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Mai Jeremaya bombarded 'lover' with text messages
Social media personality Mai Jeremaya is back in the spotlight just days after a Harare court ruled she was a willing participant in a sex-for-money encounter, which formed the basis of a rape case ag...Published: 07 Jul 2025 at 17:16hrs | 1183 | by Staff reporter
'Detective Kedha' in the eye of a storm
The highly publicised rape trial of social media influencer Mai Jeremaya has come to a controversial end, with Harare magistrate Letwin Rwodzi dismissing the charges against the two accused men, Thabo...Published: 07 Jul 2025 at 09:09hrs | 456 | by Staff reporter
Mai Jeremaya rape suspects found not guilty
Harare magistrate Letwin Rwodzi has acquitted Thabo Dube and Martin Charlie, two men accused of raping socialite Ashley Masendeke, popularly known as Mai Jeremaya, after ruling that the State failed t...Published: 04 Jul 2025 at 12:51hrs | 560 | by Staff reporter
Detective Kedha fights back after police deny Interpol link
Controversial private investigator and social media personality Tafadzwa Chidawa, popularly known as Detective Kedha, has fired back at the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) after the force publicly diso...Published: 23 Jun 2025 at 11:45hrs | 721 | by Staff reporter
'Detective Kedha' convicted of kidnapping Harare woman
Notorious private investigator Tafadzwa Chidawa, widely known as "Detective Kedha," has been convicted of kidnapping a Harare woman in a dramatic case that unfolded last year. The conviction came afte...Published: 23 Jun 2025 at 10:31hrs | 350 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt to regulate private security industry
Cabinet has approved the Principles of the Private Investigators and Security Guards (Control) Bill, which aims to regulate and license individuals and companies providing security services in Zimbabw...Published: 04 Dec 2024 at 06:51hrs | 213 | by Staff reporter
Mayor breaks pastor's marriage
Kadoma mayor, Councillor Nigel Ruzario stands accused of ruining the marriage of a couple from the Mashonaland West town.Nancy Mhundwa's husband, Pastor Marvin Mhundwa took social media by sto...Published: 16 Aug 2024 at 13:12hrs | 1126 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to open passport offices in US, UK and Zambia
The Cabinet recently approved the Ministry of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage's Integrated Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Systems Strategy, which aims to computerize government depa...Published: 09 Jun 2024 at 09:03hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Woman, married lover clash over social media videos
A HARARE woman feels betrayed and abused after her videos were recorded without her consent and posted on social media by people she claims were working on behalf of her married lover.Sally Sa...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 18:38hrs | 12 | 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
Dr Nandipha left Merc at Zimbabwe border, returned on foot
As South African law enforcement continues the search for fugitive murderer-rapist Thabo Bester - known as the "Facebook rapist" - and his accomplice girlfriend Dr Nandipha Magudumana, more informatio...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 10:42hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Wanted SA rapist Thabo Bester skipped the country to Zimbabwe?
Thabo Bester skipped the country to Zimbabwe to lay low after escaping from the Mangaung maximum security prison where he allegedly paid R5 million to at least nine prison warders who helped him escap...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 16:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police to train security guards
Private security guards will soon undergo basic formal levels of training by the police, as Government upgrades the industry following a recent rise in robberies through a review of the Private Invest...Published: 23 Nov 2022 at 04:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zweli Mkhize irks Ramaphosa's boot lickers
The ANC's veterans' league and party national executive committee (NEC) members have warned party members, including embattled former health minister Zweli Mkhize, against making declarations of willi...Published: 23 May 2022 at 08:20hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Pius Ncube exposer commits suicide
A BULAWAYO businessman and private investigator who exposed former head of the Roman Catholic Church in Bulawayo, Archbishop Pius Ncube's sexual escapades 14 years ago, Ernest Tekere committed suicide...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
PSL scam explodes
MORE damning and incriminating evidence emerged yesterday, exposing a cartel that has been corruptly siphoning funds from Premiership side ZPC Kariba, amid chilling revelations the cancer has spread t...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
SA professor killed after uncovering PhD fraud at KZN university
The killing of a university professor has shined a new light on long-whispered allegations that some South African universities have been dishing out fraudulent PhDs.South African police say t...Published: 04 Dec 2018 at 16:17hrs | 1 | by ZimLive
Mnangagwa to lead in corruption fight
President Mnangagwa will lead the fight against corruption after he reserved to his office several laws meant to curb graft. The President also set out functions for Cabinet ministers in several Statu...Published: 27 Oct 2018 at 08:36hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zinara in witch hunt for media 'snitches'
STATE roads manager the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara), angered by consistent media reports on the corruption scandals rocking the parastatal, at one point resorted to engaging a priv...Published: 20 Oct 2018 at 08:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Vic Falls Hospital to investigate mysterious infant death
VICTORIA Falls Hospital says it has resolved to hire a private investigator to probe the alleged mysterious death of a two-day-old baby at the institution a fortnight ago.Hwange district healt...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cheating bride exposed on her wedding day
The groom hired a private investigator after suspecting his bride of cheating on him.It's a scene straight out of a Hollywood flick; you have the suspicious husband, the cheating bride a...Published: 08 Oct 2017 at 16:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mujuru's death will remain a mystry
Opposition leader and former vice president Joice Mujuru is not pinning her hopes on the Coroner's Office Bill to finally bring closure to the mysterious death of her husband, Solomon, who died in an ...Published: 24 Sep 2017 at 16:52hrs | 11 | by Staf reporter
Teacher hires private investigators to stalk wife
