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CZR calls for crackdown on rampant sale of counterfeit electronics
The Confederation of Zimbabwe Retailers (CZR) has raised alarm over the growing sale of counterfeit and fraudulently marketed electronic goods across the country, calling for an urgent multi-agency la...Published: 6 hrs ago | 104 | by Staff reporter
Expose children to luxuries to prevent sexual abuse
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP)'s Victim Friendly Unit (VFU) has raised alarm over disturbing new trends in child sexual abuse, revealing that fast food meals and plush hotel bookings are increasin...Published: 07 Jul 2025 at 11:38hrs | 398 | by Staff reporter
Mozambican vendors invade Zimbabwe
On January 2, 2025, 18-year-old Castigo Quembo from Matazi village near Manica in Mozambique left home and crossed into Zimbabwe through an illegal entry point close to the Machipanda-Forbes Border Po...Published: 06 Jul 2025 at 12:35hrs | 2090 | by Staff reporter
Man up for raping sex worker
A Damafalls man has appeared before Harare magistrate Francis Mapfumo facing serious allegations of raping a sex worker on two separate occasions after luring her under false pretenses.The acc...Published: 06 Jul 2025 at 12:34hrs | 707 | by Staff reporter
Harare man arrested over gruesome
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has confirmed the arrest of Kudzanayi Tapiwa Mukura in connection with the brutal murder of a 10-year-old boy in Eastview Phase 14, Harare, earlier today.Acc...Published: 06 Jul 2025 at 11:57hrs | 343 | by Staff reporter
Magunje cement project accused of rights abuses, displacements
The Centre for Natural Resource Governance (CNRG) has issued a scathing report accusing developers of the US$1 billion Magunje cement and mining project of widespread human rights abuses, forced displ...Published: 04 Jul 2025 at 07:50hrs | 196 | by Staff reporter
Chinese miner in Zimbabwe grave rights abuses storm
The Centre for Natural Resource Governance (CNRG) has called on the Zimbabwean government to urgently intervene and halt alleged human rights abuses being committed by a Chinese-linked mining company ...Published: 03 Jul 2025 at 09:14hrs | 244 | by Staff reporter
Teachers' movement slams 13 unions for inaction
The Zimbabwe Teachers Remuneration Struggle Movement (ZTRS) has launched a scathing attack on 13 registered teacher unions, accusing them of failing to effectively advocate for improved salaries and w...Published: 02 Jul 2025 at 12:06hrs | 212 | by Staff reporter
UN in Zimbabwe to investigate women, girl rights situation
The United Nations Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls will be visiting Zimbabwe from June 28 to July 8, 2025, as part of its global mission to assess the state of rights, protecti...Published: 30 Jun 2025 at 13:08hrs | 73 | by Staff reporter
US$1m for strategic minerals licence in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe has gazetted a sweeping new Mines and Minerals Bill that seeks to clamp down on speculative mining claim hoarding while ensuring only credible investors participate in the extraction of strat...Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 12:12hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
Parents call on police to act over fake Cambridge exams
Parents of 16 students from Destiny Achievers College in Harare are demanding urgent police action after discovering they were victims of a fake Cambridge O-Level examination scam allegedly orchestrat...Published: 28 Jun 2025 at 16:09hrs | 298 | by Staff reporter
ZRP investigates viral Mutare sex party invite
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has launched an investigation into a viral social media post advertising a suspected "vuzu" or sex party allegedly scheduled to take place at a private venue in Muta...Published: 25 Jun 2025 at 09:06hrs | 922 | by Staff reporter
Surely, what lessons in business success can Tagwirei teach our youth?
