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Judge recuses himself from opposition activists' public violence appeal
Judge Christopher Banda-Dube of the Bulawayo High Court has withdrawn from presiding over a court application involving former deputy mayor Mlandu Ncube and his associates. They were seeking to challe...Published: 25 Sep 2023 at 21:52hrs | 2 | 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 | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe power crisis to worsen
MAJOR blackouts are imminent after the Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) ordered power utility, Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA), to suspend power generation at Kariba South Power Station....Published: 28 Nov 2022 at 04:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF behaving like murderers says CCC
A DEFIANT Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has vowed to forge ahead with preparations for next year's general elections despite a rise in related violent attacks on its members and supporters by ru...Published: 18 Oct 2022 at 06:16hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'Waste pickers saving BCC'
A BULAWAYO-BASED human rights group has defended Ngozi Mine squatters saying the waste pickers were assisting Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to deal with waste management issues.This follows plan...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jilted man destroys 12 windowpanes
A 30-YEAR-OLD man from Bulawayo has been sentenced to five months in prison, three of which were commuted to an option of a fine of $8 000 for breaking 12 window panes at his former girlfriend's house...Published: 27 Feb 2022 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's supporter suffers trauma after Zanu-PF violence
THE Alliance member, who was recently attacked at his homestead during the opposition party's leader Nelson Chamisa's tour of Mashonaland West Province, is suffering from severe post-traumatic stress ...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 05:56hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Pupils' lawyers give police ultimatum over alleged brutality
Lawyers representing the Gokomere High School pupils who were arrested on November 7 have given police a seven-day ultimatum to release names of officers involved in alleged brutality of some of the s...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:37hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
ZRA reviews water allocation at Kariba
THE Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) has increased the amount of water allocated to both Zimbabwe and Zambia for power generation at Kariba by three billion cubic meters (3BCM).The increase follo...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 06:36hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
School-boy gangs wage war at Msiteli High
MSITELI High School in Mpopoma, Bulawayo is under siege from rival pupils' gangs fighting each other using dangerous weapons.The violence reached a crescendo last Friday with the destruction o...Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 06:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa chucked out of Parly for calling Ziyambi 'murderer'
NORTON MP Temba Mliswa was Wednesday chucked out of the NationalAssembly after alleging Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi had visited traditional and faith healers with the aim of killing....Published: 17 Jun 2021 at 06:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cops near death as tout mob attacks
PIRATE kombi operators and illegal money changers yesterday allegedly ganged up and attacked traffic police officers who were patrolling in the Bulawayo city centre.The rowdy crew smashed wind...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
President John Pombe Magufuli's demise: how Africa was sold a dummy!
The female President of Tanzania: Madame Samia Suluhu Hassan took office with crystal clear aims and objectives: to take drastic steps of combating the Sars-Covid 2 pandemic. She ordered the wearing o...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 21:37hrs | 11 | by Nomazulu Thata
Botswana bounces back on international hunting map after long absence
Africa's hunting culture, including that of Botswana, will never die, no matter how much Western animal rights groups try to influence African leaders to ban it. For a country that missed...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 16:53hrs | 12 | by Emmanuel Koro
Elderly couple murdered in beautiful village home
A PROMINENT elderly couple from Mangwe District in Matabeleland South was gruesomely murdered by suspected robbers who raided their homestead on Tuesday night before burning their bodies in the house ...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 06:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Attack on Police Station preplanned
Commanding Chitungwiza Police District Chief Superintendent Sekayi Mujiwa says protestors that laid siege on Makoni Police Station in Chitungwiza, burning cars and destroying windows on Monday last we...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 07:09hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
AirZim suspends flights
