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Zanu-PF bigwigs question Mnangagwa's legitimacy
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa, struggling to consolidate and maintain power at the volatile helm amid renewed internal Zanu-PF infighting and disintegration of the coalition which drove his ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 1719 | by Staff reporter
Nasty factional fights boil in Mnangagwa's backyard
INTENSE inter-factional fights to control President Emmerson Mnangagwa's home province Midlands, pitting two rival groups backing State Security minister Owen Mudha Ncube and the incumbent chairperson...Published: 3 hrs ago | 399 | by Staff reporter
Man arrested after apparently shouting at Mnangagwa during ZITF walk
A man was tackled and led away by state security agents on Thursday after shouting "huya pano iwewe" in the direction of President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Mnangagwa, accompanied by his deputy Const...Published: 3 hrs ago | 597 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa claims he will get back his party headquarters
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa said his party would get back everything it lost to a rival faction, including the party's Morgan Richard Tsvangirai (MRT) headquarters.He said the MDC Allia...Published: 12 hrs ago | 1708 | by Staff reporter
Biti back in Parliament
Six MDC Alliance legislators, including vice-president Tendai Biti, who were expelled from Parliament, have been reinstated by the High Court.Justice Joseph Mafusire ruled that Biti and collea...Published: 12 hrs ago | 1170 | by Staff reporter
An overdue apology from Jonathan Moyo
FORMER Cabinet minister and Zanu-PF arch-propagandist, Jonathan Moyo, currently living in exile, was chief-architect of some of the most draconian and oppressive laws in the country. He has now decide...Published: 12 hrs ago | 1808 | by Cedric Steele
State seeks to remand Sikhala for 6 months
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance vice-chairperson Job Sikhala was yesterday left stunned in court after the State sought a remand of six months to next February despite indicating that it was ready for trial....Published: 12 hrs ago | 502 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe leaders too immature to understand democracy
I know that Zimbabweans have resigned themselves into expecting anything from their leaders - no matter how horrendous and disgraceful - as that has been the shameful hallmark of the regime ever since...Published: 13 hrs ago | 139 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
3 held over murder of Bulawayo businessman
POLICE yesterday said they had intensified investigations into the case in which they have arrested three suspects who were part of a gang that murdered a Bulawayo businessman before ransacking his ho...Published: 13 hrs ago | 423 | by Staff reporter
When it comes to Zimbabwe’s 41 years and counting of rigged elections - it takes three to tango
When it comes to Zimbabwe's rigged elections - it takes three to tango. The ruling party Zanu PF, the MDC opposition and the ordinary Zimbabweans have all played a part in historic fact that Zimbabwe ...Published: 13 hrs ago | 85 | by Wilbert Mukori
4 robbers admit to crime spree
FOUR suspected armed robbers, who yesterday admitted to killing one person and attempting to murder three others in and around Harare are expected back in court tomorrow. Brothers, William (39...Published: 13 hrs ago | 142 | by Staff reporter
Kwekweza, Zimudzi set free over protest against tinkering with constitution
HARARE Magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti-Guwuriro has set free two pro-democracy campaigners who had been on trial on charges of promoting public violence after they were arrested for allegedly protesting ...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 15:55hrs | 602 | by Stephen Jakes
Security guard drowns while poaching fish
A 33-YEAR-OLD Mazowe Henderson Research security guard drowned yesterday at Mazowe dam where he was allegedly caught poaching fish by Zimbabwe National Parks (ZimParks) officials.Martin Chisim...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 15:54hrs | 1626 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Boy (15) rapes five minors
A LOWER GWERU juvenile allegedly raped two sisters and three cousins aged between six and eight years, and ran away when the crimes were discovered.The boy allegedly raped his two sisters aged...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 07:53hrs | 2453 | by Staff reporter
Mary Mliswa accused of ordering arrests of rival
THE internecine factional ructions battle for control of Mashonaland West Zanu-PF has reached a crescendo, with claimant to the provincial chairmanship, Vengai Musengi this week accusing Provincial Af...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:44hrs | 1600 | by Staff reporter
Heavy police presence at ZITF
POLICE in Bulawayo have increased their visibility to curb crimes that are usually associated with the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair due to an influx of visitors.Bulawayo police spokespers...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:40hrs | 641 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers decry onslaught under Mnangagwa
A DAMNING report has revealed a growing and worrisome trend in the systematic arrest of lawyers in the country and restrictions that have been placed on them since the beginning of 2020, impacting the...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:34hrs | 1269 | by Staff reporter
