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CANCER-STRICKEN GIRL PENS LETTER ABOUT HER ‘DEATH’

Shalom, who was diagnosed with bone cancer two years ago, now relies on artificial oxygen for breathing In her letter, she also thanks all the nurses at 4 special ward at Parirenyatwa Hospital for their care

WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU SMOKING, OR DRINKING, RITZMCLEISH STRAWBAE?

Zimpapers Arts and Entertainment Hub DOES content creator Ritzmcleish Strawbae LOSE her mind sometimes? Or is she just someone who is so DULL she doesn’t understand the weight of some of the things she utters from her mouth? The motor mouth, whose...

BILLIONAIRE BUSINESSMAN, WHO CO-OWNS MANCHESTER UNITED, REVEALS HIS ZIM LOVE AFFAIR

BILLIONAIRE businessman Sir Jim Ratcliffe has a secret he has kept under wraps for years – HE LOVES ZIMBABWE. And, he says the reasons for the love affair are simple – the locals are very friendly, the hospitality is mind-blowing, the weather is...

COME ON PROPHET, DOESN’T THE BIBLE SAY THOU SHALT NOT LIE?

Yesterday, he tried to spin a sensational claim he made to give an impression that we misquoted him. Maybe, he never thought his wild, reckless and dangerous claims, that there was a vast goldfield beneath the National Sports Stadium, would be...

PROPHET MAKES DANGEROUS, RECKLESS PROPHECY ABOUT VAST GOLD DEPOSITS BELOW THE NATIONAL SPORTS STADIUM

DOES Prophet Obey Mukanhairi understand that his claims that there are substantial gold deposits, below the National Sports Stadium, could trigger a raft of illegal activities around the giant facility? Does he also understand that his claims that...

GRIEVING WIDOW BATTLES SEKURU KAFERA’S US$250K DEMANDS FOR SUPPLYING ‘GOBLINS’ TO LATE HUBBY

A GRIEVING widow is claiming that a self-styled Chitungwiza sangoma has been harassing her by claiming that she pays US$250,000 for goblins which her husband “bought” from the traditional healer. Police in Beatrice are investigating a case which...

OVER 386K CANDIDATES START ZIMSEC 0-LEVEL, A-LEVEL EXAMS

MORE than 386,000 candidates yesterday began writing their 2026 ZIMSEC O-Level and A-Level examinations at about 3,500 centres nationwide. The examinations began with authorities emphasising the need to prevent question paper leaks, impersonation and...

YET ANOTHER MURDER-SUICIDE . . . Fugitive dies after slaying ex-wife

A murder suspect was found dead at a lodge in Chiredzi on Saturday in, yet another case of murder-suicide linked to a love relationship gone bad. As if to suggest premeditation, 30-year-old Godknows Muleya left a long Facebook post asking for...

SCOTT BREAKS DOWN, CHIEF J SHEDS TEARS AS SIR WICKNELL IS LAID TO REST

SCOTT Sakupwanya broke down with emotions and Tazvi ‘Chief J’ Mhaka shed tears as businessman Wicknell Chivayo was laid to rest at Sahwira Glen Forest Memorial Park yesterday. Sakupwanya was very close to Chivayo and told mourners that they used to...

FOR SEVEN DAYS, AFTER CHIVAYO’S DEATH, THE NUMBER SEVEN KEPT DOMINATING A SPORT HE LOVED

THE Bible tells us that on the SEVENTH day, God rested. That’s what Genesis 2:2-3 tells us and, from that moment, the number SEVEN takes a special place in religion and, in a way, in our lives. It represents the Sabbath and the Muslim pilgrims walk...

I’M VERY SORRY, I’M SUCH A FOOL WHEN I’M DRUNK

I’M SORRY… To Ambassador Muzavazi for bombarding him with such threatening, insulting, disrespectful voice notes I’M SORRY… To my fans, I was even shocked and could not believe I was the one who said those bad, distasteful words and threats I’M...

