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Lawyers rescue detained toddler, pregnant woman
POLICE have set free a toddler and a pregnant woman who were detained alongside other aggrieved villagers after they had protested maladministration by some school authorities at Sagambe Primary Schoo...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 05:10hrs | 1090 | by Staff reporter
Concession sugarcane assailants in court
Six Concession sugarcane assailants who went viral on social media after allegedly beating a suspected thief were dragged to Concession magistrates courts yesterday.Hardlife Mananga, Luckson R...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 14:37hrs | 488 | by Simbarashe Sithole
ZANU PF Minister implicated in cash-for-land allegations
The Minister of State for Matebeleland North, Richard Moyo, finds himself embroiled in a scandal that has not only tarnished his reputation but also tarnished the government's fight against corrupti...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 16:37hrs | 1467 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Zimbabwe Minister sued for gold mine ‘fraud'
A HARARE resources firm has slapped former Mines minister, Winston Chitando with a slew of criminal charges for allegedly corruptly awarding lucrative gold claims in Bindura to a rival miner.T...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 17:21hrs | 938 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa Gukurahundi genocide project illegal, futile without truth telling'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa maintains his government is leading and bankrolling the entire process of "bringing finality" to the Gukurahundi atrocities cognisant of potential external interference se...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 06:04hrs | 388 | by Staff reporter
Cop sent robbers to raid best friend
THE person you trust might be the one who could betray you and leave you with scars of betrayal and heartbreak.This is what businessman Never Sarukore who was recently robbed at gunpoint by a ...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 09:45hrs | 653 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa stole X-Mas
THE year 2023 is ending in the same manner it began: inflicting more hardships on the people of Zimbabwe and with no solution in sight.It has been an annus horribilis of epic proportions. The ...Published: 27 Dec 2023 at 17:32hrs | 802 | by Staff reporter
Zipra was behind Salisbury fuel tanks bombings
Former Zipra chief of logistics Thomas Ngwenya has challenged claims that Zanla forces bombed the Salisbury fuel tanks in 1978, insisting that it was Zipra that was behind the sabotage that proved to ...Published: 26 Dec 2023 at 20:10hrs | 2105 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC leadership meets
THE Citizens Coalitions for Change (CCC) leadership is meeting today to deliberate on the way forward after the party was barred from participating in Saturday's by-election which saw Zanu-PF winning ...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 06:05hrs | 1251 | by Staff reporter
Employee stages fuel station robbery
IN a daring robbery, an employee of Trek in Gwabalanda suburb put together a team of would-be fuel thieves to steal thousands of litres of diesel and petrol and when the plan failed, stole US$4 500 be...Published: 12 Nov 2023 at 12:03hrs | 633 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's political parties have been taken over by modern day thugs, God have messy on us
Zimbabwe's political parties have been taken over by modern day thugs, God have messy on us. I have been saying it and now it's so obvious. After seeing a tweet from Hopewell Chin'ono @daddyhope...Published: 11 Nov 2023 at 11:21hrs | 492 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
CIO car smuggling racket mastermind arrested
The controversy involving certain Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) members in vehicle smuggling escalated last week when an alleged mastermind in the underground network was apprehended....Published: 23 Oct 2023 at 06:29hrs | 762 | by Staff reporter
ZB Bank heist suspects to be reimbursed forfeited US$234,000
Four individuals who were acquitted in the ZB Bank money heist case, which made headlines two years ago, will have their forfeited money returned to them.The four individuals, Trymore Chapfikw...Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 19:31hrs | 790 | by Staff reporter
Police officer in Nedbank robbery arrested
A female police officer has been apprehended in connection with the recent break-in at a Nedbank branch in Bulawayo, during which thieves made off with over US$270,000 and R2 million.According...Published: 26 Sep 2023 at 06:18hrs | 1417 | by Staff reporter
Cross-border vehicle smuggling mastermind arrested
