Mayezana Bus Misses Bridge Across Flooded Shashane River in Kezi, Matobo District

SEVENTY passengers escaped death after a Mayezana bus missed a bridge across Shashane River in Kezi, Matobo District. The driver of the bus, which was travelling from Bulawayo to Kezi, attempted to cross the flooded river on Thursday afternoon. Eyewitnesses said passengers escaped through windows and thedoor. Chief Malachi Masuku said the area had received heavy rains for four consecutive days when the accident occurred. He said when the incident occurred the bus had about…

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Woman (33) Bleeds To Death After Her Binga Granny (72) Operates On Her To Remove Fiboids

Woman (33) Bleeds To Death After Her Binga Granny (72) Operates On Her To Remove Fiboids

A HIGH Court judge has ordered a 72-year-old Binga woman who “operated on” her granddaughter in an attempt to remove fibroids from her uterus before she bled to death to immediately stop the traditional operations she said she had been practising for years. Justice Francis Bere of the Bulawayo High Court, on circuit in Hwange, made the order as she sentenced Mata Muzamba. Muzamba pleaded not guilty to murder, but offered a limited plea of…

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Bulawayo Acting Regional Prosecutor-In-Charge, Sentenced To 5 Years For Criminal Abuse Of Office

Bulawayo Acting Regional Prosecutor-In-Charge, Sentenced To 5 Years For Criminal Abuse Of Office

BULAWAYO acting regional prosecutor-in-charge Vincent Shava was yesterday sentenced to an effective three years in jail for criminal abuse of office as a public officer. Shava was arrested after Vincent Ndlovu who was facing rape charges, claimed that the prosecutor solicited a $400 bribe from him to decline prosecution. The top prosecutor had pleaded not guilty saying Ndlovu laid the charges to fix him as he stood as a stumbling block to the withdrawal of…

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Further Details Emerge About Zimbabwean Women Sold Into Prostitution In Kuwait

Further Details Emerge About Zimbabwean Women Sold Into Prostitution In Kuwait

Seven people believed to be part of a well organised human trafficking syndicate that is luring female job seekers to Kuwait, appeared in court yesterday. They allegedly enticed the women on the pretext they have secured decent employment for them in the oil rich country, when in actual fact they are selling them into prostitution and other menial jobs. It also emerged that upon arrival, the victims were placed under “house arrest” and were not…

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Officer Absconds Judges House Guard Duty To Shoot Fellow Cop At Obert Mpofu’s House

Officer Absconds Judges House Guard Duty To Shoot  Fellow Cop At Obert Mpofu’s House

A POLICE officer shot a colleague guarding Macro Economic Planning and Investment Promotion Minister Obert Mpofu’s Harare home, before attempting an elaborate cover up, a court heard yesterday. Constable Lloyd Salobe, 29, had planned to see his girlfriend – a maid at Minister Mpofu’s house – when he suddenly shot Constable Hazel Mutasa in the abdomen with an AK47 rifle, Harare magistrate Fadzai Mtombeni heard.Mutasa was hospitalised and made a full recovery following what prosecutors…

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South Africa Deports 36 Zimbabweans (32 Men, 4 Women,2 Minors) Stuck At Police Station

South Africa Deports 36 Zimbabweans (32 Men, 4 Women,2 Minors) Stuck At Police Station

SOUTH Africa’s Home Affairs department has deported 36 Zimbabweans who had been stuck at a police station after being fired by their employer for demanding overtime dues. The deportees arrived in the country by road through Beitbridge Border Post on Thursday afternoon. Among them were 32 men, four women and two minors. The group is part of 241 Zimbabweans who were fired by their employer, TJ Van der Walt, from his Johannesburg Farm in Limpopo…

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Over 200 Local Women Stranded In Kuwait, After Being Trafficked By Zimbabweans

Over 200 Local Women Stranded In Kuwait, After Being Trafficked By Zimbabweans

  OVER 200 Zimbabwean women are reportedly stranded in Kuwait after they were lured to the Middle East country on the pretext that they were going to be offered lucrative jobs by a local human trafficking syndicate, it has been learnt. Sources to The Herald revealed yesterday that most of these women had their travelling documents confiscated on arrival in Kuwait. It is believed the women were sold for amounts starting from $2 500 each…

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MDC-T Concerned The Defence University Might Sideline MDC T Opposition Members

MDC-T Concerned  The Defence University Might Sideline MDC T Opposition Members

MDC-T senator Morgan Komichi has expressed concerns that the Defence University which is expected to also enrol the house of assembly members might sideline the opposition MDC Tmembers. Komichi said the motion that MPs must also be enabled to enhance their skills and knowledge through the defence college was a good move but expressed reservations that the MDC MPs might not be enrolled in the college and those trained at the college might be used as…

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‘Zimbabwe Is A Nation In Need Of New Leadership’-MDC National Executive

‘Zimbabwe  Is A Nation In Need Of New Leadership’-MDC National Executive

We must know as a people that a country’s path to prosperity or ruin is often dictated by the character of its citizens,and therefore the solution to our problems lie with no other than you and l as Zimbabweans. lt is indeed unfortunate that l write this piece 36 years later when we insinuate that we are a liberated country, yet the reality that stares back at us daily is that of our children living…

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Syndicate Of (7 Zimbabweans) Arrested For Trafficking Women To Kuwait Into Sex Slavery

Syndicate  Of  (7 Zimbabweans) Arrested For Trafficking  Women To Kuwait Into Sex Slavery

Seven people believed to be part of a human trafficking syndicate that was luring female job seekers  to Kuwait on the pretext of having secured employment for them only to be used as cheap labourers and sex workers, have been arrested. It is alleged their victims were placed under ‘house arrest’ and not paid their wages as their earnings were reportedly wired to the suspected traffickers in Zimbabwe as payment. Their Arab accomplices would demand…

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