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Zimbabwe police names and shames drug barons - list
The Zimbabwe Republic Police names and shames the listed 32 drug barons and suppliers who were convicted by the courts throughout the country:- Admire Chamwaita (26), of Mfelandawonye, Beitbridge,...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 18:07hrs | 2282 | by Staff reporter
Buried alive for 3 days
WIPING his dusty face and shaking his muddied clothes, Owen Jaison (24) takes a huge sigh of relief.He had just dug his way out of belly of the earth for a kilometre.He and other 14 ar...Published: 13 Jan 2024 at 06:51hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean pastor, e-hailing driver found shot dead
A murder case has been opened with the police after an e-hailing driver who went missing on Saturday was found dead.Ison Mthombeni was found at a mortuary in Johannesburg with a bullet wound a...Published: 06 Nov 2023 at 05:02hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Musona joins Saudi Pro League side Al Riyadh FC
FORMER Warriors captain Knowledge Musona is set to continue his professional career in Saudi Arabia after completing a move to newly promoted club Al Riyadh FC from fellow Saudi Pro League side Al Tai...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Willard Katsande hijacked in South Africa
Reports coming from South Africa indicate that Zimbabwean born, South African based, soccer player Willard Katsande has survived a gruesome hijacking incident. Katsande who was recently on a p...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 08:40hrs | 13 | by Mandla Ndlovu
South Africa flagging fake IDs, passports
The net is closing in on syndicates manufacturing and selling fake South African passports and IDs.Following the arrest of a kingpin who allegedly sold fake IDs and passports, the Department o...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 09:18hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Truck driver vanishes
A TRUCK driver, Masimba Murombo (48) working for Biltrans Transport, went missing last Friday while transporting a consignment of copper from Chirundu to Harare.Preliminary investigations indi...Published: 19 Apr 2022 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Maimane slams Zanu-PF
One SA movement leader Mmusi Maimane has weighed in on the challenges of immigration in SA‚ laying the blame at the government's feet and slamming the Zimbabwean ruling party.Immigration con...Published: 26 Jan 2022 at 06:07hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Pro-ZANU PF activists and analysts are Zimbabwe regime's own worst enemies!
Losing our baby-girl in 2013, to a still-birth due to breeching, was undeniably one of the most traumatic and painful experiences in my entire life - which, even today, affects me in so many ways, inc...Published: 27 Nov 2021 at 12:38hrs | 4 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF elections mayhem exposes deadly infighting
POLITICAL temperature is boiling up in Zanu-PF's Mashonaland West province after acting chair Abiel Mujeri at the weekend barred provincial members from Zvimba, Chegutu, Makonde and Kadoma from presid...Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest 14 suspected armed robbers
Police have arrested 14 armed robbers who besieged a horticulture farm in Marondera and stole a disc plough valued at US$3000.The arrested are Godfrey Tatenda Nyapokoto (35), Fungai Mutigwina ...Published: 07 Oct 2021 at 07:04hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa named first black British billionaire
Zimbabwean-born business mogul and Econet founder, Mr Strive Masiyiwa, who has reportedly attained British citizenship, has been named the first black billionaire in the United Kingdom.Accordi...Published: 24 May 2021 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The discovery of mines in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe in Lomagundi district
The ex-members of the Pioneer Column during their exploration in the Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, discovered mining prospects in this country. During their tenure of exploration they eventua...Published: 31 Aug 2019 at 21:12hrs | 20 | by Givestar Kamuzonde
Zanu-PF gold baron, 9 others up for public violence
Prominent Chinhoyi gold dealer and Zanu-PF politician, Gerald Sairon, and nine others have been arrested and charged with public violence.Sairon, who is also the general manager at the controv...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabeist G4Os and their aging geriatric could not even read the signs
In November 2018, His Excellency, President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, boldly declared the open and unrelenting warfare against the evil of endemic corruption."In the Second Republic, we wil...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 10:04hrs | 5 | by Christopher Mutsvangwa
