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Kuda Mahachi ordered to pay child maintenance
Former Warriors and SuperSport United winger Kudakwashe Mahachi has been ordered to pay monthly child support after his ex-wife, Marita Ndlovu, hauled him before the courts for allegedly neglecting th...Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 12:17hrs | 442 | by Staff reporter
Former ZIFA President faces maintenance lawsuit
Former ZIFA president, Gift Banda, is embroiled in a maintenance dispute after being accused by a South Africa-based Zimbabwean woman, Kholiwe Sitshoni, of failing to fulfill his parental responsibili...Published: 25 Feb 2025 at 07:00hrs | 815 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP to pay only US$50 for child support
A Zanu-PF lawmaker offered US$20 for child support, citing financial strain from heavy investment in his 2023 election campaigns.Tsungai Makumbe, the legislator for Mazowe North, informed Hara...Published: 26 May 2024 at 13:44hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Man offers shoes for maintenance
On Friday, a Harare man proposed providing his ex-wife with two pairs of shoes to sell, in addition to $30 monthly, for the support of their two minor children.Samuel Kuenda informed Magistrat...Published: 08 Oct 2023 at 07:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF candidates raring to go
ZANU- PF aspiring legislators attending a five-day orientation and induction workshop in Gweru have vowed to deliver a resounding victory for President Mnangagwa and the ruling party in the forthcomin...Published: 07 Jun 2023 at 06:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's son in-law lists 21 farms in divorce case
The legal proceedings over the divorce of Bona Nyepudzai Ouma Mugabe, daughter of former President Robert Mugabe, and Simbarashe Mutsahuni Chikore are likely to involve complex disputes over how asset...Published: 03 May 2023 at 06:14hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Bona divorce battle could lay bare Mugabe millions
One of Grace Mugabe's children has filed for divorce from their spouse after a number of years of marriage.In court papers filed on Tuesday, Mugabe's child said there was no more love in the m...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 19:08hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Obama of Zimbabwean politics accused of not paying maintenance
Presidential aspirant Robert Chapman who leads the Democratic Union of Zimbabwe (DUZ) is reportedly failing to pay support for his children with his ex-wife.Chapman, who was born in Chinhoyi a...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 19:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe hit by paternity fraud
THE case of a prominent Bulawayo pathologist Dr Roger Kruger Hendrick Chigangacha who sued his ex-girlfriend, Natasha Popova Sibanda, a former actress in the TV drama Amakorokoza for US$163 000 ...Published: 10 Feb 2023 at 19:41hrs | 38 | by Staff reporter
Peter Ndlovu struggling to pay maintenance for his 13 children?
Mamelodi Sundowns team manager Peter Ndlovu might have dodged a financial bullet after the Johannesburg High Court reduced the amount of child support one of the mothers of his 13 children was demandi...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 19:43hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Boy child vulnerable to sexual abuse too
POLICE in Bulawayo have put on spotlight sexual abuse perpetrated against the boy child after five boys were sexually assaulted within five months compared to zero cases that were recorded in the same...Published: 05 Jul 2022 at 07:04hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Woman uses borrowed baby to claim US$1 800 from ex
IN a matter that left the Gweru magistrate court dumbfounded, a Senga woman allegedly borrowed a baby from her friend, which she used to claim US$1 800 from her ex-husband.This was heard when ...Published: 31 May 2022 at 06:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Peter Ndlovu fails to pay maintenance...children drop out of school
Celebrated Zimbabwean soccer star and Mamelodi Sundowns team manager Peter Ndlovu has been dragged to court by one of his baby mamas who is pleading with the courts to grant her an order barring Ndlov...Published: 02 May 2022 at 08:55hrs | 11 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Personal budget tips
If you want to control your spending and work toward your financial goals, you need a budget.A personal or household budget is a summary that compares and tracks your income and expenses for a...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 09:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Separated by a river, but worlds apart
Depending on one's propensity to follow the news, the world, at varying days of December of 2019 was introduced to the novel corona virus, a highly contagious and deadly virus preliminary reports at t...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 14:40hrs | 1 | by Sibusisiwe Tshuma
