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Dog eats newborn baby in Kwekwe
Residents of Mbizo 19 in Kwekwe are reeling in shock after a gruesome discovery this week involving a stray dog feeding on the remains of a new-born baby near a local church construction site....Published: 11 Jun 2025 at 09:09hrs | 494 | by Staff reporter
Mother of four kills her newborn
A 32-YEAR-OLD Shamva woman is in soup after she allegedly killed her newborn baby and threw her in a Blair toilet.Zvanyadza Zikalomo who was already a mother of three pleaded guilty to the cha...Published: 27 Jul 2024 at 09:39hrs | 1663 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Manhunt for baby dumper
Police in Gweru have launched a manhunt for a woman who dumped her newly born baby at Bata New Stands.On twitter, Police confirmed the incident which occurred on 18 June, 2023."Police ...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police Arrest Woman for Abandoning Newborn Baby
A 24-year-old woman was arrested on Tuesday after she allegedly abandoned her newborn baby in an abandoned homestead.The woman, who has...Published: 14 May 2023 at 18:23hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Woman (42) Nabbed For Infanticide
Police in Mashonaland Central province have arrested Mejury Munyanyi (42) after she allegedly threw her baby into a blair toilet pit.Mashonaland Central police spokesperson Inspector Milton Mu...Published: 03 Mar 2023 at 17:19hrs | 11 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mother dumps newborn in neighbour's toilet
A 28-year-old woman from Mukumbura was arrested last week after she allegedly concealed a birth and dumped the baby into a toilet pit.Mashonaland Central police spokesperson Inspector Milton M...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 08:54hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Man kills daughter after dispute with ex-wife
A HOMEDALE Farm resident has been accused of killing his 11-year-old daughter over an undisclosed matter.In a statement in its Twitter page, police said: "The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 05:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo police rescue 2 abandoned babies amid 'baby-dumping' spike
Police in Bulawayo rescued two babies found dumped at two locations in the city.Police said both tots, thought to be just two weeks old, have been hospitalised.In the first incident on...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 19:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Suicidal woman dumps baby and sets house on fire
POLICE in Mashonaland Central have arrested a 22-year-old Bindura woman who attempted to kill herself by setting her bedroom hut ablaze after dumping her 1 year 1-month-old baby in a mining pit....Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 12:32hrs | 5 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Maid dumps newly born baby in a field
POLICE in Mazowe are looking for Chipo Katena who killed her newly born baby and dumped him in a maize field last week.The body of the ...Published: 26 Mar 2022 at 20:18hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Dog eats new born baby
Body of a newly born baby was seen being eaten by a dog in Shamva, Mashonaland Central province last week.Following a tip off the polic...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 07:47hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Dead baby found in sewer drainage
RESIDENTS of Glendale in Mashonaland Central province were shell-shocked on Friday after they discovered a dead baby's body in a drainage sewer syst...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 13:12hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
If Zanu is not for Mugabe, Sithole, Nkala, Mujuru or Gumbo, then how can it be yours?
Anyone who thinks is a Zanu Member, is a proper fool who will never Learn. Foolishness is the Quality to be Unable to Learn, and unfortunately, in Zimbabwe, we have a surplus of that Quality.D...Published: 18 May 2019 at 18:24hrs | | by Multiverse Dungani
How 'baby-dumping' Joice Mujuru played out
The first quarter of 2014 revealed that the main opposition party, the MDC-T, was in a similar state of disarray.It first came to the surface when MDC-T deputy treasurer and former cabinet min...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 09:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Which devolution Mthuli Ncube?
