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Polygamist in trouble for abusing first wife
A Chipinge-based polygamist, Phillip Mhlanga (36), appeared in court after he attempted to abuse his first wife. Magistrate Nixon Mangoti sentenced him to four months in jail, wholly suspended on cond...Published: 9 hrs ago | 306 | by Edson Mapani in Chipinge
Ex-Nigerian president dies at a clinic in London
Muhammadu Buhari, a former Nigerian military ruler who went on to become the nation's first opposition candidate to win a presidential election, has died. He was 82.Buhari died on Sunday after...Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 21:12hrs | 1087 | by Staff reporter
Man kills father, police launch manhunt for fugitive suspect
A 30-year-old man is the prime suspect in the brutal killing of his 64-year-old biological father, Boniface Manyonga, whose lifeless body was discovered along the Harare-Chirundu highway near Chinyere...Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 09:50hrs | 318 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's ‘secret son' seeks share of late leader's estate
A man who claims to be the son of the late former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has vowed to continue his legal fight to secure a share of the late leader's estate, despite facing setbacks in cou...Published: 31 Mar 2025 at 15:24hrs | 1941 | by Staff reporter
Viral video not 'Bombshell' Geza
Former Zanla guerrillas have dismissed claims that a widely circulated old grainy video features war veterans' leader Blessed Runesu Geza, who has been making headlines for his bold calls demanding Pr...Published: 16 Feb 2025 at 16:10hrs | 2551 | by Staff reporter
Man in court for attacking wife with a hoe
A 50-year-old man, John Mukombi, appeared before Harare magistrate Mrs. Feresi Chakanyuka on charges of attempted murder after allegedly attacking his wife, Tsitsi Mahachi, with a hoe during a domesti...Published: 29 Dec 2024 at 08:38hrs | 168 | by Staff reporter
Mashonaland chief in legal trouble over abuse directed at woman
The national Council of Chiefs has been petitioned to act on an errant chief who was filmed verbally abusing a woman during a village court sitting.Chief Nyamaropa, of Shamva in Mashonaland Ce...Published: 02 Dec 2024 at 16:56hrs | 1529 | by Staff reporter
Daisy wanted to shoot Oliver Mtukudzi
Tuku's wife, Daisy, in 2014 revealed sensational secrets about her fights with the superstar, particularly the incident when she wanted to shoot Zimbabwe's international music icon, after he denied pa...Published: 29 Sep 2024 at 10:27hrs | 1724 | by Staff reporter
Father, son reunite at Khami Prison after 27 years
Tafadzwa Hove's story is an extraordinary tale of fate and family reunion in the most unexpected of places - prison. Hove, who was sentenced to 369 years in prison for multiple robbery and rape charge...Published: 01 Sep 2024 at 10:19hrs | 992 | by Staff reporter
Man wears wife's panties
IN the Book of Genesis, God's plan for marriage is set forth poetically but clearly: "One man and one woman in a stable, lasting, fruitful relationship of mutual support".While reporting the e...Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 15:48hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Polygamist demands conjugal rights
A polygamous Harare man has dragged his first wife to court for denying him his conjugal rights for years.Talent Zanova told Harare magistrate Johanna Mukwesha that Comfort Kanota was abusing ...Published: 11 Feb 2024 at 21:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Belarus strongman dispatches 'smallhouse' to Mnangagwa's wife
PROFESSOR Irina Abelskaya, the Belarusian envoy recently dispatched to Harare to deliver a donation to First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa, is a mistress of the Eastern European country's leader Alexander L...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 06:21hrs | 698 | by Staff reporter
Man drags 2nd wife to court
A HARARE man has approached the civil courts in Harare demanding that his second wife should pay 50% of their household expenses.Norman Takawira told Harare magistrate Ayanda Dlamini that his ...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 06:04hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Ivy Kombo and Admire Kasi's legal woes continue
Ivy Kombo has been in the public eye for many years. She has embraced difficult experiences, problems and scandals as well as other trials and tribulations Zimbabwe's female musicians face. With her g...Published: 26 Nov 2023 at 08:43hrs | 216 | by Fred Zindi
Polygamous man bashes wife over sex
A 33 YEAR-OLD polygamous man from Kensington village on the outskirts of Bulawayo allegedly bashed one of his wives for denying him conjugal rights.Innocent Ncube appeared before Bulawayo magi...Published: 12 Nov 2023 at 12:01hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chief ordered to return a cow and US$1 200
The Bindura Civil Court has ordered Chief Nyamaropa to return a cow and $1 200 forcibly taken from a woman in his village at gunpoint as maintenance for her co-wife's children.The court set as...Published: 06 Nov 2023 at 20:54hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's 18 children
A publication based in the United Kingdom has added to the mystery around President Emmerson Mnangagwa's offspring by claiming the 76-year-old former Zanla combatant has a total of 18 children....Published: 25 Oct 2023 at 14:17hrs | 298 | by Staff reporter
