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Thief scurries through window to escape angry residents
In a dramatic incident recently witnessed in Bulawayo's Gwabalanda suburb, an unidentified thief narrowly evaded a mob attack after being caught stealing inside a house.According to reports, t...Published: 28 Jun 2024 at 09:57hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Woman shocks villagers over witchcraft claims
A woman in Murewa stunned a gathering in Munyuki village when she claimed that she and five others had "bewitched" her two late daughters and then presented a piece of meat she falsely alleged was hum...Published: 16 Oct 2023 at 06:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Residents storm ZINWA office in protest of high water bills
Mvurwi residents stormed their Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA) offices on Thursday demanding answers on high water bills.The angry residents who spoke to this publication blamed ZINW...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 12:36hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Mvurwi
ANC cannot continue treating Zanu-PF with kid gloves
SOUTH Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) should once again confront its sister revolutionary party Zanu-PF over the escalating immigration crisis across the Limpopo, with analysts sayi...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 20:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
DRAMA: Peeping Tom caught masturbating, arrested
There was drama in Mvurwi, Kurai suburb where a 32-year-old man was caught red-handed masturbating while peeping at a bathing married woman.Simbarashe Nyambura of house number 489 Suoguru Mvur...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 18:43hrs | 14 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Suspected robber cornered by a mob, beaten, dies at hospital
A man believed to be part of an armed robbers gang that has been terrorising Beitbridge residents has succumbed to assault wounds after he was cornered by a mob in Kwalu 1 suburb (SDP) early on Monday...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 19:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZESA under fire for 'selective' load shedding
RESIDENTS in Bulawayo have accused the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority's (ZESA) of bias in its load shedding schedule with some suburbs experiencing power cuts for hours while other areas have n...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 19:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa's MDC council mistimed Budiriro demolitions'
The recent Budiriro demolitions carried out by Harare City Council workers acting under a court order almost two years old were legal, but had nothing to do with the Government. Harare Provinc...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 07:20hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Harare residents claim Zanu-PF betrayal after homes destroyed
RAIN-SOAKED, angry residents whose houses were demolished Tuesday by authorities, believe that the Harare City Council did not have any powers to act like that without government approval.Some...Published: 12 Dec 2020 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gun toting robbers disarmed, beaten
A BULAWAYO man allegedly teamed up with an ex-soldier to rob people that his in-laws were selling a house to, at gunpoint. Covering their faces with face masks and caps tilted to further hide ...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:44hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Rapist jumps into sewer pond to escape angry mob
A 20-YEAR-OLD MAN from Bulawayo waded through a pond of raw sewage in a bid to escape an angry mob after he was caught red handed trying to rape a 60 year-old woman.Thabani Ncube of Entumbane ...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 21:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kambarami granted bail
BULAWAYO's deputy's mayor Tinashe Kambarami and Ward 4 councillor Silas Chigora appeared in court yesterday on allegations of assaulting town clerk Christopher Dube.Kambarami and Chigora alleg...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 20:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Angry mob bashes security guard for 'kidnapping' boss' 5 kids
AN angry mob severely assaulted a security guard suspected of kidnapping five children in Bulawayo today.Angry residents hauled the bloodied guard to Bulawayo Central Police Station but left i...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 23:15hrs | 44 | by Methusi Ncube
Mnangagwa demands 'V11' of army killings
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has shot down reports that the military carried out extra-judicial killings on at least 17 civilians after being roped in by the police to quell last month's violent prote...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Crackdown alarms Amnesty
A new briefing by Amnesty International documents how the Zimbabwean authorities have mounted a brutal crackdown and violence against protesters, using killings and torture, among other serious human ...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 06:23hrs | 2 | by Amnesty International
How Facebook and Whatsapp fuelled chaos and confusion in Zimbabwe
