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Zimbabwean man killed SA lover over lobola money, caged for life
A security guard who killed his partner after finding out that she spent the money he had been saving to pay lobola for her has been handed a life sentence.Louis Serenetra Moyo, 49, an undocum...Published: 05 Nov 2024 at 14:48hrs | 1852 | by Staff reporter
Ngozi Mine dumpsite fires choke Cowdray Park
Residents of Cowdray Park suburb in Bulawayo are grappling with thick smoke and health concerns as fires burn at the nearby Richmond landfill, commonly referred to as Ngozi Mine. For the past five day...Published: 04 Oct 2024 at 08:31hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man 'assisted' white farmers murder of 2 women in South Africa
Three men in South Africa are accused of killing two women and feeding their bodies to pigs on their farm in a case that has outraged the public.The men appeared in court Tuesday in the northe...Published: 11 Sep 2024 at 12:11hrs | 678 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean woman killed, remains fed to pigs by a white farmer
A Zimbabwean woman and her friend were allegedly killed and their remains fed to pigs by a farmer in Limpopo province, South Africa, last week.The Zimbabwean woman, identified as 35-year-old L...Published: 27 Aug 2024 at 08:08hrs | 4849 | by Staff reporter
Cornered thief plunges into river, dies
In a recent High Court ruling, a Banket man, Zachariah Baton, was acquitted of murder after a suspected thief he was chasing drowned in Munene River while fleeing. Baton, who appeared before Justice P...Published: 20 Jul 2024 at 12:03hrs | 391 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: Job Sikhala speech at the UN Geneva Summit
Iwant to greet you, honorable guests of this important summit for Human Rights and Democracy, from all the four corners of the world. I am Job Sikala, the surviving political prisoner from Zimbabwe. I...Published: 17 May 2024 at 16:38hrs | 41 | by Jo Sikhala
Zimbabwe businessman found dead in SA
THE body of a Zimbabwean businessman, Evans Katumba, who was abducted in Durban last month with the kidnappers demanding a ransom of R2,5 million, has been found by police in KwaZulu Natal, South Afri...Published: 16 Apr 2024 at 07:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Family dumps decomposing corpse at killer's home, demands 55 head of cattle before burial
A family in Silobela is demanding 55 head of cattle and US$8 500 as compensation before they can bury their son who was allegedly killed in a revenge attack.The family of Tinashe Manyeruke who...Published: 16 Feb 2024 at 15:24hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Met Dept issues heavy rains alert
HEAVY rains are expected across much of the country for the next seven days from today to Wednesday next week, the Meteorological Services Department forecasts, as the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone ...Published: 11 Jan 2024 at 05:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police brutality victim's family demands 'supernatural' justice
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has been accused of covering up its officers' attack on a handcuffed suspect, who later died in holding cells at Banket Police Station, last month.The now de...Published: 14 Nov 2023 at 05:07hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Murder of taxi driver under probe
Police in Beitbridge are now treating the death of a taxi driver as a homicide after discovering his mutilated body on Friday along the Beitbridge to Bulawayo road.The victim, identified as 42...Published: 10 Oct 2023 at 05:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Decomposed body uncollected at Mount Darwin hospital
Police in Mashonaland Central are appealing for relatives or friends who may be missing their loved one to come and identify a male corpse that is at Moun...Published: 03 Apr 2023 at 14:19hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwean serial killer slapped with eight life sentences
Zimbabwean national Themba Prince Willard Dube was found guilty of the kidnapping and murder of seven women in Seshego, Lebowakgomo and Mankweng.Dube, who is orIginally from Gwanda Mpaya villa...Published: 15 Mar 2023 at 06:57hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Double life sentence for Zimbabwean prophet who raped women and then tied them to trees
A 50-year-old Zimbabwean ‘priest', who used his position of trust to lure women to secluded spots where he raped them and then tied them to a tree, has been removed from society.The North We...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 05:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Double allocations rock Cowdray Park stands
NEW residential stands being unveiled in Cowdray Park's Hlalani Kuhle/ Garikai housing scheme in Bulawayo have been tangled up in a double allocation boob.Out of the 130 cases of double alloca...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 06:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala faces fresh charges of misleading police over who murdered Ali
Zengeza West MP will appear in court on Thursday facing fresh charges of defeating or obstructing the course of justice over claims he sought to mislead police officers investigating the abduction and...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 08:52hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa claims CCC destabilisation
