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Boy, 9, mauled to death by boerboel dogs
A nine-year-old boy was mauled to death by four Boerboel dogs while playing with friends at Bornvalley Farm in Darwendale, police have confirmed.The fatal attack occurred on July 17, 2025, whe...Published: 05 Aug 2025 at 12:17hrs | 457 | by Staff reporter
Backyard breeding sparks vicious dog attacks
The alarming increase in dog attacks across Harare has been directly linked to the growing trend of illegal backyard dog breeding, according to the Zimbabwe National Society for the Prevention of Crue...Published: 09 Jul 2025 at 14:28hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Sables cruise psst Morocco in Rugby Africa cup opener
Zimbabwe's Sables launched their Rugby Africa Cup campaign in emphatic style on Tuesday, thumping Morocco's Atlas Lions 43-08 to secure a place in the tournament semi-finals.Flyhalf Ian Prior ...Published: 08 Jul 2025 at 13:29hrs | 214 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo councillors push to ban pit bulls
A growing chorus of Bulawayo city councillors is calling for an outright ban on aggressive dog breeds, particularly Pit Bulls, as dog attacks rise and concerns mount over the proliferation of stray an...Published: 03 Jul 2025 at 19:11hrs | 376 | by Staff reporter
Pitbull owner denied bail over fatal dog attack
A Harare man whose unmuzzled pit bulls fatally mauled a passerby has been denied bail by Magistrate Marewanazvo Gofa, who ruled that the gravity of the offence and public interest justified his contin...Published: 24 Jun 2025 at 11:18hrs | 215 | by Staff reporter
Another disturbing dog attack in Harare
While the bail ruling for a Harare man accused of owning pit bulls that fatally attacked a man in Bluffhill last month remains pending, the capital witnessed yet another alarming dog attack yesterday....Published: 24 Jun 2025 at 09:16hrs | 485 | by Staff reporter
Man survives vicious lion attack near Victoria Falls
A 29-year-old man from the Woodlands Resettlement Area near Victoria Falls is lucky to be alive after surviving a savage lion attack over the weekend, in an incident that has reignited community fears...Published: 17 Jun 2025 at 17:51hrs | 1362 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean MPs call for ban on pit bull terriers
In the wake of a recent fatal attack by Pit Bull Terriers on a Harare resident, members of Zimbabwe's Parliament have called for a ban on the breed, citing growing concerns over public safety....Published: 12 Jun 2025 at 18:57hrs | 110 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's stray dog operation fails to launch due to police inaction
A citywide operation aimed at curbing the growing threat of stray dogs in Bulawayo has failed to get off the ground after the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) reportedly failed to cooperate, city offici...Published: 07 Jun 2025 at 15:04hrs | 245 | by Staff reporter
Family demands justice following fatal pitbull attack on relative
A Harare family is mourning the tragic death of Samuel Machara, who was fatally mauled by a pitbull in Bluffhill over the weekend, prompting renewed calls for stricter laws regulating the ownership of...Published: 04 Jun 2025 at 09:36hrs | 318 | by Staff reporter
SPCA warns against dangerous dog breeds
The Zimbabwe National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ZNSPCA) has issued a stern warning to the public against owning, breeding, or cross-breeding dangerous dog breeds following a tr...Published: 02 Jun 2025 at 16:28hrs | 334 | by Staff reporter
Killer pitbulls put down
In the aftermath of a brutal dog attack that claimed the life of 39-year-old Samuel Machara, the Zimbabwe National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ZNSPCA) has issued a strong stateme...Published: 02 Jun 2025 at 16:20hrs | 945 | by Staff reporter
Pit bulls kill neighbour, Harare man arrested
A man from Harare has been arrested after his pit bulls allegedly mauled a neighbour to death in a horrific attack that has reignited nationwide debate over the safety of the American Pitbull Terrier ...Published: 02 Jun 2025 at 09:09hrs | 1077 | by Staff reporter
Leopard strays into Bulawayo outskirts
Villagers in St Peters, a peri-urban community on the outskirts of Bulawayo near Old Pumula, are living in fear following reports of a suspected leopard roaming the area with two cubs.The big ...Published: 01 Mar 2025 at 08:59hrs | 187 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe man mauled by police dog, denied medical attention
A Karoi man, Caleb Chinodakufa (33), is recovering from serious injuries after he was attacked by police dogs and denied medical care for several hours. Chinodakufa, who suffers from epilepsy, was lef...Published: 11 Nov 2024 at 07:10hrs | 334 | by Staff reporter
Dogs maul boy's privates
A 44-year-old farm security guard, Daniel Simango, has been sentenced to 14 months in prison after he set his dogs on a 10-year-old boy, leaving the child with grievous bodily harm.The inciden...Published: 10 Nov 2024 at 11:01hrs | 433 | by Staff reporter
Villagers fundraise to assist police dog attack victim
