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Female cop up for ivory possession
A female police officer stationed at the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Chinhoyi Central has appeared in the Harare Magistrates' Court facing charges of illegal possession of ivory. Gilda Chaziva, 38,...Published: 26 May 2025 at 08:16hrs | 79 | by Staff reporter
Chinese man on the run over rhino horns
A Chinese man, Lin Wang, is on the run after a clearing agent, Cuthbert Maoko, was arrested for attempting to facilitate the smuggling of five rhinoceros horns hidden in an owl-shaped plastic sculptur...Published: 10 Dec 2024 at 07:07hrs | 499 | by Staff reporter
Zimparks ranger arrested for lion poaching in Hwange National Park
A Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority ranger has been arrested in connection with the recent poaching of three lions, whose carcasses were discovered headless and without paws in...Published: 28 Oct 2024 at 07:00hrs | 1054 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge man gets six months jail term for poaching
A 23-year-old man from Ndambe Village, Beitbridge has been slapped with a six-month jail term after he was caught hunting in the park.Emmanuel Moyo (23) appeared before Beitbridge Magistrates'...Published: 09 Oct 2024 at 09:37hrs | 480 | by Stephen Jakes
Impala hunting man jailed 6 months
A 41-year-old man was arrested for illegally hunting impalas without proper authorization.On August 30, 2024, at around 7:00 PM, game scouts spotted Aram Sibanda and his accomplices leaving Ba...Published: 07 Sep 2024 at 14:46hrs | 205 | by Staff reporter
Duo nabbed for possession of giraffe meat
Two individuals from Dete in Matabeleland North province have been apprehended for violating the Parks and Wildlife Act after being discovered with giraffe meat.Thulani Dube (28) and Smart Ban...Published: 06 Sep 2024 at 07:38hrs | 139 | by Staff reporter
Man busted with 2 deadly Cobras
A GOKWE man has landed himself in trouble after he was found in possession of two Cobra species, which he claims he uses to heal sick people.Polite Ncube was arrested last week and appeared at...Published: 30 Mar 2024 at 14:02hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Man found with five lion heads in Zimbabwe
A MAN from Masvingo who was found in possession of five dried lion heads worth US$100 000, appeared in court yesterday charged with contravening the Parks and Wildlife Act.Prosecuting, Ms Berl...Published: 20 Feb 2024 at 05:02hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Ex-soldiers jailed
TWO former soldiers were last week sentenced to nine years in jail for illegal possession of ivory.Wilfred Minesi (33) and Virimayi Nyandoro (36) were convicted and sentenced by magistrate Ruth ...Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 06:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Sangoma gives python hide to Professor
A bid to get superpowers from a python hide given to Professor Sibanda by a traditional healer hit a brick wall after he was arrested.The 30-year-old Sibanda was arrested for contravening sect...Published: 24 Oct 2023 at 14:10hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa brings back PVO Bill on Parliament schedule
President Emmerson Mnangagwa officially commenced the First Session of the 10th Parliament of Zimbabwe on Tuesday. In his address, he urged legislators to prioritize the completion of several outstand...Published: 04 Oct 2023 at 06:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa addresses first session of 10th Parliament
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa addressed the first session of the 10th Parliament this afternoon at the new Parliament Building in Mount Hampden, Harare.Below is the full speech.It is my singular...Published: 03 Oct 2023 at 14:30hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Tsikamutandas caught planting live python
TWO self-styled traditional healers popularly known as Tsikamutandas' attempt to dupe a Kwekwe family went horribly wrong after they were seen attempting to plant a live python behind a family's wardr...Published: 07 Jun 2023 at 16:31hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube transforms from technocrat to political player
IF ever there was any doubt, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has fully abandoned his posture as a neutral technocrat after being elected a Zanu-PF central committee member last weekend.The centr...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 18:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
30 kgs ivory lands four in trouble
FOUR suspected poachers on Wednesday appeared before Guruve magistrates court on charges of contravening the Parks and Wildlife Act....Published: 15 Oct 2022 at 17:49hrs | 30 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Nehanda shrine under siege from illegal gold miners
SITUATED 30km north of Harare is an area of rocky hillsides overlooking the Mazowe River.The area boasts several botanical interests.However, Gomba, as the area is also known, is...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 09:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Security guard drowns while poaching fish
