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'Vumbunu brothers have been a thorn in our side'
The dramatic arrest of the notorious Vumbunu brothers, Abraham and Elijah Temayi, in South Africa has reignited public interest in the sensational US$4 million Ecobank armed robbery that stunned Bulaw...Published: 08 Jul 2025 at 09:42hrs | 638 | by Staff reporter
US$46,000 stolen in Kwekwe robbery
A bold and brazen daylight robbery unfolded in Kwekwe's city centre on June 4, 2025, leaving the community shaken and authorities racing to find the perpetrators. The incident occurred along E.D. Mnan...Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 14:53hrs | 767 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers terrorise Sai Mart in bold daylight heist
In a chilling daylight robbery that has left the Bulawayo community shaken, three armed robbers stormed Sai Mart Supermarket yesterday morning, making off with an undisclosed amount of cash and muggin...Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 12:11hrs | 338 | by Staff reporter
Abolish this draconian law
Zimbabwe is the only African country that currently requires a car radio licence, as introduced by the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) in 2025. This licence must be paid before renewing a vehi...Published: 29 May 2025 at 20:02hrs | 675 | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwe's new politics of fraud
IN Zimbabwe, politics is no longer just the art of the possible.It has become the science of the scam.From boreholes to buses, roads to resettlement deeds, today's governance is not me...Published: 29 May 2025 at 10:23hrs | 546 | by Staff reporter
4 armed robbers raid EMA offices in Harare
In a daring daylight robbery, four armed robbers stormed the Environmental Management Authority (EMA) offices in Bluffhill, Harare, making off with over US$2,200 in cash and a Nissan X-Trail belonging...Published: 06 May 2025 at 08:48hrs | 596 | by Staff reporter
Why should citizens pay for ZESA's failure to provide reliable power
If you give us electricity we will not need generators. In a world where governments are often scrutinised for their decisions and policies, the Zimbabwean Electricity Transmission and Dis...Published: 28 Mar 2025 at 11:29hrs | 424 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Armed robbers steal over US$4,000 from travellers in Zimbabwe
In a daring daylight robbery, three armed suspects pounced on two unsuspecting travellers who had just disembarked from a bus, stealing more than US$4,000 in cash and other valuables.dAccordin...Published: 04 Dec 2024 at 06:46hrs | 447 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents demand action over Ecobank heist
Bulawayo residents are voicing their concerns over safety in the city following a brazen daylight robbery at Ecobank last week, in which suspects allegedly made off with approximately US$4 million. Th...Published: 07 Oct 2024 at 08:02hrs | 1491 | by Staff reporter
Licence plate of getaway vehicle in Bulawayo $4 million heist
In a brazen armed robbery on Thursday, six masked gunmen stole US$4 million from Safeguard Security guards outside Ecobank in Bulawayo. The suspects, armed with pistols, made their getaway in a white ...Published: 04 Oct 2024 at 08:28hrs | 3160 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers strike EcoBank branch in daylight heist
In a daring daylight robbery, six masked men armed with pistols stormed the EcoBank branch at the Parkade Centre, located at the corner of 9th Avenue and Fife Street in Bulawayo, making off with sever...Published: 03 Oct 2024 at 16:07hrs | 4069 | by Staff reporter
Minister fires warning shots at Harare brothels
Tourism and Hospitality Industry Minister, Barbara Rwodzi has expressed dissatisfaction with mushrooming brothels countrywide, announcing Harare as the main culprit where unregistered 'quickie nests' ...Published: 08 Jul 2024 at 17:17hrs | 297 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
NetOne's lying, incompetent, and thieving ways!
All those who are close to me know fully well how much I detest incompetence and ineptitude.The only other thing I loath more is lying. One can, therefore, only imagine how I would fee...Published: 26 Jun 2024 at 21:22hrs | 6 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Daylight robbery in Harare!
