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Woman traffics brother's daughter into prostitution in South Africa
A WOMAN who allegedly trafficked her brother's 16-year-old daughter into prostitution in South Africa has been arrested.The woman (44) and her accomplice aged 23 who both cannot be named to pr...Published: 11 Jul 2024 at 18:17hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Bed-hopping-accused brutally attacked
A MAN from Kensington plots on the outskirts of Bulawayo survived death by a whisker after he was severely attacked with stones for allegedly bedding a married woman.Bongani Bandla (32) appear...Published: 05 Jul 2024 at 11:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cyclist bashes pedestrian to death
Police in Chiweshe are looking for a murder suspect who allegedly assaulted a fellow villager to death over a road dispute.The 49-year-...Published: 02 Jul 2024 at 17:29hrs | 9 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Silalatshani irrigation secures a partner
Production at the Silalatshani Irrigation Scheme in Insiza, Matabeleland South province, is set to resume after farmers secured a partner to support their agricultural activities.The unnamed p...Published: 03 Jun 2024 at 08:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
US$5 armed thief sentenced to 20 years in prison
A MAN who stole US$5 from a motorist before causing a car accident has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.Blessing Moyo was facing two counts of armed robbery when he appeared before Harare ...Published: 28 Mar 2024 at 16:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
MP's wife attacks hubby's side chick
CHIREDZI North MP Roy Bhila is in trouble trying to reign in his troublesome wife who allegedly went and attacked the former's said mistress, a teacher at a local school and confiscated her stove and ...Published: 24 Mar 2024 at 14:59hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Diasporan intervenes in Mzilikazi water crisis
A UNITED KINGDOM-BASED Zimbabwean has come to the rescue of Mzilikazi residents after drilling boreholes to address the suburb's acute water shortages.Bulawayo residents are currently enduring...Published: 17 Feb 2024 at 17:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hopewell Chin'ono friend abducted
Suspected state security agents abducted a Harare-based construction manager - who has done a lot of building works for award-winning Zimbabwean filmmaking journalist Hopewell Chin'ono - yesterday in ...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 19:07hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Foul-mouthed drunk stoned and stripped naked
OBVIOUS Moyo's habit of hurling insults at people while intoxicated backfired horribly when he was stoned after a violent encounter that also left him naked and in a pool of blood.The near-tra...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 06:02hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Man who left Zimbabwe for SA 61 years ago seeks relatives
AN ailing 81-year-old Tsholotsho man who left Zimbabwe 61 years ago to work in South Africa, is looking for his relatives after a malayitsha who was supposed to take him to his rural home dumped him i...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 16:35hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's ED-UNZA Scholarship Fund raises US$600,000
THE ED-UNZA (University of Zambia) Scholarship raised US$600 000 during a fundraising dinner held at State House two weeks ago.President Emmerson Mnangagwa is the patron of the fund, which was...Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 18:17hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Man dumps wife, 3 minor children in Bulawayo CBD and disappears
In Bulawayo, a man is alleged to have abandoned his wife and three children in the city center on Thursday evening after picking them up from their rural home in Mt. Darwin.The woman, whose na...Published: 30 Sep 2023 at 20:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man assaulted for being a Good Samaritan
A man from Plumtree escaped death by a whisker after he was assaulted for trying to help an unknown victim who was bleeding outside a ba...Published: 12 Sep 2023 at 21:39hrs | | by Desmond Nleya
Man passes out after testicles repeatedly twisted
A MAN from Nkayi in Matabeleland North province's decision not to leave the bottle store after it was closed came at a steep cost.He nearly lost his life.This was after he was brutally...Published: 02 Sep 2023 at 20:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt fears revolt over elections
THE Zimbabwean government is running a security operation, mainly in Harare, around the clock to prevent gatherings as it is fears an uprising and post-election violence over disputed poll results, in...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 21:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's former ally loses car to Good Samaritan
