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Man hangs self after being denied sex
A 21-year-old man from Somabula communal farms on the outskirts of Gweru committed suicide by hanging, allegedly after he was denied conjugal rights by his 18-year-old wife.According to the lo...Published: 13 hrs ago | 2536 | by Staff reporter
Man commits suicide after allegedly killing wife
A GOKWE man who had been on the run after allegedly killing his wife last month has committed suicide by hanging himself in a police cell in Lupane where he had been detained after being arrested. ...Published: 23 hrs ago | 682 | by Staff reporter
Man commits suicide in police custody
A GOKWE man who had been on the run after allegedly killing his wife last month has committed suicide by hanging himself in a police cell in Lupane where he had been detained after being arrested....Published: 10 May 2021 at 17:26hrs | 1320 | by Staff reporter
Man kills self over inherited plates
Guruve based Josphat Zvitete committed suicide by hanging himself on a mango tree after a misunderstanding with his wife over inherited plates on Friday.Mashonaland Central deputy police spoke...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:07hrs | 625 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Guruve
Man locks family inside, petrol bombs house
A 42-year-old Gweru man handed himself to the police after locking seven family members, including his wife and kids, in a house before petrol-bombing it after a domestic dispute. Midlands pro...Published: 08 May 2021 at 07:59hrs | 283 | by Staff reporter
Boy (12) hangs himself
A 12-YEAR-OLD boy from Bulawayo's Pumula South suburb last week hanged himself while on his way to school.The boy, identified as Owami Mabhena, was going to school with his nine-year-old broth...Published: 02 May 2021 at 09:22hrs | 884 | by Staff reporter
Woman kills self after suspecting hubby of cheating
A Mudhindo, Guruve woman Melisa Murehwa (20) took her life by poisoning after she suspected her husband of cheating.Mashonaland Central deputy police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Naison Dh...Published: 02 May 2021 at 08:24hrs | 574 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Shava demands US$100,000 to assume ministerial duty
NEWLY-APPOINTED Foreign Affairs and International Trade minister Frederick Shava refused to assume duty for over a month after taking oath of office, demanding payment of about US$100 000 he was owed ...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 07:28hrs | 10253 | by Staff reporter
Killer potholes in Bulawayo
MOTORISTS in Bulawayo have called for urgent action on pothole-riddled roads that continue to cause fatal accidents in the city. Motorists approaching potholes are sometimes forced to swerve i...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 06:32hrs | 1440 | by Staff Reporter
13-year-old boy hangs self
A 13-YEAR-OLD boy from Maphisa, Matobo District in Matabeleland South was found hanging from a tree branch after going missing for five days. Busisa Lunga left home on April 11 around 4PM to r...Published: 19 Apr 2021 at 06:11hrs | 1151 | by Staff reporter
Cop pips head with bullet in shock suicide
A JUNIOR police officer stationed at Ruda police in Hauna, Mutasa district shot and killed himself with an FN Rifle while on duty.Police confirmed the incident and said investigations were in ...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 07:35hrs | 714 | by Staff reporter
Teen mum throws baby into croc-infested river
IN an incident that has shocked villagers, a teen mother from Nyevedzanai Village in Chivi District, Masvingo Province allegedly threw her two-year-old baby into the crocodile-infested Tugwi River fol...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 06:13hrs | 653 | by Staff reporter
Man commits suicide at in-laws' homestead
A 40-YEAR-OLD Mutoko man committed suicide at his in-laws' homestead on April 2 following a domestic dispute.Mike Diki of Hoyuyu village was found hanging from a tree by his mother-in-law Alic...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 07:10hrs | 2295 | by Staff reporter
Harare says 'Mozambican crisis a regional question'
ZIMBABWE will not individually deploy troops in northern Mozambique to fend off Islamic insurgents who have killed more than 2 500 people and displaced 700 000 others in the country, the government sa...Published: 03 Apr 2021 at 14:49hrs | 801 | by Staff reporter
Police deploy at crime hotspots
POLICE have been deployed at different crime hotspots across the country to deal with escalating cases of armed robbery, assault and suicide, Home Affairs deputy minister Ruth Maboyi has said....Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 18:26hrs | 1183 | by Staff reporter
Parents abroad demand that their children do law and medicine
A career is medicine is stressful enough for the doctors who see it as a calling. For those who do it because their parents forced them, it could be critical and indeed it becomes a punishment. Tradit...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 07:28hrs | 801 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
U.S.-based Zimbabwean man pounded wife with hammer, set family house on fire
A Zimbabwean man faces a lengthy jail sentence in the United States after allegedly pounding his wife with a hammer and setting his family house on fire in a possible murder-suicide attempt.Go...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 19:12hrs | 1705 | by Staff reporter
