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Sodomy, sexual abuse allegations rock Catholic school
In a scandal that has shaken Zimbabwe's Catholic community, St Ignatius College in Chishawasha is at the heart of serious allegations of sexual abuse and sodomy involving the late Father Brian Porter,...Published: 16 Nov 2024 at 14:34hrs | 1031 | by Staff reporter
Prisoner sodomises fellow inmate
A 39-year-old inmate at Chikurubi Maximum Prison, Brian Shereni, has been charged with sodomy after allegedly assaulting a fellow prisoner in his cell. The incident reportedly took place on October 29...Published: 10 Nov 2024 at 10:59hrs | 632 | by Staff reporter
Gays arrested on sodomy charges in Zimbabwe
A dispute over missing money and the inadvertent disclosure of their living arrangements to the police led to two Harare men facing charges of engaging in a same-sex relationship.Tavimbanashe ...Published: 03 Sep 2024 at 18:59hrs | 1128 | by Staff reporter
Stepmother in court for child abuse
A 21-year-old woman from Cowdray Park, Bulawayo, has been accused of repeatedly assaulting her 10-year-old stepson and denying him food. The charges against her include i...Published: 19 Aug 2024 at 07:08hrs | 601 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa guns for sex predators
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has evoked the presidential powers to protect children against rape after amending some sections of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act on rape and indecent ass...Published: 13 Jan 2024 at 06:49hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi whitewashing hearings begin
PUBLIC hearings to document and resolve civil disturbances that transpired in some parts of the country in the 1980s are set to begin early next year, marking the commencement of a historically signif...Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 09:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
GUKURAHUNDI KILLINGS: Hearings set for January 2024
Public hearings addressing civil disturbances during the 1980s, particularly the Gukurahundi era, are poised to commence early next year. Spearheaded by over 70 traditional chiefs from Matabeleland No...Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 08:04hrs | 1 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Man discovers lover a man 2 months later
It's the kind of nightmare nobody would ever want to endure, but "tragedy" struck a prominent Kwekwe dealer who found himself entangled in a sodomy controversy when he allegedly discovered that the pe...Published: 15 Sep 2023 at 20:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man reports gay partner to police
Police in Kwekwe have arrested a gay couple after one of them approached the police demanding that his partner be arrested for initially lying to him that he was a woman.Midlands provincial po...Published: 11 Sep 2023 at 17:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Uganda ban gays
Uganda's parliament passed a law on Tuesday making it a crime to identify as LGBTQ, handing authorities broad powers to target gay Ugandans who already face legal discrimination and mob violence....Published: 22 Mar 2023 at 06:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man sodomises friend for ritual purposes
A desperate move by a Bindura man to make money has landed him in trouble after he was dragged to court facing a sodomy charge.Enerst Denhere Chiheya (40) appeared before magistrate Samantha D...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:08hrs | 8 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mthwakazi tears into Chief's Gukurahundi genocide manual
The Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has criticized the diction used in crafting the chiefs' manual on Gukurahundi Community Engagement Processes claiming that it minimized the victims' experiences of t...Published: 21 Oct 2022 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe refuses to buckle under pressure from the lesbian, gay, bisexual community
ZIMBABWE has refused to buckle under pressure from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community to accept their predisposition.The local delegation led by Justice, Le...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 07:02hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Man (36) jailed 12 years for sodomizing boy (9)
A 36-YEAR-OLD sex starved man will spend 12 years behind bars after he sodomized a nine year old boy in Centenary during midnight....Published: 02 Apr 2022 at 21:13hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Police bust sexual perverts syndicate
POLICE in Harare have busted a social media criminal syndicate which has been targeting and luring schoolboys for sodomy.Addressing journalists in the capital yesterday, national police spokes...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF only political party to embrace gays'
Zanu-PF is the only political party that managed to respond to concerns raised by the Gays and Lesbians Association of Zimbabwe (GALZ) in 2018.Ahead of the 2018 elections, GALZ approache...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 18:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Banana's widow dies
Janet Banana, the widow of Zimbabwe's first president Canaan Banana died aged 83 on Thursday, her family announced.She died at Bulawayo's Mater Dei Hospital from a kidney ailment, according to...Published: 29 Jul 2021 at 12:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dembare legend in court over sodomy
