MWENEZI – A 56-year-old Mwenezi man recently went berserk, bashing his wife’s boyfriend after finding out that he allegedly had been receiving goodies from his wife, including money and grain from the family’s reserves.
Aleck Maphosa of Elijah village under Chief Mazetese appeared before magistrate Honest Musiiwa charged with assault, and pleaded guilty to charges of assaulting his wife’s alleged boyfriend, Morrison Machuve.
Maphosa was sentenced to six months behind bars which were wholly set aside on condition that he performed 210 hours of community service at Firidzi Primary School.
Asked by the magistrate why he committed the offence, Maphosa said he was angered that Machuve was not only taking his wife but the material products of his hard work too.
“Machuve is my wife’s boyfriend and I once dragged him to the village court over the offence. What angered me on the day in question is that I realised that besides being given some money by my wife, I also learnt that Machuve was given a sizeable quantity of sorghum for free,” said Maphosa.
Representing the State, prosecutor Angelinah Makonya, however, told the court that on July 19 at Firidzi business centre, Maphosa approached the complainant, asking him why he bought some sorghum from his wife without his approval.
Machuve told Maphosa that it was rather his wife who approached him, selling the sorghum. This did not go down well with Maphosa who began to assault the complainant with open hands and fists.
The complainant sustained some body injuries and was referred to the hospital.
A police report was later made leading to Maphosa’s arrest.court

MWENEZI – A well-known self-styled prophet of the Jowani Masowe eChishanu, Benjamin Matiza (38), popularly known as Madzibaba Bhenji, is in trouble with the law after he allegedly followed a 14-year-old girl to the bush and raped her.
Matiza, of no fixed residential address, appeared before magistrate Honest Musiiwa and was remanded in custody before being formally charged.
The prophet had of late become a crowd puller, attracting many people desperate for spiritual help to his camp at Mariot Ranch under Chief Chitanga.
In July this year, Matiza visited Village 3, Mariot Ranch where a close relative stays and set up camp there to do his prophesy work.
On August 14, he saw a girl, who is doing form two at a local school and who he had earlier on visited his place in the company of her parents for spiritual help.
The minor was going to fetch some firewood in the bush.
Matiza then followed the girl into the bush, told her he wanted to cast some remaining demons from her stomach but the girl refused.
The self-styled prophet, however, persisted and allegedly began to fondle the girl all over her body, undressed and then raped her.
He allegedly ordered her not to tell anybody about what had happened but the girl revealed everything to her mother when she returned home.
A police report was then made, leading to the suspect’s arrest.court

MPANDAWANA – Charles Mutema (20) of Dzingai village under Chief Chiwara this week appeared in the Gutu Magistrates’ Court facing charges of attempting to rape a four-year-old girl who is said to be his niece.
He was charged for contravening with Section 189 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act Chapter 09:23, ‘attempted Rape’.
Mutema was remanded in custody to September 04 and was advised to apply for bail at the High Court.
State facts as presented by Millicent Azangwe are that on July 28 this year around 10:00hrs, the child was at home when Mutema called her into his room promising to give her bread.
When the child got into the room, Mutema lifted her, laid her on the bed facing upwards, lifted her skirt, removed her pant completely and caressed her intending to have sexual intercourse with her.
Mutema then suddenly ordered the child to dress up and get out of the room after hearing some footsteps outside.
The matter came to light when the child reported what had happened to her mother when she came back home. A report was then made to the police leading to Mutema’s arrest.court

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MPANDAWANA – A 46-year-old man from Shadhaya village under Chief Gutu dug up his father’s grave and took away the dead man’s skeleton, the Gutu Magistrates’ Court heard last week.
Moses Zuva appeared in court accused of violating graves as defined in Section 110 of The Criminal Law Codification and Reform Act Chapter 9:23.
The section reads, “Any person who violates a grave in which human remains are situated, knowing that he or she is doing so or realising that there is a real risk or possibility that he or she may be doing so, shall be guilty of violating a grave and liable to a fine not exceeding level seven or imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year or both.”

Zuva was remanded in custody to October 02 and ordered to be mentally examined by two doctors.
State facts are that on September 13, at around 10:00 hrs, Zuva went and desecrated the grave of his father who died sometime in 1990, took the skeleton and placed it in his bedroom.
He was seen by Paul Zuva Shadhaya who then alerted the police. The police went to his place and discovered the skeleton in his bedroom hut but the suspect resisted arrest.
When asked by magistrate Victor Mahamadi why he committed the offence, Zuva said he was only fulfilling what he had agreed with his late father before he died.
“I was just fulfilling our agreement. He asked me to take his skeleton and stay with it in my bedroom when he died,” said Zuva
Samuel Magobeya prosecuted.court

ZAKA – The construction of Four Miles Clinic is still on despite clashes between Ward 8 councillor, Tererai Tererai and Zaka Central Member of Parliament (MP) Davison Svuure.
In the previous edition, TellZim News reported on the dispute between the two, with the MP ordering the councillor not to involve former MP Paradzai Chakona in the project.
This week, project chairperson Joseph Dakwa said Svuure had now been persuaded not to interfere in a way that affects development but to, instead, promote it.
“As a new MP, he didn’t know how things should be done but we managed to knock some sense into him and we are now continuing with the project. He even donated cement and promised to purchase concrete stones from Bikita Minerals,” said Dakwa.
Svuure concurred with Dakwa saying the project was going on, adding that Chakona had stopped bringing building material as per his demands.
He said materials that Chakona had already delivered were still at the Tererai’s home and they had not been used on the project.
“The project is going forward. We managed to mould 18 000 bricks within the past month and I am busy looking for concrete stones from Bikita Minerals. We hope the available stones and cement purchased through the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) will take us far.
“Anybody is welcome to assist. I do not reject assistance but it should come in a transparent manner. Let it be known if it is CDF or it is a gift or a donation because some of these items were supposed to come as CDF materials but the former MP failed to deliver them in time. He cannot, therefore, bring the same materials today as his own donation and seek to score unfair political points,” said Svuure.
He further said his relationship with Tererai was yet to be fully mended, accusing the councillor of badmouthing him.
“My relationship with the councillor is still not alright as yet. He tells people that he will not work with me and I don’t know whom does he think he will work with. Some people did not understand why I had to intervene in that manner but in a way, I was trying to protect the councillor,” said Svuure.
He also denied claims that he organised meetings in the ward without involving the councillor, saying the only meeting he organised was with headman Murerekwa and could not invite the councillor as there were concerns against him.