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Police appeal for help in finding man missing since 1994
Police in Bulawayo are appealing to the public for assistance in locating a local man who has been missing for more than three decades.Michael Mabhena, a 62-year-old resident of Nkulumane subu...Published: 20 May 2025 at 09:52hrs | 343 | by Staff reporter
Air Vice Marshal Mandeya declared national heroine
Air Vice Marshal (Retired) Winnie Mandeya, a trailblazing liberation war veteran and distinguished officer in the Air Force of Zimbabwe, who died on Monday at the age of 64, has been declared a nation...Published: 01 May 2025 at 08:43hrs | 626 | by Staff reporter
Consolidate gains of independence, says General Sibanda
Zimbabweans must consolidate the gains of their hard-won Independence by working towards high standards of national development, in line with President Mnangagwa's vision for an upper-middle-income ec...Published: 30 Apr 2025 at 07:13hrs | 665 | by Staff reporter
Chipinge dam collapse claims 4 lives, 3 still missing
A tragic dam breach at a Chipinge farm on Sunday resulted in the release of a massive amount of water downstream, leading to the deaths of four people, including minors. Three others are still missing...Published: 10 Mar 2025 at 16:07hrs | 1018 | by Staff reporter
Karoi man arrested for killing wife headman and teen relative
Police in Mashonaland West province have finally arrested a serial murderer who allegedly killed his wife, a headman who had gone to counsel the couple and a relative.According to police ...Published: 19 Feb 2025 at 20:32hrs | 1301 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Israeli-Palestine genocide statistics record women, children most victims
The Palestinian Embassy to Zimbabwe has released shocking genocidal statistics recorded during the 470 days of attack by Israel between 7 October 2023 to January 18, 2025 with over half of identified ...Published: 24 Jan 2025 at 20:34hrs | 186 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Harare man seeking help to locate his 2 young daughters
Tinashe Severa from Harare is urgently seeking help to locate his two young daughters, Margaret and Imara, who went missing from school in Harare on June 10, 2024. Margaret is eight years old, and Ima...Published: 07 Aug 2024 at 15:05hrs | 1172 | by Staff reporter
Deportees get lifeline at Zimbabwe's points of entry
Thirty-six-year-old Thantabantu Dumani looks lost in thought as he finds his way into a Zimbabwe Red Cross (ZRCS) office in Beitbridge town.Dumani is among the "early birds" that have been fre...Published: 24 Mar 2024 at 14:37hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
9 dead, 4 missing and 21 survivors in Zimbabwe mine disaster
As of now, the tragic collapse of a shaft at Bayhorse Gold Mine in Chakari, Chegutu district, has resulted in the confirmed deaths of nine mine workers. A joint search and rescue operation, at...Published: 01 Oct 2023 at 07:32hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to conduct lifestyle audit for CCC elected officials
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) national deputy spokesperson Ostallos Siziba has stated that the party plans to undertake a lifestyle audit for its candidates who will enter public office after th...Published: 14 Aug 2023 at 21:05hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Murderous couple on the run
A COUPLE from Zvimba East allegedly bludgeoned their four-year-old niece to death, stuffed her body in a sack and dumped it in a stream near a bridge in Kuwadzana Extension.The girl's body was...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 08:20hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Chinese investigators arrest murder suspect in Zimbabwe
CHINESE detectives successfully investigated the murder of their two countrymen in Zimbabwe, leading to the arrest of a Chinese national.One of the accused, Chen Long (34) appeared before Hara...Published: 25 May 2023 at 06:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Family searches for missing 11 year old son
A BULAWAYO family is searching for a 11-year-old boy from Pumula suburb who went missing last week.The boy is in Grade Six at Babambeni Primary School in Pumula.Promise Ncube was last ...Published: 27 Oct 2022 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Top of the range vehicle smuggling in region rises
Some criminals in the region are targeting and stealing top-of-the-range vehicles before smuggling them into neighbouring countries, including Zimbabwe, where forged documents are manufactured before ...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:15hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Anti-smuggling blitz nets 200 luxury vehicles
So far 200 top-of-the-range vehicles, all probably stolen and smuggled into Zimbabwe, have been impounded under a joint operation between the Zimbabwe Republic Police and Interpol targeting vehicles s...Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Blitz targets top-of-the-range cars
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is conducting a joint operation with the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) targeting top-of-the-range vehicles believed to have been stolen in ne...Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Interpol lists sixteen Zimbabweans as missing
SIXTEEN Zimbabweans, three from Bulawayo are on the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) missing persons list after they disappeared on different dates.Interpol is an internat...Published: 17 Feb 2022 at 05:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
3 border jumpers drown in Limpopo River
