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Mpilo Hospital staff as they save 90 people with gruesome stab wounds
THE festive season was a nightmare for healthcare workers at Mpilo Central Hospital who had to rope in external help from specialists to save the lives of attempted murder victims.A staggering...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 05:49hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Woman found dead in bush
A woman was found dead, with a swollen head in a bushy area between Mahatshula and Woodville Park in Bulawayo.Police suspect the woman is a murder victim.Without giving extensive detai...Published: 15 Jul 2023 at 17:09hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Running cop discovers attempted murder victim
A Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) cop based in Mazowe allegedly found an unidentified man lying unconscious with a deep cut on the head while he was on his morning road run on Monday.The police...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 20:00hrs | 1 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
SA murder victim Elvis Nyathi gets State assisted funeral
President Mnangagwa has accorded a State-assisted funeral to Elvis Nyathi, the Zimbabwean man who was brutally killed in Diepsloot, South Africa, last week.Nyathi (43), who is originally from ...Published: 14 Apr 2022 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC rally murder victim's family bans political parties from funeral
The family of a 30-year-old Kwekwe man who died following violent clashes that broke out at a Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party rally at the weekend has pleaded with the opposition party to st...Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Diaspora a death trap for cheating partners
As the British Home office plans to deport another plane-load to Zimbabwe again, it has become imperative to find out why many women and some men lost their lives to their spouses over the issue of in...Published: 26 Feb 2022 at 18:19hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
7 murder victims named
Police have released the names of seven Redcliff murder victims where Thubelihle Khoshow went berserk and struck people with an axe, spear and knife.Six people died on the spot while four othe...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man arrested for possession of murder victim's cellphone
A BULAWAYO man has been arrested after he was found in possession of a cellphone which belonged to a murder victim.Police, in a statement on Twitter said the man is suspected to have bought th...Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 16:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harrowing murders by Zimbabweans in Diaspora
ENGLAND does not change people but it brings out what people were hiding all along. In five years I've been here, 30 Zimbabweans have become uxoricides. Uxoricide (from Latin uxor meaning "wife" and -...Published: 05 Jun 2021 at 09:13hrs | 9 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Bulawayo police launch crime curbing initiatives
POLICE in Bulawayo have launched a number of crime-curbing initiatives that have started to bear fruit, with community engagement strategies paying off.After a rise in criminal activities in t...Published: 21 May 2021 at 06:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Stabbings leave 2 dead, one battles for life in hospital
TWO people from Old Pumula suburb in Bulawayo died within a 300 metre radius in two separate incidents of knife crime yesterday while a teenager is battling for life in hospital after being stabbed. ...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Murder victim's body rots in mortuary 2 years on
THE decapitated body of a mentally-challenged man, believed to have been killed in a ritual murder two years ago, is still stuck at Gwanda mortuary and in an advanced state of decomposition, while the...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ways Winky D & Gemma Griffiths (Mu garden) song should educate ZANU PF/MDC
At one point in time, USA, Japan, India (apart from African) were once colonized just like Zimbabwe. However, despite colonization, these countries never blamed their colonizers for their current prob...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:59hrs | 17 | by Don Chigumba
Family dumps dead body, demands (16) cow
THERE was drama in Mzemba Village in Zhombe when the family of a murder victim dumped the body at the suspected assailant's homestead where it spent three days. The family was demanding 16 hea...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Murder victim relatives sought
POLICE in Bulawayo are looking for relatives of a murder victim whose body has been stuck in a mortuary since she was killed in July. Tendai Tarusenga (58) was found dead along Khami Road near...Published: 22 Oct 2018 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ritual murder victim in morgue 1 year later
THE body of a mentally-ill man, whose head was decapitated in a suspected ritual murder, has spent more than a year in the morgue as police are reportedly still conducting investigations on the matter...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 10:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Case was more than Chamisa vs Mnangagwa it was People vs Zanu PF - we were cheated again
The single most important issue raised in Nelson Chamisa's Con-Court challenge of Emmerson Mnangagwa's electoral victory was that the election process was not free, fair and credible. This is importan...Published: 25 Aug 2018 at 17:52hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Gangster murderer jailed 28 years
A BULAWAYO High Court judge has slammed the gangster-style murder of a Tsholotsho man following a misunderstanding over an unfavourable prophecy, before sentencing him to 28 years in prison.Co...Published: 24 Jul 2018 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Drama as murder victim 'attacks' suspect in court
COURT proceedings had to be adjourned on Wednesday after a murder suspect claimed he was being pursued by the person he allegedly killed, forcing a Bulawayo High Court Judge to order that an ambulance...Published: 02 Jun 2018 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Gukurahundi victims want their voices heard
THE multitudes at Maphisa Shopping Centre in Kezi, Matabeleland South, have a life of their own. The people at this shopping centre move like a shoal of fish: so many in one space, lively, but bound t...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 16:40hrs | | by Nqobani Ndlovu in Maphisa
Murder victim's body stuck in hospital mortuary
THE body of a mentally ill man, whose head was decapitated in a suspected ritual murder, is still stuck at the Gwanda provincial hospital, nine months after he was killed.Mduna, as he was popu...Published: 14 Feb 2018 at 05:43hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Murder at murder victim's funeral
A 27-YEAR-OLD man from Bulawayo's Mabutweni suburb was allegedly killed during a funeral wake of another man who was allegedly murdered in the same suburb last week.Thulani Ntini was allegedly...Published: 20 Nov 2017 at 05:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
British laws protect cheating spouses
ZIMBABWEAN couples in the UK are plunged into serious shock when they realise that the law does not protect them in cases where one partner cheats on the other.If a husband finds his wife inti...Published: 27 Oct 2017 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabweans in UK top the spouse murdering list
Zimbabweans in the UK have taken the first and the golden cup in killing their spouses. In the last four years in the UK alone thirty Zimbabwean women were murdered ruthlessly by their husbands or...Published: 10 Sep 2017 at 09:16hrs | 8 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Police appeal to public to identify murder victim
POLICE have said the unidentified woman who was allegedly killed and dumped in Iminyela suburb in Bulawayo could have been aged between 17 and 18 years.The half-naked body was found on Wednesd...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Death sentence commuted to 18 years in jail for granny killer
A STUDENT teacher from Nkayi who was sentenced to death three years ago for killing his 83-year-old grandmother with an iron bar after setting her hut on fire, had his sentence commuted to 18 year...Published: 30 Mar 2017 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Are racist whites really a minority?
