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Pepper spray: New weapon of choice for robbers
And everyone became blind. In just a blink of an eye, the world went blank. It was as if everything had become a distant memory, lost in the midst of the chaos.A wave of intense discomfort was...Published: 29 Jul 2024 at 04:10hrs | 418 | by Staff reporter
Break-in at Mnangagwa nephew's office
Unknown individuals broke into Tourism and Hospitality Industry deputy minister Tongai Mafidi Mnangagwa's office at the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) building in Harare, accessing the premises thro...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 07:57hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Church group protests against gays and lesbians in Zimbabwe
On Sunday, a group of protesters claiming to represent various churches vandalized the perimeter wall outside the offices of the Gays and Lesbians Association of Zimbabwe (GALZ) in Harare. ...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 17:55hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Bedbugs menace hits Kwekwe
KWEKWE City has been hit by a cat menace which has seen most households having cats breeding at homesteads at an alarming speed leading to the speedy multiplication of the animal.The cats find...Published: 19 Mar 2024 at 20:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Boomerang Voodoo!..Removing US$35 hex from son costs US$700
NEVER pray for your enemies to die, you might bury your own relatives . . .A woman from Magwegwe suburb in Bulawayo is a living testimony to the adage.She experienced the mind-numbing ...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 04:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Trio appears in court for alleged robbery of $1200 from woman
Three individuals, Cosmas Mpofu (36), Zibusiso Mpofu (26), and Fisani Mpofu (26), were brought before the Nkayi Magistrates Court on Tuesday morning in connection with the alleged robbery of $1200 fro...Published: 23 Jan 2024 at 20:29hrs | | by Peter Matuka
Open Letter to City Mayors: Reintroduce the spraying of places where mosquitoes breed
A letter to Bulawayo Mayor/Harare Mayor/Gweru Mayor/Mutare MayorYour honor, can you please reintroduce the spraying of places where mosquitoes hide and breed. In the past the BCC/HCC used to s...Published: 26 Nov 2023 at 11:06hrs | 13 | by Njabulo
Zimbabwe: Authorities must investigate the escalation of abductions, torture and killing of political activists
The Zimbabwean authorities must immediately address the escalating cases of abductions, arbitrary detention, torture and killing of parliament members, opposition political activists, and human rights...Published: 14 Nov 2023 at 19:18hrs | 21 | by Amnesty International
Zimbabwe police hunt for armed robbery suspect
Bulawayo police are seeking the public's assistance in locating a suspect in connection with attempted murder and armed robbery cases that occurred in Gwanda and Bulawayo in June and July 2023....Published: 12 Nov 2023 at 13:31hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean women kidnap man and rape him over two days
POLICE in Zvishavane, Midlands Province, are investigating a case in which a man was held hostage for two days, and sexually exploited by two women who had given him a lift from Zvishavane to Sandawan...Published: 16 Oct 2023 at 20:43hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mzilikazi residents count losses after BF violence
Residents of Bulawayo's Mzilikazi high-density suburb have grown increasingly concerned about the recurring losses they suffer whenever soccer matches at the nearby Barbourfields Stadium escalate into...Published: 14 Sep 2023 at 10:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
White Zimbabwean farmer in court for killing neighbour's bull
A CONCESSION-BASED white commercial farmer allegedly killed his neighbour's bull which had strayed into his soybeans field.The matter came to light at Concession Magistrates Courts on Thursday...Published: 29 Jul 2023 at 07:25hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
2 in court over US$78 000 heist
Two suspected armed robbers yesterday appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court over a US$78 550 heist.Jonathan Tembo (26) and Roy Makunike (22) appeared before magistrate Stanford Mambanje, wh...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
10 hospitalised over suspected food poisoning
About 10 people were admitted to Murewa District Hospital on Wednesday for suspected food poisoning.The victims from Wuyuwuyu area started experiencing stomach problems after consuming vegetab...Published: 30 Jun 2023 at 14:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean charged with plotting to manufacture sub-machine guns in UK
A FORMER Bradford University lecturer accused of plotting to manufacture and transfer sub-machine guns made using a 3D printer told a jury he was building a racing car and making vehicle parts....Published: 28 Feb 2023 at 07:46hrs | 1 | by Phillip Anjorin
Son robs dad of gold, US$14 000
A DARING 21-year-old man teamed up with five accomplices to rob his father of US$14 000, 16 grammes of gold and mobile phones early this year.Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Manicaland...Published: 28 Dec 2022 at 20:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Pepper spray robber nabbed
Police in Mashonaland Central province arrested a suspected robber only identified as Sande who allegedly robbed a Mazowe man using pepper spr...Published: 22 Dec 2022 at 08:12hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa's wife invited to Iran
