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Man beheads wife in a domestic dispute
Rushinga-based David Meja is on the run following the death of his wife Grace Mureza (28) who was beheaded in a domestic dispute.The incident left villagers at Munyozo, Rusambo shell shocked....Published: 25 Sep 2024 at 13:31hrs | 1609 | by Simbarashe Sithole
ZETDC gets away with US$200 fine for culpable homicide
The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company(ZETDC) has received a lighter sentence, a US$200 fine, for causing the electrocution of a Buhera man on March 3, 2022.The N...Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 05:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Armed robber jailed 29 years
The HeraldIn a ruling at Bindura Magistrate Court, a 32-year-old man from Rushinga, who had instilled fear in his community through a series of armed robberies, was sentenced to an effective p...Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimra officials in court for fraud
Two Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) employees who allegedly facilitated importation of vehicles using fraudulent civil servants rebate scheme letters have appeared in court.Pardon Makanda (...Published: 12 Jul 2023 at 08:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's 26 activists remanded to April 26
THE 26 members of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) who were arrested for disturbing public peace in Budiriro were yesterday remanded to April 26 after the State indicated that investigations on...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zambia's Hichilema urged to rally West to lift Zimbabwe sanctions
ZAMBIA must use its alliances in the West to support the lifting of sanctions on Zimbabwe and allow the country to develop without inhibitions, the former Zambian Provincial Minister for Lusaka Provin...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 05:48hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mazowe Villagers to receive USD $30K
More than 20 villagers who lost property at Arnold Farm in Mazowe after being evicted by former First Lady Grace Mugabe are set to receive US$30 000 in compensation.The villagers lost property...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 19:40hrs | 7 | by Shelton Muchena and Desmond Nleya
Headmaster suspended over missing pupil
ST MATHIAS Tsonzo High School headmaster Maxwell Sambona has been suspended after a pupil at the school, Livingston Sunhwa (19) disappeared last year.Human remains suspected to belong to Sunhw...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gospel musician arrested for car theft
GOSPEL musician Trymore Bande yesterday appeared in court on allegations of disappearing with a Mercedes Benz from a car sale in Chitungwiza after lying to the seller that he wanted to buy the car....Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwevedzi releases 'I do not care' song
Upcoming Afro Acoustic music group Gwevedzi has released a new love track titled "I do not care today.The song was released on Va...Published: 14 Feb 2022 at 17:56hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Viktor Sheiman's son secretly mines gold in Zimbabwe
IN March 2018, Viktor Sheiman, the then head of the Property Management Directorate of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, paid an official visit to Zimbabwe where he and Mines minister Winston...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:23hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
CEOs mount plan for US$3,2 trillion bloc
ZIMBABWEAN CEOs last week urged domestic industries to mount aggressive strategies to unlock big opportunities brought by January's launch of the African Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), a US$3,2 trillion ma...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to address African CEOs
ABOUT 700 participants, 500 virtually and 200 physically are set to attend the 7th edition of the CEO Africa Annual Roundtable and Awards, with President Mnangagwa expected to deliver the key note add...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa lures back ex-staff
National power utility, Zesa Holdings, has started rehiring some of its former engineers as consultants to improve the country's power supply.Zesa executive chairman Sydney Gata yesterday conf...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Locals breath fire over exported timber
The Rushinga community has blasted its traditional leadership, Forestry Commission and Rural District Council for corruptly awarding an obscure company kn...Published: 05 Aug 2021 at 10:32hrs | 1 | by Lloyd Rabaya/Simbarashe Sithole
Govt approves dam construction
GOVERNMENT has approved construction of a dam outside Marondera, which is earmarked for horticultural purposes.The dam will be situated between the Churchhill and Sambok area and is expected t...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Thief' bashed to death
A SUSPECTED thief from Rushinga was allegedly bashed to death by five people in Mazowe after they accused him of stealing a solar panel and groceries.Mashonaland Central provincial police spok...Published: 26 May 2021 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Thief bashed to death
A Suspected Rushinga thief was allegedly bashed to death by five assailants for stealing a solar panel and groceries on Friday.Rutendo ...Published: 25 May 2021 at 19:50hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwean artistes flock to SA
Zimbabwean musicians are making a beeline to South Africa lately where they are hosting shows in that country after spending months on the tangential due to the country's "strict" Covid-19 regulations...Published: 23 May 2021 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Malawi burns AstraZeneca doses donated by South Africa
