HARARE – The trial of Independent End Time Message founder Robert Martin Gumbura’s security guards, who denied police entry into his house, opened yesterday. Simbarashe Musiyiwa and Tendai Mandevani, both aged 35, are facing charges of obstructing the course of justice. The police officers were barred from entering the residence during investigations last year. Gumbura…
HARARE – Leo Kurauzvione, the former Dynamos Football Club captain, was yesterday granted protection from his estranged wife who harasses him in public. The former Warriors midfielder had claimed that his ex-wife, Primerose Muchiriri perpetrates violence whenever she sees him and humiliates him in his wife’s presence. Kurauzvone told Harare Civil Court magistrate Gamuchirai Siwardi…
HARARE – Government should immediately establish provincial councils to devolve power and promote development in the provinces, an opposition legislator has said. Provincial and metropolitan councils are provided for under the new Constitution and will be responsible for social and economic development of their respective provinces as well as coordinating and implementing governmental programmes. The…
HARARE – Harare Central Hospital (HCH) is owed $16 million by patients and is struggling to recover the debt amid revelations that clients were giving false residential addresses. HCH board chairman Douglas Gwatidzo said the oustanding dues were making it difficult for the referral hospital to provide quality service. “We are owed over $16 million…
HARARE – The role of the media is to educate, inform and entertain the public. The media also plays the critical role of forming public opinion. Some media publications have not lived to the mandate stated above with regards to matters of religion and the respective leaders. In numerous cases they have departed from their…
HARARE – Controversial sungura musician Hosiah Chipanga’s new song Ndeye Mweya — which claims that President Robert Mugabe is a God-ordained leader who does no wrong, reflects the dangerous thinking that has thrown this country into a political and economic abyss. Sadly, there are many people in our ruling class who, like Chipanga, believe that…
EDITOR — It boggles the mind that sane citizens blame the police for chasing up kombis that run away from them for various reasons. A lot of lives are lost and a number of passengers maimed on a daily basis because of these reckless drivers, some of whom do not meet minimum requirements to drive…
HARARE – Zimbabwe will turn 34 years in a few weeks, and no doubt, the independence anniversary will provide yet another opportunity to pause and reflect on the journey travelled and lessons learned, if any, about the true and intended purpose of the State to the extent that government actors have used the period to…
LONDON – I have a heart for Africa because when you “run to another man’s land” for bread and lose everything you hold dear you are often left with no choice but to return to the “Bethel”. I left Africa thinking everything Western was superior. That the least of Western culture was the best of…
HARARE – Ernest “Nesto” Manandi is back with a new single titled Ngala Ngala which he says symbolises the end of his drawn-out grief for his mother who died six years ago. Nesto, whose track My Chocolate made him a favourite on radio and television, claims that the new single -off his yet-to-be-named fourth album-…
