May 2016

HARARE – Embattled prosecutor-general Johannes Tomana faces suspension after the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) yesterday resolved to recommend to President Robert Mugabe that he be dismissed from work. Tomana is facing criminal charges at the magistrates’ court after being accused of illegally releasing suspects accused of plotting to bomb Gushungo Dairies, a multi-million dollar business…

HARARE – About 100 doctors trained in Zimbabwe are unemployed, with most of them refusing to work in rural public hospitals. It was hoped the new crop of doctors would alleviate the acute shortage of doctors in rural areas and take the lead in reviving a health sector devastated by one of the highest malnutrition…

HARARE – The Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC has lashed out at President Robert Mugabe after telling his supporters at a Zanu PF rally in Gutu last week that opposition parties would lose the 2018 presidential poll because they were devoid of any ideology. A fuming MDC spokesperson Obert Gutu yesterday came out guns blazing, describing Mugabe’s…

HARARE – An armed robbery suspect who bolted out of police custody after attacking two cops who were guarding his cell is receiving his sentence today. Casper Chigariro, 33, of Epworth, had been booked into Mbare Cells in 2012 following an arrest over a spate of armed robberies. After reportedly successfully escaping in 2012, he…

HARARE – Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s son Collins Takunda is embroiled in a company ownership wrangle with a Chinese businessman, Mingel Cheng, who accuses him of fraudulently grabbing his Timesite Enterprises using political muscle. In an April 25 letter to Mashonaland Central Provincial Affairs minister Martin Dinha, Cheng alleged through his attorneys Gumbo and Associates that…

HARARE – War veterans’ flip-flopping concerning their participation in the one million-man march in support of President Robert Mugabe has attracted scorn from social and political commentators. The fighters of the 70s liberation war previously distanced themselves from the planned march saying Mugabe was not under threat from anyone and that resources sourced to mobilise…

HARARE – Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ) chairman, Professor Norman Nyazema, yesterday described the late prominent Harare lawyer, Arthur Mutsonziwa, as a good and highly-principled man who would be missed by all who knew him. The long-serving ANZ director and partner at law firm Atherstone & Cook, suffered a serious heart attack last Thursday and…