HARARE – The State has made an undertaking to avail funds by end of this month for court officials to travel to South Africa for an inspection-in-loco in a fraud case involving Core Mining director, Lovemore Kurotwi. Kurotwi is facing $2 billion fraud charges. He is jointly charged with ex- Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC)…
BULAWAYO – Former Magwegwe legislator Felix Magalela Mafa has come back into the fold, as MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai continues to beef up his arsenal amid an internal revolt that has characterised his party for over two months now. Due to disgruntlement over the way primary elections were handled in the MDC, the outspoken Mafa…
HARARE – Press freedom groups have roundly condemned people abusing criminal defamation laws to suppress media freedom in Zimbabwe. This follows the arrest of Stanley Gama, the Group Editor of Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ), the publishers of the Daily News, and senior writer Fungi Kwaramba, at the instigation of controversial businessman, Kamal Khalfan, over…
BULAWAYO – A teacher here has been convicted for sending sexual messages to his 15-year-old ex-student, luring the teenager to be intimate with him. Nkosilathi Gadhlula, a tutor at St Columbus High School in Makokoba, was embarrassed when sexual messages he was sending the complainant who cannot be named due to his age through WhatsApp,…
HARARE – Three Immigration officials and a security officer have been charged with facilitating the illegal entry of three Pakistan nationals into Zimbabwe. The quartet, Mary Mutizwa, 35, Brian Chikwanda, 35, Aaron Toringepi, 29, and Peter Chirume, 40, appeared before Harare magistrate Tendai Mahwe facing charges of contravening sections of the Presidential Powers (Temporarily Measures)…
HARARE – The much-awaited rotavirus and human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines are finally in the country, a cabinet minister has revealed. The drug consignment was delayed because storage facilities in the country were not ready to receive the drugs. Rotavirus vaccine prevents diarrhoea in children under the age of five while the HPV vaccine is a…
HARARE – At least 18 typhoid cases have been recorded since the beginning of the year, with three deaths, according to the ministry of Health and Child Care. Similarly, cases of diarrhoea have increased, with seven deaths in one week and 207 fatalities since the beginning of the year. Harare has the highest figures. Harare…
BULAWAYO – An Umguza man who duped desperate home-seekers by offering them land at Springs Farm for a fee has landed in court. Nhlanhla Siwela, 45, appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Sibongile Msipa facing three counts of fraud and was remanded out of custody to April 14. The court heard that on March 14, Kwanele Dube…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe National Soccer Supporters Association (ZNSSA) is planning to stage a street demonstration to force stakeholders to nullify the result of last month’s Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) election. Cuthbert Dube won the contentious poll to lead Zifa for a second term after beating the challenge of former Zifa chairman Trevor David Carelse-Juul…
HARARE – Sixteen-year-old Mashonaland Eagles opening batsman Nick Welch has wasted absolutely no time in piling up the runs in only his second first-class match, drawing high praise from his coach Stephen Mangongo. The St John’s College form four pupil, a member of the Zimbabwe Under-17 team, was thrown into the deep end by Mashonaland…
