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Zim concedes Parirenyatwa's plea for veterans decent burials
The government (through Parliament) is progressively conceding to pressure from the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA), after its membership successfully petitioned authori...Published: 20 Dec 2024 at 21:01hrs | 1196 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
The tale of two criminal politicians
CORRUPTION is a type of dishonesty or a criminal offence that is often perpetrated by a person or an organisation that is entrusted in a position of authority to acquire illicit benefits or abuse powe...Published: 09 Dec 2024 at 08:14hrs | 931 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Man claims he cultivated dagga to boost sexual prowess
Bulawayo resident Andrew Mlotshwa appeared in court this week, defending his cultivation of dagga as a means to "boost his sexual libido," a claim he argued was essential to maintaining his marriage. ...Published: 26 Oct 2024 at 12:52hrs | 273 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has US billion dollars overseas, can wipe out debt within 24 hrs
The recent Bulawayo24 article tells us that Zimbabwe is cash-strapped: it has a staggering debt of US$ 31billion; both domestic and international. This statement is partly true. In paper, Zimbabwe is ...Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 19:56hrs | 25198 | by Nomazulu Thata
Why buy a ZBC license when the broadcaster doesn't speak for suffering Zimbabweans?
The state-controlled broadcaster, the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC), has published its radio and television licence fees. This was one of the most outrageous lists I have seen a long...Published: 04 Oct 2024 at 12:34hrs | 532 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Burglar steals pots with isitshwala and beans
Carlos Ncube, a 26-year-old from Makwika Village in Hwange, found himself in trouble after a late-night craving led him to commit two break-ins, stealing two pots of isitshwala and beans along with a ...Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 15:54hrs | 263 | by Staff reporter
War veterans company in turmoil
Zvimba East Veterans Investment Company (ZEVIC), a firm established and wholly owned by veterans of the liberation struggle, is embroiled in turmoil following revelations that its bank account has bee...Published: 29 Sep 2024 at 11:30hrs | 435 | by Staff reporter
Insider hand in US$114k, R1,2m heist exposed
Preliminary investigations into the armed robbery at Fawcett Security Company in Chipinge, where US$114,411 and R1,281,320 were stolen, suggest the heist was facilitated by an insider, police confirme...Published: 06 Sep 2024 at 07:08hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
Zapu calls for SADC action against Zanu-PF
ZAPU has joined the list of growing organisations concerned about the government's clampdown on citizens ahead of the 44th Southern African Development Community (SADC) Summit in Harare, questio...Published: 13 Aug 2024 at 17:14hrs | 482 | by Staff reporter
African children are wood, and water collectors for the whites: nothing has changed!
I wish I lived in another planet and certainly not planet Earth because this one has painful contradictions. Africa, especially, a continent that was ravaged by slavery for centuries. The white popula...Published: 23 Jul 2024 at 16:48hrs | 649 | by Nomazulu Thata
It's now clear that ED had no intentions of stepping down!
It took only ten days! Only ten days for President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa to break the pledge he made in front of the whole nation.On 4th July 2024, whilst addressing a gathering ...Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 08:11hrs | 554 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
3 arrested for smuggling firearms and drugs in coffin
THREE men who tried to smuggle firearms and drugs into the country under the guise of repatriating the body of a dead person have been arrested by police in Beitbridge.Mehluli Nkomo (35), Bren...Published: 25 Jun 2024 at 10:43hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zuma calls out 'snakes' in Ramaphosa's ANC
LEADER of the uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) Jacob Zuma says the formation of the party was to protect the ANC against President Cyril Ramaphosa.Zuma used a snake as an analogy, saying a man of ...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 08:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zacc struggles to recover US$1bn tainted assets
Zimbabwe's weak extra-territorial judicial systems are hampering the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) from recovering looted funds believed to be hidden in foreign countries, NewsDay has rep...Published: 31 May 2024 at 21:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Eleph Gula-Ndebele arrested for possession of cocaine
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi has officially announced the apprehension of Eleph Khumbula Gula-Ndebele and five others on charges of unlawful posse...Published: 25 May 2024 at 13:30hrs | 67 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe finds a way to turn paper into gold long live Gushungo!!!
