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Air Force commander files notice of opposition
AIR Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) commander Air Marshal Elson Moyo, who is being sued by a former subordinate he fired last year for trespassing into a gold mine in Kwekwe, has approached the High Court to ...Published: 20 hrs ago | 965 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo poor water quality sees increase in waterborne diseases
BULAWAYO is recording an increase in waterborne diseases as the local authourity grapples with inconsistences in the city's water quality despite its treatment chemicals meeting national standards. ...Published: 02 Sep 2021 at 06:13hrs | 113 | by Staff reporter
Sally Mugabe hospital in baby swap storm
An astonishing spectacle is unfolding at Sally Mugabe Hospital after an expecting mother, Blessing Kachembere, gave birth on 17 August. In a bizarre chain of events, the midwife told her she h...Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 07:57hrs | 1919 | by Staff reporter
Evicted cop drags Matanga to court
POLICE Commissioner General, Godwin Matanga, has been dragged to court by a former police officer, Tadiwa Chadiwa, after he sent ex-colleagues to evict him out of a house in St Mary's, Chitungwiza....Published: 12 Aug 2021 at 08:15hrs | 2253 | by Staff reporter
Ernest 'Maphepha' Sibanda 'very much' alive
FORMER Highlanders' chairman and team manager Ernest 'Maphepha' Sibanda has been hospitalised at a private institution in Bulawayo after his sugar levels fluctuated, but his family is optimistic he wi...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 07:41hrs | 256 | by Staff reporter
AG unearths gross COVID-19 funds abuse
THE Auditor-General (AG) Mildred Chiri has exposed gross irregularities and deliberate manipulation of figures to facilitate theft of donations meant for COVID-19 relief allowances and projects that s...Published: 05 Aug 2021 at 06:22hrs | 1776 | by Staff reporter
Fired air serviceman sues Air Force commander
AN Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) serviceman who was recently fired for allegedly trespassing into a gold mine in Kwekwe has taken his former employers to court challenging his dismissal.Thembela...Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 18:57hrs | 439 | by Staff reporter
Masvingo City Council fires Engineer Gozo
Embattled Masvingo City Engineer Tawanda Gozo who has been on six months suspension has been relieved of his duties as Director of Engineering department in a judgement delivered during a special meet...Published: 24 Jul 2021 at 18:41hrs | 811 | by Staff reporter
Govt reduces workforce to 10%
GOVERNMENT has further decongested its workforce to 10 percent from 40 percent and temporarily closed some of its district offices in Hwange after staffers tested Covid-19 positive. In a circu...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 07:49hrs | 427 | by Staff reporter
Why Bulawayo service delivery is collapsing
LONG-TOUTED as the best-run local authority in the country, the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is failing to offer efficient services as seen by collapsing water and sewer infrastructure, failureto f...Published: 04 Jul 2021 at 14:33hrs | 668 | by Staff reporter
Man consumes poison at ex-wife's residence
A Zvishavane man is recuperating in hospital after he allegedly swallowed poison at his ex-wife's residence after being denied access to his children.Witnesses to the incident which occurred M...Published: 28 Jun 2021 at 07:18hrs | 2890 | by Staff Reporter
Popular Vic Falls cab driver dies on birthday
A TAXI driver died on the spot on his 30th birthday on Friday while his two cousins were injured when a vehicle they were travelling in veered off the road before overturning.Emmanuel Thunywa,...Published: 27 Jun 2021 at 21:59hrs | 3017 | by Staff Writer
Woman robbed foreign currency at gunpoint
A Plumtree woman was robbed of ZAR22 500 at gunpoint on Friday at her homestead in Ndolwane.Sethi Ndlovu lost a large amount of m...Published: 21 Jun 2021 at 06:57hrs | 6741 | by Desmond Nleya/Simbarashe Sithole
Mudzuri body dumping: 5 held
Five people believed to be relatives of the 23-year-old-man who died last week from injuries sustained after being attacked at Duriro Bar in the capital, were arrested on Wednesday after they dumped t...Published: 18 Jun 2021 at 07:21hrs | 1905 | by Staff reporter
Mudzuri probe latest
Police have intensified investigations into the case in which MDC-T vice president Elias Mudzuri is being accused of murdering a 23-year-old-man at his Duriro Bar in Harare last week.The Crimi...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 17:14hrs | 1973 | by Staff reporter
Dead body dumped at home of MDC-T's Elias Mudzuri
The body of a man who died following a brutal assault in a Harare bar has been dumped at the rural home of one of his alleged assailants, the MDC-T vice president Elias Mudzuri.Relatives left ...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 08:38hrs | 6027 | by Staff reporter
War vets make fresh demands for pension increases
MEMBERS of the Zimbabwe Liberation War Veterans Association (ZLWVA) Harare province Monday petitioned Parliament demanding equal monthly pensions awarded to other serving ex-combatants still employed ...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 08:21hrs | 490 | by Staff reporter