Villagers from Bubi, under the Bubi Community Parliament in Matabeleland North, have initiated a fundraising campaign to assist a 17-year-old boy, Sabelo Dube, who is struggling to receive medical tre...Published: 07 Sep 2024 at 10:13hrs | 264 | by Staff reporter
Former MDC A legislator sets dogs on a neighbor's cow
Former MDC Alliance law maker Moses Mzila Ndlovu was today dragged to Plumtree magistrates courts after he allegedly let his dogs at large to bite a neigh...Published: 01 Aug 2024 at 16:10hrs | 604 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Dog mauls minor to death
A seven-year-old boy from Norton was tragically mauled to death by two dogs that bit off his private parts. The incident was brought to light during a court case where the dog owners, Lloyd Si...Published: 14 Jul 2024 at 10:07hrs | 367 | by Staff reporter
Dog fatally mauls minor
A Harare magistrate, Clever Tsikwa, acquitted Lloyd Sibanda (35) and Cuthbert Mpame (63) of a culpable homicide charge after their boerboel dog fatally mauled a seven-year-old child. The magis...Published: 14 Jun 2024 at 07:24hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa describes Zimbabwe's economic crisis as a revolution
Kudakwashe Mnangagwa, Deputy Finance Minister and son of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has characterized Zimbabwe's prolonged economic turmoil spanning two decades as a revolution akin to the country'...Published: 20 Feb 2024 at 05:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
NSSA is a vehicle for enriching the powerful whilst exploiting the poor!
I already knew that Zimbabwe was hell and a living nightmare for the vast majority of the ordinary citizenry.I was also fully aware that the powerful were the only ones getting richer and rich...Published: 15 Oct 2023 at 09:49hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Sexual harassment rampant in the Zimbabwean media
Sexual harassment is rampant in the Zimbabwean media and continues largely because the media ecosystem itself - the journalists, editors, media managers, Human Resources Departments and proprietors - ...Published: 10 Oct 2023 at 06:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Hyena attacks five; rips off lips, limb
TWO victims of human-wildlife conflict are battling for their lives in hospital after being mauled by a vicious hyena in the Zuze area of Makoni District in incidents that happened last week on Thursd...Published: 08 Oct 2023 at 10:09hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Visually impaired 87 old survives rape scare
A visually impaired 87 old woman from Plumtree under Chief Masendu was nearly raped by her neighbour, a magistrate's court heard on Thursday.Appearing before Mr Joshua Nembaware on Thursday, t...Published: 15 Sep 2023 at 14:54hrs | 2 | by Desmond Nleya
Jitters over army hand in polls
OPPOSITION parties and analysts yesterday condemned attempts by the ruling elite to politicise the country's military, with the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) promising to reform the army once el...Published: 16 Aug 2023 at 06:50hrs | 710 | by Staff reporter
Dog bite victim sues brick-making company over savage attack
A ZIMBABWEAN man is suing a brick manufacturing company for more than US$15 000 in damages after he sustained severe injuries when he was brutally mauled by some vicious dogs owned by the Harare-based...Published: 09 Aug 2023 at 13:09hrs | 18 | by Stephen Jakes
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 | 37 | by Nhlanhla Moses Ncube (Secretary General)
Heroes Day: Guns that silenced history's villains
Towards the end of the First Chimurenga in 1896, Cecil John Rhodes called for an indaba with Matabele chiefs, and among them was a young traditional leader, who asked a valid and pertinent question....Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 06:42hrs | 21 | by Elliot Ziwira
'Commute death sentence to prison terms'
A RECENT High Court ruling condemning Tapiwa Makore Senior and accomplice Tafadzwa Shamba to death for the brutal murder of then seven-year-old Tapiwa Makore Junior has once again revived debate on th...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 06:42hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Death sentence passed by Zimbabwe court
HIGH Court judge Justice Munamato Mutevedzi yesterday sentenced to death Tapiwa Makore Snr (60) and Tafadzwa Shamba (40) for the murder of a Murehwa boy.Mutevedzi said the duo showed no mercy ...Published: 12 Jul 2023 at 20:45hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Rufaro upgrade misses derby target
IT'S all talk and little action. Rufaro Stadium renovations, which were initially expected to be completed in time for the Harare Derby, have already missed schedule. The facility, whi...Published: 03 May 2023 at 06:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe politics: Lineaments of stock characters
What are stock characters?LET me be basic so I am accessible to many of my readers, whatever level of education, and from whichever discipline they hail.In literature we have what are ...Published: 22 Apr 2023 at 19:00hrs | 14 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
How does Zim expect to instill pride in liberation struggle when always moaning over defeats?
