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Man stabs wife's buttocks
Police have arrested an abusive Bulawayo who struck his wife with a brick and stabbed her on the buttocks with an empty beer bottle in a dispute over alleged infidelity. The man, Zibusiso Mthe...Published: 11 hrs ago | 2161 | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa's 11 supporters remanded in custody
Eleven suspected Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) supporters who were arrested on Saturday for allegedly assaulting a police officer were today remanded in custody to tomorrow for bail rulin...Published: 11 hrs ago | 367 | by Staff reporter
Zimra officials arrested in vehicle importation scandal
Two Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officials stationed at the Beitbridge border post have been arrested for importing luxury vehicles into Zimbabwe and declaring them as grapes to evade paying the...Published: 12 hrs ago | 1018 | by Staff Reporter
Police question Chibwe over anti-riot helmets
POLICE yesterday questioned Mitchel Chibwe in connection with the Zimbabwe Republic Police anti-riot and city council helmets which were recovered in the basement of Robinson House on Saturday night....Published: 20 hrs ago | 2136 | by Staff reporter
HIV+ man rapes 9-year-old girl
A 25-YEAR-OLD Marange man has been arrested for raping and infecting a-nine-year-old juvenile with HIV.The accused appeared before Mutare magistrate Prisca Munhibi on Saturday and was remanded...Published: 23 hrs ago | 581 | by Staff reporter
Councils must consider housing provision as core business
SEVEN desperate homeseekers were recently arrested in Marondera after they invaded a farm belonging to the town's municipality. Led by their co-operative leaders, the residents immediately parcelled o...Published: 23 hrs ago | 83 | by Staff reporter
All bark, no bite: The case of Zacc
THE November 2017 coup brought new dreams and hopes among the citizens, many who believed the new regime would knock corruption off very high perch. However, after ad infinitum calls against the corru...Published: 23 hrs ago | 202 | by Cliff Chiduku
Chamisa's staff forced to abandon offices as anti-riot police besiege party HQ
TERRIFIED MDC staff was Monday forced to abandon its offices while others failed to report for work completely when dozens of anti-riot police besieged the main opposition's national headquarters in c...Published: 23 hrs ago | 236 | by newzimbabwe
Murder suspect arrested in prison
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested a murder suspect on their wanted persons list moments before his release from prison for another crime after discovering that he had been in jail while they searched f...Published: 23 hrs ago | 482 | by Staff reporter
ZHRO 9 October 2019 Planned Peaceful, Vigil Protest hindered by another protest
The ZHRO (Zimbabwe Human Rights Organisation) planned weekly peaceful vigil protest at 429, The Strand London, was held on Wednesday 9th October 2019. It was a sombre and worrying day for all.&n...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 17:41hrs | 157 | by ZHRO Team
Police takeover MDC head office
MDC Secretary General Charlton Hwende has reported that the Morgan Tsvangirai House has been sealed by police officers who have blocked the officials from accessing it. The move by the police ...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 10:49hrs | 1777 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Police recover anti-riot gear near Harvest House
POLICE yesterday recovered 210 anti-riot and 46 council police helmets which were hidden in a basement of Robinson House at the corner of Kwame Nkrumah Avenue and Angwa Street in Harare on Saturday. A...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 07:40hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
Ex-police inspector vanishes as $7 400 goes missing
A FORMER police inspector who allegedly defrauded the police service of $7 400 has gone into hiding. Vusimuzi Ncube (55) is said to have committed the offence while he was based at the Police ...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 07:37hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Anti-riot gear found near Harvest House
Police recovered 210 anti-riot and 46 municipal police helmets stashed in the basement of Robinson House at the corner of Kwame Nkrumah Avenue and Angwa Street in Harare on Saturday. Also recovered we...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 07:36hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
11 cops arrested in botched extortion bid
ELEVEN constables from different police stations, were last week arrested in Borrowdale while trying to extort money from a businessman they accused of illegally dealing in foreign currency and gold. ...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 07:34hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa name dragged into extortion scandal
ZANU-PF'S Matebeleland South youth league chairperson Washington Nkomo has been fingered in a US$12 000 extortion scam involving a Shangani miner using President Emmerson Mnangagwa's name. The scam ha...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 08:17hrs | 1626 | by Staff reporter
How Nhari, Badza rebels were 'crushed'
Last week, freedom fighter Parker Chipoyera told Levi Mukarati of an uprising famously called the Nhari-Badza rebellion during the liberation struggle. The revolt, according to Parker, s...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 07:54hrs | 480 | by Staff reporter
