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Ecocash fraudster, accomplice convicted
Luck ran out for two Masvingo men who were in the habit of defrauding local shopkeepers by creating fake EcoCash payment messages, leading to their conviction on fraud charges at the Masvingo Magistra...Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 13:22hrs | 1822 | by Staff reporter
Man assaults daughter-in-law in dispute over teaspoon
A 48-year-old widower from Senga, Gweru, has been handed a four-month suspended prison sentence for assaulting his daughter-in-law over a dispute involving a teaspoon.Appearing before Gweru Pr...Published: 29 Nov 2024 at 06:59hrs | 249 | by Staff reporter
CIO car smuggling case drags on
A vehicle smuggling case, which implicates several officers from various law enforcement agencies, including the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), was postponed last Thursday after the state in...Published: 10 Nov 2024 at 11:00hrs | 461 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean tree cures erectile dysfunctional
Deep within Zimbabwe's forests lies the Mugondorosi tree, a species steeped in legend and traditional medicinal knowledge. Revered for its ability to treat male erectile dysfunction, this once-abundan...Published: 26 Oct 2024 at 12:43hrs | 452 | by Staff reporter
Sables' Africa Cup final squad named
The Zimbabwe Rugby Union is set to announce the final senior men's rugby team for the Rugby Africa Cup on Tuesday. The 28-player team will primarily consist of locally based players due to difficultie...Published: 16 Jul 2024 at 07:01hrs | 136 | by Staff reporter
Former MSU director case dismissed
A former director of the Graduate School of Business Leadership at Midlands State University (MSU), Mr. Alois Matongo, faced a legal setback in his attempt to claim US$160,000 in terminal benefits fro...Published: 05 Jul 2024 at 11:04hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans jailed 50 years for railway line theft
Four Zimbabwean men, Nelson Chama (31), Artwell Chakaraya (31), Blessing Matongo (35), and Ophius Marindire (32), have been sentenced to 49 years each by the Thabazimbi Regional Court in South Africa....Published: 04 Jun 2024 at 12:51hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Caps United too weak for Simba
Caps United 1 - 2 Simba BhoraIn a Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match at Rufaro yesterday, Zimbabwe international Walter Musona delivered a late free-kick to secure a victory for Simba Bhora ...Published: 27 May 2024 at 10:03hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Matongorere dies
CAPS United technical director and assistant coach Nelson Matongorere has died aged 68, the club announced on Thursday.A coaching instructor respected across the game, Matongorere died at Pari...Published: 23 May 2024 at 14:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Woman kills aunt in electricity usage row
A dispute over the use of electricity turned fatal when Nella Kundai (27) allegedly stabbed her aunt, Dorothy Matongo (41), three times in the chest with a knife. The incident occurred at their shared...Published: 20 May 2024 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Believing in ancestral spirits is a myth
At death the body and spirit or the material and immaterial separate. In African society the spirits of the dead, variously known in sub-Saharan Africa as amahlozi or amatongo (Zulu), Xhosa), balimo (...Published: 24 Feb 2024 at 17:59hrs | 701 | by Dr Onesimus A. Ngundu
Mnangagwa's office raided
A COURT case has lifted the lid on the smuggling of high-end vehicles into the country by some officers from various State agencies such as the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO).Three of...Published: 15 Feb 2024 at 10:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's office raided
A COURT case has lifted the lid on the smuggling of high-end vehicles into the country by some officers from various State agencies such as the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO).Three of...Published: 15 Feb 2024 at 10:08hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
CAG accidents draining govt coffers
GOVERNMENT has committed to assist families of five people who died after a CAG bus was involved in a head-on collision with a truck along the Karoi-Magunje Road last week.Speaking during the ...Published: 08 Jan 2024 at 05:34hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
2 men killed during beer drinking spree
TWO men died over the weekend in separate incidents following an argument during beer drinking sprees in Southlea Park and Hatcliffe in Harare.Some of the suspects have since been arrested whi...Published: 04 Dec 2023 at 14:39hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Man kills drinking pal
A MAN is on the run after he allegedly fatally stabbed a beer drinking partner due to an undisclosed issue.In a statement, police said Arnold killed Stanford Matongo (35) at Hopley Shopping Ce...Published: 04 Dec 2023 at 14:37hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora moves to sell off MDC property to pay bills
THE once formidable opposition MDC's vast property empire is under threat as party leader Douglas Mwonzora bids to sell some of its prized assets to raise money to settle arrears, including util...Published: 27 Nov 2023 at 16:29hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
3 car smugglers granted bail