Three border jumpers believed to be Zimbabwean recently drowned in Limpopo River while attempting to cross into South Africa.Zimbabwe and South African police have so far retrieved the body of...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 19:28hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
State must stop abductions
HEAL Zimbabwe joins the rest of the world in commemorating the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. The special day is commemorated annually on August 30.The Internatio...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 06:29hrs | 2 | by Heal Zimbabwe Trust
Mnangawa told to stop using abductions as a tool to deal with political opponents
President Emmerson Mnangagwa' s government has been asked to stop using abductions as a tool to deal with political opponents. In a statement issued by Heal Zimbabwe Trust to mark the Internatio...Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 09:52hrs | 15 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mliswa feels for Dzamara's wife and mother
Norton legislator Temba Mliswa has challenged the house of assembly to take the missing person act seriously following the missing activist Itai Dzamara's case that has been going on for more than six...Published: 15 Mar 2021 at 07:42hrs | 3 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Form two pupil goes missing
Tawanda Anesuishe Muzira a form two pupil at Nyazura Adventist Mission went missing on the 19th of February 2021. He was last seen in Warren Park wearing a blue T-shirt, black trousers and a pair of s...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 20:59hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Breaking news Candy Farm Dam Wall bursts, 7 feared dead.
Candy Farm Dam in Mazowe burst and swept away 7 persons. One body found while other bodies missing are still missing. Zanu PF Mazowe DCC assisting affected families and Zanu-PF members a...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 18:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
NUST to conduct Gukurahundi DNA tests
GOVERNMENT is working on a law that will guide the process of exhumations of the remains of Gukurahundi victims in Matabeleland and the Midlands with the National University of Science and Technology ...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 21:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'90% Gukurahundi survivors suffer mental health'
SOME 90 % of Gukurahundi survivors are suffering from mental health impairments due to trauma and cannot access national documentation, the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has revealed....Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 09:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mafela Trust wants war deaths documented
Mafela Trust, an organisation that has been documenting Zapu and Zipra's history, says there is need to account for people who died or disappeared during the liberation struggle.The organisati...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:49hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Democracy and philanthropism in governance and five of Africa's most rare men in politics
Democracy is a system of governance in which the people choose their leaders by voting for them in elections. ... Philanthropy is free-giving of help or money to those in need. Governance is control o...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 22:34hrs | 5 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Mudenda's Gukurahundi remarks ignite storm
A PROPOSAL by Speaker of the National Assembly, Jacob Mudenda, for government to stay the ongoing exhumation of Gukurahundi victims until a legal framework has been put in place has torched a storm, w...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi remarks ignite storm
A PROPOSAL by Speaker of the National Assembly, Jacob Mudenda, for government to stay the ongoing exhumation of Gukurahundi victims until a legal framework has been put in place has torched a storm, w...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 08:43hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Four children go missing in Bulawayo
POLICE in Bulawayo are appealing for information that may lead to the whereabouts of four children who went missing last month in Old Pumula and Sauerstown suburbs. Bulawayo police spokesperso...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 08:44hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Opposition demands Dzamara update
OPPOSITION MP Willias Madzimure yesterday demanded that Home Affairs minister Cain Mathema or his deputy, Mike Madiro, issue a ministerial statement on the progress by the police in locating the where...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 19:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC activists 'abducted'
TWO MDC activists were reportedly abducted by suspected State security agents in Gokwe early Tuesday morning and their whereabouts were still unknown last night.MDC Midlands provincial spokesp...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 07:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Poser for Gukurahundi mass graves
The exhumation of the remains of Gurahundi victims buried in mass graves dotted around Matabeleland and those thrown into mine shafts will pose ethical challenges as it will require the consent of all...Published: 05 May 2019 at 10:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
The horrors of Gukurahundi relived
At a time when former president Robert Mugabe's government avoided debate on Gukurahundi massacres to an extent that talk about the bloody past was criminalised, a human rights activist was helping th...Published: 05 May 2019 at 10:38hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
