Its interesting that in January 2017 a serial killer from Bulawayo Rodney Tongai Jindu (25) allegedly killed and dismembered victims including neighbour Mboneli Ncube (30), childhood friend Cyprian Kudzurunga (28) of Queens Park suburb and set the pieces on fire before burying them in four shallow graves at a vacant plot in Burnside. Jindu claimed malayitshas offered him US$20 000 or a Toyota Quantum for human body parts belonging to people with a Ncube…

MPORTANT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR THE WAY FORWARD   There is a lot of noise in the corridors of opposition politics regarding who is who and who should do what. The best way to help us map the way forward is posing critical questions and proffering answers to those questions.   Questions   1. Wrong as it may be, Zimbabwean politics and followeship are built around persons. Who has the most followers in opposition?  …

THE Government has announced that pupils who do not attend Early Childhood Development at registered institutions will no longer be able to proceed to Grade 1 countrywide and this new system comes into effect next year.   The move is in response to the mushrooming of unregistered child day care centres in most cities and towns.   Speaking at Mpumelelo Primary School in Mpopoma suburb after presenting it the Secretary’s Bell award for 2017, the…

The State is not obliged at law to establish polling stations outside the country and all Zimbabweans in Diaspora who decide to live away from home for personal reasons were free to travel back to respective native bases to cast their ballot, the Constitutional Court has ruled.   Giving reasons for a 2013 court order dismissing the request for postal ballot by foreign-based Zimbabweans, Chief Justice Luke Malaba said the right to vote was not…

PROSPECTS of an opposition coalition against President Robert Mugabe continue to hit turbulence, with National People’s Party (NPP) leader, Joice Mujuru yesterday distancing herself from claims by MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai that a pact would be in place by month-end.   The former Vice-President, who signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Tsvangirai in April this year, has been looking elsewhere for electoral pacts, saying the deadline set by Tsvangirai was unrealistic.   “I think…

THE Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has dispatched an investigating team to Founders High School in Bulawayo following a report that six boarders at the school have fallen pregnant.   A source said someone from the school wrote an anonymous letter to the ministry alerting it of the cases.   Bulawayo’s Provincial Education Director Mrs Olicah Kaira confirmed that the ministry was investigating the matter.   “All I can say is that we received…

CRIMINALS convicted of raping minors and the disabled risk 60 years imprisonment after Cabinet yesterday came up with principles on the proposed Amendments to the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform Act Chapter 9:33) on minimum mandatory sentencing for rapists.   This is a strong signal that the Government is upset with the prevalence of sexual violence.   In a statement yesterday, Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Minister Dr Christopher Mushohwe said the decision followed widespread…