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Land barons fund ED2030 sloganeering campaign
Most of the land barons dominating Harare, Masvingo and Midlands provinces have spent their loot towards funding an exercise to push for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's foiled unconstitutional term ext...Published: 18 Nov 2024 at 17:01hrs | 616 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
ZANU-PF MP disrupts a colleague's meeting with fertilizer theft
Pandemonium continues to rock Buhera South constituency with their legislator Ngonidzashe Mudekunye disturbing every party member who holds crowds in his constituency.Mudekunye allegedly disru...Published: 18 Nov 2024 at 16:55hrs | 1089 | by Paul Ndou in Buhera
Smuggling racket busted at Plumtree border
Police at the Plumtree Border Post successfully foiled a smuggling operation, intercepting three South African-registered vehicles carrying contraband worth over R600,000. The goods, which included gr...Published: 04 Oct 2024 at 08:26hrs | 393 | by Staff reporter
Row over release of fraud suspects
A senior regional prosecutor in Harare, Ms. Gossy Mudambu, is facing allegations of facilitating the release of three fraud suspects before their scheduled bail hearing, sparking concerns of potential...Published: 03 Oct 2024 at 08:43hrs | 186 | by Staff reporter
CIA plot to kill Venezuela's Maduro foiled
Diosdado Cabello claims the arrested suspects, including a US serviceman, were planning to conduct acts of terrorismVenezuela's security service has thwarted a CIA-backed plot to assassinate P...Published: 15 Sep 2024 at 20:34hrs | 867 | by Staff reporter
Prosecutors seek death penalty for 3 Americans implicated in foiled DRC coup
Prosecutors on Tuesday called for 50 people, including three Americans, to face the death penalty for what the Congolese army says was a coup attempt earlier this year.Military prosecutor Lieu...Published: 31 Aug 2024 at 15:36hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter
Hichilema: Absolute power corrupts absolutely
I could not believe what I was hearing. I tried to reassure myself that I was only dreaming. For the third time, I played the video and listened gravely. Again, the words fell like stones into the roo...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 11:38hrs | 1023 | by Dr. Field Ruwe
Teenager jailed for inserting his finger in minor's private parts
The love of sex landed an 18-year-old boy in jail after he attempted to rape a form three schoolgirl on Independence day in Musana Bindura....Published: 22 Jul 2024 at 05:57hrs | 1075 | by Simbarashe Sithole
SA police on hunting for Zimbabwean murder suspect
POLICE in South Africa have launched an "intensive hunt" for a Zimbabwean suspect linked to a series of violent crimes including murder, attempted murder, armed robberies, house robberies, business ro...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 15:19hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
NetOne employees arrested in foiled cyber heist attempt
Two NetOne employees, Linda Mutemeri (30) and Anotida Dee Munyaradzi (30), appeared in court on charges of unlawful disclosure of data code after allegedly attempting to hack into the company's IT sys...Published: 01 Jul 2024 at 03:55hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Event security essential to foil robberies and protect guests
Event security has always been important but never more so than at the present time when thefts and robberies have become so common. Targets at events may be the gate takings at the event or the cash ...Published: 26 Jun 2024 at 21:28hrs | 4 | by Agencies
'Gappah needs mental help,' says Judge
Zimbabwean High Court Justice Joseph Mafusire says local lawyer Petina Gappah needs "psychological intervention" - mental assistance - amid her unrestrained scandalous attacks on the judge and the jud...Published: 22 Mar 2024 at 11:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sex-starved man robs woman after foiled rape
A sex-starved Plumtree man was arraigned before the courts after he robbed a woman he attempted to rape.Blessing Ncube appeared before magistrate Joshua Nembaware facing a robbery charge on Fr...Published: 19 Mar 2024 at 12:30hrs | 5 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Fleeing armed robber dies in accident
AN armed robber died in a horrific accident last week, while his three gun-toting colleagues sustained serious injuries after their gate-away vehicle hit a tree during a high-speed chase with vigilant...Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 15:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man in court for foiled bid to smuggle Toyota Hilux stolen from SA to Zimbabwe via Beitbridge
A 33-year-old man, Vincente Sebastiao "Deco" Khoza, has appeared before the Modjadjiskloof Periodical Court after he was arrested by the Musina-based Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, also...Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's longest electoral season
IN exactly two weeks, Zimbabweans are going to the polling booth again, as the silly season that began last May stubbornly refuses to end for various reasons — single-minded pursuit of power by oppo...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 10:00hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Man slits his throat in public
SEKE community in Chitungwiza was left shell-shocked after a 33-year-old man slit his throat with a knife in public.The man only identified as Marlon killed himself in full view of the residen...Published: 20 Jan 2024 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Severe consequences await armed robbers
POLICE's Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has reaffirmed its commitment to flushing out the armed robbers' menace to the preservation of law and order in the country saying the consequences fo...Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 08:54hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Is China good for Zimbabwe?
