HARARE – An employee with Premier Tobacco Auction Floors has been charged with fraud after she allegedly hacked into the banking system of a local financial institution from which she spirited nearly $10 000. Lizzie Kandengwa, 40, was released on $50 bail when she appeared before Harare magistrate Josephine Sande charged with fraud. As part…
HARARE – Chicken-raring in residential areas poses a serious health risk that has largely been ignored by authorities because of the country’s economic hardships, the Manicaland Poultry Producers Association MPPA) has said. The association’s chairperson, Enoch Mbendani, told Eastern News that government must bring the practice to a stop as it puts the public’s health…
HARARE – High Court judge Felistas Chatukuta has interdicted the Harare City Council from constructing a bus terminus opposite Rhodesville Police Station in Harare following an objection lodged by Hillside and Eastlea residents. The applicant was Munyaradzi Mutsai and 19 others, while the respondent was the City of Harare, Local Government minister July Moyo, Tourism…
HARARE – One of the key pronouncements made by new Zanu PF leader and State President Emmerson Mnangagwa centred around the issue of graft, without doubt an impediment to national economic growth and the general advancement in the quality of life for ordinary Zimbabweans. Having promised to hit the ground running in his inaugural speech…
EDITOR — I am alarmed at the rate at which women and especially children are being sexually violated by shameless individuals in our society. Everyday, reports of rape of both minors and women flood our media, and police stations while many others are unreported. I call upon the responsible authorities to take sterner measures to…
HARARE – Former soldier and popular dancer — Lyn Magodo AKA Eriza — has announced the arrival of her baby. She posted pictures of her newly-born baby on social media platform Facebook with the caption “with my baby girl.” The popular dancer who featured in the video of smash hit Eriza off Jah Prayzah’ album…
PORT ELIZABETH – This Test match was meant to last four days. It didn’t last too much longer than four sessions. In all, it lasted 907 balls, which made it the third-shortest Test match since World War II, not counting the contrived events of the Centurion Test in 2000. It was also the first two-day…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has given the country’s deposed former leader Robert Mugabe an eye-watering exit package which includes benefits commensurate with those of a sitting head of State. Details of the frail nonagenarian’s massive golden handshake were announced in the Government Gazette on Friday under Presidential Pension and Retirement Packages Notice 2017….
HARARE – Government’s fight against corruption has gathered momentum with the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) widening its dragnet to include the private sector and local authorities where the anti-graft body is investigating tender scams which might have prejudiced government tens of millions of dollars This comes as former ministers and senior parastatal officials who served…
HARARE – In most cases, when a man is jailed for a long period, his world comes down crashing on him, and all hopes and dreams about life fade away. Doom and gloom consume him. And the situation is especially tough for the man’s wife, if he is married. Left behind to fend for the…
