MDC parliamentarian Joanna Mamombe and fellow activists Netsai Marova and Cecilia Chimbiri’s application in which they are seeking the presiding magistrate and a prosecutor’s recusal from their trial will be heard today before High Court judge Tawanda Chitapi. This comes as Chitapi ordered that the trio’s trial be stalled pending the determination of the application…
FOUR Local Government ministry officials accused of recommending allocation of residential stands to their friends, who were not on the housing waiting list have been granted $20 000 bail each. Andrew Shawatu, who was the principal administration officer of the State lands section and Priscilla Mudzinge, who was the director of urban planning and commonage…
LOW cost airline Nu Aero (Private) Limited, trading as Fly Africa Zimbabwe (Fly Africa, and its directors, Cassidy Mugwagwa and Mekias Munyaradzi, have been dragged to the High Court by a local firm demanding US$300 000, which was part of an investment into the aeroplane business. In the application, Skyes Bond Holding Company (SBHC) told…
INDIA’S coronavirus deaths crossed a quarter million yesterday in the deadliest day since the pandemic began, as the disease rampaged through the countryside, overloading a fragile rural healthcare system. Boosted by highly infectious variants, the second wave erupted in February to inundate hospitals and medical staff, as well as crematoriums and mortuaries. Experts are still…
THE family of the late former president Robert Mugabe says it will fight all attempts to exhume his remains from his rural home in Kutama Village. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Mugabe’s angry nephew Leo also said none of the close family members would attend the traditional court in Zvimba, Mashonaland West — further describing its…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has extended Chief Justice Luke Malaba’s term of office by another five years despite the resistance from legal experts, civic organisations and the opposition. In a letter written by Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Misheck Sibanda to Malaba yesterday, Mnangagwa said medical reports validated that the Chief Justice, who turns…
ZIMBABWE will this year receive over US$1 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), funds which the government will channel toward Covid-19 relief programmes, a central bank official has said. Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe deputy governor Khupukile Mlambo, pictured, yesterday told a Lupane State University and the Women Institute for Leadership Development (Wild) public lecture…
THE United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) Zimbabwe has partnered the government in a national strategy aimed at ending child marriages after nearly 5 000 girls got pregnant during the Covid-19-induced lockdown. Speaking during the launch of the strategy in Guruve on Monday, Women Affairs minister Sithembiso Nyoni, pictured, who was the guest of honour, said…
ORGANISERS of the Bulawayo Arts Festival (Baf), which takes place every year in the first week of June, have promised a hybrid event catering for both physical and online audiences. The festival, now in its second year, provides an opportunity for Zimbabwe’s second largest city to showcase its cultural heritage and creative diversity. It came…
THE National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (Nacz) has announced a medical facility under which artists and arts journalists can access medical services…
