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3m python torments family
BUSINESS was recently brought to a halt in Mutare's Hobhouse high-density suburb after a self-styled prophet fished out a three-metre python, which was allegedly tormenting a family, from a cottage....Published: 21 hrs ago | 3706 | by Staff reporter
Cohabiting now considered as marriage in Zimbabwe
The new Marriages Bill which has been approved by cabinet formally recognises civil partnerships (umasihlalisane/kuchaya mapoto) as legal marriage. An analysis of the Bill reveals that the law...Published: 17 May 2019 at 10:50hrs | 8670 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Domestic helpers should be vetted, say police
HOUSEMAIDS and other domestic helpers should be vetted by law enforcement agents before they are employed to reduce cases of child abuse, an official has said.Speaking at a crime watch outreac...Published: 17 May 2019 at 07:21hrs | 1306 | by Staff reporter
Sons preference contributes to high birth rates - Report
MOST communities in Zimbabwe and in the world still prefer the birth of sons over daughters, a development which a recently released State of World Population (SWOP) 2019 report says contributes to hi...Published: 17 May 2019 at 06:27hrs | 760 | by Thandeka Moyo
No woman no cry
Relatively everyone on this planet can relent with their mothers as the ones that played a significant role in much of their lives.As the world commemorates mother's day one should not only sh...Published: 12 May 2019 at 23:07hrs | 97 | by Daniel Itai
Zimbabwe Marriage Act bans gays, lesbians marriages
A POTENTIALLY explosive debate awaits Parliament after Cabinet approved the amendment of the Marriages Act to effectively make it illegal for same sex marriages to be solemnised and recognised in the ...Published: 11 May 2019 at 14:53hrs | 423 | by Staff reporter
HIV/Aids transmission law repeal approved by Cabinet
The Marriages Amendment Bill which will repeal a legal provision that criminalises "wilful" transmission of HIV to a partner has been approved by Cabinet.Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affai...Published: 11 May 2019 at 08:59hrs | 1504 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe govt liberalises marriages…Chiefs, Vapostori to solemnise unions
Government has extended the role of marriage officers to include traditional and religious leaders such as Vapostori as it seeks to liberalise the solemnisation of unions.Justice, Legal and Pa...Published: 11 May 2019 at 08:35hrs | 3542 | by Staff Rporter
Zimbabwe traditional chiefs, Vapostori to solemnise marriages
Government has extended the role of marriage officers to include traditional and religious leaders such as Vapostori as it seeks to liberalise the solemnisation of unions.Justice, Legal and Pa...Published: 10 May 2019 at 14:26hrs | 1092 | by Staff reporter
New Marriages Bill approved...formally bans gay marriages
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Cabinet on Thursday approved the Marriages Amendment Bill which seeks to repeal and replace the Customary Marriages Act (Chapter 5:11) so as to emerge with one Act gover...Published: 10 May 2019 at 12:16hrs | 8407 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Matebeleland women decry exclusion from traditional justice system
WOMEN in Matebeleland provinces have decried their poor representation in the traditional justice system, claiming it showed that they were still looked down upon by their male counterparts.Th...Published: 03 May 2019 at 06:55hrs | 175 | by Staff reporter
Tonga people are black Jews
For many years historians have failed to trace or state the origin of Tongas the ethnic group of Southern Province. Not even archaeology and oral traditions could give a clue of where Tongas came from...Published: 01 May 2019 at 15:58hrs | 4397 | by Abraham Shalome
Breakthrough as fathers get equal custodial rights as mothers
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's cabinet has approved principles that seek to amend the Constitution to give equal rights between mothers and fathers. In a statement on Wednesday the Minis...Published: 01 May 2019 at 10:25hrs | 6061 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Shocking number of pupils rape recorded in Matebeleland North
SCHOOLS in Matebeleland North Province recorded shocking numbers of pupils who were raped and fell into child marriages while at least one was killed by another pupil.Available statistics show...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 07:59hrs | 1164 | by Staff reporter
Religion: Is gambling a sin?
