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Job Sikhala to launch a book
Zimbabwean opposition stalwart and human rights defender Job Sikhala is set to launch his much-anticipated autobiography titled Footprints in the Chains: The Life Story of Job Sikhala on 27 June 2025,...Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 21:35hrs | 591 | by Staff reporter
Family of 'vat en sit' deceased makes list of demands
THE family of Simosenkosi Sibanda (27), who was recently allegedly murdered by Dingani Sibanda, her live-in boyfriend in Bulawayo's Cowdray Park suburb, is demanding lobola upfront before burial. ...Published: 24 Oct 2023 at 05:57hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mubobobo dream stokes gruesome murder rage
IN a shockingly bizarre development, a man from Chiredzi in Masvingo province was a fortnight ago gruesomely murdered and his head crushed with an axe handle by a fellow villager who had sensationally...Published: 03 Mar 2023 at 18:25hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Pastor faces sex worker murder charge
A Seventh Day Adventist Church (SDA) pastor based in Francistown, Botswana has been linked to the alleged murder of a suspected Zimbabwean commercial sex worker who was found dead in her house in Ma...Published: 17 Feb 2023 at 20:53hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala says Zanu-PF behind his continued incarceration
ZIMBABWE'S main opposition party, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) lawmakers, Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole on Tuesday had their application challenging the proposed trial date dismissed by a Har...Published: 23 Aug 2022 at 19:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC remembers August 1 shooting victims
ON this day four years ago, security forces fired on Harare residents in the central business district (CBD) following post-election protests after delays by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) in...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 19:08hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa rally murder takes new twist
The grisly murder of Mboneni Ncube, the Citizens for Coalition for Change (CCC) Kwekwe activist who was killed at a rally in the Midlands town in February has taken a new twist with the suspected kill...Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ngozi demands second top-up
THE avenging spirit of a man who was allegedly murdered by his lover's brother almost 50 years ago is wreaking havoc in his killer's family, demanding two more beasts as compensation after the 26 init...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 06:59hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Woman kills hubby, daughter over New Year's Eve gig, commits suicide
Florance Notito of Tavamo village under Chief Neshuro in Mwenezi East killed herself moments after allegedly using two axes to kill her husband Simbarashe Butete and their two-year-old baby girl, Tell...Published: 02 Jan 2021 at 13:51hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Raped, murder teen's spirit wreaks havoc, demands top-up
THE avenging spirit of a teenage girl who was allegedly raped and murdered about 16 years ago is wreaking havoc in her killers' family demanding 10 beasts claiming the compensation was lobola which wa...Published: 31 May 2019 at 18:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsikamutanda kills two over lobola
A TSIKAMUTANDA grisly murdered his lover's brother and mother after being duped in love.Lovemore Majaradha, 42, who is polygamist and serving a life sentence at Chikurubi Maximum Prison, said ...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 19:28hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Inmate rapes, murders prison officer
A GURUVE man raped and grisly murdered a female prison officer before stealing her vehicle at a workshop.Stancelus Mashayamombe, 34, committed the heinous offence when he was left with six mon...Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 17:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man 'stabs, stones' 'witch' aunt to death
A 22-YEAR-OLD man has been arrested after he allegedly stabbed and stoned his aunt to death, accusing her of witchcraft. Abel Vundla (22) of Bambanani Village in Tjingababili, Tshitshi area in...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Amnesty beneficiaries linked to grisly Bulawayo murder
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested two ex-convicts who were released from prison under Presidential amnesty recently in connection with one of four grisly murders committed in the city last week....Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman grisly murdered
AN unrepentant 35-year-old ex-convict from Chipinge who tasted freedom recently through the Presidential amnesty ran amok and brutally attacked two women with a knife, killing one of them in cold bloo...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Day dreaming' tout confesses to murder
A Mhangura taxi driver is reportedly striking from the dead after he was grisly murdered by artisanal miners on Christmas Eve before being robbed of his car, $2000 and a mobile phone, Bulawayo24.com h...Published: 08 Jan 2018 at 15:55hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Sex worker beheaded in Hararre
A sex worker - Juliet Kadungure from Mverechena business centre in Domboshava was allegedly beheaded by a 32 year old Harare client.The accused, Stuart Dickson Tembo briefly appeared bef...Published: 07 Feb 2017 at 04:53hrs | 9 | by Staff Reporter
Man locked up for grisly murder and robbery
A man from Richmond in Bulawayo is languishing in remand prison after he allegedly killed and robbed a resident of his mobile phones.Richard Moyo was not asked to plead to murder and robbery w...Published: 20 Nov 2016 at 08:36hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Man murders own mother and 2 women
A 34-YEAR-OLD mentally challenged man from Lower Gweru allegedly strangled his mother with his bare hands before fatally axing two neighbours in grisly murders which have shocked villagers....Published: 07 Oct 2016 at 09:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grisly murder in Tsholotsho as man 'skin' toddler
