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Zimparks ranger arrested for lion poaching in Hwange National Park
A Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority ranger has been arrested in connection with the recent poaching of three lions, whose carcasses were discovered headless and without paws in...Published: 28 Oct 2024 at 07:00hrs | 1029 | by Staff reporter
Man threatens to axe sister over land
A 40-YEAR-OLD Hwange man appeared before Hwange Magistrate Court Ms Ailene Munamati on Friday morning for threatening to axe his sister over a land dispute.Mpindi Luwinga of Bangali village un...Published: 23 Jan 2024 at 16:43hrs | | by Peter Matuka
6 Zimbabwe Power Company employees up for cables theft
SIX Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) employees stationed in Hwange were arrested for stealing electricity transmission cables worth thousands at the company premises in the coal mining town.Tawand...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 07:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Shamva woman dies in crocodile attack
A 43-YEAR-OLD Shamva woman died after being attacked by a crocodile at Mazowe River last week.The remains of Yuvhona Masara were discovered floating in Mazowe River by a neighbour Shorai Gadag...Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 18:40hrs | 7 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa honours wife with govt award
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has pampered his wife Auxillia by awarding her philanthropic work with a Jairos Jiri Humanitarian Gold Award.The honouring of Auxillia's Angel of Hope Foundation c...Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 06:50hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Dembare fans at Soweto
DYNAMOS FC are ready to descend on Bulawayo for their titanic Castle Lager Premier Soccer League clash with FC Platinum at Barbourfields Stadium on Saturday.It will be the Zimbabwe soccer gian...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 08:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Makodza acquitted after corruption trial
Police Commissioner Erasmus Makodza was acquitted on corruption charges on Thursday.Makodza, who was suspended as officer commanding Matabeleland North province following his arrest, was accus...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 09:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police boss has case to answer
A HARARE magistrate yesterday dismissed an application for discharge in a case where Police Commissioner Erasmus Makodza is facing a charge of criminal abuse of office for allegedly influencing the aw...Published: 12 Nov 2021 at 05:36hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
D-Day for top cop Makodza
POLICE Commissioner Erasmus Makodza should stand trial because he has a case to answer on allegations of criminal abuse of office, the State said yesterday.Makodza is being accused of influenc...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 05:34hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
'Zacc investigating officer not fit to testify'
SUSPENDED Police Commissioner Erasmus Makodza claimed in court that the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission's investigating officer Eric Chacha, was not fit to testify in his corruption related trial ...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Top cop forged EcoCash transactions to nail opponent'
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) investigating officer in the case involving police Commissioner Erasmus Makodza yesterday accused the top cop of forging EcoCash transactions in a "despe...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zacc investigator exposes top cop
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commissioner (Zacc) investigating officer Eric Chacha yesterday exposed how police commissioner in charge of Matabeleland North province, Erasmus Makodza had been benefiti...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:31hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Top cop accuses ZACC officer of concealing documents
AN investigating officer suspended police Commissioner Erasmus Makodza, charged with concealing a transaction from a principal, yesterday claimed that an investigating officer from Zimbabwe Anti-Corru...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:25hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers decry onslaught under Mnangagwa
A DAMNING report has revealed a growing and worrisome trend in the systematic arrest of lawyers in the country and restrictions that have been placed on them since the beginning of 2020, impacting the...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Top cop crucifies subordinate
POLICE Deputy Commissioner-General Lorraine Chipato yesterday told the court that under-fire police commissioner in charge of Matabeleland North province, Erasmus Makodza, did not write a report to th...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 21:31hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Top cop pleads 'not guilty' as graft trial gets underway
Matabeleland North's top police officer went on trial on Monday accused of irregularly granting his girlfriend use of a police farm.Commissioner Erasmus Makodza pleaded not guilty to charges o...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 20:56hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
ZACC speaks on accused official
