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United Methodist Bishops stand firm against homosexuality
The United Methodist Church (UMC) in Africa has reiterated its firm opposition to homosexuality and same-sex marriages, stating these practices conflict with Christian doctrine and African cultural va...Published: 21 Jul 2025 at 12:13hrs | 78 | by Staff reporter
Family in soup for marrying off underage girl
A family in Mapanzure, under Headman Matavire in Chief Murinye's jurisdiction, is facing investigation after reportedly marrying off their 16-year-old daughter following her return home late.T...Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 11:27hrs | 160 | by Staff reporter
Woman throws child at father in court
Emotions ran high at Chief Makoni's community court recently when Panashe Gundla, a young mother from Rusape, broke down in tears after DNA test results confirmed that Blessing Mlauzi, who had long de...Published: 10 May 2025 at 17:51hrs | 1230 | by Staff reporter
3 arrested over Chivayo lobola theft
Police have arrested three men from Hopley, Harare, in connection with a violent farm robbery in which in-laws of flamboyant businessman Wicknell Chivayo were robbed of US$75,000 in cash. Authorities ...Published: 20 Mar 2025 at 17:48hrs | 2316 | by Staff reporter
Simple lesson!! Do Not Flaunt Your Wealth on Social Media, You Will Be Robbed
Social media has become a platform where people showcase their lifestyles, achievements and possessions. While sharing life updates can be harmless, flaunting wealth online can have dangerous conseque...Published: 19 Mar 2025 at 10:55hrs | 476 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Is it legal to keep US$70,000 cash at home in Zimbabwe?
In recent weeks, Zimbabwe has experienced an alarming increase in armed robbery cases, with criminals specifically targeting individuals and businesses that keep large amounts of cash at their premise...Published: 19 Mar 2025 at 09:58hrs | 799 | by Staff writer
Chivayo's lobola $75,000 cash stolen at inlaws' farm
The in-laws of flamboyant businessman Wicknell Chivayo were targeted by up to 20 armed men in the early hours of Tuesday in a daring heist at their farm in Marondera. The assailants made off with US$7...Published: 18 Mar 2025 at 08:08hrs | 2044 | by Staff reporter
Wicknell Chivayo's lavish lobola payment sparks debate
Flamboyant businessman and controversial tenderpreneur Wicknell Chivayo has once again made headlines - this time for his extravagant approach to lobola (bride price) negotiations. Chivayo, known for ...Published: 08 Mar 2025 at 14:56hrs | 1931 | by Staff reporter
Husband forces wife to accept polygamy
A Harare woman has sought a peace order against her husband, accusing him of physical and mental abuse after he attempted to force her into accepting a polygamous marriage. Mercy Kumbirai appeared bef...Published: 23 Feb 2025 at 09:55hrs | 4153 | by Staff reporter
Family caught in mysterious haunting and family feud
A Chipinge family is facing a series of disturbing and unexplained events they believe are linked to the ghosts of two deceased traditional healers. According to the family, these healers' services we...Published: 21 Dec 2024 at 09:04hrs | 963 | by Staff reporter
Son impregnates and marries biological mother
A woman in Zambia named Betty Mbereko, aged 40, has married her son, 23-year-old Farai Mbereko, after becoming pregnant with his child, further complicating their relationship.Betty, who was w...Published: 06 Sep 2024 at 07:37hrs | 1312 | by Staff reporter
Man abandons pregnant wife who got paralysed on way to meet him
Brighton Cheza, a 34-year-old truck driver, is facing allegations of neglecting his paralyzed wife, Elina Chimbiro, 30. Elina was injured in a traffic accident while traveling to see Brighton. Despite...Published: 24 Jul 2024 at 11:14hrs | 874 | by Staff reporter
'Lobola still required for customary union'
LOBOLA remains a requirement for registration of a customary marriage under the new Marriages Act, although not for registration of a civil marriage, Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister ...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Son-in-law demands back lobola, court saves in-laws
The High Court intervened to protect the Karoi in-laws, who were pressured by their son-in-law to reimburse him $2,720 paid as bride price for their daughter. The daughter, Shumirai Bandera, was disco...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 05:44hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Lobola payment, optional in Zimbabwe
MEN can now pay lobola only if they want to as a bride price is now a moral decision rather than a mandated legal necessity under the New Marriages Act.This emerged during a recent interactive...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 05:30hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Polygamous man bashes wife over sex
A 33 YEAR-OLD polygamous man from Kensington village on the outskirts of Bulawayo allegedly bashed one of his wives for denying him conjugal rights.Innocent Ncube appeared before Bulawayo magi...Published: 12 Nov 2023 at 12:01hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Woman turns into man when in bed
A resident of Chimanimani, Gibson Kufandada, alleges that his wife adopts a male persona when they enter their marital bedroom. According to Kufandada, his wife, Rumbidzai Ngomana, experiences a hoars...Published: 15 Sep 2023 at 21:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man gets lobola refund after wife gets married to former teacher
