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One Day in 1985
I watched and followed the proceedings at the launch of the CITES Documentary on the abduction of the 11 Silobela men by Government forces on the 1st of January 1985. Dispite the incident having happe...Published: 8 hrs ago | 409 | by Israel Dube
Zanu-PF wants Chamisa Biti charged with treason over sanctions
THE Zanu-PF Manicaland youth league chapter says opposition leader Nelson Chamisa and his deputy Tendai Biti must face treason charges for lobbying sanctions against Zimbabwe.The calls were ma...Published: 21 hrs ago | 3725 | by Staff reporter
Burst sewer crisis deepens
BULAWAYO residents have lamented the council's delays in responding to burst sewerage in their communities saying this could contribute to disease outbreaks.The city has recorded a serie...Published: 21 hrs ago | 416 | by Staff reporter
Unpacking ZIDERA, atrocities of sanctions
It is without doubt that sanctions are a crime against humanity, an unfair treatment of race against race, nation against nation, the strong against the presumably weak, all with the intention to crea...Published: 21 hrs ago | 114 | by Takasununguka Ziki
'We will never tire until we are free from sanctions'
This is an interview done by The Daily newspaper of Nigeria with Zimbabwe's Ambassador to Nigeria, Maxwell Ranga , who is also accredited to Cameroon, Niger, Benin and Equatorial Guinea, on the SADC A...Published: 21 hrs ago | 67 | by Staff reporter
Police, soldiers implicated in cattle rustling racket
CATTLE farmers in Matabeleland South province have been losing their livestock to rustling syndicates that they believe were working in cahoots with soldiers and police officers.Farmers told S...Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 06:24hrs | 766 | by Staff reporter
Suspects arrested for fatal armed robbery
POLICE have arrested two suspects in connection with the beating, shooting and robbery of a Bulawayo businessman, Smart Kutsanzira, during a home raid in Cowdray Park's Esigodweni area last month....Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 06:23hrs | 521 | by Staff reporter
Councils big shots in serious trouble
A number of top officials from councils across the country face arrest over corruption allegations amid indications that some face the chop after they landed their positions through underhand means....Published: 24 Oct 2021 at 09:29hrs | 478 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga officially opens PRAZ indaba
VICE President, Dr Costantino Chiwenga, has officially opened Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (PRAZ) inaugural annual conference here where he implored procurement officers to uphold prof...Published: 22 Oct 2021 at 20:56hrs | 434 | by Staff reporter
Matanga challenges cops
MEMBERS of the Zimbabwe Republic Police have been challenged to remain loyal and patriotic as all the Police Service's operations have now been directed towards the attainment of the goals of National...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 22:50hrs | 316 | by Staff reporter
Drone surveillance helps to nab smugglers
Drone surveillance at the Beitbridge Border Post led to the interception of a South African registered commercial truck carrying an assortment of groceries worth thousands of dollars.The truck...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 22:50hrs | 249 | by Staff reporter
RBZ shuts down forex platform to stem currency decline
ZIMBABWEAN authorities shut down a popular black-market currency-tracking platform, the latest action to try and stop an accelerating decline in its currency.The central bank ordered marketwat...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 06:22hrs | 4136 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa attacked again?
