Phillip Shumba

Cephas Shava

MWENEZI – A village head identified as Sabhuku Chikamare of village 5, Munyamani resettlement in Ward 16 under Chief Maranda is being accused of poisoning many dogs and chickens to avenge his goat which was killed by some dogs.
Sources said on Thursday last week, the village head cut some pieces of meat off the devoured goat carcass and poisoned them before moving from door to door in the night, feeding all dogs with the meat.
The following morning, villagers woke up to the ghastly site of dead dogs and chickens that had also consumed bits of the poisoned meat.
When contacted for comment, Chikamare denied being the culprit, saying malicious people with a grudge against him were linking him to the dastardly act.
“People woke up to find some of their dogs and chickens dead. They started to accuse me of feeding them off poisoned meat but I didn’t do that and I don’t know who did that.
“I am a victim too because one of my own dogs also died. They are framing me because they have a grudge against me,” said Chikamare.
Villagers who spoke to TellZim News, however, insisted that Chikamare was responsible for the atrocious act of revenge.
“We are convinced he is responsible for that. He had bitterly complained that some dogs from the village had killed and eaten his goat so he did this to fix dog owners in the village but he didn’t imagine that even chickens were going to eat some bits of the meat and die.
“So far 16 dogs and 64 chickens have died and we are likely to keep counting,” said one villager who preferred anonymity.
 Villagers filed a police report and by the time of going to print, investigations were in progress.local

Upenyu Chaota

MASVINGO – There was drama at the High Court recently, during the official opening of the 2018 legal year by judge president Justice George Chiweshe when a mentally challenged woman launched a scathing attack on the guests calling them witches and thieves that have sucked state coffers dry.
The woman stood by the perimeter wall of the High Court and began shouting at the guests who were enjoying some snacks.
She used all sorts of vulgar terms to discredit the event and the smartly dressed guests. She said all the people at the event were responsible for the suffering of many people in the country.
“Munoti hakuna mari saka mota makadzitenga nei. Muri varoyi. Mbavha dzevanhu. Masatanist munorarama nekutambudzika kwevanhu,” shouted the woman.
She then proceeded to the High Court main entrance where Chief Fortune Charumbira and Masvingo resident minister Josaya Hungwe were standing and started shouting at them in vulgar terms.
The police tried to restrain the woman but she threatened to beat them up.
Passers-by stood and watched the drama as the woman shouted on top of her voice saying the top of the range cars parked outside the court were dripping with blood of innocent souls.
“Mose munoenda kuchurch zvekunyepera asi muchiita zvechi satanist. Mota dzakanaka kudai makadziwanepi. Muri kuchekeresa vana wevanhu kuti mugare zvakanaka,” she shouted.
The police chased after her but the mad woman outpaced them, freezing traffic for a few minutes as she started running along the middle of the road.local

MWENEZI – Notice Ndlovu, an employee with the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) Rutenga branch reportedly engaged in several sex escapades with a married woman at various secluded places including the company’s premises.
Ndlovu, who earlier on admitted in court to having an affair with Sifasonge Muleya’s wife, had his application for a protection order against Muleya dismissed by magistrate Honest Musiiwa after his recent failure to turn up for hearing.
In his affidavit, Ndlovu – without citing the root cause of the problem – accused Muleya of shouting abusive words and threatening him with unspecified action.
However, in the opposing affidavit, Muleya denied the allegations insisting that Ndlovu, who engaged in an adulterous affair with his wife Georgina Mandumbu, was trying to evade being held responsible for his immorality.
Muleya, who has two children with Mandumbu, accused Ndlovu of engaging in several sex escapades with his wife.
“The contentious issue at hand is that for over a year, the applicant was having an illicit promiscuous affair with my wife….indulging in sex escapades from the bush, in my house and at Zesa Rutenga depot premises on various occasions.
“I obtain phone call recordings of their conversations with details of their activities and I confronted my wife who confessed and disclosed their activities,” reads part of the affidavit.
In shocking text messages that were seen by this reporter, Mandumbu confessed to her husband that she once engaged in sexual intercourse with Ndlovu at one of the company’s premises.
Muleya, who in the affidavit also expressed dissatisfaction over what he called lack of inaction by Zesa management, accused Ndlovu of abusing the company’s telephone, vehicles and offices to prey on married women.
In his complaint addressed to the management that was seen by TellZim News, Muleya accused Ndlovu of conniving with one of his workmate to destroy his family. Providing dates and time when Ndlovu allegedly abused company landline to communicate with his wife, Muleya urged the company’s management to act.
“We are waiting patiently for your organisation to restore sanity within your employee if the behaviour is not in line with company policy,” reads the concluding part of the complaint.local