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Nkayi chief taken to court over 'illegal' ruling
NKAYI traditional leader Chief Dakamela has been taken to the magistrates court by one of his subjects after he ordered that he be caned in public for assault.Tumelo Maphala was ordered to per...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teenage boy to be caned for sodomy
GWERU regional magistrate Pathekile Msipa has ordered a 13-year-old boy (name withheld) to receive three cane strokes at Whawha Prison for sodomising his family neighbour's three children aged nine, s...Published: 03 Nov 2018 at 09:18hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Boy (15) to be caned for rape
A 15-year-old teenager from Chitungwiza will be caned four strokes as corporal punishment at Harare Central Prison for raping a 3-year-old girl.The teenager was convicted by Chitungwiza Region...Published: 15 Feb 2018 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teen loses eye in 'father-in-law' assault
A 17-YEAR-OLD boy lost his eye after he was struck with an axe by a 72-year-old man who found him in his daughter's bedroom at midnight.Mr Makhathi Ndlovu, the village head of Sikhamazwi area ...Published: 28 Aug 2017 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
International Women's Day: Honour Violence in Zimbabwe
The irony of it all is that violence on children and women in our country is termed "honourable violence." The article written by Chigumbu Warikandwa causes great concern to all those who are mothers ...Published: 07 Mar 2017 at 16:36hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Corporal punishment outlawed in schools,homes
A Zimbabwean judge has today outlawed corporal punishment in schools and homes leaving school heads,teachers, parents and guardians used to applying physical pain on errant children in a quagmir...Published: 28 Feb 2017 at 10:54hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Juvenile caned for raping girl (4)
A 12 year old boy from Empumalanga in Hwange has been sentenced to 2 years wholly suspended for five years on condition of good behavior before being slapped with a two cuts with a ratten cane f...Published: 23 Jan 2017 at 04:03hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Pupil to be caned for theft of cash, groceries
A 16-YEAR-OLD Plumtree High School pupil will be caned for stealing $62 and grocery items worth $280 from three shops in the border town.The juvenile, who cannot be named for ethical reasons, ...Published: 05 Sep 2016 at 07:01hrs | | by Sukulwenkosi Dube-Matutu
Teacher beats pupil to death
A teacher at Kiserian Primary School in Kajiado North County, Kenya, has been arrested for killing his Class Six pupil.Daily Nation reported that Dickson Isidi allgedly killed 11-year-old Loic...Published: 27 May 2016 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Woman publicly caned for having affectionate contact with a man
Hundreds of people gathered to cheer as a woman was publicly caned in Indonesia for having affectionate contact with a man who was not her husband. According to ...Published: 30 Dec 2015 at 13:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Outlawing corporal punishment in schools, homes and prisons: Issues and challenges
I have been following with keen interest the debate and court case before the Constitutional Court on abolition of corporal punishment in prisons, homes and schools. Mr. Tendai Biti of Biti Law Chambe...Published: 14 Nov 2015 at 09:06hrs | | by Johanne Mhlanga
Pervert teacher lashed for abusing 18 girls
A Maun Primary teacher School who was convicted of sexually molesting 18 students has been sentenced to three years imprisonment and 18 lashes of cane.The 38-year-old, standard three and four ...Published: 04 Sep 2015 at 09:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans caned in Botswana for illegal entry
A group of Zimbabwean men sustained severe injuries after they were caned on the orders of a chief in Botswana for entering that country illegally.The nine men said they were forced to undress...Published: 06 Jul 2015 at 07:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Botswana chief flogs Zimbabweans
A GROUP of Zimbabwean men sustained severe injuries after they were flogged by a chief in Botswana for entering the neighbouring country illegally.The nine men, who said they were forced to un...Published: 03 Jul 2015 at 08:29hrs | | by Sukulwenkosi Dube
School pupils allegedly caught smoking cannabis
A number of boys and girls learning at Donkwedonkwe Secondary School in Matobo area were reportedly found smoking cannabis close to the school a development which prompted the school author...Published: 12 Mar 2015 at 05:53hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Living in dread of sex, cellphones
Zimbabwe is fast hurtling into a state of anarchy. The desire to appear modern, democratic and progressive appears to have been hijacked by nihilistic, iconoclastic forces whose sinister agenda is ye...Published: 08 Feb 2015 at 10:53hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
Outlawing juvenile corporal punishment not a good idea, says senior magistrate
A senior Masvingo magistrate yesterday warned of dire consequences for the justice system following the outlawing of corporal punishment for juvenile offenders.Regional magistrate Colet Ncube said the...Published: 02 Feb 2015 at 06:03hrs | | by Walter Mswazie Masvingo
Zimbabwe cannot afford to do away with juvenile corporal punishment
A senior Masvingo magistrate yesterday warned of dire consequences for the justice system following the outlawing of corporal punishment for juvenile offenders.Regional magistrate Colet Ncube ...Published: 31 Jan 2015 at 10:51hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
Is corporal punishment really bad for juveniles?
