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Stepmother failed for killing stepson and staging suicide
A 17-year-old stepmother has been sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for three years, for the murder of her 13-year-old stepson. The young woman, whose identity is being withheld to protect h...Published: 17 Sep 2024 at 06:51hrs | 1558 | by Staff reporter
Stepmother in court for child abuse
A 21-year-old woman from Cowdray Park, Bulawayo, has been accused of repeatedly assaulting her 10-year-old stepson and denying him food. The charges against her include i...Published: 19 Aug 2024 at 07:08hrs | 601 | by Staff reporter
Stepson bashes stepdad
Denzel Cement, a 21-year-old from Saursetown in Bulawayo, has been accused of assaulting his stepfather, Obert Cement (44), after a heated argument. Denzel allegedly slapped Obert and then stabbed him...Published: 20 Jul 2024 at 12:06hrs | 428 | by Staff reporter
Widow fights eviction from stepsons
AN ELDERLY Harare woman was yesterday granted a protection order against her two stepsons who wanted to evict her from the family house after learning that she had been omitted in their deceased fathe...Published: 06 Jan 2024 at 08:43hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Woman in brutal attack on stepson
IN a shocking incident a 48-year-old woman from Matikiti Village in Inyathi, Matebeleland North province appeared in court, facing charges of brutally assaulting her 14-year-old stepson with a broomst...Published: 27 Oct 2023 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Matiza's widow in estate wrangle
THE High Court has dismissed an application by the late Transport minister Biggie Matiza's widow, Lillian, who was seeking to sideline his 34-year-old son from benefiting from his estate.Lilli...Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Savanhu's widow in court for assault
THE widow of the late Zanu-PF politburo member Tendai Savanhu, who is accused of assaulting her stepson in a wrangle over her late husband's estate, has denied the accusation saying the two have never...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman kills stepson (3)
A Bulawayo woman has been arrested for killing her stepson (3) through suspected food poisoning and physical abuse. Bulawayo Provincial Police Spokesperson Abednico Ncube confirmed...Published: 14 Mar 2022 at 07:49hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Teen fatally stabs stepfather
An 18-year-old man from Charandura communal lands under Chief Hama in Chirumanzi has gone into hiding after he fatally stabbed his stepfather with an okapi knife when he returned hours after the two h...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman hammers stepson on knees
A 30-year-old woman appeared in court last week on allegations of assaulting her five-year-old stepson with a hammer on his knees, accusing him of gossiping with his sister.Loice Maga of Kuwad...Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 05:41hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Son knifes mum in domestic dispute
A ROWDY 14-year-old stepson allegedly grabbed his stepmum by the neck before plunging an Okapi knife into her back and hand after she scolded him for coming home late.The unfortunate stepmothe...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 06:49hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Man rapes daughter-in-law
A Glendale based stepfather raped his stepson's wife after she turned down his love proposal.Tavengwa Kokera (47) was sentenced to 16 years in jail yesterday by Bindura regional magistrate Est...Published: 28 Oct 2021 at 19:04hrs | 7 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Man whips toddler to death for wetting blankets
A MAN from Dete in Hwange District has been arrested after he allegedly whipped his three-year-old stepson to death accusing him of wetting blankets.Nkatazo Penga (38) of Gulalembila Village u...Published: 07 Oct 2021 at 07:02hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Boy (13) stabs dad for ditching mum
A KWEKWE man is battling for life in hospital after his 13-year-old stepson stabbed him on the chest for ending his relationship with the boy's mother. Absolom Muzanharo was rushed to Gweru Pr...Published: 12 Jul 2021 at 07:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Stepmom scalds 9-year-old boy with cooking oil for 'stealing' maize
A 29-year-old woman from Gokwe scalded her stepson, 9, with cooking oil for allegedly stealing maize grain, and then denied her medical treatment fearing her abuse would come to light, police said....Published: 27 May 2021 at 07:42hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
75 year old man kills girlfriend
A 75-year-old man from the Whunga area in Beitbridge West went berserk and hacked his live in girlified (57) to death with a machete and an axe following an argument. Sitoboli Maluko killed Vi...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 06:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Woman 'strangles' stepson to death
A Redcliff woman allegedly strangled her six-year-old stepson to death and locked his eight-year-old sister in a bedroom that she tried to set on fire so that she could inherit her husband's house. ...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 06:44hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Stepdad caught pants down with daughter-in-law
