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Perrance Shiri estate row deepens
THE late national hero and Lands and Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri's daughter, Rufaro Stephanie is seeking to bar former Attorney-General Sobusa Gula-Ndebele from administering her father's esta...Published: 13 hrs ago | 1271 | by Staff reporter
Biti shocked
The assault case of Tendai Biti continued yesterday with him shifting his attacks from The Herald to deputy prosecutor, Mr Michael Reza, saying he was not objective and likes to prosecute opposition p...Published: 14 hrs ago | 1807 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Cottco bosses arrested
Cotton Company of Zimbabwe Limited bosses Pius Manamike and Maxiwell Njanji have been arrested on graft allegations. The two...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 15:38hrs | 4434 | by Simbarashe Sithole
SA's Zimbabwe exemption permit scheme is a money racket and a ‘fraud'
The Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) scheme is the "largest case of fraud and theft ever committed by the government of one country over nationals of its neighbouring country in African history", accor...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 07:02hrs | 4214 | by Staff reporter
Botswana jails Zimbabwean burglar
A ZIMBABWEAN man has been jailed four years in Botswana for burglary and theft of property worth over P11 000 from houses in Francistown.Evidence before the Francistown magistrates court showe...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 06:47hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter
Headmaster suspended over missing pupil
ST MATHIAS Tsonzo High School headmaster Maxwell Sambona has been suspended after a pupil at the school, Livingston Sunhwa (19) disappeared last year.Human remains suspected to belong to Sunhw...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 06:46hrs | 1057 | by Staff reporter
CCC's shameful politicisation of crime
THE arrest of a machete gang behind the death of Lobengula West businessman Langelihle Dube early this month and a spate of robberies around the city has brought relief to residents who had long suffe...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 06:45hrs | 399 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe registerd NGO tells Commonwealth, 'Zimbabwe not yet ready to rejoin'
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (ZHRNGO Forum) has cited Zimbabwe's poor rights record as an indication the country is not yet ready to rejoin the Commonwealth following its unsuccessful appli...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:52hrs | 493 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa tells Mnangagwa to prepare for his retirement
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday declared that he will rule the country after elections expected next year.Addressing scores of mourners at the burial of the...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:51hrs | 4635 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala, Sithole appeal to High Court
THE High Court will today hear an appeal by opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole who are seeking their release from prison after the lower courts ...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:50hrs | 346 | by Staff reporter
Cattle rustling riles Botswana, Zimbabwe
CONTINUED cattle rustling activities along the Zimbabwe-Botswana border are baffling and riling authorities despite intensive joint police operations to curb the vice.Recently the two countrie...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:48hrs | 218 | by Staff reporter
Mafume sticks to his guns on Pomona
HARARE mayor Jacob Mafume yesterday said the Harare City Council (HCC) had no capacity to pay in United States dollars the council committee set up to investigate the Pomona waste management deal....Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:47hrs | 689 | by Staff reporter
Bogus Zacc officials arrested
TWO Kuwadzana men, who masqueraded as Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) officials, were yesterday arraigned before Harare magistrate Stanford Mambanje facing 10 counts of extortion.Th...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:45hrs | 205 | by Staff reporter
Prophet 'rapes, impregnates' his two cousins
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested Hitler Chanda Chaterera (35) a self-proclaimed prophet for allegedly raping and impregnating his two cousins.Chaterera from Mushandike Village in Masvingo, all...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:44hrs | 488 | by Staff reporter
Notorious machete gang caged
POLICE in Bulawayo have tracked down and arrested three armed robbery suspects who have been terrorising residents and have been linked to the robbery and murder of a Lobengula West businessman early ...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:43hrs | 369 | by Staff reporter
Post mortems conducted on Zanu-PF officials
POST mortems have been conducted to ascertain the cause of death of two senior Zanu-PF officials in Nyatsime area of Chitungwiza with one of them alleged to have been poisoned, while the other reporte...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:40hrs | 602 | by Staff reporter
Armed police miss the target, shoot innocent people
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has admitted to shooting of two innocent people in a shootout out with armed robbers yest...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 22:18hrs | 2459 | by Shelton Muchena
nZondo Commission 'a useful distraction' from South Africa's pressing problems
