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Police officers in US$10 000 heist
THREE police officers allegedly pounced on a gold trader and robbed him of US$10 000 worth of property during a stage-managed arrest.Happymore Gwande, 35, who is stationed at Nyabira Police St...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 16:47hrs | 596 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest notorious armed robbers
Police in Gweru have arrested three notorious armed robbers allegedly behind a spate of robberies in the Midlands, Masvingo and Bulawayo and are also linked to a US $250 000 heist in Madokero, H...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 05:41hrs | 828 | by Staff reporter
Drama as 6 armed men rob Chitown forex dealer
IN a dramatic movie style heist, a gang of six masked armed men pounced on illegal forex dealers at Makoni Shopping Centre in Chitungwiza yesterday and grabbed a bag loaded with cash before kidnapping...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 06:25hrs | 2577 | by Staff reporter
Losers of the recent Supreme Court ruling
"THERE are winners and losers," said Information permanent secretary Ndavaningi Mangwana about the controversial ruling made by the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe last month which allows for the settling o...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 06:06hrs | 334 | by Tatira Zwinoira
Soldiers up for armed robbery
THREE soldiers were arraigned before Guruve magistrates' court yesterday facing an armed robbery charge in Kanyemba.The trio Joseph Hlongwane (24), Twice Kamuriwo (28) and Wellington Ngw...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 12:37hrs | 1774 | by Simbarashe Sithole
4 Harare cops in US$12 000 heist
FOUR police officers have been arrested on charges of robbing a Harare man of US$12 000 at gun- point.The complainant, Albert Mubaiwa was allegedly robbed at his Waterfalls home after the four...Published: 31 Jan 2020 at 19:11hrs | 364 | by Staff reporter
Machete gangs leave one dead, several injured in ore heist
"Mining in Zimbabwe is no longer safe for women," says Sanelisiwe Maseko, a single mother of two whose mine in Colleen Bawn was recently invaded by machete-wielding men in a bloody raid that left one ...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:29hrs | 3920 | by Staff reporter
Zacc wades into gold smuggling
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has been handed an explosive gold smuggling report that details well-knit gold smuggling by a coterie of gold buying barons, which is costing Zimbabwe bi...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:08hrs | 71 | by Staff reporter
All that glitters is not gold
I AM not sure of the details but around the year 2000, a geological exploration team found alluvial diamonds at Marange in Zimbabwe. They cut trenches and did further exploration for a number of years...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:34hrs | 1003 | by Eddie Cross
'Ruling on US$ debt a grand heist'
TUESDAY'S Supreme Court ruling declaring that debts owed in United States dollars (US$) incurred on or before February 22, 2019 should be settled using the Zimdollar at a 1:1 parity will further deepe...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:26hrs | 586 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe 'reduces debt by theft' after Supreme Court ruling: lawyers
The Supreme Court has upheld the validity of a controversial government decree from February 2019 which converted debts accumulated in United States dollars to the local RTGS currency – at a great l...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:20hrs | 863 | by Staff reporter
RBZ raids US$3,2bn in depositors' funds
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) raided depositors' accounts, wiping out US$3,2 billion in the process, before introducing bond notes in 2016 and eventually outlawing the use of foreign currency in ...Published: 22 Nov 2019 at 18:07hrs | 5421 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF grand heist, autocracy writ large
IN the aftermath of Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's budget that sounded more like was crafted in some Western world capital and delivered in Harare, many people may have missed the assault on our parl...Published: 20 Nov 2019 at 08:01hrs | 1441 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Cyber Etiquette: Beware how you behave in cyberspace
"Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own." - Carol Burnett. In my profession of project management it is estimated that we spend 90% of our time in communication. I can vouch fo...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 09:23hrs | 705 | by Engineer Tororiro Isaac Chaza PMP
Does SB Moyo live on earth?
For those who may not remember, Sibusiso B. Moyo, (PhD) is the man who became the face of the November 2017 coup. As I write, after his spate with the United States ambassador, Brian Nichols, I am beg...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:48hrs | 1162 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Mnangagwa asked to resolve wrangle over ownership of Waverley Blankets
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been asked to help resolve the wrangle over Waverley Blankets after a relative of the company's founder allegedly seized control of the textiles giant through corrupt ...Published: 29 Oct 2019 at 10:33hrs | 5301 | by Staff reporter
Businessman dies in hail of bullets
A PROMINENT Maphisa businessman was early yesterday morning shot dead in his home at the growth point in Matabeleland South. Tapson Ncube, who had business interests in mining, transport, reta...Published: 23 Oct 2019 at 05:59hrs | 3064 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Chief Justice's nephew named in SA 'bank heist'?
