A thief who escaped from a police station claimed a police officer released him for a $20 bribe.Everisto Sungwa of Village Chamisa in Chirumhanzu pleaded not guilty to escaping from lawful custody.Sungwa told the court he bribed a cop to gain his freedom.He was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment of which six months will be suspended for five years on condition he does not commit a similar offence

A hooker had to run abandoning her undergarments and shoes, after a client attempted to kill her after sexually violating her.The client, Tariro Takavarasha, who is a nurse at Gwanda Provincial Hospital is alleged to have assaulted the hooker after being told to put on a condom.Takavarasha then resorted to assaulting and raping the hooker.It is alleged that the hooker managed to escape when Taka

Hyenas are feeling the pinch of the drought and have started invading homesteads, killing livestock in Gwanda South Villages.The most affected villages are those in Ward 24 which is surrounded by conservancies.Cattle, goats and donkeys are mainly targeted.Ward 14 councillor, Alphios Tlou, yesterday said they had reported the matter to the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Authority (Zimparks) for help i

Jabulani Sibanda's case of insulting President Mugabe while addressing an unsanctioned rally in Mutare in 2014 has been further remanded to June 30 pending a Constitutional Court ruling. Sibanda faces charges of contravening Section 33 (2) (b) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act Chapter 9:23.On 27 October, Sibanda allegedly delivered a lengthy speech and said the President and

Three Zideco College teachers have appeared in court accused of conniving to let their friend sit an O Level Maths exam for his girlfriend. The Kwekwe based trio, Canaan Gombe, Wellington Masiiwa and Courage Nyathi, appeared in court for contravening the Zimsec Act.It is alleged that, Gombe, wrote answers for his girlfriend,Chenesai Charumbira, and gave her the paper to copy the answers on her own

A child was bitten to death whilst another attacked viciously by a pack of eight supected rapid dogs in Masvingo's Eastvale suburb. Success Kasanhayi of Shakashe Street was playing with four other children outside his parents' house when the dogs belonging to Ahamad Amon and one Mukaratirwa pounced on him on Sunday at around 4 PM.He was rushed to Masvingo General Hospital by one of the owners

Police at Madlambuzi have received death threats from a resident who fumed that they had killed his snake.Urgent Ncube,39, from Bangali village, under chief Madlambuzi reportedly stormed into the police station fuming on why the police had killed his snake before it had completed its job.According to a confidential document leaked to Zimmetro on the condition of anonymity that the angry man d

A Chitungwiza man, Peter Maswera, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for deliberately inecting his wife with HIV.It is alleged that, Maswera dated a 34 year old woman and the two later had unprotected sex, resulting in her falling pregnant.In December 2015, the woman intercepted a medical record indicating Maswera was HIV positive.She then made a police report, leading to Maswera’s arrest

The model,Tafadzwa Mushunje (24), who was accused of injecting her lovers son with HIV contaminated blood was sent for an HIV test.Mushunje, who also stands accused of forcing the toddler to drink her urine, did not object to the tests.She was remanded to today pending results of the test.The child was referred for a medical examination whose results are yet to be disclosed.

Chitungwiza based Zanu PF activist were hurled before the courts facing charges of assault, theft and malicious damage to property after they allegedly raided a privately owned car park in the town.The five suspects, Enest Kafere (33), Arbson Chipere (32), Simon Shumba (28), Nicholas Gweje (34) and Patience Mushave (30), were not asked to plead and were remanded out of custody to March 8 this year

Zanu PF youths stopped members of the opposition Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) from using an office space which they had acquired in a ruling party's building in Rusape, leaving tenants leasing the property stranded.The Zanu PF youths later sealed off the building, disrupting business activity on the premises, where ZPF had reportedly been offered office space.On Friday, Zanu PF youths accused the s

A Gokwe man has been sentenced to 34 years in jail for raping his two nieces aged eight and six years on four different occasions. It is alleged that the man rapped the two nieces on two different accounts sometime in February last year.The matter came to light when the eight year old told her grandmother that she had seen her uncle licking the six year old girl's privates.The 54 year old man plea

An alleged polygamous prison officer stationed at Mhlahlandlela Government Complex double crossed his wife, who is a prison officer with a subordinate prison officer.The affair between Wonder Chipondeni, the senior Prison Officer, and Ntombiphindile Khumalo, his supposedly girlfriend, resulted in the two having a child.Ruth Chipondeni took Khumalo to Bulawayo Civil court on charges of adultery and

Jah Prayzah, real name Mukudzei Mukombe, was arrested after allegedly evading police and Zimbabwe National Road Authority (Zinara) officials at the Shurugwi Tollgate. He was allegedly driving an unregistered Mercedes Benz E320. Police Midlands Operations Coordinator Chief Superintendent Edmore Bakayidza confirmed the arrest.The musician was asked to produce vehicle registration documents at t

FIVE people died on the spot, while eight others were seriously injured in a head on collision involving a commuter omnibus and a Volkswagen Passat along the Harare-Mutare highway yesterday morning.The accident occurred a few kilometres from the Marondera tollgate.National police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba confirmed the accident, saying the Harare-bound commuter om