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Man stones mother to death
A MENTALLY challenged man from Matobo fatally struck his mother with stones. In their twitter page, police confirmed the incident which occurred on September 16. In another case a mentally challenged ...Published: 11 hrs ago | 794 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe Kazembe's rigging plot exposed
FIREWORKS are expected at a potentially explosive Zanu-PF Mashonaland Central provincial executive meeting Monday as the provinces top guns lock horns in a do-or-die pre-election encounter.The...Published: 11 hrs ago | 666 | by Staff reporter
Prophet causes stir in Mutare
There was chaos in Mutare during Prophet Isaiah Brian Sovi's Prophetic invasion of the city where scores gathered in an attempt to attend the service and some had to be turned away due to the COVID 19...Published: 14 hrs ago | 2441 | by Mandla Ndlovu
New CCC political party formed in Harare
A new political party called Citizens Convergence for Change (CCC), has registered with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) of its existence.In a letter addressed ZEC on Monday, the party'...Published: 15 hrs ago | 4063 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Democracy is dying under Mnangagwa
LAST Wednesday, Zimbabwe joined the rest of the world in commemorating World Democracy Day but the country faces a darkening future under the current leadership, with gains made in the recent past bei...Published: 22 hrs ago | 2027 | by Staff reporter
Fired MSU lecturer found dead
A MIDLANDS State University philosophy lecturer, Ishmael Jeko, was found dead in his house last Friday.Jeko was vice-president of Midlands State University Lecturers Association (MSULA)....Published: 22 hrs ago | 5059 | by Staff reporter
Govt to correct Battle of Pupu story
GOVERNMENT has taken a bold step to correct a one-sided narrative of the famous Battle of Pupu, which for many years deliberately overlooked the African perspective. Under President Mnangagwa, the Sec...Published: 23 hrs ago | 633 | by Staff reporter
Johanne Marange Church sued for marrying off young girls
The constitutionality of the Johanne Marange Apostolic Church doctrine of marrying off young girls and covering up alleged sexual abuse among congregants is now under the spotlight after gender activi...Published: 23 hrs ago | 711 | by Staff reporter
Highway fuel robbers nabbed in Beatrice
Two suspects have been arrested by Chivhu police on allegations of stealing diesel from Fossil Contractors machinery parked on their site along Harare-Masvingo highway after a high-speed chase. ...Published: 23 hrs ago | 490 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga in fierce battle to control Masvingo provinces
"Ladies and gentlemen the situation in our country has reached another level…," said the late army General Sibusiso Moyo while addressing the nation during the November 2017 sanitized coup whi...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 18:14hrs | 5261 | by Staff reporter
Four perish, one seriously injured
Four people died on the spot while one was seriously injured when a Mercedes Benz they were travelling in veered off the road before uprooting trees this ...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 13:06hrs | 4131 | by Simbarashe Sithole
WATCH: Zanu-PF UK and Europe convened in Midlands
ZANU PF UK AND ENGLAND had their first post-COVID general meeting on Saturday in Northampton Midlands in England. The meeting came when the President of Zimbabwe cde Emerson Dambudzo MNANGAGWA is mark...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 09:13hrs | 2534 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mwonzora councillors resolve to back Mnangagwa wife
The MDC-T dominated Harare City Council has resolved to support first lady Auxilia Mnangagwa's projects amid accusations that the Douglas Mwonzora-led outfit is abusing the local authority's resources...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:55hrs | 2000 | by Staff reporter
Simple recipe for Zanu-PF or MDC victory
A good number of those outstanding Zimbabweans who have chosen to serve their country as doctors, accountants, teachers, clergymen, lawyers, journalists, businessmen, politicians, documentary film-mak...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:54hrs | 803 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Violent father charged with murder
A FILABUSI villager, who was in 2017 sentenced to 12 months in jail for assaulting his two children, is back in the dock facing fresh charges of killing one of them with a knobkerrie.Nkazimulo...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:46hrs | 632 | by Staff reporter
Woman dies in tractor accident
A 48-YEAR-OLD woman from Matobo district's Nyongolo area in Kezi died after falling from a moving tractor.Matabeleland South acting police spokesperson Sergeant Thandolwenkosi Moyo said Nothan...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:46hrs | 590 | by Staff reporter
Are sangomas really 'linked' to armed robberies?
