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Highway robbers on the prowl
An unsuspecting haulage truck driver was brutally attacked by robbers on the Harare-Mutare highway this week after offering a lift to what he believed were harmless hitch-hikers. The driver, who was s...Published: 14 Sep 2024 at 12:05hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
US$30 fine for hitch-hiking
PASSENGERS who are picked up or dropped off at undesignated points in and around Harare's Central Business District (CBD), as well as in other towns and cities, will now be liable to US$30 fines, whil...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala a habitual offender
Empty vessels make a lot of noise. CCC interim vice national chairperson, Job Sikhala, has of late been making unfounded claims about the country's judiciary as being captured.This is stemming...Published: 09 Dec 2022 at 05:11hrs | | by Zivanai Dhewa
Bogus cop, soldiers arrested for robbery
Three suspected armed robbers, who were allegedly offering lifts to hitch-hikers along Simon Muzenda Street (formerly Fourth Street) before robbing them of cash and goods, have been arrested. ...Published: 24 Dec 2020 at 05:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police impound 24 000 kombis, pirate taxis
Police have impounded 24 310 non-Zupco kombis and pirate taxis countrywide for continuing to carry passengers and violating Covid-19 national lockdown regulations. Unregistered vehicles, which...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Businesswoman fined for failure to secure firearm
A BULAWAYO businesswoman, whose 15- year-old son ganged up with an accomplice and allegedly robbed a United States-based student of $35 on Christmas Eve at gunpoint, was yesterday fined $100 or 30 day...Published: 29 Dec 2018 at 16:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Volume of travellers in Beitbridge increases
There is increased activity at Beitbridge Border Post as Zimbabweans based in South Africa are coming back home for the Christmas and New Year's holidays. Long queues of vehicles and people ha...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hitch-hiker drugged, robbed along highway
Police in Mashonaland East Province are investigating a case in which a Harare man was drugged before being robbed of his belongings by unknown people along the Harare-Nyamapanda Highway recently. ...Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 05:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge woman dies in freak accident
A WOMAN died on the spot while a man was seriously injured when a small sand-laden old truck ploughed into hitch-hikers in a freak accident at Beitbridge on Thursday.The injured man was rushed...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 11:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
The love scandals that rocked Zanu-PF
Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones, but obviously someone forgot to tell the folks inside Zanu-PF. In this expose, we look at the love scandals that have dominated Mugabe's party ...Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 15:57hrs | 80 | by Lance Guma
Regulate ground Transit and Passenger transportation
Today in our country, people who travel by ground transportation can catch a private lift, a school bus, a private bus, a Kombi or a taxi. The distinction is based on vehicle type, route, and schedule...Published: 27 Dec 2017 at 14:24hrs | | by Sam Wezhira
Man steals 30 bibles
POLICE in Matabeleland South have launched a manhunt for a hitchhiker who allegedly stole 130 bibles and 250 church booklets from a pastor who had given him a lift in Beitbridge.In another inc...Published: 08 Jul 2017 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Masendeke jailed 26 years
It runs in the family, so the saying goes.And it aptly applies to the Masendeke siblings from Gutu, Masvingo, who have engraved the family's name in history for the wrong reasons.It wa...Published: 30 Jun 2017 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Taxi’ driver robs hitch-hiker at knife point
A MAN from Filabusi was allegedly robbed of $100 and groceries at knife point by a pirate taxi driver and his accomplice.Mr Freeman Mpofu of Nkulumane suburb had hired the pirate taxi, a green...Published: 07 Jun 2017 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
CIO operative viciously attacked, robbed
A Central Intelligence Officer (CIO) operative ...Published: 23 Dec 2016 at 04:19hrs | | by Staff Reporter
600 years jail for Zimbabwean terror gang
Three Zimbabwean cross-border transporters were on Monday jailed for 632 years by a South African High Court after they were convicted of 62 charges ranging from murder, robbery, extortion and rap...Published: 15 Dec 2016 at 05:09hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean pair faces SA jail
