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Zanu-PF's Marapira distances self from kidnap storm
Zanu-PF information director Farai Marapira has distanced himself from allegations linking him to the reported abduction of environmental activist and farmer Nadia Vongai Mabvirakare.Mabviraka...Published: 11 Mar 2025 at 07:17hrs | 1067 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF Tycoon Marapira denies involvement in activist's disappearance
Zanu PF Director of Information, Farai Marapira, has refuted allegations linking him to the disappearance of environmental activist and farmer, Nadia Vongai Mabvirakare, demanding a public apology fro...Published: 10 Mar 2025 at 13:24hrs | 1102 | by George Tshuma
Police's cold blooded murder details
Police detectives allegedly tortured a robbery suspect to death and later pumped bullets into his body to conceal the evidence of torture.They later claimed that the suspect was gunned down af...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 17:39hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's activist 'abducted'?
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has claimed that its members Moreblessing Ali (47) was abducted on Tuesday last week in Chitungwiza by suspected Zanu-PF activists.CCC has raised...Published: 31 May 2022 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ex-cop busted attempting to smuggle ammunition into Zimbabwe
A 44-year-old ex-police officer has been arrested by the national security task force while attempting to illegally import an assortment of ammunition through the Beitbridge Border Post on Sunday....Published: 27 Oct 2021 at 21:54hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Chitungwiza family wins order to get son's post-mortem report
A CHITUNGWIZA man, Julius Choto, whose son Kelvin Tinashe was shot and killed by the police at Makoni Shopping Centre during demonstrations over fuel increase in January has finally obtained an order ...Published: 27 May 2019 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
$143,000 medicines, vehicle burnt in demos
Medicines, laboratory sundries and a cold storage truck all valued at about US$143 000 were destroyed in an arson attack at Makoni Police Station in Chitungwiza, during the MDC Alliance led violent de...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 16:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa demands 'V11' of army killings
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has shot down reports that the military carried out extra-judicial killings on at least 17 civilians after being roped in by the police to quell last month's violent prote...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance MP in trouble over WhatsApp message
CHITUNGWIZA South legislator Maxwell Mavhunga (MDC Alliance), who was being sought by the police over a WhatsApp message he allegedly posted in a group during the recent stayaway which turned violent,...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 09:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala preparing a mega lawsuit against soldiers
Outspoken opposition legislator Job Sikhala says he is preparing a mega lawsuit against soldiers behind the brutal attack of children as young as 12 during the recent army crackdown against dissent....Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 06:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Crackdown alarms Amnesty
A new briefing by Amnesty International documents how the Zimbabwean authorities have mounted a brutal crackdown and violence against protesters, using killings and torture, among other serious human ...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 06:23hrs | 2 | by Amnesty International
Chitungwiza deputy mayor granted bail
Suspended Chitungwiza Deputy Mayor Jabulani Mtunzi, who is facing allegations of inciting protesters who went on a rampage and destroyed Makoni Police Station during protests that rocked the dormitory...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 22:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe military's record is unquestionable
The security forces have the obligation to defend and safeguard the country and they must carry out their mandates without fear or favour. However, it seems certain sections of the media are on a miss...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 22:50hrs | 7 | by Ruvimbo Chivero & Solomon Banda
Chamisa's MDC slams 'worsening' abduction of supporters
Zimbabwe's main opposition has said security forces were abducting its members in night raids in a massive crackdown in the wake of the unrest sparked by a national strike.At least 12 people h...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 15:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa challenged to immediately send soldiers back to their barracks
Rights groups have challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to immediately send the country's soldiers back to their barracks, amid heart-rending claims of continuing savage beatings and harassment of ...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 12:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Security forces have an obligation to defend the country'
The security forces have an obligation to defend and safeguard the country and they must carry out their mandates without fear or favor. However, it seems certain sections of the media are on ...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 11:14hrs | 2 | by Chrispen Chebundo
Debunking the Chamisa's political persecution claims
Following the violent and destructive protests of January 14 , which were called for by the MDC Alliance, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) and some civil society organisations ostensibly t...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:49hrs | 3 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Chitungwiza Mayor arrested
Chitungwiza Deputy Mayor Jabulani Mtunzi was arrested on Sunday night by suspected members of the military Intelligence and the Law and Order officers.Human Rights Lawyer and MDC official Job ...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Coltart's plot on judiciary outed?