IRAN's First Lady Dr Jamileh Alamolhoda on Saturday rolled out the red carpet for her counterpart Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa, where the two exchanged notes on various issues including education, health, wo...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Highway robbers terrorise haulage truckers
POLICE in Mashonaland West have raised concern over the rise in robberies targeting haulage truck drivers.Confirming the upsurge of such cases, Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) provincial spokespers...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:35hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Teacher dies after bees attack
IN a shocking incident, a teacher in Gokwe died on Wednesday last week after she was allegedly stung by a swarm of bees while coming from local shops where she had gone to buy groceries after knocking...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 08:30hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
School-boy gangs wage war at Msiteli High
MSITELI High School in Mpopoma, Bulawayo is under siege from rival pupils' gangs fighting each other using dangerous weapons.The violence reached a crescendo last Friday with the destruction o...Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 06:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Robbers pepper spray and sjambok security guards
SECURITY guards at Pelandaba Skills Centre are nursing wounds after two robbers pepper sprayed and brutally attacked them with a sjambok and an iron rod.The incident happened at around 2am on ...Published: 04 Sep 2021 at 19:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's chopper in hair-raising emergency landing
IN a hair-raising incident which might leave heads rolling at the Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ), President Emmerson Mnangagwa's presidential helicopter was dramatically forced into an emergency landing ...Published: 28 Aug 2021 at 21:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Manager, guard stage-manage robbery
A CHICKEN Inn shift manager and a Blackshark Security Company guard appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court on Monday for allegedly stealing money and other valuables from a safe before stage-managin...Published: 12 Aug 2021 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
British football great condemns 'awful' decision to deport footballer to Zimbabwe
Gary Lineker has condemned an "awful" decision to deport a promising footballer who has lived in Britain his whole life.Christopher Arundell, who was accepted into Staines Town Football Club's...Published: 04 Aug 2021 at 12:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean with football dreams to be kicked out of UK
Christopher Arundell, who grew up in the UK and once dreamt of playing professional football, is set to be deported to Zimbabwe, despite a cross-party appeal to the home secretary to stop his removal ...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 08:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Businessman shot 8 times
A gold dealer in Lower Gweru, Midlands province, died when suspected robbers sprayed eight bullets all over his body while his wife and children watched helplessly, in the latest of suspected armed ro...Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 19:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Secrets to win In 2023 Revealed
The President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa has proved the world wrong. The world expected to see Zimbabwe crumble into the dust and become obsolete. But true to his word Emerson Mnangagwa h...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 07:19hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
MDC Alliance activists' 'fake' abductions trial opens
The trial of MDC-Alliance members Joana Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova on allegations of faking their abductions sometime last year opened yesterday despite the trio's spirited efforts to...Published: 29 Apr 2021 at 06:16hrs | 1 | by Staff writer
'Zimbabwe has reduced malaria cases, deaths'
ZIMBABWE has made huge strides in reducing malaria cases and deaths, Vice-President and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga has said.In a statement to mark World Malaria Day yesterday, Chiwen...Published: 26 Apr 2021 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance activist burnt with acid in police cells
ONE of the two MDC Alliance activists arrested last week soon after attending party vice-chairperson Job Sikhala's trial in Harare, claims he sustained facial burns when suspected State security agent...Published: 19 Apr 2021 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police brutalise MDC Alliance activists
Two MDC Alliance activists were badly tortured by police in Harare following their arrest while attending a court appearance by the party's vice-chairperson Job Sikhala last week.Lengwani Mavh...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 09:01hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's activists stage a flash demonstration
SUSPECTED MDC activists Thursday staged a flash demonstration outside the New Government Complex which houses the justice ministry offices in central Harare to demand to the resignation of Justice Min...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 18:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Female artisanal miner robbed at gunpoint
