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Zimra border officers probed for building mansions, flats in Harare
BEITBRIDGE Border Post, the country's busiest inland port of entry, has been identified as the country's major corruption hot spot, with some Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officials under investi...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:44hrs | 716 | by Staff reporter
Zimra flags Beitbridge as corruption hotspot
BEITBRIDGE Border Post, the country's busiest inland port of entry, has been identified as the country's major corruption hot spot, with some Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officials under investi...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:41hrs | 126 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sought Magaisa's support after coup?
Chiwenga chases Schroeder's record - The Lord of RingsZIMBABWEAN Vice-President retired General Constantino Chiwenga seems to be chasing former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's record in seri...Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 17:47hrs | 1302 | by Staff reporter
New Act unifies all marriage laws
THE new Marriages Act became law on Friday, a piece of legislation that brings all marriage laws together, makes all marriages equal and finally provides a way to transform a registered customary unio...Published: 31 May 2022 at 06:27hrs | 673 | by Staff reporter
3 Zimbabweans die in SA crash
A YOUNG Zimbabwean couple based in Cape Town, South Africa, and a friend died last week in an accident which occurred just outside Polokwane in South Africa's Limpopo province.The couple, Wend...Published: 30 May 2022 at 07:02hrs | 1275 | by Staff reporter
Father-in-law in court for demanding money from son-in-law
A man from Mpopoma suburb in Bulawayo dragged his father-in-law to court to seek a peace order against him for frequenting his home to demand money for food and rent.Tabson Mathe (43) said his...Published: 21 May 2022 at 18:24hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
Woman sues hubby's side chick US$15k for adultery
A Harare woman, Happygill Muyengwa, is suing her husband's girlfriend, Elmina Kusikwenyu, US$15 000 for adultery.She argues that Kusikwenyu has been involved in an extramarital affair with her...Published: 25 Apr 2022 at 12:50hrs | 2041 | by Staff reporter
Gogo uses social media to market décor business
FROM weddings to birthday parties and anniversary celebrations, Gogo Maggie Chigwinya (61), an award-winning Beitbridge-based entrepreneur, strives to give her clients the best.She has a great...Published: 26 Mar 2022 at 06:17hrs | 172 | 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 | 490 | by Stephen Jakes
Male legislators, marriage laws
ZIMBABWE on Tuesday joined the rest of the world in commemorating and celebrating International Women's Day.This is a day set aside worldwide to recognise and celebrate the social, economic, c...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 20:12hrs | 569 | by Miriam Tose Majome
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 | 1707 | by Staff reporter
Women decry sextortion
WOMEN'S organisations have lamented the rise in sextortion cases in the country's tertiary institutions and workplaces, pushing back the fight to achieve gender equality.According to the Colli...Published: 09 Mar 2022 at 06:56hrs | 380 | by Staff reporter
Ruvheneko Parirenyatwa pregnant from donated sperm?
Former radio and TV star Ruvheneko Parirenyatwa is expecting her first baby at 33 - with a sperm donor.Parirenyatwa said she took the unconventional route to motherhood after getting alarming ...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 08:24hrs | 4044 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga estranged wife judgment date set
HARARE magistrate Mr Lazini Ncube will on March 29 decide whether Marry Mubaiwa is guilty or not on allegations of misrepresenting that Vice President Constantino Chiwenga consented to solemnise their...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 05:39hrs | 266 | 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 | 542 | by Staff reporter
We need at least five tractors complete with harrows
That cattle malady Thelerios has rebounded with never before seen determination. Again the few remnant livestock from the first wave are sacuumbing to this dreaded bovine pandemic. Never did w...Published: 10 Feb 2022 at 11:52hrs | 502 | by Tincuts Matepatepa
Trending cheating couple and bhawu are Zimbabweans
SENZO MALINGA is calmness personified - few men would react like a sheep about to be slaughtered if they walk into their own bedroom to find their wife in the throes of pleasure with a man mountain wh...Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 08:11hrs | 584 | by Staff reporter
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 | 940 | by Staff reporter
Can I loan lobola money to my partner?