Malawi has burned nearly 20,000 doses of expired AstraZeneca vaccines, defying calls not to do so from the World Health Organization and the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.M...Published: 19 May 2021 at 18:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
All systems go for schools opening
ADEQUATE measures informed by World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines have been put in place to ensure schools reopen safely in the proposed phases, starting with examination classes today, without...Published: 15 Mar 2021 at 04:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Drowning cases mushrooming in Mash Central
Three people drowned in Mashonaland Central this week, with two of them being minors, Bulawayo24.com has learnt.Mashonaland Central Police Acting Spokesperson Assistant Inspector Naison Dhliwa...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 20:46hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole/Lloyd Rabaya
Jah Prayzah, Winky D clash
Rarely do we have Winky D and Jah Prayzah sharing the stage, but on the few occasions they have done so, comparisons always emerged on who is better. In the past occasions they have done so, t...Published: 17 Dec 2020 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers arrested
Police have arrested five suspected armed robbers who raided a business premises in Ardbennie, Harare, and stole various goods and property worth over US$40 000. The five are still assisting w...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 07:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa Vs The Ndebeles (Mthwakazi)
One of the most iconic figure of the 20th century and Mozambique's first black democratic president CDE Sambora Machel once said "Tribalism is like cancer to the society". In many African countries tr...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 13:59hrs | | by Nkosana Malinga
Jere orchestrating Kenny Ndebele ouster plot?
PREMIER Soccer League supremo Farai Jere has rubbished social media reports that he is orchestrating the ouster of the league's chief executive officer Kennedy Ndebele and replace him with his close a...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 11:04hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Nurses recruitment scam exposed
HARARE Central Hospital Principal Tutor Irene Sambo is alleged to have pocketed more than $300 000 in a nurse trainee recruitment scandal that has left one of Zimbabwe's biggest health referral centre...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 16:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Jealousy hubby kills wife, sets lover's house ablaze
Police in Marondera have launched a search for a man suspected of killing his 25-year old wife over infidelity before setting ablaze a house belonging to her suspected lover on Monday.The body...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's 'rigging evidence'
MDC Alliance presidential election candidate Nelson Chamisa has tabled "more evidence" he says will be enough to overturn President Emmerson Mnangagwa's election victory ahead of a potentially bruisin...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 16:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Panicky Chamisa beginning to sound like Tsvangirai
Hey hoo, the Zimbabwe Defence Forces have a new quartermaster! One who knows it all, and manages the national armoury from far-away Kenya. Maybe these are the wonders of a twitter epoch: you know it a...Published: 30 Jun 2018 at 07:57hrs | | by Igomombe
Political novices spoiling the 2018 electoral broth
The presidential nomination court witnessed a record 23 presidential candidates successfully filing their papers ahead of Zimbabwe's 2018 harmonised elections. Indeed, this was good for democracy as a...Published: 26 Jun 2018 at 17:07hrs | | by Elijah Chihota
Rude Kwekwe awakening for Chamisa
MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa yesterday came face to face with reality when a paltry crowd graced his rally in #KwekweHim, a development which might be ominous for the party, especially with 3...Published: 24 Jun 2018 at 18:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gays praise Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has received rare praise from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community for abandoning his predecessor Robert Mugabe’s politics of discrimin...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 11:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fifa 'have made a terrible blunder' by letting Chiyangwa continue
VETERAN former football administrators, Ndumiso Gumede and Chris Sambo have called for a reduction in the Zifa presidency nomination fee from $5 000 to an affordable amount to allow credible prospecti...Published: 11 May 2018 at 07:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zifa leadership has lost its mandate'
THE Sandton Project - a programme aimed at destabilising ZIFA operations - rolled into Harare yesterday with calls for the association's leaders to quit because they had allegedly lost their mandate t...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Anglican parishioners in public fight
A FEEDBACK meeting on the resolutions of the Anglican Episcopal Synod held in Harare recently to look at lasting solutions to problems bedevilling the church in Manicaland ended up with some members a...Published: 15 Sep 2017 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hwange beat stubborn Hwange
Hwange 2-1 ZPC HwangeHWANGE FC were made to shed gallons of sweat to chalk up a victory against a stubborn and resilient Zifa Southern Region Division One outfit ZPC Hwange at a Heroes Day Cel...Published: 15 Aug 2017 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim Anglican church in turmoil
Anglican Diocese of Masvingo - Godfrey Tawonezvi has called for the suspension of his Manicaland colleague over wanton suspension of priests, abuse of church funds, maladministration and corruption....Published: 02 Aug 2017 at 14:08hrs | | by Webster Chigede
What's choking Kariba?
