Moses Ziyambi

MASVINGO – A woman from Chivake Village B, Eastdale, in the resettlements of Serima along the Gutu – Chivhu road who was suffering from advance-stage cervical cancer reportedly died last week after a ‘prophet’ from her Johwani Marange Apostolic Church performed a grisly operation to remove her cancerous womb.
The incident happened last week and the woman is said to have succumbed to heavy bleeding after the botched operation and was buried on Wednesday
The woman, identified as Linah Mutonhori, is said to have visited the so-called healer identified as Gatore to get relief in accordance with church doctrine that forbids professional medical treatment.
Sources said Mutonhori had suffered from the ailment for many years but had never sought treatment at hospital.
Gatore is said to be a popular prophet in the area who has 10 wives whose large homestead is always through by terminally ill people seeking treatment and other people with various problems requiring spiritual deliverance.
Another source told TellZim News that after noticing that his patient was bleeding heavily and was surely going to die, Gatore ordered that Mutonhori be carried away back to her place.
“Many people were shocked that a man with no background whatsoever in medicine could perform a surgical procedure but nobody questioned it because the church does not believe in conventional medical practices. The matter was not even reported to the police as the family is said to have chosen to deal with it on their own,” the source said.local

MASVINGO – Daring thieves last week broke into Rashai Foroma Sports Bar at Mucheke Old Business Centre and made away with an electrical gadget valued at hundreds of dollars.
Masvingo lawyer, Foroma Chakabuda told TellZim News that the thieves gained entry through an open space just below the roofing which lies over the generator room in the bar.
“The thieves helped themselves to a number of beers and they were drinking the expensive Zambezi lager. Some of the lagers were found broken next to the generator room and may have fallen when the thieves made good their escape.
“The thieves stole a flat screen television set that was in the bar. The decoder was on the shelf next to the television set but they did not take it away,” Foroma said.
Foroma added that the generator room stays locked up at night and it is not clear why it was not locked when the thieves struck. He said none of the employees in the bar offered an explanation as to why the room was not locked.
A report was made at Chikato Police Station where investigations are still in progress.
Cases of unlawful entry and theft have been on the rise in Mucheke where thieves have targeted the business community and residents getting away with thousands of dollars’ worth of property.local

CHIREDZI – A 21-year-old headboy who was facing charges of raping his neighbour could not think of any other way to escape jail sentence than to fake his age.
Shepherd Moyo of Mapindani Village, Chief Tshovani in Chiredzi, amused people at the court when he boldly told the court that he was only 14-years-old when Regional Magistrate Judith Zuyu was about to deliver sentence.
Moyo told the court that he was only fourteen years and had no birth certificate or a national identity card.
The court was later adjourned in a bid to wait for Moyo’s dental medical tests to identify the latter’s age.
The court sentenced Moyo to 15 years imprisonment after the tests showed that he was 21 years old but he will serve an effective 12 years imprisonment after three years were suspended on condition of good behaviour.
The court heard that on April 10 this year, Moyo’s female neighbour confronted that Moyo’s herd had got into his maize filed and destroyed some crops.
The court also heard that during the confrontation, Moyo attacked the woman with stones before driving his cattle away.
The next day the cattle escaped back to the field and grazed more maize crop and the complainant drove the cattle to Moyo who was hiding a few metres from the fields.
He then went to meet the woman whom he then grabbed and took down the stream where he raped her.
Moreblessing Rusere prosecuted.local

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Cephas Shava

CHIREDZI – A 23-year old man is languishing in custody while his father and three brothers were on the run after a massive police drug bust recovered dagga weighing many kilogrammes.
Ishmael Mlambo was apprehended by Chiredzi detective inspector Victor Chinone after a tip off over unlawful dealing of dangerous drugs.
Mlambo, of house number 1647 B Molly Road, Tshovani Township was remanded in custody after submissions for bail made by defence lawyer Charles Vhudzi of Zimbodza and Associates was turned down by Chiredzi Magistrate Geraldine Mutsoto.
The magistrate pointed to recurring fears that Mlambo posed a flight risk as his brothers were still at large and that Ishmael had tried to evade arrest before the police finally managed to apprehend him.
The State represented by Doubt Phiri alleged that on the May 5, the accused person together with his accomplices namely Daniel, Trust and Simbarashe Mlambo had in their possession a blue 20 litre drum with 10 taxi bags containing dagga and a large blue trunk with one taxi bag also containing dagga.
The total weight of all the confiscated dagga was 20 kg.
Ishmael was arrested after the police received a tip off that they were receiving dagga from a supplier who was yet to be named.
The supplier was alleged to be their father who was not named in court but the deal went sour when police ambushed them, arresting Ishmael while the others managed to flee.
Ishmael, who was not asked to plead, was remanded to the May 24 for continuation of trial.
In Mwenezi, Tapera Zhou was sentenced to 10 months behind bars or alternatively 350 hours of community service in addition of paying a US$2 000 restitution after he was convicted of poaching a nyala.
Zhou, of Umbono village under Chief Chitanga, pleaded guilty to charges of killing the nyala when he appeared before Magistrate Honest Musiwa.
Prosecutor Willard Chasi said on April 28, 2017, Zhou, an ex-employee of Zimbabwe Bio Energy (ZBE) and his accomplice, Bernard Mangezi, who was still at large, went to ZBE game ranch, set wire snares and caught a one male nyala.
His wife later told TellZim News that the family was on hard times because ZBE owed her husband US$900 in unpaid wages and that he had tried for a long time to get the money but with no success.local