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Kareke heading back to court
CONVICTED child rapist Munyaradzi Kereke is heading back to court to hear his appeal against sentence and conviction at the Supreme Court.The former Bikita West Member of Parliament and advise...Published: 20 May 2022 at 06:33hrs | 2739 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF activist jailed 12 years
NOTORIOUS Zanu-PF member and businessman, Mike Mhangura, has been sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for raping a Chinhoyi woman last December.He will, however, spend an effective nine years i...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:42hrs | 2647 | by Staff reporter
BCC abandons Centenary Park
BULAWAYO residents have accused the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) of abandoning Centenary Park.Residents say the park is now an eyesore and a hotspot for criminal activities and a haven for drug...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:36hrs | 468 | by Staff reporter
Without incorporating the boy child we can kiss goodbye to ending misogyny and women's abuse!
I still clearly remember sometime around 2007, when I excitedly approached such women's rights organizations as Women's Action Group (WAG), and Musasa Project, as well as the public broadcaster (ZBC),...Published: 16 May 2022 at 11:48hrs | 501 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Alarm over rise in brothels
Residents have called on the Municipality of Gwanda and police to act on illegal activities which have resulted in the increase in crime in the mining town.Residents said they were being terro...Published: 15 May 2022 at 06:12hrs | 827 | by Staff reporter
There is no my vote is my secret, 'Death leaves no track record, voters do!' boasted Mnangagwa
"SaBuku pamberi, (Zanu PF) district chairman shure navanhu, councillor aripovo. Kwava kunovota." (Village headman will be in front, (Zanu PF) district chairman behind with the people and the local cou...Published: 14 May 2022 at 11:16hrs | 1790 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Apostolic sect leader charged with rape
A 35 year old prophet from Apostolic Church in Damafalls, Ruwa has been charged with raping a 17 year old female congregate.Nyararai Gumindoga was remanded to May 25 for trial date when he app...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:04hrs | 128 | by Staff reporter
Time to protect people from their churches
VERY little is known about one of the worst religion-related mass murders and tragedies that occurred in Uganda in 2000 in which 700 Ugandans died. More is known about the 1978 Jonestown massacre in G...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:20hrs | 384 | by Miriam Tose Majome
'Poverty is a choice'
SHE has set herself a target of being one of the biggest fish farmers in Matabeleland and Midlands region.Ms Patricia Tabengwa (67), a pensioner from Killarney suburb in Bulawayo believes that...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:19hrs | 623 | by Staff reporter
Sex worker makes unbearable noise during sex sessions
A SELF-PROCLAIMED sex worker is on the firing line because her landlady accuses her of disturbing her sleep as she makes unbearable noise during sex.She is also said to be in the habit of wear...Published: 06 May 2022 at 19:32hrs | 4789 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa warned about Thokozani Khupe
Shadowy pressure group Team Pachedu has warned the Nelson Chamisa led CCC has been of its association with former MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe. Pachedu accused Khupe of causing the death of th...Published: 05 May 2022 at 11:37hrs | 5356 | by Mandla Ndlovu
OPC ZITF stand has public in awe
AN imposing artistic image depicting President Mnangagwa carrying a masonry trowel laden with mortar and building blocks in the background, admirably stood above the Office of the President and Cabine...Published: 02 May 2022 at 07:57hrs | 257 | by Staff reporter
Police launch another blitz
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has launched another operation code-named ‘Respect Other Road Users', targeting motorists who continue violating the traffic rules and regulations countrywide.So...Published: 02 May 2022 at 07:55hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
Police impound 1 600 pirate taxis
Over 1 600 illegal pirate taxis (popularly known as mushikashika) and unregistered vehicles have been impounded in an operation launched by police on Thursday to bring order to towns and cities....Published: 01 May 2022 at 11:09hrs | 72 | by Staff reporter
Man rapes niece, jailed 17 years
A 46-YEAR-OLD Chiweshe man who was left in the custody of his 12-year-old niece was sentenced to 17 years in jail after raping her.The uncle who cannot be named for ethical reasons will howeve...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 21:51hrs | 611 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Rapist offers $10 bond to victim
A 20-YEAR OLD Rushinga rapist tried to buy the victim's silence by offering her $10 bond to buy jiggies after the act.The matter came to light at Bindura magistrates courts yesterday where Tin...Published: 29 Apr 2022 at 15:57hrs | 722 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Robbers gang-rape storekeeper
Two Mutoko robbers who broke into a tuckshop, stole groceries and gang-raped the storekeeper were arrested.Omega Sikochi (25)and Tinashe Chikeya (24) appeared before Mutoko magistrate Elijah S...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 12:27hrs | 2563 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Johane Marange rape victim refuses medical examination