Corruption accused top cop languishes in Remand prison
OFFICER commanding police in Mashonaland West province, Commissioner Conneli Dube, who faces allegations of obstructing the course of justice, is languishing in remand prison after a local magistrate ...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:27hrs | 496 | by Staff reporter
Matanga dragged to court over missing US$23,000 exhibit money
POLICE Commissioner General Godwin Matanga is being sued alongside his two officers by a Chipinge man whose US$24 000 was seized as an exhibit in a fraud case and was never recovered.The compl...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:14hrs | 459 | by Staff reporter
Man hospitalised after alleged ZRP brutality
A Masvingo ‘illegal' money changer was left ruing his actions to evade law enforcement agents after being hospitalized at Masvingo Provincial Hospital following an alleged attack by a Zimbabwe Repub...Published: 22 Sep 2021 at 06:10hrs | 3604 | by Staff reporter
Prophet rapes, impregnates congregant
A SELF-STYLED Gweru prophet (34) has been arrested for allegedly raping and impregnating a female congregant (21) after saying he was conducting a cleansing ceremony as she was having menstrual pains....Published: 22 Sep 2021 at 06:04hrs | 3026 | by Staff reporter
Police disrupt peace day commemorations
BULAWAYO police yesterday disrupted International Peace Day commemorations organised by Ibhetshu LikaZulu, a local civic group seeking restorative justice and redress of the Gukurahundi issue....Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 21:36hrs | 684 | by Staff reporter
Top cop crucifies subordinate
POLICE Deputy Commissioner-General Lorraine Chipato yesterday told the court that under-fire police commissioner in charge of Matabeleland North province, Erasmus Makodza, did not write a report to th...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 21:31hrs | 1498 | by Staff reporter
Biti arrest warrant cancelled
A warrant for the arrest of MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti was cancelled on Monday, a few hours after it was issued.In obtaining the warrant, the National Prosecuting Authority said B...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 20:54hrs | 840 | by Staff reporter
Missing juvenile found dead
A 12-year old girl from Shamva who went missing on July 28 was found dead on a mountain last Thursday. The body of Alana Topo was ...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 17:30hrs | 1702 | by Lloyd Rabaya/ Simbarashe Sithole
Reprieve for NGOs as High Court orders Muguti to stop issuing directives
HIGH Court Judge Justice Esther Muremba on Friday ordered Tafadzwa Muguti, the Provincial Development Coordinator for Harare Metropolitan Province and some government agents to stop interfering with o...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 11:47hrs | 1061 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe authorities arrest students in renewed onslaught against dissent
ZIMBABWEAN police on Monday detained 10 student teachers after arresting them for allegedly staging protests in the capital city against a steep hike in tuition fees.Zimbabwe Republic Police (...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 11:44hrs | 1004 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF, MDC Alliance clash
HARARE City Council has raised security fears as the fight for control of vending sites in Mbare hots up.A recent report by council's small-to-medium enterprises committee revealed that city f...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:24hrs | 2221 | by Staff reporter
'Only removal of Zanu-PF from power will solve Gukurahundi issue'
MATABELELAND-BASED human rights activists say the Gukurahundi atrocities can only be fully addressed once the alleged perpetrators are out of power.The activists made the remarks on Sunday dur...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:22hrs | 928 | by Staff reporter
Protesting Belvedere Teachers College students arrested
POLICE in Harare have arrested and seriously injured 11 student teachers at Belvedere Teachers College who were protesting over the decision to block them from accessing the campus before paying their...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:21hrs | 967 | by Staff reporter
Robbers raid road construction firm
POLICE in Chivhu have arrested two men who were part of a gang that raided a road construction company along Masvingo-Harare Highway and stole 350 litres of diesel.The suspects were arrested i...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:19hrs | 1602 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to officially open ZITF
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is the guest of honour at this year's edition of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF). The country's prime trade showcase would be held under strict Covid-19 guidelines beg...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:13hrs | 252 | by Staff reporter
Petrol bombed pastor succumbs to burns
A PASTOR from Enaleni Village in Bubi District, Matabeleland North, who was petrol bombed and suffered burns to 97 percent of body has died. Bishop Ephraim Ndlovu (51) of Alive in Christ Pentecostal C...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:12hrs | 1668 | by Staff reporter
Mwazha church fight back in court
AFRICAN Apostolic Church (AAC), which is now split between the leader, Apostle Paul Mwazha and his sons, is back in the High Court with the church seeking to bar the founder's sons from holding pilgri...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:11hrs | 621 | by Staff reporter
