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MK Party reinstates challenge to the rigged outcome of SA's 29 May elections
The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party has reinstated its electoral court challenge to the outcome of the 29 May national and provincial elections and has asked it to order a rerun of the poll.The pa...Published: 05 Oct 2024 at 12:31hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
ConCourt judges flout JSC code of conduct
THREE Constitutional Court judges have come under the spotlight after they failed to comply with the Judicial Service Commission code of ethics which requires them to deliver a judgement reserved with...Published: 29 Nov 2023 at 10:45hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Biti under probe in a case of misrepresentation
The prolonged legal dispute involving a residence in Ridgeway North, situated in Harare's Highlands suburb, continues to unfold, encompassing both a civil dispute regarding ownership and an ongoing cr...Published: 02 Nov 2023 at 20:19hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti in US$231,000 fraud storm
Tendai Biti, a senior member of the Citizen for Coalition for Change (CCC), is currently facing a major crisis, as he has become embroiled in an alleged US$231,000 fraud case. This investigation invol...Published: 01 Nov 2023 at 14:16hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
Rare bacterium behind elephant deaths in Botswana and Zimbabwe
The deaths of 350 elephants in Botswana's Okavango Delta and 35 at the bordering Hwange National Park and Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe in 2020 were due to a rare form of bacteria, scientists have finall...Published: 28 Oct 2023 at 12:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
A critical review of Al Jazeera's Gold Mafia documentary
APRIL, famously characterised as "the cruellest month" by distinguished poet and literary critic TS Eliot in his critically acclaimed essay "The Wasteland" - not because its first day celebrates fools...Published: 28 May 2023 at 17:07hrs | 3 | by Jonathan Moyo
Teenager glassed to death over sex worker
A 19-YEAR-OLD Glendale man was glassed to death in a dispute over a commercial sex worker.Cephas Matingaidze (19) died after he was stabbed with a broken bottle by Edison Shava (19) at Tsungub...Published: 18 Jan 2023 at 10:17hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Top Zimbabwe judges in the eye of a storm
A Harare businessman has written a letter of complaint to Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi raising allegations of criminal abuse of office, conflict of interest and ob...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:05hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Car hijacker nabbed
A 52-YEAR-OLD Shamva man is in hot soup after he stole his neighbour vehicle two times.Eliot Dzuda appeared before Bindura magist...Published: 02 Jul 2022 at 21:46hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Biti's clerk applies for another exception
In another bid to delay trial, a legal clerk with Tendai Biti Law Chambers, who is facing two fresh counts of fraud yesterday made a new application for exception on amended charges.The State ...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti clerk's trial applies for exception
A legal clerk with Tendai Biti Law Chambers, who is facing two fresh counts' of fraud yesterday made an application for exception.Constantine Chaza in his application argued that the charges o...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man assaults debtor's wife with cooking stick
An angry Shamva man flew in rage after he was not given the US$300 he was owed by his friend and ended up assaulting his friend's wife with a cooking stick.Eliot Dzuda was dragged to court aft...Published: 14 May 2022 at 19:50hrs | 6 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Matabeles not interested in Zimbabwe independence celebrations in Bulawayo
From on set, let us set the record straight. Matabeleland is not Zimbabwe and Zimbabwe is not Matabeleland. Zimbabwe/ Mashonaland, which voluntarily gave away its independence to the BSA Co on 13 Sept...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 08:32hrs | 6 | by Israel Dube
Trial date set for Biti's clerk
The trial for the legal clerk with Tendai Biti Law Chambers who is facing two fresh counts of fraud has hit a brickwall after the accused told the court that he needed certain documents to prepare his...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 17:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Trial date set for Biti's legal clerk
Harare Magistrate Mr Munashe Chibanda has set April 13 as the trial date for a legal clerk with Tendai Biti Law Chambers, who is facing two fresh counts of fraud. On the first count, it is all...Published: 06 Apr 2022 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti's clerk bail ruling today
The matter of the legal clerk, at Tendai Biti Law chambers, who is facing fresh two counts of fraud, continued yesterday with the State opposing bail.The State led by Mrs Shambadzeni Fun...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti's clerk spends weekend behind bars
A legal clerk at Tendai Biti Law chambers who is facing fresh two counts of fraud will spend the weekend behind bars awaiting his bail application on Tuesday.Constantine Chaza (53) was facing ...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man threatens wife with death
A WOMAN from Cowdray Park suburb is living in fear of being killed by her abusive husband who is always threatening to kill her.He at times undresses her and thrashes her with a rope.A...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
RBZ officials' trial in false start
THE trial of two Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe principal economists on allegations of leaking a de-dollarisation road map document on social media, saw a false start yesterday after the State indicated tha...Published: 03 Nov 2021 at 05:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Popular money changer on the run
A POPULAR money changer Henry "Harare" Gondowe is on the run after he violated a court order and went to his lover's place and allegedly insulted her saying she was a prostitute.When Harare vi...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 05:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Magaba, Siyaso traders defy COVID-19 regulations