Two Zimbabwean cross-border transporters and a South African woman were last Thursday convicted on 62 charges ranging from murder, robbery, extortion, rape among other violent crimes perpetrated i...Published: 12 Dec 2016 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Omalayitsha denied bail for 'murder'
THE trial of three Zimbabwean men commonly known as Omalayitsha and a South African woman facing 62 counts of murder, rape, robbery, extortion and assault among other violent crimes committed agai...Published: 11 Oct 2016 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Malayitsha to appear in SA court on murder, robbery, assault charges
AN umalayitsha from Bulawayo with his South African wife and two other cross border drivers allegedly killed Zimbabwean travellers, raped dozens, kidnapped more than 100 and extorted cash from others....Published: 17 Aug 2016 at 07:52hrs | | by Thupeyo Muleya
Ungrateful man murders 90-year-old farmer
An ungrateful Chinhoyi hitch-hiker and former convict has been arrested in connection with the gruesome murder of a 90-year-old farmer who had offered him a lift last week on Monday evening.Ku...Published: 27 Jun 2016 at 22:09hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Hitch-hikers to pay $200 fines
Members of the public who hitch-hike at undesignated pick-up points risk arrest and paying fines of up to $200, a development that is expected to curb the menace of pirate taxis in urban centres....Published: 02 Jun 2016 at 06:51hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Zimbabwean trio up for spate of cross-border crimes
THREE Zimbabwe cross-border transport operators and a South African woman are expected to appear at the Palm Ridge High Court in Johannesburg, South Africa, on April 4, to face charges of murdering tw...Published: 12 Mar 2016 at 15:20hrs | | by Thupeyo Muleya
Hooker gets community service for for cutting lover's foreskin
A GWERU hooker who cut the foreskin off of her boyfriend's manhood in anger after he caught her engaging in sex with a client has been ordered to perform community service.Beauty Nhokwara, 33,...Published: 13 Nov 2015 at 05:21hrs | | by Faith Mabuto
Zimbabwean shoppers robbed, raped in SA
South African police are investigating cases in which two Zimbabwean women were killed, three raped while 25 people were kidnapped by a gang of criminals targeting mainly Zimbabweans travelling to tha...Published: 17 Jul 2015 at 07:46hrs | 1 | by Thupeyo Muleya
Hitch-hiker disappears with Good Samaritan's car
An 18-year-old hitch-hiker, James Chidyandunge, apparently vanished with a man's car.According to The Herald, Champion Murugweni gave him a lift and along the way, Murugweni excused himse...Published: 18 Sep 2014 at 01:53hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Man loses car to hitch-hiker
A good Samaritan in Harare is regretting the day he offered a helping hand to a stranger. He lost his car to a hitch-hiker he had ferried from the city centre to Mbare suburb.Mr Dhuvai Chamaon...Published: 26 May 2013 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Female rapists take turns to rape a man, steal his sperms
A hunt is on for three suspected "sperm harvesters" who allegedly abducted a hitch-hiker and forced him to be intimate with two women before making off with his semen.Mashonaland West police s...Published: 02 Apr 2013 at 11:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Two Zim women accused of 'raping men' acquitted
Two of the three Gweru women who last year made international headlines after being caught with 31 used condoms with semen at a road block have been acquitted by a Gweru court.Rosemary Chakwiz...Published: 11 Aug 2012 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Women 'rapists' trial set for Thursday
LAWYERS for the three women accused of raping male hitch-hikers to collect semen for rituals accused prosecutors Thursday of having no evidence or witnesses, as the high-profile trial was delayed....Published: 26 Jan 2012 at 19:09hrs | | by AFP
Magistrate orders female rapist suspects' car to be released
A HARARE magistrate on Tuesday ordered the release of a car allegedly used by the three women accused of sexually attacking male hitch-hikers to collect semen, to ensure their safe movement.P...Published: 07 Dec 2011 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA policeman robbed on a Zimbabwe highway
A 27-year-old South African policeman is nursing injuries at Gokwe District Hospital after he was attacked by three unarmed high way robbers who got away with his vehicle, $300 and R4 000 cash and a l...Published: 04 Dec 2011 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
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