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Trainee lawyer jailed for rape
A Zimbabwean trainee lawyer in the United Kingdom has been jailed for 14 years after he dragged a student to a wooded area and sexually attacked her. Wilfred Marodza (28), from Eastbourne in E...Published: 18 Jan 2020 at 05:39hrs | 620 | by Staff reporter
Fake pregnancy woman claims baby kidnapped
A Shurugwi woman faked pregnancy, asked for a friend's newborn baby and presented the infant to her boyfriend as their child before requesting money for the baby's upkeep, a Shurugwi magistrate heard ...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 06:00hrs | 138 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints Jestina Mukoko's abductor CIO boss
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed one of Jestina Mukoko's abductors in 2008, Brigadier-General (Retired) Asher Walter Tapfumaneyi as the Deputy Director in the much feared Central Intelligenc...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 05:58hrs | 250 | by newzimbabwe
MaShurugwi armed with AK-47 besiege village
THE level of crime in the country especially around mining areas is threatening to get out of control after a gang of nine robbers armed with an AK-47 rifle and a pistol besieged five homesteads in Fo...Published: 12 Jan 2020 at 08:48hrs | 5860 | by Staff Reporter
Woman demands sex from son-in-law
IT'S the kind of thing that people think only happens in movies!But for a Bulawayo man movies depict reality as his mother-in-law couldn't control her taboo sexual urges enough to resist telli...Published: 26 Dec 2019 at 08:45hrs | 7564 | by Staff Reporter
Cop up for kidnaping girl
A 30-YEAR-OLD Mvurwi police officer is in soup for allegedly kidnapping a Form 3 student and having consensual sex with her for five months.Bryson Muriritirwa appeared last week before Guruve ...Published: 16 Dec 2019 at 12:33hrs | 2867 | by Staff Reporter
Activists pile pressure over Gukurahundi
A BULAWAYO-based pressure group Ibhetshu LikaZulu has called on the government to go a step further in addressing the Gukurahundi issue and account for victims that were abducted and never seen again....Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 11:51hrs | 180 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MPs take Mudenda to court
MDC Alliance MPs have approached the High Court challenging Speaker of the National Assembly, Jacob Mudenda's decision to bar them from receiving their sitting allowances.The 112 MPs are argui...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 07:30hrs | 698 | by Staff reporter
Man abducts cop
A BINDURA man was last week convicted of resisting arrest and kidnapping a police officer at a roadblock before assaulting other police officers who intervened to rescue their colleague.Godfre...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:29hrs | 1051 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lawyers march against police brutality
Dozens of Zimbabwean lawyers took to the streets on Friday to protest against police brutality that has escalated since President Emmerson Mnangagwa came to power in 2017.Wearing black court r...Published: 30 Nov 2019 at 14:35hrs | 428 | by AFP
Man abducts sick wife, demands sex
A MAN from Hwange District stunned hospital officials at St Patrick's Hospital when he stormed the institution and attempted to kidnap his ill wife who was admitted, arguing that he wanted to take her...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 17:14hrs | 676 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa bemoans tourist drop
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has bemoaned the drop in tourist arrivals in the country. Speaking at an Economic Development and Financial Indaba in Harare on Thursday, Mnangagwa called for tour...Published: 07 Nov 2019 at 17:27hrs | 3253 | by Staff Reporter
Indian dealer kidnapped over forex
An Indian man accused swindling foreign currency dealers of US$765 000 is now claiming that he was kidnapped, forcibly bundled into a car boot and taken to an unknown place where he was assaulted....Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 17:56hrs | 1586 | by Staff reporter
The Mnangagwa led govt has failed
It is a fact that ZANU PF party has failed this nation since 1980, it is also a fact that ZANU PF is known locally for all the wrong reasons, ranging from gukurahundi genocide, government sponsored tr...Published: 30 Oct 2019 at 14:07hrs | 3490 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Missing boy (6) found dead
A SIX-year-old boy was found dead near Lot 4 suburb in Zvishavane after he was reported missing after he left for school in the morning but did not return home. It is suspected that the child ...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 09:04hrs | 615 | by Staff Reporter
Woman drugged, raped at 'shrine'
Two self-styled spiritual healers allegedly drugged, kidnapped and took turns to rape a woman who had visited their shrine for help, the court has heard. The woman lost her mobile phone to thi...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 07:34hrs | 831 | by Staff reporter
Traditional healers drug, kidnap and rape client
Two self-styled spiritual healers allegedly drugged, kidnapped and took turns to rape a woman who had visited their shrine for help. The court heard that the woman lost her mobile phone to thi...Published: 19 Oct 2019 at 07:10hrs | 684 | by Staff reporter
Who is behind the spate of activist abductions in Zimbabwe?
