BULAWAYO – A 20-year-old Bulawayo tout, who is in custody for fatally stabbing a fellow tout, Simon Nyathi, with a pair of scissors during a fight over less than a dollar payment for loading passengers onto a commuter omnibus may be sentenced on February 13. Chemist Sakala was yesterday hauled before magistrate Gladmore Mushove where…
HARARE – The trial of two Zanu PF members accused of fatally assaulting an MDC activist in a politically-motivated attack in Mudzi has begun at the High Court. David Chimukoko, a Zanu PF councillor in Mudzi, and Graciano Kazingizi’s trial opened yesterday before High Court Judge Joseph Musakwa, with the duo denying the allegations. The…
HARARE – Agricultural and Rural Development Authority (Arda) has appealed against a Labour Court ruling ordering the firm to reinstate its 451 retrenched workers. The workers were employed by Arda in Middle Sabi and Chisumbanje estates, before the company courted an investor called Macdom and Rating Investments (Pvt) Ltd, which took over the running of…
MASVINGO – The High Court has expressed concern over the backlog in murder cases here, saying it is failing to complete murder trials during the three court circuits every year. Officially opening the 2014 legal year at Masvingo Magistrate Court yesterday, Justice Susan Mavangira bemoaned the increase in murder cases in the province and blamed…
HARARE – A disgruntled woman yesterday told the court that her husband, who allegedly infected her with HIV, is now neglecting both herself and his children. Rosemary Kaserera alleges that her husband, Farai Murowa has also violated a protection order she was issued last year and assaults her regularly. Kaserera hauled Murowa before the Harare…
HARARE – A Harare man allegedly sneaks into his cousin brother’s bedroom asking his wife to have sexual intercourse with him whenever his cousin is away. Lloyd Makwara is said to be obsessed with his cousin’s wife, Anne Mugore. Mugore yesterday told magistrate Tafadzwa Muvhami that Makwara always makes sexual advances at her whenever her…
HARARE – Lawyers acting for two alleged love children of Nelson Mandela have asked to be acknowledged by his estate. Attorney Michael Katz, one of two attorneys appointed by the executors of Mandela’s estate to deal with issues around his will, confirmed on Sunday night that he had been contacted on behalf of the families…
HARARE – Has Vice President Joice Mujuru given us a sneak preview of what lies ahead in the event she succeeds President Robert Mugabe? If that is the case, then God forbid! Mujuru, touted as a front runner to succeed Mugabe, appeared to take leave of her senses by attacking the media and her colleagues…
HARARE – In the past decade or so, Zanu PF has explained Zimbabwe’s economic problems through what it calls “illegal sanctions.” Sanctions were central to Zanu PF’s campaign before last July’s elections. The party included in its manifesto, a claim that sanctions invited by the MDC had cost Zimbabwe $42 billion. That Zanu PF won…
EDITOR — Coalition Against Corruption (Cac) the leading anti-corruption organisation in Zimbabwe castigates and dismisses the unfounded statements made by Vice President Joice Mujuru in which she blames the media on the way corruption cases are being reported. The statement by VP Mujuru was quite unfounded especially from a mother of a nation that has…
