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Disgraced Australian journalist arrested in Zimbabwe
Television news producer Stephen Rice has been arrested while working in Zimbabwe - three years after he was jailed on assignment in Lebanon.The Australian journalist, Rice, flew into Zimbabwe...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 15:43hrs | 1712 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Angry mob bashes security guard for 'kidnapping' boss' 5 kids
AN angry mob severely assaulted a security guard suspected of kidnapping five children in Bulawayo today.Angry residents hauled the bloodied guard to Bulawayo Central Police Station but left i...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 23:15hrs | 7766 | by Methusi Ncube
Man kidnaps his in-laws, jailed
A Chitungwiza man will spend the next two years in prison after he was convicted of kidnapping his in-laws following a dispute at a funeral. Benson Matamise (45) appeared before Chitungwiza ma...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:03hrs | 365 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Mliswa tells Mnangagwa to set up Commission on Itai Dzamara
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa said President Emmerson Mnangagwa should set up a Commission of Inquiry to bring to closure the issue of the missing activist Itai Dzamara."Human Right...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 16:10hrs | 8639 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mugabe's son-in-law seeks acquittal at High Court
FORMER president Robert Mugabe's son-in-law Simba Chikore has approached the High Court seeking acquittal on charges of unlawful detention.This comes after his bid for discharge at the close o...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 07:25hrs | 8281 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi victim speaks out
It is highly saddening that a group of people should masquerade as a collective and purport to speak on my behalf with neither my consent nor knowledge. From the onset I must dismiss with exaggerated ...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 17:50hrs | 1762 | by Gukurahundi victim
Couple hires gang to kidnap police officer
Jerifanos Muganyi (48) and his wife Mercy Muganyi (41) of House Number 216 Rutenga, were on Wednesday, March 20 arraigned before Mwenezi Magistrates' Court facing a charge of hiring a Beitbridge-based...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 12:05hrs | 792 | by Staff reportwr
Mugabe son in-law case: Witness declared hostile
There was drama in court yesterday in the unlawful detention case involving former President Mugabe's son-in-law that saw top lawyer Phillipa Phillips declared a hostile witness.Harare magistr...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 20:37hrs | 1257 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe son-in-law's trial takes dramatic twist
The trial of former President Robert Mugabe's son-in law Simba Chikore took a dramatic twist yesterday after the State threatened to incarcerate its key witness who refused to answer questions citing ...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 12:58hrs | 3507 | by Staff reporter
'Makandiwa' gold mine kidnappers acquitted
Five men, who were accused of torturing, kidnapping and robbing while impersonating police officers to villagers who had reportedly stolen gold ore from a mine earlier believed to be owned by United F...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 23:54hrs | 899 | by Staff reporter
Witness in Mugabe son-in-law case develops cold feet
The trial of former president Robert Mugabe's son-in-law Simba Chikore, who is accused of kidnapping his employee - Bertha Zakeyo - at Zimbabwe Airways offices, continued yesterday with the fourth Sta...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 22:41hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
Man guns down wife, brother-in-law
A HARARE man yesterday morning shot and killed his wife and brother-in-law at their Gletwin home following a prolonged marital dispute. The man, Petros Pomborokani (50), a former Ministry of H...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 15:39hrs | 4189 | by Staff reporter
Couple hires bouncers from SA to 'kidnap' cop
A COUPLE from Masvingo allegedly hired four bouncers to kidnap a policeman. Missing Jerifanos Muganyi (48) and his wife Mercy Muganyi (41) of Rutenga Business centre allegedly also hired the s...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 22:49hrs | 3504 | by Staff reporter
Fake Zacc officials jailed
Five bogus Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) officials, who moved around farms in Marondera extorting farmers before kidnapping and robbing a fuel dealer, have been sentenced to an effective ...Published: 24 Mar 2019 at 14:08hrs | 276 | by Staff reporter
Police ban the carrying of dangerous weapons in Bulawayo
POLICE in Bulawayo have with immediate effect banned the carrying of weapons in the city until June this year following an increase in murder, assault, malicious damage of property and kidnapping case...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 18:12hrs | 806 | by Staff reporter
Taxi driver's killer jailed
A suspected member of a four-man gang that allegedly kidnapped, robbed and brutally killed a Gweru taxi driver in December last year before dumping his body in a dam with his hands and legs tied, has ...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:53hrs | 440 | by Staff reporter
War vets in dock over kidnap
FOUR members of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association in Bulawayo have appeared in court facing charges of unlawful detention of a member of the Zimbabwe Federation of Trade Unions...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:37hrs | 184 | by Staff reporter
