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Drivers face arrest, fines for parking at construction sites
Motorists in Harare are being warned to avoid parking at construction sites in and around the city's Central Business District (CBD), as authorities intensify a crackdown on illegal parking that has a...Published: 07 Jul 2025 at 08:42hrs | 134 | by Staff reporter
Sticky-fingered neighbours arrested
Two Nkulumane youths have found themselves on the wrong side of the law after allegedly smashing a neighbour's car window and stealing just US$20 and two white reflectors - a petty crime now threateni...Published: 27 Jun 2025 at 15:02hrs | 137 | by Staff reporter
Truck driver fined $400 for fatal accident at truck stop
A 43-year-old truck driver from Nyaradza, Gokwe, has been fined US$400 or, alternatively, sentenced to six months in prison after he accidentally ran over and killed a man who had fallen asleep beneat...Published: 22 May 2025 at 09:20hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police bust car battery theft syndicate
Police in Gweru, Midlands province, have successfully dismantled a car battery theft syndicate that had been targeting residents in both Gweru and Harare. The syndicate's activities were uncovered fol...Published: 31 Dec 2024 at 13:53hrs | 306 | by Staff reporter
BCC defends midnight vehicle impoundment operations amid backlash
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is standing firm on its decision to tow away illegally parked vehicles, despite public criticism. Last week, the council impounded 36 vehicles during midnight operation...Published: 19 Nov 2024 at 08:43hrs | 127 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo traffic lawlessness continues unabated
DRIVING on Bulawayo's roads in the Central Business District is now a nightmare as rowdy push-cart operators, pirate taxi drivers, kombi and bus crews flout traffic rules and regulations as the city f...Published: 11 Jan 2024 at 05:13hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
2 women die celebrating New Year's Day
TWO WOMEN died this morning while celebrating New Year's Day in unclear circumstances in Tafara, Harare.Initial reports indicate that the road leading to Kamunhu Shopping Centre and Tafara sub...Published: 01 Jan 2024 at 17:50hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
'Bulawayo parking fees should be negotiated'
Tendy Three Investments (TTI) should be able to negotiate parking costs with motorists, because the company, which claims local origins, has to comprehend the economic circumstances of locals....Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 12:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe floods destroy 160ha of crops
FLOODS and strong winds destroyed over 160 hectares of crops, including maize and tobacco valued at thousands of dollars, as well as damaging 48 homes in six provinces countrywide over three days last...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 09:38hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe court cancels arrest warrant for Buyanga
A Zimbabwean court on Monday cancelled a warrant for the arrest of millionaire businessman Frank Buyanga who was arrested by Interpol in Johannesburg on November 10 accused of abducting his son two ye...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 19:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo councillors want parking system contract revised
Bulawayo councillors on Wednesday hit out at the "unfair" parking system which was imposed on the city's residents, with one warning fellow councillors that they were underestimating the depth of publ...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 22:32hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Self-styled prophet up for car theft
A 34-year-old self-styled Murehwa prophet has been arrested on allegations of stealing a Toyota Belta worth US$4 000, belonging to a client during a cleansing ceremony on a mountain in Mutoko....Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 16:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Muteswa-Buyanga child custody fight back at High Court
The Supreme Court has upheld a landmark March 2020 High Court judgement granting parents joint guardianship and custody of children born out of wedlock.Where disputes arise, however, the court...Published: 09 Jun 2021 at 18:18hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Dead bodies found in parked vehicle
THREE Male adults' lifeless bodies were found in a Honda CRV near a dam at Bata farm Bindura on Sunday.Mashonaland Central police spokesperson Inspector Milton Mundembe confirmed the case....Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 11:43hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Habitual thief rearrested
Police have rearrested a habitual car thief on allegations of breaking into a parked vehicle in Bulawayo and stealing a cellphone, just a few days after he was released from prison. The latest...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 06:21hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Parked car crushes toddler to death
A one-year- four month-old toddler was crushed to death by a parked vehicle after it rolled back and ran over her while playing behind it with her sister.Mashonaland Central acting police spok...Published: 04 Feb 2021 at 19:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
End of road for Harare vehicle robbers
