BULAWAYO – A Gwanda man was on Friday jailed six months by a Gwanda Magistrate for insulting President Robert Mugabe. Clemence Zikhali — an artisan at Colleen Bawn Cement factory — was slapped with a six-month jail term by magistrate Sheila Nazombe for using obscene language against Mugabe’s private parts. Zikhali, who was drinking beer…
VICTORIA – Zimbabwe has proved a reliable partner in the run-up to the August United Nations World Tourism to the Organisation (UNWTO) conference, a Zambian minister has said. The two southern African neighbours will jointly host the global tourism organisation’s conference this year. Keith Mukata, Zambia’s deputy minister of Tourism and Arts, who is leading…
HARARE – Dynamos will face their final vital test of their preparedness for this year’s edition of the African Champions League when they clash against Highlanders in Bob 89 Super Cup first leg this afternoon at Barbourfields Stadium. The second leg will be held at Rufaro Stadium in two weeks time. It is never an…
HARARE – In Zimbabwe, people know that either elections are in the offing or that a lot is at stake in the marketplace by simply observing the number and quality of alleged surveys being churned out by so-called research or monitoring organisations. The naked aim of many of these unashamedly partisan, so-called surveys is almost…
HARARE – Police yesterday questioned businessman cum musician Energy Mutodi over a long-running housing scam, at a time his estranged wife dragged him to court over child support. His wife Tariro Chirende exposed him as an abusive man and filed a protection order against him in the Civil Court. Mutodi accuses the wife of cheating…
HARARE – Two immigration officials who stole cash and property worth $40 000 from a suspected human trafficker after threatening him with deportation have each been slapped with a five-year jail term. Godfrey Kondo, 42, and Fenia Aisam, 53, will however, spend two years behind bars each after magistrate Olivia Mariga suspended a year on…
HARARE – Condoms are subsidised and this should also apply to sanitary wear, this is the new war cry by Zimbabwe’s poverty-stricken young girls. Struggling with high sanitary wear prices, many girls are faced with questions like ‘‘Should I miss school? Do I stay at home?’ These are choices no girl should have to make….
HARARE – A lawyer representing a murder suspect says he is receiving death threats from relatives of the victim. Norman Mugiya is representing Pritchard Zimondi, who is accused of murdering his 19-year-old girlfriend Monalisa Chinomona. Mugiya has since written to the Attorney General seeking protection. “The writer (Mugiya) was threatened with death by the relatives…
HARARE – A truck which delivered toxic sodium cyanide to Morton Jaffray Water Works in Harare belonged to the late Vice President John Nkomo, a top cop said yesterday. Crispen Makedenge, a police chief superintendent, told a Harare magistrate during the trial of Farai Muchenje, Simon Demhe, Appronalise Mupakaviri and Tiki Tarwirei — who…
HARARE – As divisions continue to rock civil society, Zimrights director Okay Machisa has blasted his colleagues whom he said celebrated when he was jailed for two weeks. Machisa, who is fresh from a remand prison stint, told the Daily News some within the civil society movement are disturbed with the rise of ZimRights in…