A 34-YEAR-OLD Shamva artisanal miner was robbed of her US$3500 by three armed robbers last Friday.Mashonaland Central police spokespers...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 08:52hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
US supermarket shooter kills 10, including cop
BOULDER, Colo. (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, on Monday, killing 10 people, including the first police officer to arrive on the scene, before the bloodied susp...Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 07:23hrs | | by Reuters
Covid 19, a blessing in disguise for despots and strongmen
The coming of a pandemic which Donald Trump, the former President of United States of America , referred to as 'Chinese Disease' has caused panic ar...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 20:14hrs | | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Top MDC Alliance leader left for dead
MDC Alliance national chairperson Thabitha Khumalo was attacked by two armed men who brazenly broke into her Bulawayo home yesterday and severely assaulted her using a knobkerrie before stabbing her....Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Thabitha Khumalo attacked at her home
MDC Alliance National Chairperson, Thabitha Khumalo, was, Saturday morning, attacked by two armed men who brazenly broke into Saurcestown home in Bulawayo, severely beat her knees, head using a ...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 13:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Burglary hotspot suburbs revealed
POLICE in Bulawayo have identified six western suburbs as hotspots for burglary and theft cases while revealing that some of the break-in incidents are leading to rape cases. The criminals are...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Robber breaks into bedroom, forces couple to be intimate, records video
A DARING robber, who broke into a couple's bedroom at night and forced them to be intimate while recording a video, has been dragged before the courts and charged with robbery and possession of danger...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Runaway inflation, Covid-19 fuel rise in malaria cases in north-eastern Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE has made giant strides in malaria control, but runaway inflation coupled with the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic may derail progress made in the last 17 years - moving the country away from ...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:15hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo reels under mosquito menace
THE hot weather, Bulawayo's water crisis and the city's failure to spray breeding spaces has resulted in what residents say is the worst mosquito crisis in recent years. As soon as the sun set...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mastering art of 'villagising' cities
In Bishop Lazi's village, there lived this super-reclusive chap who, after a quarrel with his father over witchcraft, decided to build his own hut a spitting distance from the family homestead....Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:30hrs | | by Bishop Lazarus
Another military group attacks Mozambique
The armed resistance group Renamo Military Junta launched attacks on a Correios de Moçambique (Mozambique Post-Office) passenger bus on Sunday, Mozambique media has reported. According ...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 12:38hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
FULL TEXT: Tawanda Muchehiwa's gory story on how he was abducted by Ferret team
I often wake up in the middle of the night sweating profusely with a pulsating headache. At that moment, I can feel intense pain on the right side of my jaw. I never get back to sleep.I have t...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 09:49hrs | 18 | by Tawanda Muchehiwa
Gukurahundi can only be resolved with the victims
The Gukurahundi sanitisation project fronted by Jenni Williams and her cabal is a dismal failure except for its obscenity and vulgarity of holding vile celebrations in Bhalagwe - a scene of heinous cr...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 23:04hrs | 1 | by Lizwelethu Dube
Can Zimbabwe Diaspora Women in UK allow trade talks, with a country abusing its women?
ZHRO (Zimbabwe Human Rights Organisation) Leadership has rallied its members to join the MDC (Movement For Democratic Change) (Zimbabwe's main Opposition party) in the UK to Protest the arrival of a h...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 12:55hrs | | by ZHRO
Minister storms out of Parly over abductions
THE main opposition MDC yesterday demanded that Home Affairs minister Cain Mathema should issue a ministerial statement in Parliament explaining all the cases of abductions and torture of persons that...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe coup announcer was more humiliated than harmed'
United Kingdom-based Zimbabwean Joyce Mutengezanwa, who was part of protesters that tormented Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo and his delegation, claims the minister was more humiliated than ha...Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 08:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZHRO responds to Nick Mangwana
ZHRO has responded to VOA News questions, following the false allegations and libellous statements from habitual liar Nick Mangwana after the planned protest against S B Moyo and Nick Mangwana at Chat...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 20:55hrs | | by ZHRO Team
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