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NUST conducts 10 000 DNA paternity tests
Since acquiring specialised equipment in 2014, the National University of Science and Technology (NUST)'s Applied Genetics Testing Centre (AGTC) has conducted over 10,000 paternity tests, making it a ...Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 07:44hrs | 197 | by Staff reporter
Selmor Mtukudzi battles depression amid ongoing family feud
Selmor Mtukudzi, the daughter of late music legend Dr. Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi, is currently grappling with depression stemming from a contentious family feud that has reached a boiling point. The emot...Published: 29 Sep 2024 at 11:23hrs | 455 | 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 | 1697 | by Staff reporter
Shock as judges from Matebeleland continue to be overlooked
Chief Justice Luke Malaba has named Justice Munamato Mutevedzi - appointed to the bench only in 2021 - as the most senior judge in Bulawayo, astounding many lawyers.Mutevedzi is replacing Just...Published: 12 Sep 2024 at 10:28hrs | 2416 | by Staff reporter
'No maintenance monies until after DNA tests’
A Gweru man, Mr. Givemore Shekede, was relieved after a Bulawayo magistrate, Mr. Vakai Douglas Chikwekwe, discharged a maintenance order that required him to pay US$350 monthly for the upkeep of two c...Published: 28 Aug 2024 at 10:13hrs | 547 | by Staff reporter
When dark babies are not good enough
For Ms Ntokozo Gumbo, after successfully achieving her desired complexion following years of investing in skin care to lighten her skin tone, she was disappointed when she gave birth to a baby heavily...Published: 22 Aug 2024 at 07:10hrs | 354 | by Andile Tshuma
Tuku 'son' cannot use family name
THE late music superstar and national hero Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi's alleged son, Aaron Chaka, has suffered a blow after the High Court struck off the roll his application seeking an order compelling t...Published: 29 Jul 2024 at 04:18hrs | 933 | by Staff reporter
Man demands paternity tests for children
A Harare man has denied paternity for his two minor children, one of them aged nine years after his former wife demanded money for their upkeep.Samuel Nyika told Harare magistrate Meenal Narot...Published: 12 Jun 2024 at 07:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man demands paternity tests for children
A Harare man, Samuel Nyika, refuted paternity claims for his two minor children, one of whom is nine years old, when his former wife, Gain Mukundwa, sought financial support for their upbringing. ...Published: 09 Jun 2024 at 09:13hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mtukudzi's 'love child' tears family apart
After recent revelations that the late music superstar Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi might have fathered another child, Aaron Chaka, his widow, Daisy Mtukudzi, has publicly accused some of her in-laws of con...Published: 19 May 2024 at 10:32hrs | 1832 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF MP drags lover to court
ZANU PF Mazowe North Member of Parliament, Tsungai Makumbe, yesterday dragged his estranged lover Ludia Makuvure to court accusing her of tarnishing his image and threatening him with unspecified acti...Published: 23 Mar 2024 at 20:39hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe court overturns unjust birth certificate denial
Two minor children who were undocumented since birth and rendered stateless after the Registrar General's Office declined to issue them with birth certificates got a reprieve after the High Court orde...Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 07:31hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Act on stateless minors, State ordered
THE Registrar-General (RG) has been given a week to issue birth certificates to two minor children after years of statelessness.The two girls aged 10 and 12 were undocumented since birth....Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 05:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa now building a popular one-man dictatorship
One of Zimbabwe's seasoned political activists Lovemore Chinoputsa has painted a gloomy picture of the state of the opposition, saying its leaders have fundamentally departed from the late Morgan Tsva...Published: 14 Feb 2024 at 20:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Malayitsha jailed 42 years
An attempt by a 53-year-old Beitbridge-based cross-border transporter to get rich through raping his teenage daughter has seen him locked behind bars for the next 36 years.The man started rapi...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 06:55hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Man regrets having extra-marital affair
A HARARE woman was chased away from her matrimonial home by her husband's family for failing to conceive for 14 years.This emerged at the Harare Magistrates where Aleck Patsika had been dragged to cou...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 04:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai created the mess, says Tshabangu
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim secretary general Sengezo Tshabangu says the late MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai's appointment of two vice presidents before his death is to blame for the cha...Published: 10 Dec 2023 at 18:22hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo exposes Mahere's 'big fat lie'
