© HIGH Court judge Edith Mushore has ordered former first lady Grace Mugabe and her son Russell Goreraza to pay $278 000 to Manase and Manase Legal Practitioners, who represented the two in a botched US$1,4 million diamond ring deal lawsuit. The order issued on November 15, followed an application by Grace and her son…
© HARARE lawyer Norman Mugiya, who is the executor of the late former MDC Chitungwiza North MP Fidelis Mhashu’s estate, has taken two people to court claiming ownership of the late lawmaker’s car to return the property to him for fair and equal distribution to beneficiaries. Mhashu died in August last year. [GoogleAd] In the…
© BULAWAYO businessman Ismail Moosa Lunat, who is facing US$1,4 million fraud charges, has disputed the authenticity of documents that the State intends to tender as evidence during trial, arguing some of them are fake. Converging Investments (Pvt) Ltd represented by Hosea Mkwananzi, Lunat and Mohamed Iqbal Lunat appeared before Harare regional magistrate Morgan Nemadire…
© EDUCATORS have demanded that assistants to teachers with disability must also be paid bonuses as they have not been spared the harsh economic environment that all Zimbabweans are grappling with. Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) secretary-general Raymond Majongwe wrote to Public Service chairperson Vincent Hungwe, complaining about what he called “discrimination’’ against the…
© AN Umguza man appeared in court yesterday charged with sodomising a 14-year-old villager. Levison Mwale, 24, appeared before Bulawayo provincial magistrate Nomasiko Ndlovu facing a charge of aggravated indecent assault. Ndlovu remanded Mwale in custody to December 12 after denying him bail. [GoogleAd] Allegations are that on October 31, Mwale went to the complainant’s…
© THE European Union (EU) has raised concerns over alleged partisan food distribution in the country. EU ambassador to Zimbabwe Timo Olkkonen said he raised the matter with the government in a re-engagement meeting last week. “It goes without saying that any politicisation of humanitarian aid would be incredibly bad news for efforts to mobilise…
© AN EX-soldier, who claimed he was abducted by military police soon after leaving remand prison last year, has approached the High Court seeking to be released from jail. In his application Kudakwashe Gumbeze, who cited the State as the respondent, told the court that he was being unlawfully detained at Harare Central Prison since…
© CHIEF Makumbe, Shepherd Chengeta, who is also a senator in Buhera, has warned politicians against blocking donors and development partners from operating in his area, saying this has caused untold suffering for his subjects. This comes after a number of non-governmental organisations have been blocked from entering parts of Buhera by politicians for various…
© A CHITUNGWIZA man left the court shell-shocked after he revealed he had masturbated and ejaculated on a female passenger, saying he could not control a strange sexual urge passed on to him by his late grandfather. Pleading for lenience, Tafadzwa Mutamiri, 27, told Harare magistrate Sharon Rakafa that he cannot control himself whenever he…
© THE government says urban and rural councils in areas affected by a recent spate of lightning and hailstorms, that have claimed 19 lives, must immediately use devolution funds to assist affected communities. Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa told journalists during a post-Cabinet briefing in Harare yesterday that this year’s rainfall season kick-started with violent storms…
