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75 learners escape unhurt after bus catches fire
Zim Now WriterAbout 75 Pakame High School learners escaped unhurt when an Inter Africa bus that had been hired to take them back to school burst into flames following an accident along the Harare-Bula...
Man jailed 3 years for having sex with a minor
Zim Now WriterA Masvingo kombi driver has been sentenced to three years in jail by provincial magistrate Farai Gwitima having sexual intercourse with a minor.Trymore Shayanewako, 20, was convicted on...
Hitch-hiker loses US$4k to armed robbers who offered her a lift
Zim Now WriterA Harare woman who boarded a private vehicle at BP Service Station in Mutare was robbed US$3 220, a cellphone and clothes by armed robbers who had offered her a ride.The five suspects, i...
300+ convicted on drug related cases since January
 The National Prosecuting Authority has revealed that  at least 600 people have appeared before the courts with 315 convicted for dealing in or possessing highly addictive narcotic crystal methampheta...
Audit unearths US$53 572 theft from St Augustine's High School
 Zim Now WriterTwo St Augustine High School employees last Saturday appeared before Mutare magistrates, Ms Thandiwe Sibanda, facing fraud charges after defrauding the school of US$53 572.Sophia Dzenga...
Zimsec announces ZWL$ rates for November exams mop up registration
Zim Now WriterZimbabwe School Examinations Council has announced the local currency rates for candidates who missed the April 14 deadlines and still wish to sit for November Ordinary and Advanced Leve...
Chitungwiza prophet arrested for fraud
Prophet Masiyandima with Chiwanga (background) and Madamombe (L)Â Gilbert MunetsiThe leader of a Chitungwiza Pentecostal church, who early this year was in the spotlight for dumping his wife of 18 year...
Spiritual spouses haunt six siblings into sexless lives
 A Nyanga man in his 80s has confessed to seeking spiritual assistance that has turned out be a curse on all his six children as they have all failed to have normal sex lives although they are now adu...
Headmaster, mother to testify in inquest into dead student's case
The late Livingstone Sunhwa Zim Now WriterSt Mathias Tsonzo High School headmaster, Mr Maxwell Samboona, is scheduled to appear before a disciplinary hearing on May 18 following the disappearance of L...
Reactions to request for special tariffs to avert power cuts
 In a classic battle of the haves and have-nots, the inhabitants of the affluent suburb of Greendale, who reside along Shaneragh Road, have proposed an innovative solution to circumvent the power cuts...