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Zimbabwe's recorded cholera cases surpass 2 000 mark
RECORDED cholera cases have surpassed the 2 000 mark in Zimbabwe with reports that the water-borne disease has killed 42 people so far. Of the 42 deaths recorded, 10 have been confirmed and 32...Published: 29 May 2023 at 06:31hrs | 164 | by Staff reporter
Inside elections: Can the yellow wave shake-up Mashonaland East?
This is the first in a series of (inside elections) articles examining the politics and possible voting patterns of 2023's general election in expected swing/marginal National Assembly constituencies....Published: 26 May 2023 at 10:16hrs | 502 | by Farai Chirimumimba
Zimbabwe records 320 cholera cases in a week
ZIMBABWE recorded 320 suspected cases of cholera last week, the highest weekly total since the outbreak began on February 12.In total, health authorities are dealing with 1 188 suspected cases...Published: 21 May 2023 at 08:03hrs | 90 | by Staff reporter
More land for Zimbabwe youth
GOVERNMENT is working on modalities to ensure more land is made available for the youths to improve productivity and kill idleness in this critical demographic group.Speaking during the Zanu-P...Published: 15 May 2023 at 18:55hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter
Ex-killer cop Muvevi claims insanity
A HARARE magistrate yesterday ordered that former Criminal Investigations Department officer, Jaison Muvevi, be taken to a psychiatrist for a mental examination.Muvevi, who faces four counts o...Published: 10 May 2023 at 06:01hrs | 1293 | by Staff reporter
Cimas gives underprivileged children ZITF treat
Cimas Health Group enabled 80 underprivileged children to experience the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF), an experience they would otherwise be unlikely ever to have had. Cimas paid for their...Published: 09 May 2023 at 12:53hrs | 104 | by Agencies
Cracks emerge in Zanu-PF youth league
Divisions have rocked the Zanu-PF Youth League ahead of the elections amid a plot to oust the youth league boss, Tinoda Machakaire.Sources within Zanu-PF claimed Machakaire and his deputy John...Published: 07 May 2023 at 07:51hrs | 748 | by Staff reporter
Chief tells govt to 'pamper us some more'
ONE of the country's traditional leaders has told government to give them more freebies for them to earn respect from their subjects.The new demands come hardly a month after President Emerson...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 06:33hrs | 527 | by Staff reporter
Cholera death toll rises to 17 in Zimbabwe
THE cholera death toll has risen to 17 in Zimbabwe following two deaths recorded on Monday with reports that the water-borne disease has been detected in Midlands.In a post-Cabinet briefing ye...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 06:16hrs | 85 | by Staff reporter
Speed freaks turn Zimbabwe highways into racecourses
WITH a cigarette stuck between his shaking fingers, Moses Nerutanga (37) puffs up clouds of smoke into the air as he relives how he escaped death by a whisker in a recent bus accident.As he sa...Published: 24 Apr 2023 at 07:51hrs | 738 | by Staff reporter
Mwazha church pledge support to Zanu-PF
The African Apostolic Church founded and led by Archbishop Paul Mwazha has pledged their unwavering support for Zanu-PF and promised to pray for the nation before, during and after the harmonised elec...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 08:08hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe health experts fret over cholera resurgence
HEALTH experts have expressed concern over the resurgence in cholera cases, which they blame on poor sanitation and a lack of long-term planning for water supplies in urban areas.Community Wor...Published: 10 Apr 2023 at 07:29hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga commends church
VICE President and Minister of Health and Child Care Dr Constantino Chiwenga has commended the church for the role it is playing in keeping the citizenry, particularly youths, away from societal ills ...Published: 09 Apr 2023 at 12:10hrs | 713 | by Staff reporter
Drug lord in Zanu-PF primary election contest
VIOLENCE mongers, drug lords, and shoddy characters were disqualified from standing for the ruling party in the forthcoming elections as Zanu-PF maintains high ethical standards with rerun polls set t...Published: 04 Apr 2023 at 06:30hrs | 515 | by Mbuso Ndlovu
Command centres submit Zanu-PF primary elections winners list
ZANU-PF provincial command centres have submitted the names of the winners of primary elections to the party's national elections directorate in Harare, which will officially announce the results....Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 06:46hrs | 960 | by Staff reporter
Big surprises in Zanu-PF primaries
SOME ministers and veteran parliamentarians fell by the wayside in the Zanu-PF primary elections that were held over the weekend as the ruling party entrenches democracy and reenergises its base ahead...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 06:42hrs | 573 | by Staff reporter
When the rich fight over the poor
A SLEEK Toyota Prado VX V8 off-road vehicle makes a rumbling sound along a gravel road as it negotiates its way into the poverty-stricken Chihota communal areas.A group of people, mainly Zanu-...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 17:06hrs | 1164 | by Jairos Saunyama
Zanu-PF bigwigs fretting ahead of the party's primaries
Some Zanu-PF bigwigs, including ministers, are said to be fretting ahead of the party's primaries slated for the weekend amid reports that some of them are throwing spanners into the works of their ri...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 09:16hrs | 1326 | by Staff reporter
8 Zimbabweans on Interpol Red Notice
EIGHT Zimbabweans, including a Makonde woman wanted for kidnapping three minors in separate incidents, have been placed on the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol)'s most wanted list....Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 06:18hrs | 569 | by Staff reporter
