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Toddler dies after falling into dish of hot porridge
A heartbreaking tragedy has struck a family in Nzovunde Village, Binga District, after a two-year-old child died from severe burns sustained when the toddler fell into a container of boiling porridge....Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 14:20hrs | 302 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Silent Struggle: A Nation on the brink but too fearful to rise
Zimbabwe is a nation in crisis, and the time for silence has passed. Power cuts are routine, water supplies are unreliable, and roads are riddled with potholes. The healthcare system has collapsed, wi...Published: 19 Mar 2025 at 21:22hrs | 1443 | by Vusani Magwala
Ntshavheni's 'concomitant action' moment to kill zama zamas
In a controversial statement on Wednesday, Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said the government intends to "smoke out" as many as 4,000 illegal miners reportedly trapped underground nea...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 18:16hrs | 472 | by Staff reporter
Illegal gold miner shot dead at Eureka mine
Hundreds of illegal gold miners stormed Eureka gold mine offices in Guruve yesterday in protest of a fatal shooting at the mine on Thursday....Published: 26 Oct 2024 at 20:24hrs | 1445 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Guruve
Protesters across Kenya say 'Ruto must go!'
Kenyan riot police fired tear gas at protesters in Nairobi on Tuesday and demonstrations erupted in other cities across the country demanding the resignation of President William Ruto, following a wee...Published: 02 Jul 2024 at 12:04hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
MSD forecasts heavier rainfall in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has predicted increased rainfall in certain regions of the country on Tuesday.In an evening weather report and forecast, the MSD revealed ...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 05:47hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Serial killer arrested
The Zimbabwe Republic police arrested the suspected serial killer Thandolwenkosi Ndlovu (20) today in connection with five murder cases in the Harare Central business district between August 28 and 4t...Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 19:48hrs | 2 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Even a five year old can tell that Mnangagwa has failed!
I remember when my son was still a little child, in the early 2000s, whereby we had to give him millions of Zimbabwe dollars to buy sweets and 'freezits' ...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 19:24hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Gunmen open fire on Beitbridge bound bus
UNKNOWN gunmen on Saturday morning opened fire on a Beitbridge-bound Bridgestone Bus Service coach and shattered some of its windows but noone was seriously injured in the incident 10 kilometers shy o...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 19:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Police shoot dead 4 robbers
Police yesterday killed four armed robbers in Gwanda during a shootout after the robbers resisted arrest, national police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said yesterday.Asst Com Ny...Published: 07 Jul 2022 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cold spell to persist till weekend
THE cold spell being experienced in most parts of the country will persist until Saturday while light rains are also expected tomorrow, the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has said.It...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Who is Nemaisa?
A new version of Bruce Lee was born in Zimbabwe as little known Nemaisa gunned single handedly gunned down robbers at his house in Chadcombe, Harare....Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 11:49hrs | 12 | by Shelton Muchena and Desmond Nleya
Police, army open fire on Makakavhule villagers
BEITBRIDGE police and some army officers yesterday allegedly opened fire at Makakavhule villagers after two of their colleagues were manhandled following an argument about an alleged robbery of R15 00...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:58hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Are sangomas really 'linked' to armed robberies?
Armed robbery in criminal law is an aggravated form of theft that involves the use of a lethal weapon a victim typically motivated by the desire to obtain money.Cases of armed robbery have rea...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:44hrs | 4 | by Blessing Mandabva
Mnangagwa and Charamba are envious of Zambia's democracy
The day you remove the name George (Charamba) in your birth certificate is the day you will be able to think wisely. Your first name gives you hallucinations. A spokesperson who does not even respect ...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 08:13hrs | 4 | by Nomazulu Thata
2 children killed as fire guts school
TWO children were burnt beyond recognition when a veld fire swept through Mitchel Primary School in Hurungwe East on Thursday with the Civil Protection Unit on the ground to assess the damage and help...Published: 28 Aug 2021 at 05:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cold and drizzly weekend ahead
ZIMBABWEANS should brace for an extremely cold and drizzly weekend and vulnerable members of the public should be adequately dressed to avoid diseases like pneumonia. The relatively cold and d...Published: 23 Jul 2021 at 08:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean is in great pain!
