A 16-YEAR-OLD Beitbridge boy went berserk and killed a woman and her two children in the border town on Friday before setting their bodies ablaze, the Zimbabwe Republic Police, has said. The teen, who was on bail for allegedly murdering his 62-year-old aunt, reportedly dragged the three bodies into a hut before setting the house…
POLICE in Harare have launched a manhunt for a self-styled prophet who allegedly raped a 33-year-old woman in the capital’s high density suburb of Budiriro on the pretext that he was cleansing her of evil spirits. The man only identified as Madzibaba Tanya reportedly raped the woman after she visited her shrine with his ill…
A KWEKWE-BASED artisanal miner has appeared before the Harare Magistrates’ Court after he allegedly threw explosives into a Chicken Inn shop destroying property worth $61 950. Douglas Chada is facing charges of malicious damage to property and possession of dangerous explosives without a permit. Harare magistrate Tafadzwa Miti remanded Chada in custody to today for…
A MASVINGO man, Patson Sinamai, escaped jail after the court ordered him to pay a $5 000 fine after he was convicted of assaulting a Zimbabwe National Army member with a pool cue in a bar. Sinamai appeared before Masvingo magistrate Conceptor Ngerume, who sentenced him to three months in prison after finding him guilty…
THE country’s leading brewer, Delta Corporation on Friday came to the aid of the Melfort People’s Home with a donation of goods and equipment worth over $1,2 million towards the resuscitation of a farming project to assist the elderly being taken care of at the centre. Home to 19 residents, the home for the elderly…
MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti, pictured, has savaged the conduct of regional magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti-Guwuriro, who is presiding over his assault case against a Russian woman. Muchuchuti-Guwuriro will on Monday give a determination on whether she will proceed with the hearing in the case Biti is currently charged with following an altercation with Tatiana…
HUMANITARIAN organisation Zimbabwe Red Cross Society (ZRCS) has complemented government efforts in the implementation of a Pfumvudza programme in Gokwe to cushion…
Shamaine Chirimujiri A MUTOKO woman Faina Kahwa, 36, could face three years in jail if she fails to repay some of the cash she took after stealing R500 000 from her South Africa-based employer in connivance with a soldier Owen Sirani, 43. Harare magistrate Barbra Mateko convicted Kahwa on her own plea after she admitted…
FOUR people, including a suspected armed robber who was on the run, were arrested yesterday in possession of firearms at a roadblock having fled from police in Zvishavane. Sizwesenkosi Hlongwane, Isheunesu Gumbo, Bruce Ephraim Makara, and Don Tanaka Masukume were apprehended with a Taurus pistol with an empty magazine, a Star pistol with an empty…
FORMER Carribea Bay Resort general manager Mildred Zulu has been ordered by the High Court to reimburse the Africa Sun Limited-owned hotel US$28 000 advanced to her under the group’s staff car loan scheme prior to the termination of her contract in September last year. Africa Sun through its group company secretary Venon Musimbe had…
