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Scattered pieces of man's body found in bushy area in Bulawayo
Police in Bulawayo have discovered the remains of an unidentified man, estimated to be between 40-50 years old, in a bushy area of Denver Farm in Umguza. The remains were found on July 6 by a 36-year-...Published: 09 Jul 2024 at 05:52hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Herdsman assaults boss and wife over delayed December pay
THOSE who believe hell hath no fury like a woman scorned have probably never come across a herdsman who has not received his salary.An infuriated herdsman from Nkenyani Village in Bubi distric...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 06:01hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Prominent businessman jailed 10 years for stock theft
A PROMINENT Gweru-based businessman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after being convicted of stock theft.Appearing before Gweru magistrate Mr Langton Ndokera facing one count of stock...Published: 29 Nov 2023 at 15:28hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Child marriage victim succumbs to labour complications
Zandile Sibanda clung desperately to her 14-year-old daughter, Sikhulile Sibanda, who had fallen victim to an early child marriage, as she took her final breath after suffering from a severe illness f...Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bleak future for Zimbabwean families depending on breadwinners in South Africa
Families depending on remittances from relatives working in South Africa fear they will lose their primary income when the Zimbabwe Exemption Permit expires.A financial services company warns ...Published: 30 Sep 2022 at 21:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Omakorokoza turn Sharona Park into no-go area
SHARONA Park situated north-east of Meadowlands, and north-west of Heany Junction Farm, on the outskirts of Bulawayo, has been turned into a "no-go area" by over hundred machete-brandishing illegal go...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Herdsman axes employer to death
POLICE in Matabeleland South Province have launched a manhunt for a man who teamed up with a friend and fatally assaulted his employer for paying him little money in Mayobodo, Plumtree District....Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 05:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man strikes son to death with hoe
As the country is still in shock following the murder of a seven-year-old child in Murehwa, police have arrested a 43-year-old man from Zvimba for allegedly striking his son to death with a hoe while ...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Fired herdsman axes former employer to death
A herdsman, Paul Chikangayiwa, allegedly fatally struck his ex-employer, Mrs Juliet Kapere (78), with an axe on the back of the head last Friday after she turned down his request for reinstatement. ...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Are civil servant persecuted for Mugabe's sake??
At least with respect to political appointees, not only is this allowed, but it actually happens every time an Administration changes. Zimbabwe had never had a meaningful administration change in thir...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 16:41hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Church woman rapist jailed
A 21-YEAR-OLD man has been jailed for 12 years for raping his 58-year-old neighbour while she was on her way from a church service at night.Butholenkosi Sibanda of Lumene Village pleaded not g...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ritual killing: Victim's body unclaimed for 11 months
THE body of a mentally-ill man, who was decapitated in a suspected ritual murder, will spend six more months in a mortuary before it is given a pauper's burial.The body, which is in an advance...Published: 25 Apr 2018 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Woman burns husband with petrol in fight over sorghum
A WOMAN from Mangwe District allegedly poured petrol on her husband and set him alight following a heated argument over a bucket of sorghum.Alphos Moyo (57) died at Mpilo Central Hospital in B...Published: 17 Apr 2018 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mum hacksaws daughter's throat, hangs
A 31-YEAR-OLD woman from Bulilima allegedly slit the throat of her five-year-old daughter with two knives and a hacksaw before hanging herself from the roof of her hut due to undisclosed differences w...Published: 07 Nov 2017 at 05:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Herdsman sodomises boss' children
A HERDSMAN from Inyathi who allegedly sodomised his employer's children, a boy aged five and an eight-year-old girl over a period of one year, has been arrested.The man (24) (name withheld to ...Published: 13 Jun 2017 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman 'rapes' hubby's nephew
A 22-YEAR-OLD Bulilima woman has been arrested for allegedly forcing her husband's 14-year-old nephew to sleep with her.The woman who cannot be named to protect the identity of the juvenile ...Published: 08 Jun 2017 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Morgan Tsvangirai: Where small planets orbited
For me the important thing about the so-called memoranda of understanding signed between Morgan Tsvangirai on the one hand, and separately Joice Mujuru and Welshman Ncube on the other, was the cast in...Published: 22 Apr 2017 at 10:45hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Man battles for life after murder attempt
A-38-YEAR OLD man from Gwanda is battling for his life in the intensive care unit at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo after he was found lying unconscious on his bed with a deep cut on his h...Published: 21 Apr 2017 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mpilo hospital surgeons remove axe buried in man's head
A-31-YEAR-OLD man from Nkayi who had an axe stuck in his skull, endured more than 160km of bumpy roads to hospital where it was removed 14 hours later.The man who was lucky to survive, had...Published: 13 Apr 2017 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Deportee nabbed after seven years
A HERDSMAN from Bulilima, who allegedly stole a gun, killed a woman, raped another and robbed a third in 2009 before fleeing to South Africa has been arrested after he was deported from the neighb...Published: 13 Oct 2016 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man stones lover's mum, sets hut ablaze
