June 2020

Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw ZANU PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu has backed ruling party secretary for war veterans Douglas Mahiya for launching the war veterans’ league. This comes after Zanu PF political commissar Victor Matemadanda slammed Mahiya for organising a party meeting without the knowledge of the commissariat department. In a video…

Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw POLICE yesterday swooped on the three MDC Alliance youth leaders, who participated in a flash demonstration in Warren Park, Harare recently and arrested them on fresh charges of reporting fake abduction and torture. The trio, Joana Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova, were first arrested last month and appeared…

Blessing Masakadza STAFF WRITER masakadzab@dailynews.co.zw A 32-YEAR-OLD maid reportedly vanished with her employer’s daughter and various wares a day after assuming employment. Vimbai Taonezvi appeared in court answering to the allegations and she will know her fate today when magistrate Richard Ramaboa hands down sentence. State counsel Benjamin Chikerema told the court that on December…

Tarisai Machakaire STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zw THE High Court has upheld a conviction passed against reinstated MDC chairperson Morgen Komichi for disrupting announcement of 2018 election results after his appeal was dismissed for lack of merit. Komichi was fined $200 or two months in prison after he was convicted of disrupting the announcement of the July…

Blessing Masakadza STAFF WRITER masakadzab@dailynews.co.zw A HARARE woman has appeared in court on allegations of fraud with the State alleging she was linking herself to President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Chirambe Chikafu, 44, allegedly used the name Chantelle Mnangagwa in the offences before her real identity was discovered. She was not asked to plead to two counts…