Former Zimbabwe captain Sean Williams’ international career is over after he entered a rehabilitation programme to treat drug addiction, the country’s cricket association has announced. Zimbabwe Cricket said the all-rounder had made himself unavailable for national selection – and that it would not pick him again. Williams, 39, has scored almost 9,000 runs and taken…
HARARE — Chief Justice Luke Malaba has warned that acute shortages of judges, magistrates and support staff are undermining effective justice delivery, despite major investments in decentralising the courts over the past decade. Officially opening the 2026 legal year in Harare on Monday, Malaba said deploying the correct number of competent staff at every court…
Striker Macauley Bonne has left non-league Maldon & Tiptree just days after returning from the Africa Cup of Nations. Bonne played for Zimbabwe in all three group games at Afcon in Morocco, including a start against Angola. He joined Maldon & Tiptree in October, dropping three levels in the English pyramid after playing in the…
A 24-year-old man from Harare’s Highlands suburb has been sentenced to prison after a court found him guilty of impersonating a military intelligence officer and illegally possessing army camouflage. Gerald Gumede was convicted by the Harare Magistrates’ Court following evidence that he falsely claimed to be an officer in the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) between…
Lion DNA has been used to successfully prosecute poachers for the first time in the world, it has emerged. Wildlife crime experts have only just revealed how they were able to identify the individual animal from body parts found in a suspect’s village, as they matched a profile on Zimbabwe’s lion database. A blood sample…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s prisons are holding nearly 10,000 inmates beyond their designed capacity, prompting Prosecutor General Loice Matanda-Moyo to issue a sweeping directive urging prosecutors to aggressively pursue bail, fines and community service instead of custodial sentences. In an internal memo dated January 7, 2026, seen by ZimLive, Matanda-Moyo revealed that the country’s prison population…
17 dead in head-on collision between minibus taxi and truck in Zimbabwe, police say A head-on collision between a minibus taxi and a haulage truck killed 17 people in northeastern Zimbabwe on Tuesday police said. Police spokesman Paul Nyathi said all 17 victims, including some pedestrians, died at the scene of the crash, which happened near Chitungwiza,…
Kudakwashe Tagwirei (left) and Paul Tungwarara (right) met recently to try and heal their rift HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa was drawn into Zanu PF’s intensifying factional battles on Saturday after he intervened to stop an event in Manicaland at which his investment adviser Paul Tungwarara was scheduled to speak. Tungwarara, a close ally of…
HARARE – A rights activist has approached the Constitutional Court seeking to have the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Amendment Act No. 1 of 2025 struck down, arguing that the law was passed in violation of the Constitution and parliamentary procedures. In an application filed on December 24, 2025, Youngerson Matete cited Parliament of Zimbabwe, the…
· Jan 18 Police in Harare are investigating a fatal hit-and-run road traffic accident which occurred on 16/01/26 along Borrowdale Road, opposite Borrowdale Race Course. A yet to be identified man died on the spot after being hit by an unknown motorist who did not stop after the accident. The body of the victim was…