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Illegal logging costs Zimbabwe millions
Deep in the misty Eastern Highlands, along the Zimbabwe–Mozambique border, the whine of chainsaws has replaced the natural chorus of birdsong. Towering indigenous and exotic trees, some centurie...Published: 01 Aug 2025 at 08:29hrs | 72 | by Staff reporter
Have our churches turned into sanctuaries for the corrupt?
Have our churches become places where criminals go to cleanse their reputations and whitewash their activities?In Zimbabwe, we are witnessing a deeply troubling phenomenon - one that strikes a...Published: 09 May 2025 at 10:38hrs | 270 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwean man found with R40,000 cash in SA, forfeited to the state
THE Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, also known as the Hawks, has secured a forfeiture order against undocumented Zimbabwean man, Gift Mafukidze.Lieutenant-Colonel Lloyd Ramovha, ...Published: 22 Dec 2024 at 10:44hrs | 402 | by Staff reporter
Mafia Tactics? Chinese family hounded by convicted Italian mafia boss as deportation mystery deepens
In a chilling escalation of legal and criminal misconduct, convicted Italian mafia boss Francesco Marconati has become the focal point of an international...Published: 19 Sep 2024 at 18:37hrs | 1511 | by Staff Reporter
SA can turn into another Zimbabwe, hallucinates Mozambique linked Mashaba
Prominent South African opposition politician Herman Mashaba says he is fighting to stop the neighbouring country from turning into another Zimbabwe because of failed leadership.Mashaba (HM), ...Published: 30 Apr 2023 at 08:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Heavy police deployment during Easter
Police are being extensively deployed countrywide during the Easter holidays to protect the public from criminals and to ensure traffic rules and regulations are enforced to keep the roads safe. ...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lets approach all crimes with the same zeal
While we are focusing on drug dealers and drug pushers, we should put in the same effort to stop the collaboration between criminals at our bus stops and the ZRP who look away while travellers are bei...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 21:13hrs | | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Zanu-PF youths, police clash in Goromonzi
RUNNING battles erupted in Goromonzi yesterday between police and an estimated over 1 000 Zanu-PF youths who had invaded a farm before pegging and allocating themselves pieces of land.Several ...Published: 13 Jan 2023 at 05:50hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's rule has been disastrous
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, as I see it, it is now the norm for the festive season to be without merriment.Yet, be that as it may, convention and courtesy noneth...Published: 28 Dec 2022 at 21:00hrs | 12 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Chihuri properties seizure - PG wants graft law amended
PROSECUTOR-GENERAL Nelson Mutsonziwa has called for the amendment of corruption laws to plug loopholes being used by "criminals" to keep hold of ill-gotten property as the state pushes for the seizure...Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 18:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Use tech to stop tout menace
Zimbabwe's crime hot spots are bus stops and bus ranks where we catch our long distance buses and the biggest criminals are the touts that take advantage of innocent travellers by insulting, harassing...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 09:39hrs | 2 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Zimbabwe MP grieves over meagre salaries
LEGISLATORS are prone to corruption and capture by oligarchs because of the meagre salaries they earn, Norton legislator Themba Mliswa has said.The local lawmakers are among the least paid in ...Published: 04 May 2022 at 07:01hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Cartels controlling Zimbabwe fuel sector'
THE Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (Zimcodd) has alleged that the country's fuel sector is run by cartels that are manipulating fuel prices.In its weekly review on socio-economic d...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 09:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cross-border donkey rustlers on the prowl
To new arrivals, "Dip 27" is no different from any other rural service centre in Madabe communal lands south of Plumtree in Zimbabwe.Yet locals know that the daytime semblance of law-abiding p...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:21hrs | 2 | by Oscar Nkala
Is Zimbabwe the next Venezuela?
History teaches that things may get worse in both countries before they get better.This weekend's news that protesters were gunned down at Venezuela's border while pro-regime thugs burned truc...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 08:13hrs | 1 | by John Fund I nationalreview.com
Girlfriend killer refuses death sentence
A GWERU man who was last year sentenced to death by hanging for petrol bombing and killing his estranged girlfriend and her cousin has approached the Supreme Court challenging his sentence. Ga...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 22:45hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Criminal Enterprises are pose the biggest security threat to Zimbabwe
Last week President Emmerson Mnangagwa raised the issue of bulk cash smuggling out of Zimbabwe. It is very important for the President to understand what is causing cash smuggling: Is it the result of...Published: 11 Jun 2018 at 15:48hrs | | by Sam Wezhira
Sources of Islamist group, Boko Haram, funds revealed
Just over a year ago, armed men on motorcycles entered a national park in Cameroon, near the Nigerian border, and swiftly abducted a family of vacationing French tourists - a husband and wife and thei...Published: 20 May 2014 at 07:35hrs | 15 | by Kathleen Caulderwood, International Business Times
Hackers gained 'full functional control' of key Nasa computers
According to the BBC, hackers gained "full functional control" of key Nasa computers in 2011, the agency's inspector general has told US lawmakers.Paul K Martin said hackers took over Jet Pr...Published: 02 Mar 2012 at 22:21hrs | 1 | by Moyo Roy
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