Three men who allegedly smuggled top-of-the-range motor vehicles into Zimbabwe from South Africa by fraudulently fitting registration plates from the President's Office to evade taxes and toll fees ha...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 14:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Johane WeMasowe building a 3 000 seater double-storey facility in Bulawayo
Church yaBaba Johane WeMasowe in Bulawayo's Entumbane suburb is building a 3 000 seater double-storey facility, which is expected to be completed in the next five years.The church is celebrati...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 06:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Car-smuggling syndicate arrested
A syndicate of suspected fraudsters who allegedly smuggled high end vehicles into the country and evade paying toll gates has been nabbed, with five of the suspects appearing in court this Tuesday....Published: 04 Oct 2023 at 09:28hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai turning in his grave
THE late opposition MDC stalwart Morgan Richard Tsvangirai who died on 14 February, five years ago, is turning in his grave because some of his family members and close associates have joined the Zanu...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 10:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mberengwa, Nyanga by-election environment should replicate at next year's elections
THE Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) has deployed six static observers in Mberengwa ward 15 and Nyanga ward 27 as well as observers at the ward collation centres and a roving team to the local...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 06:12hrs | | by Zesn
Zanu-PF wins Nyanga and Mberengwa by-elections
THE ruling Zanu-PF party Saturday won two of the contested Rural District Council seats in Nyanga and Mberengwa.The two seats became vacant after the deaths of Zanu-PF councillors Matongo Coll...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 11:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe swindled
FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe was swindled of US$42 000 by her accountant, Jabulani Cornerstone Dumbura who worked at her Highfield Farm in Norton.Dumbura was yesterday arraigned before Harar...Published: 27 May 2022 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe's accountant up for fraud
An accountant at former First Lady Grace Mugabe's Foundation has appeared in court on allegations of defrauding her of US$42 636.Jabulani Cornerstone Dumbura (37), who also manages Mugabe's Hi...Published: 27 May 2022 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
March 26 by-elections drive final nail in the MDC's coffin
THE names, Morgan Tsvangirai, Gibson Sibanda, Welshman Ncube, Fletcher Dulini Ncube and Isaac Matongo have been immortalised in some sections of Zimbabwe's political discourse. Against all odds, they ...Published: 01 Apr 2022 at 10:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
End of the road for Tsvangirai's MDC
D-DAY has arrived for the MDC brand, with the electorate expected to decide its fate, as analysts say the iconic party associated with the firebrand Morgan Tsvangirai may disappear into oblivion if it...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mudzi women jailed over boyfriend
TWO Mudzi women were slapped with six months jail term on Friday by Mutoko magistrate Elijah Sibanda after they bashed a villager accusing her...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 20:11hrs | 8 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Hyena invades school
VILLAGERS in Murewa, Mashonaland East province, are living in fear after a rabid hyena killed one person, attacked two others and invaded a local boarding school on two occasions.The dismember...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
The rise and fall of the MDC: Winners, losers and neutrals
AS Zimbabwe approaches crucial by-elections in March, which will test the strength of main contestants while determining the authentic opposition, there is no denying that the MDC, which has posed the...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:21hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Suspected thieves shot dead
Two transformer thieves were shot and killed near Murombedzi Growth Point in a shoot-out with police after they failed to stop at a police checkpoint.The incident happened on Saturday morning....Published: 07 Feb 2022 at 05:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Of a Civilian who rescued 8 people from the burning bus and of a soldier who shot and killed 4 civilians
On the 24 of December a very unfortunate thing happened along Harare Mutare Highway at Matongo, just 20 km away from Mutare when a Beta Bus and a fuel tanker involved into a head on collision....Published: 27 Dec 2021 at 19:01hrs | 8 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Bus collides with fuel tanker, passengers burnt to death
A significant number of passengers were burnt to death in an accident after a bus they were traveling in collided with a fuel tanker on Friday near Mutare tollgate.The bus, owned by Beta bus c...Published: 25 Dec 2021 at 09:25hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Robin Vela slaps Finance ministry director with US$2 million lawsuit
FORMER NSSA board chairperson Robin Vela is demanding US$2 million from a Finance ministry director, Memory Mukondomi, who this week implicated him in the ongoing Priscah Mupfumira corruption case....Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 05:55hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Chitembwe returns to Caps United
