Police arrested five suspected poachers in separate incidents in Harare and Chinhoyi over the weekend and recovered three ivory tusks.Chief police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba yesterday confirmed the arrests.She said detectives from the CID Minerals and Border Control Unit received information that George Chuma (34), Tawanda Kagamukanwa (35), Raphael Chapinduka (28)

A Harare maid who sliced the upper lip of her employer's four year old daughter with a knife as punishment for failing to cut tomatoes was yesterday sentenced to 210 hours of community service.The magistrate Mr Tendai Mahwe sentenced Maslin Refu (19) to 12 months in prison but suspended six months for five years on condition that she does not commit a similar offence.The remaining six months were

A six year old boy from Chituripasi area in Beitbridge was attacked and killed by an elephant while his sister watched helplessly.The incident occurred on Tuesday around 11am, 200 metres from the business centre.Acting chief executive officer for Beitbridge Rural District council, Mr Peter Ncube said they had since sent a local safari (Three Way Safaris) to hunt for the jumbo.The now decease

HARARE City Council has ordered vendors operating at Mbudzi roundabout to relocate to the newly established Mbudzi People's Market and help contain typhoid.Some parts of Harare have been hit by typhoid. The city's acting corporate communications manager Mr Michael Chideme said the move would help stop the spread of typhoid.Harare city health director Dr Prosper Chonzi echoed Mr Chideme's sent

THERE is a shortage of Science and Mathematics teachers in Zimbabwe with the Midlands and Matebeleland provinces the hardest hit.Addressing a curriculum review meeting attended by school heads, provincial and district education officials in Harare on Monday, Primary and Secondary Education Minister Lazarus Dokora said efforts were being made to address the shortage.As of 2013, Zimbabwe had a short

OVER 30 000 Harare properties are not on the city database, prejudicing council of millions of dollars in potential revenue.The property owners have reportedly illegally connected themselves to piped council water.Acting town clerk Josephine Ncube confirmed the development to a local publication.She said council discovered the anomaly through its Geographic Information Systems which captured 250 0

Bulawayo High Court has dismissed an appeal against conviction and a 20 year jail term by an HIV positive rapist who turned his 15 year old sister in law into a sex slave for four years.Nephat Sibanda, 54, was convicted of rape in 2011 and sentenced him to an effective 20 years in jail.In the court papers, Sibanda who was a self actor is the appellant while the state was cited as the respondent.Si

A MAN from Bulilima is on the run after he allegedly beat up his 64 year old uncle to death for restraining him from fighting during a drinking spree.Studymore Ndebele, 27, of Bezu Village in Natane Ward, allegedly struck Aleck Moyo, who is also from the same area, with a concrete block on the head on Thursday last week.The old man fell unconscious and was rushed to United Bulawayo Hospitals where

THE government has approved the increase of monthly allowances for mayors and councillors by more than 200 percent.According to a circular titled "Financial Prudence" forwarded to all local authorities by the Ministry of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing, the mayor of Harare will now pocket $1,250 per month, up from $450 while his deputy pockets $840, up from $350.Harare cit

TWO armed robbers allegedly raided a house in Bulawayo's Pumula South suburb and seized $13,000 in burial society funds. The suspects are alleged to have broken into the treasurer of Simunye Burial Society, Beatrice Sibanda's house and headed straight to her bedroom where she kept the society's funds.The incident occurred on Saturday at about 3AM.Sibanda said the robbers got into her house th

ZANU PF Masvingo province is racing against time to raise the $100 000 required ahead of the President Robert Mugabe's 21st birthday bash which is slated for Great Zimbabwe Monuments later this month.President Mugabe will on February 21, 2016, turn 92 years and his birthday bash is expected to gobble over $800 000. Of this total figure, Masvingo who are the hosts, have been tasked to raise $

AS if that was not enough, Chandafira Mutereri (65) of Chamba village under Chief Chiwara in Gutu, went on to use a needle and twine to stitch the wound soon after the wife delivered the baby.Mutereri, who confessed that his church does not allow members to seek medical attention, said he decided to use the razor bladed to enlage the birth canal after realising that his wife was struggling to pus

A COUNCILLOR in Tsholotsho is establishing a reputation for hunting down fugitive rapists and has once again been instrumental in the arrest of a man who allegedly raped a granny, 69.Ward 16 Councillor Patrick Ngwenya last week tracked down Norman Ziwabe, 23, of Shaba Village under Chief Gampu to a village about 20 km from a homestead where he allegedly raped the elderly woman on Tuesday last wee

A murderer, who had been on the run for 15 years, was yesterday sentenced to 15 years in jail for fatally striking his elderly aunt with a log after accusing her of witchcraft.Martin Mutondoro of Bikita was 30 years old when he committed the crime in 2001.Police arrested him last month following a tip off.He pleaded guilty to murdering Anatoria Guchu who was 80 years old, accusing her of bewitchin

THE Zanu PF Youth League has written to the government calling for February 21 to be declared National Youth Day as a way of honouring President Robert Mugabe who turns 92 on that day this year.Zanu PF deputy secretary for youth affairs Cde Kudzai Chipanga yesterday said all along they have been calling for February 21 to be declared a national holiday but recently decided that it be particularly