Unregistered cars can no longer buy fuel
POLICE have engaged the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) to ensure that vehicles without registration numbers do not fill up at fuel service stations following an upsurge in crimes committe...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 09:17hrs | 3884 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's supporter turns up dead after January 24 kidnapping
The body of a Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party supporter kidnapped days after fuel protests shut down the country in January has turned up at a mortuary in Chitungwiza, his devastated family...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 12:34hrs | 8374 | by ZimLive
'Freedom that never was'
We continue chronicling the political life of Agrippa Samuriwo. The former Whawha detainee who tells our Deputy News Editor Levi Mukarati – from his farm in Chitomborwizi, Mashonaland West Province ...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 08:48hrs | 206 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Makandiwa disowns disputed mine
UNITED Family International Church (UFIC) leader Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa is not the owner of Mutoko's Havilah Gold Mine that is embroiled in a war with its former workers over stolen gold, mine reg...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 06:57hrs | 882 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe son in-law case: Elusive witness worries investigator
The trial of former president Robert Mugabe's son-in-law Simba Chikore, who is accused of kidnapping his employee - Bertha Zakeyo - at Zimbabwe Airways offices, continued yesterday with the investigat...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 06:45hrs | 267 | by Staff reporter
Makandiwa gold mine kidnappers in court
THE trial of five men accused of kidnapping villagers they accused of stealing gold ore at a mine believed to be owned by United Family International Church (UFIC) leader Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa in...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 23:19hrs | 205 | by Staff reporter
Woman kidnaps hubby's mistress
BASSOP!Pauline Matseketsa from Thokozani Flats in Mzilikazi claims her boyfriend's wife Patricia Phephetha kidnapped her for dating Lethu Phephetha.She claimed she was forcibly picked ...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 01:24hrs | 541 | by Staff reporter
Lawyer declines to testify against Mugabe's son-in-law
A Harare lawyer has refused to testify against former president Robert Mugabe's son-in-law Simba Chikore as a State witness to establish an essential fact of the Zimbabwe Airways senior staff row as w...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 17:58hrs | 759 | by Staff reporter
Former Army Commander, ex-defence minister opposes judge
Former Army Commander, ex-defence minister opposes Zimbabwe judgeZimbabwe's Justice Charles Hungwe is among five foreign judges facing rejection by Lesotho's murder-accused former Defence mini...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 15:11hrs | 3890 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Prophet Makandiwa implicated in gold mine kidnap, torture
UNITED Family International Church (UFIC) leader Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa has been implicated in a case in which five men were reportedly kidnapped and tortured for allegedly stealing gold ore from ...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 06:25hrs | 707 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF returns to terror tactics
Lawyer and former education minister Dave Coltart has appealed to the world to take action to halt the Mnangagwa regime's terror tactics against the opposition MDC.Senator Coltart was commenti...Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 22:41hrs | 4884 | by ZimVigil
MDC officials abducted
MDC Alliance senior official Robert Saunyama, popularly known as Jack Roberts, and his younger brother and Chikanga-Dangamvura's ward 6 councillor Danmore Saunyama were on Tuesday night abducted by ei...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 16:59hrs | 511 | by Staff reporter
Two MDC officials released from military custody after heavy torture
MDC has announced that its two officials Robert and Danmore Saunyama who were abducted by armed military personnel on Tuesday have been released from military custody after being heavily t...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 08:11hrs | 3345 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Zacc officials' remanded in custody
Five men, who masqueraded as Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) officials and allegedly moved around Mashonaland East Province terrorising farmers and kidnapped a fuel dealer in Marondera, app...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 22:14hrs | 251 | by Staff reporter
Two MDC officials abducted by armed soldiers
MDC has reported that armed members of the Zimbabwe Defense Forces on Tuesday abducted two of its officials in Manicaland after assaulting their family members. The two members Jack Roberts an...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 07:02hrs | 7641 | by Mandla Ndlovu
5 'Zacc officials' in trouble
Five people who masqueraded as Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) officials and allegedly moved around farms in Marondera, terrorising farmers before kidnaping and robbing a fuel dealer have a...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:25hrs | 779 | by Staff reporter
Freedom First Project's response to the president's interview on France24
