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Peter Matika and Kimberley Chitambara
THE crime bloodline runs deep! One of the infamous “terror twins” sisters, Sekai Vumbunu, has been arrested alongside Florence Chisiri in a US$36 000 robbery spree that’s shaken Bulawayo’s underworld.
The two women appeared before Bulawayo regional magistrate Luke Ncube yesterday facing two counts of robbery. They were remanded in custody to 20 October.
Prosecutors say the duo — represented by Tanyaradzwa Kahuni and Dominic Moyo of Tashaya Law Chambers — are part of a wider criminal web that’s been terrorising forex dealers and small businesses around the city.
According to investigators, the suspects, both known illegal forex dealers, allegedly pulled off a daring early-morning raid at Nkolozi Investments, a bureau de change housed in the CIPF Building, where they posed as clients before fleeing with US$18 000 and R151 000.
Their luck ran out after another robbery on August 10, when a restaurant patron at Fife Street and 12th Avenue was robbed of US$4 000 and R60 000. Police tracked down two of their alleged accomplices, Nehemiah Dladla (38) and Simon Dube (28), after a high-speed chase through
Mbundane and Nketa 6 — leading to the dramatic arrest of Vumbunu and Chisiri.
The arrest has reignited public fascination with the Vumbunu crime family, whose name has become synonymous with heists, carjackings, and gold robberies.
Sekai’s brothers, Elijah and Abraham “Terror Twins” Vumbunu, made national headlines last year after their capture for the US$4 million Ecobank heist, executed with what police called “movie-style precision.”
The brothers, raised in a polygamous household in Mzilikazi, built their notoriety through decades of crime — from the Mukuru money heist to the How Mine gold robbery.
Police sources said Abraham, fresh out of a 14-year prison sentence, wasted no time reuniting with his brother to plot the Ecobank raid. The duo was later arrested in South Africa in a joint ZRP–SAPS operation and are awaiting extradition.
With their sister now behind bars, detectives say the Vumbunu dynasty of crime may finally be crumbling — but in Bulawayo’s dark alleys, whispers say “there’s always another Vumbunu waiting in the shadows…”
