adminGuard gets 30 months for forgery, fraud
Court Reporter
A SECURITY guard employed at a company in Bulawayo who stole $4 100 from his late father’s pension was yesterday sentenced to 30 months in prison.
Woman arrested for killing baby
Midlands CorrespondentAN 18-year-old woman from Mkoba Village Six in Gweru has been arrested for allegedly killing her newborn baby by burning it and later dumping the body in the bush.
Player unrest rocks Quelaton
Ricky Zililo
PLAYERS at struggling Bulawayo Premiership club Quelaton have threatened to desert the sinking team after their participation in the country’s richest tournament, the Mbada Holdings Diamonds Cup which starts this weekend.DeMbare edge Harare City
Harare BureauHarare City..0
Dynamos..(0) 1
LEFTBACK Ocean Mushure struck a late wonder goal, worthy of winning any match, as league champions Dynamos edged a stubborn Harare City in a cliffhanger of a Castle Lager Premiership tie at Rufaro yesterday.
City derby ends in stalemate
Ricky Zililo
Chicken Inn…0
Highlanders… 0
Hargreaves declared liberation war hero
Herald ReporterThe Zanu-PF Politburo has declared the late veterinary expert Dr Stuart Hargreaves a liberation war hero.
Mixed feelings over pre-paid electricity meters
Hillary Marizani
TIRED of being overcharged by Zesa for years, Mr Thabo Khaba, of Mpopoma in Bulawayo, voluntarily got a pre-paid meter installed at his home last month.
Murderer runs amok kills three children in cold blood, rapes two women
Temba Dube
IN a horrific four hours, a Kezi man axed his uncle’s three children to death, raped their mother and a neighbour.
He went on to stab his aunt and left her for dead before torching six huts at his father’s homestead.
The man, identified by relatives as Ndodana Ncube (38), committed the bizarre crimes on Monday night in the adjacent villages of Msetshana and Silawa, about 28km east of Maphisa Growth Point.
A policeman who was stunned by the brutal nature of the crime called Ncube “the son of Satan” while his grandfather said he was Lucifer himself.
Two women that Ncube kidnapped reportedly said he cursed daylight, saying it was denying him a chance to kill more people as he preferred “working” under the cover of darkness.
Injiva kills wife, disappears
Midlands Reporter
A MAN from Mberengwa who is employed in South Africa, commonly referred to as an injiva, is on the run after he allegedly fatally assaulted his wife with a log over suspicions of infidelity, police said.
Hargreaves declared liberation war hero
Herald Bureau
The Zanu-PF Politburo has declared the late veterinary expert Dr Stuart Hargreaves a liberation war hero.
Dr Hargreaves, who died last week after a long battle with renal cancer, was buried at his farm in Norton farm.