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Zimdollar plunges into death spiral
ZIMBABWE's currency is in a death spiral and headed for a tragic end, two years after it was re-introduced into circulation, stoking fears of the 2008 hyperinflationary era where the government was fo...Published: 10 hrs ago | 1846 | by Staff reporter
Prison escapee jailed for 4 years
An alleged serial robber and rapist on remand for attacking almost 20 women recently escaped from Harare Remand Prison, allegedly with the help of two prison officers, but was caught, was yesterday ja...Published: 24 hrs ago | 274 | by Staff reporter
Hats off to security forces at Beitbridge Border
MEMBERS of the security forces deployed along the Zimbabwe/South African border deserve praise for their efforts towards the eradication of crime at the two countries' boundary.To date, police...Published: 24 hrs ago | 285 | by Staff reporter
Serial armed robber arrested
One of the country's most wanted serial armed robbers who survived a shoot-out with police along Glenara Avenue South in Harare, in which five of his accomplices were killed in March last year has bee...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:21hrs | 549 | by Staff reporter
Madzibaba who massacred 6 family members arrested
Police have arrested Thubelithle Khoshow (26) in connection with cases of Murder and Rape which occurred on October 9 at around 0300 hours at ...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 07:27hrs | 3144 | by Shelton Muchena
Mpilo doctors' residence nears completion
REFURBISHMENTS on the doctors' apartments that were gutted by fire at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo are nearing completion, with focus now shifting to interior work as authorities at the institut...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:32hrs | 93 | by Staff reporter
7 Bulawayo church buildings face demolition
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has warned that it will demolish seven church structures built without council approval.Council by-laws stipulate that no construction should take place without...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:31hrs | 1131 | by Staff reporter
Prison officers aid jail break
TWO Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) officers have been arrested on allegations of assisting a suspected habitual rapist and robber, Sam Muropa (31), to escape from Harare Remand Pris...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:23hrs | 264 | by Staff reporter
Ex-NetOne boss nails down Mandiwanzira
FORMER NetOne chief executive officer Reward Kangai has implored Prosecutor-General Kumbirai Hodzi to expedite prosecution of the US$4 million corruption scandal in the parastatal which involved forme...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:48hrs | 1107 | by Staff reporter
Stadia crisis looms in Zimbabwe
THE inevitable change in the 2021 domestic football season to spill into the first-half of next year due to the Covid-19 pandemic will expose the country's poor state of stadia.The Premier Soc...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:46hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe won't sacrifice our economic gains
THE Second Republic is paying tribute to heroes of the liberation struggle by growing the economy and progress made on economic development should not be sacrificed on account of narrow interests, Pre...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:09hrs | 62 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers fight police over teargas canisters
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) on Thursday petitioned the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) to stop throwing teargas canisters into public transport and called for a written undertaking fro...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:06hrs | 36 | by Staff reporter
Mother son escape jail
A 50-YEAR-OLD Guruve woman escaped jail together with her son after the court failed to link the duo to an unlawful entry charge.Alice ...Published: 02 Oct 2021 at 23:17hrs | 1332 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Man kills wife in Harare, commits suicide in Beitbridge
A 48-year-old man, who allegedly axed his wife to death in Harare, has committed suicide in Beitbridge after failing to skip the border to South Africa.It is reported that on September 27, Tin...Published: 02 Oct 2021 at 15:42hrs | 1755 | by Staff Reporter
2 die in disused coal mineshaft collapse
TWO young illegal miners and a university graduate were on Monday reportedly trapped to death by coal ashes while extracting coke at a dumpsite in Hwange.The issue was confirmed by a resident ...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 07:57hrs | 236 | by Staff reporter
'Register to vote if you have had enough of Zanu PF,' said the deceitful to the insane
"Register To Vote If You Have Had Enough Of Zanu PF" was the headline of the article in Zimeye / Newsday. Reading a few lines was enough to evoke memories of my first visit to Ingutsheni Menta...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 13:56hrs | 861 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Passengers condemn police brutality
The Passengers Association of Zimbabwe (PAZ) yesterday condemned continued police brutality after a video started circulating on social media on Tuesday which showed passengers, including children, st...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 07:21hrs | 1171 | by Staff reporter
Dynamos labour to beat Yadah
Dynamos 1- 0 YadahDYNAMOS sealed their place in the quarter-finals of the Chibuku Super Cup despite apparent fitness concerns as they laboured to beat Yadah at the National Sports Stadium yesterda...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 07:10hrs | 123 | by Staff reporter
How was Torino's transfer summer?
