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3 men arrested for stealing 1 000 Kg maize
The Zimbabwe Republic Police have reported that three men have been arrested after stealing maize weighing more than one tone. In a report on Thursday, the police said on the 1st of April this...Published: 11 hrs ago | 1075 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Ramaphosa to increase lockdown by 2 weeks?
South Africa's national coronavirus lockdown is into its second week, but uncertainty remains on its impact and whether it will be extended.People in the know say that President Cyril Ra...Published: 14 hrs ago | 5202 | by Staff reporter
LOCKDOWN: Police intensify vetting of private vehicles
Police are now strictly vetting private vehicles seeking to get into Harare Central Business District at various check points. The police is also asking motorists to produce letters showing th...Published: 14 hrs ago | 1372 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo vendors dismiss lockdown as a facade
THE second largest city's biggest representative organisation for vendors and informal traders has taken a dig at the 21-day lockdown, describing it as a facade and doing little to curb the spread of ...Published: 14 hrs ago | 996 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown loses momentum
THERE are growing concerns that the ongoing 21-day national lockdown that was imposed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to combat the spread of coronavirus is running out of steam.This comes as ...Published: 14 hrs ago | 988 | by Staff reporter
Reason for Bheki Cele's hatred for alcoholics revealed
South Africans have been wondering why their Minister of Police Bheki Cele seems so combative in his fight against the selling of alcohol during the lockdown period and after. A quick search o...Published: 18 hrs ago | 2257 | by Mandla Ndlovu
No movement of people, vehicle during Easter: Police
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has warned people and motorists against moving out of their residence during this Easter holiday, saying no movement of people or vehicles will be allowed on the country's...Published: 19 hrs ago | 676 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga engages Zacc over Mnangagwa's son
Controversial businessman Frank Buyanga has shopped one of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's sons to human rights and anti-corruption watchdogs, accusing him of corrupting a judge.The South Afric...Published: 19 hrs ago | 816 | by Staff reporter
Police warn against travelling at Easter
POLICE have arrested 2 885 people countrywide for disregarding lockdown regulations and warned people against travelling during the Easter holidays because the lockdown is still on. Easter holidays st...Published: 19 hrs ago | 208 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Army concern over lockdown defiance
THE Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has noted willful defiance of the lockdown order, hence it is deploying personnel for joint operations with the police to ensure compliance. The country is und...Published: 19 hrs ago | 473 | by Staff reporter
13 cops arrested for bribery
THIRTEEN police officers in Bulawayo were arrested for allegedly soliciting and accepting a US$10 bribe from a commuter omnibus crew, which had allegedly violated lockdown regulations following the in...Published: 19 hrs ago | 811 | by Staff reporter
Water cannons deployed in Bulawayo's Covid-19 fight
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has partnered the police in disinfecting the city centre using Public Order Vehicles (POVs) to spray disinfectant from anti-riot water cannons to curb the spread of Cov...Published: 19 hrs ago | 157 | by Staff reporter
Motorists evade checkpoints
Motorists are evading police checkpoints and using alternative routes into Harare's central business district (CBD) where vehicular traffic has significantly increased over the past few days despite t...Published: 19 hrs ago | 434 | by Staff reporter
Jailed for defying lockdown
Four Harare men, who were arrested on Tuesday in Mbare for defying the 21-day lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19, yesterday appeared in court and were each jailed for three months with the option...Published: 19 hrs ago | 313 | by Staff reporter
Cops to impound unexempted cars
Vehicles parked in Harare's central business district whose owners have no exemption from the lockdown will be impounded with the owners being charged and prosecuted, a top police officer has said. ...Published: 19 hrs ago | 155 | by Staff reporter
Police refuse to take donation of gloves from MDC MP
Members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police refused to accept a donation of protective gloves from Marondera Central Member of Parliament Caston Matewu. Matewu had intended to give the donat...Published: 20 hrs ago | 811 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Easter Holidays under lockdown - Police
Zimbabwean police say the coming Good Friday and Easter holidays will be celebrated under the conditions of the 21-day lockdown and only movement of vehicles with exemptions will be allowed."T...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 15:39hrs | 846 | by Moyo Roy
8 arrested for stealing 850kg of mealie-meal
Police have arrested eight seven employees from a Bulawayo milling company and their accomplice for stealing 850 kg of mealie-meal and stashed it at a house at Mabuthweni suburb."Seven employe...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 15:37hrs | 930 | by Moyo Roy