A Johane Marange minor congregant who was allegedly raped by her uncle refused to go for a medical examination as it is against her church doctrine.The matter came to light at Mutoko magistrat...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 12:25hrs | 1491 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Mutoko
Police crackdown on pirate taxis nets 600
NEARLY 600 pirate taxis usually called mushikashika, unregistered cars, street kids controlling traffic and vendors operating at intersections were arrested in Harare yesterday on the first day of a m...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 08:55hrs | 219 | by Staff reporter
Male contraceptive pill found 99 percent effective in mice
A team of scientists said they had developed an oral male contraceptive that is 99 percent effective in mice without causing side effects, and could enter human trials by the end of this year....Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 09:08hrs | 681 | by AFP
Network challenges haunt Mat South villagers
FOR Mr Rapelang Nare of Buvuma area, Gwanda District in Matabeleland South Province, to make a phone call, he has to walk for about two kilometres to get to the business centre where there is network ...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:20hrs | 58 | by Staff reporter
Mukumbura rapist jailed 14 years
Bid to silence a 11-year-old with 50 Mozambician meticals hit a brick wall after the victim reported the matter to the police and got the rapist jailed....Published: 24 Apr 2022 at 06:13hrs | 645 | by Simbarashe Sithole
South Africa sentences Zimbabwean killer to two life sentences
A 32-year-old Zimbabwean man, Andrea Imbayarwo has been slapped with two life sentences by a South African High Court for raping and killing a British businesswoman in Thabazimbi in the Waterberg Dist...Published: 22 Apr 2022 at 13:21hrs | 1293 | by Staff Reporter
37 year old man rapes his 19 year old friend
The Zimbabwe Republic Police in Budiriro has reported that it has arrested a 37 year old man for rape after he sexually assaulted his 19 year old friend.According to the police, the suspect lu...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 17:24hrs | 2801 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Cops arrest rape, robbery, theft suspect
A man aged 32 has been arrested while hiding at a disused building near Magwegwe shopping centre for cases of rape, robbery and theft of copper cables.This was confirmed by Bulawayo police spo...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 16:37hrs | 982 | by Stephen Jakes
Marondera serial killer cases rise to 23
CHARGES against the Marondera serial rapist and killer have risen to 23 after Harare magistrate Yeukai Dzuda added three more counts of murder yesterday.Bright Zhantali (30) was remanded in cu...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:12hrs | 810 | by Staff reporter
Mashonaland man found guilty of raping, killing British lodge owner in SA after years on the run
A Zimbabwean national who attacked a retired British lodge owner at Rra-Ditau lodge in Thabazimbi, Limpopo was found guilty of rape and murder in the Limpopo High Court in Polokwane on Tuesday. ...Published: 19 Apr 2022 at 12:42hrs | 1793 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF candidate courts residents ire
RESIDENTS of Chitungwiza's ward 7, Zengeza West, allege that the Zanu-PF candidate for May 7 by-elections, Charamba Mlambo, is intimidating the electorate by marking people on the voters roll during d...Published: 19 Apr 2022 at 06:41hrs | 1036 | by Staff reporter
Bosso, Dembare light up 42nd Independence celebrations
ZIMBABWE turns 42 tomorrow, and the big party is in the City of Kings where football giants Dynamos and Highlanders clash in a potentially mouth-watering battle befitting the occasion.It's the...Published: 17 Apr 2022 at 09:07hrs | 38 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man goes on trial over rape and murder of British woman in SA
A man, who allegedly evaded police for years, is finally standing trial in the Polokwane High Court for the murder of a retired British teacher at her lodge in Thabazimbi, Limpopo.Andrea Imbay...Published: 14 Apr 2022 at 06:42hrs | 2052 | by Staff reporter
Bosso feel the love
THE last time eternal football rivals Dynamos and Highlanders faced-off in a local football cup final at the iconic Barbourfields Stadium was in November 2007 when the Harare giants earned an extra-ti...Published: 14 Apr 2022 at 06:32hrs | 183 | by Staff reporter
Botswana jails 3 Zimbabweans for rape, robbery
THREE Zimbabwean men are in Botswana's remand prison to answer robbery and rape charges.Desmond Khupe (19), Lucky Dube, (23) and Calvin Maphosa (43), who are all illegal migrants, were not ask...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 06:30hrs | 345 | by Staff reporter
Student teachers want corporal punishment back
THE Council of Student Teachers (COST) has called on Parliament to revisit the corporal punishment ban at school saying it is the major contributor to the rise in child delinquency.Corporal pu...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 17:02hrs | 823 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's 36-year-old farming project crippled by water shortages
IT is now 36 years since the farming project was formed at the Luveve Gam Plantation and still there is no water infrastructure to irrigate the crop...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 14:03hrs | 292 | by Stephen Jakes
