adminTeacher kills maid in love triangle
Takunda Maodza Senior Reporter
A HWEDZA schoolteacher reportedly fatally assaulted her teenage maid after catching her being intimate with her husband on their matrimonial bed and hid the body for 12 days.
The body was later found hanging from a tree with some body parts missing.
Missing from the maid’s body were feet, which were chopped from the ankles, an ear, breast and private parts.
Itai Mutami (35) — a teacher at Makanda Primary School — allegedly assaulted Sarudzai Chitevere (17) after she caught her being intimate with her husband Patrick Sandati (36) in the couple’s bedroom.
Mutami then reportedly connived with her husband to conceal Chitevere’s body for 12 days.
According to Oripah Mariridza of Negombwe Village under Chief Ruzane who is related to Chitevere, Mutami hired the teenager to care for her unemployed husband and children.
MPs demand upmarket stands
Zvamaida Murwira Senior Reporter
ABOUT 400 Members of Parliament want Harare City Council to allocate them residential stands in leafy suburbs at subsidised prices.
They say this will reduce money being spent on hotel bills.
The legislators said owning residential stands in the capital was part of self development because most of them remained poor despite serving the country.
The request for stands is among several demands legislators have made as their terms of office near completion.
Zimbabwe is preparing for elections this year and history has shown that a number of sitting MPs fall by the wayside during polls.
MPs have in the past demanded second vehicles, saying those they got under the vehicle loan scheme were no longer efficient because they used them during the Constitution outreach programme. They have also demanded a US$3 000 monthly salary to match colleagues in the Sadc region.
Breakthrough in Brussels
Herald Reporters
THE European Union is by the end of July expected to make a major decision on lifting the illegal sanctions it imposed on Zimbabwe.
This follows a presentation by a Zimbabwean delegation at the EU Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, yesterday.
The re-engagement team made it clear that there was no justification for the continued sanctions.
The High Representative for EU Foreign Affairs and Policy Lady Catherine Ashton met the Zimbabwean delegation comprising members of all parties in the inclusive Government.
She pledged to consult the bloc’s members for the total removal of the embargo.
Zanu-PF representative and Justice and Legal Affairs Minister Patrick Chinamasa said they had a cordial, but candid meeting with Lady Ashton, who is also vice president of the EU Commission.
“We had a meeting this afternoon with Lady Ashton
Man denies stabbing girlfriend 15 times
Lovemore Meya Court Correspondent
Pritchard Zimondi, who allegedly fatally stabbed his girlfriend 15 times in Chitungwiza, denied committing the crime when his trial opened yesterday. He said he never saw the girlfriend, Monalisa Chinomona (19), on April 24, the day she was killed.
My son also drowned: Boat driver
Innocent Ruwende Senior Reporter
THE driver of the boat that capsized killing 11 children in Lake Chivero on Christmas Day, Enock Yolani Zulu, yesterday told the court that his child also died in the accident. He was speaking during cross examination and expressed dismay at why
Lawyer misrepresenting facts: Masimirembwa
Peter Matambanadzo Senior Reporter
Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation chairman Godwills Masimirembwa yesterday blasted defence lawyer Lewis Uriri for misrepresenting facts in the US$2 billion diamond mining partnership between Marange Resources and Core Mining in a
Cops acquitted of R25 000 extortion
Beitbridge Bureau
THREE policemen, who were facing charges of extorting R25 000 from two cigarette dealers they had arrested for attempted smuggling, have been acquitted. The dealers were arrested while trying to smuggle into South Africa 100 boxes of export
Trio nabbed over reconnection
Lovemore Meya Court Correspondent
A self-proclaimed electrician and two other residents, who allegedly connived to reconnect electricity for people disconnected by Zesa and demand money in return, yesterday appeared in court facing theft charges. The three, Herbert Machada (31), an
Three years for robbing the dead
Wenceslaus Murape in MARONDERA
A MARONDERA man, who posed as a lawyer before selling a house allocated in a deceased estate, has been jailed for an effective three years. Marondera magistrate Ms Josephine Sunday sentenced Elijah Machemba (60) to six years in prison
Tsvangirai in US on firefighting mission
Tendai Mugabe Senior Reporter
MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai has reportedly flown to the United States ostensibly to try to win the