On the back of another, rather surprising, albeit welcome political somersault that has seen President Emmerson Mnangagwa embrace devolution, a hitherto Zanu-PF taboo, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube an...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 07:09hrs | 1 | by Zifiso Masiye
Baby dumping at Cowdray Park dumpsite
A BULAWAYO City Council worker on Monday stumbled upon a suspected six-month foetus which was wrapped in a plastic bag at a dumpsite near Mkhithika Primary in Cowdray Park.Bulawayo police spok...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 09:56hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
The multi-pronged dilemma of abortion
A CROWD gathers around the dumpster and many are busy taking videos of the lifeless body of a new born baby.The horrible sight is made worse by the garbage and filth that surrounds the tiny pi...Published: 07 Jul 2018 at 09:18hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
'Zanu PF too fractured to win 2018,' Mandaza predicted - yet another feeble excuse for ignoring reforms
"The party of liberation (Zanu PF) lost its mass base in the 90s and it has never been able to recover it and will not recover it. It's a fair conclusion to make, that the party of liberation which is...Published: 18 May 2018 at 22:05hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Woman throws baby in blair toilet after dispute with hubby
A Muzarabani woman reportedly tried to kill her 6-weeks-old baby on Wednesday by dumping the infant in a blair toilet leaving the whole village shell-shocked.Investigations by Bulawayo24.com p...Published: 17 Mar 2018 at 12:33hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
'I forgave Mugabe (for baby dumping), he was tricked,' says Mujuru - only a simpleton believes in hogwash
"He (Mugabe) called me and I obliged. He was telling me what happened (her being "baby dumped" out of Zanu PF in 2014, as Grace Mugabe put is so crudely) was wrong, he was misinformed," said Mujuru in...Published: 03 Feb 2018 at 07:20hrs | 2 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa's coup hero status is washing off fast, by elections time the vote rigging thug is back
I remember the scenes in the Streets of Harare on Saturday 18 November 2017 as if it was only yesterday. It you were a soldier wearing ZDF uniform you were a hero per excellence! The nation and the wo...Published: 30 Jan 2018 at 07:29hrs | 2 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Dr Mandaza, 'a SADC shadow ZEC' will not stop coup Zanu PF rig elections - just implement the reforms
One of the reasons Zimbabwe is this political and economic mess is because we do not like dealing with our unpleasant and tough problems decisively, even when we get the golden opportunity to do so. W...Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa's wife urges unity, hard work
First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has challenged Zimbabweans to work hard in unity if Zimbabwe is to accrue benefits from the new political dispensation prevailing in the country.Addressing hundre...Published: 09 Jan 2018 at 06:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'2018 should be year for free elections,' says Mnangagwa - forget should, it is will and must
Zanu PF is a party of thugs, there is no question about that. Nothing showed the party for what it really is - a party of thugs - than the dog-eat-dog factional fighting that started in earnest with t...Published: 01 Jan 2018 at 15:14hrs | 2 | by Nomusa Garikai
Makarau resigning from ZEC - another one resigning in her prime, Mugabe opened flood gate
Whilst many people have, until last month's military coup, happily displayed photographs of themselves with then President Mugabe; it was a great honour to say they knew the man. The photographs disap...Published: 08 Dec 2017 at 22:58hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Body of newborn burned with garbage
A Chitungwiza resident reportedly discovered a body of a newborn baby dumped in garbage on Thursday.The resident discovered the body while burning the garbage.Residents of Zengesa 4, N...Published: 10 Sep 2017 at 11:29hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
In trying to 'baby dump' Mnangagwa, Grace will be crushed like a bug, she is
Grace Mugabe tells VP Mnangagwa he is only an appointee serving at Mugabe's pleasure and therefore can be fired at the drop of a hat. She too is any appointee but one Mugabe cannot easily fire....Published: 30 Jul 2017 at 20:39hrs | 3 | by Wilbert Mukori
Woman jailed for baby dumping
A 21-year-old Mangwe woman will spend the next two months in prison after she gave birth to a still born baby and dumped the body in a neighbour's field.Gracious Ncube of Nxele area was convic...Published: 04 May 2017 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Two months old baby dumped in river
In an incident that has left Guruve residents shell shocked in Mash Central police identified a two months baby dumped in a river on Saturday.Sources close to investigations allege that a baby...Published: 27 Mar 2017 at 16:07hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
SADC must 'take over' ZEC, says Bhasikiti - so naive, he was Mugabe Minister once
The relative ease with which President Robert Mugabe managed to boot out former VP Joice Mujuru and 150 other Zanu PF bigwigs out of the party shocked many observers. There is no doubt that they were ...Published: 27 Mar 2017 at 08:55hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Mutambara resigned over 'breach of sacred democratic values - dismissal of Mujuru: how insulting
Some people never learn; especially the hypocrites who are renowned for their every selective view of life, they see only what they want to see and filters out the rest. If you do not learn from the p...Published: 14 Feb 2017 at 22:46hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Baby dumper deported to Zambia
A ZAMBIAN woman who dumped her minor twins at the Victoria Falls Border Post has been deported back to her country after being sentenced to a wholly suspended six months in jail.Constance Sili...Published: 16 Jun 2016 at 07:15hrs | | by Fungai Lupande
Newborn baby dumped at Galen House
A WOMAN dumped her newborn baby at a hospital in Bulawayo yesterday afternoon and was arrested hours later when she returned looking for the tot. The woman, identified as Lydia Ndiweni, allegedly gave...Published: 23 Apr 2016 at 12:46hrs | 1 | by Tanaka Mrewa
Team Lacoste live to die another day?
