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Ex-soldier arrested for 'killing' father-in-law
A former soldier, Stanley Nkomo (42), has been arrested in North End suburb, Bulawayo, after allegedly killing his father-in-law and subsequently engaging in a series of robberies. Nkomo, originally f...Published: 20 Sep 2024 at 08:07hrs | 481 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's civil servants long for GNU days
ZIMBABWE Prison and Correctional Service (ZPCS) officer Mbekezeli Dube* sits hunched over his desk in his discoloured uniform.The once-vibrant green shade is now a pale shadow of its former se...Published: 06 Jul 2024 at 11:48hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Ex-soldiers jailed
TWO former soldiers were last week sentenced to nine years in jail for illegal possession of ivory.Wilfred Minesi (33) and Virimayi Nyandoro (36) were convicted and sentenced by magistrate Ruth ...Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-soldier jailed 2 years for assault
A former soldier, Phakamani Moyo, has been sentenced to two years in jail by Plumtree magistrate Joshua Nembaware for assaulting two police officers. The 30-year-old Moyo will serve 18 months in jail ...Published: 02 Nov 2023 at 05:48hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Ex-soldier jailed for bashing cop
An ex-soldier Phakamani Moyo was yesterday sentenced to two years in jail by Plumtree magistrate Joshua Nembaware for bashing a police officer and refusing to be arrested over a girlfriend....Published: 31 Oct 2023 at 20:05hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Ex-soldier bashes cop, resists arrest
An ex-soldier Phakamani Moyo is in soup after he allegedly bashed a police officer and refused to be arrested over a girlfriend.The 30-...Published: 06 Oct 2023 at 22:18hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
July Moyo uses fear mongering, cash in bid to win elusive constituency on August 23
Fear pervades the peri-urban farming community of Matava in the Midlands Province's Redcliff Constituency on the eve of Zimbabwe's harmonised elections following a campaign allegedly anchored on coerc...Published: 20 Aug 2023 at 09:28hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
'Criminals around Mnangagwa are not useful'
AN army of independent legislators will rise to claim positions in Zimbabwe's National Assembly after next month's polls and dramatically shifting the political landscape, according to independent leg...Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 07:00hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Minister denies police, army involvement in robberies
HOME Affairs deputy minister Ruth Mavhunga-Maboyi has professed ignorance to the involvement of serving and ex-police and army members allegedly committing robberies and various other crimes in the co...Published: 16 Jul 2022 at 10:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's long but crucial road to digitalisation
In recent days, the President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, said that embracing science and technology, particularly in the field of education, will help to boost the global economy. He added that ...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 07:54hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Ex-soldier claims he was 'tortured and beaten' in Harare for serving in British army
A British Army veteran is "living in fear each and every second" due to the threat of deportation to Zimbabwe.Joram Nechironga has spent more than 20 years living in the UK and served in Iraq ...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 18:57hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's Chitungwiza campaign raises stink
Chitungwiza residents have taken a swipe at the local authority for allegedly siding with Zanu-PF and aiding its campaign ahead of the by-election on March 26.This publication also established...Published: 13 Feb 2022 at 20:45hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Ineligible candidate wins Zanu-PF primaries
Zanu-PF Mashonaland East province yesterday conducted a rerun of its primary elections in ward 13, Wedza South, after it emerged that the winner, Trust Mabika, was ineligible.Mabika, an ex-sol...Published: 26 Jan 2022 at 04:50hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zec won't stop hiring ex-State security agents
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has said it will not stop hiring members of the security services, amid public concerns that the electoral management body was heavily militarised, thus undermi...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 05:47hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Violence forces Zanu-PF to postpone primaries
Zanu-PF was yesterday forced to postpone its primary elections from today after violence broke out in several provinces as aspiring candidates for the March 26 polls canvassed for votes.The pr...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 05:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mystery deaths deepen in Zimbabwe
DEATH is never easy and, whenever it strikes, the grief it causes is traumatic for family and friends who would have lost a loved one.This encounter with mortality always leaves the surviving ...Published: 04 Dec 2021 at 18:49hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Smuggling cartels control Mutare
CARTELS smuggling fuel and second-hand clothes into the country have become powerful and daring to an extent of hiring earth-moving equipment to clear and periodically repair gravel roads connecting i...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
