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Guvamatanga faces scrutiny over South African properties
George Guvamatanga, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, is under investigation following revelations of his extensive property portfolio in South Africa. This development has raised si...Published: 10 Sep 2024 at 08:25hrs | 10028 | by Staff reporter
'Armed robber' walks into police station after failing to nurse gunshot wound
A suspect involved in an armed robbery, who was shot in the rib cage by security guards during the heist in Waterfalls, Harare, reportedly walked into a police station and provided false information, ...Published: 26 Oct 2023 at 13:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man arrested while selling neighbour's 'missing goat'
The police have apprehended a man who was allegedly in the process of selling his neighbor's goat, which had been stolen.According to a police statement, the incident of livestock theft took p...Published: 28 Sep 2023 at 18:06hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF pays homage to Tagwirei
Zanu-PF held its last star rally at Tongogara growth point in Shurugwi yesterday, which many believe was meant to pay homage to the party's chief benefactor, controversial businessman Kudakwashe Tagwi...Published: 20 Aug 2023 at 09:29hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
SMEs seek Mnangagwa's intervention after clampdown by Zimparks
The Small and Medium Enterprises for ED and Bussinesses for ED have approached President Mnangagwa after Zimparks reportedly blacklisted them on all procurement bids.In a letter addressed to t...Published: 20 Jul 2023 at 18:07hrs | 10 | by Desmond Nleya
Rights lawyers demand action against Zanu-PF prison officer
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) lawyer Innocent Gonese of Lawman Law Chambers (LLC) has written to Zimbabwe Prison and Correctional Services (ZPCS) Commissioner-General Moses Chihobvu demandi...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 14:23hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zvobgo threatens to kick out Zanu-PF from offices if he loses primaries
Perennial loser Edison Zvobgo Junior, who is contesting Zanu-PF primaries for the third time, has allegedly threatened to send the party packing from his premises where the Masvingo provincial offices...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 11:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Highway robbers wreak havoc in Mashonaland East
POLICE in Chivhu, Mashonaland East province, have launched a manhunt for a gang of four people linked to a spate of armed robberies along the highways.The suspects are believed to be using an ...Published: 01 Feb 2022 at 05:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Forex Covid-19 allowances for civil servants, pensioners
Civil servants will receive their US$75 monthly Covid-19 risk allowances in US dollars from this month, as will Government pensioners with their US$30 allowances, as the Government uses the dual-curre...Published: 07 Jan 2022 at 05:52hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC claims more attacks
THE MDC Alliance yesterday claimed that Zanu-PF supporters mounted a "roadblock" in Gutu, kidnapped and beat up some opposition supporters at their meeting with party leader Nelson Chamisa, who is on ...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ratepayers act against council graft
Harare ratepayers have petitioned Parliament over the tightening of laws to curb corruption in municipalities following a spate of arrests of council officials in the capital on accusations of corrupt...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 09:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala talks tough
Following the MDC Alliance elective congress recently, our deputy editor, Tangai Chipangura (TC), spoke to the newly-elected vice-chairman of the party Job Sikhala (JS) on a wide range of issues....Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 21:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man jailed for raping stepdaughter
A 41-YEAR-OLD Bindura rapist was slapped with a 36 year jail term for raping his 10-year-old step daughter by a Bindura magistrate yesterday. The man from Mupandawana village under chief Musan...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:02hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
UK based Zim group raises money for Cyclone Idai through British Red Cross
Zimbabwe Leeds Community (ZLC) group have raised over £500 to help support communities in Zimbabwe after the tragic events of Cyclone Idai at the beginning of March in Zimbabwe and Mozambique....Published: 20 May 2019 at 12:31hrs | | by Tidi Kwidini
Chimbetu's 'lovechild' preaches unity
Dendera musician Chamson Boroma, affectionately known as Aforomani, has released a six-track album titled Tiripamwe laden with social commentaries.Boroma, who claims to be the son of the late ...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 08:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
2019: The coming of a dry season
Throughout historical annals, January and December occupy a unique and famous status in the hearts of global citizens. Being first and last in a year, the months are well known for their joy, hope and...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 19:55hrs | 1 | by Sympae Mutimbanyoka-Masikinye
Students abuse morning after pills
