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Men suffer in silence
Men in Zimbabwe are increasingly facing mental health challenges and emotional strain due to a lack of emotional support and recognition, leading to a worrying rise in stress-related breakdowns and ev...Published: 17 Jun 2025 at 07:32hrs | 549 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records 49% surge in divorce cases
Zimbabwe has experienced a significant increase in divorce cases, with 3,214 recorded across the country in 2024, up from 2,149 in 2023. Despite this rise, only 1,562 of the cases have been finalised,...Published: 10 Feb 2025 at 06:37hrs | 518 | by Staff reporter
Reasons why South Africans treat the 13 digit ID number like a qualification
South Africa's green ID book has been used as the country's main identity document for 44 years, during which time it has only received a handful of minor security upgrades. Blacks only started using ...Published: 29 Oct 2024 at 14:20hrs | 1676 | by Staff reporter
Woman divorces husband over mubobobo claims
IN a shocking incident, a 38-year-old woman from New Harrisvale suburb in Bulawayo divorced her husband after claiming to have caught him, through a vision, using a sex charm popularly known as mubobo...Published: 26 Jul 2024 at 09:05hrs | 2418 | by Staff reporter
139 file for divorce in Bulawayo in 2 months
BULAWAYO has since the beginning of the year recorded shocking divorce statistics with 139 applications filed at the High Court before the end of February.From the 139 divorces filed at the Bu...Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 04:43hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
The ambiguous essence of Valentine's day
As social beings wired for celebration, human life is marked by various milestones. Births are celebrated, puberty initiations are observed in some cultures, weddings announce unions, and even divorce...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 11:44hrs | 37 | by Bishop John Carter
Divorce cases spike in Zimbabwe
INFIDELITY, social media abuse, poor communication, grudges and gender-based violence are among top drivers of divorces across the country with Bulawayo alone recording 658 divorces this year al...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 07:25hrs | 59 | by Staff reporter
Shugeta divorces Power FM
The multi-talented radio personality Tafadzwa Lloyd Ben "Shugeta" announced his departure from Power FM this morning through his Facebook page.The announcement reads, "This note serves you to ...Published: 22 May 2023 at 09:19hrs | 4 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
A leader who always gives reasons for his failures is himself an unmitigated failure!
Every one of us is a leader in one form or another! One may be a father or husband, mother or wife, or maybe a supervisor or manager at a company – to a corporate executive, or an entreprene...Published: 11 Feb 2023 at 14:16hrs | 4 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
10 divorce cases a day in Masvingo
Justice Garainesu Mawadze of the High Court in Masvingo presided over 10 divorce cases in a day from the usual four-five cases a week.A...Published: 20 Dec 2022 at 06:12hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Point of correction: Chiwenga not son in law of Matabeleland
We know that having a husband who holds a high position in Zimbabwe or any other country can be exciting for others. And having a better half of your choice from any country or nation is any woman or ...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:46hrs | | by Israel Dube
Mnangagwa sought Magaisa's support after coup?
