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My hands are tied, says Judge
The High Court has dismissed an abduction case of a Mabvuku woman who went missing on January 6 after she was allegedly arrested by unidentified uniformed soldiers for breaking lockdown laws. ...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 06:51hrs | 5321 | by Staff reporter
Woman killed in $500 000 robbery
A Masvingo woman was killed while her husband, a businessman, is battling for life in hospital after they were thrown into a 20-metre deep disused mine shaft by four armed robbers who had kidnapped th...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:44hrs | 1527 | by Staff reporter
Mediclinic justifies ties to apartheid era 'Dr Death'
Private hospital group Mediclinic South Africa has come under fire after it emerged that Dr. Wouter Basson is still practicing at its Cape facilities.Dr. Wouter Basson was the mastermind behin...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 17:02hrs | 854 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe workers under siege, claims Global Report
ZIMBABWE has been red-flagged as one of the world's 10 worst countries regarding workers' welfare.Violations of workers' rights, including abductions and other forms of violence and threats of...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 08:12hrs | 833 | by Staff reporter
Fake Zacc official to appeal against sentence
THE High Court has allowed an application to appeal against sentence by a man who was charged and convicted of impersonating a Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) official.Aaron Muzungu...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 19:18hrs | 216 | by Staff reporter
Impala car hire owner dies
IMPALA Car Hire owner, Thompson Dondo died Saturday morning after a short illness, the state media has confirmed.Dondo has recently been in the eye of the storm after one of his rental vehicle...Published: 02 Jan 2021 at 07:50hrs | 1566 | by Staff reporter
A toast for 2021, but......
We bid 2020 goodbye, the year many would want to quickly forget contrary to views, at least if one wears Zimbabwe's political lenses. The past nine months have been notorious given the COVID-1...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 07:51hrs | 177 | by Staff reporter
Nust student kidnapped, murdered
A 23-YEAR-OLD National University of Science and Technology (Nust) student was brutally murdered by three assailants who allegedly hired him on the pretext that they wanted him to ferry their goods to...Published: 16 Dec 2020 at 06:44hrs | 1466 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe challenges separation of trial order
MDC Alliance MP for Harare West Joanna Mamombe has filed an urgent chamber application at the High Court seeking review of a ruling by magistrate Bianca Makwande to separate her trials with the other ...Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 06:31hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF officials in kidnapping storm
FIVE Zanu-PF members, among them a Zimunya-Marange district political commissar candidate in the party's district coordinating committee elections to be held at the weekend, have been arrested for kid...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 06:55hrs | 965 | by Staff reporter
CIO owns abductions car rental company
ZIMBABWE's hospitality giant, Impala Car Rental, which has a big footprint in the tourism sector, and is implicated in the abduction and torture of severely traumatised journalism student Tawanda Much...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 19:27hrs | 2088 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC morphs into a terrorist ragtag?
A young politician with vibrancy is what many people thought of the advocate-cum-pastor and leader of a party that some believed was the true voice of an alternative logic. Nelson Chamisa foun...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:10hrs | 551 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Father murders epileptic son
AS cases of child killings and kidnappings continue to rise, police have arrested a 38-year-old man from Rusape for allegedly killing his epileptic son.National Police Spokesperson Assistant C...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:38hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youth nabbed at gunpoint for rape
A ZANU-PF youth who allegedly kidnapped and raped a 14-year-old girl was last week arrested in a movie-style after he attempted to flee from armed police.Son to the late Zanu-PF vice-chairpers...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 19:05hrs | 1015 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Hubby kidnaps wife lover, dumps him in bush
A MAN who was bedding a married woman in Zimbabwe and continued sex-texting her when she moved to South Africa, endured 10 hours while being hog-tied in his birthday suit in a bush after his lover's h...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:03hrs | 707 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC, G40 clash over 'abductions'
CLAIMS by the opposition MDC-Alliance that its members are routinely abducted by State agents have been exposed as nothing but sheer fabrications following the recent exoneration of a senior party off...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 06:49hrs | 4505 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance official cleared of kidnapping
THE opposition MDC Alliance yesterday absolved its national council member Tendai Masotsha of assisting State security agents in the alleged abduction and torture of a university student Tawanda Muche...Published: 17 Nov 2020 at 07:56hrs | 1115 | by Staff Reporter
