September 2013

HARARE – Zimbabwe’s new Parliament should address issues to do with farm workers that are living and working under extremely poor conditions, the General Agricultural and Plantation Workers’ Union (Gapwuz) has said. Gift Muti, Gapwuz secretary-general said the new parliament’s Agriculture portfolio committee should discuss and find solutions to farmworkers’ challenges. “The farm workers are…

BULAWAYO – A Jotsholo geriatric has been jailed 15 years for raping a child old enough to be his great grandchild. The 13-year-old Grade Seven complainant who cannot be named because of her age was a neighbour to the accused. Ninety-two-year-old Bolli Ndlovu from Mutshekwa village in Jotsholo, Lupane was convicted by Hwange regional magistrate…

MASVINGO – A Chivi woman gave her husband her 10-year-old niece to save her marriage after she was caught pants down with another man in her village. Susan Zanga, 42, and her husband, Agrippa Batirai, 47, of Chief Gororo near Ngundu in Chivi, appeared before Masvingo magistrate Judith Ziya facing charges of child abuse and…

HARARE – A man who reportedly brought his girlfriend into his matrimonial home and had sexual intercourse with her on several occasions in his wife’s presence has appeared in court. Chipo Musindo brought her husband Marko Kujaira before Harare Civil Court seeking a protection order for physical, emotional and financial abuse. Musindo told the court…

HARARE – Zimbabwe is planning a low-budget entertainment park in the resort town of Victoria Falls to boost local tourism, a Cabinet minister said on Friday. “We want to bring the Garden of Eden to Victoria Falls, where flora and fauna can co-exist,” outgoing Tourism minister Walter Mzembi said at the end of the United…

HARARE – The Daily News is Zimbabwe’s most credible newspaper, according to a survey by the Media Monitoring Project Zimbabwe (MMPZ). Zimbabwe’s leading daily got a 99 percent credibility score in the ‘Media Credibility Index Zimbabwe’ survey conducted by MMPZ betweenbn April and June this year. The independent daily, published by the Associated Newspapers of…