HARARE – CAPS United captain Moses Muchenje says reducing FC Platinum’s gap at the top of the Castle Lager Premiership log has motivated his side as the title race heats up. The Green Machine’s dramatic 1-2 away win over Triangle at Gibbo Stadium on Sunday the platinum miner’s lead at the top of the table…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s rattled ruling party, Zanu PF, has lined up two crucial meetings in Harare today and on Friday, to try and plot counter-strategies against growing civil unrest in the country, as Zimbabwe’s economy continues to die. So bad has the political and security situation in the country become that stretched police…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has invited opposition political parties to an all stakeholders indaba which they say is an attempt to stop them from holding demonstrations on electoral reforms. Curiously, the indaba will be held on September 15 — a day before the expiry of a contentious police ban which barred pro-democracy and…
HARARE – Three MDC Glen View activists — who have been on trial for the past five years — were yesterday convicted of murdering police inspector Petros Mutedza with actual intent. The presiding judge Chinembiri Bhunu yesterday convicted Tungamirai Madzokere, Last Maengahama and Yvonne Musarurwa, after ruling that the State managed to prove its case…
BULAWAYO – Bulawayo police have backtracked on their decision to ban the Tendai Biti-led People’s Democratic Party (PDP)’s first anniversary celebrations. PDP plans told hold the event at White City Stadium on Sunday. Officer Commanding Bulawayo west, chief superintendent Mthokozisi Manzini-Moyo, had on Monday refused to clear the opposition party’s event, arguing that police had received…
HARARE – A 51-year-old Beatrice cellphone thief was confirmed dead yesterday after he gulped a bottle of poison in court on Monday. Cuthbert Shoko died at around 10pm on Monday at Chitungwiza Central Hospital where he had been admitted following the incident. Judicial Service Commission deputy secretary Munamato Mutevedzi confirmed the incident to the Daily…
HARARE – Three candidates vying for the Norton Parliamentary seat successfully filed their papers with the Nomination Court in Chinhoyi yesterday. The seat fell vacant following the expulsion of Christopher Mutsvangwa from Zanu PF. The trio — Temba Mliswa, who is standing as an independent, David Chingodzo from the National Constitutional Assembly and Zanu PF’s Ronald…
HARARE – Harare regional magistrate Hosea Mujaya yesterday set a trial date for former War Veterans minister Christopher Mutsvangwa’s son, Neville, who is accused of raping a 43-year-old woman. The trial will commence on September 19. Neville, 36, is facing two counts of aggravated indecent assault and one for rape after he allegedly forced himself…
HARARE – Controversial legislator Joseph Chinotimba is in the eye of a storm after he allegedly threatened to have teachers who had attended an opposition party rally transferred from his Buhera South constituency. While Chinotimba dismissed the allegations that are contained in a report compiled by Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) for the month of July,…
EDITOR — The statements made by Patrick Chinamasa, the Zanu PF secretary for legal affairs on the need for electoral reforms before the 2018 elections are pie in the sky. It is on record that the 2013 elections were rigged by Zanu PF and the party— aware that the people of Zimbabwe have rejected them…