2023 increasingly looks like a lost cause for Zimbabwe opposition
POLITICAL analysts have warned that the country's opposition, and especially the MDC Alliance, risks being decimated completely ahead of the 2023 elections - unless it changes its modus operandi....Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 15:40hrs | 1342 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF welcomes former MDC bigwigs
TOUGH-TALKING MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti and five other legislators have been recalled from Parliament by their People's Democratic Party (PDP).At the same time, two former senior...Published: 18 Mar 2021 at 17:34hrs | 2101 | by Staff reporter
Biti stare threat of being recalled from Parliament
THE tendency by Zimbabwe's ever brawling opposition parties to self-destruct continues unabated, with key MDC Alliance constituent, the People's Democratic Party (PDP), at the centre of the latest suc...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 15:45hrs | 4014 | by Staff reporter
13-year-old boy commits suicide
A 13-YEAR-OLD boy from Mushumbi Pools committed suicide after a misunderstanding with his 21-year-old sister over washing powder.Mashonaland Central police spokesperson Inspector Milton Mundem...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:30hrs | 2909 | by Staff reporter
Patient commits suicide at Hospital
POLICE in Marondera have launched a probe into a suspected suicide incident which occurred at Mahusekwa District Hospital on Tuesday this week, involving a female patient.NewsDay heard that on...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 06:06hrs | 1068 | by Staff reporter
Teacher’s body found hanging from tree
THE body of a teacher in Silobela was found hanging from a tree in a suspected murder case. Mtandazo Moyo (52), of Simana Village under Chief Malisa, a teacher at Simana Primary School was fou...Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 20:31hrs | 4163 | by Staff reporter
Man (61), hangs self over cow sex shame
A MAN from Binga could not stomach the shame of being caught by his wife while committing bestiality with a cow and later committed suicide while the hapless wife watched in horror.So traumati...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:45hrs | 693 | by Staff reporter
Village head killed by police after armed robbery
Matembudze Village head Marxwell Matembudze was shot dead by the police at his home in Ward 23, Chief Nyakunuwa area in Zaka after he resisted arrest.Matembudze was among five suspected robber...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 06:41hrs | 4224 | by Staff reporter
Man forces girlfriend to drink poison, kills self
A FORMER Midlands State University (MSU) student died after she was forced to drink poison by her boyfriend, a money changer, who then committed suicide by drinking the same poison in a fight over all...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 06:48hrs | 2067 | by Staff reporter
Fred Shava's criminal past clouds future
NEWLY-appointed Zimbabwean Foreign Affairs and International Trade minister Frederick Shava, who has an unsavoury dark and criminal past, has his work cut out for him.Shava replaced retired Lieute...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:53hrs | 704 | by Staff reporter
Geoff Nyarota revisits Willowgate scandal
I WAS at the time two months short of 38 years of age and a little-known editor of The Chronicle, the Bulawayo-based daily newspaper.In a building in our neighbourhood in central Bulawayo was ...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:49hrs | 1317 | by Geoff Nyarota
Bulawayo man hangs self over mounting debts
A BULAWAYO man hanged himself on Tuesday over mounting debts which he claimed in his suicide note had sunk him into abject poverty.Provincial police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube yeste...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:43hrs | 898 | by Staff reporter
Man dives into wheels of a moving truck
A KAROI man decided to end his life tragically Thursday after diving into the wheels of a trailer which was being towed by a moving haulage truck.The now deceased was identified as Jameson Tal...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:41hrs | 1250 | by Staff reporter
The trouble with ruinous advisers
IT HAS been painful to watch over the past few days the desperation with which the small cast of know-it-alls, that is contributing so much to the country's toxic politics, has been attacking talk abo...Published: 08 Feb 2021 at 05:55hrs | 3742 | by Staff reporter
Girlfriend killer found hanging
A kombi driver who allegedly killed his girlfriend is said to have committed suicide near Esigodini Tollgate, just a few kilometres from his Mlomolihotho rural home in Mawabeni. Melinkosi Moyo...Published: 04 Feb 2021 at 05:56hrs | 4151 | by Staff reporter
Wife basher stabs spouse to death, hangs self
An abusive husband from Fort Rixon, Matabeleland South province, allegedly stabbed his wife to death before committing suicide by hanging after she pressed domestic violence charges against him, polic...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:18hrs | 706 | by Staff reporter
Mediclinic justifies ties to apartheid era 'Dr Death'
