September 2013

HARARE – In Harare and around the country, the controversy surrounding sex education and condom availability programmes for teenagers in public high schools and universities continues. Parents worry that sex education and condom availability encourage an increase in teenage sex, but studies across Zimbabwe and Africa as a whole repeatedly demonstrate that teenagers are already…

BULAWAYO – Welshman Ncube’s MDC says it is still regrouping in a bid to map the way forward after they were shocked in the just-ended elections where they were left licking their wounds. With President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF romping to a disputed landslide victory and the Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC party picking up some reasonable…

HARARE – High Court Judge Lavender Makoni has said that the Electoral Court has no jurisdiction to hear the MDC’s challenge on the government’s position that mayors should only be selected from elected councillors. In the urgent chamber application filed by MDC lawyers, Mwonzora and Associates, the party cites outgoing Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo…

HARARE – A Dzivarasekwa man who allegedly ordered his wife to place her hands on a red hot stove as punishment has been dragged to court. David Hazangwi was brought before Harare Civil Court by his wife Venus Rusike on allegations of physical abuse. Rusike told the court that her husband assaults her and their…

HARARE – An Epworth man has been sentenced to 10 years behind bars after he was found guilty of stealing $84 worth of copper cables. Tapiwa Matambo, 28, who stole 10,5 kg of copper cables was shot by a police reaction team  twice on both legs as he fled. He was handed the mandatory sentence…

MASVINGO – A senior member of the Johane Marange Apostolic Church allegedly stole over 400 cattle in Masvingo and surrounding provinces which he used to pay farm workers, a Bikita magistrate heard  on Tuesday. Bonface Janyure, 53, of Matotote Village under Chief Mukanganwi appeared before Bikita Magistrate Bishard Chineka facing 400 counts of stock theft….

MASVINGO – Government could miss the deadline to complete the giant Tokwe-Mukosi Dam in Chivi owing to lack of funds to resettle close to a thousand families who live in the flood basin. The dam was targeted to be completed by November, two months from now. But government is failing to raise money to compensate…