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Russia-Zimbabwe talks overshadowed by 'hitman' allegations
A high-powered delegation of 11 Russian officials arrived in Harare this week for a strategic meeting with Zimbabwe's Minister of Finance, Professor Mthuli Ncube, in a bid to deepen bilateral financia...Published: 02 Aug 2025 at 19:12hrs | 541 | by Staff reporter
Murdered taxi driver's family demands death sentence for ex-wife
Grief has turned into fury for the family of murdered taxi driver Aleck Sinoia, who believe his ex-wife, Apirizi Sekai, masterminded his gruesome killing. The emotional toll of the tragedy was laid ba...Published: 26 Jul 2025 at 11:24hrs | 338 | by Staff reporter
High Court blocks robber's freedom bid citing dishonest submissions
Suspected armed robber Thulani Munetsi's plea for bail after two years in pretrial detention has yet again been rejected by the High Court.Munetsi, accused of participating in four armed robbe...Published: 01 Apr 2025 at 08:37hrs | 129 | by Staff reporter
5 SA hitmen convicted in Zimbabwe
Five South Africa-based hitmen were convicted on Friday by Harare Magistrate Mr. Stanford Mambanje for their involvement in the kidnapping and assault plot targeting local businessman Mr. Oliver Tenda...Published: 01 Apr 2025 at 08:36hrs | 471 | by Staff reporter
Trial of alleged SA hitmen concludes, ruling set for December 9
The trial of five men accused of conspiring to kidnap and assault a local businessman over an alleged US$800,000 fuel tank scam concluded last week, with the prosecution presenting its final witness. ...Published: 09 Dec 2024 at 06:41hrs | 97 | by Staff reporter
Incriminating evidence against suspected SA hitmen
The trial of five South African-based individuals accused of kidnapping and assaulting Zimbabwean businessman Oliver Tendai Chipindu continued in Harare, with a digital forensic expert testifying. ...Published: 25 Oct 2024 at 08:41hrs | 185 | by Staff reporgter
Cellphones reveal incriminating evidence in kidnapping plot
Five suspected hitmen, accused of plotting to kidnap a Zimbabwean businessman, have been linked to incriminating evidence found on their mobile phones, a court hearing revealed on Wednesday.Th...Published: 18 Oct 2024 at 08:41hrs | 351 | by Staff reporter
Cop testifies in hired SA hitmen's trial
The trial of five suspected hitmen based in South Africa, allegedly hired to kidnap and assault a local businessman over a botched US$800,000 gas tanks deal, continued this week with the State present...Published: 18 Oct 2024 at 08:27hrs | 95 | by Staff reporter
SA hired hitmen lured by US$10 000 bait
Five suspected hitmen, allegedly hired from South Africa to kidnap and assault a local businessman, have been arraigned before the Harare Magistrates Courts facing charges of assault and conspiracy to...Published: 03 Oct 2024 at 08:54hrs | 554 | by Staff reporter
Exposing economic saboteurs threatening Zimbabwe's future
THE introduction of the Zimbabwe Gold Currency (ZiG) symbolised a shift toward economic sovereignty, self-reliance and stability. Yet, instead of celebrating this monumental effort, some individuals w...Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 07:49hrs | 253 | by Innocent Mujeri
5 hired hitmen back in the dock
The trial of five alleged hitmen accused of plotting to murder prominent businessman Oliver Tendai Chipindu is scheduled to continue this Friday, with the State presenting evidence from the second wit...Published: 26 Aug 2024 at 08:08hrs | 1034 | by Staff reporter
Trial of 5 suspected hitmen delayed again
The trial of five suspected hitmen, accused of being hired to assassinate Harare businessman Oliver Tendai Chipindu, was delayed again due to an application by the defense to have the magistrate recus...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 07:30hrs | 194 | by Staff reporter
Man hires hitmen to kill business partner
Five men are facing charges of conspiracy to commit murder, allegedly hired by a Harare businessman to kill his partner following a dispute. The accused, Moses Monde (37), Malvin Manzinde (30), Malvin...Published: 24 Mar 2024 at 14:35hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Stalker threatens ex-lover with death
A Harare man told a magistrate that his ex-girlfriend was stalking him, and threatening him with death. Paxton Mandikonza said he has never known any peace since he separated from Samanth...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 08:34hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Warrant of arrest for MP after militia attack on rivals
SANYATI police have issued a warrant of arrest for local MP and Mines deputy minister Polite Kambamura (Zanu-PF) after he allegedly unleashed a militia on party rivals holding a meeting at Nyimo busin...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mahere reported wrong vehicle number plate to police
OPPOSITION Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson, Fadzai Mahere was quizzed Wednesday by officers from Chinhoyi Central Police Station's Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Law and Or...Published: 22 Sep 2022 at 06:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Police summon Mahere over Chamisa's alleged assassination attempt
OPPOSITION Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson, Fadzai Mahere has been summoned to Chinhoyi Central Police Station's Law and Order department over the alleged attempt on the life of CCC ...Published: 21 Sep 2022 at 19:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe black market rates tumble
