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Christian group warns of crisis facing boy child

A Christian organisation, Men of Valour, Power and Vision (MVPV), has called on society to pay closer attention to the challenges facing the boy child, warning that silence and neglect are slowly destroying a generation.In an interview yes…

Published: 17 Sep 2025 at 08:13hrs | | by Staff reporter

Boy (1) drowns in bucket of water

A one-year-old boy from Toopera village under Chief Zimunya drowned on Monday after accidentally falling headfirst into a 20-litre bucket of water while playing with his elder brother.Acting Manicaland police spokesperson, Assistant Inspec…

Published: 28 Aug 2025 at 22:35hrs | | by Staff reporter

Boy (4) drowns in sewage

Two separate drowning incidents claimed the lives of a young boy and an adult man in Manicaland Province on Tuesday, authorities have confirmed.In the first incident, four-year-old Takudzwa Mugwede, of Old West in Penhalonga, tragically dr…

Published: 29 Jul 2025 at 08:55hrs | | by Staff reporter

Prophet brutally murders boy

A self-proclaimed prophet from Harare has appeared in court accused of brutally murdering a 12-year-old boy and burying his body in a backyard garden. Panashe Mukura, aged 31, faced Harare magistrate Ruth Moyo on charges of murder and was …

Published: 11 Jul 2025 at 08:43hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter

Prominent white farmer accused of killing boy with combine harvester

A white commercial farmer in Mashonaland West, Daniel Brink Bosman, has become the focus of intense controversy and calls for justice following chilling allegations that he deliberately ran down and fatally injured a 12-year-old boy with a…

Published: 07 Jun 2025 at 10:38hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

11-year-old boy found hanging in school cottage

A sombre mood has gripped the Filabusi community in Matabeleland South following the tragic death of an 11-year-old boy who died by suicide last week.The boy, identified as Junior Moyo, was found hanging in his bedroom at Singwango Number …

Published: 31 May 2025 at 13:44hrs | | by Staff reporter

Boy finally buried after 16 days of family dispute

After a prolonged 17-day standoff between his divorced parents over burial arrangements, 8-year-old Tinofara Muzavazi was finally laid to rest last Sunday.The young boy drowned while swimming in a pond after school on February 18. However,…

Published: 13 Mar 2025 at 06:51hrs | 653 | by Staff reporter

SA family reunited with boy who vanished in Zimbabwe

An 11-year-old South African boy who vanished from his home in May 2023 and took a bus to Zimbabwe has been reunited with his family.The Department of Social Development said the child was brought back to South Africa from Zimbabwe after b…

Published: 15 Feb 2025 at 08:07hrs | 2455 | by Staff reporter

Boy drowns in Tsholotsho

An eight-year-old boy from Nhlangano Village, Tsholotsho District, in Matabeleland North Province, tragically drowned while attempting to cross a flooded Godzo Stream near the Jahe area.The incident occurred under Chief Magama when the boy…

Published: 13 Jan 2025 at 17:34hrs | | by Staff reporter

Boy dates, impregnates sister

WHILE stories of love conquering all inspire some of the greatest works of art and literature, tales of infatuation between close relatives siblings, or parent and child elicit disgust.That was the reaction of many people when news filtere…

Published: 14 Jun 2024 at 08:03hrs | 53 | by Staff reporter

9 year old boy 'hangs self' over missing socks

A 9-year-old Gokwe boy was found hanging from the home's dish drying rack in a suspected case of suicide that left the community shocked.The incident occurred on 7 February 2024 at about 8AM.Police confirmed the incident saying they are in…

Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 14:31hrs | | by Staff reporter

Cowboy country

I DO not get away very often but right now I am in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, which is my wife's home base. We have not been here for seven years and the changes and challengers are very visible. We tend to forget that not long ago th…

Published: 13 May 2023 at 18:26hrs | 26 | by Eddie Cross

Boy (11) hangs self, as birthday celebration turns nasty

AN 11-YEAR-OLD boy from Mutawatawa, Mashonaland East province, committed suicide on January 23 following a fist-fight with his elder brother while celebrating the latter's birthday.The deceased, from Chief Nyajina, hanged himself about 200…

Published: 10 Feb 2023 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter

Boy (13) fights crocodile

A 13-YEAR-OLD boy from Checheche bravely fought a giant crocodile with bare hands after it had attacked him while he was crossing Save River with his friends recently.Danmore Gwenzi escaped from the jaws of death after the reptile had clut…

Published: 19 Nov 2022 at 06:22hrs | 379 | by Staff reporter

Boy (10) brutally attacked over father's love 'affair'

A 34-year-old Zvishavane man allegedly waylaid his neighbour's 10-year-old boy on his way to school and attacked him with a machete to spite the schoolboy's father whom he suspected to be cheating with his wife.Polite Ruvengo, who has sinc…

Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 05:10hrs | | by Staff reporter

