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Cops nab 11 armed robbers
POLICE in Harare have arrested 11 suspected armed robbers after foiling a major heist at Maruta Shopping Centre in Hatfield along the Harare-Chitungwiza Road in the early hours of Thursday.Nat...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 18:35hrs | 2368 | by Staff reporter
No bail for two ZB Bank heist suspects
Two suspects in the US$2,7 million ZB Bank cash-in-transit truck heist case, Gerald Rutizira and Neverson Mwamuka, have been denied bail at the High Court after the court ruled that evidence linking t...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 16:05hrs | 622 | by Staff reporter
'Independent body must confer hero status'
POLITICAL analysts have called on Zanu-PF to step aside and allow an independent body to confer hero status to deserving individuals to avoid contestations around the selection criteria and monopolisa...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 05:51hrs | 1080 | by Staff reporter
Police warn felons, rotten cops
ANGRY authorities vowed yesterday that they would hammer perpetrators of violent crime in the country, while also dealing ruthlessly with rogue police officers caught participating in criminal activit...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 13:12hrs | 1318 | by Staff reporter
Appeal against US$2,7m heist ring leader's bail hits snag
The prosecution's appeal against the High Court decision to grant bail to Tatenda Gadzikwa, the ring leader of the recent US$2,7 million heist hit a snag after the Supreme Court refused to accept the ...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 05:56hrs | 619 | by Staff reporter
Fuel, mines and banks the Tagwirei method
TAGWIREI has built up his wealth in large part through a long-standing partnership with major commodities trader Trafigura, which has been trying to distance its operations from him as he faces intern...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 06:23hrs | 2155 | by Staff reporter
MSU student in court over US$2,7m heist
A MIDLANDS State University (MSU) student was yesterday arraigned before the courts on allegations of concealing $100 000 which had been allegedly stolen by his father Shadreck Njowa in the US$2,7 mil...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 06:56hrs | 1815 | by Staff reporter
Minister Chiduwa's relative among 6 arrested 'robbers'
Elias Chiduwa (49), a close relative of the Deputy Minister of Finance Clemence Chiduwa is among the six suspected notorious robbers who were nabbed by the Police in Harare yesterday.Elias was...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 08:45hrs | 4038 | by Staff reporter
Man arrested for supplying gun used in US$2,7m heist
A man whose rifle was used in the US$2,7 million cash heist that occurred along the Harare-Chinhoyi Road, yesterday appeared in court on allegations of supplying the firearm to the gang that pretended...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 16:13hrs | 2782 | by Staff reporter
Police recover US$700,000 of the US$2,7 million cash-in-transit heist
DETECTIVES investigating the US$2,7 million cash-in-transit heist have so far recovered US$700 000 from the suspects. Yesterday, another suspect appeared in court in connection with the heist ...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 15:44hrs | 2037 | by Staff reporter
Four people in court for hiding ZB bank loot
Four people appeared before a Harare court yesterday on allegations of trying to stash part of the loot stolen by suspected armed robbers that were arrested last week in connection with the US$2,5 mil...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 07:55hrs | 1655 | by Staff Reporter
US$2,7m heist suspect killed in shoot-out, three still on the run
A suspect in the US$2,7 million ZB Bank cash-in-transit heist died in Zaka on Thursday in a shoot-out with detectives, while three others appeared in court yesterday. So far, police have arres...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 07:11hrs | 1033 | by Staff reporter
US$500K cash recovered in US$2.5 million heist
EIGHT more suspects in a US$2.5 million money heist were on Wednesday brought to court movie style.Police used high security vehicles in a motorcade to bring the suspects to court.Of t...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 14:32hrs | 3527 | by Staff Reporter
US$2,7m heist: 8 more suspects appear in court
Over US$456 000 has been recovered from the US$2,7 million that was robbed from a security company last week, together with cars that had been bought by the suspects. Eleven suspects have been...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 07:46hrs | 436 | by Staff reporter
8 more arrested in US$2.5 million heist
EIGHT more suspected armed robbers have been arrested in connection with the US $2,5 million heist which occurred along the Harare-Chinhoyi Road Wednesday last week.This brings to 11, the numb...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 09:10hrs | 6164 | by Staff reporter
US$2,7m heist: Trio remanded in custody
Three security guards who last week allegedly connived with six armed robbers to steal over US$2,7 million and $40 000 cash that was in transit appeared at the Harare Magistrates' Court yesterday and ...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 07:51hrs | 718 | by Staff reporter
US$2,7m heist an inside job
The robbery of US$2,775 million and $43 000 from a cash-in-transit ZB Bank vehicle along Harare-Chinhoyi Road on Wednesday is believed to be an inside job where three security personnel in the vehicle...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 07:44hrs | 1216 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora loots MDC-T account
TENSION is rising in the MDC-T led by Thokozani Khupe ahead of its extraordinary congress slated for this weekend after reports that secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora raided the party's account and d...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 07:38hrs | 1543 | by Staff reporter
