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Top businessman convicted for stealing Zesa cables
Top Zvishavane businessman Kudakwashe Diza (43) and his companion Mark Tiweni (39) were yesterday slapped with a 48-month jail sentence each for stealing 810kg of aluminium cables belonging to Zesa Ho...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 08:08hrs | 2866 | by Staff reporter
5 'armed robbers' arrested
POLICE in Bulawayo arrested five suspected armed robbers a day after a dramatic high speed chase in which four of the suspects dumped their vehicle and eluded detectives on foot. The four alle...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 07:48hrs | 834 | by Staff reporter
ZBC bosses bail ruling today
HARARE magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti-Guwuriro yesterday said she would today make her bail ruling on two Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation bosses, Patrick Mavhura and Benania Shumba, who stand accused ...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:35hrs | 358 | by Staff reporter
18 more counts for ex-ZBC bosses
FORMER Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) chief executive Patrick Mavhura and ex-head finance, administration and human resources manager Benenia Shumba are likely to be charged with 18 more case...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:27hrs | 295 | by Staff reporter
5 Chief Ndiweni supporters acquitted
FIVE Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) activists who were arrested for allegedly dancing and singing derogatory songs with tribal connotations outside the Bulawayo High Court while celebrating the releas...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 08:14hrs | 984 | by Staff reporter
3 arrested over counterfeit fuel coupons
Police in Mutoko have arrested three men who allegedly sold fake Petrotrade Service Station fuel coupons worth $22 000 to unsuspecting motorists in Mutoko.Following the arrest, the police disc...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 21:47hrs | 915 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's name used for extortion
Two people have been arrested for allegedly abusing the name of First Lady, Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa, to extort more than US$40 000 from Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries founder, Prophet Wa...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 20:57hrs | 141 | by Staff reporter
Magaya nearly loses US$40 000 to Auxilia Mnangagwa fake agents
Two people have been arrested for allegedly abusing the name of First Lady, Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa, to extort more than US$40 000 from Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries founder, Prophet Wa...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 08:46hrs | 2192 | by Staff Reporter
Police bust robbery syndicate
CHIPINGE police have bust a syndicate of robbers who had led a reign of terror in the Eastern Highlands area, breaking into shops, bars and lodges and escaping with property worth over $6 000....Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 07:39hrs | 816 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi members plead not guilty to public violence
Five members of Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) pleaded not guilty to public violence when they appeared in a Bulawayo Court Wednesday.The five, whose court trial begun today were arrested on c...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 19:54hrs | 538 | by Staff reporter
Bring culprits to book: Abduction victims
VICTIMS of State-sanctioned abductions, torture and assault have challenged the police to expeditiously investigate their cases in order to bring the culprits to book.Human rights defender, Ta...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 08:37hrs | 189 | by Staff reporter
Man bites cops
A 20-YEAR-OLD Mvurwi man was sentenced to 3 years in jail yesterday by Guruve resident magistrate Shingirai Mutiro for assaulting four police officers who tried to arrest him for a spate of crimes....Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 20:49hrs | 1946 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Bid to bribe police backfires
A Mazowe man who was caught smoking marijuana allegedly tried to bribe police officers with $32.Stanley Fundisi (36) was fined $500 by Concession resident magistrate Ruth Moyo and if he fails ...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:58hrs | 325 | by Staff reporter
Bribery lands Ganja smoker in hot soup
The bid by a weed smoker to bribe police officers who had arrested him last week at Mazowe Agro chemicals complex backfired after the cops refused his bribery and took him to Concession magistrates' c...Published: 31 Aug 2019 at 21:09hrs | 1429 | by Simbarashe Sithole
MRP activists remanded out of custody for public disorder
FIVE Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) activists were arrested for allegedly dancing and singing derogatory songs with tribal connotations outside the Bulawayo High Court while celebrating the release of...Published: 31 Aug 2019 at 18:40hrs | 346 | by Staff reporter
Journalist robbed at gunpoint
ZIMPAPERS' Mutare-based journalist Abel Zhakata was reportedly robbed of US$2 000 cash, an undisclosed amount of bond notes and cellphones at gunpoint at his Dangamvura home on Wednesday night....Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:41hrs | 1016 | by Staff reporter
Teenage car thief jailed 2 years
A 17-year-old boy was yesterday sentenced to an effective two years in prison for stealing two cars. He was initially sentenced to three years by Harare magistrate Mrs Babra Mateko before she suspende...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:26hrs | 417 | by Staff reporter
