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Armed robber in court for over R 567k robbery, shooting victim 8 times
A SOUTH AFRICA-BASED man has been taken to Beitbridge Regional Magistrates' Courts, facing armed robbery charges involving ZAR567 000, mobile phones and a Toyota Allex vehicle.Enock Nyamani (3...Published: 21 hrs ago | 481 | by Staff reporter
4 armed robbers shot dead
FOUR suspected serial armed robbers - out on bail facing 24 armed robbery charges involving cash, vehicles, guns and jewellery - were shot dead during a shootout with police in Kwekwe. The sus...Published: 21 hrs ago | 1381 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest half a million rand robber
Police have arrested one of the five suspects who along with his accomplices pounced on a Beitbridge foreign currency dealer's house and robbed him over half a million Rands, US$4500 and a...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 16:48hrs | 2616 | by Staff reporter
Prophet in murder & robbery gang
POLICE have launched a manhunt for a self-proclaimed prophet and two accomplices who allegedly armed themselves with machetes and an iron bar before attacking seven family members in Ntabazinduna, kil...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:44hrs | 415 | by Staff reporter
Suspected armed robbers, gold dealers in court
TWO suspected armed robbers have been arraigned before a Bulawayo court on charges of illegal possession of gold worth US$37 338.Robson Chatikobo (35) and Brezhnev Maposa (37) appeared before ...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 07:30hrs | 733 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers rob Sino Non-Metal Resources of US$44,000
Six armed men robbed four Chinese nationals on Wednesday morning of US$44 200, ZWL$2 920 and 500 Chinese yuan at Sino Non-Ferrous Metal Resources gold milling company in Shurugwi.The robbers a...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 07:50hrs | 731 | by Staff reporter
Five suspected armed robbers arrested
Police have arrested five suspected armed robbers said to have been terrorising tobacco farmers.National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said the five were arrested duri...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:27hrs | 969 | by Staff reporter
Let's embrace the Zimbabwean spirit of Ubuntu
Dear ZimbabweansSo prices of basic commodities are tumbling and the foreign currency dealers are kicking and screaming! Surely that's the Zimbabwe we want not this madness of profiteering and ...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 10:03hrs | 542 | by Munya Shumba
Government to name and shame overpricing shops
ZANU-PF national secretary for the commissariat Victor Matemadanda yesterday warned businesses in Bulawayo against selling goods at exorbitant prices, saying corrective measures will soon be taken aga...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 07:21hrs | 641 | by Staff reporter
Soldier steals car
A soldier and member of a neighbourhood watch committee in Beitbridge have been charged with armed robbery after they forced a motorist to surrender his car.The soldier Nobert Muringo (36) and...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:32hrs | 1195 | by Staff reporter
A woman is raped daily in Bulawayo
ABOUT 30 women are raped in Bulawayo every month, statistics that have prompted police to issue an alert over the development and release rape hotspots around the city.Acting Bulawayo spokespe...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 10:24hrs | 469 | by Staff reporter
'ZANU PF steals US$9 Billion from Treasury'
Professor Jonathan Moyo has alleged that President Emmerson Mnangagwa presided over the theft of Treasury bonds worth USD$ 9 billion through the controversial Command Agriculture program.Moyo ...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 14:48hrs | 13164 | by Mandla Ndlovu
SA cops gun down armed Zimbabweans
TWO suspected armed robbers from St Joseph, Matabeleland South and another robber yet to be identified, were shot dead by South African Police who intercepted a cash-in-transit heist on Tuesday mornin...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 07:55hrs | 1687 | by Staff reporter
CIO officer up for kidnap & robbery
A CENTRAL Intelligence Organisation (CIO) operative and four accomplices allegedly kidnapped two suspected illegal forex dealers and hired people to attack them before robbing one of the victims of hi...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:15hrs | 814 | by Staff reporter
Cop robs miners
A GWANDA-based police officer allegedly teamed up with eight accomplices to attack a group of artisanal miners and rob them of one tonne of gold ore. Ray Moyo (30), who is based at the ZRP Mat...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:14hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must apologise for genocide, says chiefs
Chiefs have asked President Emmerson Mnangagwa to apologise for the 1980s army killings in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces during the period known as Gukurahundi.Mnangagwa met chiefs from ...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 09:09hrs | 1965 | by Staff reporter
Police fire live bullets in Chinhoyi...kill 1 suspect
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has confirmed the arrest of three suspects and the death of another in a shooting incident which occurred while detectives from Vehicle Theft Squad(VTS) were in the proces...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 17:57hrs | 7174 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Notorious armed robber arrested
