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Robbers pounce on Buyanga's gold-carrying sports utility in South Africa
African Medallion Group founder Frank Buyanga has condemned the shooting of two guards after 10 robbers pounced on his Toyota Land Cruiser in an attempt to steal gold in Boksburg, South Africa....Published: 3 hrs ago | 268 | by Staff reporter
Arbitrary arrests won’t solve Gukurahundi
Zimbabwe African People's Union is dismayed by the state's arrest on journalist Zenzele Ndebele at Bulawayo State House today. As much as it is a clear misplacement of priorities in a co...Published: 4 hrs ago | 631 | by Iphithule Maphosa
ZAPU calls for the release of Zenzele Ndebele
The Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) has expressed its dismay at the arrest of Bulawayo journalist Zenzele Ndebele.Ndebele was arrested at the Bulawayo State House where there was a civi...Published: 4 hrs ago | 969 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BREAKING: Journalist Zenzele Ndebele arrested at State house
The Center for Innovation and Technology (CITE) Director Zenzele Ndebele has been arrested at the Bulawayo State House where President Emmerson Mnangagwa is meeting members of Bulawayo Civic Society....Published: 10 hrs ago | 8907 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Hwende challenges lawfulness of his arrest
Kuwadzana East legislator Chalton Hwende (MDC Alliance) yesterday filed an application challenging his arrest and remand, arguing that the tweet that got him in trouble with the State was his democrat...Published: 15 hrs ago | 228 | by Staff reporter
Cops intercept smuggled energy drinks
Police detectives have intercepted a large consignment of smuggled goods including livestock products and 27 tonnes of a banned energy drink.Addressing journalists in Harare yesterday, chief v...Published: 15 hrs ago | 774 | by Staff reporter
Immigration officers arrested over tourists' visas
TWO immigration officials stationed in Victoria Falls have been arrested after they allegedly issued instant visas to three tourists from Bangladesh without following laid down procedures. Ban...Published: 15 hrs ago | 514 | by Staff reporter
The Zimbabwe Republic Police
During the Rhodesia era the police force then was called the British South Africa Police( BSAP). It was well trained, disciplined and efficient. More-so it had resources for use in combating crime. It...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 21:26hrs | 8501 | by Clemen Moyo
Obert Mpofu to appear before Bulawayo court
Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu, is set to testify before a Bulawayo magistrate in a case in which he stands accused of inciting a Ntabazinduna villager to defy directives from Chief ...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 15:04hrs | 3433 | by Staff reporter
Men jailed 2 years for defacing Mnangagwa banner
Two Chinhoyi men were jailed three years each by magistrate Tayengwa Chibanda for destroying a billboard with the portrait of President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Darlington Willard Machemba (31) and ...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 07:29hrs | 488 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU bosses' freedom bid quashed
A HARARE magistrate yesterday dismissed an application for refusal of remand filed by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union (ZCTU) president Peter Mtasa, secretary-general Japhet Moyo and #ThisFlag lea...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 07:24hrs | 184 | by Staff reporter
Fired worker kills employer
A TEENAGER who was employed as a herdboy in Lupane allegedly attacked and killed his employer with a shovel after she fired him for indiscipline. Police spokesperson for Matabeleland North Chi...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 23:08hrs | 3914 | by Staff reporter
Mawarire freedom bid flops again
#THIS Flag Movement leader Evan Mawarire on Tuesday failed in his bid for freedom after his application for refusal of further remand was thrown out.Mawarire is being charged with subversion, ...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 20:13hrs | 2803 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa's grand lie on forex list revisited
In March 2018 President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced a list on companies that engaged in illicit financial flows externalized through non repatriation of export proceeds.The much-hyped list ca...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 17:54hrs | 4625 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC Top leader back in court over treason charges
MDC legislator for Kuwadzana East Charlton Hwende will be back in court on Wednesday to answer charges of seeking to subvert a constitutionally elected government.Hwende is challenging the leg...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 14:02hrs | 1245 | by Mandla Ndlovu
New dispensation rejects corruption
The advent of the new dispensation in November 2017 has seen a new impetus in the fight against the scourge of corruption. Right beginning with his inauguration speech on 24 November 2017, President M...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 12:25hrs | 707 | by Bevan Musoko
Heal Zimbabwe speaks on the arrest of Rashid Mahiya
Heal Zimbabwe takes great concern over the allegations leveled against Rashid Mahiya who is the Executive Director of Heal Zimbabwe and the Chairperson of the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition. He was arre...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 11:33hrs | 1405 | by Heal Zimbabwe
Gugu Ncube drama: Unisa employee cleared of sexual assault
The University of South Africa (Unisa) says one of its employees has been cleared of wrongdoing following a woman's claims that he asked her to perform sexual favours so she could keep her job at the ...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 09:52hrs | 3467 | by News24
