Ex-ZFU chief Hungwe dies
Elita Chikwati Harare Bureau FORMER Zimbabwe Farmers’ Union president Silas Hungwe has died.He was 92. Hungwe died at his Mabelreign home in Harare yesterday after a long illness. Zimbabwe Farmers’...
View ArticleMan rapes, impregnates daughter
Fairness Moyana Hwange Correspondent A MAN who turned his 18-year-old daughter into a sex slave with the knowledge of his wife has been jailed for an effective 13 years. The 46-year-old dad of six, who...
View ArticleKiller driver handed year-long ban
Richard Muponde Gwanda Correspondent A WOMAN has been banned from driving for a year after running over and killing a motorcyclist. Sibonisiwe Ndlovu, who runs a popular restaurant in Gwanda, was on...
View ArticleMDC-T plans Bulawayo protest
Morgan Tsvangirai Nduduzo Tshuma Political Editor THE MDC-T is planning a demonstration on Bulawayo streets next month in a bid to prop up its councillors who are under attack for alleged corruption...
View ArticleNo talks with Mujuru: Tsvangirai
Mr Tsvangirai Patrick Chitumba Midlands Bureau Chief MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai has said his party is not involved in any coalition talks with the Joice Mujuru-led Zimbabwe People First....
View ArticleZim students get SA residence permits
Auxilia Katongomara Chronicle Reporter ZIMBABWEAN students graduating from South African universities in critical skills areas will soon qualify for permanent residence permits. In a statement, the...
View ArticleVic Falls, open-air churches strike deal
Leonard Ncube Victoria Falls Reporter VICTORIA FALLS Municipality has said aside 10,000 square metres of land for open-air worshipping, as part of an out of court settlement with worshippers who were...
View ArticleMP wants charges chalked off
Cde Wadyajena Leonard Ncube Victoria Falls Reporter GOKWE-Nembudziya MP Justice Mayor Wadyajena wants court proceedings halted in his trial for criminal insult after taking his case to the...
View ArticleMidlands factionalism inquiry
Patrick Chitumba Midlands Bureau Chief ZANU-PF Midlands province has appointed a seven-member taskforce that will move around the province looking into the causes of rampant factionalism. The decision...
View ArticleNyathi’s wife laid to rest
Members of the Seventh-Day Church carry the body of the late Elizabeth Nyathi to its final resting place after a church service at Beacon of Hope SDA Church in Bulawayo yesterday. Whinsley Masara,...
View Article100 trees planted at schools
Whinsley Masara, Chronicle Reporter A HUNDRED indigenous trees have been planted at five schools in Cowdray Park suburb as part of belated World Earth Day commemorations. World Earth Day falls on...
View ArticleMan escapes prostitute rape charge
Ernest Chicheko Thandeka Moyo, Court Reporter A BULAWAYO man has been acquitted on charges of raping a prostitute after his alleged victim failed to positively identify her attacker. The woman said she...
View ArticleMan sells sister’s household goods, jailed
Melody Baya, Court Reporter A MAN from Cowdray Park suburb in Bulawayo has been jailed for a year for stealing his sister’s household property worth $300. Caroline Ncube, 33, called the police on her...
View ArticleSchoolboy sodimises grade 1 pupil
Leonard Ncube in Hwange A FORM three pupil at Zwangendaba Secondary School in Lupane has been arrested for sodomising a six-year-old neighbour after promising to give him a memory card. The...
View ArticleKombi driver stabbed in fare rage
Melody Baya, Court Reporter A MAN from Bulawayo’s Cowdray Park suburb has been arrested for allegedly stabbing a commuter omnibus driver four times with a pocket knife after refusing to pay the fare....
View ArticleConstruction halted as villagers steal Victoria Falls airport generator
Leonard Ncube, Victoria Falls Reporter CONSTRUCTION works at the Victoria Falls International Airport were temporarily halted last week after four villagers stole a generator that is used for back up...
View ArticleKereke’s Telecel call history fix
Munyaradzi Kereke Fungai Lupande Harare Bureau ZANU-PF Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke yesterday claimed he was in a dilemma after failing to obtain a call history from Telecel Zimbabwe,...
View ArticlePresident back from high-level New York events
Harare Bureau PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe returned home on Monday from New York, the United States where he joined other heads of state and government at two high-level events at the United Nations...
View ArticleMan beats father, wife
Noleen Makhurane Court Reporter A MAN from Mbembesi appeared in court yesterday for assaulting his wife and 79-year-old father. Jackson Chishombe, 28, pleaded guilty to two counts of physical abuse...
View ArticleCommunity service for teen mom baby dumper
Elizabeth Tsuro Midlands Reporter A PREGNANT teenage mother from Gweru has been ordered to perform 210 hours of community service for dumping her one-year-old child at a flea market to please her new...
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