A damning report into the looting of VBS Bank has found that former KPMG partner Sipho Malaba, who is Zimbabwe Chief Justice's nephew knew about the nearly R1bn cash shortage at the bank but signed of...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 20:35hrs | 2570 | by Staff reporter
IMF flies into Zimbabwe financial mess
A TEAM of International Monetary Fund (IMF) officials will jet into the country next week for the first review of the Staff-Monitored Programme (SMP) at a time government finances are in a shambles wi...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:31hrs | 547 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube summoned
PARLIAMENT says government finances are in a mess and has summoned Finance minister Mthuli Ncube - as a matter of urgency - to regularise a series of unauthorised expenditures which now include the ZW...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 20:25hrs | 11981 | by Staff reporter
'Keep your EU Brexit and I will keep my Zimbabwe'
HISTORY has a tendency to repeat itself, but in Zimbabwe, the frequency is just phenomenal. The country has twice in a decade suffered hyperinflation as a result of bad governance.For the seco...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:48hrs | 10445 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
MDC 16 August Demonstrations: Why there shall be a huge turnout!
In 1918, Eller Wheeler Wilcox the great American author once said "to sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of many" . Subsequently, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has call...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:41hrs | 6326 | by Erasmus Pongo
Patrick Zhuwao talks tough
Zimbabwe sadly remembers its heroes and heroines whilst the World commemorates the United Nations International Youth Day. The liberation struggle that dismantled the yoke of colonialism was executed ...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 18:18hrs | 5968 | by Patrick Zhuwao
Gwanda South communities feel betrayed
GWANDA South constituency is crying out loud for development.Having provided a passage for thousands of former freedom fighters departing to Botswana, en-route to Zambia and Mozambique for mil...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 08:03hrs | 532 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo 'exposes' Mthuli Ncube and Sibusiso Moyo?
Professor Jonathan Moyo says President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Professor Mthuli Ncube working with general Sibusiso Moyo and businessman Kuda Tagwirei are involved in a grand theft of public funds. ...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 12:02hrs | 23025 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mthuli Ncube confirms new grand fiscal heist
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday unwittingly confirmed government committed a grand US$7 billion fiscal heist - by design or accident - when it banned without warning the multi-currency system ...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 15:17hrs | 3457 | by Staff reporter
3 cops in 160kg gold ore heist
Three police officers based at Fort Rixon Police Station have been implicated in a 160kg gold ore theft at Sheep Skin A mine, a police report shows.According to a leaked police document dated ...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:51hrs | 973 | by Staff reporter
'ZANU PF steals US$9 Billion from Treasury'
Professor Jonathan Moyo has alleged that President Emmerson Mnangagwa presided over the theft of Treasury bonds worth USD$ 9 billion through the controversial Command Agriculture program.Moyo ...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 14:48hrs | 13427 | by Mandla Ndlovu
SA cops gun down armed Zimbabweans
TWO suspected armed robbers from St Joseph, Matabeleland South and another robber yet to be identified, were shot dead by South African Police who intercepted a cash-in-transit heist on Tuesday mornin...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 07:55hrs | 1724 | by Staff reporter
Robbers die in accident minutes after heist
IN a typical case of instant justice, two criminals who had robbed some farmers of five bales of tobacco at gunpoint in Harare, died on the spot after their getaway vehicle collided with another car, ...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 06:28hrs | 3237 | by Staff reporter
US$30 000 heist at Bulawayo house
SIX men armed with guns raided a house in Bulawayo's Famona suburb and got away with US$30 000, a gun, ammunition, a safe with an undisclosed amount of cash and a vehicle. The incident occurre...Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 07:29hrs | 2570 | by Staff reporter
Cop arrested after high speed chase
A POLICE officer, who allegedly led a heist at former Gwanda mayor, Knowledge Ndlovu's Ettrick Mine and allegedly stole gold ore worth thousands of United States dollars, was reportedly arrested after...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 08:01hrs | 1808 | by Staff reporter
We continue to be anglicised bastards
There is a hauntingly true African proverb that claims that unless the lion learns how to write, every story will always glorify the hunter.here is a hauntingly true African proverb that claim...Published: 26 May 2019 at 13:36hrs | 157 | by Bishpop Lazarus
$1 million gold theft suspects fail to have case dismissed
THE High Court has dismissed an application for discharge by nine suspects allegedly involved in the theft of nearly $1 million worth of gold which was being kept as an exhibit at Plumtree Police Stat...Published: 14 May 2019 at 07:28hrs | 487 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans find it hard to survive in the English culture
"Culture is the pattern of taken-for-granted assumptions about how a given collection of people should think, act, and feel as they go about their daily affairs"Culture is all socially transmi...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 07:12hrs | 2660 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Cop hires kombi to ferry stolen Cyclone Idai donations
A police officer has been arrested for alleged wholesale looting of aid valued at tens of thousands United States Dollars earmarked for victims of Cyclone Idai in Chipinge amid reports of rampant misa...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 18:39hrs | 5188 | by Methusi Ncube
Movie-style diamond mine robbery in Zimbabwe
AN armed gang of robbers, suspected to comprise members of Zimbabwe security forces and some artisanal miners, raided the Chiadzwa diamond fields on Sunday night and got away with tonnes of precious o...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 10:01hrs | 2377 | by Staff reporter
Why Xenophobia attacks in South Africa always happens during election time?
