HARARE – A Kuwadzana man accused of killing his wife claimed before the court that the woman had turned into a big snake. Afareshe Gambiza, 48, is being charged with culpable homicide for fatally running over his second wife Felistas Choruwa. “I was driving my car registration ACM 2470 along High Glen Road intending to…
HARARE – A Harare regional magistrate yesterday referred to the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) a case of two soldiers accused of attempting to bomb President Robert Mugabe’s Alpha Omega Dairy in Mazowe. The State had initially withdrawn charges of possession of weaponry for insurgency and money laundering against Silas Pfupa, 37, and Solomon Makumbe, 29, after…
BULAWAYO – Zimbabwe’s electoral system remains unsatisfactory two years ahead of the next elections, the independent Election Resource Centre (ERC) has said. ERC director Tawanda Chimhini said the country was yet to implement some critical recommendations that were made by the Sadc and African Union (AU) observer missions after the 2013 elections. “One of the…
HARARE – The State will today screen a video in court that captured three Marondera police officers and two neighbourhood watch members fatally strangling a commuter omnibus driver, prosecutors say. Richard Buzuzu, 28, Liberty Magodo, 29, Tinevimbo Muzezewa, 29, Tafadzwa Turipa, 25, and Rambo Bhunu, 38, are answering to culpable homicide charges. They are appearing…
HARARE – The Meteorological Services Department (Met Department) says wet conditions and thunderstorms are expected to continue until the end of this week. Met Department weather forecaster John Mupuro said the rains — more pronounced in the country’s northern regions — would cause lower temperatures and trigger powerful thunderstorms. “Matabeleland North, Northern Midlands, Harare, Mashonaland…
HARARE – Grandwell Holdings, which invested heavily in Mbada Diamonds (Private) Limited (Mbada), says Mines minister Walter Chidakwa should be dragged to court to explain why he failed to comply with a court order allowing the company back to the diamond mining site in Chiadzwa to secure its diamonds and equipment. Mauritius-registered Grandwell approached the…
HARARE – An extraordinary general meeting of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association scheduled for the City Sports Centre in Harare on Friday has been postponed to next week, on a date , time and venue to be announced in due course. The permanent secretary in the ministry of Welfare Services for War Veterans,…
HARARE – The Zanu PF politburo meets in Harare today in what is expected to be a stormy affair, amid the party’s worsening factional and succession wars, and as its former deputy, Joice Mujuru, has just formally entered the local political scene with panache. Well-placed party sources told the Daily News yesterday that the politburo…
MARANGE – At least 15 illegal diamond miners are feared dead after a red zone mine shaft they were working in collapsed as they attempted to flee a police raid late on Tuesday night. This puts to shame claims by under pressure Mines minister Walter Chidakwa that chaos has not engulfed the Marange diamond fields…
HARARE – A close aide of former Vice President Joice Mujuru — who formally presented herself to the nation yesterday as the leader of the new political outfit, the Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) — described her as a tsunami that was set to change the face of Zimbabwean politics for good. The aide — who…