BUSINESS has resumed at Mbare's Magaba home industry with informal traders defying COVID-19 lockdown regulations and going about their usual operations.This is despite that the government rece...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Developer swindles govt of over $2,5m
FOUR company officials from Savanna Land Developers appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court at the weekend on charges of swindling government of over $2,5 million.The quartet, who comprised G...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 05:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matanga wants to clean up police image
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga says because the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is largely viewed with disdain by the general public, it needs to improve its image.Matanga said this...Published: 30 May 2019 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mystery over 'resurrected' man's death
The man at the centre of a fake resurrection miracle staged by South African preacher Alph Lukau died vomiting blood, his family says.Lukau acted out a revival of "Elliot", who came to his chu...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 10:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Elliot craze spills into showbiz
DENDERA musician Suluman Chimbetu has had his band members referred to as "Elliot" because of their white stage attire.The name Elliot arose from the alleged resurrection miracle at a church i...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 14:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
No leads in Mnangagwa bombing
Investigations into a bomb blast that missed President Emmerson Mnangagwa by a whisker nearly six months ago do not seem to be heading anywhere, with the probe team still to apprehend suspects linked ...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 14:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The view from up here
Stalin's Chicken Part One: The case of Zimbabwe Just as axiety.org describes Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong, Jos...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 19:03hrs | | by Peter Muzira
3 traffic cops who bashed motorist acquitted
Three traffic police officers based at Kwekwe Central Police station were acquitted of malicious damage of property and assaulting a motorist yesterday by Kwekwe provincial magistrate Mr Stories Rusha...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 14:22hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
If MPs cannot nail blundering Chivayo what more Macavity, 'bafflement of Scotland Yard'
Watching these parliamentary committee hearings of Wicknell Chivayo, Minister Obert Mpofu, ZESA management, etc. is comparable to listening to the childhood stories of "Tsuro naGudo" (The hare and the...Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 18:06hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Corruption exposed at the National Blood Service of Zimbabwe.
There is rampant corruption in private institutions and if the government does not quickly look into it, thousands of dollars will be siphoned from such organisation leaving such institutions financia...Published: 06 Feb 2018 at 15:11hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwe's mystery car crash deaths
This is a 2013 article extracted from amabhungane website.The death of outspoken Zanu-PF MP Edward Chindori-Chininga has reignited debate over the mysterious deaths of Zimbabwean politicians t...Published: 21 Nov 2017 at 05:34hrs | | by amabhungane
Attempted murder accused Reverend claims that his life was in danger
UNITED Methodist Church Reverend Eliot Chikwenjere yesterday maintained he never wanted to kill the man thrown off the bonnet of his moving car when he was allegedly caught with his wife in the Centra...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 10:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Love triangle woman disowns hubby
The woman, who is alleged to be in the middle of a love triangle that led to the injury of her husband, last week disowned him.She told the court the two were no longer living together since h...Published: 17 Jul 2017 at 19:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Reverend caught with someone's wife
THE man, who was injured when he caught his wife with a United Methodist Reverend, yesterday wept uncontrollably as he narrated how he was thrown off a moving vehicle.David Gwarazimba, 47, bro...Published: 11 Jul 2017 at 15:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwundura constituency marred with pre-election violence
Chiwundura constituency is reported to be characterized by politically motivated violence largely targeted at opposition supporters. In 2004 and 2005, Albert Chidhakwa the current Zanu PF District Cha...Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 14:03hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Man thrown off moving car over 'cheating wife'
A 47-YEAR-OLD man sustained head injuries after he was thrown out of a moving vehicle driven by his wife's lover on Monday. David Gwarazimba jumped on to a bonnet and clung precariously on to ...Published: 14 Jun 2017 at 18:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru offers to be 'bridge NTA leader' - bridge imaginary river only her 'puppy eyes' can see
One of Mai Mujuru's weakness is her political naivety! She has spent 34 years in Zanu PF and she has never ever criticized all the corruption and murderous tyranny that took place. She has pla...Published: 07 Feb 2017 at 19:06hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Nera demonstrations expose Mujuru
The involvement of the Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) in the barbarous protests that rocked Harare recently exposed the true stripes of that party's founding fathers and mothers.For a while, Dr. ...Published: 08 Sep 2016 at 14:40hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Policemen severely brutalised
President Mugabe led State of the Republic of Zimbabwe has ideologically severely brutalised the role of the police force mobilising the force for political combat against the people it is suppo...Published: 02 Sep 2016 at 20:13hrs | | by Themba Mthethwa
Real prophets, please stand up!