HARARE giants Caps United yesterday unveiled Lloyd Chitembwe as the new coach for a third stint at the club.The unveiling ceremony took place at the National Sports Stadium.He returns ...Published: 09 Nov 2021 at 05:36hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, Mwonzora's plot to 'takeover' ZCTU
Zanu-PF and the MDC-T have set their sight on taking over control of the firebrand workers' group, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) at its elective congress set for this Friday, NewZimbabw...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:34hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Johannesburg's Zimbabwean mayor dies in car crash
Johannesburg's mayor Jolidee Matongo, a Zimbabwean only elected to the position last month, has died in a car accident.Matongo was involved in a car accident after the ANC program in Soweto wh...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 20:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says, 'We need a new direction: Every vote matters'
TWO decades ago, a diverse range of people and groups came together to build a glorious movement that would play a significant role in shaping the governance of our country.At the time, Zimbab...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:23hrs | 10 | by Nelson Chamisa
Bitcoin pyramid scheme collapses
INNOCENT Matongo, a Zimbabwean expatriate worker based in Boksburg, South Africa is ruing the day he decided to latch on to a get-rich-quick scheme.After investing thousands of United States d...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 06:52hrs | 10 | by Emmanuel Kafe
Malema refuses to reject Zimbabwean linked Johannesburg mayor
South Africa's firebrand opposition politician Julius Malema has refused to be canvassed to reject Johannesburg's new mayor - whose father was an immigrant from Zimbabwe.Jolidee Matongo was el...Published: 12 Aug 2021 at 07:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Son of a Zimbabwean immigrant who is Joburg mayor defended after xenophobic attacks
Johannesburg's new mayor - whose father was an immigrant from Zimbabwe - was described as "capable and fit" on Wednesday after anti-immigration activists criticised his election.Jolidee Matong...Published: 11 Aug 2021 at 21:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Xenophobic campaign launched against Zimbabwean Mayor of Joburg
Some sections of South African Twitter Community have launched a xenophobic social media campaign against the newly elected Mayor of Johannesburg Jolidee Matongo. The campaign is being run und...Published: 11 Aug 2021 at 12:00hrs | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwean takes over as Johannesburg Mayor
Jolidee Matongo, the son of a migrant from Zimbabwe, has been elected unopposed as new executive mayor of the City of Johannesburg, the metro announced on Tuesday.The 269 councillors in the me...Published: 11 Aug 2021 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF has failed fallen heroes
HUMAN rights groups and opposition political parties yesterday blamed the current economic meltdown in the country on Zanu-PF, adding the regime has failled the aspirations of its fallen heroes....Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 08:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Loga's contract review date set
ZIFA'S technical development committee has asked Warriors' coach Zdravko Logarusic to submit his report following the team's dismal performance in the Cosafa Cup in South Africa.The six-time C...Published: 17 Jul 2021 at 15:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman weeps in court
A Harare woman wept uncontrollably before a magistrate saying that her sisters-in-law were abusing her, leaving her with no joy at her parents' house. The court had to adjourn and resume later...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
'UZ defies lockdown'
LECTURERS and staff at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) have accused authorities of defying lockdown measures by ordering them to report for duty or sign up official leave days. Lectures who sp...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 20:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Magistrate arrested for fining Venezuelan dealer found with $500k cocaine
HARARE Magistrate Morgan Nemadire has been arrested and charged with criminal abuse of office after he convicted but fined a Venezuelan national $700 after the latter was found in possession of 5kg of...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's crack unit takes aim at top Magistrate
A crack unit in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's office has instructed the police to arrest a top magistrate on corruption allegations after passing a judgment which allegedly undermines the criminal ju...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 22:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Stock thief fatally assaulted
Four Mwenezi men allegedly teamed up and fatally assaulted a suspected stock thief last week. Simon Matongo (18), Morerest Chivasa (21),Tinashe Machesa (20) and Richardo Moyo (18) from Peter P...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 06:44hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
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