Two men lost their lives while three others are seriously injured in a beer brawl in which patrons set upon each other with iron bars and bricks in Masvingo.Acting Masvingo police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Kudakwashe Dehwa said the fierce fight started when one of the patrons at Mudzivo Bottle Store confronted a group that he accused of having caused his arrest in a 2014 assault case.He sai

A 17 year old Milton High school pupil from Famona suburb in Bulawayo has been arrested for having sex with a 14 year old girl.The boy, a Form Three pupil, allegedly met the girl from Cowdray Park suburb sometime in March last year and proposed love to her.The teens, started having sex until the girl, a Form Three pupil at St Columbus High School, told her friend who later told the girl's mother.T

Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has affirmed government's commitment to the promotion and protection of human rights and challenged individuals to report any abuses of the rights of people to relevant authorities.Speaking at a consultative workshop on the United Nations Human Rights Universal Periodic Review in Mutare on Thursday, Mnangagwa, said government was involved in various projects aimed

The Tsholothso-Phelandaba road is set to be rehabilitated after government granted $600,000 for tarring of the road which has become a nightmare for motorists especially during the rainy season.The road is inaccessible during the rainy season and two weeks ago buses were getting stuck.The Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development, Joram Gumbo, joined the area Member of Parliament, Prof

Acting President Phelekezela Mphoko yesterday opened up on claims by embattled war veterans chairman Christopher Mutsvangwa, that he deserted his comrades in Mozambique at the height of the war to enjoy life with his then wife to be, Laurinda. Mphoko slammed the former Minister for War Veterans as a mad man."Someone sees the sun rising from the east and he says it's the west. Lolo luhlanya (that's

A Beitbridge based prosecutor took the law in his hands, kidnapping and torturing three men whom he accused of stealing from his house.Muchiwande Forbes Sithole, 35, allegedly teamed up with two people, who were not named in court, to severely assault Knowledge Mike, Gabriel Choruwa and Clemence Moyo, who is visually impaired after finding out that property worth R7,300 had been stolen.Sithol

Bulawayo Residents who attended a council stakeholder meeting booed the City Mayor, Martin Moyo, accusing his administration of poor management of the city. Residents denigrate Moyo before Acting President Phelekezela Mphoko, Cabinet Ministers, MPs and business executives who attended the meeting at the Large City Hall.A resident, who identified himself as a vendor, accused councillors of parcelli

Police have ransacked and shut down 112 'illegal' butcheries and arrested 2,160 people in a two week countrywide operation targeting stock theft cronies.National Co-ordinatorof the Anti-Stock Theft unit, Senior Assistant Commissioner Erasmus Makodza, said the police operation code named Inyama liyithethe ngaphi/nyama yabvepi, which ended on March 27, nabbed a number of illegal operators.Snr Asst C

Four members of the Gweru cash in transit municipal police team have been arrested on allegations of assaulting a Deputy Sheriff who wanted to attach the vehicle they were using to collect cash from the Revenue Hall at Town House.Misheck Mutindindi, Bernard Mambo, Samson Samukute and Arthur Dovo, all of Mkoba suburb, appeared for initial remand facing two counts of assault and contravening the Hig

Satanism scares have engulfed Mbuyazwe community, on the outskirts of Bulawayo after it was suspected that pupils were practicing a satanic ritual by cutting themselves and exchanging blood.It was discovered that some pupils at Mbuyazwe Primary school were in the habit of cutting themselves on their hands and then exchanging blood through rubbing the bleeding wounds together.Elders made an investi

A woman who attempted to steal a bottle of bubble bath at a supermarket in Bulawayo had a five kilogram sack of flour emptied on her for her shameful act.The woman was seen by a customer stuffing a bottle of Satiskin bubble bath gel into her panties. The customer alerted the guards.A customer who witnessed the apprehending of the thief revealed that when the woman was about to exit the shop door s

A married man committed suicide after his girlfriends husband confronted him over the affair.Clement Sibanda took his own life on January 12, after the husband of his lover, Sukoluhle Maphosa confronted him with evidence of their affair.Maphosa's husband, Precious Nkosi,  also alleged that Sibanda was not the only one who was tangled up in the affair as there was also another lover only ident

A man from Lalapanzi had his balls squeezed and pulled by his father in law during a fight over lobola. Anywhere Mudzvidzvo from Makomborero village in Lalapanzi, Midlands Province was struck twice with an axe on his left leg by his father in law, a Mr Chimbochena, who capped it with squeezing his testicles as punishment for failing to pay lobola. Mudzvidzvo said his father-in-law had reportedly p

A Tsholotsho woman attempted to take her own life at her ex-husband's home as punishment for denying her sex.Evylene Sibanda from Fumabatshena Line in the Sipepa area separated with her husband Adam Dube over a domestic dispute some time last year.Sibanda is alleged to have vowed to frequent her ex-husband's place for sex since he was the one who broke her virginity and started pestering Dube for

A wedding turned into a funeral after the groom's father collapsed and died soon after presenting his gift at a wedding ceremony on Good Friday.The now deceased only identified as Moyo reportedly died soon after blessing his son's marriage and presenting his gift.The incident left Bulawayo's Old Lobengula residents in awe and shock.A neighbour who spoke on condition of anonymity revealed that the