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Armed robber pounces on lovebirds, rapes woman
A 21-year-old nurse at Masvingo General Hospital was raped by a suspected armed robber who caught her in the act her being intimate with her boyfriend in a car in a bushy area next to TelOne offices o...Published: 25 Jan 2023 at 16:31hrs | 2418 | by Staff reporter
ZESA switches off Harare industrial area
HUNDREDS of industrial workers in Harare's busy Workington area have been laid off by different companies struggling to operate due to an electricity crisis that has seen the area going almost a month...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 06:43hrs | 1544 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt, white farmers head for showdown
White former commercial farmers, whose land was acquired under the land reform programme are reportedly worried about a "longer" period that the compensation process may take after Zimbabwe Government...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 06:38hrs | 778 | by Staff reporter
Vendors attack council police
BULAWAYO City Council chamber secretary Sikhangele Zhou says the local authority has been forced to upgrade municipal security uniforms to include helmets.According to Zhou, the decision was m...Published: 16 Jan 2023 at 16:27hrs | 760 | by Staff reporter
Judge tosses CCC MPs' yellow neckties challenge against speaker
HIGH Court judge, David Mangota has dismissed a challenge by Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) lawmakers who had sued the Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Mudenda for throwing them out of the august hou...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:57hrs | 2090 | by Staff reporter
Robber pounce on Mazowe gold mine
Three unknown machete-wielding suspected robbers allegedly pounced on Mazowe (Jumbo) mine and robbed over US$2000 on Sunday.Sources familiar with the incident allege the suspects tied two secu...Published: 12 Jan 2023 at 07:19hrs | 518 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mutambara wants Zimbabwe to dump, rework delimitation
FORMER Deputy Prime minister in the 2009-2013 Government of National Unity (GNU), Arthur Mutambara says the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) must redo the delimitation exercise as he dismissed the ...Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 16:54hrs | 497 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt allays new COVID-19 variant fears
Government has allayed fears around the recent discovery of a new COVID-19 variant XBB.1.5 in neighbouring South Africa (SA) saying it had necessary measures and safeguards in place to control the var...Published: 09 Jan 2023 at 06:59hrs | 657 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt splashes US$60m on police
GOVERNMENT has set aside US$60 million and several billions in local currency for police operations for next year.This comes ahead of elections next year, which are likely to be held in July o...Published: 21 Dec 2022 at 20:11hrs | 942 | by Staff reporter
Sex worker nabbed for stealing cellphone
AFTER a seemingly bad day in business, a self-proclaimed commercial sex worker from Bulawayo teamed up with a male patron to steal a fellow imbiber's cellphone.This was heard when Samantha Sib...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:19hrs | 589 | by Staff reporter
Armed security officers rob 300kg pregnant carbons
A Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) and Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) officers who allegedly robbed a Chinese mine in Mazowe were arrested ...Published: 16 Dec 2022 at 13:33hrs | 2470 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Five man gang rob guns at a Chinese Mine
Five unknown robbers allegedly pounced on a Chinese mine in Bindura and disarmed security guards before robbing them of the company's riffles.According to Mashonaland Central acting police spo...Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 17:41hrs | 2035 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Bindura
Missing Zimbabwean businessman found alive in SA
A ZIMBABWEAN businessman, missing for more than a month after being kidnapped on a busy road between Johannesburg and Pretoria in South Africa has been found alive and reunited with his family....Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 06:29hrs | 576 | by Staff reporter
Our leaders are not just corrupt, they're godfathers of corruption. 'But who will guard the guards themselves!'