5 robbers stage daring in-transit-cash heist
Five armed robbers yesterday, November 30, attacked a Safeguard in-transit-cash vehicle which was about to deliver cash at a Mukuru money transfer agent booth at N.Richards Wholesale and fled with a c...Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 06:23hrs | 3494 | by Staff reporter
Mukuru loses US$35K to robbers
FIVE armed robbers ambushed and attacked a cash-in-transit vehicle carrying at least US$35 000 meant for a Mukuru outlet in Chivi on Monday in a daring heist that has left the police astonished....Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 06:35hrs | 2096 | by Staff reporter
Safeguard loses US$35 000 to armed robbers
POLICE yesterday said they were investigating a case of armed robbery which occurred on Monday morning when five suspects armed with pistols ambushed a Safeguard cash-in-transit vehicle delivering cas...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 06:18hrs | 550 | by Staff reporter
'Bank heist as Kuda Tagwirei acquires ZB', says Biti
FORMER Finance Minister, Tendai Biti has described as a ‘bank heist', businessman Kuda Tagwirei's reported acquisition of ZB Bank and becoming a major shareholder against the provisions of the Banki...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 07:09hrs | 13435 | by Staff reporter
'Cops' arrested over US$48 000 heist
A GANG of suspected robbers, who were pretending to be police officers, was recently busted after getting away with US$48 000 from a Harare man in a money exchange deal.Nokhuthula Sadomba and ...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:15hrs | 391 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
What 'crisis' in a low crime Zimbabwe?
Despite the misleading and destructive narrative that there is a crisis in Zimbabwe, the country's crime rate has remained relatively low. Most countries in Africa and the entire world at large, are g...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 05:20hrs | 405 | by Pardon Muzawazi
Gun toting robbers disarmed, beaten
A BULAWAYO man allegedly teamed up with an ex-soldier to rob people that his in-laws were selling a house to, at gunpoint. Covering their faces with face masks and caps tilted to further hide ...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:44hrs | 890 | by Staff reporter
Police intensify Ginimbi death probe
NATIONAL police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi yesterday said they were intensifying investigations into the death of socialite and businessman Genius "Ginimbi" Kadungure who died in ...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:43hrs | 4038 | by Staff reporter
Ginimbi crash victim wanted in Malawi; linked to US$30m govt heist
ONE of the victims in the horrific car crash which claimed the life of Harare socialite Genius 'Ginimbi' Kadungure was a fugitive from Malawi justice, it has emerged.Ginimbi and three associat...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 16:25hrs | 8779 | by Staff Reporter
Over $2 million stolen in Bulawayo robbery
Six armed robbers who attacked two security guards delivering Zupco's weekend cash collections to CBZ Eighth Avenue Branch in Bulawayo, got away with over $2,1 million, US$3 362 and R7 390, police hav...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:28hrs | 748 | by Staff reporter
Police still to account for Fawcett cash-in-transit hijackers
POLICE in Bulawayo yesterday said they were still investigating a robbery case involving a Fawcett Security cash-in-transit (CIT) vehicle which was hijacked by armed robbers on Monday while it was tra...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:32hrs | 989 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo cash heist probe stepped up
Police yesterday said they were still working out how much money was stolen by six armed robbers who attacked two security guards delivering Zupco's weekend cash collections at CBZ Eighth Avenue Branc...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:22hrs | 683 | by Staff reporter
Why keep bad company, Mr President?
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,On October 26, around midday, Zimbabwe Miners Federation president Henrietta Ruswaya was arrested at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport for attem...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 05:51hrs | 1166 | by Moses Matenga
Manhunt for Bulawayo bank robbers
Police are hunting six armed robbers who attacked two security guards delivering Zupco's weekend cash collections at CBZ Eighth Avenue Branch in Bulawayo, disarmed them and hijacked their armoured veh...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 05:46hrs | 709 | by Staff reporter
Movie-style armed robbery at Bulawayo bank
Six armed robbers pounced on two security guards delivering cash at Commercial Bank of Zimbabwe (CBZ) 8th Avenue branch in Bulawayo, disarmed them, hijacked their armoured vehicle before getting away ...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 06:28hrs | 2974 | by Staff writer
Cash-in-transit heist at Bulawayo's CBZ branch
Police in Bulawayo are investigating a cash-in-transit robbery after a Fawcett truck was targeted while delivering cash to the Commercial Bank of Zimbabwe (CBZ) early on Monday.The armed robbe...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 16:28hrs | 6322 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala says, 'Zimbabwe has reached tipping point'
ZENGEZA West Member of Parliament Job Sikhala celebrated his 48th birthday on Friday. The politician was recently arrested and charged with inciting violence ahead of the abortive July 31 protests. He...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 05:46hrs | 1129 | by Staff reporter
Bail bid flops for terror gang member
A BID to secure freedom through the High Court by police officer Tapiwa Mangoma, 27, who harboured Zimbabwe's most wanted seven-member terror gang at his residence in Beitbridge supplying them with am...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 14:20hrs | 1014 | by Staff reporter
Who is to blame for Zimbabwe's land reform disaster?