I want to become a polygamistAmai, I hope you are doing well. I have been dating a girl for the past two years although I have a wife. I am 32 and my wife is 25. We have three kids together....Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 08:52hrs | 228 | by Staff reporter
1 351 file for divorce
INFIDELITY has been cited as the major cause of family break-ups in the country with this year's statistics showing that at least 1 351 couples filed for divorce at the High Court, an increase from 1 ...Published: 30 Dec 2021 at 07:50hrs | 609 | 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 | 1145 | by Staff reporter
ZRP probe Chinese marriage to minor
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has launched an investigation into a case where a 15-year-old girl from Kadoma was married off to a Chinese national and forced to drop out of school.The vic...Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 05:49hrs | 1740 | by Staff reporter
Macabre spectacle as frail Mubaiwa is put on trial
PAIN is written all over her face as she makes her way up the staircase to the courtroom where her trial is being heard.The estranged wife of Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, Marry Mubaiwa...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:17hrs | 556 | by Staff reporter
Injiva catches wife pants down
A married woman from Tsholotsho's area of Mapengula was on 21 November busted by her husband indulging in sex with another man after the husband came home unannounced from South Africa.The hus...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 13:05hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Injiva catches wife panties down with lover in their bedroom
A married woman from Tsholotsho's area of Mapengula was on 21 November busted by her husband having sex with another man after the husband came home unannounced from South Africa.The husband, ...Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 19:52hrs | 370 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe moves towards HIV decriminalisation
Zimbabwe has made great progress in the decriminalisation of wilful transmission of HIV as part of efforts to end the stigma and discrimination that surrounds HIV infection. Through an amendme...Published: 19 Nov 2021 at 06:42hrs | 26 | by Staff Reporter
Johanne Marange Church sued for marrying off young girls
The constitutionality of the Johanne Marange Apostolic Church doctrine of marrying off young girls and covering up alleged sexual abuse among congregants is now under the spotlight after gender activi...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
We are not abandoning Merry Chiwenga-Mubayiwa
To be a woman activist in Zimbabwe is totally different from being an activist in the comforts of Germany. I have come to terms with this fact. Women activism especially in our societies does not mean...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 14:56hrs | 8 | by Nomazulu Thata
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
Man demands lobola back, torches in-laws' hut
A MUTASA villager has left the community dumb-founded after demanding his lobola back from his in-laws before burning his mother's kitchen hut to ashes following an argument with his wife.Know...Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man (74) poisoned at lobola meeting
A 74-YEAR-0LD Guruve man allegedly drank a poisoned opaque beer and died on the spot while planning the lobola of his young brothers daughter on Sunday....Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 21:14hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Drama as nurse fails marriage test
THERE was drama in Hatfield last Wednesday when a female nurse locked the gate and ran for cover when her two lovers arrived at the same time to expose her unfaithfulness.Chipo Lucia Danha, 38...Published: 05 Jul 2021 at 12:44hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
A man does not cry
The wave of cattle deaths is not relenting, farmers' tears have since stopped falling in acceptance to their glaring losses. Only the symptomatic bovine tears continue trickling down their fury cheeks...Published: 04 Jul 2021 at 19:54hrs | 1 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa.
Man consumes poison at ex-wife's residence
A Zvishavane man is recuperating in hospital after he allegedly swallowed poison at his ex-wife's residence after being denied access to his children.Witnesses to the incident which occurred M...Published: 28 Jun 2021 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Cop 'stabs wife 10 times'
A BIGAMOUS policeman stationed in Victoria Falls allegedly stabbed his estranged wife 10 times, killing her on the spot. Constable Bright Ndlovu (28) of ZRP Victoria Falls last Thursday followed Ms Mu...Published: 21 Jun 2021 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa doesn't want Justice Happias Zhou
REASONS why President Emmerson Mnangagwa strongly dislikes High Court Justice Happias Zhou - who led a brave judicial panel that dramatically blocked Justice Luke Malaba's controversial tenure extensi...Published: 26 May 2021 at 16:23hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Giving serious thought to the possibility of Polyandry
With our neighbouring country South Africa, working on the green paper on the marriages Act, it is no doubt that ordinary Zimbabweans are also pondering on the matter, be it they reach to such a posit...Published: 11 May 2021 at 22:45hrs | 4 | by Thabiso Nxumalo
151 children, 16 wives, still counting
Mbire man, Misheck Nyandoro, has fathered 151 children with 16 wives and he is still counting. "Mine is a project. This polygamy is a project that I have undertaken since 1983 and will end wit...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why Lobola Should not be Refundable - Love must never be refunded nor measured in monetary terms
The case of Lobola has generated a lot of interest amongst many Zimbabweans and many traditional leaders. The people of Zimbabwe put the proceedings in the public domain which they review the lawfulne...Published: 02 May 2021 at 07:50hrs | 10 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza and Denford Madekufamba
Soldier killed over girlfriend
A soldier from Makumire Village under Chief Bota and based at 4.1 Infantry Brigade was killed over a girlfriend at Svuure Shopping Centre in Zaka last week.Munyaradzi Chikovore is alleged to h...Published: 01 May 2021 at 20:24hrs | 5 | 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 | 35 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Child marriage cases spike in Sanyati
FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD Maidei Changa (not her real name) struggled to breastfeed her two-month-old baby.Maidei missed Form One at a nearby secondary school in ward 10 under Chief Hozhele in Sanyati...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 12:40hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo has highest number of never married households heads
BULAWAYO has the highest number of heads of households who have never been married and the lowest percentage of couples living together.The Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee ZimVAC (...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 16:39hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
In-laws thrash man over unpaid lobola
NO lobola, no sex!A Bulawayo man was mercilessly thrashed by his in-laws before they took away his wife and three children because he had not paid lobola.As if the accusations that he ...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 12:25hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Lobola row murderer challenges sentence
AN illegal gold panner who was in 2018 sentenced to death for fatally stabbing his wife 27 times following a row with his in-laws over payment of lobola, has approached the Supreme Court challenging h...Published: 24 Mar 2021 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wife beats hubby for failure to impregnate her
WELL, isn't that strange that a woman assaults her husband while accusing him of being weak and failing to impregnate her.Wonder no more, because this has happened after a man from Chademana V...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 07:09hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 lockdown: How times have changed
It was after four aborted attempts at assembling that customary team of amadombo, an attempt at receiving and meeting our prospective in-laws as a non-negotiable precondition to observe the cultural r...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 07:08hrs | | by Zifiso Masiye
Mohadi has been dating a married woman?
Vice President Kembo Mohadi was on Sunday left shaken and bleeding after a raucous showdown with a man accusing him of enjoying secret trysts with his wife, ZimLive reported.Following the conf...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 18:45hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Hardships pushing young girls into prostitution
SHE wriggled in pain, trying to set herself free from the tightened grip of the menacing older woman, who was about to choke her to death.She was too frightened to scream, let alone say anythi...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 05:51hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Do something to save the rural herd
The rural herd is on a terrible decline, cattle succumbing to a plethora of both known and unknown livestock diseases. Most cattle pens are now nearly empty, with some now home to only two or ...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 07:00hrs | | by Tondo
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