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Mutare beat Triangle
Mutare City 2 - 0 TriangleVETERAN coach David "Yogi" Mandigora could be living on borrowed time at Triangle after the former Dynamos mentor agonisingly watched his team succumb to a fourth d...Published: 11 Sep 2016 at 23:46hrs | 1 | by Ray Bande
Tsholotsho in six-goal thriller
Mutare City 3 - 3 TsholotshoIT was two points dropped rather than a point gained for Mutare City Rovers as they surrendered a 3-0 lead to settle for a stalemate in a six-goal thriller played at Sa...Published: 08 Aug 2016 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Ray Bande
FC Platinum ease into second place
Mutare City Rovers 1- 2 FC PlatinumDEFENDER Elvis Moyo and striker Rodwell Chinyengetere's goals on either side of the break helped FC Platinum to outplay hosts Mutare City Rovers in an exciti...Published: 04 Jul 2016 at 06:59hrs | | by Ray Bande
Caps United back on top
Mutare City Rovers 0 - 2 CAPS UnitedCAPS United responded in style to the in-house issues that rocked their camp last week as the Green Machine powered back to the top of the Castle Lager Pr...Published: 20 Jun 2016 at 07:08hrs | | by Ray Bande
Violence erupts at Jah Prayzah's show
CHAOS reigned at Jah Prayzah's gig as revellers ran in all directions at Pick and Save in Mutare in the early hours of Sunday when an unknown chemical similar to teargas was discharged during a fight ...Published: 26 Apr 2016 at 06:36hrs | | by Ruth Butaumocho and Ray Bande
Dembare labour to this narrow victory over PSL debutants
Mutare City Rovers 1 - 2 Dynamos DYNAMOS finally remembered how to win when they laboured to this narrow victory over Castle Lager Premiership soccer debutants at Sakubva yesterday to bring ...Published: 25 Apr 2016 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Ray Bande
Orphan insist she had severan sexual encounters with School head
THE orphaned minor who was allegedly sexually abused by Hartzell High School headmaster, Shorwi Kawadza, remained adamant that she had several sexual intercourses with the school head during cross-exa...Published: 22 Apr 2016 at 07:24hrs | | by Ray Bande
Dignitaries hail Chitepo's humility
National heroine Victoria Chitepo has been described as a humble cadre who never used the liberation war credentials of her late husband, the founding Zanu Chairman Herbert Chitepo, to climb up the po...Published: 12 Apr 2016 at 11:15hrs | | by Ray Bande and Freeman Razemba
HIV can be cured: Magaya
PROPHETIC Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader Prophet Walter says HIV infection can be cured through the Holy Spirit.In his sermon during a meeting with church partners in Mutare o...Published: 08 Apr 2016 at 08:13hrs | | by Ray Bande
Mwonzora, gone too soon
THE St Matthias' Tsonzo headmaster, Mr James Mwonzora, who was involved in an accident as he chased after two vehicles that sped off after purportedly collecting two girls from the boarding school rec...Published: 26 Mar 2016 at 10:55hrs | 1 | by Ray Bande
Allied Timbers company crumble
A STRESS grading machine used in the value addition process of timber products which was at Allied Timbers' Nyakamete industrial site station in Mutare was removed to a destination that only heavens ...Published: 24 Mar 2016 at 12:35hrs | 1 | by Ray Bande
Match fixing: 'Jaure has case to answer'
NATIONAL team assistant coach, Saul Chaminuka, believes Warriors' defender, Partson Jaure, has a case to answer in the unfolding match fixing scandal which is now threatening to derail preparations fo...Published: 11 Mar 2016 at 06:12hrs | 1 | by Ray Bande
High speed chase tragedy
A move by St Mathias Tsonzo High headmaster to chase after two vehicles that sped off after collecting two absconding girls from the boarding school during the wee hours of Sunday morning ended in tra...Published: 11 Mar 2016 at 06:11hrs | | by Ray Bande
Super diamond firm to benefit Zimbabwe
Amalgamating diamond mining companies in Chiadzwa will benefit thousands of villagers in the district, Mutare West National Assembly representative Dr Christopher Mushohwe said on Friday.Gover...Published: 07 Feb 2016 at 07:38hrs | | by Ray Bande
Satanism scare as boy (13) is found with skull and cap inscribed 666