Mnangagwa's govt cuts off Covid-19 allowances
ABOUT 60 000 vulnerable urban families hard hit by the ravaging effects of Covid-19 last received cushion allowances from government in September 2020 as Treasury has no resources to finance the socia...Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 08:11hrs | 97 | by Staff reporter
No uniforms for pregnant schoolgirls
GOVERNMENT has decreed that pregnant schoolgirls be allowed to attend class in their maternity attire as formal school wear might not be compatible with their changed body stature.Women Affair...Published: 03 Oct 2020 at 08:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Govt supports pregnant pupils
GOVERNMENT is facilitating that pupils who fell pregnant during the lockdown period be allowed to attend lessons in their clothes while child support committees have been established to mentally equip...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
UK Based Model to represent Zimbabwe at Miss Global International
Rising model and current Miss World Zimbabwe UK Amanda Ngcono has been chosen to represent the country at the Miss Global International beauty pageant in Jamaica at the Montego Bay Convention on the 2...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 16:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
How to prepare for military school admission tests
Applying to a military school or academy presupposes not only submitting your test results, but also passing a fitness exam. Take a look at the steps you need to take to get enrolled, as well as famil...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 12:39hrs | 34 | by Staff Writer
Prophet Magaya faces fresh accusations of sexual abuse
Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries founder, the self-styled prophet Walter Magaya, is facing new accusations of sexual abuse after a couple claimed he impregnated their 17-year-old daughter....Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 23:30hrs | 2 | by ZimLive
Child support lands pastor in dock
A MAN of the cloth and founder of Living Sanctuary Ministries has been dragged to the Maintenance Court by his ex-wife for the upkeep of their child.Thandekile Nsingo was claiming an upward va...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 09:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean doctor struck off in UK for lying
A children'S doctor who lied to the Child Support Agency to avoid paying maintenance has been struck off in the United Kingdom. Dr Collen Nkomo, from Greater Manchester, was ruled unfit to pra...Published: 29 Dec 2018 at 16:43hrs | | by BBC
Doctor ordered to pay $20 000 damages over negligence
A Mutare farmer who lost his wife due to medical negligence has been awarded $20 000 in damages after an eight-year legal battle. The High Court last week ordered Dr Miriam Kanyenze to p...Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 05:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Child support dodger tries to strangle ex-wife as she drives him to court
A Harare man allegedly attempted to strangle his wife in the presence of a police officer after she reported him for defaulting on child support.Edzai Nyamutawatawa, 45, of Madokero suburb all...Published: 16 Oct 2018 at 14:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Prophet dragged to court over child support
A BULAWAYO prophet has been dragged to court by his ex-wife for failure to pay maintenance for his four children.Edison Mashambe appeared before Western Commonage Magistrate Lungile Ncube and ...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Undenge arrested
Former Cabinet minister Samuel Undenge, who is facing a litany of charges at the Harare Magistrates' Courts, temporarily lost his freedom mid-this week when he was arrested for defaulting payment of c...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 10:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cheating Njube teacher 'impregnates' maid
A CHEATING debt-ridden Njube High School teacher allegedly impregnated the family's maid, his ex–wife has told the Maintenance Court.Sandra Munarwo dragged her ex-husband Vincent Nyathi to c...Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 08:53hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Ben 10' demands paternity tests
A "BEN 10" from Bulawayo has demanded paternity tests for two minor children he sired with his ex-girlfriend.This emerged on Thursday when Angeline Mhlanga (30) dragged Ian Munjanja (23) to th...Published: 09 Jun 2018 at 15:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Married cop in maintenance storm
A MARRIED police officer from Buchwa Police Station in Mberengwa has been dragged to court for the upkeep of one minor child by his ex-girlfriend who is also a police officer.Ms Rudo Moyo stat...Published: 07 Jun 2018 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe's son issued with a warrant of arrest?
