Import restrictions fuel rampant smuggling in Beitbridge
Suspected smugglers make their way from Dumba Village in Beitbridge to the Limpopo River on donkey-drawn carts to collect goods smuggled from South Africa. The bad state of the roads makes them...
View ArticleHeadless body at accident scene
Pamela Shumba Senior Reporter A MAN from Bulawayo died after his skull was crushed by a vehicle along Plumtree Road near the ZB Bank in the Belmont industrial area. The unidentified man’s skull was...
View ArticlePresident heaps praise on defence forces
Soldiers carry regimental banners during the Defence Forces Day celebrations in Harare yesterday Lloyd Gumbo Harare Bureau PRESIDENT Mugabe has hailed the Zimbabwe Defence Forces for their role in...
View ArticlePassports go to migrants
Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, Cde Obedingwa Mguni Sukulwenkosi Dube-Matutu: Plumtree Correspondent THE South African Government has given Zimbabwe the nod to deploy its officers to issue passports,...
View ArticlePolice launch probe into tyre bursts
Minister Joram Gumbo Munyaradzi Musiiwa Midlands Correspondent The Zimbabwe Republic Police and the Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe have started carrying out research into accidents involving tyre...
View ArticleZanu-PF stalwart’s son found hanging
Nqobile Tshili Chronicle Correspondent A FORM Three pupil at Mpopoma High School, son to Bulawayo’s Zanu-PF provincial secretary for information and publicity, allegedly committed suicide by hanging on...
View ArticleMayhem rules…Suicides, nurses beaten at Ingutsheni as sedative drugs run out
Ingutsheni Central Hospital in Bulawayo Pamela Shumba Senior Reporter Ingutsheni Central Hospital in Bulawayo has run out of sedative drugs, which are important in suppressing violent behaviour in...
View Articlehookers murder client over $10…Police yet to identify man killed for not...
Patience Mutsiwi Midlands Reporter— THREE alleged prostitutes have been arrested for stabbing a man to death after he allegedly failed to settle a $10 debt for sexual services rendered by one of them....
View ArticleChihuri says cops to use force
Commissioner- General Dr Augustine Chihuri Freeman Razemba Harare Bureau— POLICE will not hesitate to use “force on rogue” elements bent on disturbing peace and tranquillity in the country,...
View ArticleVideo record rapist lashes out at magistrate
Thandeka Moyo Court Reporter— A VILE robber and rapist serving a 20-year sentence was back in court yesterday for allegedly violating a woman and recording the sickening sex attack on video. Xolisani...
View Article‘Small house attackers’ in dock with babies
Tanaka Mrewa Court Reporter— THREE women from Bulawayo’s Magwegwe North have been arrested for allegedly assaulting and stripping their neighbour whom they suspected to be dating a husband to one of...
View ArticleMagaya to launch housing project in Byo
Prophet Magaya Zvamaida Murwira Harare Bureau— Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries will next week launch a housing construction programme in Bulawayo that will see 46 000 houses being built in...
View ArticleCIVIL SERVANTS AUGUST PAY DATES OUT…Govt works to normalise pay dates as...
Minister Prisca Mupfumira Nqobile Tshili in Bulawayo and Felex Share in Harare— THE Government has announced civil servants’ pay dates for this month, underlying its commitment to timeously fulfil its...
View ArticleEx-husband beater wails in court
Tanaka Mrewa Court Reporter— A WOMAN from Mpopoma in Bulawayo who allegedly beat up her ex-husband and looted his property burst into tears, begging him to drop the charges before the matter went to...
View ArticleCops blamed for Greyhound driver death
Bianca Mlilo Chronicle Reporter— THE family of a driver who on Friday was crushed to death by a Bulawayo-bound Greyhound bus have alleged off-duty police officers who mounted an illegal roadblock...
View ArticleBribes arrests…2 SA officials nabbed for Beitbridge border corruption
Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau— TWO senior South African immigration officers based in Limpopo province have been arrested by that country’s special anti-corruption unit, the Hawks, for allegedly...
View ArticleWar vets dump Mutsvangwa
Christopher Mutsvangwa Nqobile Tshili Chronicle Correspondent THE Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans’ Association (ZNLWA) Matabeleland North provincial executive has broken ranks with the...
View ArticleWoman sends kid to poison family of 7
Thandeka Moyo Court Reporter A WOMAN from Nkayi allegedly tried to kill seven members of the same family by poisoning their 200- litre water drum. The family later suffered severe diarrhoea after...
View ArticleHooligan roundup…Ringleader arrested, 4 questioned over B/F violence
Nqobile Tshili Chronicle Correspondent ONE person has been arrested while four others have been picked up for questioning in connection with skirmishes that erupted at Barbourfields Stadium in Bulawayo...
View ArticleGono to lose house over $1,3m debt
Dr Gideon Gono Daniel Nemukuyu Harare Bureau FORMER Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr Gideon Gono’s Greystone Park property will next week be auctioned over non-payment of a $1,3 million debt. Dr...
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