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The Ultimate Guide to Choosing the Right THC Gummies in 2025
THC gummies have been gaining traction over the past few years. Users have been taking advantage of them to help them with a wide range of issues, from insomnia to chronic pain and more. Gummies are a...Published: 21 May 2025 at 20:22hrs | 197 | by Staff Reporter
Love Triangle Turns Violent: Guruve man left permanently injured after axe attack
A Guruve man suffered permanent injuries to both legs after being attacked with an axe by a friend in a suspected love triangle dispute.Warren Mwale, a resident of Tenanog Farm in Guruve, was ...Published: 21 May 2025 at 20:05hrs | 875 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Bindura
Man attempts to kill cop
A 26-year-old man from Ziko Farm in Chitungwiza has been sentenced to five years in prison after he brutally assaulted a police officer during a violent incident at a nightclub.Wellington Moyo...Published: 04 May 2025 at 20:22hrs | 1124 | by Staff reporter
Man attempts to kill mother-in-law
A 49-YEAR-OLD Bindura man was convinced that crime does not pay after he was jailed for attempted murder on Friday.Brian Mawadza of Chihuri compound in Bindura was slapped with a five-year jai...Published: 03 Apr 2025 at 16:39hrs | 498 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Man whips stepson with bicycle chain, attempts to kill him
A shocking case of child abuse has emerged from Juta village in Beitbridge, where a 53-year-old man and his 32-year-old wife were arrested for torturing and attempting to kill the man's 12-year-old st...Published: 30 Nov 2024 at 12:57hrs | 85 | by Staff reporter
Man whips tied-up stepson with bicycle chain, attempts to kill him
A 53-year-old man and his 32-year-old wife from Juta village, Beitbridge, have been arrested on charges of torturing and attempting to kill the woman's 12-year-old son in a shocking case of child abus...Published: 30 Nov 2024 at 12:52hrs | 37 | by Staff reporter
Man (35) attempts to kill wife for threatening divorce
A 35-YEAR-OLD Mazowe man is in trouble after he attempted to kill his wife who threatened to divorce him.Lucky Fero allegedly stabbed his wife Faith Manyasha (26) three times in the head befor...Published: 23 Nov 2024 at 12:28hrs | 202 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Traditional healer attempts to kill client over $150
A popular traditional healer who operates in Mozambique and Zimbabwe has been arrested after he attempted to kill one of his clients in an inferno....Published: 12 Nov 2024 at 15:20hrs | 1058 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Dotito
Duo attempts to kill a villager over girlfriend
Two Plumtree men are in soup after they attempted to kill a fellow villager in a girlfriend dispute.Kudakwashe Dube (25) and Bonkinkosi Moyo (22) appeared before Magistrate Joshua Nembaware ye...Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 19:57hrs | 12 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Businessman hires hitman to kill child
PROMINENT Headlands businessman, John Madondo, who operates shops at Eagle Nest area, is embroiled in an attempted murder for rituals storm after he allegedly hired a villager to kill a person and bri...Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 15:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Man attempts to kill cop with a sword
A 50-YEAR-OLD man from Seke appeared before magistrate Feresi Chakanyuka facing a charge of attempting to kill a police officer with a sword.Gilbert Bvongodza was remanded in custody to Decemb...Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 07:07hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Sex worker's hubby attempts to kill client
A 30-YEAR-OLD jealous Concession man is in deep trouble after he attempted to kill his wife's client in a jealous affair.The matter came to light at Concession magistrates courts today where C...Published: 17 May 2023 at 14:43hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Man attempts to kill seven people
A Mutoko man is in soup after he attempted to burn seven people alive by setting their house on fire on New Year's Eve over a debt.Dzidzai Korera (29) appeared before Mutoko magistrate Elijah ...Published: 07 Jan 2023 at 08:44hrs | 3 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa outsmarts Chiwenga
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is next week expected to emerge triumphant at the crucial Zanu-PF elective congress after a fierce power struggle - characterised by scheming, backstabbing, a grenade atta...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 17:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man attempts to kill uncle over a girlfriend
POLICE in Mashonaland Central province are hunting for an attempted murder suspect Confidence Gumudzi (23) who struck his uncle Kissmore Sakala (22...Published: 27 Feb 2022 at 12:24hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Man attempts to kill neighbour
A 37-YEAR-OLD Centenary man in Mashonaland Central province is assisting police with investigations after he attempted to kill his neighbour in a fight....Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 17:22hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Pastor attempts to kill girlfriend
Glenview based pastor Sande Mobile also known as Gilbson Badza appeared before a Bindura Magistrate yesterday facing an attempted murder charge after he pushed his girlfriend Beauty Madzonzoni off a m...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 16:49hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Miner attempts to kill colleague with an iron bar
A Guruve miner Richard Chidzokorera is assisting police investigations after he severely assaulted another miner with an iron bar over a mining boundary.The furious Chidzokorera we...Published: 29 Jun 2021 at 16:26hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Guruve
Man attempts to kill cheating wife, flees
Police in Guruve are hunting for a man who attempted to kill his wife after catching her in a compromising position with another man.The jealous Clayton Domingo (40) of Wachenuka village alleg...Published: 25 Jun 2021 at 10:51hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Guruve
Jealous man attempts to kill girlfriend, poisons seven
