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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 | 636 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is a country of laws
Zimbabwe is a nation governed by law. There is not a thing that happens (or should happen) that is not provided for by any law. We differ from the United Kingdom in one respect, they do not have...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:44hrs | 111 | by Tino Chinyoka
Egyptian diplomat sues hubby's small house in Zimbabwe
A SENIOR Egyptian diplomat seconded to Harare, one Ms Raina, has been taken to court by a local woman Bilkis Banu Ismail, who is seeking $1,5 million compensation in adultery damages after the former ...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 07:27hrs | 3754 | by Staff Reporter
Age of consent should be raised to 18, says Human rights lawyer
The Marriages Bill, which is currently being debated in Parliament has managed to define who is a child in Zimbabwe, but there is need to close the gap between the age of sexual consent and age of con...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 07:42hrs | 442 | by Staff reporter
Ndiweni is an MDC-affiliated Chief and so can do no wrong
The discussion around the Chief Ndiweni case is so disappointing I am going to start my own here. In fact, I am slowly coming to the conclusion that I probably should start writing public think pieces...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 18:01hrs | 3201 | by Petina Gappa
Cheating wife dumps husband after busting her
FOR a Bulawayo woman, Molly Nkomo from Gwabalanda suburb, shame seems to be a big component of infidelity following revelations that she dumped her husband after he discovered that she had been cheati...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 11:05hrs | 3351 | by Staff reporter
Man files US$300,000 lawsuit against wife's lover
A LOCAL businessman who sued his alleged lover for defrauding him did not realise that by doing so he would land in hot soup as he is now being sued by the woman's husband for having an adulterous aff...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 11:03hrs | 656 | by Staff reporter
Woman slaps hubby with lifetime sex ban
FOR a sex-deprived Bulawayo man sex seems to be the source of a man's self-worth.This was after he bitterly complained that he was living with his wife as strangers in the house after she alle...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 11:03hrs | 962 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe CSOs scrutinise Marriages Bill
A GROUP of civil society organisations (CSOs) are working with grassroots communities to ensure that the Marriages Bill contains sections that promote women and discourage early child marriages....Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:35hrs | 95 | by Staff reporter
Mater Dei Hospital School of Nursing
Applications are invited from interested and suitably qualified candidates for January 2020 for the following programs: a) DIPLOMA IN INTENSIVE AND CORONARY CARE NURSING b) DIPLOMA IN OPER...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 19:55hrs | 2848 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda South communities feel betrayed
GWANDA South constituency is crying out loud for development.Having provided a passage for thousands of former freedom fighters departing to Botswana, en-route to Zambia and Mozambique for mil...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 08:03hrs | 511 | by Staff reporter
Petition to deport Tytan from UK goes viral
A petition to deport singer Tytan from the UK has gone viral online.This follows after Tytan broke up with Olinda with both parties claiming domestic abuse against the other.In a live ...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 11:19hrs | 3719 | by Staff
Beitbridge records 4 sudden deaths
BEITBRIDGE has in the last seven days recorded four sudden deaths, with two-suspected suicides.An 84-year-old man from Nuli, who cannot be named, allegedly took his life in an apparent case of...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 15:14hrs | 1493 | by Staff reporter
Mkhululi Bhebhe ties knot
SOUTH Africa-based Zimbabwean contemporary gospel singer Mkhululi Bhebhe tied the knot with his long-time sweetheart, Ashleigh Nonxoloba, in a low-key ceremony at the Bulawayo Magistrates' Courts on W...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 15:10hrs | 2946 | by Staff reporter
Dumped hubby follows and beats ex-wife
A Njube woman regrets dumping her husband whom she had been married to for five years as he now beats her whenever he gets the chance to see her.Tariro Alice Shoniwa is reportedly fed up with ...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 09:42hrs | 343 | by Staff reporter
Advocates of same-sex are wrong to criticise Zimbabwe matrimonial causes laws
It is wrong for those that advocate for same-sex marriages to argue that the matrimonial causes laws of Zimbabwe discriminate against them.The laws of a country are derived from its customs. I...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 22:39hrs | 1164 | by Njabulo
Olinda abused Tytan?
