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Matonga acquitted
Former Information Deputy Minister Bright Matonga was acquitted on Tuesday by Chegutu magistrate Ms. Evelyn Mashawakure on charges of stealing two tractors valued at nearly US$200,000 from a white far...Published: 06 Mar 2025 at 14:52hrs | 144 | by Staff reporter
Ex-minister Matonga denies US$500k theft case
Former Information Deputy Minister Bright Matonga, who was arrested in June last year on charges of stealing farming equipment valued at over US$500,000, denied the allegations on Thursday before Cheg...Published: 11 Jan 2025 at 08:24hrs | 82 | by Staff reporter
Bright Matonga arrested again
Bright Matonga, the former Deputy Minister of Information, has been re-arrested after being initially granted bail last month. Matonga, who was previously released on a US$600 bail by Chegutu Magistra...Published: 24 Jul 2024 at 12:02hrs | 2850 | by Staff reporter
Joice Mujuru's farm property saved from sale by the sheriff of the High Court
Former state Vice President Joice Mujuru's farm property has been saved from sale by the sheriff of the High Court.The sale of various farming implements was supposed to take place on Friday J...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 19:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe manufacturing sector on rebound
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) says the country's manufacturing sector is on a massive expansion push after consuming roughly 70% of all foreign currency injected into the economy last year....Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 11:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Irrigation pipe thief bashed to death
Six Bindura men are in trouble after they bashed a suspected irrigation pipe thief to death.Takudzwa Mumba (22), Maphios Mu...Published: 18 Sep 2022 at 17:17hrs | 4 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Madzivanyati defies eviction order, returns to Esidakeni Farm
Bulawayo businessman and National University of Science and Technology (NUST) lecturer, Dumisani Madzivanyati who was evicted from Esidakeni Farm in Nyamandlovu on Tuesday, has reportedly returned in ...Published: 01 Dec 2021 at 11:49hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Esidakeni farm wrangle turns nasty, tomato crops destroyed
KERSHELMAR Farm, commonly known as Esidakeni, should be teeming with ready-to-harvest tomatoes at this time of the year as it is every farmer's wish to take a good crop to market.A gaze throug...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:04hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Lecturer challenges eviction from Esidakeni farm
BULAWAYO businessman and National University of Science and Technology (Nust) lecturer Dumisani Madzivanyati yesterday approached the Supreme Court challenging a High Court judgment which ordered his ...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
High Court bars Madzivanyati from interfering at Esidakeni Farm
The Bulawayo High Court has granted an order barring Dumisani Madzivanyati from interfering with operations at Kelshmar Farms in Nyamandlovu.Siphosami Malunga, who is the son of late nationali...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 21:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's irrigation pipes thief caged
A 42-YEAR-OLD Glendale man accused of stealing six irrigation pipes from First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa's Angel of Hope Foundation has been sentenced to 3 years behind bars by a Concession magistrate. ...Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 19:59hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Cop 'steals' irrigation pipes
Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officer Robert Boora (31) stationed at Chipinge Urban police station appeared before Chipinge Magistrates court facing char...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 07:53hrs | 3 | by Tarisai Mudahondo / Simbarashe Sithole
How to kill a country
Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had tired of London's nagging about the subjug...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 16:49hrs | 5 | by Samantha Power
Ex-presidential aide's sons in land rage
FORMER Deputy Chief Secretary in the Office of the President and Cabinet, Justin Mupamhanga's sons have been taken to court for destroying at least eight hectares of a maize crop belonging to their ne...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 20:37hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
95% white farmers happy with US$3,5 billion govt compensation deal
COMMERCIAL Farmers Union of Zimbabwe (CFU) president, Nick Swanepoel has dismissed reports that the US$3.5 billion Global Compensation Agreement between farmers' representative groups and government w...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:14hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Well collapses killing two men
TWO Pfungwe men died, while three others were left nursing injuries after a well collapsed and buried them while sinking irrigation pipes.George Kareku (53) and Israel Mukara (49), both of Dek...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe's white farmers: Who will pay compensation?