Since the beginning of the year, some 50 people, mainly government detractors, have been abducted and tortured in Zimbabwe, but it is not easy to say who could be behind these heinous crimes.T...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 20:51hrs | 291 | by Cyril Zenda
Man jailed 14 years for raping former girlfriend
A MAN from Siantibule village in Binga has been jailed for 14 years after kidnapping his former girlfriend and taking her to his home where he allegedly raped her four times.Pangayitari Mudimb...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 08:52hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
MDC to revamp its security system?
A source in the MDC has revealed that Nelson CHAMISA and other MDC leaders are furious with the MDC Security and Intelligence Department following a series of actions that reflect its incompetence.&nb...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 15:56hrs | 1315 | by Staff Reporter
The Zimbabwean Cyber Crime Bill, a good way forward
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his cabinet passed the long awaited Cyber Crime, Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill in what they say is an effort to "protect the country's cyber space...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 23:03hrs | 544 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
JSC offers to reinstate fired resident magistrate
THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has offered to reinstate fired Esigodini resident magistrate, Mr Tawanda Muchemwa, barely a month after he had approached the Labour Court challenging his dismiss...Published: 12 Oct 2019 at 10:27hrs | 294 | by Staff reporter
Man 'kidnaps lover's baby' (2), dumps her at uncle's home
A MAN from Bulawayo's Mpopoma suburb has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping his ‘lover's' two-year-old baby and disappearing with her for almost two days.Norman Chingombe (25) allege...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 06:35hrs | 314 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tries the Kagame way
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is trying to emulate his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame's economic development model, which blends authoritarian practices and homegrown solutions with international best...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:56hrs | 2182 | by Staff reporter
Mukoko's abduction horror scare that never fades away
IT is a harrowing experience that still haunts her 11 years on. Like a horror movie, it plays back each time Jestina Mukoko hears of another abduction case.The wounds never heal, she says....Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:51hrs | 300 | by Staff reporter
An indictment on Mnangagwa's govt
THE hard-hitting report by United Nations special rapporteur Clement Nyaletsossi Voule on human rights pointing out that citizens' hope for a new dawn under President Emmerson Mnangagwa is fast fading...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:47hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
SA a destination of choice for ailing Zimbabweans
THE move by the leader of a union representing Zimbabwean medical doctors to seek specialist treatment outside the country is the latest testament of the collapse of Zimbabwe's once-vibrant health sec...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 07:36hrs | 293 | by CAJ News
'Change is coming,' says Chamisa
Nelson Chamisa hailed the MDC as "the bravest, strongest and most consistent" party as the opposition movement marked its 20-year anniversary at Rufaro Stadium on Saturday.Chamisa said the MDC...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 16:56hrs | 1809 | by ZimLive
Mnangagwa's govt must expose the third force
One imposing fact about the Zimbabwean Constititution is its unrelenting mention of the fact that the authority to govern is derived from the people of Zimbabwe and, as such, due respect must be accor...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 14:03hrs | 539 | by Learnmore Zuze
Paranoia and self-delusion
The longer dictatorships last the more paranoid they become as they resist the pressures of reality bearing ever more heavily upon them. They eventually come to the state of self-delusion shown in an ...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 16:09hrs | 1004 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Whodunnit? And Why?