Suspected card cloner in court
A Congolese national appeared in court yesterday for allegedly cloning a CABS debit card belonging to Reuben Tapera and using cash amounting to $4 954 to buy goods at N. Richards wholesalers which he ...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 07:32hrs | 340 | by Staff reporter
Woman (24) found with smuggled 2kg drugs
A WOMAN from Bulawayo and her boyfriend have been arrested for possessing 2kg of crystal methamphetamine, a dangerous drug in the same class as cocaine, worth more than $120 000 which was smuggled fro...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 08:48hrs | 542 | by Staff Reporter
300 Zimbabweans nabbed in Musina blitz
ABOUT 300 people believed to be Zimbabweans were on Wednesday arrested around Musina, including the Beitbridge Border Post areas, for allegedly flouting South African immigration laws, officials in So...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 08:18hrs | 7934 | by Staff Reporter
Soldiers arrested for stealing scrap metal, illegal mining
Two soldiers have been taken to court for stealing scrap metal from their employer in Mutare and selling it to a local dealer.Farai Chada (30) and Antony Mashaira (43), who are both employed b...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:59hrs | 825 | by Staff reporter
Like Mnangagwa, Mphoko knows he will not be treated fairly
Former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko is not a fugitive as reported by some sections of media but is at home and cooperating with the detectives from the Anti-Corruption Commission his lawyer has s...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:59hrs | 1166 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Latest on Phelekezela Mphoko
Former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko is not a fugitive as reported by some sections of media but is at home and cooperating with the detectives from the Anti-Corruption Commission his lawyer has s...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 06:39hrs | 3167 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Court remands MDC Secretary General to October
Harare Magistrates Court has remanded MDC Secretary General, Chalton Hwende to 16 October.Hwende appeared at the courts on Monday for a routine remand. Hwende is facing charges of plot...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 12:01hrs | 2085 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mphoko faces arrest
FORMER Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko faces imminent arrest after resisting officers from the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) who wanted to pick him up from his Bulawayo home over allega...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:39hrs | 411 | by Staff reporter
US$72 000 robbery sucks in policemen
A policeman believed to be part of a gang that was caught on camera while raiding Draycott Farm where it stole over US$72 000, yesterday appeared in court facing robbery charges. Constable Fre...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 23:57hrs | 549 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira detective in mysterious transfer
IN a move that may jeopardise investigations into the corruption case against ex-Minister of Environment, Tourism and Hospitality Industry Prisca Mupfumira, a detective who arrested the politician has...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:08hrs | 1408 | by Staff reporter
Which era had the best dramas?
So brilliant were their exploits such that long after the closing credits, their action on the small screen lingered, never to be forgotten.Their delivery was so sublime. Decades later, snippe...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 07:23hrs | 223 | by Prince Mushawevato
Ex-cop serving sentence arrested over drugs
A FORMER Bulawayo police officer who is performing community service for possessing dangerous drugs has appeared in court after he was arrested with dagga and unregistered medicines. Samuel Ta...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 09:46hrs | 574 | by Staff reporter
No joy for Zimbabwe drug dealer in SA
The 38-year-old Zimbabwean woman, who arrested by South African authorities recently in connection with the smuggling of drugs worth R2 million into that country via Beitbridge Border Post, has been d...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 14:50hrs | 2611 | by Staff reporter
2 jailed for stealing jack-hammer
TWO men yesterday pleaded guilty to stealing a jack-hammer worth $18 000 at a gold mine in Odzi and were each sentenced to six months in jail. Huggins Nyanhanda (26) and Munyaradzi Rapanganwa ...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 07:18hrs | 264 | by Staff reporter
Top cop 'diverts' fuel to black market
A MATAGA Police Station Officer-in-Charge has appeared in court facing three counts of criminal abuse of office, where he allegedly bought fuel under the pretext of using it for police duties when in ...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:22hrs | 724 | by Staff reporter
Ex-top cop on life jail freed
THE Supreme Court has acquitted an ex-top police detective who was serving life imprisonment for fatally shooting a mine worker in a fight over the ownership of a gold mine in Fort Rixon in Matabelela...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 16:24hrs | 766 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: Mupfumira warned and cautioned statement