Chiwenga chases Schroeder's record - The Lord of RingsZIMBABWEAN Vice-President retired General Constantino Chiwenga seems to be chasing former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's record in seri...Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 17:47hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
UK based Zimbabwean divorces wife of 33 years over conjugal rights
A United Kingdom based Zimbabwean, Kostanteno Ngandu, has divorced his wife of 33years for denying him conjugal rights.Ngandu filed for divorce at the Harare High court saying his relationship...Published: 27 May 2022 at 06:43hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Gata divorces Mugabe's sister after 35 years of marriage
ZESA executive chairman Sydney Gata is divorcing his wife of 35 years after telling a court their marriage has "irretrievably broken down."Gata married Ntombana Regina Mugabe, a sister to the ...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 16:43hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
1 351 file for divorce
INFIDELITY has been cited as the major cause of family break-ups in the country with this year's statistics showing that at least 1 351 couples filed for divorce at the High Court, an increase from 1 ...Published: 30 Dec 2021 at 07:50hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Home is best to invest
THE sad riches to rags story of Zimbabwe's Tendai Ndoro is a familiar tale in football which was made popular by Ivory Coast's Emmanuel Eboue, who made millions but now has nothing to show for all the...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:42hrs | 12 | by Michael Kariati
Women abuse UK justice system to settle scores
John Mabhureza of Northampton United Kingdom sits in a corner in prison. He has grown so thin and he is not eating well. He has reduced himself into a silent dying man. Mabhureza's problems star...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 07:24hrs | 5 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Cabinet meetings by Ndaba Sibanda: A review by Banqobile Virginia Dakamela
The book kicks off with a scene featuring a technology-crazy old man who is drinking with a girl young enough to be his granddaughter. The old man's table manners do not endear him to the girl either....Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 12:13hrs | 17 | by Banqobile Virginia Dakamela
Bill Gates divorces Melinda
Bill and Melinda Gates said Monday that they are divorcing but would keep working together at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the largest charitable foundations in the world.In i...Published: 04 May 2021 at 07:28hrs | 1 | by AP
Divorce blow or couples
THE Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) yesterday announced a new fee structure for its members that will see couples intending to divorce paying as much as US$2 000 or its equivalent - $170 000 in local cu...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 09:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The truth about Dr Masimba Mavaza
I normally do not want to respond to social media neither do I want to be vilifying people. But after reading the article by Nomaz...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 22:29hrs | 9 | by Mandla Khumalo
Man bashes wife, divorces her for disrespecting his mother
A Guruve man was slapped with $500 by Guruve Magistrate Rumbidzai Mugwagwa for physically abusing his wife accusing her of not respecting his ...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 20:15hrs | | by Lloyd Rabaya
The invisible GBV in the workplace
With the 16 days of activism against Gender Based Violence having come to an end, I am grateful abused women and men got a chance to be heard, understood and recognised.What pains me, however,...Published: 12 Dec 2020 at 11:21hrs | 6 | by Gift Mashoko
Mohadi's 'marriage' on rocks: younger 'wife' deserts him
VICE President Kembo Mohadi's romantic union with second 'wife' Juliet Mutavhatsindi is teetering on the brink of collapse after Mutavhatsindi unceremoniously left the 'matrimonial' house, Zim Morning...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 19:54hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean women in Diaspora financial bullies
Many married couples, the world over, develop a shared understanding of who does what in their relationship. It is sometimes an unspoken recognition of an inevitable division of labour and responsibil...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 05:25hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Woman divorces bedwetting hubby
MARRIAGES are supposedly made in heaven but when things don't go well even a spouse's bladder control problems during sleep can be grounds for divorce.A woman from Umguzana village in Nyamandl...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean women abused by their partners in the UK
Some Zimbabwean ladies saw a chance to better their lives by going abroad to work, but being abroad is not always a wonderful thing when your family is not with you. Many foreign women in the United K...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 07:21hrs | 16 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
How Zimbabweans in diaspora wreck their marriages
Petros Makina remembered when he first landed at Heathrow Airport in the United Kingdom. He saw his dream being fulfilled. He envisaged his wife coming to stay with him and together with his children ...Published: 03 Oct 2020 at 08:20hrs | 9 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Man kills father for disliking his wife
A 25-year-old Mberengwa man allegedly axed his father to death and dumped the body in a disused mine shaft following a misunderstanding over the deceased's alleged dislike of his son's wife.Mi...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 14:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man divorces wife after stumbling upon juju
A MAN from Whande Village under Chief Maziofa in Zvishavane is divorcing his wife after he stumbled on what he suspected to be juju in their bedroom hut.Philemon Muzunye allegedly came across ...Published: 15 Jun 2019 at 09:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Trouble after man finds wife's marriage certificate