IN a dramatic turn of events which left people from Vokola Village in Insiza South District, Matabeleland South Province shocked a man who got all his lobola refund after his wife got married to her f...Published: 30 Jun 2023 at 14:42hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Man steals groceries to feed girlfriends
A Harare woman on Thursday accused her ‘ex-husband' of stealing groceries to go and feed his three girlfriends.Rumbidzayi Makanjena told Harare magistrate, Tamara Chibindi, that Tendai Liche...Published: 21 May 2023 at 08:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Court tosses Chiwenga ex-wife's appeal in marriage perjury conviction
The High Court has dismissed Marry Mubaiwa's appeal against both conviction and sentence in a case she was convicted for illegally attempting to upgrade her marriage with Vice President Constantino Ch...Published: 20 May 2023 at 19:45hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Family crisis in the West
I KNOW this is sensitive ground and most people avoid commenting on, but I think it is too important to the world and our own families and society to just brush it aside as another feature of a ...Published: 03 May 2023 at 06:07hrs | 2 | by Eddie Cross
Zimbabwe's new marriage law give 'girlfriends' inheritance rights
Zimbabwe has ushered in a new marriage law that gives equal rights to "girlfriends" and women in registered unions upon the dissolution of a marriage or death of the husband.Marriage Act (Chap...Published: 11 Sep 2022 at 06:12hrs | 4 | by Anadolu News Agency
Virginity and the Johanne Marange religious customs
THE state has outlawed virginity testing as a human rights violation.However, it is surprising to note that Johanne Marange Apostolic Church (JMAC) still teaches and conducts mandatory virgini...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 19:54hrs | 6 | by Matthew Mare
Maj-Gen Bhebe burial today
A MEMORIAL service for national hero Major-General (Retired) Sydney Bhebe was held in Harare yesterday ahead of his burial at the National Heroes Acre today.Speaking at the church service held...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 06:39hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga settles down, marries army Colonel
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga has settled down with army Colonel Miniyothabo Baloyi after an acrimonious divorce with former model Marry Mubaiwa, it has emerged.In a leaked video seen by...Published: 07 Jun 2022 at 10:58hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
CSO celebrate protection of Children in Marriage Bill
A Civic group, Padare/ Enkundleni men's forum on gender has celebrated the protection of minors on the marriage bill.Padare/Enkundleni men's forum on gender Programmes officer Ziphongezipho Nd...Published: 18 Mar 2022 at 09:16hrs | 6 | by Stephen Jakes
Payment of lobola now mandatory
Payment of lobola before marriage under customary union is now mandatory after Parliament passed the Marriages Amendment Bill on Tuesday with a clause empowering marriage officers to ascertain whether...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man denies paternity, demands lobola 27 years later
A WOMAN from Magwegwe West suburb in Bulawayo has applied for a peace order against her former lover who is demanding lobola for a daughter he denied was his 27 years ago.Liliyosa Dlamini said...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 05:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chinese fined for marrying a minor in Zimbabwe
CHIEF Samuel Neuso of Sanyati has ordered a Chinese national accused of marrying a minor to pay four cattle, three sheep and an unspecified amount of money as a fine for the offence.The Chines...Published: 26 Jan 2022 at 04:48hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Minister calls for arrest of Chinese miner, parents
SMALL-to-Medium Enterprises minister Sithembiso Nyoni has called for the arrest of a Chinese miner and parents who married off their 15-year-old daughter to the foreign national.The teenager, ...Published: 22 Dec 2021 at 04:47hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Lobola law splits Zimbabwe Parliament, Senate
THE Government might invoke provisions of the Constitution to resolve differences between the Senate and the National Assembly over the Marriages Amendment Bill if a solution is not found by the end o...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unpacking the lobola refund issue
Zimbabweans were highly active on social media discussing an underreported 2015 court ruling which made a ruling that a man can sue his in-laws to recover lobola if his wife cheated on him. The ...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 07:16hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Marriages Bill stalls over lobola
Disagreements between the Government and traditional leaders on a Clause related to payment of lobola and powers of chiefs as marriage officers, have stalled the Marriages Amendment Bill in Senate wit...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lobola demands tearing family apart
A Mutare man is being forced to sell his property to raise lobola money.Lovemore Mahowa has since sold half of his property to pay part of the outstanding lobola.He said his in-laws ar...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 20:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophetess dupes congregant
A SELF-PROCLAIMED Bindura prophetess Spiwe Gwashure (40) of Grace in Abundance Ministries was sentenced to two months in jail yesterday by Bindura provincial magistrate Tinashe Ndokera for fraud....Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
If I had married that man, I would be dead by now!
