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Man strangles grandmother to death
A 22-year-old man from Kuwadzana 7 has been charged with murder after allegedly strangling his 70-year-old grandmother to death while heavily intoxicated. Nihipalaakar Muyaya appeared before Harare Ma...Published: 31 Dec 2024 at 13:44hrs | 82 | by Staff reporter
Mukwasha Chiwenga in Math-South improvements. Is development holistic?
Whatever development VP Chiwenga is bringing in Matabeleland South, that should never be interpreted as "Mukwasha inzunza". School children especially benefit from good and safe schools, health care f...Published: 04 Oct 2024 at 12:27hrs | 2080 | by Nomazulu Thata
Suspected rapist bashed to death
A 15-year-old boy from Plumtree lost his life following a brutal attack by three individuals who claimed it was punishment for his alleged rape of a teenage girl.The young boy suffered severe ...Published: 27 Oct 2023 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
The tragedy of Zimbabwe
Main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere last week spoke at the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy - a major United Nations conference that shines a sp...Published: 26 May 2023 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Fadzayi Mahere
Mnangagwa is much worse than Mugabe, Mahere tells UN summit
"Half the population lives under extreme poverty, US$2.2 billion is lost to corruption annually and we have the highest hyperinflation rate in the world – all because those in power would rather loo...Published: 18 May 2023 at 05:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Triple C: Puny-wise, Pint Foolish!
Obdurate immaturityIT is not like Nelson Chamisa had not been warned, whether by living men or by past circumstances. Both did; yet he still hurtled headlong towards yet another blunder, which...Published: 11 Dec 2022 at 08:56hrs | 1 | by Jamwanda
Boy (13) fights crocodile
A 13-YEAR-OLD boy from Checheche bravely fought a giant crocodile with bare hands after it had attacked him while he was crossing Save River with his friends recently.Danmore Gwenzi escaped fr...Published: 19 Nov 2022 at 06:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean dad and daughter (5) among victims of petrol station blast
A ZIMBABWEAN dad and his five-year-old daughter were among the 10 people killed by an explosion at a petrol station in County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland.The victims of Friday's disaste...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 19:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Parents threaten to withdraw students from Kutama College
PARENTS with children doing Form One at Kutama College are living in fear for their children's safety as they are alleging that they are being bullied and tortured by school prefects.According...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 05:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Illegal use of mercury in mining sector continues
EFFORTS by Zimbabwe to reduce and where possible eliminate the use of mercury particularly in the mining sector in line with the Minamata Convention continue to be a huge challenge. President ...Published: 19 Nov 2021 at 09:53hrs | 10 | by Staff Reporter
Bulelani's speech on King Mzilikazi Day 2021
Mahlabezulu ,Mthwakazi omuhle, zingane zobaba.Mthwakazi omuhle , namhlanje sihlangane lapha ngosuku olukhulu kakhulu esizweni sethu, ngilethemba elikhulu ukuthi iningi laMahlabezulu lihlangane...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 07:59hrs | 23 | by King Bulelani Lobengula kaMzilikazi
Tyrants are generally cowards who flee when their bullying power is under threat
Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler hid in an underground bunker - where he eventually committed suicide - when Allied forces had surrounded Germany's capital Berlin in 1945.Iraq's iron-fisted tyrant, ...Published: 02 Jul 2021 at 16:09hrs | 3 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Raw sewage flows into Mabvuku, Tafara houses
A HEALTH hazard is looming in Harare's Tafara and Mabvuku high-density surburbs, where residents have had to contend with raw sewage flowing into their homesteads for almost a year as council fails to...Published: 17 Jun 2021 at 06:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Sewer bursts, flows torment Bulawayo residents
SUPPER is the one meal that is supposed to bring families together. It is that meal eaten when, in most cases, most families are now gathered together after a long day at work or school.It is ...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:34hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Woman 'strangles' stepson to death
A Redcliff woman allegedly strangled her six-year-old stepson to death and locked his eight-year-old sister in a bedroom that she tried to set on fire so that she could inherit her husband's house. ...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 06:44hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
The fighting spirit of Honourable Joanne Mamombe deserves honour: Salute my girl-child
After 2 minutes of watching a video in New Zimbabwe news media, Honourable Mamombe was narrating how they got attacked by a snake in the prison cell in the middle of the night, I did not finish watchi...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 18:20hrs | 11 | by Nomazulu Thata
President Magufuli: Letter to Prof. Lumumba of Kenya Cc. Energy Mutodi; Bcc African Presidents