0N August 31, the government of Zimbabwe announced that foreign white farmers settled in the country who lost land between 2000 and 2001 under the late former President Robert Mugabe's controversial l...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:29hrs | 421 | by Tafi Mhaka
Chamisa's MDC just playing to gallery
It is laughable that a political party that was always opposed to the Land Reform Programme now claims rather incredulously that the Zanu-PF Government which restored stolen land to black Zimbabweans ...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:26hrs | 1413 | by Staff reporter
Douglas Mwonzora and Thokozani Khupe have nothing to offer
Now the cat is out of its bag. You cannot conceal something which has horns. The truth will always come out.I remember when political corridors were abuzz with discussions about how Zanu PF an...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 14:37hrs | 3246 | by Leonard Koni
Notorious robbers nabbed in Beitbridge
POLICE in Matabeleland South on Monday arrested eight notorious armed robbers, among them a serving police officer and former cop, who have been linked to a spate of heists committed in Harare and aro...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 07:14hrs | 2503 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Zanu-PF's shamelessness know no bounds
IT cannot get any worse than this, 40 years after independence, the Zanu-PF government wants to expurgate political parties in what is clearly a push towards a one-party State.On Wednesday, th...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:54hrs | 514 | by Staff reporter
Farm mechanisation scandal must be investigated: ZAPU
Whereas ZAPU is the pioneer advocate for good governance and rule of law;Whereas the mother party abhors a government with no ethics, transparency and accountability;Whereas ...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:56hrs | 168 | by Iphithule Maphosa
#July31 and #Zanupfmustgo: Another failed political heist in the making
The 31st July movement which is being propelled mainly by Jonathan Moyo and his G40 associates is another failed political heist in the making, after all else has failed to unseat, a duly elected gove...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 13:59hrs | 2622 | by Zvinyaningwe Mangwiro
Donald Trump is an atheist and a blasphemer
DONALD Trump is a liar when he claims that his unbridled dictatorship owes its currency through God's appointment. Trump declared recently that he is the most powerful president of the United States b...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:09hrs | 1166 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
The Ecocash heist - A modern tale of irresponsible corporate behaviour
Sometime in 2013, I applied and became an Ecocash Agent (Agent), and immediately set shop in at least two locations within Harare CBD. The setup and running costs for me as an Agent were high, but the...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 19:27hrs | 6943 | by Tendayi Mudhadha
Venda King fingered in R2 billion bank heist
South Africa's Vhavenda King Khosikhulu Vho-Toni Mphephu Ramabulana has been fingered as a beneficiary of the R2 billion VBS Mutual Bank heist that seen Sipho Malaba the nephew of Chief Justice Luke M...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 20:29hrs | 4289 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Justice Luke Malaba's nephew out on R100 000 bail over R2 billion bank heist
Justice Luke Malaba's nephew Sipho Malaba has been granted R100 000 bail by the Johannesburg Specialised Commercial Crimes Court, sitting in the Palm Ridge Regional Court. Malaba was the KPMG ...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 18:45hrs | 2831 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Winky D turns down Twabam's US$35 000
ZIMDANCEHALL icon Winky D's manager Jonathan Banda has cleared the air on why they turned down Passion Java's US$35 000 offer for an undisclosed project. Banda said they could not take up the deal bec...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:28hrs | 4605 | by Staff reporter
US$1 million gold theft: Judge revokes bail
HIGH Court judge Justice Thompson Mabhikwa has revoked bail for eight suspects allegedly involved in the theft of nearly US$1 million worth of gold at Plumtree Police Station after being infuriated by...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:09hrs | 657 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's US dollar allowance to stimulate economic activity'
GOVERNMENT'S move to pay civil servants a United States dollar allowance may stimulate economic activity in the shortterm, but will expedite re-dollarisation, economic analysts have said.Gover...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:20hrs | 1677 | by Staff reporter
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