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Police arrest half a million rand robber
Police have arrested one of the five suspects who along with his accomplices pounced on a Beitbridge foreign currency dealer's house and robbed him over half a million Rands, US$4500 and a...Published: 26 mins ago | 131 | by Staff reporter
Will Sibusiso Moyo's wife bite?
Analysts have questioned whether the newly composed Zimbabwe Ant Corruption Corruption will live up to the task and thoroughly investigate and arrest officials who are fingered in corruption activitie...Published: 4 hrs ago | 3173 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Woman acquitted of 'rape'
A 27-YEAR-OLD HIV positive woman from Bulawayo's Emganwini suburb who was accused of "raping" her neighbour's 16-year-old son has been acquitted. The accused person, whose identity has be...Published: 8 hrs ago | 2695 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to launch mass protests
The Movement for Demcratic Change leader, Nelson Chamisa has vowed to "lead from the front" in what he described as a "peaceful and radical" face-off with President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to ...Published: 8 hrs ago | 7583 | by Staff reporter
Token anti-corruption drive breeding apathy and despondency
Last week, I agonised on what to write about. I had travelled and had a bit of work to do, but still thought I could get my column in.In the end, I did not write anything because I failed to f...Published: 9 hrs ago | 443 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Minister, police boss sued for $500,000
HOME Affairs minister Cain Mathema and Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga face a for $500 000 lawsuit each for the arrest and harassment of MDC organising secretary Amos Chibaya during the Jan...Published: 9 hrs ago | 597 | by Staff reporter
Man axes former wife for seeking refuge at his house
A CHIMANIMANI woman escaped death by a whisker after she was allegedly axed by her former husband when she sought refuge at his house during the Cyclone Idai disaster, a Chipinge court heard yesterday...Published: 9 hrs ago | 883 | by Staff reporter
Former Harare bosses want their case referred to ConCourt
Former City of Harare bosses, Sekesai Makwavarara, Michael and Tendai Mahachi on Tuesday filed an application to have the matter in which they are facing charges of criminal abuse of office, referred ...Published: 9 hrs ago | 151 | by Staff reporter
MDC MP demands probe into threats against Mnangagwa's wife
MUTARE Central MP, Innocent Gonese Wednesday demanded an investigation into recent threats on the First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa's life by a state security officer.The MDC politician also said ...Published: 9 hrs ago | 793 | by newzimbabwe
Motorist loses R40 000 at accident scene
A 38-YEAR-OLD man from Bulawayo lost R40 000 and US$ 100 in the city's central business district while attending to a minor accident he had been involved in as he was about to park his car. Th...Published: 9 hrs ago | 413 | by Staff reporter
Illegal forex vending sucks in cops
GOVERNMENT efforts to eliminate illegal foreign currency dealers from the streets of Harare are being hampered by the involvement of some unscrupulous police officers in the illicit trade, The Herald ...Published: 10 hrs ago | 828 | by Staff reporter
Police crush anti-Mnangagwa demonstration...leaders arrested
Police in Bulawayo arrested Josphat Mzaca Ngulube and other activists over a pre-planned demonstration that was supposed to take place today. The demonstration was supposed to take place ...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 14:49hrs | 16752 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Two Zimbabwe businessmen murdered in South Africa
Two Zimbabwean businessmen were found dead in Mpumalanga, South Africa last week after two weeks of being reported missing.The pair (known as Sydney and Eddy) ran a flourishing transport and f...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 10:26hrs | 13991 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mayor exposes Kambarami, says, 'I was not on leave'
BULAWAYO mayor Solomon Mguni yesterday denied claims he was on leave last week when town clerk Christopher Dube was suspended by his deputy, Tinashe Kambarami.Kambarami and other councillors l...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 08:47hrs | 7377 | by Staff reporter
Man attacks wife's lover, flees with his penis
A Florida man allegedly used scissors to cut off the penis of a man he suspected of sleeping with his wife, according to law enforcement officials.The Gilchrist County Sheriff's Office arreste...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 08:26hrs | 6850 | by Staff reporter
Trump nails Mnangagwa?
