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Cops, vendors clash
VIOLENCE rocked Harare yesterday as police and vendors fought running battles as informal traders resisted efforts by government and council to remove them from the central business district as part o...Published: 2 hrs ago | 418 | by Staff reporter
Zesa, TelOne thieves jailed 10 years each
Five Harare men were on Wednesday jailed to 10 years each for stealing Zesa and telecommunication cables in the city.Tawanda Mutekedzi (28), Paul Chisano (22), George Chimbutira (27), Stanley ...Published: 2 hrs ago | 121 | by Staff reporter
Cop up for assault
A POLICE officer from Ross Camp in Bulawayo has been taken to court for assaulting a troublesome passenger who had been reported by a motorist for refusing to pay a fare.Nelson Munsaka (40) pl...Published: 2 hrs ago | 166 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urged to set up independent body to investigate security services
GOVERNMENT has been urged to implement Section 210 of the Constitution which requires the State to set up an independent body to receive and investigate complaints against the security services....Published: 2 hrs ago | 120 | by Staff reporter
Vic Falls man hangs self after bar brawl
A VICTORIA Falls man hanged himself following a bar brawl with a resident at Lupinyu business centre early this week.Matabeleland North police spokesperson Siphiwe Makonese confirmed Moses Jub...Published: 2 hrs ago | 113 | by Staff reporter
Prophet up for pregnant woman rape
A PROPHET from Bulawayo appeared in court yesterday for allegedly raping a pregnant woman who had visited him for consultation. Wilson Thabe (52) who resides at Robert Sinyoka pleaded not guil...Published: 2 hrs ago | 178 | by Staff reporter
ED means Business
By now, we all know President Emmerson Mnangagwa's mantra by heart: Zimbabwe is open for business! We have heard it countless times since the beginning of the new dispensation in November 2017. I alwa...Published: 13 hrs ago | 2810 | by Mike Tawanda
Form 1 pupil impregnates own cousin
Chief Makope has expressed dismay over three cases of incest by school children in his area of jurisdiction.According to Makope a cousin brother and a sister from Mbari Secondary school in Mvu...Published: 13 hrs ago | 3592 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe police disband Border Control Unit
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police has disbanded its Minerals and Border Control Unit (MBCU) and redeployed its members as part of a restructuring exercise to restore sanity in the police force.The ...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 07:51hrs | 4947 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa opens probe into army killings
President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday swore in the team which will investigate the post elections violence which resulted in the death of at least six people, after the army used live ammunition to b...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 07:42hrs | 2623 | by Staff reporterq
Chamisa's MP blocks municipal cops from confiscating vendors' wares
MDC Alliance Marondera Central legislator Caston Matewu yesterday caused a stir in the farming town after he ordered municipal cops to stop confiscating street vendors' wares.The youthful MP, ...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 07:06hrs | 1843 | by Staff reporter
Mindset shift key to policing: Mathema
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) needs a paradigm shift and the necessary resources, including adoption of information communication technologies to combat 21st century crime, new Home Affairs minis...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 07:00hrs | 293 | by Staff reporter
Veld fire kills mom, child
A GURUVE woman and her one-year-old daughter were last week burnt by a veld fire. Patience Chikowore (32) and her daughter were on their way home from their tobacco nursery at Birkdale Farm. ...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:43hrs | 280 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance rep runs from stock theft rap
LOSING MDC Alliance Insiza South Parliamentary candidate Honest Mafu is on the run from the police who are pursuing him for three counts of stock theft. Mafu (34) of Mthabisi Village in Filabu...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:26hrs | 291 | by Staff reporter
Baby dumper arrested after two years on the run
A BULAWAYO woman who has been on the run for two years after dumping her two children outside a pub and going to live with "boyfriends" has been arrested. A court heard Thandiwe Dube (27) left...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:25hrs | 618 | by Staff reporter
August 1 violence, probe team sworn-in
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sworn-in a 7-member Commission of Inquiry into the August 1 Post-Election Violence that occurred in Harare CBD and led to the death of six people.The Commissio...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 15:41hrs | 1899 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe authorities target more opposition party supporters over anti-Zec protest
ZIMBABWEAN authorities have intensified their crackdown on perceived opposition political party supporters after arresting a Harare man and charged him with committing public violence for allegedly pa...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 14:09hrs | 2200 | by Stephen Jakes