A MAN from Horongondo Village in Gokwe has been dragged to Chief Mkoka's traditional court after he was caught indulging in sex with his daughter-in-law.A family insider, who spoke to B-Metro ...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 05:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man kills stepson over $50 airtime
A CHITUNGWIZA man has been arrested for smashing and killing his 11-year-old stepson with a hammer after the boy mistakenly bought $50 airtime instead of $20.Owen Nyamukachi allegedly grabbed ...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 20:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Stepson axes 'abusive' father
A stepson based in Mvurwi axed his father once on the head with whom he accused of abusing his mother.The matter came to light at Bindura magistrates courts yesterday where Mighty Tembo was se...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 08:10hrs | 6 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Man beats 1-yr-old stepson to death, secretly bury body in anthill
A LUPANE man allegedly whipped his 18-month-old stepson to death and connived with the boy's mother to conceal the death by secretly burying the body in an anthill.Saviours Ncube (22) and his ...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chaos in Zvinavashe estate
The High Court has lamented the absence of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms in the estate of the late former Commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, Vitalis Musungwa Zvinavashe, whose widow...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Widow, stepson lock horns over Zvinavashe estate
The wrangle over the estate of the late national hero Retired General Vitalis Musungwa Zvinavashe continues more than 10 years after his death. The surviving spouse, Margaret Zvinavashe (nee M...Published: 29 May 2019 at 07:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
How Chamisa and Mwonzora handed Zanu-PF Bulawayo by-election win
Nelson Chamisa blamed the party's shock defeat in a council by-election in Bulawayo on an "invisible hand" which he vowed to "cut off".The MDC lost the ward 28 by-election in the suburb of Cow...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 08:27hrs | 1 | by ZimLive
Property damaged in stepson's rampage
A 22-YEAR-OLD man from Bulawayo has appeared in court for maliciously damaging his stepmother's property claiming it is his inheritance. Mncedisi Mpofu appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Mr F...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 23:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The White Man who sent fear down Mugabe's spine
Canadian mining company Falconbridge Inc. had a big problem in Zimbabwe during the Gukurahundi disturbances in the early 1980s.Its operations in war-torn Zimbabwe were in chaos. ZIPRA rebels o...Published: 20 Oct 2018 at 09:08hrs | | by Globe and Mail
Man fatally assaults stepson (4) for soiling his clothes
A 35-year-old man fatally assaulted his four-year-old stepson with a stick last Tuesday after he soiled his clothes with mud. Manicaland police spokesperson Inspector Tavhiringwa Kakohwa confi...Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gift Banda accused of playing kingmaker
BULAWAYO Deputy Mayor, Councillor Gift Banda, has been accused of trying to play 'kingmaker' in the MDC-T primary elections in the city.Clr Banda is accused of using his position as the party'...Published: 25 May 2018 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T councillor arrested
BULAWAYO City Councillor, Collet Ndhlovu (MDC-T), has been arrested for political violence.Clr Ndhlovu, who is the councillor for Ward 29 in Cowdray Park, was arrested on Monday.Bulawa...Published: 23 May 2018 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Violence mars MDC-T primaries
PRIMARY elections held by the MDC-T faction led by Mr Nelson Chamisa over the weekend were marred by violence in most parts of the country as members traded accusations of imposition of candidates and...Published: 22 May 2018 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kambarami beat Bulawayo Mayor in MDC-T primaries
MDC-T primary elections brewed a shocker in Bulawayo yesterday after the city's Mayor, Councillor Martin Moyo lost to little known Mr Tinashe Kambarami to represent the party in Ward 3.Clr Moy...Published: 20 May 2018 at 09:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man refuses to take in wife's son
THE gallery at the Bulawayo magistrates' court was left in stitches when an elderly man refused to have his stepson released into his custody pending trial for allegedly fondling his 15-year-old daugh...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 07:00hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
Chamisa's Bulawayo candidates list out
MORE than 180 individuals from the Advocate Nelson Chamisa-led MDC-T faction in Bulawayo have submitted their names for consideration to represent the party whose ego has been seriously dented by a sp...Published: 08 Apr 2018 at 09:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
4 die in 'murder & poisoning'
