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Know your history:- Filabusi Memorial and the Edkins Store killings
Why Visit?: - This historic site remembers one of the earliest European murders of the Matabele Rebellion or First Umvukela of 1896. There seems no doubt that the initial killings occurred on ...Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 15:48hrs | 534 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police grant amnesty on illegal firearm holders
The police have issued a call for all holders of illegal firearms and ammunition to voluntarily surrender these weapons under a new amnesty program, which is set to conclude on September 30. According...Published: 03 Sep 2024 at 13:26hrs | 492 | by Staff reporter
2 Mutsvangwas, 6 women and 3 Mnangagwas
With former television personality Tatenda Mavetera thrown into the mix, one needs very little imagination to describe Zimbabwe's Cabinet that was sworn into office early this week following a sham el...Published: 15 Sep 2023 at 22:09hrs | 4 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Fire these rogue police recruits
I bemoan the fall of dignity of a once noble profession. I got recruited into Zimbabwe Republic Police in 1997 and was so much excited to be part and parcel of the police force. I was not driven or in...Published: 21 Aug 2023 at 14:14hrs | 9 | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwe is under siege
GOOD day President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Your Excellency, my heart subscribes to the notion that Zimbabwe is completely under siege. As I see it, the country is overwhelmed with all manner of naked aggr...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 06:40hrs | | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Zimbabwe: Chekhov's middle age monks
From a writer, critic, traveller, doctorI am reading selected letters of Anton Chekhov, the Russian writer, critic, traveller and medical doctor.The letters span a big chunk of his lif...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 08:03hrs | 3 | by @Jamwanda2 On Saturday
Chiwenga circumvents Parliament grilling for 6 months
KUWADZANA East legislator Chalton Hwende this week took to task deputy speaker of Parliament Tsitsi Gezi over the continued non-attendance of Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga who doubles as ministe...Published: 16 Oct 2022 at 19:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
2 men chased in vehicle and shot for parking near prisons training school
Two men were chased in their vehicle and shot by prison officers - allegedly for trespassing at a training facility for prison officers in Harare.Police and prisons said Tavonga Mashange and T...Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pomona Project: All thunder, lightning flashes, no strike!
Pomona stink in newsroomsIlliterate newspapers are being pummelled back and forth by buffeted Mafume and his clueless Triple C councillors. It is all thunder, blinding flashes but no strike. A...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 19:52hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's nephews denied bail in firearms case
HIGH Court judge, Justice Benjamin Chikowero, has denied bail to two siblings, believed to be President Emmerson Mnangagwa's nephews who were allegedly involved in a foiled robbery attempt....Published: 17 May 2022 at 20:00hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Old habits die hard
DEAR President Emmerson MnangagwaYour Excellency, as Bulawayo hosted the 42nd independence anniversary, one thing for certain is that there was apparent resentment all over. Ordinarily, there ...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:11hrs | | by Cyprian M Ndawana
'Armed robberies linked to 2017 coup'
EXILED former Higher and Tertiary Education deputy minister Godfrey Gandawa has sensationally claimed that soldiers and police officers implicated in recent armed robbers could have stolen the firearm...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 06:01hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Africa: A complex trajectory and legacy of military coups
FOR their spectacular nature, coups always appear like new phenomena when actually they are an old military and political issue that dates back to the genesis of humanity.It is like that in th...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:49hrs | 4 | by William Jethro Mpofu
Soldiers in trouble as AK-47 rifles vanish
SOLDIERS deployed at the residence of the late Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander Vitalis Zvinavashe have landed themselves in soup after three AK-47 assault rifles and several rounds of ammunition wer...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Top cop denied bail over firearms
Mashonaland West police Armoury officer-in-charge Inspector Crive Kadambure and his three-co-accused facing charges of illegally acquiring and selling firearms to armed robbers and poachers while smug...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 20:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pampers military
GOVERNMENT has pledged to build shopping malls, residential flats, garrison shops and robust armouries for soldiers in several barracks and cantonment areas, a move observers viewed as part of P...Published: 02 Sep 2021 at 06:23hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa 'lacks will to fire Zweli Mkhize'
President Cyril Ramaphosa lacks the will to take action against the embattled Health Minister Zweli Mkhize because he needs the ANC NEC top member's support to be re-elected for the second term at the...Published: 01 Aug 2021 at 18:21hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Top cop, wife arrested for car theft
