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‘THREE CHIVI, BROTHERS Duduzile, Bright and Daniel Tizirai of Makuvire arrested for murderIing their 72-year-old mother after accusing her of witchcraft’.The accused — Duduzile, Bright and Daniel Tizirai of Makuvire village — last week appeared before Masvingo High Court judge Justice Garainesu Mawadze charged with murder.Prosecutor Emmanuel Mathose alleged that on April 5 this year, the co-accused approached their now deceased mother, Nyengeterai Tizirai, and accused her of causing the death of her daughter-in-law. The…

10-YEAR OLD , GRADE 5 GIRL, WAS RAPED SEVERAL TIMES IN NINE HOURS and had to receive blood transfusion after she lost a lot of blood during the horrific act.A 10-year-old girl from Gweru spent one week in hospital and was left limping after she was raped several times in nine hours by her assailant who had threatened to burn down her mother’s kitchen.The girl who is doing Grade 5 at a local school had…

FORMER CABINET MINISTER , NICHOLAS GOCHE WAS ARRESTED LAST NIGHT in Bindura on allegations of stealing an undisclosed number of cattle. Goche who spent Wednesday night in custody is likely to appear in court today facing stock theft charges. National police spokesperson Assistant Comm Paul Nyathi confirmed the arrest and said he was yet to get the details of the case.Nicholas Goche was the Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare and Minister of…

MDC ALLIANCE LEADER NELSON CHAMISA HAS TO RECOGNISE the Supreme Court ruling which installed Thokozani Khupe as acting MDC-T president for talks between the two factions of Zimbabwe’s biggest opposition political party to take place, Business Times can report.The national executive councils of the two parties have been holding separate meetings to strategise on the way forward following the declaration by the party’s youths wings that the two leaders Chamisa and Khupe must meet face…

WHITE FARMERS STORMED THE SEKAL MAGISTRATES COURT BUILDING ON TUESDAY AND SET A POLICE CAR ON FIRE, demanding that the suspects who are accused of killing a white farmer be handed over to them.According to pictures on social media, they damaged the court property while forcing their way to the court cells. A police van parked outside the court building was also overturned and burned.Lobby group AfriForum deputy CEO Ernst Roets said the anger from…

MDC ALLIANCE PRESIDENT NELSON CHAMISA AND OTHER party members are not welcome at the MDC-T’s extraordinary congress according to reinstated secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora .The MDC-T is set to hold an extraordinary congress before November 30 after the party was ordered by the Supreme Court to elect a leader who will replace founding president Morgan Tsvangirai.Tsvangirai died in February 2018.Speaking on New Zim TV’s The Agenda Monday, Mwonzora said the MDC-T would not allow Chamisa to…

AN ESIGODINI MAN ( 24) allegedly raped his neighbour’s wife over a debt (R50 ) owed by her husband.The man from Ntabenende area in Esigodini who cannot be named for ethical reasons was not asked to plead when he appeared before Gwanda magistrate, Miss Lerato Nyathi facing a rape charge. He was remanded in custody to October 19.Prosecuting, Miss Ethel Mahachi said the man raped the complainant on August 14 at around 9PM after he…

A HWANGE MAN ERASMUS TSHUMA (20) ALLEGEDLY DRAGGED a woman from her minor children and raped her repeatedly overnight after viciously attacking her husband. Erasmus Tshuma of C51 Lwendulu and employed at Zimberly Investments, allegedly went to to the couple’s homestead in a village on the outskirts of Hwange town around 11pm and threw stones at a bedroom hut. A HWANGE MAN ERASMUS TSHUMA (20) ALLEGEDLY DRAGGED a woman from her minor children and raped…

PICTURE SHOWS THE wreckage from the horrific accident that killed five people and left 34 others injured last Saturday near Tombo one Business Centre in Nyanga North. Three people who died in a road accident that occured along the Nyanga-Nyamaropa road at the weekend have been laid to rest at their family home in Kanyimo, Nyanga this morning.The other two are expected to be buried tomorrow morning in Nyanga. The five died when the truck…

ZIMBABWE’S JUNIOR DOCTORS WILL NOW BE CONSCRIPTED into the army soon after graduating in a move to militarising the health sector and stop them from going on strike or leaving the country for greener pastures, according to a new order released by the militarised Mnangagwa Zanu pf regime on September 28. All junior doctors must now be recruited as military doctors for them to be able to work in Zimbabwe government hospitals. Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga,…