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Police brutality victim's family demands 'supernatural' justice
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has been accused of covering up its officers' attack on a handcuffed suspect, who later died in holding cells at Banket Police Station, last month.The now de...Published: 14 Nov 2023 at 05:07hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police brutality exposed
Three members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) special constabulary details are facing severe criticism for allegedly beating a suspect to death inside the holding cells at Banket Police Station....Published: 24 Oct 2023 at 06:09hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Harare mayor stabbed
Former City of Harare acting mayor, Sekesai Makwavarara, was injured in a robbery attack on her Raffingora farm in Mashonaland West province. Three other individuals were also injured in the attack....Published: 06 Oct 2023 at 06:45hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Violent clashes at Zanu-PF meeting
Zanu-PF officials came close to trading blows at a recent restructuring exercise in Banket after the youth leader charged at the district chairman, who is also a local councillor as factional fights i...Published: 28 Aug 2021 at 21:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
10 horror crash victims named
Police have named 10 people who were killed when a Chinhoyi-bound Nissan Caravan and a haulage truck collided head-on at Mapinga along the Harare-Chirundu Highway on Tuesday night. One of the ...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: 10 die in Harare-Chirundu road accident
AT Least 10 people died last night while several others were injured when a Chinhoyi-bound Nissan Caravan commuter omnibus burst a tyre and veered off the road at Mapinga, Great Dyke Pass along the Ha...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 13:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa donates
Zanu-PF Zvimba South candidate Philip Chiyangwa has sourced medical equipment and other supplies for hospitals and health centres in the constituency. The equipment includes blood pressure and blood s...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Nothing amiss about dead voters'
THE Registrar-General's department says there is nothing amiss in finding "dead voters" on the voters roll as the department was seized with many such cases.Reacting to a story in which a Chin...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 20:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'freebies' spark riots
SCORES of Banket residents were injured in running battles with police last week after they demonstrated and threatened to beat up top Zanu-PF and Grain Marketing Board officials over the alleged part...Published: 12 Feb 2018 at 05:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Accident victims named
Death is a thief, but rarely does it wipe out a whole family as it did the Usaiwataka family in a road accident along the Harare-Chirundu Road on Sunday afternoon. Lost dreams, lost potential ...Published: 11 Feb 2014 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man hangs self to death on a tree branch using his belt
A 43-year-old psychiatric patient took his own life by hanging from a tree branch using his belt on Monday.Mashonaland West police spokesperson Inspector Clemence Mabgweazara yesterday confir...Published: 05 Apr 2013 at 04:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man (26) axes wife's 'lover'
A 56-year-old man from Mutorashanga is lucky to be alive after being struck with an axe on the head for allegedly having an affair with a married woman.Oliver Gwenda of Landfall farm in...Published: 21 Mar 2013 at 23:11hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Pregnant Woman Dies After Falling From Hospital Bed
A pregnant Banket woman and her unborn baby died after the mother fell off a hospital bed.Joina Randazha Jenami of Dalkieth Farm in Banket died of serious head inj...Published: 22 Feb 2011 at 10:57hrs | 2 | by Byo24News
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