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Zimbabwean national, wife and girlfriend among suspects arrested for kidnapping of SA businessman
A Zimbabwean national, his wife and girlfriend are among suspects arrested for the kidnapping of a Midrand businessman.Five suspects, including a Zimbabwean national, his wife, girlfriend, and...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 08:30hrs | 2006 | by Staff reporter
Woman kidnapped, drugged and robbed by Honda Fit crew
A 36-YEAR-OLD woman from Emganwini suburb was kidnapped, drugged and later dumped in a bush on Sunday after boarding a silver Honda fit bound for the city centre.She got onto the vehicle at ar...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 07:41hrs | 326 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean arrested in Mpumalanga for kidnapping, and demanding ransom
Police in Mpumalanga have arrested a 43-year-old undocumented Zimbabwean national, and charged him with kidnapping, extortion, armed robbery, and illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition....Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 09:36hrs | 385 | by Staff reporter
Varakashi beat up Mapostori4ED leader
A BOGUS intelligence operative and a member of the militant Varakashi group has been arrested for kidnapping and bashing a Budiriro-based apostolic sect leader and impersonating a Central Intelligence...Published: 20 Dec 2022 at 20:44hrs | 1698 | by Staff reporter
Kidnappers arrested after demanding R50,000 ransom for Zimbabwean truck driver
Another truck driver, aged 42, who became a victim of kidnapping in Mpumalanga has been rescued by police in Komatipoort.Two suspects aged 25 and 28 were arrested on Friday."The truck ...Published: 18 Dec 2022 at 06:48hrs | 1046 | by Staff reporter
Robbed businessman vows to continue shining
A Buhera-born businessman Maxwell Chikwangwani who recently survived a hair-raising kidnapping and robbery ordeal has promised to hit the ground running.Chikwangwani fell prey to four armed ro...Published: 15 Dec 2022 at 14:18hrs | 2951 | by Edson Mapani
Buyanga's ex-wife complains over magistrate
BUSINESSMAN Frank Buyanga's former wife Chantelle Muteswa has filed a letter of complaint to Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga, the Judicial Service Commission and the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruptio...Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 06:38hrs | 408 | by Staff reporter
Missing Zimbabwean businessman found alive in SA
A ZIMBABWEAN businessman, missing for more than a month after being kidnapped on a busy road between Johannesburg and Pretoria in South Africa has been found alive and reunited with his family....Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 06:29hrs | 577 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga bail hearing set for tomorrow
The bail hearing for Zimbabwean businessman Frank Buyanga Sadiqi (43), who was rearrested last week on a separate charge of contravening South Africa's immigration laws, has been set for tomorrow....Published: 12 Dec 2022 at 18:36hrs | 133 | by Staff reporter
Plot to kill Phala Phala whistleblower Arthur Fraser exposed
A plot to kill former State Security Agency (SSA) director-general (DG) Arthur Fraser was hatched after he allegedly refused a R50 million offer from a Cape Town underworld boss to make the Phala Phal...Published: 11 Dec 2022 at 08:51hrs | 1564 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga bailed but remains in jail on new charges
Frank Buyanga was Friday released from a South African prison where he has been held for over a month but his freedom was immediately curtailed by new charges which were slapped on the property tycoon...Published: 09 Dec 2022 at 17:54hrs | 1167 | by Staff reporter
Trio claims severe assault while in police custody
A TRIO from Parirewa village in Domboshava, Mashonaland East province, facing kidnapping and armed robbery charges yesterday claimed that they were severely beaten and harassed while in police custody...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 04:59hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga appeals reinstatement of arrest warrant
The appeal against a decision by a High Court judge not to recuse himself from the application by the National Prosecuting Authority for a review of cancellation of Frank Buyanga Sadiqi's Zimbabwean w...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 04:56hrs | 362 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga seeks recusal of SA judge for throwing himself into proceedings
SOUTH Africa based property mogul, Frank Buyanga, currently locked up in a South African prison, has applied for recusal of High Court judge Justice Pisirayi Kwenda in a case he is seeking freedom....Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 17:49hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
Man 'kidnaps' baby during car hijack
A HARARE man has been charged with theft and kidnapping after he stole a vehicle which had a child on board.Kudakwashe Lee Moyo (21) was yesterday remanded in custody to today, when he appeare...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 05:22hrs | 675 | by Staff reporter
Frank Buyanga attacked in SA prison
ZIMBABWEAN businessman Frank Buyanga Sadiqi, who was recently arrested in South Africa for potential extradition to Zimbabwe, has reportedly been attacked in a Johannesburg remand prison by other inma...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:06hrs | 1399 | by Staff reporter
Zimra official stabbed, robbed and left for dead
A 35-YEAR-OLD Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) customs officer was early on Monday attacked and injured by two unknown who robbed him of R2 000, clothes and a computer.Mr Eugene Madambi comm...Published: 23 Nov 2022 at 04:57hrs | 730 | by Staff reporter
