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Overcoming stereotypes about sports and achieving success
Sports are always a looking glass that reflects society. Like all mirrors, however, it is flawed. Preconceived notions about sports tend to become the lenses through which we see things, sometimes unf...Published: 12 Jul 2024 at 10:26hrs | 55 | by Staff Reporter
TTI apprehends motorists for illegal removal of clamps, hunt for four others underway
TENDY Three Investments (TTI) has apprehended three motorists while the hunt is on for four others on charges of breaking or illegally removing and running away with the clamp gadget after being clamp...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 05:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gardener steals employer's US$70 000
A MAN appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court charged with stealing US$70 000 and R95 000 in cash from his employer.Tatenda Ngirazi (30) appeared before magistrate Yeukai Dzuda, who remanded ...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 05:45hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Motorists filmed going through red light fined
At least 12 of the 21 motorists summoned last year to Avondale Police Station in Harare over allegations of shooting through a red traffic control light at the intersection of Monavale Road and Solomo...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers kill businessman, steal US$4 500
POLICE have launched a manhunt for five armed robbers who pounced on two businessmen in Headlands, shot them and left them nursing injuries before getting away with US$4 500, groceries and a vehicle....Published: 23 Jul 2021 at 09:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cop bashed over girlfriend
A SENIOR POLICE OFFICER stationed at Bulawayo Central Police Station was left nursing a swollen face after he was allegedly punched several times by his love rival over a girlfriend.A source, ...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 15:00hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Cop accused of receiving bribes from land baron
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has launched investigations against a junior officer accused of abuse of office after she allegedly received kickbacks from suspected land baron Felix Munyaradzi who...Published: 08 Mar 2021 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Top cop comes out guns blazing
POLICE commissioner in charge of Matabeleland North province Erasmus Makodza's lawyers have written a letter of complaint to Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga against alleged dodgy dealings by a con...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
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
Woman detective challenges dismissal in High Court
A FIRED junior woman police detective, who was discharged after she extorted US$2 250 from a suspected forex dealer following arrest, has taken Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga to court challenging...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man arrested for making false report
A Bulawayo man has been fined $100 for making a false police report that his vehicle had been stolen when in fact he was involved in an accident. Danisa Nkomo was convicted on his own plea by ...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man found dead near hotel
A PUBLIC transport operator who was on Tuesday morning found dead along Jeff Road near the Golden Peacock Villa Hotel was not murdered but died of heart failure.Police this week cleared the ai...Published: 08 Jun 2018 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
9 die in accidents
NINE people were killed while four others were seriously injured in two separate road accidents along the Harare- Chirundu Highway on Sunday.In the first accident, six people died on the spot ...Published: 05 Mar 2018 at 15:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Drunk driver hits cycling schoolboys from behind, flees scene on foot
A Guruve driver allegedly hit two children on bicycles from behind before fleeing the scene on foot leaving his car.Sources close to investigations allege the vehicle, a Toyota Ipsum - registr...Published: 02 Sep 2017 at 13:06hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Soldiers team to bash makorokoza
Four members of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) allegedly pounced on one illegal miner who had assaulted their colleague last night at Doxford bar in Mazowe.Allegations are that the jail norm...Published: 19 Aug 2017 at 12:38hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Lumumba arrested
Viva Zimbabwe leader, William "Ace Lumumba" Mutumanje, who is facing forgery allegations, was arrested at the Harare Magistrates' Court yesterday after he defaulted court.Mutumanje's lawye...Published: 13 Apr 2017 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cop in court for smashing windscreen
