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Sex-starved teacher bashes wife
ASSAULTING his wife for denying him conjugal rights earned a Buhera teacher three months imprisonment.On Wednesday last week, Charles Kufakwatenzi (52) appeared before Chipinge magistrate Mr P...Published: 11 hrs ago | 1303 | by Staff reporter
Ex-convict kills grandmother with a spade
AN ex-convict from Bulilima has been arrested for allegedly fatally assaulting his maternal grandmother using a spade two weeks after being released from prison after accusing her of causing his initi...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 15:37hrs | 1528 | by Staff reporter
Komichi's hatred for Chamisa revealed
MDC former Chairman Morgen Komichi has a vendetta against Nelson Chamisa because the late MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai did not appoint him Vice President in 2016. The revelations were made ...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 12:52hrs | 5283 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Illegitimate Mnangagwa, illegitimate Chamisa: Country legit?
BY now, the entire nation is aware of the folly of appointing a retired club DJ to be the man in charge of a whole country's healthcare system.It should have been obvious to any self-respecting leader...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:53hrs | 3401 | by Muckraker
Lockdown laws draconian, excessive
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's announcement of a 21-day national lockdown across Zimbabwe to combat the spread of the Covid-19 virus was accompanied by a raft of laws, which are draconian, excessive a...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:49hrs | 184 | by Dewa Mavhinga
A fool and his pen, what a bad combo!
April Fools' Day has been celebrated for several centuries by different cultures. The media embraced the tradition and have been participating in the Apri...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 19:50hrs | 1976 | by Tafara Shumba
The Zimbabwean Judiciary is an organ of the bourgeoisie State
The Zimbabwean judiciary is not captured, you can only capture something that is not under your control and bring it under your control. The colonial state as founded in 1890 established ...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 12:04hrs | 605 | by Ngqabutho Nicholas Mabhena
1 680 inmates released
More than 1 600 prisoners who qualified for release under the Presidential amnesty gazetted last week were released from various prisons this morning.Only 53 women benefited from the amnesty a...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 16:50hrs | 1096 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt should enforce lockdown to save lives
THE world over, the major news is only about one thing, coronavirus or COVID-19. Countries, cities and states are going into lockdowns to contain a blowout of this fast-spreading virus which has left ...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:50hrs | 927 | by Staff reporter
For autocratic regimes, COVID-19 is a window to consolidate power
Leaders around the world have passed emergency decrees and legislation expanding their reach during the pandemic. Will they ever relinquish them?Last Friday, the Zimbabwe government published ...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:48hrs | 163 | by New York Times
Zimbabwe, like China, has fake covid-19 news it's 20 years in jail for truth
Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess because decades of bad governance. One of the most common manifestation of bad governance is bad policies. This monolithic de facto one-party, Z...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 08:24hrs | 743 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zupco crews want protective clothing
FORTY Zimbabwe United Passengers Company (Zupco) drivers and conductors operating in Chinhoyi have decried the lack of protective clothing which they said was putting their lives and those of their pa...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 07:52hrs | 247 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19: Zimbabwe's exemptions to the lockdown
Zimbabwe begins its 21-day lockdown today as it tries to curb the spread of Covid-19 in a country, which has limited testing capabilities. The latest update from the Ministry of Health and Child...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:34hrs | 1379 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19: Zimbabwe begins 21-day lockdown
Zimbabwe begins its 21-day lockdown today as it tries to curb the spread of Covid-19 in a country, which has limited testing capabilities. The latest update from the Ministry of Health and Child...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:33hrs | 343 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt tightens screws on COVID-19 information
GOVERNMENT has introduced stringent measures and penalties meant to curtail the flow of information during the 21-day national lockdown, with those accused of spreading falsehoods on coronavirus being...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:25hrs | 540 | by Staff reporter
$500 fine for assaulting wife's boyfriend
A man from Chief Seke area, who assaulted his wife's boyfriend after he caught them being intimate in his house on Valentine's Day last month and circulated their pictures on social media, has been fi...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:08hrs | 505 | by Staff reporter
Man jailed for killing wife's employer
The Budiriro man who fatally stabbed his estranged wife's employer four times with a kitchen knife during a domestic dispute avoided a murder conviction when his guilty plea to the lesser violent crim...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:08hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