Rapist jailed 17 years
A Concession man who raped a 10 year old girl at a banana plantation will curse the day he committed the crime as it earned him 17 years behind bars....Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 21:04hrs | 661 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa challenged to disband terror groups in Kwekwe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been challenged to disband terror groups in Kwekwe, stop giving impunity to perpetrators of politically motivated violence and halt the needless bloodshed, particularl...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 11:16hrs | 1110 | by Staff reporter
Trevor Ncube's dalliances with Mnangagwa run much deeper
This article on the mysterious and controversial relations between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and local publisher Trevor Ncube is a summary based on an extract from...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 09:22hrs | 2061 | by Jonathan Mbiriyamveka
Man (36) jailed 12 years for sodomizing boy (9)
A 36-YEAR-OLD sex starved man will spend 12 years behind bars after he sodomized a nine year old boy in Centenary during midnight....Published: 02 Apr 2022 at 21:13hrs | 827 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Man commits suicide over work-related dispute
A 19-YEAR-OLD Gokwe man died after consuming a pesticide following a misunderstanding with a workmate.Acting Midlands provincial police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Ethel Mukwende yesterda...Published: 02 Apr 2022 at 07:04hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records 3 000 cancer cases annually
CERVICAL cancer has become a major health concern among Zimbabwean women where an average of 3 000 cases are recorded each year, health experts have observed.Cervical cancer constitutes about ...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 08:49hrs | 80 | by Staff reporter
Kombi crew gang-rape passenger
Police are hunting for a Kombi driver and his conductor who gang-raped a passenger on Sunday in Harare.The police confirmed the sad incident on their Twitter handle."The ZRP is appeali...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 15:56hrs | 3764 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Blitz nets 45 000 unregistered cars
MORE than 45 100 motorists have so far been arrested for driving unregistered cars during the ongoing operation while over 1,6 million people were also nabbed countrywide for violating Covid-19 regula...Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 11:35hrs | 83 | by Staff reporter
Prosecutor faces fresh criminal charges
Principal public prosecutor Henry Muringani appeared in court yesterday on fresh charges of criminal abuse of office after he allegedly assisted four armed robbers prepare bail applications that resul...Published: 28 Mar 2022 at 06:43hrs | 159 | by Staff reporter
End of the road for Tsvangirai's MDC
D-DAY has arrived for the MDC brand, with the electorate expected to decide its fate, as analysts say the iconic party associated with the firebrand Morgan Tsvangirai may disappear into oblivion if it...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:38hrs | 5247 | by Staff reporter
Woman rapes 6 year old son
A 30-YEAR-OLD woman from Mpopoma, Bulawayo has appeared in court after she allegedly forced her six-year-old son to have sex with her.The woman, whose identity cannot be revealed to protect th...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:31hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
Man faces arrest for 7 counts of murder
Chief Negomo resident Bright Zhantali (30) was arrested on Saturday for allegedly murdering seven women on different counts.On first count 15 January Zhantali raped and choked Merc...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 11:53hrs | 1992 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Man rapes daughter (15) at knife-point, threatens not to pay school fees
A Man from Burnside Suburb appeared before Bulawayo Magistrates Court facing allegations of raping his15-year-old daughter at knife-point after threatening to stop paying her school fees.The m...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 10:33hrs | 1463 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa finally recognises Siwela's demand for Matabeleland to break away from Zimbabwe
MLO is happy to announce that the Zimbabwe President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, although still scared to engage MLO, has finally recognised our demand for Matabeleland to break away from Zimbabwe and restor...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 07:03hrs | 8201 | by Israel Dube
Chamisa activists eeks media censure over biased reporting
THE lawyers representing Joanah Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri have filed a formal complaint with the court over alleged biased reporting by the ZBC, Herald and comments by government spokesperson, Nick...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 06:40hrs | 396 | by Mukunda Chitova
4 men arrested for murdering man suspected of stealing gold
A Matobo man was allegedly murdered by four assailants on allegations of theft of three grams of gold at Kapara Mine in Matobo District.The suspects, Ellias Phiri (36), Luwine Pasikwane (33), ...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:43hrs | 140 | by Staff reporter
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