A POLICE officer has appeared in court for hitting a car windscreen with a baton.Mercy Dzapfunwa pleaded not guilty when she appeared before Mbare magistrate Gladys Moyo charged with malicious...Published: 07 Mar 2017 at 14:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
6 more die at black spot which claimed 10 last week
SIX people died on the spot while two were seriously injured when the driver of a Toyota Ipsum lost control, encroached and side swiped with an oncoming DAF truck along the Bulawayo-Harare Road on...Published: 25 Sep 2016 at 12:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lumumba gets longer remand
Viva Zimbabwe president William Ace Lumumba Mutumanje, who is facing forgery allegations after being found in possession of an unregistered vehicle, was yesterday remanded to September 22 after the St...Published: 06 Aug 2016 at 11:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man sentenced to death for killing hired motorist
A 28-YEAR-OLD Gokwe man has been sentenced to death after he was convicted of killing a motorist he had hired on the pretext he wanted to go and pay lobola to his in-laws.High Court judge,...Published: 13 Jul 2016 at 08:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lumumba freed on bail again
The leader of the recently formed opposition party Viva Zimbabwe, and former Zanu-PF activist William Mutumanje, also known as Acie Lumumba, yesterday appeared in court on allegations of forging a...Published: 12 Jul 2016 at 07:01hrs | 3 | by Fungai Lupande
Lumumba arrested again
FORMER Zanu-PF activist William Mutumanje, also known as Acie Lumumba, has been arrested, this time for allegedly forging a registration book for his mother's vehicle, a Toyota Ipsum. It i...Published: 09 Jul 2016 at 08:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-cop unlawfully arrests doctor
A FORMER police officer allegedly teamed up with his two friends and faked the arrest of Dr Taviza Maketa before demanding a $5 000 bribe.The ex-police officer, Moses Nyavanhu (39), and his ac...Published: 16 Jun 2016 at 07:12hrs | | by Fungai Lupande
Two nabbed with pangolin
A MOZAMBICAN national and his Zimbabwean counterpart were arrested after being found in possession of a live pangolin in Mutare’s Central Business District.Manica Post reported that Kheni Gi...Published: 14 Jun 2016 at 07:09hrs | | by Tendai Gukutiwa
Manhunt for armed robbers
POLICE have intensified a manhunt for armed robbers who shot and killed a man in a carjacking incident in Chivhu.National police spokesperson Chief Superintendent Paul Nyathi said the suspects...Published: 14 May 2016 at 09:38hrs | | by Whinsley Masara
Prison officer kills toddler
A Zimbabwe Prison Officer yesterday appeared in court for fatally hitting a one-year-old boy with his vehicle while he was playing outside his parent's camp house yard.Jonathan Mugomba (38) ap...Published: 13 May 2016 at 06:49hrs | | by Prosper Dembedza
Bogus n’anga steals car
A 41-YEAR-OLD taxi driver last week lost his car to a stranger who claimed to be a traditional healer.Manica Post reported that Manicaland provincial police spokesperson, Inspector Tavhiringwa...Published: 15 Apr 2016 at 06:46hrs | | by Blessing Rwizi
Man gets nine months jail for bribe attempt
A MAN who tried to bribe a police officer at Plumtree Border Post will spend the next nine months in prison.Gatsha Masotsha, 44, of Hillside suburb in Bulawayo, was intercepted by police offic...Published: 25 Feb 2016 at 12:10hrs | | by Sukulwenkosi Dube
Notorious armed robber gets life behind bars
A notorious armed robber Mashwell Kurauone (33) who terrorised parts of Masvingo Province and also shot at a Police detective injuring him has been sentenced to life in prison by High Court Judge, Jus...Published: 30 Nov 2015 at 12:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Car dealers slash prices
South African car dealers at the Beitbridge Border Post have started reducing prices of pre-owned vehicles from Japan, Singapore and the United Kingdom as they battle to clear huge stocks caused by lo...Published: 02 Nov 2015 at 05:22hrs | 1 | by Thupeyo Muleya
'Army, police officers' nabbed for robbery
Three suspected armed robbers who were masquerading as police and army officers have been arrested in Zaka and Chiredzi after committing a spate of robberies.The three - Energy Jonasi (20), Kn...Published: 22 Aug 2015 at 09:31hrs | | by Freeman Razemba
Man arrested for attempted murder of a cop
A 27-year-old man has been arrested for attempted murder of a member of Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP).ZRP Spokesperson, Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba said the culprit, F...Published: 17 Aug 2015 at 20:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Horror accident victims named
POLICE yesterday said the six people who died in an accident involving a Toyota Ipsum and a Haulage truck in Bulawayo on Thursday are members of the same family.National police spokesperson Se...Published: 15 Aug 2015 at 10:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
8 people feared dead in Ipsum accident
