dube, has unveiled the stunning gown she will wear on stage. Designed by celebrated ...Published: 16 Nov 2024 at 18:46hrs | 5800 | by Staff reporter
Man killed over bad joke
A 44-year-old man from Harare, Takaidza Mugwagwa, was fatally assaulted after making a joke that offended two individuals, leading to their arrest on murder charges. The incident occurred on October 1...Published: 16 Oct 2024 at 11:55hrs | 1206 | by Staff reporter
Police launch manhunt for hit and run drivers
POLICE have launched a manhunt for four motorists in connection with hit and run accidents in which pedestrians were killed.National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said...Published: 09 Apr 2024 at 06:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe family basket shoots to ZWL$2,6m
The Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ) has reported that the family basket's cost has risen to ZWL$2.6 million due to escalating prices of essential goods, posing a crisis for numerous households acro...Published: 10 Oct 2023 at 06:02hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Man (22) arrested with guns, teargas
A 22-year-old man was arrested in Binga after he was found in possession of two unlicensed firearms, several rounds of ammunition and tear-smoke canisters while he was in a bar.Madodana Muleya...Published: 14 Aug 2023 at 13:15hrs | 12 | by Erick Matotoba
Chamisa, Biti clash will not end well
History shows that when a captain and his best player clash, it does not end well. The story of CCC captain Chamisa and his best player Biti is quite sad. One thought the captain would give hi...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 08:08hrs | 3 | by Max Lion
Zimdollar haunted by trust issues
Zimbabweans across the country continue to lose trust in the local currency due to the rapid loss of value, meaning it cannot serve as the store of value and medium of exchange.According to th...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean nanny on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle as parents
Archie's former nanny has described the moment she met Prince Harry, revealing he was ‘walking around barefoot' outside of the marital home Frogmore Cottage.Lorren Khumalo, from Zimbabwe, sp...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Africa on the Radar for NFL's International Hopes
The NFL is one of the biggest sports leagues in the world - and one of the most lucrative. In 2021, around 17 million Americans watched the league regularly, while around 110 million viewers tune in l...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 12:03hrs | 27 | by Staff Writer
Diepsloot shutdown...as South Africans fight foreigners
Reports coming from neighbouring South Africa indicate that residents of the poverty stricken Diepsloot township in Gauteng have launched an Operation Khumbulekhaya which is aimed at removing fo...Published: 06 Apr 2022 at 09:00hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
War in Ukraine is wrong so is sanctioning Russia
The war in Ukraine continues to rage causing civilian casualties and massive population displacement. The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) and the European Union remain on the sidelines feari...Published: 14 Mar 2022 at 05:35hrs | 2 | by Tapiwa Gomo
SA companies caught in Russia-Ukraine crossfire
JSE counters with even a remote connection to the Russia-Ukraine conflict have taken a pounding in the past week as gun-shy investors decided they were not worth the risk.Leading the fall was ...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:39hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa lashes out at Mnangagwa
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters braved tear smoke, water cannon and buton attacks by police determineed to stop the opposition party leader Nelson Chamisa from addressing a campaign ral...Published: 27 Feb 2022 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Former Poly lecturer missing
Former Harare Polytechnic lecturer, Kudakwashe Gonese has gone missing, his family said this morning.Popularly known as KK, Gonese, who is in his 70s, went missing on Saturday after catching a...Published: 15 Feb 2022 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Brown Engineering workers down tools
Over a hundred Brown Engineering workers have downed tools over poor working conditions chief amongst them health and safety issues....Published: 01 Nov 2021 at 13:37hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Harare
Hit and run corpse remains uncollected
Police in Mashonaland Central are appealing for relatives of a male adult who was hit and run by a speeding motorist in Concession.The accident occurred along Glendale-Centenary road on 13 Aug...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 17:52hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Child marriages are evil
The story of the fourteen-year-old Marange 'girl wife' who passed on at a shrine whilst birthing made very sad reading. Adding salt to the wound and rubbing it in was the attempt to conc...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 07:06hrs | 4 | by Nomusa Garikai
Police seek 17 year old girl
POLICE in Bulawayo are appealing for help from the public to locate a 17-year -old girl who went missing two months ago.Bulawayo provincial police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube said Sh...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 16:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimplats lines up second Ngezi concentrator