Nyanga family tormented by thigh vendor's avenging spirit killed 50 years ago by their polygamist father
A Nyanga family finds themselves living in constant fear as they believe a vengeful spirit is haunting them, claiming to be a s_ex worker who met a tragic end 50 years ago at the hands of their patria...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 13:28hrs | 20 | by Erick Matotoba
Sex worker's ngozi surfaces 50 years later
A Nyanga family is living in fear of a vengeful spirit that claims to be a sex worker who was murdered 50 years ago by the family's patriarch.The spirit, which speaks through various possessed...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 08:04hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
King Mambos' SA bride receives a rousing welcome
AFTER a colourful ceremony in South Africa where he wedded Queen Zandile Mhlambi recently, King Mambo's subjects gave a rousing welcome to his new bride, with people from around the country gathering ...Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 21:29hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Women fight over hubby in court
Two Domboshava women in a polygamous marriage last week realised in court that their husband was tricking both of them and dodging payment of maintenance.Gladys Chikweza had dragged her husban...Published: 28 May 2023 at 08:09hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
King Mambo weds in South Africa
KING Mambo yesterday tied the knot with a South African, Queen Zandile Mhlambi, at a colourful ceremony held in the neighbouring country.In 2020, King Mambo married his then second wife, Queen...Published: 28 May 2023 at 08:02hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Apostolic member (65) marries wife's niece (10)
POLICE in Chiredzi have re-arrested an apostolic sect member Never Muzorora (65) of village 7, Matedzi, accusing him of taking in his wife's 10-year-old niece as his seventh wife.Muzorora and ...Published: 24 May 2023 at 06:01hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Bona Mugabe divorce, yet another Damascene moment for the republic
The world is not for honest people. I am convinced. Those who toil, break a sweat in various endeavours to make an honest living a...Published: 07 May 2023 at 07:22hrs | 62 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Zimbabwean Senator caught in love triangle
MDC'S Nyanga Senator Edith Baipai has dragged her husband Allan Chinowaita to court as he has been allegedly abusing her physically and financially, it has been established.It has also emerged...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 10:30hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
'Divorce 'good news' for Bona Mugabe,' says Temba Mliswa
Former Zanu PF Mashonaland West provincial chairperson and Norton legislator Temba Mliswa has wadded into Bona Mugabe and Simbarashe Chikore's divorce, arguing the latter never deserved to marry late ...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:38hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
LISTEN: No wedding, no sex, wife tells her ZANU-PF aspiring MP husband
The only thing that humbles a married man is being denied sex by his wife, especially a second wife. The situation is not only frustrating but traumatising after possibly dumping the first ...Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 12:11hrs | 31 | by Simbarashe Sithole
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
Robert Mugabe put up in sprawling Irish mansion to help him get over Sally's death
Former media magnate Tony O'Reilly put Robert Mugabe up in his sprawling country estate in Ireland to help the Zimbabwean ruler get over the death of his first wife, newly declassified files disclose....Published: 28 Dec 2022 at 20:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Drug lord blocked from starting new life in Zimbabwe
Plans by an Irish drug lord, Christy Kinahan Snr, to start a new life Zimbabwe were blocked recently when he was reportedly denied residency after buying properties, with authorities arguing he was no...Published: 15 Nov 2022 at 04:47hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Sally Mugabe renal unit disappears
THE renal unit at Chitungwiza Central Hospital (CCH) named after the late former President Robert Mugabe's late first wife Sally collapsed and disappeared years ago, NewsDay has established.Th...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 06:58hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Journalist Manyowa lays cyber-bullying charges against Facebook users
CELEBRITY journalist, Maynard Manyowa and his first wife Mutsa, have laid cyber-bullying charges on two Facebook users following a series of posts the two dispute.The charges emanate from a po...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga marries long-time soldier lover
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has married his long-time lover Miniyothabo Baloyi, the presidency announced on Wednesday.The two lovebirds exchanged their vows during a private ceremony a...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 17:58hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
'Family members rejoiced when Tuku, Sam died'