The report of today's Bulawayo24 is about two young men who beat a man of 72 years to death because he refused to share information about soccer results! Our citizen loses his life because of a trivia...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 13:06hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Army clears air on Guinea Fowl shooting
The Guinea Fowl shooting incident which occurred on January 16, resulting in the death of Tatenda Munetsiwa after being shot by 52 Infantry Battalion soldiers who were reacting to a report of theft of...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 16:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Time for African youths to silence the gun
Africa as a continent needs a fresh start with new crop of leadership who are not necessarily militant or use their muscles to solve the problems facing their nations but who will use their brains....Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 07:41hrs | 3 | by Leonard Koni
Armed police open fire on speeding kombi, one killed
Armed police opened fire on an unregistered speeding kombi yesterday killing one passenger and seriously injuring another near Juru along the Mutoko-Nyamapanda road. Police have launched an in...Published: 24 Sep 2020 at 21:30hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Gunmen open fire on MDC MP's house
MARONDERA Central MP Caston Matewu (MDC Alliance) and his family escaped unhurt when suspected State security agents opened fire on their house in Nyameni high-density suburb yesterday morning....Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Hottest tot for Kariba merrymakers opens up
Patsaka-Nyaminyami CR Environment and Tourism SeriesAs Kariba gears herself up to host an increased domestic tourism traffic flow, she needs the necess...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 19:53hrs | 1 | by Laiton Kandawire
How Jonathan Moyo survived Chiwenga's killers
Professor Jonathan Moyo's escape story from the then Commander Defense Forces Constantino Chiwenga's killers in November 2017 is a candidate for a Hollywood script. While Prof Moyo is ye...Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 12:56hrs | 16 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Valerio Sibanda's war time exploits
LET me congratulate General Philip Valerio Sibanda for his new post as the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) commander.I met Comrade Ananias Gwenzi (General PV Sibanda), in Zambia in March 1974 at...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 09:01hrs | 10 | by Dr Milton, Chemhuru
How Chiwenga's soldiers killed two Israeli snipers
Commandos under the command of Vice President Constantino Guvheya Chiwenga are reported to have killed two Israeli bodyguards who were guarding the then Minister of Finance Ignatius Chombo's house dur...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 14:27hrs | 14 | by Mandla Ndlovu
3 die in fresh SA xenophobic attacks after Ramaphisa threat
SUSPECTED fresh xenophobic attacks in South Africa have resurfaced in some parts of Limpopo province and Durban in KwaZulu Natal, leaving three people dead and several houses burnt to ashes. T...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Restraint by Zimbabwe security forces saved lives'
In the face of widespread media reports and commentary condemning the military and police responses to the violence unleashed on innocent citizens last week by some local and international bodies that...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 08:05hrs | 1 | by STaff reporter
Why the military supports Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe's military deployed in several areas of the capital, Harare, Monday, to put down anti-government demonstrations against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government.This is the second ti...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 13:07hrs | | by AP
Mnangagwa declares war on 'secessionists': fire will be met with fire!
President Mnangagwa's angry outbursts at Zanupf conference on Friday shows without any modicum of doubt that Matabeleland restoration cause puts the fear of God in him and his cabinet.MLO is a...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 10:21hrs | | by Israel Dube, Secretary for Information and Public Affairs
'Women lose makeup kits to Mnangagwa's armed security'
National Patriotic Front Spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire has sensationally claimed that heavy security deployed to search people attending the graduating at Zimbabwe Open University on Friday lost pens...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 13:27hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Ex-Mugabe ally breaks into tears while recounting 2017 coup horror
EX-Zanu-PF Harare political commissar, Shadreck Mashayamombe Wednesday broke into tears as he recounted how he got abducted, tortured and further relieved of US$50 000 by his army assailants during th...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 08:13hrs | 1 | by newzimbabwe
A year after Mugabe, hopes for a new Zimbabwe still low
A year since a trio of army generals held former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe under house arrest as part of a 10-day military operation that enabled his protege, Emmerson Mnangagwa, to take powe...Published: 15 Nov 2018 at 09:19hrs | | by Aljazeera
WATCH: General Sibanda nails MDC Alliance?