A Tsholotsho villager at Ntulula reportedly killed a child with a hammer before 'skinning' the toddler.According to sketchy details obtained by Bulawayo24.com, the man whose identity has n...Published: 28 Aug 2016 at 18:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
N'anga brutally killed
A N'ANGA from Nyanga last Saturday ran amok and savagely axed and knifed his colleague to death after being accused of using witchcraft. Wonder Ndowa (59) of Sanyabako Village in Chief Saunyama's area...Published: 04 Jul 2016 at 04:25hrs | 3 | by Liberty Dube
Grisly murder, as Mutare man's privates are found pierced and in pieces
Liberty Dube— A 36-year-old man was on Sunday brutally killed and his body was discovered wi...Published: 05 Feb 2016 at 10:56hrs | | by Liberty Dube
Victoria Falls bush sex murder: Two suspects arrested
TWO people have been arrested in Victoria Falls in connection with the grisly murder of a Mosi-Oa–Tunya High school student who was beaten to death before being thrown into the Zambezi River on Wedn...Published: 18 Jul 2015 at 14:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man beheaded wife with an axe, hangs himself
A MAN from Ntabamhlophe Village in Lower Gweru beheaded his wife with an axe, chopped the severed head into pieces before hanging himself following a misunderstanding over missing cattle.Accor...Published: 22 May 2015 at 09:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF victory dispels voter apathy claims
The 27 March 2015, by-elections that were held in Chirumanzu-Zibagwe and Mount Darwin West constituencies showed the world that Zanu-PF is still in control in the country's political affairs. Zanu-PF'...Published: 02 Apr 2015 at 10:35hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Outrage over Zimondi's 18-year jail sentence
The imposition of an 18-year jail term on Pritchard Zimondi who killed his girlfriend Monalisa Chinomona two years ago, was yesterday met with outrage by the victim's family members who gathered ...Published: 19 Dec 2014 at 23:36hrs | 1 | by Court Reporter
Suspect severely assaulted allegedly while in police custody
A WAR veteran from Kezi was severely assaulted allegedly while in police custody after villagers accused him of axing to death his elderly mother before burying her body at his homestead, 'The Chr...Published: 15 Nov 2014 at 05:43hrs | | by Mpumelelo Nyoni
Grisly murder as 'missing' man is found dead, limbs missing
MATABELELAND NORTH - IN an incident which left tongues wagging, Lupane villagers last week discovered the body of a missing man in what is suspected to be ritual murder.The decomposing bod...Published: 16 Oct 2014 at 15:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Man kills father for 'conniving' with mum to bewitch him
IN a spine-chilling incident, which left villagers in Bhilingoma area under Chief Gampo in Plumtree shocked, a 41-year-old man allegedly struck his 74-year-old father to death with an axe accusing hi...Published: 23 Sep 2014 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Family demands 40 beasts from 'murderer' hubby's family
A GRIEVING Karuru family of Nyazura is demanding compensation of 40 head of cattle from their in-laws for the alleged murder of their daughter by her husband following a domestic dispute.The ...Published: 12 Jul 2014 at 21:30hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Nkulumane grisly murders: Police still in the dark
Bulawayo police are still hunting for suspects behind the gruesome murder of a man and woman in Nkulumane last week.The two bodies were found at an advanced state of decomposition in a sto...Published: 01 May 2014 at 14:17hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Cops gun down Binga murder suspect
Zimbabwe detectives have reportedly shot dead one person and arrested four others in connection with grisly murders in Binga last week, Zim...Published: 15 Jan 2014 at 16:45hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Crimes of passion rock Zimbabwe
They bask in the glory of riches and fame, but it is love which often becomes their downfall.From hero to zero, most celebrities, rich business, and powerful politicians successfully ride the ...Published: 26 Aug 2013 at 09:52hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Man murders 'smallhouse' in a dispute over his marriage
A MAN suspected to have grisly murdered his girlfriend in cold blood in a dispute over his marriage was yesterday locked up in remand prison.Brighton Chagonda (27) of Luveve ZRP Camp was not ...Published: 22 Aug 2013 at 06:51hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Man fatally stabs ex-wife with a kitchen knife
A jilted Masvingo man allegedly fatally stabbed his ex-wife with a kitchen knife after seeing her in the company of her new lover over the weekend.Kudakwashe Mushandira of Mucheke A in the ci...Published: 09 Jul 2013 at 05:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Maid (26) suffocates employer's 10-month-old baby
A 26-YEAR-OLD maid from Bulawayo's high-density suburb of Cowdray Park allegedly wrapped a 10-month-old baby with a blanket, shoved it into a drawer and callously left it to suffocate as she went to...Published: 14 Feb 2013 at 06:06hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Five killed in ritual murders, mutilated bodies found
Five people were savagely murdered and their mutilated bodies found on Monday morning in Chinamhora communal lands. The body of Paradzai Benhura Masawi of Mungate Village was found near ...Published: 19 Sep 2012 at 07:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ditched man butchers wife, cut body into pieces
A ditched Lupane man Petros Ncube (52) could not control his anger and resorted to slicing his wife with a machete into pieces. Ncube allegedly butchered his 50 year old wife Shirmy Nkiw...Published: 08 Jun 2012 at 04:38hrs | | by Alois Sibanda
Romantic Valentine's night ended in grief
WHAT was intended to be a romantic Valentine's night ended in grief when a spouse was grisly murdered in cold blood.Wellington Chaminuka (38) met his fate in Zengeza 4, Chitungwiza while carr...Published: 21 Feb 2012 at 21:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mother beats daughter (12) to death for skipping school
A 12 year old Mangwe girl in Matabeleland South was savagely whipped to death, dragged down a rocky hill while screaming by her angry mother for bunking lessons.The grisly murder by Mavis Moyo...Published: 21 Feb 2012 at 06:13hrs | 1 | by Alois Sibanda
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