'Mnangagwa inherits Mugabe's anti-Gukurahundi traits'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime has come under fire for allegedly refusing to surrender former state leader Robert Mugabe's old culture of muzzling any talk around the Gukurahundi atrocities....Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 13:46hrs | 2937 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi documentary deemed to be carrying inflammatory information
Author of the Gukurahundi documentary - Gukurahundi Genocide 36 Years Later - Zenzele Ndebele was on Monday summoned by police over the project that is deemed to be carrying inflammatory information....Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 13:07hrs | 1271 | by Staff reporter
Court defers ruling on Nduna's Chegutu West win
The verdict in the Electoral Court challenge to newly-sworn-in legislator Dexter Nduna (Zanu-PF) accused by MDC Alliance rival Gift Konjana of stealing the Chegutu West National Assembly seat was post...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 13:05hrs | 1907 | by Staff reporter
Kariba on high Cholera alert
The Kariba District disaster preparedness team held an emergency meeting this Monday at the District Administrator's boardroom where all heads of departments and other critical players on service deli...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 10:14hrs | 800 | by John T Chirinda
Gweru chases money changers off the streets
Gweru City Council's blitz against illegal vending has extended to unregistered money changers, with the local authority threatening to confiscate their cash if they resist.Municipal police, i...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 07:26hrs | 2287 | by Staff reporter
Police clear Marondera of vendors
Police in Marondera have removed all vendors from the streets and seized their goods, including newspapers on sale.The blitz, which began on Monday, is meant to bring sanity to the streets fol...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 07:21hrs | 534 | by Staff reporter
3 arrested for killing teenager over stolen beer
Three Mutoko men were yesterday arrested on allegations of fatally assaulting a teenager who had allegedly broken into a beerhall and stolen alcohol and other goods worth $23.Mashonaland East ...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 07:12hrs | 589 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in colonial relics show
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's official opening of the 9th Parliament of Zimbabwe yesterday turned into a public display of colonial regalia and trinkets in scenes that would fit well at Westminster A...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 07:06hrs | 1214 | by Staff reporter
Pomp and fanfare as new Parly opens
THE official opening of the First Session of the Ninth Parliament saw President Mnangagwa delivering his maiden State of the Nation Address following his election on July 30. It was pomp and f...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 07:04hrs | 194 | by Staff reporter
Kombi ploughs into vendors
A KOMBI driver suspected to be unlicensed yesterday lost control of his vehicle, rammed into and seriously injured four vendors in the Bulawayo Central Business District. The incident occurred...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 06:55hrs | 711 | by Staff reporter
Trial date for 27 Chamisa backers set
The trial of 27 MDC-Alliance supporters - who reportedly went on a rampage, destroying property, torching vehicles, blocking roads and attacking people in Harare's central business district (CBD) - is...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 06:39hrs | 251 | by Staff reporter
Man kills domestic worker's family
A Buhera man ran amok on Sunday and fatally shot his domestic worker's wife and two children aged four and one, over maize, rapoko and groundnuts that were stolen from his home. The incident o...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 06:37hrs | 649 | by Staff reporter
Man attacks peeping Tom with machete
Disciplining a peeping Tom backfired for a machete-wielding Glendale man after he was arrested for assault.Cleopas Chimuriwo (27) was fined $100 by Concession resident magistrate, Ruth Moyo ye...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 06:31hrs | 419 | by Staff reporter
Man guns down 3 family members
Tragedy struck when three Mandigo family members were allegedly shot to death by one, Takadu Magwiro following a dispute over allegations of stolen maize, rapoko and groundnuts in Buhera.The g...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 19:13hrs | 4577 | by Staff reporter
Traffic cop in court over $5
A 28-YEAR-OLD Mazowe traffic cop was arraigned before Concession resident magistrate Ruth Moyo yesterday for duping a motorbike rider of his $5 at a police roadblock for ridding without a driver's lic...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 17:45hrs | 3176 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Cholera death toll now 31
CHOLERA death toll has risen to 31 while efforts to contain the scourge are being made.A total of 5961 cases had been reported as of yesterday, the Minister of Health and Child Care Dr Obadiah...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 16:32hrs | 355 | by Staff reporter
SA court legalises private cannabis use
South Africa's Constitutional Court has ruled that the personal use of cannabis is not a criminal offence.Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo said the law banning marijuana use by adults was un...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 11:22hrs | 1852 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa seems to be on track