In the previous instalment Laiton Kandawire looked at overfishing and how fisheries authorities in both Zimbabwe and Zambia agreed to impose a Full Moon non-fishing ban of at least seven days to comba...Published: 23 Jul 2017 at 17:09hrs | | by Laiton Kandawire and Oliver Samboko
Chief Makoni forces school kids to marry
CONTROVERSIAL Chief Makoni, Mr Colgen Simbayi Gwasira, is an eye of a storm again after forcing a 17-year-old teenager to pay bride price and marry a girl he had impregnated recently.The girl ...Published: 14 Jul 2017 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chris Sambo runs to cops over indecent photos
FORMER Premier Soccer League administrator Chris Sambo lodged a police report against the woman who posted his ex-lover's indecent photographs on social media claiming that the former was failing to g...Published: 23 May 2017 at 12:55hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Top Anglican priest in adultery storm
Anglican Manicaland diocese priest, Reverend Gilbert Sambona, has been accused of having a romantic affair with a married parishioner.Mr Clever Ndiringepi, a church member, claimed that the ma...Published: 21 May 2017 at 16:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
High Court blocks Grace Mugabe evictions
High Court Judge Felistus Chatukuta has ordered the police to stop demolitions and eviction of several families occupying Arnold Farm in Mazowe.Chatukuta granted the order by consent yeste...Published: 25 Mar 2017 at 14:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's nephew has to be stopped
Around this time last year, we warned that putting Mugabe's nephew, Phillip Chiyangwa, at the helm of Zimbabwean football would spell doom for the local game and the flamboyant businessman has so ...Published: 20 Nov 2016 at 12:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa gets Zifa Assembly backing
A special Zifa congress yesterday tasked Phillip Chiyangwa and his executive to do whatever it takes to get the association out of debt, including pushing ahead with the contentious issue of dissoluti...Published: 10 Jul 2016 at 06:34hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Fifa stands by Chiyangwa
Day 210 of the Phillip Chiyangwa era came and went yesterday with Fifa backing the Zifa president amid the commotion triggered by a rash decision to dissolve and recreate the local football governing ...Published: 03 Jul 2016 at 16:11hrs | | by Makomborero Mutimukulu
Job-seeker loses $308 to ex-policeman
A former police officer yesterday pleaded guilty to soliciting for $308 to facilitate the entry of a Harare man into the police force.Lionel Munyaradzi Sambo (28) appeared before Harare magist...Published: 08 Apr 2016 at 06:44hrs | | by Court Reporter
Nigeria's former defence chief raided staff salary funds to buy property
Abuja - Nigeria's former chief of defence staff bought property including a $5.5m mansion with air force money, passing off his fraudulent withdrawals as staff salaries, a court heard on Wednesday....Published: 17 Mar 2016 at 07:05hrs | 1 | by AFP
SA players implicated in match fixing: Sordid details emerge
THE whistleblower who has laid bare the latest match-fixing scandal to hit Zimbabwe football is armed with damning evidence, including a copy of a $400 000 transaction transferred into a South African...Published: 12 Mar 2016 at 15:14hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Student left undressed in park after drugging and rape
Police in South Africa are investigating an attack on a Mpumalanga student who was allegedly kidnapped, drugged, raped and left undressed in a park.Police spokesperson Constable Nkomozakhe Kh...Published: 08 Dec 2015 at 13:29hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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