June 2016

HARARE – Cabinet ministers yesterday left parliamentarians in shock as they failed to respond to questions fielded to them. Minister of Agriculture Joseph Made and his War Veterans counterpart Tshinga Dube were judged “incompetent” by shocked legislators who were expecting meaningful answers. [GoogleAd] The “incompetency” displayed by the ministers in Parliament resulted in Glen Norah…

HARARE – Zanu PF politburo member Kudzanai Chipanga has been savaged for wantonly stalling court processes by allegedly ducking investigators and paying more regard to his “political business”. Chipanga is a star witness in a case in which Godfrey Tsenengamu, 33, Godwin Gomwe, 37, and Vengai Musengi, 36, are being charged with inciting public violence and…

HARARE – Six juveniles, including a one-year-old, died in a baptism ritual that went horribly wrong in the district of Chikomba, Mashonaland East Province in the early hours of Wednesday, police say. The baptism ritual that was being conducted by two self-styled prophets has left villagers in the usually peaceful district in shock. [GoogleAd] In…

HARARE – The kombi driver behind the death of 17-year-old Harare Girls’ High school pupil Jocelyn Gomba has been sentenced to six years and eight months behind bars and will never drive a passenger vehicle in his lifetime. The judgment was handed down yesterday. Wadzanayi Mabika, 41, ploughed into a school girl a fortnight ago,…

HARARE – First Lady Grace Mugabe’s perceived allies who are targets of a hotly-disputed government anti-corruption blitz that has heightened tensions within President Robert Mugabe’s faction-ridden Zanu PF say they can’t wait to face their accusers in court and demonstrate that the campaign is nothing more than a “factional sham”. This comes after State media…

HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC has warned President Robert Mugabe and his “clueless regime” that Zimbabwe is on the precipice of total disaster as the country’s socio-economic crisis continues to deepen. In a statement yesterday, spokesperson Obert Gutu also said “the centre could not hold anymore”, with Mugabe allegedly running out of ideas…