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Soldier assaults patrons after failing to 'catch'
A SOLDIER based in Hwange went berserk and randomly assaulted patrons at two nightclubs after his love proposals were turned down by female revellers.As if that was not enough, Philani Nyoni (...Published: 10 hrs ago | 395 | by Staff reporter
Sex worker fined for stealing US$300 from client
A Bindura commercial sex worker who stole US$300 from her client after a night sex service in the mining town was convicted yesterday by a Bindura magistrateEvelyn Mukombwe was slapped with $5...Published: 21 hrs ago | 1918 | by Simbarashe Sithole
MDC senator further remanded for threatening to burn Zec offices
A ZVISHAVANE magistrate on Thursday further remanded Midlands Senator Lillian Timveos (MDC Alliance) to March 16 in a case where she is accused of threatening to destroy Zimbabwe Electoral Commission ...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 16:34hrs | 139 | by Staff reporter
Teen fatally strikes rival suitor
A TEENAGER from Filabusi who fatally struck a rival suitor with a brick on the head in a fight over a 13-year-old girl was yesterday sentenced to an effective 14 years in jail. Mbongisen...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 05:35hrs | 312 | by Staff reporter
Pair jailed for stealing alcohol
TWO men from Bulawayo's Queens Park suburb have been sentenced to a combined 42 months in prison for stealing alcohol and cigarette lighters worth more than $1 000 from a sports bar in the same suburb...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 05:28hrs | 633 | by Staff reporter
Zimondi sucked into prisons poultry scam
ZIMBABWE Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) Commissioner-General Paradzai Zimondi has been sucked into a poultry scam after it was revealed in court yesterday that he allegedly recommended engag...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 13:16hrs | 1085 | by Staff reporter
Jailed Kereke appointed prisons adviser
HARARE court yesterday heard that Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) Commissioner-General Paradzai Zimondi facilitated the appointment of former Reserve Bank top official and convicted ...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 05:55hrs | 2425 | by Staff reporter
Convicted Kereke receiving special favours, prison boss claims
CONVICTED rapist Munyaradzi Kereke, serving a 10-year term for raping an 11-year-old girl, was receiving unusually favourable treatment in prison, being allowed home visits and enjoying conjugal right...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 05:40hrs | 779 | by Staff reporter
Siblings to hang for double murder
TWO siblings from the Midlands province, who ganged up and murdered a taxi driver in Bulawayo and a shop owner in Inyathi in Matabeleland North before stealing their property worth more than US$6 000,...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 05:39hrs | 1121 | by Staff reporter
Kereke enjoyed weekend home visits
Shocking details of how the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) allowed jailed Munyaradzi Kereke to visit his home during weekends and enjoy conjugal rights while in jail emerged in cour...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 19:14hrs | 910 | by Staff reporter
Canaan Banana an unsung hero, says Son
NATHAN Banana - the son of the late founding President of Zimbabwe, Canaan Sodindo Banana, has described his father as an unsung hero and lamented government's failure to honour him for the key ...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 10:41hrs | 1326 | by Staff reporter
Fired woman police officer takes Commissioner-General Matanga to court
A JUNIOR female police detective, who was fired for allegedly extorting US$2 250 from a suspected forex dealer following an arrest, has taken Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga to court for disregard...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 06:08hrs | 1811 | by Staff reporter
ZACC, NPA cranks up machinery for assets recovery
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) are presently constituting and resourcing units expected to lead efforts of recovering money and properties ...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:31hrs | 110 | by Staff reporter
UK-based Zimbabwean gets 17 years for machete attack
TAFADZWA Katsande, a Zimbabwean man based in the United Kingdom (UK), has been sentenced to 17 years imprisonment after he, and his gang used machetes to attack a driver.Another gang member, a...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 15:32hrs | 1344 | by Staff reporter
Desperate job seeker raped
A 35-YEAR-OLD Beitbridge man has been jailed for 15 years for raping a desperate job seeker whom he had offered overnight accommodation. Emmanuel Mugaba of Madiginye suburb (formerly New Stand...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 11:16hrs | 322 | by Staff reporter
Ex-ZBC newscaster acquitted
Former Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) newscaster, Musorowegomo Mukosi, who was in court on allegations of allowing his pistol to be used during an assault on his workers at his mine claim in ...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 11:11hrs | 116 | by Staff reporter
Abortion is legal in Zimbabwe
