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Tony Leon reminds Ramaphosa of who's in charge
President Cyril Ramaphosa's plea to avoid a public spectacle over negotiations with the DA "mean nothing" after former DA leader and GNU negotiator Tony Leon wrote another letter reminding Ramaphosa o...Published: 28 Jun 2024 at 14:30hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Filabusi senior cops bribed by Zinyama
TENSION remains high in Matebeleland South's Insiza district after marauding machete gangs invaded villages last week where they attacked people over a mining claim dispute.A numbe...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZNA Colonel hits employee with hammer in salary dispute
A ZIMBABWE National Army Colonel is facing turbulent times after he was dragged to court by his employee for allegedly severely striking him with a hammer on the head over a salary dispute.Col...Published: 16 Feb 2024 at 15:26hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
St Faith High School Priest shows off punching skills
TEMPERS flared at St Faith's High School on Wednesday, with a priest from the Anglican Diocese of Manicaland showing his boxing skills as parents who escorted Form Five learners bulldozed their way in...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 08:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Survivors petition chiefs over Gukurahundi hearings
A CIVIC society organisation (CSO) fighting for victims, the Gukurahundi Genocide Survivors 4 Justice (GGS4J), has cautioned traditional leaders not to be hoodwinked by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 04:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tempers flare at school meeting over missing US$150
TEMPERS flared during a meeting on Monday involving parents and guardians of learners at Lukhanyiso Primary School in Bulawayo's Mpopoma suburb after it emerged that the school authorities clandestine...Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 04:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bosso fans question wisdom of an 'absentee' chairman
DEBATE has been raging on social media about the wisdom of electing office bearers based out of the country as Highlanders Election Day draws closer.Highlanders paid-up members will on 4 Febru...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 09:45hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Tempers flare over trapped Redwing miners
Tempers flared yesterday at Redwing Mine in Penhalonga where about 11 artisanal miners were trapped underground after a mine shaft collapsed, with relatives accusing government of fumbling the rescue ...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:41hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Dexter Nduna barred from contesting Zanu-PF primary election
OUTSPOKEN former Chegutu West Member of Parliament (MP), Dexter Nduna has had his quest for another bite of the cherry as a parliamentarian dashed after Zanu-PF disqualified him from contesting a prim...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 06:08hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Home team fails to provide enough security at Barbourfields
IT is a match that had all the ingredients for a spectacular afternoon.The rivalry between old foes, Dynamos and Highlanders had been renewed setting the stage for a bruising battle.In...Published: 10 Sep 2023 at 18:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Heath Streak, the Matabele Warrior
A sheepish, charming young man with a broad smile when he strode in the national cricket team many eons ago the departed Heath Streak was fondly remembered in Zimbabwe cricket circles, and greatly wor...Published: 09 Sep 2023 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Barbara Rwodzi's assault case takes new twist
Lawyers representing Citizens Coalition for Change (Chirumanzu South losing candidate, Patrick Chez and four others, who are accused of assaulting Tourism deputy minister Barbara Rwodzi have que...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pastor bashes naked female sangoma
A pastor from Makokoba suburb in Bulawayo shocked residents when he beat up his tenant who is a traditional healer while she was naked as punishment for playing music too loudly while he was conductin...Published: 25 Aug 2023 at 06:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Police 'secretly' vote in Zimbabwe
TEMPERS flared yesterday after it emerged that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) had "secretly" allowed police officers to vote ahead of the August 23 polls in the absence of political parties' ...Published: 16 Aug 2023 at 06:51hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt scoffs at Chamisa's demands
GOVERNMENT has revealed that main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa will not get equal coverage with his rival President Emmerson Mnangagwa in public media outlets b...Published: 15 Aug 2023 at 06:37hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Girlfriend pours boiling oil on lover's privates
IT is normal, occasionally, in any relationship that tempers flare and hurtful words are spoken.But what happens when you discover that your loved one is cheating on you?Wonder no more...Published: 29 Jul 2023 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC, Zanu-PF clash over voters roll