A 38-YEAR-OLD man from Emthunzini suburb in Bulawayo died in his sleep following a beer drinking spree after going to bed having said he had been involved in a fight while three family members died an...Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 05:58hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's sons face arrest
Former president Robert Mugabe's sons Bellarmine Chatunga and Robert Junior, stepson Russell Goreraza and son-in-law Simba Chikore and leading political figures face imminent arrest after it emerged t...Published: 05 Jan 2018 at 15:15hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Woman buried in two coffins as her body kept ballooning
EVER thought of being buried in two coffins?Bereaved family members and friends of a Tsholotsho woman who was killed by her stepson last week had a torrid time at the mortuary as the body, whi...Published: 22 Sep 2017 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pastor warns Mugabe of God's wrath
Zimbabwean cleric Evans Mawarire of #ThisFlag campaign has said government authorities would have killed him to silence him but declares that he will not stop talking against the socio-economic ills f...Published: 21 Sep 2017 at 13:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman feared being raped by her stepson
A woman from Bulawayo's Nkulumane 12 had no peace in her life as she feared being raped by her stepson who was now in the habit of just entering her bedroom without giving much consideration to whethe...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 19:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unwrapped pounding letter to Andile Mngxitama
Dear stepson of Zupta - Andile MngxitamaI'm drafting this letter just a few days before the sixth anniversary of the brutal death of service delivery mytyr – Andries ...Published: 11 Apr 2017 at 22:15hrs | | by Mbahare Johannes Joe Kekana
Man gets 8 years in jail for killing four-year-old stepson
A MAN from Umguza who indiscriminately assaulted his ailing four-year-old stepson to death for visiting his uncle at night, has been sentenced to eight years in jail.Khumbulani Sibanda (30) of...Published: 01 Apr 2017 at 08:32hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Row over eggs, man crushes son's head with battery
A MAN from Nkayi, who punched his stepson twice on the cheek before crushing his head with a 12 volt battery after the boy cooked some eggs without his approval has been jailed for 35 years....Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 11:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man brutally murder stepson over eggs, jailed 35 years
A MAN from Nkayi, Gift Ngwenya aged 44 has been jailed for 35 years for brutally murdering his step son by crushing his head with a 12 volt battery weighing 7,4kgs after the boy cooked some...Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 04:54hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Man assault stepfather over public sex with mother
A 72 YEAR old step father in Bulilima got a lashing from his stepson for repeatedly having sex with his mother in full view of his young nephews and nieces.Tshido Ndebel...Published: 17 Mar 2017 at 06:08hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
PICTURE: Woman gouges out stepson's eyes
A 4-year-old boy believed to be from Masvingo had his eyes allegedly gouged out by his step mother over bed-wetting.According to a WhatsApp message sent to Bulawayo24.com, it is alleged that t...Published: 15 Mar 2017 at 05:59hrs | | by Citizen reporter
Gokwe man asks son to bed step-mother
A man from Marumisa Village under Chief Nemangwe in Gokwe, Midrof Zeve's 4-5 could not rise to the occasion and he passed his wife Kerida Zvikano on to his relatives to sexually satisfy her, B-Me...Published: 14 Mar 2017 at 10:03hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
Chigumbu Warikandwa should be shamboked to pulp for violating the rights of children!
We should start with you Chigumbu Warikandwa, you must be threshed to pulp for violating the rights of children and women. Your ideas have no room in our civilized society. It is for this reason that ...Published: 11 Mar 2017 at 14:52hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Man whips stepson to death
A MAN from Umguza who allegedly killed his four-year-old stepson has been referred to the High Court for trial.Khumbulani Sibanda (31) allegedly assaulted his stepson, whose name was not d...Published: 11 Mar 2017 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man asks son to bed mum
GIVE it a shot son!A man from Marumisa Village under Chief Nemangwe in Gokwe, Midrof Zeve's 4-5 could not rise to the occasion and he passed his wife Kerida Zvikano on to his relatives to sexu...Published: 10 Mar 2017 at 11:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man kills wife, stepson and uses wire to hang self over infidelity
A MAN from Chivi allegedly butchered his wife and one-year-old stepson before hanging himself in a locked bedroom following a row over infidelity, police confirmed yesterday.Three bodies b...Published: 14 Feb 2017 at 05:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dad ties son to tree, sjamboks him
A MAN from Bulilima who tied his five-year-old stepson to a tree and severely assaulted him using a stick until he sustained injuries all over the body has been sentenced to 36 months in prison....Published: 12 Feb 2017 at 09:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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