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Man pushes for mandatory DNA confirmation in maintenance cases

A Kadoma resident who petitioned Parliament to amend the Maintenance Act to include mandatory DNA testing before men are required to pay child support is set to appear before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Justice, Legal and Parl…

Published: 17 Sep 2025 at 09:00hrs | 176 | by Staff reporter

60% of paternity tests in Zimbabwe return negative

Global DNA Zimbabwe has disclosed that nearly 60 percent of paternity tests conducted in its laboratories during 2024 returned negative results, highlighting the importance of accurate DNA testing in resolving family disputes and ensuring …

Published: 08 Sep 2025 at 15:19hrs | | by Staff reporter

Televised DNA testing must be banned in Zimbabwe

DNA testing and its use in private family matters of biological relationships must be regulated by law.It should be restricted to resolve family issues privately in line with other regulations on data privacy and protection and safeguardin…

Published: 28 Aug 2025 at 22:36hrs | | by Glanis Changachirere

Woman in brutal assault on 1-month old baby after DNA test dispute

A 35-year-old Domboshava woman has appeared in court accused of severely assaulting a one-month-old baby belonging to her husband's second wife after DNA test results revealed the child was not fathered by their husband.Charity Charandura,…

Published: 04 Aug 2025 at 18:40hrs | | by Staff reporter

Kuda Mahachi faces DNA test showdown with ex-wife

What began as a routine maintenance case involving former football star Kudakwashe Mahachi and his ex-wife Marita quickly escalated into a tense courtroom battle filled with fierce accusations and serious threats.The drama unfolded dramati…

Published: 30 May 2025 at 09:02hrs | 990 | 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 denied responsibility, was indeed the bio…

Published: 10 May 2025 at 17:51hrs | 1239 | by Staff reporter

Tinashe Mugabe's DNA Show 'banned'

In a landmark ruling, the High Court has ordered the immediate suspension of Tinashe Mugabe's widely followed Closure DNA Show, citing serious violations of personal privacy rights. The verdict, delivered by Justice Joseph Mafusire, strong…

Published: 01 Apr 2025 at 20:41hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwean men are raising non biological children

Recent data from Global DNA Zimbabwe has unveiled startling findings regarding paternity testing in the country. According to the latest statistics, an astonishing 72% of paternity tests conducted have returned negative results, meaning th…

Published: 28 Feb 2025 at 03:56hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Shocking baby swap scandal rocks Bulawayo hospital, DNA confirms

A shocking case of baby-swapping has emerged from the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH), where a new mother from Cowdray Park discovered through DNA testing that she had been discharged with a baby girl instead of her biological son. The mot…

Published: 18 Jan 2025 at 06:24hrs | 2044 | by Staff reporter

Madzibaba dismisses 'taintedâ€™ DNA results in rape trial

Apostolic sect leader Madzibaba Ishmael Chokurongerwa has dismissed DNA results presented in court, arguing that the tests are flawed and should not be admitted as evidence.Chokurongerwa, who is facing charges of raping and impregnating th…

Published: 11 Dec 2024 at 19:55hrs | 766 | by Staff reporter

DNA testing nailed Madzibaba Ishmael

The leader of Johane Masowe eChishanu Gorejena Penyeranyika Sect, Ishmael Chokurongerwa, yesterday appeared in court on allegations of raping and impregnating three 14-year-old girls who are all his congregants, with DNA evidence linking h…

Published: 30 Oct 2024 at 17:05hrs | 1418 | by Staff reporter

NUST conducts 10 000 DNA paternity tests

Since acquiring specialised equipment in 2014, the National University of Science and Technology (NUST)'s Applied Genetics Testing Centre (AGTC) has conducted over 10,000 paternity tests, making it a leader in innovation and technology in …

Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 07:44hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter

'No maintenance monies until after DNA testsâ€™

A Gweru man, Mr. Givemore Shekede, was relieved after a Bulawayo magistrate, Mr. Vakai Douglas Chikwekwe, discharged a maintenance order that required him to pay US$350 monthly for the upkeep of two children he allegedly fathered with his …