Man (50) poisons wife
A Glendale based man isin soup after he attempted to kill his wife with rat poison on Monday.Fidelis Nyanhi (50) of Major Brown farm, Glendale is assisting police with investigations after he ...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 04:52hrs | 2257 | by Simbarashe Sithole
MDC vice president Elias Mudzuri faces arrest for bar murder
MDC-T vice president Elias Mudzuri faces arrest for murder, ZimLive reported.The former Harare mayor was named by a dying man as the one of the people who brutally assaulted him at a bar in Ha...Published: 12 Jun 2021 at 09:07hrs | 5835 | by Staff reporter
Police in manhunt for Gwanda reign of terror armed robbers
POLICE have launched a manhunt for four suspected armed robbers that have been terrorising Gwanda residents.Matabeleland South acting provincial police spokesperson, Assistant Inspector Thaban...Published: 12 Jun 2021 at 07:51hrs | 376 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo cops deny torching kombis, blame 'vendors, touts and money changers'
Metro traffic cops in Bulawayo were accused of shifting blame after allegedly burning down two kombis in the city center on Wednesday and then telling their boss in an internal memo that the commuter ...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 07:39hrs | 2915 | by Staff reporter
Jealous man attempts to kill girlfriend, poisons seven
Police in Mashonaland Central province are hunting for Tawanda Kupara of Makunde village,Guruve under chief Bepura who allegedly poisoned seven people in ...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 00:58hrs | 1981 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Buttock spanking man assaulted
A VICTORIA Falls man, who beat up a stranger that had spanked his girlfriend's buttocks, has been sentenced to nine months in prison for assault.Bornwell Sibanda and his girlfriend, whose deta...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 18:12hrs | 2160 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest gold panner for murder case
POLICE in Matabeleland South province are investigating a murder case where a teenage gold panner was struck on the head by his colleague with the back of an axe and three months later, he died from s...Published: 31 May 2021 at 18:52hrs | 330 | by Staff reporter
Police hunt for armed robbers
POLICE in Matabeleland South province have launched a search for five suspected armed robbers who raided a house, stuck the occupant with an axe and got away with cash.Matabeleland South actin...Published: 28 May 2021 at 18:30hrs | 1813 | by Staff reporter
Lake Kariba water levels rising steadily
WATER levels in Lake Kariba are rising steadily as the second peak arrives from the Upper Zambezi catchment and the live storage, the upper levels of the lake between the inlets to the two power stati...Published: 28 May 2021 at 07:36hrs | 495 | by Staff reporter
Passengers thrown off truck
FIVE people cheated death and two of them sustained injuries when they were thrown out of a moving truck's load box after the driver lost control of the vehicle along the Victoria Falls-Hwange highway...Published: 26 May 2021 at 18:29hrs | 1461 | by Staff reporter
Kombi-bicycle crush, kombi passenger dies
ONE person died on the spot and eight passengers were seriously injured when a commuter omnibus they were travelling in hit a cyclist, veered off the road and rolled once before landing on its right s...Published: 26 May 2021 at 15:25hrs | 1375 | by Staff reporter
Woman stabs 'meddlesome' cousin
A 26-YEAR-OLD peacemaker from Lupinyu near Victoria Falls Airport was left nursing a stab wound after her cousin, who had a misunderstanding with her boyfriend, stabbed her with a broken beer bottle f...Published: 25 May 2021 at 17:32hrs | 1430 | by Staff reporter
Man fatally struck with machete in grudge fight
A 20-YEAR-OLD man from Zhombe, Midlands Province died on admission to hospital after being attacked by a machete during a nasty fight with his neighbors whom he had provoked into a fight over an undis...Published: 25 May 2021 at 17:31hrs | 894 | by Staff reporter
Shock as grave is opened a week after burial
A man who lost his daughter who stayed in South Africa suffered double tragedy after he got stabbed by his younger brother after a misunderstanding over a hole which was found on the late daughter's g...Published: 20 May 2021 at 06:34hrs | 3338 | by Staff reporter
Malaba saga: Govt appeals to wrong court, claims MDC activists
GOVERNMENT has reportedly erroneously filed an appeal against the declaratur by the High Court in former Chief Justice Luke Malaba's case to the Supreme Court instead of the Constitutional Court (ConC...Published: 19 May 2021 at 06:55hrs | 5769 | by Staff reporter
Couple savagely attacked, husband dies
A COUPLE from Pelandaba suburb in Bulawayo was attacked by robbers, leading to the death of the husband in a case that brings to the fore an alarming rise in crime and the collapse of the city's emerg...Published: 17 May 2021 at 06:42hrs | 3089 | by Staff reporter
Woman swallows 1kg cocaine at Zimbabwe airport
POLICE intends to further detain a woman who was found with 975 grammes of cocaine in her stomach at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport so that they recover the swallowed drug.The...Published: 13 May 2021 at 06:55hrs | 3993 | by Staff reporter
