HARARE – A physically-challenged man yesterday told a Harare court that his wife divorced him because he failed to satisfy her in bed. Taona Dzama told magistrate Gamuchirai Siwardi that his wife Moreblessing Banda claimed he was failing to meet her demands in bed. Dzama revealed this in court after Banda hauled her before the…
HARARE – The High Court has heard that the woman who threatened to remove her pair of panties in the High Court while testifying in the murder trial of Pritchard Zimondi on Tuesday, is a senior army officer. Julian Chineka’s elder sister Grace Zimondi (who is Pritchard’s mother) yesterday told the court that her sibling…
BULAWAYO – More than 30 former southern region Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) employees who are yet to receive their retrenchment packages on Tuesday invaded the company’s Bulawayo provincial offices to compel their former employer to honour its payment pledges. In June 2010, a total of 117 employees from the public transport company’s southern region…
SEOUL – South Korea’s government said 284 people are missing after a ferry carrying hundreds of high school students sank en route to the resort island of Jeju, in what may be the nation’s worst ferry accident in two decades. At least four people, including a student, died in the accident. Of the 462 passengers…
HARARE – With President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF hurtling towards a December congress expected to work out the party’s succession plan, reports in Zanu PF indicate that a few voices could be considering the possibility of pushing the 90-year-old leader to go. Senior Zanu PF officials in the past weeks have secretly demanded change at…
HARARE – Police officers manning the Harare-Chitungwiza highway have been implicated in a bribery scam involving commuter omnibus crews following the arrest of six people in a robbery case. Pardon Chigwada, 33, a police officer is jointly charged with minibus crew members Brian Darryken, 34, Blessing Mavhunga, 31, Dominic Masika, 35, and Kumbirai Chakezha, 25….
HARARE – FC Platinum and Warriors midfielder Ali Sadiki was yesterday ordered by a Harare magistrate to pay $652 in child and spousal support for the upkeep of his pregnant girlfriend and minor child. Sadiki was ordered to pay $352 as maintenance for Sharon Chiwanza and the minor and a once-off payment of $300 as…
HARARE – A woman accused of biting a portion of her husband’s manhood in a farm ownership row, appeared at the Harare Civil Court yesterday. Stella Mushayakurima, stood quietly in the dock as her husband Briston alleged she bit his manhood during an altercation. The husband was seeking a protection order against her. He told…
HARARE – Government has called for a community buy-in to the roll-out of the much-awaited human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine to curb the growing cervical cancer burden in Zimbabwe. Official statistics show that cervical cancer constitutes 32 percent of all cancer cases. Health and Child Care deputy minister Paul Chimedza told a press briefing to…
BULAWAYO – One of Bulawayo’s most wanted armed robbers Bruce Lindani Ziyambi has been brought before the courts after surrendering himself to the police for robbing two firearms and jewellery worth $1 100 at gun point. Ziyambi, who has been on the run since June last year, pleaded guilty before Magistrate Tinashe Tashaya but claimed…
