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Zim ‘Porn Stars’ nicked

Zim ‘Porn Stars’ nicked

HARARE — Five Zimbabwean porn stars have been arrested at a house in Harare. A man, believed to be a Briton, is said to be in charge of the operation.

Principals set to discuss Chihuri’s fate

Principals set to discuss Chihuri’s fate

HARARE — Principals in the inclusive government meet tomorrow for a National Security Council (NSC) meeting that will discuss among other issues the fate of police commissioner-general, Augustine Chihuri, whose term of office expired on Tuesday.

Chihuri’s term expires

Chihuri’s term expires

HARARE — Police commissioner-general Augustine Chihuri’s term of office expired yesterday, with coalition government partners immediately saying the Zanu PF-alligned police boss is staying onto the post illegitimately with effect from today.

Activists push ZANU to end torture

Activists push ZANU to end torture

BULAWAYO — Human rights lawyers have urged the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) and legislators to push government to ratify the United Nations Convention Against Torture, which bans torture as an instrument of extracting information from accused persons.

Family lucky to survive typhoid scourge

Family lucky to survive typhoid scourge

HARARE — For Tatenda Kaseke (34), the thought of drinking water is a nightmare as she remembers the days she and her 6-year-old infant were in hospital, weak and disoriented with diarrhoea.

Evidence suggests Mujuru was murdered

Evidence suggests Mujuru was murdered

HARARE — Evidence tendered in court yesterday showed that retired general Solomon Mujuru could have died before the fire that gutted his Beatrice farmhouse igniting widely held speculation that he could have been murdered.

Genera Mujuru wanted Police out

Genera Mujuru wanted Police out

HARARE — General Solomon Mujuru wanted the cops guarding him to be removed, his maid, Ms Rosemary Short said yesterday. He died three days before their scheduled departure from the farm. She said relations between her boss and the police officers had deteriorated to an extent that he stopped her from giving them food.

GIRL MARRIED OFF AT 14: father paid $70 as lobola

GIRL MARRIED OFF AT 14: father paid $70 as lobola

MARONDERA — A 15-year-old girl from Marange who was married off to a geriatric member of the largest polygamist Johanne Marange Apostolic Sect — but was lucky to escape, this week bared her soul and exposed the torturous abuse she encountered at the hands of the churchman and her own father according to a Manica Post report.

Mujuru maid gives fresh evidence in court

Mujuru maid gives fresh evidence in court

HARARE — A maid to the late retired army general Solomon Mujuru says she heard gunshots on the day he died in a reported fire outbreak at his farm in Beatrice.

Police might have left Mujuru to die: Lawyer

Police might have left Mujuru to die: Lawyer

HARARE — Police officers tasked to protect the late Solomon Mujuru could have left him to die in a fire blaze as they ran around for more than three kilometres trying to find assistance in locating the late general’s bedroom, a family lawyer has said.

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