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Zimbabwe will not issue title deeds for illegally acquired land
The Zimbabwean government has announced that it will not issue title deeds for properties built on land illegally allocated by land barons, as part of a drive to clamp down on dubious land allocations...Published: 17 Mar 2025 at 11:26hrs | 4685 | by Staff reporter
Cop implicated in US$53 000 robbery loot
Police have launched a manhunt for one of the six police officers implicated in the seizure of about US$25 500 cash from two security guards who picked us$53 000 that was dropped during a robbery at Q...Published: 22 Mar 2024 at 11:22hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's councillors tussle for mayoral post
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) councillors in Marondera are reportedly tussling for the mayoral position despite calls by their leader Nelson Chamisa to focus on the current poll result dispute....Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 06:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
High Court quashes discriminatory 1968 law
THE High Court has ruled that husbands of police officers should receive medical and dental services as dependants after ruling that a 1968 discriminatory law on the services was unconstitutional....Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 06:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
An unusual lifesaver for sex workers
IF words could explain the tale of this Marondera woman, the tag "heroic" will aptly explain the exploits of Primrose Fundai.She looks like no superwoman though; neither does she wear a superh...Published: 03 Jun 2023 at 08:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Govt revises target from 220 000 to 1 million housing units by 2025
The government has revised from 220 000 to 1 million the target it had set to build housing units and related social amenities by 2025 following the tremendous progress that it has made across the cou...Published: 11 May 2023 at 05:28hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Man challenges Zimbabwe's Police Act
A MARONDERA man, Kenias Shonhai has filed a High Court application challenging the constitutionality of Zimbabwe's Police Act saying it is discriminatory and inconsistent with the country's Constituti...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 06:48hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Govt's housing projects take shape
Nearly a dozen Government-funded housing projects involving the construction of high-rise residential flats and servicing of land for thousands of residential stands are currently underway countrywide...Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 08:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Teen electrocuted while stealing Zesa cables
A MARONDERA teenager (15) was electrocuted on April 17 while attempting to steal Zesa copper cables from a 200kV transformer.A police memorandum dated April 17 seen by NewsDay stated that the ...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
2022 population census kicks off
THE 2022 population and housing census, which is conducted after every 10 years by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat), begins today.Yesterday marches were held in all major citi...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 11:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Man faces arrest for 7 counts of murder
Chief Negomo resident Bright Zhantali (30) was arrested on Saturday for allegedly murdering seven women on different counts.On first count 15 January Zhantali raped and choked Merc...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 11:53hrs | 2 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Schools e-learning facilities equipped
PRIMARY and Secondary schools in the Midlands Province have been equipped with computer laboratories, which are set to enhance the e-learning policy spearheaded by Government in line with the National...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Woman burnt in mysterious inferno
POLICE in Marondera, Mashonaland East province, have launched investigations into a case where a woman was mysteriously burnt beyond recognition in her room in Dombotombo high-density suburb on Friday...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 05:43hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP clears the air on CDF abuse allegations
Shurugwi South Member of Parliament Edmond Mkaratigwa (ZANU PF) has come out clean on the allegations of abuse of the constituency development fund.The MP yesterday released documents of the f...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 10:39hrs | | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Family demands $900,000 for anti-govt protester's death
A MARONDERA woman, Erenia Guwa, whose husband was fatally shot by members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) during the January 2019 demonstration, has approached the High Court, demanding compensa...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 07:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF in emergency meetings
THE Zanu-PF youth league in Mashonaland East province yesterday held an emergency meeting in Marondera to devise ways to thwart tomorrow's nationwide protests organised by the MDC.NewsDay is r...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police warn rioters
