VETERAN songtress Fungisai Zvakavapano Mashavave is a disappointed person after she arrived in the United Kingdom too late to perform at the much-hyped “Gratitude Tour Concert” which took place in Birmingham on March 5. Fungisai, who was scheduled to share the stage with multi-platinum-selling South African gospel artist Dr Tumi, blamed her late arrival in…
IN YET another chilling warning, the parliamentary portfolio committee on Defence and Home Affairs has warned that the country’s police service could collapse if poor working conditions bedevilling the law enforcement agency are not urgently addressed. In a report recently presented in Parliament, the portfolio committee’s chairperson, Levi Mayihlome, said morale in the police had…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday appointed Nelson Mutsonziwa as acting prosecutor-general following the resignation of Kumbirai Hodzi on medical grounds last week. In a terse statement, Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Misheck Sibanda said the appointment of Mutsonziwa was with immediate effect. Mutsonziwa was a chief law officer in the prosecutor-general’s office. Mnangagwa last…
THE High court has allowed Palehouse Investments to institute legal action against Hwange Colliery Company (Hwange) for unlawfully terminating their contract despite the coal miner being under debt reconstruction. Palehouse Investments approached the courts seeking for an administrative review after Dale Sibanda, who is overseeing Hwange’s debt reconstruction, denied the company an opportunity to sue…
A KUWADZANA man Enock Kufa who was accused of having worked in cahoots with five men to kidnap and rob his wife’s lover of US$300 was yesterday acquitted by Harare magistrate Shane Kubonero. Kufa, who was represented by his lawyer Liberty Gono, was acquitted after the court ruled that there was no strong evidence against…
THE government has set up special courts around the country to deal expeditiously with all cases involving political violence and intimidation. In a notice gazetted at the weekend, the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) said it had designated trial magistrates for all such cases. “It is hereby declared that the Judicial Service Commission, in terms of…
Andile Tshuma ZIMBABWEANS residing in South Africa’s Gauteng Province are living in fear following continued violent xenophobic attacks by the Operation Dudula Movement. Operation Dudula Movement was recently started by a group of radical South Africans who believe the answer to the country’s economic wars and unemployment among the black communities was in the deportation…
Shamaine Chirimujiri A SUSPECTED bogus landlady from Mabelreign, Harare, was hauled before Harare Magistrates’ Courts yesterday on allegations of defrauding a home seeker of US$1 400. Chipo Masaiti was remanded to today for bail hearing when she appeared before magistrate Yeukai Dzuda. The allegations are that the complainant was looking for a full house to…
Rumbidzai Ngwenya ZIMBABWE is capacitating its security agencies and relevant authorities to combat money laundering and related financial crimes, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has said. This comes as the country was last week delisted from the international Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list after an on-site evaluation exercise carried out in January this year….
Melisa Chatikobo THE government has assured the nation that despite the anticipated drought due to climate change-induced erratic rains this season the country has enough grain reserves. Speaking during a post-Cabinet briefing in Harare yesterday, Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa said the government’s first round of crop and livestock survey had confirmed that climate change was affecting…
