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2 dead in Masvingo-Mbalabala Highway crash
TWO people were confirmed dead while two others were injured on Monday when a Toyota Belta with two occupants collided with an Inter-Africa bus carrying 43 passengers. In a statement on X, the...Published: 28 Aug 2024 at 12:57hrs | 379 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man kills uncle using wrestling tactic
A tragic incident unfolded in Masvingo involving Vetengeni Kwaramba (35), who, as revealed in court, accidentally caused the death of his 62-year-old uncle using the "sharpshooter" wrestling move....Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 09:07hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Doctors accused of diverting attention to private business
MEDICAL doctors across the country have been accused of diverting their attention to their private businesses at the expense of the tax payers who fund the salaries they get while working in gov...Published: 30 Nov 2023 at 15:05hrs | 10 | by Stephen Jakes
Man hated even beyond the grave
Throughout the world and within Zimbabwean culture, there is a prevailing respect for the deceased, often resulting in their negative actions being forgotten and overlooked in public discourse. The Sh...Published: 06 Nov 2023 at 04:56hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
3 die in head-on collision
THREE people died while one was injured after a Toyota Wish and an Isuzu vehicle were involved in a head-on collision.The accident occurred along Ngundu-Tanganda RoadBodies of the dece...Published: 11 Jul 2023 at 23:17hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Armed robber pounces on lovebirds, rapes woman
A 21-year-old nurse at Masvingo General Hospital was raped by a suspected armed robber who caught her in the act her being intimate with her boyfriend in a car in a bushy area next to TelOne offices o...Published: 25 Jan 2023 at 16:31hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Three perish along Harare-Masvingo highway
Three people died and three others were injured yesterday after a Toyota Hilux they were travelling in veered off the road at the 235-kilometre peg along the Harare-Masvingo highway.The vehicl...Published: 22 Dec 2022 at 09:53hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Woman loses arm in hyena attack
In the second such case to be recorded in Masvingo province this year, a 38-year-old woman from Gutu last Wednesday lost her left hand and big toe of the left leg after being attacked by a hyena....Published: 03 Nov 2022 at 05:04hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Form 3 pupil commits suicide
A 16-YEAR-OLD school pupil at Ndarama High School in Masvingo died after he drank poison after he had allegedly been summoned for a hearing by school authorities.The incident which happened on...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:31hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Police gun down violent suspect
POLICE in Zaka, Masvingo, shot dead an assault suspect who had been on their wanted list after he resisted an arrest and tried to take one of them hostage.Douglas Mahoya (35) was wanted by the...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:23hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
New twist to police shooting victim case
THE case of Masvingo man, Douglas Mahoya, who was mistakenly gunned down by police for allegedly not wearing a face mask on Wednesday has taken a new twist with the law enforcement agents claiming tha...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:45hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Suspect shot dead while resisting arrest
A 35-year-old man who was on police wanted list was shot and killed in Zaka, Masvingo, after attacking police officers while he was resisting arrest on Wednesday.Douglas Mahoya had a warrant o...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Speeding Zupco bus overturns
Twenty-three passengers and two Zupco bus crew members this morning cheated death after the Harare-bound speeding bus failed to brake and overturned at Mushagashe tollgate along the Harare-Masvingo hi...Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 16:53hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
7 killed in Masvingo road accident
SEVEN people were killed in Masvingo on New Year's Day in a road accident while four others have been hospitalised, police have confirmed.The accident happened along Masvingo-Topora Road with ...Published: 02 Jan 2022 at 18:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gutu man commits suicide after murdering girlfriend
A man from Gutu in Masvingo committed suicide a few days after he attacked his girlfriend with a stone who later died.The man attacked the woman over rumours of cheating. Shepherd Dzivakwe of ...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:10hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers unleash reign of terror
Armed robbers are on the prowl in Masvingo where they have been on a warpath over the past week.A security guard was left for dead after being shot in the abdomen at Neshuro Growth point...Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police dismiss social media reports on bus robbers
