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Trial date for 27 Chamisa backers set
The trial of 27 MDC-Alliance supporters - who reportedly went on a rampage, destroying property, torching vehicles, blocking roads and attacking people in Harare's central business district (CBD) - is...Published: 9 hrs ago | 215 | by Staff reporter
Bruce Grobbelaar legend reveals dark past
Bruce Grobbelaar, largely regarded as a football icon in the country because of his heroics for The Warriors and Liverpool FC, has revealed his 'other side' in a yet to be released new book, 'Life in ...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 13:24hrs | 3475 | by Staff reporter
'My hubby moved on'
Female inmate Monica Hove says her husband has already moved on after her short stay in prison.Hove who was sentenced to 24 months in prison for burning her husband with acid in February says ...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 13:23hrs | 3144 | by Staff reporter
Bruce Grobbelaar's experiences with Rhodesian Army - 'First time i killed someone'
I still remember the first time I had to kill someone. I can still see his eyes. I'd been conscripted into the Zimbabwean Army and thrown into the Bush War - an uprising against the white farmers in m...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 13:22hrs | 2115 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's (Criminal) Record Check!
Chronicling abuses on women in Zimbabwe Dear Zimbabwean Women, It is high time we chronicled all abuses...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 06:53hrs | 2254 | by Nomazulu Thata
Fire razes another house
A THREE- roomed house was gutted by fire in Bulawayo's Lobengula West suburb after a 16 year old boy doing homework using a candle for light dozed off. Ndaitai Muchimba fell asleep at around 10PM on T...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 06:11hrs | 341 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man killed in SA
Several houses in South Africa were reportedly damaged, while cars were burnt on Monday following the arrest of nine taxi drivers after a Zimbabwean man was attacked and killed in his tuckshop in Kler...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:12hrs | 1596 | by Staff reporter
2 die in 'veld fire' accident
Two people died on the spot when a haulage truck was involved in a head-on collision with a Toyota Rav after both vehicles drove through thick smoke caused by a veld fire in Dema on Monday.Mas...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:29hrs | 481 | by Staff reporter
Power fault fire razes $50 000 property
PROPERTY worth more than $50 000 was reduced to ashes when a four-roomed thatched cottage caught fire after sparks from Zesa overhead cables ignited its roof in Bulawayo's Harrisvale suburb. B...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:09hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland has been captured
Mzukulu Chamisa, listen to this noble advise: pick up your toys, call all your friends and go back to Harare before tribal fires that you are stocking in Bulawayo consume you. Bulawayo is not a play g...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 15:13hrs | 4452 | by Israel Dube
Africa: Beyond the captive state
The phrase "state capture" comes very easily into our formal and informal communication these days.What is not easy, however, is true understanding of what the phrase fundamentally means. In S...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:36hrs | 147 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Illegal miners clash with cops
Artisanal miners in Mazowe mine reportedly went on rampage burning cabins for security guards at Mazowe mine last night after one of their colleagues was shot by the police.Sources familiar wi...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 14:58hrs | 1146 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Pair kills, burn motorist
TWO people, one of them a 16-year-old boy, allegedly killed a motorist and burnt his body after he offered them a lift in Plumtree. The two suspects are from Binga and met their alleged victim...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 06:54hrs | 527 | by Staff reporter
Is Chamisa losing grip?
THE revolt by councillors against MDC Alliance leader, Mr Nelson Chamisa, over his alleged attempts to impose candidates in the coalition-controlled councils is significant in showing his loose grip o...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 06:37hrs | 797 | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Prisoner congratulates Mnangagwa
A prisoner at Chikurubi Maximum Prison has congratulated President ED Mnangagwa for winning the Presidential elections.Forty two-year-old Jacob Harineki has been in prison since 1998 and was s...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 16:17hrs | 2451 | by Staff reporter
Elderly woman burnt by veld fires
A 64-YEAR-OLD Chikomba woman is battling for life at Chivhu General Hospital after she was recently burnt by a veld fire.The Environmental Management Agency (EMA) in Mashonaland East province ...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 07:07hrs | 756 | by Staff reporter
'Chain smoker’ dies in slum fire
A MAN from Bulawayo was burnt to death after a room he was sleeping in caught fire in a slum in Trenance suburb. Siphosiso Moyo (46), an alleged drunkard and a chain smoker, died following a fire that...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 06:53hrs | 606 | by Staff reporter
2 more MDC Alliance protestors in court over deadly protests
Two more MDC-Alliance activists who allegedly participated in an illegal demonstration in Harare soon after the July 30 harmonised elections, appeared in court yesterday. The duo - Chamunorwa ...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 06:36hrs | 144 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF offices set on fire?
