HARARE – University and tertiary colleges’ graduates are increasingly taking up menial jobs amid a sharp rise in the number of students graduating without any hope of securing employment, a survey by the Daily News has revealed. Highly qualified young people are routinely being expected to take on “low-skilled” roles to fill gaps in the…
HARARE – Former deputy prime minister Arthur Mutambara has declined to state his next move following the expiry of the government of national unity. “Why do you want to know what I am doing and where I am?” Mutambara said in a telephone interview last week. “I am a very busy man and I don’t…
HARARE – African intelligence bosses fear that Mozambique’s opposition Renamo could morph into a fully-fledged terrorist outfit similar to Al Shabab in East Africa and Boko Haram in Nigeria. They spoke as the Mozambican army captured another Renamo jungle camp in central Sofala province, tightening a military noose around Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama and his…
HARARE – A House of Mana Church pastor facing two counts of aggravated indecent assault for sodomising his congregant is HIV positive, a Harare magistrate has heard. The complainant, Tendai Tumba, yesterday told the court during Tizora Kaitano’s trial that Silas Chimbumu advised him of the pastor’s health status. “I had visited Kaitano on the…
BULAWAYO – A Stanbic Bank employee in Bulawayo has been hauled before the courts for embezzling bank funds on the pretext that a client who had cancelled his loan application still needed the loan. Lucia Titani Dube, 45, appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Gladmore Mushowe facing fraud charges. She was not asked to plead but was…
HARARE – Government has stayed the demolition of illegal settlements in Harare settling for negotiations with the “pilgrims”. Joel Biggie Matiza, the Local Government deputy minister, yesterday backtracked on earlier threats to clear slums. “You are not going to wake up tomorrow and find our bulldozers here destroying your houses like some papers are saying,”…
HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) hopes to decommission the Pomona dump site by the end of the year, officials have said. Dombo Chibanda, the waste management director, said the dump site, which was opened in 1984, had served its purpose. “What we then did was that about a year or two ago we began…
HARARE – A 21-year-old Budiriro man has been slapped with an effective eight years in prison for theft of two motor vehicles. Harare regional magistrate Simon Rogers Kachambwa sentenced Freeman Mushava to 12 years behind bars, before suspending four years on condition of good behaviour. In passing sentence, Kachambwa considered that Mushava was a first…
HARARE – Three Mt Darwin gold panners have been dragged to the High Court after they allegedly murdered a colleague over a prostitute, before throwing his body in a disused mineshaft. Forbes Chimusoro, Gift Dzvuke and Nomore Chemambo are facing murder charges for allegedly assaulting Fides Namichila to death. According to court papers, the incident…
HARARE – High Court judge Felistas Chatukuta has released eight suspected robbers, who allegedly worked with the late Boris Mushonga. Tatenda Tavhira, 23, Lazarus Jimu, 23, Maxwell Mushongera, 22, Chamunorwa Machingauta, 27, Rodney Akende, 37, Rodwell Undi, 33, Bernard Kaitano, 31, and Mugove Chikukwe, 25, were each released on $50 bail. They had approached the…
