HARARE – Zimbabwe’s senior judicial officers, including judges, magistrates and prosecutors, are clamouring for higher salaries and benefits. The call for better salaries was made by Chief Justice Luke Malaba — who is the head of the judicial system — as he opened the 2018 legal year in Harare yesterday. Malaba said judicial officers were…
BULAWAYO – The office of the Master of the High Court here has been ordered to move out of the main court building and seek new office space elsewhere. Constitutional Court judge Justice Elizabeth Gwaunza told delegates at the official opening of the 2018 legal year that the move was authorised by Chief Justice Luke…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s largest trade union federation is backing ailing MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai to be the opposition’s presidential candidate in the looming elections. Tsvangirai, who is currently receiving chemotherapy treatment in South Africa, has been the face of opposition parties for almost two decades. He is also the leader of the MDC Alliance, a…
HARARE – Six municipal police officers were injured last weekend after they were attacked by vendors in the central business district in an operation to rid the city of illegal hawkers. The fierce run-ins started at the intersection of Cameron Street and Jason Moyo Avenue and the vendors chased after the law enforcement agents. Harare…
HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) has received $6 million from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to buy water treatment chemicals. HCC expects to receive its consignment of water treatment chemicals by end of January in order to increase water production to more than 520 Megalitres (ML) per day. In an interview with the…
HARARE – A Chinamhora man, who was employed by businesswoman Zodwa Mkandla as a security guard and stole over $66 000 worth of property from her in 2016, has been nabbed. Justice Jasi, 23, who has been a fugitive from law enforcement authorities for the past two years, has been arrested and appeared before…
HARARE – A Harare woman allegedly used a forged Ordinary Level certificate to get employment as an insurance agent at First Mutual in 2006, a Harare court heard yesterday. Abigail Mhizha, 45, was released on $40 bail when she appeared before Harare magistrate Josephine Sande charged with contravening the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council Act by…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa staked his political fate on a promise to revive the economy, and his failure to turn around the country’s finances so far is beginning to attract scorn from long-suffering Zimbabweans. In a glum radio interview, Mnangagwa’s spokesperson George Charamba has for the first time acknowledged the promise to turnaround the…
HARARE – Hospitality and Allied Workers Union of Zimbabwe has been legally registered to represent the interests of non-managerial employees in the hotel, catering and hospitality industry. This comes after the union made an application to the Registrar of Labour which complied with the provisions of the Labour Act. In a Government Gazette published on…
HARARE – A GANG of armed robbers that reigned terror in Waterfalls, Harare have been jailed for 15 years. Norman Muchemwa, 38, Victor Mubaiwa, 38, of Materereni Flats in Mbare and Moffat Phiri, 34, of Epworth were convicted of armed robbery when they appeared before Harare regional magistrate Elijah Makomo. They were sentenced to five…
