HARARE – Zimbabwean war veterans — often seen as rowdy and President Robert Mugabe’s shock troopers in any election — have demanded $1 billion in fresh gratuities and diamond mining claims in Marange, it emerged yesterday. In a shock appeal before Parliament’s Defence and Home Affairs committee on Monday, the ex-combatants’ representatives Shadreck Makombe and…
HARARE – Four suspected Zanu PF activists are set to stand trial today at the High Court for allegedly murdering “a political sell-out” during the 2008 bloody presidential election run-off. Nobert Muzhingi, Thabani Mashonganyika, Sikhumbuzo Madhuveko and Mangisi Mutandavari are all facing murder charges. A suspected accomplice, Stabiliser Kadafi is still on the run. The…
HARARE – A psychiatrist has told the court that a 10-year-old deaf boy who was allegedly sodomised by a bank manager was mentally affected and is now making sexual advances to fellow pupils. Dickson Chibanda, a Harare Hospital Psychiatrist said this yesterday, during the trial of George Wekwete, 38, an NMB bank manager who allegedly…
HARARE – Mozambique Electoral Commission president Joao Leopoldo da Costa believes Zimbabwe has the potential to hold credible, free and fair elections this year if the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) works to get the confidence of all stakeholders. Presenting a paper on elections and conflict at a Harare workshop organised by Zec yesterday, da Costa…
HARARE – We all know where we were when we heard the news. Cast your minds back to judges’ houses of the X Factor UK 2010, and the moment Cheryl Cole sent the entire world into meltdown as she told Gamu Nhengu she wasn’t going through to live shows. Yup, cue Gamugate and everyone going…
HARARE – Zanu PF suspected Chipangano leader Jim Kunaka, has elbowed politburo member Tendai Savanhu from the Mbare Constituency where the former ruling party is already sensing victory. Zanu PF has rolled out a plot, not only in Mbare but, in all urban settings across the country, where party functionaries are forcing people to register…
HARARE – A Harare man who allegedly raped his neighbour’s teenage daughter while her parents were away has appeared in court. Thomas Chaunoita, 23, allegedly raped the 19-year-old girl in the bathroom as she tried to run away from him. Chaunoita last week appeared before magistrate Tendai Mahwe on rape charges. The court heard in…
HARARE – Dynamos coach Calisto Pasuwa warned his side are not yet through to the African Champions League first-round despite beating Lesotho Correctional Services 3-0 in the first leg of the preliminary round. A goal each from Tawanda Muparati, Partson Jaure and Boban Zirintusa secured a convincing win at Rufaro Stadium yesterday but Pasuwa insists…
PRETORIA – Newspapers report new details of the case citing ‘sources close to the investigation’, although police deny leaking information. The mystery over South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius’s role in the killing of the model Reeva Steenkamp has deepened amid a series of claims and counter-claims about what happened at his home in Pretoria last…
HARARE – New regulations making it mandatory for oil companies to sell blended petrol will help ease the country’s fuel import bill, the Zimbabwe Energy Council (Zec) says. According to Statutory Instrument (SI) 17 of 2013 published this week, fuel dealers are compelled to blend petrol with five percent of locally-produced ethanol. Zimbabwe spends $45…