2 Zimbabweans, 5 SA police crime gang nabbed
IN a sting operation this week South African Police Services (Saps) arrested two Zimbabweans and five Saps serving members over a violent crime wave in Johannesburg's Fordsburg area.In a state...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:08hrs | 519 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: 2 Zimbabweans; 1 SA police officer arrested for robbery
Reports coming from the neighbouring South Africa indicate that two Zimbabwean nationals team other with six South Africans with one of them being a police officer to plot committing a robbery in that...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 16:47hrs | 1560 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Biti says state repression, corruption worse after Mugabe coup
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) deputy president Tendai Biti says the November 2017 military coup that installed incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa in place of late former leader Robert ...Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 19:39hrs | 321 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga blames Mnangagwa family for arrest
BUSINESS mogul Frank Buyanga, who is involved in a nasty fight over the custody of his minor son with ex-girlfriend Chantelle Muteswa, is languishing in jail after he was denied bail by a South Africa...Published: 15 Nov 2022 at 04:54hrs | 3973 | by Staff reporter
Woman charged with two counts of child kidnapping
A-RUSAPE woman (48) was arrested after she preyed on two mothers and kidnapped their two babies on different occasions in 2013 and 2015. Enator Marumani of Madhibhu Village, Rusape was yesterd...Published: 15 Nov 2022 at 04:49hrs | 288 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean businessman kidnapped in South Africa
A Zimbabwean businessman based in South Africa Ranga Gova, 35, is missing after he was hijacked and kidnapped in Midstream Mediclinic Centurion between Pretoria and Midrad.Gova was kidnapped j...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:39hrs | 900 | by Staff reporter
'40% Zimbabwean cars uninsured'
At least 40 percent of cars on Zimbabwe's roads do not have insurance cover, the Insurance Council of Zimbabwe (ICZ) has said.ICZ spokesperson Ringisai Batiya said this has affected victims of...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:39hrs | 207 | by Staff reporter
Frank Buyanga arrested by Interpol in Sandton, South Africa
South African based flamboyant businessman Frank Buyanga has been arrested in South Africa for kidnapping, robbery and three counts of contempt of court by Interpol and the SAPS National Interve...Published: 10 Nov 2022 at 16:12hrs | 2547 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Pupil commit suicide over food
TWO pupils committed suicide in a space of seven days - one taking his life over the Continuous Assessment Learning Activity (Cala) lessons and the other after she was reprimanded over food.Ac...Published: 10 Nov 2022 at 04:58hrs | 1309 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga decries escalating acts of terrorism in Africa
VICE-President Constantino Chiwenga has decried escalating acts of terrorism in Africa saying it has become a "thorn in the flesh" for many governments.Addressing delegates at the official ope...Published: 10 Nov 2022 at 04:56hrs | 398 | by Staff reporter
UK's deportations deal with Zimbabwe putting lives at risk
In the four years since she arrived in the UK, 56-year-old Josephine Sipiwe Jenje-Mudimbu's life has shifted from one of hope to one of daily, grinding fear.Josy, as she's better known, is an ...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:16hrs | 1418 | by Raoul Walawalker for Open Democracy
Maid arrested for kidnapping baby
Police in Bulawayo yesterday arrested a maid who had kidnapped her employer's 20-months-old son and drove off in their car.Kimberly Ncube (19) was employed by a family in Paddonhurst suburb an...Published: 02 Nov 2022 at 04:59hrs | 471 | by Staff reporter
Cyril Ramaphosa may have to consider the prospects of donning orange overalls
AS EMBATTLED President Cyril Ramaphosa fights for his political life in the build-up to the ANC national conference at the end of this year, he might also have to consider his fashion sense with the p...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 19:45hrs | 1841 | by Sizwe Dlamini
Mbeki questions Ramaphosa's fate amid Phala Phala probe
Former president Thabo Mbeki says the ANC has to decide what must happen if a parliamentary process finds that President Cyril Ramaphosa has a case to answer regarding the Phala Phala saga.Acc...Published: 22 Oct 2022 at 19:02hrs | 1102 | by Staff reporter
BCC proposes stringent by-laws
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has proposed new stringent by-laws that will see impounded vehicles unclaimed for 30 days being auctioned while dirty ones will be removed from the city roads or any area u...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 05:58hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
Former senior cop in murder storm
AN inquest is set to be held for a woman who was allegedly poisoned to death in a fight over inheritance in which a former Assistant Commissioner in the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), Mrs Marian Tige...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 13:58hrs | 3785 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Theft case laid against Ramaphosa
A charge of theft has been laid against President Cyril Ramaphosa, reportedly by a businessman who claims his energy plan presented to the head of state was stolen and used without his involvement....Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 07:01hrs | 3559 | by Staff reporter