DOES KILLER T TURN INTO A DERANGED, FOUL-MOUTHED, FOOLISH INDIVIDUAL WHEN OCTOBER COMES AROUND?

DOES Killer T lose his mental faculties in October and, whatever he suffers from during this month, does it turn him into a FOUL-MOUTHED, FOOLISH AND DERANGED individual? The Zimdancehall star has been arrested on allegations of cyberbullying after a...

IT’S THE WEEK OF THE LONG GOODBYES AS SIR WICKNELL IS SET TO BE LAID TO REST

IT’S the week of the Long Goodbyes as we bid farewell to businessman Wicknell Chivayo, his wife Lucia Muteke, the two pilots and an aide who died in that horror helicopter crash last week. The two pilots, Captain Calvin Soda and Captain Courage...

FROM UK, TO INDIA, FROM SA TO NIGERIA, CHIVAYO’S DEATH IS TRENDING AROUND THE WORLD

WICKNELL Chivayo’s death on Wednesday was trending around the world yesterday in a confirmation of how the businessman’s influence had spread around the globe. Chivayo, who was set to turn 44 next month, died when the helicopter he was travelling in...

MUKANYA IS HOME FOR HIS MASSIVE US$1M JACKPOT

Chimurenga music icon was welcomed by THREE Ministers at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport yesterday. H-Metro exclusively revealed last week that Mukanya was set to arrive tomorrow but his team changed his schedule. He is set to fulfil the...

WHAT WILL MUKANYA SING AT JAH PRAYZAH’S WEDDING?

IT is not unusual for one big star to bring another big star onto the stage at a wedding. In fact, celebrity weddings around the world have become occasions where music royalty sometimes provides the soundtrack to the couple’s big day. Just look at...

IT’S NEGLIGENCE, FUMES A PARENT, AFTER TEEN SCHOOLBOY IS FOUND DEAD IN SCHOOL’S SWIMMING POOL

AUTHORITIES at Hellenic Academy are facing accusations of ‘NEGLIGENCE’ after a teenage schoolboy was found dead in the school’s swimming pool last week. The accusations were raised by some parents, and guardians, who spoke to H-Metro in the wake of...

INFIDELITY ISSUES LINKED TO DEATH OF A COUPLE, A MAN LINKED TO LOVE TRIANGLE IS ADMITTED IN HOSPITAL

A COUPLE, whose bodies were found in their bedroom in Glen View yesterday, had sought counselling at their church leader just hours before their deaths. Nyasha Mhungu, 36, and his wife, Olga Muzhingi, 31, died in their bedroom overnight yesterday and...

INFIDELITY ISSUES LINKED TO DEATH OF A COUPLE, A MAN LINKED TO LOVE TRIANGLE IS ADMITTED IN HOSPITAL

A COUPLE, whose bodies were found in their bedroom in Glen View yesterday, had sought counselling at their church leader just hours before their deaths. Nyasha Mhungu, 36, and his wife, Olga Muzhingi, 31, died in their bedroom overnight yesterday and...

MUKANYA TO LAND IN H-TOWN ON OCTOBER 1 AHEAD OF HIS TWO US$1M ENGAGEMENTS

CHIMURENGA music legend, Thomas “Mukanya” Mapfumo, is expected to land in Harare on OCTOBER 1, H-Metro can exclusively reveal. Mukanya is then expected to take part in his first official engagement, two days later, also in the capital. The veteran...

DRIVER NABBED AFTER LOADING TWENTY FIVE SCHOOL KIDS IN A SEVEN-SEATER TOYOTA NOAH

A MAN, who uses a seven-seater Toyota Noah to run school run shuttles in Harare, has been arrested after he allegedly loaded 25 learners into his vehicle. Amos Tavaziva, 39, was arrested on Thursday along the New Chitungwiza Road in Hopley as he was...

GRACIOUS NKOMO: A BEAUTY QUEEN, A ‘HAPPY AND QUIET’ WOMAN, WHO MET A VIOLENT DEATH IN JO’BURG

AT birth, Gracious Nkomo was given a first name which, in general, represents warmth, kindness, charm, respect and being merciful and compassionate. In death, the 28-year-old Zimbabwean woman experienced exactly the opposite of what her name...