Suitor in court for attempted kidnapping
A 30-YEAR-OLD Bindura man has been arraigned before the courts for allegedly trying to kidnap a girl who turned down his love proposal.Augustine Chabwinja appeared before Bindura magistrate Mo...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:31hrs | 471 | by Staff reporter
Bindura man nabbed for attempted kidnapping
A 30-YEAR-OLD Bindura man is in soup for allegedly trying to kidnap a girl who turned his love proposal down.Augustine Chabwinja appeared before Bindura magistrate Moreblessing Makati facing c...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 14:08hrs | 740 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Chiyangwa's farm turned into war zone
OLD Citrus Farm in Chinhoyi owned by controversial businessman-cum-politician Phillip Chiyangwa was Monday afternoon turned into a war zone after illegal settlers stormed the property and disarmed fir...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 05:47hrs | 1267 | by Staff reporter
Kidnapped baby found in Zvimba
A baby, who was kidnapped at Spar Montague Shopping Centre last month has been found in Murombedzi, Zvimba. Police have since arrested Gift Chemhuru in connection with the kidnapping. Chemhuru...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 05:46hrs | 939 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe sent to Psychiatric unit
A HARARE magistrate has ordered that MDC Alliance Member of Parliament for Harare West Joana Mamombe be treated for her mental disorder at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals' Annex Psychiatric Unit after...Published: 24 Oct 2020 at 18:19hrs | 5514 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC debates official's involvement in abduction
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance is today expected to seal the fate of a senior party official, Tendai Masotsha, accused of conniving with State security agents in the abduction of a Bulawayo-based...Published: 24 Oct 2020 at 07:58hrs | 1521 | by Staff reporter
'Mamombe has psychological problems'
TWO medical doctors have concluded that MDC Alliance Member of Parliament for Harare West Joana Mamombe has psychological problems and recommended that she be treated and get help from a psychologist....Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 17:12hrs | 3192 | by Staff reporter
Man robbed of forex while praying
A Beitbridge man lost US$200, R10 000, seven cellphones and various goods to five armed robbers who attacked him while he was praying alone in a bushy area, as such cases continue to rise in the borde...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 23:52hrs | 1613 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's rogue state agents warned
PERPETRATORS of state-sponsored violence, abductions and torture are not immune to prosecution and can face their day in court in whatever capacity to answer to charges, a top human rights defender ha...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:20hrs | 1427 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa redeploys Ferret forces, says Jonathan Moyo
Exiled former Information Minister, Jonathan Moyo, has claimed that there President Emmerson Mnangagwa is redeploying Ferret Forces amid concerns over the exposure of the force's secret activities....Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 21:05hrs | 8911 | by Staff reporter
Illegal guns worry government
POLICE admitted yesterday that they were concerned by the proliferation of unlicensed firearms in public hands, which were being used to commit violent crimes.However, police said it was too e...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 18:50hrs | 1318 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa admits stalking opponents, critics
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has made astonishing confessions his government was tracking the daily movements of opponents and critics through their electronic gadgets.The state leader was add...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 06:53hrs | 3915 | by Staff reporter
Nkomo 1983 Prophetic Letter to Mugabe
DR. JOSHUA M. NKOMO2 Stevenage RoadEast Ham E6 2WLLondon United Kingdom7th June 1983 Dear Robert,1. I write to you as a citizen of Zimbabwe and one of the leade...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 13:58hrs | 20706 | by Dr Joshua M Nkomo
Living for the moment - Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
It's been a problem for at least 20 years. Despite all the efforts of successive presidents, some Zimbabweans are still apparently dissatisfied. They just don't know what's good for them.One h...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 08:05hrs | 393 | by ZimVigil
Joana Mamombe mental exam stalls trial
THE trial of MDC-Alliance youth members, who are facing charges of staging an unsanctioned demonstration in Warren Park, has been postponed to October 13 pending the mental examination of one of them,...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 20:16hrs | 1121 | by Staff reporter
Cellphones for prison inmates
INMATES in prisons have not been spared from the effects of Covid-19 pandemic as they have gone for six months without seeing their loved ones as visits have remained suspended due to lockdown restric...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 10:02hrs | 824 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC in kidnapping storm
SUISPECTED MDC-Assembly hooligans, who illegally stormed into the troubled opposition party Morgan Tsvangirai headquarters on Sunday, yesterday allegedly kidnapped 12 of their rivals as the internecin...Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 18:28hrs | 3607 | by Staff reporter
