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South Africa Eyes Cashless Future Following Zimbabwe's Digital Economy Lead

South Africa is struggling with a surge in violent cash-in-transit (CIT) heists, prompting calls for a cashless economy, a path Zimbabwe has already embraced as a fully digital economy, according to the United Nations. The escalating crisi…

Published: 03 Sep 2025 at 19:49hrs | | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi

ZImbabwe police say opposition planning violent protests

The Zimbabwe Republic Police says it has unearthed a plot by opposition forces to roll out violent protests which the law enforcement agents have vowed to crush.In a statement on Wednesday, police spokesperson Commissioner Paul Nyathi said…

Published: 24 Apr 2025 at 21:45hrs | 558 | by Staff reporter

Man sentenced to 5 years for violent robbery

A 24-year-old man from Nyanga, Happymore Piyo, has been sentenced to five years in prison after attacking and robbing a woman while threatening to gouge out her eyes with a knife. The National Prosecuting Authority of Zimbabwe (NPAZ) confi…

Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 09:38hrs | 123 | by Staff reporter

Violent Zanu-PF youth chairman gets 2-year-jail sentence

The violent Zanu-PF, Masvingo provincial youth chairman Delight Mandebvu has been convicted of assault and slapped with a two-year jail sentence.Masvingo Magistrate, Franklin Mkwananzi suspended the whole custodial sentence today after con…

Published: 03 Aug 2024 at 15:55hrs | | by Staff reporter

US elections have literally become a problematically violent affair

It's rich and absurd for the new US Ambassador to Zimbabwe - Pamela Tremont - to start her first day in her office in Harare by recklessly charging that the US has "problems with elections" in Zimbabwe, when elections in the US have litera…

Published: 19 Jul 2024 at 06:42hrs | 833 | by Jonathan Moyo

Zanu-PF MP taken to court

Zanu-PF Mberengwa North legislator Tinashe Shumba has been taken to court after he tried to evict villagers from their ancestral lands to pave way for his gold mining activities.The villagers, led by John Dube and Itai Zhou, cited Kubatana…

Published: 15 Apr 2024 at 06:09hrs | 32 | by Staff reporter

Violent crime rocks Gwanda

VIOLENT crime that includes robbery, kidnapping and rape is haunting villagers residing at resettlement areas of Gwanda in Matabeleland South.A villager, Jeremiah Zitha from ward 2 in Nyandeni said some places have become no-go areas espec…

Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 06:31hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF youths in violent clashes

Zanu-PF supporters were left nursing injuries after a violent encounter over a residential stand owned by a deceased party supporter in Grobly Park, Waterfalls in Harare.Zanu-PF shadow councillor for Ward 35, Leonard Gono, was severely inj…

Published: 03 Mar 2024 at 08:49hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa grants non-violent prisoners amnesty

AN amnesty has been granted to a range of prisoners serving time for non-violent offences with President Mnangagwa exercising executive clemency to release inmates who had served at least one third of their jail term by Independence Day la…

Published: 13 May 2023 at 18:25hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Mliswa attacks violent ZANU PF youth league

Former ZANU PF Mashonaland West provincial chairperson Temba Mliswa has castigated the top five Mashonaland West youth league saying they are just good at violence and crime."The current Mash West Youth Executive is actually the worst ever…

Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 12:02hrs | 19 | by Simbarashe Sithole

Chamisa, Zanu-PF youths in violent clashes

VIOLENCE flared up between Zanu-PF and Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) youths in Harare yesterday morning as they fiercely fought for control of flea market spaces in Mbare's Mupedzanhamo area.Tension has been simmering between CCC and…

Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 05:55hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Violent ZANU PF officials disqualified ahead of by-elections

ZANU PF suspended two Kwekwe central aspiring legislator candidates for violence and vote buying on parliamentary by- elections, yesterday.Kandros Mugabe and Energy ' Dhala' Mugabe who intended to contest in party primary elections after t…

Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 15:26hrs | 13 | by Tarisai Mudahondo/ Simbarashe Sithole in Kwekwe

Violent storms to hit the country

LOCALISED heavy rains characterised by violent storms and strong winds are expected in some parts of the country for six consecutive days ending Monday next week.The thunderstorms started yesterday and the Meteorological Service Department…

Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 22:48hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter

Qeqe sings about heartbreaks

SONGSTRESS Qeqeshiwe "Qeqe" Mntambo has opened up about failed romantic relationships in a track titled Ngisemathandweni.The track which was produced at X Studios by Lance Hebron, Reilo Veik and Daggerbeats was released this past weekend a…

Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 19:34hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter

UN envoy flies into Zanu-PF, MDC Alliance war

UNITED Nations (UN) special rapporteur, Alena Douhan, who arrives in the country today to assess the impact of sanctions on Zimbabwe, flies into a storm with the ruling Zanu-PF party and the opposition MDC Alliance embroiled in a war of wo…

Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:32hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa takes campaign to Manicaland

OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said he would now head to Manicaland province after his tour of Masvingo province last week turned violent and he was allegedly teargassed by the police and had his convoy attacked by…

Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:32hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter

Mine workers take salary dispute to court

The Zimbabwe Diamond and Allied Mineral Workers Union (ZIDAMWU) has taken the National Employment Council for Mining Industry, Associated Mine Workers Union of Zimbabwe (AMWUZ) and the Chamber of Mines Zimbabwe (CMZ) to court challenging t…

Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:31hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter

Abusive teacher pleads guilty, blames toothache

A HARARE school teacher who last week caused a social media stir after he was filmed brutally bashing a Lower Sixth student pleaded guilty to assault charges when he appeared in court on Saturday.Talent Chingwaru, a teacher at Harare Einst…

Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:31hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

