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Man jailed 84 years for bus armed robber
A man involved in a gang that robbed passengers on a Blue Circle bus has been sentenced to 84 years in prison. The robbery occurred on July 18, 2024, when a group, including Ashton Siziva (26)...Published: 06 Sep 2024 at 07:14hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
Chiefs told to stay away from politics
CHIEFS have been urged to uphold constitutionalism, stay away from politics and focus on their mandate of fostering development and resolving disputes among their subjects.The remarks were mad...Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Big surprises in Zanu-PF primaries
SOME ministers and veteran parliamentarians fell by the wayside in the Zanu-PF primary elections that were held over the weekend as the ruling party entrenches democracy and reenergises its base ahead...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF cell verification meetings continue
Zanu-PF continued with its cell verification meetings yesterday, with officials congregating in Chinhoyi and Bulawayo, as the party moves to strengthen itself ahead of harmonised elections expected th...Published: 06 Feb 2023 at 04:50hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
'I was told to stop supporting Mnangagwa'
WE today conclude our interview with Elphas Tshuma, a former guerilla who operated in Hurungwe in Mashonaland West Province and later on in Hwange in Matabeleland North. Tshuma, now a member of the ru...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 08:27hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF old guard wins central committee elections in Matebeleland
Most of the senior Zanu-PF members in Matebeleland won in the party's central committee elections held on Saturday.The central committee is the party's highest decision-making body outside of ...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 19:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF boycotts key gukurahundi ndaba
ZANU-PF representatives Wednesday boycotted a National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) organised peace building meeting in Bulawayo.The boycott prompted guest of honour Minister of ...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Referees to raise Zimbabwe flag at Cosafa Cup tourney
TWO Zimbabwean match officials, Rusape-based referee Brighton Chimene and assistant referee Brighton Nyika from Bulawayo will be among the 21 match officials at next month's Cosafa Cup in South Africa...Published: 29 Jun 2021 at 11:02hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
How to wreck a political party
One of the issues that MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa raised during his Agenda 2021 address last week were claims that Government was gunning for a one party State in Zimbabwe using some oppositi...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 06:05hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Chivhu soldier killer named
POLICE have named Elphas Jani (20) of Gutu, now deceased, as one of the gunmen who shot and killed Lance Corporal Lorance Mupanganyama, and injured Corporal Peter Zvirevo, in Chivhu last Saturday....Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 07:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo businessman sues sheriff
A BULAWAYO businessman and former South African Airways (SAA) boss, Elphas Mavune Maphisa has challenged the attachment of his property after losing a legal wrangle with a property dealer, John Pocock...Published: 27 May 2019 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Bulawayo province endorses Mnangagwa for 2023 elections
THE ruling Zanu-PF Bulawayo provincial leadership has endorsed President Emmerson Mnangagwa as the party's presidential candidate for 2023 and told off opposition leader Nelson Chamisa for demanding t...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's impressive cabinet line-up under a severe parliamentary vaccuum
For the first time in history, the new president has made constructive use of the specially elected parliamentarians window.From this window the president has addressed key discrepancies to br...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 13:35hrs | 1 | by Reginald Thabani Gola.
Mohadi's aide dies of bomb injuries
Vice President Kembo Mohadi's aide Nelson Dube, who succumbed to injuries sustained during last week's White City Stadium blast and was declared a liberation war hero, was buried yesterday. Du...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ex-airline boss wants $10 000 from ex-wife
PROMINENT Bulawayo businessman and former South African Airways (SAA) boss, Mr Elphas Mavune Maphisa has approach the High Court challenging a ruling by a magistrate blocking him from demanding about ...Published: 14 May 2018 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF aspiring candidates for primaries in Bulawayo
ZANU (PF) members to battle it out in the primary elections in Bulawayo Province to select candidates to represent the party in the 2018 elections;...Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 15:04hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF candidates list
THE ruling Zanu-PF yesterday released the full list of its candidates who have been given the green light to battle it out in the primary elections, with some party bigwigs and businessmen from Bulawa...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 10:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MPs sweat over $600 subscription fees
ZANU-PF legislators and aspiring MPs in Bulawayo are sweating to raise US$600 each in "subscription fees" demanded by the party for the past five years.Sitting legislators who spoke to the Zim...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 14:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo records lowest BVR turnout
Available statistics have shown that Bulawayo province has the least number of registered voters under the ongoing biometric voter registration programme.Bulawayo province has the least number...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 14:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Prof Jonathan Moyo: From pedigree political scientist to high profile political witch!
