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Chaos at Harvest House as Mudzuri moves to oust Mwonzora
A fierce power struggle has erupted within the opposition MDC-T party after Vice President Elias Mudzuri, allegedly working alongside former party Chairperson Morgen Komichi, launched a bold attempt t...Published: 17 Jul 2025 at 18:57hrs | 393 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's son granted $200 bail
Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, the son of the late former President Robert Mugabe, was on Tuesday granted US$200 bail by the Concession Magistrates Court following his arrest on multiple assault charges ...Published: 02 Jul 2025 at 09:42hrs | 2402 | by Staff reporter
Heavy penalty awaits Shabanie, Gwanda
The Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) has pledged to take stringent measures following violent scenes that marred the Central Region Soccer League (CRSL) clash between Shabanie Mine and Gwanda Pira...Published: 20 May 2025 at 10:08hrs | 355 | by Staff reporter
Maglas turned into a war zone
What began as a regional football match quickly descended into chaos on Sunday, as violent scenes erupted during the Central Region Soccer League encounter between Shabanie Mine and Gwanda Pirates at ...Published: 20 May 2025 at 09:55hrs | 202 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa enjoy CCC internal squabbles
Zanu-PF has no dog in the internal squabbles tearing apart the country's opposition but will gladly capitalise on the fracas to entrench its dominance in a democratic Zimbabwe, President Mnangagwa sai...Published: 08 Apr 2024 at 10:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Johnfat Sibanda pummels Tavengwa Zidya
NOW you see it, now you don't . . .Then you feel it!That could be a way to describe how local businessman Tavengwa Zidya, popularly known as Mafridge, was punched by - of all people - ...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 06:51hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa assault case jumps court queue?
A Harare man, who is also a suspected drug dealer, was convicted yesterday for assaulting Deputy Minister of Tourism and Hospitality Industry Tongai Mnangagwa and his host at a party, Wellington Venge...Published: 04 Feb 2024 at 17:56hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Makhadzi lashes Winky D
ORGANISERS of the "Africa Music Festival 2023 - The Legends Tour" which was held in Leicester in the United Kingdom on Saturday have come under fire for failing to manage the show well, leaving Makhad...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 07:04hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa activists assault woman MP elect
IT would seem the vendetta between Chirumanzu South winning candidate Barbara Rwodzi and her challenger Patrick Cheza is yet to end, as the two found themselves involved in a fracas a day after Zimbab...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 06:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man fatally stabs 3 neighbours, cop
A HARARE man last week went berserk and stabbed four people, two of them fatally.Among the four was a police office who attempted to subdue him.Allegations are that on August 3 this ye...Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 06:49hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youth bashed for pasting Mnangagwa poster at Chicken Inn outlet
POLICE in Chegutu have launched an investigation following the assault of a Zanu-PF youth for putting President Emmerson Mnangagwa campaign posters outside a fast food outlet, Chicken lnn.The ...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 06:52hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
CCC filed a false report against Energy Mutodi, investigations reveal
In a desperate bid to woe supporters after fielding a weak candidate, the opposition CCC reportedly filed a false police report against Goromonzi West legislator Energy Mutodi who is aspiring Memb...Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 10:43hrs | 17 | by Tapiwa Chirandu
CIO boss sucked into Zanu-PF primaries drama
CENTRAL Intelligence Organisation (CIO) Director General Isaac Moyo has been accused of rigging Zanu-PF's Mwenezi West primary election in favour of his wife Priscilla.It is alleged that Moyo'...Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo deputy mayor appeals public violence conviction
Bulawayo deputy mayor Mlandu Ncube and two others have approached the High Court to challenge their conviction and sentence in a matter in which they are accused of waging MDC-T intraparty violence ba...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 17:54hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo deputy mayor fights conviction at High Court
BULAWAYO deputy mayor Mlandu Ncube and two others who were part of a group of 12 MDC-T members involved in violent skirmishes that rocked the opposition party in March 2018 have approached the High Co...Published: 02 Mar 2023 at 05:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mahere dead baby tweet trial ends
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere, in court for allegedly publishing falsehoods, will know her fate March 24 when presiding magistrate Taurai Munuwere hands down judgemen...Published: 01 Mar 2023 at 19:26hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Woman acquitted of killing husband during Valentine's Day fracas
The High Court has cleared a Muzarabani woman of murder charges following the couple's violent quarrel 14 February last year which saw her stab and kill her husband in self-defence.Lackia Chir...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 06:21hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Police spokesperson subpoenaed to testify in Mahere police 'baby murder' tweet
