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Man left for dead for refusing to buy beer
A casual beer outing in Chiredzi turned into a nightmare after a simple request for alcohol escalated into a vicious assault that left one man hospitalised in critical condition and another facing att...Published: 09 Jun 2025 at 12:37hrs | 797 | by Staff reporter
Albert Nguluvhe: Loyalty, courage and dedication in the shadows of power
In a political landscape often defined by betrayal, opportunism and shifting loyalties, Albert Nguluvhe stands out as a rare embodiment of courage, principle and unwavering dedication to duty. His sto...Published: 13 Apr 2025 at 13:17hrs | 741 | by Staff reporter
ZANU-PF MP, G40's Mashayamombe co-ordinate machete gangs, ready to kill
ZANU-PF legislator for Harare South constituency, Trymore Kanopula and a current secretly serving member of the Generation40 faction, Shadreck Mashayamomb...Published: 12 Nov 2024 at 23:49hrs | 2718 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Know your history:- Filabusi Memorial and the Edkins Store killings
Why Visit?: - This historic site remembers one of the earliest European murders of the Matabele Rebellion or First Umvukela of 1896. There seems no doubt that the initial killings occurred on ...Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 15:48hrs | 566 | by Staff reporter
Fear grips Gwanda villagers
Residents of Gwanda South are living in fear following a daring armed robbery at the homestead of Chief Marupi last week, where gunmen made off with his newly allocated Isuzu double-cab vehicle, R2,70...Published: 16 Oct 2024 at 11:54hrs | 685 | by Staff reporter
Filabusi gold wars turn ugly
IN a harrowing ordeal that shook Filabusi District, Prosper Ncube, a young miner, recently became a victim of a vicious assault. Under the cloak of night, he was ambushed and mercilessly beaten by a g...Published: 09 Mar 2024 at 09:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Driver left for dead in pirate taxi turf wars
BEING all brawn with no brains has landed three muscle heads who beat up a Honda Fit driver for allegedly being off-route, in hot soup.Not taking time to consider that they were illegally hire...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 06:53hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Hopewell Chin'ono friend abducted
Suspected state security agents abducted a Harare-based construction manager - who has done a lot of building works for award-winning Zimbabwean filmmaking journalist Hopewell Chin'ono - yesterday in ...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 19:07hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's ruling elite and the quest for one-party rule
Since 1980, the Zanublack government has replicated the colonial white minority government tactics of suppressing opposition and alternative views.This is a special note to assist friends in t...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 17:25hrs | 3 | by Tapiwa Shumba political analyst
Mnangagwa still squandering massive goodwill
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's promises to break with the past and chart a new path for Zimbabwe after the ouster of long-time leader Robert Mugabe are ringing hollow as the southern African nation fu...Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 09:18hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Catholics Bishops in Zimbabwe wades into Zimbabwe opposition factionalism
CATHOLIC Bishops in Zimbabwe have decried what they are terming a "new form" of post-election violence characterized by "recalls of the elected" political candidates in the Southern African nation....Published: 26 Nov 2023 at 08:38hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 'prophets of Baal'!
This may help them understand how some in the Christian community have opted not only to dine with the devil but also sell their souls to him - whilst at the same time pretending to be serving God....Published: 14 Nov 2023 at 19:10hrs | 21 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Human rights lawyer attacked by thugs, left for dead
TOP human rights lawyer Obey Shava was attacked and left for the dead by unknown assailants Wednesday evening.Shava sustained broken legs and other serious injuries.He is currently hos...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 08:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man bashes best friend to death for joking about bedding his wife
A 35-year-old Mvurwi man has been jailed seven years for bashing his best friend to death for joking about bedding his wife.High Court Judge Munamato Mutevedzi handed Mike Foya the lenient sen...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 18:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
I'm grateful to have been born and bred in Rhodesia!
