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Harare crowd fatally assaults 'thief'
A tragic incident of mob justice unfolded on December 1, 2024, in the Belvedere suburb of Harare, claiming the life of Bla Odza. The 36-year-old was brutally assaulted by a group of people who accused...Published: 02 Dec 2024 at 15:49hrs | 953 | by Staff reporter
Cellphone theft suspect dies in brutal attack
A man accused of stealing a cellphone tragically died in Chinhoyi after he was subjected to a brutal assault by three men, who allegedly beat him with a shovel and logs before burning his feet in an a...Published: 11 Nov 2024 at 07:15hrs | 859 | by Staff reporter
Wife bashing maan in court
A 42-year-old man from Nyanga appeared before the Nyanga Magistrates' Court on charges of physical abuse under the Domestic Violence Act. According to the National Prosecuting Authority of Zim...Published: 02 Jul 2024 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mix up at South African mortuary, 2-year body swap resolved
IN September 2021, then-31-year-old Bongani Ngwendu was attacked by a vigilante group in a suspected xenophobic attack at an informal settlement in Pretoria, South Africa, where he was burnt to death ...Published: 12 Mar 2024 at 05:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
A generation of EDiots
THE politicians keep fiddling while Zimbabwe is burning. The opposition is at sixes and sevens, while Zanu-PF is at sea when the education system is now in comatose and the peril of having a generatio...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 07:43hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Scammed by Zimbabweans in the diaspora, job seekers lose fortunes
ARMED with a smartphone, a lone vigilante confronts an alleged scammer in Birmingham, United Kingdom clicks "record" on the device and demands that the woman pays back thousands of British pounds that...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 05:53hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Suspected donkey thief tortured to death
CLOSE to 20 residents of Dumba village near Beitbridge allegedly kidnapped and tortured to death a fellow villager accused of stealing a neighbour's donkey.A police report indicated that Austin Siband...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 12:43hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Thief forced to eat raw, unplucked chicken
A MAN from Pumula suburb in Bulawayo will forever rue his love for chicken when a vigilante group in the neighbourhood forced him to eat the raw meat of the bird that he had been caught stealing....Published: 20 Jan 2024 at 16:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean truckers, refused licence renewals in SA, head for Poland
Zimbabwean truckers are being denied the ability to renew their South African driver's licences as the Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) system winds down, with a little less than two years to run befor...Published: 19 Jan 2024 at 14:00hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Gayton McKenzie takes his anti-immigrants vigilantism to the Limpopo River in Beitbridge
Recklessly xenophobic South African opposition Patriotic Alliance (PA) leader Gayton McKenzie and members of his right-wing party took their anti-immigrants vigilantism to the Limpopo River in Beitbri...Published: 06 Jan 2024 at 09:31hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo statement on Matabeles in South Africa false dangerous, smacks of tribal hatred
The statement by the Minister of Labour and Child Welfare, July Moyo that the majority of more than 400 children that were intercepted by South African authorities at Beitbridge border were from Matab...Published: 07 Dec 2023 at 08:26hrs | 9 | by Israel Dube
2 Zimbabweans killed in Diepsloot vigilante killings
TWO victims out of the seven men who were burnt to death in an apparent vigilante attack against criminal activity in one of South Africa's crime-ridden townships are reported to be Zimbabwean citizen...Published: 05 Dec 2023 at 05:17hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa decries supporters' abductions, torture
Nelson Chamisa, the leader of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), has strongly condemned the abduction and torture of his party members by unknown assailants, categorizing these acts as terrorism...Published: 27 Oct 2023 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why Dudula hates foreigners
South African vigilante group Operation Dudula has become notorious for raiding businesses belonging to foreign nationals and forcing shops to close. BBC Africa Eye has gained rare access to members o...Published: 18 Sep 2023 at 21:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to contend with Zanu-PF factions jostling for power
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's final term is likely to be marred by intense jostling for power in Zanu-PF as warring factions jostle to position themselves for the control of the ruling party and the ...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 21:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF abusing Mupedzanhamo'
HARARE Residents Trust (HRT) has berated the ongoing abuse of Mupedzanhamo flea market by alleged Zanu-PF-related space barons, saying the ruling party lacks the will to discipline the rogue elements....Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 06:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'FAZ heavily involved in electoral manipulation'
A recent study by the Zimbabwe Democracy Institute (ZDI) found that the deployment of Forever Associates Zimbabwe (FAZ) into Zimbabwe's electoral processes was a key part of Zanu-PF's electoral manipu...Published: 20 Aug 2023 at 18:56hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Black Vendetta mafia gang ravages Chitungwiza
A CHITUNGWIZA gang popularly known as Black Vendetta is terrorising residents of the dormitory town particularly Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters, NewsDay has established.There a...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 06:42hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF unleashes violence on Chidhakwa's supporters
A TENSE political environment has engulfed Zvimba South constituency, where former Mines Minister Walter Chidhakwa's supporters have come under siege from alleged ruling party functionaries.No...Published: 05 Jul 2023 at 07:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli's theatrics expose government lack of seriousness in addressing Zim economic crisis!
