After 3 am on Tuesday 6 September in a suburb in Bulawayo, the man of the house was stabbed in his rear end. This ordeal followed after 3 men had broken into his Cawdray Park suburb. After taking the man down by stabbing him in his buttocks, the thieves continued to get away with cash amounting to US$250, a stove and a gas cylinder.

The man of the house is said to have been fast asleep when the thieves entered and surrounded him. They were armed with a knife, axe and iron rod. While hurriedly trying to put on his trousers, the man was slapped by one of the thieves and stabbed in the bum by another. He is said to have been told to hand over all his money if he didn’t want to die.

The Bulawayo Police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube confirmed the incident and stated that the robbers are still on the run. He went on to appeal for any information from the public that will lead to the arrest of these robbers.

Robbery crimes such as these are on the rise in the country. One of the most recent was a daylight robbery that happened to the hip hop artist Holy Ten’s ex girlfriend Yahya Goodvibes.

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Everything that wasn’t a legal structure was destroyed in a bid to clean out the city. However, not everyone was happy with this move. In a country were the rate of unemployment is high, most Mbare residents depended on vending for their livelihoods. Now that the demolitions took place, most people are stuck.

Others have openly stated that they will be returning to their previous careers. A man was recorded warning people that thieves will now be returning full force since their source of livelihood has been stripped.

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Unfortunately, the thief’s tactfulness was not tactful enough as he was caught by the long arm of the law. He was arrested on May 27 2021 and had been waiting for his judgement. Well, its finally here.

Chagwiza pleaded guilty to robbery charges upon appearing in court before Magistrate Madhlenkosi. The thief, Norman Magwiza, has been sentenced to 3 years behind bars.

The Masvingo thief is said to have been conniving with his brother Musiiwa Gondoro. However, the brother took his own life following the ghost thief’s arrest. Reports stated that he might have been afraid of being caught which lead him to commit suicide.

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The 14 year old boy broke into the armoury at the police station and managed to get away with 2 pistols. In addition, he stole several mobile phones, bank cards and identification cards.

Although there were policemen present at the station, none of them detected the boy and he managed to leave with the stolen items.

The juvenile was caught when he tried to carry out an armed robbery with the stolen pistol. This took place later that day when the 14 year old broke into Gugulethu Mpofu’s home just as she was retiring to bed.

It was Mpofu who realised that the boy was holding the pistol incorrectly which lead her to retrieve it from him.She followed up with a police report. The boy the appeared before Gweru’s Magistrate facing charges of theft and armed robbery.

Now you’re probably wondering what would lead a 14 year old boy into crime.

The boy defended himself saying that he resorted to crime as his employer was not paying him. After not receiving his pay, he stole a bike and and left Lower Gwelo for Gweru. After dumping the bike, he claims he was forced to steal in order to raise bus fare to go back home.

The boy was remanded in custody.

For some reason, crime is at an all time high these days. We recently shared the new strategy Masvingo thieves were using to have their victims surrender everything out of fear.

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Its not everyday that you see a man stuck to a goat. This time, superglue has nothing to do with this sticky situation. Some people have said it is juju.

Watch below as a man who stole a goat got stuck to it until the owner came to release him:

This is not the first time a thief in Zimbabwe has been dealt with mysteriously. In April, a thief had the guts to steal from a witchdoctor. He was caught on camera in tears and pain as he rushed to return the phone.

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Anne Matseketu, the 62 year old grandmother in question, is being charged for selling stands on a dumpsite area. The victim, Brand Chaipa, was looking to buy the $20 000 stand Matseketu had claimed she had.

The fraudulent activity has been brewing since 2015 when gogo Matseketu is said to have mislead her church member Chaipa to believe that she owned stand number 7023 in Westlea, behind the National Sports Stadium. Upon being shown the maps of the area Chaipa paid US$1020  to gogo Matseketu. Thereafter Matseketu handed him a receipt under the name Amazing Housing Cooperative.

The next payment was made a couple of months later in 2015. Chaipa handed gogo Matseketu US$1000.This time, no receipt was issued. He was given the go ahead to start building on the area. A year later when he was about to begin his development of the stand, he was approached by the council and informed that that was not a residential area.

It came to the victim’s attention that Gogo Matseketu was being sought after by EMA as she had been in the business of selling the dumpsite area stands under the pretext that she owned the land.

Gogo Matseketu’s will appear in court on June 17 2021.

Cases of such crimes have been on the rise following the hike of economic challenges. One such crime that we shared involved Grace Mugabe’s son. You can read about that here.

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The method is surprisingly not rocket science. Thieves are simply changing their attire to be something that instantly frightens and confuses their victims. The idea behind it is that by the time you recognise what’s happening, you would have already handed over all your valuables out of fear. The attires also allow the robber to complete the robbery unrecognised.

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You would think its Halloween already with these attires. Apparently Zimbabweans thought it was funny and shared comments such as “Ko kuzofitwa?”

Thefts have been on the rise in the country. Some people have associated this rise with economic hardships within the country. One of the most unexpected robberies we’ve shared is in this article.

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The deceased, Lucky Tsegure, is said to have stolen the dog sometime before Tuesday. He sold the dog to another local man named, Clement Chibvepi. The issue came to light when the dog owner was drinking beer with the dog buyer at Ndambi homestead. Chibvepi claimed to not be aware of the fact that he had bought a stolen dog. He revealed that Tsegure had sold it to him.

The two, alongside Chibvepi’s brother came across dog thief Tsegure and beat him with sticks and fists until he died.

The body was dragged to 3km away to Budzi River where the police found the body the following morning. The offenders are still to be caught.

Tsegure’s body was taken to Chipinge District Hospital for a post mortem.

This is not the first murder case that has taken place in a period of just two months. We’ve covered the issue of two prophetesses who were accused of murdering someone who sought out their help. Another one took place as a result of a fight over someone’s wife.

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The lady stated that her daughter’s iPhone was robbed in Masvingo almost a week ago. Fortunately, the daughter’s Snapchat was still logged on on the phone. The alleged thief proceeded to take selfies using Snapchat and the owner of the phone, quickly noticed these new snaps.

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The Zimbabwe Republic Police took to their twitter to explain this occurrence and reiterate that Zimbabweans should stop the habit of keeping large sums of cash within work or home premises.

This time around US$30 000 was stolen from the school’s safe in the same way that the Gateway School’s safe was blasted into. A Nokia cellphone, HP laptop and a Samsung TV.

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1/3 The ZRP reiterates that members of the public must not keep large sums of money in homes or business premises without corresponding security measures.

— Zimbabwe Republic Police (@PoliceZimbabwe) May 3, 2021

3/3 Anyone with information to contact any nearest Police Station or call Complaints Desk on 0242 703631 or WhatsApp 0712800197.

— Zimbabwe Republic Police (@PoliceZimbabwe) May 3, 2021

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