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16 murder cases on Gweru High Court roll
THE Bulawayo High Court Circuit which is sitting in Gweru for the next two weeks will hear 16 murder cases, mostly involving attacks by informal miners over gold claims. Midlands provincial pr...Published: 2 hrs ago | 110 | by Staff reporter
Crime spree ends for three Honda Fit drivers
THREE Honda Fit pirate taxi operators who were allegedly involved in a spate of armed robberies in Bulawayo using a firearm have been arrested. Handsome Ncube (23) of Emakhandeni, Innocent Ncu...Published: 2 hrs ago | 189 | by Staff reporter
Govt plugs Zinara revenue leakages
GOVERNMENT has managed to plug revenue leakages at the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (ZINARA) and is confident the parastatal now has the capacity to raise $3 billion annually. In an i...Published: 2 hrs ago | 92 | by Staff reporter
7 machete suppliers locked up
Seven machete makers, who were arrested last week at Siyaso in Mbare, Harare, on suspicion of supplying machetes to armed robbers and criminals in mining communities, were on Saturday remanded in cust...Published: 3 hrs ago | 287 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean couple arrested for killing, burning girl (10) in Namibia
NAMIBIAN police have, after a two-day man-hunt, arrested a Zimbabwean couple for allegedly killing 10-year-old girl in Windhoek North before setting her body on fire. The couple, along with th...Published: 8 hrs ago | 2665 | by Staff Reporter
Civil servants, youths to benefit from 1 300 stands
CIVIL servants and youths are set to benefit from 1 300 residential stands unveiled in Melfort, Goromonzi South constituency, NewsDay has learnt.According to a letter from the Local Government...Published: 20 hrs ago | 796 | by Staff reporter
Security guard shoots gold panners
A SECURITY guard has been arrested for allegedly shooting and wounding two gold panners over suspicion that they were trespassing.Nkosilathi Ndlovu, employed at Avalon Farm in Esigodini, was n...Published: 20 hrs ago | 510 | by Staff reporter
1 621 gold panners arrested
POLICE in Mashonaland Central province have arrested 1 621 illegal miners in Mazowe and Shamva under the ongoing "Chikorokoza Ngachipere" blitz.Addressing Bindura residents under a crime aware...Published: 20 hrs ago | 189 | by Staff reporter
Musorowegomo Mukosi arrested over violence
Popular newscaster and former ZBC presenter Musorowegomo Mukosi has been arrested on allegations of hiring bouncers to assault his employees at a mine in Mt Darwin.The incident occurred as the...Published: 20 hrs ago | 961 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa powerless to stop Chamisa
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa has pooh-poohed threats by the government at the weekend that authorities would arrest him if he mounted any unsanctioned demonstrations.The MDC boss said yest...Published: 20 hrs ago | 3855 | by Staff reporter
Zimra official arrested for import duty fraud
POLICE have arrested three Beitbridge men for allegedly defrauding a car dealer of US$6600 in import duty last year.Allen Nyoni (23), Kudakwashe Zowa (32) both customs clearing agents and Henr...Published: 20 hrs ago | 588 | by Staff reporter
Cop arrested for stocktheft
A BEITBRIDGE based cop and a teacher at a local school in Gwanda have appeared in court for allegedly selling four cattle that they had stolen from a grazing area.Blessing Moyana (33) who is s...Published: 27 Jan 2020 at 06:49hrs | 2442 | by Staff reporter
MDC paying lip service to corruption investigations
Opposition MDC-Alliance must be religious followers of Mario Cuomo's famous dictum: "You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose." A press conference held on Friday at the party's headquarters...Published: 27 Jan 2020 at 06:48hrs | 1406 | by Lawson Mabhena
Njube demo teacher still on the run
POLICE say a Njube High School teacher who allegedly incited pupils to demonstrate against an increase in fees and teachers' poor salaries last Monday, is still on the run.Brian Mutsiba, a sci...Published: 27 Jan 2020 at 06:44hrs | 1341 | by Staff reporter
Sex workers, drugs flood Jumbo mine
Sex workers and drug abusers are mushrooming in Jumbo and Shamva mine, Mashonaland Central province targeting artisanal miners.Officer ...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 12:58hrs | 4339 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Man jailed for robbing a man while relieving himself
A man from Cowdray Park has been sentenced to effective 21 months in jail for robbing another while relieving himself.Mbongeni Nkomo (24) pleaded guilty to robbery before Bulawayo magistrate L...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 07:39hrs | 3631 | by Stephen Jakes
Sikhala speaks on treason trial
Job Sikhala, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) national vice-chairperson who is also Member of Parliament for Zengeza West, is set to appear before the High Court in Masvingo next week to face ...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:27hrs | 1908 | by Staff reporter
'Police cover up cop shooting of man'
Beitbridge rural police have been accused of covering up for a colleague who stands accused of shooting a minibus staff member in an alleged violent demand for a bribe.Ushe Tasara was shot on ...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:25hrs | 695 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa rattled state security agents'
