HOMICIDE detectives are now investigating the suspected murder of Rusape politician – Nathaniel Garikayi Mhiripiri after a post-mortem done on the corpse discovered a bullet lodged in his head.   The post-mortem was done on Tuesday by a pathologist at Harare Hospital.   Mhiripiri (67), who was the Zanu-PF Manicaland provincial secretary for labour and production, was found dead at his Abeid Farm, 12km on the outskirts of Rusape, last week on Tuesday after going…

Six people among them four Green Motors Services (GMS) directors died in a plane crash at Vumba Mountain this morning.   The four directors were on their way from Beira to attend a board meeting in Mutare.   Investigations to establish the cause of the accident are underway but preliminary investigations attribute the crash to bad weather.   The wreckage of the eight seater plane and body parts of the victims were strewn all over…

A ZANU-PF Bulawayo Provincial Youth Deputy Commissar has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for faking former provincial youth chairperson Mr Khumbulani Mpofu`s death and asking for a $1 000 funeral donation from the party.   Tichaona Chikwava (33) from Makokoba suburb and his co-accused Blessed Mushandu who is on the run claimed Mr Mpofu had died.   They requested a donation from the party.   A court heard police dramatically swooped on Chikwava…

A FORMER Bulawayo City Council (BCC) accounts clerk has been jailed for 99 months for defrauding four home seekers of US$30 000.   Bulawayo Provincial Magistrate, Ms Sithembiso Ncube convicted Sijabuliso Buhlungu (28) of four counts of fraud and two of theft.   Ms Ncube said from the manner in which Buhlungu took advantage of his victims, it was evident that the crimes were premeditated.   “You used your office to lure people into getting…

FIVE people, two of them police officers, believed to be Highlanders’ Football Club supporters, died while five others were critically injured in an accident along the Bulawayo-Gwanda Road on Saturday night.   The accident occurred at around 8PM at the 20km peg, just before the meandering escarpment popularly referred to as “Danger” when the driver of a Toyota Gaia they were travelling in lost control of the vehicle and rammed into a tree.   The…

A GROUP of men suspected to be soldiers ran amok on Saturday night and assaulted Midlands State University (MSU) students at Senga Training Centre near the University’s main campus leaving 13 of the students injured.   The suspected soldiers and the students were fighting over a woman believed to be a prostitute at a local night spot.   The incident occurred at around 8PM when a group of people purporting to be soldiers pounced on…