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Woman knives neighbour's son over a trespassing quarrel
A 13-year-old boy from Mupata suburb in Chinhoyi is battling for life at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals after a quarrel with his parents' neighbour over trespassing turned bloody today.Provin...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 20:20hrs | 674 | by Staff reporter
Knives out for minister
SUSPENDED Harare mayor Jacob Mafume and his deputy Luckson Mukunguma on Monday said they would challenge their "illegal" suspension by government.The two were suspended last week through a let...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 06:20hrs | 2123 | by Staff reporter
Chief pleads for soldiers to enforce lockdown
A TRADITIONAL leader in Insiza, Matabeleland South, Chief Sibasa born Bekezela Sibanda yesterday implored the government to deploy soldiers to his area to enforce the lockdown and curfew.The c...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:35hrs | 872 | by Staff reporter
Fuel dealer 'killers' in court
THREE suspects, who allegedly killed an illegal fuel dealer from Cowdray Park suburb in Bulawayo for intervening in a street fight, have appeared in court. Clifford Sibanda (24) of New Lobengu...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:05hrs | 286 | by Staff reporter
Knives out for Minister Mavhunga
Minister of State for Mashonaland Central province Monica Mavhunga is under fire from stalwart of the liberation struggle after she allegedly removed their chairperson from the provincial lands commit...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 08:56hrs | 2264 | by Tarisai Mudahondo/Simbarashe Sithole
Are Zimbabwean doctors now too cowed to speak?
WE are truly apologetic for the chain of events that have taken place over the past few months and we hope that you will have a kind heart to allow the rest of the students to return to class and fini...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 06:21hrs | 672 | by Staff reporter
Police raise red flag over beer binges killings
POLICE have expressed concern over escalation of murder cases emanating from disputes at beer outlets.National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed cases of murder ...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:21hrs | 363 | by Staff reporter
National broadcaster robbed
Four suspected robbers allegedly robbed a national broadcaster of his valuables after offering him a lift before tying him on a tree.Th...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 20:27hrs | 3376 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Chiyangwa's security guard killed
TWO men who allegedly disarmed and assaulted guards at businessman-cum-politician Phillip Chiyangwa's Old Citrus farm, killing one of them, appeared in court Tuesday facing murder.Lazarus Zhou...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:48hrs | 4141 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge duo convicted of robbing Zinara tolling cashier
TWO men from Lutumba area under Chief Sitaudze in Beitbridge who robbed a Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) tolling cashier and another resident were convicted on Friday.Discuss ...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:16hrs | 766 | by Staff reporter
South Africa police in R1 million cigarettes haul
THE South African Police Service (Saps) has arrested three people for illegal possession of 707 620 cartons of cigarettes valued close to R1 million all of Zimbabwean origin.The arrest was mad...Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 07:42hrs | 477 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers pounce on Beitbridge businesswoman
TWO armed robbers allegedly pounced at a Beitbridge businesswoman's home and robbed her of property and cash worth R30 000 as well as a vehicle worth US$2 500.This was heard by magistrate Maph...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:28hrs | 1068 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa betrayed as Biti throws his name for presidency 2023
The year 2020 has not been a good year for Nelson Chamisa the leader of a heavily fractured MDC A as he presides over a breaking up party. Nelson Chamisa had rode on the lightning of firm and glory as...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 00:32hrs | 16852 | by Masimba Mavaza
Knives out for Misred
Radio personality Samantha Musa, popularly known as MisRed, has come undefire after telling a radio presenter during an interview that the human rights abuses in Zimbabwe are exaggerated. ...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 11:17hrs | 9053 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Knives out for Murwira
DOCTORS have implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa to replace acting Health minister Amon Murwira whom they accuse of being arrogant.Murwira was appointed to stand in for the then Health minis...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 20:28hrs | 7063 | by Staff reporter
Knives out for Chamisa for addressing a rally in Shona
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has received a social media backlash after addressing his inaugural e-rally using Shona language on Sunday. Social media users have accused the opposition leader of f...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:38hrs | 13990 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Knives out for Continental millers over butchering Ndebele language
Zimbabweans have taken to social media to register their disgust towards a Continental rice package which is written in broken Ndebele.The package is written: Fakha inkomicho eyinye ye Contine...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 11:46hrs | 2342 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Guerilla training was no picnic
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa on Friday conferred the national status on former Zipra deputy chief of operations Stanley Nleya pseudonym Elish Gagisa who died in Bulawayo last Tuesday.During the armed s...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:08hrs | 787 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF knives out for Gomwe
Zanu-PF Harare Province has issued a prohibition order against its District Coordinating Committee (DCC) chairman Godwin Gomwe for indiscipline pending a determination by the ruling party's National D...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 07:30hrs | 968 | by Staff reporter
Knives out for Mpilo's Solwayo Ngwenya over Coronavirus tweet
Mpilo Clinical Director Dr. Solwayo Ngwenya has invited widespread condemnation after he posted a vague message on social media insinuating that he had contracted the deadly coronavirus. Dr Ng...Published: 27 May 2020 at 22:25hrs | 1423 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Embarrassed Mnangagwa's regime must stop illegal arrests of youth leaders!
