HARARE – A Zimbabwean banker who vanished without trace in Philadelphia, United States, last December has turned up dead. David Taundi’s car was found at an accident scene at the 5 200 block of Henry Avenue, just west of Philadelphia University, on Saturday, December 15, but he was nowhere to be seen. A body of…
HARARE – Police claim President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF party has been infiltrated by civil society organisations which are funnelling secret information from the party to Western nations. Charity Charamba, the police spokesperson, said after a “lawful” raid at Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP), it emerged that the organisation, through observers deployed countrywide, had infiltrated Zanu…
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has rejected President Robert Mugabe’s plan to appoint the new Zimbabwe Election Commission (Zec) chairperson Justice Rita Makarau in an acting capacity. Makarau takes over the Zec position that was left vacant after the retirement of Namibia-based High Court judge Simpson Mutambanengwe. Mugabe’s top negotiator Patrick Chinamasa, the minister…
HARARE – Zimbabwe cricket captain Brendan Taylor says the omission of West Indies captain Darren Sammy and all-rounder Chris Gayle from the hosts’ ODI squad will not necessarily weaken the hosts. Taylor flew out to the Caribbean yesterday days after returning home from the Bangladesh Premier League for a mandatory fitness test in Harare. The…
HARARE – Simpson Mutambanengwe, the ex-Zimbabwe Electoral Commission chairperson insists he quit his job because his ailing health did not give him enough strength to spearhead the forthcoming watershed election, even though he is not abdicating from his Namibia judicial duties. Mutambanengwe had headed the electoral commission since 2010 when he was appointed as a…
HARARE – A High Court judge has denied bail to five MDC members who are part of 31 activists accused of murdering a police officer. They have been in remand prison for more than a year and were making a fresh bail application, which was turned down by Judge Chinembiri Bhunu. The other activists are…
HARARE – Zanu PF national chairperson Simon Khaya-Moyo has agreed to give his ex-wife, whom he accused of cheating, a huge payout which includes a farm. The divorce was finalised yesterday before High Court judge Ben Hlatshwayo. Moyo, a man of modest means going by the assets listed in court papers, sensationally claimed in the…
HARARE – Blade Runner Oscar Pistorius was heard “non-stop” arguing with his model girlfriend on the night that he shot her dead, it was claimed yesterday. Pistorius’s claims that he shot Reeva Steenkamp after mistaking her for a burglar has come under intense scrutiny during the 26-year-old’s bail hearing yesterday. In a dramatic morning of…
HARARE – Tourism minister Walter Mzembi has denied writing letters to former Zifa chief executive Henrietta Rushwaya authorising some of the Warriors’ controversial trips to the Far East in 2009, where several invitational matches were fixed by an Asian betting syndicate. Mzembi told the Chitungwiza Magistrates’ Court yesterday during the on-going trial of Rushwaya that…
HARARE – Delan Nyandoro, the general manager of a healthcare organisation, allegedly showed his subordinate a pornographic video in bid to win her affection. But the 36-year-old Nyandoro’s advances ended disastrously yesterday when the Premier Optometry general manager was hauled before the courts facing charges of possessing pornographic material and criminal insult. The manager allegedly…