Treat each unvaccinated case on its merits, says PTUZ

THE Progressive Teachers Union (PTUZ) yesterday vowed that its members who are yet to be vaccinated will continue reporting for duty in defiance of a government directive that unvaccinated civil servants should stop reporting for work.This…

Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:31hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter

'Matebeleland politicians have let us down'

MATABELELAND human rights and political activists have blasted the ruling Zanu-PF party and the opposition MDC formations for letting the region down by not fostering development.This came out during last week's virtual debate conducted by…

Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter

Beam programme 'killing' schools

GOVERNMENT's failure to assist disadvantaged children timeously is making schools unable to cater for pupils' needs as it pays the fees when the money has lost value. In some instances it completely fails to pay. For example, some schools …

Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:30hrs | 20 | by Isaac Mupinyuri

Let our youth register to vote en masse

ON October 15, 2021, Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (Viset) launched its informal sector voter education campaign dubbed the Enhanced Informal Sector Voter Mobilisation and Advocacy Initiative (EISeVOMA).EISeVOMA…

Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:29hrs | 18 | by Viset information

Zimbabwe still bound by chains of Mugabe dictatorship

Zanu-PF and MDCs have indicated that they want to give themselves monopoly over political power in Zimbabwe. Recently, I felt bad when I saw some people chanting the Ngaapinde Hake Mukomana mantra.Why don't we learn that hero-worshiping a …

Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:29hrs | 9 | by Paul Dzimano

CAPS United crash out of Chibuku Cup

Dynamos 1 - 1  CAPS UtdHARARE football giants CAPS United crashed out of the Chibuku Super Cup after playing out a stalemate with bitter rivals Dynamos in the penultimate round of the Group One matches at Baobab yesterday.The Green Ma…

Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter

Poor scoring rate worries Bosso coach

Bulawayo City 0 - 0 HighlandersDESPITE qualifying for the quarter-finals of the Chibuku Super Cup, Highlanders' coach Mandla Mpofu is worried by his team's inability to convert scoring chances they create.Mpofu was left cursing after watch…

Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter

Major boost for NRZ

A new fleet of locomotives, wagons and coaches should be equipping the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) by year end with the new dispensation making major strides in revamping the almost collapsed railways, NRZ board chairman Advocate M…

Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter

Border chaos: National Ports Authority the missing link

The Government has over the years come up with a number of strategies to remove trade barriers and enhance the smooth flow of people and cargo through its land borders.This is being done with the envisaged view to boost international trade…

Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

When desperate, tactless opposition fakes victimhood

Last Monday the MDC Alliance (MDC-A) faction was at it again. It was involved in skirmishes with the people of Masvingo in an incident which involved the discharge of a firearm.This was all schemed up to create an impression of human right…

Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga

Violent teacher found guilty

TALENT Chingwaru, the Mathematics teacher who was last week filmed assaulting a Lower Six student at a school in Harare, was yesterday convicted on his own plea of guilt and immediately appealed for a lighter sentence from the court, sayin…

Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:25hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter

Violent scenes unmasked the facade of South Africa's rainbow nation

With the country mopping up following violent protests in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, the country finds itself divided not only by class but also among racial lines as tensions ran high in some communities afflicted by the marauding violenc…

Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 14:21hrs | 27 | by Manyane Manyane, Karabo Ngoepe, Mzilikazi Wa Afrika

Ishmael Kumire died at the MDC-Alliance violent demonstration: No single alliance official attended the funeral

He was buried in Chinamhora, writes German Journalist Christian Selz and there was not even one MDC-Alliance at his funeral. Ishmael was a street vendor eking out a living for his family when he was caught in the cross-fire. "He was not a …

Published: 08 Aug 2018 at 08:00hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata

Stop using White City for violent political machinations

The barbaric attack that has caused the death of some people attending a ZanuPF rally at White City Stadium is already having serious repercusions. No sane person can ignore the danger of this cowardly act especially as it was an attack on…

Published: 26 Jun 2018 at 14:04hrs | 14 | by Mkhululi Zulu, Zapu Presidential Spokesperson

Violent hail strikes again

A SCHOOL and several homes in Sigola area near Ntabazinduna in Matabeleland South were severely damaged by hailstorms on Tuesday afternoon.The hailstorm struck at around 4PM.At Sigola Primary School a classroom block's roof was completely …

Published: 11 Jan 2018 at 05:44hrs | 33 | by Staff reporter

Violent crime increases, as cash becomes more valuable

There has been a significant increase in crime, particularly violent crime, in recent months, according to Safeguard Security, one of the country's leading security organisations. Many of the violent crimes have occurred in some of the cou…

Published: 05 Apr 2017 at 16:32hrs | | by Mike Hamilton

Tsvangirai has always been violent

The recent revelations by the MDC-T members that the party's president, Mr Morgan Tsvangirai instigated youths to attack a fellow party member, vindicates what we have been all along saying about the man. Mr Tsvangirai is of a violent disp…

Published: 03 Mar 2016 at 13:58hrs | 11 | by Rufaro Mufundirwa

Are violent women a reflection of a man's world?

ROBERT Kelly was spot on with his lyrics, "When a woman is fed up, it ain't nothing you can do about it." It seems when women are cornered, they unleash untold wrath on alleged offenders. Week in, week out the media has been awash with rep…

Published: 20 Apr 2015 at 10:28hrs | | by Nhlalwenhle Ngwenya

Violent ghost 'trousers' unleashes terror in Bulawayo

Residents of Queens Park West suburb in Bulawayo are reportedly living in fear of a violent ghost which manifests itself in a pair of trousers. It is reported that the pair of trousers waits for its prey under the tree right outside the ho…

Published: 30 Apr 2012 at 13:32hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter

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