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Harare woman fined for cyberbullying
A Harare woman has been fined US$120 after being convicted of cyberbullying her neighbour, whom she accused of being a prostitute and a husband-snatcher in a text message.Media Mashiri was fou...Published: 03 Jul 2025 at 19:03hrs | 239 | by Staff reporter
Jairos Tapera sent on forced leave
Manica Diamonds head coach Jairos Tapera has been sent on forced leave following a disappointing string of results, in what appears to be the beginning of a quiet managerial reshuffle at the Premier S...Published: 24 Jun 2025 at 12:39hrs | 795 | by Staff reporter
Prophetess arrested after forcing man to drink deadly concoction
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) have arrested Charity Mafirowanda, a self-proclaimed prophetess aged 46, along with eight of her congregants following the death of 54-year-old Micky Chuma at a chur...Published: 22 Jun 2025 at 09:01hrs | 223 | by Staff reporter
Dembare fails to polish the Diamonds
Manica Diamonds 1-0 DynamosA first-half stunner from Charles Teguru was all Manica Diamonds needed to edge Dynamos 1-0 in a fiercely contested Castle Lager Premier Soccer League showdown at Sakubv...Published: 06 Apr 2025 at 11:29hrs | 198 | by Staff reporter
Zimra bemoans Chirundu border porosity
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has expressed concerns over significant revenue losses due to the porosity of Chirundu Border Post, a key crossing point between Zimbabwe and Zambia. The border,...Published: 14 Aug 2024 at 08:38hrs | 136 | by Staff reporter
Police 'ignores' wanted Zanu-PF activists
John Chenhare, a businessman at Chatsworth has accused Police of lying in court that Zanu-PF activists accused of violence are at large when in fact they are seen in public and at party meetings distr...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 14:29hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Lilstock Dam at Chinehasha, the new tourist destination in Chiweshe.
Development starts with good roads, especially the modern macadamised passageways. The investor intent on turning Lilstock Dam shores at Chinehasha in Chiweshe into a sort-after holiday resort has wel...Published: 11 Oct 2023 at 22:21hrs | 35 | by Thomas Murisa
Women fight over 'husband'
TWO Harare women appeared in court on Friday as they fought over a man that they are both dating.Regina Chipunza of Glen View 7 accused Feby Mashiri of disturbing her peace."She comes ...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 08:35hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Top mines official arrested for abuse of office
MASHONALAND West acting provincial mining director Sibongile Mpindiwa has been arrested for allegedly unlawfully forfeiting mining claims, changing ownership and then handing them over to other people...Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police boss dragged into messy court case
HARARE businessman Chemist Siziba has reached out to Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga over the alleged destruction of a docket in a criminal case involving business executives, Paul Rink Pea...Published: 01 Oct 2022 at 18:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt under spotlight over police, army brutality
THE United States has raised alarm over continued perpetration of human rights abuses by members of the security sector whom it said were enjoying government impunity.In a 2021 human rights re...Published: 14 Apr 2022 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Thieves break into Defence Ministry offices
AUDACIOUS burglars smashed windows and broke into the offices of the ministry of Defence at Batanai Gardens, housing the war veterans portfolio, and made good their escape with goods valued at ZW$4 mi...Published: 09 Jan 2022 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Counterfeit US Dollar notes traders arrested
TWO Harare women Memory Sanjanga (27) and Chesta Zvomunya appeared before a Harare magistrate Thursday on allegations of duping a local man of his ZW$300 000.The two were arraigned before Hara...Published: 31 Dec 2021 at 07:28hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
9 Young Warriors fail age tests
NINE members of the Zimbabwe Under-17 national football team have failed tests which are conducted to determine the ages of players allowed at age-group tournaments.Of the 25 players who were ...Published: 27 Nov 2021 at 01:33hrs | 32 | by Staff Reporter
Econet answers church's prayers
Econet Life, a subsidiary of EcoCash Holdings Zimbabwe Limited (formerly Cassava Smartech Zimbabwe), has partnered the Zimbabwe Christian Ministers Association (ZCMA) to provide an assortment of insur...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 07:52hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
EcoSure extends cover to millions, boosts national insurance penetration
HARARE - EcoSure, the micro-insurance product from Econet Life, has played a significant role in raising the country's insurance penetration by over 200%, from as low as 5% to over 16%.The inn...Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 09:08hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga in fierce battle to control Masvingo provinces
"Ladies and gentlemen the situation in our country has reached another level…," said the late army General Sibusiso Moyo while addressing the nation during the November 2017 sanitized coup whi...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 18:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