THE MDC has claimed that State security agents have been rattled by party leader Nelson Chamisa's address on Tuesday and have activated their machinery to silence the opposition countrywide.MD...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:20hrs | 2130 | by Staff reporter
Search for fugitive Defence ministry official intensifies
POLICE have intensified the search for a top Defence ministry official, Danison Muvandi, who is on the run after allegedly swindling government of $306 135 in a cleaning service scam.Prosecuto...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:19hrs | 315 | by Staff reporter
Man in court for stealing bus
A MAN from Njube in Bulawayo has been arrested on charges of stealing a bus parked in Thorngrove after it was involved in an accident four years earlier.The bus, which had Botswana registratio...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:16hrs | 297 | by Staff reporter
Amacimbi harvester strangles leopard, arrested
AN expedition to harvest the much sought after mopani worms (amacimbi) almost turned tragic for a security guard employed at Whitewater High School in Matobo District, Matabeleland South, as he found ...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:13hrs | 798 | by Staff reporter
'Chiwenga using military to settle matrimonial dispute'
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga was on Friday forced to swallow a humble pie after a High Court judge told him that he was not above the law.Justice Dube Banda said what the politician pai...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:11hrs | 516 | by Staff reporter
A dragonfly cannot spit fire and brimstone
Dogs can be deceptively vicious or gentle.This is why it is often not uncommon for dogs that bark the most to be less known for their bite, while conversely, those that are seemingly benign, w...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:10hrs | 100 | by Bishop Lazarus
Twin brothers rape married woman
Mberengwa twin brothers aged 27 years have been arrested for allegedly taking turns to rape a married woman before robbing her of her valuables as punishment for causing the arrest of their relative. ...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:06hrs | 234 | by Staff reporter
Five arrested for illegal possession of pangolins
Five men in Bulawayo and Beitbridge have been arrested after they were found in illegal possession of three pangolins. Two men were arrested in Beitbridge with two pangolins while three ...Published: 25 Jan 2020 at 20:11hrs | 1851 | by Staff Reporter
Man in court for stealing bus
A MAN from Njube in Bulawayo has been arrested on charges of stealing a bus parked in Thorngrove after it was involved in an accident four years earlier.The bus, which had Botswana registratio...Published: 25 Jan 2020 at 19:51hrs | 1519 | by Staff Reporter
Youth are sleeping on duty
It is the right moment for the youth in Zimbabwe to realise that gone are the days when government would proffer a lot of opportunities in a silver plate. Our brothers who had an opportunity to ...Published: 25 Jan 2020 at 19:29hrs | 599 | by Matora Hupile
Harare police raid underground machete suppliers
Police have recovered 31 machetes and arrested seven people suspected to be in the business of making and supplying them to gangs that are terrorising mining areas and towns. This followed a r...Published: 25 Jan 2020 at 13:08hrs | 4231 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe verifies nationalities of SA cop 'murderers'
THE Zimbabwean Embassy in South Africa is verifying the nationalities of four suspects allegedly involved in the killing of a police officer in Johannesburg's Diepsloot area. Detective Captain...Published: 25 Jan 2020 at 07:59hrs | 10385 | by Staff Reporter
MDC Big Guns jockeying for Sikhala's positions
The jostling for Job Sikhala's positions ahead of the blabbermouth's court case scheduled for this Monday in Masvingo, has reached fever pitch with a potential to further crack the deeply divided MDC ...Published: 24 Jan 2020 at 15:50hrs | 9545 | by Staff reporter
Friend mistaken for robber gets beaten to death
A BULAWAYO man has been arrested for allegedly beating up his friend to death in a bushy area near the Plumtree Border Post in the middle of the night after suspecting that he was a robber. Th...Published: 24 Jan 2020 at 01:05hrs | 2155 | by Staff reporter
Truck overturns, one dies, four injured
AN Esigodini man died on the spot while four others were seriously injured after a truck they were travelling in overturned in Mawabeni. Matabeleland South provincial police spokesperson Chief...Published: 24 Jan 2020 at 01:04hrs | 1022 | by Staff reporter
Xenophobic attacks erupt in SA after Zimbabwean man shoots cop dead
XENOPHOBIC attacks have erupted in Diepsloot, South Africa after residents stormed a police station Thursday morning demanding officers to hand over a Zimbabwean man accused of killing a cop last week...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 18:27hrs | 3160 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa rally ignites violence
