MBAZIMA Makhubele’s relatives made a shocking discovery when they insisted on viewing his body. They found the 49-year-old’s 4-5 and his intestines were missing! It was also apparent that the soft flesh from his inner thigs had been sliced off with a sharp object. The family from Blinkwater, outside Giyani in Limpopo, was forced to cancel his funeral. Mbazima died last Saturday...

DISTURBING reports have surfaced from some remote parts of Mbire district in Mashonaland Central, in Zimbabwe where some fathers are allegedly raping their daughters and forcing them into incestuous relationships which they believe guarantees them a bumper crop harvest. This came to light following increased cases of rape presented at the chiefs’ courts and also of young girls turning up...

There are reports that an unnamed prophet has introduced a special way for his congregants to melt away their life’s problems. The method, called “Melt Away Your Problems”, involves congregants placing lighted candles on their heads and freeze in pain as the hot candle wax rolls down on their heads and face. The pastor is also reportedly telling his followers...

A suspected case of witchcraft has befallen a family in Mpopoma suburb in Bulawayo when they woke up on Tuesday morning to find a guinea fowl dumped in a pool of blood in their backyard. The guinea fowl was dressed in red and black beads, and was resting in a pool of blood and covered with a two-in-one blanket. The bizarre...

An 18 year-old man from Chibuku village under Chief Nhema took his three-weeks-old baby and tried to shove her into a boiling three-legged pot but failed because the pot was full of pumpkins and mealies. Masvingo provincial police spokesperson Chief Inspector Charity Mazula confirmed the heinous incident and said the accused was in police custody helping with investigations. “We received a...

Imagine a three-year-old boy ‘falling in love’ and ‘d_ating’ someone’s three-month-old baby girl. And imagine such a boy tying the knot with the ‘love of his life’ on his ninth birthday in an elaborate ‘wedding’ presided over by adults, including parents. Now stop imagining because such a couple, from Uganda’s Baganda and Basoga tribes, is on its ‘honeymoon’ in...

A 58-YEAR- OLD man from Bulawayo who allegedly neglected his daughter and only showed interest in her when it was time for payment of lobola walked out of the ceremony empty handed after his wife assaulted him. According to his wife, Mr Benjamin Mpofu from Nkulumane suburb allegedly neglected his daughter and on the day of his daughter’s lobola payment,...

Nurses and other female support staff at Silikwe Clinic in Matshetsheni, Gwanda North, have reportedly fled their station following attacks, some of them sexual, by suspected goblins. Following the bizarre act, the clinic has since been closed with only the Sister-in-Charge left manning the clinic. In a telephone interview with CITE, ward 1 councillor, Stanford Nkala, under Chief Mzimuni Mbiko Masuku...

A MAN from Bulawayo was found hanging in his bedroom in Cowdray Park suburb, but his family remains with so many unanswered questions after some strangers pulled down the body from where it was hanging. Mthulisi Matshazi, 20, was found hanging on Saturday, 30 minutes after a tenant at his parents’ home last spoke to him as she went to...

A man who was allegedly caught redhanded stealing in a shop at midnight, left the court in stitches after claiming he entered the building to relieve himself. Determined to buy his freedom and deny two counts of unlawful entry and one of theft, Decision Shoko, 22, of Empumalanga suburb in Hwange told Hwange magistrate Portia Mhlanga that his intention was...