Burna Boy refused Zanu-PF offers of money to wear scarf

NIGERIAN superstar Burna Boy Friday refused offers of money to wear the Zanu-PF scarf as an endorsement of the party, it has emerged.The Grammy award winning Burna Boy was to perform for an hour at a filled-to-capacity Belgravia sports clu…

Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 19:59hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

Herdboys in narrow escape as lightning strike kills cattle

"We ran for our dear lives when we saw the sun falling down and suddenly our cattle were lying on the ground."These are the words of 13-year-old Thabo Ndlovu after he and his friend Andrew Mpunzi cheated death when a bolt of lightning stru…

Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 05:46hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Boy pummels lion with fists to save sister

A 14YEAROLD girl from Muyondozi village in ward 26 under Chief Garahwa, Chipinge South, was on Wednesday mauled by a stray lion.The victim's father, Hunesu Chiunje, said his daughter, Agness, had gone outside at around 8pm to collect her j…

Published: 19 Jul 2021 at 06:49hrs | 581 | by Staff reporter

Boy (4) hit by a truck

A four-year-old boy was hit by a haulage truck and died on the spot after bolting from his mother while they were waiting to cross the Harare-Chirundu highway in Nyamakate, Hurungwe District.The accident occurred at the 267km peg when Rola…

Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 19:27hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwean boy comes tops in international contest

NINE_YEAR-OLD Zimbabwean boy Jayden Wang, based in Bulawayo has come out tops in an international competition known as the IXL Study in the Sun.The contest, which ran for three months from June 1 to August 31, 2020, had three grade ranges …

Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 08:06hrs | 47 | by Staff reporter

Boy (7) beheaded in suspected ritual murder

POLICE in Mashonaland East province have launched investigations into the suspected ritual murder of a seven-year-old boy, Tapiwa Makore, whose beheaded body was recovered outside the family's vegetable garden on Friday.Makore, a Grade 1 p…

Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 07:07hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter

Boy (13) missing after running away from home

POLICE in Bulawayo are looking for a 13-year-old boy from Nkulumane suburb who is suspected to have run away from home last month leaving his family traumatised.Qiniso Ndiweni, a pupil at Mandwandwe Secondary School, left home with a satch…

Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 18:06hrs | 825 | by Staff reporter

Boy shot dead at farm

A teenager from Zhombe was fatally shot in the head by a farm security guard after he allegedly trespassed onto a farm while looking for stray cattle. Acting Midlands provincial police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Ethel Mukwende confir…

Published: 06 Apr 2019 at 07:54hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter

Schoolboy was murdered

A SCHOOLBOY from Nkulumane suburb in Bulawayo who was certified by a post-mortem last month to have died due to excessive alcohol consumption was actually killed, a second post-mortem has revealed. The latest report also states that Pricha…

Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 11:18hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

Boy (13) survives croc attack

A 13-YEAR-OLD Tongwe school pupil, Anymore Muleya, wrestled a crocodile in its watery home and lived to tell the tale on Friday last week.Muleya, who was hunting water ducks with his elder brother Vhulayani in Tongwe Dam, Beitbridge, susta…

Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 09:33hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter

Police investigate mysterious death of boy

POLICE in Kwekwe say they have opened investigations into the death of a nine-year-old boy who died in mysterious circumstances last month.Midlands provincial police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Ethel Mukwende yesterday said the boy, f…

Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 06:48hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter

Hermaphrodite kid's op procedures start

TESTS in preparation for operation(s) for a 10- year-old from Tsholotsho who has both female and male sexual organs have kicked off. Well-wishers donated towards an initial $2 500 quote for an operation to get rid of one of the organs. How…

Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 06:38hrs | 570 | by Staff reporter

Speeding commuter omnibus knocks down boy (4)

A Grade 4 pupil died on Wednesday from wounds sustained after she was attacked by two vicious dogs in a low density suburb of Beitbridge.The girl was mauled while coming from school at around 4pm."She was taken to hospital and admitted in …

Published: 24 Mar 2018 at 10:12hrs | 497 | by Staff reporter

Boy arrested for abducting 14-year-old girl

Police in Malawi have arrested a 17-year-old boy for abducting a 14-year-old girl. The incident occurred in Mdzuche village, according to Malawi24.The suspected was identified as Willard Paulo.According to police, both the suspect and the …

Published: 19 May 2016 at 06:37hrs | 22 | by Stephen Jakes

Boy (8) suffering from Osteromalitis seeks help

Parents of an 8-year-old boy suffering from Osteromalitis (a bone infection) are appealing for financial assistance to have him treated.The illness has stopped Loyiso Ndlovu for attending school.His father Mpiloyezwe Ndlovu said Loyiso is …

Published: 14 Apr 2016 at 14:58hrs | 3851 | by Stephen Jakes

Boy (11) dies due to heat wave in Botswana

In the week that three heat wave related deaths were recorded at Bamalete Lutheran hospital in Ramotswa, an 11-year old boy from Mopipi also added to the statistics after he collapsed and died under the searing heat on Thursday.The Voice r…

Published: 20 Jan 2016 at 12:07hrs | 10 | by Staff Reporter

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