HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC says President Robert Mugabe must cut both his bloated Cabinet team and costly foreign travels before his government thinks about retrenching poor civil servants. This advice yesterday came in the wake of the government, hit hard by the twin blows of a shrinking revenue base and an economy…
HARARE – Temba Mliswa, former Hurungwe West MP and ex-Zanu PF Mashonaland West provincial chairperson, has been allowed to visit his Spring Farm, following a relaxation of his bail conditions. The businessman is accused of theft following claims that he was found in possession of several stolen firearms at his farm. Mliswa, whose trial was…
HARARE – Two touts who stripped a woman naked at Fourth Street bus termini will spend eight months in prison. Marvellous Kandemiri and Blessing Chinodakufa were sentenced to one year in prison before magistrate Renikah Dzikiti suspended four months on condition of good behaviour. Dzikiti said the convicts’ conduct was diabolic and barbaric leading to…
HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC), which is raking in at least $36 000 a day, is failing to pay its workers’ salaries on time, a Cabinet minister has said. Sithembiso Nyoni, the minister of Small and Medium Enterprises made the revelation during a meeting held at Siyaso complex in Mbare. Currently, HCC is in…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZPWMA) has threatened to take over animals at former clerk of Parliament Austin Zvoma’s 274-hectare, Lot 2 Kilworth Farm. This comes after animals strayed into neighbouring farms extensively destroying crops this week with ZPWMA expressing fear that the animals were also under threat from poachers. Caroline Washaya…
HARARE – Former Dzivaresekwa MP Solomon Madzore is facing prosecution over charges of calling President Robert Mugabe a “limping donkey”. Madzore however, filed a Constitutional Court application, seeking stay of prosecution prompting Bindura magistrate Elisha Singano to stay his criminal proceedings pending the determination of the Constitutional Court application. However, Madzore failed to file heads…
BULAWAYO – Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BPRA) has upped its fight against prepaid water meters by coming up with a position paper outlining its research findings on the controversial gadgets. The organisation found that the prepaid system was at odds with Zimbabwe’s socio-economic and cultural context and would be problematic as the gadgets would lead…
PARIS – Audio from the mangled voice recorder of Germanwings Flight 9525 reveals the captain was locked out of the cockpit while the co-pilot appeared to make a deliberate attempt to destroy the plane, Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin said Thursday. The co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings flight “activated the descent” of the plane when he…
PARIS – The co-pilot of the Germanwings plane that crashed into the French Alps on Tuesday appeared to want to “destroy the plane”, French officials said. Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin, citing information from the “black box” voice recorder, said the co-pilot was alone in the cockpit. He intentionally started a descent while the pilot was…
HARARE – Flamboyant sungura musician-cum-politician Energy Mutodi will launch his 10th album Ndinokutendai (I Thank You) comprising the song, Havo Ndibaba where he praises Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa. The album, which is expected to hit the market in the first week of April, also implores government to legalise prostitution. Mutodi, whose previous album Ndiri Munzira…
