10 times maid stabber 3-year-run ends in suicide

Mashudu Netsianda, Senior Court Reporter A MURDER suspect who absconded to South Africa after allegedly fatally stabbing the family maid 10 times for spurning his sexual advances, committed suicide in…

EMMANUEL BAKO OFF TO A FLYER

ZIMBABWE’S junior motocross champion rider Emmanuel Bako gave an early indication that he will be the one to beat this year when he won the 85cc (Junior) Class and claimed the first step on the podium during round one of the 2019 Gauteng Regional Championship in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Saturday.

Compensating ex-Wenela workers: More than just money

“There is a train that comes from Namibia and Malawi, there is a train that comes from Zambia and Zimbabwe. There is a train that comes from Angola and Mozambique, from Lesotho, from Botswana, from Swaziland, from all the hinterland of Southern and Central Africa. This train carries young and old, African men who are conscripted to come and work on contract. In the golden mineral mines of Johannesburg and its surrounding metropolis, 16 hours or more a day for almost no pay. Deep, deep, deep down in the belly of the earth. When they are digging and drilling for that shiny mighty evasive stone.”

BAC begin training

Descent Dube, Sports Reporter THE Bulawayo Athletics Club (BAC) cricket team have begun training with a number of new players that make up the 40-member squad. Club chairman Gary Nyumbu…

ZIFA raise fresh charges

ZIFA have said they will no longer comment on the issue related to suspended vice-president Gift Banda as the matter was now sub-judice after the association laid more charges on the Bulawayo businessman.

Judge calls for revamping of judicial system

Patrick Chitumba, Midlands Bureau Chief HIGH Court Judge, Justice Thompson Mabhikwa has called for the revamping and capacitation of the institutions in the justice delivery system to enable them to…

City mulls new water plant

The Harare City Council is set to construct a new wastewater treatment plant in Mabvuku to ease pressure on its existing plants which are overloaded resulting in numerous blockages.

VP Chiwenga calls for peace, unity

Speaking at the burial of the Ambuya Mary Rushwaya, mother to Defence and War Veterans Affairs Secretary Mr Martin Rushwaya at Glen Forest Memorial Park yesterday, VP Chiwenga said man’s existence on earth was only temporary hence people must prepare for eternal life in heaven and desist from acts of violence.

Judge laments rampant abuse of detention laws

Patrick Chitumba, Midlands Bureau Chief A HIGH Court judge has lamented the rampant abuse or misinterpretation of the over detention of suspects section of the Constitution by magistrates who release…

6 Zupco bus arsonists jailed 36 years

SIX men who were part of a gang that burnt a Zupco bus and a vehicle belonging to Chegutu East legislator Webster Shamu’s wife during recent protests that rocked Harare and other cities — organised by the opposition MDC-Alliance and foreign funded civil society organisations — have been jailed a collective 36 years.

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