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FC Platinum finally suspends players for match fixing
Zimbabwean football powerhouse FC Platinum is facing a storm of controversy after suspending two key players over suspected match-fixing during their recent clash with rising rivals, Scotland FC. The ...Published: 06 Aug 2025 at 21:59hrs | 450 | by Staff reporter
Drama-filled 2023 ends in tears for CCC
POLITICS, according to social scientists, is loosely translated as a battle to control resources with man putting political contestation as a means to ensure equitable distribution of whatever is foun...Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 18:22hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers escape from police custody
Residents of Beitbridge are expressing outrage at local police officers, accusing them of negligence for allowing two suspected armed robbers, who were arrested following a community tip-off, to escap...Published: 28 Oct 2023 at 07:48hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Bosso's brilliant performances attracts the attention of Jose Mourinho
HIGHLANDERS' brilliant start to the campaign under Portuguese coach Baltemar Brito has attracted the attention of legendary Chelsea and Manchester United manager, Jose Mourinho.Bosso, whose un...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 06:38hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean police officer's gun jammed during shootout
A police firearm jammed during a shootout as police tried to intercept an armed man who went on a killing spree in Wedza on Friday gunning down a self-styled prophet, a police officer and another vict...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 14:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's epic speech on epic day
MEMORY is a site of the struggle. Only in the rubric of yester-year memories can we trace where we have come from so that we use the lessons of the past to forge and sharpen future struggles on the an...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:11hrs | 12 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
When Magufuli spoke from the grave
There once lived a woman in Masvingo who was called Shuvai Ben Mahofa.Known for her unapologetic straight-talk and indefatigable industry, she had long morphed into an Iron Lady before activism on...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 08:30hrs | 4 | by Bishop L
Robbers pounce
A gang of five unidentified armed men yesterday morning pounced on a Safeguard cash-in-transit vehicle at Chivi Growth Point and got away with $US35 000, 350 000 rand and $ZW2000 cash.The susp...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 18:04hrs | 2 | 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 | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mastering art of 'villagising' cities
In Bishop Lazi's village, there lived this super-reclusive chap who, after a quarrel with his father over witchcraft, decided to build his own hut a spitting distance from the family homestead....Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:30hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazarus
Police station 'under siege' from angry Yeoville residents
The killing of a man in view of the public appears to have caused angry locals to target the police.Disgruntled Yeoville residents have demanded answers following the fatal shooting of a man, ...Published: 21 May 2019 at 19:12hrs | 6 | by Citizen reporter
Mnangagwa's Govt unleashes soldiers in civilian clothes
An armed person in civilian clothes, who government claims is a wanted "terrorist" after he was filmed discharging a firearm, was actually part of State security agents dispatched to crush protests in...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 07:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Baba Harare rocks Guruve
The hilarious Baba Harare, real name Braveman Chizvino Mawanza charmed many revellers in Guruve and Centenary, Mashonaland Central respectively over the weekend. The energetic performer left G...Published: 26 Aug 2018 at 17:05hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe Elections 2018: An unfolding novelty
In this election analysis, highly-respected University of Zimbabwe's political science senior lecturer, Professor Eldred Masunungure, looks at the two main contenders- the ruling Zanu-PF and the oppos...Published: 25 May 2018 at 17:21hrs | | by Southern Times
Madzimai in sex work
A BINDURA self-styled prophet's wife is reportedly at loggerheads with hookers over clients in the Avenues area.Stella Codesta Madondo, a mother of one who is expecting another child is report...Published: 24 Jan 2018 at 13:32hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Was the army intervention party politics or national interest?