A raft of robust economic measures put forward by President Mnangagwa and his administration have proved to have a stabilising effect on the national economy as they managed to arrest the parallel mar...Published: 21 Aug 2022 at 08:43hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gets tough on Government's procurement process
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has spoken tough on the Government procurement process saying he is going to ensure that no public resources will be used to finance economic hitmen and women as has been the case ...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:19hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Glen Forest Memorial Park sucks in EU
BUSINESSMAN Joseph Richard Crnkovic's lawyer Kossam Ncube says the Croatian national's protracted dispute with other shareholders over Glen Forest Memorial Park is now being discussed at diplomatic le...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 06:39hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
'We'll get him dead or alive': Reid's Mpiranya trail to Zimbabwe
A BESPECTACLED white man of medium height probably in his early 60s walks into the hotel restaurant where I am seated outside on patio couches basking in the sunshine while surfing social media platfo...Published: 22 May 2022 at 11:20hrs | 29 | by Dumisani Muleya
Mnangagwa's govt throws industry under the bus
THE decision by the government to open up importation of basic commodities by citizens together with a six month suspension of duty on various products will have a damaging impact on the revival of th...Published: 21 May 2022 at 18:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube rubbishes Mnangagwa's economic hitmen conspiracy
FINANCE minister Mtuli Ncube has said the current economic crisis rocking the country is a result of global upheavals, effectively disputing his principal, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's claim that th...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa guns for economic hitmen
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has launched a massive clampdown on some big corporates suspected of conniving with local banks to borrow billions of Zimbabwean dollars which they used t...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:14hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's 'paranoid' measures roundly condemned
VARIOUS stakeholders and experts roundly condemned economic stabilisation measures introduced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to "stop economic hitmen" from sabotaging his under-fire administration....Published: 11 May 2022 at 09:16hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt succumbs to pressure
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has succumbed to public pressure and has opened the public transport system to other players, effectively ending a two-year ZUPCO monopoly.The move comes at a time...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:10hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Woman hires hitmen for hubby, commits suicide
A WOMAN from Nyamandlovu in Matabeleland North committed suicide on Tuesday after police were closing in on her for hiring three hitmen to kill her youthful husband two weeks ago. Ms Sitshengi...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 07:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance bigwig living in fear after foiled abduction
MDC Alliance Mashonaland West provincial secretary, Tawanda Bvumo says he is now living in fear following an attempted abduction incident by three unknown men in Chegutu on Tuesday night.A per...Published: 30 May 2021 at 09:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youth leader accused of violence against MDC in Hurungwe
Zanu-PF Youth League provincial member, Tapiwa Masenda has reportedly threatened to unleash an orgy of violence in Hurungwe district to force opposition MDC Alliance members to defect and join the rul...Published: 25 May 2021 at 07:16hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance abduction skeletons tumble
A FORMER MDC official, Nqobizitha Khumalo, who is now with the People Democratic Party (PDP) has revealed how the opposition party has been faking abductions and causing terror in the country through ...Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 06:03hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
British-born Zimbabweans at the helm of the 'Gauteng mafia'
Sources close to Kinnear have revealed that the detective, who was investigating a nationwide gun-licensing racket involving SAPS officials and gangsters, was closing in on the 'Gauteng mafia' and its...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 12:21hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa survived CIO assasination attempt in 2017
War Veterans leader Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa survived two assassination attempts in 2016 and 2017 after members of the dreaded Central Intelligence Organisation were sent to eliminate him in ...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 16:32hrs | 8 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa's hitmen after Linda Masarira
The hidden hand of the MDC Alliance and Crisis Coalition in Zimbabwe (CCZ) for fanning violence has been exposed through a leaked telephone conversation between CCZ leader, Rashid Mahiya and MDC-T Spo...Published: 30 Jan 2019 at 21:46hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Planned ZCTU protests expose Chamisa's MDC alliance
