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Bulawayo records spike in theft of cars
Police in Bulawayo have confirmed a troubling surge in vehicle thefts, with 70 vehicles reported stolen between January and October this year. While law enforcement officials are expressing concern ov...Published: 01 Dec 2024 at 08:59hrs | 416 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police overrated?
In what is being called the largest cash heist in Zimbabwe's history, seven armed robbers executed a lightning-fast robbery at Ecobank, located at the corner of Fife Street and 9th Avenue in Bulawayo....Published: 05 Oct 2024 at 11:33hrs | 411 | by Staff reporter
US$4.4 million Ecobank heist shocks Zimbabwe
In what is believed to be the largest bank heist in Zimbabwean history, seven armed robbers made off with a staggering US$4.4 million in cash from Ecobank's Bulawayo branch at the Parkade Centre on Th...Published: 05 Oct 2024 at 11:30hrs | 2140 | by Staff reporter
Fire engulfs Zimbabwe Police Station, guts 12 vehicles
A HUGE fire yesterday extensively damaged at least 12 vehicles at the Southerton Vehicle Theft Squad (VTS) in Harare, with preliminary investigations suggesting an electrical fault was the likely caus...Published: 13 Jul 2024 at 11:35hrs | 83 | by Staff reporter
'ZPRA archives handed to British and American govts'
A former government minister claims that the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA) archives, confiscated by Zanu immediately after independence, were handed over to the British and American gove...Published: 11 Jul 2024 at 14:46hrs | 38 | by Staff reporter
Man in court for stealing vehicle
A Kuwadzana man has appeared in court today for allegedly stealing a Toyota Wish vehicle worth US$5 500 that was parked at a car park. Emmanuel Chidawanyika (24) appeared before Harare regional Magist...Published: 15 May 2023 at 18:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Paul Kagame: Cruel Betrayal of Matebeleland
In the first week of September 2022, Emmerson Munangagwa visited the Rwanda Genocide Memorial while he was attending a continental African Green Revolution Forum Conference in that country. Many peopl...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 08:56hrs | | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu
Ex-police chief to perform community service
FORMER officer Commanding CID Vehicle Theft Squad (VTS) at Southerton Police Station in Harare, Chief Superintendent Kirispen Mutsengi, has been ordered to perform 315 hours of community service after...Published: 22 Aug 2022 at 07:07hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
African govts told to 'Shake off donor syndrome'
THE Global Fund Advocates Network (GFAN) has urged African governments to increase health financing and avoid too much reliance on donor funding.In a letter inviting different countries, inclu...Published: 02 Jun 2022 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiefs implore govts to enforce anti-child marriages laws
SOUTHERN African chiefs have urged governments to implement laws to end child marriages as most countries in the region were taking long to approve legislation to deal with the scourge.This ca...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Communist Party says to the USA, NATO and their allies hands off Russia!
Russia, under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, has challenged the right of the USA to implement regime change through the use of extremist groups, terrorism and media manipulation and then establish ...Published: 09 Mar 2022 at 07:46hrs | 29 | by Zimbabwe Communist Party
Zimbabweans blast Chiwenga
ZIMBABWEANS have criticised Vice President Constantino Chiwenga for threatening to take stern action against a traditional leader, Chief Murinye.The chief last week urged President Emmerson Mn...Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 19:13hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
20-year-old 'steals' 10 cars in a 2-months spree
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested a 20-year-old man and four of his accomplices who had stolen 10 cars in a two-month spree of carjacking and car theft.The five reportedly stole 10 cars in the ...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:15hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Selling of stolen cars increases
There is an increase in cases of thieves selling stolen vehicles to unsuspecting buyers, police said yesterday.This comes after police have in the past few months, arrested several car t...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 05:19hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Cop loses car to thieves
A POLICE officer stationed at the Police Protection Unit was left clutching his car keys when he discovered that his Honda Fit car which he had parked directly opposite his workplace at Southampton bu...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 17:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Stolen car deal backfires for Bulawayo pair
POLICE in Bulawayo have said there has been a rise in fraud cases involving the sale of motor vehicles, hence members of the public must exercise due diligence when entering into any deals.One...Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 05:25hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Carjacking syndicate busted