In the 1960s AFRICA Tested independence and many states gained freedom. This was followed by military coups to change the demi gods created by the military and bootlickers. The 2000s saw a comparative...Published: 27 Dec 2017 at 14:29hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
THE inhumane side of #CHIMURENGA .....memories of Kenneth Nyoka
Pasi with this. Pasi with that.. Some young people may not know the grave consequences that usually accompanied this slogan during the second Chimurenga. I do. Barely into my teens one night we were r...Published: 17 Dec 2017 at 07:30hrs | 6 | by Ashirai Mtirikwi Mawere
Drama as burglar accidentally kills accomplice
CAPE TOWN - It was a "comedy" of errors for bungling burglars in Crossroads, Cape Town, on Thursday night, when one of the hapless criminals accidentally killed his accomplice.According to New...Published: 01 Jan 2017 at 09:08hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Masked thug goes on shooting spree in Bulawayo
A BULAWAYO man was rushed to hospital after a masked gunman shot him on the shoulder in a failed robbery attempt. Police sources believe the balaclava-clad robber struck at two places in Njube suburb ...Published: 30 Jun 2016 at 08:53hrs | 1 | by Whinsley Masara
3 girls aged 2, 4 & 8 killed by stranger
A STRANGER hacked three children, all girls, to death with an axe in Masvingo, after wounding their mother and sending their father fleeing. Police are trying to find a motive for the gruesome...Published: 13 May 2016 at 06:50hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
Rhodesia: The Great Betrayal
For just over three months I stayed at the Hilton Hotel while I worked in Pietermaritzburg recently. Staying there also was an ex-Rhodesian of roughly my age. This is his story in his words of his exp...Published: 30 Mar 2016 at 12:07hrs | 70 | by Dean McCleland
Armed man storms into court, demand to see magistrate
A Selebi-Phikwe man has been arrested by the police after storming the magistrates court armed with a baton, Okapi knife and hand-cuffs demanding to see Magistrate Ditebogo Ntuli.The Voice rep...Published: 11 Dec 2015 at 05:46hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe manhandling of Moyo alarms ministers
There were strong suggestions yesterday that Tuesday's surprising freezing of voluble Zanu-PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo from Cabinet could be a precursor to the long-mooted major executive reshuf...Published: 26 Jun 2015 at 14:25hrs | | by Gift Phiri
'Zanu-PF has now become child's play,' claims Rugare Gumbo
Expelled former Zanu-PF spokesperson Rugare Gumbo has described the ruling party's on-going "elective" congress as a circus that could mark the last rites of the former liberation movement...Published: 05 Dec 2014 at 13:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Bloodbath in Zanu-PF'
At least 10 Cabinet ministers and more than 100 Zanu-PF legislators face the political wilderness as the mindless bloodletting in the divided party reaches alarming levels ahead of its crucial "electi...Published: 25 Nov 2014 at 12:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police arrest gun-toting vagrant
A GUN-TOTING homeless man caused terror in Gweru after waving a gun at passersby.Panic-stricken residents called police shortly after 8AM on Monday to report an armed man in a wooded area near...Published: 25 Sep 2014 at 10:59hrs | | by Timoth Makohliso
Footage showing cold blooded killing of unarmed man by off duty cop sparks outrage - Video
Chicago - Marlon Horton, 28, was shot and killed by a Chicago Police officer outside a residential building.According to '...Published: 03 Sep 2014 at 06:02hrs | 16 | by Staff Reporter
Zim congregants beat church robbers in SA
Johannesburg - Armed robbers who stormed into a church at the end of a prayer meeting and started demanding phones and money last night got the beating of their lives from the enraged congregation....Published: 02 Sep 2014 at 16:27hrs | | by iol
Woman raped after reading the Bible
A 30-year-old woman from Kagiso, west of Johannesburg, SA, says that she was raped last Wednesday soon after reading her Bible in bed.She said she looked up and saw an armed man standing at he...Published: 15 Mar 2014 at 13:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
British soldier was almost decapitated on London road
London - Two men who killed a British soldier in broad daylight on a London street in a "cowardly and callous murder" tried to behead their victim after they had deliberately run him over, a court was...Published: 29 Nov 2013 at 10:12hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
