Well, this is a new one. A British guy just got a Zimbabwean court to greenlight the sale of a local woman's house to settle a debt from a rental dispute in the UK. Clayton Allen took Blessing Chinganga to a British county court over unpaid rent on a place in Wolverhampton. He won a judgment for over five thousand pounds, plus interest. When she did not pay up there, he brought the case here, targeting her property on Norton Road in Norton.
Chinganga fought it hard. She claimed the High Court here had no power to get involved. She argued the UK judgment was fraudulent and she was not even present for it. She also tried to throw out the affidavit from Allen's lawyer. Justice Jacob Manzunzu was not having any of it. He shot down every...
Another horrific day of domestic violence. In Beitbridge, a thirty-five-year-old woman named Faith Dube has been arrested for murder. The police say she killed her father-in-law in Tshishala Village. The alleged motive was an ongoing conflict over his constant drinking, which she blamed for damaging her marriage. A detective inspector with the CID confirmed Dube will be in court.
In a separate and equally grim case down in Gweru, a twenty-six-year-old woman named Patience Madula is dead. Police say her husband, a thirty-one-year-old man named Brighton Kahlanga, attacked her in their home in Chinyama Village over accusations she was unfaithful. The attack happened late at night, with the man's own mother present in the house. She...
The Warriors' coach is already doing the math after a brutal opening loss. Zimbabwe's national team boss, Marian Marinica, says they need to grab four points from their next two games to have any shot at the knockout rounds. This comes after they fell to Egypt two to one in Agadir, a match where they actually led at one point. A striker named Prince Dube, who plays in Tanzania, put them ahead before Egyptian stars Omar Marmoush and Mohamed Salah flipped the script. Marinica basically said his team choked. He admitted they showed Egypt too much respect after halftime, dropping back and getting passive instead of staying aggressive. He called it a fear of winning, saying you cannot give elite players that kind of space.
Their path...
Even with their own team winning, a former South African star is already sweating the final group game. Ex-Bafana Bafana keeper Itumeleng Khune is warning everyone not to sleep on Zimbabwe at the Africa Cup of Nations. Talking after South Africa's opening win, he called their upcoming match against Egypt absolutely critical. His point is simple: get to six points before even thinking about the Zimbabwe fixture. He said Zimbabwe is always a tricky, tough opponent, a real derby that gives South Africa problems. He noted that a bunch of Zimbabwean players work in the South African league, so they know the style and tactics inside out. Khune basically said he will only feel comfortable if they face Zimbabwe, having already secured...
A whole family is clinging to trees on a submerged river island right now, and the official response appears to be a shrug. Five people have been stuck on the Thekwane River in Ndolwane, near Plumtree, since Sunday. They were trying to get home after harvesting mopane worms, using a donkey cart to cross, when the water surged. The flood swept their donkeys away and left them stranded on a piece of land that was quickly disappearing. The villagers on the bank watching this unfold say the group, including adults and kids, is literally holding onto branches as the water keeps rising.
The people trapped are Lethiwe, Wiseman, Marylene, a fourteen-year-old named Bhorongi, and an elderly woman known as Gogo Na Trial. Locals have been...
Another brutal morning on the Harare to Mutare road. A massive Benz truck smashed head-on into a Nissan Note near the 119-kilometer marker. Police confirm three people are dead, all of them in the smaller car. The driver and two others in the Nissan died right there at the scene. A fourth person in that vehicle got seriously hurt and had to be taken to Marondera General Hospital. The bodies went to the mortuary at Rusape General Hospital. No word yet on the truck driver's condition or what caused the crash, just the usual grim logistics after something like this happens. The road is a notorious killer.
Unreal. The absolute gall of these people. Parliament dropped almost four hundred grand in public money, specifically three hundred seventy two thousand and change, to renovate the private Borrowdale house of Senate President Mabel Chinomona. This was not for official business. This was for her personal home. The whole scheme involved handpicking suppliers to avoid competitive bidding, with multiple individual payments blowing past the legal limits that require an open tender. The country's Auditor-General, Reah Kujinga, flagged all of it in her recent reports, calling it a clear violation of procurement laws and a straight-up abuse of funds.
The details are a masterpiece of entitlement. The biggest single chunk, one hundred sixteen...
Just when you think local government cannot get more dysfunctional, we get a masterclass in grift. Paramedics for the Harare City Council are under a microscope for allegedly stealing ambulance fees. The basic charge for a city ambulance ride is thirty U.S. dollars. These crews are supposed to collect that from patients and hand it over. Instead, investigators think they are pocketing the cash and cooking the books to hide it. They especially target people who cannot pay the full fee upfront, which is most of their clientele. Council policy does allow for later payment, but that system is being gamed. The paramedics take a partial payment, do not give a real receipt, and later submit a fake one to the city under a made-up name and...
Of course, a major agri-scheme gets busted because someone finally did a site visit. A thirty-year-old Harare man, Blessing Benhura, is sitting in jail until next January over a wild fertilizer and seed scam targeting the Agricultural Rural Development Authority, known as ARDA. Prosecutors say back in May, he teamed up with some still-missing accomplices to pull off the con. Their play was to fake an entire farming cooperative. They presented fourteen completely fictional farmers to ARDA, backing them up with a whole bundle of forged documents. This included phony joint venture agreements, fake recommendation letters from the Agricultural Research Extension Services, and even counterfeit offer letters pretending to be from the Ministry...
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