Top MDC official recounts prison 'hell'
A top MDC official, who was incarcerated together with 11 party youths in connection with protests in Chitungwiza last month, has described conditions under which they were held as hell.Stephe...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 16:38hrs | 1336 | by Staff reporter
20 years in jail for spreading fake coronavirus news in Zimbabwe
The government has gazetted tough new laws that could see people spending up to 20 years in prison for spreading fake news on the novel coronavirus.According to Statutory Instrument 83 of 2020...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 12:46hrs | 1960 | by Staff reporter
Police intensify blitz on Covid-19 defaulters
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) on Thursday night raided beer halls in Harare's suburbs in enforcement of a government directive banning public gatherings of more than 50 people to mitigate the spr...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:59hrs | 519 | by Staff reporter
2 killers jailed 70 years for slitting motorist's throat, burning body
TWO stranded deportees from Botswana who stabbed a motorist who had offered them a lift in Plumtree before they slit his throat and used tyres and diesel to burn his body beyond recognition, have been...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:41hrs | 607 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa frees 5 000 criminals
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has pardoned 5 000 prisoners serving for non-violent crimes as part of measures to decongest the country's prisons whose population had ballooned to over 20 000. A...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:39hrs | 332 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean cocaine pusher jailed
A drug dealer from Slough has been jailed for four years after he took over the Canterbury home of an elderly vulnerable man to peddle crack cocaine and heroin. Nyasha Mushayandebvu (25), of B...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:38hrs | 381 | by Staff reporter
Hero status for Clark Mpofu
PIONEER liberation fighter Clark Mpofu has been declared a liberation war hero and his family would be provided with a State assisted burial.Mpofu succumbed to a heart attack on Saturday at Mp...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 15:26hrs | 911 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pardons 5,000 prisoners
About 5000 prisoners will be released from the country's prison following a general amnesty by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Zimbabwe's prisons have a carrying capacity of 17 000 inmates but at...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 14:47hrs | 2224 | by Staff reporter
Gono pleads for arrested thieves
Former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Gideon Gono was at the Murambinda Magistrates' Courts on Thursday where he pleaded for the release of four of his workers who face prison terms for stealing pr...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 12:28hrs | 9491 | by Staff reporter
RBZ takes MDC advice on redollarization but....
At long last it has happened. The RBZ has finally announced in its 26th March Monetary Policy an...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 09:30hrs | 4251 | by Dr Tapiwa Maji-Marefu Mashakada Economist and MDC Secretary for Policy and Research
2 notorious immigrants deported
TWO illegal immigrants who have been evading deportation for years through threats of violence and supplying authorities with false identity information, have been deported. The Immigration De...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:34hrs | 1598 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cops set up Covid-19 reaction teams
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has set up reaction teams in various provinces and districts that will help in enforcing the ban on public gatherings of over 50 people, following revelations that a...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 20:14hrs | 1289 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF recommends national hero status for Clark Mpofu
ONE of the pioneers of the country's liberation war Clark Mpofu has died and the Zanu-PF leadership in Bulawayo has recommended that he been declared a national hero. He was 81. Mpofu succumbe...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:22hrs | 638 | by Staff reporter
Jail term for taking part in prohibited gatherings
GOVERNMENT has criminalised failure to comply with local authority procedures to prevent the spread of coronavirus, and will impose a one-year jail term to any person who will convene a gathering of o...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 15:12hrs | 594 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's cellphone stolen
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's driver appeared at the Harare Magistrates' Court yesterday facing allegations of stealing the President's mobile phone, which had been donated during a field day at his ...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 15:11hrs | 2695 | by Staff reporter
Security guard jailed for stealing crates
A 37-YEAR-OLD Mvurwi security guard was sentenced to 10 months imprisonment yesterday by Guruve resident magistrate Shingirai Mutiro for stealing 25 empty crates used for packing fruits at Forester Es...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 07:23hrs | 973 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Notorious Chiweshe couple jailed
