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Son bashes father's girlfriend
An angry son allegedly bashed his father's girlfriend with a sjambok in a bush, accusing her of making the family suffer as the father is spending more on her than on his family.The matter cam...Published: 05 Jun 2025 at 22:03hrs | 1806 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Plumtree
Villager bashes suspected 'witch'
There was drama in Kitwe village, Mangwe where a 31-year-old female villager went ballistic and assaulted another villager after accusing her of bewitching people in the village.The matter cam...Published: 03 Mar 2025 at 14:56hrs | 1932 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Traditional healer jailed for selling fuel
Plumtree-based traditional healer Trevor Moyo (40) was convicted for selling fuel without a licence today.Moyo was sentenced to one month in prison but was lucky to escape jail after the magis...Published: 12 Feb 2025 at 14:02hrs | 290 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Wife basher jailed
A 32-YEAR-OLD Plumtree man who assaulted his wife before burning her clothes in a domestic dispute has been convicted.Zyeenzi Mudenda appeared before Plumtree magistrate Joshua Nembaware on Th...Published: 01 Nov 2024 at 14:09hrs | 602 | by Simbarashe Sithole In Plumtree
Man bashes wife over firewood
Violence cost a Plumtree-based man who assaulted his wife with an electric cable over a firewood dispute.Godknows Ndlovu was sentenced to four months in prison by Plumtree magistrate Joshua Ne...Published: 31 Oct 2024 at 21:19hrs | 405 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mthuli Ncube gets community service at President's Office
Failure to control temper by Mthuli Ncube landed him in deep trouble after he assaulted his brother's wife.The matter came to light at Plumtree magistrates courts today where the 24-year-old N...Published: 12 Sep 2024 at 11:17hrs | 5037 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Man jailed for bashing cheating wife
A cheeky 27-year-old Plumtree man who bashed his wife all over the body with an axe handle in a domestic dispute was convicted on Thursday by a Plumtree magistrate.Edson Ndlovu was sentenced t...Published: 22 Aug 2024 at 18:06hrs | 1168 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Man bashes girlfriend over funeral
A jealous man threatened to stab his girlfriend with an okapi before assaulting her with open hands over a funeral program.The boyfrien...Published: 22 Mar 2024 at 12:47hrs | 3 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Man (61) bashes cheating girlfriend
A 61-YEAR-OLD Plumtree man has been dragged to court after he bashed his girlfriend whom he accused of cheating.Mark Lloyd was sentenced to six months in jail by Magistrate Joshua Nembaware....Published: 02 Nov 2023 at 15:19hrs | 11 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Teacher bashed at funeral
A Nzvimbo High School teacher Shake Makwiramiti was bashed at his father's funeral by his cousin brother over funeral news.The matter came to light at Concession magistrates courts today where...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 18:49hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
WATCH: Pedophile bashers in trouble
Taking the law into your own hands can be costly, this was proved today at Mutoko magistrates courts where parents of a minor girl were convicted of assault after they attacked a man who slept with th...Published: 18 May 2023 at 16:08hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Hungry man caught harvesting school maize
A 25-YEAR- OLD hungry Mazowe man was arrested after he was caught stealing maize cobs at a school field last week.Dinsidale Nyats...Published: 16 May 2023 at 11:00hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mbanje grower (53) convicted
A 53-YEAR-OLD Mazowe man was sentenced to one year behind bars by a Concession magistrate for cultivating dagga.Motion Mandiya (53) pleaded guilty to the charge and was lucky to escape jail af...Published: 17 Mar 2023 at 14:05hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Kazembe, police boss escape jail term
Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe and Police Commissioner General Godwin Matanga have escaped imprisonment for failing to pay over US$60,000 dues to a police officer who was irregularly fire...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hubby attacks wife over chicken
The love of chicken costed a Mutoko man after he was dragged to court for assaulting his wife over a chicken dispute.Kudakwashe Kangwir...Published: 29 Sep 2022 at 09:33hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Teenager attacks grandmother with wooden stick
An 18 YEAR-OLD Mudzi who assaulted his grandmother with a wooden stick was arraigned before Mutoko magistrate last week....Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 02:14hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Woman jailed for stealing ex-boyfriend's money
A 27-YEAR-OLD Shamva woman who stole her ex-boyfriend's US$110 which she forcibly took on the pretext of safekeeping has been convicted today.Ratidzai Soda was sentenced to eight months in jai...Published: 30 May 2022 at 16:37hrs | 10 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Matanga, Kazembe escape jail
HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe and police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga have paid ZW$300 000 as compensation to two victims of police brutality to avoid imprisonment for contempt of court...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mudzi women jailed over boyfriend
TWO Mudzi women were slapped with six months jail term on Friday by Mutoko magistrate Elijah Sibanda after they bashed a villager accusing her...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 20:11hrs | 10 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Village head in court over Pfumvudza
A 47-YEAR-OLD Mudzi village head Fira Chizisano of Chisizano village was arraigned before Mutoko magistrates courts yesterday for forging signitures...Published: 13 Feb 2022 at 12:57hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mother son escape jail
A 50-YEAR-OLD Guruve woman escaped jail together with her son after the court failed to link the duo to an unlawful entry charge.Alice ...Published: 02 Oct 2021 at 23:17hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Go between bashed by 4 assailants at Nyau dance
There was drama at Vonabo farm, Glendale where a suspected go between of a married man was bashed by four assailants at a nyau traditional dance ceremony at the farm.The matter came to light a...Published: 31 Oct 2020 at 13:46hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Obert Mpofu not a sellout
It does not matter that Obert Mpofu hails from and or identifies himself with the Mthwakazi people but he is the other person to be tried for the gruesome massacres of Mthwakazi people during the Guku...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 08:07hrs | 1 | by MLF
Mnangagwa appears in court…refuses to be jailed
A self-proclaimed nephew of President Emmerson Mnangagwa was sentenced to 14 months imprisonment by Guruve resident magistrate Rumbidzai Mugwagwa yesterday for theft.Tafadzwa Mnangagwa pleaded...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 10:52hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Accident scene looters escape jail
FIFTY-two villagers from Hwange in Matabeleland North province, who appeared in court for looting food stuffs from a Victoria Falls-bound truck that overturned, have escaped imprisonment.The v...Published: 30 May 2019 at 07:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man (24) escapes from jail
A 24-year-old Guruve prisoner reportedly escaped from jail after serving six months from his nine months jail term last Friday.Tafadzwa Gwata of Fakes farm in Mvurwi was convicted of attempted...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 16:24hrs | 3 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Sex with minor lands teen boy in trouble
A teenager was lucky to escape jail after he was convicted of indulging in sex with a minor by Guruve resident magistrate yesterday.The 17-year-old, Professor Svembere of Chikwidibe village in...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 09:04hrs | 6 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Ex-cop jailed for impersonation
An ex-cop who was recently relieved of his duties in the force is in trouble after he was arrested while drinking beer at a bottle store while in a police uniform.As if that was not enough, th...Published: 21 Jan 2018 at 11:16hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Failed banks haunt directors
THE Deposit Protection Corporation says there are sufficient legal instruments to facilitate successful prosecution of directors of failed banks for their roles in causing collapse of the institutions...Published: 19 Nov 2017 at 08:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kombi driver threatens another with murder, escapes jail
A Kombi driver employed by Bupta taxis was lucky to escape jail after he was acquitted for threatening another Kombi driver with murder.Nkululeko Khumalo (38) pleaded not guilty to the charge ...Published: 07 Sep 2017 at 07:35hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa's boot licker bays for Jonathan Moyo's head
WAR veterans' leader Christopher Mutsvangwa yesterday accused Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo of abusing his friendship with the late Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku to escape jail over accu...Published: 04 Jul 2017 at 16:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Weapon 'smuggling' CID official escape jail
A DETECTIVE stationed at the CID Law and Order section in Bulawayo who was arrested in Victoria Falls while attempting to smuggle firearms into Zambia escaped jailed as he was fined $400....Published: 22 Mar 2017 at 05:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Molested' teen drops charge against uncle
A 14-YEAR-OLD girl from Tsholotsho shocked a court when she declared she wanted to drop charges against her uncle who had been arrested for forcing his fingers into her sexual organ.Mqinisi Ts...Published: 29 Aug 2016 at 07:21hrs | 2 | by Tanaka Mrewa
Woman buries baby alive, walks free
