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Couple linked to US$130,000 UK, Canada, Ireland job scam
Police in Bulawayo are urging the public to come forward with any information regarding the whereabouts of Gwendolyn and Melusi Ndlovu, a couple wanted in connection with a series of fraud cases that ...Published: 19 hrs ago | 241 | by Staff reporter
Cops speak on mistaken identity after arrest of 'armed robber'
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has expressed concern over a case of mistaken identity following the arrest of Spencer Mapfumo, a 42-year-old suspected armed robber involved in multiple robberies, ...Published: 19 Nov 2024 at 08:27hrs | 783 | by Staff reporter
New Zimbabwe High Court Judge faces scrutiny over lawsuit against CIMAS
Justice Phillipa Phillips-Sadza, appointed to the High Court bench in June this year, is embroiled in a legal dispute with CIMAS, a prominent medical aid society, over an alleged mishandling of her me...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 13:17hrs | 916 | by Staff reporter
Ex-CIO boss's father was killed after being branded a sellout
Former Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) Director-General Happyton Bonyongwe has opened up about the devastating impact of the liberation struggle on his family, recounting the tragic murder of ...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 14:47hrs | 1830 | by Staff reporter
Dexter Nduna apologises for faking graduation
Former Member of Parliament and military officer Dexter Nduna has publicly apologised after it was revealed that he had falsely claimed to have graduated from the University of Zimbabwe’s law progra...Published: 10 Oct 2024 at 16:46hrs | 2420 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean based in New Zealand guilty 17 counts of rape
John Hope Muchirahondo has been found guilty of 17 counts of rape and sexual assault.The 38-year-old Christchurch man has been convicted of raping eight women and sexually assaulting a ninth....Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 10:44hrs | 1000 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala warns Mnangagwa
Former Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala has issued a stern warning to the ruling Zanu-PF regime, urging them to cease the continuous persecution of opposition activists. He emphasized that imprison...Published: 29 Sep 2024 at 11:29hrs | 2201 | by Staff reporter
Tragic morgue mix-up: Family buries stranger in Mangwe district
What was meant to be a solemn farewell for their beloved son turned into a shocking and bewildering ordeal for the Ndebele family from Matanka Two Village in Mangwe District, Matabeleland South. The f...Published: 16 Sep 2024 at 08:10hrs | 494 | by Staff reporter
Judge reduces sentence after magistrate's error in theft case
A High Court judge has reduced the sentence of Calvin Madau, who was convicted of three counts of theft but mistakenly sentenced for four counts due to a trial magistrate's error. Justice Paul Musithu...Published: 08 Sep 2024 at 20:23hrs | 1053 | by Staff reporter
Ufasimba takes Gwanda by storm
A rising Imbube music group has taken the mining town of Gwanda by storm through a genre that locals can identify with.The streets of Jahunda are vibrating to traditional sound laced with capt...Published: 04 Sep 2024 at 16:45hrs | 929 | by Staff reporter
SA Home Affairs Minister enhances work permit process for ZEP holders
Leon Schreiber, the Minister of Home Affairs, unveiled a new technical directive aimed at expediting the work permit application process for Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) holders. Currently, about 1...Published: 14 Aug 2024 at 09:54hrs | 1470 | by Staff reporter
High Court dismisses convicted cop's bribery appeal
Tyron Makayi, a CID officer from Masvingo, had his appeal against his bribery conviction and sentence rejected by the High Court. After being convicted and sentenced to 36 months in prison (with 10 mo...Published: 03 Aug 2024 at 12:38hrs | 153 | by Staff reporter
Police officers terrorise villagers; abduct, torture suspect's wife
In their futile effort to apprehend a suspected thief who allegedly stole irrigation sprinklers, armed members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police dispatched from Rusape indiscriminately terrorise communi...Published: 31 Jul 2024 at 11:51hrs | 1300 | by Gideon Madzikatidze in Rusape
SADC must worry more about Zimbabweans' welfare than the leaders' comfort
The frequent visits by the SADC Secretariat to Zimbabwe are quite troubling. Ever since preparations for hosting the 44th SADC Heads of State and Government Summit by Harare went into full thr...Published: 23 Jul 2024 at 16:54hrs | 604 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa must stop abusing Matabele genocide victims and pay US$ 100 billion compansation
It is very unfortunate that Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa pretends as if he did not see the Notice of Demand For The Restoration Of Matabeleland State delivered to the President's office by MLO President Cde ...Published: 17 Jul 2024 at 06:44hrs | 1213 | by Israel Dube
Knorr recalls brown onion gravy sachets
Knorr is recalling its brown onion gravy sachets after manufacturers have discovered some packets may contain traces of cow's milk and soy.In a statement on Tuesday, Unilever said it recently ...Published: 16 Jul 2024 at 20:57hrs | 530 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt happy with mismatch in deployment of ECD teachers