The opposition campaigned freely across the country.The presence of regional and international observers was most welcome.However, Zec has some serious house-keeping to do in order to ...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 08:24hrs | 1966 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU honours 2006 torture victims
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has honoured its members who were brutally tortured by police on September 13 2006 after spearheading countrywide protests against social injustices by for...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:48hrs | 329 | by Staff reporter
Haddon and Sly workers down tools
Workers at struggling Bulawayo supermarket Haddon and Sly, one of the oldest in the city, at the weekend staged a demonstration against a decision by the company to close the shop, allegedly for renov...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:46hrs | 1280 | by Staff reporter
Angry bar owner shoots patron over stolen cattle
A 34-YEAR-OLD Goromonzi man is lucky to be alive after a bar owner shot him on the thigh for refusing to vacate the premise on allegations that he once stole the businessman's cattle sometime in 2016....Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:09hrs | 1087 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's commission on military killings challenged in court
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's appointment of a seven-member commission of inquiry into the post-election violence that led to the killing of seven civilians in Harare by members of the Zimbabwe Defen...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:52hrs | 1151 | by Staff reporter
Man axed to death in love triangle
A 28-YEAR-OLD Mt Darwin man is on the run after he allegedly killed his girlfriend's boyfriend in a suspected love triangle, police have said.Tinashe Nyakudya (28) of Chiruma 1 village under C...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:43hrs | 984 | by Staff reporter
Vendors blitz spreads to Masvingo as soldiers, police clear city
THE police blitz on vendors in major towns has spread to Masvingo, with soldiers and the police clearing the city at the weekend as government responds to the outbreak of cholera that has claimed 30 l...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:40hrs | 662 | by Staff reporter
'Killer' dumps lawyer in court
THE trial of three robbers who allegedly waylaid and killed a drunken man in Bulawayo's Makokoba suburb before robbing him of a cap and jacket has been postponed indefinitely after one of the accused ...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:39hrs | 957 | by Staff reporter
Near murder in radio volume row
A MAN (52) from Mangwe District in Matabeleland South has been admitted to hospital in critical condition after a 21 year old man brutally attacked him over radio volume during a beer drink. M...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:36hrs | 345 | by Staff reporter
Cops launch countrywide roadblocks
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has launched a countrywide operation targeting unregistered vehicles and motorists who are flouting traffic regulations and endangering the lives of other road users...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:30hrs | 4086 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and his VPs urged to declare assets
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his two deputies - Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi - have been urged to publicly declare their assets in order to demonstrate their commitment to fighting corrup...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 14:11hrs | 1753 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo journalist summoned to Police law and order over Gukurahundi documentary
CITE journalist Zenzele Ndebele says he has been summoned to law and order for questioning over the Gukurahundi documentary.Ndebele tweeted, "Just got a call from CID Law and order Bulawayo as...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 13:13hrs | 1383 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe police detain journalist for 3 hours
Freelance journalist Columbus Mavhunga was detained for close to three hours during a police crackdown on vendors in Harare on Sunday 16 September. Mavhunga was detained after he refused to de...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 11:43hrs | 1064 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa laments killing of a Norton resident
Norton legislator Temba P Mliswa has lamented the killing of a Norton resident Sydney Kumbanga."It's very disturbing to hear that there has been another stabbing incident in Norton at Katanga ...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 08:56hrs | 3435 | by Stephen Jakes
Cops in high-speed chase with Grace Mugabe's sister
THE arrest of former First Lady Grace Mugabe's elder sister, Shuvai Junior Gumbochuma last Friday, was not without drama as police had to engage in a 24km high-speed chase with her son, Moses, behind ...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:16hrs | 3875 | by Staff reporter
Supa Mandiwanzira sucked in 'hostile' hotel takeover
A PRIVATE company, Tatipano Properties, which has been linked to former Information Communication Technology minister Supa Mandiwanzira, has been taken to court for allegedly using fraudulent document...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:14hrs | 3224 | by Staff reporter
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