Money, the market, free enterprise, free trade, law, and justice, among others - existed in other forms before the colonialists introduced paper currency. The natives had their own functional institut...Published: 09 Apr 2024 at 16:58hrs | 3 | by Sam Wezhira
'Harare stashing ZWL$2,6b Zinara funds'
HARARE City Council (HCC) officials are allegedly sitting on ZWL$2,6 billion dollars dispatched last year by the Zimbabwe National Road Authority (Zinara) for road works, amid concerns of high levels ...Published: 21 Mar 2024 at 08:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mr Kudzai Mutisi, the German 'Economic wonder' after the WW2 had multiple favourable factors!
I am writing this article as a reply to your article you wrote last week: My article is not in any way or form critiquing your own but including factors that must be known, but, however, adding to wha...Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 20:53hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF using sanctions as excuse for corruption
Moses Mzila Ndlovu says the Zanu-PF government is heavily profiting from corruption, with the elite externalising funds out of the country and investing them elsewhere rather than in social services, ...Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Vandals keep police on their toes
Police have expressed concern over the spike in cases of vandalism of public infrastructure.This follows the recent arrest of a Takudzwa Sasa (24) of number 10562 Western Triangle Highfi...Published: 19 Feb 2024 at 15:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Stash of cyanide discovered in Belmont
THE Environment Management Agency (EMA) is investigating a case involving the alleged illegal importation of cyanide, which was found hidden in a warehouse in the Belmont industrial area in Bulawayo....Published: 08 Feb 2024 at 04:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF security aide in court for assaulting Mnangagwa; fined US$200
A man from Harare, claiming to be a security aide at the Zanu-PF headquarters, has appeared in court on assault charges after allegedly attacking Tourism Deputy Minister Tongai Mnangagwa and Wellingto...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 17:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Kenyans caught smuggling mbanje in Zimbabwe
TWO Kenyans have been arrested in Victoria Falls for possessing more than 60kg of mbanje.Muchai Kamau (47) and Sammy Duke (33) were arrested at the Kazungula Border after police and Zimbabwe R...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 15:00hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police finger school staff in robberies
SCHOOLS have emerged as the latest target for armed robbers after scores of learning institutions lost thousands of United States dollars stashed in safes this week.Police have accused school ...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 05:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police probe mystery of human legs found stashed in sack
POLICE in Bulawayo are appealing for information that could help in identifying two human legs that were recovered stashed in a grey sack in Pumula South. Deputy provincial police spokesperson...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 05:03hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Copper cable thief shot dead near Sizinda
A man was shot dead by a National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) security guard at Westgate station in Bulawayo yesterday afternoon after he was allegedly caught stealing copper cables and tried to escape...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 05:52hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
State has no witnesses, says Sikhala
FORMER Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator Job Sikhala says he was never in Nyatsime, Chitungwiza, on the day violence broke out at the funeral of slain opposition party activist, Morebless...Published: 14 Dec 2023 at 03:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Witchcraft claims derail search for missing 2 year old
WHEN Ms Glenda Sibelu left her two-year-old daughter at home to fetch water from a nearby river, she had no idea it would be the beginning of a heart-wrenching search for the toddler who has been miss...Published: 07 Dec 2023 at 05:27hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Man in trouble for illegal possession of copper cables
A 29-year-old man from eMganwini in Bulawayo has appeared in court facing a charge of illegal possession of copper cables worth US$2300.Ishmael Ndlovu was not asked to plead when he appeared b...Published: 06 Dec 2023 at 16:23hrs | 11 | by Stephen Jakes
Armed robbers get away with US$7,000 loot
A SUSPECTED notorious armed robber from Chegutu yesterday appeared before magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa facing three counts of armed robbery.Benjamin Chipiri (38) was advised to approach ...Published: 05 Dec 2023 at 05:23hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Man up for US$130,000 robbery
A 22-YEAR-OLD Harare man appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court facing armed robbery charges after he allegedly teamed up with his accomplices and robbed a motorist of US$128 932 cash.Learnm...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Truck driver arrested for cigarette smuggling
POLICE in Beitbridge have arrested a 28-year-old Zimbabwean truck driver for smuggling cigarettes stashed in a gas tanker.In a statement, national police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Pa...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 05:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
US$1 million cash stolen from Harare home