SEVEN suspected car jackers, including four employees of a local car sale, believed to be part of a syndicate that has been targeting and stealing vehicles parked at houses and business premises in an...Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 07:26hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's money laundering threat, vulnerability risk ranked medium'
Zimbabwe lost an average $900 million per year between 2014 and 2018 to money laundering but the country's money laundering threat was assessed to be medium, according to the Financial Intelligence Un...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 18:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police criminal syndicate busted
THE Special Anti-Corruption Unit (SACU) and the Drugs and Narcotics outfit that falls under the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) have busted an alleged underground syndicate comprising top poli...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police fire live bullets in Chinhoyi...kill 1 suspect
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has confirmed the arrest of three suspects and the death of another in a shooting incident which occurred while detectives from Vehicle Theft Squad(VTS) were in the proces...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 17:57hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
War vet goes beserk, beats schoolchildren
A War veteran based in Mashonaland Central is in soup with the authorities after he went berserk late last year and savagely assaulted 116 pupils at a local primary school for alleged indiscipline....Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 11:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Boy (16) arrested for carjacking
Police have arrested a 16-year-old Dzivaresekwa boy after he allegedly stole a Honda Fit he had hired at Chitubu Shopping Centre in Glen Norah. The suspect was arrested by detectives from the ...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 05:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
African govts fight 'conflict diamonds' resolution
AFRICAN governments led by South Africa are fighting tooth and nail to stop the passing of a resolution by the Kimberly Process to expand the definition of "conflict diamonds", it has been learnt....Published: 15 Nov 2018 at 06:01hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
China To Africa: don't blame us for working with corrupt govts, you voted for them
Chinese officials have defended their government for working with corrupt African governments saying that China did not have a choice as it was not responsible for selecting the governments. F...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 22:04hrs | | by Sithabile Mafu
Govts urged to install female chiefs
WOMEN attending the 2018 Sadc People Summit in Windhoek Namibia have called on the region's governments to respect women's rights and to ensure that females are included in powerful institutions such ...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Be strong young man, lead my people!
I MUST admit that I really underestimated this young Wamba kid. I had initially never given him much chance, but I am really gratified and very delighted that God and the gods timely intervened in the...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 19:07hrs | | by CZ
Koffi Olomide jets in early
VISITING CONGOLESE rhumba giant, Koffi Olomide, will be arriving in the country two days before his much-publicised show in the capital, event organisers say.Show coordinators say Koffi will b...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 17:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Govts urged to improve prison conditions
Stakeholders from all over Southern Africa have made a clarion call for intensified multi-sectoral and collaborative efforts in improving the health of prison inmates, particularly in the face of high...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporetr
Cops intensify investigations into car dealer's operations
Police have intensified investigations into a case in which more than 50 people in and around Harare lost thousands of dollars to a car dealer who allegedly fooled them that he could facilitate the im...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Car dealer swindles over 50 people of cash
MORE than 50 people in and around Harare have lost thousands of dollars to a car dealer who allegedly made them believe that he could facilitate the importation of vehicles from Japan and other countr...Published: 21 Jun 2018 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe government can't employ ECD teachers'
Government cannot afford to employ teachers for Early Childhood Development (ECD), Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa has said."Government recognises the complementary role that parents play i...Published: 10 Dec 2017 at 10:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
War vets court Tsvangirai, Western govts to end Mugabe rule
Veterans of the country's liberation struggle have invited MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai and western governments to assist in the fight to end President Robert Mugabe's 37-year rule.Amid concer...Published: 30 Oct 2017 at 12:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Car smugglers hunt for draught animal power - $400 for a donkey
IN most villages in Beitbridge district, donkeys are used majorly as a source of draught power. These are used for tillage, drawing carts, fetching firewood and other household chores.Donkeys ...Published: 03 Sep 2017 at 12:33hrs | | by Thupeyo Muleya