The man who once and severally gave Zimbabwean retired president, Robert Gabriel Mugabe, a most thorny political bed! The political scientist who once belonged to the stable of The Big Five intellectu...Published: 17 Jan 2018 at 14:17hrs | | by Reginald Thababi Gola
$500K diamonds stolen, replaced with fakes by employees
Four Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) employees have appeared in court accused of conniving to smuggle fake diamonds into the company's sorting house, replacing them with high quality diam...Published: 29 Dec 2017 at 23:26hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe-led Zanu-PF would have lost elections, Matematanda says
CHANCES are very high that Zanu-PF would have lost next year's elections if it had fielded Robert Mugabe as its presidential candidate, a senior official said yesterday.Speaking during a Zanu-...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 04:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fraudster lawyer ordered to pay victim $25 000
THE High Court has ordered Bulawayo lawyer Tungamirai Nyengera to pay back $25 000 to a home seeker he defrauded in a botched housing deal.Nyengera forged title deeds and sold a house in Belle...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Censured Zanu-PF members told to abide by party constitution
ZANU-PF yesterday said respective provinces where officials were recommended for censure for colluding with axed Vice President, Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa, should abide by the party's constitution in hand...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tough times beckon for Mnangagwa allies
DUE processes will be followed in dealing with more than 100 Zanu-PF officials who have been recommended for suspension or expulsion for allegedly supporting a bid by sacked Vice-President Emmerson Mn...Published: 12 Nov 2017 at 07:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mashonaland want Mnangagwa fired
Bulawayo and Mashonaland provinces yesterday resolved to ask President Mugabe to immediately drop Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa over allegations of undermining him.The Mash Central provinc...Published: 06 Nov 2017 at 05:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman endures long hours of pain after perpetrator slices her privates
A HIGH Court judge has heard how a rape victim endured long hours of gruesome pain after the rapist sliced her private parts soon after forcing himself on the woman.This emerged following an a...Published: 30 Aug 2017 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chombo slams leaders fanning factionalism
ZANU-PF Secretary for Administration Ignatius Chombo has slammed leaders who fan factionalism within the ruling party.He also challenged the ruling party's Bulawayo provincial leadership to un...Published: 24 Jul 2017 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
'War veterans not forming political party'
THE Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association (ZNLWVA) yesterday distanced itself from private media reports that the former liberation fighters wanted to form a political party.I...Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo lawyer in $50 000 house fraud
DISGRACED Bulawayo lawyer Mr Tungamirayi Nyengera has been sucked into a $50 000 fraud case in which four people have been arrested for selling a house they did not own.Mr Nyengera was deregis...Published: 12 Jul 2017 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF lifts Bulawayo suspensions
ZANU-PF has lifted suspensions on senior party members, including former Matabeleland South Resident Minister Angeline Masuku, who were barred from party activities for allegedly backing sacked Vice-P...Published: 09 Jul 2017 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF's Smelly Dube sued for failing to pay rent
MIDLANDS businesswoman and Zanu-PF official Smelly Dube is in trouble for failing to pay rentals for a property she leased through a Bulawayo-based estate agent, John Pocock Company (Private) Limited....Published: 20 Jun 2017 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Two cops nabbed over diamond robbery
Two Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) cops were arrested together with two Chimanimani thugs after robbing diamond dealers at Jinga village in Chimanimani.It is alleged two cops from Gweru rural ...Published: 11 Dec 2016 at 17:18hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
WANTED: 18 criminals
POLICE in Matabeleland South Province are looking for 18 hardcore criminals that include nine wanted for murder while others are theft and armed robbery suspects.According to information r...Published: 21 Oct 2016 at 07:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
John Nkomo soccer tournament launched in Bulawayo
