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3 lions beheaded in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) has launched an investigation into a disturbing case of poaching after the bodies of three lions were discovered beheaded in Hwange Nati...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 07:57hrs | 831 | by Staff reporter
The death of coalitions
To drag out or not to drag Biden!What a disaster for the Democrats in United States elections!With little foresight or care, Democrats pitted a dead-man-come-to-life by the name of Joe...Published: 30 Jun 2024 at 18:16hrs | 2 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
ZMC threatens to muzzle the press on Gukurahundi genocide reporting
THE Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) chairperson, Professor Ruby Magosvongwe, says media houses which refuse to sign the controversial code of conduct produced by the commission and an unrepresentative...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 09:09hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe seeks to control Gukurahundi genocide coverage process
The Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) chair Professor Ruby Magosvongwe says media houses which refuse to sign the controversial code of conduct produced by the commission and an unrepresentative clique ...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 20:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
16-year-old rapes cousin, chops body into pieces
IN a grisly act of murder which left the community of Siamputeni Village 44, Chishizya area under Chief Sinamagonde in Binga, Matebeleland North Province shocked, a 16-year-old boy is alleged to have ...Published: 03 Mar 2024 at 08:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi genocide brigade was deployed on this day 41 years ago
Today in history: On this day 41 years ago and three years after Zimbabwe gained independence from Britain, the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA)'s Fifth Brigade was deployed in Matabeleland North on 2...Published: 20 Jan 2024 at 16:40hrs | 56 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
SADC also fed up with Zanu-PF roguery
For decades, SADC countries have been playing their usual big brother role to successive Zanu-PF governments, shielding them from international condemnation for oppressive rule and corruption and alwa...Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 19:33hrs | 15 | by Simbarashe Jingo
Skeleton in bush sparks police investigation
DISCOVERY of skeletal remains of a man who could have died last year has sparked a police investigation in Bulawayo.Forensic examinations suggest the body, which was discovered in Umguza on 29...Published: 18 Aug 2023 at 18:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man kills daughter (1), harvests body parts for rituals
IN a spine chilling ritual murder, a 38-year-old man killed his daughter (1) and chopped up the body to get parts for muti purposes.Thomas Muzenda, an artisinal miner (umakorokoza) from gokwe,...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 20:32hrs | 7 | 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 | 8 | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Herdboy lover kills boss' wife in jealous rage
IN a spine-chilling incident that left villagers in Nyamandlovu, Matabeleland North province, in shock, a 28-year-old man who was employed as a herd boy allegedly murdered his employer's 47-year-old w...Published: 30 Sep 2022 at 06:16hrs | 2 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Opposition: Politics and Pisgah sight fallacy
A student of CultureAT heart and at soul, I am a student of culture.This is why I opted to read Literature at college, much of it drawn from the Western World.But that was to g...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 07:15hrs | 12 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
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 | 7 | by Staff reporter
Violence should not be condoned
IT is so saddening and unfortunate that the grisly demise of an innocent Chitungwiza woman has divided the nation to the point of driving citizens into a deadly vortex of murky politics.Morebl...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe electoral violence looms'
THE Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has warned that the country risks sliding into electoral violence similar to the 2008 mayhem which resulted in several opposition activists being killed or had their l...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 06:39hrs | | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's re-engagement propaganda hollow, falls flat
WHILE President Emmerson Mnangagwa returned home last week blowing his own trumpet about his purported diplomatic victory at the United Nations climate change summit in Glasgow, the reality that he ma...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:41hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's re-engagement propaganda hollow, falls flat
WHILE President Emmerson Mnangagwa returned home last week blowing his own trumpet about his purported diplomatic victory at the United Nations climate change summit in Glasgow, the reality that he ma...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:46hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
ED Pfeeee in UK hill Nehanda's head head home
The President of Zimbabweans His Excellence Cde Dr Emerson Dambudzo MNANGAGWA will be gracing the Queen's land in October 2021. There is great excitement amongst Zimbabweans who are hoping to catch a ...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:46hrs | 6 | by Dr Maisimba Mavaza
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 | 1 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Rtd Col. Dyck holds fort in Mozambique
SOUTHERN African Development Community leaders gathered for an emergency meeting this week in Maputo, Mozambique, following a recent get-together in Gaborone, Botswana, to discuss the volatile politic...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 16:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mozambique presses for Zimbabwe military intervention
