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'Soldiers fired randomly on August 1'
A victim of the August 1 post-poll violence which claimed six lives said soldiers fired randomly at people in the streets and he was hit by a stray bullet.Giving his evidence on the second day...Published: 3 hrs ago | 1483 | by Staff reporter
ZRP urges vigilance on new carjacking methods
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police has urged members of the public to be wary of criminals who have devised a new method of stealing vehicles by getting involved in a "minor accident" with the targeted car ...Published: 21 hrs ago | 2641 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF backers justify army use of deadly force
A public hearing on the August 1 violence entered a third day at a hotel in the capital yesterday, with Zanu-PF supporters claiming that the army cannot be blamed for the election unrest that turned d...Published: 20 Oct 2018 at 13:56hrs | 4035 | by Staff reporter
Varsity student steals ladies panties
A 21-year-old Midlands State University student was early this week ordered to perform 70 hours of community service after he was convicted of stealing panties from female students to use them for mas...Published: 20 Oct 2018 at 08:21hrs | 950 | by Staff reporter
Lobengula did not disappear
INFORMATION diffused widely in this country after the extermination of the Allan Wilson Patrol by the heroic rear guard of King Lobengula under the command of Mtshana Khumalo was that the last Ndebele...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 07:11hrs | 4146 | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Chiwenga's aide steals from boss's neighbour
A SOLDIER assigned to guard Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's Borrowdale Brooke residence was yesterday convicted of stealing from his boss' neighbour.Nyasha Mbudaya (25) pleaded guilty to...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 07:01hrs | 2800 | by Staff reporter
Egodini mall developer creates WhatsApp platform for job seekers
TERRACOTTA (Private) Limited (TPL), developers of the Egodini Mall project have created a WhatsApp platform for residents to access application forms following chaos that characterised their recruitme...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 06:40hrs | 413 | by Staff reporter
Minister clarifies on Mberengwa Police District Office establishment
THE deputy MINISTER of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Mike Madiro has clarified the government's position of the establishment of Mberengwa district Police offices."Let me from the onset p...Published: 16 Oct 2018 at 09:11hrs | 1722 | by Stephen Jakes
ZCTU bosses granted bail
Trade union leaders and scores of activists detained in Zimbabwe ahead of planned marches over the country's worsening economic crisis, were released on bail Saturday, lawyers said.Cossam Ncub...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 19:27hrs | 928 | by AFP
Shake-up at ZRP
Several senior police officers have been moved from the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP)'s traffic section to other units within the force.The transfers are part of efforts by the law enforcemen...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 14:10hrs | 2426 | by Staff reporter
List of Zimbabwe police officers being transferred
FROM COMPOL [HRA] TO ALL STNS CLASS ‘A’ RDO TM 375/18 DD 11/10/18'IMMEDIATE'SUBJECT: TRANSFERS: OFFICERS AND...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 20:02hrs | 13007 | by Compol HRA
Armed police patrolling streets in Harare
Zimbabwe police arrested trade union leaders and scores of activists nationwide on Thursday ahead of planned marches over the country's worsening economic crisis, lawyers said.Zimbabwe Lawyers...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 13:40hrs | 4033 | by AFP
Shonas bash Ndebeles in brutal Gwanda gold war
At least twenty informal gold miners have been brutally injured with three others reported dead in a fierce gold mine war in Gwanda.It is reported that a group of miners from Kwekwe attacked l...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 11:47hrs | 4755 | by Staff reporter
Toy gun-toting robbers caged
TWO toy gun-wielding robbers have been caged in Beitbridge after way-laying three villagers at the Limpopo River and robbing them of R1 200.Godfrey Mbedzi (29) and Never Sibanda (23), both of ...Published: 08 Oct 2018 at 11:21hrs | 2542 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police go high-tech on roads
Police are rolling out high-tech equipment for e-ticketing, speed traps and breathalyser tests as efforts intensify to ensure compliance with traffic laws.The equipment, to be deployed next mo...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 14:28hrs | 4656 | by Staff reporter
'Declare hyenas state of disaster'
BUHERA South MP Joseph Chinotimba on Wednesday said hyenas were killing people in his constituency and called on government to declare the situation a state of disaster.Chinotimba made the req...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 06:51hrs | 4239 | by Staff reporter
Something stinks in Zimbabwe
Riot police with batons and water cannon patrolling the streets. Disease spreading. Zimbabwe is open for business they say.The most vibrant sector of the economy disagrees. Reports say harasse...Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 20:19hrs | 2379 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Harare CBD resembled a war zone yesterday