President Mnangagwa makes history as Chief Justice Malaba is saved by the bell
The present Constitution of Zimbabwe became fully operational on the 22nd August, 2013, having been assented to on the 22nd May, 2013, by the President as the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 2...Published: 09 May 2021 at 00:31hrs | 2263 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Policeman jailed for armed robbery
A 33-year-old ex-cop who was stationed at Chiredzi Central Police Station, Taurai Mujatiwa was last week imprisoned for 33 years by Chiredzi Regional Magistrate Judith Zuyu after being found guilty on...Published: 08 May 2021 at 19:14hrs | 800 | by Staff reporter
Embattled Ndewere fights to save her job
SUSPENDED High Court judge Erica Ndewere has dismissed allegations of incompetence levelled against her, arguing that witnesses brought to her drama-filled tribunal had failed to provide evidence as t...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:51hrs | 704 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo warms up to Covid-19 vaccination
BULAWAYO residents have warmed up to the Covid-19 vaccination drive amid revelations by health officials that as many as 2 000 people are coming forward on a daily basis for inoculation compared to on...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:50hrs | 214 | by Staff reporter
Air Force of Zimbabwe hands over property to chopper crash victims
The Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) yesterday handed over household property worth thousands of dollars to the Fenyere family, whose house was razed to the ground by flames when the Agusta Bell 412 (AB 41...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:00hrs | 410 | by Staff reporter
Church whirlwind injures congregants
COULD this be a sign of a visit by the Holy Spirit or some demon bent on destroying the church? These are some of the questions being asked by Victoria Falls residents after a whirlwind struck...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 08:02hrs | 387 | by Staff reporter
Rights Forum raises alarm as cases of arrests, torture rise
A LEADING human rights organisation, the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum, has raised strong concerns over the continuing rise in violations especially arbitrary arrests and torture mainly of oppositio...Published: 26 Apr 2021 at 06:31hrs | 240 | by Staff reporter
Chinese national axes workmate
A furious Chinese national, who said he was frustrated by his fellow countrymen at work in Glendale, Mashonaland Central province, picked an axe and struck his colleague on the hand.The matter...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 07:47hrs | 1674 | by Staff reporter
Man severely assaulted, thrown into flowing sewage
THREE Victoria Falls men have been arrested after they severely assaulted their neighbour until he lost consciousness before dumping his body in a nearby drain filled with sewage. Mr Khaliphan...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 07:12hrs | 788 | by Staff reporter
Peeping Tom terror for pregnant landlady
A man from Sizinda suburb who beat up his pregnant landlady after she caught him peeping through the bathroom window while she was bathing has been arrested.A family insider who spoke to B-Met...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 09:20hrs | 2903 | by Staff reporter
3 jailed for assault
THREE Victoria Falls men have been arrested after they severely assaulted their neighbour until he lost consciousness before dumping his body in a nearby drain filled with sewage.Mr Khaliphani...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 15:04hrs | 817 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe administrator lays out debt settlement plan
AIR Zimbabwe (AirZim) has sent out debt settlement agreement proposals to its multitudes of creditors, including over 300 former workers axed as the troubled airline slipped into turbulence in the pas...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 06:40hrs | 407 | by Staff reporter
Machete gang tortures top Zanu-PF official's wife
THE wife and two children of a senior Zanu-PF official in Kwekwe were last week tortured by machete-armed robbers at the family's home demanding gold.After failing to secure the gold the unide...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 06:56hrs | 785 | by Staff reporter
Fox attacks two women in a bush
TWO Dotito women were mauled by a wild fox on Thursday in the bush.Precious Nyakumunda (19) of Murisi village, Dotito was attacked on h...Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 11:35hrs | 2675 | by Simbarashe Sithole
One in three Covid-19 survivors suffer long-term health issues: review
At least one in three patients hospitalised with Covid-19 suffer long-term health issues including multiple organ problems and deteriorated mental health, according to a review of studies looking at t...Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 12:08hrs | 2589 | by Staff reporter
Jail Mamombe, throw away keys
The denial of bail to MDC-Alliance members Johana Mamombe and Cecila Chimbiri, on March 11 sparked a huge outcry from the usual quarters. Of note is that The Herald devoted merely three lines on the r...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 06:04hrs | 3295 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
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