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Gold heist suspect in court
Nyasha Rusike, 38, appeared before Harare Magistrate Mrs. Marehwanazvo Gofa on charges of robbery after allegedly stealing gold valued at US$5,000 and other valuables from a gold miner. Rusike, who fa...Published: 08 Nov 2024 at 15:32hrs | 1141 | by Staff reporter
Teenage 'Mashurugwi' nabbed for gold heist
Two machete wielding teenage illegal gold panners were arrested by police together with two others after allegedly attacking and robbing a fellow panner of US$300 cash and 1.5 grams of gold.Po...Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 18:12hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police arrest 3 suspects in probe into How Mine gold robbery
Police on Wednesday made a breakthrough in their investigation into Tuesday's gun attack on a security convoy from How Mine during which 11.9kg of gold worth US$650,000 was taken.Three men sus...Published: 05 Oct 2022 at 21:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
4 cops in foiled gold heist
TWO police officers, who were part of a four-member gang of felonious cops, have been arrested after a foiled gold heist in Gwanda where they shot and seriously injured a miner.The victim, Vum...Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 08:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Robbers pounce on Buyanga's gold-carrying sports utility in South Africa
African Medallion Group founder Frank Buyanga has condemned the shooting of two guards after 10 robbers pounced on his Toyota Land Cruiser in an attempt to steal gold in Boksburg, South Africa....Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 18:50hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
How the Zimbabwe govt stole from its people, again
THERE is a scene in the 1978 classic movie, The Great Train Robbery, which portrays the destructive arrogance of Zimbabwe's monetary policy over the past two decades.After masterminding a gold...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by newZWire
'CIOs' in failed police station gold heist
TWO men from Kwekwe have appeared in court for impersonating officers from the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) in a bid to take gold that was kept as an exhibit at West Nicholson Police Statio...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: $1 million gold heist cop arrested
A police constable has been arrested while a manhunt for a senior officer has been launched in connection with the case in which gold worth nearly $1 million vanished from an armoury at Plumtree Polic...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 16:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gold heist gang jailed
FOUR injiva linked to an organised syndicate of armed robbers who raided shops in Bulawayo and terrorised residents, seizing about $7 200 in cash and 18 grammes of gold, were yesterday jailed for a co...Published: 21 Mar 2018 at 05:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Failed gold heist gang walks free
SIX men accused of attempting to rob a miner of 47kgs of gold worth over $1,8 million in Kwekwe, yesterday walked free after a magistrate ruled that the State had failed to prove a prima facie case ag...Published: 26 Jul 2016 at 06:53hrs | 2 | by Patrick Chitumba
$1,8M 'failed gold heist': Gang of six pleads not guilty
SIX men appeared in court yesterday facing allegations of attempting to rob a Kwekwe miner of 47,5kgs of gold worth over $1,8 million which was destined for Fidelity Printers in the gold mining town....Published: 22 Jul 2016 at 09:44hrs | | by Patrick Chitumba
Member of 6kg gold heist gang nabbed
ONE of the four-man gang that reportedly robbed five security guards of more than 6kg of gold worth US$340 000 at gunpoint in Kwekwe early this month has been arrested in Harare.Five National...Published: 16 Jul 2012 at 13:58hrs | | by Court Reporter
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