The United States of America has released yet another damning report on Zimbabwe - observing that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government continues to fail to capitalise on the goodwill that was pre...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 08:26hrs | 9564 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ramps up pressure on SADC
The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC will continue engaging Sadc in a bid to solve the country’s crisis although President Emmerson Mnangagwa will soon chair the bloc’s organ on Politics, Defence and Securi...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 08:25hrs | 5585 | by Staff reporter
'ZHRC making inroads at problematic institutions'
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) says it has made inroads in ensuring observance of human rights at different problematic institutions such as prisons and refugee camps in the country....Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 08:05hrs | 294 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala arrest cost us Bikita East by-election, claims MDC
SMARTING from a defeat in the Bikita East ward 31 by-election held on Saturday, the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC party has blamed Zanu-PF and the State for intimidating voters through the arrest of party de...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 08:04hrs | 2718 | by Stafff reporter
Armed robbers pounce on combine harvester, steal diesel
POLICE in Marondera have launched a manhunt for six armed men who allegedly pounced on a broken down combine harvester, destroyed its fuel tanks and siphoned about 450 litres of diesel at the 76km peg...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:59hrs | 724 | by Staff reporter
Man kills drunk, noisy mum
A 26-YEAR-OLD Buhera man has been arrested on charges of killing his drunken 55-year-old mother in cold blood for making noise after coming from a beer drinking bingeManicaland police spokespe...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:54hrs | 1020 | by Staff reporter
Warrant of arrest for Zanu-PF councillor
Guruve resident magistrate Shingirai Mutiro last week issued an arrest warrant for Mazowe Rural District ward 27 councillor Collin Sarakunze (35) for defying a chief's order on deforestation.S...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:54hrs | 513 | by Staff reporter
Prophet in murder & robbery gang
POLICE have launched a manhunt for a self-proclaimed prophet and two accomplices who allegedly armed themselves with machetes and an iron bar before attacking seven family members in Ntabazinduna, kil...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:44hrs | 410 | by Staff reporter
CCTv to nail corruption at passport offices
Home Affairs Minister Cain Mathema on Tuesday said his ministry will soon install close circuit televisions at its departments to curb corruption especially in the issuing of passports. ...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 00:16hrs | 3173 | by Methusi Ncube
Mnangagwa asks UK to arrest Sibusiso Moyo's attackers
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has requested the government of the United Kingdom to arrest the protestors who attacked Foreign Affairs Minister Sibusiso Busi Moyo recently. In a st...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 19:45hrs | 7810 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mutasa wanted Mugabe tried at ICC over Gukurahundi
Former ZANU PF Central Committee member from Manicaland Muntsa Mutasa told a United States Ambassador in 2008 that America must make sure the then President Robert Mugabe was tried for treason the Guk...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 13:00hrs | 5873 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa wears bulletproof vest to clinic opening
President Emmerson Mnangagwa wore a bulletproof vest to the opening of a clinic in Harare on Thursday, pictures reveal.Mnangagwa delivered a World Population Day speech at the official opening...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 08:16hrs | 5738 | by ZimLive
Chamisa changes tact
Tensions ran high at the MDC retreat meeting held over the weekend to decide whether the party should immediately roll out demonstrations or give dialogue a chance. According to daily News, th...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 07:55hrs | 6022 | by Staff reporter
'Convicted thief' Kambarami fights for position at High Court
THE civil trial involving Bulawayo deputy mayor Councillor Tinashe Kambarami and a political pressure group, 1893 Mthwakazi Restoration Movement Trust, opened at the Bulawayo High Court yesterday. ...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 07:26hrs | 1906 | by Staff reporter
Prophet in court for poisoning father to inherit his Mazda 323
A SELF-PROCLAIMED prophet with the International Apostolic Ejuwel Jekenisheni Church has been hauled before the courts on allegations of murdering his father in an obnoxious bid to inherit his Mazda 3...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 07:24hrs | 714 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi 'architect' threatens
Zanu-PF party Politburo member Perrance Shiri has called on members not to be swayed by opposition elements who want to make the country ungovernable through demonstrations. Addressing thousan...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 07:22hrs | 1044 | by STaff reporter
Father beats 1 year old son to death
The Zimbabwe Republic Police in Bikita has reported that a one-year-old male infant was assaulted by his father after he started crying. The child's health deteriorated and he died twelve days la...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 21:39hrs | 3816 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Former SA footballer gunned down
The family of former Bafana Bafana, Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs striker, Marc Batchelor has reacted with shock to the news of his death, News24 reported.Batchelor was gunned down in Bryansto...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 21:24hrs | 5708 | by Staff Reporter
