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Prison officer in US$4 500 car import fraud
A 43-YEAR-OLD Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) officer stationed at Khami Prisons on the outskirts of Bulawayo allegedly defrauded a friend of US$4 500 after importing the car on his ...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 08:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF flexes money-power over CCC
Zanu-PF has begun showing its financial might on the campaign field threatening to drag away all support using money.Aspiring Councilors for ZANU-PF in Norton have gone all-out with a raft of ...Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 09:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
JSC succumbs to hackers
THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has pulled down its website after allegedly failing to delete links to web developer and former Midlands State University student Kudzanai Machemedze, who it was ...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 05:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
JSC shoots back at Team Pachedu
The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has made claims its website was hacked after internet activists using the Twitter handle, Team Pachedu weekend exposed damning revelations the government institut...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 05:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe banks run out of gold coins
DEMAND for the new Zimbabwean gold coins has been overwhelming and banks have been inundated by their corporate and individual customers seeking a legal and sensible way of preserving value.Th...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Lightning kills 25 cattle in Chipinge
Chipinge commercial farmer Mr Dawie Joubert was left counting losses after his 25 cattle were struck by lightning on Thursday afternoon. The district's Department of Agricultural, Technical an...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 07:00hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
A-Level student struck by lightning
IN a tragic incident that left Mutoko residents shocked, a 20-year-old A-Level student died on the spot after she was struck by a bolt of lightning while on her way from writing an examination....Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Widow's home burnt down after son impregnates neighbour's wife
A village widow from Zengeya under Chief Nyajena was left homeless after her neighbour and relative burnt down her four thatched houses because her son had snatched his wife.Elias Mazonde is s...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 21:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Siblings jailed for robbery
TWO siblings from Odzi, Manicaland were last week sentenced to three years in jail each for robbing a local woman at knife point.Timothy (28) and Sevence Machemedze (age unknown) were sentence...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Siblings kill father over witchcraft claims
TWO siblings from Chief Madziwa's area in Mashonaland East province appeared at the High Court last week charged with killing their biological father accusing him of practising witchcraft.The ...Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man stoned to death over $2 debt
A 35-YEAR-OLD Rusape man allegedly tied a 65-year-old fellow to a tree and stoned him to death for failing to repay a two-dollar debt.Teurai Tsarwe, from Zambe village under Chief Makoni, appe...Published: 15 Feb 2018 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
The love scandals that rocked Zanu-PF
Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones, but obviously someone forgot to tell the folks inside Zanu-PF. In this expose, we look at the love scandals that have dominated Mugabe's party ...Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 15:57hrs | 80 | by Lance Guma
Zanu PF chairperson forces people to register
Zanu PF chairperson Nicholas Mudada allegedly addressed residents in Epworth at Makomo 3 base, Ward 2 allegedly forcing them to go for BVR (Biometric Voter Registration) as cells (a cell is the lowest...Published: 07 Nov 2017 at 07:03hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Gunfire as gold war turns ugly
THREE people were shot and seriously wounded following an exchange of heavy gunfire in Odzi last Saturday as rival groups fought to control a lucrative gold mine in the area.Detectives quickly...Published: 22 Sep 2017 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Policeman killed over $2 debt
A MAKONI-BASED policeman was last week brutally murdered by a villager following a scuffle over a $2 debt.Teurai Tsarwe (35) of Zambe Village under Chief Makoni was arrested on murder charges ...Published: 21 Jun 2017 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Traffic cop commits suicide
A Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) traffic Sargent stationed at Warren Park allegedly committed suicide yesterday (Monday).Sources familiar with the development allege Sargent Machemedze was not...Published: 24 Jan 2017 at 19:07hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Police officer points gun at nieghbours
A POLICE officer stationed at Mutare Rural is in trouble with the law after he pointed a gun at his neighbours threatening to shoot them.Felix Chemvumi (32) was not asked to plead when he appe...Published: 29 Jan 2016 at 19:57hrs | | by Tendai Gukutikwa
MDC-T Youth Leader Happymore Bvondo Chidziva abduction foiled
This report is from an MDC-T activist, we have not verified its authenticity. The report has been independently written by a member ...Published: 24 Mar 2015 at 12:05hrs | | by Wangu - Mine
Residents still sharing toilets 34 years after independence
Despite the country attaining 35 years of Independence this year, some residents in Kadoma are living without access to proper ablution facilities.A survey carried by The Zimbabwean recent...Published: 21 Jan 2015 at 11:07hrs | | by Marcus Tawona
NGOs ready to work with Zanu-PF
Civic society organisations that have been hostile to Zanu-PF over the years say they are now ready to work with Government for the good of the country. The Southern Africa Civil Society Forum...Published: 01 Aug 2014 at 08:42hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
CIO launches operation 'Muchombi Ndiani', crackdown on Tsvangirai mooted
Operation Muchombi Ndiani (Who is the traitor and sell-out among us) launched.HARARE - Zimbabwe's dreaded spy agency, the Central Intelligence Organi...Published: 18 Feb 2014 at 16:52hrs | 1 | by Mary-Kate Kahari
Mum fatally poisons her three children, throws their bodies into a well - Video
IN a tear-jerking case that has shaken the Headlands community, a woman in the area fatally poisoned her three children - aged seven, four and three - and threw their bodies into a well before commit...Published: 25 Oct 2013 at 20:53hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Cops nabbed over $600 mbanje bribes
TWO police offers and a member of the neighbourhood watch committee have been arrested on allegations of demanding bribes of $600 from suspected mbanje growers.The police officers Steven M...Published: 19 May 2013 at 17:25hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Woman acquitted of murdering hubby
A DANGAMVURA woman who stabbed her husband to death with a kitchen knife following a domestic dispute over sadza has been acquitted of murder by a High Court Judge.Gladys Tandire was lucky to ...Published: 28 Mar 2013 at 04:56hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Man sodomises boy, hangs self
FAILURE to stomach the humiliation of being caught while sodomising a six-year-old boy forced a Buhera man to commit suicide last Saturday.Police confirmed the death of Hapanashe Machemedze (...Published: 13 Jan 2013 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's man arrested at Heathrow Airport
One of Robert Mugabe's suspected secret agents in the UK was arrested on the 22nd July 2012 at Gatwick airport while he was trying to board a plane to Zimbabwe. The agent only i...Published: 14 Aug 2012 at 05:45hrs | | by
CIO rocked by foreign intelligence agents infiltrations
Zimbabwe`s dreaded spy agency, the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) is reportedly rocked by a wave of purges on it`s operatives suspected of doubling up for the Mossad, Israel`s intelligence ar...Published: 02 Jul 2012 at 05:25hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe under British probe over crimes against humanity
British detectives are investigating Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and his close associates for crimes against humanity, weekend reports have said. British detectives are to grill a CIO ope...Published: 28 May 2012 at 14:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Machemedze could spark a serious crisis in Britain and the EU
There is understandable anger at the granting of asylum by a UK judge to Phillip Machemedze, a CIO spy in Mugabe's regime, who admitted smashing an MDC supporter's jaw then pulling out his tooth. In m...Published: 06 Jun 2011 at 08:02hrs | 1 | by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri | Political Analyst, London
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