Police spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi has been subpoenaed to court February 17 to give his testimony in a case in which Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson Fadzayi Maher...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 19:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa calls ex-finance minister 'bipolar, lunatic and a criminal'
THE suspension of Zanu-PF Mashonaland West Youth League chairman, Tapiwa Masenda, for allegedly beating up a Chinese miner has reportedly ignited fresh turmoil amid vein intervention by Vice President...Published: 19 Jan 2023 at 13:13hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF councillor bludgeons CCC activist for demanding presidential farming inputs
A CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) activist was Friday seriously injured following a machete attack by a local Zanu-PF ward councillor for demanding free Presidential farming inputs.The vi...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police officer stabbed to death while intervening in bar brawl
POLICE in Figtree situated in Matebeleland South have arrested 25-year-old Mthulisi Moyo for allegedly stabbing to death a Bulawayo based police officer.Detective Sergeant Lovedany Madambi, wh...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 18:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF elections marred by violence
VIOLENCE and ugly scenes reportedly marred the just-ended Zanu-PF central committee (CC) elections as bigwigs locked horns over positions in the party's highest decision-making body.Reports an...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 06:11hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Police inspector bashes workmate's wife
A POLICE inspector based in Harare has been dragged to court for assaulting a workmate's wife following a misunderstanding.Inspector Thubelihle Dube (38), who appeared before a Harare court on...Published: 29 Aug 2022 at 06:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Power struggles at BCC as Cjhamisa's blue eyed boy returns
The recently reinstated Ward Three Councillor Tinashe Kambarami is fighting to be reinstated to his position of Deputy Mayor. Clr Kambarami who was reinstated as councillor by the High Court, had been...Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chamisa must find each other
OR the better part of this week, Chitungwiza, especially Nyatsime, resembled a warzone.One would be forgiven to think that the community is party of Ukraine's Donbas region given the heightene...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Aspiring Zanu-PF councillor reported to police after erecting campaign banners at polling station
ASPIRING Zanu-PF Chinhoyi Ward 12 councillor, Enock Fombo, has been reported to police after displaying his campaign banners close to a polling station.He was also dishing out Zanu-PF regalia,...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dynamos summoned over disciplinary issues
DYNAMOS have become the first club this season to be summoned to appear before the Premier Soccer League disciplinary committee for their fan's hooliganism during a league match against Bulawayo Chief...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 05:58hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Sex on wheels: Cheated hubby loses marbles
Residents in Maphisa were on Tuesday last week treated to free and unrehearsed reality street theatre when a jilted man busted his wife in the act in her car with her boyfriend at 3am outside a superm...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 19:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Top Zanu-PF officials arrested as factional fights turn ugly
TWO top Zanu-PF Mashonaland West provincial officials were arrested by police last week after threatening to assault acting provincial chairperson, Abia Mujeri as tensions in the fractured ruling part...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:28hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Controversy mars Dembare win
Dynamos 1 - 0 YadahDYNAMOS coach, Tonderai Ndiraya, said he does not care how his team wins a match following a controversial victory over Yadah in their opening Castle Lager Premiership mat...Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 05:22hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths angry over party chaos
A Zanu-PF-linked pressure group, The Zimbabwe Youth Action Platform (ZYAP), has accused some senior party members of fanning divisions and plotting to destroy the party, warning that the youths would ...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 07:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Katsande road rage attacker prosecuted
Willard Katsande's chase for justice is on with the man accused of assaulting him during a road rage incident having now been brought to book.According to the City Press the accused, Jacobus K...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 06:17hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Kombi crews plot attack on police
SOME rowdy pirate kombi crews operating in Bulawayo are reportedly plotting to attack traffic police officers at their homes in retaliation for skirmishes that occurred in the city centre last Wednesd...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police must not be cowed by criminals