NGEZI-based platinum miner, Zimplats plans to construct a new concentrator to complement US$520 million worth of green and brownfield projects that have been lined up to replace old shafts and bolster...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
King Mambo weds second wife
The skies were overcast the whole day yesterday as if to give people a break from the scorching sun witnessed the previous day. It was the day of King Mambo's royal wedding at his homestead in Mawaben...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
World lithium deficit a boon for Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE is among major lithium producers that may draw significant benefits from firm global prices and high demand for the precious mineral due to expected supply deficit projected to start in two y...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 07:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean producer collaborates with Beyoncé
Zimbabwean producer, Robert Ndabezinhle Magwenzi who collaborated with R&B queen Beyoncé on The Lion King: The Gift album says he was thrilled to have been given this opportunity which he conside...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 07:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers rob Sino Non-Metal Resources of US$44,000
Six armed men robbed four Chinese nationals on Wednesday morning of US$44 200, ZWL$2 920 and 500 Chinese yuan at Sino Non-Ferrous Metal Resources gold milling company in Shurugwi.The robbers a...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 07:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe is gone; long live Mugabe!
When a king dies, an announcement is made that: "The king is dead; long live the king", quite a confusing statement for many of us that may not be aware of the intricacies of death and ascension in mo...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 09:02hrs | 1 | by Nqaba Matshazi
A case for subsidies in the mining sector
Zimbabwe racked in US$3.2 billion from mineral exports in 2018, a figure which represents 76% of the country's official total export earnings. This year the government has set the target at US$4.2 bil...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 09:35hrs | 6 | by Victor Bhoroma
List of beneficiaries from the Government loan for businesses affected by January riots
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube said he was satisfied with the process being undertaken by the Government towards assisting businesses, which were looted and had their...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Price controls are back
THE Government is crafting a pricing model aimed at benchmarking most goods especially basic commodities sold by retailers as it moves to protect citizens against the prevailing wanton price increases...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Boy (13) missing after running away from home
POLICE in Bulawayo are looking for a 13-year-old boy from Nkulumane suburb who is suspected to have run away from home last month leaving his family traumatised.Qiniso Ndiweni, a pupil at Mand...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 18:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman shoplifter pulls a shocker
A 38-year-old Mutare woman left workers at a local wholesaler stunned after she stole heavy duty vehicle batteries which she unbelievably stashed under her armpits and walked out of the shop unnoticed...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 06:54hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Jesus Christ and Ancestral Spirits
There is an old song - Amandla amasha - by Steve Kekana that I love. Loosely translated, the song's lyrics go: 'I see that you are on my case, and you are targeting me with renewed energy. ...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 11:32hrs | 1 | by Amandla Amasha
Fake brown bread on the market
Some unscrupulous bakers are reportedly colouring white flour brown in making bread as a substitute to using brown flour, NewsDay reported.The difference between colouring white flour brown an...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 05:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
AfDB signs agreements with Zimbabwe firms
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has signed two non-disclosure agreements with Zimbabwean companies,which pave the way for the sharing of information amid optimism the bank would disburse funding t...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 17:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Turning dream of a $10bn budget into reality
IT is now 24 days to D-Day - the day of democracy, when we all go to a polling station and at the cost of about $50 each (the cost of an election in Zimbabwe) we are asked to appoint our next batch of...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Eddie Cross
Prices of basic goods shoot up
Prices of basic consumer goods have gone up sharply over the past few weeks, on the back of worsening foreign currency shortages in the country.At the same time, experts warn that the price in...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 17:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hillside Primary School girl kidnapped?