Our youth are the greatest asset to our nation's future, and we cannot afford to lead them astray.Zimbabwe is a nation desperate for authentic leadership, especially for its youth. ...Published: 24 Jun 2025 at 11:24hrs | 279 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Lithium rush a crossroads for Zimbabwe's future
Africa, which holds significant estimated shares of the world's total reserves of bauxite (24%), cobalt (49.4%), copper (7%), graphite (21%), lithium (6%), manganese (43%), nickel (4.2%) and rare eart...Published: 24 Jun 2025 at 10:27hrs | 315 | by Sikhululekile Mashingaidze and Stephen Buchanan-Clarke
Limpopo police nab three illegal Zimbabwean miners
The fight against illegal mining is intensifying as the Sekhukhune District Vala Umgodi Task Team successfully arrested three Zimbabwean nationals during a targeted raid at the Spietskop Mine, portion...Published: 23 Jun 2025 at 11:07hrs | 124 | by Staff reporter
Employee brutally attacked by Chinese over NSSA injury claim
An employee at Chinese-operated Huaman Investments (Private) Limited has accused company management of violently assaulting him and fellow workers after they sought assistance from the National Social...Published: 22 Jun 2025 at 09:10hrs | 364 | by Staff reporter
Bodies and drugs smuggled across Beitbridge border
A chilling smuggling syndicate involving cross-border bus and truck drivers, allegedly operating with the help of corrupt customs, police, and health officials, has been exposed for illegally transpor...Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 09:41hrs | 160 | by Staff reporter
RioZim in eye of financial misconduct, fraud storm
Mining giant RioZim Limited is at the centre of a deepening scandal as allegations of financial misconduct, asset stripping, and systematic fraud continue to surface. According to sources familiar wit...Published: 19 Jun 2025 at 16:45hrs | 235 | by Staff reporter
Explosive corruption report handed to Mnangagwa
A political firestorm is erupting at Town House following the submission of a damning report to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, which exposes endemic corruption, systemic mismanagement, and the virtual ...Published: 19 Jun 2025 at 11:29hrs | 2551 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man uses live snake to scare and rape woman
A 25-year-old man from Chitungwiza has been arrested for allegedly raping a 23-year-old woman multiple times while threatening her with a live snake, a lizard, and alleged ritualistic paraphernalia, p...Published: 19 Jun 2025 at 07:13hrs | 581 | by Staff reporter
Ex-prosecutor jailed for soliciting US$200 bribe
A former public prosecutor stationed at Tredgold Magistrates Court in Bulawayo has been jailed for three years after he was convicted of soliciting and accepting a bribe to influence the outcome of a ...Published: 18 Jun 2025 at 18:04hrs | 419 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's health system profits from the dead
Blessing Mucharambei's uncle was just having lunch when he stood up, then collapsed. "[He] started bleeding from the nose," she says, "and died on the spot."As far as his family knew, he had no he...Published: 17 Jun 2025 at 08:03hrs | 352 | by Linda Mujuru, GPJ Zimbabwe
Water barons exploit Bulawayo's deepening water crisis
Unscrupulous individuals in Bulawayo are taking advantage of the city's worsening water crisis by selling scarce water at high prices and charging extra fees for delivery to desperate residents unable...Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 15:03hrs | 515 | by Staff reporter
Chrome mining boon for Shurugwi families
In a major step toward community empowerment and inclusive resource management, Shurugwi North legislator Joseph Mpasi has launched an ambitious mining initiative aimed at directly benefiting local fa...Published: 07 Jun 2025 at 10:31hrs | 116 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to revitalise Community Share Ownership Trusts
The Zimbabwean Government has moved to revitalise Community Share Ownership Trusts (CSOTs), a flagship programme under the country's economic empowerment policy, following Cabinet's approval of new op...Published: 04 Jun 2025 at 13:29hrs | 116 | by Staff reporter
Bogus cop repeatedly rapes of maid in Bindura
A man impersonating a police officer, Patrick Vashco (25) from Gereendale, has been sentenced to 45 years in prison for raping a maid three times without protection.Vashco appeared before Bind...Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 14:35hrs | 134 | by Staff reporter
Woman removes niece's teeth
A 35-year-old Plumtree woman has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after launching a violent cross-border assault on her two nieces in Botswana, resulting in one of the victims losing her teeth....Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 14:09hrs | 55 | by Staff reporter
ZACC launches awareness campaign against illegal land dealings
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has launched a provincial awareness campaign targeting illegal land dealings in Mashonaland East Province, as part of its broader strategy to clamp down ...Published: 31 May 2025 at 13:41hrs | 52 | by Staff reporter
Stinking school heads' great heist
Parents and guardians in Manicaland have raised alarm over what they describe as growing financial exploitation by school headmasters, who are allegedly misusing public funds and imposing unofficial l...Published: 30 May 2025 at 08:51hrs | 546 | by Staff reporter
How can MPs protect Zimbabweans from exploitation when they themselves are shielded?
It's a tragedy when those meant to represent you no longer do. The recent enactment of a law compelling Zimbabwean motorists to first purchase a ZBC car radio licence before they are allowed t...Published: 29 May 2025 at 20:29hrs | 319 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Ngugi wa Thiong'o dies at 87
Celebrated Kenyan author, scholar, and activist Ngugi wa Thiong'o, best known for his landmark novel A Grain of Wheat, has passed away at the age of 87.A monumental figure in African literatur...Published: 29 May 2025 at 17:40hrs | 451 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe new education curriculum uproar
The Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has called for an urgent review of the recently introduced heritage-based curriculum, describing it as unnecessarily demanding, complicated, and deta...Published: 29 May 2025 at 10:22hrs | 191 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland tops HIV prevalence in Zimbabwe?
