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Harare municipal cop jailed for bribery and obstruction of justice
A municipal officer, Mugove Chiradza (56), has been sentenced to two years in prison after being convicted of bribery and obstruction of justice by the Harare Magistrates' Court.The court hear...Published: 24 Nov 2024 at 12:09hrs | 396 | by Staff reporter
Bad Zimbabwe road users to repair damages
Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister, Felix Mhona, has warned road users, particularly mining and brick-moulding companies, that those responsible for damaging newly-rehabilitated roads ...Published: 08 Oct 2024 at 07:24hrs | 2386 | by Staff reporter
Editor hounded after 'rest in peace' error in Mnangagwa advert
Armed men claiming to be law and order police raided the home of Daily News editor Guthrie Munyuki at dawn on Friday after sister publication The Financial Gazette made an error in an advert which sug...Published: 20 Sep 2024 at 09:20hrs | 1831 | by Staff reporter
Harare roads rehabilitation 90% complete
The rehabilitation of Harare roads needed in preparation for the hosting of the 44th SADC Summit next month is 90 percent complete and on schedule.Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga presen...Published: 17 Jul 2024 at 06:39hrs | 586 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe road works to continue post-Sadc Summit
The massive road rehabilitation programme in Harare ahead of the SADC Summit next month will continue after the event, with beautification works already underway along the completed 6km stretch of Bou...Published: 11 Jul 2024 at 07:19hrs | 17 | by Staff reportyer
Chairman Mao Boulevard opens to the public today
The first 7km section of Chairman Mao Boulevard, formerly known as Old Mazowe Road, will open to traffic today following its upgrade. The road, extending from the Westgate roundabout to Gwebi River Cr...Published: 17 Jun 2024 at 08:53hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Strong winds, heavy rains blamed for building collapse
Strong winds and rains that hit Harare on Saturday afternoon caused the collapse of a building at corner Chinhoyi Street and Banks, killing a woman, injuring five others and damaging property, the bui...Published: 08 Apr 2024 at 10:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Harare gives ultimatum to CBD property owners
THE City of Harare has warned owners of dilapidated buildings in the central business district (CBD) to refurbish their properties.The city also advised the proprietors to make written present...Published: 05 Apr 2024 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa out to impress Sadc leaders
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government are renovating several roads in Harare as part of preparations to host the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) summit in the capital in August...Published: 27 Mar 2024 at 06:46hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Harare roads being dualised
Road construction in Harare has gathered pace, with car sales that had been erected along Harare-Chirundu Highway on Nemakonde Road (formerly Lomagundi Road), having been demolished to pave way for th...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 04:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
US spies busted, deported
FOUR United States nationals contracted by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) reportedly sneaked into the country last month without notifying the authorities as per protoc...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Major roads in Harare closed for rehabilitation
MAJOR roads in Harare have been closed for massive rehabilitation ahead of the 44th Southern African Development Community (SADC) Heads of State and Government Summit scheduled to be held in Harare in...Published: 28 Feb 2024 at 06:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Hopewell Chin'ono friend abducted
Suspected state security agents abducted a Harare-based construction manager - who has done a lot of building works for award-winning Zimbabwean filmmaking journalist Hopewell Chin'ono - yesterday in ...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 19:07hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
2 women accused of stealing vehicle moments after selling it to soldier
Two women sold a car to a soldier and then conspired to steal it within minutes of the transaction, a court heard on Thursday.Beverly Tsitsi Nherudzo, 24, of Chitepo Heights in Harare and Mary...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 12:09hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Man steals police car in leg irons
A Harare based man allegedly stole a police car in leg irons and sped off from the police in a movie style in Plumtree.Kundai Chinhoro ...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 06:58hrs | 11 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Copper cable thief shot dead near Sizinda
A man was shot dead by a National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) security guard at Westgate station in Bulawayo yesterday afternoon after he was allegedly caught stealing copper cables and tried to escape...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 05:52hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
New milestones in road rehab