New Zimbabwe traffic system on cards
Government is developing a computerised traffic system that will link all its departments involved in the movement of vehicles on the country's roads in a one-stop-shop format.The traffic syst...Published: 26 Jun 2017 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bogus cop jailed 4 years
A criminal who teamed up with his accomplices and masqueraded as police officers to steal a Toyota Fortuner on the pretext that they were impounding the vehicle because of the driver's reckless drivin...Published: 14 Jun 2017 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parliament savages police roadblocks
Parliament has called on police to curb the many unwanted roadblocks that they are mounting, saying they are terrorising both locals and international tourists.The call comes as police are als...Published: 13 Apr 2017 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Cops' vanish with man's car
A 37-year-old man, who allegedly masqueraded as a police officer, appeared in court yesterday for allegedly stealing a Toyota Fortuner on the pretext that he was impounding the vehicle because of the ...Published: 23 Feb 2017 at 07:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zvorwadza surprises Harare magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti
National Vendors Union (Navuz) leader Sten Zvorwadza staged a dramatic plea for a postponement of his cases when he stormed the courtroom with his luggage and an air ticket for a flight that...Published: 22 Nov 2016 at 14:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Sten Zvorwadza has case to answer'
HARARE - The State yesterday argued that National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe leader, Sten Zvorwadza, has a case to answer on allegations of disorderly conduct emanating from a January 2013 incident....Published: 10 Nov 2016 at 13:57hrs | | by Staff Reporter
A bleak future with Hilary Clinton
At the time of writing, the US elections are still in progress with the expectation that the 'respectable' Hilary Clinton will defeat the crude racist, sexist redneck Donald Trump.Many liberal...Published: 08 Nov 2016 at 19:34hrs | | by Future Msebele Zulu
African govts to get free legal advice
The African Bar Association says it has resolved to give free legal advice to governments on serious economic issues that affect the continent.The decision was announced at the African Law...Published: 07 Sep 2016 at 16:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lumumba arrested again
FORMER Zanu-PF activist William Mutumanje, also known as Acie Lumumba, has been arrested, this time for allegedly forging a registration book for his mother's vehicle, a Toyota Ipsum. It i...Published: 09 Jul 2016 at 08:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Car tracker nails thief
A CAR tracker recently nailed a Bulawayo man hours after he had stolen a commuter omnibus. Brighton Ncube of Pumula South suburb allegedly stole the kombi in Nkulumane 11. Bulawayo Metropolita...Published: 25 Apr 2016 at 06:47hrs | | by Whinsley Masara
Carjacker crashes into tree
A carjacker is suspected to have sustained severe head injuries after he rammed into a tree as he tried to escape from police on Tuesday afternoon in Bulawayo.Keith Ndarangwa crashed the Toyot...Published: 07 Apr 2016 at 06:34hrs | | by Whinsley Masara
Police impound 185 pirate taxis
POLICE in Bulawayo have impounded 185 pirate taxis operating in the city and arrested a number of drivers in a crackdown to restore sanity in the transport sector.Police launched the campaign ...Published: 10 Feb 2016 at 07:00hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Govts of the UK and the USA Provide Humanitarian Relief to Over 650,000 Zimbabweans
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the United Kingdom Government's Department for International Development (DFID) has jointly launched humanitarian assistance programs...Published: 09 Oct 2015 at 10:50hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
'Prophet Magaya vehicle transfer forms fake'
THE trial of four men accused of fraudulently importing a Land Rover Discovery 4 from South Africa on behalf of Walter Magaya's Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries took a new turn ...Published: 20 Aug 2015 at 11:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
African Govts and business leaders join to launch Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund
OHANNESBURG, South-Africa, June 18, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — - $5million committed by African Governments and ‘Africa Business Champions for Science' during launch ho...Published: 18 Jun 2015 at 13:46hrs | | by APO
Pastor caught bonking policeman's wife in a car
A married Methodist Church in Zimbabwe pastor was reportedly caught engaging in sex with a married mother of two on Monday afternoon.The man of God-cum-man of sex, Rev Nobert Chivese from Mab...Published: 01 Nov 2014 at 21:30hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Fake cop impounds, steals car
A man masquerading as a police officer reportedly impounded a vehicle bearing Botswana registration numbers and drove to the Criminal Investigation Department Vehicle Theft Squad premises before steal...Published: 28 Mar 2014 at 07:21hrs | | by Fungai Lupande
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