Russell Goreraza has a warrant out for his arrest for failing to show up to the magistrate court in Randburg earlier last week where a summon was issued to him in May regarding his daughter's financia...Published: 06 Jun 2018 at 14:13hrs | 1 | by Anonymous
Woman drags ex-son in law to maintenance court
A MAN from Bulawayo has been dragged to the Maintenance Court by his ex-mother-in-law for the upkeep of two minor children.Ms Nelly Matshazi told a court that she was applying for maintenance ...Published: 24 May 2018 at 07:01hrs | 3 | by Staff rpeorter
Maintenance woes dog 'superdad' cop
A POLICE officer who sired five children with four women has been dragged to court for the upkeep of one of the children.Ms Nontobeko Sibanda was demanding $150 from Lazarus Muzamba for the up...Published: 10 May 2018 at 07:07hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
4th woman sues teacher for maintenance
A TEACHER from Nesigwe Primary School in Nkayi who sired seven children with different women has been dragged to the Maintenance Court by the fourth woman suing him for child support.Peacemore...Published: 07 May 2018 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chihuri found in Malawi
Former police commissioner-general Augustine Chihuri whose world is collapsing around him, reportedly sought and found refuge at his wife's family home in Malawi where he is said to be nursing an undi...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 12:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
2 fathers, 1 child
A HATCLIFFE woman is reportedly receiving maintenance from two men.Theresa Chikete, 35, is at odds with her former husband Jackson Madanhi, 45, for receiving maintenance for one of her childre...Published: 03 Apr 2018 at 16:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chihuri in $240,000 child support row
FORMER Police Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri has been dragged to court by a Bulawayo woman who is demanding $240,000 towards the support of a child she claims to have sired with the one-time t...Published: 01 Apr 2018 at 15:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman 'forges' maintenance documents
A Chitungwiza woman was last week left dejected after her bid to claim maintenance arrears using forged documents hit a brickwall.Brenda Bulangwe dragged her ex-husband Tonderai Rimaunga to co...Published: 26 Mar 2018 at 10:39hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri, mistress in messy child support row
Retired Commissioner General of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), Augustine Chihuri is embroiled in a messy maintenance wrangle, B-Metro can exclusively reveal.In court documents exclusively...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 06:28hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's son, nephew join politics
ED's nephew, son join politicsOne of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's sons, Emmerson Junior, and a nephew of his — Tongai — are readying themselves to enter the political fray by running for Nat...Published: 28 Jan 2018 at 11:37hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Madzibaba accumulates $4 000 child support arrears
SELF-STYLED prophet Gathry Chiredzero, popularly known as Madzibaba Gathry, was back in court last week on allegations of running away from paying close to $4 000 maintenance arrears. He has been on t...Published: 19 Dec 2017 at 09:56hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Couple creates 'ghost child' to evade child support
IN a live script-like drama stint which could easily be adopted for a soapie, a man who impregnated his small house reportedly teamed up with his wife and created a "ghost" child in a bid to avoid pay...Published: 01 Dec 2017 at 04:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bashed over maintenance
A Harare woman says her husband beats her up whenever she asks for money for the upkeep of their children.Silvia Muchakuta opened up the Harare Civil court where she was seeking for a protecti...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 16:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man delivers wife to in-laws in wheelbarrow while in labour
A 36-year old Zambian man has been sued by his wife for allegedly taking her to her parents in a wheelbarrow at night when she was in labour.Anna Nonge (21), of Kabanana township told the Mate...Published: 25 Jul 2017 at 17:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
1 child, 2 fathers
A HARARE woman is getting child support from two men for a single child. Tarryn Mary Moyas, who made headlines for cheating with a married United Kingdom based man, gave birth to a baby girl a...Published: 02 Jun 2017 at 17:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Women allegedly raped by UN peacekeepers in Haiti speak out
In Haiti By Force: UN Sex Abuse, Fault Lines speaks to Haitian women who say they were raped by UN peacekeepers there. Some of them were under-age at the time; some of them are now single mothers as a...Published: 21 Mar 2017 at 10:00hrs | 28 | by Kevin Kriedemann & Joy Sapieka
Ex-lover drags musician to court for child support
CONTEMPORARY rhumba musician Clement "Magwaza" Mlilo has been dragged to the Maintenance Court by his ex-girlfriend seeking $100 per month for the upkeep of their child.Magwaza of Nkuluman...Published: 03 Mar 2017 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
My boss and I dating the same man
I am a 24-year-old maid and I had my baby boy when I was 20.Things did not go well with the father of the child so we broke up. I have two O-Levels, I am working in order to supplement the oth...Published: 11 Feb 2017 at 22:50hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Employed Woman demands $1000 maintenance
A HARARE woman Mugove Nyamandi dragged her former husband to court seeking spousal maintenance and child support amounting to $1,114 per month. Nyamandi took Rangarirai Gwari to court citing t...Published: 19 May 2016 at 13:46hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Man married another woman while wife went to give birth
THE Chelston Local Court heard how a man of Lusaka married another woman after his wife went to the village to give birth.Chimika Mkandawire told senior presiding magistrate Lazarus Mwape that...Published: 06 Mar 2016 at 12:12hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
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