THE GIRL IS MINE

PATIENCE MANGWIRO’S EX-HUSBAND SAYS HE IS THE BIOLOGICAL FATHER OF HER YOUNG DAUGHTER IN THE LATEST TWIST TO THE TRAGIC SAGA. DANIEL ZAVIRIMA IS DISGUSTED THAT HIS DAUGHTER HAS BEEN DRAGGED INTO THE TRAGEDY BY HER MOTHER THROUGH A SOCIAL MEDIA...

WOMAN ON THE RUN AFTER BASHING, KILLING TODDLER WHO HAD MESSED HIMSELF UP IN HIGHFIELD

ONE WEEK AFTER THE HORROR AND BLOODBATH OF DZ, THE TREMORS TRIGGERED ARE STILL BEING FELT

TODAY marks exactly a WEEK since news of a family tragedy in Dzvivarasekwa broke and the tremors, which were triggered by the seismic events of that night of horror, are still being felt. Commissioner Martin Muduva, who died in a bloodbath after he...

FINALLY, WE CAN SHOW YOU THE FACE OF THE WOMAN ACCUSED OF BITING HUSBAND’S TESTICLES

FINALLY, we can show you the face of a Harare woman who is being accused of biting her husband’s testicles during a domestic dispute over a suspected extramarital affair. While her shocking story has been trending around the country since last week,...

H-METRO

THE tragedy in which Commissioner Martin Muduva and his wife lost their lives last week at their home in Dzivarasekwa has gripped the attention of the entire country. Commissioner Muduva was laid to rest at his rural home in Buhera yesterday. The...

MAN’S DOG MAULS, KILLS HIS DAUGHTER, AGED JUST EIGHT MONTHS, IN A VICIOUS ATTACK IN WHICH A BOY (2) IS ALSO SEVERELY INJURED

AN eight-month-old baby has died after being mauled by her father’s vicious dog in Glen View in the latest case of what has been a dark year in which a number of people have been killed in DOG ATTACKS. Two other people, who were attacked by the same...

ROORA DAY FOR HUSBAND AND LOVER WAS THE LAST STRAW FOR NURSE WHO AXED HUBBY AND DOWNED RAT POSION

THE nurse who axed her husband THREE times, in a brutal murder case, before committing suicide after downing rat poison, had been tormented, for years, by her hubby’s extra-marital relationship with his long-term girlfriend. That lengthy extra-marital...

AMPUTATED HUMAN LEG FOUND AT DUMP SITE

AN amputated human leg, which was partially burnt and wrapped in bandages, was found at a Chitungwiza dumping site yesterday. Syringes, gloves, bandages and other medical waste were also scattered at the dumping site. This has promoted authorities to...

YOU’RE SUFFERING FROM DEMENTIA, A FURIOUS MONO BLASTS FUNGISAI

ACE music producer Clive “Mono” Mukundu has claimed that gospel star Fungisai Zvakavapano-Mashavave is probably suffering from DEMENTIA in the latest explosive chapter of the row between the two artists. The two have been trading blows on social...

PASTOR GODFREY’S SON IN CHILD RAPE STORM INVOLVING A RELATIVE (14)

THE son of Pastor Godfrey Kudita of Word Impact Ministries is being accused of allegedly raping a 14-year-old relative, on a number of occasions in South Africa last year, and the explosive revelations have divided the family. Godfrey Kudita Junior,...

IT’S NOW DOG EAT DOG AS CIVIL WAR RAGES ON

IT’S now a raging CIVIL WAR on the local music industry scene. Dino Mudondo has become the latest musician to join the CIVIL WAR after he accused The Travellers Band of disrespect for performing some of his hit songs at a wedding where both acts had...

ROGUE POLICE OFFICERS ABUSING DRUGS AS POLICE CHIEF WARNS OF CRACKDOWN AND DISMISSAL OF SUCH MALCONTENTS

A NUMBER of rogue police officers are abusing drugs and substances but their days in the force are numbered, the COMMISSIONER-General of Police has warned. Commissioner General Stephen Mutamba said there is no room for officers who are unable to...