The announcement that government will be installing 5 KVA solar powered kits at the homes of over 100 top government official including service chiefs "to cushion them and their families from ZESA loa...Published: 13 Dec 2022 at 09:34hrs | 1027 | by Wilbert Mukori
27 men believed to be migrants found dead along road in Zambia
Twenty-seven bodies, believed to be of Ethiopians or Somalis, have been found dumped along a road in the Meanwood Khosi Area in Lusaka, Zambia, after apparently suffocating in a container used by huma...Published: 12 Dec 2022 at 00:49hrs | 1985 | by Staff Reporter
Water infrastructure vandalism worries Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has expressed serious concern over rampant vandalism of key infrastructure at Epping Forest and Rochester Aquifer in Nyamandlovu, a development which continues to negatively affect...Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 05:06hrs | 211 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa accused of taking Zimbabwe back to medieval era
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's Statutory Instrument (SI) 189 of 2022, announced on November 4 to legalise payment of miners' royalties partly in kind has been described as not just being illegal but a...Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 05:11hrs | 3384 | by Staff reporter
Unions query Zimbabwe / Rwanda teachers deal
TEACHERS unions have raised concern over the conditions of service for their counterparts who were recently deployed to Rwanda, saying they were being treated unfairly.In October, 159 teachers...Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 05:03hrs | 1049 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala's 12 children struggling to survive
Opposition MP Job Sikhala refused to go to court this week for the ruling on his 10th bail application in protest against what he knew would be the outcome.His lawyer, Freddy Masarirevu, told ...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:09hrs | 4334 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa yet to fill vacant politburo posts
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa (ED) has kept the ruling Zanu-PF party in suspense as he is yet to appoint other politburo members several weeks after the party's elective congress was held in the capita...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 05:03hrs | 701 | by Staff reporter
4 die of suspected poisoning
POLICE has confirmed the death of four family members due to suspected poisoning after complaining of severe stomach pains at Musisinyani village in Mwenezi."The ZRP reports a sad incident whi...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 04:57hrs | 330 | by Staff reporter
Police hunt for US$600k Kwekwe service station robbers
A gang of 12 armed robbers raided a service station in Kwekwe on Monday and stole almost US$600 000 and R58 430.The robbers, who were armed with a pistol and an AK47 assault rifle, attacked tw...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 04:53hrs | 197 | by Staff reporter
Robbers snatch US$580,000 in raid on Zimbabwe petrol station
Armed robbers made off with more than half-a-million United States dollars in a midnight raid on a Kwekwe petrol station, police said.Police were called to Rockodox Service Station on Parson R...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 20:11hrs | 1727 | by Staff reporter
Sulu guards Dendera jealously
Ochestra Dendera kings boss Sulumani (Sulu) Chimbetu is not going back in music industry as he keeps the genre of Dendera relevant.Whil...Published: 27 Nov 2022 at 11:45hrs | 371 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe police to train security guards
Private security guards will soon undergo basic formal levels of training by the police, as Government upgrades the industry following a recent rise in robberies through a review of the Private Invest...Published: 23 Nov 2022 at 04:58hrs | 1460 | by Staff reporter
The enablers of Shona hegemony and enemies of Mthwakazi's peoples' emancipation from the MLF President
Greetings to all!, The compilation of this article identifies the enablers of Shona hegemony among others as the so-called "ZPRA Legacy Group". This group is comprised of charlatans who are in...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 09:37hrs | 1063 | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Zimbabwean trio arrested for allegedly stealing copper cables, holding guards hostage
Mpumalanga police on Sunday said they had arrested three suspects, aged between 33 and 35, who allegedly robbed and held security guards hostage and stripped copper cables at a plantation in Machadodo...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 05:00hrs | 622 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt sweats over armed robberies
GOVERNMENT yesterday admitted that armed robberies are now a menace, saying there is need for re-training of police officers to deal with the scourge before it spirals out of control.Speaking ...Published: 11 Nov 2022 at 05:16hrs | 1818 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa jets off to Egypt
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa today joins fellow world leaders in the two-day Sharm El-Sheikh Climate Implementation Summit, the first part of the high-level segment for Heads of State and Government, here at t...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:23hrs | 149 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean-born UK soldier missed Buckingham Palace shift after too much booze
A member of the Grenadier Guards missed his entire shift protecting Buckingham Palace after drinking too much rum and falling asleep on the floor, a court martial was told.Lance-Sergeant Farai...Published: 02 Nov 2022 at 05:07hrs | 2845 | by Staff reporter
How Mine robbers unmasked
POLICE in Bulawayo have linked armed robbers who raided a cash-in-transit vehicle transporting nearly 12kg of gold worth US$675 000 from How Mine to Fidelity Printers and Refiners to four other armed ...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 04:51hrs | 1053 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe prisons okay Chamisa jail visit, set tough conditions