City Parking, the traffic management agency in Harare, has announced a new policy stating that paid parking discs will no longer be transferable between parking bays. This change is part of City Parki...Published: 07 Dec 2023 at 05:36hrs | 37 | by Staff reporter
A sad Christmas present from clueless Mthuli Ncube
The just presented 2024 budget by Prof Mthuli Ncube has left Zimbabweans in shock. This is the worst budget ever produced by minister of Finance since independence and the colonial era.It has ...Published: 02 Dec 2023 at 10:39hrs | 15 | by Leonard Koni
Mnangagwa tells supporters to vote opposition out of Town House and 'go to heaven'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has promised Harare residents free agricultural inputs and a guaranteed place in "heaven" if they vote the opposition out of the local councils in the upcoming election....Published: 10 Aug 2023 at 06:47hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi challenged on tattered US dollar bank notes
ZIMBABWEANS were forced to buy new United States dollar notes on the streets and other private money agencies as old worn-out notes were being rejected by users on the market, it has emerged.G...Published: 14 Oct 2022 at 05:58hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
US$45 000 stolen in daylight robbery
Two robbers armed with a pistol grabbed a businessman and bungled him into their Honda Fit car before robbing him of US$45 110. The businessman walked into Metro Peech wholesale in the city cent...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 06:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo strikes again...calls Strive Masiyiwa a bondnote Billionaire
Professor Jonathan Moyo has once again slammed United Kingdom based telecommunications tycoon Strive Masiyiwa of fleecing his clients through selling his services in exaggerated prices. This was after...Published: 01 Apr 2022 at 09:32hrs | 10 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Motorists resist Bulawayo's new parking fees
BULAWAYO motorists yesterday all but abandoned parking bays in the city centre's new parking zone where drivers must pay US$1 to park for 30 minutes.A new parking system came into force yester...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rebranding is a matter of life and death for MDC-Alliance
WILLIAM Shakespeare, the 16th century English playwright who once prominently featured on the Zimbabwean Ordinary Level and Advanced Level English literature school curriculum, once rhetorically asked...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 18:16hrs | 15 | by Taona T. Denhere
Raw deal for Air Zimbabwe creditors
HUNDREDS of Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) creditors, including over 300 ex-workers will be paid various debts accrued by the airline before it plunged into administration in Zimbabwe dollars at a rate of US$1...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Highlanders more than a football entity
HIGHLANDERS FC is more than a football entity. It is life and everything to some and leaving Bosso in 1976 would have seen club legend Douglas Mloyi disowned by his own family. The decision no...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 09:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Salary deductions irk teachers
THE government has raised the ire of teachers after taking 2.5% of their salaries as contributions to its newly set-up mutual fund for civil servants amid claims the workers were not properly consulte...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
School reaping off parents
MY child attends a private high school in Harare (name withheld) and is in the middle of writing Advanced Level examinations.Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the examination papers are being ...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:43hrs | 2 | by Reaped Off
Zimbabwe govt is robbing gold miners
AN intricate web of Zimbabwean State firms and agencies are being used as government conduits to buy gold from artisanal miners at a song thereby impoverishing thousands of people who have turned to b...Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 21:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Govt okays steep school fees hike
GOVERNMENT has approved a steep hike in school fees, which will see some pupils at boarding and urban day high schools forking out in excess of $55 000 up from $6 000 and $20 000 up from $3 000, respe...Published: 24 Oct 2020 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parents plot demo against proposed school fees hike
PAReNTS and guardians whose children are learning at Chogugudza Primary School in Domboshava, Goromonzi district, are plotting to demonstrate today against a decision by school authorities to raise fe...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
An open letter from a concerned Bulawayo motorist
My job forces me to frequently drive along Masiyephambili Drive, past Nkulumane. Complex. I'm particularly concerned about the level of corruption & greed perpetrated by the police manning the roa...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 06:26hrs | | by Concerned Bulawayo motorist
Mthuli Ncube's 'illegal' budget causes chaos in parliament
THERE was chaos and drama in Parliament yesterday as tempers flared when Finance minister Mthuli Ncube and Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi ignored issues raised by opposition MDC Alliance MPs and Nor...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government to name and shame overpricing shops
ZANU-PF national secretary for the commissariat Victor Matemadanda yesterday warned businesses in Bulawayo against selling goods at exorbitant prices, saying corrective measures will soon be taken aga...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
US ambassador flees teargas at election protest
The US ambassador to Malawi was on Thursday forced to hurriedly leave the main opposition party's headquarters as police fired teargas at protests outside over alleged election fraud, she told AFP....Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 17:31hrs | 1 | by AFP
From Bingu wa Mutharika to Dambudzo wa Malaba & Chigumba
The deteriorating economy of Zimbabwe is a vindication that President ED Mnangagwa was imposed on Zimbabweans by none other than the controversial Zimbabwe Election Commission (ZEC) and the Supreme Co...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 12:36hrs | | by Don Chigumba
The RTGS dollar compounds Zimbabwe workers' troubles
THE government's decision to dump the United States dollar and adopt some form of local currency will hit workers the hardest as their incomes have been eroded with the floating of the exchange rate, ...Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
What does the future have in store for me as a tobacco farmer or mukorokoza?