POLICE in Marondera, Mashonaland East province, have arrested three men who had terrorised motorists as they opened parked vehicles using duplicate keys before stealing various items and cash....Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 21:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare motorists sodomising street boys
A HIGH number of motorists in Harare are reported to be sexually abusing boys living on the streets, a statement issued by the government Monday revealed.Provincial development coordinator Taf...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 08:36hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Man loses forex, gun to thieves
A 39-year-old Harare man lost over US$3 200 and a pistol to unknown thieves who broke into his car which he had parked at a shop in the Graniteside area of Harare. The theft comes at a time po...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF investigates Kwekwe chaos
ZANU-PF is investigating cadres who caused chaos in the Kwekwe Central primary elections on October 3, where prospective party candidates, Kandros Mugabe was battling it out with a 26-year-old Energy ...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Mkoba primary poll results out
EDUCATIONIST William Gondo will represent Zanu-PF in the Mkoba constituency by-elections after trouncing four other candidates who were contesting in the party primary elections.Last week, Gov...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 17:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Car rental company hired out abduction vehicle
One of the vehicles used by state security agents in the abduction of Tawanda Muchehiwa, the nephew of ZimLive editor Mduduzi Mathuthu, was hired from a Harare car rental company, ZimLive revealed....Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 19:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Robbers terrorise worshippers
POLICE in Mashonaland East province are warning people going up Domboshava hills for worship and traditional rituals to be wary of robbers who are terrorising communities in the area.Since Jan...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:21hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Notorious car hijackers nabbed in Bulawayo
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Bulawayo Metropolitan Province have arrested five suspected members of a notorious car theft syndicate suspected to have been hijacking and breaking into parked moto...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 20:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tuku gets befitting send-off
The late music icon and national hero Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi received a befitting farewell from over 40 000 people who thronged the National Sports Stadium in Harare on Saturday to celebrate his life ...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 11:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army nailed over August 1 shooting
Some of the witnesses who testified before the Commission of Inquiry into the politically-motivated violence which rocked central Harare on August 1 threw the military under the proverbial bus yesterd...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 09:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dead body in car shocks motorist
A MOTORIST in Gweru early this week parked his car and went about his business in town, but upon his return found a "stranger" seated on the passenger seat in his vehicle, and on getting closer discov...Published: 06 Oct 2018 at 09:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police brutality: A personal encounter
SOMETIMES it is very easy to dismiss reports or allegations of brutality and inhuman treatment perpetrated against ordinary citizens by the police, who are constitutionally mandated to, apart from fig...Published: 25 Sep 2018 at 07:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo woman kidnapped, robbed of $2700
A BULAWAYO woman lost about US$2 700 to five knife-brandishing thugs who kidnapped her and later threw her out of a speeding vehicle.Ms Memory Mapasure (30) of Matshobane suburb had just colle...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 06:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man in court for threatening Chinese national
A WARREN PARK man appeared in court yesterday charged with public violence after he threatened to assault a Chinese national and ordered him to go back to China together with President Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 08:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cheating Pastor in accident
A local church pastor was involved in road traffic accident fleeing his wife after he was caught in the company of his alleged lover along Leopold Takawira yesterday.Pastor Blessing Saunyama w...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 16:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Desperate fuel thieves arrested
WHEN the going gets tough the hustle becomes desperate.That's the case of two known fuel dealers in Plumtree town who decided to drain diesel from a parked vehicle because they failed to smugg...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Blitz against illegal car sales
The Harare City Council (HCC) has begun impounding vehicles from unregistered car sales, in a blitz targeted at curbing illegal activities in the city.In an interview, HCC spokesperson Michael...Published: 29 Jan 2018 at 09:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
