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Umjolo gone bad
WHAT do women want, really?There are times when men ask themselves if they will ever satisfy their wives. They never find the answer.Simply put, it seems some women never get enough....Published: 20 Jan 2024 at 16:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Court grants man peace order against girlfriend
A HARARE woman has claimed that her live-in boyfriend wants to evict her after infecting her with HIV.This emerged at the Harare Magistrate court where the man was seeking a protection order a...Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 07:46hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Virginity and the Johanne Marange religious customs
THE state has outlawed virginity testing as a human rights violation.However, it is surprising to note that Johanne Marange Apostolic Church (JMAC) still teaches and conducts mandatory virgini...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 19:54hrs | | by Matthew Mare
Tuku's unreleased music stolen
TODAY marks exactly three years to the day legendary music icon and national hero Dr Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi breathed his last. The revered and highly decorated musician died at the age of 66, and had ...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 07:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Why Lobola Should not be Refundable - Love must never be refunded nor measured in monetary terms
The case of Lobola has generated a lot of interest amongst many Zimbabweans and many traditional leaders. The people of Zimbabwe put the proceedings in the public domain which they review the lawfulne...Published: 02 May 2021 at 07:50hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza and Denford Madekufamba
Unpacking the lobola refund issue
Zimbabweans were highly active on social media discussing an underreported 2015 court ruling which made a ruling that a man can sue his in-laws to recover lobola if his wife cheated on him. The ...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
SAA & SAX merger - two losses don't make a profit
Is the proposed merger between loss making South African Airways (SAA) and SA Express (SAX) a marriage made in hell brokered by SA banks?According to Banking Council chair Cas Coovadia in rece...Published: 27 Aug 2018 at 06:14hrs | 2 | by FMF
Liberate and free the last colony of Africa
Dear Mr. S. Sibanda, "Very true that woman are marginalized" by S. Sibanda That was your article on the 8th of August 2018 on Bulawayo24: I wish to express my sincere gratitude for the...Published: 11 Aug 2018 at 17:45hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Jonathan Moyo's false hope from Malaysia
I have just been reading Deluze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. It's a big book, one quite opaque and thus requiring stout intellect and a liberal outlook to digest it....Published: 19 May 2018 at 14:40hrs | 1 | by Igomombe
Man demands lobola for two sisters
A MUTARE court gallery was left in roars of laughter when an irate man accused his brother-in-law of using his two sisters as baby-making-machines and demanded instant bride price during the court ses...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean families in UK facing lobola nightmare
Throughout Africa a marriage could not take place without some form of gift (or "payment") of animals, food or other material goods to the parents and family of the bride. Today people speak of this a...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 09:37hrs | 9 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Zanu-PF is a mammoth party'
President Mugabe's address at the Zanu-PF Youth League National Assembly at the ruling party's headquarters in Harare yesterday.Thank you, thanks, thanks for your having invited me and Mai to ...Published: 08 Oct 2017 at 04:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
2018 Zimbabwe's most expensive vote
If in 2018 I decide, as I should, to exercise my right and responsibility to cast my vote in the watershed Zimbabwean elections, it is going to cost me an arm and a leg.Fadzai Mahere wants to ...Published: 03 Sep 2017 at 10:50hrs | | by Ronald Ncube
Soul Jah Love Pays lobola
SOUL Jah Love's hectic performance schedule was for a noble cause after all.The 'Ndini Uya Uya' singer finally paid lobola for his sweetheart, Bounty Lisa, over the weekend.As Soul Jah...Published: 29 Aug 2017 at 16:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africans wake up to the horror of white interests in the rainbow
My deepest, heartfelt condolences to the Chidyausiku family on the loss of Godfrey, our recently retired Chief Justice. He was a fine character, an enormous lawyer by any measure.Above all, he served ...Published: 06 May 2017 at 12:27hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Misogyny in our discriminatory social institutions: Taken from the book: My roots my proud identity: Part one
Psychologist: Let's discuss the societal aspect of your home and the culture of your people regarding women. I have left this question too long but when I liste...Published: 20 Feb 2017 at 18:53hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
'I am smart individuals' masquerading as leaders are a disease time will cure: Zimbabwe experience, lessons and a tough way forw
1 Corinthians 1:26-27 (NIV) "For you see your calling brethren, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble but God choose the foolish things of the world that he mi...Published: 12 Dec 2016 at 09:15hrs | | by Andrew M Manyevere