Man arrested for 'raping' granny
A 20-YEAR-OLD man from Nkayi has been arrested for allegedly raping an 80-year-old woman after hitting her with an iron bar.He also attempted to steal money from her.The man, whose nam...Published: 12 Oct 2019 at 20:45hrs | 1486 | by Staff reporter
Man 'insults' Mnangagwa, acquitted
BINDURA magistrate Langton Ndokera has acquitted a local resident, Saymore Mashorokoto, who was on trial for blaming President Emmerson Mnangagwa for the country's deteriorating political and economic...Published: 12 Oct 2019 at 11:33hrs | 965 | by Staff reporter
Thief stuns court, disowns accomplices
A MAN who admitted to being part of a gang of thieves who allegedly broke into several houses in Bulawayo and stole household goods worth nearly $120 000, yesterday stunned a packed courtroom when he ...Published: 12 Oct 2019 at 11:31hrs | 757 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere, Hodzi fight over seized property
PROSECUTOR-GENERAL (PG) Kumbirai Hodzi has petitioned the High Court on an urgent basis seeking an order to bar self-exiled former Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere from accessing title deeds for hi...Published: 12 Oct 2019 at 11:29hrs | 1853 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa has dismally failed' man acquitted
A man charged with disorderly conduct for saying President Emmerson Mnangagwa has failed to revive Zimbabwe's economic fortunes was acquitted on Thursday, his lawyers said.Saymore Mashorokoto,...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 20:01hrs | 2909 | by ZimLive
Gold panners vanish with AK47
A RANGER with the Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority lost his AK47 with 15 rounds of ammunition to illegal gold panners in Chimanimani under as yet unclear circumstances on Tues...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 12:34hrs | 1164 | by Staff reporter
Zacc tables $100m budget for 2020
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) yesterday suggested that a $100 million budget for 2020 would suffice for the anti-graft body, which is also seeking to be allowed to retain a percentage...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 07:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo nurse 'rapist' goes to High Court for bail
ONE of the two suspects who allegedly took turns to rape a Bulawayo nurse at knife point after raiding her Cowdray Park home before robbing her of $87 and valuables worth more than $3 670, has approac...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 07:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-student attempts to kill teacher in revenge fight
A 48-YEAR-OLD Chivhu teacher is currently admitted at a Harare hospital after he was struck on the head with an iron bar by a former student on a mission to avenge the beatings he got during his schoo...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 07:39hrs | 962 | by Staff reporter
Sangoma charged with raping 2 women who blacked out from 'traditional concoction'
A traditional healer has been arrested after being accused of raping two women who had passed out after drinking a traditional concoction during a "cleansing ceremony", KwaZulu-Natal police said yeste...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Goat thief caught red-handed
A MUTARE man was last week caught dressed in underwear and vest in a goat pen at a plot in Mutare.Lovemore Chiputu (28) on Tuesday appeared before Mutare magistrate Prisca Manhibi facing a cha...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cop 'stabbed' 7 times
THREE men have been arrested for allegedly stabbing a police officer seven times all over the body with an okapi knife before robbing him of his wallet and a cellphone.Mthabisi Sibanda (33), P...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 07:36hrs | 785 | by Staff reporter
Man 'kidnaps lover's baby' (2), dumps her at uncle's home
A MAN from Bulawayo's Mpopoma suburb has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping his ‘lover's' two-year-old baby and disappearing with her for almost two days.Norman Chingombe (25) allegedly ...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Nurse training agent' nabbed
POLICE have re-arrested a woman believed to be the leader of a racket that recently swindled over $60 000 from 43 people desperate to train as nurses after promising them placements at Masvingo Provin...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 07:31hrs | 259 | by Staff reporter
Subversion suspects back in court
Members of shadowy anti-Government organisations who allegedly received training in Maldives with the intention to roll out violent demonstrations in the country and subvert a constitutionally-elected...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kariba youths face the Magistrate over causing noise to elephants
Wednesday the 9th of October at exactly 10:37am, three youngsters from Mahombekombe's ward 6 stood before Kariba magistrate, Mr Toendepi Zhou for allegedly causing noise to a herd of elephants which r...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 22:37hrs | 75 | by Dumisani Mawere Patsaka-Nyaminyami Community Radio Correspondent
Drama at Phelekezela Mphoko's court hearing
