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Sukulwenkosi Dube Plumtree Correspondent— THREE people including a boy (3) died while about 15 others were seriously injured after a Harare-bound Metrolyn Bus burst a tyre and overturned along the Bulawayo- Plumtree Road. Plumtree Police Officer in Charge of Crime, Superintendent Mzamo Bhebhe confirmed the incident which occurred at the 82 kilometre peg at around […]
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Patience Mutsiwi Midlands Reporter— A ZVISHAVANE man allegedly kidnapped his neighbour’s teenage daughter and raped her in an eight-day hostage ordeal. Victor Beta, 36, of Kofi village under Chief Masunda in Zvishavane appeared before Zvishavane magistrate Shepherd Munjanja facing kidnapping and rape charges. He pleaded not guilty,
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Patient Sibanda : Court Reporter A WOMAN who approached a court claiming $250 maintenance for her two children from her ex-lover wept when the man denied paternity of one of the minors after she said she gave the child her ex-boyfriend’s surname as her father was not supportive.
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Daniel Nemukuyu : Harare Bureau PROSECUTOR General Johannes Tomana wants the Constitutional Court to determine whether it is constitutional to have a serving High Court of Zimbabwe judge presiding over a case in which the Chief Justice’s decision is being challenged.
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Prosper Dembedza : Harare Bureau THREE men accused of stealing a phone from President Robert Mugabe’s son, Chatunga Bellarmine, will stand trial on March 29. Victor Josam, 26, Tendai Makambaire, 30, and Kelvin Mwandayi, 27, briefly appeared before Harare magistrate Elijah Makomo yesterday for a routine remand.
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Auxilia Katongomara Chronicle Reporter A CHRISTMAS party turned tragic for a Bulawayo man who suffered a broken arm after being assaulted for switching off the radio when others still wanted to be merry.
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Noleen Makhurane Court Reporter A Bulawayo man on Thursday jumped with joy at the maintenance court after discovering he had a four-year-old son. Mlungisi Sibanda had been dragged to the maintenance court by his estranged girlfriend Zanele Ntini claiming $100 for the upkeep of
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Auxilia Katongomara Chronicle Reporter A 24 YEAR-OLD Bulawayo man has been sentenced to 41 years for five counts of rape, robbery and indecent assault.
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Chronicle Reporters A 26-YEAR-OLD housekeeper is beginning a eight-year stretch in prison today for sexually abusing her employer’s 14-year-old son and infecting him with a Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI).
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Adelaide Moyo Chronicle Reporter A woman, 61, was allegedly raped and robbed while relieving herself when a bus she was travelling in stopped for a recess at around 4AM at a business centre in Bubi district.
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Johannesburg — One of the men alleged to have been kidnapped and assaulted by legendary jazz musician Sipho “Hotstix” Mabuse refused to shed light into why he had dropped the charges.
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Mashudu Netsianda Senior Court Reporter ONE of the four teenagers from Makokoba suburb, who was part of a gang of four that allegedly fatally stabbed a man from their neighbourhood with a flick knife, said he acted in self defence to save his life.
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Fungai Jachi Harare Bureau A Harare magistrate yesterday said Spirit Embassy founder prophet Uebert Angel Mudzanire was the real perpetrator of the crime in a case in which his accomplice was convicted and fined $4,000 for defrauding a city man of a Bentley Continental sedan vehicle valued at $300,000. Anderson Tagara, 35, was
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Patrick Chitumba Midlands Bureau Chief A FARM worker from Somabula, Midlands province, was assaulted, put in a sack and thrown into a river as punishment for allegedly having an extra marital affair with a married woman. Fainos Ndlovu, 29, of Vlackfontein Farm, is now recovering at Gweru Provincial Hospital from injuries he sustained after he