IMAGINE your father having an "all-weather friend" who appears to stand by him in every situation.This seemingly "all-weather friend", however, looks away as your father brutally batters your ...Published: 20 Dec 2023 at 09:10hrs | 10 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Scammers invade Bulawayo using job offers, many residents cry foul
As universities are churning out thousands of graduates to the world, Bulawayo residents have their lives at risk as they try to navigate survival means a...Published: 26 Nov 2023 at 08:03hrs | 7 | by Stephen Jakes
Low turnout scuttles plans to shutdown Beitbridge border
A planned shutdown of the Beitbridge border last Thursday was foiled due to a very low turnout, as a South African court canceled the protest organized by some Zimbabweans living in South Africa at th...Published: 31 Oct 2023 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe education system fast deteriorating
GERMAN Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission in Zimbabwe Michael Ott has said the quality of Zimbabwe's education system is fast deteriorating."I have been here for a year in the country, unfo...Published: 28 Oct 2023 at 15:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man runs away with condom on after foiled rape attempt
A MAN from Mabutweni suburb in Bulawayo ran away with a condom still 'stuck' on his manhood after he was busted trying to rape a nine-year-old girl who was also his church mate in a bushy area....Published: 13 Oct 2023 at 07:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa after my farm,' says Kasukuwere
SELF-EXILED former Zanu-PF national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere claims President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration is out to grab his ConCorpia Farm in Mazowe, Mashonaland Central provinc...Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 06:33hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Hichilema prevents former President Lungu from traveling to SA for medical attention
In a recent development that has sparked controversy and debate in Zambia, President Hakainde Hichilema's administration has reportedly prevented former President Edgar Lungu from traveling to South A...Published: 14 Sep 2023 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Heath Streak, the Matabele Warrior
A sheepish, charming young man with a broad smile when he strode in the national cricket team many eons ago the departed Heath Streak was fondly remembered in Zimbabwe cricket circles, and greatly wor...Published: 09 Sep 2023 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Plot to subvert 2023 Presidential elections foiled
The arres tof thirty-nine (39) activists from the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN), on 23 August 2023, foiled a plot to subvert the 23 August 2023 Presidential elections.Reports from a...Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 14:30hrs | | by Joice Munemo
Zambian president panics
Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema has warned potential coup plotters not to threaten the southern African nation's democratic rule and stability, the BBC reported on TuesdayIt is not clear...Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 22:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Armed robber' in court for 'killing' policeman
A MAN who allegedly fatally shot a police officer in Bulawayo's New Luveve suburb appeared in court on Friday facing a murder charge.Ntabiso Ncube (43) of Lobengula West suburb in Bulawayo sus...Published: 11 Jul 2023 at 07:38hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo's son foils Zanu-PF's plan to campaign using late father's name
ZAPU president and late Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo's son Sibangalizwe has foiled Zanu-PF's plan to hold an all-night gala in commemoration of the late vice president at his rural Kezi home in Matebeleland S...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 07:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Tourists flock to Kariba for the famous bream
LAKE Kariba is arguably one of Africa's best, and prettiest spots to execute fishing expeditions.Over 40 different fish species call the lake home from shoals of Kapenta to the fighting Tiger ...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 08:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe man arrested in South Africa over Thabo Bester escape
A ZIMBABWEAN man has been arrested in South Africa in connection with the escape of Thabo Bester from a South African prison.According to the South African media, the man's identity was not re...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 06:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kombi crew and passengers foil robbery
A 48-YEAR-OLD commuter omnibus driver and his passengers survived a robbery attempt when a four-member gang allegedly blocked their vehicle before damaging the windscreen with an axe.This was ...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt takes price madness head-on
Government, whose responsibility is to protect the consumer and ensure stability, will "take all measures necessary", including painful ones if need be, to ensure price stability, the President has sa...Published: 21 May 2023 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's security establishment bigwig dies