Last Friday, I read with trepidation the High Court declaration that corporal punishment or caning of children is now unconstitutional.In her review ruling, in a case involving a 15 year...Published: 17 Jan 2015 at 16:18hrs | | by John Gambanga
Court jails Zimbabwean exam cheat
A Zimbabwean court has jailed for nine months a man who bought a leaked school-leavers' exam paper for his brother, in the wake of a major paper leak scandal that will see hundreds of thousands o...Published: 13 Nov 2014 at 09:00hrs | | by SAPA
Drunk pupils thoroughly bash Maths teacher
TWO highly intoxicated pupils from Good Hope College in Pumula South reportedly shocked their school mates when they thoroughly bashed their Maths teacher after he tried to restrain them from figh...Published: 21 Oct 2014 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
This and that with Mal'phosa - Izali Beula i-Sewula
A wise man one said a doctor's mistake is buried under ground while a teacher's mistake roams the streets. Having experienced both worlds as a health worker and a teacher, I would say the teacher ...Published: 27 Jul 2014 at 18:38hrs | | by Clerk Ndlovu
Teen to be caned for raping cousin, 11
A 15-year-old boy from Zvishavane will receive four strokes with a rattan cane after he was found guilty of raping his 11-year-old mentally retarded cousin on three occasions. The boy (name wi...Published: 21 Jul 2014 at 07:05hrs | | by Bhuzwani Moyo
HIV+ boy (15) rapes baby
A 15-YEAR-OLD HIV-positive boy has been convicted for a sickening sexual attack on his brother's three-month-old baby girl in the Greenspan resettlement area in Mberengwa in December 2013.The ...Published: 29 May 2014 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans whipped at a Botswana customary court
Two Zimbabwean men who were recently arrested in Gaborone West sobbed like babies as they were being caned at the Old Naledi customary court after being convicted of "intention to commit crime"....Published: 06 May 2013 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hubby 'once beat me up when I was six months pregnant' court told
Lagos, Nigeria - A 46-year-old Nigerian man on Wednesday told the court he beat up his wife when he discovered a text message on her phone from another man about the good time they had together....Published: 21 Mar 2013 at 04:33hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Soldier fatally assaulted for stealing alcohol worth $5
A manager with OK Supermarket and his internal security officer have been arrested in connection with the murder of a soldier they accused of stealing caned spirit worth US$5. Blandina Nyarota...Published: 28 Feb 2013 at 21:40hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Teen (17) to be caned for Facebook c=slur
Harare - A court in Zimbabwe has sentenced a 17-year-old boy to be caned after he posted a picture of a woman on Facebook with a caption that called her a prostitute, state media said on Monday....Published: 20 Feb 2012 at 07:52hrs | | by AFP
Woman baptise hubby and maid with her urine after hubby impregnates maid
A Chinotimba woman allegedly manhandled her husband and her domestic worker before pouring her own urine on them after discovering that her husband had impregnated her. The incident, which is now the ...Published: 10 Jan 2012 at 09:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
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