Gambling is a game of chance. It's all about card games, roulette, lotteries, and much more. These games are fun and seemingly harmless. Most believe that there is nothing wrong with gambling as long ...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 08:44hrs | 3389 | by Staff Writer
Rights commission probes Passport Office
The Registrar-General's Office is co-operating with the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission in its inquiries into allegations of delays in the issuance of passports and national identification documents....Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 06:33hrs | 1095 | by Staff reporter
'Schools hiking fees'
MOST schools are hiking their tuition fees and levies to enable them to survive the harsh economic climate, the Daily News can report.The fee increases put a heavy burden on struggling parents...Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 16:09hrs | 1176 | by Staff reporter
Olinda and Tytan welcome new born baby
UNITED KINGDOM based Zimbabwean businesswoman and socialite, Olinda Chapel and husband Tytan Monday welcomed their new born child at John Radcliffe hospital.The couple tied the knot in March l...Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 07:06hrs | 1088 | by newzimbabwe
Men rape daughters in bizarre rituals
DISTURBING reports have surfaced from some remote parts of Mbire district in Mashonaland Central where some fathers are allegedly raping their daughters and forcing them into incestuous relationships ...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 07:32hrs | 1168 | by Staff reporter
Provincial nominations to settle Chamisa, Mwonzora rivalry
THE MDC has entered a crucial week after it set the ball rolling on provincial nominations for the party's national leadership over the weekend, ahead of next month's do-or-die elective congress....Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 12:28hrs | 1526 | by Staff reporter
Crucial week for Chamisa's MDC
THE MDC has entered a crucial week after it set the ball rolling on provincial nominations for the party's national leadership over the weekend, ahead of next month's do-or-die elective congress....Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 07:17hrs | 3185 | by Staff reporter
Divorce isn't a solution
MARRIAGE is an interesting union, two people of opposite sex who are not even related coming to live together, brought together by love and this time it is not agape but the "phileo" kind of love, aff...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 14:30hrs | 2015 | by FGK
Mnangagwa's govt to audit NGOs
GOVERNMENT is set to audit all non-governmental organisations (NGOs) operating in Mashonaland East province to ostensibly expose and flush out groups that were not doing projects that benefit communit...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 07:09hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
Parliament defends SB Moyo's wife
Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda has refuted claims that the Committee on Standing Rules and Ordered was instructed by the Executive to recommend Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo for the Chair of Zimbabw...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 14:21hrs | 6310 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC bigwigs sweat over congress
THE heat is on in the MDC where fearful bigwigs have forged alliances with their would-be rivals for posts at the party's looming congress which could usher in a new breed of politicians in the countr...Published: 31 Mar 2019 at 16:44hrs | 1865 | by Staff reporter
'Spiritual spectacles' prophet draws crowds in Bulawayo
Goodness and Mercy Ministries founder and lead pastor Prophet Tapiwa Freddy leads the All Night Spiritual Spectacles Bulawayo Edition crusade at White City Stadium on Friday nightTHOUSANDS of ...Published: 31 Mar 2019 at 10:03hrs | 1070 | by Staff reporter
'No to gays'
METHODISTS have united against homosexuality at a Special General Conference held last month in the United States where delegates refused to recognise gay unions and ordain homosexuals into offices of...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 23:11hrs | 2741 | by Fatima Bulla
Deliberate transmission of HIV: The pros & cons
THE most topical issue this past week was the announcement by Justice minister of government's plans to revoke section 79(1) of the Criminal (Codification and Reform) Act, which makes the deliberate t...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 17:39hrs | 179 | by Miriam Tose Majome
ZCLDN applauds Government decision to decriminalise HIV transmission
THE Zimbabwe Civil Liberties and Drug Network (ZCLDN) welcomes the recent announcement made by the Government that it wants to repeal a legal provision that criminalises willful transmission of HIV/AI...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 07:07hrs | 225 | by ZCLDN Communications Department
Decriminalising AIDS spreaders Is brutal and an assault to humanity
In 1996 the then Zimbabwe's Minister of Justice Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa oversaw the proposed legislation which makes it a criminal offence for a person who knows that he or she is infected with HI...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 14:40hrs | 1552 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe marriage age of consent raised
GIRLS under the age of 18 will no longer legally enter into marriages, while marrying off minors will become a criminal offence under a new law that will be introduced in Parliament soon.Inter...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 22:27hrs | 5865 | by Staff reporter
2 failed marriages, a broken past define Mukanya
Two broken marriages, transition from village life to the ghetto, a miscalculated sojourn into the diaspora, failed investments, a broken youth life, all carved the character of this man. This...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 05:46hrs | 5715 | by STaff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife cuts short UN event attendance
First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa had to cut short her attendance at the 63rd UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) on Monday to assist affected citizens following the devastating effects of Cyclone ...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:27hrs | 777 | by Staff reporter
Married woman caught pants down, taken to police whilst undressed
A Chitungwiza married woman was reportedly caught pants down with another man in the wee hours of yesterday.Nathaniel Nyagura, 31, who is married to Grace Pama, 31, under Marriages Act Chapter...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 19:10hrs | 3215 | by Staff reporter
Once in the herd its an Eland/Mhofu
Fruits of rape are within communities being called or greeted with certain known totems. Dumped and found babies are also blended among us, surnamed and praised with our totems. There are also product...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 19:01hrs | 186 | by Thomas Murisa.
