HARARE – Former President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace have filed High Court papers challenging an application by three Mazowe farmers evicted from Teviotdale Farm in 2009 to pave way for the ex-first family’s company Gushungo Holdings (Private) Limited. In their application, the three farmers — Adonia Makombe, Sahungwe Hungwe and Nyika Chifamba —…
HARARE – Zanu PF Murehwa North legislator Daniel Garwe faces jail-time if he loses an appeal challenging a contempt of court conviction after defying a court order to stop stripping the family farm in Mvuma which is part of assets in a dissolution of marriage dispute with his estranged wife, Pedzisayi Miriam Lillieth Garwe. High…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is set to expand service points for duty assessments and deploy additional staff at Beitbridge Border Post in anticipation of an increase in traffic and cargo following the lifting of import restrictions. This comes after government lifted a ban of imports of listed basic commodities into Zimbabwe from South…
HARARE – Passengers Association of Zimbabwe (PAZ) president Tafadzwa Goliati was assaulted by touts at Mbare bus terminus this weekend while conducting a campaign aimed at ending violence against women and girls in public spaces. Goliati, 45, said he was brutally attacked by touts at the rank of Gokwe-bound buses. “I was conducting a survey…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s cash- strapped government is splashing close to $11 million on school fees for war veterans’ children. This comes as government is failing to adequately fund the Basic Education Assistance Module (Beam) initiative, meant to assist orphaned and vulnerable children, those living with disabilities or in foster care under poor parents, street children,…
HARARE – MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has said his party will not hesitate to weed out mayors who build “nicodemus” and corrupt relations with Zanu PF bigwigs for personal gain. Chamisa was reacting to allegations that he has unlawfully axed mayors in Victoria Falls, Chitungwiza and Masvingo. The opposition leader said mayors are not elected…
HARARE – Former Civil Service Commission permanent secretary Francis Pedzana Gudyanga was yesterday granted his passport to allow him to travel to Benin for a conference. Gudyanga is jointly charged with former Mines minister Walter Chidakwa and are facing allegations of misappropriating $29 000 in board sitting allowances. Chidakwa is being accused of appointing Gudyanga…
HARARE – A Venezuelan woman was yesterday arraigned before the courts after she was caught with more than five kilogrammes of cocaine with a street value of $469 000. Delcy Daymar Rodriguez Guererro was arrested upon landing at the Robert Mugabe International Airport on her way from Brazil. Guererro appeared before Harare magistrate Rumbidzai Mugwagwa…
HARARE – The trial of former University of Zimbabwe Vice Chancellor Levi Nyagura has been temporarily halted pending the outcome of a Constitutional Court (Con-Court) appeal challenging his prosecution. Nyagura is being charged with criminal abuse of office after he allegedly awarded a “bogus” PhD to former first lady Grace Mugabe. Nyagura was arrested in…
HARARE – Commercial farmers have lamented lack of security of tenure or title deeds that can enable them to borrow from banks to buy machinery or pay for seasonal expenses such as seeds or fertiliser. Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) director Peter Benjamin Purcell-Gilpin said that lack of affordable finances stemmed from the issue of land…