55 arrested, 29 Plumtree vehicles impounded
POLICE in the border town of Plumtree arrested 55 drivers and impounded at least 29 vehicles during a seven-day operation code name "i-number plate ingaphi/ number plate iripi" meant to curb traffic l...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 07:53hrs | 336 | by Staff reporter
Advocate Kholeka Gcaleka's Phala Phala farm robbery investigator managed by Ramaphosa' people
One of the Public Protector investigators probing the Phala Phala farm robbery is allegedly being managed by two people on behalf of President Cyril Ramaphosa.The investigator, whose name is k...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 17:07hrs | 950 | by Staff reporter
14 CCC members' bail bid rejected
The group of 14 CCC members, facing charges of assault, arson and looting after the violence that rocked Nyatsime area after Moreblessing Ali was kidnapped and murdered by a former boyfriend, have had...Published: 01 Oct 2022 at 06:10hrs | 177 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Beatrice police accused of obstructing course of justice
Four murder suspects are walking free in Beatrice after police reportedly dragged their feet in investigations and released the suspects from custody claiming there was no case against them....Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 17:18hrs | 714 | by Mandla Ndlovu
4 Zimra officers kidnapped, held for ransom in South Africa
Four female Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) employees were abducted and held for ransom in Musina, South Africa, on Monday night, ZimLive can reveal.The quartet, who work at Beitbridge bord...Published: 20 Sep 2022 at 18:47hrs | 4005 | by Staff reporter
Police blocked from collecting blood from suspect
THE High Court has stopped police from collecting blood samples from High Court judge Justice Garainesu Mawadze's son, Munyaradzi Jnr, who is facing a murder charge.Mawadze (24), who is being ...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 05:53hrs | 550 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa activists' have a case to answer,' says court
CHIEF magistrate Faith Mushure has dismissed an application for discharge filed by Citizens Coalition for Change members Joanah Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri who are being accused of spreading falsehoo...Published: 13 Sep 2022 at 06:02hrs | 331 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe, Chimbiri put to their defence as discharge application dismissed
A court in Harare on Monday dismissed an application by Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) duo Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri for discharge at the end of the prosecution case in their ongoing tri...Published: 12 Sep 2022 at 19:07hrs | 381 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa called a 'criminal', 'gangster' as opposition demand release of Phala Phala report
Opposition political parties described President Cyril Ramaphosa as a "gangster", "thief", and a "criminal" as they demanded acting Public Protector Kholeka Gcaleka release her report into the Phala P...Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 06:28hrs | 829 | by Staff reporter
Money changer robbed at gunpoint
A money changer is lucky to be alive after he was attacked and robbed of R43 000, US$130 and his Honda Fit at gunpoint.The money changer was given US$2 500 to convert it to rand by his client ...Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 06:18hrs | 272 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, SA friction laid bare as tensions rise
SIMMERING tensions between Zimbabwe and South Africa this week exploded after an outburst by a top provincial health official in the neighbouring country who took swipe at President Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 19:54hrs | 2773 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean farmer abducted by terrorists in Nigeria
A Zimbabwean farmer Charles Choko has been reportedly abducted in a farm located at Anchau town of Kabau local government area of Kaduna State in northern Nigeria.A daily news publication in N...Published: 28 Aug 2022 at 19:09hrs | 1699 | by Staff reporter
State closes case in Mamombe, Chimbiri 'fake' abduction
The state has closed its case in a matter in which Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator Joana Mamombe and her party comrade Cecilia Chimbiri are being tried for allegedly lying about their a...Published: 17 Aug 2022 at 18:49hrs | 1003 | by Staff reporter
Kombi crew drive off at speed with police officers before dumping them after thorough beating
TWO Harare siblings from Glen Norah are in hot soup after they allegedly teamed up to assault and kidnap police officers after committing a traffic offence.The two are Shepherd and Allen Zhara...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:42hrs | 4250 | by Staff reporter
Dangers of Arab Spring in South Africa
Former South African President Thabo Mbeki recently launched a sharp critique of the governing African National Congress (ANC) for failure to address what it has labelled the triple challenge of pover...Published: 31 Jul 2022 at 08:15hrs | 761 | by Sandy Africa
Slain Moreblessing Ali's family goes into hiding
THE family of slain Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) activist Moreblessing Ali have been hounded out of their Chitungwiza house by Zanu-PF activists while suspected state security agents are perio...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 07:59hrs | 2182 | by Staff reporter
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