'Do not abuse privilege'; police warn ‘critical skilled' labor
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has warned members of the public with critical skills cleared to move around, to and from work during the lockdown period owing to the COVID-19 pandemic.In a...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 15:34hrs | 1256 | by Staff reporter
EFF calls for arrest and firing of Minister who broke lockdown rules
South Africa's opposition party the Economic Freedom Fighters have called for the arrest and expuilsion from parliament of Minister of Communication Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams who broke the lockdown rule...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 11:58hrs | 1539 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa wishes Chiwenga dead - Zanu pf official
Embattled Zanu PF official Goodman Musariri who was dragged to court on Saturday for undermining the authority of the president sensationally claimed that president Emmerson Mnangagwa and his clan wis...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 09:29hrs | 12547 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
145 human rights violation cases recorded in March
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has recorded a total of 145 human rights violations during the month of March.In its latest report ZPP said these included COVID-19 related violations, intimidation ...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 08:29hrs | 302 | by Stephen Jakes
Covid-19 got heads rolling in Zimbabwe starting in March - ZPP
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has reported that the outbreak of Covid 19 across the world has set heads rolling in Zimbabwe with government and various stakeholders scrambling to find solutions and preve...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 08:28hrs | 918 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabweans fume over lockdown brutality
STATE security agents deployed to enforce the 21-day national lockdown to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus have been accused of terrorising residents in several towns and cities, with some...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 08:08hrs | 471 | by Staff reporter
Prophet escapes jail over child death
A PROPHET who caused the death of a four-year old dumb girl from Bulawayo after prescribing a herbal concoction purportedly to help her gain speech has been sentenced to a wholly suspended prison term...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 07:54hrs | 326 | by Staff reporter
Money changers back on streets
ILLEGAL money changers are slowly coming back to the city centre in Bulawayo while a majority are now operating from residential areas as the 21-day national lockdown entered Day 9 yesterday. ...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 07:52hrs | 729 | by Staff reporter
Man arrested for housebreaking spree
A 37-year-old Victoria Falls man who went on a housebreaking spree at night in Mkhosana suburb stealing cellphones has been arrested. Member Mudenda residing at 1149 in Aerodrome used a metal ...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 07:51hrs | 144 | by Staff reporter
Chaos as markets open
CHAOTIC scenes were witnessed at the market place in Bulawayo yesterday as it was teeming with people, mostly vendors who jostled to buy fresh produce. It took police and soldiers to maintain ...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 07:50hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
Social distancing worry for Mbare Musika
Zimbabwe's largest fresh produce market, Mbare Musika, officially reopened yesterday, but with social distancing and washing of hands not being observed. Such measures were, however, in ...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 07:47hrs | 149 | by Staff reporter
Mutare farmers to be compensated
Farmers whose produce was destroyed by Mutare city's health department at the Sakubva vegetable market last week will be compensated. Three tonnes of vegetables were confiscated from more than...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 07:46hrs | 318 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa has not suspended rentals
A viral social media on Tuesday claimed President Emmerson Mnangagwa had directed landlords and landladies not to demand payments from their tenants during the 21-day lockdown, which ends on April 19....Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 19:35hrs | 1502 | by Staff reporter
Conman posing as Zimbabwe's ambassador to SA seeks 'donations'
Zimbabwe's ministry of foreign affairs on Tuesday said an impostor, claiming to be its ambassador in South Africa David Hamadziripi, had been soliciting money and donations from unwitting members of t...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 16:31hrs | 812 | by Agency staff
Zimbabwe's Lockdown brings prejudice to over 96 percent Informal Workers
The announcement by Emmerson Mnangagwa, president of Zimbabwe to put the country under a 21-day lockdown amid the widespread of the coronavirus pandemic was welcomed by most citizens, but the 96 perce...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 15:11hrs | 525 | by Prince Njagu
Top journalist arrested...accused of 'kumbeyambeya'
Reports coming from Masvingo indicate that Former Zimbabwe Union of Journalists President Matthew Takaona is currently being detained by the police after being arrested at a roadblock in Mucheke subur...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 13:09hrs | 2064 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Coronavirus live news: Boris Johnson in intensive care as Japan declares state of emergency
