PROSECUTOR General (PG) Loice Matanda-Moyo has announced some new senior appointments at the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA). The new appointments, according to a statement released by the NPA, are consistent with MatandaMoyo’s emphasis on professionalism and excellence. She was appointed PG last October by President Emmerson Mnangagwa. The first appointment announced by the NPA is…
ZANU PF’s Harare youth league chairperson Emmanuel Mahachi yesterday escaped armed robbery charges after a Harare magistrate denied the State’s application to place him on remand. Mahachi, 36, was arrested over the weekend on armed robbery charges after allegedly stealing a welding machine and generator at gunpoint. The State was alleging that Mahachi went to…
IT WAS inevitable that former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa’s political career would hit the skids again in the two-year-old party, as he is allegedly a “divisive character”. So say opposition stalwarts, Elias Mudzuri and Morgen Komichi, who worked with Chamisa — a self-confident pastor, lawyer and politician who answers to the…
Blessings Mashaya and Emmanuel Marambe STAFF WRITERS THE country’s oldest club Highlanders cannot continue to play second fiddle to the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League’s ambitious upstarts, the Bulawayo giants’ longtime benefactor and life member Tshinga Dube has said. Dube said Bosso, who are set to elect a new leadership to steer the team into…
AS THE country prepares to hold public hearings on Gukurahundi atrocities of the 1980s, authorities say those who wish to make submissions to the chiefs leading the process are encouraged to do so in person. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the deputy president of the Council of Chiefs, Fortune Charumbira, said they would limit…
PARLIAMENT has demanded that the ministry of Mines should provide the necessary details of the 40 mining companies granted exclusive prospective orders (EPOs) for the lawmakers to understand how transparent the mines’ operations are. An EPO gives exclusive rights to prospect for specified minerals in any identified location and are issued for three years. The…
FORMER legislator Job Sikhala and Chitungwiza North MP Godfrey Sithole will know their fate today as Harare magistrate Tafadzwa Miti is expected to hand down their sentence this afternoon. Sikhala and Sithole were convicted of incitement of public violence last week after the magistrate found them guilty of encouraging the uproar in Nyatsime in 2022…
ZANU PF is targeting to reclaim, in Saturday’s by-elections, three parliamentary seats which were snatched from the ruling party by the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) in last August general elections. The contested seats which Zanu PF lost to CCC last year are Seke, Zvimba East, and Chegutu West. The seats fell vacant at…
SIX people were killed, and five others seriously injured in a head-on collision on Sunday, police have said. National police spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi yesterday confirmed the accident. ‘‘The Zimbabwe Republic Police confirms a fatal road traffic accident which occurred on 28 January 2024 at around 1445 hours at the 102 kilometre peg along…
POLICE in Bulawayo have confirmed the arrest of 10 pupils who were caught boozing and taking drugs at a Vuzu party in Malindela low-density suburb. “We confirm the arrest of six boys from Milton High School, one male school leaver aged 17 and three girls from Evelyn High School who were at a Vuzu party…