Dear Professor Lumumba, Comrade Energy Mutodi is having his last laugh: he was spot on. He told us the bare truth about the President of Tanzania; the way he is handling the global pandemic wa...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 07:19hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Checkpoints and supermarkets severely exposed to Covid-19
POLICE roadblocks and supermarkets are potential Covid-19 super spreaders as they are failing to adhere to basic safety precautions to contain the deadly novel virus that has ravaged the globe....Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:12hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Lady teacher in trouble for abusing pupil
A HARARE lady teacher is in trouble for allegedly "verbally and physically" tormenting her niece — a pupil at a top government primary school in the capital.The junior school teacher (name s...Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 14:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Aid finally reaches Zimbabwe's 'death' village
Surprised members of a cyclone-hit community in Zimbabwe paused from retrieving and burying their dead to welcome the first humanitarian aid from the outside world as it arrived nearly two weeks after...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 20:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa flies 3rd private jet inside a week
President Emmerson Mnangagwa risked fresh public wrath on Monday after hiring a luxury jet from the United Arab Emirates – his third inside a week – to fly him to South Africa.The Airbus A...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 15:55hrs | 2 | by ZimLive
Zimbabwean family robbed by Mnangagwa's govt
Before the family of Kelvin Tinashe Choto knew he had been killed last week, social media in the country was circulating a photo of his battered body lying on the reception counter of a local police s...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 08:46hrs | | by AFP
Gory tales of beatings, torture, anguish and military brutality
At the foot of a mountain lies a plot reportedly owned by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in Kuwadzana Phase 3. The mountain has come to be called by the locals as "Gomo raMnangagwa" loosely translated t...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mphoko's arrest takes new twist
Former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko's son Siqokoqela is arrested over the alleged refusal of renewing permits for Indian workers at Choppies and not flouting any bail conditions, it has been reve...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 08:24hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Lobengula did not disappear
INFORMATION diffused widely in this country after the extermination of the Allan Wilson Patrol by the heroic rear guard of King Lobengula under the command of Mtshana Khumalo was that the last Ndebele...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 07:11hrs | 4 | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Savage beating: woman in viral video speaks
THE young lady whose video went viral on social media a fortnight ago while she was being attacked with sticks and open hands by a fellow villager, has spoken out for the first time over what transpir...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Assaulted woman in viral video speaks
THE young lady whose video went viral on social media a fortnight ago while she was being attacked with sticks and open hands by a fellow villager, has spoken out for the first time over what transpir...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:00hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
MDC Alliance official warn Mangagwa to stop threatening citizens
MDC Alliance official Chalton Hwende has warned Zanu PF secretary for legal affairs Paul Mangwana to stop threatening g citizens by claiming that the Zanu PF system is lethal and no one can fight agai...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 09:29hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Woman assaults step daughter
A Harare woman allegedly assaulted her six-year-old step daughter over a soiled undergarment.Fraurine Radoka, 21, appeared before the Harare magistrate Milton Serima and she was not asked to p...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 15:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance breaking election rules
A top opposition party official has just equated rival party members to cockroaches that must be crushed and exterminated. The party's leader and presidential candidate has openly declared that he wil...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 06:59hrs | 1 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Cowdray Park residents rely on sewage water for survival
A significant number of residents in Cowdray Park, one of Bulawayo's largest high-density suburbs, depend on flowing sewage water from burst pipes to make their small-scale farming endeavours a realit...Published: 06 May 2018 at 10:11hrs | 2 | by Kennedy Nyavaya
Man fights crocodile with bare hands
February 2, 2018, will forever be ingrained in the mind of Takawira Marume (55) from Mudetsa Village under headman Murwira in Buhera.It's a day that he will never forget.The day starte...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 05:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cholera jibe angers Chegutu Muslims
The Chegutu cholera treatment centre has been closed, but the local Muslim community is insisting on an apology from the government after accusations they were to blame for the outbreak.The go...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 09:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fundamental difference between a German domestic worker and a Zimbabwean domestic worker