The right to life is sacrosanct and absolute. It is the first human right enshrined in our Constitution. Even the yet to be born have the right to life. Section 48(3) of the Constitution states that "...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 21:17hrs | 952 | by Fidelicy Nyamukondiwa
George Charamba faces arrest over pornography
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson faces possible arrest over pornography after the police issues a statement warning that people who posses or distribute pornographic material face prosecuti...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 18:48hrs | 12486 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo court deports 21 Ugandans
A Bulawayo court has ordered the deportation of 21 Ugandan nationals who were convicted for illegally entering into the country.Magistrate Tinashe Tashaya convicted the Ugandans and sent...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 13:41hrs | 1033 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Footprints give away cable thieves
Footprints led to the discovery of a hidden pushcart used to carry 300kg of stolen copper cables valued at more than US$9 000 by two Mvurwi men. Lloyd Jimu and Isaac Inosi were sentenced to 10...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 05:28hrs | 470 | by Staff reporter
Machete gangs congest prisons
Machete gangs that were arrested in mining areas across Mashonaland Central Province have resulted in overcrowding at Bindura Remand Prison, forcing at least 150 inmates to sleep outside the cel...Published: 08 Feb 2020 at 09:30hrs | 413 | by Staff reporter
Woman, hitmen jailed 95 years for murder
A Mberengwa woman (42) and two hitmen she hired to kill her live-in boyfriend before throwing the body into a dam were yesterday sentenced to a combined 95 years in prison.Loice Mahlamvana - a...Published: 08 Feb 2020 at 08:29hrs | 1069 | by Staff Reporter
Man fined for assaulting inattentive wife
A MAN from Bulawayo has been fined $300 for assaulting his wife after accusing her of giving too much attention to their son and neglecting him. Itai Zvorufura (31) of Tshabalala suburb punche...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 05:47hrs | 658 | by Staff reporter
Whatsapp message lands woman in court
A Whatsapp mobile message has landed a woman in court after she threatened a woman she suspected to be her husband lover using the platform....Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 07:18hrs | 4498 | by Stephen Jakes
Town engineer found in possession of stolen council property
A SENIOR official at Beitbridge Municipality has been accused of receiving property worth $14 850 stolen from a project that is under his department.Town engineer Douglas Siphuma (49), who rec...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 06:11hrs | 549 | by Staff reporter
Should corporal punishment at home and school be banned?
The Constitutional Court must be applauded for handing down far reaching judgments in so far as the promotion, protection and fulfilment of human rights set out in the Constitution is concerned. Among...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 06:20hrs | 418 | by Staff reporter
Another Zanu PF youth side show presser
The cartels and their cohorts causing the economic hardships in the country are real and President Emmerson Mnangagwa, ought to flex his muscles than just a talk. If the whole nation wan...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 12:34hrs | 2049 | by Leonard Koni
Chombo medical aid hit by sanctions
Former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo’s medical aid has been cancelled by Health International, a company which provides health insurance for members in various southern African countries, because...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 06:22hrs | 2269 | by Staff reporter
Chinese company employee jailed for attempted murder
AN employee at the Zimbabwe Zhong Zhing Coking Company in Hwange has been slapped with an effective eight-year jail term after he nearly killed his workmate following a dispute over the transportation...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 05:46hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
Polad members slam sanctions narrative
THE Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) has slammed propaganda by the Western countries that sanctions against Zimbabwe were targeted, insisting that they were hurting the economy and should be removed....Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 05:45hrs | 534 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe deports 300 foreigners
The Zimbabwe Republic Police and the Department of Immigration has since last year arrested and deported more than 300 foreigners in separate incidents for dealing in drugs and entering the country il...Published: 03 Feb 2020 at 16:22hrs | 1775 | by Staff reporter
Villager jailed nine years for stealing beast
A Hwange villager who stole his neighbour's ox has been slapped with an effective nine years in jail for stock theft.Elvis Moyo (30) of Chachachunda villager in Hwange pleaded guilty to ...Published: 03 Feb 2020 at 06:53hrs | 673 | by Stephen Jakes
'Mnangagwa following Mugabe's playbook'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been accused of following the autocratic rule of the now late former President Robert Mugabe.The accusations were made by an international human rights organis...Published: 03 Feb 2020 at 06:21hrs | 2275 | by newzimbabwe
