HARARE – Tendai Biti, the former Finance minister has gone back to his law roots. The fiery MDC secretary general has launched his law firm, just over five years after quitting Honey and Blackenberg. Biti told the Daily News yesterday that he has with immediate effect resumed practice as a lawyer at his new firm,…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai held a prayer meeting over the weekend, as he sought divine intervention to the country’s problems. The former prime minister held meetings with party structures in the Harare province over the weekend. Posting on his Facebook page, the opposition leader, said: “Had a hectic weekend meeting party structures in…
HARARE – Harare City Council has commissioned five youth-friendly HIV treatment centres. Bernard Manyenyeni, the Harare mayor, said it was imperative that everyone contributes towards alleviating the plight of youths living positively with HIV. “Our desire as Harare is to see our young people grow up happy and healthy,” Manyenyeni said in a speech read…
GABORONE – A Zimbabwean man was shot four times after asking his employer for payment. Gift Ncube, an immigrant working in Botswana, was shot four times, resulting in the breaking of both his arms which had to be amputated. His employer, identified as Keitumetse Khunowu, is said to have lost his temper when Ncube asked…
HARARE – Government is struggling to provide enough food to people facing starvation as the food deficit has reached alarming proportions, a government official said yesterday. Presenting oral evidence before the parliamentary committee on Public Service and Social Welfare, Ngoni Masoka, permanent secretary in the Social Welfare ministry, said 400 000 families were desperately in…
HARARE – Sydney Mhishi, the director of Social Services in the ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare, will today testify in the trial of Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum executive director Abel Chikomo, facing charges of running an “unregistered” organisation. The trial, which commenced last Wednesday after three years of false starts, resumes…
HARARE – Independent End Time Message founder Robert Martin Gumbura has been remanded in custody after appearing before the courts facing rape charges. Gumbura was remanded to December 2 when he appeared before Harare magistrate Donald Ndirowei. He was advised to apply for bail at the High Court. He was first arraigned before the courts…
BULAWAYO – Nkululeko Ndhlovu, suspended MDC administrator for Bulawayo provincial office, has dragged Bulawayo South MP, Edward Graham Cross to court accusing him of insulting and allegedly defaming him by claiming he was a thief. The State alleges that on October 17 at around noon, Ndlovu phoned Cross, 73, at his Burnside home informing him…
BULAWAYO – An Inyathi man who raped and impregnated his 21-year-old ex-wife has been slapped with an effective 15-year jail term. Collen Ncube of Village 14 Kenilworth area appeared before Bulawayo regional magistrate Sikhumbuzo Nyathi. Ncube, who was initially slapped with a 20-year jail term, was convicted on his own plea. He will however, spend…
RUSAPE – Tobacco farmers are decimating the country’s 350 000 hectares of forests, with 20 percent of the forests lost to tobacco curing, the Forestry Commission (FC) has said. “Tobacco is not being grown sustainably but there will come a time in future that if you don’t have a woodlot you won’t be allowed to…
