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Zimbabwean man killed SA lover over lobola money, caged for life
A security guard who killed his partner after finding out that she spent the money he had been saving to pay lobola for her has been handed a life sentence.Louis Serenetra Moyo, 49, an undocum...Published: 05 Nov 2024 at 14:48hrs | 1844 | by Staff reporter
Tuku 'son' cannot use family name
THE late music superstar and national hero Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi's alleged son, Aaron Chaka, has suffered a blow after the High Court struck off the roll his application seeking an order compelling t...Published: 29 Jul 2024 at 04:18hrs | 933 | by Staff reporter
139 file for divorce in Bulawayo in 2 months
BULAWAYO has since the beginning of the year recorded shocking divorce statistics with 139 applications filed at the High Court before the end of February.From the 139 divorces filed at the Bu...Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 04:43hrs | 14 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Family of 'vat en sit' deceased makes list of demands
THE family of Simosenkosi Sibanda (27), who was recently allegedly murdered by Dingani Sibanda, her live-in boyfriend in Bulawayo's Cowdray Park suburb, is demanding lobola upfront before burial. ...Published: 24 Oct 2023 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Love triangle drama turns nasty
IN a suspected love triangle drama that turned nasty a woman from Tsholotsho in Matabeleland North province is living in fear after her husband's suspected lover allegedly threatened to consult witch-...Published: 12 Aug 2023 at 07:44hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Woman demands divorce token
A Harare woman is refusing to vacate her boyfriend's house before he pays a gupuro — a divorce token.Spiwe Chibokosa from Dzivarasekwa made the demands before Harare magistrate, Sharon Masha...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 08:34hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Court grants man peace order against girlfriend
A HARARE woman has claimed that her live-in boyfriend wants to evict her after infecting her with HIV.This emerged at the Harare Magistrate court where the man was seeking a protection order a...Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 07:46hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
47% of UZ students HIV positive
ALMOST half of University of Zimbabwe students who recently underwent voluntary HIV testing were positive, a revelation which has forced the institution to limit inter-residence visits between male an...Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 09:55hrs | 2 | by Erick Matotoba
Pressure to send money home creates many problems in UK
Pretty Matekenya sat with her children in their small apartment in Luton, United Kingdom, just gazing at her payslip.Since she moved to England, she felt pressure from her relatives in Zimbabw...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:20hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Man shoots girlfriend
Police in Mashonaland Central province yesterday arrested Benard Mpofu (47) in Madziva who allegedly shot his girlfriend twice in a dispute....Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 17:04hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
'Man is mine' fight erupts'
IN a typical "the man is mine" fight, two women from Bulawayo are allegedly involved in a nasty battle over the heart of a man they both claim is their husband. Elizabeth Dube (49) from Mzilikazi subu...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 06:04hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa could defeat the unreformed Mnangagwa'
ZIMBABWE has been reeling under a multifaceted economic and political crisis since 2000, and it appears there is no end in sight. Amid chronic high inflation, Zimbabwe is confronted with a crucial gen...Published: 12 Jul 2022 at 18:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
13-day marriage ends in tragedy
WHAT started as a normal holy matrimony early March this year, ended prematurely as the couple's misunderstanding ended on a tragic note.Simon Jackson (45) of Zvamano Village under Chief Nhere...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 06:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's greatest betrayal of Zimbabweans
On the 20th February, leader of the newly formed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party, Nelson Chamisa, pronounced that him and his party did not have any ideology or any goals or objectives....Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 16:14hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Court grants woman R10m maintenance
