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Tajamuka leadership goes underground
Organisers of last week's three-day stayaway have gone into hiding together with some opposition MPs as the crackdown by state agents continues.Promise Mkwananzi of the social movement, #Tajam...Published: 15 hrs ago | 922 | by Staff reporter
Married woman follows rapist for more sex
In a stranger than fiction case, a 22-year-old Featherstone woman last week asked Chivhu Magistrates Court to withdraw two counts of rape against a man who raped her, claiming that they were now in lo...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 16:02hrs | 4162 | by Staff reporter
New Zimbabwe police structure approved
The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved a new Zimbabwe Republic Police structure that abolishes the rank of senior assistant commissioner and replaces it with that of Commissioner of Police a...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:07hrs | 1000 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's soldiers in Boko Haram-style invasions
AT a private hospital in Harare on Wednesday, a mother lay between her two children, all writhing in pain from injuries sustained when masked soldiers attacked their home Boko Haram-style.Afte...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 10:59hrs | 417 | by Staff reporter
'Army murders and rapes citizens during internet shutdown' Jonathan Moyo says
Professor Jonathan Moyo claims that on Friday during the internet shutdown managed to talk to MDC Vice President Morgan Komichi to ascertain the damage that is being done by the security forces during...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 17:00hrs | 19635 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Murder accused Zanu-PF youth leader 'freed on Chiwenga orders'
Acting President Constantino Chiwenga ordered police to release and apologise to Godwin Gomwe, the Zanu-PF Youth League chairman for Harare, after he was arrested over the shooting deaths of two peopl...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 13:16hrs | 7652 | by ZimLive
Zanu-PF responsible for terror, says Chamisa's MDC
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa's spokesperson, Nkululeko Sibanda has said President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy Constantino Chiwenga cannot be absolved from the reign of terror that happened in the p...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 12:21hrs | 722 | by Staff reporter
ZRP heightens crackdown against criminals
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has increased crackdown efforts on crime which has seemingly been rampant and on the rise in Zimbabwe.In a statement, ZRP Senior Assistant Commissioner Chari...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 18:07hrs | 768 | by Staff reporter
How Facebook and Whatsapp fuelled chaos and confusion in Zimbabwe
The riots wouldn't have happened without Facebook and Whatsapp. On the morning of January 14th 2019 a swelling mob of hundreds of angry residents flocked the towns filling the streets in the commercia...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 15:59hrs | 3361 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa and Gen Chiwenga responsible for lootings, shootings and terrorism
It is with profound sadness that all the reports that are now coming through to us, NGOs, churches, the courts, among other areas suggest that Mnangagwa and Chiwenga carefully coordinated an attack on...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 14:33hrs | 5269 | by Dr Nkululeko Sibanda (Presidential Spokesperson)
Chamisa fires blank
Street protests are in from Cape to Cairo and Madrid to Moscow, these days not a week goes by without news that a massive crowd has amassed in the streets of another of the world's big cities. The rea...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 16:47hrs | 11042 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Maths teacher 'rapes' nurse
A MATHEMATICS teacher at Mkhosana Seventh Day Adventist Secondary School in Victoria Falls has been arrested for allegedly raping his friend, a nurse, twice in a car. The nurse who cannot be n...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 17:17hrs | 807 | by Staf reporter
Panacea to Zim economy no fairy tale
As a child I used to like fairy tales because they had all the magic and stuff just happened so easy and everyone would be happy in the end, with ease. Take for instance the story of Aladdin and the m...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 16:30hrs | 533 | by Charles Motsi
Baboon feasts on family meal
A baboon left villagers in Gokwe astonished after it was found in a family kitchen hut seated on a bench eating sadza with beef stew.It was interrupted by a 13-year-old boy who had just return...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:09hrs | 652 | by Staff reporter
Man jailed 4 years for impregnating niece
A man who impregnated his 18-year-old niece before his wife took her to a traditional healer to terminate the pregnancy has been jailed for four years.James Chihuri, 51, of Seke, was initially...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 12:19hrs | 1263 | by Staff reporter
ED Mnangagwa will not hatch chickens from fried eggs
President Emmerson Munangagwa managed to openly rig the forgone polls, in a daylight robbery. All his political life after independence crocodile has waited patiently, worked meticulously carving his ...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 11:22hrs | 1598 | by Zanda Shumba
Suspected rapist freed after police bungle
The trial of a suspected Chikombedzi serial rapist failed to take off at Chiredzi Provincial Magistrate's Court on Tuesday after bungling by the investigating officers led to the accused walking free....Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 07:49hrs | 342 | by Staff reporter
