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Teenage pregnancies shoot up
A total of 4 475 pregnancies have been recorded for girls aged between 15 and 19 years in all eight districts in Mashonaland Central during the lockdown period stretching from March 2020 to February t...Published: 13 hrs ago | 169 | by Staff reporter
3 held over murder of Bulawayo businessman
POLICE yesterday said they had intensified investigations into the case in which they have arrested three suspects who were part of a gang that murdered a Bulawayo businessman before ransacking his ho...Published: 13 hrs ago | 425 | by Staff reporter
4 robbers admit to crime spree
FOUR suspected armed robbers, who yesterday admitted to killing one person and attempting to murder three others in and around Harare are expected back in court tomorrow. Brothers, William (39...Published: 13 hrs ago | 143 | by Staff reporter
'Only removal of Zanu-PF from power will solve Gukurahundi issue'
MATABELELAND-BASED human rights activists say the Gukurahundi atrocities can only be fully addressed once the alleged perpetrators are out of power.The activists made the remarks on Sunday dur...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:22hrs | 928 | by Staff reporter
Man stones mother to death
A MENTALLY challenged man from Matobo fatally struck his mother with stones. In their twitter page, police confirmed the incident which occurred on September 16. In another case a mentally challenged ...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 19:00hrs | 1173 | by Staff reporter
Con woman in court over US$488 000 fraud
A 33-year-old Harare suspected con-artist who dropped President Emmerson Mnangagwa's name in a fraud case involving close to half a million United States dollars has been further remanded in custody t...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 18:59hrs | 1309 | by Staff reporter
Top prosecutors in plot to 'fix' lawyer
TWO chief public prosecutors - Rosa Takuva and Justin Uladi - could face a criminal probe after an alleged clandestine manoeuvre to "destroy" Harare lawyer Admire Rubaya was unmasked.A WhatsAp...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:15hrs | 1873 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Zanu-PF UK and Europe convened in Midlands
ZANU PF UK AND ENGLAND had their first post-COVID general meeting on Saturday in Northampton Midlands in England. The meeting came when the President of Zimbabwe cde Emerson Dambudzo MNANGAGWA is mark...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 09:13hrs | 2679 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Angry ex-Zipra fighters warn govt
Disgruntled Zipra war veterans say they will now take matters into their own hands because President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is dithering about returning their properties seized during the Guk...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:55hrs | 2566 | by Staff reporter
Are sangomas really 'linked' to armed robberies?
Armed robbery in criminal law is an aggravated form of theft that involves the use of a lethal weapon a victim typically motivated by the desire to obtain money.Cases of armed robbery have rea...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:44hrs | 248 | by Blessing Mandabva
Villagers make way for billion dollar Chinese project
"Instead of joy and fulfilment, the fortunes sitting in the bowels of our fathers' land have brought misfortunes upon us," 78-year-old Chokutaura Chananda said ruefully.Chananda is among hundr...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:42hrs | 724 | by Staff reporter
Esigodini residents fret over illegal miners
Illegal mining activities in Matabeleland South's Esigodini area have led to an increase in gender-based violence cases and a child pregnancy, a local non-governmental organisation says.The Bu...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:41hrs | 132 | by Staff reporter
Poor roads haunt region
WHILE roads development brings social, cultural and economic changes in the lives of people in terms of providing connectivity between places and reducing poverty, in rural Matabeleland it is a privil...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:40hrs | 141 | by Staff reporter
Suicide cases trigger alarm in Zimbabwe
"It is so hard to take it in because I could not hear him scream or anything, it is too painful," those are the heart-breaking words from Farai Munemo's mother Felistas Mundere.Munemo would ha...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:39hrs | 266 | by Staff reporter
Cop rapes four-year-old
A police officer allegedly raped a four-year-old girl and threatened her with death if she informed anyone about the crime.According to a leaked police memo, the suspect, Nqobizitha Mlotshwa (...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:37hrs | 430 | by Staff reporter