ZANU-PF offices in Caledonia, on the out-skirts of Harare, were early yesterday morning burnt down in act of suspected arson. Police confirmed the burning of the building which also housed Ton...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 12:59hrs | 3695 | by Staff reporter
Three children burn to death
THREE children from Tsholotsho were burnt beyond recognition while four others were saved by their 12-year-old sibling after a fire gutted a room they were sleeping in while their parents attended a f...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 06:17hrs | 458 | by Staff reporter
Unity Village goes up in smoke
PROPERTY worth more than $300 000 was destroyed when a huge fire gutted Bulawayo's biggest flea market, Unity Village. The flea market, which is located at the corner of Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo S...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 08:54hrs | 416 | by Staff reporter
$10 000 goes up in smoke
PROPERTY worth over $10 000 was reduced to ashes after a five-roomed house was gutted by fire in Bulawayo's Lobengula West suburb.An electric fault due to an overloaded circuit is suspected to...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 06:44hrs | 887 | by Staff reporter
Goblins dispute taken to court
A WITCHRAFT storm ravaging a Mutambara family has spilled into the courts as an aggrieved woman has hauled her husband's relatives before a Mutare magistrate seeking a protection order against her in-...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 06:35hrs | 441 | by Staff reporter
Man sets on fire cabin with sleeping wife, baby
PROPERTY worth thousands of dollars was recently destroyed when a jealous Odzi man set alight a wooden cabin where his wife and baby were sleeping.The wife, Abigail Kamwendo (30) and her eight...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 06:33hrs | 336 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa targets rogue soldiers
Former South African president Kgalema Motlanthe will lead a seven-member commission of inquiry tasked with investigating circumstances leading to the post-election violence of August 1.The ap...Published: 30 Aug 2018 at 13:02hrs | 4098 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans and other foreigners flee deadly attacks in Soweto, South Africa
Immigrants have fled South Africa's main township, Soweto, following xenophobic attacks which killed three people on Wednesday, the BBC's Nomsa Maseko reports from Johannesburg.Violence broke ...Published: 30 Aug 2018 at 11:53hrs | 3292 | by BBC
President Mnangagwa might trigger unnecessary Xenophobia in South Africa
In an exclusive Interview with the 1873 FM, Adv. Mpofu said, "The decision to deny Nelson Chamisa his right to a representation of choice was a political decision and not a legal one. We had got all t...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:56hrs | 3614 | by Knowledge Hakata
Post-election violence reports false: ZRP
REPORTS of post-election violence being played up in the privately-owned media are fictitious and peace is prevailing across the country, the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) said yesterday. The...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:29hrs | 184 | by Staff reporter
Con-Court ruling ends the silly season
The recent judgment handed down by the Constitutional Court put an end to a season of jest fronted by the MDC-Alliance's Nelson Chamisa and his supporting cast of pseudo-democrats and Twitter revoluti...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:28hrs | 83 | by Staff reporter
Do not kill a dead snake!