Priscah Mupfumira [ID number supplied] aged 68 years residing at House Number St Fairway, Mount Pleasant, Harare having been informed by Detective Assistant Inspector NDLOVU of the Zimbabwe Repub...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 07:14hrs | | by Online
Suspected armed robber arrested
Police have arrested one of the five suspects who robbed a Beitbridge foreign currency dealer of over half a million rand and US$4 500 and took off with his car after shooting him eight times. ...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 08:09hrs | 286 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers make off with US$70 000
Four suspected armed robbers allegedly pounced on three men who were parked in the Avenues area in Harare while counting their cash in a car and went away with more than US$70 000, $1 600 bond and oth...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 08:07hrs | 523 | by Staff reporter
Getaway car catches fire
TWO suspected copper cable thieves were recently arrested after their getaway car caught fire during a high-speed chase along Harare-Nyamapanda Road. The two were fleeing the police after stea...Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 14:24hrs | 995 | by Staff reporter
4 armed robbers shot dead
FOUR suspected serial armed robbers - out on bail facing 24 armed robbery charges involving cash, vehicles, guns and jewellery - were shot dead during a shootout with police in Kwekwe. The sus...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 07:16hrs | 1547 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest half a million rand robber
Police have arrested one of the five suspects who along with his accomplices pounced on a Beitbridge foreign currency dealer's house and robbed him over half a million Rands, US$4500 and a...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 16:48hrs | 2704 | by Staff reporter
Illegal forex vending sucks in cops
GOVERNMENT efforts to eliminate illegal foreign currency dealers from the streets of Harare are being hampered by the involvement of some unscrupulous police officers in the illicit trade, The Herald ...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 07:39hrs | 1571 | by Staff reporter
Suspected armed robbers, gold dealers in court
TWO suspected armed robbers have been arraigned before a Bulawayo court on charges of illegal possession of gold worth US$37 338.Robson Chatikobo (35) and Brezhnev Maposa (37) appeared before ...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 07:30hrs | 799 | by Staff reporter
Former top govt official in US$5 million Zinara storm
FORMER deputy chief secretary to the president and cabinet Ray Ndhlukula is in the eye of a storm after it emerged this week that he unprocedurally ordered the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 08:56hrs | 2110 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa faces a potential rebellion over Sikhala
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa faces a potential rebellion from his increasingly restive supporters riled by the party's decision to throw its deputy national chairperson Job Sikhala under the bus f...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 08:19hrs | 9002 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa throws Sikhala under the bus
THE opposition MDC yesterday disowned statements by its deputy national chairperson Job Sikhala that the party would overthrow President Emmerson Mnangagwa before the 2023 general elections, insisting...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 18:00hrs | 5497 | by Staff reporter
Spy on iPhone Messages with iPhone Spy
The ability to be able to spy on a phone can be highly beneficial. As a parent, you always worry about who your children are in communication with on their phones. As an employer, you need to monitor ...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 23:05hrs | 1388 | by Staff Writer
Woman detective challenges dismissal in High Court
A FIRED junior woman police detective, who was discharged after she extorted US$2 250 from a suspected forex dealer following arrest, has taken Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga to court challenging...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 08:00hrs | 664 | by Staff reporter
Cellphone booster robbers arrested
Five armed robbers have been arrested by the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for stealing about 300 litres of diesel and two 12 volt batteries from Telecel and E...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 18:56hrs | 3786 | by Staff reporter
Police officers clash over lucrative Gokwe mine
There was drama when police from Nembudzia Police Station fought and disarmed their counterparts from the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) in Gokwe after they tried to arrest an officer implic...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 08:11hrs | 1377 | by Staff reporter
Spy on iPhone messages with iPhone spy
The ability to be able to spy on a phone can be highly beneficial. As a parent, you always worry about who your children are in communication with on their phones. As an employer, you need to monitor ...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 22:43hrs | 560 | by Staff Writer
Police fire live bullets in Chinhoyi...kill 1 suspect
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has confirmed the arrest of three suspects and the death of another in a shooting incident which occurred while detectives from Vehicle Theft Squad(VTS) were in the proces...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 17:57hrs | 7212 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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