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Man bashes wife over her income, property
A Mbare woman received legal protection from her allegedly abusive husband today after a Harare Civil Court granted her a protection order, bringing a temporary sense of relief to what she described a...Published: 29 May 2025 at 10:14hrs | 186 | by Staff reporter
Man jailed for assaulting pregnant wife
An abusive husband was dragged to court after he assaulted his four-month-pregnant wife with open hands, booted feet and clenched fists.Bhirivisi Special (36) appeared before magistrate Joshua...Published: 26 Feb 2025 at 15:40hrs | 583 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Did Mtukudzi speak his troubled life in song?
"TATSAUKA pano nekuti paita Tuku, (We passed by because you are playing Tuku music)" my late brother Johannes and his friend Evaristo Chiwara once told merrymakers in Rimuka, Kadoma, in the late 1990s...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 09:03hrs | 3619 | by Moses Chibaya
Mistress steals wife's underwear
IN an incident that highlights the pain and betrayal that can occur in a relationship Thandanani Hobane of New Lobengula suburb in Bulawayo was left hurt and scared after her husband's mistress who is...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 07:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man bashes pregnant wife
A Plumtree based man was sent to prison on Friday after he assaulted his pregnant wife accusing her of having an extra marital affair.R...Published: 02 Dec 2023 at 10:12hrs | 11 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Surely, does ZANU PF need 100 years to build electricity infrastructure?
ZANU PF never ceases to amaze! Always full of excuses - some just incredible, others pure madness, whilst there are downright stupid!I always say to myself, 'if ZANU PF had been a man,...Published: 13 Dec 2022 at 14:13hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Look out for Madlela on Amanxeba drama series
WHENEVER the word Madlela Skhobokhobo is mentioned, many, if not all of us think of a comic character known for funny skits and Rhumba songs.That is set to change as the 50 du! singer is set t...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 18:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'I killed my abusive husband in self-defence'
A woman from Bulawayo who was jailed 18 years for stabbing to death her husband, keeping the body for two days before dousing it with paraffin and burning it to conceal evidence in 2016 still insists ...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 09:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man threatens wife with death
A WOMAN from Cowdray Park suburb is living in fear of being killed by her abusive husband who is always threatening to kill her.He at times undresses her and thrashes her with a rope.A...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 05:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Woman undresses hubby in court
FED up with being a punching bag, a Bulawayo woman went to court for protection but went further and embarrassed her husband when she revealed that he beats her up because he is weak in bed.Ta...Published: 31 Dec 2021 at 07:27hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Woman begs court to jail abusive husband
An abusive Zimbabwean man who struck his wife on the head with a sharp weapon suspected to be an axe is languishing in a Botswana remand prison after his wife asked a court to jail him.Accordi...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Harrowing murders by Zimbabweans in Diaspora
ENGLAND does not change people but it brings out what people were hiding all along. In five years I've been here, 30 Zimbabweans have become uxoricides. Uxoricide (from Latin uxor meaning "wife" and -...Published: 05 Jun 2021 at 09:13hrs | 9 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Police officer 'rapes' breastfeeding GBV victim
A JUNIOR police officer has been arrested for allegedly raping a 30-year-old breastfeeding woman who had gone to the police station to report a gender-based violence (GBV) case.Constable Shake...Published: 30 May 2021 at 09:08hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Man bashes 'bad cook' wife
A woman who has been physically and verbally abused by her husband for being a bad cook has rushed to the courts to seek a protection order.Loraine Dombo of Nketa 7 suburb in Bulawayo initiall...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 09:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
5 000 teens impregnated in two months
NEARLY 5 000 teenage girls got pregnant while close to 2 000 were married off in the first two months of the year, in what experts believe was a result of idleness and school closures caused by the Co...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
School girls pregnancy shocker
GOVERNMENT is agonising over spiking teenage pregnancies and marriages during Covid-19 lockdowns amid shocking revelations that a total of 7 000 girls were affected during the stringent January-Februa...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 07:50hrs | | 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 | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean women abused in the United Kingdom
SHE arrived in London from Zimbabwe last year to join her husband, she married in Harare. Makanaka was thrilled at the prospect of a new life in the UK.But soon after she moved in with...Published: 24 Mar 2019 at 06:27hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwean women abused in the United Kingdom
She arrived in London from Zimbabwe last year to join her husband, she married in Harare. Makanaka was thrilled at the prospect of a new life in the UK.But soon after she moved in with...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Married woman has 'sex' with lover in front of son (6)
A MARRIED woman from Bulawayo allegedly engages in extra-marital sex with her boyfriend in the presence of her six-year-old son. An official at Childline Zimbabwe, who declined to be named, ye...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 07:12hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Woman kills hubby, burn body