So, finance minister Mthuli Ncube, over the weekend, went around shops in Bulawayo, like a crazed vigilante, tearing down tags displaying prices strictly in US dollars!He even berated a haples...Published: 29 May 2023 at 23:02hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Jonathan Moyo 'defends' magistrate who is facing online harassment
FORMER cabinet minister has leapt to the defense of Harare magistrate Feresi Chakanyuka who is facing online harassment following her conviction of opposition politician Jacob Ngarivhume.Ngari...Published: 03 May 2023 at 06:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Why is South Africa not renewing 160,000 Zimbabwean work permits?
Thousands of Zimbabweans living in South Africa face an uncertain future and possible deportation before a June 2023 expiration of their work permits, following an announcement by the home government ...Published: 12 Apr 2023 at 08:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'What leadership invest in violence?' asked Chamisa - a dictatorship and after 23 years you have done nothing to end it
"If you have support why are so violent, so heartless against citizens even the elderly? And why should bases and vigilante groups be allowed around the country? Are we now worse than animals? What le...Published: 12 Jan 2023 at 18:25hrs | 10 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zimbabwe police smoke out Mbare violence leaders
POLICE yesterday went door-to-door arresting Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) and Zanu-PF suspects who have since Friday been causing mayhem at Mupedzanhamo flea market in Mbare, Harare — b...Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 06:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mupedzanhamo set ablaze
SUSPECTED Zanu-PF youths on Friday night and Saturday went on a rampage, torching vending tables and secondhand clothes at Mupedzanhamo flea market in what is believed to be a revenge mission against ...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 06:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Parly called to enact stiffer penalties against electoral violence
HEAL Zimbabwe Trust (HZT), a community oriented human rights organisation, has called on Parliament to summon the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) and the Zimbabwe Human Rights Comm...Published: 01 Sep 2022 at 06:32hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe workers suffer in SA
ZIMBABWEANS, together with other foreign nationals, are continuing to bear the brunt of vigilante attacks by South African citizens, who are accusing them of taking their jobs and committing crime....Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 20:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The day South Africa closes the border
THE past two decades have seen over 1,5 million Zimbabweans migrate to South Africa as economic refugees. Most of the refugees are unskilled and, therefore, directly compete with locals for menial job...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 06:20hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Backlash as SA's Phophi belittles Zimbabwean patient
SOUTH Africa's opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has lodged an official complaint against medical doctor and Limpopo province Member of Executive Committee (MEC), Phophi Ramathuba for "dehuma...Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
South Africa-based Zimbabweans blast Shava
ZIMBABWEAN immigrants residing in South Africa have blasted Foreign Affairs minister Fredrick Shava for not consulting them before meeting his counterpart Naledi Pandor.Shava met the South Afr...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 07:27hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe - SA relations turn frosty in the wake of an immigration crisis
POST-2000, millions of Zimbabweans have migrated to the United Kingdom, Australia or the United States, but estimated millions more have trooped to South Africa in search of greener pastures and safet...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 07:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's ANC wants spousal and relative's visas done away with
Spousal and relative's visas should be done away with because the system is being "abused by foreign nationals" to settle in SA, the ANC has said in an additional discussion document distributed to de...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 18:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa ally says Zimbabweans should be in their home
ZIMBABWEANS should be in their home country and all nations "need to take responsibility of their citizens" a South African cabinet minister and senior ruling African National Congress (ANC) party off...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 06:20hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
South Africa 'on the precipice of explosive xenophobic violence', UN experts warn
NEW YORK: A group of independent UN human rights experts have condemned reports of escalating violence targeting foreign nationals in South Africa, and called for accountability against rising xenopho...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's moonlighting President has a serious constitutional case to answer
