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Pupil gives birth in class
School authorities at Luveve High allowed a pregnant pupil to attend class until she gave birth.
Suspected mass hysteria hits Masvingo school
A suspected case of mass hysteria has struck Nemanwa Primary School in Charumbira communal lands in Masvingo...
The Woman With Two Vaginas
28 year old Lauren Williams from Chingford in Essex was born with an extremely rare medical condition, she had two vaginas....
Charges Dropped Against Policeman Who Put His Penis In Cow's Mouth
Charges of animal cruelty have been dropped against a New Jersey cop as jury fails to decide whether placing your penis in a cows mouth counted as torment....
British Airways to bounce back
British Airways will resume flights to Zimbabwe early next year following a two-year absence in a move expected to improve tourist arrivals into the country....
Tambaoga makes comeback
TAMBAOGA is back! After close to seven years under the radar, Tambaoga, real name Last Chiangwa is back with a bang....
100 children dying daily in Zim: UNICEF
One hundred children are dying daily in Zimbabwe, while one in every four is an orphan, according to shocking figures announced by a senior UNICEF official....
Businessman guns down friend, kills self
A Norton businessman fatally shot his friend and killed himself after found him and another colleague having sex in his house with their girlfriends ...
Form Four student stones teacher
A Form Four student at Chilisa Secondary School in Hwange allegedly stoned his 22-year-old teacher for ordering him to leave class ...
Prominent businesswoman hangs self
A Bulawayo businesswoman hanged herself after she allegedly discovered that one of her workers had defrauded her of US$20 000....
woman boils baby in a pot on fire
A woman from Bhule village in Tsholotsho district placed an 18-month-old boy in a tin before placing it over a fire....
Mayoress beats woman over hubby
Police in Gweru arrested and briefly detained Gweru Mayoress, Ms Shamiso Gwari, on allegations of assaulting a neighbour ....
Dabengwa Labeled Sell-Out
Former Zanu PF politburo member and former Home Affairs Minister Dumiso Dabengwa labeled a sell-out by members of his recently revived PF Zapu party. ...
Cop in extra-marital affair with gold miner's wife
A policeman based at the CID HQ in Bulawayo has allegedly snatched a gold miner’s wife, resulting in the couple’s marriage irretrievably breaking down....
Man given Zim $10 as compensation
Bulawayo man who was injured at Monarch, resulting in him losing two fingers, gets 10 Zimbabwean dollars as compensation....
Witch doctor in sex stint to exorcise evil spirits
A man got the shock of his life when he found his wife being intimate with a traditional healer....
Tainted Betty Makoni loses CNN hero to a Filipino
Zimbabwe's Betty Makoni has lost the 2009 CNN Hero award to Efren Penaflorida.The GCN founder was among the top ten CNN heroes for 2009 ...
Backdoor abortion backfires and kills city woman
AN Epworth woman and her daughter are on the run after death of a woman they had performed backyard abortion. ...
Workers fired for refusing ‘juju uniforms’
A local beverage company fired 48 workers for refusing to wear corporate uniforms they believe were taken to a traditional healer for ritual purposes...
Date with child-killer’s n’anga
The question still remains: What exactly led Elmon Mupombwa of Marange to axe his five children  three of them fatally ...
I ate human flesh: Woman
The arrogance Gugulethu Mayuni exuded on her first visit to the newsroom had vanished and in its place a remorseful and troubled countenance had set in when she walked in for the second time recently....
Men flock to circumcision sites
There has been an overwhelming response from HIV negative men who have been flocking to circumcision pilot sites. ...
A man flies to Bulawayo free of cost
A Harare man has been remanded in prison for catching a free ride on Air Zimbabwe to Bulawayo...
City man goes biserk and strips naked in court
A man who is hard of hearing and can also not talk yesterday ran amok at the Bulawayo Magistrates Courts, stripping naked. ...
Abandoned Snakes terrorise villagers
PEOPLE who were resettled in Matetsi near Victoria Falls are living in fear of snakes after four people were recently bitten in a week...
Villagers devour lion
FIVE men from Dete are alleged to have hunted down and killed a lion before skinning it and feasting on the meat with their families....
Father marries her daughter for British visa
A Nigerian Home Office worker "married" his own daughter to get her a British visa, a British tabloid has revealed....
Four Escape Death As ZANU PF Goes On The Rampage In Mashonaland Central
On Friday 13 November, just a few days ago, Jabulani Sibanda, the leader of War veterans in Zimbabwe, held a meeting at Chawarura Business Centre ...
Gweru police launch blitz on prostitutes
A number of prostitutes were arrested in Gweru following a police blitz on prostitutes amid reports that innocent women and men were caught in the crossfire. ...
