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Zimbabwean teen among 3 Bradford men found guilty of killing compatriot
THREE Bradford men along with one other have been found guilty of killing a teenager by stabbing him 14 times in a tragic case of mistaken identity.Karl Belinga, 20, of Brendon Walk in Holme W...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 10:41hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
UK-based Zimbabwean found guilty of murdering homeless barrister in UK
A Zimbabwean man is facing life behind bars for the horrific killing of a disabled barrister who was living rough on Canterbury's streets.Sobantu Sibanda, the son of a university lecturer and ...Published: 20 Nov 2023 at 22:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Senate and PR, the maxim gun firing at Bulawayo
The Senate, Youth and PR lists for the 2023 harmonised elections in Bulawayo Province, are the newest metaphorical maxim gun whose bullets are brutally firing at the tender heart of the City of Bulawa...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 20:03hrs | 16 | by Nhlanhla Moses Ncube (Secretary General)
Sadc must condemn SA xenophobic attacks
WHEN will Southern African Development Community (Sadc) convene an extraordinary summit to discuss the events unfolding in South Africa.Each time Sadc leaders meet for their routine jamborees,...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 11:42hrs | | by Mukunda Chitova
Police still to account for man who murdered woman
Marondera police are appealing for information that might assist in solving the case of the woman who was axed last Monday and the killer left a note stating the reason for murdering her.Neria...Published: 15 Feb 2022 at 05:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman murdered, killer left letter on deceased body
Police in Marondera have launched a manhunt for a suspect, who allegedly killed in cold blood, a woman from Grasslands, Marondera who was on her way to a prayer session.Nelia Maringa reportedl...Published: 10 Feb 2022 at 17:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
One Day in 1985
I watched and followed the proceedings at the launch of the CITES Documentary on the abduction of the 11 Silobela men by Government forces on the 1st of January 1985. Dispite the incident having happe...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 20:06hrs | 1 | by Israel Dube
Relief as Nkayi community gets police base
The Zimbabwe Republic Police in Nkayi District has responded to community calls for a police base in Nesigwe area, Nkayi ward 5. In addition to the approval of a police base, the ZRP has ...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 13:01hrs | 5 | by Stephen Jakes
Devolution helplessly biting the dust at Nkayi registry offices
Despite the unambiguous provisions of the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 20) Act, 2013, devolution sadly remains a pipedream in the generality of the country. For purposes of particularity, t...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 07:52hrs | 7 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Zimbabwean herbalist kills woman in the UK during ritual
A man who killed a woman by giving her too much nicotine during a healing ritual, causing her "toxic trauma", has been jailed.Lyndon Nindi travelled to Nottingham on 16 February last year to t...Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 18:57hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe @ 41: The victim's lasting solution to the Gukurahundi Holocaust
Zimbabwe is still at rail-road crossing with regard to the Gukurahundi genocide whose resolution remains elusive forty-one (41) years on. The signage is unambiguously restricting any break-through wha...Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 09:05hrs | | by Nhlanhla Moses
Petition launched against reintroduction of 'green bombers'
ZIMBABWEANS have started an online petition against government's planned reintroduction of the controversial National Youth Service Training Programme in the country.This comes after governmen...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Figtree Police in bid to arrest Mzila
Figtree police attempted to arrest ANSA Interim Leader Moses Mzila-Ndlovu (66) on August 22, Thursday afternoon. Mzila-Ndlovu says he requested the police to come to his farm Mapungubge Farm Technolog...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 06:03hrs | | by Delinfa Hlabalingene
Africa'second revolution whose time has come: Breaking-away from oppressive partisan poverty politics
The high-sounding and inspirational liberation of the entire of Africa by political parties and liberation movements that lost its cause! The law-abiding citizens that have been reduced to the level o...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 21:20hrs | | by Reginald Thabani Gola
ARTUZ condemns the xenophobic attacks in South Africa
When SADC leaders meet for their routine jamborees they have failed to construct a clear economic framework of rescuing our region from poverty. They massage each other for stealing elections, they pr...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 12:17hrs | | by ARTUZ
New law of medical negligence is not meant to punish health professionals
Dear Editor, This legislation might be perceived as draconian by the health department employees,but the government has an inherent jurisdiction to establish this law.The government owes a...Published: 05 Apr 2018 at 08:28hrs | | by Njabulo
Workers rights are Human Rights
The United Nations organization recognizes that people have a "human right to work, or engage in productive employment, and may not be prevented from doing so". This concept enshrined in the Universal...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 19:57hrs | | by Linda Tsungirirai Masarira
Zimbabwean family engages white supremacists to prosecute Zuma?
