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Zimbabwe banishes death penalty
IT'S been 6 273 days since Zimbabwe hanged a condemned person. For the gruesome murder of Themba Nkiwane, the High Court sentenced Never Masina Mandlenkosi to death in 2002 and he was executed...Published: 24 Sep 2022 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZACC guns for US$7bn assets illicitly siphoned out of the country
An estimated US$7 billion worth of assets were illicitly siphoned out of the country through corruption and money laundering and the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is now ratcheting up mea...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's porous borders 'now a security threat'
ZIMBABWE's porous borders are posing a serious security risk as they expose the country to a litany of illegal activities, including smuggling and criminal syndicates roaming undetected, a damning rep...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's difficult path to healing
ASS graves keep cropping up in Zimbabwe.The killings of civilians date back years, but wounds remain. The hurdle to healing is the government, experts say.The trauma persists even in t...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:23hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Finding Zimbabweans in secret mass graves
ONE of my earliest memories is of violence and death.It happened in Harare in 1984 when I was about seven years old.I was supposed to meet a friend to play at a dump site together....Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:00hrs | | by Keith Silika
Universities should offer criminology degrees, says Judge
BULAWAYO High court judge, Justice Maxwell Takuva has appealed to tertiary institutions to consider offering criminology degrees in order to find ways of preventing crime and appropriate ways of punis...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, the broken window philosophy
There are crimes that injure individuals, and then there are crimes that injure society. Crimes that injure individuals can be measured through weighing scales of gravity.Is it a serious injur...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 23:45hrs | | by Nick Mangwana
Its public knowledge that Zanu PF did not win the election
Mthwakazi activist Hloniphani Ncube has said it is public knowledge that Zanu PF never won the election but stole it."You cannot expect justice to be administered by criminals empowered by the...Published: 25 Aug 2018 at 07:26hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Adios Cde Dr Amai Grace
Now that the local news wires are ablaze with how lewd Mrs Grace Mugabe conducted herself in front of the law, it becomes clear that to her and her family, the Constitution was just but one of those p...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 09:02hrs | | by Chigumbu Warikandwa
ANC veteran dies
STATEMENT FROM THE KATHRADA FOUNDATIONThe Ahmed Kathrada Foundation is deeply saddened to announce the passing on of ANC veteran Ahmed Kathrada (87) this morning, at the Donald Gordon Hospital...Published: 28 Mar 2017 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Online
Minister of Truth: Zimbabwe's youth an asset, not a risk
Zimbabwe's demographic profile reads like that of most African nations with a majority of its population being under the age of 35.To be exact, they account for 77 percent of the population....Published: 03 Jan 2016 at 09:57hrs | | by Jason Zhuwao
There is no war with war veterans
I found it of grave importance to vehemently oppose the media blitz that sprung purporting the presence of bad blood between our First Lady, Dr Amai, and the war veterans.The whole notion of h...Published: 29 Nov 2015 at 13:14hrs | | by Ministry of Truth with Cde Jason Zhuwao
Bulawayo born lady who defied UK racism
BULAWAYO-BORN Nicolle Ndiweni has revealed how she had to fight against racial discrimination in her campaign to be the first black councillor for Hucknall on the Ashfield District Council in Nottingh...Published: 22 Aug 2015 at 09:19hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Zimbabwean woman is UK town's first black councillor
BORN and raised in rural Karoi, Zimbabwe, United Kingdom-based Nicolle Ndiweni was on May 7 elected as the first black councillor of Hucknall on the Ashfield District Council, UK.Born in 1...Published: 26 May 2015 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Move over South Africa: Here comes Nigeria?
For years South Africa has asserted itself as Africa's most dominant economy, frequently being touted as the world's gateway into Africa. However, its anaemic growth in recent times has seen...Published: 03 Apr 2014 at 10:28hrs | | by Perry Munzwembiri
Tapping migration wealth to fund development
African diaspora remittances can reduce poverty In a small and stuffy room in midtown Manhattan, some people are filling in forms while others wait pati...Published: 07 Sep 2013 at 06:05hrs | | by Jocelyne Sambira
Zimbabwe police join cyber warfare
The Computer society of Zimbabwe has taken lead in finding solutions to our cyber crime ravaged society but this time, they have asked the Criminal Investigation Department (C.I.D) Serious Fraud's inp...Published: 20 Mar 2012 at 17:35hrs | | by Toneo Rutsito
This and that with Maluphosa: First world country with Fourth world criminology
Finally he is coming. I don't mean the Son of Man that the pagans waited for with churning tummies on the 21st of May. Of course he is a son of man also. I mean the legendary Dewani.The court...Published: 15 Aug 2011 at 09:43hrs | | by Clerk Ndlovu
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