BY WANDILE TSHUMA

Domestic violence turned deadly when a man killed his wife and later committed suicide.

According to the police, the shocking incident of domestic violence ending in murder and suicide struck in Siantungwana 4 Village, Sikomena, Dobola, on September 16.

The husband, Zibusiso Mhlanga, a 44-year-old man, allegedly attacked his wife, Lydia Mlalazi, 19, with a stone for unknown reasons.

The brutal assault resulted in Lydia’s death upon admission at a local health center in Lusulu.

In a disturbing turn of events, Zibusiso then took his own life by hanging.

The motive behind the attack and subsequent suicide remains unclear.

The Lusulu police are currently investigating the case, attempting to unravel the circumstances surrounding this incident.

BY NOKUTHABA DLAMINI

In a bid to tackle corruption head-on, Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) Commissioner General Regina Chinamasa recently addressed a meeting with VicFallsLive, emphasizing the organization’s zero-tolerance stance on corruption and urging citizens to join the fight.

During the meeting, Chinamasa highlighted the risks of corruption and its far-reaching impact on the economy.

“Given the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority issues, we have the risks coming in the form of corruption and as an authority we’ve got zero tolerance to corruption,” she said.

The meeting provided a platform for Chinamasa to share ZIMRA’s strategy in combating corruption, including awareness-raising among staff members and investigating and prosecuting cases of corruption.

She cited a recent case of a civil servant involved in corruption and fraud, where assets procured through ill-gotten proceeds were identified and are now subject to attachment.

Chinamasa appealed to citizens to resist and report cases of corruption, emphasizing that ZIMRA officers are public servants who are already paid and should not accept bribes.

“My message is to say it takes two to tangle, without an inducement my officers can not be corrupt, so I appeal to the citizens of Zimbabwe not to pay for service provision by ZIMRA because we are public servants and we are already paid, so resist, report cases of corruption, please do not induce bribes to our officers because at the end of the day we have a nation to build.”

BY ZIMLIVE

Zimbabwe’s prison population is too high and authorities are struggling to fulfil their mandate of rehabilitating inmates, an official said on Tuesday.

Appearing before a joint sitting of parliament’s human rights committee and the justice, legal and parliamentary affairs committee, prisons commissioner general Social Ndanga said the current prison population was 22,174 and it sometimes rises up to 24,000.

“Of that figure, 21,401 are males and 772 are females,” he said. “What is very critical for us now is to equip these prisoners, these inmates, so that when they go out of prison, they become law-abiding citizens, and they don’t go back to prison.”

In April this year, over 4,000 inmates were released under a presidential amnesty, one of the methods to decongest the prisons. That mass prisoner release followed a previous one in May 2023 when Mnangagwa issued a clemency order leading to the release of 4,270 prisoners.

nterventions, Ndanga says the country’s 46 prisons remain full