TEMPERS flared yesterday during the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) Harare Metropolitan provincial multi-party liaison committee meeting after opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party ...Published: 11 Jul 2023 at 07:42hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Teens terrorise community
FEAR has gripped St Peters, on the outskirts of Bulawayo, with residents divided on whether attacks on residents by three minors are acts of robbery or satanism.The three minor brothers, aged ...Published: 07 Jul 2023 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chaos in Bulawayo as Chamisa tries to calm angry party members
CCC leader Nelson Chamisa on Sunday sent a delegation to Bulawayo to calm growing anger over his handling of the candidate selection process for the August 23 election.The in...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 11:06hrs | 10 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Assemblies of God leadership wrangle rages
THE leadership wrangle between warring factions in the Assemblies of God (AOG) church has spilled into the courts, leaving congregants divided.The fights broke out after AOG Spiritual Movement...Published: 23 Jun 2023 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tempers flare at Zanu-PF Mashonaland West women's quota nomination meeting
Zanu-PF Mashonaland West top activists came to near fist-fights as tempers rose at Thursday's party Provincial Coordinating Committee (PCC) meeting to endorse local authority women's quota candidates....Published: 03 Jun 2023 at 08:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi ambition to be Zimbabwe President caused tribal chaos in the presidency
If he had his way, Kembo Mohadi could have been the first Zimbabwe President of Matabele origin after 43 years of Zimbabwe independence. But his repeated statement in which he expressed his wish to su...Published: 28 May 2023 at 15:51hrs | 1 | by Israel Dube
Mnangagwa ally flees angry Zanu-PF mob
MIDLANDS Provincial Affairs minister Larry Mavima was on Saturday forced to flee an angry Zanu-PF mob that was protesting against alleged rigging of the ruling party's primary elections in the Gokwe-C...Published: 22 May 2023 at 06:39hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Man sets neighbour's hut on fire
A MAN from Dula Village in Tsholotsho, Matabeleland North province thought the best way to revenge against a man who had beaten him up was to raid his homestead at night and lock his bedroom hut from ...Published: 14 Apr 2023 at 07:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's army savages Hopewell Chin'ono
Guns are out against journalist and activist Hopewell Chin'ono following a social media tirade between him and the Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) foot-soldiers.Chin'ono posted on his Twitt...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 17:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tempers flare during Mubaiwa's trial
TEMPERS flared during the trial of Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's estranged wife Marry Mubaiwa as her lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa, and the prosecution haggled over cross-examination procedures, for...Published: 12 Apr 2023 at 08:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man fatally stabs wife for infidelity
A 43-year-old Chinhoyi man who failed to cool down his tempers after suspecting his 51-year-old wife of cheating, was arrested yesterday evening after gruesomely killing her.Kosamu Chitsiru of...Published: 03 Mar 2023 at 18:20hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Man killed in fight over girlfriend
POLICE in the Midlands Province have launched a manhunt for a Shurugwi man who allegedly teamed up with a girlfriend and fatally stabbed a 32-year-old rival suitor after they clashed at the girl...Published: 26 Feb 2023 at 09:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cop killer's family pleads for forgiveness
THE family of killer cop, Jaison Muvevi yesterday approached two families of the three victims that he shot dead in Hwedza last week and apologised for the heinous crime.They roped in police d...Published: 19 Jan 2023 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF must stop spreading violence
The political tension in the country has reached another level and this has been proved by the acts of alleged Zanu-PF members who recently disturbed a Citizens Coalition for Change election watch pre...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 10:29hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Co-wives trade blows over witchcraft accusations
A woman from Bulawayo's Entumbane suburb was fined $5 000 for attacking her co-wife, accusing her of bewitching her.Silibaziso Moyo appeared before Western Commonage Courts magistrate Jeconia ...Published: 28 Oct 2022 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kazembe Kazembe summoned as tempers flare up
HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe has been summoned to Parliament to issue a ministerial statement on what the police is doing to clamp down on perpetrators of political violence targeting opposit...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 17:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare mayor bans management foreign trips
HARARE City Council yesterday banned foreign trips for councillors and management.This came after mayor Jacob Mafume had his trip to South Korea on council business was blocked by Cabinet....Published: 21 Oct 2022 at 06:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala is a victim of flouting bail conditions, says Ziyambi