FORMER MDC Alliance national chairperson and Citizens for Coalition Change (CCC) member Thabitha Khumalo was left counting her losses after a man who had offered to help her to connect a battery to he...Published: 04 Aug 2023 at 06:51hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Artisanal miners kill colleague in a gold dispute
Three illegal miners allegedly killed their colleague in a gold dispute in Shamva on Sunday.Mashonaland Central deputy police spokesperson Sergeant Major Samuel Chikasha confirmed the death of...Published: 03 Aug 2023 at 08:01hrs | 5 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwean man who used false documents for job as child psychologist is jailed in Ireland
A man who used false documents to secure employment as a child psychologist and “live a fake life” has been jailed for four years.Nikiwe Dube (41) with an address at Colpe Drive, Deepforde...Published: 29 Jul 2023 at 13:07hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
He didn't rape me, mum forced me to lie
AN 18-year-old Kwekwe woman is claiming she was forced by her mother to accuse their neighbour of raping her when she was a minor.The incident happened nine years ago when Evidence Makambe was...Published: 19 Jul 2023 at 18:00hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Man bashes girlfriend over sex
A sex-starved Chiweshe man was dragged to Concession magistrates courts after he assaulted his girlfriend before breaking her phone into two pieces over a sex dispute.Tongai Chikutwe (41) plea...Published: 08 Jul 2023 at 10:14hrs | 5 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Paranoid Chamisa feels politically threatened by Job Sikhala
The political persecution of Job Sikhala by the Zimbabwe government should be condemned by all progressive and democratic forces in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe and the world. We have first hand exp...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 19:39hrs | 6 | by Israel Dube
The nightmare of hiking on 'Mushikashika' vehicles
Sure, here is the text in paragraphs:The alarm sound from my comms gadget wrenched me from the dream world. It's 3:30 am, time to get ready if one wants to board 'mushikashika' commuter cars, ...Published: 29 May 2023 at 06:12hrs | 2 | by TT Murisa, Chinehasha
Mnangagwa's Minister 'torments' NUST female student
The Minister of State responsible for Agricultural Colleges, Water Resources, and Irrigation Development, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Davis Marapira, has allegedly brought a National University of ...Published: 07 May 2023 at 08:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mob urinates on robbers
AN angry mob urinated on three robbers, whose luck ran out when a car they had stolen crashed into a kombi, at Chigovanyika Shopping Centre in Chitungwiza on Wednesday evening.Four suspected robbe...Published: 05 May 2023 at 20:23hrs | | by Staff reportr
When all friendship ceases!
Von Hornick's nine principles on National EconomyIn 1684, an Austrian lawyer-turned-civil servant, Philipp Wilhelm von Hornick, published nine principal rules of a National Economy.The...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 07:57hrs | | by Jamwanda
Woman stripped naked, robbed
A short cut is often a wrong cut.This was at play when a woman was allegedly stripped naked and robbed of her clothes and a cellphone by an unidentified man she met while walking along a footp...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 07:04hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
South African hospital detains10-month-old Zimbabwean boy over R7 000 bill
A South African hospital has refused to discharge a 10-month-old Zimbabwean boy over an unsettled bill of more than R7 000.The boy underwent a neck lump operation at the Louis Trichardt Memori...Published: 20 Feb 2023 at 19:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
War vets should be vanguards of Zimbabwe's independence
Our war veterans should be at the forefront of condemning the institutionalised plunder of our vast national resources by a small ruling eliteONE of the greatest tragedies to befall post-colon...Published: 13 Feb 2023 at 05:20hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Nurse recruitment bottlenecks handicap Zimbabwean women
She lay on the ground facing the sky, hoping for a miracle to happen.Different hymns could be heard in her mind and heart, as she tried to get answers on this particular "curse.""Why d...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 11:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Robbed businessman vows to continue shining
A Buhera-born businessman Maxwell Chikwangwani who recently survived a hair-raising kidnapping and robbery ordeal has promised to hit the ground running.Chikwangwani fell prey to four armed ro...Published: 15 Dec 2022 at 14:18hrs | 5 | by Edson Mapani
Triple C: Puny-wise, Pint Foolish!
