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Granny allegedly drowns grandson as cleansing ceremony goes wrong
A 66-YEAR-OLD Zvishavane granny has been arrested for allegedly drowning her 10-year-old grandson during a suspected cleansing ceremony in Ngezi River.Midlands provincial police spokesperson I...Published: 24 Jan 2024 at 04:50hrs | 394 | by Staff reporter
Man (23) touches granny's (91) private parts
Villagers of Tseko in Mudzi were shell-shocked after a 23-year-old man stormed into a 91-year-old woman's room to remove her clothes before touching her private parts.Kudakwashe Bonya allegedl...Published: 18 Jan 2024 at 11:44hrs | 1264 | by Simbarashe Sithole
'Bulawayo is built on love'
BULAWAYO's success is anchored on love and acts of philanthropy, Bulawayo City Council's Corporate Communications Manager, Mrs Nesisa Mpofu has said.She said this during a Christmas party held...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 10:44hrs | 344 | by Staff reporter
Granny (78) axed to death
A 78-year-old woman from Nembudziya in Gokwe North was found dead after she was struck with an axe on the head by an intruder.The incident took place at Murozvi Village under Chief Chireya....Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 09:42hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter
Granny busted for stealing underwear
IN a rather surreal and soul-shaking case, a 61-year-old granny was busted for stealing women's underwear and hiding them between her thighs at one of the shops situated in Bulawayo's central business...Published: 22 Sep 2023 at 06:39hrs | 1352 | by Staff reporter
Granny killed over polls
A 74 year-old man stabbed his wife with a kitchen knife after accusing her of neglecting household chores to go and vote during the Wednesday election.The matter came to light at the Plumtree ...Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 12:47hrs | 560 | by Staff reporter
Man assaults granny to death
Bindura man Edmore Dube (22) allegedly assaulted Luiza Nyakakata (81) to death for no accountable reason at Nyanhewe village, Bindura on Friday....Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 07:18hrs | 11 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Filabusi villagers on edge as loose lion preys on livestock
GOGO Janet Nkala has never seen her two grandkids so scared to the extent that they asked to sleep in the same bedroom with her hours after what they had witnessed in the afternoon.The boys we...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man (22) rapes granny (90) for ritual purposes
In a shocking incident a 22-year-old Bindura man force marched a 90-years-old grandmother into her bedroom before raping her.The matter...Published: 27 Apr 2023 at 23:24hrs | 31 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa wife's official meddling intensifies
First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa's meddling in government affairs intensified this week after she flew out of the country with her twin sons Sean and Collins to hold separate meetings with Belarus Presid...Published: 18 Apr 2023 at 20:01hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Granny loses house to church
THE United Congregational Church of Southern Africa (UCCSA)'s branch in Bulawayo's Nkulumane suburb is at the centre of a fraud storm amid allegations that they duped one of their elderly congregants ...Published: 14 Apr 2023 at 07:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man hangs self after killing granny (70)
IN an incident that has left villagers in Mutoko shell-shocked, a 31-year-old man fatally attacked his grandmother with a log before committing suicide after accusing her of failing to buy his medicat...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 06:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man strikes granny (68) to death
A 28-YEAR-OLD Kezi man is on the run after fatally striking his 68-year-old grandmother with a log following a dispute over an undisclosed issue.Matabeleland South provincial police spokespers...Published: 26 Feb 2023 at 21:13hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Intolerance behind polarisation in Zimbabwe
AS Zimbabwe heads for crucial harmonised later this year, there has been an unsurprising increase in calls for unity among the country's citizenry.This is in response to the highly toxic natur...Published: 20 Feb 2023 at 05:31hrs | 8 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Man cuts grandfather's throat in callous murder
A 29-year-old Chikombedzi man slit his 70-year-old grandfather's throat in a callous murder incident police linked to a misunderstanding between the two.This shock incident was confirmed by po...Published: 13 Feb 2023 at 07:08hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Children abandon 80-year-old granny
Community members in Makokoba, Bulawayo, have taken over the welfare of an 80-year-old woman who has apparently been abandoned by her children.The octogenarian, identified as Gogo Khethiwe Ncu...Published: 13 Feb 2023 at 05:22hrs | 247 | by Staff reporter
Herd boy named as suspect in axe killing of granny, 76
A 76-year-old grandmother was allegedly killed by her herd boy in an axe attack in Mtshabezi, Gwanda, police said.Police are hunting Binga native, Brian Mwinde, who vanished with his belonging...Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 16:57hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife steals limelight in meddling
WHEN the 2017 coup that toppled the long-time ruler Robert Mugabe unfolded, military commanders and top Zanu-PF officials announced that one of the reasons for the ouster was to stop the then first la...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:39hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Granny kills hubby (81) over infidelity
A 62-year-old woman has been arrested in Darwendale on allegations of killing her 81-year-old husband on Sunday following a fight over allegations of infidelity.Mary Banda is alleged to have f...Published: 11 Nov 2022 at 05:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mutare family 'disowns' gay son