'Dead miners worked for a top polical cartel' Mliswa alleges
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has alleged that there is a cartel of politicians who are behind the illegal mining activities that led to the death of miners recently in Mashonaland West....Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 13:27hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Makorokozas to be regulated
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has told Parliament that the forthcoming Mines and Minerals Bill will include provisions that will regulate the conduct of artisanal miners, and ensure their safety wh...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 10:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance plots to form one party
Following the massive split that also contributed to the defeat of the MDC Alliance on the July elections, the alliance spokesperson Welshman Ncube told journalists that there are plans to build the c...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 13:38hrs | | by Sithabile Mafu
Govt abandons search for trapped miners
MINES and Mining Development ministry officials have abandoned the rescue mission at Eldorado Mine in Chinhoyi, where a dozen artisanal miners were reportedly trapped last week when a shaft collapsed....Published: 30 Aug 2018 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
12 artisanal miners still trapped underground
THE Mashonaland West Civil Protection Unit yesterday said it was still making frantic efforts to retrieve bodies of the 12 artisanal miners who were trapped underground following a shaft collapse at E...Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
12 people feared dead in Chinhoyi mine accident
TWELVE people are feared dead after a shaft collapsed at Eldorado Mine in Chinhoyi on Monday night.One of the survivors from Kadoma, who only identified himself as Tinashe, said more than 20 p...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
11 artisanal miners feared dead
`At least 11 suspected illegal gold miners are feared dead after a mine shaft collapsed at Eldorado Mine in Chinhoyi. Details are still sketchy but the mishap occurred last night when the mine...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 15:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chombo flew close to the sun but survived
Chombo flew close to the sun but survivedMarian Chombo flew close to the sun but survived Marian ChomboFortunate Gora Mash West CorrespondentLike the Greek mythical character Icaru...Published: 24 Jul 2018 at 13:59hrs | | by Fortune Gora
Police cause mayhem
Police in Chinhoyi clashed with artisanal miners at Eldorado gold mine last week leaving a trail of destruction and injuring women and children in the process.The police spent the better part ...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 20:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Illegal miner dies in a disused shaft mine in Khumalo suburb
An illegal miner died in a shaft in the splashy suburb of Khumalo in Bulawayo after he was trapped when it collapsed.Two of his colleagues survived the incident.The deceased miner Edmo...Published: 12 Nov 2017 at 17:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sex, cash, booze galore at Eldorado
THE normally quiet and poor surroundings of the Hunyani area just outside Chinhoyi was temporarily turned into a hive of activity following a gold rush triggered by Zanu-PF meddling at the gold rich E...Published: 16 Jul 2017 at 12:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Deadly gold rush in Mugabe's village
Eldorado mine in Zvimba South, Mashonaland West just like the legendary Spanish Eldorado is associated with death and loss of fortune.The ancient Eldorado was synonymous with a tribal ceremony...Published: 16 Jul 2017 at 12:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe equal to Jesus,'says Chipanga
AFTER attracting brickbats following his bootlicking that bordered on blasphemy in Marondera a few weeks ago, where he described President Robert Mugabe as an angel, Zanu-PF youth secretary, Kudzanai ...Published: 05 Jul 2017 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in South Africa beg for next meal
JOHANNESBURG - Having fled economic turmoil in Zimbabwe in 2008, Merlyn Ndou sought refuge in neighbouring South Africa; anticipating a change of fortunes, but the place of gold or Egoli, as South...Published: 19 Aug 2016 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
The case of a National Transitional Authority
Waiting for GodotWananchi, the motherland continues to heave and suffocate under the weight of a sterile oligarchy, exhausted and indeed frail nationalism, downright statism, indifference and ...Published: 15 Aug 2016 at 16:37hrs | | by Tendai Biti
