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Mnangagwa-linked gold mine fined over pollution
ZIMCN Investments, a company reportedly linked to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's son, Collins, has been fined for violating environmental regulations at its gold mining operation in Mashonaland East. ...Published: 14 hrs ago | 315 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's Ganyiwa, Bhila face expulsion
Gutu East Member of Parliament (MP) Benjamin Ganyiwa is facing significant trouble within his party, Zanu-PF, which has begun the process of preparing for a by-election in the constituency. Last week,...Published: 19 hrs ago | 1048 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean nurse in Nottinghamshire struck off after rape conviction
A Nottinghamshire nurse has been permanently struck off the medical register after being convicted of raping a junior colleague and persuading a co-worker to provide a false alibi. Edmore Manjengwa, 5...Published: 19 hrs ago | 1004 | by Staff reporter
Man fined for assaulting wife with cooking stick
A 35-year-old man from Dinson Mine in Hwange, Matabeleland North Province, has been fined US$200 for assaulting his wife with a cooking stick during a domestic dispute.The incident occurred on...Published: 20 hrs ago | 115 | by Staff reporter
Lusengo acquitted in Dynamos share ownership case
After a protracted legal battle spanning over three years, Dynamos Football Club (Pvt) Ltd board chairman Bernard Marriot Lusengo has been acquitted of fraud charges related to his acquisition of 51% ...Published: 20 hrs ago | 78 | by Staff reporter
Wedza man axes colleague over gold dispute
A 28-YEAR-OLD Wedza man was arraigned at Bindura magistrates courts yesterday after he axed his friend in Mazowe over a gold dispute.Denford Gambiza was sentenced to five years in jail by Bind...Published: 31 Jan 2025 at 15:06hrs | 588 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Teenager bashes sex worker over $3 change
Short-time sex ended nasty after a Bindura teenager was convicted of assaulting a sex worker with a bottle after she failed to give him his $3 change.Mallon Muchopa (18) was convicted by Bindu...Published: 31 Jan 2025 at 12:57hrs | 1258 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Bindura
Mafume accused of nepotism and authoritarian practices
Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume is facing serious allegations of nepotism and authoritarian rule at Town House, with a senior council official accusing him of manipulating recruitment processes and creating...Published: 31 Jan 2025 at 07:43hrs | 528 | by Staff reporter
Carnage in NGOs, clinics
Thousands of employees in Zimbabwe's non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and civil society organisations (CSOs) face an uncertain future after being told to go home following an executive order by U...Published: 31 Jan 2025 at 07:42hrs | 776 | by Staff reporter
Tuckshops challenge Zimbabwe's retail giants
A quiet but dramatic shift is unfolding in Zimbabwe's retail sector as large supermarket chains struggle against the rise of informal tuckshops. Established brands such as OK Zimbabwe, Spar, and Chopp...Published: 31 Jan 2025 at 07:31hrs | 445 | by Staff reporter
Woman beats daughter-in-law with knobkerrie, cable
A 37-year-old Tsholotsho woman has been slapped with 350 hours of community service after assaulting her daughter-in-law over gossiping allegations....Published: 31 Jan 2025 at 07:29hrs | 413 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
Pay back US$38 500, businessman ordered
A Kwekwe businessman, James Paradza (46), has been convicted of theft after defrauding Bhola Hardware City of cellphones and accessories worth US$38,500. The ruling was delivered after a full trial be...Published: 31 Jan 2025 at 07:26hrs | 298 | by Staff reporter
Brother frequently rapes own sister
In a bizzare incident derived from sharing solitary bedroom as siblings, a 29-year-old Kezi man was dragged to court after raping his own juvenile sister ...Published: 31 Jan 2025 at 07:25hrs | 727 | by Gideon Madzikatidze recently in Kezi
Chamisa disregards Gukurahundi: now fights in cahoots with Genocide perpetrator Chiwenga
This visceral loathing of Ndebele people. We have been saying multiple times that Chamisa is connected to Chiwenga and Zanu PF at several levels. Chatufa TV channels confirmed our fears about Chamisa'...Published: 30 Jan 2025 at 21:42hrs | 1095 | by Nomazulu Thata
Man fined for stealing and wearing mother's clothes
A 24-year-old man from Nyanga, Manicaland Province, has been fined US$80 after being caught wearing clothes he had stolen from his mother.Simbarashe Chinjikupi was taken to court by his mother...Published: 30 Jan 2025 at 21:15hrs | 228 | by Staff reporter
Woman scalds son's girlfriend over witchcraft claims
A 60-year-old Bulawayo woman appeared in court facing charges of physical abuse after allegedly assaulting and pouring hot water on her son's girlfriend, whom she accused of being a witch.Barb...Published: 30 Jan 2025 at 21:14hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is never short of scammers
They came and beguiled nobles and laity by claiming gasoline was oozing out of a sacred rock formations somewhere in rural Chinhoyi. Innocent boulders were soaked in a deluge of diesel and people fell...Published: 30 Jan 2025 at 12:07hrs | 1136 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Plumtree man bashes woman after being turned down