Africa: A complex trajectory and legacy of military coups
FOR their spectacular nature, coups always appear like new phenomena when actually they are an old military and political issue that dates back to the genesis of humanity.It is like that in th...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:49hrs | 639 | by William Jethro Mpofu
Mugabe's contested legacy far from settled
TWO years after the death of former president Robert Mugabe, there remains no consensus regarding his legacy, with conflicting perceptions of the liberator-turned-despot dominating debate whenever his...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:40hrs | 793 | by Staff reporter
Distant parenting a disaster in Diaspora
Many Zimbabweans have left the country for purported greener pastures. But the greener pastures turn tinder dry on family relationships, volatile and ready to burn. Most parents have been ...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 06:22hrs | 661 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Ex-cop took out 16 policies on boyfriend
THE former police officer accused of murdering six of her relatives testified on Thursday that she had taken out 16 policies on her boyfriend amounting to more than R400 000. Nomia Rosemary Nd...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 19:49hrs | 1005 | by Staff reporter
Old people's homes turn into poor families' dumping grounds
BANANA bread was served at a recent birthday party at Melfort Old People's home, where a group of residents mustered a raspy happy birthday tune.Just a week after arriving at the facility, Rod...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:23hrs | 288 | by Staff reporter
Goblin terror at Tsholotsho Hospital - Terrorise nursing staff
IN a real-life drama whose script reads like folklore plucked from Gothic literature, nurses at Tsholotsho District Hospital in Matabeleland North province are being terrorised by suspected goblins wh...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:15hrs | 1030 | by Staff reporter
Minister in 'vote-buying' storm
ENERGY minister Zhemu Soda allegedly dished out grocery hampers to Zanu-PF women structures in Muzarabani at the weekend in what some party members from the province allege was vote buying for his all...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 06:08hrs | 2136 | by Staff reporter
Govt, civil servants showdown looms
A SHOWDOWN is looming between the government and its restive workers after the Public Service Commission (PSC) yesterday announced that all civil servants who have not been vaccinated shall not be all...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 05:59hrs | 979 | by Staff reporter
We are not abandoning Merry Chiwenga-Mubayiwa
To be a woman activist in Zimbabwe is totally different from being an activist in the comforts of Germany. I have come to terms with this fact. Women activism especially in our societies does not mean...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 14:56hrs | 6028 | by Nomazulu Thata
Number of war vets needing limbs declines
THE number of ex-combatants needing artificial limbs for injuries sustained during the armed liberation struggle has been falling over the years, the Defence and War Veterans ministry has revealed....Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:48hrs | 87 | by Staff reporter
Peace and reconciliation in the Second Republic
The inherent Western footprints in the ontology and epistemology of African nationalism in the past has stagnated the dream of realising how we can reconstruct the past and re-imagine the future....Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:45hrs | 127 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Police major perpetrators of sexual harassment: Parly
POLICE have been singled out as major perpetrators of sexual harassment against women throughout the country.This was revealed in investigations conducted by the joint Parliamentary Portfolio ...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:44hrs | 141 | by Staff reporter
Stop confusion over fees hikes
IT is not only shocking but disappointing that the Primary and Secondary Education ministry issued a "directive" that schools may only effect a 33% fee increase for the second term because the term is...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:43hrs | 167 | by Kurai Dapi
IDs are a basic right
REPORTS yesterday said the Registrar-General's office would from Monday resume issuing birth certificates, passports and identity documents (IDs) after months of closure due to COVID-19 lockdowns....Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:41hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
Matabeles to disown 'gukurahundi' sellout Chiefs, blood on your hands!