A Zimbabwean woman based in South Africa has won R10 Million maintenance from the estate of her late partner with whom she was cohabitating for two years.This is after that country's Constitut...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 09:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman sues friend for US$50,000 for snatching her husband
A Harare woman is suing a family friend for allegedly snatching her husband.Marvelous Marufu is demanding US$50,000 damages from Ratidzo Nyamuchengwa, who works with her husband, for the loss ...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 06:48hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
'Opening schools suicidal'
TEACHERS unions and school heads yesterday warned that it would be "suicidal" for government to allow schools to reopen for the second term next week at a time when the country is experiencing a surge...Published: 22 Jun 2021 at 16:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ngarivhume conflicted or split personality
People are bound to ask the question whether the leader of Transform Zimbabwe, Jacob Ngarivhume, has a split personality or is just straight up conflicted and lacks a vision.This follows messa...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Prosperity Mzila
Ruvheneko, Kasukuwere's daughter divorce hubbies
PROMINENT TV and radio personality, Ruvheneko Elsie Mafara (nee Parirenyatwa) has gone separate ways with her husband of seven years, Tendai Basil Mafara.In a related case, exiled former minis...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
75 year old man kills girlfriend
A 75-year-old man from the Whunga area in Beitbridge West went berserk and hacked his live in girlified (57) to death with a machete and an axe following an argument. Sitoboli Maluko killed Vi...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 06:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Illegal gold panner stabs friend to death
AN illegal gold panner from West Nicholson allegedly fatally stabbed his colleague for mocking him for ditching his wife and cohabiting with a sex worker. Linos Nsingo (30) and the late Mr Cab...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Businessman breaks up marriage
THE serial bed-hopping antics of Plumtree-based businessman Bhekisisa Bhebhe, who was chucked out of his in-laws' house after his shenanigans were exposed, caused the marriage dissolution that befell ...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF demand MDC apology for asking for sanctions - privilege, is one adversary of imagination
"We have an opposition that asked for sanctions, an opposition which has been cohabiting with countries that seek to undermine our development trajectory," said Patrick Chinamasa, Zanu PF acting spoke...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 09:30hrs | 7 | by Nomusa Garikai
Morgan Tsvangirai must be turning in his grave
Morgan Tsvangirai, the late icon of Zimbabwe's tenuous democratic struggle, is a man I knew so well, having served as his spokesperson and trusted lieutenant for almost a decade until his untime...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 09:34hrs | | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Woman stays with two lovers in same house
A Maphisa woman has shocked villagers in the area after her two male lovers settled to stay with her in the same house for two months since neither of them could let her go.At first Pretty Man...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 18:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Two husbands woman shocks community
A Lupane woman has left her community shocked after it emerged she was married to two men and had children with both of them. Ms Siphathisiwe Mkandla (48) of Manansa village in Malunku ward co...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 07:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Missing girl found living with boyfriend
A FORM Three pupil at Emakhandeni Secondary School in Bulawayo gave her family sleepless nights after she went missing for over a month only to be found cohabiting with her boyfriend's friend. ...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
The day Cyclone Mthuli came to town
Well, this Mthuli Ncube guy is bad news.Witty and cunning are his attributes! He had an afternoon outing with journalists, last weekend, shared jokes and ideas, while he kept his joker to his ches...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 16:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP offers ZWL$50 child maintenance
Chirumanzu Zibagwe MP, Prosper Machando (Zanu-PF) stunned the court early this week when he offered to pay ZWL$50 for the upkeep of a four-year-old child he sired with a Mvuma woman.Clara Taru...Published: 15 Jun 2019 at 08:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Marriage Bill of 2017 - A personal reflection on why it will not fly!