In March, a mob attacked police on official duty in Bulawayo and damaged their service vehicle.Yesterday, another police team enforcing the law was attacked. This means that there have been tw...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 06:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mudenda to brief Mnangagwa on PAP row
The dispute last week over whether the presidency of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) pitting delegates from North and Southern Africa against those from East, West and Central Africa should help the ...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 07:02hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ally storms into full council meeting in Bulawayo
FORMER Bulawayo Deputy Mayor Mr Tinashe Kambarami was yesterday ejected from a full council meeting after he stormed in and demanded reinstatement.Mr Kambarami's election as Ward 3 councillor ...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kambarami's presence causes fracas at BCC full council meeting
THERE was chaos at the Bulawayo City Council chambers on Wednesday afternoon after former deputy mayor, Tinashe Kambarami turned up for a full council meeting.The embattled former deputy mayor...Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 18:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers in gunfight with cops
An armed robber who is alleged to be part of a gang that has been terrorising motorists along the Beitbridge-Masvingo highway and smugglers and border jumpers using the Limpopo River, was this morning...Published: 28 May 2021 at 18:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Memory Mbodiah accuses Mliswa of touching her breasts
The MDC-T and independent Norton lawmaker Temba Mliswa were trading acrimonious recriminations on Tuesday following a physical and violent confrontation in parliament during which the opposition party...Published: 12 May 2021 at 10:44hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Police summon Zanu-PF Youths over violence
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has reportedly summoned some Zanu-PF youths who were involved in last weekend's intra-party violence which saw police fire tear-smoke to disperse the rampaging party...Published: 12 May 2021 at 10:32hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's supporters disrupt Mwonzora's meeting
Nelson Chamisa's MDC-Alliance supporters allegedly disrupted the start of an executive meeting that was expected to be addressed by MDC-T leader Senator Douglas Mwonzora in Bindura. Sen Mwonzo...Published: 05 May 2021 at 07:12hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Police restore order at Beitbridge Border Post
THE movement of commercial cargo that had been stalled by a five-hour demonstration by South Africa taxi operators at the Beitbridge Border Post early yesterday has improved after police in the neighb...Published: 13 Mar 2021 at 06:42hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
A letter to Ms. Sehlule Ndlovu: Hillside Bulawayo
Dear Ms. Sehlule Ndlovu, I start my letter with the first sentence of the article written today regarding the fight you had with supposedly your husband Trust Moyo. If marriage is war, the bed...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 19:06hrs | 3 | by Nomazulu Thata
Woman stones hubby's 'small house'
A WOMAN from Odzi, Marange has been jailed three months after she attacked and injured her husband's girlfriend.Nomatter Kurehwatira (32) of Mazikana village, Chief Marange pleaded guilty to a...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 06:52hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance: An opposition effort built on a foundation of lies
Last week some of the issues making rounds on both the mainstream and social media included the arrest of MDC-Alliance deputy chairperson, Job Sikhala, MDC-Alliance spokesperson, Fadzayi Mahere and ac...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:45hrs | 13 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Is it a crime to publish false news?
EARLIER this month, reports circulated on social media alleging that a police officer in Harare had struck a woman with his baton and killed a baby strapped on her back. The police issued a de...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 06:25hrs | 12 | by Veritas
Police dismiss baby death reports
POLICE yesterday dismissed social media reports that a police officer based in Harare killed a nine-month-old baby with a truncheon while enforcing the lockdown measures in the city centre on Monday....Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Baby was not killed and was not hit by a baton stick, claims police
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has taken note of the social media post titled 'Police Officer strikes, kills little baby with baton in Harare. The public is advised that comprehensive investigat...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 09:49hrs | | by P Nyathi
Drawing parallels between bitter election losers Khupe and Trump
Is it even possible to make such comparisons between Madam Thokozani Khupe and Donald Trump regarding the shenanigans of the two politicians' elections defeat? Yes, it is possible; this is a global vi...Published: 02 Jan 2021 at 08:30hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Khupe leaves MDC-T vote in a huff
CHAOTIC scenes rocked the combustible MDC-T extraordinary congress which was held at the Harare International Conference Centre yesterday, with backers of the interim party president Thokozani Khupe (...Published: 28 Dec 2020 at 07:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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