EXPLAINER: Fingerprints of the MDC in the "Edited" CCC Constitution filed by Tshabangu in Chamisa's Interdict Court Case to halt Further Recalls not Fraud but Proof of MDC Paternity of Lawful CCC...Published: 25 Nov 2023 at 18:06hrs | 10 | by Jonathan Moyo
Tshabangu inflicts major blow on CCC
THE CCC has suffered a major blow, losing 14 National Assembly and nine Senate seats, after the High Court dismissed an application by opposition legislators challenging their recalls by Sengezo...Published: 06 Nov 2023 at 21:22hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa panics...plots Emergency Congress to crush internal rivals
Former Zimbabwean Cabinet minister, Professor Jonathan Moyo, has brought to light a meticulous plan by Nelson Chamisa, leader of the Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC), to orchestrate what Moyo aptl...Published: 30 Oct 2023 at 16:16hrs | 8 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Man calls wife prostitute
A Harare woman says she was forced to flee her home after her husband threatened to strangle her.This emerged at the Harare civil court on Friday where Tendai Dongo wept uncontrollably over th...Published: 30 Jul 2023 at 09:02hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Paternity shock for divorcee: DNA test shatters man's life
GREAT betrayal!Mkhululi Rodwell Khumalo's whole world apparently turned upside down after he discovered that the child he had been calling his biological daughter for five years was not his....Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 06:30hrs | 37 | by Staff reporter
Traditional 'DNA tests' confirm paternity
DRAMA recently erupted at Acting Chief Saunyama's court after a toddler became the subject of traditional "DNA tests".The tests were done by a group of elderly women.The father of the ...Published: 20 Jul 2023 at 16:18hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Susan Mutami asking Themba Mliswa for a father's day gift?
Susan Mutami has resurfaced on Twitter, guns blazing against Norton legislator Temba Mliswa, saying he is neglecting their son.She says Mliswa pretends to be a good father on the internet whil...Published: 07 Jun 2023 at 13:33hrs | 1 | by Erick Matotoba
No more job termination on 3 months notice
EMPLOYERS will no longer be able to terminate contracts of their permanent staff on three months notice after the National Assembly removed a clause in the Labour Act that conferred them powers to fir...Published: 03 Jun 2023 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Baby refused birth registration in South Africa because dad is a Zimbabwean
With the intervention of the court, a child born nearly four years ago will, for the first time, officially have a name and legal standing in South Africa after bureaucratic red tape has denied him of...Published: 06 May 2023 at 06:38hrs | 23 | by Zelda Venter for Pretoria News
Man poisons his three children, kills self
A 37-year-old Lower Gweru man gave his three minor children some porridge laced with poison before he went into the bush and committed suicide following a misunderstanding with his wife.Police...Published: 27 Mar 2023 at 21:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe hit by paternity fraud
THE case of a prominent Bulawayo pathologist Dr Roger Kruger Hendrick Chigangacha who sued his ex-girlfriend, Natasha Popova Sibanda, a former actress in the TV drama Amakorokoza for US$163 000 ...Published: 10 Feb 2023 at 19:41hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo was left naked, says Biti
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim vice-president and lawyer Tendai Biti yesterday hailed a High Court decision which clipped Local Government minister July Moyo's wings over local...Published: 24 Jan 2023 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Shock as 13-year-old impregnates 9-year-old cousin in Tsholotsho
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has issued a statement confirming that the Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) results obtained from National University of Science and Technology on 25 November 2022, in connecti...Published: 26 Nov 2022 at 14:39hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Woman dumps child at ex-boyfriend's workplace
A HARARE man was yesterday granted a protection order against his ex-girlfriend who insults him with obscene language and sometimes comes to dump her child at his workplace while demanding maintenance...Published: 11 Nov 2022 at 05:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
High Court lifts ban on Tinashe Mugabe's paternity test TV show
TV presenter Tinashe Mugabe can continue with his programme, The DNA Show, after the High Court ruled that medical bodies which banned it overstepped their powers.The Health Professions Author...Published: 19 Oct 2022 at 20:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Virginity and the Johanne Marange religious customs
THE state has outlawed virginity testing as a human rights violation.However, it is surprising to note that Johanne Marange Apostolic Church (JMAC) still teaches and conducts mandatory virgini...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 19:54hrs | | by Matthew Mare
Zimbabweans' priorities are misplaced, says Mliswa
INDEPENDENT Norton legislator Temba Mliswa has hit out at Zimbabweans for having misplaced priorities after over 12 000 people spent four hours listening to his ex-girlfriend, Susan Mutami pouring her...Published: 28 Jul 2022 at 06:44hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Shiri's estate wrangle takes another twist