POLICE in Gweru have arrested a notorious armed robber who teamed up with two accomplices to rob a woman of USD$4 000 and RTGS$800 at gunpoint. Peter Taruvinga appeared before Gweru Magistrate...Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 07:34hrs | 2093 | by Staff reporter
US$30 000 heist at Bulawayo house
SIX men armed with guns raided a house in Bulawayo's Famona suburb and got away with US$30 000, a gun, ammunition, a safe with an undisclosed amount of cash and a vehicle. The incident occurre...Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 07:29hrs | 2519 | by Staff reporter
Top cops, ZPCS, doctors face jail
Heads of hospitals, police stations and prisons will be jailed a mandatory five years if found guilty of destroying or tampering with vital evidence that incriminates in the death of people under thei...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 09:35hrs | 1476 | by Staff reporter
Another soldier in the suspected armed robbery nabbed
Another member of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) who was part of the alleged armed soldiers who pounced on Ocelia mine in Concession last week has been nabbed after being implicated by their injured...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 06:42hrs | 2553 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Masendeke detective wants top job
A former top police officer says he deserves to be appointed among the new commissioners for the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) because he was behind the arrest of notorious criminals Elia...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 21:17hrs | 2847 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers strike Lobel's Bakery and get away with 500 loaves
A routine shift for a bread delivery crew in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, turned awry after a gang of armed robbers pounced and escaped with 500 loaves.The bread is valued at roughly RTGS$3 000...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 20:31hrs | 3018 | by Staff reporter
Arrested soldier 'killed' on hospital bed
A 52-YEAR-OLD member of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) who was remanded in custody by Concession resident magistrate Ruth Moyo on an armed robbery case last week has died.Shelton Marerwa who...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 10:46hrs | 12068 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Soldier, neighbourhood watch cop up for carjacking
A SERVING member of the Zimbabwe National Army stationed at One Indeep Barracks in Beitbridge and an active member of the neighbourhood watch committee in the Zimbabwe Republic Police, have been taken...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 08:04hrs | 1122 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers raid city gold dealer
SIX suspected armed robbers pounced on a house in Bulawayo's city centre and brutally attacked four people with machetes, leaving them for dead before getting away with US$6 687, RTGS$1 000, five gram...Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 07:59hrs | 736 | by Staff reporter
Eight soldiers up for armed robbery
Eight members of the Zimbabwe National army reportedly stormed Ceola mine,Concession last week armed with three pistols using a military vehicle and tried to disarm security guards before stealing gol...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 19:00hrs | 3045 | by Simbarashe Sithole
2 children discover corpse in Emganwini
Police in Bulawayo are appealing to members of the public to come and identify the body of a male adult that was discovered on Wednesday last week in Emganwini residential area, near Mbokodo abattoir....Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 09:26hrs | 2024 | by Staff reporter
Cops shot at in armed robbery
ABOUT 12 armed robbers raided a meat wholesale company in Belmont yesterday and got away with an undisclosed amount of money after attacking two security guards and shooting at police officers. ...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 09:21hrs | 1110 | by Staff reporter
Concession carjacker, robber arrested
A 29-YEAR-OLD Concession man was recently nabbed and taken to the Bindura Magistrates' Courts on Thursday, facing carjacking and robbery charges after he allegedly stole two cars inside 48 hours and d...Published: 15 Jun 2019 at 09:03hrs | 510 | by Staff reporter
Police probe robbery victim's source of money
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police is investigating a Beitbridge robbery victim Muchineripi Hlaringo's source of money after he lost R569 000 and US$4 500 during a night raid at his home this week.H...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 07:25hrs | 1166 | by Staff reporter
7 armed robbers hit money changer's home
A SEVEN-men gang of suspected armed robbers allegedly raided an illegal money changer at his home in Bulawayo before torturing him into revealing where he had hidden cash. The suspects alleged...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 06:53hrs | 1827 | by Staff reporter
Man loses R500k to armed robbers
A BEITBRIDGE man on Sunday reportedly lost more than half a million rand to armed robbers, who shot him seven times before driving away in his car.Muchineripi Hlaringo, a known money-changer a...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 07:16hrs | 2820 | by Staff reporter