The level of violence in Zimbabwe is alarming: domestic violence accompanies the life of a married woman daily. Daily we read depressing news about the growing number of cases of femicide. Today again...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 17:58hrs | 3 | by Nomazulu Thata
Wife dumps 'flamboyant' Zimra official
Former Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) revenue officer Kennedy Nyatoti's woes are mounting after his wife, Tatenda Spiwe Nyatoti (nee Chisadza), recently approached the High Court seeking divorce, ...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
13-year-old girl married off for $80 in Zimbabwe
A FAMILY from Mpopoma village under Headman Chilonga, south of Chiredzi town, which is predominantly Shangani, has set tongues wagging after marrying off their 13-year-old daughter for $80 as the area...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman dumps hubby over sex drought
A woman from Lupane in Matabeleland North province dumped her husband after he failed to indulge sex with her for five years.Nomater Mathe (32) complained bitterly before Lupane resident magis...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 09:42hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Olinda gives cheating Tytan passport to chase skirts
OLINDA Nkomo, nee Chapel, has decided to be in an open relationship after she recently found out that her youthful husband musician, Tytan Nkomo cheated on her with her best friend. The ...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 08:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kawondera claims $700k from Mary Chiwenga for cheated way out of marriage
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's marriage to model, Mary, was irregular because her divorce from a Zimbabwean footballer was completed using forged documents, according to papers filed at the Hig...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 19:14hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Visit Mashonaland Central for that unique experience
The Korekore traditional dances, songs and cuisine are a complete tourists attraction on their own, they can hold fort when it comes to countryside entertainment in Mash. Central Province. Eve...Published: 28 May 2019 at 18:24hrs | 2 | by Thomas Murisa
Man dies after hearing girlfriend eloped with another lover
VIILAGERS in Binga were left shell shocked after a man collapsed and died soon after hearing that his girlfriend had eloped to South Africa with another lover.Trydon Mkuli, 25, of Siachilaba V...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 11:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wife-deserter charged with bigamy
A KUWADZANA man who grabbed headlines a few weeks ago after dumping his blind wife and married his tenant appeared in court charged with bigamy.Naume Gokoko hauled her husband John Chadzoka to...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 20:36hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Baby mama threatens to bewitch ex's wife
A VAINONA woman is living in fear of her husband's baby mama whom she accuses of consulting witch-doctors to bewitch her.This came to light at the Harare civil court where Viola Mawara was see...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 22:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chicken Inn couple lobola ceremony date set
MAKHOSANA Mguni, the man who proposed to his fiancé Belinda Nyoni at a Chicken Inn outlet in Bulawayo, is set to pay amalobolo (bride price) for his sweetheart in April. When Makho proposed l...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 00:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Madzibaba intervenes as goblin abuses daughters
A troubled family of a Plumtree businessman opened a new chapter after muthi that turned into invisible beings and sexually feasted on the man's daughters was unearthed and burnt.The strange m...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 08:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kirsty Coventry to give birth to a girl
Minister of Youth Kirsty Coventry has announced that she will be giving birth to a baby girl in no time.Writing on Twitter Coventry said, "We are so excited to share our news that we will be h...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 15:37hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Groom humiliated
A GWERU apostle was left egg-faced when his fiancée failed to attend her wedding ceremony on Saturday. Apostle Samuel Kaunda of Glory House Ministries' wedding with his fiancée Naume Mangwarira fail...Published: 12 Dec 2018 at 15:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jilted man threatens to kill self in front of magistrate
A man recently stunned the court when he issued a three-day ultimatum that he would hang himself unless his estranged wife returned to him.Lungton Chibaya of Chibaya village under Chief Chitan...Published: 01 Dec 2018 at 14:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
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