South African lobby group Afriforum has announced plans to privately prosecute President Jacob Zuma's son.The group says it wants to prosecute Duduzane Zuma on manslaughter, or culpable homici...Published: 17 Oct 2017 at 16:39hrs | | by BBC
Sydney Sekeramayi: Trained to save lives and then trained to kill innocent people
The internal dog-eat-dog savage fights in Zanu-PF are real. For a long time the infighting has been predictably so because the ingredients of systemic dis functionality dramatically fall into place as...Published: 14 Sep 2017 at 10:23hrs | | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu
Urban grooves musician kills man in accident
Urban grooves musician Tererai Mugwadi killed a man and injured several others in an accident, but refused to offer any assistance, a Chitungwiza court heard yesterday.Mugwadi, 32, was arreste...Published: 05 Sep 2017 at 14:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe and Zanu-PF have harmed society by poisoning tribal relations
Nomusa Garikai agrees that under the leadership of then Prime Minister Robert Mugabe, Zanu-PF committed genocide in Ma...Published: 25 May 2017 at 21:33hrs | | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu
Trial date set for Mvuma Killer Driver
The trial of Regis Mungwari (29) a driver of Transmech Logistics a South Africa-registered haulage truck, which on 05 April 2017 sideswiped a Johannesburg-bound Proliner bus, killing 21 people on the ...Published: 15 May 2017 at 07:34hrs | | by Stsff Reporter
Man killed with 'single punch' for talking to women
A banker was killed by a single punch for talking to a group of young women, a court has heard.Oliver Dearlove, 30, spoke about shoes and baby pictures after a night out in Blackheath, sou...Published: 14 Feb 2017 at 12:36hrs | | by BBC
Andrew Langa fingered in Gukurahundi massacres
Former minister of Sports and Recreation, Andrew Langa has been linked to the notorious 1980s Zanu PF youth wing that worked closely with the Firth Brigade during the bloody Gukurahundi era....Published: 16 Jan 2017 at 10:39hrs | 1 | by Alice Dube
'Mangudya guilty of involuntary manslaughter'
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya is guilty of involuntary manslaughter due to the introduction of bond notes.According to a Bulawayo24.com reader identified as Mandeya, the bond...Published: 05 Dec 2016 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Ebenezer MDC-T
17 years ago the Movement for Democratic change was born. It was a dawn of a new political trajectory. A time when the people across the socio-economic, political and religious divide came toget...Published: 12 Sep 2016 at 08:21hrs | 1 | by Tinashe G Chifamba
Oscar Pistorius on suicide watch
Jailed murderer Oscar Pistorius has been put on suicide watch following mysterious wrist injuries that landed him in hospital earlier this month, media reported yesterday.Prison officials ...Published: 15 Aug 2016 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Oscar Pistorius sentenced to 6 years
South African Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced to six years in prison for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.The verdict comes after his initial five-year c...Published: 06 Jul 2016 at 10:30hrs | | by BBC
Prophet TB Joshua case adjourned again
Lagos - A judge yesterday adjourned the criminal negligence trial of popular Nigerian preacher TB Joshua over a fatal building collapse at his Lagos mega-church.Joshua, church trustees and...Published: 23 Mar 2016 at 05:25hrs | | by Agencies
Man sentenced to 20 yrs for defiling daughters
THE Kitwe High Court has sentenced a 50-year-old peasant of Chingola to 20 years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling his daughter's five-year-old friend.Justice Chilombo Phiri on Monday...Published: 11 Feb 2016 at 14:33hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Man charged for lashing cousin to death
A man who recently made news headlines for lashing his young cousin to death has been charged with manslaughter.The Voice reported that Kabo Tladi, 30, was on Tuesday arraigned before Magistra...Published: 23 Jan 2016 at 04:59hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Doctor punches patient to death
CCTV footage has emerged of a Russian hospital doctor punching a patient who collapsed and later died.The incident took place in the city of Belgorod, 670km (440 miles) south of the capital, M...Published: 09 Jan 2016 at 13:45hrs | | by BBC
Zimbabwean couple jailed for malnourished baby killing in the UK
The Zimbabwean parents of a dying baby girl, who failed to seek urgent medical care for her because of their religious beliefs, have been jailed.Brian Kandare, 29, and Precious Kandare, 37, of...Published: 10 Nov 2015 at 21:27hrs | | by BBC
Oscar Pistorius murder charges appeal filed
South African prosecutors have filed an appeal calling for Oscar Pistorius to be convicted of murder for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.The Olympic and Paralympic athlete was jaile...Published: 17 Aug 2015 at 13:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Don't mess with Grace Mugabe