THE inaugural $5,000 John Landa Nkomo Liquor Hub Super 8 tournament that will feature Zifa Southern Region Soccer League clubs was launched in Bulawayo yesterday.The tournament is bankrolled b...Published: 07 May 2016 at 08:24hrs | 2 | by Raymond Jaravaza
Couple assaults Magaya's congregant over church operations
A Budiriro couple has been dragged to court for assaulting their neighbour on religious differences.Patricia Chatezvi and Elphas Mandevani pleaded not guilty to assault and remanded out ...Published: 23 Dec 2015 at 12:34hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF wars claim 2 lives
As long feared by political analysts and rational ruling party bigwigs, the deadly factional and succession wars devouring President Robert Mugabe's post-congress Zanu-PF turned fatal yesterday, after...Published: 15 Nov 2015 at 10:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jumbo gores man to death
A 65-YEAR-OLD pensioner was on Wednesday gored to death by a jumbo on the outskirts of Victoria Falls as he was walking to the Forestry Commission compound at dusk.Elphas Masuku, who was a Fo...Published: 01 Aug 2015 at 13:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prominent Bulawayo lawyer up for fraud
A PROMINENT lawyer with Cheda and Partners Law firm in Bulawayo, Mlamuli Ncube and three accomplices, allegedly forged powers of attorney and used them to sell two houses in the leafy suburbs of Burn...Published: 20 Mar 2015 at 05:39hrs | | by Emily Mbewe
Polygamist accuses second wife of juju use
A SELF-PROCLAIMED polygamist dragged his second wife to court accusing her of insulting and assaulting him in the company of her brothers.Elphas Banga told the court that he wants a protection...Published: 11 Feb 2015 at 17:46hrs | | by Wilson Kakurira
She refused $1 divorce, polygamist tells court
A HARARE polygamist reportedly dragged his second wife to court accusing her of insulting and assaulting him in the company of her brothers.According H-Metro, Elphas Banga told the court that...Published: 11 Feb 2015 at 10:40hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe assassination plot suspects runs for dear life
MASHONALAND CENTRAL - Zanu-PF Politburo member Nicholas Goche had to run for dear life yesterday fleeing Zanu-PF youths in Bindura who were baying for his blood after he was implicated in the plot...Published: 24 Nov 2014 at 03:41hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Woman 'pulls' hubby's penis as punishment
REPORTS of domestic violence are normally framed and understood under the impression that there are a female victim and male perpetrator problem. But many a time men just like their female counterpart...Published: 21 Nov 2014 at 09:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khaya Moyo's bid for the second VP suffers a blow
ZANU-PF national chairman Simon Khaya Moyo's bid for the second vice presidency has suffered a blow with two senior party members distancing themselves from last year's meeting that "unanimously" ...Published: 28 Oct 2014 at 08:49hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Zanu-PF strife divides ex-Zapu leaders
RELATIONS among former-PF Zapu leaders, who are now in Zanu-PF, have been poisoned by factional fights in the party ahead of the party's crucial congress in December where the vice-presidency and the ...Published: 08 Aug 2014 at 12:08hrs | | by Owen Gagare
'Khaya Moyo should be VP,' says Msipa
Former-PF-Zapu secretary-general Cephas Msipa on Tuesday said his colleagues unanimously agreed in September last year that Simon Khaya Moyo should be elevated to the post of vice president, but discl...Published: 23 Jul 2014 at 09:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tout killed over biscuits
A CHIREDZI tout who caused the death of his friend while wrestling over a packet of biscuits, has been sentenced to three years. Takemore Mhende of Triangle, who was aged 25 when he committed the cri...Published: 07 Jun 2014 at 08:36hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
Man kills son (9) for under performing at school, buries body in the middle of the night
A ZAKA man killed his son, 9, as punishment for poor performance in school and buried him alone at night, a court heard yesterday. High Court judge Justice Francis Bere heard how Nobert Bvuk...Published: 05 Jun 2014 at 16:49hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
Prophet in court over raping spree
A SELF-PROCLAIMED prophet from Bulawayo's Trenance suburb allegedly raped two women and four girls claiming he was cleansing them of evil spirits. Elphase Robert Ndlovu, 42, appeared before Western Co...Published: 24 May 2014 at 14:28hrs | | by Plaxcedes Hove
Mat South youths sidelined in loan scheme
Matabeleland South provincial Head of Youth and Economic Empowerment Elphas Siziba is demanding answers on why youths from the province are being shunned from a government empowerment programme....Published: 23 Apr 2014 at 09:10hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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