BULAWAYO – A 29-year-old Mbembesi murder suspect regained his freedom yesterday when Magistrate Abednigo Ndebele accepted application for his case to be withdrawn. Ncedanani Dhlamini, a neighbourhood watch member who had served 11 months in Khami Maximum Prison was last year arrested for allegedly killing 30-year-old Onia Gumbo, a suspected cattle rustler in Battlefield village….
MASVINGO – Masvingo residents have demanded that the city council here discloses the salary schedule of its top management. This comes amid reports some top council executives were earning as much as $35 000 a month at a time service delivery is collapsing. Masvingo United Residents and Rate Payers Association (Murra) yesterday told the Daily…
HARARE – A placard-waving crowd is expected at parliament today to express its solidarity with embattled Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) president Cuthbert Dube and his contributions to local football. This comes as the retired Premier Service Medical Aid Society chief executive has been embroiled in a pay-scandal at his former employer or workplace. And with…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s High Court has ordered Interfin Securities (Private) Limited (Interfin) to return $3 million-plus worth of Remo Investment Brokers (Private) Limited (Remo) shares, it emerged yesterday. This comes as the parties have been locked in a two-year long dispute and in which the former was accused of disposing of the applicant’s shares —…
HARARE – A Harare man has been jailed for 20 years after being convicted on two counts of robbery. Magistrate Themba Kuwanda sentenced Samuel Tererai Chiodze, 26, to 20 years imprisonment before suspending six years on condition of good behaviour. Prosecutor Sidom Chinzete proved that on April 20 last year at 3 Singleton Avenue Sunridge…
HARARE – Zimbabwe National Editors’ Forum (Zinef) is prepared to challenge the gagging of the media in the Constitutional Court so as to protect the Fourth Estate and general public’s interests. This comes after former Premier Service Medical Aid Society (Psmas) chief executive officer, Cuthbert Dube, gave all media houses an ultimatum to stop publishing…
HARARE – Big Brother Africa 2013 winner Dillish Mathews harbours plans of engaging in property development in Zimbabwe and Namibia. The Namibian beauty, who is in the country to launch the Dillish line of lipstick and lip-gloss being marketed and distributed by a Zimbabwean company called Vault Cosmetics, told the Daily News that business is…
BULAWAYO – American filmmaker Judy Lieff says lack of government funding is the curse of the Zimbabwean movie industry. Lieff, who led a two-day workshop at the Bulawayo Art Gallery last week with the help of fellow American filmmaker Claire Aguilar, is convinced that the desire by local producers to make quality movies is being…
GWERU – Gweru-based sculptor Forbes Mushipe is confident that he will win a third consecutive National Arts Merit Awards (Nama) gong on Saturday and cement his position as Zimbabwe’s leading mixed media work artist. Mushipe’s artistic creation called Nhapwasikana, that captures the struggles of the girl-child in a male-dominated world, has put the Gweru artist…
HARARE – From as early as she can remember, Mariah Myambo (not her real name), 16, had dreams to pursue her education, attain a degree, get a decent job and be happily married to someone she loved. But the death of her parents in 2011 threw her life off balance. She was emotionally adrift in…