HARARE central business district resembled a war zone yesterday as police continued to engage in cat-and-mouse chases with vendors and rogue commuter omnibus crews.Trucks full of police detail...Published: 29 Sep 2018 at 12:53hrs | 600 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police here to stay
The police will continue to patrol the streets of Harare while confiscating wares of those vendors resisting relocation to designated vending sites."We have commitment from the Zimbabwe Republ...Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 16:26hrs | 513 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police disband traffic branch
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has disbanded the traffic section, rendering top posts in that department redundant, as he moves to create a lean structure at the top following indications ...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 10:10hrs | 4807 | by Staff reporter
Police escalate fight against vendors
POLICE yesterday reinforced their security, with some police details getting onto the streets armed with AK-47 rifles, as the law enforcement agency upped its effort to evict defiant vendors from Hara...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 09:28hrs | 477 | by Staff reporter
Police enforce vending ban
A SMALL group of illegal vendors yesterday engaged in running battles with the police as they refused to leave the streets as part of Government efforts to contain the cholera outbreak, which has so f...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 06:36hrs | 369 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ups security
JOURNALISTS and some dignitaries were Thursday subjected to rigorous and humiliating body searches by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's security as they arrived for the commissioning of housing and tomat...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:11hrs | 733 | by Staff reporter
Zesa offers whistleblowers rewards for exposing the criminals
ZESA has invited whistleblowers to volunteer information that could lead to the arrest of culprits behind the vandalism and theft of electricity infrastructure. In a statement, Zesa said the i...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 07:14hrs | 594 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean man killed in SA
Several houses in South Africa were reportedly damaged, while cars were burnt on Monday following the arrest of nine taxi drivers after a Zimbabwean man was attacked and killed in his tuckshop in Kler...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:12hrs | 1605 | by Staff reporter
Gweru vendors relive running battles with municipal cops
Molleen Makasi (54) runs across a busy street in Gweru's central business district while clutching a bag full of tomatoes, onions, carrots and vegetables. At the corner of the road, she is blocked by ...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 08:33hrs | 453 | by Staff reporter
84-yr-old granny arrested for tototo brewing
AN 84-YEAR-OLD woman has been arrested in Nyamandlovu for brewing an illicit beer popularly known as tototo. Alice Ngwenya of village 6B, under chief Deli, was found in possession of 60 litres...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 08:24hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
TelOne acts on cable thefts
STATE-OWNED telecoms operator, TelOne, has stepped up efforts to curb increased network vandalism and copper cable thefts by installing security alarms on the copper cable infrastructure.Of la...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 06:56hrs | 441 | by Staff reporter
Thieves raid CID farm in Marondera
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has arrested two suspected thieves after they allegedly raided the Criminal Investigations (CID) Projects Farm in Marondera and stole property and copper cables wort...Published: 25 Aug 2018 at 16:07hrs | 2484 | by Staff Reporter
Pair up for scattering oranges laced with cyanide in park
TWO Victoria Falls men have been dragged to court for allegedly throwing 68 cyanide-laced oranges in the Zambezi National Park.Mkhululi Nkomo (35) and Noel Mwembe (32) both from Mkhosana high-...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:54hrs | 724 | by Staff reporter
Hunter challenges conviction, sentence
PROFESSIONAL hunter Theodore Christian Bronkhorst (55) has approached the High Court challenging his conviction and sentence in connection with the smuggling of 29 sables worth $435 000 to South Afric...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 05:56hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
Mbanje man's bid to scare off cops fails
A MAN from Bulawayo has been arrested for possessing mbanje worth an estimated street value of $4 560 that police found in a bag that he had initially claimed had goblins.Nasim Abdul (35), of ...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 06:20hrs | 866 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers sexually abused MDC election agents, claims Biti
Tendai Biti has accused Zimbabwean soldiers of sexually abusing MDC Alliance election agents during the July 30 harmonised elections, with some agents in Mutoko telling him such abuse was "rampa...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 15:01hrs | 3634 | by Staff reporter
ZCC pilgrims jam Beitbridge
THE Beitbridge border post almost came to a standstill as an estimated 7 000 members of Zion Christian Church arrived en-route for a pilgrimage to Defe, in Gokwe.A winding queue of South Afric...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 07:58hrs | 1748 | by Staff reporter
