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Pressure to send money home creates many problems in UK
Pretty Matekenya sat with her children in their small apartment in Luton, United Kingdom, just gazing at her payslip.Since she moved to England, she felt pressure from her relatives in Zimbabw...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:20hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Headmaster axes teacher
Zavarima secondary school headmaster Denford Zavarima allegedly axed a fellow teacher in Binga last week after he suspected him of cheating &n...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 17:58hrs | 5 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Madzibaba who massacred 6 family members arrested
Police have arrested Thubelithle Khoshow (26) in connection with cases of Murder and Rape which occurred on October 9 at around 0300 hours at ...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 07:27hrs | 3 | by Shelton Muchena
Diaspora not always a place of success
GOING abroad has been long regarded as key to success. Thousands of Zimbabweans have destroyed their livelihoods in a bid to secure a ticket and fly away to the Diaspora.Many people sold house...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:29hrs | 10 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Shameless, unpatriotic citizens sell out Zimbabwe in UK
AS President Mnangagwa prepares to visit the United Kingdom in a trip which will see him gracing the Kingdom of Scotland, Zimbabweans are in high morale hoping to see their leader as he lifts the nati...Published: 25 Sep 2021 at 06:01hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Diaspora streets not paved with gold
Living abroad is one of the most eye-opening experiences that you can have for yourself. It allows you to be challenged in new settings and work through problems you wouldn't encounter at home...Published: 12 Jun 2021 at 07:50hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
143 arrested as cops smash drug dealers' bases
A POLICE crackdown on drug peddlers and syndicates has so far netted 143 drug dealers with their bases being destroyed in raids that are being carried out in Harare and Chitungwiza. This comes...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 06:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The truth about Dr Masimba Mavaza
I normally do not want to respond to social media neither do I want to be vilifying people. But after reading the article by Nomaz...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 22:29hrs | 8 | by Mandla Khumalo
Floods alert as rivers rise
TSHOLOTSHO District is on high alert for floods as water levels in the Gwayi and Khami rivers are rising at an alarming speed. With the Meteorological Services Department predicting more rains...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mamombe a metal case, says Chinotimba
BUHERA South legislator Joseph Chinotimba yesterday caused a storm in Parliament after he described Harare West Legislator Joanah Mamombe as mentally ill.Chinotimba made the remarks after Mamo...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:25hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Diaspora men held at ransom by their wives
Man sitting on outdoor wooden stairwell, cupped hand wrapped around clenched hand, both hands held to mouth, a pained gaze" This is the everyday posture most men in the UK adopt under pressure from th...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 23:55hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavava
Mamombe challenges imprisonment
OPPOSITION Harare West legislator Joanah Mamombe (MDC Alliance), who was remanded in custody by a Harare magistrate who wants her examined for mental illness by two government doctors, has approached ...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 06:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Woman slaps hubby with lifetime sex ban
FOR a sex-deprived Bulawayo man sex seems to be the source of a man's self-worth.This was after he bitterly complained that he was living with his wife as strangers in the house after she alle...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 11:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Diasporas Dilema - Rich Doesn't Mean Successful
Going abroad has been long regarded as a key to success. Thousands of Zimbabweans have destroyed their livelihoods in a bid to get a ticket and fly away to the diaspora. Most people have sold their ho...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 11:23hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Is it time for Africa to teach Europe what democracy and passive racism are?