Woman uses mbanje to exorcise evil spirits
A Bulawayo woman was yesterday arraigned before the courts for cultivating three plants of mbanje, which she claimed she wanted to use to exorcise evil spirits....
Six nabbed over skin enlightening creams
Police in Victoria Falls have nabbed six suspects in connection with 3 050 tubes of illegal enlightening creams...
Gweru police launch manhunt for donkey meat seller
Police in Gweru have launched a manhunt for a suspect who recently slaughtered a donkey and allegedly sold its meat to unsuspecting customers...
Woman spared jail for sending offensive SMS
A Bulawayo woman who spent a night in remand prison after she sent abusive messages over the phone to another woman in the city yesterday...
Britain based Zimbabwe nurses medical error kills two
Two nurses involved in a medical error that led to two cancer patients being killed by a drug overdose at a Birmingham hospital are to go before a disciplinary panel....
'Tokoloshi' album on market
Remember the song Tula Bhechulude, about goblins (tokoloshis) which wreaked havoc to the people who wanted to make quick money through juju? ...
Landlord rapes a sleeping maid
A HARARE man was arrested on allegations of raping his 20-year-old housemaid as she slept last week....
30 000 children sexually abused
Over 30 000 children have been treated after being sexually-abused in the past four years at Harare Hospital alone ...
Boy (15) struck to death over condom
A 15-YEAR-OLD Battlefields boy was recently clobbered to death with a knobkerrie in the head in a dispute with his friend over a burst condom they were playing with as a balloon....
Zimbabweans Targetted In Fresh Xenophobic Attacks
About 600 foreigners, maily Zimbabweans, were forced to flee their homes in informal settlements around De Doorns ...
Zimbabwe Will Soon Have No Brains Left to Drain
Bulawayo, November 17, 2009 At the rate at which Zimbabwe’s education system is collapsing, brain drain will soon be a thing of the past....
City lawyer issued with arrest warrant
Advocate Sampson Samuel Mlaudzi has been issued with a Warrant of Arrest for defaulting court where he is facing charges of causing an accident. ...
MDC-T fires criminal Mudarikwa and SA executive
MDC-T has fired its South African executive amid allegations of misappropriation of funds and abuse of resources among other issues....
Ex farm workers now commericial sex workers
An acute shortage of labourers on Zimbabwe's newly resettled farms, combined with the farmers' inability to raise loans from financial institutions to purchase agricultural inputs, and money owed to them by the Grain Marketing Board (GMB), do not bode well for food security....
NGO Releases Political Violence Videos
The Solidarity Peace Trust has released four videos to the media showing the victims and testimonies of the horrific political violence last year towards June....
Teachers threaten to boycott invigilation
Teachers threatening to boycott invigilation of papers written after the school term ends, ...
Billy Rautenbach goes into hiding
Zimbabwe defence Minister, Emmerson Mnangagwa's business front-man Billy Rautenbach has gone into hiding to avoid testifying in the corruption trial of former police chief Jackie Selebi,...
Man thashed for wearing Anti Kariba Constitution T-Shirt
Darwendale, - Three uniformed soldiers here beat a civilian for wearing an Anti-Kariba Draft Constitution T-shirt on Saturday and left him unconscious...
SADC Contradicts Tsvangirai On ZimbabwePolice Ministry
When Morgan Tsvangirai admitted that the the two co-ministers (one each from MDC-T and ZANU PF) were working "fantastically well" together...
Mugabe Confirmed To Run Again For President
Robert Mugabe plans to run for the presidency again in the next presidential polls....
Smuggled tobacco recovered in Zambia
Some of the tobacco worth over US$1,5 million belonging to a local company, Saltlakes Tobacco,...
Harare Police Suspend Raids in harare
Harare City Council has stopped all raids on "unlicensed" and "Illegal" operators (vendors) in the Zimbabwean capital...
A tribute to Nicholas madziBaba Zacharia
There is no doubt that Nicholas Zacharia, known in the entertainment circles as “Senior Lecturer†remains as one of the most prolific musicians of our time....
Serious havoc at Dhewa show
There was commotion at Chez Ntemba club in Gaborone, Botswana, during one of Tongai Moyo’s recent shows as fans clashed with tour promoters...
Girl Child Network's Betty needs votes for CNN Heroes
An inspirational community worker who is dedicated to helping young victims of sexual abuse has been shortlisted for a hero of the year award....
Woman miscarries after husband’s conviction
There was drama yesterday at the Bulawayo Magistrates’ Courts housed at Tredgold Building when a woman suffered a miscarriage in court upon the conviction of her husband....