POLICE are ready and will in future not hesitate to react ruthlessly if attacked by rioters a senior police officer here has warned.Officer Commanding Marondera district, Superintendent Didymu...Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 21:12hrs | 2 | by newzimbabwe
MDC Alliance factions shun court
An MDC-Alliance member has escaped the law's wrath for maliciously damaging property after he stoned and damaged a party official's vehicle. Lenon Zhanje, aligned to MDC-Alliance secretary-gen...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Car stoned in MDC Alliance violence
An MDC Alliance member yesterday escaped the law's wrath for maliciously damaging property after he stoned and damaged a party official's vehicle. Lenon Zhanje, aligned to MDC Alliance secreta...Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bogus soldier jailed
A Beatrice man who was caught wearing a Zimbabwe National Army uniform in Marondera has been sentenced to an effective six months in prison at the Marondera Magistrates Court.The 24-year-old T...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 11:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Protesters jailed 30 years for destroying police station
FIVE Marondera men who were part of protesters that destroyed a police station, were on Friday sentenced to a combined 30 years in jail by magistrate Pasipanodya Maturure, who found them guilty of pub...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers 'demanded' free, unprotected sex from sex workers
SEX WORKERS in Marondera have accused soldiers of demanding free and unprotected sex from them.The soldiers were deployed in parts of the small farming town following violent protests that roc...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:57hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe demos and the double face of human rights activists
The recent shutdown called for by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) and backed by its affiliates, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Alliance, some non-governmental organisations and civi...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 22:34hrs | | by Norman Moyo
Emotions charge up as Army victims are buried
Emotions were highly charged up over the weekend as three of the reported twelve army victims were buried. One was laid in Harare, one in Marondera and another in Chimanimani.During th...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 07:19hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe protesters overrun police station
Eighteen protesters who allegedly invaded and caused damage to a police in station in Marondera on Thursday appeared before magistrate Ignatius Mugova facing charges of public violence.Some of...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man bashes ex-wife for divorcing him
A Marondera woman was left for dead after being attacked by her former husband who could not take being divorced.The former husband, Jakie Munene (29) from Harare's Mufakose suburb travelled a...Published: 27 Dec 2018 at 19:12hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Militia gangs in ZANU PF: Ex-member speaks out
A former ZANU PF activist Setfree Mafukidze has for the first allowed Zimbabweans to peep into the dreaded militia gangs that are used by the party to inflict violence on opposition member...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 15:40hrs | 17 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Marondera boreholes contaminated
Water from some public boreholes in Marondera town is contaminated and unsafe for consumption, latest laboratory tests show.Following the outbreak of cholera in Harare, the Environmental Manag...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 15:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa heads to Marondera
PRESIDENT and First Secretary of Zanu-PF Emmerson Mnangagwa will be in Marondera today where he will address a star rally at Rudhaka Stadium.This is the President's second visit to Mashonaland...Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 11:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa for Rudhaka Stadium star rally
President and First Secretary of Zanu-PF Emmerson Mnangagwa will be in Marondera today where he will address a star rally at Rudhaka Stadium. This is the President's second visit to Mashonalan...Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 11:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
400 voters using 1 address explained
Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Justice Mrs. Priscilla Makanyara Chigumba has denied allegations that there are addresses with 400 registered voters on the final voters roll.In...Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 15:40hrs | 1 | by Ndou Paul
'400 share single address on voters' roll'
THE Nelson Chamisa led MDC-T claims to have unearthed gross anomalies on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) voters' roll released last week, with over 400 voters registered under one non-existent...Published: 02 Jul 2018 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF candidate launches 'Bhora Mugedhi' campaign