AFTER a tumultuous month with his wife Olinda, rapper Tytan has called time on their marriage, hinting at domestic abuse. Olinda (35) accused Tytan (29) of cheating with her best friend identified as ...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 07:34hrs | 1255 | by Staff reporter
Tytan, Olinda in messy break-up
AWARD winning musician and 'Mukoko' hitmaker, Njabulo Nkomo popularly known as Tytan has ended his marriage to socialite, Olinda Chapel claiming abuse.Tytan and Olinda tied the knot in March l...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 17:24hrs | 7170 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa's wife rolls out 100 scholarships
AT LEAST 100 secondary schoolgirls are set to benefit from First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa scholarship programme covering girls from different communities in all the country's 10 provinces starting next...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 09:23hrs | 665 | by Staff reporter
Civil partnership proposal found no takers
What a sigh of relief, the Emperor shot down the Civil Partnership proposal that was to be sneaked stealthily into the Marriages Act. Now men can sleep peacefully except for a few spouses whos...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 20:05hrs | 1267 | by Thomas Murisa
'Mnangagwa's moves are intelligent, complicated and effective' - what a laugh, name one, just one, such move
"Highly placed sources from Harare have indicated that President Emmerson Mnangagwa is vetting MDC MPs who are under consideration to form a quasi-government of national unity,"...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 20:59hrs | 4201 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Alcohol and drugs are ruining the youths
For many a youth today alcohol is their strongest weakness. Some think the wise waters can provide refuge and comfort from the prevailing hardships yet the opposite is the gospel truth. Many p...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 14:30hrs | 716 | by Thomas Murisa
Whipping system affects Parly debates: Mataranyika
CHAIRPERSON of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Justice Misheck Mataranyika has said the whipping system in Parliament must be repealed from Parliamentary Standing Rules and Orders because it ...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 07:38hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
Scrapping of 'small house' clause a plus in Aids fight
"Ko small house yako inani izvozvi?" (Who is with your small house right now?) was a screaming signature message on a number of billboards erected around the country by the Ministry of Health and Chil...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 07:26hrs | 511 | by Forward Nyanyiwa
Woman kidnaps, assaults hubby's mistress
A woman from Gweru kidnapped and assaulted her husband's mistress whom she accused of trying to destroy her marriage.For her wayward behaviour, Abigail Banda (35) of Mkoba 20 suburb was dragge...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 18:00hrs | 4682 | by Staff reporter
Of Cabinet folly, contradictions and civil unions
ON Tuesday Cabinet purportedly "withdrew" clause 40 of the Marriages Bill. The clause contained the much-maligned civil partnerships clause that has caused great consternation in the country.I...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 09:49hrs | 234 | by Miriam Tose Majome
A political career built on jecha
To be or not to be, is the question Nelson? Well, they say, trying to talk sense to Nelson Chamisa is as good as winking at a blind person. It is a horrible waste of time. He sees nothing. Now it's a ...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 09:40hrs | 387 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube: King of the Last Minute
On February 22, 2019, President Emmerson Mnangagwa issued the Presidential Powers (Temporary Measures) (Amendment of Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Act and Issue of Real Time Gross Settlement Electronic Dol...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 08:07hrs | 3057 | by Mike Murenzvi
ZWLA pokes holes into Marriages Bill
Zimbabwe Women Lawyers Association (ZWLA) director Abigail Matsvayi has said the Marriages Bill should clearly spell out how property acquired by spouses during subsistence of their marriage is handle...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 08:01hrs | 617 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife engages men
First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has started engaging men's representative organisations to hear their issues and help overcome ills such as physical and verbal abuse, domestic violence, abuse of c...Published: 01 Aug 2019 at 09:13hrs | 1087 | by Staff reporter
Makamba in wife abuse storm
THE magistrates' court for the district of Johannesburg in South Africa has issued a protection order against South African based Zimbabwean business tycoon, Joseph Makamba Busha at the instigation of...Published: 01 Aug 2019 at 09:12hrs | 2118 | by newzimbabwe
Lawyers speak on Prisca Mupfumira's case
The Minister of Environment, Tourism and Hospitality Industry, Hon Prisca Mupfumira, has been arrested on serious charges involving corruption and abuse of office. When she appeared in court after bei...Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 12:40hrs | 11612 | by Veritas
The Outlawed section of Marriage Bill demystified
'Clause 40 provides for relationships which, to make a clear distinction between them and proper marriages, have been termed "civil partnerships". Civil partnerships are the equivalent of what would b...Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 09:56hrs | 2816 | by Lloyd Msipa