Police in Mashonaland Central province are hunting for Tawanda Kupara of Makunde village,Guruve under chief Bepura who allegedly poisoned seven people in ...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 00:58hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Wife attempts to kill husband in arson
A 28-YEAR-OLD Mount Darwin woman who attempted to kill her husband in arson after she accused him of spreading HIV/AIDS to her.The woman who can not be named for ethical reasons was sentenced ...Published: 06 May 2021 at 18:59hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa borrowing bad law from Apartheid South Africa's statutes
Recently, the government of Zimbabwe, through the Minister of Home Affairs, introduced the Maintenance of Peace and Order Bill to Parliament (MOPA). This Bill, that will replace the reviled Public Ord...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 11:08hrs | | by Douglas Togaraseyi Mwonzora
Businessman attempts to kill neighbour
A businessman and his two brothers recently appeared before Chipinge magistrate Bill Chineka on charges of attempted murder of a neighbour at one of his businesses at Gunura Township.Sidney (3...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 21:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
US 2018 Human rights report on Zimbabwe biased
Last week the United States Department of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labour released its 2018 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. An examination of the report shows a fair vi...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 13:12hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Armed bandits on terror spree in Zimbabwe
Law enforcement agents are on high alert following a recent spate of armed robberies and heinous rape incidents around the country - including in the capital, Harare where a gang of rogue taxi drivers...Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 12:37hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Musindo showers lavish praise on Madiro
DESTINY for Afrika Network (DANet) leader and self-confessed Zanu-PF apologist, Obadiah Musindo at the weekend waxed lyrical about the ruling party's Manicaland provincial chairperson, Mike Madiro, de...Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 14:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
41 people injured in Mnangagwa blast
Forty-one people were injured in a blast at White City Stadium in Bulawayo yesterday afternoon soon after President Mnangagwa addressed a Zanu-PF campaign rally.President Mnangagwa was not inj...Published: 24 Jun 2018 at 16:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
3 attempts on Khupe's life last week
MDC-T secretary-general Mr Douglas Mwonzora has made sensational claims that there were three attempts to kill him and the party's co-vice president Dr Thokozani Khupe through arson at the burial of p...Published: 26 Feb 2018 at 06:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa was Mugabe's hatchet man
Emmerson Mnangagwa has been sacked as vice-president because he was “disloyal" to President Robert Mugabe. Of all Mugabe's thugs, henchmen, cronies and sycophants, no one has been more doggedly and ...Published: 13 Nov 2017 at 08:07hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mugabe fires Mnangagwa for 'disloyalty' - how ironic, after 37 years of doing tyrant's dirtiest laundry
Emmerson Mnangagwa has been sacked as VP because he was "disloyal" to Mugabe. Of all the tyrant's thugs, henchmen, cronies and sycophants no one has been more doggedly and foolishly loyal to Mugabe th...Published: 07 Nov 2017 at 07:06hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Motorist attempts to kill traffic cop
A CHITUNGWIZA-BASED motorist allegedly attempted to kill a traffic cop by hitting her and driving his vehicle for 600 meters while she was clinging on the bonnet of his vehicle.Jimu Sigauke Ba...Published: 26 May 2017 at 10:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mom assaulted by son in inheritance row
A HARARE woman told the Civil Courts yesterday that her son has assaulted her several times following a dispute over ownership of her late husband's house, and that she regarded these assaults as atte...Published: 15 Jan 2016 at 05:26hrs | | by Ivan Zhakata
Woman attempts to kill ex-lover over sex drought
A sex starved Bulawayo woman repeatedly choked her former lover for allegedly denying her sex.Chipo Majono of Nkulumane throttled her ex-husband Wilson Ndebvudzembudzi after he refused to enga...Published: 03 Apr 2015 at 08:24hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'Kombi driver attempts to kill cops'
A Bulawayo commuter omnibus driver appeared in court on Monday for allegedly attempting to kill two police officers who had arrested him over a traffic offence in the city.Thulani Ncube (31) o...Published: 10 Feb 2015 at 16:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Men attempts to kill cop over girlfriend
A POLICEMAN is fighting for life at Mpilo Central Hospital's Intensive Care Unit (ICU) after he was assaulted and stabbed with an empty beer bottle at Pumula Beer Garden by four friends for proposing ...Published: 04 Feb 2015 at 07:03hrs | | by Nokusa Masuku
Soldier attempts to kill magistrate
Harare provincial magistrate Mr Vakayi Chikwekwe last week escaped death by a whisker after a soldier accosted him while he was seated in his car outside the court building and attempted to strangle ...Published: 14 Aug 2014 at 00:01hrs | 2 | by Tendai Rupapa
Sex starved woman attempts to kill herself
Ottilia Sharara (20) from Duma village in Bikita attempted suicide last week by trying to hang herself after her in-laws barred her from visiting her husband in Harare.The sex starved woman wr...Published: 11 Feb 2014 at 11:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man attempts to kill wife, sentenced to 420hrs community service
A 31-YEAR-OLD Harare man who attempted to kill his wife following a domestic dispute escaped a custodial term after the court ordered him to perform 420 hours of community service.Trymore Chi...Published: 29 Nov 2013 at 02:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman buries her only child alive
A Magistrate's Court sitting in Osogbo, Osun State, on Wednesday, sentenced an 18-year-old mother of one, Mrs Adeola Joseph, to six years imprisonment with hard labour for burying her only c...Published: 21 Feb 2013 at 12:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
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