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa was yesterday blocked again by some Zanu-PF youths and security details at Troutbeck turn-off in Nyanga when he was on his way to Ruwangwe, a day after a suspected a...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 06:22hrs | 4084 | by Staff reporter
Man kills wife, hides body on mountain top
A 60-year-old Macheke man has been arrested on allegations of beating his wife to death with a belt following a domestic dispute before hiding the body on top of a mountain near a farm in the area to ...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 06:19hrs | 667 | by Staff reporter
Police boss orders compulsory vaccination
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga yesterday ordered that all members of the force should be fully vaccinated to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.The police chief said this whi...Published: 20 Oct 2021 at 07:39hrs | 824 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean woman unfit to stand trial over SA murder
A 42-year-old Zimbabwean woman who killed her husband and dumped his limbs in three pit latrines has been certified medically unfit to stand trial by South African doctors.Nancy Majonhi has mi...Published: 20 Oct 2021 at 07:33hrs | 295 | by Staff reporter
Death sentence for murderer
A HIGH Court judge yesterday sentenced a Hwedza man to death for the constructive murder of his employer in 2015 and throwing the body into Rhodesville Dam.Tapiwa Murombo was yesterday found g...Published: 19 Oct 2021 at 06:31hrs | 1762 | by Staff reporter
Violent teacher found guilty
TALENT Chingwaru, the Mathematics teacher who was last week filmed assaulting a Lower Six student at a school in Harare, was yesterday convicted on his own plea of guilt and immediately appealed for a...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:25hrs | 518 | by Staff reporter
Top cop acquitted
A Bulawayo-based senior police officer, who was facing charges of theft of a motor vehicle or alternatively obstructing the course of justice, has been acquitted. Regional magistrate Joseph Ma...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 09:05hrs | 633 | by Staff reporter
Why Zanu-PF is under siege
If Africans knew even half their history, they would understand the reason why they continue to stew in poverty, misery and disillusion while other parts of the world are swimming in prosperity, happi...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 08:59hrs | 275 | by Bishop Lazi
Sanctions lobbyists' days are numbered
THE United Nations Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, Ms Alena Douhan, will be in the country from tomorrow to October 28, ...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 08:58hrs | 192 | by Staff reporter
'Love for women got me behind bars'
BIGGIE DUBE, a pastor at the Church of Christ, has finally broken his silence after being sentenced to 31 years in prison for raping some of his female congregants in Bikita.Pastor Dube, as he...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:28hrs | 3568 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man jailed in SA over R10m abalone deal
A 36-year-old Zimbabwean man, Lawrence Muroma, and his Chinese accomplice, Qing Quen Feng (28) have been jailed for one year by a South African court for illegally dealing in the endangered abalone sh...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:20hrs | 704 | by Staff reporter
Robber waylays gold dealer
A 36-year-old Bulawayo man lost 65 grammes of gold and a cellphone to an armed robber who had lured him to Chegutu. The man had been lured to Shamva by the robber only identified as Anyway Mun...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:19hrs | 793 | by Staff reporter
Forex auction revitalises economy, claims RBZ
THE foreign currency auction introduced by Government last year has been critical in revitalising the economy despite deliberate inflation of black market exchange rates by some unscrupulous businesse...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:18hrs | 118 | by Staff reporter
Hats off to security forces at Beitbridge Border
MEMBERS of the security forces deployed along the Zimbabwe/South African border deserve praise for their efforts towards the eradication of crime at the two countries' boundary.To date, police...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:17hrs | 312 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe has enough forex to sustain economy'
THE foreign currency auction introduced by Government last year has been critical in revitalising the economy despite deliberate inflation of black market exchange rates by unscrupulous businesses and...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:17hrs | 121 | by Staff reporter
55 000 arrested for border crimes
In January police launched operation "No to Cross Border Crimes/ Fhasi Ngamilandu Yamukanoni Yamashango/Mhosva Pamiganhu Ngadzipere/Amacala Kawaphele Emingceleni Yelizwe" in a bid to combat border rel...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:23hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
Mental exam for ritual murder suspect
ONE of the ritual murder suspects who allegedly sawed his victim in half, stole US$400 from her handbag and used some of the money to buy a drum and hydrochloric acid to dispose of the body has been o...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:22hrs | 388 | by Staff reporter
22 motorists arrested over LED light bars
Police have arrested 22 motorists for fitting their vehicles with dangerous LED light bars while another 194 border jumpers have been arrested.National police spokesperson Assistant Commission...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:21hrs | 319 | by Staff reporter
SA court orders for the mental exam of Zimbabwe woman who confessed to killing husband
A South African court has ordered a health and mental examination of a 42-year-old Zimbabwean woman who confessed to killing her husband and throwing his limbs in three separate pit latrines in Gauten...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:08hrs | 676 | by Staff reporter
Cop nabbed for diverting smuggled goods
