HARARE – The second draw of the Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ)’s Read and Win Competition was held yesterday at the Daily News head office at Trust Towers in Harare. People from around the country yesterday won exciting prizes that include a Sunpower solar geyser, Simba garden hamper, G Tel smartphone, Midea microwave oven and…
HARARE – A Pastor with Light of the World Ministries International is facing rape charges after he allegedly forced himself on an 18-year-old congregant during a prayer session. Terrence Tenesi, 27, who is in police custody appeared before Harare Magistrate Aidonia Masawi. During trial the woman’s mother said her daughter told her about the incident…
HARARE – Two gun-toting teenagers who allegedly ambushed and shot at six cars in one night have been removed from remand for the second time after State witnesses failed to appear in court to give evidence. Taylor Michael Cameron, 19, and his 17-year-old friend (name withheld), who are facing 10 counts of attempted murder, were…
BULAWAYO – Parents have expressed mixed views to a decision by the ministry of Education to turn down applications by schools for a fee hike this year. Most schools around the country had planned to raise fees despite the volatile economic situation prevailing where civil servants are battling to get a salary increment. The Zanu…
HARARE – The trial of businessman Craig John William Danckwerts, which has sucked in Mashonaland East Zanu PF provincial chairperson Ray Kaukonde, failed to proceed on Thursday, with claims that the tycoon raised concerns with the Prosecutor General’s office. Danckwerts is facing fraud charges, after he allegedly sold 300 hectares of land to another businessman…
BANGUI – Central Africa Republic’s interim President Michel Djotodia has resigned at a regional summit aimed at ending violence that has engulfed the country. CAR’s entire transitional assembly is attending the meeting in Chad organised by regional leaders. Mr Djotodia, CAR’s first Muslim leader, had been resisting pressure to go. His seizure of power last…
HARARE – Joice Mujuru, Zimbabwe’s acting President, said her Zanu PF party’s economic blueprint ZimAsset, is “inhospitable” to youths’ aspirations. Mujuru was addressing a handful of mourners yesterday at the burial of the late retired lieutenant colonel Harold Mtandwa Chirenda at the National Heroes’ Acre in Harare yesterday. Mujurusaid the economic blueprint did not adequately…
MUTARE – A suspected serial rapist yesterday appeared in court in the eastern Zimbabwean city of Mutare on charges of raping and abusing 13 women while posing as a member of the Central Intelligence Organisation, the State secret service. All the 13 women who were allegedly sexually abused by 29-year-old Moses Musara of Dangamvura, were…
HARARE – Independent End Times Message founder Robert Martin Gumbura, facing multiple rape charges, was yesterday furnished with a new judgment date. Harare regional magistrate Hosea Mujaya remanded Gumbura to January 24 for his judgment. The ruling, which was initially pencilled for January 8 but was deferred, following Mujaya’s request for an inspection-in-loco at Gumbura’s…
BULAWAYO – The nine-year primary education model introduced by the government is expensive and unnecessary, parents have said. Government recently introduced a new and compulsory education system for primary school pupils requiring them to go through nine years of primary school starting from the age of three or four years for model A and five…