$60,000 seized from cash dealers in police blitz
THREE Chinese nationals and 19 illegal money changers have been arrested in Harare since the gazetting of regulations criminalising cash vending with police recovering $55 000 worth of bond notes, US$...Published: 05 Oct 2017 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
22 illegal money-changers jailed
THREE Chinese nationals and 19 illegal money-changers have been arrested in Harare since the gazetting of regulations criminalising cash vending, with police recovering $55 000 worth of bond notes, US...Published: 05 Oct 2017 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mum breaks down as son killer walks free
A PLUMTREE woman broke down and wept in court after a man who ran over and killed her four-year-old son in a car accident last year walked out a free man.The State withdrew culpable homicide c...Published: 22 Aug 2017 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Congregant steals kombi during prayer session
AN UNLICENCED Goromonzi man, who stole a fellow church mate's commuter omnibus during a prayer session and later dumped it in Shamva, was on Monday sentenced to a six-year jail term for vehicle theft....Published: 02 Aug 2017 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man suffers from period pain, starts menstruating
IN a case of suspected juju, a 40-year-old Chitungwiza man claims he is experiencing menstruation periods for the past two weeks.Joseph Mwale showed H-Metro how he is experiencing pains during...Published: 20 Jul 2017 at 17:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Road test for newly acruired lorry ends in tragedy
A ROAD test for a newly acquired lorry ended in tragedy last Friday after the vehicle crushed two minors to death in a nasty accident that terrified Zimta Park residents in Mutare.When they me...Published: 19 May 2017 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man in trouble for breaking to a parked car and theft
A man from Mzilikazi in Bulawayo is in trouble after he broke into a parked vehicle stole various assortment of goods including mobile phones belonging to the car owner.Ebson Kuda Sibanda was ...Published: 21 Dec 2016 at 04:12hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Mutambara narrates Zanu-PF horror attack
He might have dodged bullets during the war of independence in the 1970s and escaped enemy wrath - but retired brigadier general and former diplomat Agrippah Mutambara was last Sunday caught betwe...Published: 03 Oct 2016 at 16:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in South Africa beg for next meal
JOHANNESBURG - Having fled economic turmoil in Zimbabwe in 2008, Merlyn Ndou sought refuge in neighbouring South Africa; anticipating a change of fortunes, but the place of gold or Egoli, as South...Published: 19 Aug 2016 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Solar energy solving our long standing problems in Harare
The effort by the Harare City Council to establish solar powered street lights is a good development which is mitigating the shortage of electricity in the country. The status of the capital city was ...Published: 21 Jul 2016 at 13:48hrs | | by Sparkleford Masiyambiri
5 cars in two hours thief jailed
A BULAWAYO man has been sentenced to four years in jail for breaking into five cars in two hours and stealing property worth about $600. Clifford Paul Shoko (26) of Cowdray Park suburb targeted parked...Published: 27 Jun 2016 at 06:51hrs | 7 | by Farai Goto
Joy ride turns nasty for Stunner, smashes friends vehicle
Popular urban groove musician Desmond Chideme, better known as Stunner reportedly crushed a friends vehicle while on a joy ride.A speeding Stunner is said to have rammed into four parked vehic...Published: 20 Jun 2016 at 20:23hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Car breaking teens jailed
TWO teenagers from Gweru who were notorious for breaking into parked vehicles have been jailed for three years each for stealing goods and cash amounting to over $3,000 and R4,000. Rodney Chik...Published: 26 Apr 2016 at 06:56hrs | | by Elizabeth Tsuro
Unrepentant teen boy steals from 30 cars
AN unrepentant teenager who was convicted six times last year for a series of thefts from motor vehicles, has been re-arrested for allegedly breaking into 30 vehicles.Victoria Falls magistrate...Published: 22 Mar 2016 at 07:23hrs | | by Leonard Ncube
Harare Council escalates clamping of illegally parked vehicles
Harare City Council has reportedly escalated its move to clamp down on vehicles which park illegal in the city.Harare Residents Trust reported that the city council is not going back on clampi...Published: 16 Jan 2016 at 08:50hrs | | by Stephen Ja`kes
1 minute hailstorm wreaks havoc
A hailstorm left a trail of destruction to property and electricity transmission infrastructure in Chinhoyi late this afternoon.The hailstorm blew off some roofs from various houses in the...Published: 11 Dec 2015 at 15:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nust in hazardously parked vehicle clamping blitz
THE National University of Science and Technology (NUST) has embarked on a controversial exercise of clamping vehicles deemed to be hazardously parked despite the university not having any marked park...Published: 06 Dec 2015 at 08:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
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