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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 | 315 | 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 | 2215 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1313 | by Staff reporter
Warriors coach Loga's salary revealed
WARRIORS coach, Zdravko "Loga'' Logarusic, earns a salary of US$7 000 a month and is likely to have pocketed, at least, US$70 000 by the time he leads his team into a competitive football match for th...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 05:43hrs | 1251 | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls man up for rape, robbery
A VICTORIA Falls man, who gave a lift to a woman from Bulawayo and allegedly raped and robbed her of her mobile phone, was yesterday granted $500 bail.Hendricks Ncube (23) was not asked to ple...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 06:39hrs | 445 | by Staff reporter
Machete gangsters go underground
Hundreds of militias in the gold mining sector who were responsible for waves of terror nationwide have significantly retreated after a recent police clampdown.The militias were notorious for ...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:41hrs | 834 | by Staff reporter
HIV positive man jailed for rapping niece (15)
A 28-YEAR-OLD Mvurwi man was sentenced to 5 years for bedding his nephew several times purporting that he was curing his HIV status by having sex with the...Published: 22 Mar 2020 at 06:56hrs | 2094 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
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 | 532 | by Staff reporter
Ex-lover kidnaps, rapes pregnant woman
THE month of March marks the annually celebrated Women's History Month, an observance of the incredible accomplishments of women throughout history.But the case of a Mbembesi woman from Matabe...Published: 21 Mar 2020 at 06:18hrs | 654 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala trailed by security agents?
MDC vice chairperson, Job "Wiwa" Sikhala, has written to the Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) to register his fears about suspected security agents he says are trailing him.This comes as Sikhala ...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 20:51hrs | 1334 | by Staff reporter
'Prophet' rapes pregnant woman
A SELF-STYLED Harare prophet allegedly raped a pregnant congregant before threatening her with an abortion spell if she revealed the matter, a court heard yesterday.Godwin Chawe, 25, is answer...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 20:50hrs | 1509 | 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
The Shona peoples learning hard facts about Zanu PF mentality
Listening to the video circulating around, young people all from Mashonaland are openly lamenting recent Mnangagwa's hate speech who of late uttered what he knows best: about rounding people up with c...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 13:26hrs | 3640 | by Nomazulu Thata
Prison officers break inmate's leg
Three Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison wardens were yesterday sentenced to 13 months in jail each for assaulting an inmate and breaking his leg after he picked and pocketed a $1 note while on office ...Published: 19 Mar 2020 at 06:33hrs | 2963 | by Staff reporter
We are fine with our culture and traditions!
Miriam Majome: Barely 36 hours of writing about medieval traditions and cultural "beliefs" in our communities, we read today once more in Bulawayo24 about a classic case of the power of Sangomas and c...Published: 18 Mar 2020 at 16:26hrs | 1211 | by Nomazulu Thata
Obert Mpofu a huge elephant with brains of a rat
Obert Mpofu statement that the late founder of ZAPU, Dr Joshua Nkomo will be happy about Mnangagwa holding the 40th independence anniversary in Matabeleland confirms what Prof Jonathan Moyo once said ...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 13:41hrs | 2708 | by Israel Dube
Cop's wife produces panties to prove rape by hubby
An allegedly abused Mvuma woman had to produce her torn panties in court to prove that her husband, a Police officer at Chivhu was in the habit of raping her.Agfa Madhume (33) who is married t...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 13:23hrs | 1597 | by Staff reporter
Molested, caressed and disembowelled by the 5th Brigade!
It all went wrong at the birthing of Zimbabwe, or just before. It is exactly what happens when a cow encounters dystocia during parturition. The calf refuses to come out properly by arrogantly facing ...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 09:19hrs | 2014 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Police, Zanu-PF clash over gold claims
Zanu-PF was last week forced to dispatch a high-powered delegation on a fact-finding mission to Mudzi district after illegal miners, who are its members, were driven out of gold-rich Makaha area under...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 06:40hrs | 419 | by Staff reporter
Man rapes a destitute girl
A rapist of a 15-year-old destitute Chitungwiza girl will serve an effective 17 years in jail, just over six weeks after he was apprehended by two men who reacted swiftly to the girl's screams. ...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 06:26hrs | 792 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF not sincere about reforms and dealing with past atrocities
The Zimbabwean government and the ruling party should be ashamed of themselves following the report released by the United States of America's Harare Embassy. The 48 page Zimbabwe -2019 Report on Huma...Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 07:11hrs | 318 | by Mbonisi Gumbo
Should Mnanggwa stop making jokes?
