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Cars firebombed outside Chivayo, Tagwirei's properties
A series of deliberate firebomb attacks rocked Harare's central business district overnight, targeting commercial properties linked to influential businessmen Wicknell Chivayo and Kudakwashe Tagwirei,...Published: 28 Mar 2025 at 11:40hrs | 3583 | by Staff reporter
Pastor Mboro's church set alight after school skirmish
Pastor Paseka Mboro's Incredible Happenings Church burned to the ground on Tuesday afternoon after a group of youths marched to its premises in Katlehong.Scores of schoolchildren bunked school...Published: 07 Aug 2024 at 11:25hrs | 460 | by Staff reporter
African countries assisted South African independence; payback is Xenophobic actions: blacks on blacks' violence
I quote from Byo24: Former ANC MP and Abantu Batho Congress Councilor in eThekwini, Makhosi Khoza, says South African natives have been shortchanged. Close quote. This is a statement that could cause ...Published: 14 Apr 2024 at 18:55hrs | 35 | by Nomazulu Thata
Man accuses wife of having an affair, torches boyfriend's hut
A 34-year-old man from Inyathi, torched another's hut while he was asleep, accusing him of having an affair with his wife. The man, according to the National Prosecuting Authority of Zimbabwe,...Published: 15 Mar 2024 at 07:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
2 Zimbabweans killed in Diepsloot vigilante killings
TWO victims out of the seven men who were burnt to death in an apparent vigilante attack against criminal activity in one of South Africa's crime-ridden townships are reported to be Zimbabwean citizen...Published: 05 Dec 2023 at 05:17hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zuma gets 12-year prison sentence
The Pietermaritzburg Magistrate's Court has sentenced Mdumiseni Zuma to 12 years' imprisonment for instigating the July 2021 civil unrest following the arrest of former president Jacob Zuma.Th...Published: 29 Nov 2023 at 11:27hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
'Gukurahundi was planned before Zimbabwe independence'
Former Co-Minister of National Healing and Integration, Moses Mzila Ndlovu, believes the Gukurahundi genocide that killed over 20 000 people in Matebeleland and Midlands was planned before independenc...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 20:10hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Truck arson attacks spark sabotage fears in South Africa
South African police said on Wednesday 21 trucks have been torched in a series of mysterious attacks that President Cyril Ramaphosa has described as acts of "economic sabotage".Unknown assaila...Published: 12 Jul 2023 at 20:34hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Survivors relive Gukurahundi horrors
A SOMBRE atmosphere prevailed on Thursday when villagers gathered at a site in Emkhonyeni Village, Tsholotsho district where 21 women and one man were burnt into ashes in a hut on March 16, 1983....Published: 19 Mar 2023 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mr President, Zanu-PF oftentimes erupts in annoyance
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, as I see it, your party, Zanu-PF, exhibited the dearth of its democratic essence by denying the NewsDay crew accreditation to cover the party...Published: 02 Nov 2022 at 05:02hrs | 1 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Chilonga land grab resistance intensifies
EIGHT community leaders from Chilonga area were briefly detained at Chiredzi Police Station on Thursday after continuously resisting the establishment of lucerne plantations on their ancestral land....Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 06:07hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
ANC cannot continue treating Zanu-PF with kid gloves
SOUTH Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) should once again confront its sister revolutionary party Zanu-PF over the escalating immigration crisis across the Limpopo, with analysts sayi...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 20:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chief Fuyana: The warrior who delivered the fatal blow on Major Allan Wilson
DEEP down in the hills of rural Matobo District sits Mbembeswana, a humble and unassuming village. But, humble as it may appear, it is where the remains of one of the greatest Ndebele warriors, Chief ...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:39hrs | 36 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man shot dead in front of wife and son
A Dambuza family is struggling to pick up the pieces after witnessing the murder of their breadwinner.It is alleged that four unknown men, two of whom had their faces covered, stormed into Mat...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
3 Zimbabweans killed and set on fire in South Africa
Three Zimbabwean men and a South African were killed and set on fire Thursday last week by a vigilante group that accused them of robbery and murder in Limpopo province.The provincial police s...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:25hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa blames CCC violence on Zanu-PF mob
A memorial service for the slain Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist Moreblessing Ali descended into violence on Tuesday after a Zanu-PF mob tried to scatter the gathering in Nyatsime, sparki...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 09:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Time to protect people from their churches
