HARARE – A year after Nyanga MDC activists including national spokesperson Douglas Mwonzora were held incommunicado in police custody and tortured, a Supreme Court review into whether their rights were violated during the detention opened at the Supreme Court on Thursday. Mwonzora, who is MP for Nyanga North, was present in the court in a…
HARARE – A Harare man who raped his deceased elder brother’s 22-year-old daughter was jailed for 33 years at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts yesterday. Gilbert Jacob, 29, who was facing three counts of rape, was found guilty on all counts by magistrate Sandra Mpindu. Eight years were suspended on condition that Jacob does not commit…
HARARE – The US embassy in Harare has denied ZBC News chief correspondent Reuben Barwe a visa to travel to the 67th session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly currently underway at the UN Headquarters in New York. Zimbabwe has reacted angrily to the invocation of the travel ban against Barwe and accused…
HARARE – Masimba Dinyero does not regret risking everything for the famous Dynamos team that reached the African Champions League final for the first and only time in 1998. Dinyero featured in that DeMbare side which braved the hostile conditions in Ivory Coast to put up a spirited fight against Asec Mimosas in the second…
HARARE – Padenga Holdings Limited (Padenga) has acquired a 50 percent stake in United States alligator business, Lone Star Africa Farms (LSAF), as the local company seeks to grow operations. The other 50 percent in LSAF is equally divided between Redell Enterprise and an individual Jorge Hernandez. Oliver Kamundimu, Padenga chief financial officer, told a…
HARARE – Contracting firms say government should restore investors’ confidence and meet conditions of soon after 1980 when the country gained its independence, in order to address challenges bedevilling the construction sector. Presenting a paper at the ZimBuild Summit, Zimbabwe Building Contractors Association representative Oliver Chidawu said corporates had failed to maintain a growth in…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe seems to enjoy taking people for granted and in the latest case, he is dithering on swearing in MDC’s Morgan Komichi as the deputy minister of Transport and Infrastructure Development. Komichi has been seconded by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to replace Tichaona Mudzingwa who passed away in April. Mugabe has…
HARARE – AmaZulu skipper Tapuwa Kapini is putting on a brave face despite the possibility of not playing again this year. Kapini — who has been a font of inspiration since his arrival at the struggling Durban club last year — went under the knife last week to repair ligaments in his ankle following a…
BULAWAYO – Hundreds of Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union (ZCTU) members on Thursday staged street demonstrations in Bulawayo against the torture of union leaders by police. The trade union members defied a police ban and marched through the streets without police clearance. “We applied for permission from the police to commemorate the brutal attack of…
JOHANNESBURG – The entry of the biggest pay-per-view channel SuperSport into Zimbabwe’s Premier Soccer League market should usher in a new era and change the entire complexion of the game. Not only will the beaming of the game take the sport to all corners of the country but will completely change the way the game…
