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Rogue cop remanded over shocking murder of rape victim
A Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officer accused of facilitating the cold-blooded murder of a rape complainant by handing her over to her alleged attacker has been remanded in custody alongside his co...Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 12:16hrs | 389 | by Staff reporter
Rapist's wife nabbed
A Plumtree based woman is in trouble after she tried to defeat the course of Justice by trying to bribe a rape victim.Thokozani Mkandawire (30) was remanded in custody today by Plumtree magist...Published: 06 May 2025 at 21:03hrs | 2024 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwean rapist kills victim in Botswana
In a shocking incident, a Plumtree-based businessman Cabangane Mathe (35), allegedly killed a rape victim in a bid to conceal the crime he had committed.The matter came to light at Plumtree ma...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 10:33hrs | 1730 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Pregnant children, marital rape victims have a right to abortion, High Court rules
A law denying access to legal abortion for children below the age of 18 and married women who are victims of marital rape is unconstitutional, the Harare High Court has declared in a landmark ruling....Published: 02 Dec 2024 at 16:40hrs | 282 | by Staff reporter
Rape victim offered R50 for silence
A 26-year-old man from Beitbridge has been arrested for raping a 12-year-old girl and bribing her with R50 for silence.The National Prosecuting Authority of Zimbabwe revealed that the man appe...Published: 03 Oct 2024 at 11:06hrs | 587 | by Stephen Jakes
Gang rape victim demands GOAT! as compensation
IT'S a crazy and insane world. But you have to believe it because it is true.A woman from Matobo District, Matabeleland South Province, who alleged that she was gang-raped by four men while he...Published: 26 Jul 2024 at 09:04hrs | 1214 | by Staff reporter
Rapex to trap rapists, protect women
SONETTE Ehlers, a blood technician from South Africa envisioned a world free from rape and invented the rape axe in 2005, which has received mixed reactions from the public.Ehlers invented the...Published: 28 Jun 2024 at 09:59hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter
Kereke sent back to jail
FORMER Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke is back in prison after the Supreme Court yesterday confirmed his conviction and an effective 10-year jail term for raping a juvenile relative. ...Published: 01 Jun 2024 at 18:36hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Quartet in court for trying to bribe rape victim
Four suspects were nabbed and dragged to Plumtree magistrates courts on Friday after they tried to convince a rape victim to change her statement in court...Published: 01 Jun 2024 at 06:47hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Gukurahundi whitewashing hearings begin
PUBLIC hearings to document and resolve civil disturbances that transpired in some parts of the country in the 1980s are set to begin early next year, marking the commencement of a historically signif...Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 09:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's amnesty for rapists hitting victims harder
EMELKA (not real name) was only 11 years old when a 59-year-old villager forced himself on her. The villager repeated the attack several times, threatening to kill the young girl using witchcraft if s...Published: 27 May 2023 at 09:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC blasts Mnangagwa
Some of the more than 4,000 prisoners released on amnesty by President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week include child rapists, it has emerged.One fiend who raped a nine-year-old girl had served ju...Published: 24 May 2023 at 17:13hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi tears into Chief's Gukurahundi genocide manual
The Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has criticized the diction used in crafting the chiefs' manual on Gukurahundi Community Engagement Processes claiming that it minimized the victims' experiences of t...Published: 21 Oct 2022 at 06:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Adulterous man pays for girlfriend's divorce
AN adulterous Harare man has been ordered to pay ZW$100 000 adultery damages following a successful lawsuit by the husband of a woman he snatched away.Dambudzo Oliver Munyebvu was ordered to p...Published: 27 May 2022 at 06:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Johane Marange rape victim refuses medical examination
A Johane Marange minor congregant who was allegedly raped by her uncle refused to go for a medical examination as it is against her church doctrine.The matter came to light at Mutoko magistrat...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 12:25hrs | 7 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Mutoko
Botswana jails 3 Zimbabweans for rape, robbery
THREE Zimbabwean men are in Botswana's remand prison to answer robbery and rape charges.Desmond Khupe (19), Lucky Dube, (23) and Calvin Maphosa (43), who are all illegal migrants, were not ask...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 06:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pastor Freddy says rape complainant seduced him
GOODNESS and Mercy Ministries founder Tapiwa Freddy yesterday claimed that the female broadcaster who has laid rape charges against him actually seduced him through audio messages and nude pictures....Published: 14 Jan 2022 at 05:21hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Women abuse UK justice system to settle scores