THE HEAT IS ON AT B/BRIDGE AS THIEVES ABANDON LUXURY CARS, TONNES OF LOOT SEIZED

FROM luxury vehicles being abandoned in the Limpopo River to three tonnes of sausages, 810kgs of chicken cuts and 40 kgs of polony being seized, authorities on both sides of Beitbridge are taking on the heat on smugglers. From the first month of the...

WE'LL ALWAYS LOVE YOU

Dolly Parton dead at 80 after months-long health battle as nephew shares heartbreaking tribute to country music icon

UGLY BUS WARS!

THE fierce battle for passengers among bus operators in Chipinge has taken a dangerous turn after part of a bus was blown away by explosives in an attack linked to rival crews. The driver and conductor, who survived the attack, were sleeping inside...

FARMER, DRIVER INDICTED FOR BOY’S MURDER

FOUR YEARS AFTER A BOY (12) WAS KILLED AFTER BEING RUN OVER BY A COMBINE HARVESTER, IN A CHILLING INCIDENT WHICH SHOOK A FARMING COMMUNITY, AND HIS FAMILY’S RELENTLESS QUEST FOR JUSTICE AMID ALLEGATIONS OF COVER-UPS, FINALLY, THERE IS A VERY BIG...

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EIGHTEEN ROBBERS, WHO RAIDED CHIVAYO’S INLAWS’ FARM, JAILED FOR A COMBINED ONE THOUSAND YEARS

EIGHTEEN men, convicted of raiding businessman Wicknell Chivayo’s in-laws at their Alpha and Omega Farm in Marondera, have been slapped with prison terms totalling a combined ONE THOUSAND YEARS. A substantial portion of the sentences will run...

KARIBA FERRY DISASTER BECOMES ZIM’S DEADLIEST AS TOLL REACHES 92

THE death toll from the RIDA Mbuya Nehanda ferry disaster has risen to 92, making it the country’s deadliest transport tragedy and surpassing the 1991 Nyanga bus disaster which claimed 89 lives, mostly schoolchildren. Yesterday, divers recovered eight...

HULUNGENDE, MALLOTI NABBED AT DOEK AND SLAY

AFTER weeks of short changing event organisers, the errant Zim Dancehall couple Hulungende and Malloti were yesterday arrested soon after their performance at the Doek and Slay gig at Glamis Arena. The couple caused a scene as they resisted arrest,...

KARIBA BOAT DISASTER DEATH TOLL RISES TO 46

The death toll from the Lake Kariba boat disaster has risen to 46, the Zimbabwe Republic Police confirmed yesterday. The latest figure comes as search and recovery efforts continue following the capsizing of the Rural Infrastructure Development Agency...

JOURNEY DOOMED BEFORE FERRY LEFT HARBOUR

THE tragic Kariba ferry disaster made headlines across the world as the death toll reached 44 at the close of efforts to account for missing passengers yesterday. The tragedy has sent shockwaves far beyond Zimbabwe, dominating coverage across some of...

AT LEAST 15 DEAD AS FERRY SINKS

A CASUAL conversation between two men, who were there as a passenger ferry, which capsized on Lake Kariba yesterday killing, at least, a dozen people, left the dock, appears to highlight concerns about the safety of the trip. Among the dead was the...

KURAI IS ‘LAZY’ AND ‘ARROGANT,’ SAYS MUKANYA

Legend says Kurai is obsessed with copying him that he once suggested he wanted to change his surname from Makore to Mapfumo He even joked Kurai will get himself a wheelchair should Mukanya ask his family to get him a wheelchair to help him with his...

CHIMURENGA MUSIC CIVIL WAR RAGES ON

THOMAS Mapfumo’s daughter says Kurai Makore repeatedly IGNORED orders from the legendary Chimurenga musician to stop playing Mukanya’s songs at his shows. Chiedza Mapfumo told H-Metro that the family’s decision to come out in the open, with the...

