HARARE – Mike “MicInity” Madamombe says tomorrow night’s concert at Dandaro Inn will be a perfect stage to justify his credentials as the country’s leading reggae artiste. MicInity, who walked away with the Best Reggae Artiste of the Year Award at the 2013 Zim Dancehall Awards, is delighted at the opportunity to make a maiden…
HARARE – Popular performance poet Batsirai Chigama claimed second position in a competition organised by StAnza, Scotland’s leading international poetry festival. Chigama was beaten to the first position by Scotland’s Stephen Watt in a contest in which Ama Asantewa Diaka from Ghana claimed the third position. The StAnza jury included a top Zimbabwean performance poet,…
HARARE – The Women’s League vote is driving another rift in President Robert Mugabe’s faction-ridden Zanu PF as officials question the legitimacy of the poll amid violence and “kidnappings”. Days after the Youth League vote was sullied by allegations of electoral fraud and vote buying. Officials said bacause of the violence it would be “absurd” …
BULAWAYO – Popular Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader Walter Magaya will today descend on Bulawayo for a two-day crusade slated for Amazulu Sports Club. The visit by Magaya will not only be his first visit to Zimbabwe’s second largest city, but will also be his first crusade outside Harare ever since he stormed…
HARARE – A Harare magistrate has jailed four cops for 30 months each after convicting them for extorting $70 from an Epworth man. Tendai Saungweme, 47, Canaan Chuzu, 51, Nyasha Chowa, 48 and Chimbo Mushahama, 45, were all found guilty of extortion by Harare magistrate Arnold Maburo. The four were jointly charged with a civilian…
HARARE – Government has made an impassioned plea to South African authorities to regularise the stay of over two million Zimbabweans illegally living in the neighbouring country by giving them special permits. This follows a decision by the South African government on Tuesday to issue 250 000 permits to Zimbabweans in a bid to document…
HARARE – High Court judge Loice Matanda-Moyo has freed on $200 bail, a Chinhoyi man who was serving 14 years in prison for rape. She ruled that he had high prospects of success on appeal. The 26-year-old Hazvinei Mahlahla got the reprieve yesterday after raising issues with the magistrate’s decision to convict him. This followed…
HARARE – The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has floated a tender for the construction of new magistrates’ courts in Beitbridge, Chivi, Mwenezi, Binga, Nkayi and Victoria Falls. The courthouses will be built with funding from Denmark under the JSC-Danida partnership. Chief magistrate Mishrod Guvamombe is spearheading the building and improvement of the courts. Commenting on…
GWERU – The Gweru City Council has engaged debt collectors in an effort to recover over $25 million owed by defaulting ratepayers. The debt comes at a time the city owes more than $24 million to its creditors and has been struggling to pay its workers on time. Tapiwa Marerwa, the deputy town clerk, said…
MUTARE – Cecilia Gambe, the Zifa women’s soccer board member competitions, was on Monday robbed of her cellphone and $150. She was assaulted when she tried to confront one of the thieves. Raymond Masengero, 38, of N216A Area C in Dangamvura, was arrested over the theft, which happened at around 1am at Pick and Save…