A violent 35-YEAR-OLD Plumtree man was dragged to court after assaulting and damaging a woman's dish in a foiled love proposal.Lesson Moyo appeared before magistrate Joshua Nembaware facing tw...Published: 30 Jan 2025 at 12:04hrs | 664 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Man rapes minor in vegetable garden
A 38-YEAR-OLD Chiweshe man was convicted of rape yesterday at Bindura magistrates courts.Romeo Nzvimbo was sentenced to 15 years in jail after he raped a 15-year-old girl in a vegetable garden...Published: 30 Jan 2025 at 12:01hrs | 756 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwean hesitant to confront SA over Buffelsfontein mine tragedy
Zimbabwean authorities are reportedly reluctant to directly confront the South African government over the deaths of 20 Zimbabweans at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in Stilfontein. The incident, which ...Published: 30 Jan 2025 at 07:04hrs | 672 | by Staff reporter
Potraz warns of severe disruptions to Telecom Services amid power shortages
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) has issued a stark warning about severe disruptions to the telecommunications sector in Zimbabwe, with worsening power short...Published: 30 Jan 2025 at 07:00hrs | 192 | by Staff reporter
Illegal miners invade Rhodes Estate in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwean Government has deployed security and environmental agencies to the Rhodes Estate in the Matopos National Park following growing concerns over illegal gold mining activities that are thr...Published: 30 Jan 2025 at 06:53hrs | 335 | by Staff reporter
Hwange Power Station breaches 1 000MW output
Consumers across Zimbabwe have expressed their satisfaction with the recent improvement in power supply, attributed to the successful completion of maintenance works at the Hwange Power Station. The f...Published: 30 Jan 2025 at 06:52hrs | 2975 | by Staff reporter
Chinese nationals face additional charges over Zimbabwe farm shooting incident
The State has pressed additional charges against two Chinese nationals who were arrested for allegedly pointing a gun at their employee and firing three warning shots during a confrontation over unpai...Published: 29 Jan 2025 at 19:37hrs | 642 | by Staff reporter
Lincoln Mutasa admits fault in former players' election defeats
Outgoing ZIFA Normalization Committee chairperson Lincoln Mutasa has admitted that the body he led is partly to blame for the disappointing defeat of all former players in the recent ZIFA elections. S...Published: 29 Jan 2025 at 08:51hrs | 705 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe at tipping point over ED2030
Hard-hitting statements by Zimbabwe's war veterans calling on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to step down have exposed deepening factional rifts within Zanu-PF over the controversial push to extend his ...Published: 29 Jan 2025 at 08:50hrs | 914 | by Staff reporter
3 women rob, rape motorist
Three women from Harare, Diana Sibanda (35), Brendy Msipa (35), and Tabeth Harris (33), have been arrested and charged with aggravated indecent assault and robbery following a harrowing incident invol...Published: 29 Jan 2025 at 08:48hrs | 1334 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean innovator showcases self-powering vehicle to Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has hailed Zimbabwean innovator Maxwell Chikumbutso for his groundbreaking invention of self-powering vehicles and motorbikes that run on radio waves, describing the feat ...Published: 29 Jan 2025 at 08:45hrs | 711 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt okays US$110m Old Gwanda Road upgrade
The Government of Zimbabwe has signed a concession agreement with Zwane Enterprises (Pvt) Ltd for the reconstruction of the 120km Old Gwanda Road under a Public-Private Partnership (PPP).The p...Published: 29 Jan 2025 at 08:42hrs | 248 | by Staff reporter
ZANU-PF explodes, as official receives death threats
Factionalism is at boiling point in Zanu-PF Mazowe district following death threats sent to District Coordinating Committee member, Edwin Chinotimba by fe...Published: 29 Jan 2025 at 08:03hrs | 2896 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Tshabangu's actions disrupted the parliamentary balance of power
Former Bulawayo South MP Nicola Watson has accused Zanu-PF of orchestrating Sengezo Tshabangu's controversial recalls of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) members to serve its political agenda, incl...Published: 28 Jan 2025 at 21:58hrs | 1001 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya's UNISA diploma under spotlight
Controversial preacher and businessman Walter Magaya's claim of going through tertiary education is being questioned after it emerged he may have forged a University of South Africa (UNISA) diploma wh...Published: 28 Jan 2025 at 21:53hrs | 872 | by Staff reporter
ZANU-PF factional wars finally admit the party's role in Zimbabwe's suffering
Whenever fierce power struggles rear their ugly heads amongst the ruling ZANU-PF leadership, there's always one thing that intrigues me. In order to outdo one another, the rival factions resor...Published: 28 Jan 2025 at 18:03hrs | 1071 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zim to host 21st UN Tourism meeting