REHABILITATION of the Harare-Chirundu highway will begin in May, while over 39 000 kilometres of road network have been spruced up under the Emergency Roads Rehabilitation Programme 2 (ERRP 2), as Gov...Published: 30 Apr 2023 at 08:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe High Court judge survives shooting outside Harare home
A High Court judge was unhurt after gunmen opened fire at her vehicle in Harare on Tuesday night, police said.Justice Emilia Muchawa was meters from her home in Goodhope, Westgate, when two me...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 19:44hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
'Real estate agents' up for issuing fake title deed
TWO Harare men appeared before a Harare magistrate last week for allegedly issuing a fake title deed.The two, Job Banda (52) of Chitungwiza and Tatenda Mwenyi (29) of Kuwadzana Extension appea...Published: 09 Jan 2023 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe car thieves prey on Honda Fit owners
Honda Fit vehicle owners have become common target for criminals with police reporting a spate of robberies involving theft of the popular vehicle.The low maintenance car is popular with local...Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 18:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Family of US$2,7m heist mastermind arrested
The family of Shadreck Njowa, the mastermind behind the ZB Bank US$2,7 million and $43 000 heist which occurred in January last year at Gwebi River Bridge along the Harare-Chirundu Road has been arres...Published: 21 Oct 2022 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
US$2,7 million ZB Bank heist mastermind arrested
The mastermind behind the ZB Bank US$2,7 million and $43 000 heist which occurred in January last year at Gwebi River Bridge along the Harare-Chirundu Road has been arrested in Harare after being on t...Published: 19 Oct 2022 at 20:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's urban poor turn to "Car Supermarkets" to survive inflation
Sheila Gava forages the trunk of a stranger's Nissan car for dried tuna, Kellogg's biscuits and a bottle of canola oil."I've not stepped foot inside a high-street supermarket in three years," ...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Africanise the law and land
In Mzansi, most citizens can only own real estate when they are dead - their graves and tombstones if they can afford one. From the living majority, they become the silent majority.Throughout ...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 19:29hrs | 1 | by Lindiwe Sisulu
Journalist Manyowa lays cyber-bullying charges against Facebook users
CELEBRITY journalist, Maynard Manyowa and his first wife Mutsa, have laid cyber-bullying charges on two Facebook users following a series of posts the two dispute.The charges emanate from a po...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nust donates Mnangagwa's biography to libraries
THE National University of Science and Technology (Nust) yesterday donated President Mnangagwa's biography to 36 libraries in Bulawayo so that school children and the youth can be inspired to lead....Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC in 100MW solar power joint ventures
A PROPOSED 50 megawatt solar farm joint venture between the Bulawayo City Council and Williams Engineering at Ncema Dam in Esigodini has been given a nod while another 50MW private undertaking at West...Published: 10 Jun 2022 at 07:53hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
'We'll get him dead or alive': Reid's Mpiranya trail to Zimbabwe
A BESPECTACLED white man of medium height probably in his early 60s walks into the hotel restaurant where I am seated outside on patio couches basking in the sunshine while surfing social media platfo...Published: 22 May 2022 at 11:20hrs | 13 | by Dumisani Muleya
'Chin'ono part of multi-million dollar plot to remove Zanu-PF' - Report
FORMER MDC parliamentarian Mr Tongai Matutu has sensationally claimed that US$10 million was released by the American Embassy to fund digital activists like Hopewell Chin'ono, the State media reported...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
$17bn war chest for 2022 road works
More than 2 000 urban and rural roads stretching over 10 000km will undergo reconstruction under the ongoing Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme 2 (ERRP2) this year.Government has set asid...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA car jackers arrested in Bulawayo
THREE men believed to be carjackers have been arrested in Bulawayo on allegations of stealing three vehicles — a Toyota Prado, Toyota Fortuner and a Toyota Hilux — from South Africa before smuggli...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
US Embassy sweats to save Chamisa's sinking ship
The United States Embassy in Harare has reactivated its propaganda machinery ahead of the forthcoming by-elections slated for March 26.After a notable lull in propaganda tweets since the depar...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 05:40hrs | 9 | by Hosia Mviringi
Chiangwa to be evicted
THE High Court has granted the Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe (AFM) led by Amon Madawo permission to evict its rival faction led by Cossam Chiangwa from a property in Westgate, Harare.Thi...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 05:37hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
AFM wrangle sucks in police
