HARARE – Zanu PF bigwig, Tendai Savanhu, has been ordered to stop interfering with the running of Hwange Colliery Company Limited (Hwange). In his ruling delivered on July 26, High Court judge Joseph Mafusire said the dispute was “convoluted and the issues multi-faceted”. “Tendai Savanhu is hereby interdicted and restrained from holding himself out to…
HARARE – Zimbabwe police vowed to crack down on any attempts to leak early results from Wednesday’s vote, complicating plans by some civic groups to pre-empt official announcements by the country’s election commission. The move means it could be hours before the first officially collated results trickle in from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), although…
JOHANNESBURG – The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) will not be moved from its policy of land grabs, leader Julius Malema said yesterday. “Anyone who resists the surrender of land will meet (with) the determination of the people,” he said in Johannesburg, at a briefing about the outcomes of the EFF’s recent national assembly. Reiterating the…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) as part of its comprehensive effort to observe the 2013 harmonised elections deployed over 7 000 observers to every province and constituency in the country. Generally, the environment was relatively calm and peaceful. Based on the empirical reports from our observers, regardless of the outcome, the credibility…
HARARE – Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (Caaz) has dragged the director of a cleaning service company to court on allegations of using fake documents to win a contract from the State Procurement Board (SPB). Venah Kufakunesu, the director of Sterile System Hygienic Services (Pvt) Ltd is standing trial on fraud charges. When she appeared…
HARARE – A veteran Zimbabwean opposition leader called on Thursday for a campaign to bring the country to a halt, after a disputed election that has seen President Robert Mugabe’s allies claim victory. “There needs to be resistance against this theft and the people of Zimbabwe need to speak out strongly,” the Movement for Democratic…
HARARE – Aaron Muzungu, spokesperson for Job Sikhala’s MDC-99, has been jailed for an effective five years after being found guilty of stealing a car from a Croco Holdings vehicle launch. Muzungu, 39, had been slapped with eight years in jail but three years were suspended on condition that he does not commit a similar…
HARARE – A Hight Court judge has denied bail to a Macheke man who allegedly murdered his girlfriend before trying to cover up the heinous offence as a suicide. Justice Hlekani Mwayera ruled that Alex Sinyanga was not a suitable candidate for bail, after prosecutor Public Mpofu, opposing bail, said the accused was facing a…
HARARE – Elliot Pfebve, MDC parliamentary candidate for Bindura North, is demanding $70 million in torture damages awarded by a United States court against President Robert Mugabe. Pfebve said his lawyers in the US were pursuing the damages suit with Mugabe after a default judgment was handed down when the now 89-year-old leader failed to…
HARARE – After the historic vote on Wednesday, we are calling for calm as voters anxiously await the result, amid concerns about vote rigging. The counting, collating and announcement of votes is now being carried out and the largely peaceful voting process has given way to uncertainty as everyone waits nervously for the final results….