Police have dismissed information circulating on social media platforms alleging that the notorious robbers who pounced on passengers and crew of Beitbridge bound Boundary Express bus have been arrest...Published: 24 Jun 2021 at 18:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Masvingo bus robbers still at large
POLICE yesterday said they were yet to account for the six robbers who attacked a Boundary Express coach along the Harare-Masvingo Highway on Sunday night.National police spokesperson Assistan...Published: 24 Jun 2021 at 11:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers hijack bus, mug 40 passengers
A FIVE-MEMBER armed gang yesterday assaulted and robbed 40 passengers travelling on a Beitbridge-bound Boundary Express coach of over US$15 000, R31 340 and $2 510 after hijacking the bus.Seve...Published: 22 Jun 2021 at 14:48hrs | 2 | 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
Man knifed to death for stealing phone during beer drink
A 25 year-old Zaka man paid a heavy price for violating lockdown regulations and joining two friends on a drinking binge late into the night after the friends turned on him and allegedly killed him fo...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 18:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Couple robbed, dumped in disused mine shaft
A Masvingo couple was robbed of a car, $500 000, bank card, and a cell phone by a gang of four suspected robbers that allegedly dumped them in a 20-metre disused mineshaft in the outskirts of the town...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 23:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zaka minors who killed a soldier receive death threats
THREE Zaka minors, who allegedly killed a 37-year-old soldier in October, have been taken to a safe house after they received threats on their lives from unknown men.The soldier, Aaron Bhasopa...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Violent soldier killed by minors
A 37-YEAR-OLD 1 Commando Regiment-based soldier was on Thursday night killed by three minors after he allegedly attacked their mother over suspected arson at his parents' home in Zaka, Masvingo provin...Published: 24 Oct 2020 at 07:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chadzamira commends Mnangagwa
THE Minister of State for Masvingo Provincial Affairs Ezra Chadzamira has hailed President Mnangagwa for his immense contribution to the health sector through sourcing medical equipment and medicine, ...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
5 dead, 44 injured as SA-bound bus overturns
Five people have died and 44 injured in an accident that involves an African Link coach that was Beitbridge bound last night. Mwenezi District Administrator Ms Rosemary Chingwe confirmed the a...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 19:01hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Fatal stabbing in church
A 24-year-old Masvingo man allegedly fatally stabbed a fellow congregate with a knife during a prayer vigil following a dispute over badly cooked relish, police have confirmed. Tinos Mud...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga in ICU
Controversial pastor Talent Chiwenga was involved in an accident which allegedly claimed the lives of his wife, son and sister-in-law near Chatsworth turn-off at the 80-kilometre peg along the Harare-...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Family whips granny to death over witchcraft
EIGHT Chivi family members allegedly whipped their elderly relative for more than 10 hours with mulberry tree switches leading to his death after accusing him of witchcraft, police have confirmed. ...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 07:04hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Bus overturns at roadblock
FIFTY three people cheated death when an Inter Africa bus they were travelling in overturned at a police roadblock at the 10km peg along Masvingo-Zvishavane Road around midday on Thursday. Mas...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 11:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Accident death toll rises to 5
The death toll in the Mashava commuter omnibus accident has risen to 5 after two more people died at Masvingo General Hospital where those injured were admitted.Three people died on the spot w...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 18:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Masvingo plane crash: Fresh details emerge
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has verified that 5 and not 3 people perished in the plane crush at Chemanjenjera Hills that occurred yesterday morning.Names of the deceased have also been ...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 14:02hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Man kills wife in infidelity row
A Chivi man has been arrested for fatally assaulting his wife with a log after she confronted him over alleged infidelity Edward Mukonde (59) of Mukonde village in Nemauzhe communal lands allegedly fi...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 05:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Army boss killers to hang