FORMER Dynamos FC player, Stanley Chirambadare, was yesterday remanded in custody pending trial on allegations of sexually abusing a teenage boy at his Mufakose soccer academy, after luring him to his...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Former Dynamos Defender, Chirambadare, in court for sodomy
Former Dynamos Defender, Stanley Chirambadare has appeared in court facing allegations of sodomy.Chirambadare was remanded in custody to the 13th of next month after being arrested on Wednesda...Published: 29 Apr 2021 at 19:33hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Grace Mugabe orphanage rocked by sodomy scandal
SALACIOUS details have emerged of how the former first family's elite schools and orphanage nestled in a vast estate in Mazowe - 40km north of Harare - were rocked by an alleged child sexual abuse sca...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimpapers journo in sodomy storm
ZIMPAPERS Television Network presenter Robert Mukondiwa appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court yesterday facing aggravated indecent assault charges.Mukondiwa (40) was represented by Agency G...Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 09:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe not among Africa's five most dangerous countries to be gay in
Several African countries continue to persecute people in the LGBT community and Zimbabwe is not among them. The five most dangerous countries to be gay in Africa are Uganda, Nigeria, Egypt, Tanzania ...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 17:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Salvation Army pastor up for sodomy
A Salvation Army pastor based in Centenary was arrested last week for allegedly sodomizing a congregant.The matter came to light at Bindura magistrates courts where Aron Vhezha pleaded not gui...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 19:09hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Man jailed 15 years for sodomy
A MVURWI man (30) has been slapped with a 15-year jail term by a Bindura magistrate for sodomising a 13-year-old boy.Ignatius Chagwedera of Hariana Farm in Mvurwi will, however, spend 12 years...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man jailed 15 years for sodomy
A 30-YEAR-OLD Mvurwi man was slapped with 15 years behind bars by a Bindura magistrate last week for sodomising a 13 year old boy.Ignat...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 21:27hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Man jailed 15 for sodomy
A 30-YEAR-OLD Mvurwi man was slapped with 15 years behind bars by a Bindura magistrate last week for sodomising a 13 year old boy.Ignat...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 20:26hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
'Evangelist' hit with sodomy rap over alleged assault on 6-year-old boy
A self-proclaimed evangelist was charged with indecent assault on Monday, accused of sickening sodomy attack on a six-year-old boy.Prosper Kamuchira, of Budiriro, pleaded not guilty when he ap...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 08:02hrs | 1 | by ZimLive
JUST IN: Botswana decriminalises homosexuality
LGBTQI community scored a victory in Botswana after the Gaborone high court on Tuesday ruled that sections of the law that criminalises same-sex sexual conduct are unconstitutional.The court s...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 11:32hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Canaan Banana's widow seriously ill
Former first lady Janet Banana is seriously ill and is seeking medical treatment.The 83-year-old wife of Zimbabwe's first post-independence president Canaan Sodindo Banana is being taken care ...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 08:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man in court for assaulting a sodomist
A 29-year old Mvurwi man was arraigned before a Guruve magistrate yesterday for allegedly assaulting the mother of his son's friend after busting him sodomising his son.The man from Blanco far...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 09:21hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe students starving in foreign lands
Zimbabwean students who are on the presidential scholarship scheme are finding it difficult to get by because government is struggling to fund their needs.Thousands of students are on the pres...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 10:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim students in Russia turn to prostitution for survival
Zimbabwe Students in Russia have written a damning Twitter thread exposing how the government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa has abandoned them in the Eastern European country.The students wh...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 06:59hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Canaan Banana unmasked
The Secretary General of the Zimbabwe Communist Party has questioned the role of Former President of Zimbabwe Canaan Sodindo Banana during the Gukurahundi genocide that left an estimated 20 000 ...Published: 12 Dec 2018 at 17:52hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Teenage boy to be caned for sodomy