A WOMAN from Bulawayo who stabbed her husband, kept the body for two days before dousing it with paraffin and burning it to conceal evidence, has been slapped with a 18-year jail sentence.Lake...Published: 07 Jul 2018 at 09:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
18 years for woman who killed hubby, burned body
A WOMAN from Bulawayo who stabbed her husband, kept the body for two days before dousing it with paraffin and burning it to conceal evidence, has been slapped with a 18-year jail sentence.Lake...Published: 07 Jul 2018 at 08:14hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Husband killer stashed corpse for two days
A 25-year-old Bulawayo woman who stabbed her husband following an adultery dispute says she kept the corpse for two days before dousing it with paraffin and burning it to conceal evidence as she was i...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
Jukwa threatens to kill wife
A GWANDA woman has been granted a protection order against her abusive husband who was in the habit of locking her outside their house while undressed in the middle of the night.Mrs Thalia Juk...Published: 14 Jun 2018 at 07:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man bans wife from wearing panties
HUBBY from hell!A Bulawayo woman was left with no choice, but to expose her abusive husband who does not want her to have underwear as he always tears them saying they were bought by her boyfr...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 07:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Loose organ' woman's fight heard in court
A Bulawayo woman complained that her abusive husband was degrading her dignity by telling their tenants that she was no longer appealing in bed because of her organ which was now "loose and wide open"...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 05:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ndebele monarchy more Zimbabwean than the presidency
I found the near hysterical rejection, if not paranoic repression, by the Zimbabwe government of the restoration of the Ndebele monarchy, both very flabbergasting and worrying.I might not be p...Published: 12 Mar 2018 at 08:58hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Woman with 'insatiable appetite for sex' cries foul
HE'S weak!A Lupane woman left the court in stitches when she brazenly said her husband has never taken her to the promised land – climax.Similo Moyo (34) made the stark revelations b...Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wife welcomes hubby's life jail term
A GOKWE woman whose husband killed her four siblings by torching the bedroom they were sleeping in, has welcomed a decision by the High Court to sentence him to life imprisonment.Bulawayo High...Published: 12 Feb 2018 at 05:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
She turned him down free touristic, free boarding in Germany: NUST Professor insults her hard!
A woman of 64 years, I have been officially pensioned beginning of January 2018 at the same time can continue working for another 5 years if I so wished. My age will inform that under normal circumsta...Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 07:29hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Wife 'murderer' threatens to kill daughter
The family of a Gweru woman who was allegedly murdered by her abusive husband, days after he had paid lobola, is living in fear after he threatened to come back and kill the couple's five year old dau...Published: 17 Jan 2018 at 06:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman dumps 'abusive husband' in court
A BULAWAYO woman yesterday opted out of her marriage in court, saying she no longer loved her husband.Ms Memory Mutanga (25) told the father of her three children, John Mazani (31) from Emganw...Published: 06 Dec 2017 at 05:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Drama after man kills self as angry neighbours bay for wife's blood
SCORES of irate residents in Sakubva's Mcgrecors section besieged an apartment in the neighbourhood Monday morning baying for the blood of a tenant whom they accused of forcing her husband to commit s...Published: 17 Nov 2017 at 08:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Woman begs to have abusive husband jailed
A 40-YEAR-OLD woman yesterday begged a court to jail her abusive husband for five years to allow her peace of mind.Ms Sibonile Nyoni of Lobengula was in tears when she pleaded with the court t...Published: 07 Sep 2017 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman drags abusive hubby to court for denying her sex
A 37-Year-Old Guruve woman approached Guruve court today seeking for protection order against her abusive husband whom she accuses of beating her up and denying her her conjugal rights.Antonet...Published: 17 Aug 2017 at 11:50hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Teacher hires private investigators to stalk wife
A TEACHER at a local private school has allegedly hired a private investigator to stalk his wife after she reportedly deserted their matrimonial home following a string of physical and verbal abuse....Published: 11 Aug 2017 at 07:32hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Soldier high on weed torments wife
Luv Yemsoja!A military husband and wife couple has been very explosive to a point that the latter reported her abusive husband to the police.Michelle Chitekuteku couldn't roll with the...Published: 14 Jul 2017 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe is nolonger the problem
While we bury our poverty stricken selves in trivia that doesn't amount to a bag of beans, the monster is showing no signs of retreat, remorse or weariness. In its reprobate mode, Zanu-PF is willing a...Published: 03 Jun 2017 at 14:09hrs | | by Patson Dzamara
Workers should be wary of being duped by employers
There is nothing more disheartening than when an unfairly treated and oppressed worker - who finally seeks and obtains pro bono legal assistance - suddenly develops cold feet, as a result of some flim...Published: 11 May 2017 at 10:17hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Desperation in Marriage-institutions: Zimbabwe is wholly conservative!
