AN 11-YEAR-OLD teenager got shocked when she woke up to find her 16-year-old stepbrother in her blankets naked making sexual moves on her. A family member who spoke to B-Metro on condition of anonymity said the girl was asleep alone in her bedroom when her stepbrother tip-toed into her bedroom at around 1am last Friday. The relative said: "She was awoken by a heavy weight of her naked brother who was caressing her while making sexual moves on her. She screamed for help and her naked brother tried to flee but her twin brother intercepted him." The relative went on to say they led him to the living room and tied him with a rope. "He tried to flee but they caught up with him and pinned him on the ground. They tied him with a rope while the mother of the victim and a
A United States public relations firm hired by the Zimbabwe government to repair its image in Washington engaged in intense lobbying to project MDC-T president Thokozani Khupe as the legitimate leader of Zimbabwe’s opposition, documents seen by ZimLive reveal. The campaign began last September, shortly after New York-based Mercury Public Affairs LLC began working for Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade as a subcontractor to Mercury International UK. Mercury was planning a trip by Khupe, who was due to lead a delegation of the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) to the United States from March 25 to March 27 this year, but the trip was cancelled following the outbreak of the coronavirus. President Emmerson Mnangagwa set up POLAD to placate his r
Supreme Court Issues Landmark Ruling On property Sharing At Divorce. THE Supreme Court has ruled that a woman who did not make any direct contributions to the acquisition of can be awarded a 50 percent share upon divorce. Justices Ben Hlatshwayo, Chinembiri Bhunu and Tendai Uchena made the ruling in the case of Govati Mhora versus Emmaculata Mhora divorce matter in which the former was challenging the decision by the High Court to award the respondent a 50 percent share of their Harare matrimonial home on grounds that she had never made any direct contribution to the acquisition of the property. Mr Mhora stated that the house was acquired through his individual effort and he single-handedly raised the payment for the said property. The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal and uph
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has once again shocked Zimbabweans after Vice President Kembo Mohadi on Wednesday commissioned a ‘small’ Pembi Bridge in Mvurwi, Mashonaland Central, reportedly constructed using US$1,8 million. The State media reported that the government spent US$1,8 million to construct the bridge which it claimed would be a key enabler of economic development in the province. “The bridge and its road approaches were constructed between August 2017 and September 2019 and links various districts in the province as well as other areas in the country,” the report said. “The old low lying single-carriage bridge was a high accident zone with 47 accidents being experienced there in the past years,” the report added. Ode
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has said that it is seeking a man who is beating up female farm workers in a video that has gone viral on social media. In a statement on its official Twitter page, police appealed to members of the public with information that can lead to the man’s arrest to come forward. The statement reads: The ZRP has observed a video circulating on the social media where a man is seen assaulting several women using what appears to be a hosepipe after forcing them to eat pepper. We are therefore appealing for information which may lead to the identification of victims and the assailant thereto. Anyone with information may visit the nearest police station or call the Complaints Desk on 0242 703631 or WhatsApp 0712800197. #notocrime iHarare reporte
Thokozani Khupe gets $7.5 million from the government. The government believes Khupe is the legitimate leader of the MDC Alliance and is entitled to the $7,4 million despite her having lost the 2018 elections to the same party he now claims to lead. Thokozani Khupe led minority party MDC-T received $7.5 million on Friday from the government despite the Nelson Chamisa led MDC Alliance having obtained a provisional court order barring the Zimbabwean government from disbursing the funds to MDC-T according to the Political Parties Finance Act. Every political party represented in parliament is entitled to receive the funds as required by the Political Parties Finances Act Chapter 2:11. In the provisional order, High Court judge Justice Munangati Manongwa instructed the respondent
HUNDREDS of Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries followers recently besieged their leader Prophet Walter Magaya’s offices in Cape Town, South Africa, demanding refunds following a botched stands deal. The followers said they wanted their money back since nothing had materialised three years after paying deposits. Through Planet Africa, the investment arm of Prophet Magaya’s church, the followers were asked to pay varying deposits into a housing scheme. In a grey agreement of sale, the investors (who are named as partners in the agreement) were informed that the stands’ sizes and prices were to vary and would be determined after the sub-division of the land. The deposits ranged between US$1 000 and US$4 000, with the “partn
Ginimbi’s gas company, Piko Trading, was fined $36 000 and ordered to pay $2 512 149,80 that it owes the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority ZIMRA in taxes after it failed to pay Value Added Tax (VAT) between February 2009 and May 2016. Ginimbi real name Genius Kadungure, appeared before Harare regional magistrate Mr Crispen Mberewere yesterday. Magistrate Mberewere also fined Piko Trading, which was represented by Kadungure, $9 000, and ordered it to pay $355 559 in outstanding company taxes that it failed to pay after recording sales amounting to $24 187 026. Ginimbi’s company was ordered to settle the amounts by August 31, 2020 and to pay the fines immediately Piko Trading pled guilty to two offences. Ginimbi waa acquitted of failing to declare income returns to ZIMR
Zimbabwe’s central bank has announced that Zimswitch is now the designated national payment platform for all mobile money providers with immediate effect. In a statement, Governor John Mangudya of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe said all money transmission agents should be connected to Zimswitch no later than August 15, 2020. “In accordance with the provisions of the National Payment Systems Act [Chapter 24:23] and the Banking (Money Transmission, Mobile Banking and Mobile Money Interoperability) Regulations, Statutory Instrument 80 of 2020 (the Regulations), the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (the Bank) wishes to advise the public that it has designated Zimswitch as a national payment switch with immediate effect. “All mobile money transmission providers and mobile banki
Two police officers have been arrested for stealing cattle in Binga. The two cops are implicated together with a civilian for stealing three herds of cattle in Siabuwa village. Chaosafrica learned from New Zimbabwe, that the two police officers connived together with Edward Muzamba age 40 of Siamankulu Village Naganga area, Siabuwa. Muzamba was not asked to plead to a count of stock theft when he appeared before Binga magistrate Urgent Vundla. Prosecutor Quiet Mpofu told the court that, the trio stole five head of cattle belonging to Jertha Muzingili (59) of Guteni village in December last year. “On 12 December 2019, Muzingili drove her seven head of cattle to Tundazi mountain grazing area where she left them for grazing.When she returned to round them up in the afternoon