Police, robbers in high speed chase
THERE was drama in Bulawayo central business district last week when police engaged in a high speed chase with robbers, who had broken into a car and stolen a purse.Several motorists joined in...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 07:11hrs | 2355 | by Staff reporter
Stern warning for criminals in ZNA
THE Zimbabwe National Army will always have zero tolerance to indiscipline and will not hesitate to dismiss those involved in criminal activities, a senior official has said. Speaking at the S...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 07:16hrs | 880 | by Staff reporter
Police urged to intensify patrols
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has been implored to intensify patrols to monitor crime hotspots in and around Harare, particularly bus termini and streets where people are being mugged. Se...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 06:53hrs | 1569 | by Staff reporter
Form 3 pupil jailed for armed robbery
THE Form Three pupil from Sizane High School in Bulawayo who was recently arrested for armed robbery has been sentenced to five years in jail.However, he was lucky to be spared jail on conditi...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 08:09hrs | 603 | by Staff reporter
Robbers target taxi drivers
TWO taxi drivers were attacked and one of them lost his vehicle to robbers who boarded their vehicles under the pretext that they were passengers in separate incidences which occurred in Matabeleland ...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 07:54hrs | 667 | by Staff reporter
Soldier arrested for 'carjacking, rape'
A SOLDIER has been arrested for allegedly hijacking a car from a woman who had offered him a lift before robbing her of RTGS$400 at knifepoint. Pym Vengai Togara (35), who is based in Harare, ...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 07:53hrs | 821 | by Staff reporter
SA police probe murder of Zimbabwean journalist
The South African Police Service (SAPS) in Western Cape on Friday said they were probing the murder of Zimbabwean trained journalist Mike Chimombe, who was based in Cape Town.At the time of hi...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 19:49hrs | 534 | by ANA
Carjacking & rape charge for 35-yr-old
A 35-year-old man was arrested for allegedly hijacking a car from a woman who had offered him a lift before robbing her of RTGS$400 at knifepoint. He later raped another woman that he had offered a li...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 06:51hrs | 368 | by Staff reporter
US ambassador flees teargas at election protest
The US ambassador to Malawi was on Thursday forced to hurriedly leave the main opposition party's headquarters as police fired teargas at protests outside over alleged election fraud, she told AFP....Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 17:31hrs | 3048 | by AFP
From Bingu wa Mutharika to Dambudzo wa Malaba & Chigumba
The deteriorating economy of Zimbabwe is a vindication that President ED Mnangagwa was imposed on Zimbabweans by none other than the controversial Zimbabwe Election Commission (ZEC) and the Supreme Co...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 12:36hrs | 2435 | by Don Chigumba
Zimbabwean journalist shot dead in SA
South AFRICAN-BASED Zimbabwean journalist, Mike Chimombe, was fatally shot in Cape Town on Sunday in a horrific robbery where his assailants also took away his vehicle.Chimombe (37), was the f...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 07:44hrs | 5300 | by Staff reporter
Cop robbed of AK-47 rifle at tollgate
A POLICE officer stationed at Lion's Den tollgate outside Chinhoyi was last week robbed of her AK-47 assault rifle while on duty, NewsDay reported.Mashonaland West police spokesperson Inspecto...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 07:31hrs | 2049 | by Staff reporter
Toy gun robbers arrested
Police have arrested two suspects accused of committing a spate of robbery, rape and housebreaking cases in Masvingo using toy guns. Blessing Chikeyi (22) of plot number 19 Cooden Farm, and Ju...Published: 05 Jun 2019 at 07:51hrs | 581 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa suspended
A SENIOR public prosecutor stationed at Chivi magistrates court, Mr Nixon Chamisa has been suspended from work pending trial for alleged criminal abuse of office.He is accused of clandestinely...Published: 03 Jun 2019 at 20:14hrs | 7645 | by Staff reporter
The centre can no longer hold
SIGNS of economic collapse mounted this week, with no solutions in sight, amid increasing calls for the authorities to show leadership by containing the turmoil before it spirals out of control. What ...Published: 31 May 2019 at 08:05hrs | 1382 | by Staff reporter
Army boss up for rations theft
The commander of One Commando regiment in Harare was arrested last week for allegedly stealing army rations valued at more than $500 000.Zimbabwe National Army spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel ...Published: 31 May 2019 at 07:40hrs | 1661 | by Staff reporter
Robbers pounce on Bulawayo business entity
TWO knife-brandishing robbers last week pounced on a business entity in Pelandaba, Bulawayo, and made away with $134 and two mobile phones belonging to a female employee.Bulawayo acting police...Published: 29 May 2019 at 07:59hrs | 960 | by Staff reporter
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