In a rather disturbing development, the government of Zimbabwe issued a statement on Monday revealing that young boys living on the streets of Harare have become victims of paedophiles. A paedophile is defined as a person who has a strong sexual desire toward children below the age of 13. According to Zimbabwe has more than 1.6 million children who are orphans and the majority of them are neglected by their extended families and end up living on the streets in abject poverty. Harare provincial development coordinator Tafadzwa E. Muguti said in a statement that there are reports of motorists who were in the habit of sexually abusing street kids. We also express displeasure and concern from reports that are coming through the provincial social welfare officer that there are some
MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere has been arrested and charged with 'publishing or communicating false statements prejudicial to the state' for posting widely circulated video which purported to show a baby killed by a policeman's baton stick while strapped to its mother. The arrest comes after Mahere tweeted that police had beaten an infant to death while enforcing Covid-19 lockdown rules this week. Police later said the information was false. Mahere is the third person to be arrested for publishing or communicating false statements prejudicial to the state' for posting widely circulated video after Zimbabwe journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and MDC Alliance lawmaker Job Sikhala. Chin'ono was the first to be arrested for circulating the video in questi
Police arrested five people, including two National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) employees who were part of a syndicate that defrauded the parastatal of more than 1,400 litres of diesel. It is alleged that the fuel syndicate stole diesel that is valued at $150,000 from NRZ’s locomotives and sold it on the parallel market. iHarare established from Sunday News that on Thursday police in Bulawayo arrested Taurai Moyo (40), Thomas Musavengana (44), an engineman at NRZ, Oliver Mapenduka (45), a security guard at NRZ, Perfect Mpala and Bawinile Ndlovu. Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube confirmed that the five were arrested at a business premise in Thorngrove after someone tipped-off the police that fuel was being sold at the premise. I can confirm that police
Machete-Wielding gangs infamously known as Mashurugwi reportedly killed Harare popular bouncer Donaldson ‘Kedha’ Chatikwita in Mt Darwin, ZimMorning Post reports. Kedha reportedly died in a physical war that erupted after a long-standing mining dispute over Mashona Queen Mine between Zanu PF Bindura South legislator Remigious Matangira and alleged notorious gold dealer Lucky Jonga Matangira reportedly hired Harare bouncers including Kedha when the dispute intensified. A source privy to the events that occurred on the fateful day Kedha died said: There was a wrangle over this mine between Matangira and Jonga. Jonga allowed Mashurugwi to mine there on condition that they send the ore to his gold mill where he would benefit from sharing the gold on agreed terms Matangi
Award-winning Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin’ono has been arrested again, now being charged with communicating falsehoods that a Harare based Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officer reportedly killed a baby while attempting to beat the child’s mother with a button stick. The prominent investigative journalist confirmed on his Twitter handle Friday afternoon that he was being taken to Harare Central Police Station. “The police have come to arrest me! Let everyone know! “They say they are charging me with communicating falsehoods for tweeting that a child had been beaten up and died by a police officer! They are taking me to the Law and order section at Harare Central Police Station,” Chin’ono wrote on his Twitter handle. MDC Alliance Vice Chair
Organisers of party at Ginimb’s Dreams nightclub to be arrested…… Government, with immediate effect has pressurised investigations of an event. Organizers of party held at Ginimbi’s nightclub in contravention of Covid-19 regulations are to be charged. Similarly to the one held in Mbare which led to the arrest and imprisonment of Fantan, Levels and Dhama, who orchestrated the show. Home Affairs Minister and Police superintendent Kazembe Kazembe has officialised a full blown investigation of a party held at the late Genius Ginimbi Kadungure’s nightclub. On December 31st an event was hosted at Dreams and another held at Mashwede on the same day. DJ Fantan and his crew were arrested because their bash became topical on social media and t
In a horrific turn of events, a Zimbabwe Republic Police Officer is alleged to have killed a toddler when he was attacking the mother with a button stick on Tuesday. The overzealous police officer is alleged to have struck the toddler who was strapped to his mother’s back with his truncheon. The baby who is reported to be 9-months-old is alleged to have died instantly, following injuries sustained in the attack The sad incident is reported to have occured on Tuesday, the first day of the 30-day national lockdown which was imposed by the government in an attempt to curb the spread of the second wave of Covid-19. A video is going viral on social media which shows the grieving mother holding the dead baby in one hand while holding the police officer in the other. The police office
2 men arrested for allegedly murdering 6-year-old girl by burning her body after removing her gen!tals 2 men arrested for allegedly murdering 6-year-old girl by burning her body after removing her gen!tals. Taruziva Sithole (37) and Shackmore Dube (26), who both reside at Chomutamba Village 3 under Chief Mazetese in Mwenezi West, allegedly committed the gruesome murder on 29 December and were arrested the following day.Two men from Mwenezi District, Masvingo Province, allegedly murdered a six-year-old girl and burnt her body after removing her genitals. Appearing for the State before Mwenezi Magistrate Honest Musiiwa today, December 31, Lyton Katsidzira said Sithole and Dube connived to kill Irene Sithole who lived at the same homestead with Sithole. Sithole allegedly assaulted Irene,
Skeletons are now tumbling in the MDC-T party amid allegations that Mr Douglas Mwonzora, the runaway winner in Sunday’s disputed party presidential elections, misused nearly $6 million of party funds. However, Mr Mwonzora who polled 883 votes to Dr Khupe’s miserly 118 votes, to become the main opposition party president said the allegations are unfounded and meant to tarnish his name. Mr Mwonzora and Dr Khupe were slugging it out against Messrs Morgen Komichi and Elias Mudzuri who respectively got nine and 14 votes in a poll marred by violence including verbal and physical attacks on the former deputy prime minister. The victory of Mr Mwonzora has, however, turned to be a bitter pill to swallow for the losing candidates who want him arrested for allegedly abusing party
Thokozani Khupe has said she regrets ever working with Douglas Mwonzora in the opposition MDC-T after the party’s Supreme Court-sanctioned congress which Mwonzora won turned violent on Sunday. Khupe accuses Mwonzora of being the instigator of the chaos and also of manipulating the electoral process in his favour. The former deputy to the late party’s founding leader, Morgan Tsvangirai has been working with Mwonzora since March this year when the Supreme Court ordered the party to hold an Extraordinary Congress to elect the substantive successor to Tsvangirai. The Supreme Court, like the High Court, had ruled that Nelson Chamisa who leads the rival MDC Alliance was not the legitimate leader of the party after he reportedly attained the presidency unconstitutionally followi