This is what former President of South Africa Jacob Zuma said in reference to Thabo Mbeki who was voted out of the party and government as party leader and president of South Africa in Polokwane. This...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 15:49hrs | 3873 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mysterious fire burns more property
IT never rains but pours for the Matope family, which continues to live in perpetual fear and desperation after the mysterious fire burnt three more huts last Friday in Marange.The fire occasi...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:34hrs | 342 | by Staff reporter
Free for all bananas after truck accident
Villagers from the surrounding community, passengers in buses and other vehicles ignored a trapped driver and quickly helped themselves to bananas that were strewn all over the Mutare-Harare highway a...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:33hrs | 440 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe bigger than all of us
THE Constitutional Court today convenes to deliberate on a petition by MDC-Alliance candidate Nelson Chamisa challenging President Mnangagwa's victory in the July 30 election. The President po...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 05:59hrs | 100 | by Editorial - The Herald
Chamisa's supporter denied bail in arson case
A MUTASA Central MDC Alliance activist, who early this month allegedly burnt down a Zanu-PF supporter's thatched house in a suspected act of retribution, was yesterday denied bail by a Mutare magistra...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 06:42hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
Ditched lover tries to burn self
A 50-YEAR-OLD man from Bulawayo who set his room on fire and damaged property worth $9 980 after his live-in girlfriend ditched him, has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison.Connel...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 06:38hrs | 408 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T activists attacked in Mozambique
MDC-T activists - Ernest Joseph and Lloyd Kaswa - who settled in Mozambique and changed their citizenship in 2008, had their "houses" burnt by Mozambicans after they returned to participate in Zimbabw...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 06:30hrs | 430 | by Staff reporter
Violence returns
It is a silent, sunny afternoon in Chihwayi village, located on an expansive swampy terrain that is surrounded by mountains, more than 20km from Mutoko business centre.Amid the scattered homestead...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 16:10hrs | 2723 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's refusal raises serious questions
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's refusal to acknowledge that soldiers who killed seven civilians in cold blood on August 1 overstepped the boundaries raises serious questions about his commitment to end...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 06:52hrs | 2849 | by Editorial - The Standard
Harare in graveyard space headache
The number of Harare residents that are burying their dear departed in cemeteries that are located on the outskirts of the city is increasing as pressure for graveyard space intensifies.With m...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 06:29hrs | 248 | by Staff reporter
General Valerio Sibanda issued statement under duress, says Mutsekwa
Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander General Phillip Valerio Sibanda acted out of his professional reputation in blaming MDC Alliance supporters for the fatal shooting of at least six unarmed civilians d...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 14:03hrs | 5841 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa is not a factor in parliament, which is good
Since there are so many impious hands on Zimbabwe's internal affairs, so many hands challenging its sovereignty, I thought my opening paragraphs should address those meddlesome, self-righteous foreign...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 07:53hrs | 374 | by Igomombe
Family flees from mysterious fire
A family from Marange is living in perpetual fear after a mysterious fire torched three huts and reduced all household property to nothing.So strange is the fire, which occasionally resurfaces...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 06:09hrs | 769 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF in partisan food distribution'
ZANU-PF officials in Chimanimani East are denying agricultural inputs to everyone they suspect to have voted against their party in the just-ended harmonised elections.The practice has been so...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 14:10hrs | 680 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa should face justice for crimes against humanity
There is an Shona adage: 'mhosva hairovi', which loosely translated means, 'no one can evade the tentacles of justice'.We have witnessed around the world, numerous people being charged, tried ...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 07:13hrs | 2827 | by Kudakwashe Sheddy Marangwanda
Mnangagwa consoles families of political violence
President Mnangagwa yesterday said violence and intolerance have no place in the Second Republic, and condemned the barbaric acts by MDC Alliance that left six people dead during a protest over the pa...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 06:44hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
2 more in court over MDC Alliance demo
Two Harare men accused of participating in a violent protest in Harare on August 1 that culminated in the death of at least six people appeared in court yesterday.Last Tinashe Vambe, 20,...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 15:32hrs | 1565 | by Staff reporter
Aide shares memory of Joshua Nkomo
One of the founding fathers of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle and late Vice President Dr Joshua Nkomo, a larger than life character is still alive in the hearts of many, for he was and still is an ico...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 06:35hrs | 1536 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF thugs burn down MDC Alliance activist's hut
MDC Alliance activist Daniel Hanyana (57) of Mutenzi village, ward 5, Nyanyadzi in Chimanimani west constituency got his kitchen hut torched by a suspected ZANU PF supporter on Sunday afternoon....Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 19:27hrs | 1880 | by Simbarashe Sithole
The military has a constitutional mandate to support a civilian authority and maintain peace
On the eve of the elections results and for three further nights, a small minority took to the streets in some of our urban centres looting, vandalising, burning, terrorising the law abiding majority....Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 21:53hrs | 1417 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Hard work over miracles,' says Chiwenga
Tomorrow, Zimbabwe marks Heroes Day and on Tuesday Zimbabwe Defence Forces Day. The Sunday Mail News Editor Darlington Musarurwa spoke with Vice-President Dr Constantino Chiwenga about these i...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 09:43hrs | 319 | by Staff reporter
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