Zimbabwe's health minister has warned people against selling unregistered Covid-19 self-test kits.Obadiah Moyo told the state-owned Herald newspaper that all test kits have to be evaluated by ...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 11:13hrs | 1802 | by Staff reporter
Man who posted video about SA's 'contaminated Covid-19 test kits' arrested
The man who posted a video relating to Covid-19, claiming testing kits are possibly contaminated, has been arrested.Police spokesperson Brigadier Mathapelo Peters said the 55-year-old man was ...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 11:04hrs | 1592 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe laws don't protect women from sex trafficking
SIMILO Ntuli looks like an ordinary, fashion-savvy woman in her twenties. As a hairdresser and beauty therapist in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second-largest city, Ntuli has her finger on the pulse of the la...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 08:06hrs | 156 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge residents want COVID-19 centre out of town
Beitbridge residents said they were sceptical about the move made by the National Social Security Authority to allow the use of its non-operational US$39 million Beitbridge hotel as a COVID-19 quarant...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 08:04hrs | 100 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF grabs subsidised mealie-meal
Zanu-PF Chiredzi West legislator Farai Musikavanhu (Zanu-PF) allegedly grabbed 13,4 tonnes of the subsidised roller meal from OK Triangle, while his Makoni Central counterpart David Tekeshe (MDC Allia...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 08:04hrs | 120 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors sue over Covid-19 exposure
ZIMBABWE'S 1 500 doctors working at public health institutions are exposed to the killer coronavirus after government failed to provide personal protective equipment (PPE) and have sued to force autho...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 07:51hrs | 134 | by Staff reporter
Police disperse macimbi harvesters
POLICE in Gwanda District have dispersed macimbi (mopane worm) harvesters who had flocked to the area despite the prevailing 21-day lockdown. Scores of people from different areas had flocked ...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 07:42hrs | 458 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown break-ins worry cops
POLICE in Matabeleland South Province have raised concern over cases of unlawful entry and theft from business premises which have become rampant during the prevailing lockdown resulting in loss of go...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 07:42hrs | 163 | by Staff reporter
3 armed robbers arrested
Police have arrested three other members of a gang of armed robbers that raided a Chinese-owned mine in Lalapanzi and several houses in Bulawayo, stealing a total of US$20 000, bringing the total arre...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 07:40hrs | 285 | by Staff reporter
Cop rapes teenager
A police officer stationed at ZRP Chinamhora in Domboshava has appeared in court facing rape charges after helping a colleague to rape a teenage girl they found with her boyfriend in the bush. ...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 07:39hrs | 290 | by Staff reporter
Fake news on Covid-19 causing unnecessary panic
Governments through out the world battle to tackle the biggest health emergency in a generation, as another pandemic gripped the world with fear. It is the pandemic of fake news on Corona virus. Would...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 18:48hrs | 2170 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Man catches wife in act
A Chitungwiza man was bashed by his wife and her lover after catching them red handed.Juliet Madeira ran off to South Africa with her lover Wilson Mapfumo after being arrested for cheating and...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 17:57hrs | 4684 | by Staff reporter
Police controlling selling of mealie-meal
Police in Chikanga, Mutare have been called to control the selling of mealie-meal at TM Chikanga.Mealie-meal is now a scarce commodity in Zimbabwe and people are scrambling for it where ever i...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 17:06hrs | 821 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Lockdown: Police demand 'risk allowance' bribes from public
Police manning roadblocks in Zimbabwe's roads top enforced the 21-day lock down declared by President Emmerson Mnangagwa are demanding bribes termed as "r...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 12:34hrs | 1134 | by Moyo Roy
Burning of Confiscated Vegetables in Mutare Must Be Investigated
Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (VISET) has said it received with utter shock and disbelief reports that, Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Officers in Mutare confiscated and la...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 11:16hrs | 1427 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa witnesses water, maize meal queues in Harare drive-by
President Emmerson Mnangagwa Sunday came face to face with the harsh realities of life in some of Harare's poor neighbourhoods after an unannounced drive-by tour.Mnangagwa declared a 21-...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 10:36hrs | 4199 | by Staff reporter
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