SOME relatives of the late former Lands and Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri appear to have acquired multiple names to fraudulently benefit from the national hero's estate.A wrangle over th...Published: 08 Jul 2022 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Perrance Shiri estate row deepens
THE late national hero and Lands and Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri's daughter, Rufaro Stephanie is seeking to bar former Attorney-General Sobusa Gula-Ndebele from administering her father's esta...Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 07:27hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Row over secret DNA tests
A MARLBOROUGH woman secretly took three kids, who were said to be her husband's children, for DNA tests which revealed he was the father of just one of the minors.The tests revealed the other ...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 13:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman uses borrowed baby to claim US$1 800 from ex
IN a matter that left the Gweru magistrate court dumbfounded, a Senga woman allegedly borrowed a baby from her friend, which she used to claim US$1 800 from her ex-husband.This was heard when ...Published: 31 May 2022 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matiza's widow in estate wrangle
THE High Court has dismissed an application by the late Transport minister Biggie Matiza's widow, Lillian, who was seeking to sideline his 34-year-old son from benefiting from his estate.Lilli...Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Father assaults son with hot iron
IN a disturbing case of cruelty, a 30-year-old Harare man has been charged with attempted murder after horrendously assaulting his seven-year-old son with a hot iron and melting clothes all over his b...Published: 13 Feb 2022 at 20:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man denies paternity, demands lobola 27 years later
A WOMAN from Magwegwe West suburb in Bulawayo has applied for a peace order against her former lover who is demanding lobola for a daughter he denied was his 27 years ago.Liliyosa Dlamini said...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 05:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's political own-goal
FRENCH realist, painter and sculptor Edgar Degas once retorted: "What a horrible thing yellow is."He made this statement after discovering that despite the colour being associated with cheerfu...Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 08:18hrs | 1 | by Major Action Mandingo (Retired)
Mugabe goes to court over TV paternity show
A TV host whose DNA paternity show was shut down by the Health Professions Authority Zimbabwe (HPAZ) has gone to the High Court to challenge the decision.Tinashe Mugabe's hit show, The Closure...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 07:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe scoffs at TV Show theft charges
THE host of the popular TV show 'Closure DNA' Global DNA Zimbabwe consultant, Tinashe Mugabe has rubbished claims he stole the paternity show concept from filmmaker Tanaka Dube.This comes afte...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:19hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Tinashe Mugabe unmasked!
Musician and Film maker Tanaka Vibes Dube has accused embattled Global DNA Diagnostic Centre principal consultant Tinashe Mugabe for stealing their concept called Baba Ndiani after they proposed...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 18:56hrs | 7 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chiwenga endorses Mnangagwa wife's initiative
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday attended First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa's educative Gota/Nhanga/Ixhiba programme at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) and concurred with her tha...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:15hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, Tilder Moyo unqualified to issue DNA results
THE Medical Laboratory and Clinical Scientists Council of Zimbabwe (MLCSCZ) says Tinashe Mugabe and Tilder Moyo, who broadcasting popular but controversial DNA shows, are not allowed to publicly issue...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 19:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Woman allegedly hires bouncers to bully man into accepting paternity
An emotionally tormented Mutare man, John Machivenyika recently approached the Mutare Civil Courts seeking a peace order against his ex-girlfriend Evelyn Mugiyo, whom he alleges hired henchmen to beat...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 19:54hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Nust to manufacture Covid-19 testing kits
THE National University of Science and Technology (Nust) has procured a US$87 000 Covid-19 reagents manufacturing machine and it is expected to be delivered in the next two months. The new mac...Published: 05 Aug 2021 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman dumps hubby, confesses child's paternity
A Budiriro woman ditched her husband of nine years claiming he was not responsible for their two-year-old baby.Primrose Mwamuka, 32, reportedly took her belongings in the absence of her husband Ta...Published: 08 Jul 2021 at 20:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
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