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Wife kills hubby, torches corpse
POLICE in Centenary, Mashonaland Central province, have arrested a woman who on Tuesday allegedly bashed her husband to death before conniving with her boyfriend to burn the corpse to conceal the murd...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:51hrs | 694 | by Staff reporter
In defence of the July 31, 2020 protests
IN life there is only one constant; that is change. But for Zimbabweans of different generations from that of Father Zimbabwe, through to the born "frees" and the millenniums the common constant is th...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:06hrs | 511 | by Danmore Sithole
Man uses hearse to smuggle explosives
A 30-YEAR-OLD Zimbabwean man has been arrested by South African police at Beitbridge Border Post while trying to smuggle explosives worth more than R700 000 into the neighbouring country in a hearse. ...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:28hrs | 814 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's lawyer to hear his fate from court
CHIEF magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi will tomorrow give a determination in an application in which top lawyer Thabani Mpofu is applying for revocation of his placement on remand.Mpofu was place...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 21:14hrs | 1497 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's lawyer challenges placement on remand
A Harare magistrate is this week expected to make a ruling on whether or not lawyer, Thabani Mpofu, should remain on remand until his criminal case is finalised.Mpofu is facing charges of corr...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 17:47hrs | 6727 | by Staff reporter
Gono trips self in farm mechanisation looting saga?
FORMER Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono has said the farm mechanisation programme he presided over was not part of the debt taken over by government and passed on the taxpayer via t...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 09:07hrs | 3029 | by Staff reporter
The Patriotic Front condemns the arrest of Hopewell Chin'ono
The Patriotic Front (TPF) is dismayed by the alleged arrest of investigative journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and opposition leader Jacob Ngarivhume, who have during the last few weeks been very vocal aga...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 18:51hrs | 3512 | by Mxolisi Ncube
We have Epsteins and Ghislaine in homes: capital punishment is befitting to paedophiles!!
Last week, we saw how Virginia Giuffre-Roberts got her last laugh. At last the notorious Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested by the FBI for counts of perjury and recruiting under-aged girls for prostitutio...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 18:31hrs | 1029 | by Nomazulu Thata
Divorcees to equally share assets: Court
THE Supreme Court has made a landmark ruling that marriage partners are entitled to an equal share of the movable and immovable properties should the union dissolve regardless of their contributions f...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 07:43hrs | 2149 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean problems need a military solution
To solve problems brought by genocidists in a country, the route can never be through the popularly known ballot box but a military intervention, if indeed prosperity becomes the ultimate goal wanted ...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 18:35hrs | 3601 | by Mthwakazi Liberation Front
Jonathan Moyo faces extradition from Kenya?
Former minister Professor Jonathan Moyo may have to flee Kenya to avoid extradition to Zimbabwe on fraud and related charges involving the alleged diversion of US$244 575 from the Zimbabwe Manpower De...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 16:16hrs | 4346 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira trial kicks off
THE trial of former cabinet minister Prisca Mupfumira has kicked off at the Harare Magistrates court this Wednesday with both Mupfumira and her then Permanent Secretary, Ngoni Masoka pleading not guil...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 20:23hrs | 3077 | by Staff reporter
'BCC might destroy damning diarrhoea outbreak evidence'
BULAWAYO residents have expressed fear that the local authority (BCC) could destroy evidence that implicates it in the diarrhoea, typhoid and dysentery outbreaks in the city which recently claimed a d...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:27hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
Killer arrested after staging suicide
A GWANDA miner has been arrested for allegedly strangling his workmate before dumping the body on a railway line, where it was crushed by a train to conceal the murder. The matter was initiall...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 16:52hrs | 3994 | by Staff reporter
Residents sue BCC over typhoid, Harare laboratory roped in
BULAWAYO residents have approached the High Court seeking an order directing council to release the laboratory samples of tap water and other vital information relating to the diarrhoea outbreak in Lu...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 286 | by Staff reporter
Typhoid outbreak in Bulawayo
TESTS done at private laboratories to ascertain the cause of 12 deaths and illness to more than 1 500 residents of Luveve in Bulawayo have revealed that they suffered from typhoid and dysentery....Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:24hrs | 385 | by Staff reporter
Africa celebrated a continent marred by criminality, slavery and human-organ theft
On the 25th of May the African time stood still: The rich continent was celebrating the 57 years of its existence: on this day, the AU acknowledges its successes and challenges. The continent has a hi...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 13:23hrs | 567 | by Nomazulu Thata
If Zimbabwe could speak!