Picture it. The aftermath of a national election, where senior international observer from a leading European country declares of the election process he has just witnessed: "In all the many election ...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 07:26hrs | 2 | by Anonymous
Gukurahundi skeletons tumble out of the closet
AS Zimbabwe inches towards critical general elections on Monday, skeletons of Gukurahundi massacres - which remain an emotive political and electoral issue in the country - are tumbling out of the clo...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 11:19hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Man stabs wife after mistaking her for lion
A 38-year-old mentally disturbed man from Kwekwe has been spared a jail term for stabbing his wife to death with a kitchen knife after he mistook her for a lion, the court heard.Godfrey Siband...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 14:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Family pressures create many graves for Zimbabweans in the UK
Life for immigrant communities in the UK remains gloomy, but many put on brave faces when they talk to those back home. All is not rosy abroad.In January this year, a Zimbabwean woman's body w...Published: 04 Oct 2017 at 04:54hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zanu-PF MP in solo fundraising for Mugabe rally
KWEKWE Central legislator, Masango "Blackman" Matambanadzo has set himself on a collision course with fellow ruling party officials in the Midlands province after he organised a parallel fundraising p...Published: 31 Aug 2017 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dad beats year-old daughter to death
A 27-YEAR-OLD man allegedly bludgeoned his one- year-old daughter to death with a hammer and left his wife and mother-in-law seriously injured after attacking them with the same weapon.Lungisa...Published: 16 Aug 2017 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dog meat vendor records brisk business in Bulawayo
A HOMELESS Bulawayo man has been skinning carcasses of dogs that would have been put down by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) and selling the meat to some residents....Published: 07 Aug 2017 at 06:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Cop' kidnaps two kids
A MAN from Bulawayo impersonated a police officer before allegedly kidnapping two pupils from Mhali Primary School in Magwegwe suburb.Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector Precious Simango co...Published: 14 Jul 2017 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Madman' breaks into Chiyangwa's house
A knife-wielding man suspected to be mentally disturbed broke into Zifa president Philip Chiyangwa's son Bruce's Borrowdale home in Harare last Monday.Jerry Tafuririka (38) appeared before Harare magi...Published: 02 Jun 2017 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
A muppet with a whistle and an audience: Response to Fikile Mbalula
Many years ago, in her soft tone and motherly wisdom my mum once said, if you go and bathe at the river and a mad man steals your clothes, there is no point chasing him, least the towns people apprehe...Published: 27 Apr 2017 at 14:19hrs | 2 | by Prof Changamire
Woman locks grandson in house, leaves for SA
A woman from Cowdray Park in Bulawayo allegedly locked her mentally unstable grandson in their house for two months when she left for South Africa.A Sunday News crew visited the house last...Published: 26 Mar 2017 at 10:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Killer teacher abused cocaine
A Gwanda teacher Reuben Maphosa (53) abused cocaine and other dangerous drugs leading to insanity and eventually brutally killing his two granddaughters.Maphosa of Mafuku Primary School Cottag...Published: 16 Mar 2017 at 09:39hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Woman makes husband pay lobola every-time they have a fight
A WOMAN who is demanding that her ex-husband pays lobola for her the second time before they reconcile approached the civil court this week.Nomaze Ndlovu sought a protection order against ...Published: 15 Mar 2017 at 16:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Snake, goblin prophet granted bail
A Johane Masowe YeChishanu prophet, who was nabbed on allegations of planting live snakes and goblins in homes, has been granted US$100 bail.Starlin Nhamo, 28, pleaded not guilty when he a...Published: 10 Jan 2017 at 14:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
6-yr-old bludgeoned with hammer, gut ripped open
A TSHOLOTSHO man pounded his neighbour's six year-old son to death with a hammer before tying his body to a bicycle frame and ripping his stomach open with a knife.Thereafter, Lizwe Ncube alle...Published: 29 Aug 2016 at 06:59hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
From car dealer to prophet
HEEDING the call drop everything and serve God is difficult. Perhaps it is even more so for someone in a lucrative trade such as a car dealership.Emmanuel Mwale, now of Unity Apostolic Church ...Published: 15 May 2016 at 07:42hrs | | by Religion Writer
Mutilated body of a boy found
A 12-year-old boy was found dead, with his lips removed, in a veld in Krugersdorp, Kagiso police said on Wednesday.Daily Sun reported that a resident directed officers to the veld, between Swa...Published: 06 May 2016 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Rescued trafficking victims expected today
Thirty-two Zimbabwean women who were lured to Kuwait to work as housemaids, but ended up as sex slaves, are expected back in the country today after a Parliamentary delegation secured their evacuation...Published: 30 Apr 2016 at 20:25hrs | 1 | by Lloyd Gumbo