For the past couple of days, Zimbabweans have been drawn into a sinister panic mode whose footprints are alien to those of genuine market strife and economic strains. The basic function of fue...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 06:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU protest exposes MDC Alliance
For the past couple of days Zimbabweans have been drawn into a sinister panic mode whose foot prints are alien to those of genuine market strife and economic strains. The basic function of fuel as a c...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 11:22hrs | 1 | by Caitlin Kamba
Chamisa ridiculed for claiming hitmen are after him
Movement for Democratic Change Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has been derided for saying that hitmen are after him.According to the Daily News, Chamisa told a rally in Victoria Falls that he ...Published: 20 Jun 2018 at 13:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's hitmen target Nelson Chamisa
As the clock ticks towards next month's elections, main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has sensationally claimed that rivals were pulling everything out of their bags of tricks to deny his MDC Allia...Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 15:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
They wanted to kill me: Mutseyami
FORMER Musikavanhu MP Prosper Mutseyami (MDC-T) has opened up on his recent attack by suspected hitmen in Mutare ahead of last week's sitting of the nomination court, saying it was politically-motivat...Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 07:20hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's helper faces assassin's bullet
Remember that man who helped President Mnangagwa and his son Emmerson Junior in the dark November days when their lives were in grave danger after a political fallout with then president Robert Mugabe...Published: 26 May 2018 at 14:31hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Woman hires '$100 hitmen' to kill boyfriend
A Mberengwa man was killed and his body burnt before being thrown into a dam by two hit men allegedly hired by his girlfriend who accused him of abusing her.Loice Mahlamvana (39) allegedly pai...Published: 06 Feb 2018 at 00:24hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Girlfriend hires foreign hitmen
TWO South Africa based men, who had been hired by a South African woman to rob her Zimbabwean ex-boyfriend, were last week nabbed after a tip-off.The duo was not asked to plead to charges of c...Published: 12 Dec 2017 at 15:17hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
SA based wife hires car-loads of hitmen to do dirty work
A LIBERATION war hero was murdered by unidentified assailants who were allegedly hired by his second wife in South Africa, his family has claimed.Family spokesperson, Believe Gaule, a Zanu-PF ...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 05:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa under probe on 39 counts of fraud; Mugabe to stand trial on 20 000 murder charges
The ideology ZANU PF is a proponent of a conservative socialist ideology, Pan Africanist and anti- imperialist western values, doctrines and democracies. Pu...Published: 03 Nov 2017 at 05:38hrs | 6 | by Themba Mthethwa
Mugabe awards thug hero status
Zimbabweans reacted with both shock and anger yesterday to the controversial decision by President Robert Mugabe's warring ruling Zanu-PF to declare the late party bigwig, Kizito Chivamba, a provincia...Published: 21 Apr 2017 at 12:12hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Sangoma's wife killed for helping taxi drivers
SANGOMA Thami Lukhele (35) refused to be intimidated by angry taxi drivers.Now his wife is dead – shot 21 times by hitmen – and his three-year-old son is in hospital, having been struck by...Published: 25 May 2016 at 13:33hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Fear grips Mnangagwa allies
VICE-PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's loyalists have reportedly scaled up their personal security, amid fears they could be the next assassination targets following the the death of suspended women's le...Published: 19 May 2016 at 07:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Two 'hitmen' caught trying to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un
Two Hitmen who were planning to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have been detained, according to reports.At least two people - one of whom is believed to be a North Korean defector...Published: 08 Apr 2016 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Lecturer 'killer' promised hitmen money, vehicle
AN education inspector who allegedly killed his wife - a lecturer at the Midlands State University - last month allegedly hired two hitmen to kill her suspected boyfriend and bring his eyes as proof o...Published: 05 Apr 2016 at 06:37hrs | 3 | by Elizabeth Tsuro
'Cheat & brag wife murdered'
A Midlands State University (MSU) Lecturer was allegedly brutally stabbed to death by her husband after she bragged about an extra-marital affair she was having as revenge for her husband's infidelity...Published: 29 Feb 2016 at 06:24hrs | 2 | by Munyaradzi Musiiwa
South Africa: The fall of reconciliation
At the dusk of the apartheid regime in 1993, laid the assassinated body of Chris Hani, killed by right wingers who sought to collapse the country into a civil war.The great communist and MK Ch...Published: 12 Feb 2016 at 07:20hrs | 10 | by Mbuyiseni Ndlozi
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