A 23-year-old woman, who buried her newborn baby alive in a shallow grave, was lucky to escape jail when she appeared before a Hwange magistrate recently. Vivian Phiri (23) of Lwendulu vil...Published: 16 Jul 2016 at 08:13hrs | | by Fairness Moyana
MSU bursar, hubby gets suspended sentence for siphoning $150,000
MIDLANDS State University (MSU) bursar Mamelo Moyo and her husband Melusi who formed a briefcase company that saw the institution of higher learning being siphoned of more than $150 000 through unproc...Published: 05 Jun 2016 at 11:24hrs | 1 | by Munyaradzi Musiiwa
Mozambicans jailed for draining cooking oil
TWO Mozambicans who were caught red-handed siphoning crude cooking oil from a truck they were driving were last week jailed three months for theft.Manica Post reported that Abdul Mussa S...Published: 13 May 2016 at 12:21hrs | 2 | by Lovemore Kadzura
Mozambicans jailed for stealing cooking oil
TWO Mozambicans who were caught red-handed siphoning crude cooking oil from a truck they were driving were last week jailed three months for theft.Manica Post reported that Abdul Mussa Suluman...Published: 12 May 2016 at 12:32hrs | 2 | by Lovemore Kadzura
Man with 11 wives and 30 children begs to stay out of jail
A 36-YEAR-OLD man from Shurugwi stunned a Gweru court while pleading for leniency when he said he had 11 wives and 30 children to look after. Leonard Chigamana of Tongogara in Shurugwi begged ...Published: 21 Mar 2016 at 09:01hrs | | by Elizabeth Tsuro
Hooker bites off friend's ear over boyfriend
Margret Matemuza of Mkoba 14 extension bit off her friend's ear in a row over a boyfriend.Mateza was on Thursday lucky to escape jail after she was ordered to perform 350 hours of community se...Published: 01 Nov 2015 at 14:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Juvenile escape jail term
THREE Mutare juveniles escaped jail when Mutare magistrate, Nyasha Kuture wholly suspended a three-year jail term she had imposed on each of them on condition that they do not commit any offence...Published: 07 Sep 2015 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Businessman assaults wife over food
A BULAWAYO woman is lucky to be alive after she was beaten by her husband in a dispute over food. Xolani Dube (34), appeared before Mr Batanai Tuhwe and was charged for physical abuse as defin...Published: 30 Aug 2015 at 10:01hrs | 2 | by Tatenda Gapare
Miner escape jail as businesswoman withdraws attacks over gossip charges
A self employed miner at Charemount in Fort Rixon who attacked a business woman with a burning log after accusing her of gossiping about him with his wife has escaped a prosecution after his victim wi...Published: 14 Apr 2015 at 09:14hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Cop escapes jail after stealing friend's certificates
A POLICE officer stationed at Mzilikazi Police Station was lucky to escape jail sentence after being found guilty of stealing a friend's academic certificates. Melusi Ndlera was accused by fr...Published: 28 Jan 2015 at 07:52hrs | | by Sibhekisipho Fayayo
Nurse fakes HIV results
A NURSE employed at Gokwe District Hospital, who allegedly connived with a health non-governmental worker, employed by Global Fund to fake results of an HIV test in favour of the nurse's husband, was...Published: 08 Jan 2015 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Businesswoman escapes jail for assaulting niece
A 48-YEAR-OLD Gwanda businesswoman, who hit her niece with a ploughshare once on the head after being accused of practicing witchcraft to enhance her business, was lucky to escape jail after she w...Published: 24 Dec 2014 at 07:28hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Woman assaults hubby, escape jail term
A 35-year-old Gwanda woman, who struck her husband on the head with an iron bar after seeing him coming from his lover's hut at midnight, is lucky to escape prison life, after she was ordered to ...Published: 05 Dec 2014 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man, 31, admits loving a grade 7 pupil, escape jail sentence
A BINGA magistrate has bemoaned the increase in sexual offences in the district, arguing that more needs to be done to protect the girl child and deter sex predators by imposing heavy sentences....Published: 31 Aug 2014 at 08:25hrs | | by Fairness Moyana
Murderer gets a wholly suspended sentence for poisoning his son
A 25-year old suicidal Uzumba man was lucky to escape jail for negligently killing his one and a half year old son with poison after the court gave him a wholly suspended sentence.Taurai Mukam...Published: 24 Jul 2014 at 16:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Woman who gave birth, put baby in plastic bag escapes jail
A 26-YEAR-OLD woman was lucky to escape jail after she was sentenced to a wholly-suspended six months in prison for concealing birth of an eight-month-old baby.Betty Mukombero appeared before ...Published: 07 Jun 2014 at 09:49hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Bogus police report lands driver in trouble
In a desperate attempt to escape smuggling charges, a Dangamvura man made a false report to the police that he had fallen for a rabbit trick and lost his vehicle.The Manica Post carried the st...Published: 23 May 2014 at 12:30hrs | 2 | by Mercy Ngwebvu
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