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'We have criminals among us,' says Bulawayo police boss
POLICE Officer Commanding Bulawayo Province, Commissioner Patton Mbangwa has said the first step towards ending the scourge of crime in Bulawayo was for residents to accept that "we have criminals amo...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 08:24hrs | 658 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sought Magaisa's support after coup?
Chiwenga chases Schroeder's record - The Lord of RingsZIMBABWEAN Vice-President retired General Constantino Chiwenga seems to be chasing former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's record in seri...Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 17:47hrs | 1309 | by Staff reporter
The makings of Kuda Tagwirei
Businessman and serial investor Mr Kuda Tagwirei had endured an energy-sapping and disappointing 12-hour wait to refuel his car at a local service station sometime in 2003 when he had a moment of epip...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 08:26hrs | 457 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Minister convicted, fined $30k for gun crime
FORMER Mashonaland West Resident Minister, Faber Chidarikire (75), was Wednesday found guilty of failing to safeguard his revolver in a gun cabinet after losing the firearm to a burglar who had broken...Published: 10 Jun 2022 at 08:06hrs | 1624 | by Staff reporter
Machete gangs terrorise Bulawayo residents
Gangs of robbers wielding machetes are terrorising Bulawayo residents at their homes and business premises, police have raised alarm.Fifteen cases have been reported in the last two weeks....Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 18:42hrs | 2108 | by Staff reporter
Zacc investigates Nssa corruption
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) this week invaded and camped at the National Social Security Authority (Nssa) offices in Harare to investigate complaints of alleged malpractices, corrup...Published: 22 May 2022 at 11:19hrs | 1191 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's nephews denied bail in firearms case
HIGH Court judge, Justice Benjamin Chikowero, has denied bail to two siblings, believed to be President Emmerson Mnangagwa's nephews who were allegedly involved in a foiled robbery attempt....Published: 17 May 2022 at 20:00hrs | 1182 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's empire is collapsing like a castle built on sand
What you need to know:‘Gucci Grace' will, however, still live comfortably for the rest of her life even if the businesses that her husband left her collapse, as post-coup law ensures that sh...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:14hrs | 3064 | by Staff reporter
Sangoma wife terrorises hubby
WHEN it comes to abuse in a relationship, we typically imagine the survivor as being female.But that is not always the case. Mzingaye Ncube from Nketa 6 suburb in Bulawayo is one of a growing ...Published: 06 May 2022 at 19:30hrs | 1189 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans arrested for owning OpenView decoders
Eleven people were arrested, and dozens of illegal decoders were seized during police raids over the past two weeks, as police broke a TV-decoder smuggling ring.The cross-border smuggling ring...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 19:09hrs | 5650 | by Staff reporter
Car hijackers jailed
TWO serial Concession car hijackers were sentenced to an effective five year jail term each by Bindura magistrate Ruramai Chitumbura on Friday....Published: 25 Apr 2022 at 08:34hrs | 489 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Marondera serial killer cases rise to 23
CHARGES against the Marondera serial rapist and killer have risen to 23 after Harare magistrate Yeukai Dzuda added three more counts of murder yesterday.Bright Zhantali (30) was remanded in cu...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:12hrs | 820 | by Staff reporter
Ex-minister refutes graft allegations
FORMER Public Service minister Petronella Kagonye yesterday appeared in court denying criminal abuse of office charges being levelled against her.In her defence, she said the allegations were ...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:07hrs | 204 | by Staff reporter
Political tomfoolery hinders country's democracy, progress
WHEN political clowns among us such as Douglas Mwonzora, Thokozani Khupe and the like decide to turn themselves into serial political flip floppers by dancing like jumping jacks from one party to anot...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 08:59hrs | 168 | by Staff reporter
Fuel scam rocks Zimbabwe Parliament
PARLIAMENT is failing to account for thousands of litres of fuel after leaving out serial numbers in its coupons disbursements, while also failing to provide documentation for its expenses in contrave...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 11:15hrs | 1196 | by Staff reporter
Kumalo Primary School headmistress acquitted
STELLA MHLANGA, the Kumalo Primary School headmistress who was facing charges of peddling -ornographic material has been acquitted.Mhlanga was in court for contravening Section 26 of the Censo...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 09:39hrs | 701 | by Staff reporter
Wanted robber gunned down
A notorious robber, who has been on the police's most wanted list, was shot and killed last Thursday in Glen View 1, Harare, where he was hiding at his girlfriend's house.Decide Rice (52) had ...Published: 02 Apr 2022 at 06:55hrs | 246 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo serial rapist arrested after raping 16 women