The MDC Alliance Youth Assembly spokesperson Stephen Sarkozy Chuma has noted with great concern an ongoing blitzkrieg by some notorious law enforcement agents as a veneer to cover up for their g...Published: 21 May 2020 at 12:00hrs | 2089 | by Stephen Jakes
Machete and axe armed gangs terrorize people as police look other side
Dear, They are so daring that they move around armed with machetes and big axes during broad day light. They terrorize, rob, rape, beat and kill villagers boasting that nothing will happen to ...Published: 07 May 2020 at 07:29hrs | 1230 | by Concerned Citizens
Guard loses pistol to robbers
AN illegal gold panner allegedly teamed up with three accomplices and raided a gold mine in Inyathi where they attacked a security guard before disarming him of his service pistol, which they later us...Published: 06 May 2020 at 15:20hrs | 867 | by Staff reporter
Man escapes during Maphisa drammatic armed robbery...loses US$2 300
The Zimbabwe Republic Police in Maphisa have announced that they are investigating a case of armed robbery which occurred at Thandindaba Bridge last week. According to the police the complaina...Published: 21 Apr 2020 at 23:34hrs | 4438 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Knives out for Chamisa over broken Ndebele tweet
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has come under fire for breaking the Ndebele language during a Twitter conversation with one of his followers. Chamisa had posted a motivational quote on Thursday say...Published: 17 Apr 2020 at 10:21hrs | 10434 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Knife wielding teenagers up for robbery
Two knife weilding teenagers were arraigned before a Concession magistrate Ruth Moyo yesterday after robbing a pedestrian.Terence Mango...Published: 15 Apr 2020 at 15:11hrs | 1110 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Eddie Chivero sucked into match-fixing scandal?
HERENTALS FC have reason to smile after the Premier Soccer League (PSL) disciplinary committee acquitted them of match-fixing allegations levelled by Bulawayo Chiefs. The scandal had sucked in...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:39hrs | 454 | by Staff reporter
MDC knives out for Komichi
Movement for Democratic Party (MDC) National Standing Committee(NSC) has summoned former vice president Morgen Komichi to explain himself following revelations that he had resigned from the party as i...Published: 21 Mar 2020 at 06:22hrs | 3946 | by Staff reporter
27 machete killings in Silobela alone
HOME Affairs deputy minister Mike Madiro on Thursday told Senate that machete-wielding gangsters committed 27 murders in Silobela alone from January 2019 to date.He was responding to a questio...Published: 02 Mar 2020 at 09:08hrs | 524 | by Staff reporter
MaShurugwi kill 35, rape 15
AT least 35 people were killed while 15 women were raped in the last 13 months by infamous machete wielding gangs commonly known as MaShurugwi, Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Deputy Minister Micha...Published: 02 Mar 2020 at 07:25hrs | 1292 | by Staff Reporter
Armed robbers caught in act
TWO suspected armed robbers appeared in court yesterday after they were busted by members of the public during a heist.Atipaishe Sibanda, 20, and Lawrence Mashu, 32, appeared before Harare mag...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 06:34hrs | 2344 | by Staff reporter
Knives out for Chief Ndiweni
Nhlambaloyi Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni has come under from Matabeleland activists who have accused him of being off side when he tweeted about Gukurahundi Genocide recently. Ndiweni had po...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 13:02hrs | 4524 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Machete gangs run riot in Zhombe, Mangwe
MACHETE-WIELDING gangsters linked to the infamous MaShurugwi on Saturday stormed two schools in Zhombe and Silobela and got away with valuables belonging to teachers after detonating explosives to sca...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 06:59hrs | 1754 | by Staff reporter
Diamond dealer stabbed 29 times
AN illegal diamond dealer who was murdered in cold blood by a teenage suspect and his fugitive accomplice in Chiadzwa two weeks ago succumbed to 29 stab wounds which were inflicted by his rabid assail...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 11:37hrs | 542 | by Staff reporter
MDC's night of long knives in Masvingo
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Nelson Chamisa, has with immediate effect dissolved the MDC Masvingo Provincial Executive as fissures in the party continue to worsen, Harare Post can r...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 06:05hrs | 473 | by Staff reporter
AK-47 shots fired as gang raids Bulawayo home
