AN illegal miner at Isabella Mine in Bubi District recently drowned in a 40 metre deep pit after he allegedly tried to pan with colleagues whose names could not be established. Melinkosi Mlotshwa from Ntobe area in Bubi District drowned in a pit at the mine after he allegedly accessed the mine at midnight.His friends ran away when they discovered that their colleague had drowned. Mlotshwa's b

Two siblings from Gutu have been refered to Chikurubi Maximum Prison's psychiatry hospital for mental examination after they allegedly strangled their mother to death. Trevor (18) and Loveness Mabhugu (24) of Mabhugu Village under Chief Nyamande in Gutu, Masvingo Province, exhibited signs of mental illness during commission of the crime of assaulting their sister Sunungurai (22) all over her

THE Government will start giving maize to vulnerable people in urban areas as drought relief beginning next month, the Deputy Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare, Tapiwa Matangaidze, has announced.Matangaidze made the announcement in response to a question raised in Parliament on why people in urban areas were not receiving drought relief like their rural counterparts although th

ABOUT $1,7 million owed to Gweru Provincial Hospital by patients and medical aid societies is crippling operations at the institution. The hospital's medical superintendent, Dr Fabian Mashingaidze, confirmed the reporte and said PSMAS was topping the group of deptors. He said as a result of the ballooning debt, operations at the medical institution had beenaffected. He said they were finding it di

A 37 year old self confessed Chiredzi prophet landed himself in trouble with the law when he removed a corpse from the coffin, ordered a refill of the grave and the destruction of the coffin before carrying the body to the top of a hill where he spent two days praying for it to resurrect but failed.This was after he was asked to deliver a graveyard sermon immediately before burial.While preaching,

A SOLDIER was dubbed $700, some of it his bonus, by three cunning pickpockets at a city restaurant. Jethro Marwenze of Bulawayo's Mpopoma suburb, who is stationed at HQ1 Brigade, was buying food at Golden Grill restaurant when Phathisani Dube, 24, Walter Ndebele, 26, and Nkosilathi Masuku, 35, all from Pumula South suburb searched his pockets and fished out the money.The incident occurred hou

A MAN from Dete allegedly kidnapped his stepdaughter, strangled her with a piece of wire and tied the body under a weir to prevent it from floating to the surface before hanging himself.Lindwa Nawa, 31, allegedly killed Nomathemba Princess Juba, 11, a Grade Six pupil at Dingani Primary School, on Sunday night.In a bizarre development, family members said he undressed Princess and also strippe

A BULAWAYO man allegedly nearly killed his sister-in-law after striking her three times with a hoe for allegedly stealing his $1.Mehluli Ndebele, 32, struck Sichelesile Nsukwini, 27, with a hoe and she was hospitalised and later discharged as a result of the attack.Ndebele and Nsukwini live at the same house in Matshobana suburb.Nsukwini said she fled from her room as Ndebele intended to kil

War veterans yesterday filed an urgent chamber application at the High Court seeking the arrest of Zanu-PF deputy youth leader Kudzanayi Chipanga if his group threatens or disturbs the former freedom fighters' special general meeting that has been rescheduled for Monday in Harare.In the same application, the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association (ZNLWVA) is seeking an order barrin

Residents in Cowdray-Park are living in fear of a man who keeps tortoises at his homestead.Anniel Ndlovu, has been accused of witchcraft as neighbors find his habit of keeping tortoises strange and frightening.Sources who talked to BMetro queried that what could be the reason for a person to keep an animal like a tortoise, and for what reasons would he do that.One of the sources was quoted on HMet

A student from Gobo area in Silobela, committed suicide after his lover told him she was pregnant.The deceased, Tendai Mureriwa(21) could not stomach the reality that his lover, Nyasha Moyo,18, was carrying his seed.Patrick Mareriwa told a local tabloid that Moyo came to their homestead to tell them she was pregnant, but their son dismissed her claims as false.Tendai said it cant be him, who impre

Three men from Umguza resorted to violence in a bid to extract a missing phone from a suspect.Sibangilizwe Dube , 39, Thamsanqa Ncube, 48, and Zebeldiah Tshuma,52,  were brought before the courts for assaulting Ntandoyenkosi Sibanda,23.It is alleged that Ncube failed to locate his phone at his work place , prompting him to call Dube and Tshuma, who are members of the neighborhood watch commit

A Cowdray Park man in Bulawayo raped his ex-lover in a fit of revenge after finding her with another man in bed.Crispen Mugande ,43, reportedly went to his 22 year old ex-lover’s residence to demand $6 which he had given her during their rosy days.It is alleged that Mugande found his ex-girlfriend in bed with another man. He was given his money by the couple.In anger that his ex-lover had replac

Matabeleland South proportional representation House of Assembly Member of Parliament Hon. Priscilla Misihairambwi - Mushonga has challenged the Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education to decentralize STEM registration to the districts and to put the STEM advert in other languages not only Shona.Contributing in Parliament on the 18th of February 2016, Hon. Misihairambwi - Mushonga, who has been

Nyuni Secondary School in Chingwizi, Mwenezi, set up to accommodate children of victims of the Tokwe-Mukosi dam floods, is being swamped by pupils from other areas as it offers free education, Masvingo provincial education director Zedius Chitiga has said.Speaking during a tour of the area this week, Chitiga said this was putting immense pressure on the meager resources available saying they could