SOUTH Africa's specialised police investigations unit, the Hawks, have re-arrested a 28-year-old man who is believed to be the mastermind of a series of cross-border motor vehicle and smuggling racket...Published: 11 Sep 2023 at 06:29hrs | 820 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa taunts uneducated opponents
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has issued a disdainful rebuke on those accusing him of masterminding court generated disqualifications on election opponents, describing them as uneducated.This f...Published: 29 Jul 2023 at 20:04hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa in angry outburst over banned candidates
CCC leader Nelson Chamisa has launched an angry tirade against President Emmerson Mnangagwa whom he accuses of masterminding a court ban on 12 party parliamentary candidates in Bulawayo.Addres...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 21:09hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's most wanted robber arrested
One of the country's most wanted suspected robber Cornwell Junior Kasambarare, who is believed to have masterminded a spate of armed robbery, including the famous Mashwede Holdings heist and housebrea...Published: 29 Jun 2023 at 06:26hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army, CIO involvement in voting
In the run up to the June 2000 Parliamentary election, there was noticeable intervention of the army, and alleged war veterans. The election also came after the formation of the MDC, which fielded can...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 13:14hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbery mastermind appears in court
Mvurwi businessman who is a suspected mastermind in armed robbery cases together with his three accomplices were dragged to Bindura regional magistrate on Friday.Alic Phiri ( 43) the master an...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 07:58hrs | 10 | by imbarashe Sithole
Armed robbery mastermind nabbed
Police in Mvurwi have arrested a businessman who is suspected mastermind in armed robbery cases in the farming town.Alic Phiri ( 43) was arrested together with his three Mberengwa-based accomp...Published: 24 May 2023 at 14:28hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Scammers bleed Natfoods US$6m
IN what could be one of the biggest cybercrimes ever reported in the country, National Foods, a local manufacturer and marketer of food products, lost over US$6 million to criminals who hacked into it...Published: 21 May 2023 at 08:03hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Arsenal buckle under the pressure
The only real surprise about Manchester City's march to a fifth Premier League crown in six seasons is that a callow Arsenal side managed to keep Pep Guardiola's serial winners honest for such a long ...Published: 20 May 2023 at 20:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Epworth title deed scheme Zanu-PF vote-buying stunt
THE regularisation of Epworth settlements after President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week started distributing so-called title deeds has come under the spotlight as it has since emerged that the document...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 19:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cattle sales still banned at ZITF
GOVERNMENT has said there will be no cattle sales at the Bulawayo Agricultural Society's (BAS) pens located within the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) showgrounds.The move is part of ...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 06:16hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Professor Moyo dismiss Al Jazeera Gold Mafia as 'disjointed thesis'. He too is feeling fallout heat
When the story first broke that Al Jazeera was going to air a documentary of the gold smuggling and money laundering in Zimbabwe, Zanu PF regime and its apologists dismissed the whole thing s inconseq...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 23:36hrs | 14 | by Wilbert Mukori
UAE refuses SA's request to extradite Gupta brothers for money launder. Pattni and other Gold Mafia must be relieved
Remember the many stories of State Capture involving former SA President Jacob Zuma and the Gupta brothers? Well whatever peanut butter bait the South African government was using in its Agatha Christ...Published: 11 Apr 2023 at 16:19hrs | 3 | by Wilbert Mukori
Scott Sakupwanya named in Gold Mafia scandal
Controversial Zanu-PF politician and businessman Pedzisai 'Scott' Sakupwanya has been named as one of the country's biggest gold barons by ambassador-at-large Uebert Angel who features prominently in ...Published: 10 Apr 2023 at 20:01hrs | 53 | by Staff reporter
Rushwaya spared govt gold crackdown
WHILE the Zimbabwean government says it has taken measures to freeze accounts of the gold mafia and investigate the gold smuggling, money laundering and corruption, one of the kingpins, Henrietta Rush...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 14:20hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
Wanted SA rapist Thabo Bester skipped the country to Zimbabwe?
