HARARE – MDC chief elections officer Morgen Komichi’s sentence will not be altered after a High Court judge dismissed the State’s application seeking pardon for late filing of appeal papers. Justice Felistas Chatukuta dismissed the request on Wednesday, after hearing the matter in her chambers. Komichi’s lawyer, prominent human rights lawyer Alec Muchadehama, confirmed to…
HARARE – Two women on death row have approached the Constitutional Court seeking the enforcement of provisions of the new Constitution that spares women from the death sentence. Death-row inmates Rosemary Margaret Khumalo and Shylet Sibanda want the death sentences imposed on them set aside and substituted with appropriate sentences in light of the new…
HARARE – A divorced woman has been visiting her ex-husband begging him to make love to her, a Harare court heard yesterday. Ellen Mudzingwa reportedly goes to her ex-husband, Smart Muzenda asking him to bed her but the two have been separated for four years. Muzenda, who was dragged before the Harare Civil Court for…
HARARE – Zimbabwe won’t achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5, that relates to maternal health, by 2015. This was stated by World Health Organisation (WHO) representative David Okello in Harare on Wednesday. MDG 5’s goal seeks to reduce by three-quarters the maternal mortality rate and achieve universal access to reproductive health. “HIV access is…
HARARE – Legislators have demanded that the entire Premier Service Medical Aid Society (Psmas) board members be booted out to restore confidence amongst subscribers. David Parirenyatwa, the Heath minister, was on Wednesday taken to task by legislators on why the entire board was not sacked. Only Cuthbert Dube, the former chief executive officer of Psmas…
HARARE – A trainee customer service officer with FBC Bank reportedly connived with a bank teller and swindled the Mines ministry of more than $500 000. Nicola Gweshe, 28, who is based at FBC Mutare, and Dionne Kwezani, 27, a bank teller at the bank’s Harare branch, appeared before Harare magistrate Vakayi Chikwekwe facing fraud…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) chief executive Karikoga Kaseke says Canadian rock star Bryan Adams’ tour of Zimbabwe last week could have been “a big tourism opportunity missed.” With the Please forgive me hitmaker jetting into the country hours before his Friday concert at the Harare International Conference (HICC), the tourism boss says the…
HARARE – Harare regional magistrate Hosea Mujaya will today deliver the much-awaited judgment in the case of Independent End Time Message founder Robert Martin Gumbura, who is facing multiple rape charges. The ruling has been postponed twice before, following Mujaya’s request to inspect the controversial pastor’s home on January 8. He also deferred the matter…
HARARE – A prominent local football supporters association has called on Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) president Cuthbert Dube to resign from his post and “save what is left of his dignity”, the body’s leadership said yesterday. The Zimbabwe National Soccer Supporters Association (ZNSSA) says it has positioned the country’s supreme sports regulatory body, the Sports…
LONDON – More than 60 Zimbabwean players have been banned over the “Asiagate” match-fixing scandal without a fair legal hearing, the world soccer players’ union FIFPro said on Wednesday. The players were banned by the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) in 2012 after it ruled that matches played by the national team in Asia in 2007…