Another murder, another funeral
Civil partnership, I don't know whether to cry, laugh or simply throw hands up in the air in despair and disgust. Fellow countrymen is this coming from Zimbabweans or some third hand is forcing it dow...Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 08:18hrs | 3292 | by Thomas Murisa
Zimbabwe still negotiating SA power deal
Zimbabweans grappling with power outages have to hold on a little longer for a power import breakthrough, with Cabinet yesterday disclosing that negotiations were still on-going with South Africa....Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 08:12hrs | 873 | by Staff reporter
Cabinet orders minister to remove the offending section 40 from Marriage Bill
There has been pandemonium regarding the import of the Marriages Bill, (hereinafter referred to as "the Bill") which was approved by the Cabinet in 2017. After spirited efforts by every person in Zimb...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 18:44hrs | 4719 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa rejects small house clause
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Cabinet on Tuesday has recommended to Parliament that Section 40 of the Marriages Amendment Bill, which refers to "civil partnerships" be removed, after noting that it g...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 18:35hrs | 13889 | by Staff Reporter
Mhondoro-Ngezi Shadow MP eases the struggles of old people
At a time in Zimbabwe's electoral cycle, when elected officials forget those that voted them into political office and concentrate on fattening their own welfare, shadow Mhondoro-Ngezi Member of Parli...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 15:14hrs | 1561 | by Own Correspondent
Thabitha Khumalo stoking tribal fires in Bulawayo
Thabitha Khumalo statement on Saturday that Matabeles must first change the constitution of the country and the Urban Councils Act if they want to fight Shona hegemony in Bulawayo is drunk talk....Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 08:07hrs | 4112 | by Israel Dube
The profanity of the Marriage Bill
There has been total confusion surprise and total disgust over the Draft Marriages Bill, 2017 which is now called the Marriage Bill,which was recently thrown out by the parliament when the honourable ...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 08:03hrs | 4120 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Madzibaba helps drug abusers
The founder of the Johanne the Fifth of Africa Apostolic Church, Johanne Masowe Chishanu leader Madzibaba Andby Makururu, is attracting scores of people to his shrine in Mutare, who are afflicted by s...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 18:16hrs | 471 | by Staff reporter
From Lupane to Liverpool
AT the age of three, she was abandoned by her own mother.The bottled up anger of not understanding why a parent, particularly a mother, would leave her child, made staying with her stepmother ...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:05hrs | 2259 | by Staff reporter
Loice Matanda-Moyo must not be persecuted
I think people must respect and admire couples who have been together for such a long time. Why try to destroy what God has put together?'Even the bible states it clearly that what God has put togethe...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 16:58hrs | 941 | by Njabulo
Legislative reform agenda buttresses Mnangagwa's sincerity
This is the second part of a trilogy of articles that I am writing outlining the reform agenda being pursued by President Mnangagwa in the Second Republic. In the previous article I dwelt on political...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 16:16hrs | 82 | by Nick Mangwana
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 | 886 | by Staff reporter
PLC rules MOPA unconstitutional
THE Parliamentary Legal Committee (PLC) yesterday passed an adverse report on the Maintenance of Peace and Order Bill (MOPA), which means that the Bill currently has provisions that are ultra vires (v...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 08:07hrs | 568 | by Staff reporter
'Obert Mpofu thinks like a lizard'
Jonathan Moyo once said, "Obert Mpofu has a big body like an elephant but thinks like a lizard." This statement really explains how Obert Mpofu thinks.The utterances by Obert Mpofu tha...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 15:16hrs | 7563 | by Mqondisi Moyo
Should the Marriage Certificate incorporate an Expiry Date?
This may induce laughter then extreme anger as it steeps and sink in. There is this other person, a fellow human being who thinks the Marriage Certificate should have an expiry date, yes, expiry so an...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 12:18hrs | 2877 | by Tondorindo
The pig in Mthuli Ncube's bacon
I had occasion in my last visit to my discerning barber to try and explain the latest glowing World Bank reviews of the sterling performance of finance minister Mthuli Ncube and the minister's impecca...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 10:22hrs | 4677 | by Zifiso Masiye
Zimbabwe MPs demand Land Cruisers, houses in Harare
Members of Parliament have demanded to be issued with Toyota Land Cruiser V8 vehicles, houses in Harare, security and five-digit salaries, accusing Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube of prioritising the ot...Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 14:25hrs | 605 | by ZimlIve
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