BULAWAYO – A 22-year-old man has been hauled before the courts here facing allegations of stabbing a passenger on the back. Hebert Tshuma of Emganwini suburb is employed as a conductor by Luck Snare Tours. He is facing attempted murder charges after he stabbed Arthur Banda, of the same suburb for refusing to pay bus…
HARARE – Harare regional magistrate Hosea Mujaya has deferred to December 10 judgment in a case in which Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) commissioner Emmanuel Chimwanda is accused of contravening the Official Secrets Act. Judgment was postponed after the magistrate said his court was currently overwhelmed with other matters. Chimwanda is accused of supplying dockets to…
HARARE – Twenty year-old kombi driver who ran over a war veteran during a police car chase in Harare’s central business district has been charged with culpable homicide. Takesure Musara yesterday appeared for his initial remand before Harare magistrate Arnold Maburo. He pleaded guilty. He will be back in court today for sentence. According to…
HARARE – A 20-year-old Norton man who threatened a taxi operator with a toy pistol in a hijack attempt has appeared in court. Valentine Gengo of Nhowe Phase 1, Norton appeared before Harare magistrate Sandra Mupindu facing attempted robbery charges. The State alleged that on November 29, Gengo approached Clive Tawanda Gwine who was parking…
BULAWAYO – A salesman with a beleaguered Bulawayo company, Marvo Stationery Manufacturers, got the shock of his life after returning from leave to find that he has been demoted to a toilet cleaner. The disgruntled worker Mbonisi Gumbo, 28, told the Daily News that he has been downgraded by his managing director Soul Mashamba as…
HARARE – Zimbabwe will for the first time this week sell its diamonds in Belgium to a wide range of buyers and the country is expected to rake in no less than $37 million. The lifting of sanctions by the European Union on Zimbabwe’s diamond companies is a welcome development as the sale of diamonds…
EDITOR — In their wisdom or lack of it, the number of legislators have been increased from the initial 150 to the present 270 including the Senate. This, in a country with the lowest Gross Domestic Product in the region and yet we have the largest number of legislators feasting off a dead country. These…
EDITOR — The residents of Chitungwiza are anxiously waiting for the publication of a report on findings and recommendations by the Joel Biggie Pasihomusha Matiza -led probe team which was looking at the problems associated with the allocation of residential stands in Chitungwiza and Seke communities. The Local Government, Public Works and National Housing ministry…
HARARE – Parliamentarins yesterday tore into the Sports Recreational Commission (SRC), accusing the country’s supreme sports regulatory body of dragging the sector into a mess. The legislatures overwhelmingly concurred that the SRC – which is appointed by the Minster of Sports to oversee the administration of sports in the country – has failed to take…
HARARE – Dynamos chairman Kenny Mubaiwa says the Zimbabwean champions’ debt of $57 500 for charges of indiscipline is “a plot by the Premier Soccer League bosses to push Dynamos out of the league.” What was expected to be a magical 20th Zimbabwean title has turned into a nightmare as Dynamos could remain with just…
