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Strive Masiyiwa among Top 10 richest black people in the world
Systemic injustice, colonial exploitation, and economic marginalization have plagued Africa and the Black population for centuries. This narrative is challenged by the emergence of black billionaires,...Published: 14 Oct 2024 at 08:18hrs | 887 | by Staff reporter
78-year-old woman sexually abused and murdered in Zimbabwe
Police have appealed for information that could assist in the arrest of suspects after a 78-year-old woman was found dead in Chegutu with signs of sexual abuse on her body.In a statement, poli...Published: 29 Sep 2024 at 13:57hrs | 812 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF MP pesters teenager for sex
Mudzi West lawmaker Knowledge Kaitano was dragged to Kotwa magistrates courts on Wednesday after he allegedly caressed a lower sixth student after paying for her fees.Kaitano pleaded not guilt...Published: 18 Sep 2024 at 23:03hrs | 3411 | by Simbarashe Sithole/Gideon Madzikatidze
Jacob Mafume gifts Nox with Mt Pleasant residential stand
Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume has celebrated Afro-beats musician Enock "Nox" Guni for his enduring impact on the music industry, marking the artist's 20th music anniversary, 15th album launch, and birthda...Published: 15 Sep 2024 at 10:02hrs | 7180 | by Staff reporter
Man indecently assaults 10-year-old girl in car boot
A man from Rujeko, Chinhoyi, has been taken to court for indecent assault after allegedly molesting a 10-year-old girl in the boot of a car. The accused, 26-year-old Panashe Tinotenda Magusvu, was sea...Published: 24 Aug 2024 at 11:43hrs | 202 | by Staff reporter
Man headbutts, stabs brother-in-law to death
Enraged by his brother-in-law's accusations of infidelity against his sister, a man from Masvingo took violent action, resulting in the death of the accuser.The incident took place on Sunday i...Published: 14 Aug 2024 at 10:11hrs | 817 | by Staff reporter
Man stabs cheating sister's boyfriend
Police have arrested a 32-year-old man in Masvingo for allegedly stabbing his sister’s boyfriend.Mkondisi Mandava reportedly became violent after the boyfriend, Felix Sibanda, accused his si...Published: 13 Aug 2024 at 17:11hrs | 739 | by Staff reporter
Zaoga church sex storm
This adage is aptly applied to the case of a 19-year-old woman employed as a marketing agent at a micro-insurance company in Kwekwe who is claiming she was sexually harassed by her supervisor....Published: 09 Aug 2024 at 07:57hrs | 2839 | by Staff reportrer
Bulawayo nurse caught red-handed assisting school girl to do abortion
Police in Bulawayo have arrested a 16-year-old female high school student from a local school, together with a 26-year-old registered general nurse from Entumbane who was allegedly caught performing a...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 17:31hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is hardly undiscovered ground for the world's miners
Zimbabwe has huge amounts of unexplored and underexploited mineral resource potential and the world's resource companies could be lining up to rebuild Zimbabwe's once-mighty gold mines and metal refin...Published: 11 Jun 2024 at 09:59hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Hopewell Chin'ono friend abducted
Suspected state security agents abducted a Harare-based construction manager - who has done a lot of building works for award-winning Zimbabwean filmmaking journalist Hopewell Chin'ono - yesterday in ...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 19:07hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mighty Warriors coach acquitted
A Harare magistrate Mrs Esther Chichera has acquitted Zimbabwe senior women's football coach Shadreck Mlauzi of two charges of indecently assaulting a female member of the technical team after she fou...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 13:56hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Woman found dead, used condoms litter crime scene
A CHILLING discovery sent shockwaves in Cowdray Park suburb in Bulawayo when a resident stumbled upon an unidentified woman's lifeless body at Denver Farm with used condoms scattered at the scene....Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 06:01hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Cosmas Zulu challenges Bosso intellectuals
FORTY years down the line at Highlanders FC, Cosmas Zulu has become a voice that the family cannot ignore and claims he is what he is because of the Black and White tide of Zimbabwe soccer.Zul...Published: 05 Dec 2023 at 05:19hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Man demands sex from aunt
IN a shockingly strange incident a 42-year-old man from Kwite West Village under Chief Tshitshi in Mangwe, Matebeleland South province was arrested after he groped his aunt's privates while demanding ...Published: 27 Oct 2023 at 08:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Granny busted for stealing underwear
