HARARE – A 48-year-old Harare man has been dragged to court for allegedly bashing his wife to death after she refused to leave a shebeen following a drinking binge. Black Zondiwa Mayowa, of Marimba, appeared before Harare magistrate Barbra Chimboza charged with murder. He was remanded in custody to June 9 and advised to apply…
HARARE – Opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader Tendai Biti has slammed President Robert Mugabe, labelling the 93-year-old as the “king” and “Pope of all African dictators who just but created a crisis that needs dynamic leadership to deal with”. The former Finance minister told his supporters in Bulawayo at an Africa Day commemoration event…
HARARE – As the unrelenting pressure being exerted on under-fire Zanu PF national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere (pictured) continues to mount, angry war veterans say it is time he is “cut loose” to save the ruling party from imploding. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, voluble war veterans leader and former Cabinet minister, Christopher Mutsvangwa,…
HARARE – Another crisis is looming at State hospitals, after fed up nurses gave notice to the government that they would soon embark on a crippling strike — as they press for improved working conditions and the dismissal of the Health Services Board (HSB) secretariat, which they accuse of failing to act on their grievances….
HARARE – The Avenues Clinic has become the first hospital in the country to deliver a test tube baby in almost two decades after re-introducing In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) programme last year. IVF is a process in which an egg is fertilised by sperm outside the body and the fertilised egg is later implanted into…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s controversial programme to redistribute land taken from white farmers cost 1,5 million jobs, Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa has said. “Right now our economy is highly informalised. I always give the statistics that in 1999 or thereabout, there were two million workers in the formal sector, by the time we reached 2005, because…
HARARE – The court hearing of Mutasa Central MDC legislator Trevor Saruwaka’s legal challenge to his ejection from the National Assembly last October for wearing a jacket with the country’s flag colours has been deferred to June 22. In the application, Saruwaka cited speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda and the chief security officer…
HARARE – The government must urgently investigate State police conduct at Anorld farm in Mazowe, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said. This comes after riot police harassed, beat up and illegally removed 200 families off the farm in Mazowe, Mashonaland Central province, in a farm seizure believed to be linked to President Robert Mugabe’s family….
HARARE – A Harare man has been jailed for five years for having sex with his girlfriend’s 13-year-old sister. Talent Chitsinde, 27, of Tynwald South, was initially charged with rape when he appeared before Harare regional magistrate Temba Kuwanda but was later convicted of having sex with a minor after it was proven that the…
HARARE – A woman tried to hire a hitman to kill her lover’s wife, a court has heard. Judith Makwara appeared before Harare regional magistrate Temba Kuwanda yesterday facing allegations of conspiracy to commit murder. Makwara is a congregant at Lead International Ministry and is suspected of having an extramarital affair with the church’s chief…
