HARARE – A Bindura man has escaped the hangman’s noose after the court found him not guilty of murdering his step grandmother. Lawrence Musanjiko walked free after High Court Judge Joseph Musakwa established that circumstances showed that he was mentally disturbed at the time he allegedly committed the offence. According to State papers, the incident…
HARARE – As the country recently joined the rest of the world in commemorating Global Hand washing Day (GHD), signs of a typhoid outbreak in Harare’s high density suburbs and the onset of Zimbabwe’s rainy season have accentuated fears of diarrhoeal disease epidemic. This also comes as the transmission of such bugs as cholera, shigellosis…
HARARE – The State has said a Ghanaian businessperson at the centre of a $6 million diamond bribery scandal has no right to be heard because he was a fugitive from justice. Kingsley Ghansah, whose appeal was struck off the High Court roll yesterday, is appealing against a five-year jail term he was handed after…
HARARE – Government is inviting prospective diamond cutting and polishing firms to add value to Zimbabwe’s gems before exporting. “Already we have firms with equipment and manpower to undertake that mandate of cutting and polishing, what is left is for government to have a clear policy where those with machinery and expertise are able do…
HARARE – The ease with which President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF party won the July 31 elections was like a dawn where all seems calm, but the storm clouds sit on the horizon. Those elections were won because of two key reasons. The first was because Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) performed appallingly….
HARARE – A Zimbabwe court has sentenced two poachers to at least 11 years in prison each for illegal possession of ivory and two firearms. Hwange magistrate Dambudzo Munati sentenced 54-year-old Isaac Phiri and Johanne Musaka, 31, to 11 years in prison for killing elephants. Caroline Washaya-Moyo, the spokesperson for Zimbabwe’s Parks and Wildlife Management…
HARARE – The Harare City Council has said it will prioritise paying off its water and health debts over its electricity bill. This emerged at a pre-budget consultative meeting with the business community at Town House. According to the 2013 income and expenditure statement, the HCC by September 30 owed Zesa $50,8 million while government…
HARARE – A Harare court will on Friday rule on an application by the Election Resource Centre (ERC) to refer to the Constitutional Court a matter in which it is charged with conducting voter education without the approval of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) ahead of the July 31 vote. Harare Magistrate Tendai Mahwe will…
HARARE – If people had a choice between living a long life and living life to the full, many would prefer a life lived to the full. Global targets and efforts to eradicate poverty and misery continue to be missed century after century. This has raised scepticism among the poor whose only inheritance is the…
HARARE – Food-short peasants have all the reason to smile following a declaration of intent to punish those that abuse a well-intentioned government input assistance programme by deputy minister of Agriculture, David Marapira. For rather too long, little or no action has been taken to penalise either party apparatchiks, village leaders, chiefs or government bureaucrats…