TWO men who pepper-sprayed an army Captain who had offered them a lift, before stabbing him with an Okapi knife to death and stashing his body in the car which they drove for about 40 kilometres with ...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 08:43hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo cholera tests negative
LABORATORY tests have ruled out cholera in 10 of the 12 people from Bulawayo who had been admitted to hospital on fears that they had contracted the disease. Bulawayo City Council director of ...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Typhoid spreads towards Harare
TYPHOID, which has killed nine people in Gweru, has spread to Kadoma and Masvingo amid calls for residents to practice maximum hygiene. Three new cases were reported in Kadoma and two in Masvi...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 06:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Typhoid spreads to Masvingo
Masvingo City has recorded its first typhoid case in three years as water shortages that have dogged the city for more than a week persist.A six-year-old boy yesterday tested positive for the ...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 09:27hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
.Man hangs self in neighbour's yard
A man from Mucheke A suburb got the shock of his life last week when he woke up to find the lifeless body of his neighbour hanging from a mango tree in his yard in a suspected case of suicide....Published: 21 Jun 2018 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man blows $1 500, hangs self
A MAN from Masvingo allegedly hanged himself after squandering $1 500 meant to buy a car for his brother who is based in South Africa, police have confirmed.The body of Baison Mpofu (39) of Mu...Published: 20 Jun 2018 at 10:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Teacher gang raped on schools opening day'
THREE armed men allegedly gang-raped a teacher at a school in Masvingo, robbed her fellow teachers of their cellphones and cash before force-marching her undressed to the next school.The trio ...Published: 10 May 2018 at 06:58hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Nurses down their syringes
NURSES at Government hospitals countrywide yesterday downed tools in protest over the failure by their employer to attend to their grievances which include poor remuneration and working conditions....Published: 17 Apr 2018 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Trailer comes off bus, slams into minivan killing 7
SEVEN people died on the spot while two others were injured when a vehicle they were travelling in was hit by a trailer which dislodged from a bus at the 126km peg along the Masvingo-Beitbridge Highwa...Published: 05 Apr 2018 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Patients in agony across Zimbabwe
THOUSANDS of patients in Government medical institutions continue waiting in agony for doctors, as the strike by medical professionals enters its 25th day today.Yesterday, scores of patients -...Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 08:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Brides flee from court as wife finds hubby wedding
A leopard never changes its spots so goes the African saying.John Chirongoma who left Masvingo Magistrates Court with tail under his legs after a man caught him wedding his wife last year was ...Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 14:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
5 perish in accidents
Five people, including a three-year-old girl, died on the spot in two separate road accidents in Masvingo over the weekend, police have said. Masvingo police spokesperson Inspector Charity Mazula said...Published: 13 Feb 2018 at 05:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Hubby killer attacks mother
A Masvingo woman, who is facing murder charges for killing her husband in cold blood and is out on bail, last week pounded her mother with a pestle and left her for dead.Mavis Madenga (34) of ...Published: 08 Feb 2018 at 06:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
6 family members die in road crash
Six family members died in a road traffic accident in Masvingo yesterday, while four others died in another accident along the Harare-Mutare Highway. In the Masvingo accident, two other people...Published: 08 Jan 2018 at 06:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
White farmers still being kicked out of Zimbabwe farms
White farmers in Masvingo continue to face eviction despite moves by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to return some of their land, as part of efforts to revive the ailing agricultural sector which used t...Published: 30 Dec 2017 at 05:53hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
5 die in Runde River Bridge crash
Five people died and 5 others were injured in an accident which involved a haulage truck and a cross border commuter omnibus along the Masvingo-Beitbridge highway.The accident occurred at the ...Published: 25 Dec 2017 at 16:10hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Dad axes son to death
Police here have arrested a man who allegedly struck his son with an axe, while accusing him of being disrespectful. According to police provincial spokesperson Inspector Charity Mazula, Lucas...Published: 15 Dec 2017 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
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