Some iconic Journalist Haru Mutasa questioned the desperation of Zimbabwean women in their quest for marriage on twitter: to say it verbatim: Minister Jonathan Moyo replied the good journalist: ...Published: 03 Apr 2017 at 09:08hrs | 6 | by Nomazulu Thata
Since all leaders are divinely appointed, why didn't Mugabe just pray for Ian Smith?
The ZANU PF government has always been in the blasphemous habit of hiding behind the Bible, in an attempt to protect its leader President Robert Gabriel Mugabe from public scrutiny - alleging that, si...Published: 18 Aug 2016 at 09:27hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Couple endures 10 sexless years
A HARARE woman was yesterday granted a protection order against her abusive husband of 27 years, 10 of which have been spent without sexual intercourse.In her application filed at the Hara...Published: 14 Jul 2016 at 07:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Woman seeks protection against abusive hubby
A Harare woman has approached the court seeking a protection order against her abusive husband.Rambisai Myamadzara told the court that her husband abused her physical, emotional, econom...Published: 23 Jun 2016 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Man accuses wife of 'locking' his penis
A Harare man, Trymore Mangeza, has accused his wife of two years of using juju to "lock" his manhood in a bid to stop him from having extra-marital sex.Mangeza told a Civil Court on Tuesay whi...Published: 04 May 2016 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Secret to Mugabe's 35 years plus in power - both party and government are full of his subservient 'wives'!
Mugabe has turned a "jewel of Africa", as President Julius Nyerere called Zimbabwe back in 1980, into the basket case of failed state. Life expectancy, the universally accepted qualitative and quantit...Published: 17 Dec 2015 at 21:14hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Woman attempts to castrate abusive hubby with a chisel
A woman from Majuwe village in Nkayi made a spirited attempt to castrate her abusive husband with a chisel while he was sleeping.Thuba Moyo (43) claimed that she was tired of being turned into...Published: 06 Nov 2015 at 07:28hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Man takes ex-wife's panties, threaten to bewitch her
A GWANDA woman has been granted a protection order against her abusive husband, a famous tout, who took her undergarments and threatened to bewitch her using them.Fortunate Nare( 27) of Jahund...Published: 25 Oct 2015 at 07:12hrs | | by Marvelous Moyo
SA woman awaits deportation from Zimbabwe
A SOUTH African woman who was living in Zimbabwe illegally is awaiting deportation after she was arrested when she reported her abusive husband to the police.Siphokazi Nxazonke, 31, who has be...Published: 18 Aug 2015 at 10:02hrs | 1 | by Shamiso Dzingire
Crimes of passion claim 20 Zimbabweans in 6 months
More than 20 people were murdered in the last six months in cases involving crimes of passion.The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) said most of the victims were women who were killed at the...Published: 21 Jul 2015 at 08:58hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Woman jailed for killing abusive husband
A 48-year-old Insuza woman from Masai Village has been sentenced to 25 years behind bars for poisoning her "abusive" husband by lacing his beer with a potent garden pesticide, the Chronicle repo...Published: 11 Jul 2015 at 08:35hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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