February 2014

HARARE – Outrageous salaries of heads of parastatals unearthed by the media have touched off a storm which has intensified factional fighting within Zanu PF. The fingering of high profile personalities like presidential spokesperson George Charamba in the Public Service Medical Aid Society (Psmas) looting spree has sent chills down the spines of many within…

HARARE – The Attorney General’s office has abandoned its appeal against a High Court judge’s ruling, ordering the freeing of businessman Newman Chiadzwa following allegations of  unlawful possession of diamonds in 2006. The State’s application followed Justice Andrew Mutema’s 2011 decision, setting aside Chiadzwa’s conviction and sentence. The ruling also quashed criminal proceedings that had…

HARARE – Officials administering the Marange Zimunya Communinty Share Ownership Trust (MZCSOT) have accused Zanu PF politicians of interfering with their work and stalling progress in the implementation of community development projects. Presenting oral evidence to a parliamentary portfolio committee on Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment yesterday, MZCSOT chairperson Chief Gilbert Marange said the trust…

HARARE – Police have banned an anti-corruption march organised by civil society leaders.  Okay Machisa, Zim Rights chief, said the police outlawed the march over unclear reasons. “We wrote a letter to the police two weeks ago seeking permission to conduct a peaceful march against unbecoming levels of corruption in Zimbabwe and we were asked…

MASVINGO – A man who had hauled a local public prosecutor and a police officer before the courts for demanding bribes from him after he was arrested on domestic violence charges is now the accused. Nyasha Kwashira is in police custody after he was arrested on charges of giving false information to the police and…

BULAWAYO – A woman who was last year dragged to the maintenance court by her estranged husband claiming $200 maintenance fee for the upkeep of their three children is back in the dock after she was nabbed for defaulting. Charity Chitsa, 30, appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Abednico Ndebele facing charges of failing to comply with…

HARARE – A woman yesterday told a Harare court that her husband was in the habit of assaulting her whenever he comes back after seeing his girlfriend. Beauty Nyamugonda alleges that her husband, Clever Chiganda, who has a girlfriend, verbally and physically abuses her all the time. Nyamugonda dragged Chiganda before the Harare Civil Court…

BULAWAYO – A Fort Rixon man, who allegedly killed his wife’s lover after he caught the two romping in his matrimonial bed, has been remanded in custody to February 24 by Bulawayo magistrate Gladmore Mushowe. Fanuel Ncube, 37, of Pioneer Village, Fort Rixon was not asked to plead. Prosecutor Tafadzwa Mutsambwa told the court that…