JUDGMENT is expected to be delivered on Friday in a matter in which a senior police officer, Inspector Elias Mawomba (47), is accused of conniving with a subordinate to divert for personal benefit, tw...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:07hrs | 356 | by Staff reporter
Redcliff killings death toll rises
ONE more person has died from wounds sustained when a man went berserk in Redcliff on Saturday morning killing six people on the spot and leaving several others critically injured.Six people d...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:07hrs | 485 | by Staff reporter
Dexter Nduna has case to answer
THE court has indicated that legislator, Dexter Nduna, has a case to answer in a matter he is alleged to have illegally prospected for gold at David Whitehead's waste dump site in Chegutu sometime in ...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 05:57hrs | 687 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns 'name-droppers' in bloody clashes over gold claims
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's office has distanced the Zanu-PF leader from the bloody clashes over the control of one of Manicaland's richest gold mines.Pedzai Scott Sakupwanya, a gold dealer...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:57hrs | 2386 | by Staff reporter
Show us criminals that surrounded Gushungo
My People,Ignatius Chombo, the man who was branded the biggest criminal around Gushungo, is now a free man.Chombo was seized by soldiers on the night of the infamous coup while sleepin...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:55hrs | 1315 | by Dr Stop It
Smuggling dragnet intercepts 68 buses
SIXTY-EIGHT (68) buses suspected to be transporting smuggled goods worth millions between Zimbabwe and South Africa were intercepted by the National Security Taskforce over the past 30 days.Th...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:35hrs | 657 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lures world's top celebrities
THE most watched man on television in the world, one of the world's richest men and two former United States presidents have all visited Zimbabwe in the last decade, in an endorsement of Zimbabwe as a...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:35hrs | 749 | by Staff reporter
Name, shame exercise divides Zanu-PF
GOVERNMENT's name and shame operation targeting companies and individuals accused of fuelling the galloping foreign currency parallel exchange rate has triggered fierce fights within Zanu-PF, with som...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:33hrs | 1044 | by Staff reporter
Land developer acquitted in bribery case
HIGH Court judge Justice Tawanda Chitapi has dismissed bribery charges levelled against property developer Felix Munyaradzi.Munyaradzi, who is chief executive officer of Delatfin Civil Enginee...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:30hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter
Viktor Sheiman's son secretly mines gold in Zimbabwe
IN March 2018, Viktor Sheiman, the then head of the Property Management Directorate of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, paid an official visit to Zimbabwe where he and Mines minister Winston...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:23hrs | 396 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sticks to 7,8% growth, defies crisis
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday stuck with the 7,8% growth projection announced by the Ministry of Finance in July, as he opened the fourth session of the ninth parliament, defying recent infla...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 19:04hrs | 297 | by Staff reporter
Chombo can now freely rejoin the feeding trough
THE nation celebrates with Ignatius Chombo, who can now freely join the national feeding trough in peace.It was announced this week that all charges against the man had been dropped, seeing as...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 19:02hrs | 546 | by Muckracker
Female suspect succumbs to police torture
POLICE in Chivhu, Mashonaland East province, allegedly tortured and killed a woman whom they accused of concealing money stolen by her sister, the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has claimed.In i...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:32hrs | 2148 | by Staff reporter
Govt threatens crackdown on businesses fuelling forex black market
GOVERNMENT has threatened to suspend operating licences for business entities manipulating the official foreign currency rate, thus fuelling the high parallel market exchange rate.In a stateme...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:32hrs | 501 | by Staff reporter
Bees bring unholy tryst to abrupt end
A man from Gokwe had the most unromantic end to a bout of love-making with a married woman after he was attacked by a swarm of bees in the middle of a tryst in the bush.After being stung multi...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:30hrs | 1364 | by Staff reporter
Man bricked to death
Two drunk men have been arrested for killing a man with a brick.The incident happened in Nkulumane suburb when Recent Mukatawa (26) and his alleged partner-in-crime Sydney Siyamwi (23) pounced...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:28hrs | 563 | by Staff reporter
Police search corners wanted criminals
A decision by police to search two men in Bulawayo revealed that they had property stolen in Nyamandlovu and were on the wanted list for attempted murder in Pumula.The two, Michael Ndlovu (28)...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 292 | by Staff reporter
Govt ups forex black market fight
GOVERNMENT is implementing a raft of additional measures to curb the illegal trading of forex and the benchmarking of prices using the parallel market rates, Finance and Economic Development Minister ...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | 303 | by Staff reporter
Noose tightened on Innscor and other retailers using black market rates
Retailers that continue to flout foreign currency regulations by setting prices in US dollars and then converting at the blackmarket rate will have their operating licences immediately suspended while...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | 412 | by Staff reporter
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