Two white males filmed themselves beating a black man, before forcing him into a coffin. The video went viral and caused an uproar all over social media. The men were eventually arrested, and howled b...Published: 17 Nov 2016 at 09:30hrs | 3 | by Maynard Manyowa
Peter Ndlovu's brother-in-law murdered in UK
LEICESTER - A suspected murder victim found in a city centre car park has been named as the brother-in-law of former Premier League footballer Peter Ndlovu.The body of Promise Ndlovu, the ...Published: 04 Nov 2016 at 05:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Murder victims family turns down compensation
THE family of three children who were axed to death by a "stranger" last week in Zaka's Ndanga area has turned down compensation of 10 beasts offered by the assailant's relatives, it has emerged. ...Published: 29 May 2016 at 10:33hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
Man chops killer's body into 12 pieces
A son of an Indian murder victim has confessed to stabbing his father's killer to death and chopping his body into 12 pieces, one for every year since his father was slain.AFP reported that Al...Published: 22 Dec 2015 at 13:06hrs | 2 | by AFP
Woman in trance reveals four 10-year-old murders
POLICE are investigating a bizarre case in which a white Bulawayo businessman allegedly killed and buried four people more than 10 years ago. This came to light after his gardener's wife fell into a t...Published: 25 Nov 2015 at 05:21hrs | | by Pamela Shumba
Goat thief bludgeoned to death with a knobkerrie
A MAN from Ntabazinduna in Matabeleland North bludgeoned a suspected goat thief to death with a knobkerrie after finding him with two skinned carcases from his herd.Bongile Ginya allegedly bea...Published: 06 Oct 2015 at 06:30hrs | 1 | by Nqobile Tshili
Is Dzamara 'worth more' than other Zanu PF murder victims - yes, he is the last one!
"Is Dzamara worth more than all the others who have disappeared or killed?" asked Nathaniel Manheru cum George Charamba, President Mugabe's spokesman in his latest article. Itai Dzamara is th...Published: 19 Jul 2015 at 07:59hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
BF catapult thug cleared of murder, fined $40
A catapult-wielding football thug, who was being hunted by police for murder, was at the police base at Ross Camp all along.Nkosiyabo Ngwenya, 31, tormented rival fans during Highlanders' Bob ...Published: 03 Apr 2015 at 08:08hrs | 3 | by Temba Dube
Mexico police find 61 bodies, including children
Acapulco - Mexican police have found 61 bodies, including children, in an abandoned crematorium that closed more than a year ago in the Pacific resort of Acapulco, authorities said on Friday."...Published: 07 Feb 2015 at 08:20hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Cops weep as they retrieve charred bodies of brutal murder victims
Unknown assailants allegedly brutally cut off a Mberengwa man's limbs with an axe before putting him into a hut with his screaming wife and setting it on fire.Crime hardened police officer...Published: 14 Aug 2014 at 14:50hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Murdered woman had 2 lovers
ONE of the Nkulumane grissly murder victims, Lokukhanya Ncube, who was killed together with a boyfriend identified as Mthabisi - a tout reportedly from Magwegwe - was buried at Luveve Cemetery yesterd...Published: 28 Apr 2014 at 09:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chunga seeks discharge in murder trial
Frederick Chunga, former permanent secretary in the ministry of Lands who stands accused of severing his murder victim's private parts for a business ritual, yesterday applied for discharge at the ...Published: 15 Nov 2013 at 07:33hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
No burial for murder victims as forensic pathologist goes for a month-long leave
Murder victims in Zimbabwe cannot be buried until the country's only forensic pathologist returns from a month-long leave in Cuba.This emerged following the murder of a Harare man from Mbare...Published: 02 Oct 2013 at 07:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Family threaten to dump murder victim's body
THE family of the man who was allegedly killed by an injiva who had reportedly found him in bed with his wife has threatened to dump the body at the injiva's family house unless the assailant's family...Published: 15 Jun 2012 at 09:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean hooker found strangled in Hillbrow Johannesburg
A Zimbabwean lady of the night has been found strangled with an electric cord at the Ambassador brothel in Hillbrow Johannesburg, South Africa, over the weekend. Her eyes had been plucked out with a c...Published: 17 Apr 2012 at 05:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mpopoma murder victim family agrees to bury her
THE family of Miriam Nyoni (nee Takavingofa) who was allegedly brutally killed by her husband at their Mpopoma home in Bulawayo yesterday resolved to bury her but insisted the demands still stand....Published: 20 Mar 2012 at 05:47hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo foot owner, a victim of hit and run accident
A Bulawayo family believes the human foot that was picked up in Ilanda suburb on Tuesday belongs to their relative who was the victim of a hit-and-run accident on Sunday.The left foot, which l...Published: 02 Feb 2012 at 04:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Human foot found dumped in Bulawayo
RESIDENTS of Bulawayo's Ilanda suburb yesterday woke up to the grisly sight of a human foot dumped at a bush behind the United Bulawayo Hospitals' (UBH) Opportunistic Infections Clinic (OIC).A...Published: 01 Feb 2012 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
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