Private hospital group Mediclinic South Africa has come under fire after it emerged that Dr. Wouter Basson is still practicing at its Cape facilities.Dr. Wouter Basson was the mastermind behin...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 17:02hrs | 879 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo fights 'false' rape allegations by modelling agency boss
Former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo on Monday pushed back against "false and outrageous" allegations that he raped a former model and beauty pageant organiser over a decade ago.State media r...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 17:53hrs | 3496 | by Staff reporter
Grandpa (73) slices privates in suicide bid
THE word suicide or death is not just scary, but too morbid to even imagine or think about.Having been a widower for the past 19 years and depending on his 34-year-old son and daughter-in-law ...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 15:10hrs | 1236 | by Staff reporter
MDC implosion sets back the struggle for change
Zimbabwe is stuck in mud. People of my generation were in their late 20s or early 30s when Zimbabwe attained independence in 1980. Those fortunate to be still alive are now elderly and on the cusp to ...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 08:00hrs | 1293 | by Tendai Dumbutshena
Man hangs self in bedroom
Villagers of Jeki 1, Centenary were left shell-shocked after a 39-Year-Old man hung himself with a cloth on Thursday morning after his wife we...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 08:30hrs | 3002 | by Simbarashe Sithole/Lloyd Rabaya
Woman kills hubby, daughter over New Year's Eve gig, commits suicide
Florance Notito of Tavamo village under Chief Neshuro in Mwenezi East killed herself moments after allegedly using two axes to kill her husband Simbarashe Butete and their two-year-old baby girl, Tell...Published: 02 Jan 2021 at 13:51hrs | 1440 | by Staff reporter
The bittersweet toxicity of the new media
In 1982, when Steve Jobs was asked if he was keen on doing market research, he said, "No, because customers don't know what they want until we have shown them." His instincts, whether good-natured or ...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 19:38hrs | 571 | by Mandlenkosi Siziba
Man commits suicide in front of son
A 29-year-old Pumula South man committed suicide by hanging himself from a roof truss in front of his three-year-old son, police have said. Neighbours were awakened by the screaming boy who was found ...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 07:24hrs | 1043 | by Staff reporter
Money for pregnant schoolgirls out soon
The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has said it will soon start providing money to enable pregnant girls to continue with their education after Treasury allocated $123 million for the prog...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 23:23hrs | 1000 | by Staff Reporter
Polygamous man beheads wife, commits
A MAN from Dekezi area in Filabusi under Chief Sibasa went berserk beheading one of his three wives after he found her having sex with a local herdman.Zama Mafu, allegedly beheaded his wife wi...Published: 12 Dec 2020 at 06:59hrs | 1478 | by Staff reporter
Man fatally assaults ex-wife's grandmother
A 40-year-old man from Mvurwi fatally assaulted his ex-wife's grandmother (71) with a log after accusing her of bewitching his son and later committed suicide by drowning himself. A few days a...Published: 12 Dec 2020 at 06:45hrs | 748 | by Staff reporter
Man finds wife pants down with neighbour, chops of her head
A 55-YEAR-OLD Filabusi man went berserk and allegedly axed his wife (34) to death before committing suicide by drinking a pesticide. Mr Zama Mafu of Sidingimpilo Village under Chief Maduna had...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 06:15hrs | 4182 | by Staff reporter
Man flees home after scissors attack
A man who bust his wife with her boss while getting cosy in a secluded area, is in a prickly situation after he later fled home stark naked when his wife tried to stab him with a pair of scissors whil...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 05:53hrs | 699 | by Staff reporter
Businessman commits suicide?
PROMINENT Bulawayo businessman and Stingrays Swimming Club coach Eddie Cyprianos has died.Information surrounding his death remain sketchy, but his body was reportedly found in the Matobo area...Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 16:59hrs | 2325 | by Staff reporter
Man bashes mother-in-law to death, commits suicide
A 40-YEAR-OLD Mvurwi man allegedly went berserk and assaulted his mother in law with a log to death before throwing himself in a dam days after she died.Previous Mereki accused his mother in l...Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 15:27hrs | 1463 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Man hangs self over wife's infidelity
A 27-YEAR-OLD Mvurwi man hanged himself at a Johane Masowe shrine after suspecting that his wife was cheating on him. Kudakwashe Muchabaiwa's body was discovered at the shrine at the weekend b...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 23:16hrs | 615 | by Staff reporter
Man commits suicide over son's health
A 51-YEAR-OLD Muzarabani man hanged himself last week after his son suffered a stroke.Steven Mafa of Gundura village was found hanging in his hut after he alerted his friends that he wanted to...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:11hrs | 816 | by Staff reporter
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