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Highway robbers terrorise haulage truckers
POLICE in Mashonaland West have raised concern over the rise in robberies targeting haulage truck drivers.Confirming the upsurge of such cases, Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) provincial spokespers...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:35hrs | 1982 | by Staff reporter
Shot in arm for Grey Prison
BLANKET shortages at Grey Prison in Bulawayo prompted Ship of Zion International Ministries pastor Siphethangani Sibanda to donate bedding to prisoners.The donation, worth US$350, was made on ...Published: 27 May 2022 at 06:45hrs | 154 | by Staff reporter
Anti-smuggling blitz intensifies
AN anti-smuggling blitz by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) and the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) is set to escalate and cover all borders in the country.Having started on A...Published: 26 May 2022 at 06:23hrs | 321 | by Staff reporter
Police probe as family fumes over body with lip missing at Nyaradzo
Police have been called to investigate after a family collecting a body for burial at Nyaradzo Funeral Services in Harare discovered it had been mutilated.The body of Patricia Mhizha, of Zvish...Published: 18 May 2022 at 18:46hrs | 534 | by Staff reporter
Bodies of seven miners retrieved from shaft
THREE nights of pumping water out of the 240-metre-deep shaft at Bucks Mine in Colleen where seven miners have been trapped underground since Saturday were met with dead silence when the first body wa...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:20hrs | 940 | by Fungi Kwaramba
Witchcraft owl trapped in a bedroom
AN owl is viewed as a creature of witchcraft in Zimbabwe and when a family in Kuruwa Village in Gokwe South under Chief Nemangwe woke up, close to midnight, to find the nocturnal bird trapped in their...Published: 06 May 2022 at 19:32hrs | 2319 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe teachers deserve US$ or pound salaries'
A NEW political party, the Zimbabwe African National Congress (ZANC), has said teachers need to be compensated for their hard work and should be paid in either US dollars or British pounds.ZAN...Published: 02 May 2022 at 07:59hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
Man rapes niece, jailed 17 years
A 46-YEAR-OLD Chiweshe man who was left in the custody of his 12-year-old niece was sentenced to 17 years in jail after raping her.The uncle who cannot be named for ethical reasons will howeve...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 21:51hrs | 619 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Man kills girlfriend over infidelity
HIGH Court judge, Justice David Foroma, has caged a Bindura man, Brian Chikanya, 20 years for murdering his girlfriend in cold blood over infidelity allegations.Chikanya killed his girlfriend,...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 09:06hrs | 1543 | by Staff reporter
ZACC investigates border corruption
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission has launched investigations on Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officials and security forces at the borders following the recent interception of nine buses f...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:10hrs | 75 | by Staff reporter
Operators, Zacc clash over impounded buses
BUS operators have accused the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) of arresting "soft" targets in their blitz against smuggling in an operation that has so far netted nine buses.Some op...Published: 25 Apr 2022 at 09:03hrs | 491 | by Staff reporter
Telone donates to Entembeni Old people
TelOne has recently donated groceries and blankets to the Entembeni Old People's Home in Bulawayo in an effort to reduce food shortages....Published: 25 Apr 2022 at 07:03hrs | 167 | by Stephen Jakes
Ex-minister refutes graft allegations
FORMER Public Service minister Petronella Kagonye yesterday appeared in court denying criminal abuse of office charges being levelled against her.In her defence, she said the allegations were ...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:07hrs | 204 | by Staff reporter
Chipinge horror crash details emerge
Fifty-year-old Rudo Sithole from Manase village in Chimanimani was inconsolable as she waited to be served at a Nyaradzo funeral parlour in Mutare yesterday.Sithole was waiting to collect the ...Published: 17 Apr 2022 at 09:15hrs | 1094 | by Staff reporter
ZCC accident death toll rises to 37
TWO more people succumbed to injuries sustained in the Chimanimani bus accident, which has since been declared a state of disaster, bringing the number of victims to 37.Police are presently id...Published: 17 Apr 2022 at 09:06hrs | 102 | by Staff reporter
Bus crew relives moments before horror crash that claimed 36 ZCC members
THE speeding St Charles Lwanga High School driver, whose bus lost brakes, veered off the road and rolled several times before landing over 200 metres down the steep, killing 36 people on the spot on T...Published: 16 Apr 2022 at 08:29hrs | 765 | by Staff reporter
Man forces fellow tenant to touch his manhood
A 28-year-old Bulawayo woman was left horrified and scared after her 26-year-old fellow tenant stormed into her room and sneaked into her blankets before he allegedly forced her to touch his "erect" s...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:46hrs | 3157 | by Staff reporter
