Energy Mutodi faces a court case about his child. He serves as a Zanu PF Member of Parliament for Bikita West. His former wife, Polite Dhiyo, wants him to pay US$1,500 each month to help raise their baby.
Dhiyo took her case to the Masvingo court this morning. She tells the court that Mutodi makes good money, about US$15,000 monthly. This comes from his work as a lawyer, business owner, and parliament member. But she says he has not helped at all with their six-month-old baby.
The couple married under custom law last year. Mutodi paid part of the bride price to her family. They split up later. Dhiyo says Mutodi promised to help with money for the baby after they separated. But she tells the court she pays for everything herself - the...
The High Court made a clear choice about Mike Chimombe and Moses Mpofu's court case. The court refused to send their case to the Constitutional Court. It said their reasons had no real value.
These two men got into trouble over the Presidential Goat Pass-On Scheme. People say they took US$7.7 million from this program. The police charged them with fraud.
Their trial should have started in early October. But it had to wait because Chimombe and Mpofu brought up many complaints. They did not like how the police arrested them and kept them in jail. The court looked at these complaints but found them empty and bothersome.
A school in Harare took action against 40 students. Mother Patrick Convent Primary School sent out letters to remove these students from grades up to Grade 6.
The school gave out these letters on December 2. The letters said the students broke school rules by missing too many days. The acting head, Eugenia Muketiwa, told parents their children could not stay at the school.
The real story turned out different. Teachers at the school had started refusing to work on November 19. They wanted better jobs and their missing pay. The old head teacher, Tendayi Kagurabadza, did not fix these problems. Many parents took their kids home because no one watched them at school.
The school's move made parents very angry. One parent spoke up and said...
Bad people tricked many young people from Zimbabwe to go to Sierra Leone. They used fake job ads asking for people aged 18 to 35 who passed their O-Levels. The victims thought they would get good jobs.
These bad people bought plane tickets for the victims. But when the victims got to Freetown, the capital city, the bad people took their passports away. The victims had to do wrong things like trick people through dating websites. They got laptops and had to use fake photos to fool others into sending money.
The victims worked for five months but got no money. The bad people said they would put money in the victims' bank accounts in Zimbabwe, but this did not happen.
On Tuesday, two people made it back to Zimbabwe. They met Mr Simon...
Two leaders in Bulawayo can go back to work even though they face charges about taking money wrongly. These leaders are Deputy Mayor Edwin Ndlovu and Finance chair Mpumelelo Moyo.
The Local Government Ministry first told them to stop working. Then they changed their minds. Mayor David Coltart explained that this rule only stops regular workers, not elected leaders like Ndlovu and Moyo. These two can keep doing their jobs as their court case goes on.
The court let both leaders out on bail after they spent two weeks in jail. People say they asked for US$20,000 from someone who wanted to build a cement factory. They each paid US$100 for bail. The court told Moyo to give up his passport and house papers. They must go back to court on...
Schools cannot hide Grade 7 results from students. The Zimbabwe government made this clear after many schools tried to hide results. These schools wanted parents to pay old fees, teacher extras, and money for buses first.
Parents called The Herald newspaper to tell them about their problems. Some schools, like Greater Heights School, Glen View 5 Primary School, and Pamushana Primary School, would not give results. One mom, Mrs Mukotekwa, said Glen View 5 Primary made her pay US$40 for a bus before delivering her child's results.
Mr Taungana Ndoro from the education office spoke strongly about this. He said schools must give students their results right away. The results come from Zimsec, and schools have no right to keep them. Any...
The Zimbabwe Defence Forces received new homes and trucks. President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa presented these gifts at a special event in Dzivarasekwa. He also handed over 54 Ford Ranger trucks to help the soldiers do their work better.
President Mnangagwa is the commander-in-chief of the defense forces. At the event, he talked about making sure everyone has good homes. He wants government workers and regular people to have safe places to live. He thinks this will help Zimbabwe grow stronger. The President said good homes help soldiers focus on their primary jobs, which include making Zimbabwe more modern and assisting the country's business growth. The government plans to give people better living places as part of its big plan...
A group of more than 40 people from Zimbabwe got stuck in Sierra Leone. Bad people tricked them into going there. These people promised them good jobs, but it turned out to be false.
The trapped people went to Freetown, the main city of Sierra Leone. They found themselves in big trouble there. Seven people made it back home to Zimbabwe last week. Four more people should have come back yesterday, but they did not arrive.
A person who works for the Zimbabwe government talked about this problem. This person did not want anyone to know their name. They said that police are trying to help free the trapped people. The police have not caught the bad people yet, but they are looking for them.
The news team at The Herald went to watch for the...
Zimbabwe expects to build one million houses by 2025, helping more people get good homes. This is a bigger goal than the first plan to build 220,000 houses, which the country already reached.
Housing Minister Zhemu Soda told reporters in Harare that many groups helped reach this goal. The government, private companies, and regular people all worked to build new houses. The Minister said his team is counting all the new houses built by different groups, including local areas using their own money and people building their own homes.
The country needs more houses as its people keep growing in number. Back in 2020, Zimbabwe needed about two million houses. Minister Soda said they still need more houses because new families keep forming...