I am a country like no other I am Great Zimbabwewith a heart that pumps full of love for my inhabitants endowed with an assortment of mineral resources, Gold, diamonds, platinum and al...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 18:55hrs | 3767 | by Brilliant Pongo
The land isn't ours
A few years ago while visiting the city of Jos, which is located in north-east Nigeria, a person pointed to a vast neatly kept area behind a fence. "This ranch belongs to the Queen of England," he rem...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 17:10hrs | 1771 | by Hadebe Hadebe
Wicked man jailed for murder
"YOU are a very wicked man." Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Maxwell Takuva on Monday told an Inyathi man before sentencing him to 25 years in jail for fatally stabbing a village head four times wit...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 06:40hrs | 723 | by Staff reporter
The Dalish Nguwaya saga, Justice or scape goat
For the past few months Zimbabwe was gripped with news of corruption involving The first family in particular Collins Mnangagwa and his associate DALISH Nguwaya the local representative of a medical c...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 13:47hrs | 1042 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
High Court blocks Mr Dish's bid to raid Econet
Former partner of Econet Media in the Kwese TV business, Mr Dish, failed to show it needed to raid Econet and Cassava Smartech to obtain accounting records before these could be possibly destroyed, th...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 07:08hrs | 485 | by Staff reporter
NetOne director under probe
NetOne Cellular non-executive director Rangarirai Mathias Mavhunga is under probe over allegations of concealing his personal interest in a transaction involving FMC Holdings Limited and the state-own...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:49hrs | 568 | by Staff reporter
Uncle rapes minor (14) with mental health problems
A 28 year old Mutoko uncle who raped a 14 year old mentally ill niece was dragged to court last month.Accused Pension Usayi appeared before Mutoko magistrate Jairosi Mutseyegwa who remanded hi...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 06:14hrs | 703 | by Naume MuzaI
Cop faces stock theft charges
FIVE suspected cattle rustlers, one of them a police officer, operating as a syndicate were arrested for allegedly stealing five head of cattle worth $42 500 at a farm in Marula. The cattle we...Published: 06 Jun 2020 at 07:45hrs | 515 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa vows 'enough is enough'
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa on Wednesday vowed "enough is enough" as he warned that homes have become "dens of poverty", accusing the government of mishandling the coronavirus outbreak and clamping down...Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 17:58hrs | 8899 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's lawyer out on $20 000 bail
Lawyer Thabani Mpofu was granted $20 000 bail yesterday after Chief Magistrate Mr Munamato Mutevedzi rejected a recommendation by prosecutor Mr Michael Reza that bail should be denied because defence ...Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 17:02hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
Latest on Advocate Thabani Mpofu
A team of lawyers representing Advocate Thabani Mpofu led by Beatrice Mtetwa is currently at Rottenrow waiting for the commencement of proceedings. Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights had ...Published: 03 Jun 2020 at 09:08hrs | 6223 | by Mandla Ndlovu
WATCH: A short animated film about Itai Dzamara released
A short animated video about the late Itai Dzamara has been posted for circulation on social media.The video sums up events leading to the abduction of the vocal activist.Dzamara was a...Published: 03 Jun 2020 at 07:46hrs | 2364 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Uproar over Beitbridge police brutality
A BEITBRIDGE court has ordered police to refund a resident, who was coerced to pay a fine for violating the lockdown regulations, amid accusations of gross human rights violations by law enforcement a...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:52hrs | 427 | by Staff reporter
Scapegoating Africans as a lazy lot unable to use land
THE war of words against African holders of land continues unabated as government finds itself in an embarrassing situation after the land reform programme of the year 2000. In an extremely disquietin...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:39hrs | 240 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Pondering the Post-Covid-19 world
Ndamase is a serious type. Very serious that he sees a fault in every joke. He regularly feels that whenever people joke and laugh they waste too much time not thinking about their inevitable death on...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:21hrs | 105 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Judge raps arrested bigwigs
The High Court has castigated high-profile individuals facing corruption charges for abusing bail conditions, seeking passports for travel for medical or business reasons not revealed in the original ...Published: 13 May 2020 at 07:19hrs | 745 | by Staff reporter
Woman lover imposter arrested over murder case
A WOMAN who was allegedly used as a bait to lure a married Gweru man into the hands of his murderers, has been arrested. Precious Moyo, the court heard, was allegedly used to make a phone call...Published: 09 May 2020 at 08:08hrs | 850 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers raid Zimra deport
