adminPresident to launch tree planting season at Congress
Diana Nherera Harare Bureau PRESIDENT Mugabe will launch the 2014/5 tree planting season on the National Tree Planting Day to be held on Saturday at the Zanu-PF 6th National People’s Congress…
Call for mandatory 30-year prison term for sex offenders
Loveness Bepete Chronicle Reporter Bulawayo pressure groups against gender-based violence have called for a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 years for rape and sodomy. Representatives of the pressure groups that attended…
Masvingo executive recommends Bhasikiti withdrawal
George Maponga in Masvingo The Zanu-PF Masvingo provincial executive has recommended the withdrawal of Politburo member Cde Kudakwashe Bhasikiti from the Central Committee over his role in a plot to…
Man strikes friend in dispute over $120
Thubelihle Mabhena Court Reporter A MAN from Fort Rixon in Matabeleland South was rushed to hospital after his friend struck him with a stone on the head following a dispute over…
‘My wife is a well-known prostitute’
Prosper Dembedza Harare Bureau A Harare man shocked the gallery recently when he told the court that his wife was a well-known prostitute in their neighbourhood and at her workplace.
Manager, security guards in court for assaulting shoplifter
Lethokuhle Moyo Court Reporter A 40-year-old woman is battling for life at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo after a manager and two security guards at a city wholesale outlet allegedly brutally…
Convict steals while on community service
Thubelihle Mabhena Court Reporter A MAN from Makokoba suburb in Bulawayo allegedly stole 12 Colgate toothpaste tubes from a storeroom at Tredgold Building while doing community service for another theft charge,…
Dr Ndebele opts for out of court settlement
Auxilia Katongomara Chronicle Reporter PROMINENT Bulawayo doctor Nkonzo Ndebele and his customary wife have asked the court to grant them seven days to settle the dissolution of their marriage out of…
Pastor in trouble for ‘raping’ neighbour’s daughter
Midlands Reporter A 53-year-old pastor from Ambassador Christ Church in Gweru allegedly raped his neighbour’s 11-year-old daughter, a magistrate heard yesterday. Sheppard Sande of Woodlands Park in Gweru appeared before…
Mum dumps baby, elopes to lover’s home
Sukulwenkosi Dube Plumtree Correspondent A 24-YEAR-OLD Mangwe woman dumped her 10-month-old daughter at her neighbour’s homestead and allegedly ran off to her boyfriend in Tsholotsho.