4 in court over fake gold
THREE Harare men last Thursday appeared in court for duping a businessman of US$45 000 in a botched gold deal.Stephen Mhumbwe, Louis Mudzongo and Mike Tafira appeared before Harare magistrate ...Published: 26 Apr 2021 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Guard beheaded, body burnt with tyres
IN a gruesome murder that has shocked residents in the faming town of Chiredzi, a security guard was murdered, his head cut off before the rest of the body was thrown at a scrap yard and burnt with ty...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 09:06hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
EcoSure beefs up its services, rolls out tents and ablutions as add-ons
HARARE - EcoSure, Cassava Smartech Zimbabwe's micro-insurance business, has included tents and mobile ablution facilities to its funeral policy holders as the company beefs up its mobile insurance pac...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 13:29hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Smugglers declare groceries as fertilizer , three trucks busted
Security officials working with the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) anti-smuggling unit in Beitbridge have intercepted three commercial trucks which were transporting an assortment of groceries whi...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 16:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
2008 election violence victims walk away empty handed
Two MDC Alliance activists who lost livestock to Zanu-PF supporters in the violent run-up to the 2008 presidential election re-run were recently left disappointed after the court dismissed their case ...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 19:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zifa, Chiyangwa's Cosafa on collision course
Zifa Medical Committee chairperson and Caf medical officer Edward Chagonda has challenged the decision by the Cosafa Under-17 football tournament organisers following the embarrassing disqualification...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 05:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zifa confront Chiwenga's Cosafa on expulsion
THE Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) is contesting the decision to expel the country's Under-17 team from the Cosafa Championship that is underway in Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa.On Fr...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:43hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Tribalism in national under-17 team selection
ONE of the country's most charismatic football characters and former Highlanders supremo, Ernest Maphepha Sibanda has called upon the national Under-17 coach Tafadzwa Mashiri to stop being used by foo...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 18:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Exclusion of Bulawayo boys in the Under-17 squad 'an insult'
FORMER national team and Highlanders captain Thulani Biya Ncube and Mkhokheli Dube have reacted with dismay and anger while questioning the criteria which career Under-17 boys coach Tafadzwa Mashiri u...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Smelly Dube sues The Mirror for $1,5m
Gweru businessperson Smelly Dube has taken a Masvingo-based publication, The Mirror, to the High Court demanding defamation damages in the sum of $1,5 million, accusing the paper of misrepresenting fa...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Madzibaba flees shrine after raping minor
A self-styled prophet of Madzibaba Enguvo Tsvuku church has disappeared after allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl who had been consulting fo healing, TellZim News has learnt.The prophet, popul...Published: 31 May 2019 at 18:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF official caged for assaulting cop
PAUL Masikati, a top Zanu-PF official based in Marondera, who, together with fellow ruling party youths, stormed a police base and assaulted a cop in a bid to free his arrested son, was on Wednesday s...Published: 18 May 2019 at 10:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ruya Dam in Chiweshe is lying idle
Indeed the heavens have not been very generous this season, most crops are now a sorry sight across the length and breath of our beautiful Zimbabwe. Livestock are now in bad state with some beyond rec...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 21:50hrs | 1 | by Thomas Murisa
Mnangagwa's regalia smuggled for resale in Mozambique
A MOZAMBICAN man yesterday escaped jail after he was fined $100 for smuggling 245 pieces of Zanu-PF regalia inscribed with President Emmerson Mnangagwa's face for resale in the neighbouring country....Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 08:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare to name street after Tsvangirai
The Mayor of Harare Hebert Gomba has announced that Harare City Councilors are contemplating honouring the late Prime Minister Morgan Richard Tsvangirai with a street name and Oliver Mtukudzi with Har...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 08:49hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Zimbabwe runs out of fuel'
ZIMBABWE Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) acting chief executive officer Eddington Mazambani yesterday revealed to Parliament that the country had exhausted the $60 million worth of fuel imported la...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 05:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Nyagura was never suspended'
