HARARE – A Kuwadzana man will spend the next 15 years in jail for raping an eight-year-old girl. Takunda Handina, 30, was sentenced to 18 years in jail by Harare magistrate Sandra Mpindu after being convicted of raping a minor. Three years were suspended on condition Handina does not commit an offence of a sexual…
HARARE – An emotionally charged gardener thoroughly bashed his employer after he caught him being intimate with his wife. Martin Sibindi was allegedly caught pants down with Farai Vheremu’s wife in his office. Vheremu, who is employed by Sibindi as a gardener, told magistrate Tafadzwa Muvhami that he suspected that something was going on between…
HARARE – Controversial businessman, Kamal Khalfan is engaged in a bitter contest with his compatriot Thamer Al Shanfari over a German national who wanted to invest in the country but is now caught up in a gay storm. A series of e-mails seen by the Daily News purportedly exchanged between Khalfan and Dietrich Herzog, a…
HARARE – Rising poverty has triggered an increase in deaths in Zimbabwe, according to Zimbabwe Economic Policy Analysis and Research Unit (Zeparu). Zeparu’s research papers are the first documented evidence on the impact of the economy on health, compiling facts over almost three decades. University of Zimbabwe lecturer Albert Makochekanwa, in a paper titled The…
HARARE – A Harare man has accused his pregnant wife of bed-hopping, alleging some of his spouse’s boyfriends were claiming paternity for her pregnancy. Gwemende Mugove hauled his wife Nomatter Shoko before the Harare Civil Court denying responsibility for her pregnancy. Mugove told magistrate Tafadzwa Muvhami that his wife assaults him and was obsessed with…
HARARE – Very few people associate herbs with the Catholic church, let alone nuns. But Sister Yullita Chirawu, 55, of the Little Children of our Blessed Lady (LCBL) has managed to bring herbal medicicnes into the church — through the front door. Despite initial uneasiness on the use of herbal medicines, resistance quickly melted and…
HARARE – Parastatals, long a drain on the fiscus, seem to be getting away with daylight robbery. Hardly a day goes by without a story on parastatal bosses paying themselves salaries which are out of this world. Over the past weeks, obscene salaries earned by some parastatal fat cats have been exposed. Where is the…
LONDON – In recent weeks, we have, with outrage, learnt of the salaries of chief executives of some of our state enterprises. Disturbingly, the salaries seem incommensurable with performances of the institutions they run. ZBC chief executive Happison Muchechetere earns a total of $40 000. Cuthbert Dube, PSMAS group chief executive, earns a basic monthly…
EDITOR — I wonder why the government seem to be taking a laid back approach to these insensitive salaries that are being earned by chief executive officers in parastals. Why cant our incompetent government institute a thorough audit of all the parastatals and ministries and get to the bottom of these endless salary scams. The…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s mining royalties slumped by 45 percent to $133,7 million against a target of $245 million in the full year to December 2013, casting further doubt on the country’s 2014 economic projections. Sternford Moyo, the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) chairperson said the decline in mining royalties was due to challenges faced by government…
