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Dynamos boost player bonuses, hire psychologists

Facing the real threat of Castle Lager Premier Soccer League relegation, Dynamos have moved to boost morale and performance by increasing player winning bonuses by more than 300% and hiring sports psychologists to help turn around their di…

Published: 01 Aug 2025 at 08:17hrs | | by Staff reporter

Businessman arrested in ritual killing saga

A businessman from Muzarabani, Josiah Hungwe (68), has been arrested for allegedly orchestrating a plot to kill a five-year-old boy for ritual purposes. The victim, Takunda Charumbuka, a pupil at Rosehill Junior School, narrowly escaped ha…

Published: 23 Nov 2024 at 12:52hrs | 684 | by Staff reporter

Boy's corpse found with missing parts

Police in Mvuma, Midlands Province, are investigating the discovery of a 14-year-old boy's body, which was found with missing body parts in what is suspected to be a ritual murder.Midlands provincial police spokesperson, Inspector Emmanuel…

Published: 20 Nov 2024 at 06:55hrs | 410 | by Staff reporter

Father rapes daughter for ritual purposes

In a bizarre incident a Bindura man allegedly raped his daughter for ritual purposes.The matter came to light at Bindura magistrates courts on Friday where the father was not asked to plead to the charge.The 47-year-old  father who ca…

Published: 02 Nov 2024 at 22:30hrs | 5 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Bindura

Bulawayo teen in ritual wealth scam

A bizarre and unsettling incident has unfolded in Lobengula West, Bulawayo, where a 16-year-old Form Four student allegedly stole R1 000 and US$230 from his parents to pay a self-proclaimed "godfather" in Ghana for ritualistic umuthi (medi…

Published: 04 Oct 2024 at 17:14hrs | 972 | by Staff reporter

Man steals US$7 259, R10 000 blows it on cleansing ritual

A 51-year-old Bulawayo man, Bongani Matshazi, has been sentenced to six months in prison after being convicted of stealing US$7,259 and R10,000 from his employer to pay for a spiritual cleansing ritual.Matshazi, who worked as a driver for …

Published: 27 Sep 2024 at 15:22hrs | 381 | by Staff reporter

Ritual killings leave Zimbabweans reeling

TEARS run down Michael Benza's face as he recalls the recent deaths of his son Dylan and nephew's daughter, Melissa. They were both seven."I was away from home, and when I came back, there was mayhem," he says. The children didn't make it …

Published: 14 Jan 2022 at 05:21hrs | 11 | by Gamuchirai Masiyiwa/Linda Mujuru

Zimbabwean herbalist kills woman in the UK during ritual

A man who killed a woman by giving her too much nicotine during a healing ritual, causing her "toxic trauma", has been jailed.Lyndon Nindi travelled to Nottingham on 16 February last year to treat Sophia Jekecha's stomach problems.Nottingh…

Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 18:57hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter

Boy (7) beheaded in suspected ritual murder

POLICE in Mashonaland East province have launched investigations into the suspected ritual murder of a seven-year-old boy, Tapiwa Makore, whose beheaded body was recovered outside the family's vegetable garden on Friday.Makore, a Grade 1 p…

Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 07:07hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter

Ritual murder victim in morgue 1 year later

THE body of a mentally-ill man, whose head was decapitated in a suspected ritual murder, has spent more than a year in the morgue as police are reportedly still conducting investigations on the matter. This is despite the fact that the sus…

Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 10:01hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Ritual killing body dumped on highway to disguise murder

HOMICIDE detectives in Mutare are battling to put pieces together and solve how a man who was initially believed to have been killed in a hit-and-run road accident ended up with some of his body parts missing.The mysterious incident which …

Published: 25 May 2018 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter

Ritual killing: Victim's body unclaimed for 11 months

THE body of a mentally-ill man, who was decapitated in a suspected ritual murder, will spend six more months in a mortuary before it is given a pauper's burial.The body, which is in an advanced state of decomposition, is still stuck at Gwa…

Published: 25 Apr 2018 at 07:11hrs | 12 | by Staff rpeorter

Women go mad, walk around undressed after ritual

TWO Bulawayo women spent a night at Hillside Police Station after they went berserk and walked around completely undressed following a ritual.Residents at Waterford compound had to call the police after they failed to control the two who s…

Published: 20 Apr 2017 at 06:53hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Ritual murder suspects granted bail

Chief Daniel Mathibaâ€™s two sons and a third suspect accused of murder were this week granted bail despite objections from the state prosecutor who argued that the trio should remain behind bars since it was suspected ritual murder.The Vo…

Published: 21 Feb 2016 at 08:55hrs | 16 | by Staff Reporter

Ritual fails to save teen abducted by mermaid

IT was a ceremony that never was for a Chipinge family in Manicaland Province after a 16-year-old girl believed to have been abducted by a mermaid in the mighty Save River could not be released seven months after her assumed abduction.She …

Published: 28 Jun 2015 at 09:46hrs | 22 | by Peter Matika

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