Zanu-PF Marondera Central candidate Cleopas Kundiona has launched whirlwind campaigns in the provincial capital denouncing the "Bhora Musango" mentality among some party supporters ahead of the July 3...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Headmaster up for attempted rape
A 39-year-old Die Roots Primary School headmaster has been arraigned before a Marondera court for attempted rape and indecent assault, after he allegedly fondled his 15-year-old maid's breasts and pri...Published: 14 May 2018 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF's elections a total disaster
HARARE - Zanu PF's hotly-contested primary elections took place countrywide yesterday amid violent and chaotic scenes, as well as damaging allegations of bribery, favouritism and the imposition of can...Published: 30 Apr 2018 at 16:54hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Marondera residents speak on new traffic lights
Marondera residents have appealed to the local authority to set up pedestrian crossing markings at the recently installed traffic lights intersection of the Harare-Mutare highway and Pine Street in th...Published: 21 Mar 2018 at 14:54hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Prophet feeds 'snake' with semen
A 36-YEAR-OLD self-styled Marondera prophet, who on several occasions allegedly forced his former workmate to have backside sex with him before he was caught feeding semen to a snake, was on Tuesday a...Published: 08 Mar 2018 at 05:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Soldiers join Zanu-PF campaign
ZANU-PF's Mashonaland East leadership has roped in an army officer to assist the ruling party's Marondera Central district election campaign team.NewZimbabwe.com reported that the development ...Published: 03 Mar 2018 at 11:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Business as usual across Zimbabwe
It is business as usual in the Midlands mining town of Zvishavane with residents saying they are going about on their daily routines.Today is just an ordinary Thursday in Zvishavane.Go...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 15:46hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Let's remember our heroes indeed
Editor, thank you very much for publishing my letter. Now that the Heroes Day is somewhere in the air, its time to reflect and introspect.In Senga, Gweru, roads in this old high density suburb...Published: 11 Aug 2017 at 13:04hrs | 1 | by Precious Chibhira
FreeZim leader 'stole' cooking pots
Free Zimbabwe Congress party leader, Peter Svinurai (40) allegedly stole two cooking pots belonging to a woman contracted to do catering at the party's rally held in Marondera.Svinurai yesterd...Published: 01 Jul 2017 at 14:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe breathes life to Marondera
Groups of unemployed youth sat down by the roadside admiring a man skilfully operating a heavy tar-making machine.Bitumen company machinery and heavy vehicles had become a source of entertainm...Published: 04 Jun 2017 at 20:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Manhunt for Marondera killer cop
POLICE in Marondera have launched a manhunt for a fugitive police officer, Constable Phillip Tichaona Kavhukatema, who fatally shot his boss at Dombotombo Support Unit Base in Marondera on Saturday mo...Published: 02 May 2017 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Leaked police MEMO on shot cop
MEMORANDUM TO: OFFICER COMMANDING POLICE SUPPORT UNIT FROM: OFFI...Published: 30 Apr 2017 at 11:38hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Shot cop identified
The ZRP officer who was shot dead on Saturday morning by another police officer has been identified as Sergeant Major J. Kazembe.Kazembe was allegedly shot by constable Kavhukatema Phillip Tic...Published: 29 Apr 2017 at 20:10hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Photo of cop who shot and killed a colleague released
The photograph of policeman who gunned down another cop this morning in Marondera has been released....Published: 29 Apr 2017 at 17:40hrs | 9 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Cop shot dead by colleague
A member of the police force identified as a Sgt Major was allegedly shot dead by another police officer in Marondera on Saturday morning.Sources familiar with the situation told Bulawayo24.co...Published: 29 Apr 2017 at 13:58hrs | 3 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Parents 'murder' son over drugs
An 18-year-old Marondera pupil who collapsed at school following reports that he had taken some unknown illicit drugs was flog to death by his parents.James Mukwirimba (44) and his wife ...Published: 14 Apr 2017 at 04:38hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Parents beat son to death over drugs
An 18 year old Form 5 Nyameni High School was found dead at his family yard hours after allegedly having been hit by his parents on suspicion of drug abuse.The child Ashley Tanyaradzwa Muk...Published: 07 Apr 2017 at 15:31hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Sex workers accepting Mobile Money payments
SPORTING a skimpy pink skirt that reveals much of her legs, 21-year old Florence Nheta (not her real name) waits at the entrance of a nightclub at Dombotombo, popularly known as Pakirawa, in Maron...Published: 29 Oct 2016 at 16:32hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
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