Parliament releases list of 133 applicants for 9 ZACC posts
Former Zimpapers board chairman Tommy Sithole and former Chronicle editor Geoffrey Nyarota are among a list of 133 people who have applied to become commissioner of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commis...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 09:44hrs | 3026 | by ZimLive
Zimbabwe cannot outsource its development - it has to fix the fundamentals first
While South Africa believes sanctions should be scrapped in Zimbabwe, analysts indicate that the sanctions narrative has been an easy scapegoat in addressing the real issues affecting the country....Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 08:39hrs | 408 | by Sally Nyakanyanga
Zanu-PF mocks doctors...as Cyclone Idai kills 98
In a thinly veiled attack on the Zimbabwe Doctors for Human Rights (ZDHR), Zanu-PF has called on doctors to come out and help the victims of Cyclone Idai as they did to the victims of Shutdown Zimbabw...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 07:52hrs | 7258 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Obert Mpofu's ex-employee languishes in remand prison
FORMER Zanu-PF Victoria Falls mayor Sifiso Mpofu and two of his alleged accomplices are languishing in remand prison pending a High Court decision on their bail application, which they filed last week...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 06:49hrs | 2201 | by Staff reporter
Corruption still rife in Zimbabwe: US report
CORRUPTION remains a major problem in Zimbabwe despite government pronouncements to fight the rot, a report by the United States has revealed.According to a 2018 Human Rights Report prepared b...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 06:47hrs | 618 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance dismantling patriarchy towards a people’s movement
Zimbabwe is in the throes of a deep economic and political crisis, further worsened by Cyclone Idai that has ravaged the eastern parts of the country leaving scores dead, hundreds injured and thousand...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 05:19hrs | 3504 | by Grace Kwinjeh
US 'very enthusiastic' about Mnangagwa govt
AMERICA'S Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan said on Friday that Washington was "very enthusiastic" about the new Harare government, but wanted to see more action on reform."We are very enthu...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 13:51hrs | 4138 | by Staff reporter
High Court to decide Parirenyatwa's fate
THE High Court is on Wednesday expected to rule on ex-Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa's application seeking charges of criminal abuse of office against him dropped.Parirenyat...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 13:44hrs | 779 | by Staff reporter
Artisanal miners wreak havoc at Mazowe mine
Illegal gold miners are reportedly causing havoc at Mazowe mine, popularly known as jumbo mine, by practising illegal mining and causing serious land degradation at the mine after the mine downsized o...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 07:04hrs | 909 | by Simbarashe Sithole
'Starving villagers' skin neighbour's cow
TWO villagers from Siampongo in Binga have been jailed nine years each for skinning and stealing the carcass of their neighbour's cow, which had died on its own.Tedious Mudenda (38) and Fanuel...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:49hrs | 584 | by Staff reporter
EFF in door-to-door campaign for Bulawayo's ward 28 by-election
THE opposition Zimbabwe Economic Freedom Fighters (ZEFF) is undertaking its maiden election campaign in Bulawayo's Cowdray Park high-density suburb, where by participating in a local government by-ele...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:47hrs | 2287 | by Staff reporter
Hordes apply for Zacc posts
Parliament has been inundated by applications from potential corruption busters willing to join the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), with 130 aspirants having thrown their hats into the rin...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 09:44hrs | 1723 | by Staff reporter
Taxi driver's killer jailed
A suspected member of a four-man gang that allegedly kidnapped, robbed and brutally killed a Gweru taxi driver in December last year before dumping his body in a dam with his hands and legs tied, has ...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:53hrs | 427 | by Staff reporter
2 Zimbabweans arrested in SA over explosives
THE South African Police Services (Saps) at Beitbridge on Friday arrested two Zimbabwean men for possession of explosives comprising connector cap fuses and cables valued at R250 000.The pair ...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:52hrs | 511 | by Staff reporter
Man clobbers wife, sister with hammer, spears them to death
BULAWAYO High Court judge, Justice Maxwell Takuva has described an Inyathi man who struck his wife and sister with a hammer before finishing them off using a metal spear following a rumour of infideli...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:38hrs | 492 | by Staff reporter
War vets in dock over kidnap
FOUR members of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association in Bulawayo have appeared in court facing charges of unlawful detention of a member of the Zimbabwe Federation of Trade Unions...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:37hrs | 177 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa opens up on past
President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday gave a rare personal insight into his early life, during which he was involved in subversive activities after seeing his dreams of becoming a pilot frustrated by...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 15:55hrs | 2065 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere announces return to exile?
