A FRUIT vendor who fatally assaulted a Bulawayo man who was coming from work before robbing him of his cellphone has been sentenced to an effective 35 years in jail.   Everton Moyo (21) of Vundu Flats in Makokoba suburb was convicted of murder with actual intent by Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Maxwell Takuva in connection with the death of Mr Trymore Nunurai who was aged 31 when the incident happened in 2015.  …

Revolutionary singer and songwriter Dick “Cde Chinx” Chingaira Makoni has died.Cde Chinx was confirmed dead at 10pm at West End Hospital in Harare on Friday after a long battle with blood cancer (leukaemia). The Vanhu Vose VemuAfrica singer was born in Rusape on September 27 in 1952 and his music career dates back to the precolonial era In 1975 Cde Chinx crossed into Mozambique where he joined the liberation struggle at the age of 20…

A man has died and 10 people have been injured after a man drove a van into worshippers near a north London mosque. The van mounted the pavement and struck a group of people just after midnight near Finsbury Park Mosque in Seven Sisters Road. A white 48-year-old man has been arrested. Prime Minister Theresa May said police were treating it “as a potential terrorist attack”. Eyewitness Abdul Rahman said the driver said he wanted…

ONE Zimbabwean was killed and 34 others were injured, two of them seriously when the driver of a Munhenzwa bus they were travelling in lost control, resulting in the vehicle overturning near Tweefontein area, some 20km outside Polokwane in South Africa yesterday.   The accident occurred at around 4.30 AM along South Africa’s N1 highway.   Limpopo’s Department of Transport spokesperson, Mr Joshua Kwapa, said the injured were taken to Polokwane Government Hospital and the…

A 79-year-old polygamist from Mberengwa is allegedly in the habit of forcing his first wife to watch him indulging in sex with his two other wives before forcing her to wash their dirty panties after each session.   Elijah Assani of Assani village under Chief Nyandoro was dragged to court by his first wife Ms Jesta Zhou (71) who was seeking a peace order.   Assani, a father of 30, did not dispute the allegations…

Lindiwe Moyo has asked newzimbabwevision to help tracing a missing relative.The distraught family are desperate for information on the whereabouts of a missing relative Hanisani Ndlovu , originally from Lupane Matebeleland South.   Hanisani aged approximately 26 to 27 years, reportedly disappeared from Alberton in South Africa last year on the 30th of July 2016 after leaving home for work and never returned.   the family have asked that if anyone has information about him, his…

It is reported that the A40 Westway is closed in both directions after a major fire that was reported around 01:30 am at the 24 storey Grenfell Tower that holds 120 flats in Kensington West London on Latimer road in the Grenfell Tower, a Lancaster West Estate near Notting Hill, broke out. The place in White city is near the old BBC offices and had a multi million dollar refurbishment of the heating , water…

Suspended Prosecutor-General, Mr Johannes Tomana, was yesterday fired for misconduct and incompetence after a tribunal set by President Mugabe to probe him recommended his dismissal.   Permanent Secretary for Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Mrs Virginia Mabhiza announced in a General Notice 292 of 2017 published in the Government Gazette yesterday that President Mugabe had acted on the tribunal’s recommendations.   The decision by President Mugabe came after a disciplinary tribunal chaired by Retired High…

FIRED ZIMBABWE VICE PRESIDENT ‘JOYCE MUJURU’ now NATIONAL People’s Party leader says that the people should not boycott the 2018 ballot as that would benefit Zanu pf.   Joice Mujuru has claimed it was a huge mistake for her to strongly campaign in support of the ruling Zanu PF party for the notorius ‘NIKUV’ election of 31st July 2013. According to Mujuru, the resultant landslide victory by Mugabe’s Zanu pf is the root of the…

PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE’S SPOKESPERSON , George Charamba a.k.a Nathaniel Manheru, also the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information claims that the current dispute between Jonathan Moyo and Vice President Emerson Mnangagwa is not a national issue. Moyo and Mnangagwa were allies but fell out in 2004 over the Tsholotsho Declaration spear headed by Jonathan Moyo and designed to lead to Mnangagwa’s appointment to vice-President of Zimbabwe before fired vice president Joice Mujuru. The failed…