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Woman poisons girl (4) to death in revenge

A four-year-old girl from Mandinyenya village in Bikita, Masvingo province has died after reportedly consuming poisoned rice, in what police say was an act of revenge linked to a local dispute.The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) confirmed t…

Published: 13 Oct 2025 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter

Fake online medicines poisoning Zimbabweans

Across Zimbabwe, from the crowded streets of Harare's high-density suburbs to the quiet villages of Chipinge, a dangerous trend is unfolding - the rise of social media as the country's new "digital pharmacy."On platforms like Facebook, Wha…

Published: 11 Oct 2025 at 09:37hrs | | by Staff reporter

Rotten beef bust in Bulawayo

Bulawayo health authorities have destroyed more than 700 kilograms of beef, including meat sourced from a major fast-food chain and a city police station, after it was deemed unwholesome and unfit for human consumption.According to the lat…

Published: 04 Sep 2025 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter

Food poison floods Bulawayo streets

Bulawayo councilors have raised concerns over a growing wave of cheap, potentially hazardous food being smuggled from South Africa and sold on city streets, particularly under the cover of night.Officials warned that rising summer temperat…

Published: 04 Sep 2025 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter

What is the probability that those who poisoned Jacob Zuma poisoned Paul Mashatile?

The recent health scare involving Paul Mashatile, South Africa's Deputy President, has reignited discussions about the troubling pattern of alleged poisonings among top South African politicians. With former President Jacob Zuma and former…

Published: 15 Sep 2024 at 10:09hrs | | by Askari

Priest accused of poisoning headmaster

A PRIEST at St Paul's Musami High School in Mrehwa yesterday appeared in court for allegedly poisoning the school headmaster by lacing his cup with an unknown substance during a tea break while they were attending a workshop in Harare.Ugen…

Published: 21 Sep 2022 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter

Poison in Zimbabwe

The European Union's Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Timo Olkkonen, says corruption is destroying the country. He said the international appeal for a couple of hundred million dollars to prevent mass starvation would have been met by only a fracti…

Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 20:20hrs | | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary

Mnangagwa revisits his nearly fatal ice cream poisoning

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has once again revisited his nearly fatal poisoning at the height of the ruling Zanu-PF's deadly tribal, factional and succession wars last year - revealing how he had later spent two days lying unconscious at …

Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 20:43hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

4 die in 'murder & poisoning'

A 38-YEAR-OLD man from Emthunzini suburb in Bulawayo died in his sleep following a beer drinking spree after going to bed having said he had been involved in a fight while three family members died and eight others are battling for their l…

Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's full reaction to Mphoko's statement

On the 4th of October 2017, the Honourable Vice President, Cde R. P. Mphoko, writing in his capacity as the then Acting President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, issued a PRESS STATEMENT dated the 3rd of October 2017 in response to a ZBC News…

Published: 06 Oct 2017 at 11:03hrs | | by Honourable E.D. Mnangagwa

Mnangagwa's poisoned chalice

For those who have dispassionately followed the polarised politics of the ruling party in light of factionalisms of recent years, there have been two kinds of reaction.Either to watch it all as a kind of political football that swings from…

Published: 11 Sep 2017 at 05:57hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga

'Mnangagwa was not poisoned,' says Mugabe

President Robert Mugabe has hit out at people peddling falsehoods that Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa was poisoned.Mnangagwa fell sick last month during the Matabeleland South Presidential Youth Interface rally at Phelendaba Stadium in …

Published: 01 Sep 2017 at 16:53hrs | | by Staff reporter

Cde Mnangagwa has recovered, Cdes

Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I must express my displeasure at the manner in which the sad news of Cde Rutanhire's passing was handled. It appeared as if the party does not have fully-fledged departments and government minist…

Published: 01 Sep 2017 at 09:36hrs | 1 | by CZ

Mnangagwa didn't eat Gushungo ice cream

VICE President Emmerson Mnangagwa has dismissed reports that he ate ice cream from Gushungo Dairy shortly before his sudden illness during a Zanu-PF Youth Interface rally in Gwanda early this month.The VP had a severe bout of vomiting and …

Published: 01 Sep 2017 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa breaks silence

Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa ended weeks of silence on his alleged poisoning by thanking God for sparing his life during the sudden illness in Gwanda which saw him being airlifted to South Africa for emergency surgery this month.Mnang…

Published: 28 Aug 2017 at 07:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

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