Ever since I started writing current affairs and social justice newspaper articles in 1989, at the age of 16 years, this is probably the most painful, frank and heartfelt piece I have ever authored....Published: 19 May 2023 at 14:04hrs | 16 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF's 'terror' squad arrested
Police in Gutu have arrested four members of a Zanu-PF gang notorious for terrorising people in the district. Two of the members were arrested for allegedly obstructing the course of justice after the...Published: 13 May 2023 at 18:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man bashes wife leaves her in pool of blood for dead
A 48-YEAR-OLD Shamva woman is battling for her life after she was severely beaten by her husband over an unknown dispute.Susan Rwizi is...Published: 27 Apr 2023 at 07:19hrs | 3 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Man left for dead in revenge attack
A ZHOMBE man is battling for life in hospital after being attacked by three assailants in a revenge attack.Joshua Zigandiwa (24) of Village Kasekerere under Chief Ntabeni was reportedly beaten...Published: 20 Apr 2023 at 15:27hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Slain sheriff's spirit 'haunts' killers
IN a bizarre case of the dead fighting from the grave, four of the six suspects linked to the murder of Harare High Court sheriff during an armed robbery are no longer able to stand trial after two of...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 05:04hrs | 2 | 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 | 2 | 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 | 2 | by Staff reporter
Why did African leaders cease speaking for ordinary citizens but standing with oppressive leaders?
Whenever I watch clips, repeatedly replayed on state television, of a couple of African leaders calling for the 'lifting of sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe', my heart sinks, as I am quite sure, it also ...Published: 01 Nov 2022 at 11:50hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chiwenga calls for fair representation of women in politics
VICE-President Constantino Chiwenga says while government policy stipulates fair representation of women in politics, equal representation in political seats is not possible.Addressing the Nat...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 05:59hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mr President, Zimbabwe has never known respite from terror
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, as we count down to the 2023 harmonised elections, it is my fervent supplication that you replicate the Madiba blueprint. Despite the massive...Published: 28 Sep 2022 at 06:00hrs | 1 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Remembering gukurahundi genocide
The spirit of Mthwakazi insecurity and why the Mthwakazi prosecutor general must bring the perpetrators of these henious crimes to justice.Greetings to all!For forty-two years, the insecur...Published: 31 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 18 | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
CCC's shameful politicisation of crime
THE arrest of a machete gang behind the death of Lobengula West businessman Langelihle Dube early this month and a spate of robberies around the city has brought relief to residents who had long suffe...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 06:45hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Notorious machete gang caged
POLICE in Bulawayo have tracked down and arrested three armed robbery suspects who have been terrorising residents and have been linked to the robbery and murder of a Lobengula West businessman early ...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:43hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean left for dead after Cape Town attack seeks help to return home
A ZIMBABWEAN immigrant, Immanuel Zinja, who was allegedly attacked two weeks ago by South Africans in Capetown's Breadasdorp settlement, says he wants to go back home as his property was looted, leavi...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 08:29hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
3 dead in fight over woman
Police in Matabeleland South province have launched a manhunt for four men who allegedly killed three artisanal miners over a woman in Lumene, Gwanda District, and are on the run.The accused p...Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 07:25hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
MDC activist dies after being savagely assaulted by Zanu-PF youths
AN MDC Alliance activist has succumbed to injuries he sustained during a vicious attack by Zanu-PF youths at an event attended by the party’s leader Nelson Chamisa in Gutu, Masvingo recently....Published: 27 Nov 2021 at 07:56hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers unleash reign of terror
Armed robbers are on the prowl in Masvingo where they have been on a warpath over the past week.A security guard was left for dead after being shot in the abdomen at Neshuro Growth point...Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF scuttled Nkayi development'
FORMER Nkayi South MP Abednico Bhebhe has alleged that developmental projects that he initiated during his tenure as MP from 2000 to 2009 were scuttled by the Zanu-PF government for political reasons....Published: 09 Aug 2021 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC vice president Elias Mudzuri faces arrest for bar murder
MDC-T vice president Elias Mudzuri faces arrest for murder, ZimLive reported.The former Harare mayor was named by a dying man as the one of the people who brutally assaulted him at a bar in Ha...Published: 12 Jun 2021 at 09:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Moyo fears for his life