There is a question that is being discussed among President Mnangagwa's legion of ardent supporters and loyalists; should the President abandon humour as a device for engaging his audience? Not everyo...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 09:05hrs | 1251 | by Nick Mangwana
Uncle rapes niece (13) bribes her with jiggies
A MAN fromn Matobo is in trouble after he allegedly raped his niece (13) several times before giving her jiggies as bribe for her not to report the abuse.It is the state case that the man who ...Published: 14 Mar 2020 at 08:53hrs | 1671 | by Steve Grays
'Mnangagwa a candidate for impeachment'
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa says President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ‘dark humour' on mortuaries could have gotten him impeached in a normal country.Chamisa warned the Zimbabwean leader's days were...Published: 13 Mar 2020 at 06:57hrs | 3042 | by newzimbabwe
Anselem Sanyatwe and Owen Ncube are slapped by US sanctions
Dear Editor, The warlords in power are complaining about being held accountable for their despicable acts of state-sponsored terrorism against defenceless Zimbabweans. It's amazing how they do...Published: 12 Mar 2020 at 10:40hrs | 1138 | by Bigboy Sibanda
Why I wept bitterly when Robert Mugabe died!
I wept bitterly when Robert Mugabe died, leaving me discombobulated and severely pained. Indelible, agonizing, stabbing, chronic pain! Pain that eats into my liver, intestines and buttocks. The ...Published: 11 Mar 2020 at 08:59hrs | 6760 | by Nhlanhla Moses
'RBZ policies are litany of promises to be broken' Sadly, povo who suffer consequences are powerless - change is overdue
"Unsurprisingly, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s 2020 monetary policy statement is more of the same — a tired litany of promises waiting to be broken and targets queuing up to be missed. Govern...Published: 11 Mar 2020 at 08:58hrs | 1616 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwean national arrested in US for overstaying visa for nearly 20 years
Federal immigration authorities in Boston last week arrested a Zimbabwean national who had allegedly overstayed his visa by 20 years and is charged with felony rape, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enfor...Published: 11 Mar 2020 at 06:26hrs | 3859 | by Staff reporter
Failure to provide vehicle number plates places citizens at risk
Zimbabwe is increasingly becoming a country where the absurd is becoming the norm. The cliché of normalising the abnormal is becoming the hallmark of Zimbabwean life. The level of deterioration in ec...Published: 10 Mar 2020 at 05:36hrs | 888 | by Learnmore Zuze
Malawi Supreme court to hear president's appeal against vote annulment
Malawi's Supreme Court will hear next month an appeal by President Peter Mutharika against a ruling that annulled his May 2019 re-election, an official said on Monday.In February, the Constitu...Published: 09 Mar 2020 at 21:29hrs | 881 | by AFP
Prison officer rapes and impregnates sister's friend
A 25-YEAR-OLD Bulawayo prison officer has appeared in court for allegedly raping and impregnating his young sister's friend.The man whose name has been withheld to protect the identity of the ...Published: 09 Mar 2020 at 12:12hrs | 2411 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt should not pretend to be baffled by sanctions: Gandawa
Former Higher and Tertiary Education deputy minister Godfrey Gandawa has said government must stop pretending to be baffled by the extension of targeted sanctions by the United States and allies...Published: 09 Mar 2020 at 07:30hrs | 781 | by Stephen Jakes
Kereke's freedom bid flops
Former Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke's chamber application for leave to prosecute his appeal at the Supreme Court in a case in which he is challenging the conviction and 14 years in prison ...Published: 09 Mar 2020 at 05:25hrs | 839 | by Staff reporter
MDC Assembly of Women celebrate international women's day
The MDC Assembly of Women has joined the whole world in celebrating International Women’s Day (IWD). The day is celebrated on Ma...Published: 08 Mar 2020 at 10:00hrs | 354 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa must stop wasting money on western lobbyists
The decision by the United States to extend for another year targeted sanctions against Zimbabwe has once again exposed the futility of spending millions of taxpayers' money paying lobby firms in an e...Published: 08 Mar 2020 at 08:35hrs | 222 | by Staff reporter
Trump heaps more misery on Mnangagwa, govt
PRESIDENT Donald Trump has extended the United States of America(USA)'s sanctions against Zimbabwe after accusing Harare of accelerating its human rights violations and failing to implement needed pol...Published: 07 Mar 2020 at 06:54hrs | 991 | by Staff reporter
