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Gun-toting CIOs raid Harare leisure centre
Prominent activist Briggs Bomba has accused suspected state security agents of raiding a leisure facility he operates in Harare with the intention of targeting him. ...Published: 17 Aug 2024 at 12:38hrs | 505 | by Staff reporter
Warrant of arrest for gun-toting businessman
On Friday, the Murewa Magistrates Court issued a warrant of arrest for controversial businessman Clark Makoni after he failed to appear for a hearing. Makoni faces four charges, including attempted mu...Published: 08 Jul 2024 at 10:58hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Fleeing armed robber dies in accident
AN armed robber died in a horrific accident last week, while his three gun-toting colleagues sustained serious injuries after their gate-away vehicle hit a tree during a high-speed chase with vigilant...Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 15:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
CIO agent in AK47 abduction, torture of CCC MP Ngadziore seen in public
A gun-toting Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) agent caught on video abducting a Citizens Coalition for Change MP has been publicly sighted for the first time since the November 1, 2023, inciden...Published: 27 Feb 2024 at 12:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in UK pile pressure on Mnangagwa regime
A GROUP of Zimbabweans in the United Kingdom recently petitioned that country's Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, calling on Britain to use its diplomatic links to engage Harare authorities over the abduct...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 07:35hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi quizzed over abductions
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) parliamentarians have taken government to task over police's seemingly lackadaisical approach towards investigating politically-motivated abductions, enf...Published: 17 Nov 2023 at 05:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Devout Zimbabwean Christian' robber shot dead in SA
MIRACLE working prophet by day and a gun-toting robber by night.That's the life of a South African-based Zimbabwean church leader who was allegedly terrorising people in the neighbouring count...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 21:41hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Wrong man arrested after LONE gunman senselessly attacks
YOU would expect women and school children to be the only ones who walk home in groups to protect themselves from a violent armed robber but in the Empandeni area in Mangwe District, men can also be s...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Surely, there is no honour among thieves
NO honour among thieves is a universal truth, a biblical saying that has found resonance globally to denote the actions of robbers who usually double-cross each other, never mind the perils involved i...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:19hrs | | by Fungi Kwaramba
Fleeing ex-convict gunned down
An ex-convict, who had been on the run since 2013 for several cases of attempted murder, theft and assault, was shot and seriously injured by the police after he attempted to jump off a moving vehicle...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa Admits Zimbabwe is under Armed Siege
On 21 June 2021, President Mnangagwa (ED) put gun robbers on notice. Simply, this is an admission that the country is under siege from gun toting gangs. While we all Zimbabwean citizens except the out...Published: 27 Jun 2021 at 14:20hrs | | by Sam Wezhira
Zimbabwe needs 667 police patrol vehicles, not 667 Zupco buses
BULAWAYO has made headlines for the wrong reasons in recent weeks amid a notable rise in armed robbery cases and other forms of violent crimes. Armed robberies targeting private homes and businesses h...Published: 29 May 2021 at 08:21hrs | | by Nkosilathi Lesley Ngwenya
US elections expose flaws in Western democracy
AMERICANS love to promote the myth that they have the corner on government by and for the people, but the latest brouhaha at the polls suggests otherwise.Despite the cheers ringing around the ...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:39hrs | | by Steven Friedman
Gun toting robbers disarmed, beaten
A BULAWAYO man allegedly teamed up with an ex-soldier to rob people that his in-laws were selling a house to, at gunpoint. Covering their faces with face masks and caps tilted to further hide ...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:44hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Unpacking Professor Stephen Chan's interview with Bernard
There are no imaginative skills on how to move the country forward internally and externally, be it economic and political in both the ruling party and the opposition of Nelson Chamisa. In 2018,...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 11:58hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Ex-soldier's horror abduction story
Fifty-two-year-old Wilbert Verenga considers himself lucky to be alive after he was abducted by gunmen from his home who beat him up and left him for dead.Verenga said at one point his attacke...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
We are here waiting for the signal
As Bishop Lazi writes this, somewhere in Tripoli, Libya, a family is hunkered down or huddled in an apartment, fearing that if they venture out onto the streets, the likelihood of parting with their l...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 10:08hrs | 1 | by Bisho Lazi
Gun-toting Zanu-PF official hauled to court
ZANU-PF national youth secretary for economic affairs Davis Tawodzera Muhambi last Friday appeared in court charged with pointing a firearm at National Blood Transfusion Zimbabwe Matabeleland regional...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to bring everyone to Harare for a Mother of All Demonstrations
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has said that President Mnangagwa has no choice but to dialogue with the opposition, adding that his party is planning crippling demonstrations to force the President to the ...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to bring everyone to Harare for a Mother of All Demonstrations
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has said that President Mnangagwa has no choice but to dialogue with the opposition, adding that his party is planning crippling demonstrations to force the President to the ...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 10:07hrs | | by Staff reportet
Chamisa rejects 'meaningless' dialogue
OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said he would not be bulldozed into "a meaningless dialogue" with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, vowing that any talks with the Zanu-PF leader to resolve ...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gun-toting Zanu-PF activist convicted
A Zanu PF activist from Nyabira has been sentenced to two months in jail after threatening to shoot a villager he found setting up a goat pen. Chinhoyi magistrate Letwin Rwodzi was last week t...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 10:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga plots to resign from Vice Presidency?
