HARARE – Controversial businessman John Arnold Bredenkamp has been found not guilty of swindling a friend of $4,2 million. High Court Judge Felistas Chatukuta acquitted the tycoon, ruling the State had failed to proffer evidence that would sustain a fraud charge. “It is my conclusion that the accused does not have a case to answer….
HARARE – A Facebook page in the name of Elizabeth Tsvangirai has started soliciting for financial assistance in what the MDC said could be a scam to defraud people in the name of the MDC president’s wife. Luke Tamborinyoka, Morgan Tsvangirai’s spokesperson, said the former prime minister’s wife has nothing to do with that page….
HARARE – Ex-Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) chief executive Henrietta Rushwaya has been acquitted in her Asiagate scandal corruption trial, but association president Cuthbert Dube yesterday insisted she remains banned from all footballing activities. Although the court has freed her on all nine counts of “concealing information” from her employer on the grounds that the State…
HARARE – Confusion reigns supreme over the role of the minister of State responsible for liaising Psychomotor activities in the Education ministry. Even the minister himself, Josiah Hungwe, seems unsure of what his new job entails. Hungwe told the Daily News at State House on Wednesday that his job entails monitoring the education curriculum in…
HARARE – Sekai Tongogara, general manager of investigations in the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has denied that the commission was investigating Attorney General (AG) Johannes Tomana. Tongogara told the court that Emmanuel Chimwanda may have been investigating the AG privately without the knowledge of the commission. Chimwanda is accused of contravening the Official Secrets Act…
HARARE – ZB Life Assurance is embroiled in a messy wrangle with a group of policyholders, who are demanding their premiums back citing misrepresentation on the benefits of the insurance product. The Daily News is in possession of over 50 signed letters to ZB Life, from customers wishing to terminate their policies over disgruntlement on…
ACCRA – The biggest love story from Big Brother Africa the Chase continues from South Africa to Zimbabwe to Ghana, as Pokello arrived in Ghana with Elikem for what is reported to be a two-month stay. After a hearty welcome for Pokello at the Kotoko International Airport on Tuesday, we caught up with the couple…
HARARE – A Zimbabwe National Army officer who married and remarried within the force has dragged her first husband to court on allegations of verbal abuse. Chipo Saruchera, now married to Brigadier General Satu, told the court that her former husband Gift Saruchera was in the habit of insulting and spreading rumours about her at…
HARARE – The last time I wrote a column for the Daily News was before I was promoted to editor of the Daily News On Sunday in 2003…10 years ago. Most people devoted to the unfolding history in their country will remember those days…when there was tension between the media and the government…as there still…
HARARE – PEOPLE with disabilities are often denied equal enjoyment of their rights because of a socially constructed status ascribed to them by tradition and custom. And as a result of overt or covert discrimination, they often face discrimination of the worst kind in areas of education, employment, family and reproductive health. They are often…