RESIDENTS of Mutare's Greenside low-density suburb were shocked after a teenager was found in possession of a skull wrapped in a red and black cloth which he claimed was part of his tools of the trade...Published: 29 Jan 2016 at 07:07hrs | | by Ray Bande
Woman attacks hubby with boiling cooking oil
IT will certainly not be a happy new year for a 30-year-old Sakubva man who is nursing serious facial burns he sustained after a vicious boiled cooking oil attack by his jealous wife of five years on ...Published: 02 Jan 2016 at 10:52hrs | | by Ray Bande
Headmaster sexually abuses orphaned minor
IN an intriguing twist of events in the Hartzell High sexual abuse case, headmaster Shorwi Kawadza was arrested amid stunning revelations that the school head is the one who abused an orphaned minor a...Published: 05 Dec 2015 at 07:20hrs | | by Ray Bande
Thief caught in act, beaten to death
A Mutare man who was caught in the wee hours of Wednesday morning stealing window frames at a house under construction in the Devonshire Extension area paid with his life after residents served vigila...Published: 31 Oct 2015 at 11:25hrs | | by Ray Bande
Teacher infects form 2 pupil with STI
THE wheels of justice are moving at a snail's pace in a sex scandal involving a senior teacher at Hartzell High School who allegedly had sex with a Form Two orphan at the institutions' Fairfield Orpha...Published: 31 Oct 2015 at 11:23hrs | 3 | by Ray Bande
Moses Chunga speaks on Zifa presidency
LEGENDARY soccer personality Moses "Bambo" Chunga believes that taking over as the next Zifa president without thorough assessment of the pros and cons of the task at hand is just "like jumping into a...Published: 17 Oct 2015 at 10:14hrs | 1 | by Ray Bande
Manicaland steps up preparations Grace Mugabe rally
Manicaland has stepped up preparations for a visit by First Lady Dr Amai Grace Mugabe to Mutambara Mission in Chimanimani on Thursday. This was revealed during yesterday's Manicaland provincial coordi...Published: 05 Oct 2015 at 06:24hrs | | by Ray Bande
Mermaids wreak havoc in Zimbabwe township
A NUMBER of residents in Chikanga Phase One in Mutare claim to have had nasty encounters with two mermaids - male and female - that are residing in a small river near the high-density suburb and many ...Published: 05 Sep 2015 at 18:58hrs | 5 | by Ray Bande
Prostitutes fight for client
FOUR sex workers in the Federation section of Dangamvura, who lived together in a small cabin, will live to regret snatching a client from fellow thigh vendors during a night out at a local pub after...Published: 27 Jun 2015 at 15:39hrs | | by Ray Bande and Liberty Dube
Paul Mwazha and testimonies
TESTIMONIES are a common ritual in most churches and in apostolic sects in particular. According to Christian doctrine, a witness is no good if the witness does not have the courage to take the stand ...Published: 26 Jun 2015 at 08:29hrs | 1 | by Ray Bande
Burnt to death over $2
A BRAWL over a missing $2 note ended tragically on Sunday afternoon after an angry Hobhouse man set a wooden cabin on fire resulting in a fierce fireball that killed one person and seriously injured a...Published: 26 Jun 2015 at 07:57hrs | | by Ray Bande and Liberty Dube
Headmaster axed to death in a domestic dispute
A MUTASA woman on Sunday night went berserk and allegedly hacked her husband with an axe in a bitter domestic dispute.The late Manners Bhowa (49), who was deputy headmaster at Nyakatsapa High ...Published: 20 Jun 2015 at 14:08hrs | | by Ray Bande and Liberty Dube
Botched home caesarean section kills VaPostori woman
A PREGNANT Johanne Marange Apostolic Church member died after an unqualified midwife allegedly slit open her abdomen and removed a still born baby, during a botched Caesarean section done at home in ...Published: 13 Jun 2015 at 21:56hrs | | by Ray Bande
Murdered over pool tokens worth $1
A 25-YEAR-OLD Mutare man had his life cut short last Thursday when he was murdered in cold blood by a bartender and a security guard at Tandarai Bar in Chikanga Phase 3 high density suburb following a...Published: 06 Jun 2015 at 15:06hrs | 1 | by Ray Bande and Mercy Ngwebvu
75 snakes of different types captured at family cleansing ritual
IN broad daylight while in a trance and armed with his "holy water", Bishop Trynos Mapuranga scuttles from one end to the other as he spurts the sanctified liquid all over Willie Mutasa's homestead i...Published: 24 May 2015 at 19:23hrs | 1 | by Ray Bande
