LOCAL premiership coaches are hoping to use the one week delay to the resumption of football by the Premier Soccer League (PSL) to fine-tune their squads before finally getting down to serious business. While teams require at least six to eight weeks for conditioning ahead of the more gruelling football season, most local clubs have…
POLITICAL outfit Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP), which on Monday threatened to protest over transport woes in Bulawayo, has petitioned Transport minister Felix Mhona over Zupco’s continued monopoly as the country’s sole authorised public transporter. In the petition copied to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe, among other stakeholders, the party’s president, Mqondisi…
HIGH Court judge Esther Muremba has postponed Vice President Constatino Chiwenga’s divorce hearing to July 15 to allow the politician’s estranged wife, Marry, who is currently hospitalised, to attend the proceedings. Chiwenga’s lawyer Lewis Uriri yesterday consented to the application for postponement after establishing that Mubaiwa was indeed ill and admitted at a private hospital…
A HARARE man yesterday appeared in court after he was arrested on allegations of conniving with three Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) employees…
Tamary Chikiwain BULAWAYO THE Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Praz) has lost the battle to halt a joint elephant concession tender granted to Matupula Hunters by Tsholotsho Rural District Council (TRDC). Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Maxwell Takuva nullified Praz’s decision to cancel the tender on the basis that it was illegal. Praz is the…
THE Zimbabwe Platinum Mines Limited (Zimplats) has approached the High Court seeking eviction orders against seven ex-employees who are still occupying the company’s houses. In court papers filed by the platinum miner, Farai Mandimika, Maxwell Verenga, Triuona Makina, Rodwell Bhunu, Duplicate Ndoda, Liberty Dakarai and Bernard Mushanga were cited as respondents. The seven entered into…
THE government has launched a blitz against unregistered vehicles that are defying a ban on pirate operators by continuing to ferry passengers on roads across the country. At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in March last year, the government banned all private vehicles, including kombis, from operating unless they have been registered with the…
THE police on Monday recovered close to one kilogramme of cocaine stashed in a foreigner’s undergarments at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport after a tip off. The cocaine weighing 945g has a street value of $7 560 000. “The suspect had been placed under surveillance after reports that she was believed to have ingested…
THE MDC Alliance has been hit by fresh turbulence, with members of its youth assembly now aiming their guns at some of the opposition coalition’s senior officials, as leadership conflicts continue to ravage the often discordant group. This comes as political analysts have warned that the opposition risks receiving a heavy shellacking from Zanu PF…
FIVE people were murdered within a week with the police raising concern over the increase in murder cases, some of which are being committed by mentally-challenged individuals. In a statement yesterday, national police spokesperson Paul Nyathi said the law would take its course and perpetrators will be brought to book. “The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP)…