VERY little is known about one of the worst religion-related mass murders and tragedies that occurred in Uganda in 2000 in which 700 Ugandans died. More is known about the 1978 Jonestown massacre in G...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:20hrs | 4 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Zimbabweans in South Africa sending their possessions home
FEARING further xenophobic violence and facing an uncertain future with the scrapping of the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP), many Zimbabweans in the Eastern Cape are repatriating their valuables....Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 15:26hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Parties condemn Afrophobic attacks in SA
POLITICAL parties in southern Africa yesterday roundly condemned the brutal murder of Zimbabwean national Elvis Nyathi in South Africa, with opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelso...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean brutally killed in South Africa
A Zimbabwean man was brutally killed in South Africa's Diepsloot area, north of Johannesburg on Wednesday night in ongoing Afrophobic attacks that are mainly targeting Zimbabweans.Mbondazwe El...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chebundo roped into Mnangagwa campaign squad
BLESSING Chebundo became "marked for death" in Kwekwe, his house razed down and forced into hiding for days as Zanu-PF hounds bayed for his blood.His sin was daring to challenge Emmerson Mnang...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mystery deaths deepen in Zimbabwe
DEATH is never easy and, whenever it strikes, the grief it causes is traumatic for family and friends who would have lost a loved one.This encounter with mortality always leaves the surviving ...Published: 04 Dec 2021 at 18:49hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
16-year-old kills three
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has expressed concern over a spate of murder cases involving minors after a 16-year-old boy from Beitbridge ran amok and killed his relative and her two children....Published: 24 Oct 2021 at 09:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Let's compile register of the dead in all our conflicts
January 1977 was the worst of the several months when I personally endured the ravages of the war for the emancipation of Zimbabwe from the toxic grip of rebel leader Ian Douglas Smith's Rhodesian Fro...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:15hrs | 8 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Man sets alight ex-lover's house
A jilted lover from Cowdray Park in Bulawayo is on the run after he set alight his ex-girlfriend's house on Friday night, destroying the house and household property.No one was injured. It is ...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:22hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Buses torched in Cape Town
Police are investigating a potential arson attack after two buses were set on fire in Cape Town on Thursday morning, eNCA reported.According to Metro Police Spokesperson, Ruth Solomons, police...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 12:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africans thought they were better Africans than black Africa: Thanks Zuma has set the record straight
"All of us must thank Jacob Zuma for introducing African Republic of South Africa and not some outpost of European values." This comes from a Sowetan column sent to me by a friend. The article is an i...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 16:17hrs | 26 | by Nomazulu Thata
Free Jacob Zuma protests reach Gauteng
Videos shared on social media on Saturday morning show protesters in support of the 'KZN Shutdown' taking to the streets of the East Rand in Gauteng.A 'Free Zuma' address will be held at the K...Published: 10 Jul 2021 at 11:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Open Letter to Guduza Churchill, President of MLF
Dear Comrade, I hope I find you well dear comrade. How I wish you could remove the name Churchill from the birth certificate and remain with Mpiyesizwe Guduza. Proper revolution will take plac...Published: 18 May 2021 at 17:33hrs | 5 | by Nomazulu Thata
Pressure group conducts Gukurahundi memorial
BULAWAYO-BASED pressure group Ibhetshu LikaZulu on Sunday conducted a memorial service for 22 Gukurahundi victims, who include 21 women and a man who were burnt to death by the North Korean-trained Fi...Published: 18 May 2021 at 06:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
If you sow mischief, you harvest grief
IN 2019, Zimbabwe experienced three days of darkness between January 14 and January 17.It seemed looneys had broken from the asylum and set fire on the tinderbox.Chaos and madness reig...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 05:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Success favours the Undaunted - Book review
Book Title: Undaunted Authour: Tafadzwa Mahachi Edited: Philip Chidavaen...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:19hrs | 15 | by Energy Mavaza
Killer soldiers arrested as angry villagers burn down house
The two soldiers who shot and killed two men in Chisuma area just outside Victoria Falls have been arrested while angry villagers allegedly torched a house belonging to a businessman who they accused ...Published: 03 Oct 2020 at 08:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Blood of foreigners flow in South African streets as locals swim in joy
If one can not be angered by the animalistic sadistic killings of our people in South Africa then one has a heart of a stone. Please be angry with me as we moan the patriots who are slaughtered like a...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 22:34hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Xenophobic attacks simmer up in South Africa