Confidential information on our hands confirming that some Matabele traditional chiefs have accepted bribes from the genocidal Zimbabwe government to assist it to impose its suspicious Matabeleland ge...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 11:07hrs | 538 | by Israel Dube
Man kills girlfriend for cheating on him
POLICE are looking for a man who allegedly killed his girlfriend after accusing her of infidelity. In their twitter page police said Clifford Phiri (38) attacked the now deceased and dumped her body i...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 18:55hrs | 1348 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man arrested in SA over highway robberies
A Zimbabwean robber has been arrested along with three South Africans for unleashing a reign of terror on motorists using the N1 Highway. The N1 is a major commercial road that links South Africa with...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:19hrs | 455 | by Staff reporter
Police taunt 'killer' woman as she is made to dig-up her murdered lover
A woman accused of killing her live-in lover before burning and burying his remains on a mountain was made to dig him up with a shovel while police officers taunted her, a shock new video seen by ZimL...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 16:15hrs | 1277 | by Staff reporter
Army commander's wife tipped for Zanu-PF top post
Zanu-PF Nyanga North constituency MP Chido Sanyatwe is reportedly leading the race to take over as the Manicaland Zanu-PF provincial women's league chairperson, with several districts said to be backi...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 06:16hrs | 6570 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers kill man in home raid
A Bulawayo man was shot dead at his home by four suspected armed robbers in an attack that left his neighbour with gunshot wounds. The man's family talked about the devastation of losing a loved one f...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 06:11hrs | 2131 | by Staff reporter
Hachilema's party claims to be under Zanu-PF attack
ZAMBIA'S ruling United Party for National Development (UPND) has accused Zanu-PF of launching cyber-attacks against its leadership, which it says could sour relations between the two neighbours....Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 06:21hrs | 5503 | by Staff reporter
Cellphone robbers jailed
TWO men who admitted to robbing a woman of her cellphone and threatened to rape and kill her, have been jailed for an effective one-year each. Marvelous Majoni (20) and Washington ...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 06:10hrs | 924 | by Staff reporter
'Chiwenga threatens Marry's doctors'
VICE-PRESIDENT and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga is reportedly threatening medical doctors against releasing an affidavit for his estranged wife Marry Mubaiwa, who is seeking postponement of he...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 20:46hrs | 8356 | by Staff reporter
War vets savage Mnangagwa again
UNAPOLOGETIC war veterans have launched a fresh attack on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration, accusing it of failing to expedite the exhumation and reburial of victims who are still interre...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 19:42hrs | 1664 | by Staff reporter
Ibhetshu Likazulu hits back at Chief Mtshane Khumalo
IBHETSHU LikaZulu has hit back at the Chiefs Council deputy president, Chief Mtshane Khumalo for accusing the pressure group for allegedly stifling the resolution of the post-independence Gukurahundi ...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 06:03hrs | 1517 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa faces fresh war vets onslaught
VETERANS of the liberation war have launched a fresh attack on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration, accusing it of failing to expedite the exhumation and reburial of victims who are still in...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 05:59hrs | 2750 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabweans careless online'
ICT experts in Zimbabwe say there is need to train workers and the general public on the dangers of Cyber-attacks as the Covid-19 pandemic has increased the need to work remotely. This has increased t...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 05:20hrs | 258 | by Staff reporter
The lessons from Zambia
I have just celebrated my 77th birthday and have settled on two proud new titles. I have now added a new title to my repertoire. I was given the title of mukoma at the Manica Post. Governor Josiah Hun...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 07:03hrs | 338 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Bitcoin pyramid scheme collapses
INNOCENT Matongo, a Zimbabwean expatriate worker based in Boksburg, South Africa is ruing the day he decided to latch on to a get-rich-quick scheme.After investing thousands of United States d...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 06:52hrs | 495 | by Emmanuel Kafe
Govt takes delivery of 30 ambulances
Government has taken delivery of 30 new ambulances that are part of the 100 expected before year-end, as efforts are stepped up to revamp the health delivery system.The ambulances will now be ...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 06:50hrs | 129 | by Staff reporter
Soldier, wife die in limo accident
A Bulawayo-based soldier and his wife died on the spot after a Limousine Lincoln they were travelling in burst its rear left tyre and veered off the road before hitting a tree.The accident hap...Published: 04 Sep 2021 at 19:44hrs | 1354 | by Staff reporter
'Police must work with student unions in fighting drug abuse'
POLICE have been urged to work with student unions and the public in flushing out drug peddlers plying their trade in institutions of higher learning.The call came after two female university ...Published: 04 Sep 2021 at 19:44hrs | 65 | by Staff reporter
Man assaults father-in–law
A MAN has been arrested for assaulting his father-in-law for allegedly barring him from seeing his child whom he has reportedly neglecting.A family member who spoke on condition of anonymity s...Published: 04 Sep 2021 at 19:40hrs | 241 | by Staff reporter
Chiefs must not aid murderers to escape jaws of justice: MLF
MTHWAKAZI Liberation Front (MLF) spokesperson Crispen Nyoni has warned chiefs in Matabeleland and Midlands not to allow Gukurahundi perpetrators to use them to escape justice by concealing evidence ar...Published: 04 Sep 2021 at 13:13hrs | 714 | by Stephen Jakes
Man searching for puppies robbed by armed gang
A Zhombe man was attacked by six armed robbers at his homestead yesterday night while he was searching for his puppies.Shepherd Maning (41) was outside at night when he was grabbed by the wais...Published: 04 Sep 2021 at 10:30hrs | 1476 | by Tarisai Mudahondo in Zhombe
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