HARARE – The trial of Children’s Clinic owner, Alexander Tarasana Guni, who dragged his wife to court after she allegedly stole various items from his company, including a safe containing $400 000, resumes on Monday. The wife, Christina Hamiton, 26, is answering to fraud and theft charges before Harare magistrate Francis Mapfumo. According to State…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s office has said the text-messaging campaign that debuted this week was part of the ruling Zanu PF’s sophisticated online campaign that had absolutely nothing to do with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec). This follows an innovative political advertising campaign canvassing votes for Mnangagwa and Zanu PF parliamentary candidates, which has…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) has embarked on a door-to-door physical audit of electricity connections on consumer premises. This comes against the backdrop of the rise in the number of consumers who are being apprehended by police for by-passing and tampering with their prepaid meters or effecting direct connections without…
CHIREDZI – Chiredzi Town Council is set to introduce prepaid parking discs in their central business district (CBD) from next month. In a statement, council said there would be two parking discs, one for 30 minutes and another covering one hour. “Notice is hereby given that in terms of section 229 of the Urban Councils…
HARARE – Legal watchdog — Veritas — has raised alarm over the conflation of State and Zanu PF in ongoing efforts to prohibit political parties from using school property and forcing attendance of school children to political rallies. This comes after the Supreme Court set July 27, three days before the elections, as the day…
BULAWAYO – MDC Alliance officials spent a night at the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) headquarters at Ross Camp here in a bid to thwart police officers from casting their votes. Top MDC Alliance official Gideon Shoko, one of those who laid an all-night vigil at the camp, alongside provincial chair Gift Banda, Bulawayo central legislator…
BULAWAYO – Zimbabwe’s second largest city, Bulawayo, is to introduce water cuts because of electrical faults at its main water treatment works, a top official has said. Authorities said there was no pumping at one of Bulawayo’s main dams that supply the city of about one million people because pump station electrical cables had been…
MUTASA – MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa has now publicly disowned the MDC-T name saying his party would not be using the name ever again. Addressing thousands of party supporters at Mutasa DC yesterday, Chamisa warned his supporters not to be confused by the name and symbols on the ballot paper saying that his party…
HARARE – Political tension is rising in Zimbabwe as the country prepares to hold its national elections in two weeks’ time — with opposition leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday accusing the election management body, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), of being “biased” and “incompetent”. [Adz]
HARARE – Harare City coach Mark Harrison is urging his players not to take struggling Bulawayo City lightly in tomorrow’s Castle Lager Premiership encounter at Barbourfields Stadium. The Sunshine Boys are enjoying a new lease of life under Harrison since their return to the top flight following their relegation last season. City, who acquired the…