A 33-YEAR-OLD Mazowe Henderson Research security guard drowned yesterday at Mazowe dam where he was allegedly caught poaching fish by Zimbabwe National Parks (ZimParks) officials.Martin Chisim...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 15:54hrs | 35 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Snake prophet fined $30 000
A SELF-STYLED Mutare prophet Maxwell Muguti has been fined $30 000 for illegal possession of a live rinkhals cobra.Muguti, who was arrested last week after he got the venomous snake from a tra...Published: 18 May 2021 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe considers mass elephant killing
Zimbabwe is considering the mass killing of elephants, known as culling, for the first time since 1988 to reduce the 100 000-strong population of the animals.The government of Zimbabwe, which ...Published: 06 May 2021 at 09:50hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Man in court over crocodile skin
A HARARE man appeared in court after being found in possession of a crocodile skin worth US$1 500 he allegedly intended to trade at a soccer betting shop in Harare's Central Business District. ...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 07:22hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's Mugwadi parades his net fishing catch
Zanu-PF Director of Information Tafadzwa Mugwadi paraded his net fishing adventures at Nyazvidzi River, which borders around being illegal.In Zimbabwe fishing by rod or line fishing, except in...Published: 27 Jan 2021 at 20:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa spells parliament's legislative agenda
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has outlined the third session of the Ninth Parliament's legislative agenda that is expected to consolidate the Government's political and economic reform agenda.Officially...Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 19:10hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Minister 'unleashes' Zanu-PF youths, police to grab mine
Mashonaland East Provincial Affairs minister Appolonia Munzverengi is being accused of using her political muscle to grab a mining claim owned by Mekasi Engineering.The company claim that the ...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 08:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sangoma takes pangolin fight to High Court
A Binga inyanga serving nine years in prison for illegal possession of 400 grammes of pangolin scales has approached the High Court challenging his sentence. Damason Mutale (39) of Chininga vi...Published: 23 May 2019 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Conservancy sued for US$500 000
A Harare man who was shot on suspicion of poaching the endangered rhino at Bubi Valley Conservancy, two years ago, has slapped the wildlife sanctuary with US$550 000 lawsuit for damages. Mr Nhamo Kufa...Published: 21 May 2019 at 06:15hrs | | by STaff reporter
Former Victoria Falls mayor freed
FORMER Victoria Falls mayor Sifiso Mpofu who was arrested and found in possession of ivory was awarded temporary freedom after he was released on bail.Mpofu, 42, who was also found in possessi...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 14:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man found with live pangolins in bedroom
A BULAWAYO man has been arrested after he was found in possession of two live pangolins and Zesa copper cables in his house.Welcome Moyo, of Cowdray Park, pleaded not guilty to unlawful posses...Published: 23 Feb 2019 at 06:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man to pay $1,000 for killing antelope
A 32-year-old Mwenezi poacher was last week ordered to pay $1 000 to Mujingwe Conservancy after he killed an antelope in the sanctuary. Orderly Ndlovu of Situpa Village under Chief Mazetese wa...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 22:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sangoma denied bail for possessing baboon skulls
A SUSPECTED inyanga from Dete in Matabeleland North was found in unlawful possession of several baboon skulls, raw ivory, python and lion skins and 16 scales of pangolin all valued at $30 000. ...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 08:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police lay fresh charges on 7 Chinese nationals
POLICE have opened fresh charges of money laundering and theft of a motor vehicle against seven Chinese nationals who are being accused of possessing more than 20kg of rhino horn pieces with a combine...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 09:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwig caught with $5k pangolin scales
ZANU-PF Matabeleland North administration officer Robert John Khumalo is in trouble after he was recently caught allegedly trying to sell pangolin scales worth $5 000.Khumalo appeared before H...Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 16:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Prince Harry was ours: Beitbridge
UNITED KINGDOM Prince Harry's wedding to Meghan Markle at the weekend beamed live across the world had another effect in a small town of Zimbabwe called Beitbridge.Lying some 12 600km along th...Published: 25 May 2018 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimparks authorities reward pangolin trade whistle blower
Wild life authorities in Zimbabwe have apprehended a villager in Hwange area for dealing in pangolin and rewarded the whistle-blower for bringing the illegal trade to their attention.Ntandoyen...Published: 21 Mar 2018 at 17:41hrs | | by Simiso Mlevu
