© ACTIVIST-CUM-cleric Evan Mawarire and Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union president Peter Mutasa’s freedom bid hit a brick wall after a Harare magistrate yesterday quashed their application for refusal of further remand. [GoogleAd] Mawarire and Mutasa are accused of plotting to topple the government after they posted video online inviting members of the public to engage…
© AMALGAMATED Rural Teachers Union (Artuz) president Obert Masaraure was yesterday released from prison after a Harare magistrate cancelled a warrant of arrest against him. [GoogleAd] Masaraure, who is on remand on allegations of attempting to subvert a constitutionally-elected government allegedly failed to report to Hwedza Police Station on June 14 as ordered by the court. …
© THE late retired Army general Vitalis Zvinavashe’s son Richard has been barred from entering his late father’s Tynwald property after his step mother who enjoys usufruct rights over the house dragged him to the High Court for trespassing. [GoogleAd] Justice Sylvia Chirawu-Mugomba granted the application for an interdict filed by the late general’s widow Margaret…
© ZIMBABWE desperately needs to start trading its huge stockpile of ivory worth a whopping US$600 million but that would lead to confrontation with the Convention of on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites), which among other things enforces bans on rhino and ivory trade. [GoogleAd] The need to trade in ivory would enable Zimbabwe to…
© ZIMBABWE National Water Authority (Zinwa) has warned that most of the country’s major dams are fast losing water — with the majority of them declining to levels below 70 percent. [GoogleAd] This comes as the country is currently paying the price of a precipitous decline of water levels in Kariba Dam which has resulted massive…
© FORMER Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke has claimed his appeals seeking quashing of rape conviction and sentence are being manipulated by Judicial Service Commission (JSC) officers. [GoogleAd] Kereke has struggled to no avail to be released from prison where he is serving a 10-year jail sentence for raping his wife’s niece at gun point. He…
© CIVIL servants have demanded that government reviews their salaries in line with the prevailing economic situation after their US-dollar salary demand was overtaken by events following the administration’s decision to ban the multi-currency system. [GoogleAd] The civil servants had all along been demanding to be paid in US dollars which the government said it…
© THE business community is engrossed in scenario building after it was caught unawares by the currency reforms introduced by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube on Monday. [GoogeAd] Political analyst Pius Pigou said there is a sense that the multi-currency regime was smuggled under the cover of darkness. He said a significant amount of Zimbabweans, including those…
© LEGISLATORS from MDC and Zanu PF were yesterday sharply divided over the re-introduction of the Zimbabwean dollar as the ruling party supported the idea while the opposition argued that the move is going to make the situation worse. [GoogleAd] The motion was introduced by Hwedza North MP David Musabayana who praised Finance minister Mthuli Ncube…
© WARRIORS’ players are demanding their outstanding dues or else they will boycott Zimbabwe’s second 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) game against Uganda tomorrow at the Cairo International Stadium. [GoogleAd] This will not be the first time the players have threatened not to fulfil a game at Africa’s biggest football tournament after they almost…