Our rudderless President Cyril Ramaphosa has been exposed not only for his lack of leadership, but also for his gross misunderstanding of the country's Constitution.We all know that he was a v...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 12:01hrs | | by Paul Ngobeni
Fears expressed over Zimbabwe Extension Permit cancellation
Zimbabwean expatriates are scrambling to apply for a visa to continue living in South Africa after their Zimbabwe Extension Permits (ZEP) expired in December.If they are unsuccessful, in some ...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 09:02hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa has a serious constitutional case to answer
Our rudderless President Cyril Ramaphosa has been exposed not only for his lack of leadership, but also for his gross misunderstanding of the country's Constitution.We all know that he was a v...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 09:26hrs | 9 | by Paul Ngobeni
3 Zimbabweans killed and set on fire in South Africa
Three Zimbabwean men and a South African were killed and set on fire Thursday last week by a vigilante group that accused them of robbery and murder in Limpopo province.The provincial police s...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Pro whites group launch project to help secure South Africa's Beitbridge border
Afrikaner rights organisation, AfriForum has launched a new project to help secure South Africa's borders, this comes after South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa allowed vigilante groups to oper...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 09:16hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Xenophobic violence in Limpopo village divides SA police
AMID strong allegations of police complicity, the fresh outbreak of xenophobic violence against Zimbabwean foreign nationals in a usually tranquil rural My Darling village in Limpopo has pitted a Hawk...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 18:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Xenophobia-hit Zimbabweans saving country's dead economy
Two decades ago, Trynos Mahamba left Zimbabwe for the United Kingdom, but back home, he has changed the lives of his relatives.Since the day after he left, Mahamba (53) has been sending money ...Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 09:12hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
1893 MHRRM visits Elvis Nyathi Family
On Saturday 21st May 2022, the 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement ( 1893 MHRRM) visited Mrs Nyathi, the widow of Elvis Nyathi, to offer cond...Published: 24 May 2022 at 23:04hrs | 13 | by 1893 MHRRM Bayethe Board of Directors
Elvis Nyathi's killers granted R3000 bail
The seven men who were last month arrested for killing a 43-year-old Zimbabwean man, Elvis Nyathi, in Diepsloot, Johannesburg were on Friday granted R3000 bail each at the Randburg Magistrate Court....Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
SOS for slain Elvis Nyathi's children
Children of slain Elvis Nyathi are failing to go to school due to financial challenges and the death of their father could make the situation worse, a top artist has revealed.Nyathi (43) was s...Published: 01 May 2022 at 11:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe government worried over Operation Dudula
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is concerned about the killings and torturing of Zimbabweans by the vigilante groups in the neighbouring South Africa, Government Spokesperson Ndavaningi Nick...Published: 29 Apr 2022 at 13:21hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Come back to Zimbabwe, but we have no jobs, says Mangwana
INFORMATION, Media and Broadcasting Services permanent secretary Ndavaningi Mangwana on Tuesday said Zimbabweans facing hardships in neighbouring South Africa were free to come back home where they wi...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 09:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ELVIS NYATHI DEATH: Witness fails to identify killers
The only witness in the murder of Elvis Nyathi who was killed by members of the extremist xenophobic vigilante group Operation Dudula has failed to identify any of the suspects during an identificatio...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 07:52hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabweans won't flee South Africa to return home
"WHEN you see a rat running into a fire, then you know that what it is running away from is hotter than the fire." - African proverb. Zimbabweans, who are in their millions in South Africa - som...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Politicians are fuelling hate crimes
ONLY hate and barbarism could have produced the sort of spectacle the world witnessed a few weeks ago when a baying mob of South Africans moved from house to house in Johannesburg's Diepsloot slum to ...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:37hrs | 1 | by Addy Kudita
Zimbabwean drivers fear being targeted by a xenophobic groups in SA
"I prayed for them to let me live because some who found themselves in similar circumstances, were reported dead," says Richard Mudhara, a Zimbabwean truck driver working in Johannesburg.He wa...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:35hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
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