Armed robbery in criminal law is an aggravated form of theft that involves the use of a lethal weapon a victim typically motivated by the desire to obtain money.Cases of armed robbery have rea...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:44hrs | 243 | by Blessing Mandabva
Villagers make way for billion dollar Chinese project
"Instead of joy and fulfilment, the fortunes sitting in the bowels of our fathers' land have brought misfortunes upon us," 78-year-old Chokutaura Chananda said ruefully.Chananda is among hundr...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:42hrs | 686 | by Staff reporter
Poor roads haunt region
WHILE roads development brings social, cultural and economic changes in the lives of people in terms of providing connectivity between places and reducing poverty, in rural Matabeleland it is a privil...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:40hrs | 138 | by Staff reporter
Suicide cases trigger alarm in Zimbabwe
"It is so hard to take it in because I could not hear him scream or anything, it is too painful," those are the heart-breaking words from Farai Munemo's mother Felistas Mundere.Munemo would ha...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:39hrs | 251 | by Staff reporter
Why I wrote Mnangagwa book
Former MDC politician Eddie Cross says he could not turn down an opportunity to write President Emmerson Mnangagwa's autobiography because he was impressed with his attitude.Cross (EC), the au...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:34hrs | 437 | by Staff reporter
Smuggler bus driver attacks cops and flees
POLICE in Bulawayo on Wednesday last week arrested one driver while another escaped and is reportedly still on the run after they were busted with a haul of smuggled goods that included groceries, hom...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:30hrs | 406 | by Staff reporter
'Dead' 14kg gold smuggler resurfaces, arrested
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested Jefat Chaganda, the chief suspect in the 14 kilogramme gold case that happened in Plumtree in 2018.The case also resulted in the arrest of nine other suspects ...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:16hrs | 487 | by Staff reporter
President E D Mnangagwa @ 79 and overcoming the struggle in transition
The surfeit of one's proximity to a hero has a tendency of dissuading them from appreciating their rarely accorded access to greatness — such is the descriptive parable of the privilege I have to se...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:16hrs | 65 | by Dr Obert Moses Mpofu
Zera probe unearths fuel scam
AN investigation by the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) has unearthed "massive abuse" of the Zimbabwean dollar fuel facility by oil marketers that insist on US dollar payments despite acce...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:12hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
Mentally ill woman commits suicide
A Bindura woman who was suffering from some form of mental illness decided to end her life on Friday by drinking termite poison.Doricah...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:06hrs | 158 | by Simbarashe Sithole
BREAKING: Johannesburg's Zimbabwean mayor dies in car crash
Johannesburg's mayor Jolidee Matongo, a Zimbabwean only elected to the position last month, has died in a car accident.Matongo was involved in a car accident after the ANC program in Soweto wh...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 20:13hrs | 7023 | by Staff reporter
Africa: A complex trajectory and legacy of military coups
FOR their spectacular nature, coups always appear like new phenomena when actually they are an old military and political issue that dates back to the genesis of humanity.It is like that in th...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:49hrs | 629 | by William Jethro Mpofu
Mugabe's contested legacy far from settled
TWO years after the death of former president Robert Mugabe, there remains no consensus regarding his legacy, with conflicting perceptions of the liberator-turned-despot dominating debate whenever his...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:40hrs | 786 | by Staff reporter
CIO boss entangled in BAT bribery scandal
A joint investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, BBC Panorama and the University of Bath reveals British American Tobacco (BAT) was linked to a conspiracy to pay a bribe of between US$...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:39hrs | 1412 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to deploy instructors to Mozambique
A CONTINGENT of Zimbabwean military instructors earmarked for deployment to train Mozambican soldiers in the conflict-ridden northern parts of the country is currently on standby in Nyanga, while awai...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:37hrs | 765 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers in trouble as AK-47 rifles vanish
SOLDIERS deployed at the residence of the late Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander Vitalis Zvinavashe have landed themselves in soup after three AK-47 assault rifles and several rounds of ammunition wer...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:35hrs | 771 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora's MDC-T elects female deputy mayor
THE Municipality of Chegutu Friday underwent rituals to formalise the nomination and appointment of Ward 6 councillor, Dadirai Guyo as the town's new deputy mayor.Guyo becomes the first female...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:32hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
Gold panner dies after falling into mine shaft