The riots wouldn't have happened without Facebook and Whatsapp. On the morning of January 14th 2019 a swelling mob of hundreds of angry residents flocked the towns filling the streets in the commercia...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 15:59hrs | 9 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Residents disrupt clean-up campaign, demand residential stands
SCORES of disgruntled Mvurwi residents yesterday reportedly disrupted a clean-up campaign organised by the local authority, accusing council officials of denying them access to their allocated stands....Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 11:18hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Angry residents force MPs to end budget consultative meeting
MEMBERS of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Budget, Finance and Economic Development were yesterday forced to prematurely end a national budget consultative meeting in Gwanda after residents c...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Violence mars Bulawayo mayoral poll
BULAWAYO town clerk Christopher Dube was heckled by residents after cancelling mayoral polls yesterday, arguing that it was unprocedural and illegal to conduct the election at the Large City Hall....Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tribalist councillor takes oath in Shona
There was chaos here yesterday at the swearing-in ceremony of the newly-elected councillors after one of them, Arnold Batirai of ward 24, decided to take oath of office in Shona.While all the ...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 21:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Residents mete instant justice on Zesa crew
THREE Zesa employees were arrested after they were allegedly caught stealing copper cables in Woodville suburb in Bulawayo on Wednesday night.The trio was bashed by neighbourhood watch committ...Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 09:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Council dodges faeces protest
THE Bulawayo City Council yesterday averted a "faeces protest" by angry residents in Entumbane suburb who say they have been living with raw sewage flowing through their homes for almost two weeks....Published: 11 Apr 2018 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare cuts off water supplies to residents
Harare City Council (HCC) has started shutting off water service to "nonpaying" residents by removing water meters.Residents in high density suburbs such as Highfield, Glen Norah, Glen View an...Published: 02 Apr 2018 at 11:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare's dirty and smelly water
Harare's piped water is dirty and smells foul when it is available, but scientific research indicates that it could also be killing residents slowly and silently.Health minister David Parireny...Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 09:12hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Man caught raping a goat
There was drama in Mazowe mine (Jumbo) after Johannes Mwenda was caught raping a goat prompting residents to thrash him severely. ...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 12:10hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa 'freebies' spark riots
SCORES of Banket residents were injured in running battles with police last week after they demonstrated and threatened to beat up top Zanu-PF and Grain Marketing Board officials over the alleged part...Published: 12 Feb 2018 at 05:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Angry residents besiege police station
BUSINESS at Beitbridge Rural Police Station briefly came to a standstill on Saturday after villagers from Makakavhule besieged the station on Saturday demanding the arrest of suspected cattle rustlers...Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 04:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Angry residents storm police station
Residents of Bazzar in Mhangura stormed Mhangura police station baying for the blood of the suspected murderer Taurai Muchera (27) who was arrested in Mazowe on Saturday following the robbery and deat...Published: 15 Jan 2018 at 13:53hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Drink tap water at own risk, says Harare Mayor
HARARE mayor Bernard Manyenyeni has warned residents that it is now too risky to drink council tap water, as the local authority was pumping out partially treated water after running out of treatment ...Published: 30 Dec 2017 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Cop 'pulls' handbrake of speeding car, causing pile up
EIGHT people were seriously injured after a police officer allegedly pulled the handbrake of a speeding pirate taxi causing a pile up involving three vehicles in Bulawayo yesterday. Witnesses ...Published: 11 Nov 2017 at 08:06hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Angry residents attack Zanu-PF thug
Angry Chitungwiza resident seemingly revenging for an MDC activist who was recently attacked by the ruling party's gang has attacked a leader of the Zanu PF gang last night.The MDC sources sai...Published: 26 Oct 2017 at 06:57hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Evicted senior citizen dies after 5 days
Days after the elderly people act was operationalised into law, 87 year old Kambuzuma resident Sekuru Enock Mbiriyakura could not hold on to benefit from its provisions as he succumbed to his death fi...Published: 12 Sep 2017 at 16:56hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Filthy rich Ramaphosa donate buffalos