Matebeleland North Province has been identified as having the second-highest HIV prevalence rate in Zimbabwe at 14.4 percent, trailing only behind Matebeleland South, which leads with 17.3 percent. Th...Published: 29 May 2025 at 10:16hrs | 152 | by Staff reporter
Man bashes wife over her income, property
A Mbare woman received legal protection from her allegedly abusive husband today after a Harare Civil Court granted her a protection order, bringing a temporary sense of relief to what she described a...Published: 29 May 2025 at 10:14hrs | 186 | by Staff reporter
Tsikamutandas tearing communities apart
A disturbing trend has emerged in Chief Bota's area of Zaka and Nyajena in Masvingo district, where self-styled traditional healers known as Tsikamutandas, allegedly in collusion with some traditional...Published: 28 May 2025 at 10:39hrs | 257 | by Staff reporter
Celebrating 10 years of selective activism and ticking boxes!
It pains me when I find myself critiquing Zimbabwean women, especially organisations that want bring change in our broken-down system of fighting gender violence. Sometimes I find it inappropriate to ...Published: 26 May 2025 at 22:15hrs | 656 | by Nomazulu Thata
MRP call for self-determination as Africa celebrates Africa day
Mthwakazi Republic Party leader Mqondisi Moyo has reminded heads of African states that as they celebrate Africa day they must remember that there is unfinished business of some of the states like Mth...Published: 26 May 2025 at 12:44hrs | 375 | by Stephen Jakes
Young boys exploited for begging in Harare
In a disturbing incident that shook the nation, two individuals were caught on video in August 2024 exploiting young boys by forcing them to beg for money in Harare - only to keep the earn...Published: 26 May 2025 at 08:13hrs | 101 | by Staff reporter
ZGC hunts Magaya, Vapostori for pulpit sex cases
HARARE - The Zimbabwe Gender Commission will soon proceed with investigations on allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse of women by Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader, Wal...Published: 24 May 2025 at 22:34hrs | 2940 | by by Gideon Madzikatidze
UZ offers 'poverty wages' to stand-in lecturers
The University of Zimbabwe (UZ) has come under fire after offering what critics have branded as "poverty wages" to temporary lecturers hired to replace striking academic staff demanding better pay and...Published: 21 May 2025 at 20:57hrs | 912 | by Staff reporter
Ministry of Education fails to pay rent for 16 years
Zimbabwe's education system is rapidly collapsing, driven by a combination of chronic underfunding, rampant corruption, indiscipline, and government failure to disburse allocated budgets. Despite prom...Published: 18 May 2025 at 12:13hrs | 582 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans escaping economic hardship trapped in the UK care visa crackdown
Zimbabwean professionals seeking a way out of their country's prolonged economic crisis are facing fresh hurdles as the UK government moves to permanently scrap care worker visas, a route many had use...Published: 16 May 2025 at 09:42hrs | 592 | by Staff reporter
UK closure of care work visa to hit Zimbabweans hard
The United Kingdom's decision to permanently shut down its care worker visa route has sent shockwaves across Zimbabwe, where the scheme had offered thousands a much-needed escape from economic hardshi...Published: 13 May 2025 at 16:33hrs | 9532 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans warned about Saudi job risks
Zimbabweans considering employment in Saudi Arabia, particularly in the beauty industry, have been urged to exercise extreme caution and verify job offers before committing, amid rising concerns over ...Published: 10 May 2025 at 20:49hrs | 6412 | by Staff reporter
Have our churches turned into sanctuaries for the corrupt?
Have our churches become places where criminals go to cleanse their reputations and whitewash their activities?In Zimbabwe, we are witnessing a deeply troubling phenomenon - one that strikes a...Published: 09 May 2025 at 10:38hrs | 270 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Garwe must change colonial mentality
SOMETIME last year in August, the Zimbabwean government issued a strong condemnation and warning against Mike Moyo and Timothy Chiminya for claiming titles as ceremonial King Mambo and King Munhumutap...Published: 02 May 2025 at 09:00hrs | 990 | by Phakathwayo Gumede
HIV patients pay hidden fees as ARV shortage deepens in Zimbabwe
A growing crisis is unfolding in Zimbabwe as some nurses at public clinics in Harare are reportedly charging people living with HIV illicit fees for access to lifesaving antiretroviral (ARV) medicatio...Published: 01 May 2025 at 12:11hrs | 730 | by Staff reporter
South Africa risks another 2021-style uprising
Former South African State Security Agency (SSA) director-general Thulani Dlomo has sounded the alarm over the country's deepening socio-economic crisis, warning that the mix of soaring unemployment, ...Published: 29 Apr 2025 at 18:10hrs | 805 | by Staff reporter
Woman arrested for killing her disabled daughter
State agents outwitted at Artuz congressThe Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) successfully thwarted an attempt by State security agents to block its congress held in Jotsholo, L...Published: 29 Apr 2025 at 07:11hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter
Woman in court for allegedly facilitating rape of teenage girl
A Kuwadzana woman, Lucious Sikadza, appeared in court today facing charges of rape after allegedly facilitating the sexual abuse of a 15-year-old girl. Sikadza stood before Harare Regional Magistrate ...Published: 24 Apr 2025 at 21:10hrs | 232 | by Staff reporter
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