Zimbabwe Defence Force Commander General Phillip Valerio Sibanda believe President Emmerson Mnangagwa authorised the brutal clampdown at the end of which at least six people were dead and dozens other...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 10:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
August 1 victims dead before soldiers arrived
On an extraordinary and defining day in the quest for the truth over the August 1 military massacre on the streets of Harare, the men who made the key decisions on that day all totally denied they had...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 09:48hrs | | by zimlive
'Zimbabwe soldiers did not kill civilians on 1 August'
The Zimbabwe Defence Forces did not kill any civilian during an operation aimed at restoring order in Harare's central business district following violent demonstrations that resulted in the death of ...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 06:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police 'acquit' murder accused Mnangagwa 'supporter' who shot and killed tout
POLICE seem to have "acquitted" a President Emmerson Mnangagwa "supporter" after presenting court papers stating the 24-year-old was acting in self-defence when he shot and killed a suspected parking ...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 07:33hrs | 3 | by newzimbabwe
Chiwenga ordered army to be in the streets of Harare - Hwende
MDC Alliance official Chalton Hwende has sensationally claimed that Vice President Constantino Chiwenga ordered soldiers to be on the street and killed seven suspected opposition supporters. "...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 08:13hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa 'ducks' Chamisa papers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa allegedly refused to be served MDC Alliance Nelson Chamisa's petition challenging the July 30 presidential election results, saying the papers must be given to the Attorne...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 10:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Time to heal the nation and move forward
Zimbabwe is at crossroads. We cannot afford to be stagnant anymore but to keep focused and heal the battered country. Its about time.The shooting of the six in Harare Zimbabwe after the electi...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 20:54hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
ED promises 'probe shooting of protestors' - promised free elections but never delivered
When the spokesman of the military coup of 15 November 2017 announced to the world that they had taken over all the country's key institutions of government and had the then President Robert Mugabe un...Published: 08 Aug 2018 at 07:55hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
History repeating itself yet again! The arms catch in the 1980s versus Bombing in White City today
This bombing had to happen right in the city of Kings and Queens: Bulawayo. It was well staged to the extent that the bomber was not captured. The perpetrator of the silly bombing could not have escap...Published: 24 Jun 2018 at 22:16hrs | 4 | by Nomazulu Thata
Go to court, Charamba tells Mugabe
Former president Robert Mugabe must approach the courts of law if he believes President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Administration lacks constitutional legitimacy, Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba h...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF MP's son, girlfriend caught up in cops and robbers shootout
A Harare man and his friend were seriously injured after being caught up in a shoot-out between police and suspected armed robbers.The man has since been identified as Kevin Guzah, while his l...Published: 22 Feb 2018 at 05:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP's son shot
The son of a Zanu-PF Member of Parliament (MP) was shot in a suspected case of mistaken identity by Chinese nationals on Monday night.Hurungwe West MP Keith Guzah's son, Kevin who was in the c...Published: 21 Feb 2018 at 15:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
EDiots in Davos
The Zhuwao Brief Reloaded (ZBR) notes the purge of senior police officers that has been effected in the Zimbabwe Republic Police by the coup conspirators and terrorist junta.This purge has bee...Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 13:26hrs | | by Patrick Zhuwao
Zvimba celebrates the fall of Mugabe
In 1981, when Albert Mugabe, younger brother to former president Robert Mugabe died, their uncle, Paul Matibiri, reportedly warned the then prime minister that if he was as selfish in leading the coun...Published: 26 Nov 2017 at 09:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA robbers open fire on Zimbabwe-bound kombi, kill 1
ONE MAN died and eight other people were lucky to survive when gunmen opened fire on a minibus carrying Zimbabweans leaving South Africa for home on Tuesday.South African Police Services (SAPS...Published: 05 Oct 2017 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe kids hunt mice and sell them as tasty snacks
With headlamps to peer through the darkness, children in rural Chidza village in central Zimbabwe scamper through the night to trap mice, which they roast and sell to motorists on the road to neighbou...Published: 29 Sep 2017 at 16:47hrs | 25 | by AP
Gunfire as gold war turns ugly
THREE people were shot and seriously wounded following an exchange of heavy gunfire in Odzi last Saturday as rival groups fought to control a lucrative gold mine in the area.Detectives quickly...Published: 22 Sep 2017 at 06:18hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
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