Namibia minister slams Zimbabweans over marriages of convenience with his people
NAMIBIA'S Home Affairs minister has slammed Zimbabweans and other foreign nationals who are in the tendency of entering into marriages of convenience with his compatriots in order to qualify for Namib...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 07:26hrs | 965 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe to decriminalise wilful HIV transmission
Government is set to repeal a legal provision that criminalises transmission of HIV/AIDS to a partner in order to keep abreast with international standards, Parliament heard yesterday. Justice...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 07:21hrs | 417 | by Staff reporter
Late Zimbabwe VP exposed for raping Harare school teacher?
With so many rapes going unreported and unprosecuted, victims are instead forced by circumstances to commit paternity fraud. Most have managed to keep their secrets, but the arrival of affordable DNA ...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 20:17hrs | 8583 | by TRT World
'Zimbabwe embassies must issue IDs, passports'
A parliamentary panel has proposed that Zimbabwe's 39 embassies across the globe be empowered to issue national documentation such as IDs and passports to migrants to decongest the Registrar General's...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 13:50hrs | 2460 | by Staff reporter
Vimbai Zimuto will burn in hell, says prophet
REMNANT Desire of All Nations Ministries Prophet Talent Madungwe says the likes of singer Vimbai Zimuto and raunchy dancers, Bev and Zodwa Wabantu are agents of the kingdom of darkness and will burn i...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 05:05hrs | 2815 | by Staff reporter
'80% of Bulawayo men who patronise bars and the red light districts are gay'
CALL it double dipping!Panic has gripped the Bulawayo community after shocking and controversial statistics revealed that 80 percent of Bulawayo men that patronise bars and the red light distr...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 16:39hrs | 5155 | by Staff reporter
Fostering gender equality by eradicating period poverty
Again, it is that day of the year when we commemorate International Women's Day, a day that we also take stock of the victories that have been won for girls and women so far. And again, there is not m...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 08:41hrs | 214 | by Theresa Farai Nyava
Age of consent stirs debate in Zimbabwe
LEGISLATORS have dismissed reports that they are pushing for the downward review of the age of consent to 12 years, explaining that they were calling for minors who are sexually active to access treat...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 06:50hrs | 653 | by Staff reporter
SA Church ordered to solemnise gay and lesbian marriages by court
The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has found that the Dutch Reformed Church's policy against solemnising same-sex marriages, diminished the integrity of gay congregants.Judges Sulette Potteril...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 14:14hrs | 1285 | by Staff reporter
Fostering gender equality by eradicating period poverty
Again, it is that day of the year when we commemorate International Women's Day, a day that we also take stock of the victories that have been won for girls and women so far. And again, there is not m...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 09:57hrs | 258 | by Theresa Farai Nyava
A Guide to Islam: An Advanced Level Textbook on Islam
Shaibu Asali in, A Guide to Islam: An Advanced Level Textbook on Islam is a 2019 publication grounded on an insider's perspective on Islam as a religion. Shaibu Asali's eight chapter book of 95 pages ...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 11:09hrs | 1069 | by Brian Maregedze
The impossibility of abolishing lobola
THIS is the conclusion of a three-part series which discussed the feasibility of doing away with roora or making it optional in customary marriages.The position taken has been that it is impos...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 01:00hrs | 421 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Zimbabwe's First Lady a humanitarian person
Auxillia Mnangagwa the fourth first lady in Zimbabwe was born on the 25th March 1963. She precedes Mrs Banana. mrs Sally Mugabe. Mrs Grace Mugabe She is a second born in a family of 5. She grew up in ...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 12:56hrs | 1319 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Auxillia Mnangagwa: First Lady par excellence and philanthropist
The online news publication, Zimeye whose credibility is very questionable, did the unthinkable this week by taking a jibe on the First Lady, Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa through publishing a shoddily-done...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 08:15hrs | 1728 | by Elijah Chihota
Auxilia Mnangagwa: Soiling a charitable soul
Christened President Emmerson Mnangagwa's "secret weapon" during the 2018 electioneering, her messages and deeds resonated well with a significant percentage of the "silent vote" – the people that d...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 11:15hrs | 4719 | by Mapozho Saruchera
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