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Madzibaba 'mutes' woman's voice before raping her
Tendai Chikowore, a 40-year-old man from Chikanga, Mutare, has been sentenced to 17 years in prison after being convicted of rape. The sentencing took place at the Mutare Magistrates' Court following ...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 10:35hrs | 785 | by Staff reporter
Duo kills sister's ex-hubby
Two Seke brothers are in trouble after they allegedly murdered their sister's husband in a property-sharing dispute.John Mukono (31) and Shadreck Mukono (24) were arraigned before Bindura Magi...Published: 22 Jul 2024 at 22:11hrs | 1247 | by Simbarashe Sithole/Edson Mapani
Shots fired after thieves target Mnangagwa's private residence
Shots were fired after thieves broke into President Emmerson Mnangagwa's private residence in the exclusive Hellensville neighbourhood in Harare on July 6.It is the third break-in targeting th...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 08:09hrs | 39 | by Staff reporter
Man stabs girlfriend for cheating
A 28-year-old man from Shurugwi, Cleo Nyakatera, has been arrested for stabbing his girlfriend multiple times following a dispute over alleged infidelity. Midlands provincial police spokesperson Emman...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 07:47hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Abortion leads to arrests in Bulawayo
Police in Bulawayo have arrested a 16-year-old girl and a 26-year-old registered nurse, Devine Dlodlo, for unlawfully terminating the girl's six-month pregnancy. According to Inspector Abednic...Published: 09 Jul 2024 at 05:52hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Scattered pieces of man's body found in bushy area in Bulawayo
Police in Bulawayo have discovered the remains of an unidentified man, estimated to be between 40-50 years old, in a bushy area of Denver Farm in Umguza. The remains were found on July 6 by a 36-year-...Published: 09 Jul 2024 at 05:52hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Police remove artisanal miners from Jumbo
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) have launched an operation to remove illegal artisanal miners from mining sites in the Mazowe district of Mashonaland Central. This action follows a directive aimed ...Published: 08 Jul 2024 at 16:55hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
South African named Zimbabwe cricket coach
Zimbabwe Cricket said Wednesday it had appointed South African Justin Sammons as its new men's head coach.Sammons was a former batting coach with his home country's national team, the Proteas....Published: 20 Jun 2024 at 16:02hrs | 11 | by Associated Press
Zimbabwe Cricket to announce new Chevrons coach
Zimbabwe Cricket is set to announce its new head coach this week, ending speculation that has surrounded the position since Dave Houghton's resignation in December. Currently, Walter Chawaguta...Published: 13 Jun 2024 at 10:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF restructuring exercise underway
ZANU-PF commenced its restructuring exercise over the weekend across all provinces, marking the initial phase in building its lower structures and registering new members while taking stock of existin...Published: 03 Jun 2024 at 07:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Political Commissar announces massive restructuring process
Recently appointed Zanu-PF Political Commissar Munyaradzi Machacha has announced a significant restructuring of the party, reportedly aimed at purging members opposed to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's...Published: 31 May 2024 at 21:25hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Wanted Mkwananzi still to report to police
Police yesterday said they were still looking for former Tajamuka leader and newly appointed CCC spokesperson Promise Mkwananzi for defaulting court proceedings over a case of public violence he was f...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean family buries four Boksburg gas victims
A SOMBRE atmosphere engulfed Lushongwe Village in Gwanda as relatives and friends of four family members who were part of the 17 people who died from gas inhalation at an informal settlement in Boksbu...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 06:55hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
'Prostitute' jibe lands CCC activist in trouble
A Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist spent a night in police cells in Karoi on Thursday after she was arrested for allegedly calling a Zanu-PF supporter a prostitute.Consider Chidimu...Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:17hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Police report made against Energy Mutodi over rally gunfire
Zanu-PF aspiring MP for Bikita South Energy Mutodi stormed the venue of a Citizens Coalition for Change rally and discharged his gun, according to a police complaint filed by his rival John Mupanduki....Published: 11 Jul 2023 at 23:19hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC blocked from bussing supporters to its rally
Police have instructed the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party not to bus its supporters to one of its rallies at an open ground near Nyajena Primary School in Masvingo slated for Saturday....Published: 08 Jul 2023 at 16:07hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Thabitha Khumalo vowed to block Khupe admission into CCC, where is she now?
