MUTARE – Two guns used in the $125 000 heist of a Fawcett Cash-In-Transit vehicle have been recovered near the crime scene, with three security guards still held by police. Police say the three are still in custody assisting with investigations. Andy Laind, Fawcett managing director, shot down suggestions that his security was compromised. “It…
HARARE – A Harare woman dragged her cousin brother before a Harare Civil Court claiming maintenance for their child. Martha Pasipamire told Harare magistrate Milton Serima that her cousin Livingstone Gahadza raped her sometime back when they were at a funeral and the two had a child together. “He raped me. We had sexual intercourse…
HARARE – Eight women linked to Independent End Time Message founder Robert Martin Gumbura have appeared before a Harare magistrate accused of contravening the Censorship and Entertainment Control Act, after being found in possession of several pornographic materials. Harare magistrate Babra Mateko released the eight, Choice Neganye, 32, Amadeus Mutakwa, 32, Rutendo Sekai Mandiya, 28,…
HARARE – An accountant who robbed a car at knifepoint, before he was nabbed while ferrying passengers in Chitungwiza, has been jailed for eight years by Harare regional magistrate Aidonia Masawi. The 27-year-old Stephen Runyararo Nyapokoto pleaded guilty to robbing Lloyd Paza of his Toyota Fun Cargo. His sentence was reduced to five years, after…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF is on track to raise $3 million towards holding its 14th Annual National People’s Conference, with Manicaland Province scheduled to hold a massive fund-raising dinner on Friday. The dinner will be held at the upmarket Golden Peacock Hotel in Mutare. Supa Mandiwanzira, Zanu PF’s Manicaland provincial spokesperson, said,…
BULAWAYO – Government has set up a project which seeks to provide a cheaper way for women and youths in Bulawayo to obtain drivers’ licences. Women will pay an affordable amount of $5 instead of $20 for their provisional licences and the ministry of Youth Empowerment and Indigenisation will liaise with different driving schools in…
BEITBRIDGE – The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (Fao) and UKAid have began a programme to save more than half-a-million units of livestock in Matabeleland South province, reeling from a severe drought. Matabeleland South province traditionally holds the bulk of the country’s cattle, but consecutive droughts have drastically reduced the herd to alarming levels,…
HARARE – Temba Mliswa, the newly-elected Zanu PF chairperson for Mashonaland West, says his election was preordained by God in spite of what he called “persecution” by fellow comrades opposed to his leadership. Likening himself to the biblical David, Mliswa told the Daily News yesterday that the hotly-contested elections in which he triumphed over, among…
HARARE – The electoral irregularities witnessed in the just-ended Zanu PF provincial elections are a replica of what the nation experienced during the July 31 harmonised elections, analysts said yesterday. Zanu PF, which had suffered a crushing defeat to the opposition in the 2008 vote, turned the tide in 2013 polls, cruising to a landslide…
HARARE – A successful life or career is measured by the amount of enemies or the controversies that one is associated with. In fact it remains a paradox that the few successful among us are men and women who court societal controversy the most, but they are not deviants. The man they call Gideon Gono…
