Police Investigate Mutangazi’s Wife Over Brutal Sunday Murder?

📅 Published: August 20, 2025

Curated by AllZimNews.com

While police maintain that it was a case of armed robbery, inconsistencies in the attackers’ conduct suggest otherwise.

According to police, seven masked men armed with pistols, crowbars, and hammers overpowered a security guard before storming the house.

The gang tied him up, demanded a description of Mutangadura, and went straight for the businessman’s bedroom, where he was asleep with his wife.

Despite Mutangadura reportedly offering to lead them to an abattoir where he kept cash, the intruders shot him multiple times in the stomach and chest.

He died at the scene.

Strangely, the attackers left behind cash and valuables, only taking a cellphone worth about US$10 – a detail that has fueled speculation that their mission was not theft but elimination. “What is disturbing is that the gang was not after the money but the life of Joseph,”a family member told reporters.

Patience, with whom Mutangadura had only recently reunited after a divorce, was left unconscious during the attack and later rushed to hospital.

She is recovering under police protection.

However, questions have emerged after reports that investigating officers confiscated her cellphone.

A close family relative confirmed the seizure, though police have not publicly commented on it.

This development has sparked speculation about whether investigators are probing the possibility of inside information or other links to the gunmen.

National police spokesperson Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the murder but insisted the case is still being treated as robbery and homicide. “The value of stolen property is yet to be verified,”he said.

The chilling precision of the attack mirrors a disturbing pattern of suspected hire killings that have rocked Zimbabwe since the 2017 coup.

In many of those cases, victims were executed while little or nothing was stolen, raising fears of a growing underworld of contract assassins operating with impunity.

Mutangadura, who owned butcheries, Lisheen Estate, and the popular Mutangadura Hideout, was a towering figure in Ruwa and Harare business circles.