Man kills cousin in fight over gold ore
BULAWAYO High Court judge, Justice Martin Makonese, has sentenced a gold panner to 18 years in prison for stabbing his cousin twice on the chest with a knife in a fight over gold ore at Arizona 74 Min...Published: 03 Feb 2020 at 05:36hrs | 838 | by Staff reporter
Cops threaten to shoot 10-year-old girl over bribe money
THREE police officers manning a roadblock along the Harare-Masvingo road allegedly pulled out a firearm and threatened to shoot a 10-year-old farm girl together with her parents after the minor picked...Published: 03 Feb 2020 at 05:30hrs | 1380 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe army must step in'
THE military must now step in to stop machete gangs who are terrorising and killing people in many parts of the country, Norton MP Temba Mliswa has said.Speaking at a policy dialogue meeting o...Published: 01 Feb 2020 at 19:30hrs | 6240 | by Staff reporter
Woman 'robs' two people at knifepoint
A WOMAN from Gwanda has been arrested for allegedly robbing two people, on separate occasions, at knifepoint in the middle of the night. Memory Ncube (35) of Matshetsheni area allegedly ...Published: 01 Feb 2020 at 06:25hrs | 401 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MP acquitted
MDC Alliance Makokoba legislator Mr James Sithole together with two accomplices who were accused of embezzling US$4 250 and R10 000 belonging to a local burial society he chaired, were yesterday acqui...Published: 31 Jan 2020 at 19:07hrs | 63 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean judge Hungwe on edge of the bench in Lesotho
Maseru/Harare – When the Lesotho authorities decided to hire foreign judges to steer ongoing high-profile murder trials involving former high-ranking Lesotho Defence Force personnel, little did they...Published: 31 Jan 2020 at 19:00hrs | 263 | by KEISO MOHLOBOLI, NKOSANA DLAMINI, TUMISANG SERAME
Unscrupulous SA security companies abusing Zimbabweans
The Association of Private Security Owners of South Africa (TAPSOSA) has called on authorities to look into the plight of Zimbabwean security officers being abused by some unscrupulous companies in th...Published: 31 Jan 2020 at 09:38hrs | 2956 | by Busisani Ncube in Johannesburg
Man jailed over Mnangagwa insult
A HARARE man was yesterday slapped with a 10-day prison term after using obscene language to insult President Emmerson Mnangagwa over his "vegetables" jibe.Tapiwa Chiroodza, 31, who runs a car...Published: 30 Jan 2020 at 19:51hrs | 4498 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's guards arrested
POLICE have arrested three members of the elite Presidential Guard, as well as a former broadcaster, after they allegedly assaulted villagers and tried to forcefully take over a gold mine in Mt Darwin...Published: 29 Jan 2020 at 07:21hrs | 3191 | by Staff reporter
Minor made to pay $2,50 debt with sex
AN 18-year-old man has been ordered to perform community service for having sex with a 13-year-old girl after she failed to repay $2,50 he had given her. The teenager from Ezikwakweni Village ...Published: 29 Jan 2020 at 07:16hrs | 1214 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe urged to strengthen graft investigation tactics
Zimbabwe must take a leaf from Uganda to strengthen its investigation tactics and subsequent prosecution, to ensure convictions on cases of corruption, Uganda's top anti-corruption judge has said. Whi...Published: 29 Jan 2020 at 07:07hrs | 79 | by Staff reporter
High Court throws City Parking bosses under the bus
HIGH Court judge Justice Sunsley Zisengwe has thrown five City Parking supervisors under the bus after dismissing their application seeking an order declaring illegal, null and void Statutory Instrume...Published: 28 Jan 2020 at 12:51hrs | 662 | by Staff reporter
Huge salaries for anti-graft officials
GOVERNMENT is taking extraordinary measures to ring-fence all officers employed by the special anti-corruption courts through paying them competitive salaries and allowances. The Government be...Published: 28 Jan 2020 at 12:36hrs | 474 | by Staff reporter
Courts promise stiff sentences for machete gangs
THE courts will hand down stiff penalties on convicted machete wielding gangs to deter would be offenders in the wake of a surge in cases of violent machete attacks on ordinary citizens, miners and bu...Published: 28 Jan 2020 at 12:35hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF councillor drags wife to court
ZANU-PF ward 6 councillor in Mutare South constituency, Washington Muradzikwa, dragged his wife before a city magistrate accusing her of stealing his tablet cell phone.The wife, Lilian Mujokoc...Published: 27 Jan 2020 at 19:13hrs | 285 | by newzimbabwer
2 officers challenge superiors' decision
TWO cops who were ordered to pay $1 000 each as punishment for deserting their police base in Selonga in Matabeleland South resulting in thieves breaking into the premises and stealing two solar panel...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:06hrs | 151 | by Staff reporter
US$4000 theft hooker married
A married commercial sex worker from Bulawayo who stole US$4 000 from her client, has been sentenced to four years in jail. Enelles Tshabangu (26) of Entumbane stole the money from Mr Zamani M...Published: 24 Jan 2020 at 01:07hrs | 4687 | by Staff reporter
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