A notorious Chiweshe couple was jailed 16 months for unlawfully entering into the complainant's room and stealing goods valued at $5000 by Concession magistrate Nyasha Machiriori yes...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 07:15hrs | 1830 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Police to enforce Covid-19 regulations
POLICE in Bulawayo have said they will arrest any persons who violate new regulations aimed at stopping the spread of Covid-19. Government has come up with a number of measures, including the gazettin...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 05:47hrs | 1315 | by Staff reporter
Soldier's killer jailed 30 years
A MAN from Epworth has been jailed 30 years for robbing and killing a soldier. Besta Masaya, who was charged along with Tonderai Rupiya, denied killing Innocent Majuta who was in army uniform ...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 05:44hrs | 691 | by Staff reporter
Defence minister Muchinguri explains the war veterans bill
THE Minister of Defence and War Veterans Oppah Muchinguri has said the drafting of the Veterans of the Liberation Struggle Bill is in line with President Emmerson Mnangagwa's legislative agenda to ali...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 08:56hrs | 2373 | by Stephen Jakes
Chiwenga wife's assault trial fails to kick off
The trial of Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's estranged wife, Marry Mubaiwa (pictured), who is accused of assaulting her maid Delight Munyoro at Hellenic Primary School in Harare, has been moved ...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 06:36hrs | 563 | by Staff reporter
Controls hit cross border traders
Traffic at border posts was restricted yesterday as new rules by Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Zambia were being formulated and border officers were awaiting instructions. At Kariba and Chirundu, v...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 06:30hrs | 455 | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus death spikes in Europe while Zimbabwe sees nothing wrong
The whole of Europe is witnessing growing death toll from Covid-19 as Zimbabwe criticised over carefree attitude. The coronavirus outbreak has turned into a global pandemic, as the wo...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 15:58hrs | 4028 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
ZAPU programme of the handover of flood relief items to Binga community.
On Friday 20/03/2020 ZAPU held a Handover Ceremony of Donated Goods for Binga Flood Victims at its Offices at Rudd Road in Byo, after Invites were made to every Member of the Party.Through nat...Published: 22 Mar 2020 at 16:53hrs | 619 | by Staff Reporter
The true story: Living with coronavirus, a tale from a Zimbabwean family in the UK
COVID-19 is a new illness that can affect your lungs and airways. It's caused by a virus called coronavirus. It is called corona because it is shaped like a crown. The bacteria causing the virus can n...Published: 22 Mar 2020 at 09:41hrs | 5343 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zanu-PF councilor rapes mentally-challenged woman
A sadistic appetite for sex has landed a Zanu-PF Chipinge Rural Ward 13 councilor in the dock after he was slapped with a 15 years jail sentence for raping a mentally challenged woman.David Ch...Published: 21 Mar 2020 at 06:19hrs | 533 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF eyes Chegutu Ward 2 by-election win
Zanu PF says it is determined to win the Chegutu urban ward 2 seat in the by-election set for today so that it can implement development projects that the previous councillor failed to do. The ruling ...Published: 21 Mar 2020 at 05:47hrs | 177 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa should stand up to war veterans
ZIMBABWE'S war veterans have demanded high government office posts and want legislators in both the National Assembly and Senate to sing the national anthem before the beginning of each parliamentary ...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 20:41hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF councillor jailed
A ZANU-PF councillor for ward 13 in Chipinge will spend the next 12 years in jail for raping a mentally-challenged patient, who cannot be named for ethical reasons, on three different occasions after ...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 20:40hrs | 286 | by Staff reporter
Fake O level results lands woman in trouble
Bid to dubiously acquire an Advanced level place at Mazowe high backfired for a 19 year-old Mazowe woman.Petunia Faiti was sentenced to 14 months imprisonment yesterday by Concession magistrat...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 09:09hrs | 2073 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Toyota Granvia wheel thief jailed
A 24-YEAR-OLD Mvurwi man was jailed 6 months by Guruve resident magistrate Shingirai Mutiro yesterday for breaking into the complainant's garage and stealing a Toyota Granvia wheel.Pardon Saha...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 07:31hrs | 542 | by Paul Ndou
War veterans demand 20% quota system
WAR VETERANS want a 20 percent quota system in Government institutions and Parliament, while demanding for improved medical care and pensions allocation for ex-combatants.The former freedom fi...Published: 19 Mar 2020 at 17:49hrs | 1662 | by Staff reporter
Evil ZANU-PF laughs at the poor in press conference
The recent announcement today that Cabinet is likely to be reshuffled can only be greeted with intrepid cautiousness. Their ability to just laugh at...Published: 19 Mar 2020 at 16:08hrs | 6161 | by Thabo Makuyana
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