Having been a tobacco farmer for the last three years and my young brother being an artisinal gold miner, mukorokoza for a longtime we have nothing to show from our exploits except that we are wallowi...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 07:27hrs | 2 | by Henry Madiro
War veterans threaten businesses against price hikes
War veterans have threatened to "deal" with business people who are they alleged were making massive profits through "unjustifiable" increase of prices.This comes after President Emmerson Mnan...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 15:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
ED Mnangagwa will not hatch chickens from fried eggs
President Emmerson Munangagwa managed to openly rig the forgone polls, in a daylight robbery. All his political life after independence crocodile has waited patiently, worked meticulously carving his ...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 11:22hrs | 5 | by Zanda Shumba
Daylight robbery of pricing at 4:1, but giving change at 1:1
As economic recovery measures are implemented, let's discuss this wrong mentality - yes, wrong - that nothing works until everything works because in real life there are no quick and easy fixes....Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 06:30hrs | 2 | by Conway Tutani
Inyathi High increases 3rd term fees... two days before schools close
Parents with children learning at Inyathi High school were shocked to learn that the school has resolved that parents must top up school fees for third term just two days before the third term ends. ...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 07:58hrs | 95 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Mnangagwa will not survive economic meltdown,' says Chamisa
Movement For Democratic Change (MDC) Alliance president Nelson Chamisa has labelled the two percent tax on every electronically-transacted dollar an unabashed robbery of the masses.The Ministr...Published: 03 Nov 2018 at 16:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'RBZ is empty,' says Prof Murwira
The Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Professor Amon Murwira has endorsed the controversial two percent tax per every electronically-transacted dollar as recently pronounced by his Finance co...Published: 03 Nov 2018 at 16:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dexter Nduna needs some reorientation
A statement made by Dexter Nduna in parliament yesterday is unfortunate, disgusting and exposes his party for what it represents. 24 hours later he has not corrected his statement, the MDC gave ...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 19:40hrs | | by Jacob Mafume, MDC National Spokesperson
Chamisa plots more protests
Opposition MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has threatened to roll out peaceful protests to jolt President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration into ending the economic meltdown.The MDC leader told pa...Published: 28 Oct 2018 at 20:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa statement on the prevailing economic, political and humanitarian situation
Fellow Zimbabweans! 1.1 I have taken time to assess the environment in the country to have a first-hand account of the economic, political and humanitarian situation. Indeed,...Published: 23 Oct 2018 at 14:24hrs | | by Adv. Nelson Chamisa MDC President
Zimbabwe has enough sugar to last 3 years
ZIMBABWE has enough stocks of sugar that can last for the next three years and consumers have no reason to panic or be forced to buy expensive produce from anyone, the Zimbabwe Sugar Sales Board (ZSSB...Published: 16 Oct 2018 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Looting of State resources to blame for economic crisis
THE Zimbabwe economic malaise can be traced to the political elite in the ruling party who loot and strip public funds from institutions such as the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, among others.The ...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 06:42hrs | | by Tendai Kamba
Mnangagwa gamble backfires
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has got it all to do after the government's new measures to stabilise the country's sickly economy were rejected by a wide cross-section of the Zimbabwean populace — who...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Junior cops sue over 'unlawful' salary deductions
AT least 28 junior police officers staying at Mbare Police Camp have petitioned the High Court seeking an order to compel their bosses to refund the $45 which they allege was unlawfully and wrongfully...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's tactics exposed
Africa is a young sleeping giant where Zimbabwe comes as the best educated country on the continent a vibrant young population which can compete at any global level.Zanu PF tactics of scuttlin...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 07:43hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Stop the blame Mr Mnangagwa
It is alleged that 6 people were killed by the soldiers on 31st of July, 2018, the day after voting. One woman who worked for the Zimbabwe National Water Authority was one of the victims. She was buri...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 21:24hrs | | by Amen Mpofu
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