HARARE – Three men accused of petrol bombing Zimbabwe envoy to Botswana Thomas Mandigora’s Highfield house have been freed. Harare magistrate Donald Ndirowei released Boroma Kwedyo, 57, Marlon Tunga Chibwana, 27, and Miseck Njumbani on January 2, after the State failed to furnish the court with a trial date. “The State has failed to provide…
BULAWAYO – Two brothers from Makokoba suburb who teamed up to stone police officers have appeared in court facing charges of assaulting or resisting a peace officer. Nqobizitha Siziba, 31 and Reason Siziba, 22 were not asked to plead when they appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Witness Takundwa Mtetwa. They were remanded out of custody on…
HARARE – A Northcort Training Institute teacher allegedly raped a Form 3 student before offering $20 to silence her. Trustmore Machona, 29, appeared before Harare magistrate Hosea Mujaya, facing rape charges. During trial, the 15-year-old girl said she did not divulge the ordeal to anyone because Machona had threatened to have her expelled from the…
HARARE – Harare regional magistrate Hosea Mujaya will today deliver judgment in Independent End Times Message founder Robert Martin Gumbura’s case in which he is facing multiple rape charges. Prosecutor Jonathan Murombedzi closed the State’s case on December 20 last year, after leading evidence from 12 witnesses. Gumbura, who has 11 wives and 30 children, …
CAIRO – Egypt’s deposed President Mohammed Morsi has arrived at a court compound in Cairo amid tight security for the resumption of his trial, reports say. Mr Morsi and 14 other Muslim Brotherhood figures are accused of inciting the killing of protesters outside the presidential palace in December 2012. He was removed by the army…
HARARE – Government is soon expected to announce two winning bids of the 100 megawatts (MW) solar projects tender aimed at improving power supply in the country, businessdaily has established. The winners were due to be announced in July 2013 by the then Energy minister Elton Mangoma but the pronouncement was later postponed. The tender…
HARARE – Australia-based miner TPL Corporation (TPL) has been granted approval by the Zimbabwe Investment Authority (Zia) to acquire a 70 percent stake in African Chrome Fields Limited (ACFL). ACFL owns high-grade alluvial chrome deposits and a defunct processing plant located along the mineral-rich Great Dyke in Zimbabwe. TPL intends to restart ACFL’s processing plant…
HARARE – Foreign investors’ fears and discomforts will not subside despite government’s move to clarify its indigenisation policy, listed ZB Financial Holdings Limited ZBFH) says. While presenting the 2014 National Budget, Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa went out of his way to explain how the empowerment policy would be implemented and insisted that there was not…
HARARE – Toronto Stock Exchange-listed Caledonia Mining Corporation (Caledonia) has declared a $0,015 dividend per share for its first quarter to December 2013. This comes as the southern Africa-focused miner recently announced that it would be declaring dividends on a quarterly basis. Caledonia’s primary asset is Gwanda-based gold miner, Blanket Mine, in which it holds…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) — a subsidiary of power utility Zesa Holdings — says the country could save up to $115 million annually through efficient power demand side management. Demand side management is the planning, implementation and monitoring of programmes and activities carried out by the national power utility to…
