HARARE – The Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) says it collected a total revenue of $28 million in the nine months to January 2013. Frank Chitukutuku, Zinara’s chief executive, yesterday said the revenue surpassed the $20 million collected in the full year of 2011, spurred by computerisation of systems. He said the money excluded 158…
HARARE – Kaizer Chiefs forward Matthew Rusike yesterday declared his allegiance to Zimbabwe after joining the Warriors’ camp for tomorrow’s international friendly with Botswana. The 22-year-year-old midfielder-cum-striker honoured his Warriors call-up after reports emanating from South Africa last week indicated that the Amakhosi star was facing a tough decision as he weighs up whether to…
HARARE – Rising Zimbabwean chess player and one of the country’s most consistent sportsmen, Fide Master Rodwell Makoto, added another trophy to his cabinet when he won the Blairegowire Rapid title in Johannesburg over the weekend. Makoto finished with six points from seven games after winning five games and drawing two. The draws were against…
HARARE – Harare magistrate Tendai Mahwe has dismissed an application for refusal of further remand by a hooker who allegedly connived with two cops to rob a man of $9 000. Mahwe said the matter is “very serious” and will cause pandemonium in society if the accused are released. “This is a serious matter and…
HARARE – Relatives of Monalisa Chinomona, a teenager allegedly killed in cold blood by her boyfriend Pritchard Zimondi, have expressed displeasure at the slow take-off of the murder trial. Dressed in black, Chinomona’s relatives were at the High Court yesterday hoping trial would kick off. Zimondi’s lawyer, Norman Mugiya, said that his client was not…
HARARE – The legal battle between former Zimbabwe football captain Peter Ndlovu and his former employer, Twalumba Holdings, began at the High Court in Harare yesterday. Ndlovu, who is walking with the aid of crutches after a deadly car crash that claimed the life of his brother Adam in December, is demanding $55 000 from…
HARARE – ZABG Bank Limited (ZABG) has approached the National Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Board (Nieeb) for possible funding to help it meet the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)’s first phase minimum capital requirements. The bank — a brainchild of Central Bank governor Gideon Gono — is one of seven, out of 21 banks, that…
CAIRO – The US has urged Egypt to investigate cases of police abuse after a man was stripped and beaten by uniformed officers near the presidential palace. The state department said it was “extremely disturbed” by the dragging of naked Hamada Saber, which was caught on camera, through the streets. Egypt’s culture minister has resigned…
HARARE – A Chitungwiza cop, using inside knowledge, teamed with a friend to rob a vehicle which had been stolen earlier, a Harare magistrate has heard. Mutindi Mutindi, a 35-year-old assistant inspector at St Mary’s Police Station, yesterday appeared before magistrate Tendai Mahwe facing charges of robbing a motor vehicle. The court heard Mutindi and…
HARARE – As reported in this paper today, the National Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Board (Nieeb)’s planned investment into the Zimbabwe Allied Banking Group (ZABG) raises a potential stinker in many ways. For the simple reason that its fund was primarily set up to hold cash from the indigenisation drive for reinvestment in infrastructural and…