Published: 28 Aug 2024 at 10:13hrs | 583 | by Staff reporter

Traditional 'DNA tests' confirm paternity

DRAMA recently erupted at Acting Chief Saunyama's court after a toddler became the subject of traditional "DNA tests".The tests were done by a group of elderly women.The father of the baby, Takunda Bhinzi Katerere, had refused paternity of…

Published: 20 Jul 2023 at 16:18hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

DNA bank for exhumed victims on cards

The Government will set up a Biobank where DNA samples for all exhumed victims will be kept for future matching with potential relatives for easy identification.This will happen when the new policy on the management of post conflict mass g…

Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 06:56hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter

Mugabe's DNA show still suspended

The Health Professions Authority Zimbabwe has lashed television host Tinashe Mugabe's Global DNA Zimbabwe saying its right to freedom of profession does not supersede the public's right to health.Mugabe had approached the High Court challe…

Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 17:58hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter

Mugabe, Tilder Moyo unqualified to issue DNA results

THE Medical Laboratory and Clinical Scientists Council of Zimbabwe (MLCSCZ) says Tinashe Mugabe and Tilder Moyo, who broadcasting popular but controversial DNA shows, are not allowed to publicly issue paternity tests.Mugabe from the Global…

Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 19:50hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Paternity cheat exposed

A Bulawayo woman was exposed as a paternity cheat after results of a DNA test showed that the child was not fathered by the man who she claimed was her daughter's dad.The bombshell came to light when Nkosilathi Ndlovu, a lecturer at Gwanda…

Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 07:43hrs | 32 | by Staff reporter

Ritual and superstition - Zimbabwe Vigil Diary

The sight of an opposition MP grovelling on the floor of parliament before the Finance Minister to thank him for women's sanitary pads is about as stupefying as South Africa's Chief Justice Mogeong Mogeong's observation that Covid 19 vacci…

Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 22:54hrs | 5 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary

NUST to conduct Gukurahundi DNA tests

GOVERNMENT is working on a law that will guide the process of exhumations of the remains of Gukurahundi victims in Matabeleland and the Midlands with the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) expected to conduct the genetic …

Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 21:38hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter

Violence is ingrained in MDC-Allianceâ€™s DNA

THERE is consensus among those who read Zimbabwe's political landscape correctly that the country has exhibited conspicuous signs of dynamism under the visionary leadership of President Emmerson Mnagagwa. ED has read the situation facing t…

Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 07:48hrs | 251 | by Cuthbert Mavheko

'No maintenance before DNA test'

A Harare man has refused to maintain a child which his ex-wife claims is his.Ashdorn Jonga argued at Harare Civil Court that he was not the father of the child as claimed by his ex, Kumbirayi Bvunzawabaya.He vowed not to pay maintenance un…

Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 23:52hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter

Late Zimbabwe VP exposed for raping Harare school teacher?

With so many rapes going unreported and unprosecuted, victims are instead forced by circumstances to commit paternity fraud. Most have managed to keep their secrets, but the arrival of affordable DNA technology is now threatening to expose…

Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 20:17hrs | 8 | by TRT World

Chamisa fuelling strife

The night is always darkest before dawn.  The people of Zimbabwe should bear with the Government, that while it is trying to resuscitate the economy that has been battered for 20years fuelled by misrule and misplaced priorities, some …

Published: 08 Oct 2018 at 09:02hrs | | by Prosperity Mzila

Mystery baby death: Nurses demand DNA tests

NURSES involved in the Victoria Falls Hospital mysterious baby death have called for DNA tests to be urgently conducted as they deny the baby swopping allegations raised against them by the infant's parents.The incident, which has since la…

Published: 29 Sep 2018 at 12:59hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter

Man demands DNA test for last child

WHEN is a dad not a dad?This is not a riddle or the beginning of a feeble joke. A Bulawayo man shocked a court when he exposed his wife as a cheat by demanding to conduct DNA tests on their 18-year-old son.Modecai Sibanda from Pumula South…

Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 06:17hrs | 1181 | by Staff reporter

Chigwedere wins order to force son to undergo DNA test

FORMER Education minister Aeneas Chigwedere, who is embroiled in a nasty witchcraft saga with his son Mangwiza, has obtained a court order compelling him to undergo DNA paternity tests.Chigwedere in February filed an application for patern…

Published: 11 Aug 2018 at 10:18hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

'You're not my daddy'. . . Man (37) tells father and demands paternity tests

HOW confident are you that the man you call dad is really your biological father?These were the shocking facts before a Bulawayo Civil Court, in a case in which a 37-year-old man who suspected "his" father was deceitful demanded in court t…

Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:20hrs | 327 | by Staff reporter

Woman to contest DNA test for 3rd time

A Chishawasha woman has vowed to contest DNA tests for the third time after the results proved on two occasions that her ex-husband was not the father to her son.Eunice Hunda said her relationship with Victor Mariga began in 2009 and she r…

Published: 21 Jun 2018 at 13:05hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Bribe attempts at Nust DNA centre

CHEATING spouses are reportedly approaching the Applied Genetic Testing Centre (AGTC) at the National University of Science and Technology in Bulawayo intending to bribe officials to manipulate their children's paternity results to save th…

Published: 25 Apr 2018 at 07:05hrs | 774 | by Staff reporter

Transformation by humiliation

Some years back while coming from a church conference I was travelling with some church mates back home in the evening after a powerful church service. When we were a few meters from my house we were stopped by the police who asked to see …

Published: 17 Mar 2018 at 10:02hrs | 10 | by Mthokozisi Gwizi

Chigwedere's son spits venom

Former Education minister Aeneas Chigwedere's son, Mangwiza, has revealed that his father has over 40 children, but only loves four.Mangwiza, who is embroiled in a nasty witchcraft saga with Chigwedere, accused his father of attempting to …

Published: 07 Feb 2018 at 06:45hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter

Chigwedere paternity test saga opens can of worms

FORMER Education minister Aeneas Chigwedere's "troublesome" son, Mangwiza, has claimed that he was born when his mother was only 16 years old after being impregnated by the ex-government minister.Mangwiza made the claims in response to Chi…

Published: 09 Aug 2017 at 11:00hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF chairman fails to raise money for dna test

AN interim order which was passed in a maintenance wrangle pitting a top politician and his alleged mistress in which he was disputing the paternity of a seven-year-old child is now a final order after the politician allegedly failed to ra…

Published: 05 May 2017 at 10:59hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

72% of women are maintenance cheats

SEVENTY-TWO percent of Harare men who challenged the paternity of children they were paying maintenance for were not the kids' biological fathers.According to the shocking statistics released by the Harare Magistrates Civil Courts yesterda…

Published: 23 Jun 2015 at 09:15hrs | 5910 | by Staff reporter

'DNA tests rigged,' claims Macheso

Popular musician Alick Macheso says the National Blood Transfusion Services of Zimbabwe (NBTSZ)'s DNA paternity results were 'rigged' because his estranged wife Fortunate Tafadzwa Mapako is one of the directors at the institution.Last week…

Published: 25 Jun 2014 at 13:28hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Macheso undergoes DNA tests

Sungura icon and his estranged second wife, Fortunate â€˜Tafadzwa' Mapako, with their two minor children, Wednesday underwent the much â€“ awaited DNA paternity tests at the National Blood Transfusion Services of Zimbabwe (NBTSZ) in Harare…

Published: 06 Jun 2014 at 11:37hrs | 13601 | by Staff reporter

First DNA testing centre registered in Zim

The country's first ever DNA testing centre has been registered with the Medical Laboratory and Clinic Scientists Council of Zimbabwe, bringing local solutions to paternity disputes and other civil and criminal challenges.Although the Afri…

Published: 10 Jan 2014 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff Reporter

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