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Forgery rap sparks fresh legal war in US$48m-Pfugari estate
The contentious battle over the late property mogul Edward Nyanyiwa Sr's multi-million-dollar estate has intensified, with his daughter Naume Makumbe facing allegations of forgery.Edward Nyany...Published: 11 Jan 2025 at 08:34hrs | 93 | by Staff reporter
Swindlers cash in on UK's certificates of sponsorship
FOR close to two years, Maud Kwembeya (33) - of Zimunya in Mutare - has been harbouring thoughts of one day migrating to the United Kingdom (UK) in search of greener pastures.A vastly experien...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 10:33hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
What Zimbabwe's health care workers are doing to get UK jobs
When Kundai graduated with a master's degree from a local university, she did not imagine staying unemployed for five years. Even more unexpected was the fact that her path to forging a career as a he...Published: 29 Nov 2023 at 05:10hrs | 15 | by Evidence Chenjerai
Man up for printing fake certificates
ZIMBABWE Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) officers have arrested a Harare man for allegedly printing fake marriage, Ordinary and Advanced Level certificates and army identification cards, among other...Published: 14 Aug 2023 at 06:34hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in fake marriages for ticket to the UK
THE script sounds like a Tyler Perry production of one of his Hollywood blockbuster movies except that it's real and the characters are real people in Zimbabwe.A WhatsApp group message is call...Published: 11 Feb 2023 at 14:44hrs | 14 | by Staff Reporter
Spike in Zimbabwe marriages... as many stampede for diaspora jobs
SCORES of desperate Zimbabweans, particularly civil servants, are reportedly entering into fake marriages to expedite the processing of spousal visas to enable them to travel to developed countries su...Published: 24 Jan 2023 at 05:50hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe independence is now a senior bachelor!
YOUR Excellency, President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Sunday April 18 was Independence Day a once-hallowed day that has since lost its glitz because the requisite freedoms associated with the occasion are...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Man dumps blind wife, marries tenant
A BLIND woman's attempt to stop her husband's secret wedding yesterday at the Harare Magistrates' Court failed after she arrived moments after the signing.Only identified as Mrs Chidzoka, the ...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 19:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
City pastor accused of wrecking marriage
A POPULAR city pastor who is also chairperson of the Civil Societies and Church Joint Forum Anglistone, Thembani Mthiyane Sibanda is flinging in controversy after a city man accused him of causing&nbs...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 14:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tendai Ndoro's 'fake' marriage
TENDAI Ndoro has claimed that a fake marriage certificate is at the centre of his assault case which is scheduled for trial in Benoni on the East Rand yesterday.The controversial footie, who h...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 07:40hrs | | by SowetanLive
Woman fake married certificate to assist an Egyptian to remain in Zimbabwe
A Bulawayo woman has been dragged to court after she allegedly faked a marriage certificate with an Egyptian man in an attempted to help him not to be deported.Marry Phiri (52) pleaded guilty ...Published: 24 Sep 2016 at 07:22hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Nothing unusual with reshuffle, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, after repeatedly asking you to exercise patience, I started the week by making some crucial changes to my Cabinet team in order to ensure that...Published: 10 Jul 2015 at 08:28hrs | | by CZ
'Fake marriage officer' appears in court
No handwriting experts could be found to give evidence in today's trial of former Harare Magistrate Court grounds man, Edmond Mboko who is accused of solemnising marriages and forging magistrates'...Published: 10 Jun 2015 at 19:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Porous borders: a threat to SA security
CAPE TOWN - While the South African government has been commended for its "open door" policy on immigrants, experts have raised concerns about security threats possed by thousands of undocumented ...Published: 26 Nov 2014 at 10:49hrs | 2 | by Thabo Kunene
SA permits: New development
ZIMBABWEANS in South Africa have engaged the ruling tripartite alliance, Africa National Congress (ANC)'s international relations department and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and...Published: 04 Jun 2014 at 06:23hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
MP marries 2 women under Chapter 5, faces bigamy charges
Highfield West National Assembly member elect Mr Moses Manyengawana (MDC-T) might face bigamy charges after it emerged yesterday that he is married to two women under the Marriage Act Chapter 5:11. ...Published: 19 Aug 2013 at 05:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nigerian man jailed for fake marriage in UK
A Nigerian male student in the UK, Jayeola Abiola, has been jailed for arranging fake marriage between himself and a Portuguese woman, Vania Pinheiro-Fernandes.Abiola and his fake wife were ja...Published: 12 Jul 2013 at 09:12hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe to curb fake marriages
The Registrar General's Office is working towards crafting stringent measures which are expected to plug up holes in the Marriages Act, in an attempt to discourage marriages of conveniences which are ...Published: 27 Mar 2012 at 13:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T MP in marriage of convenience scam
MDC-T legislator for Dzivaresekwa Evelyn Masaiti's bid to be joined in a suspicious holy matrimony with her Cameroonian lover who is ten years younger was blocked by the courts. Masaiti, ...Published: 09 Mar 2012 at 09:00hrs | | by Alois Sibanda
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