VIOLENCE broke out between Zanu PF and opposition MDC youths in Mbare yesterday, a day after the opposition leader Nelson Chamisa addressed supporters in the volatile suburb.Three MDC supporte...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:28hrs | 1278 | by Staff reporter
Masendeke brothers nabbed for machete assault, robbery
LATE notorious armed robber Edmund Edgar Masendeke's two siblings have been arrested by the police crack team targeting machete gang leaders after they allegedly assaulted and robbed a motorist of US$...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:27hrs | 1248 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa repossesses Kasukuwere's farm
FORMER Local Government minister and Zanu PF political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere's Mazowe Farm has been repossessed by government with the exiled politician accusing President Emmerson Mnangagwa o...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:26hrs | 950 | by Staff reporter
Top cop in rhino poaching storm
A BULAWAYO senior police officer and two accomplices, one of them a Zambian, have appeared in court for allegedly poaching rhinos at Bubye Valley Conservancy at Mazunga area in Beitbridge. Nhl...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:21hrs | 241 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF wants Killer's case finalised
The Masvingo Zanu PF leadership wants the party's national disciplinary committee to finalise the case of suspended provincial secretary for environment and tourism Killer Zivhu. The provincia...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:17hrs | 287 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: SA Police arrest Zimbabwean who killed senior cop
South African police have arrested a Zimbabwean man suspected to have shot and killed a senior cop in Johannesburg.In a video clip circulating on social media, the man is seen being assaulted ...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 20:55hrs | 12681 | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa 'holed up' at police station as 'Zanu-PF' machete gang bays for his blood
MDC Mbare MP, Starman Chamisa is reported to have sought refuge at Matapi Police Station, in Harare as suspected Zanu-PF youths bayed for his blood, the party claimed Wednesday.According to MD...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 19:42hrs | 4399 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa takes away Kasukuwere's farm
The President Emmerson Mnangagwa government has repossessed a farm in Mashonaland Central belonging to former minister and one of the G40 kingpins, Savior Kasukuwere in what it called a downsi...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 19:39hrs | 6134 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF militia besiege Mbare
Zanu PF youths armed with machetes and logs have gone on the rampage in Mbare indiscriminately attacking residents following MDC President Nelson Chamisa's highly successful address to the Nation deli...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 18:07hrs | 1505 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
ZUJ condemns MDC Alliance for journalist harassment
The Zimbabwe Union of Journalists, ZUJ, has condemned MDC Alliance security officials for harassing journalist Robert Tapfumaneyi at a party event in Harare on Tuesday. Tapfumaneyi...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 09:27hrs | 927 | by Staff Reporter
Teacher flees after students protest
THE Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has thrown its weight behind Njube High School biology teacher, Brian Mutsiba, who has gone into hiding after police in Bulawayo launched a manhunt to...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 07:41hrs | 2833 | by Staff reporter
Top cop 'receives steer' to make case 'disappear'
THE officer-in-charge of crime at Guyu Police Station has been arrested for allegedly receiving a steer to dismiss a case against a man who was facing charges of having sexual intercourse with a young...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:36hrs | 1008 | by Staff reporter
Fake cop rapes prostitute
A MAN who impersonated a police officer has been arrested for allegedly raping a prostitute he had hired for sex at a Bulawayo hotel. Desire Siaponda (30) allegedly hired the services of a pro...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:36hrs | 1113 | by Staff reporter
60 arrested at Gwanda violence hotspot
POLICE in Matabeleland South province have arrested 60 illegal gold panners during a raid at Vova mining site in Gwanda as part of an operation to fight illegal mining activities blamed for violent cr...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:34hrs | 492 | by Staff reporter
Police seal off Mazowe's Jumbo Mine
Police have sealed off Jumbo Mine in Mazowe, a move aimed at restoring sanity to the area which has been invaded by thousands of illegal miners from across the country. The mine has been decla...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:20hrs | 421 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa has failed on human rights'
GLOBAL human rights watchdog, Human Rights Watch (HRW) last week released a damning report, describing Zimbabwe's human rights record as appalling despite President Emmerson Mnangagwa's reform pledges...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:57hrs | 300 | by Staff rpeorter
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