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) interim national chairperson Thabitha Khumalo vowed to block the admission of Thokozani Khupe, into the party for her role destroying the MDC Alliance.The b...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 19:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Marry 'confiscated' allowances for Chiwenga security team
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's ex-wife, Marry Mubaiwa allegedly confiscated allowances for the security team that accompanied her estranged husband to South Africa for medical attention in 2020...Published: 27 Jun 2023 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kidnappers targeting learners, women
Police have intensified investigations into a case in which two pupils aged 11 and 12 were kidnapped in separate incidents in Harare and Chinhoyi, while a woman was kidnapped by unknown suspects in Dz...Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chief Binga installed
GOVERNMENT yesterday installed Grey Sikalelu Muleya as the new Chief Binga at the Bulawayo Kraal Primary School in Binga.Muleya (73), who becomes the area's third chief, takes over from the la...Published: 29 May 2023 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man forges wife's signature to facilitate divorce
A CHITUNGWIZA man was last week arraigned before Harare magistrate, Dennis Mangosi for allegedly forging his wife's signature on divorce papers.Travolta Reginald Tonderai Chitongo (29) was ord...Published: 25 Apr 2023 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
More details emerge in Justice Gwaunza saga
LOCAL businessman Tendai Mashamhanda has accused Deputy Chief Justice Elizabeth Gwaunza of working in cahoots with lawyers to tarnish High Court judge Justice Tawanda Chitapi‘s image for presiding o...Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'New Zec commissioners too young'
POLITICAL commentators have described the recently-appointed new members of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) as too young and incapable of stopping meddling by the military on electoral issues....Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 08:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints new Zec commissioners
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has sworn in six new Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) commissioners who replace the previous commissioners whose terms of office expired.The six new commissioners sworn ...Published: 07 Jul 2022 at 20:12hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa begs Jonathan Moyo to tone down CCC criticism
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) president Nelson Chamisa has sent a veiled plea to exiled former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo urging him to tone down his continued onslaught against the oppositi...Published: 07 Jul 2022 at 08:23hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's #NationalShutDown continues today
South Africa's national shut down will continue today and has spread to other parts of the country.Yesterday, truck and taxi drivers blocked various roads in Mbombela and the surrounding areas...Published: 07 Jul 2022 at 08:20hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'End of an era': Joyce Kazembe retire from Zec
Kazembe is the giant of modern Zimbabwe electoral landscape. For many Zimbabweans, her retirement today after 27 years of uninterrupted service at Electoral Supervisory Commission now, Zimbabwe Electo...Published: 06 Jul 2022 at 11:21hrs | 8 | by Farai Chirimumimba
Trial of CCC members opens
FIVE CCC members accused of staging an illegal demonstration in Warren Park, Harare, during the national lockdown in 2020, yesterday denied the charges when their trial opened at the Harare Magistrate...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africans face another fuel price increase as well as interest rate hike
There seems to be no reprieve for South African wallets as another hefty fuel increase is predicted for next week, as well as economists anticipating further interest hikes.The Organisation Un...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 19:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC blasts Sikhala bail ruling
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has condemned a court decision Wednesday to deny party legislators Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole bail.The duo returned to remand after they...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 06:53hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's hard man weeps in court
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) vice-chairman Job Sikhala wept in court yesterday after he saw journalist Hopewell Chin'ono in the gallery.CCC party president Nelson Chamisa also attended ...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala is a threat to public security, says court
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators, Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole will remain in jail after they were denied bail Wednesday by deputy chief magistrate, Gibson Mandaza.The two we...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 17:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chin'ono freedom bid flops again
A HARARE magistrate yesterday dismissed for the umpteenth time journalist Hopewell Chin'ono's application for removal from remand in a case he is charged with obstruction to justice.Chin'ono i...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's ex-wife awaits attempted murder trial date