Apostle Immanuel heals mad man and two old ladies
An Apostle Try Immanuel a leader of Greaterlife Embassy recently reportedly confounded the sceptics on his mind-blowing miracles which raised interest within the anonymous fellows in the press and the...Published: 18 Mar 2016 at 07:28hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Harare pastor 'resurrects the dead, heals Aids victims'
A Harare church leader, Apostle Try Immanuel who is the founder and President of Greaterlife Embassy and Voice of God charity Organisation aimed on helping the needy has been performing controversial ...Published: 10 Mar 2016 at 19:10hrs | 1 | by Panashe Makufa
Simon Khaya-Moyo is insulting our intelligence
ZANU (PF) has manufactured a monumental cock up and they are taking us for idiots. When power is derived from instilling fear, violence and the penury of the oppressed, it inevitably soon becomes ...Published: 14 Jan 2016 at 19:59hrs | 2 | by Vince Musewe
Granny bewitched me to commit crime, says madman
AN Inyathi man believed to be mentally disturbed was hauled to court for allegedly inserting his fingers in his niece's private parts, claiming that he was committing the crime because his grandmother...Published: 06 Dec 2015 at 08:52hrs | 5 | by Tatenda Gapare
Satanist hooker confesses
A 17-year-old hooker left patrons at a local night club stunned last week after she revealed that she was a Satanist and could change into a hyena when angered.The Weekender learnt that the gi...Published: 14 Nov 2015 at 08:35hrs | | by Liberty Dube
Tsholotsho 'witch' resurfaces in Nyamandlovu
A 25-YEAR-OLD woman from Tsholotsho was caught undressed in the wee hours of the morning in Nyamandlovu in a suspected case of witchcraft. Villagers said they suspected Glitter Sibanda was a ...Published: 01 Aug 2015 at 18:49hrs | 1 | by Whinsley Masara
Zimbabwean singer axed to death
THE lead singer with a Victoria Falls based group, Chicken Bus, Peter Salimu, was axed to death by a man suspected to be mentally challenged. Salimu, 50, also a guitarist died on the spot in f...Published: 21 Mar 2015 at 08:20hrs | 1 | by Leonard Ncube
Man acquitted for fatally axing father
A 31-YEAR-OLD man from Gokwe who fatally struck his father with an axe on the head escaped jail after he was acquitted of murder due to insanity.Obey Mutero of Mutero Village under Chief Mkoka...Published: 01 Feb 2015 at 11:37hrs | | by Munyaradzi Musiiwa
Job Sikhala's parents engaged witchdoctors to avenge his arrest
FIREBRAND MDC-T founding member and former St Marys MP Job Sikhala has sensationally claimed that people who tortured him during his incarceration as he faced treason charges are dead or mentally dist...Published: 28 Jan 2015 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Insanity saves man from death sentence
A Beitbridge man who shot dead his wife and mother-in-law during a domestic dispute, on Wednesday escaped the hangman's noose by a whisker because "he was presumed insane at the time the offence was c...Published: 22 Jan 2015 at 12:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kembo Mohadi's nephew 'a danger to society'
HOME Affairs minister Kembo Mohadi's nephew has been described as a dangerous person who should not be unleashed on society after the High Court ascertained that he killed his wife and mother-in-law....Published: 22 Jan 2015 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man loses mind after 5 year sex ban
A man from Bulawayo claims he lost his mind after his wife banned him from sex for five years.Roberto Moyo approached the court yesterday seeking a protection order against his wife Leandy Moy...Published: 18 Oct 2014 at 12:03hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Female prisoners flood Zim jails
ABOUT 156 female prisoners have returned to prison again - at Chikurubi Female Prison more than a year after 195 of them were freed by President Mugabe in terms of section 112 (a) and (d) of the Z...Published: 08 Oct 2014 at 05:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Patrick Chinamasa, How do you sleep at night?'
There comes a time in one's life where a line has to be drawn in terms of what's acceptable anymore and what is not. I, for one, have had it and am saying ENOUGH to the Zanu PF government an...Published: 31 Jul 2014 at 07:08hrs | | by Emilia Mukaratirwa, Zapu Vice President
Boss forces guard to cycle into town in his underwear
A SECURITY guard at a local private firm was forced to cycle into town in his underwear after his superior undressing him of the company uniform for allegedly abandoning his post, an inhuman act which...Published: 29 May 2014 at 06:07hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
'Baby slayer mum' goes for psychiatric evaluation
THE 22-YEAR-OLD Victoria Falls woman who on Tuesday allegedly beheaded her eight-month-old daughter before attempting to commit suicide has been sent for a psychiatric evaluation.Louislonh Gur...Published: 10 May 2014 at 06:43hrs | | by Leonard Ncube
Mugabe's 'long lost daughter' storms State House demands to see her father
A 39-YEAR-OLD Bulawayo woman on Friday last week stormed State House in the city demanding to see President Robert Mugabe claiming to be his long lost daughter.Mugabe was in Bulawayo on the...Published: 02 May 2014 at 04:09hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Apostolic sect's bizarre rituals
Dogs, chickens, goats and cattle have better chances of survival than humans, a hard-pressed Johanne Marange Apostolic Church member vending locksets and glue at Sakubva Bus Terminus conceded....Published: 12 Jan 2014 at 14:43hrs | 2 | by Bernard Chiketo
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