FRESH intricate details of back-to-back meetings by the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) Organ on Politics, Defence and Security have emerged, indicating that they failed to resolve a met...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 06:20hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Man kills boy, cooks head
In a grisly incident, a man from Matova village under Chief Zimuto in the Gokomere area, yesterday murdered his brother's nine-year-old son before cutting off his head and boiling it in a pot....Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 21:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jilted woman hires thugs to 'rough up' lover
WHEN love goes sour it leaves a bitter taste in the mouth and can cause damages if not handled with caution.Such bitter taste is what a Bulawayo woman, Memory Ndabalime, is experiencing follow...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 07:50hrs | | 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
Man goes on the run after killing daugther
Police in Mberengwa are investigating a murder case in which a man allegedly used a knife to stab her step-daughter to death before fleeing his home.The grisly incident occurred in Maromo vill...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 17:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man tries to cook baby
An 18-year-old man from Chibuku village under Chief Nhema took his three-weeks-old baby and tried to shove him into a boiling three-legged pot but failed because the pot was full of pumpkins and meali...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 10:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Stay away: A manifestation of the MDC's violence DNA
The MDC Alliance and the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU)'s so called protest stay away ostensibly meant to register disquiet over the ongoing economic challenges paradoxically turned out to b...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 13:26hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
'Zimbabwe aircraft crash victims threw luggage overboard'
The five people who were traveling in the doomed Cessna S206 which crashed in the Chemanjirenji Hills Village in the Renco area of Masvingo South last week desperately tried to serve the doomed aircra...Published: 01 Dec 2018 at 14:32hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Vendor's leg crushed as kombi runs over market
A grisly scene was witnessed last week Tuesday night after a stationary kombi was hit by a cross border bus trailer, forcing it into a group of vendors selling their wares on the roadside.A to...Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 15:00hrs | 1 | 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 | 5 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Man disfigures ex-wife's face
IT hurts the most when the person that made you feel so special yesterday, makes you feel so unwanted today!In a horrific attack, a jealous man turned monster when he allegedly disfigured his estrange...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 06:24hrs | | 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 | | 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
Zimbabwean man in SA kills ex-wife, keeps body and hangs self
A ZIMBABWEAN man based in South Africa slit his ex-wife's throat, kept the body in his room before hanging himself in his employer's office three days later.Bekithemba Moyo (27), from Go...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 06:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe vs Mnangagwa and us all!
Many have said it, and it is much true that our politics is the politics of the stomach, they have said bring principles to a hungry man on one hand, and a bag of mealie-meal on the other hand, the ma...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 15:26hrs | | by Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda
He milks snake venom to save lives
In the laboratory at his Marlborough home in Harare Ben Vermulen was trying to milk a huge Cape cobra by manoeuvring its razor sharp fangs through a rubber sheath on a plastic vial - the way he had do...Published: 13 Feb 2018 at 08:32hrs | | 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
The Gukurahundi: Who, What, Where, When, Why
In about a week from today, on 1 July 2012, Zimbabweans across the political cleavage will be celebrating the life and times of that great nationalist, Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo. Without ...Published: 12 Dec 2017 at 05:36hrs | | by Mncumbatha
Man found with human head, private parts in bag
A 22-YEAR-OLD man from Gwanda has been arrested after being found with a human head and male private parts, the Chronicle reported.National police spokesperson Chief Superintendent Paul Nyathi...Published: 24 Jun 2017 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
South Africa hardly recovered from the race sentiment of apartheid
It is very easy to think it is the flash, not the flame; that burns big logs. The local media excitedly reported on the resignation of an aide of Mujuru's Nats, in the process missing the actual burni...Published: 08 Apr 2017 at 11:54hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru
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 | 4 | by Staff Reporter
As the Twitter Professora would say, handei tione!
IT has been a week of laughter and good political humour, not least because my party triumphed in Bikita West, but also because of the clotted reasoning and prose which this defeat wrought in lose...Published: 28 Jan 2017 at 08:31hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Linda Masarira exposed?
Opposition activist Linda Masarira has been exposed by her colleagues for lying to the public that she was abducted and assaulted by State security agents when in fact she was bashed by her boyfri...Published: 18 Jan 2017 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
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