HARARE – It is a pity that Harare residents woke up this week with no tap water amid a big scandal surrounding Harare City Council’s $144,4 million loan facility recently secured from China. While the contentious loan secured from China National Machinery and Equipment Import and Export Corporation in 2010 is meant to rehabilitate the…
HARARE – Rising chanter Edeline “Juwela” Mapuranga believes she now has what it takes to share the limelight with Sandra “Lady Squanda” Gazi at the apex of Zimbabwe’s female dancehall community. The 22-year-old third-year media student at the Midlands State University has been emboldened by the good run her track Love Haimanikidzwe is currently enjoying…
HARARE – In a major boost to embattled MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai, the High Court yesterday ruled that the opposition leader could not be hauled before a disciplinary hearing set up by MDC rebels led by expelled secretary-general Tendai Biti. Justice Happious Zhou ruled that Biti and his group could not implement any resolution taken…
HARARE – Tendai Biti’s breakaway MDC has said Morgan Tsvangirai’s fate had already been sealed despite a court interdict stopping his hearing. A tribunal comprising three lawyers sat yesterday morning and heard the charges against the MDC leader in absentia. The High Court subsequently interdicted the team from proceeding with the hearing. Jacob Mafume, spokesperson…
HARARE – Police yesterday revealed identities of nine persons, including the editor of a UK-based newspaper Wilf Mbanga, who they suspect of aiding Baba Jukwa’s cyber war targeting President Robert Mugabe, government ministers, senior government officials and security chiefs. The Sunday Mail editor Edmund Kudzayi is currently languishing in remand prison facing charges of banditry,…
HARARE – Ex-Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono says his former advisor, Munyaradzi Kereke must take his concerns to the Central Bank instead of using personal attacks to divert attention from serious issues grappling the nation. This comes after Kereke wrote to the police and the Prosecutor-General’s Office claiming that Gono had deducted tax…
HARARE – THE bail hearing for Sunday Mail editor Edmund Kudzayi, who is accused of banditry, attempting to overthrow a constitutionally-elected government, insurgency, terrorism and sabotage, has been postponed to Thursday. The State, represented by Tawanda Zvekare, told High Court Judge Justice Esther Muremba that Kudzayi had submitted a voluminous application. “Applicant has filed a…
HARARE – A Bindura woman who reportedly stole her husband’s ATM card and made withdrawals amounting to $9 160 was yesterday hauled before the courts. Fiona Samson, 27, of Matiya homestead in Bindura appeared before Harare magistrate Donald Ndirowei facing theft charges. She was remanded to July 25 on $250 bail. Prosecutor Farai Gatsi alleged…
HARARE – Sunday Mail editor Edmund Kudzayi’s claim that he worked for the Zimbabwe Defence Forces to hack into the Facebook account of the “real” Baba Jukwa has left Zimbabweans with more questions than answers. Given that surveillance is an area that should mundanely fall under the ambit of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) not…
HARARE – While Uruguay’s Luis Suarez has grabbed the most headlines in Brazil over his “biting” incident, Ghana, Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Cameroon have left their own indelible mark on the tournament. Internal strife in the camp of these four African countries has made the continent a laughing stock in the eyes of the world….