'3.8 magnitude earthquake hit before Cyclone Idai'
A 3.8 magnitude earthquake hit Chimanimani and Chipinge shortly before Cyclone Idai which left 344 people dead and destroyed property worth billions of dollars, Government revealed yesterday. ...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 06:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Nust to identify deceased Cyclone victims
GOVERNMENT says it is working with the National University of Science and Technology (Nust)'s Applied Testing Genetic Centre (AGTC) to identify deceased victims of Cyclone Idai which ravaged the count...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 12:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Past Atrocities: Civil society calls for truth-seeking
Civil society organisations under the banner of the National Transitional Justice Working Group (NTJWG) have called for genuine truth-seeking process to establish the truth about past atrocities and t...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 07:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa trips: Cross triggers a storm
FORMER MDC official Eddie Cross has triggered a storm following reports that he supported President Emmerson Mnangagwa's penchant for flying in luxurious jets.Opinion is sharply divided over M...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 17:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt urged to set up missing persons database
Civic society organisations (CSOs) are calling on the government to set-up a missing persons database for suspected abduction victims dating back to the Gukurahundi period.The call was made by...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
More machinery needed to recover Cyclone Idai bodies
The government says there is still a lot of excavation work to be done to recover bodies of the people killed during cyclone Idai with the process being hampered by lack of machinery.Governmen...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 10:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Search on for missing persons
GOVERNMENT is leaving no stone unturned to ensure that all those who succumbed to Cyclone Idai are given decent burials, with those tasked with the mission to rebury the bodies walking for more than 2...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 05:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Latest number of Cyclone Idai victims announced
The Ministry of Information Publicity and Broadcasting Services has announced the latest number of Cyclone Idai casualties. Number of casualties in Zimbabwe as of 20/03/19 Total ...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 09:35hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
#CycloneIdai: 500 still missing as rescue efforts continue
MORE than 500 people are still missing in Rusitu Valley in Chimanimani district as rescue efforts are being hampered by damaged roads, 3 Infantry Brigade commander Major General Joe Muzvidziwa, who is...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 07:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Why self-confessed killer Dexter Nduna may not be arrested
Zimbabweans from all walks of life called for the arrest of Chegutu West Member of Parliament Dexter Nduna after he confessed in parliament that he is killer and has killed many people most of w...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 09:44hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Stay away and Looting in Zimbabwe: A narrative created to push for a national dialogue
Zimbabwe does not get tired to engage into processes that will help the corrupt and governance failures survive another day. As I write this article I have no doubt in my mind that what is happening n...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 20:10hrs | 4 | by Dumisani Mpofu
Chamisa's MPs flee govt terror
Dozens of MDC officials and civic society leaders have gone into hiding as there is no let up by government against pro-democracy and political activists it accuses of being part of last week's crippl...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 12:49hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
From Great Zimbabwe to Zimbabwe Ruins with Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa
With great good hope Zimbabweans of all polical affiliation, race, colour and creed poured-out onto the streets, led by Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, to tell Mugabe of The Enough of the journey from Th...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 12:33hrs | 2 | by Reginald Thabani Gola.
Form 3 pupil dies in Bulawayo gang violence
A FORM Three pupil at Founders High School in Bulawayo died during suspected teenage gang violence after an alcohol binge and his assailants dumped his body in a bushy area near Nketa High School in N...Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 04:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Red Cross locates 'missing' SA-based Zimbabweans
THE International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has managed to locate scores of South Africa-based Zimbabwean migrants who went missing on arrival in the neighbouring country.Reports aboun...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Missing taxi driver found dead
A TAXI driver from Bulawayo who went missing after being carjacked and stabbed three times earlier this month, has been found dead in the Matopos area.Police confirmed that Witness Zindonda (3...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
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