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Tuesday, 23 April 2013 10:34
HARARE - Social workers have urged national event organisers and police to protect children during State events following the death of two minors and their mother in an accident in Warren Park after Independence celebrations. Simbisai Mumango, 26, and her children...Read More
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Sunday, 21 April 2013 15:25
HARARE - Ten people were injured when a minibus that was fleeing from municipal authorities burst tyres and overturned after municipal cops threw spikes in Harare’s Central Business District. The injured were rushed to Parirenyatwa Hospital. Police spokesperson Paul Nyathi...Read More
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Tuesday, 09 April 2013 11:16
HARARE - A 26-year-old Chitungwiza man forced to relocate to a farm by his mother has chosen to kill himself than kissing goodbye to town life. Police say Kudakwashe Kadzatsa shot himself at the weekend after his mother told him to...Read More
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Wednesday, 03 April 2013 10:54
HARARE - The Easter holidays’ death toll has increased to 50, with 273 people injured in 424 road accidents countrywide, police have said. National police spokesperson Paul Nyathi said five more people died to add to the 45 recorded on Monday...Read More
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Tuesday, 02 April 2013 11:58
HARARE - The staggering number of deaths in just over four days of the Easter holidays due to road accidents raises serious questions about implementation of traffic laws. Officially, over 45 people have died in accidents involving mainly public service vehicles,...Read More
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Tuesday, 02 April 2013 11:02
HARARE - The Easter death toll has increased to 45, with 180 injured in 386 road accidents between Thursday and Monday, police have said. National police spokesperson Paul Nyathi said the number has escalated with three more deaths from the 42...Read More
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Sunday, 31 March 2013 13:15
HARARE - Close to three dozen people died from road accidents in 24 hours across the country, as the Easter holidays take a bloody turn. Shocked police say this is more than thrice last year’s figures. Police spokesperson Paul Nyathi said...Read More
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Thursday, 28 March 2013 11:43
HARARE - A convicted armed robber attempted to commit suicide in court yesterday. Tendai Leanne Muza, 33, was about to hear his sentence on three counts of armed robbery when he pulled out a fruit juice bottle and gulped down the...Read More
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Wednesday, 20 March 2013 10:01
HARARE - Senior members in President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF are likely to be removed from the European Union (EU) sanctions list this week after the 27-member bloc endorsed the referendum which it was using to gauge democracy in the country....Read More
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Wednesday, 13 March 2013 10:40
LONDON - On a drizzly morning on February 26 last month, a Zimbabwean family gathered at a cemetery in Welling, about 16 km from London, to bury 31-year-old Thungamele Nxumalo, whose death 19 days earlier followed an all-too-familiar pattern. Nxumalo went...Read More
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Tuesday, 12 March 2013 11:22
PRETORIA - Murder accused Paralympian Oscar Pistorius wants to sell his house in Pretoria where model Reeva Steenkamp was shot dead, a family spokesperson said on Monday. “He has signalled his intention to sell (the house), but nothing has been done...Read More
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Saturday, 02 March 2013 13:59
HARARE - A Harare man yesterday committed suicide in one the most bizarre ways — slitting his own neck with a knife at a traffic light-controlled intersection while sitting in an idling car. Initially, motorists were annoyed when Francis Ngoneni Masuku’s...Read More
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Tuesday, 26 February 2013 12:22
HARARE - At least seven people died on the spot and 22 others were seriously injured after a haulage truck and two commuter omnibuses collided at the intersection of Airport Road and Glenara Avenue in Harare yesterday. The accident involved...Read More
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Friday, 15 February 2013 12:06
HARARE - A 41-year-old man chose to kill himself in the most painful way — by throwing himself in fast-moving traffic along Fourth Street. Witnesses said Edward Kabaya was run over by a commuter omnibus at around midday in a suspected...Read More
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Friday, 15 February 2013 11:48
HARARE - Close to 75 percent of the festive season accidents were caused by drivers between the ages of 26 and 45, according to the Traffic Safety Council. Speaking to the Daily News recently, managing director of the Traffic Safety Council,...Read More
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