It is not so much the labour rights: it is the minimum wages and human rights that the German Domestic servants enjoy in this great country to unlimited proportions. When I was a student in 1985 at th...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Tsvangirai's father-in law finally speaks out
Before she married the former Prime Minister, she had acquired a number of properties including one in Borrowdale and her businesses were doing quite well.I am saddened in burying my son-in-la...Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 09:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Employee loses teeth in bonus dispute bashing
A BULAWAYO man will live to count his losses, or rather his teeth, after an alleged bashing by his boss for asking for an overdue bonus.For allegedly asking that he be paid $285 in outstanding...Published: 15 Dec 2017 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Professor fends off massive python with bare hands
Watch: Massive 12-foot python captured from Allahabad college https://t.co/m65pCcV8nm ...Published: 08 Dec 2017 at 15:56hrs | 1 | by Staff Repoter
Man kills 7-year-old for phone charger
A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD boy from Fort Rixon was allegedly strangled to death by a man who sneaked into his bedroom in the middle of the night after he had earlier during the day refused to give him a cellpho...Published: 17 Nov 2017 at 05:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa was Mugabe's hatchet man
Emmerson Mnangagwa has been sacked as vice-president because he was “disloyal" to President Robert Mugabe. Of all Mugabe's thugs, henchmen, cronies and sycophants, no one has been more doggedly and ...Published: 13 Nov 2017 at 08:07hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Tenant bashed for knocking on toilet door
A 24-YEAR-OLD man from Zvishavane has been fined $100 and ordered to perform community service after he assaulted a fellow tenant who continued to knock on the toilet door as he relieved himself....Published: 11 Nov 2017 at 07:49hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe fires Mnangagwa for 'disloyalty' - how ironic, after 37 years of doing tyrant's dirtiest laundry
Emmerson Mnangagwa has been sacked as VP because he was "disloyal" to Mugabe. Of all the tyrant's thugs, henchmen, cronies and sycophants no one has been more doggedly and foolishly loyal to Mugabe th...Published: 07 Nov 2017 at 07:06hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mum hacksaws daughter's throat, hangs
A 31-YEAR-OLD woman from Bulilima allegedly slit the throat of her five-year-old daughter with two knives and a hacksaw before hanging herself from the roof of her hut due to undisclosed differences w...Published: 07 Nov 2017 at 05:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
British policy towards Zimbabwe during Gukurahundi massacre: licence to kill
In January 1983 Robert Mugabe's government launched a massive security clampdown in Matabeleland. It was led by a North Korean-trained, almost exclusively chiShona-speaking army unit known as the Fift...Published: 18 Sep 2017 at 18:35hrs | | by Hazel Cameron, University of St Andrews
Dad beats year-old daughter to death
A 27-YEAR-OLD man allegedly bludgeoned his one- year-old daughter to death with a hammer and left his wife and mother-in-law seriously injured after attacking them with the same weapon.Lungisa...Published: 16 Aug 2017 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Cheating' cleric demands CCTV footage
A United Methodist Church reverend accused of attempted murder after driving into his girlfriend's husband has requested CCTV footage from IDBZ Bank along Raleigh Street.Elliot Chikwenjere, th...Published: 24 Jul 2017 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man throws faeces at, beats up landlord
A BULAWAYO man allegedly relieved himself at a gate of another man's house before spattering the owner of the property with faeces for ordering him to remove his excrement, a court heard....Published: 16 May 2017 at 06:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man 'rapes, axes' niece multiple times
A-22-YEAR- old man from Filabusi, Insiza District in Matabeleland South is on the run after he allegedly raped and murdered his five year old niece, police have confirmed.Family members discov...Published: 11 May 2017 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dead boy’s mum demands retribution
Little Ditiro Jerry’s brave battle for life ended early last Wednesday morning The 12-year-old had been kept alive by a breathing machine for the last eight months after sustaining critical injuries...Published: 02 Apr 2017 at 11:18hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu PF youth loot goods at vending stalls
Zanu PF youths recently reportedly looted goods and threatened to take over a vending stall owned by one Moven Chikami at Gazaland Shopping Center in Highfields West Harare. Chikami, an ...Published: 16 Dec 2016 at 15:10hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Our Zimbabwe Government should reward people like these
It is disheartening to note with great sadness that in our country we have individuals who have perfomed acts of bravery but they potential has been left unnoticed.The only recognition they got was th...Published: 26 Nov 2016 at 17:23hrs | 1 | by Charlie Vitalis Chaminuka
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