MANIPULATIVE SADIST MADZIBABA GATHRY SENT TO JAIL FOR 20 YEARS AS RAPE OF A TEENAGER NAILS HIM

MADZIBABA Gathry has been described as a “manipulative sadist” who is a danger to society by a regional magistrate, who jailed him for TWENTY years for raping a teenager. Harare Regional Magistrate Estere Chivasa also sentenced Madzibaba Gathry’s...

BABA HARARE’S ‘DIRTY DANCES,’ SEXUAL SONGS ARE NOT JITI MUSIC

THIS IS NOT JITI, THIS IS MIDNIGHT MUSIC, DOMINATED BY SEXUALLY-SUGGESTIVE LYRICS AND VULGAR INNUENDO THE DANCES ARE NYAU, GULE WAMKHULU, RITUALISTIC MOVEMENTS, A TALE OF CULTURAL VANDALISM DISGUISED AS JITI THE VULGARITY IN THE LYRICS IS NOT...

COUPLE, WHO BROKE INTO NOTHABO’S HOUSE, ONLY TO BE CONFRONTED BY DEATH, WERE HER CLOSE RELATIVES

FOR a moment, just imagine the horror which confronted a couple, which broke into Nothabo Zandile Tshuma’s house in the United Kingdom, only to be met with death. Nothabo (42) and her two children – Natalie (15) and Nala (5) – had been dead for...

MAKOROKOZA INVADE H-TOWN, RUN A SECRET, ILLEGAL MINE IN MARLBOROUGH FOR FOUR YEARS

EIGHT men dug a ten-metre deep shaft in Marlborough, Harare, and ran an illegal mining operation, including blasting activities, in the suburb before police pounced and arrested them on Sunday. They had been running the mine for four...

‘CONVICT HIM!’ STATE URGES COURT TO CONVICT GATHRY FOR RAPE OF MINOR

THE State is urging regional magistrate, Estere Chivasa, to CONVICT controversial prophet, Madzibaba Gathry, who is facing charges of raping a minor at his house. The State is arguing that it has proved every essential element of the rape case beyond...

ACCIDENT CLAIMS TWO COPS

AT least six people died and six others were injured in a road traffic accident that occurred on Wednesday along the Harare–Bulawayo Road, at the Tynwald flyover near Harare Drive junction. Zimbabwe Republic Police Spokesperson Commissioner Paul...

MAN HUMILIATED BY SEX WORKERS

A Milton Park man in Harare was yesterday humiliated by sex workers for failing to pay a negotiated US$20 for services rendered. Identified only as Tony, the man engaged a 19-year-old self-proclaimed sex worker popularly known as Mai Chimwana, at...

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN months

The cheeky businesswoman teased detectives, who wanted to arrest her in connection with a US$624k, ZiG1,2m fraud, in which about 77 people had been duped, by posting her photo with some businessmen in Osaka, Japan, while she was on the run from...

WOMAN CLAIMS MADZIBABA GATHRY USED A GUN TO THREATEN HER FOR BLOCKING HIM FROM RAPING HER KID

THE mother of a girl, who was allegedly raped by Madzibaba Gathry Chirodzero at his home, claims the controversial faith healer threatened her with a gun when she resisted his attempts to rape the minor. Madzibaba Gathry was back in court yesterday...

WOMAN, WHO CELEBRATED BIRTHDAY IN MADRID, BERLIN, ROME, PARIS, SUCKED INTO US$624K, ZiG1,2 MILLION FRAUD

To celebrate her 35th birthday, she spoiled herself by having fun in Paris, Rome, Berlin and Madrid in August last year and updating her social media followers Hazel has already appeared in court facing fraud charges after a number of her clients...

CATHOLIC CONMAN

Questions now being asked as to how this FRAUDSTER penetrated the Catholic Church system to dupe priests and church followers Gano is not the only one – another fake priest, Miguel Ibarra, masqueraded as a Catholic priest for 18 YEARS before being...