resident Emmerson Mnangagwa on Monday skirted addressing the gruesome killing of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist Moreblessing Ali, and instead accused the opposition party of creating "di...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 15:23hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Sisters tormented by dead lover
IN a suspected case of a vengeful spirit, two sisters from the same family are being tormented by the spirit of a boyfriend, who died 24 years ago.The girlfriend, Chioniso Mabwe now 40, was in...Published: 05 May 2022 at 20:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man kills 3-year-old for wetting her pants
A MAN from Ntabazinduna, Matabeleland North province, has been arrested a year later after he allegedly whipped his three-year-old daughter to death for wetting herself, before digging a grave inside ...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe oil drilling to begin in 2022
INVICTUS Energy, the Australian firm prospecting for oil and gas in Muzarabani, may start drilling exploration wells early next year after taking delivery of state-of-the-art equipment to be used in i...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Nkayi district hospital mortuary not functioning for 13 years'
NKAYI District Hospital mortuary in Matabeleland North province has reportedly not been functional for close to 13 years following equipment breakdown.The hospital is in ward 29 in Nkayi distr...Published: 23 Jul 2021 at 09:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man remains missing after Mozambique's Palma terrorist attack
FEARS are growing for a 38-year-old Zimbabwean man missing since March 24 when Islamist insurgents launched an attack on the northern Mozambican coastal town of Palma, a town of approximately 75,000 r...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 07:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
National Foods offer funds to rehabilitate road
THE National Foods Limited has approached the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) offering funds to rehabilitate one of the roads providing access to its property, on condition that the local authority would ...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 10:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo schools miss out on rehab offer
BULAWAYO'S ward 25 recently missed out on an opportunity to have its schools refurbished by a well-wisher after the local authority failed to provide materials needed for the exercise, a council repor...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Moana burial on Thursday
LATE fitness trainer, Michelle ‘Moana' Amuli's family has backtracked on its decision to bury her remains after at least two to three weeks after finally managing to identify her body.This w...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Decomposed body found in a mine shaft
Illegal miners at Masasa mine in Mazowe allegedly discovered a decomposed body yesterday.The two miners Justice Makuku (47) of Southlands, Harare and Milton Musona of Tsungubvi, Glendale were ...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 11:28hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwean brothers bound, tortured and killed in South Africa
Two brothers from a Bulawayo crime family are being buried on Sunday after they were tortured across several days, killed and their bodies dumped on a farm in South Africa.Sydney and Addmore G...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 08:05hrs | 12 | by ZimLive
Health ministry to float RTGS$ tender for drugs
HEALTH minister Obadiah Moyo on Thursday assured Senate that his ministry was prepared to avert any health calamities that may face Cyclone Idai victims, adding that his ministry will soon float a rea...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's supporter turns up dead after January 24 kidnapping
The body of a Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party supporter kidnapped days after fuel protests shut down the country in January has turned up at a mortuary in Chitungwiza, his devastated family...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 12:34hrs | | by ZimLive
'Gukurahundi pushed me into politics'
THE main opposition MDC Alliance's deputy chief whip in the National Assembly, Nomathemba Ndlovu, has opened up on her traumatic childhood as a victim of Gukurahundi. Ndlovu, a proportional representa...Published: 16 Oct 2018 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Legitimacy is not bestowed on a regime - Ruhanya
As Zimbabweans await the Constitutional Court outcome on the MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's petition against Emmrson Mnangagwa's victory Political commentator Pedzisayi Ruhanya has urged the peo...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 07:59hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Everybody cared when they were alive no one mourned when they died alone abroad
As more people live on their own, a growing number Zimbabweans are dying unnoticed and unloved with neither friends nor family in the UK. Maria Mangena left few possessions when she died. Poli...Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 17:28hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Decomposing body in Mpopoma