Unity stands for peace in the presence of conflict, love in the presence of hatred, and forgiveness in the presence of injury. Unity stands for peace in our lifetime, harmony /agreement, freedom, happ...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 13:28hrs | 7428 | by Enos Denhere
Robbers pounce on Buyanga's gold-carrying sports utility in South Africa
African Medallion Group founder Frank Buyanga has condemned the shooting of two guards after 10 robbers pounced on his Toyota Land Cruiser in an attempt to steal gold in Boksburg, South Africa....Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 18:50hrs | 1308 | by Staff reporter
Loose lips can really sink ships
As Jesus liked his teachings in parables, the Bishop will continue to use intelligible riddles and anecdotes to help you understand the workings of the world, at least as how I understand them....Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:31hrs | 138 | by Bishop Lazi
SA plans border drone patrols to keep illegal immigrants out
SA may soon turn to drones to help it to protect its porous borders from illegal immigrants.Defence minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said on Sunday the country could consider using the unmanned ae...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 06:52hrs | 456 | by TimesLive
Zimbabwe should pay medical bills for its citizens in SA, says ANC bigwig
The South African government should start billing foreign countries whose citizens pop into the country to take advantage of free services.The foreign countries should also be sent invoices if...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 17:47hrs | 2004 | by Staff reporter
Xenophobic Makhura blames foreigners for crime in Gauteng
Foreign nationals should start paying for the health services they receive in Gauteng if Premier David Makhura has his way.Speaking on Wednesday at post-budget discussions, Makhura hit out at ...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 17:41hrs | 1553 | by eNCA
Joanna Madamombe breaks a world record - RG Mugabe 3 VS ED Mnangagwa 5
The former President Robert Mugabe charged three high profile politicians for treason during his more than 30 years in power. The three were Joshua Nkomo, Ndabanigi Sithole and Morgan Tsvangirai. In j...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 11:03hrs | 4103 | by Don Chigumba
Prophet Makandiwa implicated in gold mine kidnap, torture
UNITED Family International Church (UFIC) leader Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa has been implicated in a case in which five men were reportedly kidnapped and tortured for allegedly stealing gold ore from ...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 06:25hrs | 787 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe moots stop and search roadblocks
GOVERNMENT is considering introducing stop-and-search security roadblocks on roads following a wave of armed robberies targeting cross-border buses plying the Zimbabwe-South Africa route.A num...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:13hrs | 1503 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's wife funded the breakfast 'Prayer Meeting'?
On the 6th of February 2019 the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, HE ED Mnangagwa, convened a meeting at State House for all Presidential contestants in the 2018 elections to discuss the framewor...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 22:47hrs | 16208 | by Staff reporter
Robbers shoot two in bus heist
Two passengers travelling in a Zambia-bound Kabor Bus were last night shot and injured by robbers at Lion's Den near Chinhoyi.Police say the robbery involved four suspects all of whom were par...Published: 30 Jan 2019 at 15:58hrs | 4207 | by Staff reporter
Malema should mind his own business
Following the three-day protest stay away, which was ostensibly given as meant to register disquiet over the prevailing economic challenges, the South African controversial Economic Freedom Fighters (...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 11:28hrs | 5107 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Zimbabwe's grand fuel heist
Zimbabwe consumed almost 480 million more litres of petrol and diesel in six months between June and November last year than in the same period in 2017, a gargantuan 77 percent extra, at an additional...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 07:32hrs | 537 | by Staff reporter
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