RUSAPE – Four Zanu PF activists have been nabbed for abducting, torturing and robbing an MDC-T activist in Chiduku, Rusape, before dumping him in a drain. Lovemore Mutanhaurwa, 30, Benedict Kondongwe, 49, Jephita Matanda, 44 and Farai Matsika, 23, were not asked to plead when they appeared before magistrate Patience Ururu-Madondo who freed them on $50…
HARARE – A kombi driver accused of deliberately hitting and killing a police officer in a desperate bid to evade a road block was dragged to court yesterday. Gift Musona, 23, and his conductor Tinashe Kachidza, 19, were jointly charged for murder. Harare magistrate, Vongai Guuriro, advised the pair to apply for bail at the…
HARARE – It is sad that President Robert Mugabe is yet again proving beyond doubt that he would like to take Zimbabwe down the drain. The 92-year-old strongman, the only leader that Zimbabwe has known since the attainment of independence from Britain in 1980, apart from making reckless statements attacking the judiciary, has also managed…
HARARE – The Agricultural Rural Development Authority (Arda) says it is in talks with a potential German partner to ramp up production at its Mutorashanga Estate, as it also moves to secure investors to fund under-capacitated commercial farmers in the 2015/17 farming season. Arda chairman, Basil Nyabadza, on Tuesday told the businessdaily that the parastatal…
HARARE – Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (Gmaz) and the Grain and Oilseeds Traders Association of Zimbabwe (Gotaz) are set to engage contract farmers to cultivate 100 000 Hacters (ha) of soya beans and maize during the 2017 farming season to plug local deficit, it has emerged. In a statement released yesterday, the associations indicated…
HARARE – Diversified group Masimba Holdings (Masimba) is now back in the black after recording a $111 000 after tax profit for the half year to June from a loss position of $353 000 buoyed by improved business from the mining sector. Group chairman Gregory Sebborn yesterday said while the country’s political and economic environment remained…
HARARE – Music superstar Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi will make a rare return to Mutare tomorrow for a gig at Motoring Club. Tuku, who will launch a new album titled Ehe Kani Yahweh in Norton on September 22, will be backed by Mutare-based Reggae Manyika stars —Assegai Crew. Tomorrow’s gig will be a perfect warm-up for…
HARARE – In a major victory for Zimbabwe’s fledgling democracy, a High Court judge — Justice Priscillah Chigumba — yesterday struck down a two-week ban on public protests in Harare that was issued by the government last week, in the wake of growing civil unrest in the country. Speaking to the media soon after the…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe yesterday confronted Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere, accusing him of illegally parcelling out residential stands meant for Zanu PF youths to Prophetic Healing and Deliverance founder, Walter Magaya. Mugabe took Kasukuwere to task over the matter just before yesterday’s politburo meeting. “Nyaya yavakomana iri kufamba sei?Ndakanzwa kuti makatengesa mastands kunana…
HARARE – Political activist and spokesperson of the radical Tajamuka/Sesijikile pressure group — Promise Mkwananzi — has approached the High Court seeking bail following his arrest on inciting public violence. Mkwananzi was denied bail when he first appeared at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts after he was nabbed by police following bloody clashes between protesters and…
