THE Supreme Court has reserved judgment in an application in which two MDC activists Last Maengahama and Tungamirai Madzokere, who were jailed for murdering a police officer in Harare’s Glen View suburb in 2011, are challenging their conviction and 20-year prison term. The activists, represented by Beatrice Mtetwa and Charles Kwaramba, are challenging the court’s…
HIGH Court judges Pisirayi Kwenda and Benjamin Chikowero have ordered that former Tourism and Hospitality minister Prisca Mupfumira go for trial after throwing out her application in which she sought a review of a decision by the Harare Magistrates’ Courts. Mupfumira approached the High Court after acting chief magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi dismissed her application. She…
THE United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) regional director Julitta Onabanjo is unhappy with the rate at which the number of teenage pregnancies continue to rise in Zimbabwe. Onabanjo’s comments came in the wake of a recent Unesco report which revealed that 6 159 girls dropped out of school last year due to early unintended pregnancies….
PEOPLE arrested for illegally trading in foreign currency are not being successfully convicted because the public is unwilling to be witnesses, Home Affairs deputy minister Mike Madiro has said. Madiro told Senators recently that there was need for citizens to team up with the police to fight crime, including the black market foreign currency trade….
GRAIN millers are in the habit of hoarding government’s subsidised maize meal to sell on the black market, a development that has led to serious shortages of the product, Parliament heard yesterday. This was said by minister of Industry Sekai Nzenza in the Senate while responding to a question by MDC Senator for Bulawayo Gideon…
INDEPENDENT power producers (IPPS), who are courting foreign investors, have told Parliament the financiers are demanding power purchasing agreements (PPA)s which stipulate that payment be denominated in US$, but payable in local currency so that shareholders are not shortchanged on their dividends. Appearing before the parliamentary portfolio committee on Energy and Power Development to give…
MENTAL health centres are being weighed down by serious impediments, which include severe shortage of staff and medicine in addition to poor infrastructure, the parliamentary portfolio committee on Health and Child Care has said. In a report tabled in the National Assembly on Tuesday, the committee laid bare deep-rooted inadequacies undermining mental health institutions. “The…
MALE sex workers have complained that the stigmatisation and criminalisation of their profession is derailing the country’s progress in reducing the spread of sexually-transmitted infections (STIs) as it is hindering them from accessing essential health services. This comes as the world on Tuesday commemorated International Sex Workers’ Rights Day, with efforts aimed at demanding recognition…
ZIMBABWE needs to strengthen and constitute legal aid services (Paralegals) in order to improve access to justice and the rule of law, legal fraternity stakeholders have said. This came out yesterday during a workshop organised by the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) in partnership with Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) and Legal Resources Foundation (LRF)…
ZIMBABWE Old People Association (Zopa) of Chitungwiza has petitioned the Local Government parliamentary portfolio committee to investigate sewer problems in the town. In its presentation to Parliament recently, Zopa, a grouping of elderly people, said the town is now only left with one functional sewer pump to serve over a million people, amid fears it…