DNA tests expose cheating wife
A Mutare man found out that he was not the father of the boy he has been calling his son for the past two years, thanks to the WhatsApp text which circulated in October last year which exposed his wi...Published: 16 May 2015 at 14:11hrs | | by Ray Bande and Mercy Ngwebvu
Granny sexually abused by a 3 metre python on a daily basis
A MARANGE granny's more than two decades ordeal of being sexually abused by a three-metre-long python on a daily basis finally ended recently following the killing of the reptile. The horrific incide...Published: 27 Mar 2015 at 12:20hrs | | by Ray Bande
Woman, 4 kids cheat death
THE battle to stay put at her in-laws residence even after being formally divorced is getting uglier for a Chishakwe woman and nearly cost her dearly after she escaped death together with her four chi...Published: 14 Mar 2015 at 16:14hrs | | by Ray Bande
Python 'visits' home, suspected to be part of businessman's money-spinning charms
A PYTHON measuring 3.4 metres that was found in Zimunya high-density suburb in Mutare on Wednesday morning has sent tongues wagging in the neighbourhood, with some residents suspecting it to be part ...Published: 24 Jan 2015 at 07:08hrs | | by Ray Bande
Grade 7 exams marking fiasco unearthed
A SHAMEFUL plot to discredit specific primary schools in Manicaland that have the past record of producing good results was unearthed during the recent Grade Seven English Paper Two marking process in...Published: 22 Nov 2014 at 14:47hrs | | by Ray Bande
Marriage-wrecker trapped, caught pants down
RESIDENTS of Hobhouse high-density suburb in Mutare witnessed real-life drama when a man with a knack for bedding married women ran out of luck and got caught in the bedroom of a married couple follow...Published: 22 Nov 2014 at 14:37hrs | 1 | by Ray Bande
Gay wreaks havoc at Growth Point
MEN at Murambinda Growth Point in Buhera District are having sleepless nights over a 26-year-old male who has wreaked havoc as he ambushes and sexually abuses unsuspecting males at night.Clad ...Published: 10 Oct 2014 at 16:22hrs | 6 | by Ray Bande
WhatsApp exposes fiancée's multiple sexual affairs
PLANS to pay lobola and settle down in marriage went up in smoke when a husband-to-be recently discovered his fiancée's multiple sexual affairs through some WhatsApp messages on her mobile phone....Published: 20 Sep 2014 at 21:57hrs | | by Ray Bande
Unseen stones pelt boy (12)
IN an unfolding macabre real life drama that reads like a gothic horror movie script, a 12-year-old boy in Mabvengwa Village in Marange area is being pelted by stones and is occasionally being strangl...Published: 29 Aug 2014 at 16:08hrs | | by Ray Bande
Bosso outplays Buffaloes
Buffaloes 1 - 3 HighlandersLog leaders Highlanders yesterday turned on the magic to outplay Buffaloes in an exhilarating Castle Lager Premiership match at Sakubva.Solid in defence, creati...Published: 26 May 2014 at 06:20hrs | | by Ray Bande
Cash for teaching posts scandal unearthed
POLICE in Nyanga arrested an assistant human resources officer with the Ministry of Education in Nyanga district where a well orchestrated corruption ring of senior Government officials in the distric...Published: 23 May 2014 at 12:21hrs | | by Ray Bande
Woman dies in failed abortion
A 21-YEAR-OLD Mutare woman's desire to win back her estranged husband, which led to an attempt to terminate a pregnancy by another man, ended tragically when she bled profusely and died last Friday....Published: 07 Mar 2014 at 16:41hrs | | by Ray Bande
Buffaloes coach warns Bosso counterpart
BUFFALOES coach, Saul Chamunika, has warned his Highlanders' counterpart, Kelvin Kaindu ahead of the two teams' Castle Lager Premiership clash at Barbourfields Stadium on Sunday.Resurgent Buf...Published: 03 May 2013 at 13:19hrs | | by Ray Bande
Girl (12) confesses to feeding on human flesh
A 19-YEAR-OLD woman allegedly initiated her 12-year-old aunt into the nocturnal world of witchcraft where they used to feed on human flesh in Buhera.The macabre real life drama, which reads li...Published: 03 May 2013 at 13:12hrs | | by Ray Bande
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