State agents draw up civic society hit list
ZIMBABWE'S security services last year intensified the hounding of civic society activists at a time Zimbabwe is expected to redouble its international re-engagement drive following months of simmerin...Published: 26 May 2021 at 16:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-Soldier, white farmer grab agriculture scheme equipment
Farmers at Velvekia farm Guruve are up in arms with an ex-soldier Christopher Magomo and one white farmer Duncan Wood.The duo is report...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 20:25hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe under renewed pressure to give up Rwandan genocide suspect
United Nations investigators tracking one of the most notorious killers in the Rwandan genocide believe he is hiding in Zimbabwe and are launching a new effort to convince authorities in Harare to all...Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 16:31hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Gun toting robbers disarmed, beaten
A BULAWAYO man allegedly teamed up with an ex-soldier to rob people that his in-laws were selling a house to, at gunpoint. Covering their faces with face masks and caps tilted to further hide ...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:44hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Ex-soldier's horror abduction story
Fifty-two-year-old Wilbert Verenga considers himself lucky to be alive after he was abducted by gunmen from his home who beat him up and left him for dead.Verenga said at one point his attacke...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Masendeke detective wants top job
A former top police officer says he deserves to be appointed among the new commissioners for the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) because he was behind the arrest of notorious criminals Elia...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 21:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga still in India, says Charamba
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga is still being treated in India contrary to social media claims that he is back in the country, a top government official has said. Presidential spokesperso...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 10:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga still fighting ailment, still feeling 'kupisa'
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga is in the Indian capital of New Delhi, where he is receiving treatment for an abdominal ailment, a government official revealed yesterday.Information deputy...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 13:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Farewell Dr. Charles Muzuva Mungoshi
As I did farewell our champion, hero, mind liberator and academic warrior, I must admit that we have been left with a seat too high to occupy and a bar not that easy to reach. We shall write but the s...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 11:00hrs | 4 | by Tapiwa Kapurura
Kidnapping claim hits killing probe
Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of a retired army colonel who was allegedly abducted from his home on Sunday afternoon by masked men - amid claims that he was due to testify before the official prob...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-Soldier up for $125,000 maintenance arrears
AN ex-soldier was yesterday hauled to court to answer to charges of defaulting maintenance in arrears of over $125 000.Shupikai Vito was not asked to plead when he appeared before Harare magis...Published: 25 Oct 2018 at 21:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zimbabwean soldiers who survived DRC war want compensation for trauma
Ex-Zimbabwean soldiers who fought in an expensive civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo two decades ago have appealed to Defence and War Veterans minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri to help them...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 15:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fears of military interference persist as Zanu-PF denies backing
The Zimbabwean army has revised its political involvement in electoral processes ahead of the 2018 presidential, parliamentary and municipal polls so as to duck local and international condemnation, i...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 17:01hrs | | by Nkosana Dlamini
Man dumped by own relatives
SOME people who have seen Edward Sithole at Marlborough Civic Centre think he was dumped by his family with the way he looked the first day they saw him.The homeless man is now a common sight ...Published: 15 May 2018 at 16:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
DRC trouble brews for Mugabe, Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe's costly military adventure in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) two decades ago continues to haunt the country, with a group of retired soldiers now accusing ousted former president Rob...Published: 15 Apr 2018 at 11:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa should seek dialogue over protests
MDC-T leader Nelson Chamisa's hasty claim that he will embark on street protests if the Government fails to implement electoral reforms before this year's harmonised elections is a shallow decision wh...Published: 22 Mar 2018 at 13:57hrs | | by Peacemaker Zano
Soldiers make up 15% of Zec staff
