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Zimbabwean family in mourning as teenage son stabbed to death at Leeds house party
A murder probe has been launched after a 17-year-old boy, identified as Trust Junior Jordan Gangata, was stabbed to death in Leeds.Police were called to a house in Salisbury Grove, Armley at 2...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 11:52hrs | 836 | 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 | 1090 | by Staff reporter
Lobel's rape 'victim' collapses in court
ONE of the five victims in the rape trial of Lobel's Biscuits chief operations manager in Bulawayo Andrew Dinhidza collapsed while giving her evidence at the Bulawayo magistrate's court on Wednesday....Published: 18 Mar 2023 at 06:44hrs | 797 | by Staff reporter
15-year-old rapes, impregnates cousin (12)
IN a shocking incident, a 15-year-old boy from Pelandaba West suburb in Bulawayo was arrested for allegedly raping his 12-year-old cousin resulting in her falling pregnant.According to a sourc...Published: 18 Mar 2023 at 06:43hrs | 467 | by Staff reporter
Woman found dead in church
The body of a 34-year-old woman believed to have been assaulted and strangled was last Wednesday found in a prayer room at a church in Beitbridge.Investigations revealed that the woman had gon...Published: 16 Mar 2023 at 17:56hrs | 1614 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF grassroots supporters should rid party of political elite who have destroyed Zimbabwe
Every time I teach my son about the history of this country, I can not help feel a deep sense of pride and respect for our nationalist movements, in their intrepid quest for the independence and freed...Published: 16 Mar 2023 at 10:19hrs | 570 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwean serial killer slapped with eight life sentences
Zimbabwean national Themba Prince Willard Dube was found guilty of the kidnapping and murder of seven women in Seshego, Lebowakgomo and Mankweng.Dube, who is orIginally from Gwanda Mpaya villa...Published: 15 Mar 2023 at 06:57hrs | 740 | by Staff reporter
The curse of being a security guard in Zimbabwe
Being a security guard in Zimbabwe is a curse, the job is too demanding, with some of the most hostile working conditions one can ever think of. Working a 12-hour shift, 4 days a week in a retail shop...Published: 14 Mar 2023 at 16:47hrs | 683 | by Cremio Mabauwa
Zimbabwe-born alleged serial killer says SA cops planted evidence, forced confession
Alleged serial killer Prince Willard Themba Dube told the Limpopo High Court that the contents of his two confession statements were "a mixture of lies and the truth".The statements – one ta...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 07:54hrs | 1122 | by Staff reporter
Man slaps rival to death over beer
A 24-year-old man from Gwanda in Matabeleland South has been arrested for fatally slapping an older man following an altercation during beer drinking.Culture Nare slapped Thandazani Moyo (49) ...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 07:12hrs | 297 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC urged to employ 'guerilla' tactics
Prominent civic leader and trade unionist Peter Mutasa has urged Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) to adopt underground campaign methods in the wake of a state crackdown coupled with a systematic ba...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 19:39hrs | 920 | by Staff reporter
Married men drive illegal abortion stats
SOME married men are reportedly forcing their girlfriends to terminate pregnancies to avoid fathering children outside marriages and looking after illegitimate children.Illegal unsafe abortion...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:19hrs | 330 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: Eight years on, authorities yet to give update on the disappeared journalist and pro-democracy activist
Eight years after journalist and pro-democracy activist, Itai Dzamara went missing authorities are yet to give progress report on their investigation efforts to ensure his family receives justice, tru...Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 09:15hrs | 517 | by APO/Amnesty International
'Judiciary, security agents top in rights violations'
ZIMBABWE has recorded 2 683 cases of human rights violations against human rights defenders, mainly perpetrated by State security agents and the Judiciary, human rights organisations have said....Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 05:23hrs | 359 | by Staff reporter
Running cop discovers attempted murder victim
A Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) cop based in Mazowe allegedly found an unidentified man lying unconscious with a deep cut on the head while he was on his morning road run on Monday.The police...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 20:00hrs | 1266 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Chamisa's CCC forgets Sikhala
For the past 260 days at the Harare magistrates' court, whenever members of the public noticed the deployment of more than 60 anti-riot officers - clad in full combat gear and armed with truncheons an...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 15:36hrs | 1210 | by Staff reporter
Man stabbed over beer dispute
A GOKWE man is battling for his life after he was brutally assaulted and stabbed over refusing to buy his friend's beer.Midlands Provincial police spokesperson Inspector Emmanuel Mahoko confir...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 14:57hrs | 317 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa accuses 'assassination target' Coltart of glory seeking
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) Senator David Coltart says he fears for life following an alleged assassination attempt.According to Coltart, his motor mechanic discovered that the front l...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 05:33hrs | 979 | by Staff reporter
Police brutality victim heaves sigh of relief
A CHIVHU man who had been found guilty of disorderly conduct by a magistrate sighed in relief after the High Court overturned the conviction.Darlington Manjokota (31) had initially filed a cas...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 05:32hrs | 366 | by Staff reporter
Mutare launches blitz on illegal food outlets
MUTARE City Council and the police have launched a joint citywide blitz on unlicensed restaurants and illegal street food vendors to contain the spread of cholera in the city.On Monday, the ci...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 05:31hrs | 158 | by Staff reporter
Accident victims linked to robbery
A gang of three robbers who first dispossessed a driver of a Toyota Wish in Rusape on Thursday night last week and then raided a bottle store was involved in an accident a few hours later when they cr...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 05:28hrs | 740 | by Staff reporter
Are today's 'Pan Africanists' the most colonially-brainwashed?
