Gibson Chidzanga, a 33-year-old Beitbridge man locked his wife and two children in a room and set it ablaze resulting in the death of his nine-month-old daughter following a dispute with his wife over a text message. 
He has appeared before the courts facing murder charges.
<h2>What happened:</h2>
Prosecutor Mr Pithey Magumula told the court that on 13 December, Gibson Chidzanga arrived at his rented house in the Dulivhadzimu suburb around midnight.
He then stumbled on a text message on his wife’s cellphone which led to a misunderstanding between the two.
Chidzanga threatened to burn the house with his wife and two children inside.
After that, he forced his family into one room and took a gas tank from the kitchen and lit it and fled from the scene.
The tank then burst into a huge fireball which spread across the house and his wife managed to escape with one child.
Efforts to rescue the nine-month-old child were fruitless as the fire raged on, resulting in the toddler being burnt to death.
<h2>Arrest:</h2>
A report was then made to the police resulting in Chidzanga’s arrest the following day.
He was not asked to plead when he appeared before Miss Ania Chimweta at the Beitbridge Magistrate Courts on Friday.
Chidzanga was remanded in custody until 30 December.
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Two men from Beitbridge have been jailed for an effective nine years for robbing a taxi driver they had hired of valuables including a cell phone and a Honda Fit all worth US$4100.
Pardon Chamunorwa (30) and Edson Takwanisa Hardson (29) allegedly robbed the taxi driver of his belongings and the car on October 22 after hiring him for transportation from Dulivhadzimu Suburb to the Beitbridge Border Post.
They were convicted on their own plea of guilty to charges of robbery when they appeared before regional magistrate, Mr Innocent Bepura on Thursday, <a href="https://www.herald.co.zw/duo-jailed-9-years-for-robbing-taxi-driver-of-honda-fit/">The Herald</a> reported.
The two accused persons were left with nine effective years in jail after one year was conditionally set aside for 5 years.
<h2>What happened:</h2>
Mr Claudius Karinga who was representing the State said on October 22 this year at around 3 am, the two men hired the complainant who was driving a black Honda Fit to take them to the border.
He said they agreed on a service fee of R20.
Along the way, Chamunorwa pretended to be talking to someone who was in the low-density suburb and wanted to see both men.
He then asked the taxi driver to divert the route via the low-density suburb and that he would top up the transportation fee.
While in the suburb, when the driver was negotiating an intersection, Hardson who was sitting behind him, strangled the man with a rope on the neck and ordered him to stop the vehicle.
Chamunorwa drew an okapi knife from his pocket and put it on the man’s neck and removed him from the driver’s seat.
Chamunorwa drove the vehicle towards One Independence Barracks, where they dumped the man and went away.
A report was then made to the police who recovered the vehicle in Masvingo at Nyika growth point and arrested the two men following intensive investigations.
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