A CITY woman wept in court claiming her husband has been assaulting her for not cancelling her marriage certificate with her former husband. Challenge Muzama cried in court after applying for ...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 07:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Small house challenges $50k adultery damages
LORRAINE Chitereka, who has been ordered to pay Harare businesswoman Rudo Boka US$50 000 for having an extra-marital affair with her husband, has approached the court seeking to overturn the judgment....Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 13:51hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Sharp increase in divorces
THE number of couples that filed for divorce at the Bulawayo High Court shot to 820 between January and December 2018, marking a 60 percent increase compared to 512 in the previous year. However, 1 19...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 08:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Full text: MDC petition to SADC, AU
PETITIONTo: Parliament of Zimbabwe, Speaker of Parliament, Hon Jacob MudendaSADC, Chairperson, HE Pres...Published: 29 Nov 2018 at 14:28hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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 | | by Staff reporter
Political Parties in Zimbabwe
Political parties exist and dominate our politics probable because of the organisation in them that has a constitution and rules to be followed. They do hold meetings of course to discuss issues in th...Published: 11 Apr 2018 at 16:43hrs | | by Clement Moyo
Man divorces conniving 'prophetess'
NAUGHTINESS cost a Bulawayo woman her marriage when she took her husband for a fool.Now Blessing Mpofu has been dumped by her husband of one year, Munyaradzi Zhou, with whom she has a son....Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 06:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe must be free to engage in politics, Mnangagwa told
Former president Robert Mugabe must be free to engage in political activities he wants and associate with any party he wants to as long as such activities are not treasonous, analysts content....Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 13:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman divorces over-randy hubby
WHILE conjugal rights are meant to be enjoyed by both husband and wife, a woman from Zvinei Village under Chief Nemangwe in Gokwe reportedly dumped her husband because she could no longer tolerate his...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 06:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man divorces wife for being educated
A Harare woman was granted a peace order after she approached the civil court seeking to live in peace with her husband who kicked her out of their matrimonial home because of her education.Ch...Published: 11 Feb 2018 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman divorces over-randy hubby
WHILE conjugal rights are meant to be enjoyed by both husband and wife, a woman from Zvinei Village under Chief Nemangwe in Gokwe reportedly dumped her husband because she could no longer tolerate his...Published: 09 Feb 2018 at 05:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man divorces wife over child's rare disease
A Zvishavane man has allegedly divorced his teenage wife after their first child developed a rare disease which he blamed on the wife.Image Dave (25) has since surrendered back his wife, Casti...Published: 26 Jan 2018 at 05:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
President Mnangagwa on the social media
President on social media is a modern President. This is a way to hear people's different views about the Zimbabwe we want. It is so refreshing that for the past 37 the former President has no time to...Published: 12 Dec 2017 at 10:31hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Sex, finances and relatives
Divorce cases seem to be on the increase, they are taking over media spaces.Children are being sired in adulterous affairs.ivorce cases seem to be on the increase, they are taking over media s...Published: 12 Nov 2017 at 09:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF politician in adultery storm
AN aspiring Zanu-PF councillor is nursing injuries following a beating after being caught in a compromising position with a married woman.Sources told NewsAnchor that Justin Chimuzinga was rec...Published: 08 Nov 2017 at 05:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi party welcomed in Silalatshani
Mthwakazi Repuplic Party had a home welcome in Silalatshani on Saturday as officials trooped into the area to address a rally.This was said by party's spokesperson Mbonisi Gumbo who said the p...Published: 16 Oct 2017 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe divorce case sour to alarming levels
The meltdown gripping Zimbabwe's once-prosperous economy has conspired with stress, and domestic violence to cause a spike in marriage breakups with the High Court in Harare alone registering 42 divor...Published: 01 Oct 2017 at 11:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Women confront Prophet Magaya over cheats
THOUSANDS of women gathered at Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries 'Ladies Night' in Waterfalls on Friday where Prophet Walter Magaya challenged them over the rise in divorces.Prophet...Published: 04 Sep 2017 at 19:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
If you leave it all up to Tsvangirai, what do you expect him to do?
MDC-T national executive member and legislator Murisi Zvizwai has rallied ordinary Zimbabweans to help defend their own vote adding that any lapses of concentration could restore the much dreaded Zanu...Published: 29 Jun 2017 at 09:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe criticise Kasukuwere
President Mugabe yesterday criticised Kasukuwere for haphazardly distributing urban land for residential stands to Zanu-PF youths, saying the process was "highly flawed" as it could be easily abused b...Published: 03 Jun 2017 at 11:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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