14 PEOPLE, ONE SMALL VEHICLE!

Police praise Zimpapers photographer, Nyasha Chawatama, after driver of overloaded mushikashika is arrested and the car is impounded In the spirit of the World Cup, it’s like fitting Spain’s first XI, coach, assistant coach and team manager into one...

HOLY TEN’S UNHOLY ACT

Rapper arrested for allegedly raping girl (14) in his Hatfield bedroom on Monday Sources say the two connected on social media while the girl was in South Africa They say Holy Ten lured her with a promise that he would feature her in his music video

BLOODIED, NAKED MUM ESCAPES DEATH AS MAN KILLS THEIR TWO KIDS

A woman, who was stabbed on the head and the neck by her husband, who later burnt their home, escaped certain death by fleeing to their neighbour’s house, in her naked and bloodied state, before finding refuge at her parents’ home. Her children -...

Tracy Munyaradzi INSISTS she engaged a sangoma who ‘sent a swarm of bees; to attack the TV ‘thief.’

SLAIN ZANDILE’S MUM BREAKS SILENCE

THE mother of slain business executive Nothabo Zandile Tshuma, who died together with her two children at their home in England has, for the first time, spoken about the pain she been enduring since their death. Police in the UK have named Ndodana...

HE SPENT NINE YEARS IN JAIL FOR A RAPE HE DIDN’T COMMIT, NOW SIMBA HAS FOUND TRUE LOVE, BEEN BLESSED WITH A KID

A MAN, who spent nearly a decade in jail after being condemned as a child rapist for a crime he did not commit, has found true love, married the woman of his dreams and has been blessed with a baby boy. Simbarashe Chadiwa, who was sentenced to 18...

A GORY DECADE OF MURDERS IN THE UK AS BOYFRIENDS, HUBBIES STAB AND KILL THEIR PARTNERS

THE murder of Nothabo Zandile Tshuma and her two young daughters, Natalie and Nala, at their home in England has cast the spotlight on Zimbabwean women who have died in domestic violence cases in that country. Zandile was reported to have been going...

TWO PHOTOS, ONE MAN, HOW NINE DAYS IN HELL CHANGED MARK TSHUMA

From bloodshot eyes, dishevelled hair, a haunted look pregnant with distraction and confusion, Ndodana Mkhanyisi Tshuma’s transformation from a high-flying IT executive in London to a suspected killer who became a fugitive on the run from the law...

WOMAN FURIOUS WITH RIVERTON ACADEMY OWNER AFTER SON IS BASHED BY ANOTHER STUDENT

THE mother of a 14-year-old student at Riverton Academy is furious that the school’s authorities allegedly failed to report injuries suffered by their son in a chilling bullying incident. Chido Chiwenga said her son, Makabongwe Magwaliba, sustained a...

WHAT THE HELL HAVE WE BECOME?

BEDFORD, England Ndodana Mkanyisi Tshuma, 45, is being accused of murdering his family — his wife Nothabo Zandile Tshuma and two daughters, Natalie, 15, and Nala, 5, at their home in England last week. Tshuma has fled from the UK and his whereabouts...

KILLER DAD, ACCUSED OF MURDERING HIS WIFE, TWO KIDS AT THEIR ENGLAND HOME, WAS GOING THROUGH A DIVORCE

IT’S the family photo that sends shivers down the spine – Nothabo Zandile Tshuma and her two children at the back seat of a car, their infectious smiles a powerful exhibition of their happiness. Her two kids, Natalie, 15, and five-year-old Nala,...

WE’VE MANY JONASI GOMORAS IN HARARE

The novel inspired Netflix hit series ‘The Polygamist’ Jonasi Gomora is the series’ flawed lead character

DIVINE INTERVENTION AS ZIM STAR SURVIVES GUN ATTACK IN JOZI

Warriors star DIVINE LUNGA is lucky to be alive after his BMW was shot at by a suspected gang of armed robbers in Johannesburg on Sunday. The windscreen of the BMW shows that a number of bullets hit the car, which the Mamelodi Sundowns defender was...