Generations Actor Nyembezi buried
SCORES of people turned up to pay their final respects to veteran actor Nyembezi Kunene at the Saul Tsotetsi Sports Complex in Sebokeng, in the Vaal, yesterday.Known for his role as Macingwane...Published: 12 Jun 2016 at 09:52hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Open mind, close your legs- youths told
LIMPOPO health MEC Dr Phophi Ramathuba launched the province’s youth month celebrations in Eldorado Village last Wednesday.Addressing young people at the Eldorado Sports Ground, the MEC told...Published: 08 Jun 2016 at 16:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Man on the run for stabbing another at tavern
POLICE are looking for Lebohang Moakamedi, who is believed to be in his early 30s.Daily Sun reported that he is suspected of stabbing a man in a tavern at Eldorado Park, south of Joburg....Published: 12 Feb 2016 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Wife beats hubby's girlfriend at workplace
AN ESTRANGED Hwange woman, Moreblessing Musekwa, attacked her husband's girlfriend at her workplace, leaving her half-naked after accusing the complainant of having an extra-marital affair with her hu...Published: 06 Nov 2015 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bona Mugabe, in-laws in farm 'grab'
President Robert Mugabe's daughter Bona and her in-laws are caught up in a damaging land dispute after they allegedly elbowed out Zanu-PF political commissar for Mashonaland East Province Herbert Shum...Published: 28 Oct 2015 at 20:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinese national sues Zimbabwean magistrate for being biased
A disgruntled Chinese foreign national facing charges of fraud involving $10,5 million has sued the magistrate presiding over the case for bias and refusal to recuse himself.Zhou Haixi, who is...Published: 07 Jul 2015 at 20:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's son in mine wrangle
TWO businessmen implicated in a $10 million fraud case involving a gold mine in Chinhoyi have filed an application for discharge at the close of the State case and questioned involvement of Vice-P...Published: 06 Jun 2015 at 15:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T: Statement by the Alternative Minister for Industry and Commerce, Dr. Tapiwa Mashakada
The MDC alternative Cabinet continues to express its utter disgust and concern at the failure of the Zanu PF administration to resuscitate industry, eight months after forming a sham government....Published: 24 Apr 2014 at 14:51hrs | | by Dr. Tapiwa Mashakada
Whence Are the Kalanga (And the Question of Semitic Blood Addressed)
Editor, last week I penned an article titled "Who are the Kalanga?" which, apparently, excited a lot of interest j...Published: 02 Dec 2013 at 09:55hrs | 5 | by Ndzimu-unami Emmanuel Moyo
Cops kills wrong man
There was no need to ask where the scene of the crime was. It was everywhere, with several speeding police vehicles, guns aplenty and officers hanging out of car windows in a high-speed chase. A polic...Published: 30 May 2012 at 08:53hrs | | by IOL, Additional reporting by Sue Segar
Zimbabwean minister fingered in Rhino horn trade
LOCAL Government, Rural and Urban Development Deputy Minister Cecil Zvidzai has been named in a case in which three men were arrested in possession of two rhino horns worth US$120 000 last week, state...Published: 11 Jan 2012 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
More human remains and ammunition found in Mashonaland
State media reports that more human remains and ammunition suspected to be from the liberation struggle have been found at Eldorado Gold Mine in Mashonaland.Mine workers recently stumble...Published: 10 Jan 2012 at 21:04hrs | | by Mafu Sithabile
Human remains found in a mine in Chinhoyi
WORKERS at a mine in Chinhoyi stumbled upon human remains including three skulls, live rounds of ammunition and hand grenades on Saturday.Mashonaland West police spokesperson Inspector Clemenc...Published: 26 Dec 2011 at 20:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwekwerere buys R14000 worth of artificial teeth
CAPS United striker Evans Gwekwerere has finally got a facelift! He can now smile thanks to a recent investment in dentures.The bustling forward revealed to B- Metro that he bought R1...Published: 06 Dec 2011 at 12:51hrs | | by Mathew Ngwenya
Two women arrested for running an illegal clinic
Johannesburg - Two women were arrested in Freedom Park on Friday for allegedly running an illegal clinic, Gauteng police said. They were found in possession of medical equipment and medici...Published: 12 Aug 2011 at 16:27hrs | | by Moyo Roy
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