City centre shooting shocks residents
There was drama when an unidentified man allegedly fired four shots at a commuter omnibus driver in the Bulawayo City Centre yesterday.The incident, which left witnesses terrified, occurred ...Published: 13 Sep 2013 at 18:58hrs | | by Mafu Sithabile
Zimbabweans in court for robbing Barclays Botswana
A branch manager at a bank in Botswana has told the court how three Zimbabweans stormed her bank, demanding cash. Ketshabile Motswasele, branch manager of Selebi-Phikwe Barclays Bank Prestige ...Published: 02 May 2013 at 06:25hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
Lone robber strikes at Gokwe Hotel
IN an incident that reads more like a movie script, an armed man pretending to be a hotel client burst into a bar, fired a shot into the ceiling and robbed three people of their cash and valuables....Published: 13 Mar 2013 at 04:15hrs | | by Midlands Reporter
'Bosso, Dembare were not the people's favourite' says NetOne
SPONSORS of the Charity Shield, NetOne, have remained adamant that giants Dynamos and Highlanders were not the people's choice for teams to take part in the tournament set for Mandava this weekend und...Published: 07 Mar 2013 at 03:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dynamos questions the validity of the NetOne Charity shield voting process
Dynamos dropped a bombshell yesterday with sensational claims that dirty boardroom politics resulted in them being elbowed out of the season-opening NetOne Charity Shield football tournament....Published: 06 Mar 2013 at 06:31hrs | | by Sports reporter
19 people killed during a Bible study in Nigeria
Abuja - Three men came to the central Nigerian church just before Bible study began, but instead of joining the worship service they opened fire, killing at least 19 people in an attack that sho...Published: 08 Aug 2012 at 03:31hrs | | by AP | Staff reporter
18 carat golden vibrator stolen in Brazil
Brasilia - An armed man in Brazil has stolen an 18-carat gold-plated vibrator selling for $4 000 at a luxury adult shop.Police say the suspect walked into the Erotica Luxo store in Brasilia, ...Published: 04 Jun 2012 at 10:45hrs | | by Sapa-AP
Tsvangirai splashes US$40 000 on a kitchen suite makeover for fiancée
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai recently splashed an estimated US$40 000 on a kitchen suite makeover for his fiancee, Ms Elizabeth Macheka, before flying off to the United States,...Published: 13 May 2012 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Emakhandeni supermarket armed robber on the run
AN armed man robbed a supermarket in Emakhandeni in Bulawayo of $600 after firing a shot in the air and ordering everyone in the shop to lie down.The incident happened on Friday at about 7pm a...Published: 30 Apr 2012 at 08:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
China to ban 'sex' and 'God' pills
Beijing - China will ban health supplement makers from naming their products after sex, God or eternal life, state media said on Tuesday, in an attempt to stop an unregulated industry from using vulga...Published: 20 Mar 2012 at 16:57hrs | | by Reuters
Teenager bites off rapist's tongue
Johannesburg - A teenager bit off a man's tongue while he was raping her in Masoyi, near Hazyview in South Africa, Mpumalanga police said on Monday.The 17-year-old girl was held up by an armed...Published: 27 Feb 2012 at 20:21hrs | | by Sapa
Zapu's Mguni S.G weighs in on critic Ryton Dzimiri: ORIGINAL COPY
I have always been of opinion that Zapu must join the World in embracing change in order to march majestically to the State House to rule Zimbabwe. Zapu has many many advantages which when...Published: 31 Dec 2011 at 17:28hrs | 5 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Zapu's Mguni S.G weighs in on critic Ryton Dzimiri
I have always been of opinion that Zapu must join the World in embracing change in order to march majestically to the State House to rule Zimbabwe.Zapu has many many advantages which when well...Published: 31 Dec 2011 at 17:16hrs | 2 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Protester beaten and shot to death
Shocking images of police brutality were broadcast to the South African national television yesterday - they showed an unarmed man being beaten to death by a mob of policemen....Published: 14 Apr 2011 at 10:10hrs | | by CHAndre Prince, Sipho Masondo and Harriet Mclea
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