LONDON – Chelsea have been drawn to face Atlético Madrid in the Champions League semi-finals, having been told by Uefa that a clause requiring the Spaniards to fork out up to €6m for the goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois to play against his parent club is “null, void and unenforceable”. Unlike in the Premier League, where loan…
HARARE – In a move that analysts said last night could either end or heighten the strife within the MDC, the opposition party yesterday summarily expelled suspended deputy treasurer-general Elton Mangoma, national executive members Jacob Mafume and Last Maengahama, as well as youth assembly secretary-general Promise Mkwananzi. The four are part of the so-called renewal…
HARARE – Christopher Mushowe, the Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister, yesterday squirmed under tough probing over ex-Indigenisation minister Saviour Kasukuwere’s dubious documents that sought to justify claims that companies mining gems in Chiadzwa had each pledged $10 million towards the Marange-Zimunya community share ownership scheme. While Kasukuwere, now Water minister, produced “documentary evidence” in an effort…
HARARE – The defence lawyer for Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ), Alec Muchadehama, has expressed his disappointment with the manner in which the criminal defamation case of the company’s Group Editor, Stanley Gama, and senior writer, Fungi Kwaramba, is being handled by police. The two journalists have appeared in court for two days in a…
HARARE – The trial of jailed Independent End Time Message founder Robert Martin Gumbura on a fresh rape charge failed to kick-off for the third time yesterday after his lawyer Rekai Maposa recused herself from the case. Gumbura is jointly charged with his secretary Tendai Ganyani. Maposa notified the court that Advocate Thembinkosi Magwaliba would…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s cash-strapped government is still anxiously making efforts to secure lines of credit from neighbouring countries, a government official said yesterday. “The ministry is making frantic efforts to mobilise resources locally and externally, through pursuing pledged lines of credit under Sadc-initiated facilities,” deputy Finance minister Samuel Undenge told delegates at a Buy Zimbabwe…
CHITUNGWIZA – Government issued a three-week ultimatum yesterday to Chitungwiza and Manyame Rural District Council residents to destroy their illegally constructed houses. The houses in question are those built on wetlands, under sewer pipes and under powerline servitudes and are still under construction. Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo said land barons will be arrested soon….
HARARE – The Masvingo provincial leadership is defying a politburo directive to re-run the Zanu PF poll after provincial election results were sullied by allegations of electoral fraud and flagrant violation of voting guidelines. The re-run was sanctioned after a letter written to national chairman Simon Khaya Moyo and penned by Munyaradzi Mangwana, Shuvai Mahofa…
MUTARE – Hordes of disgruntled Mutare City Council contract workers yesterday besieged the Civic Centre demanding their dues. The workers camped at the Civic Centre’s corridors demanding audience with the city’s finance director Lloyd Musasa. They were demanding their outstanding wages. The workers said they had not been paid for nearly six months and they…
HARARE – Prosecutor Editor Mavuto on Wednesday accused murder suspect Pritchard Zimondi of perjury, after he gave contradicting statements pertaining to the sequence of events. Zimondi is accused of murdering his girlfriend Monalisa Chinomona in Chitungwiza in April 2012 by stabbing her with a kitchen knife . The State avers that when he was arrested,…