A DECOMPOSING body of a 35-year-old man from Bulawayo's Mpopoma suburb was discovered at his home yesterday with relatives suspecting he could have been killed as there were scratch marks on the body....Published: 01 Apr 2018 at 08:45hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Lifting of Zimbabwe sanctions suspended - Trump government
The United States recently pronounced that the sanctions against targeted Zimbabwe government Ministers will not be lifted anytime soon, not before the looming general elections and the apology from...Published: 30 Mar 2018 at 22:24hrs | | by Antiletha Tshabangu, Political activist
Prominent lawyer's $25 000 fruit juice lawsuit thrown out of court
THE High Court yesterday dismissed an application by prominent Bulawayo lawyer Mr Ndabezinhle Mazibuko who was suing a city supermarket for $25 000 after he bought a box of fruit juice which was alleg...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Christmas eve murder suspect caught
A suspected murderer who allegedly robbed a Mhangura taxi driver of his car, $2000 and mobile phone before killing and burying him in a shallow grave on Christmas Eve has been arrested.Sources...Published: 14 Jan 2018 at 09:12hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Granny (70) raped and hanged
A 70-year-old woman was raped and murdered by an unidentified man last week in Kezi.Maritha Ncube from Mbuso Village in Ward 11 was found undressed with her clothes stuffed in her mouth. It is...Published: 12 Jan 2018 at 14:30hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
'Day dreaming' tout confesses to murder
A Mhangura taxi driver is reportedly striking from the dead after he was grisly murdered by artisanal miners on Christmas Eve before being robbed of his car, $2000 and a mobile phone, Bulawayo24.com h...Published: 08 Jan 2018 at 15:55hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwean man killed in Botswana
PALAPYE: Two young men, aged 19 and 20, in Botswana were remanded in police custody last Friday on suspicion of killing a Zimbabwean male aged 30-years whose corpse was found buried near in Mahalapye....Published: 23 Dec 2017 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
14 elephants found dead
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is investigating a matter of 14 elephants found dead on Friday in Victoria Falls,13 of which were killed 9 months ago.Sources close to investigations allege ...Published: 20 Nov 2017 at 11:18hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Decomposing body discovered in Marange
TEMPERS reportedly flared between Marange villagers and security guards hired by the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) following the recent discovery of a decomposing human body in the Mara...Published: 31 Oct 2017 at 11:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Missing businessman found dead
A BULAWAYO businessman went missing recently and was found dead two weeks later in Hwange, leaving his family puzzled amid suspicions that he was killed in the city and his body was dumped in the mini...Published: 19 Sep 2017 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe is similar to a fruitless figtree
A figtree in ancient times long back, it was prioritised in Judea, Jerusalem, Samaria, Israel and other places. It was treated with with great care because it provided sweet and delicious fruits and e...Published: 16 Aug 2017 at 12:00hrs | | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo
The MDC-T needs to harvest talent
I almost jumped out of my skin after reading a rather uncharacteristic and bold assertion by Dr. Pedzisai Ruhanya. "90% of the current MDC-T leadership is not fit for purpose. Since the splits...Published: 11 Aug 2017 at 15:00hrs | 1 | by Patson Dzamara
90% of the current MDC-T leadership not fit for purpose - Analyst
Political commentator Pedzisai Ruhanya has claimed that 90% of the current MDC-T leadership is not fit for purpose. He said since the splits of 2005, 2014 and more accurately after the Governm...Published: 11 Aug 2017 at 09:43hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Woman beheads baby as cover up after uncle impregnates her
A WOMAN who had an affair with her uncle resulting in a baby being born, connived with him to commit one of the worst crimes ever.Clever Shamhu and Chipo Mpofu from Chitoro village in Gokwe re...Published: 11 Aug 2017 at 08:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MK's Modise in awe of Zipra's izigebengu
This is the second part of an article by Retired Brigadier-General Abel Mazinyane about the combat life of the late former Zipra senior commander Eddie Sigoge Mlotshwa who passed on in Bulawayo last m...Published: 30 Jul 2017 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman gives birth, shoves baby into anthill hole
A 35-YEAR-OLD woman from Kezi in Matabeleland South province appeared in court last week charged with infanticide after she allegedly killed her newly-born babygirl by shoving her into an anthill hole...Published: 28 Jun 2017 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man stoned to death over pregnant woman
A MAN from Fort Rixon who allegedly teamed up with a friend and stoned his neighbour to death following a fight over a pregnant woman was yesterday sentenced to 12 years in jail.Tshayizo Mpofu...Published: 17 Jun 2017 at 10:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
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