adminFondling granddaughter’s breasts lands man in trouble
Sukulwenkosi Dube Plumtree Correspondent A 72-YEAR-OLD man has been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for fondling his granddaughter’s breasts. Mkiza Moyo of Thandawane Village in Masendu area shocked the court…
Intruder stabs cop
Plaxcedes Hove Court Reporter A POLICEMAN was left nursing a big wound after he was allegedly stabbed by an intruder. Tiyapo Ndebele, 24, a policeman based at Nkulumane Police…
Embassy seeks justice for Zimbabwe trucker in Zambia
Temba Duber Senior Reporter THE Zimbabwean embassy in Zambia is making frantic efforts to ensure the Bulawayo trucker who was allegedly falsely arrested for armed robbery in the neighbouring country…
Rapist herdboy jailed eight years
Senior Court Reporter AN Inyathi herdboy lured his neighbour’s 15-year-old mentally ill daughter into a bush and raped her after promising to give her money in exchange for sex, a…
EDITORIAL COMMENT: NGOs have finally seen the light
Civil society organisations have just announced that they have abandoned their oppositional stance. As reported by our Harare Bureau yesterday, the non-governmental organisations have suddenly realised how lost and anti-national…
Brave old world revisited
Stephen Mpofu Perspective What a pity. No, that is an understatement, some people with justified anger or regret will say it actually approximates shame, a scandal, even tragedy, that most…
Education can reduce incidence of crime
Opinion Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu Zimbabwe is undoubtedly experiencing an increase in the incidence of crimes of various kinds because of a number of factors, the most important of which is…
Codename Re-du-cle-ing
Nontuthuzelo Sisale Re-du-cle, the Lorax* codename for the phrase Reuse, Reduce and Recycle. Those who have not heard the word spreading in the forest, I am the Lorax and I…
Rape and murder: A result of psychiatric disorder?
Vaidah Mashangwa Psychiatry has dominated the literature on rapists and murderers since this was introduced as one of the causes of rape or murder. Could it be that the psychiatric…
‘Smell of death thick’ in Gaza air
Residents and journalists venturing out in the Gaza Strip during the early hours of a shaky ceasefire spoke of dozens of decomposing bodies still under rubble caused by Israeli bombardment…