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has said it did not receive any formal complaint against one of its investigators, Eric Chacha on allegations of criminal abuse of office following repor...Published: 11 May 2021 at 06:33hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Top cop appeals to ZACC
Lawyers representing police Commissioner Erasmus Makodza, have written to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption (ZACC) saying the commission's investigator Mr Eric Chacha must recuse himself as he is allegedly...Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Land baron surrenders to police
Suspected land baron Felix Munyaradzi who is facing fresh new charges of defeating the course of justice and interfering with State witnesses was arrested yesterday, hours after police and the Special...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 07:10hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Top cop engages Matanga over 'corrupt' junior
POLICE Commissioner Erasmus Makodza, who was recently arrested and charged with criminal abuse of office, has filed a complaint to his boss, Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga, accusing a constable o...Published: 09 Mar 2021 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cop accused of receiving bribes from land baron
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has launched investigations against a junior officer accused of abuse of office after she allegedly received kickbacks from suspected land baron Felix Munyaradzi who...Published: 08 Mar 2021 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Top cop comes out guns blazing
POLICE commissioner in charge of Matabeleland North province Erasmus Makodza's lawyers have written a letter of complaint to Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga against alleged dodgy dealings by a con...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sangoma saves 'poacher' from serving jail time
A local man here, who was found with a wild cat, dried meat and skins including a buffalo tail, escaped jail for poaching after he told court a spirit medium told him to collect the skins from the bus...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
'I want to go and preach, exorcise demons in the US'
LAWYER and preacher Joshua Chirambwe's bid to regain his passport to travel to the United States (US) to "exorcise demons and preach" failed after his application was turned down at the Harare Magistr...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 21:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Another soldier in the suspected armed robbery nabbed
Another member of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) who was part of the alleged armed soldiers who pounced on Ocelia mine in Concession last week has been nabbed after being implicated by their injured...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 06:42hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
8 truck drivers fined for fuel theft
EIGHT truck drivers and two security guards employed by Sinohydro in Hwange have been fined for stealing fuel that they drained from the company's trucks for sell. The eight drivers bribed the...Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dembare is sinking and very fast
WE are sinking fast. I had always believed that the only person who could take Dynamos FC to the top is Sunday Chidzambwa and his firing in 1991 had been wrong. In my view, Sunday is the greatest coac...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 07:01hrs | | by Memory Mucherahowa
Alexander Maseko absolves John Sibanda
ZIMBABWE looked set to beat Congo-Brazzaville on 14 July 1991 to set a last Group F win and qualify situation against Malawi in Lilongwe two weeks later in the build up to the 1992 Africa Cup of Natio...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 08:50hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Lunga, Bonne available for Warriors
EUROPE-based players Macauley Bonne and Kelly Lunga will be available for the Warriors as they face Congo Brazzaville in a crucial Afcon qualifier on March 24, H-Metro has established.Warriors...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 15:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ally's trial in false start
THE trial of Binga South legislator Gabbuza Joel Gabuza (MDC Alliance), who is facing charges of undermining the authority of or insulting President Emmerson Mnangagwa after he allegedly accused the Z...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 05:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MP arrested for calling Mnangagwa a dog
POLICE have arrested MDC Alliance national executive member Joel Gabhuza who is also Member of Parliament for Binga South.The legislator was arrested for calling President Emmerson Mnangagwa a...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
10 Congolese illegal immigrants arrested
POLICE recently arrested 10 Congolese who entered the country through an undesignated point claiming to be seeking asylum.The Congolese, who included four women and two children, were intercep...Published: 05 Nov 2018 at 05:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
German starlet for Warriors
HIS father Max Makanza Lunga is widely considered as one of Zimbabwe's finest football exports to Europe after a successful career with German side Bonner SC, where he scored 41 goals in 188 games fro...Published: 06 May 2018 at 10:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sleeping with wrong hubby: Accused fined
