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Accident victims named
Police have identified the five victims of a fatal road accident that occurred last Thursday night at the 106 km peg along the Karoi-Binga Road. The accident involved a Nissan UD truck carrying 38 pas...Published: 01 Jul 2024 at 03:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
200 vehicles impounded for violating lockdown
Police here have impounded more than 200 vehicles including cross-border buses for violating lockdown rules and regulations.The impounded vehicles are currently parked at various police statio...Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 18:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man arrested after finding wife pants down with cop
A MASVINGO man had tables turned against him when he was arrested for disorderly conduct after a scuffle with a police officer he found indulging in sex with his wife in the couple's matrimonial bed....Published: 08 Jul 2021 at 11:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man kills boy, cooks head
In a grisly incident, a man from Matova village under Chief Zimuto in the Gokomere area, yesterday murdered his brother's nine-year-old son before cutting off his head and boiling it in a pot....Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 21:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZANU-PF Councillor under fire for stealing from his people
Shurugwi South Ward 7 Zanu pf Councillor Jabulani Muzvezve under Chief Nhema is accused of misusing his office and stealing from the villagers.It is alleged that Councillor Muzvezve of ward 7,...Published: 18 Oct 2020 at 09:22hrs | | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Rape-accused cop vanishes
A 46-year-old policeman stationed at Chikato Camp here is on the run after he allegedly raped his 16-year-old stepdaughter on several occasions between 2016 and this year. According to the doc...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
MDC chairman buried
MDC's firebrand Shurugwi South district chairperson, Norman Pfeveni, who succumbed to hypertension over the weekend, was buried at his rural home in the district yesterday.He was 62.Pf...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man stabbed over girlfriend
Midlands provincial magistrate Charity Maphosa will tomorrow deliver her judgement in a case of attempted murder involving a man who stabbed his friend following a dispute over a girlfriend. T...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man blows $1 500, hangs self
A MAN from Masvingo allegedly hanged himself after squandering $1 500 meant to buy a car for his brother who is based in South Africa, police have confirmed.The body of Baison Mpofu (39) of Mu...Published: 20 Jun 2018 at 10:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Drunk soldier arrested after firing two bullets in a bar
A 29-year old overzealous soldier was arrested after he fired two bullets from a service pistol in a beer binge in Masvingo on Friday night Bulawayo24.com heard.Sources close to investigations...Published: 10 Dec 2017 at 17:18hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Prostitutes pull client's privates for $4
FOUR Masvingo sex workers have been ordered to perform community service after they undressed a Mucheke suburb man and pulled his manhood after he failed to pay $4 for overnight services rendered by o...Published: 28 Sep 2017 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Drama as kombi drops huge snake
THERE was drama yesterday morning at Mucheke Long Distance Bus Terminus in Masvingo when a huge python measuring about 2,5 metres allegedly dropped from a commuter omnibus before the crew sped off, po...Published: 25 Aug 2017 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Mugabe must go,' says Top Zanu PF member
A NYANGA-BASED Zanu PF central committee member, Moses Gutu, is in trouble with the party for allegedly calling on President Robert Mugabe to step down.Gutu, the Nyanga Rural District Council ...Published: 31 May 2017 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Motorist sues Chombo, Chihuri
A BULAWAYO motorist has sued the police for illegally detaining him on allegations of causing a road accident.Solomon Chidyagwayi is demanding $20 000 in damages from Home Affairs minister Ign...Published: 10 Sep 2016 at 08:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cop pays hooker with uniform, makes false report
A MASVINGO policeman allegedly gave a hooker his uniform as surety after failing to pay her $20 for a night of sex and went on to make a false report of theft.Givemore Marara (30) stationed at...Published: 23 Aug 2016 at 07:13hrs | 1 | by Walter Mswazie
CSO activist arrested for possessing copy of the constitution of Zimbabwe