THE PRESIDENT IS ASKING FOR EVIDENCE! Freedom First project is deeply concerned and worried following the president of the of Zimbabwe His Excellence E ...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 11:12hrs | 1534 | by Dumisani Mpofu
Zim Judge to deal with army killings in Lesotho
Top judge Justice Charles Hungwe is in Lesotho as one of the foreign judges who will preside over the politically sensitive criminal cases involving politicians and members of Lesotho's army, police, ...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:35hrs | 907 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mugabe's son in-law back in court
The trial of former President Robert Mugabe's son-in-law Simba Chikore, who is accused of kidnapping his employee at Zimbabwe Airways offices, opened yesterday at the Harare Magistrate's Court, with t...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 07:49hrs | 1453 | by Staff reporter
Soldier arrested for kidnapping and robbery
Police are holding a soldier after a foreign currency dealer was kidnapped and robbed in Chitungwiza.Norest Nyasoro, an Air Force of Zimbabwe officer, is due to appear before a court on Thurs...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 16:20hrs | 8427 | by ZimLive
Armed robbers on the loose
Police have launched a manhunt for 15 armed robbers who are masquerading as members of the uniformed forces after stealing uniforms from law enforcement agencies and soldiers, the Daily News reported....Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 11:37hrs | 2115 | by Staff reporter
Woman kidnaps child to fool lover
A 30-year-old Gweru woman kidnapped her neighbour's four-year-old son and took him to her boyfriend's rural home in Zvishavane to sustain a lie she had told the man that they had a child together. ...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:54hrs | 334 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Opposition leader's brother abducted
Opposition leader Shadreck Mashayamombe's brother Cephas Mashayamombe is reported to have been abducted by unknown assailants on who were driving a white Toyota Fortune on Tuesday afternoon.A ...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 14:25hrs | 5212 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mugabe son-in law gets new trial date
The trial of former president Robert Mugabe's son-in-law, Simba Chikore who is facing charges of kidnapping that was meant to commence yesterday was postponed to February 6.The matter was post...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 16:46hrs | 4397 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo speaks on Itai Dzamara
Professor Jonathan Moyo has accused members of The Military Intelligence Department of using a ghost Twitter account to point fingers at him as the one behind the disappearance of journalist Itai Dzam...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 09:06hrs | 24254 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chief Ndiweni calls for transitional govt
NTABAZINDUNA Chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni has called for the formation of a transitional authority to resolve Zimbabwe's escalating economic and political crises, but said the ruling Zanu-PF p...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 07:29hrs | 2161 | by Staff reporter
Post-Election violence commission submission
I am an independent member of the Zimbabwean society, meaning that I make rational decision and conclusions on political matters. Officially I am trained in the accounting profession henceforth in my ...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 13:17hrs | 1180 | by Terence Simbi
More evil to visit Zimbabwe under Mnangagwa
THE ousting of former President Robert Mugabe by political and military elites will result in more of the same abuse of Zimbabweans unless the Sadc joins forces with world powers to effect real change...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 08:53hrs | 1806 | by Mondli Makhanya
Things to remember
The craziness in some of us is that we are failing to find a fault in zanu pf and we praise and hero-worship their leadership. We even fail to see the human rights violations they have committed over ...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 10:04hrs | 572 | by Clement Moyo
Cop, 2 accomplices sued for abducting villager
AN officer stationed at Nyamandlovu Police Station in Matabeleland North province and his two accomplices have been taken to court by a villager who is demanding $100 000 in damages for alleged abduct...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 07:59hrs | 316 | by Staff rpeorter
'Rhodesians kidnapped Ethan Dube, killed JZ Moyo'
This week we continue with a narration by Jane Lungile Ngwenya who speaks to our Deputy News Editor Levi Mukarati from her home in Bulawayo. An indefatigable revolutionary, Ngwenya recounts events lea...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 09:46hrs | 537 | by STaff reporter
Donkey 'thief' sues villagers, cop for $100 000
A MAN from Nyamandlovu who was kidnapped by two villagers and subjected to a brutal mob attack before he was unlawfully arrested for allegedly stealing donkeys, is suing his assailants and a police of...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 11:07hrs | 530 | by Staff rpeorter
Axcil Jefferies charms Hollywood star Will Smith
THE year 2018 is one 24-year-old Zimbabwe racing sensation Axcil Jefferies describes as bitter-sweet.Bitter, because Lady Luck seemed to desert him in crucial events and sweet in that he compe...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 10:18hrs | 532 | by Staff reporter
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