Police have launched an investigation after a Chinese military contractor lost US$1 million cash that she kept at her Borrowdale Brooke home to thieves.Li Fang, 38, locked her room in the shar...Published: 16 Nov 2023 at 18:10hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Henrietta Rushwaya judge gets US$400,000 house on eve of sentencing
A judge set to deliver judgment in Henrietta Rushwaya's gold smuggling trial was given a house by the government last Friday, ZimLive can reveal.The transaction was approved by chief cabinet s...Published: 15 Nov 2023 at 05:21hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Mutapa Fund likely to create oligarchs
FEARS abound that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's self-serving Mutapa Investment Fund project has hallmarks of how Russian state assets were sold for a song or brazenly stolen during its transition fro...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 13:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pupil caught with 40 girls' panties
A Gokomere High School pupil has left people tongue-tied after he was found in possession of more than 40 girls' underwear exiting the girls' hostel on September 10, 2023.Masvingo Provincial E...Published: 14 Sep 2023 at 18:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man (22) arrested with guns, teargas
A 22-year-old man was arrested in Binga after he was found in possession of two unlicensed firearms, several rounds of ammunition and tear-smoke canisters while he was in a bar.Madodana Muleya...Published: 14 Aug 2023 at 13:15hrs | 10 | by Erick Matotoba
'Zanu-PF, ANC Siamese twins whose end is nigh,' says EFF
SOUTH African opposition, Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), has described Zimbabwe's ruling party Zanu-PF and ANC as two peas in a pod whose involvement in corruption is a signal of their political dem...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 06:53hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Ghanaian minister resigns over Phala Phala-like scandal
Ghana's sanitation minister resigned on Saturday over reports staff found and stole stashes of local and foreign money from her home, she said in a letter to the president in which she denied any wron...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 12:19hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Hungry thief steals maize
A 31-YEAR-OLD hungry Concession man is in soup after stealing six bags of shelled maize from Tracy Chimbudzi's farm.Shadreck Mashava pleaded guilty to the charge before Concession magistrate M...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 20:00hrs | 9 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabweans will always suffer with a govt perpetually crying over sanctions!
As Zimbabweans continue to suffer through unmitigated poverty, under the ZANU PF regime, for the past two decades - do they honestly see any light at the end of the tunnel?Surely, every time I...Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 10:06hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
A critical review of Al Jazeera's Gold Mafia documentary
APRIL, famously characterised as "the cruellest month" by distinguished poet and literary critic TS Eliot in his critically acclaimed essay "The Wasteland" - not because its first day celebrates fools...Published: 28 May 2023 at 17:07hrs | 4 | by Jonathan Moyo
Are Zanu-PF and ANC Siamese twins?
BIOLOGICAL Siamese twins, are those born conjoined to each other, usually at the chest, pelvis or backside. Their conjoinment, unfortunately, is not of their own making.This results from parti...Published: 24 May 2023 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by Mutemo Pisa
Mnangagwa disappointed by some members of the business community
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is disappointed by some members of the business community whose conduct continues to frustrate Government efforts to stabilise the economy and the current wave of price increases o...Published: 23 May 2023 at 06:36hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt takes price madness head-on
Government, whose responsibility is to protect the consumer and ensure stability, will "take all measures necessary", including painful ones if need be, to ensure price stability, the President has sa...Published: 21 May 2023 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Drug dealer jailed
A 26-YEAR-OLD Centenary woman who was found with twists of dagga stashed in her washing basket has been convicted by a Concession magistrate today.Chipo Chiusalaka of Bardhood farm, Centenary ...Published: 09 May 2023 at 13:04hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
2 arrested over smuggled drugs
POLICE in Nyamapanda, Mashonaland East province, have arrested two men for smuggling three bags of medical drugs into the country.Collins Kanhukamwe (49) and Brian Samu (35) were arrested for ...Published: 09 May 2023 at 06:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe stashed over US$5 billion in Europe?
TOP economist and former opposition legislator Eddie Cross has claimed that former First Lady Grace Mugabe has over US$5 billion hidden in Europe.Speaking on a podcast, Friday Drinks, Cross sa...Published: 05 May 2023 at 06:35hrs | 47 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's son in-law demands US$500,000 divorce settlement
THE late former President Robert Gabriel Mugabe's son-in-law Simbarashe Mutsahuni Chikore has lifted the lid on how the family benefited from State largesse as he listed the family's riches in the cou...Published: 04 May 2023 at 06:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Drug dealer in soup
A 26-YEAR-OLD Centenary woman is in soup after she was allegedly found with twists of dagga stashed in her washing basket.Working on a tip off police pounced on Chipo Chiusalaka of Bardhood fa...Published: 03 May 2023 at 14:22hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
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