Ndabaningi Sithole's birthday bash set for this weekend
A celebration of the life of the Founding President of ZANU Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole will be held on the 20th of July at the Freedom Farm in Chipinge. A flyer inviting Zi...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 15:14hrs | 2120 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa calls for health minister's arrest
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has called for Health Minister Obadiah Moyo to be arrested for corruption after a leaked letter showed how Zanu-PF plans to use medical drugs as a campaign tool in the Lupane...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 10:33hrs | 5809 | by ZimLive
Job Sikhala offered $5 000 bail
MDC Deputy National Job Sikhala was offered $50 000 bail by the state on Monday morning. Sikhala was however, freed on Z$5,000 bail by a court in Masvingo.Ju...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 10:03hrs | 5666 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa threatens
MDC Alliance president Mr Nelson Chamisa has threatened yet again to unleash protests saying he will only accept a new political arrangement that he leads.Addressing his supporters at a rally ...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 08:54hrs | 5493 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala threatened to go on hunger strike
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa was barred from seeing Zengeza West MP and MDC deputy chairman Job Sikhala, who is being held in prison in Masvingo awaiting his trial.Chamisa told a rally at Mucheke...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 08:27hrs | 2831 | by ZimLive
Chamisa blocked from visiting Sikhala
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said he was barred from seeing incarcerated party deputy national chairperson, Job Sikhala, charging that the situation in the country will now drive people into ta...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 08:21hrs | 3378 | by Staff reporter
US condemns London attack on Mugabe coup announcer
US ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols has condemned attack on Foreign Affairs Minister Sibusiso Moyo by a group of angry Zimbabweans in London last week.Nichols, in an interview with journal...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 08:20hrs | 4970 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa son 'aide' up for fraud, extortion
A HARARE man claiming to be a Central Intelligence Organisation security detail for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's son Collins was summoned to court last week facing fraud allegations after he duped u...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 07:55hrs | 1214 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF officials interfere with prosecution of colleague'
ANTI-CORRUPTION Trust of Southern Africa (ACT-SA) has written a letter of complaint to Prosecutor General Kumbirai Hodzi alleging lack of progress and interference by senior Zanu-PF officials in a fra...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 07:54hrs | 429 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa imposed Shona councillors causing tribal may ham in Bulawayo
On 15 September 2018, when more than 12 Shona councillors took office in the City of Bulawayo on the ticket of MDC Alliance MLO released a statement that partly read as follows: "hoi! to the people of...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 22:41hrs | 3782 | by Israel Dube
Mnangagwa pursues Mthwakazi Republic Party official over Gukurahundi genocide
When we heard that ZANU-PF president and the commander-in-chief of the defence forces was in Rwanda last week at the commemoration of the 1992 genocide that took place there, we thought he had gone th...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 22:39hrs | 861 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
5 things to know about the upcoming immigration raids in major U.S. cities
A series of immigration raids is expected to begin as early as Sunday in several major American cities, according to President Donald Trump.It's part of the Trump administration's crackdown on...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:47hrs | 785 | by Rafael Carranza, Arizona Republic
Zanu-PF wins Nyanga and Bikita by-elections
THE ruling Zanu-PF has wrestled the Nyanga South ward 26 seat from the MDC Alliance in a by-election which was held Saturday and retained Bikita Rural District Council ward 31 on the same day....Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:38hrs | 875 | by newzimbabwe
7 January protesters acquitted
SEVEN people, including an entertainment promoter-cum-DJ, alleged to have taken part in the violent January protests this year, which saw three cars belonging to Zanu-PF Bulawayo provincial Women's Le...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:38hrs | 303 | by Staff reporter
Row over beer ends in death
A Gokwe man died on the spot after he was struck in the head with a log by a fellow imbiber following a dispute over traditional beer.Shepherd Tazarura died on the spot after allegedly being s...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:36hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt target internet users
Government is set to put in place social media abuse laws amid revelations that there is an upsurge in internet abuse and the proliferation of illegal websites.This comes on the back of a rise...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:27hrs | 5124 | by Staff reporter
Violence never an option
Zimbabweans are generally renowned as hospitable and peace loving people but the tendency to cause violence that seems to rear its ugly head, particularly by the MDC Alliance and its handlers is a ser...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:22hrs | 153 | by Staff reporter
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