A members of a civil organization was recently arrested by police for possessing a copy of Zimbabwean constitution which the arresting officer claimed was illegal for it to be owned by a general me...Published: 05 Jul 2016 at 05:49hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
ZRP Masvingo Central dominates 2016 PROPOL sports gala
ZRP Masvingo Central District came in tops at the provincial commander's sports gala held at Zimuto camp last week in preparation for the 2016 Commissioner General's gala to be held in Harare in Augus...Published: 24 Jun 2016 at 14:29hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chikato bursar disappears as auditors arrive
Chikato Government Primary School in Mucheke Masvingo is suspected to have lost thousands of dollars after its bursar Silas Chikamhi sneaked out of his office and went for good when Government a...Published: 30 Mar 2016 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Masvingo Resident Trust official abducted by suspected CIOs
Masvingo Resident Trust has announced that its advocacy official Ephraim Mutombeni was abducted on Wednesday mornm9ng by suspected Central Intelligence Organisation officers"Masvingo Resident ...Published: 17 Dec 2015 at 05:49hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Pastor caught red handed with congregant, faces $10,000 adultery lawsuit
A MASVINGO pastor who had sex with a female congregant whose marriage he had solemnised has been slapped with a $10,000 adultery lawsuit.Nobert Dondo, 36, of Victory International Church Minis...Published: 03 Sep 2015 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Walter Mswazie
Landlord bashed for courting tenant's wife
We can share the house but not my wife.This aptly describes a scenario where a Masvingo landlord was given a thorough hiding for courting his tenant's wife.Mike Mugabe of Run...Published: 30 Nov 2014 at 12:59hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
81 years behind bars for serial armed robbers
HARARE - A 26-year-old robber will spend 21 years in prison while his four accomplices will serve 15 years each behind bars after a Harare Court convicted them on two counts of robbery, two of att...Published: 14 Oct 2014 at 05:09hrs | | by Court reporter
City council vehicle runs over baby - WhatsApp update
5:50pm, 28 Jul - +263 77 ▩▩▩ ▩▩▩▩: A 3month old baby died after the Masvingo city council officer driver failed to control his v...Published: 28 Jul 2014 at 16:52hrs | | by Concerned Citizen
Woman 'drowns self' in river over infidelity claims
A 23-YEAR-OLD Masvingo woman has died in a suspected suicide after allegedly throwing herself into Mucheke River after a heated row with her husband over allegations of infidelity.Assistant In...Published: 17 Apr 2014 at 06:46hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
'Your privates are wrinkled because you are old'
A commercial sex worker from Masvingo has been ordered to pay $30 fine after she sent vulgar messages to another hooker describing her private parts and saying they were wrinkled because she was old....Published: 04 Mar 2014 at 13:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Another suspected witch found undressed
RESIDENTS of Mucheke in Masvingo were stunned when they woke up and found an undressed woman standing near a house in the high density suburb, in a suspected case of witchcraft.The incident wh...Published: 27 Aug 2013 at 04:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man arrested for fatally stabbing ex-wife
A 34-year-old man from Masvingo's Mucheke suburb allegedly fatally stabbed his former wife with a kitchen knife when he found her with a boyfriend, police confirmed. Masvingo acting provincial...Published: 10 Jul 2013 at 05:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man fatally stabs ex-wife with a kitchen knife
A jilted Masvingo man allegedly fatally stabbed his ex-wife with a kitchen knife after seeing her in the company of her new lover over the weekend.Kudakwashe Mushandira of Mucheke A in the ci...Published: 09 Jul 2013 at 05:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man jailed for molesting child (3)
A 59-YEAR-OLD man from Mucheke suburb in Masvingo has been jailed for one-and-a-half years for caressing a three-year- old girl's private parts.Samuel Maoneni pleaded hot guilty to Sexual assa...Published: 02 May 2013 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman fined for bedding a minor and paying him $2
A 20-year-old woman from Masvingo's Mucheke suburb, who last year coerced a 12-year-old boy from her neighbourhood into being intimate with her has been fined $80 or 20 days in prison.The woma...Published: 15 Feb 2013 at 05:52hrs | | by Masvingo Correspondent
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