DARING armed robbers raided a Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) container depot in Bulawayo and went away with a consignment of 148 boxes of Broncleer, a cough mixture which was banned over abuse as ...Published: 07 May 2020 at 00:37hrs | 4051 | by Staff reporter
House breakers bury $50 000 loot
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested four suspects in connection with theft of household property worth more than $500 000 in Cowdray Park suburb during the lockdown period. Police arrested Amon M...Published: 01 May 2020 at 07:51hrs | 695 | by Staff reporter
Kombi driver makes false theft report
A BULAWAYO commuter omnibus driver was involved in an accident after diverting from his route without his employer's knowledge and abandoned the vehicle at the scene before making a false police repor...Published: 29 Apr 2020 at 07:46hrs | 609 | by Staff reporter
Man, brother in-law beat wife's 'boyfriend' to death
A Gweru man and his brother-in-law allegedly teamed up and assaulted his wife's suspected boyfriend for about five hours, leading to his death. The duo allegedly broke the victim's legs and du...Published: 27 Apr 2020 at 23:37hrs | 1334 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF not covid-19 testing malaria cases just as China silenced Dr Li Wenliang and regardless of heavy price to pay
Last week government announced that it was going to increase the number of covid-19 tests from 40 or so per day to 1 000 per day. This was a welcome move. "Long overdue!" many people rightly said beca...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 10:17hrs | 878 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Recovering looted offshore funds taxing'
RECOVERING billions of dollars spirited away to foreign jurisdictions by corrupt syndicates will be a lengthy and painstaking process, although anti-graft authorities are determined to recover the loo...Published: 17 Apr 2020 at 08:25hrs | 1487 | by Staff reporter
Nicholas Ncube you are offside! Dream beating your wife in Canada, you apologize first thing in the morning
Nicholas Ncube lives in Canada, a place he can never even afford to dream bashing his wife. If, for some unknown reason Nicholas dreamt beating his wife the previous day, the first thing he has to do ...Published: 14 Apr 2020 at 09:34hrs | 2425 | by Nomazulu Thata
Kadoma residents brutalised ahead of Mnangagwa visit
POLICE officers and soldiers on Sunday indiscriminately beat up Kadoma residents ahead of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's tour to assess compliance to lockdown measures put in place to slow down the sp...Published: 14 Apr 2020 at 07:47hrs | 1435 | by Staff reporter
Stern warning to abusers of Covid-19 aid
ZIMBABWE Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) chairperson, Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo, recently issued a statement calling on those conferred with the mandate to manage Covid-19 donations to exercise a h...Published: 12 Apr 2020 at 08:34hrs | 100 | by Comm John Makamure
Cop rapes teenager
A police officer stationed at ZRP Chinamhora in Domboshava has appeared in court facing rape charges after helping a colleague to rape a teenage girl they found with her boyfriend in the bush. ...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 07:39hrs | 305 | by Staff reporter
The plot to keep Douglas Mwonzora out of power
MDC has an engine running twenty four hours. This is the engine of scheming and plotting The party is now not stable and fear exists,power struggle manifests itself As the establishment's need t...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 20:07hrs | 5697 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Man kills stepson for soiling himself
A Rusape man who fatally assaulted his four-year-old stepson after he had soiled himself has been slapped with an 18-year-jail sentence.He was found guilty of murder with actual intent by a Mu...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 08:53hrs | 623 | by Staff reporter
MDC judgment sets tongues waging
Zimbabweans woke up from their coronavirus slumber to read an ambiguous judgment designed to discredit Nelson Chamisa's MDC-A presidency. The judgment, which was passed a few hours before April Fool's...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 14:28hrs | 1161 | by Sibanengi Dube
PSL blasts Zifa appeals committee
The Premier Soccer League (PSL) is on a collision course with Zifa after it blasted the football mother body' s appeals committee for alleged bias in handling the Herentals FC match-fixing case....Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 16:36hrs | 366 | by Staff reporter
2 notorious immigrants deported
TWO illegal immigrants who have been evading deportation for years through threats of violence and supplying authorities with false identity information, have been deported. The Immigration De...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:34hrs | 1628 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest 700 illegal forex dealers
Police in Bulawayo arrested more than 700 suspected illegal forex dealers and vendors in a four-day blitz to restore sanity in the central business district of the city. About 80 percent of the suspec...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:59hrs | 2376 | by Staff reporter
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