Summer is active for Torino in terms of transfer deals. The team signed several contracts at once. And she usually rented players. Do you want to enjoy betting and experience only positive emotions fr...Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 13:29hrs | 297 | by Staff Writer
2 more Zimbabweans escape from SA prison
Two more Zimbabweans are on the run after escaping from police holding cells in the Mahwelereng in South Africa's Limpopo province on Sunday evening.Stanley Chiteya (38) and Dexter Tinashe are...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 20:02hrs | 949 | by Staff reporter
Does Chamisa have a plan? Gambakwe conversation with Phugheni
These two personalities are painfully uneven. Whereas Phugheni is eloquently brilliant, a very intelligent man, I should be excused if I said Gambakwe is challenged, borderline. It defeats my mind to ...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 11:39hrs | 3046 | by Nomazulu Thata
Dangerous criminals escape from prison
TWO dangerous inmates escaped from WhaWha Medium Prison in Gweru last week after Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) officers allegedly failed to secure doors to their holding cells....Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 06:16hrs | 1667 | by Staff reporter
Zanla deploys in Matabeleland South
DURING the armed struggle some parts of Matabeleland South Province and its neighbour, the Midlands were shared operational areas by Zanla and Zipra guerrillas. Some of the shared areas were Mberengwa...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 19:38hrs | 329 | by Staff reporter
Prison escapees nabbed after stealing motorbike
TWO inmates, who escaped from Guruve prison have been re-arrested after they stole a motorbike from a local resident.Acting Mashonaland Central police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Naison D...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 10:48hrs | 1283 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs question Mnangagwa's legitimacy
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa, struggling to consolidate and maintain power at the volatile helm amid renewed internal Zanu-PF infighting and disintegration of the coalition which drove his ...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 18:57hrs | 7872 | by Staff reporter
Man hospitalised after alleged ZRP brutality
A Masvingo ‘illegal' money changer was left ruing his actions to evade law enforcement agents after being hospitalized at Masvingo Provincial Hospital following an alleged attack by a Zimbabwe Repub...Published: 22 Sep 2021 at 06:10hrs | 3684 | by Staff reporter
Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu declared national hero posthumously
THE Zanu-PF Politburo yesterday posthumously declared the late Cdes Rabelani Choeni, Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu, Elliot Ngwabi, Professor George Kahari and Professor Sheunesu Mpepereki as national heroes. Pr...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:10hrs | 542 | by Staff reporter
Is Brics becoming a fading giant?
IT was 13 years ago when the world, mainly developing countries, celebrated the birth of what would be known as Brics — a group of five major emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and So...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:13hrs | 353 | by Tapiwa Gomo
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: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:08hrs | 544 | 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 | 599 | 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 | 289 | 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 | 409 | 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 | 640 | by William Jethro Mpofu
Pastor survives an arson attack
Villagers from Enaleni area in Bubi ward 1 were left shell shocked after unknown assailants petrol bombed a local pastor's house.The pastor, Ephraim Ndlovu who is also the Habakkuk Trust Commu...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 12:12hrs | 1875 | by Stephen Jakes
Juvenile murder suspect bolts out of court
THERE was drama at the Beitbridge Magistrates Court yesterday when a juvenile murder suspect bolted from the courtroom and took to his heels before he was charged.The suspect, aged 17, duped a...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 05:53hrs | 2587 | by Staff reporter
29 escape Mutoko bus inferno
TWENTY-nine passengers escaped death by a whisker after a bus they were travelling on caught fire near Mutoko business centre in Mashonaland East on Monday.Provincial police spokesperson Inspe...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 05:49hrs | 1136 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa throws Bulawayo councillors under the bus
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has thrown his party councillors in Bulawayo under the bus, accusing them of treachery, betrayal, playing tomfoolery and hobnobbing with Zanu-PF.Chamisa told...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:18hrs | 3131 | by Staff reporter
Edgar Lungu's last words: Are you an African?
