‘Giving men who offer to marry girls that they would have impregnated lenient sentences fuels child marriages’.-Harare High Court judge Justice Jester Charewa

‘Giving men who offer to marry girls that they would have impregnated lenient sentences fuels child marriages’.-Harare High Court judge Justice Jester Charewa

  A HIGH Court Judge has castigated magistrates who treat men who offer to marry girls that they would have impregnated leniently saying such judicial officers were fuelling child marriages. Harare High Court judge Justice Jester Charewa made the remarks while reviewing two cases in which two men, Shepherd Banda and Everton Chakamoga, both had sexual intercourse with girls under the age of 15 and walked away with lenient sentences after offering to marry the…

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10-year jail term for Marondera man (27) who lost an arm after severe electric shock while stealing copper cables

10-year jail term for Marondera man (27) who lost an arm after severe electric shock while stealing copper cables

    A 27-YEAR-OLD Marondera man will rue the day he decided to steal live electric copper cables after he was sentenced to an effective 10-year jail term for theft, in addition to losing his arm while committing the offence. Signal Kolowa, of Rakata village under Chief Svosve in Marondera, who had his right arm amputated after suffering severe electric shock, pleaded guilty before provincial magistrate Milton Serima yesterday. He implicated his alleged accomplice, Joram Jowa…

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Police fight running battles with illegal vendors in Harare Central Business District

  Police yesterday fought running battles with illegal vendors who were protesting the confiscation of their wares by Harare City Council Municipal Police in the Central Business District (CBD). Police had to fire teargas across the CBD to disperse the vendors some of whom fought back throwing stones at the law enforcement agents. Business was brought to a halt in most parts of the city centre as shop owners closed their shops fearing that the…

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PLUMTREE man (25), who flogged his four-year-old daughter to death using a jatropha switch, is jailed for eight years

  A PLUMTREE man, who flogged his four-year-old daughter to death as punishment for failing to close a goat pen at their homestead, was yesterday sentenced to eight years in jail. Ngoni Tshuma (25) assaulted the child, Simosenkosi, with a Jatropha switch and a piece of wire and she died a few hours later from injuries sustained in the brutal assault. Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Francis Bere convicted Tshuma of Dombodema area of a…

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‘UN summit , members no longer take President Robert Mugabe serious due to his careless rants during summits’

‘UN summit , members no longer take President Robert Mugabe serious due to his careless rants during summits’

  An international researcher and well traveled Ken Yamamoto has said in his findings from a Chinese fellow who partakes in the United Nations summits, members no longer take Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe serious due to his careless rants during summits such that they have even given him a nick name. Mugabe is known for his rhetoric of calling for removal of sanction against his country in every summit that he attends such that delegates…

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“What water is to agriculture, armaments are to security. Israel suffers from a shortage of both,” Israel’s Former President Shimon Peres Dies

Shimon Peres,  one of the founding fathers of the israel nation  and former Israeli prime minister has died. The elder statesman who is famously remembered for saying, “What water is to agriculture, armaments are to security died at the age of 93 years. He is a Nobel Peace Prize winner and British honorary knight.  Shimon Peres, succumbed to a major stroke two weeks ago, and subsequently died in a Tel Aviv hospital. Shimon Peres political…

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‘Missing Itai Dzamara’s brother jointly charged with four others, on two counts of robbery and defeating the course of justice’.

‘Missing Itai Dzamara’s brother jointly charged with four others, on two counts of robbery and defeating the course of justice’.

  Harare magistrate Arnold Maburo yesterday issued warrants of arrest for three anti-government protesters who failed to turn up for trial over a robbery case involving Patson Dzamara. Dzamara is jointly charged with Oliver Chikumba, 32, Tatenda Mombeyarara, 33, Pride Mukono, 26, and Makomborero Haruzivishe, 33, on two counts of robbery and defeating the course of justice. They were arrested in June while protesting against President Robert Mugabe’s regime at Africa Unity Square before the…

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Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) name Gills farm , mine collapse victims

The eighth person, not yet been identified, is currently admitted to Concession hospital. Names of the deceased at Gills farm: Edmore Gova, age 31, from Hilgrove farm Concession Tawanda Muchakata, age 35, from Watakai mine Concession Tonderai Seya, no age, from Chatyoka mine Muchine Tembo, age 33, from Hilgrove Concession Mandigona Mubweze, age 33, from Hilgrove Honest Chilise, no age, from Watakai farm Nelson Mupeteveki, no age, from Hilgrove source-byo24

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Muzarabani, man, (34) , went berserk and burnt his ex-girlfriend’s 4 year old child beyond recognition

Muzarabani, man, (34) , went berserk and burnt his ex-girlfriend’s 4 year old child beyond recognition

  A 34 year old man Plaster Kagoro from Madoka village, Muringazuwa ward in Muzarabani, went berserk and killed his ex-girlfriend’s 4 year old child in an inferno over the weekend. Allegations are that Kagoro was refusing to be divorced and would harass the unidentified woman whenever he saw her with a man. On the fateful day Kagoro acting on a tip-off that his ex-girlfriend was in bed with another man went and set ablaze…

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‘Victims of organised ZRP violence and torture seek treatment for their injuries,-Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum

The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum has reported that following severe brutalization by the police the activists have sought medical treatment amid indications most of them were seriously injured during the attacks. The organisation said from 1 – 17 September 2016, 28 victims of organised violence and torture sought treatment for their injuries. “These victims had been assaulted in incidents in Harare, Epworth, Chitungwiza, Bindura, and Chiadzwa, or during the widespread violence on 17 September,…

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