I am sure most people have read the proposed Marriages Bill of 2017, which seeks to repeal and replace the existing Marriage Act (Chapter 5:11) & the Customary Marriages Act (Chapter 5:01). ...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 12:06hrs | | by Pastor Tomson Dube
Adultery damages, cohabitation rights
A COMMON assertion is that the proposition to protect the rights of cohabiting couples in the imminent Marriage Bill automatically nullifies the concept of adultery.However, this is not true b...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 08:01hrs | 1 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Jittery over small house saga
SECTIONS of the Draft Marriages Bill 2017, which seeks to provide for civil partnerships - better known as cohabitation - will legitimise 'small houses' if passed into law, a legal expert has said....Published: 26 May 2019 at 13:33hrs | 1 | by Fatima Bulla
Cohabiting now legally protected
SECTION 40 of the proposed Marriage Bill recognises and protects the rights of unmarried people in cohabiting relationships, known in Shona as kubika mapoto and colloquially as small houses.Fo...Published: 25 May 2019 at 08:30hrs | 1 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Man hangs self in neighbours yard
A VICTORIA Falls man allegedly committed suicide by hanging from a tree in a neighbour's yard following a dispute with an unnamed girlfriend he was cohabiting with.Roderick Mpofu, believed to ...Published: 20 May 2019 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cohabiting now considered as marriage in Zimbabwe
The new Marriages Bill which has been approved by cabinet formally recognises civil partnerships (umasihlalisane/kuchaya mapoto) as legal marriage. An analysis of the Bill reveals that the law...Published: 17 May 2019 at 10:50hrs | 6 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Woman wants maintenance until she remarries or dies
A HARARE woman who has instigated divorce proceedings against her husband has asked the High Court to grant her request to be maintained at $3 000 every month until she remarries or dies.Barbr...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 15:43hrs | 2 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Ex-lover takes Matonga to court
Former deputy minister of Information, Bright Matonga, is up in arms with his ex-girlfriend, Thombizodwa Choto, who has petitioned the High Court seeking an order to compel him to present himself at t...Published: 24 Mar 2019 at 14:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mermaids, crocodiles unleash terror on Zimbabwe villagers
VILLAGERS of Masiyandumbi Village in Gokwe are living in fear of crocodiles and mermaids that seem to have moulded a formidable combination to give villagers in the area torrid times.Nyawaya D...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 01:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The impossibility of abolishing lobola
THIS is the conclusion of a three-part series which discussed the feasibility of doing away with roora or making it optional in customary marriages.The position taken has been that it is impos...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 01:00hrs | | by Miriam Tose Majome
Man jailed 28 years for fatally axing lover
HIGH Court judge Justice Thompson Mabhikwa yesterday sentenced a 32-year-old Shurugwi man to 28 years in jail for killing his girlfriend with an axe after they broke up.Tapiwa Tavaziva Chinyam...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe's sons cohabit with same girl?
UNITED Kingdom based model, Tapiwa Sithole, claims to have cohabited with former First Lady Grace Mugabe's sons, Russell Goreraza and Robert Junior on different occasions. Tapiwa, 24, revealed...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 16:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Poison laced beer deaths
CHIEF Shana of Jambezi in Hwange has expelled a villager who the community accuses of killing four people by lacing their beer with crocodile bile and brains.Villagers in Mulonga accused Never...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 15:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cohabit, benefit, or be used
WHEN you move in to cohabit with your partner, two things are likely to happen.That is either you benefit or you get used.It is sad that many have been left heartbroken after cohabitin...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa and Biti begs for GNU why now?
We can praise the revolutionary parties for their unity on the two most important national issues facing the Zimbabwean people: The political impasse and the economic melt down. Some peopl...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 08:40hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Army pilot kills lawyer girlfriend in love triangle
A 29-YEAR-OLD Airforce of Zimbabwe pilot based at the Josiah Tongogara Airbase in Gweru, Tashinga Musonza, has been arrested on allegations of murdering his girlfriend in a love triangle involving his...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 06:16hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
23pc females cohabited before 18 - Study
OVER 23 percent of females aged between 18 and 24 were once married or cohabited before they turned 18, the Young Adults Survey of Zimbabwe has revealed. Young Adults Survey of Zimbabwe (YASZ)...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cheating couple caught cohabiting
A Tafara woman regrets ever making marriage vows after she caught her husband cohabiting with a married church mate in Highfield on Wednesday.Lucia Sawali, 34, following a tip-off, could not b...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 16:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
19 shades of the MDC
Yesterday marked the 19th birthday of the Movement of Democratic Change - Zimbabwe's once formidable opposition party. Of course, one can be forgiven for not knowing what that name actually now repres...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 06:38hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
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