A HERDSMAN from Matopo who went haywire and set his girlfriend's mother's hut ablaze before bashing her with a stone on the head, has been jailed for seven years.According to local media, ...Published: 06 Oct 2016 at 08:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dogs save man from leopard
A 19-YEAR- old man from Hwange grappled with a leopard and lived to tell the tale after his dogs attacked and killed the predator.Mr Silent Dube of Chidobe Area under Chief Mvuthu, suffered de...Published: 12 Sep 2016 at 11:22hrs | 1 | by Whinsley Masara
Man kills dad with shovel
A MAN from Mberengwa allegedly teamed up with his injiva uncle to brutally bash his parents with a shovel, leading to his father's death. The injiva allegedly accused the old man of bewitching him, wh...Published: 18 Jul 2016 at 06:41hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
Convicted double murderer sentenced to 10 years
Provocation may have caused an illegal Zimbabwean immigrant to kill his two countrymen in 2011, Justice Phadi Solomon said, when passing sentence in a double murder case on Tuesday. ...Published: 01 May 2016 at 06:53hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Human foot found
LUWI NDEBELE was herding his cows as he does every morning and suddenly he froze in horror when he saw in front of him a human foot!“I’ve never seen anything as shocking as this. Who would...Published: 03 Mar 2016 at 13:56hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Man axed in fight over $1
A TSHOLOTSHO man is battling for life in hospital after an injiva axed him in the head in a fight over $1. Michael Ngwenya, a herdsman from Malanda Village was rushed to Tsholotsho District Hospital o...Published: 24 Nov 2015 at 07:12hrs | | by Patient Sibanda
15 year old boy rapes 2 girls, impregnates one of them
A GWERU Regional Magistrate has issued a warrant of arrest for a 15 year old boy who allegedly raped two girls, impregnating one of them.The boy from Mapolisa village in Mberengwa, who is faci...Published: 13 Nov 2015 at 05:23hrs | | by Faith Mabuto
Man rapes girl, offers chicken compensation
A 22-YEAR-OLD herdsman allegedly raped his neighbour's four-year-old daughter and offered her grandmother a chicken to dissuade her from reporting the matter to the police. The grandmother how...Published: 20 Oct 2015 at 06:38hrs | | by Sukulwenkosi Dube
Pregnant pupil withdraws rape charges
A Form Three pupil from a school in Matabeleland South yesterday withdrew rape charges against her alleged rapist who impregnated her. In an affidavit submitted before regional magistrate Chri...Published: 13 Oct 2015 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rapist boasts of donkey-sized manhood
A rapist who was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for raping a girl, 5, stunned a packed court yesterday when he said that his manhood was as big as that of a donkey.Therefore, he said, if ...Published: 05 Aug 2015 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rape suspect wets pants in court
A 23-YEAR-OLD rape suspect from Figtree wet his pants during his trial in Bulawayo yesterday.Martin Dube, employed as a herdsman, allegedly raped his neighbour's Grade Six daughter who was on...Published: 16 Jul 2015 at 08:48hrs | 2 | by Thandeka Moyo
Herdsman stabs pregnant maid, baby to death
A HERDSMAN from Chirumanzu area went berserk and stabbed a pregnant woman and her 10-month-old baby before reaching for the woman's seven-year-old son and leaving him for dead, police have said....Published: 25 Jun 2015 at 09:17hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
Child rapists perform community service at primary schools
Magistrates are allegedly sending child molesters to perform community service at primary schools around the country without parents knowing.Bulawayo East MP Thabitha Khumalo labelled the ...Published: 10 Jun 2015 at 07:20hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Courts 'set' age of consent to sex at 12
LAWYERS and MPs say they are increasingly worried by what appears to be the trivialisation of child sex abuse by the courts, with the age of consent in Zimbabwe now effectively 12 years, although it ...Published: 09 Jun 2015 at 11:39hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
Herdsman impregnates boss's daughter
A PAEDOPHILE who impregnated his employer's 12-year-old daughter has been told he destroyed her future by a magistrate - but he WILL NOT be going to jail. Conscience Nleya, 27, of Bulilima, to...Published: 24 Apr 2015 at 06:55hrs | | by Sukulwenkosi Dube
Married man (39)impregnates neighbour's teen daughter in exchange for groceries
A MARRIED 39-year-old herdsman from Bulilima District impregnated his neighbour's 13-year-old daughter in exchange for groceries. Freddie Ncube of Sikhathini area will spend the next on...Published: 24 Dec 2014 at 08:23hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Human body discovered with missing head
IN a suspected murder case which occurred in Marange recently, a torso was discovered in Chaeruka Village.Deputy Manicaland police spokesperson, Assistant Inspector Luxson Chananda, said one h...Published: 16 Aug 2014 at 20:40hrs | | by Mercy Ngwebvu
Rapist threatens victims with goblins
A 21-YEAR-old Plumtree man allegedly beat up and raped two juveniles after threatening them with goblins, the Chronicle reported.This was heard when Nesbert Dube, who is originally from Tshol...Published: 07 Jul 2014 at 06:54hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
9 year jail-term for stocktheft
A 45-year-old man from Colleen Bawn in Gwanda district was sentenced to nine-year imprisonment for stealing a stray beast belonging to the State.Siphosenkosi Gift Khumalo of stand 125 Capital...Published: 02 Oct 2013 at 05:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Inside the Great Nation of Bukalanga: A Definition of Bukalanga vis-à-vis the Ndebele, Shona and Ngwato
For most of the time in the past 200 years, the peoples of Bukalanga have been treated as a sub-ethnicity of the Ndebele, the Ngwato and the Shona. We also raised the point that the Great Nation of B...Published: 29 Apr 2012 at 22:58hrs | 49 | by Ndzimu-unami Emmanuel Moyo
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