Fortune Muparutsa's body to be exhumed
Dead men tell no tales, but not so for Fortune Muparutsa whose family wants him to "tell" them how he died....
Girl (9) suffers a fatal scorpion sting
A nine-year-old Goromonzi girl died last Sunday after being stung by a scorpion at her grandmother’s homestead. ...
Resign, ZCTU tells home affairs ministers
ZCTU called for the immediate resignation of co-ministers of home affairs Kembo Mohadi and Giles Mutsekwa for failing uphold the rule of the law. ...
Wife Defends Rapist Pastor in Court
The wife of a pastor who allegedly had sex with a 15-year-old girl from his church on Tuesday stunned the court when she said her husband’s manhood is inactive when it comes to other women....
Sisters locked up in fraud case
Two Chinhoyi sisters have appeared in court on charges of defrauding farmers of more than 50 tonnes of maize worth about US$10 000 ...
Zimdollar: Return of Paper Money and the Numbers Game
Mugabe argued that the greater good of printing money, according to him, was by far outweighed the evil of inflation. ...
Bulawayo man swindled of R78 000
A businesswoman and her male accomplice who allegedly swindled a Bulawayo man of R78 000 have appeared in court facing fraud charges. ...
TelOne Admits Restricting Calls
TELONE, the state-owned fixed-line monopoly, admitted to restricting calls from landlines to mobile operators to reduce its debts....
Two bus touts box each other for clients
TWO members of rival bus companies briefly turned the Kudzanayi Bus Terminus in Gweru into a wrestling ring after engaging in a brawl over customers....
Suicide wave hits Bulawayo
SIX people in Bulawayo committed suicide by hanging themselves over the past four days, Chronicle has learnt....
Snake appears in complainant's file in court offices
THERE was drama at the Civil Court offices of the Bulawayo magistrates' courts yesterday afternoon when a clerk bumped into a live snake in a file she wanted to pull out...
17 000 residents receive ARVs from council clinics
THE Bulawayo City Council is providing anti-retrovirals to more than 17 000 residents while 927 died due to HIV/Aids related illnesses in October....
Phillip Chiyangwa invading council land
Phillip Chiyangwa stands as one of Zimbabwe’s largest property developers and recently stated that his empire is worth far more than US$15 million. ...
Child rape epidemic in Zimbabwe
Tens of thousands of children have been sexually abused in Zimbabwe in a growing epidemic that has shocked human rights activists. ...
Vendor dies in municipal police Mbare clashes
A vendor was killed in Harare yesterday while attempting to resist arrest by municipal police officers who were chasing him...
Severely burnt woman still to get assistance
Zesa Holdings is still to decide whether or not to assist a 27-year-old Harare woman who was severely burnt by live electricity cables...
Grade 7 Exam papers stolen
Thieves broke into Maxim Primary School in Matabeleland North Province and stole ZIMSEC Grade 7 general and mathematics examination papers, answer sheets and stationery. ...
Harare Central prison sold to the Chinese
Harare Central prison complex which houses more one 2000 families and over 4 000 inmates has been sold to a Chinese company ...
Presidential Guard "Viciously" Attacks Bulawayo Children,
Soldiers of the Presidential Guard attacked 41 former school children at Thuthuka Centre in Bulawayo last week,...
Dino, Willom back together
Willom Tight and Dino Mudondo are back together after three years of a "cold war" and they had a union gig to prove it....
Stop meddling in politics, NGOs told
D R C Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Mawapanga Mwanananga has urged NGOs to stop meddling in politics ...
MDC activist escapes abductors after 6 months
MDC activist, Peter Munyanyi, 29, has finally managed to escape from his abductors after spending over six months in captivity at an unknown place....
Homeless MDC-T man desperate in Mtoko
Silas Gweshe, who stood for MDC-T in Mutoko South constituency but lost to Zanu (PF)’s Olivia Muchena, said he was evicted from a house he rented at Mutoko business centre. ...
Rapist stepfather infects minor
A Macheke man has been jailed for an effective 19 years for raping his 12-year-old step daughter and infecting her with HIV....
Is Mugabe and ZANUPF behind the GCN vs Oxfam saga?
On Friday, 06 November 2009 the editor of an online paper Zimdiaspora published an article titled MUGABE PLOT TO ELIMINATE BETTY MAKONI TURNS UGLY. After reading this article GIRL CHILD FOUNDER WANTED FOR FINANCIAL IRREGULARITIES on the internet I have ended up with more questions than answers. ...