During a state banquet in Pretoria, South Africa, in April 2015, I had a brief encounter with Grace Mugabe, the first lady of Zimbabwe. I was asking her husband, Robert Mugabe, about the question of ...Published: 16 Jul 2015 at 08:47hrs | | by David Smith
'Zimbabwe's mineral wealth gives it an outsized importance,' says US envoy
MY heart goes out to all the African-African American church-goers gunned down summarily by a pro-Rhodesia, pro-Apartheid American white supremacist terrorist named as Dylann Roof. This white supremac...Published: 20 Jun 2015 at 17:43hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Grace Mugabe's son fined $800 for manslaughter
A Harare magistrate has fined Russsel Goreraza $800 after he pleaded guilty to a charge of culpable homicide which occurred in February this year in the capital.Goreraza, 31, was charged ...Published: 05 Jun 2015 at 16:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Xenophobia; the hidden hand of the West
They say situation is the best commander; hence reaction to a given scenario can be a barometer with which the levels of concern or seriousness to address issues can be measured. South Africa's Ec...Published: 28 Apr 2015 at 16:33hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba
Oscar Pistorius challenges Judge's appeal ruling
Lawyers for jailed South African Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius have launched a legal bid to prevent prosecutors from appealing against his acquittal on murder charges.Judge Thokozile Masipa ...Published: 24 Feb 2015 at 22:10hrs | | by BBC
Dear Comrade Malema
So, the mighty Malema fears death after all. He was called a cockroach by the Speaker of the House after he and his rowdy Members of Parliament made a nuisance of themselves during the State of the N...Published: 22 Feb 2015 at 15:26hrs | | by This n That with Maluphosa - Clerk Ndlovu
Tsvangirai youths to rescue Mugabe
Mr. Robert Mugabe, a senile and frail nonagenarian who by occupation is the shadow and ceremonial president of Zimbabwe has found a saviour in the form of his sworn enemy President Tsvangirai. The You...Published: 09 Dec 2014 at 11:00hrs | | by Dr. Wangu Mazodze - MDC-T South Africa Spokesperson
Violence erupts after US cop not charged in teen's shooting
A Missouri grand jury's decision not to indict a white police officer on any charges in the fatal August shooting of an unarmed black teenager unleashed a wave of violent protests Monday night similar...Published: 25 Nov 2014 at 04:16hrs | 1 | by Reuters
Oscar Pistorius may be forced to stay in jail because he has no ankles
Oscar Pistorius may not get early release from jail because the electronic tagging device cannot be fitted securely to his prosthetic leg, it emerged today.The revelation came as South African...Published: 10 Nov 2014 at 21:12hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Pistorius trial: Judge rules out all murder charges
The judge in the Oscar Pistorius trial has ruled out all murder charges, but says he may still be guilty of culpable homicide (manslaughter).Judge Thokozile Masipa said the prosecution had fai...Published: 11 Sep 2014 at 12:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Barack Obama: White terror, Black tears
IT has always been a hard fact of life that in America as elsewhere in Europe, a black man only has condemned colour and a sorry history, nothing else. But the asce...Published: 24 Aug 2014 at 20:57hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
SDA couple jailed over son's death
A UK-based Zimbabwean couple whose baby boy died from acute rickets after they prayed for his recovery rather than seek medical help were jailed yesterday.Nkosiyapha and Virginia Kunene, memb...Published: 02 Mar 2014 at 08:05hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chidyausiku jailed for manslaughter in US
A Zimbabwean has been jailed for 10 years in Texas, USA after he admitted to driving drunk and killing a 10-year-old boy.Walter Chidyausiku pleaded guilty Tuesday morni...Published: 01 Feb 2014 at 10:57hrs | | by nbcdfw
Robert Mugabe 'a haunted and stressed octogenarian tyrant'
AT 86, and approaching 87 years of age, Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe is the world's oldest ruler.Depending on where one stands, the political life and historical legacy of Mugabe i...Published: 30 Jan 2014 at 07:01hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Zimbabwe woman 'kills' baby son in UK
LONDON - A devoutly religious mother from Erith admitted killing her baby son through neglect in court on Tuesday.Virginia Kunene (32) of Carlton Road, admitted causing the death of five-mont...Published: 17 Jan 2014 at 05:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Michael Jackson's mother loses bid for a new trial
Los Angeles - A judge on Monday rejected a bid by Michael Jackson's mother for a new trial in her lawsuit claiming the promoter of her son's ill-fated comeback concerts was negligent in his death....Published: 15 Jan 2014 at 05:15hrs | | by AP
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