IN a rather surreal and soul-shaking case, a 61-year-old granny was busted for stealing women's underwear and hiding them between her thighs at one of the shops situated in Bulawayo's central business...Published: 22 Sep 2023 at 06:39hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Heath Streak, the Matabele Warrior
A sheepish, charming young man with a broad smile when he strode in the national cricket team many eons ago the departed Heath Streak was fondly remembered in Zimbabwe cricket circles, and greatly wor...Published: 09 Sep 2023 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mhetu faces arrest over 2018 murder allegations
HARARE - Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) aspiring Member of Parliament for Epworth North Constituency, Zivai Mhetu faces arrest on allegations of murdering his wife in February 2018.Mhetu ...Published: 18 Aug 2023 at 20:57hrs | 42 | by Staff Reporter
Jonathan Moyo opens up after David Coltart 'insult'
Zimbabwean former minister and MP Jonathan Moyo has written a long open letter to main opposition CCC senior leader David Coltart over his remarks about his late father Melusi Job Mlevu who was ...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 08:03hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Married Woman Killed By Lover
In a shocking turn of events, a Chiredzi man has been sentenced to an effective 20 years in prison for the murder of his married lover. High Court Judge Justice Garainesu Mawadze delivered the verdict...Published: 27 Jul 2023 at 20:48hrs | 8 | by Erick Matotoba
Woman stones 2 daughters to death
A mother in Masvingo teamed up with her brother to stone her daughters aged two and five to death.This was after Modina Mavhunga (28) and Clever Mavhunga (35) had assaulted their father accusi...Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man throws self into moving traffic after killing wife
A FORTY-TWO-year-old man from Ramahori Farm in Concession threw himself into moving traffic along the Mazowe-Mvurwi highway after fatally striking his wife with an axe on the head over infidelity accu...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 18:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Magistrate fired in sex affair scandal
A GWANDA magistrate who reported his female boss for alleged sexual harassment was recently fired, in a toxic matter that has raised controversy.The magistrate claims the female boss has two c...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 20:06hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Wife stabbed 19 times
A JILTED man from Morningside suburb in Bulawayo went berserk and brutally killed his wife by stabling her 19 times using a kitchen knife before crushing her head with a stone while their 13-year-old ...Published: 25 Apr 2023 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Knives fight claims one
Married couple Ernest Musanza (32) and Melody Musikanzwi (30) from old Tafara allegedly engaged in a fight using knives after a misunderstanding on March 21 at around 2 am at their homestead.M...Published: 04 Apr 2023 at 18:43hrs | | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Corporal punishment permissible in Zimbabwe, rules High Court
A HIGH Court judge yesterday ruled that corporal punishment is permissible and cannot be classified as assault and a criminal offence if the intent to discipline is proven.Justice Munamato Mut...Published: 16 Mar 2023 at 07:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cop bashed to death
A Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Officer Mandleni Ncube was bashed to death by three cousins on Christmas Day in Lupane at a local bar....Published: 04 Jan 2023 at 16:31hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition starts looking for money through fear mongering
The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition believes the country will have one of its bloodiest elections since independence in 1980.The group of more than 80 organisations, among them human rights bodie...Published: 18 Dec 2022 at 06:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
3 struck dead by lightning
A DARK cloud engulfed Lupane and Binga in Matabeleland North when three people died after they were struck by lightning in two separate incidents.In both incidents, the lightning struck and bu...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wife scalds husband's genitals in infidelity row
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.The old adage was aptly protraied when unnamed woman scorched her husband's genitals using boiling water.The woman appeared before Harare Magistr...Published: 28 Oct 2022 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mahachi granny testifies in court
A SOMBRE atmosphere engulfed the court when footballer Kudakwashe Mahachi's grandmother was testifying in a case in which the footballer is on trial for attempting to murder his son.Giving her...Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Why is Zimbabwe starving?