SOME police officers from Marlborough police station in Harare have been accused of siding with the Apostolic African Mission (AFM) church faction led by Bishop Cossam Chiyangwa, after they allegedly ...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 07:04hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Delani Makhalima and the 'birth' of urban grooves
ONCE in a while in the world of music, there comes along an individual who not only shapes the sound of the day but also completely changes the trajectory of the industry as a whole.These are ...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:14hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Commuter train back on track
The journey is not at breakneck speed because of numerous stops along the way before reaching the final destination.The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) on Monday evening officially launche...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 05:33hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
2 foreign national up for fraud
AN Angolan and a Congolese national yesterday appeared before Harare magistrate Chido Garwe accused of tricking a soldier attached to the command agriculture programme to enter into a botched US$3 mil...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
NRZ rolls out Bulawayo intra-city commuter rail service
Zupco and the National Railways of Zimbabwe have extended their peak-hour commuter rail services to Bulawayo after the successful launch in Harare and the first extension to Gweru, with commuters find...Published: 03 Nov 2021 at 05:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Robbers target haulage truck drivers
A gang of armed robbers is targeting haulage truck drivers along the Harare-Chirundu highway while another gang is moving up and down the same road using a Toyota Fortuner offering lifts to unsuspecti...Published: 03 Nov 2021 at 05:16hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
ZETDC employee accused of making illegal connections
A Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) employee has appeared in court on allegations of connecting electricity to various houses in Sandton Park, Harare, without the comp...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Child prostitution rampant in Zimbabwe slums
DONNING mini-skirts, popular for being the dress code for the oldest profession, girls as young as 12, file past the railway tracks towards Harare-Chinhoyi Highway, where one after the other, they are...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
More buses, new train coaches coming
More than 288 new buses will be delivered next month, while an additional 279 are expected before year-end to boost Zupco's capacity to provide an efficient and reliable mass public transport system, ...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:42hrs | 9 | by Staff writer
UK returnees released from quarantine
The 14 Zimbabwean deportees who arrived from Britain last month have been united with their families after finishing the mandatory quarantine, which the Government fully covered. The Governmen...Published: 04 Aug 2021 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
NRZ security guard shoots dead scrap metal thief
A National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) security guard was on Wednesday arrested for murder after he allegedly shot dead a man who was stealing scrap metal from a workshop in Mpopoma.The inciden...Published: 29 Jul 2021 at 14:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
DPA powers Total service stations with solar
Econet Global subsidiary, Distributed Power Africa, has clinched a lucrative deal to install solar panels at 15 Total Zimbabwe service stations across the country. This is part of Total's init...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 18:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
NRZ acquires US$1,5m vehicles
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has acquired a fleet of 57 vehicles at a cost of US$ 1,5 million meant to transform the operational landscape of the organisation.The vehicles, 12 eight...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 09:52hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Gang robs motorist of US$17 800 at dawn
Six armed robbers blocked a Harare man with their two getaway cars in movie style near the intersection of Aspindale and Glasgow roads early Sunday morning, and robbed him of US$17 800 cash....Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fake ZACC investigator offers lift to genuine official, arrested
Citizens have been urged by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) to be on high alert following a surge in the number of people pretending to be ZACC officials.This comes after an imp...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 18:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Top cop accused of demanding kick-back
A SUSPECTED illegal fuel dealer operating in Harare has accused the officer-in-charge at Mabelreign Police Station of asking for part of the 1 000 litres of diesel confiscated from him during a raid, ...Published: 17 May 2021 at 06:40hrs | | by Staf reporter
ZACC speaks on accused official
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has said it did not receive any formal complaint against one of its investigators, Eric Chacha on allegations of criminal abuse of office following repor...Published: 11 May 2021 at 06:33hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
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