Zimbabwe prison authorities have finally given in to pressure by CCC leader Nelson Chamisa to be allowed to visit jailed lieutenants Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole at Chikurubi Maximum Prison but set...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 21:08hrs | 881 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa gives prisons boss 24-hour ultimatum
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has given prisons boss Moses Chihobvu a 24-hour ultimatum to provide an explanation for denial of permission to visit detained party activists...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 06:04hrs | 3614 | by Staff reporter
Police name 11 suspects wanted for How Mine robbery, reward offered
Police on Wednesday released names of 11 people they say are wanted over the October 4 gun robbery of a cash-in-transit van carrying gold from How Mine to Fidelity Printers in Bulawayo.Nationa...Published: 19 Oct 2022 at 20:28hrs | 1401 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa 'denied' access to incarcerated Sikhala
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has been barred by prison authorities from visiting incarcerated legislators Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole but his nemesis Douglas Mwonzora ...Published: 16 Oct 2022 at 10:13hrs | 2185 | by Staff Reporter
Cop, soldier up for US$1,3m robbery
A CRIMINAL Investigations Department (CID) officer and a soldier appeared before Harare regional magistrate Taurai Manuwere yesterday facing charges of robbing ABC Auctions of US$1,3 million.C...Published: 14 Oct 2022 at 05:54hrs | 1933 | by Staff reporter
US$1.4 million ABC Auctions robbery suspect dies after police shooting
A man suspected of taking part in Zimbabwe's second biggest heist ever has died after being shot by police in Epworth, 17km south of Harare.Trymore Bondamakara had been linked to the October 8...Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 20:09hrs | 1250 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers remain in custody
ELEVEN Karoi armed robbers who went on a rampage around the farming town were further remanded in custody by a local magistrate.Jessie Kufa remanded them until October 24, when the State is ex...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 06:08hrs | 377 | 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 | 1762 | by Staff reporter
Robbers vanish with US$1,5m from ABC Auctions
FOUR armed robbers stormed ABC Auctions along Seke Road in Harare on Friday night and got away with US$1,5 million after subduing two security guards at the premises.Police spokesperson Assist...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 07:52hrs | 307 | by Staff reporter
How Mine robbery suspects appear in court
THREE suspects linked to a gang that got away with How Mine's 11,9 kilogrammes of gold worth US$ 450 000 and four guns were yesterday brought to court by detectives who were seeking their further dete...Published: 07 Oct 2022 at 05:57hrs | 1007 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police arrest 3 suspects in probe into How Mine gold robbery
Police on Wednesday made a breakthrough in their investigation into Tuesday's gun attack on a security convoy from How Mine during which 11.9kg of gold worth US$650,000 was taken.Three men sus...Published: 05 Oct 2022 at 21:27hrs | 866 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe must deploy border guards as extremism fears mount - report
WHILE Zimbabwe currently enjoys relative peace and harmony, the state should immediately deploy border guards at ports of entry and strengthen terrorism laws amid concern that the outbreak of the viol...Published: 05 Oct 2022 at 06:43hrs | 3129 | by Staff reporter
13 armed robbers get away with How Mine gold
A GANG of 13 armed robbers yesterday ambushed three Securico Security Company cash-in-transit vehicles, about nine kilometres from How Mine and got away with four guns and 11,9 kilogrammes of gold wor...Published: 05 Oct 2022 at 06:34hrs | 835 | by Staff reporter
11.9kg gold seized as gunmen attack How Mine CIT van
Gold worth US$650,000 was snatched on Tuesday morning after heavily armed men attacked a security convoy conveying the gold from How Mine to Fidelity Printers in Bulawayo.A Securitas cash-in-t...Published: 04 Oct 2022 at 22:15hrs | 860 | by Staff reporter
Aaron Motsoaledi denies Beitbridge green bombers blocking Zimbabweans going home
The Department of Home Affairs says no Zimbabwean national is being blocked from returning to their native country.This after there were claims suggesting that border guards were turning back ...Published: 20 Sep 2022 at 06:12hrs | 2183 | by Staff reporter
30,000 petition Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been implored to set aside political differences with some opposition parties and end the incarceration of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators Job Sikhala ...Published: 20 Sep 2022 at 06:06hrs | 1607 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo CBZ bank robbed after 5 gunmen pose as customers
Five men posed as customers and then whipped out guns in a lightning-speed robbery of a CBZ bank in Bulawayo on Tuesday, witnesses said.Law enforcement sources said the robbers, who had been i...Published: 13 Sep 2022 at 19:45hrs | 4156 | by Staff reporter
11 armed robbers arrested
POLICE have arrested 11 suspected armed robbers linked to a spate of robberies committed between April 2021 and this month in and around Karoi, Mashonaland West province .Police spokespe...Published: 13 Sep 2022 at 06:00hrs | 656 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga duped
The Cold Storage Company in Bulawayo remains closed, despite a grand "official re-opening" by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga on August 22, ZimLive can reveal.Chiwenga, then the acting pre...Published: 09 Sep 2022 at 19:57hrs | 4666 | by Staff reporter
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