MATABELELAND SOUTH - Three homesteads belonging to suspected cattle rustlers were today burnt to ashes by angry villagers from Matshetsheni, Gwanda. Citizen reporters told  zimmetro.net that the incident occured following accusations that victims  are involved in cattle rustling. "Community members ran amok burning to ashes homes belonging to  Lovemore Moyo, Sylvester Masuku and M

Greetings fellow Zimbabweans, wherever you are and whatever your creed and beliefs are. May I take this opportunity to introduce myself to whosoever set their eyes on my first ever installation with Zim-Metro. I will begin in the beginning.My name is Hopewell Masola wa Dabudabu, known as Masola wa Dabudabu within some circles of social commentary. I was born in Mzwanyane village under the chieftai

Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) on Tuesday conceded that the multi-currency systema dopted in 2009 was effectively dysfunctional with the economy trading solely on the United States dollar, which has resulted in spiking cash demand, fuelling shortages.Early this month, the central bank announced the introduction of bond notes as part of a raft of measures to promote exports and ease cash shortages.

POLICE in Harare yesterday summoned missing activist Itai Dzamara’s younger brother, Patson following a picture he released to the media claiming it was of his sibling in captivity.Patson on Monday released an image he claimed to have obtained from State security agents, who allegedly implicated military intelligence, as being behind Dzamara’s abduction over 15 months ago.The grainy picture sh

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe and war veterans could be headed for a fresh wave of public spats over the emotive succession issue, after the former freedom fighters endorsed Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa as his heir apparent.In resolutions made available to a local publication, following a whirlwind tour of provinces on feedback meetings in the aftermath of their indaba with Mugabe in April, the ex-

FINANCE minister, Patrick Chinamasa has dismissed social media reports that his son, Tino was arrested while trying to smuggle $7 million through Beitbridge Border Post on Sunday.Chinamasa said the rumours and claims were “false, evil, malicious and highly mischievous.”“This onslaught on my character and reputation will not deter or intimidate us from pursuing economic reforms within the con

MORGAN Tsvangirai’s opposition MDC-T and the Joice Mujuru-led Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) yesterday snubbed the signing of a coalition document, Coalition of Democrats (Code), binding opposition parties to work as a single entity in the 2018 elections.Speaking at the signing ceremony in Harare, MDC leader, Welshman Ncube claimed both Mujuru and Tsvangirai’s parties had been consulted, but in

IN a bizarre case, a man from Bulawayo misrepresented himself as the father of a stillborn child before taking the body from Mpilo Central Hospital mortuary and burying it at Luveve Cemetery.Tineyi Machipanda pleaded guilty to supplying false information for a stillbirth when he appeared before magistrate Evelyn Mashavakure yesterday.He was remanded in custody to June 3, 2016.Machipanda told the c

POLICE are looking for 60 most wanted stock thieves, four of them women, who have so far evaded arrest in ongoing anti-stock theft operations.Police National Coordinator Anti-Stock Theft Senior Assistant Commissioner Erasmus Makodza said the ongoing countrywide operations had seen them coming up with 60 suspects who police believe are behind a string of stockthefts countrywide.He said recently the

A widow who is employed as a nurse aide at Victoria Falls District Hospital has been arrested for allegedly terminating a pregnancy and flushing the foetus down the toilet.Kusatya Jacob Chikulula, whose age was not given, appeared before Victoria Falls magistrate Rangarirai Gakanje charged with unlawful termination of pregnancy.Chikulula, whose husband died last year, pleaded not guilty to the off

A 71-YEAR-OLD Bulawayo man allegedly drugged an eight-year-old boy before sodomising him on several occasions, a magistrate has heard. Bulawayo magistrate Evelyn Mashavakure heard this when Davidson Mbambo of Trenance appeared before her facing charges of aggravated indecent assault.Mbambo was remanded in custody to June 9.Prosecuting, Nkathazo Dlodlo said sometime last year, the complainant who i

A Robber who was last week released from prison on Presidential amnesty has been re-arrested after breaking into six houses in Bulawayo’s Kumalo suburb.Thembelani Sibanda, 27, of Mzilikazi suburb was found in possession of property stolen from different homes in the leafy suburb.He was arrested on Monday and a police source said he was part of the over 2,000 inmates who were released on Presiden

A COMMUTER omnibus driver who collided with a motorcycle in President Robert Mugabe’s motorcade on Friday last week has pleaded guilty to negligent driving.President Mugabe was going to the Harare International Airport where he flew to Papua New Guinea for the Summit on African, Carribean and Pacific Group of States (ACP).The accident happened near the intersection of Julius Nyerere Way and Kenn

A self-proclaimed prophet of the Johanne Masowe apostolic sect (nguwo tsvuku) has been jailed for 12 years for raping a 20 year old client on the pretext that he was removing something from the womans privates.Rickie Mutero of Chinamhora pleaded not guilty when he appeared before regional magistrate Mrs Sandra Mupindu, but was convicted on overwhelming evidence.Allegations are that on February 16

GOVERNMENT plans to introduce Chinese, Swahili, Portuguese and French in the new primary and secondary education curriculum.Addressing delegates at a Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education stakeholders meeting, Minister Dr Lazarus Dokora said the new curriculum was at the initial stage as it was being prepared and piloted this year.“The ministry is going to introduce foreign languages in th