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AT least 13 people, mostly children under the age of five years, died from 7 724 cases of common diarrhoea reported throughout the country last week, a disease surveillance report…
Fuel coupons land man in trouble
Court Reporter A Harare man appeared in court recently for allegedly stealing fuel coupons totalling 2 000 litres of diesel worth US$2 660 from Ms Jocelyne Chiwenga. Aleck Chimedza (37)…
Concern over high murder cases
Peter Matambanadzo Senior Reporter POLICE have expressed concern over instances of murder countrywide with 263 cases recorded during the first half of the year. Most of these result from domestic…
Cop jailed for stealing mbanje
Tendai Rupapa Senior Court Reporter A 54-year-old detective who stole 33 kilogrammes of mbanje with a street value of US$3 300 which was part of a consignment being taken to…
Boy (17) convicted of rape
Court Reporter A Chitungwiza regional magistrate on Friday sentenced a 17-year-old boy to receive four strokes of the cane for raping his six-year-old cousin. In addition the boy was slapped…
‘Irresponsible’ father wins protection order
Court Reporter A Harare man who applied for a protection order against his wife turned out to be an irresponsible father who never paid school fees for his five children.…
Girl conceals HIV status, fights for custody
Court Reporter A ZAOGA church girl who concealed her HIV status in order to marry, on Friday applied for custody of her three-month-old baby after being forced to give up…
Bikita headman faces rape charges
From George Maponga in Masvingo A Bikita headman, who is also a leader of a Johane Masowe apostolic sect, has appeared in court facing two counts of raping a woman…
‘Obama becoming Bush’s war clone’
MOSCOW. — United States president Barack Obama is repeating the pattern of actions of his predecessor, George W. Bush, in his push for a military solution in Syria, Foreign Affairs…
US spy agency bugged UN headquarters
BERLIN. — The United States National Security Agency has bugged the United Nations’ New York headquarters, Germany’s Der Spiegel weekly said yesterday in a report on US spying that could…