Woman demands Goat as payment for being raped
A Man from Magadla village in Matobo District, has appeared in court facing rape charges after they gang raped a forty year old woman while on her way top her home after beer drinking with the suspect...Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 11:29hrs | 1895 | by Stephen Jakes
Smuggling crackdown nets 15 buses
The National Security Taskforce has intensified the crackdown on smuggling between Zimbabwe and South Africa and intercepted 15 buses carrying contraband worth thousands of dollars.The buses w...Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 05:29hrs | 293 | by Staff reporter
Schoolboy (17) in court for raping his sister (8)
A 17-year-old Howmine Secondary School pupil has appeared in court, facing two counts of rape.He is alleged to have raped his 8-year-old sister.The pupil pleaded guilty to count one bu...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 13:10hrs | 883 | by Stephen Jakes
Police 'desert' station after CCC candidate turns up to report arson, claims party
Police in Bindura have been accused of refusing to take a criminal complaint by a Citizens Coalition for Change election candidate whose house was burnt down last Saturday, allegedly by a Zanu PF-link...Published: 09 Mar 2022 at 07:31hrs | 3200 | by Staff reporter
Black students in Ukraine subjected to racism
I was awakened by a loud sound. I looked out through the window from my 18th floor room and saw thick black smoke coming up I could not see where was it coming from. I then heard people screaming and ...Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 08:12hrs | 133 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Africans treated like animals in Ukraine'
Barlaney Mufaro Gurure, a space engineering student from Zimbabwe, had finally reached the front of a nine-hour queue at Ukraine's western border crossing of Krakovets after an exhausting four-day tri...Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 11:39hrs | 2307 | by Staff reporter
Man found dead after mine shootout
A body of an unknown man believed to have been part of a 20-man gang that were involved in shoot-out with a security guard after raiding a mine in Shamva has been found with a gunshot wound at the bac...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:32hrs | 273 | by Staff reporter
Aspiring Zanu-PF MP up for unlawful entry, theft
Zanu-PF parliamentary candidate for Goromonzi West constituency Asan Kaunda (30) and his two co-accused appeared in court yesterday facing 35 counts of unlawful entry and theft of property worth $1,6 ...Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 05:38hrs | 642 | by Staff reporter
Waverley Plastics' majority shareholder Amanda Cohen acquitted
Waverley Plastics majority shareholder Amanda Berkowitz nee Cohen has been aquitted of trumped up assault charges by a Mbare magistrate Nyasha Vitorini on...Published: 14 Feb 2022 at 12:09hrs | 1301 | by Paul Ndou
Man (32) impregnates daughter
A MAN from Plumtree in Matabeleland South province has been arrested after he sneaked into his brother's daughter's bedroom and raped her before dozing off.The matter came to light when the te...Published: 13 Feb 2022 at 16:25hrs | 2460 | by Staff Reporter
Hubby turns midwife, assists wife to give birth after going into labour at home
THE role of husbands in maternal health is often overlooked by health programmes in developing countries like Zimbabwe.The amazing story of Thomas Tiyatara from Mahatshula North suburb in Bula...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 05:35hrs | 197 | by Staff reporter
8 Zimbabweans on Interpol wanted list
EIGHT Zimbabweans, including a Bulawayo woman who is charged for fraud and corruption, are currently on the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) most wanted list for allegedly committ...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:26hrs | 3985 | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Ana leaves a trail of destruction
An estimated 300 households in Mutasa and Nyanga districts in Manicaland province are in need of assistance after their homes were damaged by Cyclone Ana last week.Many parts of the country ex...Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 08:22hrs | 447 | by Staff reporter
Doves burial scandal: New details emerge
DOVES Funeral Services allegedly stuffed blankets and plastic bags inside the coffin meant to have carried the remains of the late Maxwell Chimwamurombe, in the latest twist to the burial saga of the ...Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 08:15hrs | 393 | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Ana hits Zimbabwe
THE country's Department of Civil Protection (DCP) has set up 394 evacuation centres in Manicaland province to deal with the impact of Cyclone Ana, amid reports that parts of Mutasa and Chimanimani di...Published: 26 Jan 2022 at 04:47hrs | 2653 | by Staff reporter
SA cost of living remains unaffordable
The cost of living in South Africa keeps going up and the basics are likely to continue to be unaffordable for many despite the 4,7 percent increase in the minimum wage, according to analysts at e-com...Published: 26 Jan 2022 at 04:42hrs | 497 | by Staff reporter