Obdurate immaturityIT is not like Nelson Chamisa had not been warned, whether by living men or by past circumstances. Both did; yet he still hurtled headlong towards yet another blunder, which...Published: 11 Dec 2022 at 08:56hrs | | by Jamwanda
The enablers of Shona hegemony and enemies of Mthwakazi's peoples' emancipation from the MLF President
Greetings to all!, The compilation of this article identifies the enablers of Shona hegemony among others as the so-called "ZPRA Legacy Group". This group is comprised of charlatans who are in...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 09:37hrs | 10 | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Man stabs love rival for cuddling girlfriend
A 21-YEAR-OLD man from Njube suburb in Bulawayo allegedly stabbed his love rival several times with an okapi knife after he caught him cuddling his girlfr...Published: 12 Nov 2022 at 10:22hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Boy (10) brutally attacked over father's love 'affair'
A 34-year-old Zvishavane man allegedly waylaid his neighbour's 10-year-old boy on his way to school and attacked him with a machete to spite the schoolboy's father whom he suspected to be cheating wit...Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 05:10hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Woman nabbed for abandoning child
A remorseful Mudzi woman surrendered herself to the police after seven months of abandoning her newly born baby by the roadside in Mutoko....Published: 05 Nov 2022 at 23:43hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabweans suffer horrific medical exclusion in SA
SOUTH Africa arguably boasts the highest standard of healthcare on the continent where everyone can access public healthcare. However, access to public facilities comes at a cost over around US$300 US...Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sex worker stabs workmate
A sex worker in Bulawayo has been arrested for allegedly stabbing another sex worker with a broken beer bottle after they had a fallout over a client.The incident happened on Tuesday at around...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pomona Project: All thunder, lightning flashes, no strike!
Pomona stink in newsroomsIlliterate newspapers are being pummelled back and forth by buffeted Mafume and his clueless Triple C councillors. It is all thunder, blinding flashes but no strike. A...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 19:52hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Pedestrian dies in a hit and run accident
A 53 YEAR-OLD Bindura man was hit and run by an unkwnon motor vehicle on Wednesday night and died upon admission at Bindura hospital.De...Published: 28 May 2022 at 19:07hrs | 4 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Sikhosana Buhlungu mourns death of parent
It's not easy to lose a parent in life!Whether you are young or old, it always feels like there is a pierce on your heart especially when that one parent, who was the only one left as a pillar...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man killed over girlfriend ugly remark
A BULAWAYO man who fatally stabbed his friend with a knife for mocking his girlfriend's looks has been sentenced to an effective 10 years in jail.Bongani Ngulube (20) of Mpopoma suburb knifed ...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man tied, dragged from back of car
IN a horrible act of cruelty, a Bulawayo man is lucky to be alive after a man who accused him of cloning his debit card and stealing his money hired two bouncers who allegedly used a rope and tied him...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man strikes wife's lover with machete
A-DARING Guruve man has died after he was severely assaulted with a machete on Valentine's Day after he was caught pampering a married woman with gifts.Tapfumanei Matibhiri (50) was assaulted ...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matibhiri buttered after being caught with someone's wife
A daring Guruve man cheated death on valentine's day after he was caught in a married man's bedroom showering a married woman with gifts. ...Published: 22 Feb 2022 at 17:55hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Marry Chiwenga and Sipho Malunga bring bad omens to Zanu-PF!
There are some behaviours, which the wisest among the Bantu call bad omens. These are signs, real or imagined, of ill fortune or catastrophe in the future.When we were children, and my f...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 18:58hrs | 6 | by Ken Mufuka
SA-bound bus crew dumps sick woman in street
A Bulawayo woman, Sithabile Maseko (49) from Magwegwe West suburb was left battling for life in the street next to Regional Coaches bus rank after she was dragged out of the bus by two men who were in...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 06:50hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Client' rapes sex worker
A 38-YEAR-OLD Harare man appeared in court yesterday charged with raping a sex worker from Hopley.Kurauone Gwamure (38) was remanded in custody to today when he appeared before Harare magistra...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:50hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's supporter suffers trauma after Zanu-PF violence
THE Alliance member, who was recently attacked at his homestead during the opposition party's leader Nelson Chamisa's tour of Mashonaland West Province, is suffering from severe post-traumatic stress ...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 05:56hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Good Samaritan brings home 15 stranded Zimbabweans
A ZIMBABWEAN woman based in South Africa has assisted 15 locals who had become destitute in the neighbouring country by facilitating their return home.Nobuhle Virginia Ajiti from Sizinda, Bula...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:39hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC, Zanu-PF in violent clashes
VIOLENT clashes, pitting Zanu-PF and MDC Alliance activists, left scores of people injured after ruling party supporters attempted to block opposition leader Nelson Chamisa from meeting villagers in Z...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:02hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
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