John Mabhureza of Northampton United Kingdom sits in a corner in prison. He has grown so thin and he is not eating well. He has reduced himself into a silent dying man. Mabhureza's problems star...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 07:24hrs | 5 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Serial rapist in court
A KNIFE-WIELDING man who raped and robbed several women in Harare was arraigned before the courts yesterday.The rapist, Bessam Mahosi alias Kudzanai Gwaze Ambewe (37) appeared before magistrat...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 06:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Woman raped at prayer shrine
Police are hunting for a man who robbed two women and raped one of them after they had gone for an all-night prayer on Muchinjikwa Mountain in Chinamhora, Mashonaland East at the weekend. Repo...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 07:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rape clinic launches 72-hour campaign
THE Adult Rape Clinic (ARC) has launched a campaign that encourages victims of the crime to seek medical assistance within 72 hours to protect them from contracting HIV/Aids and pregnancies. T...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 18:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Rape cases worry police
POLICE in Bulawayo have expressed worry at the increase in cases of rape which are mostly perpetrated by relatives.According to Bulawayo police spokesperson, Inspector Abednico Ncube, a week h...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 05:52hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Bushiri extradition hearing set for tomorrow
THE extradition hearing against self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri, and his wife, Mary, is expected to begin in the Lilongwe Magistrate's Court in Malawi tomorrow.The charismatic preache...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 15:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe condemns Western embassies over January 2019 'insurrection'
GOVERNMENT has condemned a coterie of Western embassies, which have gone on a co-ordinated and biased social media attack on Zimbabwe over the January 2019 violent protests that rocked the country's m...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 06:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
A woman is raped daily in Bulawayo
ABOUT 30 women are raped in Bulawayo every month, statistics that have prompted police to issue an alert over the development and release rape hotspots around the city.Acting Bulawayo spokespe...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 10:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya 'rape' victim springs to his defence
The case in which Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries leader Walter Magaya is accused of raping and impregnating a 17-year-old girl he had adopted has taken a new twist after the alleged rape...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 08:12hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Late Zimbabwe VP exposed for raping Harare school teacher?
With so many rapes going unreported and unprosecuted, victims are instead forced by circumstances to commit paternity fraud. Most have managed to keep their secrets, but the arrival of affordable DNA ...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 20:17hrs | 4 | by TRT World
Zimbabwe male MPs fuel gender violations
WHILE a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step, the journey to women's emancipation seems so close yet so far!The day to day scenarios are characterised by women being victims of all...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 16:58hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
African Union and Sadc are spineless
A combined African Union (AU), Southern African Development Community (Sadc) and President Emmerson Mnangagwa trio-solution to the entangled, Zimbabwean problem will not yield the correct result. In p...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:26hrs | 1 | by Pearl Matibe
78 police officers injured by protestors
The Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services has alleged that 78 police officers were injured and 1 officer died during the violent protests that rocked Zimbabwe on January 14....Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:02hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa claims that MDC-Alliance is 'putting sand in the food'
The MDC-Alliance sponsored so-called shutdown that left a trail of destruction of property and loss of life last month was part of the regime change agenda wrought against the country for the past 18 ...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
President ED unapologetic after the murder of 17 and alleged rape cases
President ED has embarrassed our women. While being interviewed in Addis Abbaba, he told the reporter that he needs to see the graves of the murdered Zimbabweans in order to accept that the Zimbabwe N...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 11:08hrs | 22 | by Don Chigumba
WATCH: Mnangagwa denies army killings and rape reports
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has denied allegations that there were killings, torture and rape allegations committed by members of the Zimbabwe Defense Forces.In an interview with France24 in ...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 07:26hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe govt must compensate victims of army rape