In a sudden twist of events, Vice President Constantino Guvheya Nyikadzino Chiwenga is reportedly planning to resign from his post after the Esigodini December congress it has been reported. ...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 12:18hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Toy gun-toting robbers caged
TWO toy gun-wielding robbers have been caged in Beitbridge after way-laying three villagers at the Limpopo River and robbing them of R1 200.Godfrey Mbedzi (29) and Never Sibanda (23), both of ...Published: 08 Oct 2018 at 11:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Defeating George Soros' agenda in Zimbabwe
It is no secret that after the convincing defeat of the MDC Alliance in Zimbabwe's recent inclusive elections, US-EU imperialism was forced to undergo a brief period of not only recuperation, a much n...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:45hrs | 1 | by Obi Egbuna Jr
Mnangagwa splashes over $1 million on new limo
After escaping an assassination attempt in June this year, President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa has tightened his security, including splashing over US$1 million in acquiring an armoured Mercedes Benz S...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 14:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe ally's home raided by gun-toting men
Independent candidate for Magunje, Godfrey Gandawa, yesterday said he is now living in fear after his family, including his mother, were temporarily abducted by four gun-toting men at his rural home i...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 13:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unprecedented security at Mnangagwa's event
Security for President Emmerson Mnangagwa at his first meeting following the Bulawayo bomb blast which he described as an attempt on his life by "my usual enemies" was ultra-tight at the Harare Intern...Published: 26 Jun 2018 at 13:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Women to face sexism in Zimbabwe elections - 'Witch', 'prostitute'
Since 2008 Zimbabwe has been holding harmonised elections whereby representatives of local authorities‚ parliament [National Assembly and Senate]‚ provincial councils and‚ most importantly‚ th...Published: 24 May 2018 at 15:06hrs | | by James Thompson
Gold heist gang jailed
FOUR injiva linked to an organised syndicate of armed robbers who raided shops in Bulawayo and terrorised residents, seizing about $7 200 in cash and 18 grammes of gold, were yesterday jailed for a co...Published: 21 Mar 2018 at 05:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gunfire at Bosso clubhouse
POLICE in Bulawayo yesterday arrested three suspected armed robbers after opening fire, leaving two of the suspects injured.The three, who are suspected to be linked to a spate of robberies in...Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Movie style robbery at Mpoko's Choppies
SIX gun-toting men raided Choppies Supermarket in Bulawayo's Pumula South suburb before getting away with more than $700 in a two-minute movie style robbery.Witnesses said the suspects entered...Published: 14 Mar 2018 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Businessman's wife lays kidnapping charges against Chihuri
Wife of Harare businessman Bigboy Pachirera, Marygold, yesterday laid criminal charges of kidnapping and robbery against former police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri at Marlborough Police Stat...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Soldiers fire at bus with passengers
SOME alleged members of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) stationed at various centres along highways and major cities as part of "Operation Restore Legacy", have reportedly gone on a rampage indiscri...Published: 12 Dec 2017 at 05:32hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Shona supremacists don't want the world to know that they killed Ndebeles
They refer to Matabeleland genocide as mere "disturbances", or. "moment of madness". They minimise the numbers of the dead. The survivors of the cruel annihilation process are prevented from rememberi...Published: 24 Oct 2017 at 09:12hrs | 1 | by Israel Dube
Outcry as gun-toting police officers raid kitchen tea party
Home Affairs deputy minister Obedingwa Mguni was yesterday grilled in the National Assembly over an incident in Siganda, Tsholotsho, where police officers allegedly pounced on women at a kitchen tea p...Published: 12 Oct 2017 at 10:15hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Passport offices: A good case of how to serve