Man torches 4 villagers huts
FOUR families in Lubangwe in Hwange district cheated death when a villager allegedly went berserk and torched their huts in separate incidents in one night. Police arrested Hloniphani Moyo (24...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 11:21hrs | 126 | by Staff reporter
Man jailed 30 years for raping step-daughter
A 32-YEAR-OLD Silobela man was yesterday sentenced to 60 years in jail for raping his 13-year-old step-daughter on four occasions.The man, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the vi...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 09:31hrs | 941 | by Staff reporter
MPs call for review of the Termination of Pregnancy Act
LEGISLATORS have called for a review of the Termination of Pregnancy Act, which was enacted in 1977, but lawmakers say is now out of tune with the times in the face of rising illegal abortions....Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 09:27hrs | 396 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF Youths blast Jonathan Moyo
ZANU PF Youth league members have blasted former G40 Kingpin Professor Jonathan Moyo for his twitter thread posted on Monday where he was accusing billionaire Telecoms guru Strive Masiyiwa for funding...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 07:23hrs | 2915 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Man jailed for torching neighbour's house
A 24-YEAR-OLD Shurugwi man was last week sentenced to an effective 16-month jail term after he burnt down his neighbour's house after he was accused of attempted rape.Forget Shonhai of Domboje...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 08:45hrs | 284 | by Staff reporter
Diaspora-based artist sings on Zimbabwe problems
Diaspora-based Taffy Theman has lamented the suffering being experienced by Zimbabweans in a song titled Oneday.The song reflects on the troubles currently obtaining in Zimbabwe while also goi...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 17:12hrs | 319 | by Staff reporter
Man (22) 'rapes' neighbour granny (88)
A 22-YEAR-OLD Gwanda man has been arrested for raping his 88-year-old neighbour after he unlawfully gained entry into her bedroom hut in the middle of the night while she was asleep. Trust Ncu...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 11:06hrs | 623 | by Staff reporter
'We used juju to evade arrest'
A NOTORIOUS five-member gang of Mozambican armed robbers who broke into several houses and raped women on 21 different occasions in Mutare's low-suburbs used juju to try and evade arrest and foil dog ...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 09:09hrs | 1244 | by Staff reporter
It's time to just re-dollarise the Zimbabwe economy
THE recent announcement by one of country's stock market leaders, Delta Beverages, that it will be selling its products in United States dollars starting tomorrow should be a wake-up call to governmen...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 09:08hrs | 981 | by Editorial - newsday
Zimbabwe police undergoes massive transformation
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is set to undergo major transformation this year as it adopts a new structure and rebrands to win back public confidence. Changes to the ZRP hierarchy will be effect...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 08:56hrs | 1197 | by Staff reporter
Stop drug abuse
Broncclear, a cough relief medicine which is called 'Bronco' in street lingo is being abused big time by most wayward youths in Zimbabwe. This medicine-cum-drug has left many young people 'walking dea...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 19:08hrs | 248 | by Thomas Murisa.
Cops hunt for 'sadistic' man
Police have launched an extensive manhunt for a Harare man who stands accused of causing the deaths of five children after he sickeningly burnt down the home of the family of a 12-year-old girl that h...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 18:35hrs | 724 | by Staff reporter
Gumbura deserted by wives?
The wives of jailed Independent End Time Message leader Robert Martin Gumbura who is serving a 40-year jail term have stopped coming to court to show solidarity with their embattled husband.Gu...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 17:38hrs | 8395 | by Staff reporter
Death robs Zimbabwe sport
This year has not been so kind to the Zimbabwean sporting fraternity after three of the country's arguably biggest luminaries took their last breaths.Former Tennis Zimbabwe (TZ) president Paul...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 17:32hrs | 1439 | by Staff reporter
Doctors' breaking point
A Vigil supporter who works for the needy in Zimbabwe says her job is becoming increasingly difficult. She sent us the following message from a desperate doctor. ‘I have tried my best n...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 17:10hrs | 900 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Fugitive sodomite arrested after police station visit
AN unrepentant teenager from Kamativi who had evaded the police for three years after sodomising his girlfriend's nine-year-old daughter was arrested on Christmas Day when he went to a police station ...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 10:23hrs | 2509 | by Staff reporter
Bodies found floating in dams
TWO bodies were found floating in dams in Bulawayo and Umguza on Thursday, one of which is suspected to have been dumped in one of the water bodies after a brutal murder. The body of an uniden...Published: 29 Dec 2018 at 16:50hrs | 956 | by Staff reporter
A Christmas break from 'selling sex'
Until people get to personally know each other instead of just a glimpse from a distance, they will always be judgemental of one another. What will change the misconception will be learning their hist...Published: 29 Dec 2018 at 16:48hrs | 1045 | by Staff reporter
Tongogara raped Oppah Muchinguri?