Women rights activists have petitioned government to compensate women who were allegedly raped during a brutal crackdown by the military to crush protests against fuel prices.Dozens of women m...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 20:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rape victim's baby in mystery death
A 13-year-old girl, who fell pregnant as a result of sexual abuse, gave birth last month only for the child to die 20 days later under mysterious circumstances. The girl, who was sexually abus...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
UN condemns Zimbabwe rights abuses
The United Nations has expressed deep concern at reports of people being raped and tortured in the ongoing crackdown against dissent in Zimbabwe and demanded President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government ...Published: 02 Feb 2019 at 05:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa was behind shutdown,' says Mnangagwa's govt
INFORMATION minister Monica Mutsvangwa yesterday claimed government's intelligence operatives had concluded that the Nelson Chamisa-led opposition party was responsible for the January 14 to 16 ...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 09:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe military not above the law'
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has said members of the security forces are not above the law and urged victims of brutality to report to the police for justice to take its course.Hundreds ...Published: 30 Jan 2019 at 07:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police to investigate rape allegations against officers
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has announced that it is ready to investigate allegations of rape by citizens which are leveled against members of the police force.This was revealed by Chief of S...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 13:44hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
No rape case against soldiers has been reported to police yet
GOVERNMENT has urged women who were allegedly raped by some rogue members of the security forces to report the abuse to the police. The Zimbabwe Republic Police is also urging Non Governmental...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 08:19hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Rape, brutality as soldiers crash protests
THE violent clampdown on protesters by soldiers and the police has left deep scars and trauma on children and women who were beaten up, raped or were forced to watch as their husbands, fathers or brot...Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 19:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru opens up on soldiers raping citizens
Former Vice President Joice Mujuru has broken up her silence concerning the circulating allegations that members of the Zimbabwe National Army have been engaging in a systematic rape of citizens in pa...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 16:38hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Qualifying and quantifying political reform in Zimbabwe
Earlier this week a local daily reproduced an article from the American weekly magazine, Newsweek. The article was titled "White farmers 'getting poorer, sicker' as they await Government compensation"...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 14:37hrs | 1 | by Joram Nyathi
'24 women raped daily in Zimbabwe'
As Zimbabwe joins the rest of the world in commemorating 16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence, which commenced on November 25, the nation continues to record high rates of violence agains...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 22:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zifa circus: New details emerge
FRESH details have emerged on how Zifa president Philip Chiyangwa allegedly used dirty tricks to try and ring fence his position from being contested in the December 1 board elections, with disqualifi...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 11:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa's 'tricks' exposed, invents rape charges
ZIFA president Philip Chiyangwa's spirited effort to retain his post at all costs in next month's executive committee elections have been exposed, amid shocking claims that he invented fictional rape ...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rape victim discovers she is pregnant 6 months after rape
A RAPE victim allegedly discovered she was pregnant six months after her neighbour sexually abused her.Konet Dube of Mtandawenhema village, under chief Nhlamba allegedly raped the 28-year-old ...Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi victims should not be weak by electing compromised leaders
As Zimbabweans brace themselves for the 30 July 2018 harmonised elections, various sections of the nation have only two months left in which to seriously consider who, amongst the candidates, will bes...Published: 31 May 2018 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Man jailed over false rape charge
A MUTARE man has been sentenced to one month in jail for filing a false rape report at Mutare Central Police Station. Takawira Chiwawa (25) was sentenced by Mutare magistrate Tendai Mahwe on Friday af...Published: 08 May 2018 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rape victim 'deeply in love' with attacker
A MARRIED Masvingo rape victim stunned a court when she confessed that she was "deeply in love" with her attacker and expressed regret for having him arrested.Fortunate Kashiri (28) of Mavhoro...Published: 11 Apr 2018 at 07:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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