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Jumbos ravage maize fields
Zim Now WriterElephants are wreaking havoc in Kenilworth ward 19, Headquarters ward 21 and Nkenyane ward 10 of Bubi, Matabeleland North Province, destroying crops, with farmers losing almost all their...
20 years in jail for keeping 13-year-old as sex slave
Zim Now WriterA Beatrice man, Owen Mukono, 40, of Dunnota Farm was last week sentenced to 20 years in prison by Chivhu Regional Magistrate Fadzai Mtombeni after she kept a 13-year-old girl as a sex sl...
Thief breaks into girlfriend’s landlord’s house
Zim Now WriterA thief from Chiweshe broke into his girlfriend’s landlord’s house and stole cellphones and money after failing to locate his girlfriend.Takunda Banda, 20, of Mupandenyama Village, in Ch...
Vubachikwe Mine seeks to resume operations
Zim Now WriterVubachikwe, a gold mine which lies about 8km north-west of Gwanda, in Matabeleland South Province, seeks to resume operations that were halted following violent protests that saw the des...
Man conceals payslip from wife for over a decade
Zim Now WriterThe Harare Civil Court yesterday heard from a woman that her husband has been hiding his payslip from her for the past 10 years.Magret Maturo, told magistrate Ayanda Dlamini, when she so...
Imbiber axed in bar brawl
Inspector Abednico NcubeZim Now WriterA 28-year-old Bulawayo man escaped death by a whisker on Sunday after a fellow imbiber struck him with an axe once on the head following a dispute over an undiscl...
Boy, 6, disappears on way from school
Zim Now WriterA six-year-old boy from Temperly Farm, Lions Den in Chinhoyi has still not been located since disappearing on his way home from school on February 28.According to police, Beverly Chifaus...
100% salary hike for civil servants, Covid-19 allowance up
Zim Now WriterGovernment has approved a 100% salary increment for all civil servants, including the members of the security sector.According to a letter dated March 16, 2023, from Finance ministry Per...
Zim cross-border traders lose goods as chaos grips Beitbridge
Zim Now WriterZimbabwe Chamber of Informal Economy secretary-general Wisbon Malaya said there was chaos at the Beitbridge Border Post yesterday as hundreds of Zimbabwean cross-border traders had their...
Borrowdale family loses property in house inferno
Firefighters put out the last patches of fire at a Borrowdale West house earlier todayThe LPG gas tank that is suspected to have started the fireBridget MabandaA family that lives along Fox Close in B...