LONG-STANDING financial troubles and drought in Zimbabwe have pushed millions to the brink of starvation.Government has declared a state of disaster as months of drought have exacerbated a nat...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:43hrs | 9 | by Claire Felter
Sex starved man fondles girl's (12) thighs
A 42-YEAR-OLD sex-starved Bindura man was slapped with a one-year imprisonment after he fondled a 12-year-old girl before attempting to rape her.Billion Madhanzi was jailed by Bindura magistra...Published: 25 May 2022 at 15:21hrs | 7 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Bindura
'Wafawafa' Zion prophets to cleanse school of sexually insatiable goblins
Female teachers at Makumbi Primary School in Plumtree have moved out of the teachers' cottages as they allege that they were being sexually attacked by goblins.The teachers said they wake up w...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:20hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
The latest risks & opportunities in the cryptocurrency market
The cryptocurrency markets never stand still. For some, that is their greatest feature, but for others, it's what stands in the way of mass adoption of alternative currencies. What are the latest risk...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 16:20hrs | 13 | by Staff Writer
Putin's war sends global food prices skyrocketing
Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine is contributing to rising food prices and threatening food supplies around the world. In Ukraine, Russia's forces have destroyed farms, bombed warehou...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 11:45hrs | 11 | by Leigh Hartman, ShareAmerica Correspondent
All Zimbabweans must benefit from mineral Resources: Zimcodd
THE Zimbabwe Coalition of Debt and Development has reported that in the week under review, Zimbabwe registered a big milestone in the mining of Platinum Group Minerals (PGMs) with the addition o...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 11:08hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
RBZ acts on inflation, interest rates
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) yesterday moved to curtail resurgent price increases (inflation) in the economy and stabilise the volatile parallel market exchange rate after its Monetary Policy Co...Published: 05 Apr 2022 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Builder jailed for sodomizing employer's grandson
A Centenary builder was sentenced to 16 years behind bars by Bindura Regional magistrate Esteri Chivasa after he sodomized an 11 year old boy twice....Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 06:07hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Man killed for snatching rival's girlfriend
A 21-year-old Zhombe man in the Midlands province was fatally stabbed at a night club for allegedly snatching his rival suitor's girlfriend.Midlands provincial police spokesperson Inspector Im...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe mulls fuel levy cuts
Zimbabwe has hinted it may further reduce fuel levies to stymie a sustained spike in the domestic price of petroleum products after global prices soared on market uncertainty due to the conflict betwe...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube sends mixed signals on fuel
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube this week sent mixed signals over the country's neo-liberal policy on fuel subsidy as policy inconsistency remains one of the major sources of concern for investors....Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
World policeman cause oil to soar above US$130
Oil prices soared to their highest since 2008 due to delays in the potential return of Iranian crude to global markets and as the United States and European allies consider banning imports of Russian ...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 05:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Headache over soaring fertiliser prices
Ben Riensche, who farms 16 000 acres in Iowa, would be ecstatic to get US$80 per acre selling his corn.But it'll cost him US$240 an acre to feed the plants with nitrogen, triple what he's used...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Muchinguri withdraws appeal filed at Supreme Court
DEFENCE minister Oppah Muchinguri yesterday withdrew her appeal filed at the Supreme Court where she had denied accountability for the assault of a Harare resident, Kudzai Makunde during the 2019 fuel...Published: 09 Feb 2022 at 05:29hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Petrol getting too expensive in SA
Oil running to nearly US$90 per barrel has pushed fuel prices sharply higher, and the trajectory looks set to continue.The increase in the petrol price of 53 cents a litre and that of diesel o...Published: 07 Feb 2022 at 05:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman survives night-long lion attack
In what sounds stranger than fiction, a woman here says she spent a night squaring off with a lioness. She escaped with injuries only, after the feline gave up at daybreak. &...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:05hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Security guard arrested for inside-man role in armed robbery
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested a security guard from Emakhandeni suburb who allegedly connived with armed robbers to raid his boss who managed to escape with a bag containing over US$300 000. ...Published: 29 Oct 2021 at 08:57hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Mthuli Ncube threatens companies
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube resorted to threats yesterday as he battled to bring sanity to the foreign currency market.Ncube said the government was planning impromptu audits and to suspend ...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 19:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Currency instability puts ZSE as best performer in region
AFTER surpassing its own performance record (again), the Zimbabwean dollar-denominated exchange extended 2021 gains as the market's counters continue facing economic uncertainties in the closing quart...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 19:04hrs | 7 | by Equity Axis View
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