Higher and Tertiary Education minister Amon Murwira says University of Zimbabwe (UZ) vice chancellor Levi Nyagura was never suspended, declaring that only President Emmerson Mnangagwa has the power to...Published: 10 Mar 2018 at 14:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nyagura to remain in office
THE University of Zimbabwe Vice Chancellor Professor Levi Nyagura will remain in office unless President Mnangagwa, who is the chancellor of the institution of higher learning, decides otherwise, a Ca...Published: 10 Mar 2018 at 09:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
UZ Vice Chancellor threatens to fire staff over Grace PhD
University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Vice Chancellor Levi Nyagura has reportedly turned to harassing lecturers who have questioned former First Lady Grace Mugabe's doctorate awarded controversially in 2014, th...Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 14:19hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
60 year old man duped in manhood enlargement scam
A 60-YEAR-OLD Epworth man, Gibson Mashiri, yesterday appeared at the Harare Magistrates’ Court giving testimony in a matter in which he allegedly lost $1 500 to a local traditional healer in a manho...Published: 05 Jul 2017 at 06:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
PICTURES: UFOs pelt home with 'hot stones'
A stranger than fiction occurrence in which members of the Manjengwa family in Buhera are continuously being pelted by big "hot stones" whose attackers cannot be seen is beyond the realm of nature or ...Published: 01 Jul 2017 at 14:22hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Sunday Chidzambwa bounces back
The Zimbabwe Football Association advises the local football family that it has appointed Sunday Chidzambwa as the caretaker coach to manage the senior men's team during the COSAFA Cup tournament to b...Published: 16 Jun 2017 at 17:11hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Juju at Dynamos
Zimbabwe's global avatar has maxed out on grand narratives and pop consumables but occasionally underestimated the place of biography as a long night of the soul.Dynamos Football Club legend M...Published: 15 May 2017 at 06:51hrs | 2 | by Stanely Mushava
Rogue cops trial date set
THE trial of two Nyamandlovu traffic police officers, charged with abuse of duty as public officers after converting part of spot fines to personal use will get underway on April 11.Shelto...Published: 29 Mar 2017 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chegato High faces closure
Chegato High, the biggest secondary school in Mberengwa may close down in the next few weeks due to critical water shortages caused by the destruction of power lines that supply power to the boreholes...Published: 07 Mar 2017 at 05:24hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Man caught pants down with married woman, sues
A 48-year old Mbire man is suing three men who bashed him after he was caught pants down with a married woman in December last year.Eye witnesses allege Chriswel Mashiri (48) of Jurujena villa...Published: 09 Feb 2017 at 15:37hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Econet's Ecosure registers an increase
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe's funeral assurance scheme, EcoSure, has registered significant growth in the past few months with indications that since 2015, more than 1 500 burial societies in Bulaway...Published: 23 Aug 2016 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Econet scoops three awards
ECONET Wireless Zimbabwe has scooped three awards in recognition of its innovative approach to business and contribution to the economy.Afri-Sure, a consortium of consultants in the insurance ...Published: 01 Aug 2016 at 08:17hrs | | by Leonard Ncube
General Chiwengwa grace Mbuya Makamure's burial
Mbuya Vongai Makamure who was declared a provincial liberation heroine got a deserved honour when the Commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, General Constantine Chiwenga and his wife Mary Chiwenga ...Published: 26 Jul 2016 at 08:04hrs | 9 | by Staff Reporter
Forensic science degrees for cops
Zimbabwe will soon offer degree programmes in Forensic Science for members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) to strengthen measures in combating crime. This comes as the country made h...Published: 21 Jul 2016 at 10:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
To end cash crunch, grant diaspora vote 'that simple' argue Mashiri - wish it was
"However, Mr Mugabe could easily get more than US$200 million if he changed his mind on granting the estimated 3-4 million Zimbabweans abroad the right to vote and dual citizenship. At the stroke of t...Published: 05 Jun 2016 at 15:02hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
How Zimbabwe can solve its current debilitating cash shortages
Here is what I think about how Zimbabwe can solve its current debilitating cash shortages once and for all within a week or two as of today 4th June 2016 rather than wait for the 200 million bond note...Published: 05 Jun 2016 at 07:34hrs | | by Dr Clifford Chitupa Mashiri
Dynamos set to appoint Munemo, Murape
DYNAMOS are close to bringing in former players Clayton Munemo and Murape Murape to be part of Lloyd Mutasa's backroom staff as the Harare giants battle to navigate the murky waters they find themselv...Published: 16 May 2016 at 06:45hrs | | by Grace Chingoma
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