The ANC Youth League (ANCYL) in Limpopo has lambasted Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa for donating buffalos to a game farm in Makhado, near troubled Vuwani.Spokesperson for the Limpopo ANCYL,...Published: 30 Apr 2017 at 21:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: SA residents demand proof of residence from foreigners with RDP
Scores of Olievenhoutbosch residents demand proof of residence from foreign nationals with RDP houses....Published: 06 Mar 2017 at 12:16hrs | 2 | by online
South Africa deports Nigerians
Nigerian media reports that the South African government has deported at least 97 Nigerians for various offences, as bilateral tensions seem likely to heighten between the two countries over "xeno...Published: 02 Mar 2017 at 10:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Violence erupts in Pretoria West over drugs and prostitution
Cape Town - Violence broke out in Pretoria West on Saturday as community members vowed to rid the area of drugs and prostitution. According to ...Published: 19 Feb 2017 at 08:29hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Woman kills baby, buries it in shallow grave
The Rugare community was today left in shock after discovering a new born baby allegedly killed by the mother who buried the infant in a shallow grave in the backyard of her yard.The mothe...Published: 14 Feb 2017 at 18:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chinhoyi man in court for allegedly molesting 10 boys
The Chinhoyi community has been left shell-shocked following the arrest of a security guard who is facing multiple counts of child molestation involving 10 juvenile boys.Mairosi Chenjerai,...Published: 02 Aug 2016 at 20:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police brutality, arrest of children leaves Bulawayo traumatised
Prominent Bulawayo pastor Useni Sibanda is a human rights defender of note, but nothing had prepared him for the catastrophe that befell the city last week.Sibanda, who is Zimbabwe Christi...Published: 10 Jul 2016 at 09:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Angry residents barricade roads with huge stones and logs in Rusape
A TENSE atmosphere engulfed Rusape's sprawling Vengere high-density suburb as angry residents barricaded roads with huge stones and logs protesting over dusty red soils being used by the local authori...Published: 02 Jul 2016 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Hungry thugs looting food
WHEN night falls, the thugs start terrorising residents.But the two armed men who have been robbing them are not looking for anything fancy.They only want food!Daily Sun report...Published: 08 Jun 2016 at 07:01hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Angry residents burn bus
A BUS was torched yesterday during a service delivery protest in the Vaal region, south of Joburg.Daily Sun reported that on Monday morning, three kasis took to the streets to demand better se...Published: 18 May 2016 at 16:18hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Students caught pants down arrested
Police in Kenya have arrested five high school students, who were allegedly found engaging in sex in Eldoret.The Standard reported that the four boys and a girl from different schools in Nandi...Published: 17 May 2016 at 07:15hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Angry residents burns thugs to death
THE residents claimed the two men were known thugs who robbed locals at knife or gunpoint.daily Sun reported that so when they allegedly caught them breaking into a house at Vlei in Sweet Home...Published: 04 May 2016 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Criminals prefer death to jail term
One of the criminals who broke into a resident's home in Limpopo and was caught red handed preferred to shot himself while his colleagues ran away.Daily Sun reported that when the owner of the...Published: 21 Jan 2016 at 06:53hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Traditional doctor's rape of girl 16 spark riot
HUNDREDS of Kanyama residents ran riot for two days after a popular Lusaka traditional doctor, Chilufya Chileya, commonly known as “Dr Kalonga Kanono” allegedly raped a 16-year-old girl.Dr...Published: 28 Dec 2015 at 14:17hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Tempers rise as Gwanda boy drowns fending for water
Gwanda is this morning reaching boiling point as a twelve year old child has died while fetching water from Mtshabezi river following another weekend without water in the town.Sources in Gwand...Published: 12 Oct 2015 at 11:12hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Gwanda Residents Association statement on the failed water demonstration 7 October 2015
The Gwanda Residents Association has been inundated with enquiries from angry residents and the media on why the much anticipated residents’ demonstration against the water issues in the town was ca...Published: 07 Oct 2015 at 19:43hrs | | by Bekezela Maduma Fuzwayo
Taxi driver rapes, kills lover's baby
THE deal was that they would go drinking and then they would go home and have sex. But when the woman changed her mind the meter-taxi driver took revenge and allegedly raped and murdered her baby....Published: 24 Sep 2015 at 21:03hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Possessor of two headless bodies yet to appear in court
A Limpopo man arrested after the discovery of two headless bodies in Malipsdrift did not appear in court on Tuesday as expected because he was injured after allegedly being beaten up by angry resi...Published: 07 Jun 2015 at 10:07hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
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