South Africa police in R1 million cigarettes haul
THE South African Police Service (Saps) has arrested three people for illegal possession of 707 620 cartons of cigarettes valued close to R1 million all of Zimbabwean origin.The arrest was mad...Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 07:42hrs | 477 | by Staff reporter
Woman hires thugs to kill rival
A Harare woman today appeared in court facing allegations of hiring thugs to assault her two "rivals" resulting in the death of one of them, days after the incident, while the other is nursing injurie...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 17:18hrs | 3472 | by Staff reporter
R250,000 bounty for Zimbabwe murder suspect
THE South African police Service (SApS) has put a r250 000 bounty for information leading to the arrest of a Zimbabwean national wanted in connection with the murder of a woman and her daughter early ...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 08:10hrs | 2217 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man sought over SA double murder
Two people appeared this week in the Polokwane Magistrate's Court in connection with the murder of Ocean Basket seafood restaurant owner Lizette Deacon and her mother Hettie, the NPA said on Tuesday....Published: 24 Sep 2020 at 05:32hrs | 1465 | by Staff reporter
Finding Zimbabweans in secret mass graves
ONE of my earliest memories is of violence and death.It happened in Harare in 1984 when I was about seven years old.I was supposed to meet a friend to play at a dump site together....Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:00hrs | 1650 | by Keith Silika
Chamisa says 'use courts not ZBC to prosecute #MDCTrio'
MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa has raised grave concern over how the state was handling the alleged abduction of three female activists from his party.The activists now stand accused of...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:47hrs | 1664 | by Staff reporter
Boss kidnaps female subordinate
A SENIOR official at a local non-governmental organisation has been taken to court for allegedly kidnapping his female subordinate at a Mutare hotel.Robert Munhenga (53), who is a director at ...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:24hrs | 1854 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo poke holes into ZBC 'fake abduction' video
MDC Alliance and several political commentators have roundly dismissed as cheap propaganda, a ZBC documentary flighted this week, purportedly exposing as fake, the abduction of Harare West MP Johanne ...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:02hrs | 2178 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe warns citizens against applying for international jobs
The Zimbabwean government has warned its citizens against applying for international jobs as they may fall into traps of criminal syndicates disguising as employment agents.This follows recent...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 07:55hrs | 16575 | by Staff reporter
White farmers compensation gets murkier
Zimbabwe's ministers of Land and Finance issued a joint statement on the farm compensation issue on September 3, 2020, a month after the controversial signing of the Global Compensation Deed between t...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 09:01hrs | 2220 | by Ben Freeth
Mnangagwa halts Gukurahundi hearing
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday caused the postponement of a court hearing where survivors of the Gukurahundi massacres wanted to interdict him from tampering with the survivors' mass graves un...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:17hrs | 1476 | by Staff reporter
Another military group attacks Mozambique
The armed resistance group Renamo Military Junta launched attacks on a Correios de Moçambique (Mozambique Post-Office) passenger bus on Sunday, Mozambique media has reported. According ...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 12:38hrs | 8011 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Abduction saga: MDC Alliance chair blames rivals within her party
MDC Alliance Bulawayo province women's assembly chairperson, Tendai Masotsha has pleaded her innocence in a case in which she is being accused of having a hand in the abduction last month of Tawanda M...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 11:45hrs | 1668 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe and abductions
Since the beginning of the year, some people, mainly government detractors, and opposition members have claimed to have been abducted and tortured in Zimbabwe, but it is not easy to say who could be b...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 09:46hrs | 1878 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Police rule out foul play in MDC official's death
POLICE yesterday ruled out foul play in the death of MDC Alliance's Hurungwe district chairman and councillor Lavender Chiwaya, saying the bruises found on his body could have been caused by people wh...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 07:35hrs | 3606 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police warn political parties
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has warned individuals, including politicians, who are claiming that MDC councillor for Hurungwe Ward 4 Lavender Chiwaya was abducted and killed by State agents sayi...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 06:44hrs | 529 | by Staff reporter
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