Muvevi cleared of 6 murder charges, but 4 remain
MULTIPLE murder suspect Jaison Muvevi, who was being investigated for killing up to 10 people, has been cleared of six charges following ballistic tests.Muvevi hogged the limelight in January ...Published: 26 Feb 2023 at 09:10hrs | 571 | by Staff reporter
Killer cop back in court
JAISON Muvevi, accused of killing four people including a police officer, was yesterday back in court for routine remand pending indictment to the High Court for trial on charges of murder.Muv...Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 04:58hrs | 506 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youth reads riot act
Zanu-PF youth leader Tino Machakaire yesterday read the riot act on party youths who use President Emmerson Mnangagwa's name to engage in criminal activities and warned that they would face the might ...Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 07:24hrs | 629 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF commissions borehole twice
IN a surprise development, Zanu-PF has re-commissioned a borehole in Epworth that was first commissioned eight months ago.On Sunday, Zanu-PF commissioned a borehole in ward 1, Epworth, the sam...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 07:44hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
Wedza man masquarades as woman rapes minor
A Wedza man Moses Munyoro (21) from Chidende village appeared before Marondera magistrate c Ignatius Mhene facing allegations of raping an 11-year-old girl who was on her way to school on January 23....Published: 31 Jan 2023 at 09:26hrs | 1534 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Muvevi murder case: State withdrew charges against wrong suspect
Free at last: Nyasha Eusen had his case withdrawn before plea by Harare magistrate Dennis Mangosi after spending two months in remand prisonA HARARE man who was arrested for allegedly murderin...Published: 24 Jan 2023 at 16:34hrs | 3022 | by Staff reporter
Slain cop's mother berates ZRP
EMOTIONS ran high during the burial of former Hwedza Police Station officer-in-charge, Inspector Maxwell Hove, in Mberengwa district, Midlands province, over the weekend with the deceased's mother Loi...Published: 23 Jan 2023 at 05:46hrs | 918 | by Staff reporter
Slain Madzibaba 'foretold' own death
The Hwedza apostolic church leader who was allegedly killed by former police detective Jaison Muvevi met his death while conducting rituals at his shrine to forestall the tragic events of January 13, ...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 15:09hrs | 2476 | by Staff reporter
6 more murder cases for Muvevi
Police are investigating leads linking former police detective Jaison Muvevi to six other murder cases that took place in and around Harare and Chitungwiza over the past three years.The 42-yea...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 12:12hrs | 703 | by Staff reporter
Muvevi was a feared man in the police service sector
JAISON Muvevi, the ex-cop who gunned down three people in Wedza last week was a feared man in the police service sector, former colleagues have reportedly told one of his victims' nephew.Muvev...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:29hrs | 6506 | by Staff reporter
4 murders, jammed guns and fleeing cops
POICE Hove, the mother of the late office in charge of Hwedza, Inspector Maxwell Hove who was allegedly shot dead last week by Jaison Muvevi, has urged police to improve its vehicle fleet after it eme...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:25hrs | 854 | by Staff reporter
Gun crime rattles Zimbabwe's security sector
THE sudden spike in gun crimes across the country has pushed the security sector into panic with indications that police have since flooded the streets with detectives expected to sniff out menacing c...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 22:28hrs | 1281 | by Staff reporter
Killer cop hit with another charge
MURDER suspect, Jaison Muvevi who made headlines last week after he shooting and killing three people, including a police officer in Wedza has been hit with another murder charge.Muvevi ...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 22:24hrs | 818 | by Staff reporter
Vote ED to live peacefully, Zanu-PF warns mourners at slain prophet's funeral
A Zanu-PF official in Wedza has threatened villagers that they risk living in political turmoil if they do not vote for President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the up-coming elections.The Zanu-PF orga...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 06:43hrs | 1612 | by Staff reporter
Cop killer's family pleads for forgiveness
THE family of killer cop, Jaison Muvevi yesterday approached two families of the three victims that he shot dead in Hwedza last week and apologised for the heinous crime.They roped in police d...Published: 19 Jan 2023 at 07:31hrs | 1316 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police to 'shoot to kill' armed robbers
Police will bring the full force of the law to bear on those who possess unregistered firearms, as they will be deemed to have criminal intent to harm, Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Commissioner-Gene...Published: 18 Jan 2023 at 21:26hrs | 1122 | by Staff reporter
Killer cop claims former colleagues hung him up all night
FORMER detective, Jaison Muvevi, who killed three people in Wedza last week, was further detained by the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), for him to make indications on how he allegedly committed the c...Published: 18 Jan 2023 at 20:52hrs | 2337 | by Staff reporter
Fugitive ex-killer cop repatriated back to Zimbabwe
FORMER Criminal Investigations Department (CID) officer, Jaison Muvevi, who shot and killed three people in Wedza last Friday before his arrest in Mozambique Tuesday, is now custody of the Zimbabwe Re...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 15:02hrs | 1654 | by Staff reporter
Mozambique decline to hand over fugitive Wedza triple murder suspect to Zimbabwe?