GALZ has slammed Zimbabwe's laws for fuelling hate against the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQl+) community following the recent publicity of a Mutare based family "diso...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:02hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mahachi granny testifies in court
A SOMBRE atmosphere engulfed the court when footballer Kudakwashe Mahachi's grandmother was testifying in a case in which the footballer is on trial for attempting to murder his son.Giving her...Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 06:18hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
300 Bulawayo couples seek divorce in 6 months
MORE than 300 couples have applied for divorce in the High Court in Bulawayo in the first six months of the year, translating to about an average of 50 cases every month, a worrying trend observers bl...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:06hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa grilled over propaganda
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube and the Reserve Bank have run out of ideas and are introducing complicated policies that continue to confuse and disadvantage the ordinary people while failing to address...Published: 12 Jul 2022 at 18:15hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Bumper harvest 'muthi' backfires
FOR some that believe in the law of Karma, evil deeds of the elders are bound to visit their children or close family members.Karma can loosely be translated from Hinduism as good or back luck...Published: 27 May 2022 at 06:50hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Granny begs for quickie in court
MANY people find themselves in marriages where sex is unappealing or even non-existent.Such relationships can lead to despair, searches for extramarital satisfaction, or even separation especi...Published: 21 May 2022 at 18:25hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Chief Dakamela households in need of food aid
ABOUT 860 households under Chief Dakamela in Nkayi, Matabeleland North province are in acute need of food aid following the prolonged dry spell, which affected most crops in the region.Chief D...Published: 14 Apr 2022 at 06:35hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Granny axed to death as family watches
RESIDENTS of Gwanda are in shock following the death of a 68-year-old woman who was killed by an axe wielding man who had a score to settle with the woman's daughter and grandson.The woman, Em...Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:25hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa must sleep with one eye open
Elections always unfailingly produce rare and curious political creatures and species.You might think you have seen it all only for another election cycle to remind you that you ain't seen not...Published: 20 Feb 2022 at 08:49hrs | 11 | by Bishop Lazi
Christmas: a time to be with family
Zimbabwe joins the rest of the world to celebrate Christmas Day today and as we celebrate it is important to remind each other of some of the traditions that were practiced by our grandmothers not so ...Published: 25 Dec 2021 at 09:22hrs | 13 | by Yvonne Ncube
Zacc probes Bulawayo judge, lawyer
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has launched a probe into Bulawayo High Court Judge Justice Martin Makonese and lawyer Josphat Tshuma for alleged misconduct in cases involving land disp...Published: 17 Dec 2021 at 23:43hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Granny (62) arrested over mbanje
A 62-YEAR-OLD granny from Bulawayo's Pumula South high-density suburb has been arrested for illegal possession of four well-maintained dagga plants at her house.Bulawayo police spokesperson Ab...Published: 17 Dec 2021 at 23:42hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
2 men rape granny (86)
POLICE in Goromonzi, Mashonaland East province have launched a manhunt for two men who pounced on an 86-year-old granny near Juru Growth Point, and raped her.She was alone when the crime was c...Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 07:08hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Burglar blames mum for his life of crime
TWENTY-YEAR-OLD Terrence Dube is an unrepentant convicted burglar who believes that his mother pushed him to be a criminal by abandoning him when he was five years old.Dube, who was sentenced ...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 05:27hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa warns Chamisa
Zanu-PF national acting political commissar, Patrick Chinamasa Saturday made a chilling warning to MDC Alliance activists against intimidating its members who defect to the ruling party.Chinam...Published: 30 Nov 2021 at 05:34hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Granny (92) killed by nephew over dog's bowl
In a bizarre incident that left villagers of Gotshopo under Headman Mangubo, Hingwe in Plumtree shell shocked, a 92-year-old woman lost her life on Tuesday morning after having being severely beaten o...Published: 20 Oct 2021 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Desmond Nleya
Boy (15) rapes five minors
A LOWER GWERU juvenile allegedly raped two sisters and three cousins aged between six and eight years, and ran away when the crimes were discovered.The boy allegedly raped his two sisters aged...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 07:53hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
IDs for 'forgotten citizens'
THE Registrar-General (RG's) office yesterday started issuing identity documents to the San community in Tsholotsho, Matabeleland North, creating a sense of belonging among these almost forgotten citi...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
105-year-old granny dies
ZANU-PF Politburo member Headman Moyo has lost his mother, Mrs Thenjiwe Moyo (nee Ncube) who passed on at the age of 105.She succumbed to pneumonia at home in Mbembesi under Chief Mabhikwa are...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 09:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
When clowns sup at State House, it's trouble, serious trouble!