A man suspected to be the serial rapist that sexually assaulted 16 women in Bulawayo's western suburbs has been arrested.Acting Bulawayo provincial police spokesperson, Assistant Inspector Nom...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:42hrs | 335 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa: When the Goliath Complex Afflicts
My early days in primary school were dominated by the story of Goliath, the giant of Philistine.Goliath's name was onomatopoeic; this sonorous name heavily suggested physical hugeness afflicte...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:38hrs | 190 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Zimbabwe police recover cattle stolen from Botswana
POLICE have recovered four out of 118 cattle stolen in Botswana at Hampden Farm in Gwanda.This comes after cattle rustlers from Zimbabwe were last month accused of stealing the cattle from Bot...Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 07:04hrs | 807 | by Staff reporter
Sex on wheels: Cheated hubby loses marbles
Residents in Maphisa were on Tuesday last week treated to free and unrehearsed reality street theatre when a jilted man busted his wife in the act in her car with her boyfriend at 3am outside a superm...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 19:16hrs | 753 | by Staff reporter
Guns found in journalist's house taken for testing
The five guns recovered following the arrest of one of the country's notorious armed robbers, Clever Mununudzi Nengomasha, who was shot and seriously injured in a skirmish with police in Harare, have ...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | 451 | by Staff reporter
Habitual robber, journalist arrested
One of the country's notorious armed robbers, Clever Mununudzi Nengomasha, was shot and seriously injured following a skirmish with police in Harare, leading to the recovery five guns and ammunition h...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 05:38hrs | 225 | by Staff reporter
Serial housebreaker jailed
A Gokwe man has been slapped with a four-year jail term after he was convicted for six counts of unlawful entry and theft by a Gokwe magistrate. Khumbulani Moyo (26) pleaded guilty to four cou...Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 05:40hrs | 184 | by Staff reporter
2 ex-convicts in court for robbery
TWO ex-convicts appeared in court on Friday, facing charges of robbery. Three more accomplices are still at large. Joseph Phiri (44) and Michael Mandoro (46) of Unit H, Seke, Chitungwi...Published: 27 Feb 2022 at 07:28hrs | 79 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man pleads guilty to multiple counts of murder, robbery, rape, extortion
A 27-year-old Zimbabwean man, Wellington Kachidza, dubbed the Pretoria "serial killer" in South Africa has pleaded guilty to multiple counts of extortion, murder, robbery with aggravating circumstance...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 16:14hrs | 451 | by Staff reporter
Ex-American Army sergeant arrested by counter terrorism officers
An American citizen Ronald Leon Johnson was arrested on Wednesday this week while intending to board a flight to Victoria Falls after he was found in possession of a pistol loaded with three rounds of...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:45hrs | 632 | by Staff reporter
Police raise concern over landlords rape cases
POLICE have raised concern over an increase of rape cases countrywide where women and girls are being sexually abused by known relatives, friends and landlords.Police also urged members of the...Published: 21 Feb 2022 at 05:30hrs | 341 | by Staff reporter
Youths take Mliswa to task
THE Zimbabwe Action Youth Platform (ZAYP) has challenged "serial political turncoat" Temba Mliswa to stop meddling in Zanu-PF affairs and feigning loyalty to President Mnangagwa when he surreptitiousl...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 05:35hrs | 666 | by Staff reporter
Moyo twins reunite at Bulawayo Chiefs
THE Moyo twins, Kelvin and Elvis, have reunited at Bulawayo Chiefs, with the former being the latest to join the ambitious Premiership outfit.Kelvin becomes Chiefs' latest top signing after lu...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:32hrs | 817 | by Staff reporter
A golden future: Unpacking the new direction
LAST week, Advocate Nelson Chamisa unveiled the Citizens Coalition for Change as the new name of the people's movement. Our old name had been pilfered and Zanunised by the political pirates of our tim...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:28hrs | 203 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Zimbabwean man kills 7 women in SA
AN alleged Zimbabwean serial killer, Themba Prince Willards Dube, accused of kidnapping and murdering seven women in and around Polokwane in South Africa, abandoned his second bail application when he...Published: 31 Jan 2022 at 05:45hrs | 816 | by Staff reporter
Family fights over Mpepereki's estate
A FIGHT over the estate of the late Zanu-PF apologist and soil scientist Isheunesu Mpepereki pitting his surviving spouse and a daughter from his first marriage spilled into the High Court yesterday....Published: 28 Jan 2022 at 06:13hrs | 1567 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean serial killer appears in SA court
THERE were emotional scenes at the Seshego Magistrate's Court, outside Polokwane, Limpopo, on Thursday where an alleged serial killer appeared.For Kenneth Makhura and Takana Chigoyi, the sight...Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 18:34hrs | 1216 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe family can't bury victim of SA serial killer
The brother of one of the victims of the alleged Limpopo serial killer is frustrated and struggling to survive in South Africa since leaving his country to retrieve the body of his sister allegedly ki...Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 04:34hrs | 765 | by Staff reporter
Bones of Bhalagwe, arise!