The National AIDS Council (NAC) has raised a red flag over the increased use of morning-after family planning pills by female students at tertiary institutions in Masvingo.Speaking to journali...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 05:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF: The re-birth and the re-opening
THERE is a certain refreshing aura around names on the official list of candidates contesting today's Zanu-PF primary elections ahead of national elections scheduled for July this year.Some of...Published: 29 Apr 2018 at 08:54hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs face uncertain future
Only two seating Members of Parliament in Manicaland Province are guaranteed of progressing to the do-or-die general elections to be held in July this year after their respective constituencies could ...Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 11:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jail me please, thief begs magistrate
A PLUMTREE man who was nabbed for stealing property worth $4 000 has asked the magistrate to send him to the slammer because he cannot afford to pay back what he stole.Mthandazo Moyo (29) of n...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
How Grace crushed Robert Mugabe
HARARE - History will record that it was a previously under-estimated woman, Grace "Dr Stop It" Mugabe, who succeeded in spectacular fashion to achieve what hardened male gladiators who include opposi...Published: 31 Dec 2017 at 20:53hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Jilted man kills ex-lover with machete
A JILTED gold panner from Shurugwi allegedly fatally struck his live in girlfriend with a machete on the forehead outside a bar after accusing her of ditching him.Police arrested Tafadzwa Maza...Published: 06 Nov 2017 at 05:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa fights back
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa's strongholds - Midlands and Masvingo provinces - convened emergency meetings yesterday and annulled the suspensions of its top provincial executives by Zanu-PF polit...Published: 31 Oct 2017 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
It's sink or swim for Mnangagwa
Political analysts say the recent suspensions of key Zanu-PF officials aligned to embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa leave the Midlands godfather with the option of either fighting back or si...Published: 30 Oct 2017 at 12:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Grace Mugabe VP a wish list,' says Zanu-PF's Mangwana
Zanu-PF deputy secretary for Legal Affairs, Paul Mangwana, has dismissed growing calls by the party's influential youth league to have a woman replace one of the country's two vice presidents, as a wi...Published: 24 Oct 2017 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutasa warns Mugabe, brawling aides
As Zanu-PF's succession wars reach a deadly climax, former State Security minister, Didymus Mutasa - who was for decades one of President Robert Mugabe's closest confidants - has warned that things "c...Published: 17 Oct 2017 at 13:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's ferocious fightback shows that Zanu-PF wars far from over
The ferocious fightback in last Wednesday's explosive Zanu-PF politburo meeting by under-fire Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his backers shows that the former liberation movement's deadly succe...Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 18:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's Zanu-PF splits
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa says President Robert Mugabe has no reason to ever fear a coup against him - blaming Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo for raising false alarms in his alleged d...Published: 14 Oct 2017 at 15:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa speaks on Majonga saga
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has broken his silence on the damaging claims that he forced legendary broadcaster Godfrey Majonga to jump from a high-rise apartment in Harare 30 years ago, after he...Published: 13 Oct 2017 at 13:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa takes fight to Moyo
Embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa will today get an opportunity to present a dossier to the Zanu-PF politburo on Cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo's alleged plot to destroy the former liberatio...Published: 11 Oct 2017 at 17:26hrs | | by Staf reporter
Mnangagwa fires warning shots
Embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has for the first time come to the defence of his beleaguered allies - urging them to unflinchingly stand by their own, the Daily News can report.In...Published: 02 Oct 2017 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Karanga people under attack - Zodwa Wabantu rescues Masvingo
Karanga people are clever. Korekore people are uneducated. All Ndebeles want to do is drink, burn meat over fire and dance, if they are not stabbing people. Manyika people learn a few English words an...Published: 25 Sep 2017 at 18:38hrs | | by Jera
Silobela man on the run after raping, robbing 30 women
A 27-year-old Silobela man is reported to have raped and robbed 30 women in Parker, Mutimutema village.The suspect, Stanford Ntini Sibanda is reported to have brought untold suffering to Silob...Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 08:31hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mahofa burial set for Sunday