8 people are said to have died this morning in Bulawayo along Harare road when an Ipsum rammed into a Colbro truck.Police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba said the ...Published: 13 Aug 2015 at 19:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Police, soldiers' attack white farmers in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) has reportedly urged its members to be on high alert following reports that a gang in police and military uniform is attacking white farmers in the Midlands ...Published: 20 Jul 2015 at 14:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man collapsed dies after losing car to MP
Tawanda Matehwe who was in a bitter row with Bikita East MP over a car he was renting to buy from the legislator collapsed and died allegedly because of the stressful court case that saw the car being...Published: 19 Jul 2015 at 13:53hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Cops fight 'over bribe' at roadblock
A BULAWAYO police officer is nursing bruises after a colleague assaulted him for asking about cash that is suspected to have come from a bribe, a court heard yesterday.Mike Chibike, 42, a poli...Published: 09 Jun 2015 at 09:33hrs | | by Lethokuhle Moyo
Taxi war erupts in Gwanda
People waiting to be served at the Gwanda Government Complex were treated to a free watch of a taxi war when kombi operators pounced on a pirate taxi carrying people to Maphisa.Touts ransacked...Published: 01 May 2015 at 10:07hrs | 1 | by Ndou Paul
Zanu-PF MP, driver in car wrangle
Bikita East MP Kenneth Matimba is embroiled in a car rent-to-buy dispute with a driver he entered into an agreement with in October 2012. The contract was valid for one year where the driver w...Published: 30 Apr 2015 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teenage girl, 13, steals car, kills kid
A SAKUBVA teenage girl (13) did the unthinkable last Sunday when she stole her father's car and ran over a hapless six-year-old girl who sustained serious injuries and later died in hospital.T...Published: 14 Mar 2015 at 16:16hrs | | by Mercy Ngwebvu
Armed robbers arrested
The Zimbabwe Republic Police have arrested two suspects in connection with a spate of armed robberies after a high speed car chase and exchange of fire in Chitungwiza.The two suspects Kelvin K...Published: 17 Jan 2015 at 20:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police hunt for female rapists
Police have launched a manhunt for three women and a man on allegations of sexually abusing and robbing a 22-year-old man in Chivi last Sunday night.The man, who is based in South Africa, lost...Published: 09 Jan 2015 at 08:35hrs | | by Crime Reporter
Injiva robbed, forced to have sex with female rapists
A 22-YEAR-OLD injiva was on Sunday robbed of R4, 000, $150 and a Nokia Asha cellphone at gun point before three female members of the gang allegedly took turns to have sex with him after injecting h...Published: 08 Jan 2015 at 08:40hrs | | by Patrick Chitumba
Female rapists strike again, man raped at gun point
Women forcing men to have sex with them at gun point along the country's highways have resurfaced along the Masvingo-Beitbridge road.Three cases have so far been reported with the latest bein...Published: 07 Jan 2015 at 17:43hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Kombi strategy, 9 seriously injured
NINE people were seriously injured when a kombi they were travelling in veered off the road after being hit by a Toyota Ipsum on its left side along Old Esigodini Road adjacent to Ilanda suburb on Sun...Published: 09 Dec 2014 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Driver robbed after vehicle runs out of fuel
IT was a double tragedy for a Chipinge man who was initially left stranded after his vehicle ran out of fuel before a robber struck and made good his escape with property worth $400 last week. ...Published: 18 Oct 2014 at 06:12hrs | | by Clara Mudefi
Dembare fans accused of murdering a Bosso fan removed from remand
Six of the nine Dynamos supporters accused of murdering a Highlanders fan have been removed from remand by a magistrate here yesterday.Emmason Msipa, 32, Honest Makaza, 28, Onisimo Maphosa...Published: 08 Oct 2014 at 14:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Traffic cops, kombi crew in physical fight
Bulawayo traffic police and commuter omnibus crews on Friday fought physically after the latter were forced to off-load passengers along the Masiyepambili Drive.People travelling to town durin...Published: 13 Sep 2014 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Dembare fans seek discharge
LAWYERS for the nine suspected Dynamos FC supporters charged with the alleged murder of a Highlanders FC soccer fan about a fortnight ago have indicated that they would challenge charges levelled...Published: 21 Aug 2014 at 07:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nearly robbed 20km out of Harare - WhatsApp update
Please note that Bulawayo24 does not edit WhatsApp updates. We publish them as sent by our re...Published: 28 Jul 2014 at 17:17hrs | | by Concerned Citizen
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