A “GOOD Samaritan”, who helped a woman, 39, who was being assaulted before turning around and raping her, is now in trouble. Ibrahim Mohammed, 29, from Belapezi, Epworth, appeared before magistrate Stanford Mambanje last Thursday facing a charge of rape and was remanded in custody and will appear back in court on May 24 pending…
A MAN from Domboshava, Goromonzi, has appeared before the court after he allegedly murdered his father. Casper Tigere, 20, who is being charged with murder, appeared before magistrate Dennis Mangosi on Friday, where he was remanded in custody and was advised to apply for bail at the High Court. He will be back in court…
AUTHORITIES say the much-anticipated launch of a US$800 million energy deal between Rwanda and Zimbabwe has been postponed due to the two countries’ presidents’ “tight schedules”, but is still on the cards. The multi-million-dollar programme involves implementing nine energy projects in Zimbabwe that include power generation, transmission and customer service and it was expected to…
THE estranged husband of Bona, daughter of the late former president Robert Mugabe, Simba Chikore, claims he is not after the multi-million-dollar assets, which include a substantial sum of cash, that his wife acquired prior to their marriage in 2014. In his High Court papers filed last week, Chikore listed at least 21 farms and…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has said there are positive signs that relations between Zimbabwe and its former coloniser, the United Kingdom (UK), are improving. Speaking at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport yesterday, after landing from the UK for King Charles III’s coronation in London on Saturday, Mnangagwa said the country is now close to joining…
A SOMEWHAT cold Saturday was turned into a thrilling night as thousands of gospel music enthusiasts packed the 4 500-seater Harare International Conference Centre (HICC) to witness Nigerian music star Adah Ehi’s performance. Fans started filling the HICC as early as midday but Adah Ehi, who jetted in the country on Thursday, took to the…
THREE police officers based in Beitbridge stand accused of stealing, at gunpoint, a top-of-the-range vehicle worth US$60 000 at a fuel station in the border town. Andrew Magwenzi, 35, Edmore Nyamaropa, 30, and Prince Mugove Kuchekenya, 39, appeared before magistrate Stanford Mambanje accused of stealing a Toyota Prado worth US$60 000. Magwenzi and Nyamaropa appeared…
By Brandon Josphat AUTHORITIES are monitoring the cholera situation in the country closely, amid fears that this could affect learning at some schools when they reopen today. This comes as five people have been confirmed to have died from the disease in the country since it first came to the fore in February this year….
RENOWNED educationist and African Reformed Church Bishop, Tsungirirayi Vudzijena (Nee Zvobgo) has died. She was 84. The octogenarian cleric passed on at…
People have lived on both the Zimbabwean and Zambian sides of the Zambezi River of southern Africa for centuries. Their lives revolved around the river. They say their god, the nyami nyami, lives in its waters. The Zambezi is Africa’s fourth-longest river, flowing from northwestern Zambia into Angola and Botswana, then forming the Zimbabwe-Zambia border, before…