Woman accused of hiring out guns to armed robbers
Police are on the hunt for a Harare woman who allegedly rented out guns to armed robbers.Investigators recovered two pistols during a raid at Norest Kufa's Glendale residence in Harare after a...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 18:59hrs | 2022 | by Staff reporter
2 soldiers to appear in court for murder, US$40 000 robbery
TWO soldiers are due to appear in court today facing charges of murder and armed robbery after they got away with US$40 000 in heist at a Hatfield house in Harare.Lameck Kabara from the Zimbab...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:14hrs | 470 | by Staff reporter
Zimcare trust receives Christmas presents from NetOne
State owned mobile networks operator, NetOne has donated Christmas groceries worth ZWL $ 300 000 to Rubatsiro Zimcare Trust School in Kadoma. Rubatsiro Zimcare Trust was founded in 1986. The school ha...Published: 18 Dec 2021 at 11:00hrs | 222 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Kadoma
'National Blankets out of the woods'
NATIONAL Blankets Ltd in Bulawayo requires a capital injection of US$1,5 million to operate optimally.The company's business development manager Shepherd Nyambirai said this during a tour of t...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:35hrs | 37 | by Staff reporter
National Blankets halts production as tiff with Zimra escalates
TEXTILE giant National Blankets has temporarily stopped production after the manufacturing firm failed to settle a ZW$800 000 Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) debt.The Bulawayo company...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 08:51hrs | 208 | by Staff Reporter
Qoki brings smiles to hundreds of households in Matebeleland
THE past few weeks have seen Qoki Zindlovukazi trending following a revelation that the group of Zimbabwean women in the diaspora are millionaires after investing so much in immovable property....Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 06:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Sex starved cop bashes colleague at the barrack
There was drama at Zhombe police station where a sex starved cop allegedly bashed his collegue when he was caught having sex with a commercial sex w...Published: 03 Nov 2021 at 19:14hrs | 8 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Kwekwe
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 | | by Staff reporter
Two homes burn in love triangle bust-up
A MAN from Emthunzini suburb in Bulawayo assaulted his wife with fists and a rope accusing her of having an affair with their neighbour before he later set his and his alleged love rival homes ablaze....Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 07:01hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Widow loses property to mysterious fire
A Chiweshe based widow Mary Ndiseni Chitemamuswe (52) lost all her property to a mysterious fire on Sunday and she was left with only clothes she an...Published: 29 Oct 2021 at 15:45hrs | 5 | by Simbarashe Sithole
National Blankets bounces back
BULAWAYO'S giant textile firm, National Blankets Limited, has resumed operations and is now producing as per order while pushing towards ramping up output. The company has managed to dodge liq...Published: 29 Oct 2021 at 08:44hrs | 100 | by Staff Reporter
Chinamasa's home gutted by fire
A fire tore through the Borrowdale home of former finance minister Patrick Chinamasa on Friday, causing extensive damage.The Zanu-PF secretary for finance and acting political commissar said h...Published: 24 Oct 2021 at 14:02hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Tafadzwa Musarara jailed
A notorious 21-year-old Mvurwi bugler Tafadzwa Masarara was sentenced to an effective nine months jail term for unlawful entry by Guruve Magistrate ...Published: 23 Oct 2021 at 17:09hrs | 13 | by Alice Mangwanda
Truckers face Beitbridge chaos
When it was controversially awarded a US$240 million contract to upgrade the Beitbridge border post in 2018, the Zimborders Consortium said it would provide "world class border facilities that optimis...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 19:32hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Stanbic Bank donates matresses, blankets and pillows for children's home
Stanbic Bank has donated 11 mattresses, 22 blankets and 11 pillows to Wings of Hope Children's Home in Houghton Park, southern Harare, in keeping with its commitment to meet the needs of underprivileg...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 18:30hrs | 13 | by Agencies
Mosquitoes give Bulawayo residents sleepless nights
HOVERING seamlessly at ear level with a persistent and incommodious whine, mosquitoes leave you with bites that subsequently lead to itchy and puffy welts.With their slender segmented body, a ...Published: 07 Oct 2021 at 07:28hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Man whips toddler to death for wetting blankets
A MAN from Dete in Hwange District has been arrested after he allegedly whipped his three-year-old stepson to death accusing him of wetting blankets.Nkatazo Penga (38) of Gulalembila Village u...Published: 07 Oct 2021 at 07:02hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
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