The voice speaks to the bones that are scattered all over Matabeleland and Midlands. Arise! Bones that are in the stomach of Bhalagwe, stand up and refuse to be silenced. Arise and be counted! All the...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 20:10hrs | 1024 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Mudha and nexus of Kwekwe gold terror
AT the time former president Robert Mugabe was deposed in a military coup in November 2017, police were investigating senior Zanu-PF officials linked to then Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa over all...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 15:00hrs | 774 | by Staff reporter
Burglar loses car to the state, jailed
A 47-YEAR-OLD Budiriro buglar who terrorised Bindura using his black unregistered Toyota Wish breaking into people's cars stealing parts was finally...Published: 11 Jan 2022 at 20:30hrs | 1077 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Serial armed robber arrested
A suspected serial armed robber who was also wanted for rape was arrested on Wednesday, as police continue to put their foot down in the fight against rising armed robbery cases.The suspect, T...Published: 09 Jan 2022 at 06:01hrs | 588 | by Staff reporter
High Court ends Makomborero Haruzivishe's incarceration
Prominent MDC Alliance activist Makomborero Haruzivishe was granted bail by the High Court on the last of his three pending criminal cases on Friday - ending his nearly 10-month pre-trial incarceratio...Published: 07 Jan 2022 at 19:41hrs | 527 | by Staff reporter
Policeman shoots, injures girlfriend
A POLICE constable stationed at Dumisa base in Chiredzi south of Masvingo province Monday allegedly shot and critically injured his girlfriend in Chipinge before vanishing.A hunt for him is no...Published: 01 Jan 2022 at 13:57hrs | 954 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbery cases increased in 2021
Cases of armed robberies increased countrywide this year with criminals targeting cash-in transit vehicles, individuals and business people with large amounts of cash.Schools and cross-border ...Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 07:23hrs | 95 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa needs a generous miracle!
Make no mistake about this, President Emmerson Mnangagwa had this hugely golden chance to become Zimbabwe's political legend, post-coup.If he had done the right things after the removal of ex-...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 18:56hrs | 859 | by Tawanda Majon
Shootout escapee in court for robbery
ONE of the suspected armed robbers, who escaped a shoot-out that claimed the lives of three of his colleagues at ex-detective Joseph Nemaise's house on Monday night appeared at the Harare Magistrates ...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:26hrs | 55 | by Staff reporter
Bogus lawyer dupes client US$3 000
A SERIAL fraudster who masqueraded as a lawyer was on Friday arraigned before Harare magistrate Dennis Mangosi after duping several people that unknowingly requested for legal services from him....Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 18:42hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Serial fraudster in court for conning land seekers
A SUSPECTED serial fraudster was on Saturday arraigned before the courts after he allegedly duped several unsuspecting land seekers of their money in Harare.Rodgers Kasiya (45) who was represe...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:13hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
SA police hold Zimbabwean serial killer in deaths of 7 women
South African police say a Zimbabwean man arrested for possession of a stolen mobile phone is in fact a serial killer responsible for the deaths of at least seven women.Themba Prince Willard D...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 18:40hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
New land offer permits unveiled
Government has introduced the new securitised A2 Model Settlement Permit with advanced security features to curb fake offer letters.This follows the emergence of land ownership disputes countr...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:55hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Jail Old Mutual directors: Moyo's lawyers
Lawyers of Zimbabwean and former Old Mutual chief executive Peter Moyo, want to see the company's directors jailed for refusing to reinstate him – and for them to be blocked from serving on any othe...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Prison escapee jailed for 4 years
An alleged serial robber and rapist on remand for attacking almost 20 women recently escaped from Harare Remand Prison, allegedly with the help of two prison officers, but was caught, was yesterday ja...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
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