WATCH: Cheating love birds get stuck together, die during sex
Two married cheats died in Goromonzi, Mashonaland East in a suspected Runyoka\Ulunyoka last week Bulawayo24.com heard.Sources familiar with the incident allege the cheats were stuck together a...Published: 10 Mar 2018 at 17:56hrs | 10 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Audit exposes Zimparks rot
Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) board members are in a spot of bother after a Government audit revealed that they could have used funds from the parastatal unproce...Published: 29 Jan 2018 at 05:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP acquitted in pangolin case
Nyanga North legislator, Hubert Nyanhongo and three other accomplices, who were facing charges of dealing in specially protected animals after they were allegedly found in possession of a live pangoli...Published: 13 Sep 2017 at 15:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Baboon meat lands four in trouble
Four Seke men who trapped a baboon, killed it before sharing the meat for relish were on Friday arraigned before Marondera Magistrate Arnold Maburo facing charges of contravening section 59 (S) of the...Published: 10 Sep 2017 at 09:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
9 years for python skin belt
A Harare man was slapped with a nine-year prison term after being busted selling a python skin belt without a licence.Kingston Gwenzi, 29, of Highfield pleaded guilty to charges of contravenin...Published: 30 Jul 2017 at 10:19hrs | | by Staff reportr
Man kills crocodile, father sprinkles juju in court
An 18-year-old man Mbire district allegedly hunted and killed a crocodile in the Utete river in Mashonaland Central province.It emerged at the Guruve magistrate court that Oliva Kwainonona of ...Published: 15 May 2017 at 14:41hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Tsikamutanda under investigation
ZIMBABWE'S state wildlife authority says it is investigating reports of a man who allegedly dragged two pythons through the streets of a Harare suburb as part of a witch-hunting exercise.Image...Published: 12 May 2017 at 16:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP arrested
Zanu-PF Nyanga North legislator Hubert Nyanhongo and his three accomplices were remanded in custody by a Chipinge magistrate on Monday on charges of possessing a pangolin, which they attempted to ...Published: 05 Apr 2017 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mobile phone betrays poacher
A poaching escapade by a 43-year-old Kwekwe man went awry recently when he dropped his mobile phone on the crime scene soon after killing a rhinoceros and removed its horns worth $120 000 in Bubye Val...Published: 05 Jan 2017 at 09:01hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Vultures face extinction as betting outlets sprout
THE mushrooming of sports betting outlets has given rise to a demand for a concoction of vulture body parts used as luck charms, a factor which might result in the extinction of the carnivorous bi...Published: 11 Dec 2016 at 08:28hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Two nabbed with pangolin
A MOZAMBICAN national and his Zimbabwean counterpart were arrested after being found in possession of a live pangolin in Mutare’s Central Business District.Manica Post reported that Kheni Gi...Published: 14 Jun 2016 at 07:09hrs | | by Tendai Gukutiwa
Malawian man caught with snake in Harare CBD
A 21-YEAR-OLD Malawian man yesterday appeared in court after he was caught with a snake in Harare's CBD intending to take it to a traditional healer in South Africa.Jafali M'Mbwana of Mangitsh...Published: 07 May 2016 at 08:44hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Man found with snake head in satchel
A CHIKANGA man who shocked residents and police officers after he was found in possession of a snake head in his wallet was last week fined fined $100.Manica Post reported that Spencer Kahodo ...Published: 13 Feb 2016 at 08:34hrs | | by Collette Mukome
CIO agents supplied rhino poachers with AK47, arrested
A CENTRAL Intelligence Organisation operative based in Masvingo - Mudenge Munashe Mugwira has been dragged to court on four counts of killing rhinos valued at $480 000 and selling the horns to private...Published: 05 Jan 2016 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Black mamba man fined, snake turns out to be Egyptian cobra
A 32-year-old man from Chihota, who was arrested two weeks ago after being found with venomous snake in his bag has been fine.According to media reports last week, Grey Mupinganjira was caught...Published: 23 Sep 2015 at 00:13hrs | | by Staff Reporter
I want my snake back, man tells court
A CHIHOTA man who was arrested for possessing a live Egyptian cobra (not a black mamba as earlier indicated) yesterday told a Harare magistrate he wanted his snake back. Grey Mupinganjira (32) of Muho...Published: 16 Sep 2015 at 06:28hrs | | by Fungai Lupande
'Black Mamba' man in court, shocked why he is being charged
The 32-year-old man Grey Mupinganjira who was arrested after being found in possession of a black mamba has appeared in court.Mupinganjira of Malawian origin has been charged for contravening ...Published: 15 Sep 2015 at 16:59hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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