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Land wrangle victim still in mortuary 4 years on
Four years after the alleged assault and killing of Headman Taurayi Lovemore Takawira, his body remains in the mortuary at Masvingo Provincial Hospital, as the murder case involving Chief Fortune Char...Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 14:48hrs | 158 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man killed SA lover over lobola money, caged for life
A security guard who killed his partner after finding out that she spent the money he had been saving to pay lobola for her has been handed a life sentence.Louis Serenetra Moyo, 49, an undocum...Published: 05 Nov 2024 at 14:48hrs | 1862 | by Staff reporter
Family dumps decomposing corpse at killer's home, demands 55 head of cattle before burial
A family in Silobela is demanding 55 head of cattle and US$8 500 as compensation before they can bury their son who was allegedly killed in a revenge attack.The family of Tinashe Manyeruke who...Published: 16 Feb 2024 at 15:24hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Murder of taxi driver under probe
Police in Beitbridge are now treating the death of a taxi driver as a homicide after discovering his mutilated body on Friday along the Beitbridge to Bulawayo road.The victim, identified as 42...Published: 10 Oct 2023 at 05:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Decomposed body uncollected at Mount Darwin hospital
Police in Mashonaland Central are appealing for relatives or friends who may be missing their loved one to come and identify a male corpse that is at Moun...Published: 03 Apr 2023 at 14:19hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Double life sentence for Zimbabwean prophet who raped women and then tied them to trees
A 50-year-old Zimbabwean ‘priest', who used his position of trust to lure women to secluded spots where he raped them and then tied them to a tree, has been removed from society.The North We...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 05:10hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala faces fresh charges of misleading police over who murdered Ali
Zengeza West MP will appear in court on Thursday facing fresh charges of defeating or obstructing the course of justice over claims he sought to mislead police officers investigating the abduction and...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 08:52hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Decomposed body found in a mine shaft
Illegal miners at Masasa mine in Mazowe allegedly discovered a decomposed body yesterday.The two miners Justice Makuku (47) of Southlands, Harare and Milton Musona of Tsungubvi, Glendale were ...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 11:28hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
'Day dreaming' tout confesses to murder
A Mhangura taxi driver is reportedly striking from the dead after he was grisly murdered by artisanal miners on Christmas Eve before being robbed of his car, $2000 and a mobile phone, Bulawayo24.com h...Published: 08 Jan 2018 at 15:55hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Decomposing body discovered in Marange
TEMPERS reportedly flared between Marange villagers and security guards hired by the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) following the recent discovery of a decomposing human body in the Mara...Published: 31 Oct 2017 at 11:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Woman beheads baby as cover up after uncle impregnates her
A WOMAN who had an affair with her uncle resulting in a baby being born, connived with him to commit one of the worst crimes ever.Clever Shamhu and Chipo Mpofu from Chitoro village in Gokwe re...Published: 11 Aug 2017 at 08:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MK's Modise in awe of Zipra's izigebengu
This is the second part of an article by Retired Brigadier-General Abel Mazinyane about the combat life of the late former Zipra senior commander Eddie Sigoge Mlotshwa who passed on in Bulawayo last m...Published: 30 Jul 2017 at 08:08hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Woman gives birth, shoves baby into anthill hole
A 35-YEAR-OLD woman from Kezi in Matabeleland South province appeared in court last week charged with infanticide after she allegedly killed her newly-born babygirl by shoving her into an anthill hole...Published: 28 Jun 2017 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man stoned to death over pregnant woman
A MAN from Fort Rixon who allegedly teamed up with a friend and stoned his neighbour to death following a fight over a pregnant woman was yesterday sentenced to 12 years in jail.Tshayizo Mpofu...Published: 17 Jun 2017 at 10:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gardener fatally assaulting boss
A BULAWAYO gardener who fatally hit his 86-year-old employer with a metal bar on the head when she fired him and then stole the deceased's money, laptop and cellphone before skipping the border, has b...Published: 17 May 2017 at 06:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Prophet prays in vain as man commits suicide by drinking cynide
A MAN from Old Pumula suburb in Bulawayo died instantly after allegedly drinking cyanide in a suspected suicide.Edrich Moyo (26) is said to have taken his life in company of his wife on Mo...Published: 10 Mar 2017 at 06:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Miner trapped to death