GCN Founder denies allegations as Oxfam Novid responds
The Zimbabwe Guardian on Thursday 05 November 2009 reported that Oxfam Novib in The Netherlands confirmed that there were reports of financial impropriety concerning GCN in Zimbabwe and they (Oxfam Novid) have commissioned an extra audit, from the annual one, to investigate the allegations....
GCN Zimbabwe confirms successful leadership transition
Girl Child Network Zimbabwe (GCN) wishes to inform girls and all stakeholders that the leadership transition initiated by the Founder and first Executive Director, Betty Makoni who is now based in the United Kingdom where she is the Founder and President of Girl Child Network Worldwide has been successfully done ....
Australia authorities investigating Dr John Chibanda credentials
Zimbabwean trained doctor, John Chibanda is under investigation by Queensland authorities for his registration and performance. ...
Mugabe son sits for British examinations
Robert Junior has shunned the locally run examinations, Zimsec, and is re-sitting the Cambridge University “ O†Level examinations....
Zimbabwe Imprisons 79 Year Old Woman Farmer
A Harare Magistrate on Friday sentenced a 79 year old woman commercial farmer to three months in prison for refusing to vacate her property of 52 years. ...
N’anga runs out of charm
After 50 years as a witchdoctor all over Southern Africa, Siziba Sarati, has now run out of charm...
Son snatches dad’s small house
WHEN a child is born it is usually associated with someone in the family. At times they say "Like father like son"...
Zimbabwe embassy dragged into ETD scam
Alleged corrupt practices in the issuance of ETDs to three Zimbabwe nationals might dent the Zimbabwe Embassy’s credentials....
ZBC Bars Makoni Interview
Zimbabwe Television yesterday barred the airing of a 30-minute interview with Simba Makoni, conducted by Supa Mandiwanzira ...
Court to decide on teacher’s case
THE 56-year-old Heritage School teacher accused of ill-treating a six-year-old pupil will know her fate on November 18,...
"Zimbabwe Dollar Back By Year-end" - Mugabe
Robert Mugabe yesterday told villagers in Zhombe that the Zimbabwe dollar will be back by year-end in order to easy the suffering of rural people. ...
Tendai Biti Barred From Presenting 2010 Budget
Tendai Biti, the Finance Minister of Zimbabwe, has effectively been barred from presenting the 2010 National Budget....
Lesbian grows male sexual organ in bed
A lesbian who claimed to have been impregnated by another woman gave birth to a child with a tooth, disparate arms and a crooked leg,...
Radio program teaches students and citizens child protection
Over two million Zimbabwean children country-wide will benefit from a multi-media awareness campaign on child protection...
HIV grandmother resorts to dancing
When Anna Matopodza, 55, from a village in the Buhera district of Manicaland Province, Zimbabwe, found out she was HIV-positive, ...
CIO terrorising diamond human rights campaigner
Zimbabwean human rights campaigner followed by CIO to an international summit in Namibia ...
Maskiri saved by the bell
Top Zimbabwe musician Alick Macheso has thrown Maskiri who turned destitute a lifeline by offering the urban groover a chance to perform at his shows. ...
Man nabbed over US$1
A Zimbabwe Revenue Authority official was arrested on the spot after he was allegedly caught red-handed pocketing US$1 ...
Man disappears after catching wife having sex
A Zimbabwean man is missing after he returned home last week from South Africa only to find his wife having sex with his childhood neighbour in Bulawayo....
Chimbetu's mother had worms ooze from body
I have over the years when I tracked down musicians for my column Filecheck encountered various tales of musicians who resorted to muti to make their careers better....
Girl Child founder wanted for financial irregularities
Girl Child Network World director and founder Betty Makoni who has been nominated for the CNN Hero of the Year is being sought by Oxfam Novib to explain financial maladministration....
Body sliced open to fit into coffin
A family from Entumbane in Bulawayo was horrified when the body of their relative failed to fit in a coffin due to inexplicable swelling...
Man strips pair, beats it up
A manager from a leading bank in Bulawayo allegedly stripped and thoroughly canned two men for gate-crushing at a party he had organised,...
Ban looms over import of cars into Zimbabwe
Importing vehicles from Asian countries, such as Japan and Singapore, into Zimbabwe for resale is set to be nipped in the bud,...
A prostitute demands outstanding balance in a bar
A drama unfolded at a city nightclub in Gweru recently. When a giant prostitute confronted a client to pay up outstanding balance....
Tuku gets angry with fans
To save yourself from a lashing from Zimbabwean Superstar Oliver Mutukudzi, never try to take a picture of him when he performs live!...
Warriors win cosafa cup four times
ZIMBABWE’S Warriors sent the nation into delirium yesterday and carved their name into the history books...Author info