TSVANGIRAI IN $187K ‘FRAUD’…Gweru mayor, town clerk arrested
Morgan Tsvangirai Munyaradzi Musiiwa/Elizabeth Tsuro Midlands Reporters— GWERU mayor Hamutendi Kombayi and Town Clerk Daniel Matawu have been arrested for the alleged theft of $187,500 —part of which...
View ArticleMURDER IN JOBURG: Three Zimbos to appear in SA court
Thupeyo Muleya, Beitbridge Three Zimbabwean men and a South African woman are expected to go for trial at the Palm Ridge High Court in Johannesburg on 4 April, charged with killing two Zimbabwean...
View ArticleMPOFU HOUSE COP SHOT
Fungai Lupande Harare Bureau— A POLICE officer shot a colleague guarding Macro Economic Planning and Investment Promotion Minister Obert Mpofu’s Harare home, before attempting an elaborate cover up, a...
View Article$900 bribe cop lands in court
Patient Sibanda Court Reporter— A POLICE officer allegedly connived with two Bulawayo men and extorted $900 from a delivery truck driver they intercepted carrying smuggled goods, a magistrate heard...
View ArticleKiller ‘surgeon’ grandmother spared jail
Mata Muzamba Fairness Moyana Hwange Correspondent— A HIGH Court judge has ordered a 72-year-old Binga woman who “operated on” her granddaughter in an attempt to remove fibroids from her uterus before...
View Article‘War vets defied zanu-PF’
Mashudu Netsianda Senior Reporter— EMBATTLED war veterans chairman Cde Christopher Mutsvangwa has gone rogue and wants to turn former freedom fighters against Zanu-PF, Women’s League deputy secretary...
View ArticleTeacher who sjamboked lover to death jailed 10 years
Bemba Primary School in Tsholotsho where Ncube and his girlfriend worked Fairness Moyana Hwange Correspondent— A TSHOLOTSHO-based teacher sjamboked his lover, also a teacher, to death for allegedly...
View Article8-man gang robs TM supermarket
TM Cowdray Park manager Shepherd Msipha (left), makes indications to detectives after the break-in yesterday Nqobile Tshili Chronicle Correspondent— EIGHT armed robbers travelling in two vehicles...
View Article23 years for double shooting gunman
Thandeka Moyo Court Reporter A DANGEROUS thug who shot two people on Christmas Eve while fleeing an angry mob on a busy Bulawayo street is starting a 23-year jail stretch today. Thokozani Zulu, 39,...
View ArticleTwo Italians shot dead at Mana Pools
Hunters at Mana Pools Harare Bureau/Chronicle Reporter TWO Zimbabwe National Parks rangers mistakenly shot and killed an Italian man and his son at Mana Pools National Park, police confirmed yesterday....
View ArticleWar vets leader faces arrest…First Lady supporter felled with ‘flurry of...
Cde Victor Matemadanda Patrick Chitumba Midlands Bureau Chief CDE Victor Matemadanda, the secretary general of the war veterans’ association, is facing arrest after allegedly assaulting a fellow war...
View ArticleNew law to ban lobola for minors
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa Zvamaida Murwira Harare Bureau The government is coming up with cocktail of laws, among them, making it an offence for parents and guardians who accept lobola for...
View ArticleMasvingo war vets reject Mutsvangwa
Cde Chris Mutsvangwa Walter Mswazie Masvingo Correspondent WAR veterans in Masvingo have passed a vote of no confidence in their provincial chairman Cde Tendeukai Chinooneka and resolved that their...
View ArticleWork and no pay for 13,000…Civil servants skipped from payroll
Civil Service pensioners queue to be vetted during an audit exercise in Bulawayo last year Zvamaida Murwira Harare Bureau At least 13,000 people have been rendering service to the government but are...
View ArticleCourt stops Mbada mining in Chiadzwa
Workers at a diamond mine in Chiadzwa Fidelis Munyoro Harare Bureau THE High Court has barred Mbada Diamonds from carrying out any mining operations in Chiadzwa without a licence, saying allowing the...
View ArticleNust student blows fees, hangs self
George Bonomali Midlands Bureau Chief A NATIONAL University of Science and Technology (Nust) student hanged himself in his father’s house after blowing his college fees with a woman he met in a...
View Article‘I HOPE YOU KEEP YOUR JOB’…What magistrate told a teacher who sent gay videos...
Gilbert Mano Elizabeth Tsuro Midlands Reporter A MALE teacher who sent pornographic videos and a nude picture of himself to a 16-year-old male pupil at a top Gweru school has been spared jail. In a...
View ArticleLab chemicals ‘kill teacher’
Dan Moyo Auxilia Katongomara Chronicle Reporter A TEACHER died at Mandwandwe High School in Bulawayo’s Nkulumane suburb after allegedly inhaling poisonous fumes at the science laboratory. The school...
View ArticleMan survives buffalo attack
Whinsley Masara Chronicle Reporter A MAN survived a buffalo attack while herding cattle after about 50 buffalo strayed from the Hwange National Park due to the destruction of the animal sanctuary’s...
View ArticleFROM FRYING PAN INTO THE FIRE…Woman flees python into crocodile jaws
Tsitsi Gwanangara at Harare’s Parirenyatwa Hospital Walter Mswazie Masvingo Correspondent CONFRONTED by a huge python while out herding goats along a riverbank, a 27-year-old Chivi woman leapt into a...
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