A SENIOR Chinhoyi police officer and his wife, arrested and later acquitted recently on arms racketeering charges, have both been arrested again, this time for car theft.Inspector Clive Kadamb...Published: 27 May 2021 at 10:20hrs | | by Staa reporter
Police boss, wife arrested after acquittal
POLICE have arrested Mashonaland West police Armoury officer-in-charge, Inspector Clive Kadambure together with his wife, Shyness Kadambure on car theft charges.The couple had last Monday been...Published: 25 May 2021 at 07:12hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Provincial armoury officer-in-charge acquitted
POLICE armoury officer-in-charge for Mashonaland West, Inspector Clive Kadambure, together with his wife, Shyness Kadambure, have been acquitted for contravening the Firearms Act.The couple wa...Published: 19 May 2021 at 18:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Armoury officer in guns smuggling case
Police officer-in-charge of armoury in Mashonaland West, Clive Kadambure, has been arrested in connection with the case where two men were recently arrested after being found in possession of six fire...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 05:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Top cop takes boss to court
A TOP cop who was recently acquitted on charges of allegedly stealing guns, more than 180 live bullets and an assortment of related weaponry from the police armoury has taken his boss, Police Commissi...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Christian attack against the native family and The Native Religion Beyond Jerusalem! Rome and London
"I have travelled across the length and breath of africa and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief such wealth I have seen in this country such high moral values, people of ...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 22:36hrs | | by Reginald Thabani Gola
There is no better dictator , one who comes after is worse
Comparisons between the junta leader and his predecessor have been made.People have come to the conclusion uncle Bob was better than his successor, the junta leader, Dambudzo Munangagwa. Dicta...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 22:00hrs | | by AT Kadada
Talking Nkayi Education: Slicing the education cake with high-flying Zwelabo Secondary School
Zwelabo Secondary School, founded in 1984 and located about fifty kilometres west of Nkayi Centre in Matabeleland North Province, is arguably the jewel and golden place to be, for many progressive stu...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 16:46hrs | 3 | by Nhlanhla Moses
MDC chides war vets
THE opposition MDC has described as disappointing utterances by war veteran leaders threatening violence, claiming such recklessness ultimatums will only cause alarm and despondency.Zanu-PF po...Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Obert Mpofu thinks like a lizard'
Jonathan Moyo once said, "Obert Mpofu has a big body like an elephant but thinks like a lizard." This statement really explains how Obert Mpofu thinks.The utterances by Obert Mpofu tha...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 15:16hrs | 2 | by Mqondisi Moyo
Gun-totting man jailed for 3 years
A MAN from Bulawayo's Pumula East suburb has been jailed 36 months for illegal possession of a loaded assault rifle, which was stolen from the Zimbabwe Republic Police armory a few months ago....Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
ED now faces tough political choices
AS Zimbabwe's economic turmoil intensifies and the country reaches a crossroads, government security experts and foreign diplomats based in Harare have started drawing scenarios and weighing consequen...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 17:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa faces riots, palace coup and impeachment
AS Zimbababwe's economic turmoil intensifies and the country reaches a crossroads, government security experts and foreign diplomats based in Harare have started drawing scenarios and weighing consequ...Published: 22 Jun 2019 at 19:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ngarivhume calls for a hunger strike against ED
In a first of its kind, the Transform Zimbabwe (TZ) leader has called for a hunger strike and picketing at Parliament against the ZANU PF government. This follows a meeting that was held yesterday in ...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 12:01hrs | | by Fungai Taruvinga
Mnangagwa 'Good Governance' doctorate raises dust
THE decision by the University of Zambia (UNZA) to award President Emmerson Mnangagwa an Honorary Doctorate on "Good Governance" has sparked outrage among Zimbabweans who are feeling the bite of a dee...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 17:29hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Fix politics, not currency, says Chamisa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's plans to abolish the multi-currency system in favour of a new local currency could spectacularly fail, resulting in more catastrophe for troubled Zimbabwe if fundamental...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC youths to confront Mnangagwa through protests
The newly elected opposition MDC Youth Assembly has vowed to mobilise Zimbabweans to confront the Emmerson Mnangagwa-led government through demonstrations as the country's economic crisis continues to...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 18:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