Pretoria mornings are now cold. It is a geographical axiom winter is for chills.Increasingly here, the weather is biting and unrelenting like a witch's tit as assumed.Early morning jog...Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 18:40hrs | 8 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Granny axes man over firewood
POLICE in Rushinga, Mashonaland Central province arrested a 52-year-old who went beserk and axed a man who confronted her over cutting fire wood in his field on Sunday.Eustina Lucia Gomwe of G...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 19:43hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Missing 81-year-old man found dead
A Polygamous 81-year-old from Zvishavane who had been reported missing was found dead in a bushy area in a suspected murder case.A passerby found the body of Patrick Shoko which was burnt from...Published: 24 May 2021 at 06:38hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Growing up in the village
Back in the village in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve the moon rose slowly, tentatively and imperceptibly, its soft rays breaking the virginity of the night. Slowly darkness gave w...Published: 15 May 2021 at 09:40hrs | 9 | by Isdore Guvamombe-
Every child must at one stage stay at grandmother’s home
The eldest of us was Tapfuma, whose eggshell head made him look awkward. In our hierarchy Tapfuma was followed by me and then Obedience, a tall slim boy full of humour. The rest were toddlers. We so l...Published: 08 May 2021 at 07:58hrs | 12 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Teen kills granny (86) over girlfriend
A LOVESTRUCK juvenile (17) from Madlambudzi in Matabeleland South stoned his ex-girlfriend's grandfather (86) after the elderly man barred him from taking the girl out for a date. Matabeleland...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obama's step-grandmother dies
Sarah Obama, the matriarch of former United States President Barack Obama's Kenyan family has died, relatives and officials confirmed Monday. She was at least 99 years old.Mama Sarah, as the s...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 18:53hrs | | by AP
Granny dies in freak accident
AN 84-YEAR-OLD Mount Darwin woman died on the spot when a Nissan lorry she was travelling in hit a pothole and veered off the road before falling into a ditch yesterday.Mashonaland Central pol...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wife (88) kills hubby (99) over cowpeas
POLICE in Mutoko have arrested a woman (88) who allegedly killed her 99-year-old husband by striking him with bricks after he refused to help her harvest cowpeas.Enesia Chivhinge of Plot 35 Ta...Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mysterious stones haunt granny
A MARANGE woman is having a torrid time as she tries to ascertain the origins of the stones that are being thrown at her house every night.This has seen Gogo Mariah Tirinda accusing her neighb...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Granny appeals for help
A 98-YEAR-OLD Bulawayo woman is appealing for assistance to buy food and meet other medical expenses as she has no source of income.Tsinyeko Dungeni from Emganwini said she needs money to buy ...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:17hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Man attempts to rape 78 year old granny
A 32-YEAR-OLD Lupane man has been arrested after he allegedly attempted to rape a 78-year-old woman in a bush. Bright Bhukanana Moyo (32) of Gudubhu village allegedly pounced on the elderly wo...Published: 22 Feb 2021 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
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