GWERU regional magistrate Pathekile Msipa has ordered a 13-year-old boy (name withheld) to receive three cane strokes at Whawha Prison for sodomising his family neighbour's three children aged nine, s...Published: 03 Nov 2018 at 09:18hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Prison boss willing to consider inmates conjugal visits
Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) Commissioner-General Paradzai Zimondi talks to the Daily News on Sunday's Tendayi Madhomu about the state of the correctional facilities in Zimbabwe....Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 14:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mnangagwa shut door on gays
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his main rival, Nelson Chamisa, have both shut the door on gay rights, saying same-sex marriage remains banned in Zimbabwe.This comes after Zimbabwe's gays and...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 08:33hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe wanted to kill Makamba over Grace
FORMER Telecel Zimbabwe boss and businessman, James Makamba, yesterday revealed that he fled the country and remained in self-imposed exile for 13 years after former President Robert Mugabe threatened...Published: 09 Jun 2018 at 15:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Condom distribution to prisons sparks religious, moral debate
Alfred Kurai (not his real name) twitches uncomfortably as the "talk" begins. He says calling this an interview would make him feel dehumanised and uncomfortable. Kurai is a convict in a Zimba...Published: 02 Jun 2018 at 15:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cop in trouble over sodomy allegations
A POLICE officer based in Hwange appeared in court yesterday charged with indecent assault after he allegedly sodomised a teenage boy from his neighbourhood over a period of three years.This w...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Headmaster sodomises, expels Form 3 victim
THE headmaster of Seventh Day Adventist-run Anderson High School in Gweru is facing arrest after he allegedly sodomised a pupil before expelling him in an attempt to conceal the crime.Ca...Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
The love scandals that rocked Zanu-PF
Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones, but obviously someone forgot to tell the folks inside Zanu-PF. In this expose, we look at the love scandals that have dominated Mugabe's party ...Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 15:57hrs | 78 | by Lance Guma
Sodomy and rape in church
A BULAWAYO man has been arrested for allegedly dragging a woman out of her house at night and sodomising her at a Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) church while his accomplice, who is still at large, allege...Published: 24 Jan 2018 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Priest fired over sodomy'
A ROMAN Catholic priest under the Archdiocese of Harare has been relieved of his duties after a litany of accusations deemed him unfit for calling.Father Rungano Muchineripi, who was serving a...Published: 14 Dec 2017 at 16:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Caught in landlord's bed
A 19-year-old married woman's clothes were burnt after she was caught sleeping in her landlord's bed in Hatfield last Friday.Irene Precious Mungai's illicit affair with her landlord Shepherd K...Published: 14 Dec 2017 at 10:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Juvenile sodomises 5, rapes one
A 17 year old Kadoma teenager is facing multiple counts of aggravated indecent assault involving juvenile boys and one count of rape.The sodomy and rape suspect is being accused of sodomising ...Published: 13 Dec 2017 at 20:22hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Sodomy storm for policeman
A COP stationed in Hwange has been charged with aggravated indecent assault after he allegedly sucked a teenager's manhood and sodomised him for three years.Nelson Tuta (33) of number A86 in M...Published: 24 Nov 2017 at 05:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
National sex offenders' register for Zimbabwe?
With cases of rape and sodomy of children on the increase, there is only one thing to do: make a national register of sex offenders that will be used to bar such perverts from coming near minors, at l...Published: 28 Oct 2017 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rape-accused man with breasts scared of jail
A 2012 rape accused fugitive meant to stand trial in 2013 has finally been arrested but fears he could be "special meat" behind bars.William Mukuku (39) since then developed "c cup"breasts tha...Published: 27 Oct 2017 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grandpa in sodomy cover-up
A 14-YEAR-OLD boy from Inyathi told a court that his grandfather advised his uncle (47) who had sodomised him to escape to Botswana.The minor who is in Grade Six and whose name cannot be revea...Published: 02 Oct 2017 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Freedom for sex deal flops: Cop up for rape
A 33-YEAR-OLD police officer stationed at Nkulumane Police Station in Bulawayo has been arrested after he allegedly raped a 16-year-old girl in the holding cells.The girl had been detained ove...Published: 20 Sep 2017 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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