One of Zimbabwe's security establishment bigwigs, who defined an era in his field from Rhodesia to post-colonial Zimbabwe amid a record of brutality and terror, David Daniel "Dan" Stannard, later clos...Published: 08 May 2023 at 19:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa exposed
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been left exposed and politically vulnerable following ground-breaking revelations by Qatar-based international television network Al Jazeera's of gold...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 18:23hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
2 cops nabbed in foiled robbery
TWO serving members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) and their two unemployed accomplices appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court on Saturday facing armed robbery charges.The suspects, W...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 07:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa wrote to Mnangagwa
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa says he has written several times to President Emmerson Mnangagwa importuning the state leader to abandon his vindictive treatment of the oppo...Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 19:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
High Courts foils illegal hostile company takeover
IN a huge victory for Israeli investor Ofer Sivan, the High of Zimbabwe has blocked the 'illegal' hostile takeover of earth moving equipment business, Adelcraft Investments, by Gillad Shabtai and his ...Published: 28 Feb 2023 at 08:44hrs | 21 | by Paul Ndou
Mnangagwa's links with kleptocrats, dodgy business networks solidify
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's state visit to Equatorial Guinea this week, where he met the world's longest-serving head of state, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, underlines his penchant for ...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 11:17hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo seal 8 agreements
Underpinned by ambitions to engage and re-engage the international community in pursuit of socio-economic development, President Mnangagwa, is in Equatorial Guinea for high-level discussions covering ...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 05:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gun crime rattles Zimbabwe's security sector
THE sudden spike in gun crimes across the country has pushed the security sector into panic with indications that police have since flooded the streets with detectives expected to sniff out menacing c...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 22:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Serial armed robber nabbed
Elusive suspected Kwekwe robber Khulani Dube (22) was arrested yesterday on allegations of breaking into several houses in Mbizo.Midlands Provincial police spokesperson Emmanuel Mahoko confirm...Published: 10 Jan 2023 at 09:25hrs | 1 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Plastic driver's licence expected soon
Transport and Infrastructural Development Permanent Secretary Engineer Theodius Chinyanga has announced that Zimbabwe might get its plastic driver licence discs sooner than expected.The plasti...Published: 04 Jan 2023 at 18:44hrs | | by Mzingaye Nxumalo
State forced to abandon pauper's burial on Moreblessing Ali after family outcry
The state was Wednesday forced to abandon burial on Moreblessing Ali's mutilated remains after the slain Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist's children and other family members fiercely prote...Published: 28 Dec 2022 at 20:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lupita Nyong'o in a relationship with Hugh Masekela's son
Lupita Nyong'o is sharing the gift of love this Christmas.The Black Panther star confirmed she is in a relationship with Selema Masekela, son to ‘the father of South African jazz' ...Published: 26 Dec 2022 at 18:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa feels Sikhala, Sithole's prison torture
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has claimed that the State is maliciously exposing incarcerated legislators Job Sikhala (Zengeza West) and Godfrey Sithole (Chitungwiza North)...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 04:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe soldiers' involvement in armed robberies worrisome
THE arrest of three soldiers in a foiled armed robbery recently following a movie-style shoot-out has again brought to the limelight the involvement of rogue elements of the uniformed forces in violen...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 07:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Wadyajena the untouchable ZANU PF maverick
Gokwe-Nembudziya legislator, Justice Mayor Wadyajena has been a long standing divisive and problematic child of the ruling party ZANU PF and he seems to be an untouchable maverick within the party....Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 16:16hrs | 1 | by John Mutengambiri
Ziyambi denies government meddling in Sikhala, Mubaiwa court cases
Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has vehemently denied claims of either government or Zanu-PF meddling in court processes involving prominent opposition politician Job Sikhala and Marry Mubaiwa, ex-wi...Published: 04 Sep 2022 at 15:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
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