National airline, Air Zimbabwe has suspended flights up to mid-month due to maintenance works being carried out on its only functioning plane. The airline, which has largely been operating onl...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 11:34hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Air Zimbabwe's 'Mbuya Nehanda' grounded for maintenance
Air Zimbabwe yesterday grounded Mbuya Nehanda, a Boeing 737-200ER, for mandatory maintenance expected to last over a month. The airline has largely been operating two serviceable aircraft and whenever...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 17:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
'I was raped' says Linda Masarira
The National Spokesperson of the opposition MDC-T Linda Masarira has reported that she is a victim of sexual abuse when she raped at the age 17.Linda posted on micro-blo9gging site Twitter com...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 08:56hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Linda Masarira gets engaged
Spokesperson of the Thokozani Khupe led MDC-T Linda Masarira is now out of the dating market after she said 'I do' to an unnamed gentleman.Posting on social media on Monday Linda said, "Then h...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 19:13hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Biti nailed over post-election violence
MDC-Alliance principal and Harare East legislator Mr Tendai Biti and former Zanu-PF youth leader Mr Jim Kunaka reportedly incited youths that attacked the Zanu-PF Harare Provincial Headquarters during...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Normalcy returns to Harare CBD
NORMALCY returned to Harare central business district (CBD) yesterday, with people from all walks of life resuming their daily routines, a day after the announcement of zanu-pf's victory in the presid...Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 09:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T must desist from violence
MDC-T is inching towards yet another split after members from rival factions were involved in a bloody clash in Bulawayo on Sunday.The party has been divided in recent weeks over the successio...Published: 06 Mar 2018 at 05:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bus war kidnap drama
A BUS crew from Bulawayo has been arrested after it allegedly kidnapped and beat up a rival company's team before damaging the bus in a fight over passengers.The drama saw passengers being str...Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa, probably the only Good News for New Zimbabwean Govt
In 1995, Nokia made a mobile handset named Nokia 5110. I looked at this handset and I was contented that nothing better would be made after it. From this handset, you had a watch, a telegram (later ca...Published: 02 Dec 2017 at 19:58hrs | 2 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Someone's house is burning
As each day passes, the nation is drawing closer and closer to the 2018 harmonised elections. This has seen serious political parties such as ZANU PF putting in place a number of programmes such as th...Published: 18 Oct 2017 at 16:50hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Man breaks into lover's room
The 34-year-old Chitungwiza man, who smashed doors and windowpanes to get into his girlfriend's room, was fined $100 (or 50 days) after he was convicted of malicious damage to property belonging to hi...Published: 16 Oct 2017 at 06:19hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Man shoves bottles, wire into ex-wife's privates
A 26-year-old man allegedly went berserk, attacked his ex-wife before inserting bottles and a wire in her private parts after finding her being intimate with another man, a Harare magistrate heard yes...Published: 17 Aug 2017 at 23:45hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Former Zanu-PF top official in trouble again
Suspended Zanu-PF Bulawayo city centre district youth chairperson, Magura Charumbira is in a fresh storm hardly two months after he was arrested for allegedly leading violent clashes at the party's Da...Published: 07 Jul 2017 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ditched man 'bombs' girlfriend's house
IF I can't have you, no one can!A Gwanda man allegedly petrol-bombed his girlfriend's lodgings after she dumped him for another man.Emmanuel Mathuthu (46) allegedly carried out the ars...Published: 30 Jun 2017 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gang slashes love rivals back
Five Chitungwiza women appeared in court yesterday accused of assaulting and slashing the back of a 21-year-old woman with a razor blade for having an adulterous affair with a colleague's husband....Published: 24 Jun 2017 at 13:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T, Zanu-PF clash at Nyau dance festival
Seven Zanu-PF members in Chitungwiza on Wednesday appeared in court for allegedly attacking MDC-T activists during a Nyau dance festival last Saturday near Unit N Police Station.The group is a...Published: 23 Jun 2017 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Political violence at Mbare Funeral
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has ondemned the politically motivated violence that occurred at Gogo Chiquita Mack’s funeral in Mbare on the 11th of March 2017.ZPP said Zanu PF youths led by the...Published: 14 Mar 2017 at 06:01hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