There was drama at the Harare Magistrates Courts on Thursday when the prosecutors involved in the criminal abuse of office case against the former Vice President Report Phelekezela Mphoko failed to tu...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 17:04hrs | 3341 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Drama at Phelekezela Mphoko's court hearing
There was drama at the Harare Magistrates Courts on Thursday when the prosecutors involved in the criminal abuse of office case against the former Vice President Report Phelekezela Mphoko failed to tu...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 17:04hrs | 3465 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Uncle turns niece into sex slave
A MAN from Matobo district in Matabeleland South province, has been arrested and appeared in court on allegations of turning his 13-year-old niece into a sex slave, and reportedly pimping her out to s...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 16:06hrs | 1293 | by Agencies
Politics dogs anti-graft body Zacc
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is facing an uphill task as it battles to break deeply entrenched corruption cartels in government, which are allegedly using their vast networks in the ...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Minister fingered in machete wars
STATE Security minister Owen Ncube has been implicated in the often violent Mazowe illegal mining activities that have seen youth gangs popularly known as MaShurugwi, engaged in machete wars over gold...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
I was in love, rapist tells court
A 24-year-old man from Victoria Falls who was arrested for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl after the juvenile's father caught the two in bed, has told the court that he was in a love relationship ...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prisca Mupfumira told to resign from Senate
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has urged former Minister of Tourism Senator Prisca Mupfumira to resign from her senatorial position due to the alleged mounting cases against her. Sai...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 07:38hrs | 1694 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Conman dupes 510 of US$2m
POLICE in Harare have arrested a suspected conman for allegedly swindling 510 people of more than US$2 million in a fake financial investment scam. National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner ...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimra officer on the run
POLICE have launched a manhunt for a Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officer Sekelwe Maphosa who is part of a gang that defrauded the authority of millions of dollars in a fraudulent vehicle cleara...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 07:30hrs | 1257 | by Staff reporter
Another ZIMRA official arrested for fraud
POLICE have arrested one of two Zimra officials who were on the run after being fingered in a fraud case involving a syndicate that allegedly smuggled vehicles worth millions of dollars into the count...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Car robbers jailed 30 years each
Two Zvishavane men, who had been terrorising motorists in and outside Harare, mainly targeting taxi drivers, were last week sentenced to 30 years in prison each after being convicted on three counts o...Published: 08 Oct 2019 at 14:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCTV sells out thieving security guards
CCTV footage sold out two security guards after they allegedly stole rice worth $346 508,84 while on duty at Mega Market warehouse in Mutare.Fred Kusereka (39) and Tendai Matsiya (31), who are...Published: 08 Oct 2019 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance members placed off remand
SEVEN MDC Alliance members, among them the party chairperson Thabitha Khumalo and Senator Helen Zivira Mpofu who were recently arrested in Bulawayo for allegedly distributing fliers for a planned demo...Published: 08 Oct 2019 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers 'get away with over $17K USD'
EIGHT armed robbers allegedly raided a family in Bulawayo's Kumalo suburb and got away with more than US$17 000 among other valuables using their victim's car which they later abandoned. The i...Published: 07 Oct 2019 at 06:54hrs | 2281 | by Staff Reporter
Police intensify stop, search operations
BULAWAYO police have intensified stop and search patrols in the central business district (CBD) and in the residential areas following a surge in violent robberies, but went too far yesterday....Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 17:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsholotsho acting CEO arrested on graft charges
TSHOLOTSHO Rural District Council acting chief executive officer Nkululeko Sibanda has been arrested on allegations of fraud involving more than US$4,1 million.Sibanda is alleged to have preju...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 17:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Syndicate steals from the dead
SON to the late Zimbabwe wrestling legend Big Mike Tshuma, David Tshuma was last week arrested after he allegedly tried to sell a house that did not belong to him.Tshuma (35) was arrested with...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 17:02hrs | 478 | by Staff reporter
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