HARARE – South Africa’s largely peaceful and credible presidential election was a rare example of a functioning democracy in Africa and should be a model for the continent, Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has said. Much attention in Africa and elsewhere was focused on South Africa’s fifth democratic elections after a heavily disputed election in…
HARARE – The High Court yesterday okayed the private prosecution of Bikita West Member of Parliament Munyaradzi Kereke on charges of rape. Prosecutor-General Johannes Tomana, who has declined to prosecute Kereke, was yesterday ordered by the High Court to issue a private prosecution certificate. A private prosecution is a criminal proceeding initiated by an individual…
HARARE – Harare Civil Court magistrate Tafadzwa Muvhami will today rule on sungura legend Alick Macheso’s maintenance case in which his estranged second wife Tafadzwa Fortunate Mapako is demanding $7 000 in child and spousal support. Macheso yesterday offered $150 per month as maintenance for his two children saying he is an ordinary musician who…
BULAWAYO – An attempt to suspend mainstream MDC Bulawayo provincial chairman Gorden Moyo has widened cleavages in the local leadership. Officials have distanced themselves from utterances by acting Bulawayo chairperson Dorcas Sibanda that Pumula MP Albert Mhlanga was fanning divisions in his unilateral attempt to dethrone Moyo. Mhlanga, who is also the Bulawayo provincial organising…
HARARE – Yesterday civil servants woke up to learn that Treasury had decided to change their May pay dates again, the third such change in a row. Pay day for the Education sector was deferred by a day from May 15 to 16 with the rest of the civil service to be paid on May…
BULAWAYO – A British soldier found hanging at his Bulawayo home in 2012 committed suicide, a court inquest heard. The late Robert Alexander Wood’s case was heard by Bulawayo magistrate Enias Magate who adjourned the case to today. A medical report read to the State by a government doctor stated that his death was as…
HARARE – Propak Hessian have been named Zimbabwe’s private sector second best employer behind Seedco in the annual awards held in the capital recently. Propak Hessian is a subsidiary of Tobacco Sales Limited (TSL) and is headed by Mary Machingaidze. The selection panel was made up of judges from the Employers Confederations of Zimbabwe, institute…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe returned to Singapore yesterday for more medical treatment. His spokesman George Charamba said Mugabe travelled to Singapore for a “routine eye check-up” which involves cataract procedure which he underwent in February. “His Excellency the President, left Harare this afternoon on a week-long private visit to that country,” Charamba’s statement said….
HARARE – If the truth be told, and we can now happily do so seeing how fantastically well we have done as a newspaper and as a company over the past three years, never in our wildest dreams did we think or even imagine that we would do half as well as we have done…
PRETORIA – The judge in the trial of South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has ordered that he should undergo a mental evaluation. She ruled that psychiatric evidence before the court could not replace “a proper inquiry” into his mental health. Correspondents say the trial, which began in March, will almost certainly now face a lengthy…