In Zimbabwe, thousands of white farmers were forced from their farms, sometimes violently, between 2000 and 2001 under a government programme of land reform. The seizures were blamed for destroying Zi...Published: 16 May 2019 at 20:25hrs | 2 | by BBC
Guard jailed for fatally shooting theft suspect
A former security guard at Ratelshock Tea Estate in Chipinge was sentenced to an effective six months in jail for fatally shooting a suspect who had allegedly stolen irrigation pipes at his workplace....Published: 20 Nov 2018 at 05:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Killer security guard jailed six months
A CHIPINGE security guard who in the course of duty, shot and killed a thief will taste freedom after the Mutare High court dropped murder charges and alternatively convicted him of culpable homicide ...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 07:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Elderly woman burnt by veld fires
A 64-YEAR-OLD Chikomba woman is battling for life at Chivhu General Hospital after she was recently burnt by a veld fire.The Environmental Management Agency (EMA) in Mashonaland East province ...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Military evicts Mnangagwa's elderly cleric at gunpoint
ZIMBABWE'S military, enforcing a government order, has forcibly evicted President Emmerson Mnangagwa's elderly cleric neighbour - at gunpoint - from a well-developed and equipped 250-hectare farm on t...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe's property invades
ONCE a colossal figure, First Lady Grace Mugabe yesterday saw how powerless she has become, as illegal gold panners have invaded her farm in Mazowe destroying citrus fruit, irrigation equipment and di...Published: 30 Mar 2018 at 08:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Former Agric minister looted farm equipment worth millions
FORMER Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Minister Dr Joseph Made allegedly looted farm equipment and inputs worth millions of dollars, which he hid at his Tara Farm in Headlands, M...Published: 22 Dec 2017 at 06:53hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe's white farmers once helped feed Africa
Martin Fletcher is former foreign editor of The Times and a foreign correspondent. Follow him at @mfletchertimes. His assignment in Zimbabwe was financed by the Pulit...Published: 27 Jan 2017 at 12:52hrs | | by Martin Fletcher
Irrigation thief dies in hospital
Shocking Tariro Madzura (23) who was battling for life at Mvurwi hospital after being assaulted for stealing irrigation pipes has died. It is alleged Baison Mupariwa (33) of Elgine farm in Mvu...Published: 18 Dec 2016 at 09:23hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Man bashed for stealing irrigation pipes
A Mvurwi man in his 20s is battling for life at Mvurwi hospital after he was thoroughly beaten by citizens for stealing irrigation pipes.The man has been identified as Tariro Madzura from Guvh...Published: 18 Dec 2016 at 07:21hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
HRT donates borehole equipment to Norton
Harare Residents Trust has said it has donated some borehole equipment to enable residents to access water.HRT indicated that on 16 October 2015 the HRT donated borehole equipment, wheelbarrow...Published: 20 Oct 2015 at 07:25hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Ambrose Mutinhiri loses property over debt
ASPIRING vice president, retired brigadier-general Ambrose Mutinhiri, has lost property worth thousands of dollars after it was attached by the Deputy Sherriff. CBZ Bank had to seek legal recourse to ...Published: 20 Nov 2014 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police complicit in the Breakdown in the Rule of the Law
Police complicit in the Breakdown in the Rule of the Law22 September 2014 Zimbabwe Republic Police Complicit in the Breakdown in the Rule of the Law on Centenary A farm in the Matter Betwe...Published: 01 Oct 2014 at 08:00hrs | | by David Conolly
'Police complicit in the breakdown in the rule of the law' - David Conolly
Zimbabwe Republic Police Complicit in the Breakdown in the Rule of the Law on Centenary A farm in the Matter Between David Conolly and Dr. R. C Ndhlukula, the Deputy C...Published: 23 Sep 2014 at 12:27hrs | 3 | by David Conolly
Dave Conolly's statement on further contempt of court by Dr Ray Ndhlukula
David Conolly, Centenary Farm, Zimbabwe15 September 2014Zimbabwe: further contempt of court by senior civil ser...Published: 23 Sep 2014 at 12:32hrs | 2 | by David Conolly
Mugabe's top aide exposed
ONE of President Robert Mugabe's top aides Ray Ndhlukula who is trying to grab a Figtree farm from a commercial farm reportedly owns two other farms in Matabeleland South, it has been revealed....Published: 17 Sep 2014 at 07:02hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Further contempt of court by Mugabe's Ray Ndhlukula
At 11:45am on Thursday, 11 September 2014, two vehicles drove up the road to my homestead on Centenary Farm. They left 7 people on the lawn of my homestead and off loaded, amongst other things,...Published: 15 Sep 2014 at 22:15hrs | 2 | by David Conolly
8 yrs for escaped prisoners
TWO final year inmates who escaped from Khami Prison where they were each serving nine year jail terms, have been slapped with another eight years in prison.Bigboy Chauke and Calisto Dube appe...Published: 14 May 2014 at 04:40hrs | 27 | by Staff Reporter
Zim jail break duo implicates prison guards
TWO daring inmates who were incarcerated for armed robbery and illegal possession of a firearm escaped from Khami Prison recently after being sent to fetch water by a prison warder. Bigboy Cha...Published: 30 Apr 2014 at 07:05hrs | | by Plaxcedes Hove
Bosso appeal to supporters to raise $10,000
HIGHLANDERS vice-chairman Mgcini Sibhalo Mpofu has taken to social networks to appeal to club supporters to raise $10 000 towards turning the Bosso clubhouse into a fully-fledged sports facility....Published: 05 Feb 2014 at 06:52hrs | | by Sports reporter
Police stumbled upon mbanje plantation, 66-year-old man nabbed
A 66-year-old Chinhoyi man from Zimuto Village has been arrested after the police stumbled upon 95 plants of cannabis (mbanje) while looking for stolen irrigation pipes.Davison Kutchwa was un...Published: 08 May 2013 at 21:16hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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