JUSTICE minister, Ziyambi Ziyambi told Parliament Wednesday that the continued detention of two opposition legislators was justifiable as they were notorious for flouting bail conditions involving pre...Published: 30 Sep 2022 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chokuda told to resign
OPPOSITION legislators have called on Clerk of Parliament Kennedy Chokuda to resign after laying the blame for the dodgy laptop and desktop tender, and suspicious fuel allocations at the august House ...Published: 29 Sep 2022 at 05:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Woman confesses to sex with son
A woman allegedly confessed that she had sex with her son after her husband allegedly stumbled upon her underwear in their son's bedroom.Sifelani Moyo had been married to Media Hoboya for 18 y...Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 06:19hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa tells supporters to lie low
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has urged his supporters to lie low to protect themselves from violent attacks from Zanu-PF loyalists as tempers between the two ma...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZimStat debunks Steve Hanke's cooked data
TEMPERS flared over Zimbabwe's rioting inflation yesterday, with the country's chief statistician hitting out at an American economist and the media for querying the validity of data produced by his o...Published: 18 Aug 2022 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
State closes case in Mamombe, Chimbiri 'fake' abduction
The state has closed its case in a matter in which Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator Joana Mamombe and her party comrade Cecilia Chimbiri are being tried for allegedly lying about their a...Published: 17 Aug 2022 at 18:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chitungwiza acting mayor claims he is being sabotaged
ACTING Chitungwiza mayor, Kelvin Mutimbanyoka says council employees, including management, were sabotaging an on-going operation against illegal structures."I have realised that a lot of coun...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Anger will not solve Zimbabwe's plight
ANGER doesn't solve anything. It builds nothing, but it can destroy everything," wrote one African-American lawyer and politician, Lawrence Douglas Wilder.As Zimbabwe battles to navigate a tre...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
New details emerge on police shooting
EYEWITNESSES to a recent Chitungwiza shooting incident that left two residents seriously injured have accused police of misleading members of the public by claiming that the shooting incident happened...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF threatens unleash 'our' dogs
RULING Zanu-PF party deputy youth secretary John Paradza yesterday threatened to unleash party youths against the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) as political tempers flare ahead of the...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 06:46hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, CCC youths in running battles
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters yesterday clashed with their Zanu-PF counterparts, leaving a trail of destruction as tempers flared over the murder of activist Moreblessing A...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
MPs demand answers over Pomona saga
SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda last week ejected Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) MPs Chalton Hwende and Tendai Biti from the House after they demanded answers on the controversial ...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 09:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Biti, Hwende kicked out
SPEAKER of Parliament Jacob Mudenda Thursday chucked out Harare East legislator Tendai Biti and his Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) colleague Charlton Hwende after unsuccessfully trying to bar the...Published: 10 Jun 2022 at 08:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths trade blows during elections
THERE was pandemonium during Zanu PF Mashonaland West youth league elections in Chinhoyi as party youths traded blows and threatened to kill each on Sunday.The elections, which had to be aband...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Uhuru Cup cautions won't carry over to PSL
THE red card shown to Dynamos' utility player Shadreck Nyahwa by referee Arnold Ncube in the Independence Cup final against Highlanders at Barbourfields Stadium on Monday will not have any effect in P...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Aaron Motsoaledi tells Zimbabwean man to leave very peacefully
A man was thrown out of the meeting between the government and residents of Diepsloot as tempers flared soon after he introduced himself as a Zimbabwean communist party representative.Emotions...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 19:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fabisch, Chunga fallout...Bunjira's book tells it all
FORMER Warriors striker and Caps United legend Alois Bunjira has revealed how Moses Chunga's senior national team career was ended spectacularly by Rahman Gumbo in a book that he is set publish before...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 08:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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