The article below was published by the government controlled Chronicle 2 years ago but Shona supremacists are today firing Ministers for implementing the same policy....Published: 02 Jul 2024 at 09:35hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Airtime vendor mistaken for forex dealer, detained for 2 months
Tonderai Hove, a 31-year-old airtime vendor from Beitbridge, Zimbabwe, experienced a moment of relief as he was released from custody after two months. Magistrate Takudzwa Gwazemba ordered his release...Published: 30 Jun 2024 at 18:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bar patron mistakenly stabbed to death
A tragic incident unfolded on Thursday in Marange, Manicaland province, as a patron at a bar lost his life due to a stabbing during a heated game of pool.The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) con...Published: 22 Jun 2024 at 14:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Power outages hit Mkoba
Several homes in Gweru's Mkoba suburb, including Mkoba Teachers' College, experienced power outages after suspected thieves stole copper cables. The affected areas include Mkoba 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9...Published: 21 Jun 2024 at 11:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Attachment of residents' houses displays CCC's heartless agenda
The decision by the Harare City Council (HCC) to take drastic measures against low-income residents who are struggling to pay their monthly rates by attaching over 50 properties due to non-payment, ha...Published: 04 Jun 2024 at 08:28hrs | 1 | by Tonderai Ndoro
Zimbabwe constitutional changes loom
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has made surprise changes in the Zanu-PF politburo - the party's supreme decision-making body - amid reports that he wants to move to amend the constitution to facilitate ...Published: 21 May 2024 at 17:01hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter
Smith & apartheid regimes were angels compared to 44-Year-Old 'independent' Zimbabwe
Talking in terms of segregation, oppression and savagery towards those considered as foreigners or political undesirables, no present or past government in Southern Africa matches the black Shona supr...Published: 15 Apr 2024 at 15:56hrs | 16 | by Israel Dube
Mnangagwa's niece arrested
ZIMBABWE Miners' Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya has been arrested on allegations involving an undisclosed mining transaction.Last night police said they would not release any details ...Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 06:29hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Italian investor Francesco Marconati flouts mining regulations...poses threat to national security
Italian investor Francesco Marconati's contentious actions in Zimbabwe's mining sector have raised serious concerns about regulatory compliance, worker safety, and ethical standards. Despite being ord...Published: 28 Feb 2024 at 13:00hrs | 15 | by George Tshuma
Mthuli Ncube issues chilling warning over sugar tax-linked price hikes
Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube has issued a firm warning to traders engaging in unjustified price hikes on sugary beverages, arguing that the officially gazetted tax thresholds do not warrant such exce...Published: 28 Feb 2024 at 06:31hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
ZEC cleans up voters' roll
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has removed about 5 000 deceased persons from the voters roll as the election management body cleans the roll in terms of the Electoral Act.The removal ...Published: 10 Feb 2024 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC, Obey Sithole finally bury hatchet following online tiff
A recent online dispute between former MDC Alliance Youth Assembly leader, Obey Sithole, and the administrator of the Citizens Coalition for Change's (CCC) X profile has been resolved. The opposition ...Published: 01 Jan 2024 at 12:02hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa urged to iron out issues with Biti, Ncube, Sikhala
Former Secretary General of the MDC Alliance, Charlton Hwende, is urging Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) President Nelson Chamisa to engage in discussions and resolve the "perceived" differences b...Published: 20 Dec 2023 at 06:16hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Police exhume body after family claims wrong corpse from mortuary
Two Gweru families will today exhume a body of a deceased relative for reburial after one of the families mistakenly claimed a wrong corpse at the Gweru Provincial Hospital mortuary for burial.The oth...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 14:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean teen among 3 Bradford men found guilty of killing compatriot
THREE Bradford men along with one other have been found guilty of killing a teenager by stabbing him 14 times in a tragic case of mistaken identity.Karl Belinga, 20, of Brendon Walk in Holme W...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 10:41hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
General Philip Valerio Sibanda to retire at the end of the year
ZIMBABWE Defence Forces commander General Philip Valerio Sibanda will retire at the end of the year and pave way for a new security services chief in charge of the country's military, an official sour...Published: 27 Nov 2023 at 15:44hrs | 71 | by Staff reporter
Flawed elections can never be a 'closed chapter'!
