A LEGAL battle has erupted between Murewa Rural District Council (MRDC) and the Congregation of Apostolic Ministries (CAM) church over ownership of Maponongwe Secondary School in the Mashonaland East province. The council has since approached the High Court citing the church and one of its members Dunwell Mvochora as respondents. “Sometime between 2003 and 2006,…
BILL and Melinda Gates have announced they are to divorce after 27 years of marriage, saying they “no longer believe we can grow together as a couple”. The Microsoft co-founder turned philanthropist and his wife have built up a combined US$124billion fortune, making them among the five richest couples in the world. “After a great…
LAST Saturday, India surpassed 400 000 Covid-19 cases in a single day — marking a new global record while at the same time sending a strong signal to the rest of the world that the lethal virulent respiratory disease is here for some time. The second wave of coronavirus in India —which has a mammoth…
INFORMATION minister Monica Mutsvangwa says the government has agreed to deploy special security forces to deal with artisanal miners who have become notorious along the Bulawayo-Beitbridge railway. In a post-Cabinet media briefing last night, Mutsvangwa said the move to deploy a special crack team was meant to save railway infrastructure. “In the area operated by…
PREPARATIONS by political parties for the 2023 national elections are gathering pace, with the ruling Zanu PF announcing at the weekend that it had embarked on a national restructuring exercise ahead of the fast approaching polls. At the same time, analysts said yesterday that the former liberation movement’s root and branch re-organisation exercise demonstrated how…
THE Senate yesterday overwhelmingly voted for the passage of Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 2, after 65 legislators voted in favour of it, while only 10 voted against it, as the opposition MDC once again found common ground with the ruling Zanu PF party. Out of the 80 senators in Parliament, Zanu PF currently has 53…
POLICE in Bulawayo have impounded over 400 motor vehicles operating illegally and not registered with the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) in terms of the new regulations put in place to curb the spread of Covid-19. Bulawayo police spokesperson Abednico Ncube, however, told journalists that reports that all personal vehicles or those belonging to a…
THE government has admitted that prices of basic commodities have in recent months increased marginally and is now working tirelessly to curb…
LABOUR minister Paul Mavima says the government will incorporate pensioners’ representatives in the new National Social Security Authority (Nssa) board which will be announced in a few days. This comes as Mavima, last year, dissolved the entire Nssa board which was chaired by Cuthbert Chidoori and replaced it with a three-member interim team while awaiting…
FORMER Public Service minister Priscah Mupfumira, pictured, has launched a fresh application this time seeking for chief magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi to recuse himself from her corruption trial. This came out in Mupfumira’s application in which she is seeking an order for the review of her case at the High Court. Mupfumira also wants the trial…