The late ZANLA General may have raped Defense minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri, journalist Reason Wafawarova has sensationally alleged.Writing on Social networking site Facebook Wafawarova sa...Published: 29 Dec 2018 at 10:21hrs | 10030 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Trio 'rapes' neighbour
THREE men from Manningdale suburb in Bulawayo allegedly raped their 27-year-old neighbour who had gone with them for a beer drink at a local shebeen where they also smoked dagga. Two of the su...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 20:38hrs | 649 | by Staff reporter
Cop jailed 12 years for robbery
A HWANGE-BASED junior police officer, who was recently rearrested while attempting to skip the border into South Africa, has been slapped with a 15-year jail sentence.Three years of the senten...Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 19:26hrs | 434 | by Staff reporter
Zimra to up surveillance on businesses
ZIMBABWE Revenue Authority (Zimra) says it will embolden its surveillance on companies and closely monitor businesses trading in forex in order to compel them to pay taxes in foreign currency....Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 19:25hrs | 278 | by Staff reporter
House of Stone reflects on 'true' Gukurahundi events
THIRTY-ONE years since the signing of the Unity Accord, Gukurahundi remains unresolved, highly divisive and emotive - a scar on the conscience of the nation.Post-November 2017 when Zimbabwe un...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 10:19hrs | 492 | by Butholezwe Kgosi Nyathi
A gloomy Christmas beckons
With only two days left before Christmas, the country is trapped in a gloomy atmosphere, completely devoid of the shopping sprees synonymous with the season.A snap survey in Harare in the past...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 09:31hrs | 155 | by Staff reporter
Mnangangwa, Chamisa dialogue the only way out
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's remarks on Wednesday at the Zanu-PF central committee meeting that his party is not considering power-sharing talks with the opposition MDC-Alliance as it has a two-thir...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 18:45hrs | 271 | by Staff reporter
'Rapist' Gumbura hires Madhuku
JAILED cleric Robert Martin Gumbura and eight fellow inmates have hired top Harare lawyer Lovemore Madhuku to defend them in a case in which they are being accused of masterminding a foiled jailbreak ...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 16:53hrs | 1411 | by NewZimbabwe.com
Seek first advice from Prophet Makandiwa; only then can you win EU parliamentary elections!
Seek first the advice from Prophet Makandiwa, make a pilgrimage to Nigeria and seek audience with TB Joshua; only then are you going to win the European parliamentary elections; said the young Nigeria...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 15:42hrs | 896 | by Nomazulu Thata
Man breaks into neighbour's house, 'rapes, robs' daughter (15) at knife-point
A BULAWAYO man allegedly broke into his neighbour's house during their absence and raped their 15-year-old daughter who was sleeping in her bedroom before robbing her of $10 at knifepoint. Thi...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 08:52hrs | 2741 | by Staff Reporter
Concubines humiliate Bishop at wedding
THE leader of the Zviratidzo ZveVapostori Church Bishop Richman Nyamombe was last Saturday humiliated after his two concubines teamed up and cornered him at a wedding where he was a guest - demanding ...Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 11:35hrs | 3536 | by Staff rpeorter
Matemadanda berates war vets who demonstrated against him
WAR Veterans deputy minister Victor Matemadanda has berated some former fighters who challenged his liberation war credentials, saying he cannot be vetted in the streets.Matemadanda was reacti...Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 07:05hrs | 1996 | by Staff reporter
Green bombers poser for Mthuli Ncube
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has given Finance minister Mthuli Ncube a fresh "headache" after its just-ended 17th annual conference resolved that government should reintroduce the national youth service p...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 05:56hrs | 3126 | by Staff reporter
BCC turns down panties display demonstration
BULAWAYO councillors recently turned down an application by Musasa Project, a non-governmental organisation which provides support services to survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) to commemorate t...Published: 14 Dec 2018 at 05:41hrs | 599 | by Staff reporter
Jailed Tsikamutanda moos like a cow
IN a suspected case of juju use, a jailed Tsikamutanda moos like a cow which disturbs other inmates at Harare Central Prison. Lukas Sakala, 45, of Alaska Mine in Chinhoyi, who was sentenced to...Published: 12 Dec 2018 at 15:14hrs | 8342 | by Staff reporter
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