Thabo Bester skipped the country to Zimbabwe to lay low after escaping from the Mangaung maximum security prison where he allegedly paid R5 million to at least nine prison warders who helped him escap...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 16:50hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Shady characters around Mnangagwa
SPOTLIGHT seems to bring out the best and worst of people, and sometimes their true colours. Self-proclaimed prophet Uebert Angel is among people caught off-guard by the four-episode Al Jazeera docume...Published: 01 Apr 2023 at 07:36hrs | 172 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU Statement on Al Jazeera revelations
Zimbabweans have been waiting impatiently for the explosive documentaries by media group Al Jazeera of the systematic looting and plunder of resources by the ruling elite.Today, the world watc...Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 06:46hrs | 23 | by ZAPU
Why Berita fled to Zimbabwe
SONGBIRD Berita Khumalo has revealed that she had to return and lay low for six months at home in Zimbabwe during the height of her messy separation from infamous South African music industry impresar...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gun crime rattles Zimbabwe's security sector
THE sudden spike in gun crimes across the country has pushed the security sector into panic with indications that police have since flooded the streets with detectives expected to sniff out menacing c...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 22:28hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
SA man jailed for stealing 6 cars from Ford dealership and trying to smuggle them into Zimbabwe
A 36-year-old Limpopo man has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for breaking into a Ford dealership and stealing six new vehicles valued at more than R3 million.Tsununu Ahmad Maphosa, 36, w...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:09hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
'Biti baiting journalists with sensational but false claims'
A Harare Company West Properties Zimbabwe has exposed parliamentarian Tendai Biti's malicious attack against them after the legislator claimed that the company received 200 000 hectares of land from t...Published: 29 Oct 2022 at 19:41hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Alleged ZB Bank US$2, 7 million heist mastermind family appears in court
THE family of the ZB Bank internal security officer Shadreck Njowa, who allegedly masterminded a US$2,7 million heist on his employer, were arrested and appeared in court on Saturday charged with harb...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 06:10hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police warn armed robbers
Police will continue to apply greater pressure on those committing serious crimes, with armed robbers a particular target, Commissioner General Godwin Matanga has said. Speaking at the return of 19 po...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 06:07hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Heist mastermind's family remanded in custody
THE family of Shadreck Njowa, the alleged mastermind of the US$2,7 million ZB Bank robbery, which occurred in January last year, has been remanded in custody ahead of a ruling on their bail applicatio...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 09:09hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ZB Bank heist mastermind in court
A ZB BANK internal security officer suspected to have been the mastermind of a US$2.7 million heist appeared at the Harare Magistrates court yesterday charged with armed robbery.Shadreck Njowa...Published: 22 Oct 2022 at 05:41hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Family of US$2,7m heist mastermind arrested
The family of Shadreck Njowa, the mastermind behind the ZB Bank US$2,7 million and $43 000 heist which occurred in January last year at Gwebi River Bridge along the Harare-Chirundu Road has been arres...Published: 21 Oct 2022 at 06:03hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
US$2,7 million ZB Bank heist mastermind arrested
The mastermind behind the ZB Bank US$2,7 million and $43 000 heist which occurred in January last year at Gwebi River Bridge along the Harare-Chirundu Road has been arrested in Harare after being on t...Published: 19 Oct 2022 at 20:25hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Ken Sharpe is Zimbabwe's greatest land heist, says Tendai Biti
Politician-cum-lawyer, Tendai Biti has implicated controversial businessman Ken Sharpe in what he said was the greatest land heist in the history of post- independent Zimbabwe.Sharpe owns Augu...Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 06:04hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
'Biti evidence irrelevant'
Tendai Biti's assault case continued today with the State complaining that the CCC legislator was trying to smuggle irrelevant evidence.Biti, who is facing allegations of manhandling a Zimbabw...Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 19:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF member dies as mob burns Mupedzanhamo
A Zanu-PF member died following violent clashes that were triggered by alleged opposition CCC space barons at the popular Mupedzanhamo Market in Harare which was also partly burnt by the rioting mob....Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 06:03hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Former senior cop in murder storm
AN inquest is set to be held for a woman who was allegedly poisoned to death in a fight over inheritance in which a former Assistant Commissioner in the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), Mrs Marian Tige...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 13:58hrs | 51 | by Simbarashe Sithole
'Operation no to accident victims theft'
A Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) blitz at Lundi Business Centre in Mwenezi led to the recovery of 7 000 litres of diesel and other goods including 550 kg of fertilizers, grocery items like...Published: 25 Sep 2022 at 16:42hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Calls for Zimbabwe sanctions removal grows louder
ANTI-sanctions group, the Zimbabwe Disaster Action and Vitalisation of the Indigenous People Development (ZiDAVIPD) says Queen Elizabeth II's burial yesterday must present an opportunity for the forme...Published: 20 Sep 2022 at 06:06hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe loyalists vow to preserve his legacy
DESPITE silence by Zanu-PF hawks on commemorating the death of their once revered leader Robert Mugabe, his loyalists, many of them in exile since the 2017 military coup, have vowed to fight to ensure...Published: 13 Sep 2022 at 20:12hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa fights for his job
President Emmerson Mnangagwa will soon know his real status as Zanu-PF's first secretary when the High Court finally sits September 21 to determine his legitimacy as head of the country's governing pa...Published: 09 Sep 2022 at 06:14hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
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