Many South Africans have already drawn their conclusions regarding the judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, corruption and fraud in the Public Sector, including Organs of ...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 19:50hrs | 395 | by Sipho Seepe
Alex Magaisa buried at rural Njanja home
LATE law expert and former advisor to the Prime Minister, Alex Magaisa, who died earlier this month was Tuesday laid to rest at his rural home in Njanja.Magaisa, an ardent but respected critic...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 18:37hrs | 3076 | by Staff reporter
South Africa fails to avoid Zimbabwe type load shedding
Embattled and underperforming Eskom CEO Andre De Ruyter said the power utility was working to restore capacity to power stations to mitigate the "very real risk" of Stage 6 load shedding on Tuesday ev...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 12:06hrs | 2082 | by Staff reporter
Cyril Ramaphosa is an agent of imperialism and white monopoly capital
On the 8 July 2021, I was arrested in front of the Estcourt prison where President Jacob Zuma was illegally imprisoned because of a travesty of justice committed by the Constitutional Court (CC)....Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 11:53hrs | 988 | by Carl Niehaus
Police probe death of Zanu-PF officials
The Zimbabwe Republic Police have launched investigations into the death of two senior Zanu-PF officials in Nyatsime area of Chitungwiza with one of them alleged to have been poisoned, while the other...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 07:32hrs | 2093 | by Staff reporter
Biti tells Guvamatanga to 'shut up'
FORMER finance minister, Tendai Biti, has told off current treasury permanent secretary, George Guvamatanga, after he claimed civil servants are better paid now that they were during the government of...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 07:32hrs | 3906 | by Staff reporter
Motorist fined ZW$100,000 for offering traffic cop US$2 bribe
A HARARE motorist has appeared in court following his arrest for attempting to bribe a police officer at a checkpoint.Jameson Manjokota (23) of Southview in Harare was dragged before Chinhoyi ...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 07:30hrs | 913 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala, Sithole appeal set for Wednesday at High Court
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) lawmakers Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole's bail appeal will be heard this Wednesday at the High Court according to their lawyers.Sikhala and Sit...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 07:30hrs | 493 | by Staff reporter
CCC dismisses new Zimbabwe economy measures; says Chamisa-led govt only solution
Minister Mthuli Ncube (on Monday) announced measures that are meant to curb hyperinflation and stabilize (prices) as well as address the remuneration crisis in the civil service. The Reserve Bank also...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 07:29hrs | 1340 | by Fadzayi Mahere
Brothers kill father over US$15
TWO siblings were arrested last Friday in Marondera after they allegedly killed their father during a quarrel over US$15 stolen from a shop.The duo, Eric (28) and Brian Kagoro (25) of Nyagambe...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 07:25hrs | 738 | by Staff reporter
2 Zanu-PF members die in Nyatsime after CCC skirmishes
TWO Zanu-PF members have died in succession in the Nyatsime area since the murder of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist Moreblessing Ali early this month.Ali was allegedly murdered b...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 07:24hrs | 484 | by Staff reporter
Top CIO operative bail ruling deferred
BAIL ruling for a divisional intelligence officer in the Office of the President and Cabinet, Leornard Mutandwa arrested last Thursday over extortion and fraud allegations has been deferred to today....Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 07:17hrs | 326 | by Staff reporter
Warrant of arrest for court absconding Dangarembga
AWARD winning novelist, Tsitsi Dangarembga, who is accused of participating in an unsanctioned gathering to cause public violence, has been issued with a warrant of arrest after failing to appear in c...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 19:07hrs | 962 | by Staff reporter
Teachers union defiant on stay-aways
AMALGAMATED Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) has urged its members to continue their stay-away from work in solidarity with their incarcerated president Obert Masaraure.Masaraure was l...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 08:13hrs | 607 | by Staff reporter
Pastor, and wife arrested for fraud
AFM Church Reverend Titus Murefu (68) and his wife Winnet (60) on Friday appeared in court charged with fraud involving US$80 000 in a botched deal.Harare magistrate Shane Kubonera remanded th...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 08:11hrs | 1609 | by Staff reporter
Top spook boss up for extortion
A senior Central Intelligence Organisation officer Leonard Mutandwa appeared in court on Friday charged with fraud and extortion.Mutandwa (48), the Divisional Intelligence Officer, was arreste...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 10:50hrs | 866 | by Staff reporter
Motswana fuel smuggler arrested in Zimbabwe
BOTSWANA police have foiled a bid by a Motswana to smuggle 1 450 litres of petrol into Zimbabwe.Police in Tshesebe recovered the fuel from the suspect along the Botswana-Zimbabwe border....Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 10:48hrs | 848 | by Staff reporter