DAISY Mtukudzi, the widow to the late music superstar Oliver Mtukudzi has claimed that some family members were happy about the deaths of Tuku and his son Sam. Tuku died of heart failure relat...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 09:20hrs | 58 | by Staff reporter
Unpacking the origins of the Mabhikwa Chieftaincy
FOLLOWING the death of Chief Mabhikwa, Chronicle sought the views of historian Mr Thomas Sibanda, who helped shed more light on the historical background of the chieftaincy.He shares his views...Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:20hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Savanhu's second wife loses bid
THE second wife of the late Minister for Lands and Resettlement Deputy Minister, Tendai Savanhu, has lost her bid to counter her eviction from her late husband's property.The widow, Tendai Sav...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 10:12hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa rally murder takes new twist
The grisly murder of Mboneni Ncube, the Citizens for Coalition for Change (CCC) Kwekwe activist who was killed at a rally in the Midlands town in February has taken a new twist with the suspected kill...Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tendai Savanhu's widow arrested
The second wife of the late deputy Minister for Lands and Resettlement Tendai Savanhu was yesterday arrested on charges of theft of trust property after she allegedly sold her late husband's Range Rov...Published: 18 Mar 2022 at 05:33hrs | 1 | by Staf reporter
Can I loan lobola money to my partner?
I want to become a polygamistAmai, I hope you are doing well. I have been dating a girl for the past two years although I have a wife. I am 32 and my wife is 25. We have three kids together....Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 08:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ndumiso Gumede laid to rest
HUNDREDS of people converged at Ndumiso Gumede's rural home in Inyathi Village, Bubi District in Matabeleland North, to pay their last respects to the late decorated football administrator.The...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 05:52hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Ndumiso Gumede dies
RESPECTED veteran football administrator Ndumiso Gumede has died.He was 76.The ex-Zifa president passed away in Bulawayo from suspected hypertension problems.His death comes ba...Published: 29 Dec 2021 at 19:55hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Goblins torment family
Some 40 km north of Chiredzi Town in Zvemombe Village in Magudu Ranch in Chiredzi North, a family has suddenly fallen under the terror of suspected goblins.Newman Zukwa who is aged 64 told The...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 18:54hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Factoring 'animal spirits' into Zimbabwe's economic discourse
John Maynard Keynes is considered by many to be the most consequential economist of the past century. Perhaps one of his boldest contributions to economics was postulating, perhaps correctly, that the...Published: 18 Nov 2021 at 19:02hrs | 20 | by Simbarashe Bepete
Border Gezi's widow in police custody
The late ZANU PF political commissar Border Gezi's widow Sheilar has been arrested today at her house in Mvurwi where she is suspected to be drug peddling.Gezi who is the ruling party chairwom...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 16:15hrs | 28 | by Paul Ndou
Man kills self after beating wife to death
A 37-YEAR-OLD bigamist from Lupane allegedly committed suicide by hanging on Sunday after fatally assaulting his first wife who he suspected of having an extra-marital affair, police have said....Published: 11 Aug 2021 at 18:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gringo's widow gives birth
The drama continues . . . After giving birth to her bouncing baby boy on June 5, the late comedian Lazarus "Gringo" Boora's widow Netsai Meki described the child as "heaven sent, a comfo...Published: 12 Jun 2021 at 07:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
How Zimbabwe is still haunted by Robert Mugabe
IN OUR series of letters from Africa, Zimbabwean journalist-turned-barrister Brian Hungwe writes that long-serving ruler Robert Mugabe, who died in 2019, seems to be causing trouble from beyond the gr...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 18:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
151 children, 16 wives, still counting
Mbire man, Misheck Nyandoro, has fathered 151 children with 16 wives and he is still counting. "Mine is a project. This polygamy is a project that I have undertaken since 1983 and will end wit...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Ndumiso Gumede the man
THE setting is Highlanders Sports Club, popularly known as Clubhouse, a perfect venue for the interview with Ndumiso Gumede since it is one of the properties acquired by Bosso under his chairmanship i...Published: 02 May 2021 at 09:17hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Triple homicide shocks Gweru
GWERU residents woke up to a shocking triple homicide yesterday after a man shot and killed three people and injured his wife over suspected infidelity. A police memorandum seen by Southern Eye Weeken...Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 07:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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