A 21-year old Darwendale man was trapped to death in a shaft by heavy rains in Mashonaland West provinceIt is alleged Tatenda Mafigu was working with his colleagues in Darwendale mine on 20 De...Published: 29 Dec 2016 at 16:03hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Man kills workmate, feds him to hyenas
A MAN from Lupane who killed his workmate and hid the body in a bush near Matopos National Park where it was devoured by hyenas, was yesterday sentenced to 10 years in jail.According to lo...Published: 25 Oct 2016 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man charged for smuggled medicine in Botswana
Maun Police are investigating a case in which two men, a Motswana aged 24 from Chadibe and a 35-year old Zimbabwean were found in possession of 2 421 bottles of Broncleer with Codeine cough syrup at M...Published: 19 Jun 2016 at 07:25hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Impounded US plane had R60 billion cargo destined for SA Reserve Bank
INVESTIGATIONS have unearthed that the decomposing body found last week on a Western Global Airlines cargo plane at Harare International Airport was that of a stowaway, and that the craft was carrying...Published: 21 Feb 2016 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Brian Chitemba
9 year old's body found
THE parents of Zinhle Ndala (9) are relieved that her body has been found.But now they have to make peace with their neighbour.Daily Sun reported during Zinhle’s disappearance on 4 J...Published: 18 Feb 2016 at 14:36hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Man missing for 1 year was 'killed by son'
THE mystery surrounding the disappearance of a 75-year-old man from Bulilima, who was reported missing in 2014, has been solved after his son was arrested for allegedly killing him and dumping the...Published: 28 Jan 2016 at 05:42hrs | 1 | by Man missing for 1 year was 'killed by son'
Decomposing baby found in Durban flat
Durban - A woman's decomposed body was found with her hands tied in her flat in Umbilo Road on Monday.The body of the 66-year-old was found by the caretaker of Premier Court after he noticed a...Published: 18 Aug 2015 at 22:07hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Cecil's death could help expose poaching syndicate at Hwange park
Hwange-While Zimbabwean authorities continue to mourn the death of Cecil, the country's favourite and foreign currency generating lion, a few questions remain unanswered. Are Zimbabweans being bee...Published: 05 Aug 2015 at 05:31hrs | 21 | by Thabo Kunene
Your death isn't the death of our Tonderai Surgie Ndira my hero we remember you
MAY YOUR SOUL REST IN PEACE Wednesday 14 May 2008, was just like any other day. Around 8am, news spread like veld fire that Tonderai "Serge" Ndira ...Published: 14 May 2015 at 11:15hrs | 1 | by Prof Richard M Simango
Villagers 'celebrate' rapist's death
VILLAGERS in Tsukuru area in Madlambuzi are "celebrating the death" of serial rapist Limukani Sibanda who had caused a school in the area to virtually shut down as parents feared for their children's ...Published: 19 Nov 2014 at 06:15hrs | | by Sukulwenkosi Dube
Dead infant's body discovered at neighbour's home
Gokwe North villagers are cracking their heads trying to figure out how a body of an infant ended up at an elderly neighbour's homestead two days after burial.Chief Chir...Published: 26 Apr 2014 at 19:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man found eating maggots from dead grandfather's decomposed corpse
A 23-year-old S.A man was found on top of his grandfather's decomposed body eating maggots, the Atteridgeville Magistrate's Court heard on Wednesday.Police spokesperson David Shivambu testifi...Published: 19 Sep 2013 at 03:57hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Isaac kills his father Isaiah over radio cassette player
Isaac Mangezi, from Nyajena in Masvingo will spend the next 17 years behind bars after a High Court judge found him guilty of killing his father Isaiah Mangezi, in a row over a radio cassette player....Published: 30 Jun 2013 at 11:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man beheads woman, removes private parts, offers them for sale
A CHINHOYI man, who allegedly slit a woman's throat and ripped her stomach open before removing her private parts and offering them for sale, is today expected to stand trial at the High Court....Published: 04 Mar 2013 at 05:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Botswana men beat up a Zimbabwean to death for stealing a bicycle
A Zimbabwean has been beaten to death in Botswana for allegedly stealing a bicycle. Two brothers accused of his murder recently appeared before magistrate Sijabuliso Siziba in Francistown.Utl...Published: 27 Jan 2013 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man stoned and set alight for murdering his daughter
A 50-YEAR-OLD man was brutally stoned to death before his body was set alight in Sekgosese outside Modjadjiskloof in Limpopo on Sunday night.The man was stoned and beaten with sticks. A tyre w...Published: 24 Jan 2012 at 08:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Couple kills new-born twins after failed abortion
Johannesburg - A woman and her boyfriend were arrested for allegedly killing their new-born twin babies near Welkom, South African police said on Monday.The police retrieved the decomposed bod...Published: 06 Sep 2011 at 07:11hrs | | by Moyo Roy
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