Two of the country's dumbest and dummest criminals — Alexio Chibwana and Obvious Tembo — will not only be in the slammer for the next two years, but they will definitely be immortalised ...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 09:25hrs | 380 | by Bishop Lazi
Mnangagwa's 'witch-hunt' against opponents
On September 8, Zimbabwean union activist Dr Peter Magombeyi claimed he was receiving "death threats". Six days later he disappeared. His last WhatsApp message said: "I have been kidnapped by 3 men."...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 18:18hrs | 1474 | by AFP
The abductor of Dr Peter Mugombeyi exposed
The story that unfolded in Harare seemed tailor-made to stare and brew some ugly scenes in Zimbabwe. During a plan for a labour dispute and a demonstration by medical doctors in Zimbabwe D...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 17:08hrs | 17259 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
When the government chooses to be the third force
The reports by the government that there is a third force operating in Zimbabwe are just fat lies and can be dismissed with all costs.Doctors in Zimbabwe have been going on industrial action f...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 13:59hrs | 1451 | by Leonard Koni
Magombeyi 'abduction' script clumsy
...stinks of Uncle Sam's scent and his regime change runner boys A fortnight ago, no one knew who Dr Peter Mago...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 10:18hrs | 3676 | by Shongedzai Mugwagwa
Female rapists pounce
Police in Beatrice are investigating an incident in which a 41-year-old man was allegedly sexually assaulted by the three women, who later dumped him by the roadside.The man has since been tak...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 07:31hrs | 1611 | by Staff reporter
UN probes Zimbabwe amid 'abductions'
UNITED Nations (UN) special rapporteur on the Rights of Freedom of Peaceful Assembly Clement Voule this week flew into a storm as his visit coincided with the reported abduction of the acting presiden...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 07:30hrs | 821 | by Staff reporter
'Missing' doctor found alive
HARARE medical doctor Peter Magombeyi who was reported missing on Sunday, was yesterday found at Nyabira, some 20km from the city centre. Dr Magombeyi's alleged abduction and disappearance spa...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 06:47hrs | 1225 | by Staff reporter
#BringBackDrPeter
At 22:19 on the night of Saturday, 14 September, Dr Peter Magombeyi - acting president of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) - sent a message to the ZHDA junior doctors WhatsApp gr...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 17:41hrs | 741 | by Kubatana
When a government starts abducting its own doctors…
While the President of the Republic is busy trying to be endorsed by a dead man called Robert Mugabe, all the country's referral hospitals are without doctors, after the Doctors Association called for...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 08:15hrs | 4419 | by Knowledge Hakata
Chamisa trials Mnangagwa in America
Angered by the continued harassment of its supporters, as well as the escalating abductions of government critics in the country, the main opposition MDC plans to hold mass protests against President ...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 07:10hrs | 10342 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Politburo, Youths League slam abductions
The ZANU-PF Politburo yesterday criticised the alleged kidnapping of Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association acting president Dr Peter Magombeyi over the weekend, and called for security agencies to int...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 06:37hrs | 524 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to present human rights report to UN, AU for review
ZIMBABWE has made significant strides in promoting and protecting the human rights of citizens since 2007 in line with international agreements and is due to present reports to world and continental b...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 06:56hrs | 211 | by Staff reporter
Uncle Sam ups black ops in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's politics is sick. It is sickening. It is self-defeating. It is toxic. Of late there has been a worrying dangerous trend of Zimbabweans staging abductions and kidnappings, all aimed at false...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 06:51hrs | 369 | by Philemon Mutedzi
Doctors paralyse Zimbabwe hospitals
ZIMBABWE's public health delivery system ground to a halt yesterday as doctors countrywide downed tools, with the Harare-based medical professionals marching to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Munhumut...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 10:00hrs | 1106 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's minister condemns doc's 'abduction'
THE Minister of Health and Child Care, Dr Obadiah Moyo, has condemned the alleged abduction of Harare Central Hospital medical practitioner, Dr Peter Magombeyi, saying he has since engaged State secur...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 00:02hrs | 362 | by Staff reporter
Nick Mangwana blames doctor's abduction on Mnangagwa attempted assassins
INFORMATION Secretary Nick Mangwana has blamed Saturday's abduction on doctors union leader Peter Magombeyi on what he termed third forces which he linked to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's shock escap...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 00:02hrs | 1193 | by NewZimbabwe
Government fears 3rd force in abduction of citizens
The government says it fears there is a third hand involved in the abduction of citiznes in the country which has become rampant in the past weeks. Information Permanent Secretary Nick Mangwan...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 06:48hrs | 6096 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Police probe doctor's 'abduction'
POLICE have launched investigations into the alleged abduction of the acting president of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association (ZHDA), Dr Peter Magombeyi by three unidentified armed men in Harar...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 05:49hrs | 1323 | by Staff reporter
Fired magistrate appeals
FIRED Esigodini resident magistrate, Mr Tawanda Muchemwa, has approached the Labour Court challenging his dismissal by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) following a disciplinary hearing. M...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 19:55hrs | 198 | by Staff reporter
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