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Ramaphosa kicks the can down the road
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, a key political ally instrumental in Ramaphosa's rise to the presidency in 2017, amid allegatio...Published: 14 Jul 2025 at 08:02hrs | 1522 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa flies into a storm
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to return from the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro into a storm of controversy sparked by damning allegations made by KwaZulu-Natal Police Commission...Published: 08 Jul 2025 at 10:38hrs | 1117 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe launches Presidential Emergency Medical Scheme
The Government of Zimbabwe has launched the Presidential Emergency Medical Scheme in Mutasa District, Manicaland Province, in a major effort to improve healthcare delivery in rural communities. The of...Published: 17 May 2025 at 18:01hrs | 710 | by Staff reporter
Touts pounce on drug addicts, peddlers
In an effort driven by the need to tame drugs and substance abuse scourge, Mvurwi touts have declared war on addicts and peddlers who are wrecking havoc in town.The touts have been raiding bas...Published: 15 Feb 2025 at 22:28hrs | 888 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Mvurwi
Musicians target drug lords, as Mai Mabhena rescues Guruve
Several musicians scattered around Mashonaland Central province have launched their fight against drug cartels describing them as more evil than all criminals on earth.Speaking after musical g...Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 10:50hrs | 445 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
Bulawayo drug hotspot suburbs named
Police in Bulawayo are set to launch a crackdown on drug barons in several identified hotspots, including Hillside, Famona, Bradfield, Nkulumane, Thorngrove, Pumula South, Makokoba, and Hope Fountain....Published: 27 Aug 2024 at 07:56hrs | 716 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Justice Minister part of drug cartels
In a clear sign for miscarriage of justice and security institutions porosity, Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, Ziyambi Ziyambi has been fingered by one of his close associates, L...Published: 17 May 2024 at 11:42hrs | 112 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
Chinese tech to help Zimbabwe police crackdown on drug barons
POLICE have vowed to use newly received equipment from China to descend on all drug cartels with the same severity the impact of the drugs is having on societies as the fight against substance abuse i...Published: 19 Jan 2024 at 13:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa mixes politics with religion
Tony Blair's press secretary Alastair Campbell, when the former British Prime Minister was asked about his faith, famously retorted that "we don't do God," illustrating the perceived perils of mixing ...Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 22:27hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
When the devil has colonised the pulpit
The ever-known spirit and will to excell in academic studies has left most school children, both at primary and secondary levels. The 'tiger' in them to succeed has never shown its head save f...Published: 16 May 2023 at 17:35hrs | 3 | by TT Murisa
Chamisa wrote to Mnangagwa
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa says he has written several times to President Emmerson Mnangagwa importuning the state leader to abandon his vindictive treatment of the oppo...Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 19:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe journalists can use expired Press cards'
POLICE yesterday said journalists would be allowed to use their expired 2022 Press cards until further notice.This was revealed by national police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyat...Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 05:21hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Drug cartels turn Zimbabwe into a hub
Zimbabwe is fast becoming a destination of choice for smugglers of dangerous drugs such as heroin, with police saying syndicates involving locals and foreigners were on the loose.The country h...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF not in Facebook's secret blacklist of 'dangerous' groups and people
Zanu-PF has not been included in Facebook's secret blacklist of 'dangerous" groups and people. The list, compiled under Facebook's Dangerous Individuals and Organisations (DIO) policy, has bee...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 09:25hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
More than 200 arrested in anti-drugs blitz
THE inter-ministerial task force that was set up last month to find solutions to drug abuse has hit the ground running, with more than 200 suspected drug dealers arrested so far.The blitz aims...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 19:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cops recover 3 tonnes of mbanje
Police have arrested six suspects in separate incidents, recovering nearly three tonnes of mbanje and 75 bottles of banned BronCleer cough mixture as they intensify the crackdown against drug peddlers...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA 'key transit hub' for global heroin, cocaine trade
Durban - South Africa, and Africa as a whole, has become a key transit hub for Afghan heroin and Latin American cocaine.The limitless funding of drug cartels and the violence brought with them...Published: 10 Mar 2016 at 05:30hrs | | by Agencies
Ministers stash $270m in foreign bank
WASHINGTON DC - An international banking giant, HSBC, made huge profits by allegedly engaging in shady deals of over $270 million with some Zimbabwean citizens seven years ago, in the process, disadv...Published: 10 Feb 2015 at 10:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Porous borders: a threat to SA security
CAPE TOWN - While the South African government has been commended for its "open door" policy on immigrants, experts have raised concerns about security threats possed by thousands of undocumented ...Published: 26 Nov 2014 at 10:49hrs | 2 | by Thabo Kunene
Sources of Islamist group, Boko Haram, funds revealed
Just over a year ago, armed men on motorcycles entered a national park in Cameroon, near the Nigerian border, and swiftly abducted a family of vacationing French tourists - a husband and wife and thei...Published: 20 May 2014 at 07:35hrs | 15 | by Kathleen Caulderwood, International Business Times
NSA spies on computers worldwide, but not in the US
Washington - The US National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100 000 computers around the world - but not in the US - that allows the US to conduct surveillance on those machines, The...Published: 15 Jan 2014 at 05:04hrs | 22 | by AP
U.S. to reinforce democratic institutions in Africa says Obama
DAKAR - The United States will help African countries to strengthen democracy, good governance, the rule of law and respect for human rights, U. S. President Barack Obama says on his visit to Senegal,...Published: 28 Jun 2013 at 12:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
After Two Days - THE PROPHECY
Tuesday 14 August 2012, I read an article in the Daily Sun newspaper (South Africa). The article was titled; Credo the Prophet has spoken - and he is very fearful - MZANSI WILL BURN! It depicts th...Published: 19 Aug 2012 at 09:27hrs | 38 | by Justice Maphosa
Four youths killed, cut to pieces and left in plastic bags
Mexico City - The slayings of four youths whose bodies were cut to pieces and left in plastic bags has horrified the central Mexico city of Cuernavaca, calling up memories of a similar crime a year ag...Published: 10 Mar 2012 at 08:08hrs | | by AP
Zim woman arrested for drug trafficking in Hong Kong
A Zimbabwean woman,Regina Makwembere (40) was arrested in Hong Kong after being found in possession of hard drugs while en route to Thailand. Makwembere was found in possession of amphetamine...Published: 07 Mar 2012 at 19:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
More than 350 inmates killed in a massive fire at an overcrowded prison
Honduras President Porfirio Lobo has suspended the director of the Comayagua prison and the head ...Published: 15 Feb 2012 at 21:44hrs | 1 | by AJ
Open Letter to ZRP Commissioner Mr A. Chihuri: Erradicating Music Piracy
MUSIC PIRACY Introduction We have over 100 music artists in Zimbabwe. It is said that over music piracy is escalating at an alarming rate in Zimbabw...Published: 30 Dec 2011 at 17:37hrs | | by Justice Maphosa
Zim drug mules face execution in Malaysia
TWO Zimbabwean women face the death penalty in Malaysia after they appeared in court in the capital Kuala Lumpur last week facing charges of trafficking 7kg of cocaine worth US$900 000.This c...Published: 03 Apr 2011 at 20:42hrs | 7 | by Byo24News
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