Those who follow my writings can tell how proud I am of our country's liberation history.Even when teaching my son at home, I tackle this subject with tremendous zeal and excitement.Wh...Published: 11 Apr 2023 at 09:54hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Pit bull kills nine-year-old girl
In a sad incident, a nine-year-old girl was mauled by a pit bull in Whitecliffe Harare and died upon admission at Parirenyatwa Hospital on Saturday last week.The police confirmed the incident ...Published: 01 Apr 2023 at 09:44hrs | 15 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Guard mauled to death by pit bulls
A 68-year-old security guard was found dead on Sunday with multiple injuries after he was mauled by four pit bull dogs at a business premises in Waterfalls, Harare.Police have since launched i...Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 06:53hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Poor Pamela Tremont and Triple C: Politics without lawful issue
I have watched Pamela Tremont's hearing in preparation for her posting to Zimbabwe as US' next ambassador.Both the line of questioning by US Senators, as well as her responses, were, to say th...Published: 18 Mar 2023 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by @Jamwanda2
Murder charges for killer dog owners
A COMMUNITY in Southview Park, Harare, is living in mortal fear of vicious dogs belonging to a family that recently moved into the neighbourhood. Some, if not most, properties in the suburb are not ga...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF shooting self in the foot
IN Zimbabwe, come election time, it can only get crazier in the run up period.We now hear that some politically-drugged individuals in the ruling Zanu-PF party are advising their supporters to...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 05:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
PSMI faces collapse
EMBATTLED Premier Services Medical Investments (PSMI) shut down 120 of its 155 facilities last month as the entity battled to settle a four-month salary arrears bill in a turbulent period that culmina...Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 05:38hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Woman loses arm in hyena attack
In the second such case to be recorded in Masvingo province this year, a 38-year-old woman from Gutu last Wednesday lost her left hand and big toe of the left leg after being attacked by a hyena....Published: 03 Nov 2022 at 05:04hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Girl (6) mauled to death by dogs
A SIX-YEAR-OLD girl was mauled to death by two dogs in Goromonzi, while playing with her cousins.Nakai Ngoshi of Dongo Village died on the spot.Police confirmed the incident on its Twi...Published: 22 Oct 2022 at 05:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Boerboel dogs maul girl (6) to death
In another spine chilling incident, two vicious Boerboel dogs mauled a six-year-old girl to death on Wednesday at the family's rented home in Matsheumhlophe suburb. This is the second incident in Bula...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 06:02hrs | 57 | by Staff reporter
Blunt Bosso concerns Brito
HIGHLANDERS coach Baltermar Brito admits that their last two games have not been up to scratch and the team needs to improve their conversion rate.After firing blanks in the draw against strug...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ZRP pays heavily for abuse
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) continues to count its losses as it is constantly found on the wrong side of the law and made to pay in cases of human rights violations.In the latest case, ...Published: 24 Jul 2022 at 10:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police dog mauls man's private parts
A Beitbridge man is lucky to be alive after he was mauled by a police dog which bit his private parts last Thursday.Police did not send to hospital the badly injured Proterge Kwangware despite...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:30hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Chiefs blast Zanu-PF govt for lack of infrastructure development in Kariba
TRADITIONAL leaders from Kariba's Nyaminyami Rural District have berated President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration for failing to push infrastructural development in the area.After 42 year...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
'No crisis in Zimbabwe'
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has said "all is well" in Zimbabwe and dismissed claims that the southern African country is in the throes of an economic crisis.Speaking in an off-the-cuff...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 06:42hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Pomona Project: All thunder, lightning flashes, no strike!
Pomona stink in newsroomsIlliterate newspapers are being pummelled back and forth by buffeted Mafume and his clueless Triple C councillors. It is all thunder, blinding flashes but no strike. A...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 19:52hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Kusukuwere's once thriving orange estate now lies desolate
MAZOWE district war veterans' chairman Ephanos Mudzimunyi, who grabbed former cabinet minister and Zanu-PF supremo, Saviour Kasukuwe's Concorpia farm in Mazowe, has run the once thriving estate down....Published: 31 May 2022 at 13:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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