Crime Intelligence funds used for Ramaphosa's Phala Phala 'farmgate' cover-up
A secret Crime Intelligence fund was used to finance the clandestine operations set up to trace the thieves who stole millions of dollars from President Cyril Ramaphosa's Phala Phala farm in February ...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 10:31hrs | 590 | by Mzilikazi Wa Afrika
75 Zimra officers arrested
A TOTAL of 75 Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) employees have been arrested and prosecuted for various corrupt activities between 2018 and 2021.The revelations comes days after it was also r...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 08:14hrs | 1232 | by Staff reporter
Bogus cop pockets R500 bribe from buses for 15 months
A Beitbridge man has been arrested for masquerading as a security officer for one year and three months, collecting bribes ranging from R300 to R500 from buses in the border town.Gabriel Chire...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 08:14hrs | 322 | by Staff reporter
Zuma wants Zondo probed
Former South Africa President Jacob Zuma has instructed his legal team to take the State Capture Commission report on review. According to JG Zuma Foundation spokesperson Mzwanele Manyi, Zuma ...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 19:42hrs | 1239 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo defends Mnangagwa
EXILED former information minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has again hit out at the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) over its allegations that Ian Smith's rule was better than that of Pr...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 19:24hrs | 3951 | by Staff reporter
We Must all Condemn the Imprisonement of Mthwakazi Activists in Zimbabwe
Greetings to all! As I greet you all, I am saddened by the silence of all our people at the sentencing to long imprisonment of more than three (3) years recently of Mthwakazi activists by Zimb...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 14:17hrs | 595 | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Smith Debate is a Stroke of Genius
We have Lisah Ncube (Dutchess of Matebeleland) to thank for initiating the Smith was better than Mnangagwa debate. I don't know whether she planned it&n...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 14:04hrs | 965 | by Simon Peter Chamisa
Why do spouses of Zimbabwe ruling elite not use their influence to stand for suffering citizens against oppressive regime?
Why do spouses of Zimbabwe ruling elite not use their influence to stand for suffering citizens against oppressive regime?by Tendai Ruben MbofanaI am sure we have all heard of a "peepi...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 13:55hrs | 431 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa claims infiltration plot
THE Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) has raised a red flag over a plot by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to infiltrate the opposition by allegedly deploying operatives to penetrate ...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 10:05hrs | 8163 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's youths attack, deface Chamisa's offices
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) officials have blamed alleged Zanu-PF youths for an attack at its Mutare offices, that left the building defaced while all doors and windows were destroyed....Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 09:53hrs | 1845 | by Staff reporter
Ex-army captain, doctor in court for impersonation
A former army captain and a local doctor appeared before Harare Ruth Moyo on Thursday charged for impersonation with intent to commit crime.Moyo remanded Alfred Ngonidzashe Mugadza (54) ...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 08:40hrs | 701 | by Staff reporter
CCC quartet to spend weekend in remand
FOUR Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists will spend the weekend behind bars following their arrest in connection with political violence that occurred at the funeral of slain opposition acti...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 08:38hrs | 116 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on the brink: Living in fragile peace
YESTERDAY, the Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) launched the 2021 State of Peace Report. It is an annual product of the ZimRights' Right to Peace Campaign which seeks to empower communiti...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 07:41hrs | 400 | by Dzikamai Bere
US$200,000 armed robber in court
ONE of the seven armed robbers who raided Access Finance Bureau De Change in Bulawayo and got away with thousands of United States dollars appeared in court yesterday.Nkosilathi Ncube (43) of ...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 07:41hrs | 447 | by Staff reporter
Zacc torches storm in Karoi
KAROI residents have petitioned Parliament to rein in members of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) which they accused of unprofessional conduct and bias.The residents said the sus...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 07:39hrs | 284 | by Staff reporter
4 machete robbers arrested
FOUR robbers who were part of a six-member machete gang which has been terrorising people in Gweru's Mkoba and Woodlands areas have been arrested.The machete robbers stole cash and many other ...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 07:39hrs | 159 | by Staff reporter
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