In 2005 government razed down informal structures throughout the country. A denuded Joburg Lines in Mbare, for example, gave you a sense of shock after the Murambatsvina blitz. The shabby laager of sh...Published: 23 Jul 2017 at 11:39hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
'Grace Mugabe probe suffers still birth'
A ZIMBABWE Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) probe into the brutal removal of villagers from Arnold Farm in Mazowe to allow for the expansion of First Lady Grace Mugabe's business empire, could s...Published: 17 Apr 2017 at 10:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chombo, Chihuri in trouble over Grace Mugabe
Home Affairs minister Ignatius Chombo, Commissioner-General of Police Augustine Chihuri and Lands and Rural Resettlement minister Douglas Mombeshora have been caught up in First L...Published: 29 Mar 2017 at 04:35hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo Money changer robbed of R15 000
FIVE gun-toting robbers at the weekend raided the house of an illegal foreign currency dealer in Bulawayo's Emganwini suburb and got away with R15 000 and $70.The gang gagged family member...Published: 23 Jan 2017 at 05:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
All things come to an end, even if you are Jonathan Moyo
The good old moral stands and lives - Although memories fade fast, all things come to an end, even if you are Professor Jonathan Moyo - the learned academic accused of being the learned crook says May...Published: 16 Oct 2016 at 20:51hrs | | by Maynard Manyowa
Anti-Mugabe activist discharged from hospital
Political activist Sylvanos Mudzvova was yesterday discharged from a local hospital where he was receiving treatment after he was reportedly abducted and tortured by unknown assailants last Tuesda...Published: 24 Sep 2016 at 17:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Toy guns used as robberies spike
FIVE men, two armed with toy guns, pounced on a Major Petroleum Service Station in Bulawayo and bashed workers with hammers and a knobkerrie before fleeing with $700 and four cell phones, the Chronicl...Published: 17 Sep 2016 at 12:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gun-toting gang ties up priest, steals $11,000 & car
THREE gun-wielding robbers allegedly struck at a Roman Catholic Church, tied up a priest and got away with about $11,000 and a Toyota Hilux. The robbery occurred on Saturday around 9PM at St Charles L...Published: 18 Jul 2016 at 06:40hrs | | by Sukulwenkosi Dube-Matutu
'Gun-toting' Zanu-PF MP battered after a scuffle with a group of women
MT Pleasant legislator, Jason Passade (Zanu-PF) was on Tuesday night reportedly battered after a scuffle with a group of women, as the wrangle over the ownership of the remainder of Echo Farm in Crowh...Published: 07 Jul 2016 at 08:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africa-bound passenger kills gun toting hijacker
A PASSENGER on a Mzansi Express bus from Zimbabwe to South Africa allegedly wrestled a gun from a robber and shot him dead, when four armed men raided the vehicle in Musina on Friday.One of th...Published: 04 Jul 2016 at 07:06hrs | 2 | by Bianca Mlilo
Police round up two gun toting pupils
POLICE in Hammanskraal South Africa have rounded up two gun-toting pupils from different schools last week.Daily Sun reported that it appears both pupils had been terrorising other kids with t...Published: 16 Jun 2016 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Anti-Mujuru violence escalates
The ruling Zanu-PF party has allegedly upped its violent campaign against former Vice-President Joice Mujuru's Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) supporters in Mashonaland Central province, where her p...Published: 09 Jun 2016 at 07:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pastor abuses girls at gun point
Some girls in South Africa have revealed that a rogue pastor at Carletonville violently abused them at gun point saying their experienced at the hands of the clergyman was horrible."The ...Published: 26 Apr 2016 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Three gun-totting vagrants arrested for armed robbery
GWERU - Police in Gweru have arrested three more vagrants in connection with a case involving a fellow gun toting vagrant who was convicted in September.The three, Vincent Mutare,18, Tapi...Published: 06 Nov 2014 at 07:03hrs | | by Court Reporter
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