EIGHT Pakistanis were yesterday arraigned before the Harare Magistrates’ Court after they were arrested earlier this week for allegedly forging immigration documents to enter the country. The eight are Farukh Dilawar, 20, Tahir Azeem, 37, Sikandar Zulquarnain, 31, Muhammad Tahir, 26, Muhammad Fayaz , 39, Muhammad Asif, 26, , Muhammad Ali, 28, and a 15-year-old…
TWENTY-FIVE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) members, arrested last Saturday in Budiriro, Harare, for allegedly holding an unsanctioned meeting, spent another night in remand prison yesterday after the magistrate postponed their bail ruling for the fourth time. They will appear in court again today. During the hearing yesterday, investigating officer George Garauzive told the court…
Ashley Moyo moyoa@dailynews.co.zw AWARD-WINNING musicians Pah Chihera and Terry Afrika have combined forces to form a group called The Hera Duo. The two hitmakers, who collaborated on the hits Sarura Wako and Kangoma six years ago, settled on the name, The Hera Duo in recognition of their Mhofu/ Museyamwa totem. “It is the coming together of Terry Afrika and…
THE Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) has completed the marking of the 2022 Ordinary Level examinations and is now making final assessments of the results before their release. The 2022 ‘O’ Level examinations were marred by serious leakages, with pupils, teachers and headmaster, among others, who were implicated in the scam being arrested while candidates caught…
Emmanuel MarambeSPORTS WRITERmarambee@dailynews.co.zw THE proverbial lightning struck twice at Harare Sports Club yesterday as youthful wicket-keeper batsman Clive Madande struck a boundary off the last delivery of the day to secure Zimbabwe a sensational victory in the first ODI. Madande, who also got the winning runs in the first T20 last week, was the hero…
IT IS heartening to note the convergence of the country’s main political parties — Zanu PF, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) and the MDC — on the paramount need for national unity and dialogue to end the country’s decades-long political and economic crises. President Emmerson Mnangagwa spent the better part of last year calling an…
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has introduced a “block management system” where it will embark on a door-to-door programme to ensure that all businesses comply with the tax payment and registration system. In a statement yesterday, Zimra said the door-to-door tax collection, which began early this month, would be carried out at all business premises…
SOME legislators have added their voices to calls to postpone this year’s national polls, saying this would allow the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to fix the flaws in its draft delimitation report, while also allowing the country to recover from Covid’s effects. This comes after the Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) recently joined some opposition…
PARLIAMENT yesterday adopted its ad hoc committee report on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission’s (Zec) preliminary delimitation report following a two-day heated debate that saw MPs demanding that the electoral body correct flaws raised by the legislators. The ad hoc committee report would be handed to President Emmerson Mnangagwa today at State House before he transmitted…
POLICE Commissioner-General, Godwin Matanga, warned yesterday that law enforcement agents would not hesitate to shoot to kill violent criminals engaging in murders and armed robberies around the country. The emotional Matanga said this in Harare, at the funeral wake of Hwedza Police Station officer-in-charge, Inspector Maxwell Hove, 43 — who was allegedly shot and killed…