Biti pays homage to Tsvangirai
MDC vice president Tendai Biti has praised former party president, the late Morgan Tsvangirai as a champion of the struggle for democracy whose name will forever be remembered.Speaking during ...Published: 06 Mar 2020 at 06:53hrs | 1473 | by Staff reporter
Former Minister survived assasination from Zimbabwe army
Former Deputy Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education Dr Godfrey Gandawa survived a state-sponsored assassination attempt in 2018 after he fell out with the President Emmerson Mnangagwa led governme...Published: 05 Mar 2020 at 14:46hrs | 6830 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Zimbabwe soldiers don't kill citizens' Mangwana tells Trump
The Zimbabwean government has denied that the security forces are engaging in extrajudicial killings and raping of citizens. The government was responding to President Donald Trump who said, "...Published: 05 Mar 2020 at 09:50hrs | 8261 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe responds to Trump
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has refuted allegations leveled by the United States of America that it is abusing its own citizens.In a statement issued on Thursday by Information S...Published: 05 Mar 2020 at 09:38hrs | 4953 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Trump's US extends Zimbabwe sanctions
The United States has extended targeted sanctions imposed on some Zanu PF officials saying President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government "has arguably accelerated its persecution of critics and economic m...Published: 05 Mar 2020 at 06:00hrs | 3897 | by Staff reporter
Self censorship: The bane of Zimbabwe journalism
One of the major criticisms we get as Zimbabwean journalists is that we do not do enough to cover the big stories and major on the minors, a fair criticism but that sometimes is bereft of context....Published: 05 Mar 2020 at 05:52hrs | 247 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Female Legislators squat on floor in demonstrating against GBV
Female parliamentarians peacefully demonstrated against Gender Based Violence in Parliament yesterday (Tuesday) by sitting on the floor as part of #shedecides initiative.This comes as Internat...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 14:00hrs | 873 | by Paul Ndou
Matemadanda blasts Mukupe as ungrateful spoiled child
Some youths have become the prisoners of erratic selfish morons known for demanding loyalty and recognition but not famous for repaying it. ZANU PF through comrade Emerson Mnangagwa has empowe...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 07:04hrs | 4975 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Terrence Mukupe blasts Mnangagwa and Zanu PF, tips Chamisa to win 2023
The former deputy minister of Finance Mr Terrence Mukupe came out guns blazing castigating the party and predicting that Chamisa will win the 2023 elections. The former deputy minister labelled ZANU P...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 06:56hrs | 2415 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Herdsman 'rapes' employer's four- year-old daughter
A 36-YEAR-OLD herdsman from Gwanda has been arrested for allegedly raping his employer's four-year-old daughter while she was on her way from school. The man from Stanmore who cannot be named ...Published: 03 Mar 2020 at 05:50hrs | 454 | by Staff reporter
27 machete killings in Silobela alone
HOME Affairs deputy minister Mike Madiro on Thursday told Senate that machete-wielding gangsters committed 27 murders in Silobela alone from January 2019 to date.He was responding to a questio...Published: 02 Mar 2020 at 09:08hrs | 508 | by Staff reporter
Bosso edge Rhinos
Highlanders 1-0 Black Rhinos MARK Harrison's decision to try out old horses was vindicated yesterday when the experienced duo of Mkhokheli Dube and Mitchel Katsvairo combined to create Bosso's sol...Published: 02 Mar 2020 at 09:03hrs | 471 | by Staff reporter
MaShurugwi kill 35, rape 15
AT least 35 people were killed while 15 women were raped in the last 13 months by infamous machete wielding gangs commonly known as MaShurugwi, Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Deputy Minister Micha...Published: 02 Mar 2020 at 07:25hrs | 1260 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabweans need passports to watch Warriors
IN the aftermath of the banning of our stadia by the Confederation of African Football from hosting any international football matches, all sports loving Zimbabweans were left dumbfounded, disappointe...Published: 29 Feb 2020 at 07:15hrs | 1014 | by Staff reporter
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