A plot by some shadowy non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to rope in Harare-based lawyers to attack the judiciary through a demonstration today has been exposed. The Herald understands that...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 10:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Prosecute people who rope in children in violent protests
Organisers of last week's violent demonstrations abused children they used as human shield. A number of children are among the hundreds of violent protesters that have been arrested for looting of goo...Published: 26 Jan 2019 at 17:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Boy (11) goes missing during riots
A CHITUNGWIZA family is desperately searching for their 11-year-old son, Tinotenda Purumero, who went missing during last Monday's fuel price hike protests.His distraught father Herbert Purume...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Attack on Police Station preplanned
Commanding Chitungwiza Police District Chief Superintendent Sekayi Mujiwa says protestors that laid siege on Makoni Police Station in Chitungwiza, burning cars and destroying windows on Monday last we...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 07:09hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Report on how soldiers tortured and killed citizens
Complainants and witnesses who spoke to the Zimbabwe Human RightsCommission highlighted that armed soldiers and police visited their homes starting the evening of Monday 14 January 2019. They re...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 14:29hrs | 1 | by ZHRC
Chitungwiza looters are well-known
Facts are and will always be stubborn.Fact one, the people who led last week's riots, particularly in Chitungwiza, were dominantly MDC Alliance youths.Fact two, the youths are well kno...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Lumumba exposes military response to protestors
Self-styled Communications strategist William Mutumanje has warned Zimbabweans that the Zimbabwe military has called in reserves to assist in restoring law and order after the Monday violent protests ...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 06:50hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Putin snubs Mnangagwa
Russian Federation's President Vladimir Putin snubbed the welcoming ceremony done for President Emmerson Mnangagwa at the airport and preffered to send the Deputy Minsiter of Foreign Affairs to welcom...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 14:38hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Police badly assault MDC Youth leader
Police on Monday allegedly assaulted MDC Youth leader Discent Collins Bajila during violent protests that rocked Zimbabwe. Bajila was in Bulawayo when the incident happened.Meanwhile pol...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 13:57hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
WATCH: Protestors burn police station
Protestors on Monday stormed Makoni police station in Chitungwiza and set ablaze the building and several cars that were parked inside the station.Meanwhile in Pumula, Bulawayo protestors were...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 12:57hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF youths attack ZPP staff
Zimbabwe Peace Project has said following the violence that erupted over the last weekend On the 25 October, in Ward 23, Unit N Chitungwiza, Councillor Betty Dokora agreed to a meeting with Zimbabwe P...Published: 27 Oct 2017 at 06:41hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Body of newborn burned with garbage
A Chitungwiza resident reportedly discovered a body of a newborn baby dumped in garbage on Thursday.The resident discovered the body while burning the garbage.Residents of Zengesa 4, N...Published: 10 Sep 2017 at 11:29hrs | 3 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zanu-PF militia revives terror base
Suspected Zanu-PF youth militia have revived what local residents call a terror base at Damara in Chitungwiza's Unit N suburb, where they have embarked on a reign of terror intimidating, beating and m...Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 15:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF activists beat up cops
THE 12 suspected Chitungwiza-based Zanu-PF activists, who physically attacked members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police, leaving one of them seriously injured, were granted $100 bail each when they appe...Published: 11 Jan 2016 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pastor assaulted for defending homosexuals
A ZAOGA Forward in Faith Church pastor, David Simango, claims that he was physically assaulted by five unidentified men who accused him of supporting homosexuals in one of his sermons during a rev...Published: 22 Mar 2015 at 11:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala's parents engaged witchdoctors to avenge his arrest
FIREBRAND MDC-T founding member and former St Marys MP Job Sikhala has sensationally claimed that people who tortured him during his incarceration as he faced treason charges are dead or mentally dist...Published: 28 Jan 2015 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Macheso's daughter hauls hubby to court barely 2 months into their marriage
Sharon Macheso's husband Kudakwashe Munetsi was in the dock yesterday at the Harare Magistrates' Courts charged with domestic violence, barely two months into their marriage.The jobless Munets...Published: 18 Oct 2014 at 05:39hrs | 1 | by Court Reporter
Zhuwawo, lawyers in maintenance wrangle
Zimbabwe 2009 Soccer Star of the Year Rahmson Zhuwawo and his lawyers are in hot soup after they allegedly doctored legal documents with the ultimate aim of dodging a maintenance case that has been s...Published: 01 Dec 2013 at 04:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man vows to quit beer
A Harare Polytechnic accounting student who attacked his neighbours and damaged their property while in a drunken stupor was yesterday ordered to do 70 hours of community service.Tatenda Tand...Published: 04 Sep 2013 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Court Reporter
Witch-hunters wreak havoc in search of goblins
VILLAGERS in Mhundwa area in Seke communal lands have lost over 20 cattle in the past two weeks to a group of witch-hunters calling themselves tsikamutandas who are accusing them of possessing goblins...Published: 11 Aug 2013 at 09:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
7 MDC officials brutally attacked by Zanu-PF supporters
SEVEN officials from the Welshman Ncube-led MDC party were brutally attacked by a group of suspected Zanu-PF supporters while conducting a door-to-door campaign in Chitungwiza yesterday, the par...Published: 31 Oct 2012 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man (24) fatally stabs girlfriend 15 times after being dumped
A young Chitungwiza woman was yesterday fatally stabbed by her boyfriend with a kitchen knife in a suspected heated argument over their relationship. The incident occurred at around 8am at the deceas...Published: 26 Apr 2012 at 05:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T youths nabbed for Chitungwiza disturbances
Police in Chitungwiza have arrested two MDC-T youths, Julius Marambakutongwa and Kuda Muchemwa on allegations that they were behind the disturbances that rocked the town yesterday.The two are ...Published: 07 Nov 2011 at 14:15hrs | | by Mafu Sithabile
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