THREE men wielding an AK-47 rifle allegedly raided a suspected illegal money changer from Cowdray Park suburb in Bulawayo and got away with $5 000 and US$700 after firing some shots. The suspe...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 05:39hrs | 1705 | by Staff reporter
Taxi driver murderers get life imprisonment
TWO Harare men, who gruesomely murdered a prominent Rusape taxi driver Emmanuel Ngwarati before robbing him, have been given life imprisonment by High court Judge Isaac Muzenda.The body of Ngw...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 06:20hrs | 865 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga threatens tough action against maShurugwi
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga has warned machete wielding gangs that the government will take stern action against them.It is rare for a high ranking Zimbabwe government official to publ...Published: 02 Feb 2020 at 12:14hrs | 1104 | by newzimbabwe.com
Cop killing machete gang denied bail
Machete-wielding artisanal miners, who allegedly murdered a policer officer in December last year at Good Hope Mine in Kadoma, have been denied bail pending trial at the High Court.Justice Amy...Published: 30 Jan 2020 at 19:48hrs | 873 | by Staff reporter
Woman ropes in gang for knife attack on ex-boyfriend
A WOMAN from Bulawayo has appeared in court for allegedly ganging up with unidentified accomplices and attacking her ex-boyfriend with knives and sharp objects until he lost consciousness. Bea...Published: 29 Jan 2020 at 07:17hrs | 741 | by Staff reporter
'Machete violence organised, premeditated'
MACHETE violence cases being perpetrated by artisanal miners in the country are not happening randomly, but are premediated and organised, High Court judge Justice Martin Makonese has said.Off...Published: 28 Jan 2020 at 12:52hrs | 457 | by Staff reporter
Courts promise stiff sentences for machete gangs
THE courts will hand down stiff penalties on convicted machete wielding gangs to deter would be offenders in the wake of a surge in cases of violent machete attacks on ordinary citizens, miners and bu...Published: 28 Jan 2020 at 12:35hrs | 148 | by Staff reporter
7 machete suppliers locked up
Seven machete makers, who were arrested last week at Siyaso in Mbare, Harare, on suspicion of supplying machetes to armed robbers and criminals in mining communities, were on Saturday remanded in cust...Published: 28 Jan 2020 at 12:27hrs | 667 | by Staff reporter
Machete violence organised and premeditated, says High Court judge
MACHETE violence cases being perpetrated by artisanal miners in the country are not happening randomly, but are premediated and organised, High Court judge Justice Martin Makonese has said.Off...Published: 28 Jan 2020 at 06:58hrs | 3571 | by Staff Reporter
Harare police raid underground machete suppliers
Police have recovered 31 machetes and arrested seven people suspected to be in the business of making and supplying them to gangs that are terrorising mining areas and towns. This followed a r...Published: 25 Jan 2020 at 13:08hrs | 4370 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo police ban carrying of weapons
POLICE in Bulawayo have banned the carrying of dangerous weapons in public within the next three months citing an increase in serious crimes such as murder, robbery and assault. In separ...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:23hrs | 211 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's allies lose relatives to MaShurugwi
TOP MDC leaders Lynette Karenyi-Kore (vice-president) and Job Sikhala (vice-chairperson) this week lost their relatives to the violent machete clashes in mining areas in the country.In an intervie...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:48hrs | 391 | by Staff rpeorter
Notorious machete gang members arrested
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) confirmed the arrest of eight notorious machete gang members known as Maketo brothers, who terrorised residents in several mining towns.The machete gangs popular...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:23hrs | 3650 | by Staff reporter
The genesis of machete gangs
Violence in the informal mining sector began in the late 1990's. It began its journey in the Midlands with battles in which fists, stones and catapults were used by miners such as Bule Vampire in Zhom...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 15:02hrs | 2326 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Mnangagwa, maShurugwi and the coming anarchy
SOON after arriving in Zimbabwe, in September of last year, I had to visit a friend in Bindura, whom I needed to extend — as part of my enduring gratitude for his assistance during a research projec...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 06:26hrs | 1801 | by Simukai Tinhu
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