MUTARE – A 36-year-old man was arrested over the weekend for allegedly stealing 50kg of gold ore from Penhalonga Lead Mine. Binza Ndaayacho of Zengeni village under Chief Mutasa was not asked to plead when he appeared before magistrate Makamera Waini yesterday. He was remanded in custody to September 5. It is the State’s case…
HARARE – A 46-year-old ex-police officer allegedly stormed Total Service Station in Harare’s Central Business District and robbed cash at gun-point. Dzingira Cheche appeared before Harare regional magistrate Hosea Mujaya last Friday facing two counts of armed robbery. The court heard Cheche attacked Milton Maambiwa, a cashier at Total Service Station, and Takunda Chimhanda, a…
GWERU – Fred Moyo, the deputy minister of Mines, has said his ministry is keen to improve Zimbabwe’s ease-of-doing-business. Moyo said he witnessed many investors walk out on the country due to cumbersome investment procedures. Speaking on Friday in Gweru, Moyo said the country remained unattractive to investors. “We have to tackle issues of ease-of-doing…
HARARE – A Harare medical doctor is on the verge of losing his house valued at $500 000 after a fellow doctor used the property’s title deeds to secure a bank loan, the Harare Magistrates’ Court has heard. Athanasius Daud Dube is now before the Harare Magistrates’ Court facing fraud charges following claims that he…
HARARE – Harare regional magistrate Hosea Mujaya has removed from remand two ex-Air Zimbabwe bosses. Former acting Air Zimbabwe (Private) Limited (Air Zimbabwe) chief executive officer Innocent Mavhunga and the firm’s former legal manager and company secretary, Grace Nyaradzai Pfumbidzayi’s trial was supposed to kick off yesterday, but Mujaya said the State should first put…
HARARE – Francis Nhema, the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment minister, has said the probe of Zimbabwe’s 61 community share ownership trusts is still ongoing. In an interview with the Daily News yesterday, Nhema said his ministry was seized with the audit of the trusts. “The audits are still going on,” Nhema said. “We are doing…
HARARE – The Biblical story about David and Goliath has always been an all-time favourite amongst the younger kids. When miss matches such as yesterday’s game take place, they too are commonly referred to as David verses Goliath. The difference however is that the bedtime story we read as kids seldom happens in the real…
HARARE – The NetOne One Wallet Cup semi-final draw was held yesterday with the pick of the ties pitting Dynamos against How Mine at Mandava Stadium on Saturday. In the other semi-final, Lowveld side Triangle will clash with Chicken Inn at the same venue the following day. Dynamos will be hoping to beat the Bulawayo-based…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Under-19 rugby team will be hoping to inflict revenge on Kenya when they face off this afternoon in a Confederation of African Rugby Group 1A semi-final tie at the Hage Geigngob Stadium in Namibia. In last year’s tournament, the East Africans beat their Zimbabwean counterparts. Zimbabwe will likely to bank on their…
JOHANNESBURG – Kaizer Chiefs coach Stuart Baxter hinted on Sunday that despite wanting Knowledge Musona to stay, the player’s heart was not with Amakhosi. “We would have all loved to bring Knowledge because he settled in last year and he became a very important member of the squad,” Baxter said after Musona’s representatives released a…
