adminSmuggler nabbed in SA
Beitbridge Bureau A 36-YEAR-OLD South African national has been fined $600 for attempting to smuggle 100 bricks of export quality cigarettes to the neighbouring country through Beitbridge Border Post.
40,000 fraud pay-up: Woman offers daughter, 15, to pal as sex-slave
Temba Dube Senior Reporter LILIAN Kandemiri, famous for leading the ill-fated invasion of Bulawayo City Council’s Emganwini Farm in 2009, has been arrested for allegedly defrauding her friend of $40,000…
Pastor nabbed for fake driver’s licence
Victoria Falls Reporter A VICTORIA Falls-based Christ Embassy pastor, Dani Chuma was yesterday fined $300 for using a fake driver’s licence. Chuma, 41, of Mkhosana Township was convicted of using…
Cop weeps in court, demands increase in maintenance
Nqobile Tshili Chronicle Reporter A BULAWAYO police officer wept in court demanding an extra $563 to the $100 granted to her in an earlier maintenance suit. Nomusa Mutandu said the…
Man held for vehicle break-ins
Midlands Reporter POLICE in Gweru say they are holding a man believed to have broken into dozens of vehicles in the city. Lawrence Mukodyo, 29, of Mkoba 19, is said…
Armed gang in terror spree
Midlands Reporter AN ARMED gang is terrorising shopowners in a Gweru suburb. The thugs, thought to be three, raided a supermarket in Mkoba Village Six and a beerhall in Mkoba…
Mental exam for hooker ‘killer’
Leonard Ncube Senior Court Reporter A JUDGE has ordered a psychiatric assessment for a man who stabbed a hooker – for choosing another man. Trymore Ndlovu, 26, of Makokoba suburb,…
Scribes hail President
Harare Bureau JOURNALISTS have congratulated President Mugabe on turning 90-years-old yesterday describing him as a veteran pan-Africanist and freedom fighter. In a statement, the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) hailed…
Nust flies Zim flag high
Senior Reporter TWO young researchers from the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) in Bulawayo scooped first and second prizes out of about 100 world researchers from nearly 50…
Beitbridge youths get $30 000 grant
Beitbridge Bureau THE International Labour Organization (ILO) has availed $30, 000 towards funding youth empowerment and economic development programmes in Beitbridge District. Matabeleland South provincial Youth Development Officer Elphas Siziba…