MTHWAKAZI Republic Party (MRP) leader Mqondisi Moyo says state-sponsored persecution has inspired him to cause government sleepless nights as he described President Emmerson Mnangagwa as worse than th...Published: 09 May 2021 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sengwayo son dies after church house assault
THE late founder of the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) of Portland Oregon, Reverend Morgan Sengwayo's youngest son, Missiondom succumbed to injuries sustained following a brutal attack by thugs at a ch...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 06:25hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Top MDC Alliance leader left for dead
MDC Alliance national chairperson Thabitha Khumalo was attacked by two armed men who brazenly broke into her Bulawayo home yesterday and severely assaulted her using a knobkerrie before stabbing her....Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 07:51hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Timveos departure from MDC Alliance to ZANU PF fraught with hypocrisy and deceit, and needs introspection
In my life, I have come across my fare share of strange things - some, which could be characterized as stranger than fiction - but, the open letter allegedly penned by former MDC Alliance member and s...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 09:40hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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 | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa halts Gukurahundi hearing
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday caused the postponement of a court hearing where survivors of the Gukurahundi massacres wanted to interdict him from tampering with the survivors' mass graves un...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC youths on high alert
MDC youths in Kwekwe district yesterday said they were on high alert following recent cases of torture and abductions in the city, which saw one opposition party member being murdered by a suspected Z...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 08:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Deaths, abductions and terror in Mnangagwa's backyard
Antony Kadozo, a veteran of Zimbabwe's liberation war, is struggling to come to terms with the death of his son, who was allegedly killed by Zanu-PF youths.The 65-year-old Kwekwe resident said...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths abduct, assault MDC youth leader
An MDC provincial youth chairperson, Sekai Marashe, was reportedly abducted from her home by machete-wielding Zanu-PF youths and severely assaulted at Zanu-PF Kwekwe district offices in the early hour...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 20:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Minister Cain Mathema professes ignorance of rampant abductions
GOVERNMENT is unaware of any cases of abductions despite the numerous claims from prodemocracy groups as well as the opposition, Home Affairs minister Cain Mathema said Thursday.Numerous oppos...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:28hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa fears Sudan-style protests will rock Zimbabwe
GOVERNMENT'S deep-seated fears of massive Sundanese-style protests over the deteriorating political and economic emergency have been exposed after it moved yesterday to block mass demonstrations calle...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 11:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Abductions, torture, dragnet arrests amid vicious crackdown against dissent
Blessing Kunotonga is one of scores of opposition supporters left nursing serious injuries after state security agents launched a crackdown against the MDC ahead of the banned August 16 protests....Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Zimbabwe tycoon left for dead in SA
Simon Rudland, co-owner of the Gold Leaf Tobacco Corporation and a member of the Fair Trade Independent Tobacco Association (FITA), was seriously injured in an apparent assassination attempt in Johann...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Red flag raised over abductions, torture
HUMAN rights and other civil society organisations (CSOs) have called on Sadc, African Union and the international community to rein in the Zimbabwean government as tensions rise over alleged abductio...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
CIOs abduct and torture MDC actictivists
Suspected members of the dreaded Central Intelligence Organisation ran a sting operation on which saw a number of anti-government activists being hounded and abducted before being tortured on Tuesday ...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 11:39hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Deny, deflect and divert: Zanu-PF's flawed approach to governings
When the news that the Association of Rural Teachers of Zimbabwe (Artuz) boss, Obert Masaraure had allegedly been kidnapped, brutalised and left for dead first filtered in, the government and by exten...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 07:20hrs | 1 | by Nqaba Matshazi
'Mnangagwa can't shoot entire nation'
THE opposition MDC party has vowed to drag President Emmerson Mnangagwa to the negotiating table kicking and screaming through civil disobedience, international pressure and other constitutional means...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 07:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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