Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. Anymore Zvitsva, a 33-year-old man from Vheremu village in Guruve, has appeared in court after he was arrested on Saturday. He was remanded in custody.
Zvitsva is accused of 12 murders, several rapes, and attempted murders, which are said to have happened between April 2024 and December 2025 in the Guruve and Mvurwi areas of Mashonaland Central Province.
He was caught on January 3, 2026, after a long police hunt that ended in a garden where he was reportedly hiding to avoid capture.
According to an affidavit filed by Detective Assistant Inspector Peter Gwavuya of the CID Homicide Unit, Zvitsva would attack his victims in their homes, fields, and grazing areas, often in the dark. Police claim he used snare wire, knives, machetes, spears, and poison for these attacks.
When he was arrested, police found items including snare wire, which they believe was used to strangle victims, a plastic container with suspected poison, a spear with what looked like bloodstains, and a solar panel reportedly stolen from one of the deceased.
Zvitsva has been charged with murder, rape, and attempted murder under various sections of the country’s criminal law.
For example, it’s claimed that on March 6, 2025, Zvitsva attacked Jane Dube at her home in Rangwani village after demanding money. When she ran away with her three-year-old child, he allegedly chased her into a maize field and hit her many times with an iron rod, killing her before he ran off.
In another case from April 2024, the accused reportedly attacked a woman who was looking after cattle in Nyakapupu, dragged her into a eucalyptus forest, raped her while threatening her with a knife, strangled her with wire, and then hung her body from a tree. Villagers found her body the next morning after searching for her.
Police also claim that several women were attacked while doing everyday tasks like herding cattle or walking to their gardens.
In October 2025, one woman was allegedly threatened with a machete, then strangled with a wire, and her body was later found outside.
In late November 2025, Zvitsva is accused of breaking into a two-room house in Nyakapupu and strangling three women to death in their beds with snare wire.
Days later, in Zimuna village, he reportedly entered a one-room house and killed three people in the same way before kidnapping a fourth. Police say he raped her, killed her when she tried to get away, and buried her body in the Nyakapupu mountains.
Police began tracking him on December 11, 2025, after Zvitsva allegedly stabbed five of his relatives to death at an Ona Farm after breaking into two sleeping areas armed with a knife and spear.
He also faces several rape charges, including claims that he tied one woman up with shoelaces, raped her twice in the mountains, and ran away when a villager saw him. He left behind stolen items, which the police later found.
The attempted murder charges come from attacks where people survived, including a November 2025 incident where a woman fought off an attempt to strangle her with a wire while her son was repeatedly stabbed in another room nearby, and another where a shopkeeper was choked until unconscious during a robbery.
Detective Inspector Gwavuya opposed bail, asserting that Zvitsva posed a serious flight risk due to his lack of a fixed address and proven ability to evade capture by concealing himself in remote mountainous regions.
He further warned that Zvitsva’s release would not only endanger the public and potentially the accused himself, but also facilitate interference with witnesses, including relatives of the deceased victims.
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