A TEACHER at a local private school has allegedly hired a private investigator to stalk his wife after she reportedly deserted their matrimonial home following a string of physical and verbal abuse....Published: 11 Aug 2017 at 07:32hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's CIOs fingered in plot to out SA's Zuma
State Security minister Kembo Mohadi has refuted allegations of Zimbabwean involvement in a plot against South African President Jacob Zuma and some of his top lieutenants.In what could tr...Published: 15 Dec 2016 at 05:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
I sympathise Patson Dzamara
Patson Dzamara, I sympathise with you in your incessant search of the missing heartily brother Itai. I am equally empathetic to the piercing pain in your soul so as every other nationality is feeling ...Published: 21 Apr 2016 at 15:22hrs | | by Sparkleford Masiyambiri
Guard shoots panner dead
A SECURITY guard has been arrested after he allegedly shot dead a suspected illegal gold panner at Epoch Mine in Filabusi following a 15km high-speed chase.A group of about 15 gold panners...Published: 07 Apr 2016 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Guard shoots panner dead
BCC loses $300k to briefcase companies
THE Bulawayo City Council lost more than $300,000 in botched ambulance and vehicle tracking system deals to two briefcase companies.The Deputy Minister of Local Government, Public Works and Na...Published: 09 Feb 2016 at 05:42hrs | | by Pamela Shumba
Chris Rock faces charges over illegal adoption of Zimbabwean child
A TOP US actor Chris Rock is facing criminal investigation for illegally adopting a child with Zimbabwean roots.According to media reports, Rock is facing a full-scale criminal investigation o...Published: 06 Dec 2015 at 09:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru's brother threatens suicide
As emotions continue to boil over the disputed circumstances surrounding the death of liberation struggle icon General Solomon Mujuru, whose charred remains were found after a suspicious fire in...Published: 29 Aug 2015 at 13:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
'We'll find Gen Mujuru killers'
With emotions boiling anew over the disputed circumstances surrounding the death of liberation struggle icon General Solomon Mujuru in a mysterious fire at his Beatrice farm in 2011, as well as the po...Published: 27 Aug 2015 at 07:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Renewed tension over Mujuru's death
Emotions are boiling over again regarding the circumstances surrounding the death of liberation struggle icon General Solomon Mujuru in a mysterious fire at his Beatrice farm - just outside Harare - i...Published: 18 Aug 2015 at 10:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dzamara family to hire private investigator
The family of missing Zimbabwe human rights activist Itai Dzamara said on Friday they would hire a private investigator to look for him as they have lost trust in the Zimbabwean police.Dza...Published: 17 May 2015 at 12:33hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Dzamara's family hires a private investigator
The family of missing human rights activist Itai Dzamara said on Friday they would hire a private investigator to look for him as they have lost trust in the Zimbabwean police.Dzamara, a fathe...Published: 15 May 2015 at 14:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF official aged 54 to sit for O Levels
A 54 year-old Filabusi businessman and Zanu PF member, Spare Sithole is preparing to sit for Ordinary Level examinations for the first time ever in November.According to Sithole it took him su...Published: 03 May 2015 at 06:55hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
'Tracking cheating hubby' ends in $200,000 extortion
A five-member gang of self-styled private investigators extorted more than $200 000 from a Karoi woman who had hired them to investigate the movement of her husband whom she suspected of having an ext...Published: 07 Jul 2014 at 09:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Woman loses over $200 000 to fake private investigators
A five-member gang of self-styled private investigators extorted more than US$200 000 from a Karoi woman who had hired them to investigate the movement of her husband whom she suspected of having an e...Published: 05 Jul 2014 at 09:05hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Tsvangirai's mistress goes after properties, Biti accused of assisting her
MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai's properties are under siege from his 25-year-old ex-girlfriend, Ms Loretha Nyathi, who is now targeting his assets following the former premier's failure to pay chil...Published: 15 Jun 2014 at 07:51hrs | 7 | by Brian Chitemba
Woman jailed for sending kids to better school
USA - An Ohio mother's attempt to provide her daughters with a better education landed her behind bars.Kelley Williams-Bolar was in 2011 convicted of lying about her residency to get her daug...Published: 28 Mar 2014 at 17:51hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Three nabbed for murder of Rwanda's former spy chief
SOUTH AFRICA - Three Rwandan nationals have been arrested for the murder of Rwanda's former spy chief Patrick Karegeya according to a report. The New Age reported that Karegeya, 53, had been l...Published: 08 Jan 2014 at 11:01hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Injiva to be extradited to SA for stealing R4m meant for ATMs
A BULAWAYO court has granted the application for extradition of a Zimbabwean man who four years ago allegedly disappeared with more than R4 million meant for Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) in South...Published: 08 Jul 2013 at 06:03hrs | 8 | by Court Reporter
Cash van robber fights extradition from Zimbabwe
EXTRADITION proceedings began on Tuesday against a Zimbabwean man who allegedly fled South Africa in 2009 with R4,6 million [about US$505,000) after robbing a cash van he was driving.Jethro Me...Published: 24 Apr 2013 at 10:55hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T maintains Christpowers was murdered
Unsatisfied with police investigations into the brutal murder of a 12-year old boy in Headlands, MDC-T says it will engage international private investigators as tensions escalate ahead of elections....Published: 05 Mar 2013 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe ordered Mujuru to be put under CIO surveillance
NewsDay's lead story from WikiLeaks disclosures says President Mugabe ordered the late former army commander General Solomon Mujuru to be put under surveillance, but the CIO failed to do so. Instead ...Published: 12 Oct 2011 at 08:17hrs | 1 | by -
Hire private investigators to probe Mujuru's death: MDC-T MPs
Retired General Solomon Mujuru's death dominated debate in the House of Assembly with MDC-T legislators calling for the hiring of private investigators to ascertain circumstances surrounding the death...Published: 12 Oct 2011 at 05:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
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