FUGITIVE ex-cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere has virtually announced his return to exile through dismissive comments and threats targeted at President Emmerson Mnangagwa whom he describes as a dict...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 05:14hrs | 7779 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa reveals childhood dreams
Imagine, aboard a plane and before take-off you hear a voice saying, "This is Captain Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa speaking. We are ready for take-off. Our flight is going take approximately three hour...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 05:08hrs | 1160 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean woman shot seven times in SA
A Beitbridge woman (35) who was based in Johannesburg, South Africa, was shot seven times at her house in Cosmos City in a horrific murder which was witnessed by her son (10). The incident, wh...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 05:04hrs | 2254 | by Staff reporter
Chombo trial deferred
FORMER Finance Minister Ignatius Chombo's trial on corruption charges was Friday pushed to May this year pending a Supreme Court's determination on his application for stay of prosecution on rights gr...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 05:01hrs | 216 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa's PR bid a futile exercise, say analysts
THE decision by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to employ a public relations consultancy firm to lobby for the scrapping of United States sanctions is futile as the real solution lies in imp...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 17:13hrs | 701 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe and a fracturing Zanu-PF
continued from last weekMany of those mansion builders were comrades-in-arms from Zimbabwe's war of independence. They, their families, and their business cronies were not eager to give up pow...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 17:11hrs | 1550 | by Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield
Morgan Komichi found guilty
Zimbabwean magistrate has convicted MDC Vice President and Midlands Senator Morgan Komichi for contravening section 186 of the Electoral Act and fined him $200. Komichi was arrested in A...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 16:44hrs | 3426 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Night club quickie sends hooker to maker
LACK of sex can get a hungry Makorokoza man angry. That's the case with Benjamini Chipapata (26) who struck a sex worker with a machete, killing her in the process because she charged him a fe...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 16:36hrs | 1643 | by Staff reporter
Bus impounded over smuggling
A web of corrupt officials involving Zimra, Immigration and security personnel at Forbes Border Post in Mutare is under investigation after a bus carrying more than 400 packs smuggled Coca Cola drinks...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 16:32hrs | 6167 | by Staff reporter
Woman fatally assaults step daughter
A Chimanimani woman has landed herself in trouble with the law after she allegedly murdered her eleven-year-old stepdaughter following a domestic dispute. Police confirmed the case which occurred on F...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 16:31hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere breaks silence...fires threats
Former Politiburo member and Cabinet Minister Saviour Kasukuwere has fired shots against the President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government over his continued arrest. On Thursday the State Media re...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 14:06hrs | 23148 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Man jailed for wearing army regalia
A 20-YEAR-OLD Banket man was jailed for one year by Chinhoyi magistrate Letwin Rwodzi for wearing Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) uniform.Malvern Makuranga of Templeton Farm, Banket, who is emplo...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 06:04hrs | 1166 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe implicated in land deals
FORMER Midlands Provincial Affairs minister, Jason Machaya, who is facing charges of criminal abuse of office over questionable allocation of stands, has accused the State of arresting and charging hi...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 06:03hrs | 4798 | by Staff reporter
Airforce pilot denied bail
AN Air Force of Zimbabwe pilot, who allegedly murdered his lawyer girlfriend in Gweru last year has been denied bail by a Bulawayo High Court judge.Justice Martin Makonese yesterday threw out ...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 06:02hrs | 821 | by Staff reporter
State applies for Kasukuwere's property forfeiture
The State yesterday formally filed an application to have the property of former Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere forfeited to the State, arguing that he was now a fugitive from justice af...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 06:00hrs | 889 | by Staff reporter
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