As the race to succeed the 92 year old president, Robert Mugabe is fast reaching boiling point and fouler, Zimbabweans are yet to witness more heads rolling in the troubled Zanu-PF, since the dice has...Published: 26 Feb 2016 at 16:17hrs | 3 | by Godwin Mpakairi Tshetu
Mugabe, master of intrigue, has fooled all the people for 36 year has now lost his touch
Mugabe has returned his top-dog position as Zanu PF leader for over 40 years and he has kept Zanu PF, by hook and by crook, in power for all the 36 years since independence because he is the grand mas...Published: 15 Feb 2016 at 08:17hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Professor Moyo, granddad of intrigue, accuse Charamba of plotting and 'unprecedented attack'
A hypocrite, according to the dictionary I have, is " 1. a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, especially a per...Published: 02 Feb 2016 at 14:41hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mugabe calls truce to carefully orchestrated factional war that has Mnangagwa shaken and stirred in equal measure
Zanu-PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo reminds the warring party factions that President Mugabe is the party's 2018 Presidential candidate and threatens those plotting to succeed him with "disciplinary...Published: 01 Feb 2016 at 20:59hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mugabe plans to fire Chiwenga - will be shocked one has to pay for fuel but a lot worse will follow!
According to the Zimbabwe Independent, Mugabe could soon remove Chiwenga as ZDF commander anytime between the ...Published: 18 Dec 2015 at 18:42hrs | 19 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Pasi nemvongamvonga!' calls Mugabe sanctimoniously waving olive brunch but with a concealed dagga
Mugabe has become the master of the art of "Do as I say and do not dare to do as I do!" and he showed this once again when he spoke to the members of the party's Central Committee on the eve of the pa...Published: 10 Dec 2015 at 17:44hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Last year Oppah helped Grace 'baby dump' Mujuru she got a tearful reward!
President Mugabe is not the only one who is being bullied around by his wife Grace, she has all the bigwigs in Zanu PF on the cosh! Look at the large of senior party leaders have been attending her me...Published: 01 Dec 2015 at 20:49hrs | 3 | by Wilbert Mukori
Grace's 'Mafirakureva' Dr Jekyll mask is off, the desperate to be president Mr Hyde is on
Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace have Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of (the benevolent national liberation hero and the caring mother to the nation) Dr Jekyll (by day roles) and (the corrupt, ...Published: 20 Nov 2015 at 19:23hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Grace Mugabe rally - Live update
13:25 She has donated rice and maize to residents. First Lady's first born son, Russel also bought 3000 KGs of salt, sugar and bathing soap as well as cooking oil for Ambuya Hwiza.13:20 Mb...Published: 19 Nov 2015 at 14:34hrs | 1 | by Simiso Mlevu and Felex Share
Mujuru is a 'strategic thinker' says Kudzai Mbudzi - wishful thinking not factual reality!
Kudzai Mbudzi's interview ('Mujuru expulsion marks Zanu-PF's demise') had all the hallmarks of someone who has thought a great deal on the subject matter; it is concise and intelligent. Not the usual ...Published: 17 Nov 2015 at 17:01hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
Regime change is coming, hope it is peaceful but are helpless to ensure it is
Until a year ago, Zimbabwe was a one-party state dominated by one man - Robert Gabriel Mugabe. Last year Mugabe surprised everyone but much more so Mai Mujuru and over 150 senior party members behind ...Published: 13 Nov 2015 at 21:50hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Grace can wish to be president but can she stop the Tsunami wave demanding regime change!
Some people are saying Grace Mugabe is set to replace her husband as president; they could not be more wrong. Before she can take over the presidency Grace has two mountains to climb. First, she must ...Published: 11 Nov 2015 at 20:06hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Community service for baby dumping
A 15-YEAR-OLD girl has been sentenced to perform 420 hours of community service for dumping her one year seven months old baby in a bush.The girl, who cannot be named as she is a minor, appear...Published: 07 Nov 2015 at 07:32hrs | | by Melody Baya
G40 to 'boot out' Mnangagwa predicts Ncube - but to what end and purpose given Zanu PF is imploding
"A political analyst Obert Mundevere Ncube has said the possibilities are high that vice President Emmerson Mnagagwa will be soon booted out of the ruling Zanu PF and government like what happened to ...Published: 03 Nov 2015 at 15:37hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
Baby dumped in MSU sewage pond
IN a suspected act of infanticide, a newborn baby was found dead, dumped in a sewage pond at Midlands State University (MSU) main campus, police have confirmed.Midlands Police spokesperson Ins...Published: 11 Oct 2015 at 16:40hrs | 1 | by Munyaradzi Musiiwa
Mugabe created factionalism, now wife is losing rat-race he threatens the media
Charamba can deny there is no serious infighting going on in Zanu PF the truth is there is."He works so well with his two Vice Presidents and the two Vice Presidents work so well with each oth...Published: 11 Oct 2015 at 15:53hrs | 3 | by Wilbert Mukori
Grace Mugabe mudded waters to ouster Mujuru but with Mnangagwa, she is dicing with crocodile!
Grace Mugabe has developed her own devilish way of attacking and dispatching her political rivals; first she accuses them of plotting to unseat her husband by starting and fanning the factionalism and...Published: 09 Oct 2015 at 15:01hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
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