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Mkhululi Chimoio in Gaborone, Botswana Zimbabwe and Botswana have improved collaboration in combating trans-boundary crime, thanks to the able leadership of Presidents Emmerson Mnangagwa and Mokgweetsi Masisi . Botswana’s Minister of Defence and Security, Thomas Kagiso Mmusi, said this recently while addressing journalists, highlighting success against mushrooming white-collar crime, armed robberies, cross-border livestock rustling and […]
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Crime Reporter THREE maize buyers lost more than US$5 300 to six armed robbers who attacked them at a business centre in Karoi on Sunday night. The victims had camped at Buffalo Downs Business Centre with the intention of buying maize from farmers in and around the area the following day. Police said at around […]
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George Maponga in Masvingo Cases of Zesa copper cables theft across Masvingo City and surrounding areas have nosedived after the power utility and police launched a joint operation to curb the vice that has plunged some suburbs in the ancient city into darkness. Morningside suburb on the south-eastern fringes of Masvingo was left in total […]
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Crime Reporter TWELVE armed robbers raided a service station in Banket, a house and a school in Harare and got away with over US$13 000 cash, R3 500, a gun and various electrical gadgets in separate incidents at the weekend. No arrests have been made and investigations are in progress. Police said in Banket, the […]
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Marondera police are appealing for information that might assist in solving the case of the woman who was axed last Monday and the killer left a note stating the reason for murdering her. Neria Maringa reportedly left her home at Grasslands Farm in Marondera last Monday morning intending to go for prayers and to fetch firewood afterwards but never returned. […]
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Victor Maphosa Mashonaland East Bureau A 14-year-old boy from Nyameni in Marondera was allegedly murdered by a suspected commercial sex worker aged 17 for refusing to pay US$5 for her sexual services. Tavonga Jeche was found dead in his parents’ bedroom on February 5, around 4 pm with his hands tied from the back while his […]
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Victor Maphosa Mashonaland East Bureau An illegal fuel dealer from Beatrice recently died, a few hours after he was involved in a nasty fight with his colleague after a misunderstanding, police have confirmed. Relatives of the deceased went on to dump the corpse at the suspect’s home where it is alleged that they also assaulted […]
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Crime Reporter ARMED robbers raided a Mashwede Holdings food court in Southlea Park, Harare early yesterday morning and got away with a safe containing more than US$5 000 after attacking some security guards manning the premises. No arrests have been made and police are still looking for the suspects. The matter is being handled by […]
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Victor Maphosa Mashonaland East Bureau Police in Mashonaland East are hunting for a suspect in the alleged murder of Elizabeth Chidamuhwa of Mutoko after remains suspected to be hers were recovered along a river bank in September, close to 14 years after she went missing. The first suspect and Chidamuhwa’s husband, Simbai Janjanja, died in 2019, […]
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Freedom Mupanedemo Midlands Bureau A Gweru man this afternoon fell into a trance while praying with his family grabbed an axe before chopping to death his wife and two children. The other child escaped the chop and was saved by neighbours. Witnesses to the shocking incident which occurred in Woodlands suburb said the man, Leo Kanyimo, […]
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Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has said there was a 17 percent remarkable decrease of crime cases countrywide last year as compared to 2019.
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Prosper Dembedza : Court Correspondent Harare magistrate Mr Vakayi Chikwekwe yesterday set September 7 as the trial date for former Zifa chief executive Henrietta Rushwaya and her alleged accomplices, Edzai Kasinauyo and Nation Dube, who are accused of organising the “Limpopogate” match-fixing scandal. The trio recently challenged their further remand, arguing that the dissolution of Zifa by […]
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Tendai Rupapa Senior Court Reporter— Six policemen reportedly connived with four civilians and mounted a fake roadblock in Belvedere, Harare, where they robbed an Indian businessman of over $56 000 and splashed the loot on vehicles. Three members of the gang have since been arrested, leading to the recovery of the vehicles. The cars,
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From George Maponga in Masvingo A 39-year-old Chikombedzi prisoner on death row for murder, caused a stir at the Chiredzi Regional Court last week after he refused to stand trial and shouted obscenities at the presiding regional magistrate, before jumping out of the dock and throwing a chair that narrowly missed the prosecutor’s
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NAIROBI. — Bodies identified as those of missing Kenyan lawyer Willie Kimani and taxi driver Joseph Muiruri were yesterday found in a river in Ol-Donyo Sabuk, Machakos County.