A Harare man who was accused of raping his housemate's wife who responded thinking it was her husband, was acquitted of rape but the magistrate found him guilty of indecent assault.For the off...Published: 14 Feb 2018 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe appointed CIO boss evited from farm
New police commissioner-general Godwin Matanga has ordered Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) boss Ephrain Nhamo, who illegally occupied businessman Chris Takura Tande's Carig Crag estate, ...Published: 03 Feb 2018 at 08:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
New police boss flexes muscle
The wheels of justice finally moved on Wednesday after police officers escorted the Sheriff of the High Court to evict four A2 farmers who had illegally occupied Watermount Estate, on the outskirts of...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obituary: Jamusi MacKenzie (1973 - 2017) - A Brave Hunter and Conservationist
Most people know the late Jamusi MacKenzie only as a Professional Hunter and Guide, but he was a lot of other things to many people.I first met Jamusi MacKenzie in the 1990s when we were both ...Published: 02 Nov 2017 at 12:22hrs | 4 | by Laiton Kandawire, a Patsaka Correspondent
New twist to sex 'by mistake'
IN a new twist of events, a Harare man who is accused of raping his housemate's unsuspecting wife yesterday denied the allegations and insisted that he had a love affair with the woman. Nkosil...Published: 02 Nov 2017 at 05:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
SOCCER- List of Zimbabwe foreign based youngsters
THE English Football Association has reportedly inquired about English-born Zimbabwean footballer, McCauley Bonne, with the view of selecting him for their developmental sides, but the player has comm...Published: 19 Sep 2017 at 06:32hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Wife catches hubby with lover in matrimonial bed
A MAN FROM Bellevue in Bulawayo was lucky not to be jailed after he allegedly attacked his wife when she caught him on bed with another woman at their matrimonial home.The woman Rumbidzai Maka...Published: 31 Jul 2017 at 08:09hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Bruce Grobbelaar wants to coach Zimbabwe Warriors
AFTER having been a member and the driving force behind the famous Reinhard Fabisch's "Dream Team" of the early 1990s, legendary former Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce "Jungleman" Grobbelaar would like...Published: 09 Feb 2017 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
School uses $3 000 donation to drill borehole
Maereka Primary School, Nyanga, was recently nominated by $300 winner, Martin F Makanza, to receive a $3000 donation and it decided to use the donation to drill a borehole a move that will easy water ...Published: 21 Jun 2016 at 06:53hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Vapostori arrested in Namibia
A joint operation between the Namibian police and immigration officials that targeted foreign-owned churches in Windhoek led to the arrest of 42 foreigners on Sunday – after they were found to be i...Published: 22 Jul 2015 at 10:38hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Police hunt Prophet Uebert Angel over fraud allegations
Police are keen to question Spirit Embassy Ministries founder Prophet Uebert Angel Mudzanire on allegations that he defrauded a Harare man of his vehicle, a Bentley worth $300 000.Angel is sa...Published: 05 Feb 2015 at 06:55hrs | | by Tendai Rupapa
Subscribers cry foul over NetOne blackout
Tonnes of farm produce is reportedly going to bad in Nyamandlovu with farmers failing to get in touch with their customers after NetOne has gone three days without service.The farms in the...Published: 17 Sep 2014 at 20:07hrs | | by Moyo Roy
You just have to admire Dynamos FC: BOSSO mene mene TEKEL upharsin?
Kanti yagana inyamazana sikhona kwenzenjani? Zidla belindile kwatsho abadala!This is a response to Senor Bongani Mafu a great football and sports trainer.Th...Published: 20 Nov 2013 at 14:56hrs | 2 | by Tshepo Mabalane Mabalane and Dumisani Matsebanane
Man forges wife's signature in divorce case
A HARARE businessman allegedly duped the High Court into granting him a decree of divorce after forging identity particulars of his wife who was serving a prison term in China. Rochford Munjom...Published: 02 Sep 2013 at 04:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man steals eight crates of beer to 'cure' his heavy hangover
A Shurugwi man stole eight crates of Savanna premium ciders from his brother’s workplace in order to “cure” his heavy hangover, a Gweru magistrate hea...Published: 10 Mar 2013 at 21:07hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Residents express concern over dirty drinking water
RESIDENTS in some parts of the eastern suburbs of Bulawayo have expressed concern over the dirty water coming out of their taps, saying the city council is putting their health at risk.The res...Published: 13 Sep 2012 at 04:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
CIO operative in court for extortion
A CIO operative who allegedly connived with a farmer to extort money from Zifa chief executive Jonathan Mashingaidze after telling him that he was on the elimination list over his involvement in the A...Published: 28 Feb 2012 at 20:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
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