Zupco employee arrested for theft
A Bulawayo based Zupco company employee has been arrested for stealing $3 240 from his employer while two men lost over US$20 000 cash and R181 500 to criminals in separate incidents in Bulawayo and M...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:11hrs | 366 | by Staff reporter
Vladimir Putin's party wins Russian polls
Russian citizens in Zimbabwe at the weekend exercised their democratic right to vote in legislative elections in their country with near final results yesterday showing an emphatic victory for the rul...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:11hrs | 340 | by Staff reporter
Man stones mother to death
A MENTALLY challenged man from Matobo fatally struck his mother with stones. In their twitter page, police confirmed the incident which occurred on September 16. In another case a mentally challenged ...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 19:00hrs | 1173 | by Staff reporter
Biti skips court, warrant of arrest issued
Harare magistrate Mrs Chido Garwe has issued a warrant of arrest against MDC-Alliance vice president Tendai Biti after he failed to appear in court for trial. Biti is facing allegations of man...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 19:00hrs | 1546 | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa trial opens
NORTON legislator Temba Mliswa today denied allegations of violating the Covid-19 national lockdown regulations when he called for a press conference at his Borrowdale house in Harare sometime last ye...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 18:59hrs | 1077 | by Staff reporter
Con woman in court over US$488 000 fraud
A 33-year-old Harare suspected con-artist who dropped President Emmerson Mnangagwa's name in a fraud case involving close to half a million United States dollars has been further remanded in custody t...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 18:59hrs | 1309 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF are cowards, Zimbabwe does not belong to their mothers!' - whilst they enjoy absolute power, it does
"Good pple there is need to teach ZANU PF a big lesson once and for all in 2023. They talk a lot of nonsense as if this country belongs to their mothers. They have got arrogance of a coward.Th...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 17:15hrs | 619 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Top prosecutors in plot to 'fix' lawyer
TWO chief public prosecutors - Rosa Takuva and Justin Uladi - could face a criminal probe after an alleged clandestine manoeuvre to "destroy" Harare lawyer Admire Rubaya was unmasked.A WhatsAp...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:15hrs | 1873 | by Staff reporter
BCC to introduce new electronic parking system
BULAWAYO City Council, in partnership with Tendy Three Investments (TTI), has embarked on a project to introduce a new electronic parking system aimed at decongesting the city.The project will...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:14hrs | 366 | by Staff reporter
Highway fuel robbers nabbed in Beatrice
Two suspects have been arrested by Chivhu police on allegations of stealing diesel from Fossil Contractors machinery parked on their site along Harare-Masvingo highway after a high-speed chase. ...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:08hrs | 542 | by Staff reporter
Tollgate leakages: Zinara losing millions
COLLUSION between officers manning toll gates and corrupt motorists has seen banned kombi and pirate taxi crews sneaking through boom gates without paying, prejudicing the Zimbabwe National Road Admin...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:07hrs | 403 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge Border Post upgrade excites truck drivers
COMMERCIAL truck drivers from across the Sadc region have expressed excitement over the ongoing upgrade at the Beitbridge Border Post, which is currently being modernized by the Government in partners...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 18:33hrs | 2072 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga in fierce battle to control Masvingo provinces
"Ladies and gentlemen the situation in our country has reached another level…," said the late army General Sibusiso Moyo while addressing the nation during the November 2017 sanitized coup whi...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 18:14hrs | 6156 | by Staff reporter
Four perish, one seriously injured
Four people died on the spot while one was seriously injured when a Mercedes Benz they were travelling in veered off the road before uprooting trees this ...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 13:06hrs | 4243 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Violent father charged with murder
A FILABUSI villager, who was in 2017 sentenced to 12 months in jail for assaulting his two children, is back in the dock facing fresh charges of killing one of them with a knobkerrie.Nkazimulo...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:46hrs | 637 | by Staff reporter
Woman dies in tractor accident
A 48-YEAR-OLD woman from Matobo district's Nyongolo area in Kezi died after falling from a moving tractor.Matabeleland South acting police spokesperson Sergeant Thandolwenkosi Moyo said Nothan...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:46hrs | 595 | by Staff reporter
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