I am one of those who, at times, receives the fury of those who claim to be 'Pan Africanists' - on accusations of pandering to western interests, and being a victim of a colonial mindset.My cr...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 10:54hrs | 338 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe police must root out rogue officers
A COURT in Victoria Falls has ordered Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe and police commissioner-general Godwin Matanga to pay $1,7 million dollars in damages to poet Obert Dube who was assaulted b...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 05:29hrs | 814 | by Staff reporter
Police inspector in court for selling guns to public
Three Domboshava business people bought guns from police Inspector Kudakwashe Chatikobo of Support Unit at Fairbridge in Bulawayo and his accomplice, but then complained when the firearms certificates...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 05:23hrs | 478 | by Staff reporter
Minor killed in accident
A 15-YEAR-OLD Gokwe juvenile died on the spot while another is battling for life at a hospital after they were hit by a vehicle along Kwekwe-Gokwe Highway.Midlands Police Spokesperson, Inspect...Published: 06 Mar 2023 at 15:01hrs | 287 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police bust counterfeit money syndicate
POLICE in Gweru have arrested two people who are alleged to be part of a syndicate that is swindling business people across the country with counterfeit notes.Chrispen Kutira (42) of Fourwinds...Published: 06 Mar 2023 at 15:01hrs | 672 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo deputy mayor appeals public violence conviction
Bulawayo deputy mayor Mlandu Ncube and two others have approached the High Court to challenge their conviction and sentence in a matter in which they are accused of waging MDC-T intraparty violence ba...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 17:54hrs | 435 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala solidarity waning
For the past 260 days at the Harare magistrates' court, whenever members of the public noticed the deployment of more than 60 anti-riot officers - clad in full combat gear and armed with truncheons an...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 14:02hrs | 1129 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Vendors4ED fuel lawlessness
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's shadowy group operating under the banner Vendors For ED is on a collision course with Bulawayo City Council after it violated city by-laws by establishing unsanctioned v...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 13:57hrs | 1314 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala's case is exposing the opposition
In three months' time, Job Sikhala would have clocked a full year in jail for allegedly inciting public violence and attempting to defeat the course of justice.They say, among other things, he...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 06:25hrs | 1051 | by Tawanda Majoni
6 NUST students feared dead as horror crash claims 9
Six students from Bulawayo's National University of Science and Technology (NUST) are believed to have perished Thursday in a horrific road traffic accident which killed nine people, according to poli...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 08:14hrs | 2247 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans must stay away from occult wealth seeking
IMAGINE being instructed by an inyanga or sangoma to take soil from a stranger's grave that will be used to perform a ritual to invoke the spirit of a dead person to help you get instant wealth and po...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 08:02hrs | 270 | 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 | 224 | by Staff reporter
11 killed in road accidents between Thursday and yesterday
At least 11 people were killed in separate road accidents that were recorded between Thursday and yesterday.Of the 11, nine of them died along Masvingo-Mbalabala Road on Thursday while the oth...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 07:56hrs | 103 | by Staff reporter
Nine people die along Masvingo highway
Nine people died after a Toyota Wish collided with a Nissan UD truck at the 198-kilometre peg along Masvingo -Mbalabala highway on Thursday.According to police bodies of the victims were taken...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 07:40hrs | 872 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Cop jailed 24 years over teen rape
A Harare-based police officer was slapped with a 24-year jail term for raping a 17-year-old girl twice during a party at his friend's house in Mahatshula North suburb in Bulawayo.Farai Mzengez...Published: 03 Mar 2023 at 18:20hrs | 326 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean paedophile flees UK before he could be jailed
