HARARE – 8.9 In the wild, where there is no Constitution in the jungles of the beasts, flora and fauna, even elephants have learnt through convention that they must tolerate and co-exist with the minute species of ants, termites, dung beetles and worms as these play a vital role of balancing the ecosystem on which…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday met with his shadow cabinet and declared they had solutions to turn around the deteriorating Zimbabwean economy. The shadow cabinet discussed the plight of civil servants, who are failing to reach a pay deal with the Zanu PF government. Nelson Chamisa, MDC shadow minister of information and publicity…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission (Zacc) has accused Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke of playing politics in his constitutional application seeking to force the anti-graft body to probe his former boss Gideon Gono over alleged corruption. In the constitutional application filed last month at the Mashonganyika Building, Kereke cited Zacc as the first…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is keeping a skeleton staff at its embassy in South Sudan, as it monitors the volatile situation in the oil-rich East African country. At least 1 000 people have been killed, with some estimates as high as 10 000, and more than 200 000 have been displaced. Oil exports — key to…
HARARE – A 33-year-old Chitungwiza man has been jailed 11 years for raping a mentally-retarded woman. Harare magistrate Aidonia Masawi sentenced Clemence Galau to a 15-year sentence of which four years were suspended on condition he does not commit a sexual offence within five years of his release. The 19-year-old victim has brain damage and…
HARARE – A disgruntled woman yesterday told the court that her husband squanders all his salary with ladies of the night and comes home penniless. Alice Mukono hauled her husband Kenneth Maengahama before the Harare Civil Court claiming an increase in child support. Mukono was seeking an upward variation of $600 from $120 which she…
HARARE – An airtime vendor yesterday offered $10 for each of his four children in child support, against his wife’s demand of $250 per month. Idzai Posvo told magistrate Rekina Dzikiti that her husband, Tapfumaneyi Magurane, who is an airtime vendor realises $600 every month and recently bought two vehicles. She said Magurane left their…
HARARE – Chiefs have threatened to sink the 2014 national budget when it is presented before Parliament next week for approval. The traditional leaders are livid that their budgetary allocation was drastically slashed from $10m to $1m. Fortune Charumbira, president of the Chiefs Council, warned parliamentarians during a post-budget consultative meeting with the portfolio committee…
HARARE – A $700 000 central vaccine storage facility being built at Parirenyatwa Hospital is set to be completed by end of this month, a government official has said. Gerald Gwinji, Health ministry permanent secretary said the vaccine storehouse would significantly increase the country’s capacity for drug preservation and storage. “We are happy with the…
BULAWAYO – Edward Graham Cross, the Bulawayo South Member of Parliament who was arrested for insulting and accusing a staffer at his party’s provincial offices of being a thief, was disappointed yesterday after Magistrate Gladmore Mushove turned down his plea to extend the trial date. Cross told the court that this month he has to…