$1 million gold theft suspects fail to have case dismissed
THE High Court has dismissed an application for discharge by nine suspects allegedly involved in the theft of nearly $1 million worth of gold which was being kept as an exhibit at Plumtree Police Stat...Published: 14 May 2019 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
AK47 gunman denied bail
A BULAWAYO man, who was found in possession of an AK47 rifle, will continue to languish in remand prison after he was denied bail by a Bulawayo magistrate, who ruled that he was a flight risk....Published: 07 May 2019 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Military rifle recovered from poachers
POACHERS cornered in a section of the vast Bubye Valley Conservancy in Beitbridge recently abandoned an AK-47 assault rifle traced back to the Zimbabwe National Army, police sources said at the weeken...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 08:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Top cop arrested for guns theft
A SENIOR police officer in charge of Bulawayo province's armoury has been arrested for allegedly stealing seven different types of guns from the armoury in a case that has exposed illegal dealing in f...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rogue cops crackdown intensifies
POLICE have intensified efforts to weed out cops who damage public perception of the force through criminal activities and misconduct. In an interview yesterday, national police spokesperson A...Published: 31 Mar 2019 at 23:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Armed robber arrested with AK47 rifle
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested a 35-year-old suspected armed robber who was found in possession of a loaded AK47 rifle which was stolen from the Zimbabwe Republic Police Armoury. Ame Mpala o...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 22:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Trustworthiness is the ONLY quality needed for a Zimbabwean President
One National Worry each Zimbabwean must be asking themself is "How can we get a genuinely Trustworthy President after Mugabe's 38 years of Headmastering the Nation in...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 07:09hrs | | by Ryton Dzimiri
Mnangagwa's military changes fuel fears of internal strife
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured)'s daring manoeuvres to change and redeploy critical personnel and commanders in strategic military units in a major shake-up has triggered fears of purges among...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 09:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophet Makandiwa warns Mnangagwa of an inevitable foreign military intervention
United Family International Church (UFIC) leader Emmanuel Makandiwa has warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa of an inevitable foreign military intervention in Zimbabwe should there be any more bloodshe...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reportet
Zimbabwe violent protests 'false flag' operations by ZANU PF to suppress opposition?
One of the most efficient and effective strategies of dictatorships - that has been used since time immemorial - to suppress any form of opposition, has been the employment of 'false flag' operations,...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 07:47hrs | | by Taurai J. Pachena
No armoury was broken into, says Matemadanda
Deputy Defence minister, Victor Matemadanda, yesterday said no armoury was broken into during the recent violent protests, contradicting Zimbabwe Defence Forces Chief of Staff Major-General Douglas Ny...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
No armoury was broken into, says Matemadanda
Deputy Defence minister, Victor Matemadanda, yesterday said no armoury was broken into during the recent violent protests, contradicting Zimbabwe Defence Forces Chief of Staff Major-General Douglas Ny...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa claims that 'good times will soon roll'
President Mnangagwa yesterday exhorted Zimbabweans to unite and remain strong in the face of prevailing economic difficulties saying the challenges confronting the country will soon be overcome, pavin...Published: 05 Nov 2018 at 05:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's prosecution unit moves in to tackle deep-rooted corruption
An investigation by the Special Presidential Prosecution Unit (SPPU) has unearthed a cartel of senior executives at Cottco together with a group of high profile politicians as being behind a spate of ...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 15:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Political reforms needed for sustainable economic growth
THE new government has been selling the impression that the recent elections marked a new beginning. What is certain thus far is that, indeed, they are same old people who have assumed new roles and l...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 06:59hrs | 1 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Con-Court ruling final nail in dashing Zimbabwe's hopes
LAST Friday was to all intents and purposes, as bleak as a Black Friday. Flags might as well have flown at half-mast. As Chief Justice Luke Malaba delivered the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) ruling ...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:52hrs | | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
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