A 10-YEAR-OLD girl has gone missing in Bulawayo while police are searching for a woman (19) who is suspected to have been kidnapped in Kwekwe.Ropafadzo Samson (10), a pupil at Hillside Primary...Published: 26 May 2018 at 15:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Street death body unclaimed since January
POLICE in Bulawayo are investigating a case of sudden death where a man was found lying on the pavement along 5th Avenue and Herbert Chitepo Street on January 11 this year.Bulawayo Metropolita...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to commission Kariba South station tomorrow
President Mnangagwa will tomorrow commission two new units (Unit 7 and 8) at Kariba South Power Station, which have added an extra 300 mega watts (MW) to the national grid.The additional power...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Whites should not play victim
I'm an Afrikaner of Free State farm stock, the descendant of Voortrekkers and Boer warriors (and concentration camp survivors) during the South African War - Du Preezs, Krugers, Van der Walts, Saayman...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 08:55hrs | 5 | by Max Du Preez
How Interpol stopped Mnangagwa from fleeing Zimbabwe
There are reports that former vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa had to walk back to the Zimbabwean border as Interpol and police searched the Mercedes Benz ML he was trying to skip the country in.&nbs...Published: 08 Nov 2017 at 10:12hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Undressed robbery victims frighten tollgate police
POLICE and Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) officials manning a tollgate along the Gweru-Shurugwi Highway scurried for cover when they mistook two armed robbery victims for ghosts after ...Published: 17 Oct 2017 at 06:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bombshell called Gemma
WHEN it comes to musical aristocracy and their extensions on the local music scene, names such as Dembo, Chimbetu and Brown among many others, dominate.But there are some who are little known by the m...Published: 11 Jun 2017 at 10:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere fingered in Mbalekwa's dramatic u-turn
Former CIO operative Pearson Mbalekwa who had won the ticket to represent ZANU PF in Chiwundura by-elections but stepped down hours later citing his child's ill heath said he feared he would not cope ...Published: 24 May 2017 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by alice Charamba
Cabs caught up in Marvo corruption scandals
A former worker at Marvo Stationary Mbonisi Gumbo has said it is disheartening and totally unacceptable to note that even the big corporates are involved in corruption activities, underminin...Published: 25 Feb 2017 at 07:26hrs | 6 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF trying to create factions in Mujuru party
The Zimbabwe People First (Zim PF) held their first rally in Guruve South in Mashonaland Central ahead of the much anticipated 2018 election.The rally was well attended by all wards surroundin...Published: 03 Feb 2017 at 19:44hrs | 3 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe's white farmers once helped feed Africa
Martin Fletcher is former foreign editor of The Times and a foreign correspondent. Follow him at @mfletchertimes. His assignment in Zimbabwe was financed by the Pulit...Published: 27 Jan 2017 at 12:52hrs | | by Martin Fletcher
Statement by Marvo workers - You can only fool government not us
YOU CAN ONLY FOOL GOVERNMENT NOT US BRIEF BACK GROUND OF MARVO CASE As Marvo workers we are worried by the behaviour of our Employer Marvo Stationery, ever since the dollarisation of t...Published: 10 Aug 2016 at 18:46hrs | 3 | by Concerned Marvo workers
Child killer jailed 20 years
A 59-YEAR-OLD man from Gwanda was yesterday sentenced to 20 years in jail for killing his five-year-old daughter and chopping off her arm for alleged rituals.Chest Moyo committed the offence i...Published: 09 Jun 2016 at 07:00hrs | | by Thandeka Moyo
Daughter 'killer' faces judge after 16 years
A Gwanda man, 59, allegedly killed his daughter, 5, and cut off part of her arm before claiming that she had fallen into a fire while cooking.Chest Moyo, allegedly committed the offence in 200...Published: 08 Jun 2016 at 07:18hrs | | by Thandeka Moyo
Shabanie and Mashaba mines revival in limbo
EFFORTS to resume operations at Shabanie and Mashaba Mines (SMM) are in limbo as the Government continues to struggle to attract investors to inject capital for the revival of the mines which have bee...Published: 15 May 2016 at 14:29hrs | 1 | by Dumisani Nsingo
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