Smugglers cash in on porous Beitbridge border
SMUGGLING across the dry Limpopo riverbed has never been this high. Queues of vehicles loading goods illicitly brought into the country have turned dirty village road networks into busy streets....Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 07:55hrs | 1105 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa shouldn't go to court
Nelson Chamisa, leader of the MDC Alliance, has said he will not accept the results of the hard-fought and blood-soaked July 30 election.According to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) he...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 08:21hrs | 6551 | by Staff reporter
No to power sharing with Chamisa
Richard Nixon said that one must never be satisfied with losing. He said that after losing one should get terribly angry at losing. He goes on to say that "the mark of the good loser is that he takes ...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:14hrs | 714 | by Nick Mangwana
Zimbabwe military disowns rogue soldiers
The Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) has disowned soldiers reportedly harassing people in high density suburbs of Harare saying these should be reported to the police.Residents in Harare and Chit...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 19:07hrs | 2233 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Zimbabwe police uses loudspeaker, calls on business owners to open shops
The Zimbabwe Republic Police is moving about in the Harare central business district encouraging business owners to open their shops for business. The development follows two days after the ar...Published: 03 Aug 2018 at 13:55hrs | 5626 | by Mafu Sithabile
ZPP condemns violence and urges patience and calm
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has condemned scenes of violence that have erupted in Harare on 1 July 2018 as disgruntled MDC Alliance supporters protest poll results. "Earlier President Nelson Ch...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 15:27hrs | 351 | by Stephen Jakes
Shops shut in Harare as army patrols
Businesses have shut in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, as the nation awaits the release of heavily disputed presidential election results.Armed soldiers and police are on patrol, ordering people ...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 14:26hrs | 1588 | by BBC
Soldiers patrolliing the streets of Harare
Two Zimbabwean soldiers wearing balaclavas shout orders to street vendors and money changers in the Copacabana market in Harare.Zimbabwe soldiers and police are on the streets of Harare as aut...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 10:40hrs | 2536 | by AFP
ZANU-PF acknowledges Zimbabwe election not entirely democratic?
ZANU-PF's UK representative, Nick Mangwana appeared to acknowledge that the election was not entirely democratic during an appearance on BBC Newsnight: 'Democracy is a journey, and we cannot declare t...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 08:25hrs | 5694 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC Alliance questions poll as Zanu-PF wins parly majority
The candidate for Zimbabwe's main opposition party accused the ruling Zanu-PF of trying to steal a presidential and parliamentary election on Wednesday after official figures gave President Emmerson M...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 14:04hrs | 1539 | by Reuters
Zimbabwe elections already disputed?
The MDC Alliance at a press conference announced themselves the winner of the elections and called on ZEC to speed up the results announcements. Speaking for the party, Tendai Biti, who is rep...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 07:23hrs | 1335 | by Staff reporter
Everything you need to know about Zim's election
TODAY, Zimbabweans go to the polls to elect a President, parliamentarians and local councillors.The elections are an unprecedented opportunity for Zimbabweans to choose who they believe can de...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 07:13hrs | 481 | by Piers Pigou
Police told to adjust to new work ethic
Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has called on members of the police force to adjust to the new work ethic that is expected to re-align them into professional law enforcers. He said the new ...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 06:54hrs | 127 | by Staff reporter
Border jumper killed by hippopotamus
A 43-YEAR-OLD woman has been found dead near an illegal crossing point along the Limpopo River in Beitbridge amid fears that she was killed by a hippopotamus.The woman from Chitungwiza was fou...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 12:33hrs | 1673 | by Staff reporter
Zimra tightens noose on smugglers
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) says seizure of contraband has risen significantly over the past few days after it tightened screws on cross-border traders involved in smuggling of goods across...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 07:39hrs | 919 | by Staff reporter
Gunshots at Beitbridge border as omalayitsha rampage
SOLDIERS manning Beitbridge Border Post had to fire warning shots yesterday to quell a potentially volatile situation after a rowdy crowd charged at customs officers after refusing to comply with bord...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 07:14hrs | 3140 | by Staff reporter
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