June 2013

POLICE in Harare have raised alarm over sharply rising cases of domestic violence blaming sanctions for the escalating scourge. Addressing thousands of Epworth residents at a community policing campaign programme last weekend, Clemence Munoriarwa, officer commanding Harare, said “innocent children” are suffering due to domestic violence. He said five cases of domestic violence were recorded…

A HARARE woman who duped countless investors of $1 million in an interest-generating, Ponzi scheme has been hauled before the courts facing fraud charges. Wendie Matizanadzo, 38, was not asked to plead when she appeared before magistrate Don Ndirowei. The court heard that Matizanadzo, was chairperson of a club which operated as Milestone Rotating Savings…

MAVAMBO/KUSILE/DAWN (MKD) national chairman Wilson Khumbula has walked out of the party to resuscitate Zanu-Ndonga, the Daily News can reveal. Khumbula, who contested the 2002 presidential election as Zanu-Ndonga’s candidate, told the Daily News that the unity pact entered into by MKD and Zanu-Ndonga in 2009 has been terminated because the party has failed to…

TOP Zanu PF officials fell by the wayside, while losers to so-called heavyweights were crying foul yesterday as the party concluded its shambolic primary elections just a day before the nomination court sits. There have been widespread reports of electoral fraud in the primaries and threats of revolt against the party from vanquished candidates who…

ZAPU leader Dumiso Dabengwa says army generals who have threatened to veto the political transition if President Robert Mugabe loses the forthcoming election cannot stand in the way of a popularly-elected government. Recalling the Lancaster House negotiations in 1979, the ex-intelligence supremo said even Rhodesian army commanders including general Peter Walls had vowed not to…