Let me make this abundantly clear from the onset.There is no way a flawed electoral process can simply pass by and be forgotten without its severe repercussions haunting the nation for a very ...Published: 20 Nov 2023 at 09:43hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa reverses PV Sibanda appointment
President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced on Saturday that he had "stayed" his controversial appointment of Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander General Philip Valerio Sibanda to the Zanu-PF politburo, just...Published: 18 Nov 2023 at 19:43hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagw's niece gets very light sentence, fined US$5000, 6kgs gold forfeited
ZIMBABWE Miners Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya has been fined US$5000 for trying to smuggle 6kg of gold worth more than US$333 000 to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, three years ago.Rush...Published: 15 Nov 2023 at 18:21hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
D-Day for gold smuggler Rushwaya
ZIMBABWE Miners Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya, recently convicted of trying to smuggle 6kg of gold worth more than US$333 000 to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, will be sentenced at the High Co...Published: 15 Nov 2023 at 05:09hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa defiant on defence forces boss's appointment into politburo
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has defended his unconstitutional appointment of Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander General Philip Valerio Sibanda into the Zanu-PF politburo telling critics he wields powe...Published: 10 Nov 2023 at 22:46hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
4 armed robbers jailed 12 years each
A BEITBRIDGE magistrate has jailed four men to 12 years in prison each for armed robbery.Regional magistrate Innocent Bepura said armed robbers were a menace to society when he sentenced Tawan...Published: 06 Nov 2023 at 04:54hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Ablism must fall!
My blood boils when I think about how some people normalise the treatment of persons with disabilities as second class citizens in Zimbabwe even against the existence of government policy and pronounc...Published: 04 Nov 2023 at 10:02hrs | 12 | by Abraham Mateta (Mukoma A)
Ngidlaliswe amatope mina?
Reading Edward GibbonWhere is God bakithi?Edward Gibbon is no writer for easy readers. Yet he is so important to Britain's governing myth. No wonder why every British-born Prime Minist...Published: 14 Oct 2023 at 07:21hrs | | by @Jamwanda2
Chamisa disengages to engage
Nelson Chamisa, the leader of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), has penned a letter to the Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Mudenda, requesting the reinstatement of the recalled members of the Nati...Published: 13 Oct 2023 at 21:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biased Harare fines Bosso US$5 000, given up to 17 October to pay
HIGHLANDERS have been fined US$5 000 by the Premier Soccer League disciplinary committee with US$500 being suspended for the rest of the season and have up to October 17 to pay the effective US$4 500....Published: 11 Oct 2023 at 17:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Legalizing looting shows Zimbabwe is led by dunderheads!
From the time I was a little boy, there was something that always puzzled me.I could never understand how, those who were in top government positions - with all the opportunities availed to th...Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 07:55hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Redi Thlabi: the black woman weaponized against South Africa
South Africa is under attack by Western countries led by the US due to its BRICS membership and non-aligned geopolitical policy. This isn't surprising, given the West's frustration with the country's ...Published: 30 Sep 2023 at 12:46hrs | 2 | by Larmbert Ebitu
WATCH: Prof Ibbo Mandaza did not proffer any new data to support his unorthodox call
Herewith is a link to the OR Tambo School of Leadership Public Lecture given today by Prof Ibbo Mandaza on "The State of Democracy in the Sadc Region: a Reflection on the National Elections of Zimbabw...Published: 29 Sep 2023 at 08:19hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
The law cannot resolve Zimbabwe's political question
AS debate raged over the weekend on whether the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) should have gone to court in the matter of the sham election, l was and still remain unconvinced on what would have ...Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 06:20hrs | 9 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
US court rejects Zimbabwe's bid to evade US$440m payment
A FEDERAL judge in the United States (US) recently tossed a bid by the Zimbabwe government to escape payment of some US$440.3 million compensation awarded to a European family over Harare's controvers...Published: 31 Aug 2023 at 06:40hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zec put on spot over Mwonzora pullout?
LEGISLATIVE watchdog, Veritas, has called on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to remove MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora's name from the ballot paper for presidential candidates to avoid confusing...Published: 11 Aug 2023 at 06:43hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala State witness exposed
A state witness in a case in which Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala and former Chitungwiza mayor Lovemore Maiko face charges of disorderly conduct was exposed in court on Thursday for making contra...Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:23hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe civil servants abuse car import facility
THE Government has expressed concern over the continued abuse of the duty-free car import facility for civil servants amid revelations that more than 14 000 vehicles have been unprocedurally imported ...Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:15hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
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