HARARE – The wisdom or otherwise of Tendai Biti’s MDC rebels going ahead with a disputed disciplinary hearing against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday, despite the High Court putting the process on hold, continues to raise heated debate among Zimbabweans. While many legal experts say the so-called renewal team acted in contempt of court…
HARARE – The Constitutional Court will today hear Gokwe-Nembudziya legislator Justice Wadyajena’s urgent chamber application seeking to stop the taxman from bankrupting his business. Wadyajena’s Mayor Logistics (Pvt) Limited, a company in the business of fuel and transport operations in Zimbabwe, has been sequestrated over a $2,6million Vat bill. Wadyajena operates a fuel service station…
HARARE – The Supreme Court has removed from death row and freed a condemned senior game ranger in the department of National Parks and Wildlife who shot a poacher dead. Maxwell Bowa was sentenced to death by hanging on September 17 last year by the High Court in Gweru. He was charged for the fatal…
HARARE – Youths in President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF have turned the shrine of Johane Masowe weChishanu leader Madzibaba Ishamea Mufani in Harare’s Budiriro high-density suburb into a brick moulding site. Godfrey Gomwe, Zanu PF provincial youth chairperson for Harare, claimed the sect never owned that land. “They did not pay rates to the council,”…
HARARE -Two of the three girls abducted in Chimanimani were returned to a local police station on June 29, by an unidentified person. Hazel and Tatenda Marirwana are reported to have been released to the police while the whereabouts of Tilda Mutisi, their cousin, is still unknown. In a telephone interview with the Daily News,…
HARARE – The trial of jailed Independent End Time Message founder Robert Martin Gumbura on a fresh rape charge continued yesterday with the State leading its second witness, the complainant’s uncle. Francis Phiri, who lived with the woman sometime in 2009, frustrated the trial as he could not give detailed answers to any of the…
HARARE – Twenty four men from Madzibaba Ishamea Mufani’s Johanne Masowe sect currently facing public violence charges after assaulting police and journalists, have notified the court of their intention to challenge their placement on remand. The group’s lawyer Obey Shava yesterday requested that the State produce findings into investigations of alleged assault of the Mapositori…
HARARE – Harare City Council senior management is still earning mega salaries despite a government directive to slash them, it has emerged. Management is yet to implement a new pay schedule for senior officials whose salaries gobble over $500 000 monthly. Appearing before the parliamentary portfolio committee on Local Government, Rural and Urban Development yesterday,…
HARARE – THE late Vice President Joshua Nkomo could be turning in his grave as “vultures” are after his Nuanetsi ranch, and his medical centre in Bulawayo, a town so dear to him, has failed to take off. Yesterday marked the 15th anniversary since Nkomo died. And the only landmark Father Zimbabwe is remembered by,…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Olympic swimmer, Kirsty Coventry, believes she still has what it takes to return to the top of her game and relocating to the United States provides her with a massive opportunity. Currently tied as the most decorated female swimmer in the history of the Olympics, Coventry, who has won seven Olympic medals…