New parly building construction taking shape
The Construction of new city and Parliament building in Mount Hampden is fast taking shape with one of the developers saying they were through with major works on housing developments around the area....Published: 22 Dec 2016 at 12:55hrs | | by Staff Reporter
MRP welcome Mzila Ndlovu's new political party
Mthwakazi Republic Party has welcome the formation of a new political party by former National Healing Minister Moses Mzila Ndlovu.Ndlovu announced the formation of a new party on Friday....Published: 18 Dec 2016 at 07:05hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
The state of the dream: A perspective from Guruve
Human development across the span of time has been congruent with the growth of society, nations, civilizations, even nations. Societies stem from individuals, their families and subfamilies to co...Published: 12 Dec 2016 at 11:42hrs | 1 | by Kudakwashe Chakabva
Man catches wife pants down, tasers wife's lover
AN injiva from Gweru allegedly brutally assaulted a man with a log and later shocked him with a stun gun after he caught him engaging in sex with his wife. Taviwana Mazuru (35) of Mkoba Villag...Published: 01 May 2016 at 07:45hrs | | by Munyaradzi Musiiwa
Remembering the life of Leonard Dembo
The growth of music in Zimbabwe cannot be well documented without mentioning the name Leonard Dembo. Dembo who died on April 9 1997 at the age of 36 was one of the greatest musicians to emerge from th...Published: 06 Apr 2016 at 06:34hrs | 3 | by Tawanda Marwizi
Small-house assaulted
A SAKUBVA woman was arraigned before the courts last week for allegedly insulting her husband’s girlfriend, thereby breaching a standing court order which barred her from doing so.Manica Pos...Published: 04 Apr 2016 at 06:42hrs | | by Letwin Mubonesi
WATCH: Zimbabwean woman attempts to kidnap love rival
Did you know that if you forcefully put someone into your car you can be arrested for kidnapping? It does not matter how long they are in your car or there was no violence involved, if it is proved th...Published: 01 Mar 2016 at 14:18hrs | | by Auntie Jenny's Lounge
Thieving journalist convicted
A CHINHOYI-based freelance journalist who broke into the Harare Magistrates' Court and other buildings in the city, before stealing computers and other electronic gadgets, has been convicted of unlawf...Published: 18 Jan 2016 at 05:09hrs | | by Fungai Lupande
Family kidnaps & bashes cops over missing teen
THE father and relatives of a Lower Gweru Mission Secondary School pupil who mysteriously went missing for five days went berserk and kidnapped a police officer who was last seen with the pupil before...Published: 06 Dec 2015 at 08:39hrs | | by Munyaradzi Musiiwa
Inmate rapes, kills jail guard
A prisoner at a Hurungwe prison in Makuti, Stancelot Mashayamombe, was last week slapped with life imprisonment for the murder of a prison officer, Bessy Mutandwa Majuru.High Court judge Justi...Published: 29 Nov 2015 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Press Release: Panasonic to Present 'A Better Life, A Better World' at IFA 2015
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Panasonic will exhibit its latest products and technologies at the Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin (IFA) 2015, one of the biggest trade shows for consumer electronics and home ...Published: 06 Sep 2015 at 17:43hrs | | by ME NewsWire
Gumbura to face the music
Jailed rapist pastor, Robert Martin Gumbura, allegedly told other inmates that they were foolish for not breaking windowpanes to escape in protest against poor food at Chikurubi Maximum Security Pri...Published: 03 Apr 2015 at 08:25hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Wrangling neighbours in court
A woman on Monday summoned her neighbour to the Harare Civil Court, accusing her of pouring buckets of water into her house and breaking her windowpanes. Martha Dzobo claimed Deliwe Ushe w...Published: 11 Feb 2015 at 09:50hrs | | by Prosper Dembedza
'Mugabe its time to say goodbye' singer set for Harare Jazz Festival
Legendary South African jazz musician Hugh Masekela will participate in this year's edition of the Harare Jazz Festival, The Zimbabwe Mail reported.The 2014 edition starts on September 14 ...Published: 23 Aug 2014 at 17:53hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Teacher runs amok, attacks workmates and students
A MALE teacher - suspected to be high on drugs - has paralysed the learning process at Sherukuru High School in Mutasa District by violently chasing away fellow workmates and students with dangerous w...Published: 22 Mar 2014 at 07:49hrs | | by Samuel Kadungure
Mandela was never a revolutionary, always a radical
Critics trying to prove or disprove Mandela's sanctity failed to grasp that he was simply a political leader guiding his country through transitionA fitting way to commemorate Nelson Mandela...Published: 08 Dec 2013 at 04:59hrs | | by Gary Younge I theguardian.com
New Pan African Movement Launch in UK reaffirms Africa's greatness in 21st century
On Sunday, 10 November 2013, a New Pan African Movement will be launched in the UK. Dubbed the first ever ‘New Pan African Movement’ to be launched in UK, ...Published: 08 Nov 2013 at 07:43hrs | | by Muzvare Betty Makoni
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