QUESTIONS have been raised over the court's decision to grant bail to a paedophile found guilty of raping a young girl who "fled the country" before he could be jailed.Dubindlela Magonya, 23, ...Published: 02 Mar 2023 at 20:12hrs | 1287 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo deputy mayor fights conviction at High Court
BULAWAYO deputy mayor Mlandu Ncube and two others who were part of a group of 12 MDC-T members involved in violent skirmishes that rocked the opposition party in March 2018 have approached the High Co...Published: 02 Mar 2023 at 05:46hrs | 476 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers raid Mukuru outlet
SIX armed men raided a Mukuru money transfer outlet in Silobela in Midlands Province and handcuffed a cashier and security guard manning the booth at gunpoint before they got away with US$1 800, R7 80...Published: 02 Mar 2023 at 05:45hrs | 1232 | by Staff reporter
Give Gukurahundi victims IDs, says Chamisa's Harare MP
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator for Hatcliffe constituency, Allan Markham, has recommended that the national identity registration blitz cater for Gukurahundi victims and ex-farmworker...Published: 28 Feb 2023 at 08:36hrs | 1024 | by Staff reporter
Police launch manhunt for 16-year-old murder suspect
Bulawayo police are appealing for information that may lead to the arrest of a suspect who allegedly killed a 51-year-old man after they had a heated argument on February 5 in Iminyela suburb in Bulaw...Published: 26 Feb 2023 at 09:12hrs | 325 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbery attempt thwarted by villagers
An armed robbery attempt was thwarted by Plumtree villagers who rushed to assist a shopkeeper at Kweneng Business centre on Tuesday after a man posing as a customer tried to rob her.Matabelela...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 17:16hrs | 1451 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai turning in his grave
THE late opposition MDC stalwart Morgan Richard Tsvangirai who died on 14 February, five years ago, is turning in his grave because some of his family members and close associates have joined the Zanu...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 10:43hrs | 2050 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police hunt for human trafficking suspect
Police have launched a manhunt for Jacqueline Takure nee Chikukwa, 45, who is a suspect in a case of human trafficking.According to police, sometime in 2022, Takure posed as an employment agen...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 07:51hrs | 686 | by Staff reporter
Anglican Bishop acquitted
ANGLICAN Diocese of Manicaland Bishop Eric Ruwona has been acquitted of in a case where he faced charges of intimidating a witness who had reported him for corruption.Ruwona appeared in court ...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 07:04hrs | 177 | by Staff reporter
Biti 'assault' victim nearly fainted
The assault case for Tendai Biti continued today with Deputy Prosecutor General Mr Micheal Reza leading evidence from the complainant and witness Mrs Tatiana Aleshina.Biti is facing charges of...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 06:56hrs | 248 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa: Hoping for tricks of providence
A belch from a priest has greater valueFor a shiny trinket / Give not away your country / The foreigner is a trafficker / To mind him is no bargain / If you were skilled and artful / You'd sta...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 06:49hrs | 194 | by Jamwanda
Zanu-PF MP hires militia to disrupt party meeting
Mines deputy minister and Sanyati legislator Polite Kambamura allegedly hired a militia to violently disrupt a Zanu-PF cell inter-district meeting at Nyimo business centre in his constituency yesterda...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 07:10hrs | 407 | by staff reporter
Vapostori4ED leader attacked
TWO Harare men appeared in court yesterday on allegations of assaulting Vapostori for ED chairperson Lloyd Gwasira, popularly known as Madzibaba Moses.Elvis Borerwi and Tafadzwa Matoro, who we...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 07:08hrs | 483 | by Staff reporter
In-law invites witch hunter prophets after fight over stove
A Bulawayo woman is at loggerheads with her sister-in-law after she reportedly invited a prophet to their house to conduct a cleansing ceremony claiming she was a witch.For Nethi Chikwena who ...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 07:05hrs | 141 | by Staff reporter
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