Zimbabwe is set to host the United Nations Tourism 21st Committee on Tourism and Sustainability meeting in September 2025, a decision underscoring the country's commitment to sustainable tourism devel...Published: 28 Jan 2025 at 10:26hrs | 354 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Cop steals 11 cattle
Tsholotsho police officer Traver Munyuki (31) and his accomplice Bernard Sibanda are in soup after they allegedly stole 11 cattle.The duo appeared before Plumtree magistrate Joshua Nembaware y...Published: 28 Jan 2025 at 10:19hrs | 1070 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Farmers4ED provincial chairperson up for fraud
The Harare provincial chairperson for Zanu-PF affiliate Farmers4ED, Terai Mudzimukunze, was arraigned before the Harare Magistrates' Court on allegations of defrauding the City of Harare's chief build...Published: 28 Jan 2025 at 07:05hrs | 335 | by Staff reporter
Cop arrested for aiding illegal rank wars
A Harare policeman, Tonderai Manyika (34), has been charged with resisting arrest and abuse of duty after being implicated in a violent dispute over an illegal kombi rank in Harare's central business ...Published: 28 Jan 2025 at 07:04hrs | 580 | by Staff reporter
Ex-councillor duped of US$11k in fake NGO donation
A former councillor for Beatrice Ward 16 and war veteran, Claudious Nyashanhu, has reportedly lost US$11,000 to a suspected fraudster who promised to secure him US$2 million in funding from a non-gove...Published: 28 Jan 2025 at 07:04hrs | 239 | by Staff reporter
5 arrested for vandalising Zesa transformer
Police in Mutoko have apprehended five suspects for allegedly vandalising a Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) 100 KW transformer and stealing copper cables at Mazezuru...Published: 28 Jan 2025 at 07:02hrs | 302 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt tightens screws on smuggling rings
The Zimbabwean government has intensified its efforts to combat smuggling with the introduction of new regulations targeting 19 categories of goods often brought into the country illegally. The measur...Published: 28 Jan 2025 at 07:00hrs | 198 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man's R14 million cigarette smuggling case in SA
The case against a 44-year-old Zimbabwean man, Jaint Janos Bimha, who was recently arrested for smuggling Remington Gold cigarettes worth R14 million into South Africa, has been postponed for formal b...Published: 28 Jan 2025 at 06:58hrs | 115 | by Staff reporter
Shamva woman jailed for having sex with a teenager
The love of sex has landed a Shamva woman in deep trouble after she was sent to jail by a Shamva magistrate Ruramai Chitumbura today.Me...Published: 27 Jan 2025 at 14:42hrs | 1752 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Shamva
Chiwenga to bury Mupamhanga
Acting President Dr. Constantino Chiwenga will today preside over the burial of national hero Justin Mupamhanga at the National Heroes Acre in Harare. He will stand in for President Mnangagwa, who is ...Published: 27 Jan 2025 at 08:19hrs | 332 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe heir's bid to reopen estate crumbles in High Court
An attempt by Tonderai Mugabe, a man claiming to be the secret son of the late President Robert Mugabe, to stake his claim on the former leader's estate ended in defeat at the High Court in Harare las...Published: 27 Jan 2025 at 08:19hrs | 565 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo kombi associations cry foul over police crackdown
Some commuter omnibus (kombi) associations in Bulawayo have raised alarm over a police crackdown on illegal operators, alleging it is a strategy to coerce them into joining rival associations....Published: 27 Jan 2025 at 08:18hrs | 298 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's retail sector faces collapse
The Confederation of Zimbabwe Retailers (CZR) has expressed grave concerns over the critical state of the country's formal retail and wholesale sector, following the closure of key retail outlets and ...Published: 27 Jan 2025 at 08:16hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter
Constitutional Amendment to allow Trump third term excites Zanu-PF
A REPUBLICAN House member has introduced a resolution to amend the United States Constitution to allow President Donald Trump, and any other future President, to be elected to a third term in the Whit...Published: 25 Jan 2025 at 15:23hrs | 634 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police roadblocks to stay
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is embracing technology to enhance law enforcement through the introduction of an Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS), which will revolutionize crime ...Published: 25 Jan 2025 at 15:22hrs | 512 | by Staff reporter
SA man flees to Zimbabwe for cleansing after allegedly killing wife
South African police are on the hunt for 34-year-old Dakalo Nemangwele, who is accused of brutally killing his 29-year-old wife in the Free State province on Friday, January 17, 2025, before allegedly...Published: 25 Jan 2025 at 15:22hrs | 495 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe woman in UK groundbreaking surgery
Ruvimbo Kaviya, aged 40, became the first person in the UK to have a tumour removed using a flexible tube and camera called an endoscope through her eye socket.Ruvimbo, who received her diagno...Published: 24 Jan 2025 at 18:08hrs | 1333 | by Staff reporter
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