THE State will furnish Marry Mubaiwa with a trial date when she returns to court on July 6 on charges of attempting to kill Vice President Constantino Chiwenga during the time he was hospitalised in S...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwengaa and ex-wife to share properties
THE High Court is set to make a determination on the sharing of property belonging to Vice President Constantino Chiwenga and his estranged wife, Mary Mubaiwa.This is after Justice Owen Tagu p...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 18:07hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Busisiwe Mkhwebane off to court to challenge unlawful and hurried suspension
The legal showdown between suspended public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane and President Cyril Ramaphosa is set to continue.This time Mkhwebane wants the Cape Town high court to set aside her su...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 19:00hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Parly to interview prospective ZEC Commissioners
The Parliament's Committee on Standing Rules and Orders will on Friday hold public interviews for 32 candidates shortlisted to replace six Zimbabwe Electoral Commission commissioners whose terms of of...Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Electoral reforms must dominate political discourse in 2022
AS we bask on the cusp of a new year, Zimbabweans appear to have gone agog about the pending by-elections and what many deem to be the watershed plebiscite of 2023.And yet for some of us, high...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 05:32hrs | | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Mangudya ranked worst performing central bank governor in Africa
The Central Banker Report Cards, published annually by Global Finance since 1994, grade the central bank governors of 101 key countries and territories, including the European Union, the Eastern Carib...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 05:13hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Kuda Tagwirei shifted assets to Zimbabwe after US sanctions
ZIMBABWE'S government is pressing ahead with a plan to combine its mining assets under a massive private-public enterprise, even as evidence mounts that the project could be linked to a tycoon sanctio...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 21:05hrs | | by Bloomberg
Mnangagwa sweats over SA protests
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has acknowledged that the ongoing violent protests in neighbouring South Africa could trigger regional instability, and called for a peaceful resolution to the impasse....Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
12 pregnant women test positive at maternity wing
TWELVE pregnant women at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH)'s Lady Rodwell Maternity Unit have tested positive for Covid-19 prompting authorities to conduct mass testing for everyone and disinfecting...Published: 08 Jul 2021 at 11:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare City Council gives ultimatum to ratepayers
Harare City Council has given ratepayers until July 6 to regularise water connections or risk facing punitive action.The call is targeted at those either accessing council water illegally or h...Published: 30 Jun 2021 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Court blasts Biti for delaying assault trial
A HARARE magistrate yesterday accused MDC Alliance vice-president Tendai Biti of deliberately delaying his trial for assaulting a Russian investor last year.Biti allegedly assaulted Tatiana Al...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mobile money platforms propel digital economy higher
Zimbabwe has been ranked high in the digital economy given its widespread use of mobile money platforms, online banking and international activity, according to a World Bank commissioned Digital Econo...Published: 09 Jun 2021 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance youth leader trial deferred again
THE trial of the MDC Alliance Midlands deputy treasurer, Knowledge Makiwa, who is being accused of insulting President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been postponed to next month by Zvishavane magistrate Arch...Published: 07 Jun 2021 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obadiah Moyo seeks relaxation of bail conditions
Former Health Minister Obadiah Moyo today approached the court seeking relaxation of his bail reporting conditions saying they were costly and inconvenient to him.Moyo, through his lawyer, sai...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 20:33hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
High Court blocks aspiring Chief Chivero
THE High Court has, with immediate effect, barred aspiring Chief Chivero, one Cornelius Chivesani Chengera, from acting or assuming the duties for the Chivero chieftaincy pending the finalisation of t...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC circus continues as 2023 beckons
So sad to note that the President of the world's superpower is down with coronavirus after having tested positive last week. There is something intrinsic about Africans. We are generally a kin...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nurses deny violating lockdown regulations
THE 11 nurses arrested for contravening national lockdown regulations after they allegedly gathered at Sally Mugabe Central Hospital in Harare to protest over poor salaries and working conditions have...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
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