NEWLY-APPOINTED Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson, Priscilla Chigumba , has admitted that ex-soldiers constituted 15% of the electoral management body's staff complement.She also...Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 05:59hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, Tsvangirai departure ushers competitive politics
Zimbabweans are in for an exciting 2018 harmonised election as Zanu PF and the MDC go into this crucial contest without their two main political characters: Robert Mugabe and the late Morgan Tsvangira...Published: 25 Feb 2018 at 11:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-soldier dupes Government complex employees for years
An ex-soldier who left the Air Force of Zimbabwe in 2010, was yesterday busted after masquerading as a serving security officer for more than five years pretending to have offices at the Gweru Governm...Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Man battles for life as police unprofessionalism is exposed
A man from Homestead area of Esigodini is in intensive care unit at United Bulawayo Hospitals after he was axed and left for dead by amakorokoza who were illegally mining and digging a service road to...Published: 14 Dec 2017 at 15:16hrs | | by Sithuli Ndaba
Mbalula in fresh Zimbabweans attack
SOUTH African Police Minister Fikile Mbalula has claimed that undocumented Zimbabwean farm workers are behind a spate of robberies among other crimes committed in the neighbouring country, drawing reb...Published: 26 Oct 2017 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
New twist to Mugabe dairy 'bombers' case
The case of two suspects accused of attempting to bomb President Robert Mugabe's Alpha Omega Dairies has taken a new twist after the duo told the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) that they are members...Published: 23 Sep 2017 at 18:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-soldier troubles mum, demands upkeep money
A WOMAN from Cowdray Park heaved a huge sigh of relief when she finally got rid of her son aged 30 who was forcing her to pay rentals and buy food for him.Ottilia Murombedzi finally has peace ...Published: 15 Sep 2017 at 06:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Ex-soldier points gun at builder in land row
Retired Zimbabwe National Army colonel Elliot Piki was arraigned before the courts yesterday after he allegedly pointed a gun at another man in a land dispute on the outskirts of Harare.Piki (...Published: 30 Aug 2017 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-soldier arrested over four sisters' killing
POLICE have arrested an ex-soldier suspected to have killed four sisters with an axe before burning their bodies in a bedroom hut in Chirima village in Gokwe South.Midlands acting police spoke...Published: 28 Aug 2017 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chicken-stealing ex-soldier back in court
An ex-Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) officer - recently fined $50 for theft of four chickens - was back in the dock yesterday for the theft of 11 road-runners.Rushmore Nyamutata, 25, was convict...Published: 07 Jul 2017 at 18:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
War vets evicted
War veteran Livingstone Nyamadzawo wailed like a grieved person as he watched a messenger of court dump his bumper maize harvest on the roadside.Nyamadzawo was among more than 150 people evict...Published: 06 Jul 2017 at 10:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
War vets compile names of villagers in Mberengwa in preps for 2018 elections
The War veterans in Mberengwa North ward 35 are reported to have been compiling names of the community members in preparation for the 2018 election in what opposition members believe is one of the str...Published: 03 Jul 2017 at 15:45hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
This nonsense about Mthwakazi is just that - flatulent nonsense
ONE quote which high school history pupils in this country spout out with remarkable ease is one attributed to Otto von Bismarck, the German aristocrat and leader who is credited with the unification ...Published: 14 May 2017 at 14:50hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Mbalula's big mouth is devil's postbag
The issue of criminality in South Africa is historical just as the issue of poverty. Black South Africans are poor in a country of plenty and that is the source of criminality not the Zimbabwean army....Published: 30 Apr 2017 at 14:08hrs | | by Bishop Lazarus
Fikile Mbalula brew another shocker : 'I was misunderstood'
South African Minister of Police Fikile Mbalula has made shocking claims that he was controversial remarks on ex-Zimbabwean soldiers whom he accused of fueling crime inn that country.The maver...Published: 30 Apr 2017 at 04:45hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Outrage over Mbalula remarks escalates
Scores of Zimbabweans have reacted angrily to South Africa (SA)'s Police minister Fikile Mbalula's statement that Zimbabwean soldiers were the ones perpetrating most crimes in his country.Poli...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 15:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
White SA party to report Mbalula over Zimbabwe comments
Johannesburg – The Democratic Alliance wants to report Police Minister Fikile Mbalula to the SA Human Rights Commission for the comments he made about former Zimbabwean soldiers illegally entering t...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
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