A GOLD panner died after he fell into a 20-metre-deep mine shaft in Umzingwane while illegally prospecting for gold. Matabeleland South provincial police spokesperson, Inspector Loveness Mange...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 06:25hrs | 842 | by Staff reporter
Young Women for ED in Bulawayo outreach programme
YOUNG Women for Economic Development (YW4ED) Bulawayo province will on Monday hold an outreach programme in the city, to educate people about the organisation and how they can benefit from it. ...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 06:24hrs | 853 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean doctors challenged to be professional, united
Doctors need to be united, ethical and professional at all times in their discharge of critical service, Vice President and Minister of Health and Child Care Dr Constantino Chiwenga said last night du...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 06:23hrs | 585 | by Staff reporter
Eighth SA soldier in court for smuggling stolen vehicles to Zimbabwe
South Africa's special crime unit, the Hawks have arrested the eighth soldier involved in the smuggling of stolen vehicles into Zimbabwe via the Limpopo River. The Hawks, and other members of ...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 19:49hrs | 258 | by Staff reporter
Ex-cop took out 16 policies on boyfriend
THE former police officer accused of murdering six of her relatives testified on Thursday that she had taken out 16 policies on her boyfriend amounting to more than R400 000. Nomia Rosemary Nd...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 19:49hrs | 966 | by Staff reporter
Row over Shiri estate
THE family of late national hero and Cabinet minister Perrance Shiri has questioned the authenticity of documents used by the Master of the High Court Eldard Mutasa to handle his vast empire.A...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:29hrs | 2517 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 2nd Republic of contradictions, inconsistencies
DEVELOPMENTS in the past few days and weeks have shown that those in charge of our so-called Second Republic are nothing more than a clueless bunch given to gross lies, glaring contradictions and emba...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:26hrs | 480 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
MPs, govt cross swords over forced vaccination
BUSINESS almost ground to a halt in Parliament on Wednesday when MPs from across the political divide challenged government's recent decision to ban unvaccinated civil servants from reporting for duty...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:25hrs | 1167 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dragged into mine dispute
THE names of Zimbabwe's late strongman Robert Mugabe and his successor, President Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured) have been dragged into a blazing dispute over Ran Gold Mine, a Mashonaland Central domic...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:22hrs | 494 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe: A nationalist hero and authoritarian dictator
A group of Robert Gabriel Mugabe admirers, linked to Zanu-PF, has published a profile of Robert Mugabe. They are trying to provide a profile of the late president, combining both the positive and nega...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:21hrs | 332 | by Fay Chung
'Zimbabwean families struggling to buy food'
LEADING consumer bodies have confirmed that residents are experiencing decreased food levels in households on the back of the rising cost of living.This comes following a recent damning report...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:19hrs | 284 | by Staff reporter
Power outages new blow to recovery
LOCAL businesses, still reeling from the devastating effects of Covid-19 lockdowns, have suffered yet another blow following a load shedding schedule by the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distr...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:17hrs | 132 | by Staff reporter
Sex for debt landed me in jail
A man from Binga is languishing in prison after he was convicted on rape charges that he claims were manufactured by a neighbour who had failed to pay his debt on time.Sanele Ncube (46), who i...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:15hrs | 1990 | by Staff reporter
Ex vows to snatch man from wife
No ways!Nomsa Gonouya, a defiant ex-girlfriend, vowed in court that she will not rest until she gets her married ex-lover back.But her ex-lover wants nothing to do with her because he ...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:11hrs | 570 | by Staff reporter
Soldier issues death threats to ex-lover
Tendai Mafukidze regrets falling in love with one soldier who now threatens to kill her for dumping him.Mafukidze, who resides in Nkulumane, made the shocking revelations that Langton Ndlovu d...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:10hrs | 229 | by Staff reporter
Zupco in head-on collision, 1 dead
One person died on the spot while six others were injured when a car collided head on with a Zupco commuter omnibus along the Kwekwe -Redcliff Road. The driver of a Toyota Alex died on the spo...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:09hrs | 394 | by Staff reporter
Security taskforce intercepts 2 fuel tankers
The national security taskforce has intercepted two fuel tankers carrying 43 000 litres of fuel that was being smuggled from South Africa to Zimbabwe via the Beitbridge Border Post. Each truck...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:06hrs | 250 | by Staff reporter
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