The late Minister of State for Masvingo, Shuvai Mahofa, who died in the early hours of Monday and was declared a national heroine, will be laid to rest on Sunday.Politburo member Josiah Hungwe...Published: 17 Aug 2017 at 14:20hrs | | by Staff Reporter
MDC-T Masvingo Cadres mobilise support for Tsvangirai
MDC-T provincial leaders held a highly subscribed meeting at Mupandawana in Gutu Masvingo to mobilise support for Morgan Tsvangirai in the 2018 elections.36 wards attended this meeting , the P...Published: 25 Jul 2017 at 21:04hrs | | by Patricia Masiyakurima
Police launch manhunt for daring robbers
A crack police team from the Criminal Investigations Department has launched a manhunt for daring robbers who pounced on a church in one of Harare's low density suburbs, raped a woman, and got away wi...Published: 08 Jul 2017 at 17:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Controversial hero status for Cde Chinx Chingaira
To loved ones he's left behind, I say, 'Nematambudziko for the passing of Dickson Chingaira Makoni aka Chinx.''Afa anaka' a Zimbabwean saying translated 'better he that's passed' but not anymo...Published: 20 Jun 2017 at 07:32hrs | | by Silvanos Mudzvova
Zimbabwe students shine in Kenya
A 16 member delegation comprising students and teachers who left the country a week ago for the Orate Africa competitions held in Karibu, Kenya are back in the country with 16 medals and two t...Published: 18 Apr 2017 at 20:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cop loses AK47
A policeman guarding examination material at Mupandawana High School in Gutu, Masvingo, is battling for life in hospital after he was attacked by knife-wielding men who disarmed him and fled with ...Published: 10 Nov 2016 at 04:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Riot cop bashed with iron bar
A member of the Zimbabwe Republic Police support unit guarding Zimsec exam papers in Gutu, Masvingo at Mupandawana Secondary school was struck with an iron bar. This is the third time such an incident...Published: 07 Nov 2016 at 18:27hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Soldiers threaten Gutu villagers
The Heal Zimbabwe Trust has reported that government has deployed soldiers in Gutu Ward 33 where they are reportedly intimidating people over the National Electoral Reform Agenda protests organise...Published: 23 Sep 2016 at 07:54hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF declares a de facto state of emergency
The beleaguered and faction - ridden Zanu-PF regime has since gone completely rogue. On Saturday, September 17, 2016, the collapsing regime, fronted by Robert Mugabe, proved to the entire world, b...Published: 18 Sep 2016 at 14:46hrs | | by Obert Chaurura Gutu
Smallhouse 'kidnapped, tested for pregnancy'
THE wife of an engineer from Gutu allegedly kidnapped a Harare-based nurse, doused her with petrol before taking her to a bush where she forced her to undergo a pregnancy test as punishment for allege...Published: 03 Feb 2016 at 05:29hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
Injiva must shun crime
Zimbabweans working in South Africa bring colour and verve when they troop back home for the festive season.Some of them are showmen, out to demonstrate that they have it all - money, nice car...Published: 01 Jan 2016 at 11:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mangoma's acceptance speech
SALUTATIONS Madam Vice President and members of the Management Committee, Guardian Council Members, NEC Members, Provinces and District members ...Published: 24 Oct 2015 at 14:13hrs | 2 | by Elton Steers Mangoma RDZ President
Policeman steals poison from evidence room, commits suicide
A POLICEMAN from Gweru beat up four people in a street fight while in uniform and allegedly went on to commit suicide by drinking poison which he stole from the evidence room at his workplace....Published: 07 Oct 2015 at 06:15hrs | | by Elizabeth Tsuro
9 years in jail for armed robber
A SERIAL armed robber who posed as a police officer and robbed unsuspecting motorists has been slapped with a nine year jail.Boston Jochoma pleaded not guilty to two counts of armed robbery, b...Published: 13 Sep 2015 at 09:20hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Concourt stays prosecution of Gutu man persecuted for undermining police authority
THE Constitutional Court (ConCourt) on Wednesday 15 July 2015 halted criminal proceedings brought against Charles Zvenyika, a Gutu man, who was charged with contravening section 177 of the Criminal La...Published: 16 Jul 2015 at 11:12hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Villagers harassed and intimidated after seeking court order against soldiers
The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights Communications Manager Kumbirai Mafunda has said villagers in Gutu, Masvingo province are enduring intimidation and harassment from some soldiers after they petit...Published: 20 Jun 2015 at 15:03hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Woman kills man and eats his brains
A Gutu woman this morning viciously split open a herd boys skull and ate his brains while villagers watched helplessly, police confirmed.The woman identified as Esther Katandwa of Mupanda...Published: 03 Dec 2014 at 20:50hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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