Daily Divinity Questions and Answers with Witness Dingani
QUESTION(So I bought her fo fifteen Shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley). Hosea 3:1. Examine this verse in relation with concept of dowry or lobola in Zimbabwe?(25) (article numb...Published: 10 Oct 2016 at 09:03hrs | | by Witness Dingani
Snippet of the Marriage Customs of Bakalanga bhe Budeti
Bakalanga bhe Budeti are spread all over Boteti sub district in Botswana, starting from the extreme north western village of Makalamabedi up to Mosu in the eastern part of the sub district. They a...Published: 19 Apr 2016 at 09:23hrs | 14 | by Boletilemang Gabokgatlhe
Hubby inserts cooking stick in wife's private parts
THE Matero Local Court was stunned by the revelation of a Chisamba wife who said her husband inserted a cooking stick in her private parts.Serah Malitino, 47, said her husband, Webster Nyendwa...Published: 13 Mar 2016 at 11:12hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Woman complains that husband does not last long in sexual encounter
A LUSAKA man narrated before a local court how his wife complains that he does not satisfy her in bed.The man said his wife further complained that he did not prolong his sexual acts, which had af...Published: 25 Feb 2016 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Man dumped for short penis gets lobola back
A jilted lover who recently demanded a lobola refund from his former fiancé left Matsiloje customary court a delighted man after the court ruled in his favour.About a month ago, Monei Leseted...Published: 15 Sep 2015 at 07:40hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Tomana's views are scandalous
ZIMBABWE'S Prosecutor-General, Johannes Tomana, has had some odd things to say in the past, but none weirder than his latest comments on child rape and child marriage as published in The Chronicle la...Published: 20 Jun 2015 at 20:45hrs | | by Alex T. Magaisa
Detractors were at it again, Cdes
COMRADES, what did I say about that witch that tried to harass me on my recent visit to Abuja? I realised that the best way to embarrass her was simply to let her do it herself by simply ignoring her ...Published: 18 Jun 2015 at 07:57hrs | | by CZ
The mischief has started again, Cdes
CABINET FILES AND CZ's NOTEBOOKDear Cabinet andPolitburo membersCOMRADES, as you are all aware, I have been out of the country since last week as I had to attend this important Uni...Published: 20 Mar 2015 at 09:17hrs | | by CZ
Woman divorces hubby because his manhood is 'too large'
Bigger isn't always better for some! According to media reports a Nigerian woman filed for divorce from her husband because his manhood was 'too large'. An Islamic Sharia court in Nigeria's Z...Published: 06 Mar 2015 at 13:38hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Woman drinks poison after in-laws torture her over lobola
A woman has committed suicide by consuming poison to end her life following alleged torture by her husband and in-laws over dowry in Domri village in India.According to reports, Sadhna (22) of...Published: 25 Jun 2014 at 19:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man sleeps with lover as kids watch, to teach them how to
A court in Lusaka heard how a 25-year-old man of Helen Kaunda Township has allegedly been sleeping with his girlfriend in presence of his children with the aim of teaching them how to go about it when...Published: 22 May 2014 at 19:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Former Miss World drags hubby to court
MUMBAI - Former Miss World and actress Yukta Mookhey on Friday filed a dowry harassment case against her husband Prince Tuli. The case was filed at Amboli police station."We have registered a...Published: 06 Jul 2013 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff Reporter
British man sues Zimbabwean woman over failed romance
As the Beatles told us, money can't buy love. But when Neale Hogg's relationship broke down, he believed he should be recompensed for the cost of his wooing.Hogg, 55, bombarded his former Zim...Published: 04 Mar 2013 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man robbed of $800 lobola money
Three Zvimba men have been sentenced to an effective four-year jail term each for robbing a Harare man of $800 cash which he intended to pay his in-laws as lobola for his wife on New Year's Day....Published: 18 Jan 2013 at 16:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Twin sisters marry same man
It has been said that twins share almost everything but sharing a husband may seem unimaginable. But Zambia's Livingstone-based twin sisters Gracious and Grace are happily married to a man they gave c...Published: 20 Jul 2012 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe should be digital by 2015 — ICT Minister
THE Information Communications Technology (ICT) ministry headed by Nelson Chamisa has been a driving force behind Zimbabwe’s move towards e-government and e-edu...Published: 06 Jan 2012 at 10:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Would you pay millions for a wife!
For such couples and others who cannot marry because of the excessive demands, marriage in modern Zimbabwe is rapidly becoming an economic relationship in which the choice of a wife depends on the ma...Published: 23 Jun 2011 at 14:55hrs | | by Bride Groom
Mixed marriage dynamicsÂ
The number of interracial marriages is increasing rapidly among Zimbabweans. When people shipped themselves abroad, records indicate that the number of interracial marriages increased a...Published: 12 Jan 2011 at 12:09hrs | 6 | by Byo24News
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