Journalist Simba Chikanza telephones Zambian government spokesperson to the President Edgar Lungu over the deployment of the Zambian army by the PF government during the counting of the ballot votes: ...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 13:53hrs | 3798 | by Nomazulu Thata
Another lie exposed in Mnangagwa biography?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's biography by his newfound ally, Eddie Cross, has yet another major distortion which borders on lies on what happened after the former vice-president had been fired by hi...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 18:54hrs | 2899 | by Staff reporter
Chiefs clash at funeral
The long standing feud between Chiefs Council president Chief Fortune Charumbira and newly installed Chief Nemamwa recently escalated at a funeral when representatives from the two chieftaincies nearl...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 18:18hrs | 3220 | by Staff reporter
Mujuru's property escapes hammer
THE High Court has confirmed the provisional order granted on February 28 last year for stay of execution of a judgment allowing Tony Sarpo to attach former Vice-President Joice Mujuru's property over...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 06:20hrs | 2336 | by Staff reporter
My desperate plea to billionaire Masiyiwa
Last Sunday I dwelt on the depressing theme of the hardship that journalists often endure for failing to toe the ill-defined line drawn by intolerant politicians.Newspaper editors must be the ...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 07:10hrs | 2610 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Lockdown guards need guarding
Lockdown robbery. That's perhaps the best thing to call it.The setting is a once-famous nightclub off Old Mazowe Road on the outskirts of New Marlborough. The time is 10pm on a Friday evening....Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 07:02hrs | 212 | by Tawanda Majoni
Chiefs must not aid murderers to escape jaws of justice: MLF
MTHWAKAZI Liberation Front (MLF) spokesperson Crispen Nyoni has warned chiefs in Matabeleland and Midlands not to allow Gukurahundi perpetrators to use them to escape justice by concealing evidence ar...Published: 04 Sep 2021 at 13:13hrs | 718 | by Stephen Jakes
Deportees continue escaping from quarantine centres
PARLIAMENTARIANS from Matabeleland South Province have raised a concern over deportees that are escaping from quarantine and isolation facilities.In July and August 233 deportees escaped from ...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 17:58hrs | 290 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and Charamba are envious of Zambia's democracy
The day you remove the name George (Charamba) in your birth certificate is the day you will be able to think wisely. Your first name gives you hallucinations. A spokesperson who does not even respect ...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 08:13hrs | 3716 | by Nomazulu Thata
Fatal end to selfie moment
ZIMBABWE Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) rangers shot dead an elephant after it fatally trampled a man who was taking a selfie outside Kwekwe, triggering a stampede by villagers for...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 06:06hrs | 600 | by Staff reporter
Man kills lover's mother
AN Epworth woman was burnt to death after her daughter’s lover set the house she was sleeping in on fire last Thursday.Esteri Mafukidze died in the inferno and her two daughters sustained se...Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 20:28hrs | 1129 | by Staff reporter
The other side of Sikhosana
A hundred and fifty kilometres deep in Nkayi rural area, Matabeleland North, resides an Internet darling by the name Sikhosana Buhlungu.Driving from Bulawayo to Nkayi is no walk in the park, t...Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 20:24hrs | 2193 | by Staff reporter
Do we need more diseases that freak out our leaders for them to finally attend to crumbling health care system?
It is really strange, in fact, creepy, how people appear freaked out and terrified by the thought of death and dying.Honestly, as much as most of us are not suicidal, and not actively seeking ...Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 17:37hrs | 240 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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