adminPupils ‘rapist’ in court
Court Reporter
A Pumula South man who was on Monday assaulted by schoolchildren after being caught red handed raping a 12-year-old girl has appeared in court.
Satanism scare in Gweru
Freedom Mupanedemo and Fadzai Masvada
MOURNERS at a funeral wake of a 15-year-old-boy in Gweru were left speechless when a team of pastors stormed the house and started praying over the body in a bid to resurrect him.
The incident occurred in Southview suburb on Monday at the funeral wake of Tatenda Dick, an Ordinary Level pupil at Chaplin High School, who had died the previous day from a terminal illness.
We are hosting a bigger and better show: Kiki
Auxilia Katongomara
Saturday Leisure Correspondent
MISS Zimbabwe Trust patron Kiki Divaris has promised modelling fanatics a top notch Miss Zimbabwe despite the fact that the provincial finals are yet to be held.
Divaris announced that this year the event would be bigger and better than the previous edition of the show.
Speaking to Saturday Leisure from Harare, Divaris saidBeggar jailed four years for attempted murder
Court Reporter
A beggar in Bulawayo has been sentenced to five years in prison for beating up a would-be “Good Samaritan” and leaving him for the dead.
Iyasa ropes in Austrians in new play
Auxilia Katongomara Saturday Leisure Correspondent ZIMBABWE’S dance exponents Iyasa is working on a new play with Austria-based actors in a theatre production titled Identity (As Long As We Are Together).…
Grenade explodes outside Istanbul police station
A suicide bomber threw a grenade into a police station in a suburb of Turkey’s largest city Istanbul and then blew himself up, killing one police officer and wounding at least seven other people, officials say.
A leftist armed group group claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s attack in a statement published on a website close to the group, a senior security official said.
The Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C), which has carried out at least one suicide attack in Istanbul before, said in the statement that one of its members had carried out the attack in the suburb of Sultangazi.
Sundowns thrash CAPS United
Harare Bureau
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CAPS United still have a long way to go before they can assemble a competitive squad for the league campaign this season after they were exposed for their current lack of depth by South African giants Mamelodi Sundowns in a practice match at Gwanzura yesterday.
Byo to host Under-20 Youth Games
Sikhumbuzo Moyo
THE City of Bulawayo might play host to the 2014 sixth Southern Zone (formerly Zone Six) Under-20 Youth Games if the city meets the set standards by the Supreme Council for Sports in Africa.
Umalayitsha kidnaps rival, shot by police
Court Reporter
A cross-border transporter, popularly known as umalayitsha, is battling for life at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) after he was shot on both legs by police after kidnapping and unlawfully detaining a fellow transporter he suspected of having an affair with his wife.
Businesspeople stranded as council closes building
Chronicle Reporter
AT least 10 small scale businesspeople have been left stranded after the Bulawayo City