FOR the past five years, Zimbabwe has witnessed a surge in the number of youthful prophets who are performing "miracles" and giving "prophecies". The rate at which the prophets are mushrooming...Published: 03 Jul 2016 at 15:59hrs | | by Brian Chitemba and Desire Ncube
Kasukuwere fails to foster unity in Mugabe's party
HARARE - Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu PF allies in Mashonaland Central who were fired from the ruling party say national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere has so far been unsuccessful...Published: 23 Dec 2015 at 12:40hrs | | by Staff Reported
Filabusi women complain over men using Mubobobo to sleep with them
Filabusi women have complained over men who use the supernatural muti powers called mubobobo to sleep with them without their consent.The women said they have been suffering from the sexual a...Published: 17 Dec 2015 at 17:04hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Fear grips Tsholotsho
A decomposing body of a Tsholotsho man was found in a hut whose door was secured from outside with a piece of barbed wire. Villagers told The Chronicle they suspected Vimusovusi Ndlovu, 82, of Pumula ...Published: 16 Dec 2015 at 08:15hrs | | by Whinsley Masara
Susan 'Mother Chinja' Tsvangirai's legacy lives on
Born: 24 April 1958 Tragically passed on: 6th March 2009 Tears may dry, but memories the wound of thinking and missing you will never heal. The...Published: 15 Mar 2015 at 20:16hrs | | by Moruti Chadya Tapiwa Diamond
Masendeke brother in court over assaulting police
A MEMBER of the infamous Kwekwe-based Masendeke family, Eliot, facing charges of resisting arrest and assaulting two police officers and a barlady on January 25 last year, has denied the allegati...Published: 10 Feb 2015 at 06:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sugar mummy infects Ben10 with HIV
ONE of the boys who teamed up with his friends to assault the husband of a sugar mummy they were having an illicit affair with was allegedly infected with HIV by the older woman, a court heard on Thur...Published: 01 Nov 2014 at 11:05hrs | | by Leonard Ncube
MDC Renewal Team: ' We are not that (MDC-T) violent formation'
Plans by MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai to mobilise Zimbabweans to take to the streets in mass protests have been criticised by the MDC Renewal Team.They say this would negatively impa...Published: 27 Sep 2014 at 08:47hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Wife' exposes rapist in church
THE desire to seek divine intervention from the church gave away a rape suspect after his victim reported him to pastors, leading to his arrest. The incident witnessed by Miracle Word Internat...Published: 20 Jul 2014 at 09:58hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
A step towards justice and an end to impunity
South Africa's highest court, the Constitutional Court, will tomorrow Monday the 19th of May, preside over a case that is very important to Zimbabwe, as the case may lead to the of end impunity an...Published: 18 May 2014 at 12:51hrs | | by Lft Gen Simbarashe Mujeye
ZBC likely to lose licensing arm
FINANCIAL problems at the cash-strapped Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) are set to worsen, amid revelations that the state broadcaster is likely to lose its licensing arm to the Broadcasting A...Published: 16 Feb 2014 at 09:37hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
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