What started up as a mere smear on "foreign" truck drivers in Kwazulu-natal South Africa a few weeks ago has now turned into a national attack on foreigners.Yesterday a fire mysteriously set a...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 21:02hrs | | by Daniel Itai, Johannesburg South Africa
Man burns brother's million Rand house
AN Injiva on a revenge mission allegedly travelled all the way from South Africa to set his millionaire brother's five bedroomed house at Rest Camp resort on the outskirts of Bulawayo on fire followin...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 07:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Foreigners beat up police officers in Johannesburg
Some suspected Zimbabwean and Mozambican nationals on Sunday pelted police officers with rocks and other objects after a they raided and seized counterfeit goods in the Johannesburg inner city....Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 15:54hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Woman burnt by husband
A 32-YEAR-OLD Bulawayo woman suffered serious facial burns when she was allegedly doused with paraffin and methylated spirit before being set alight by her husband when he discovered that she wa...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 14:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man doused with petrol, set on fire
A 36-YEAR-OLD man from Kezi, Matabeleland South died after he was doused with petrol and set on fire by yet to be identified suspects, police have confirmed.Abednego Ndlovu from Bhidi Village ...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 22:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Busisa Moyo bemoans the extent of damages suffered by Bulawayo businesses
UNITED Refineries' Chief Executive Officer Mr Busisa Moyo has bemoaned the extent of damages suffered by Bulawayo businesses during last month's opposition-led protests. Through his Twitter ac...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 22:29hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Moyo laments attack on city shops
United Refineries CEO Busisa Moyo has lamented the extent of damages suffered by Bulawayo businesses during the January 14 protests, citing the destruction of retail shops especially in high-density a...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 06:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC Chamisa doesn't expect any arrests
Nelson Chamisa's spin nurse Nkululeko Sibanda tells News24 that the attack on the MDC headquarters has been reported to the police but "we don't expect any arrests. The same thing happened on Septembe...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 12:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man torches 4 villagers huts
FOUR families in Lubangwe in Hwange district cheated death when a villager allegedly went berserk and torched their huts in separate incidents in one night. Police arrested Hloniphani Moyo (24...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 11:21hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Findings of Commission of Inquiry into 1 August 2018 Post-Election Violence
RELEASE STATEMENT FOR THE REPORT ON THE COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO THE 1ST OF AUGUST 2018 POST ELECTION VIOLENCEOn the 14th of September 2018, I established a Commission of Inquiry into the 1s...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 05:40hrs | 2 | by ONline
Zanu-PF splurges $3,5m on conference
THE ruling Zanu-PF splurged $3,5 million on the just-ended 17th annual people's jamboree held at Umzingwane High School in the farming town of Esigodini, while the party received $23,5 million in dona...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 05:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF regalia banned in Mpandawana
Some MDC Alliance supporters in Ward 33 Gutu Central are alleged to be harassing anybody seen wearing Zanu-PF regalia in the sprawling town of Mpandawana.Ruling party supporters told TellZim N...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 15:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Thabitha Khumalo restrained from attacking WOZA members
MDC Alliance party national chairperson and the leader of the opposition in Parliament, Ms Thabitha Khumalo, allegedly had to be restrained from attacking members of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) who...Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 20:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man sets on fire cabin with sleeping wife, baby
PROPERTY worth thousands of dollars was recently destroyed when a jealous Odzi man set alight a wooden cabin where his wife and baby were sleeping.The wife, Abigail Kamwendo (30) and her eight...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man in 'fiery revenge'
A Mhondoro man has appeared in court facing two counts of attempted murder after he set alight the huts in which his wife and his in-laws were sleeping and destroying property worth $10 000. N...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
The hero of Tjewondo battle
On 27 May this year, we carried an article under our Lest We Forget column about how two elderly women, Loiusa Ndlovu and Eveline Ndlovu who are in their late 80s, witnessed the battle that took place...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 10:16hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
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