Victims of triple murder suspect Jaison Muvevi could wait for many months, even years, to get justice after Mozambican authorities said they would try him on gun charges.Muvevi was on the run ...Published: 16 Jan 2023 at 18:46hrs | 4205 | by Staff reporter
Police dispatched helicopter in hunt for killer cop
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police yesterday dispatched an army helicopter to Hwedza district's Chiduku area as the hunt for killer ex-police officer Jaison Muvhevhi intensified.Muvhevhi, who is a f...Published: 16 Jan 2023 at 16:23hrs | 647 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Notorious Muvhevhi arrested in Mozambique
Notorious murder suspect Jaison Muvhevhi who fatally shot three people in Wedza before playing hide and seek with the police has been arrested....Published: 16 Jan 2023 at 14:09hrs | 1981 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe police crackdown on Chamisa's CCC
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) organising secretary Amos Chibaya and Budiriro legislator Costa Machingauta were arrested in Harare yesterday alongside 23 other party members while attending an in...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 11:21hrs | 452 | by Staff reporter
Police dismiss false reports on Muvhevhi
Police are still on the hunt for murder suspect Jaison Muvhevhi who allegedly shot and killed three people in Wedza on Friday, he is still on the run.Police national spokesperson, Assistant Co...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 09:00hrs | 1291 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Zimbabwean police officer's gun jammed during shootout
A police firearm jammed during a shootout as police tried to intercept an armed man who went on a killing spree in Wedza on Friday gunning down a self-styled prophet, a police officer and another vict...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 14:00hrs | 2178 | by Staff reporter
Armed anti-riot officers beat up MP's wife and children, arrest party leaders
ARMED anti-riot officers Saturday besieged the Budiriro home of Citizens Coalition for Change's (CCC) Budiriro legislator Costa Machingauta and violently cut short a private, internal meeting that had...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 12:54hrs | 1650 | by Staff reporter
Ex-cop shoots 3 dead, on the run
A FORMER police officer is on the run after he ran amok yesterday, shooting and killing three people including the Officer-in-Charge of Wedza Police Station and an apostolic sect prophet, under unclea...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:36hrs | 237 | by Staff reporter
Senior Police boss and Prophet gunned down
A senior police officer, a prophet and an unidentified man were on Friday afternoon gunned down by an unknown gunman in Wedza.According to police, the yet-to-be-identified suspect pounced at a...Published: 13 Jan 2023 at 18:55hrs | 1494 | by Desmond Nleya
Zanu-PF Mashonaland East hunts for commissar
Zanu-PF party, Mashonaland East Province, is hunting for a new political commissar following the elevation of Tinoda Machakaire to the politburo.Machakaire, Wedza South legislator and Youth, S...Published: 09 Jan 2023 at 07:00hrs | 448 | by Staff reporter
Heavy rains continue to destroy property
More damages to infrastructure and households have been recorded in various parts of the country as downpours persist with the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) expecting isolated thunderstorms...Published: 09 Jan 2023 at 06:58hrs | 660 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt splashes US$60m on police
GOVERNMENT has set aside US$60 million and several billions in local currency for police operations for next year.This comes ahead of elections next year, which are likely to be held in July o...Published: 21 Dec 2022 at 20:11hrs | 946 | by Staff reporter
Has Zanu-PF finally smelt the coffee?
ON Wednesday this week, two Zanu-PF-linked groupings held separate media briefings in Harare, trashing a preliminary delimitation report by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec).Earlier on, ...Published: 11 Dec 2022 at 09:06hrs | 1597 | by Staff reporter
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