PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu PF remain open to national dialogue as long as this will foster unity and help to lift the lives of all Zimbabweans. So says presidential spokesperson George Charamba, who also revealed at the weekend that authorities had once again recently invited former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa,…
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc)’s has opened a probe into the reported US$40 million Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) tender awarded to a company associated with businessmen Wicknell Chivayo, Mike Chimombe and Morris Mpofu that supplied electoral materials for last year’s general elections. The investigation is a welcome development in the fight against corruption in the…
By Rutendo Ngara ngarar@dailynews.co.zw DEPUTY Judge President, 10 High Court and one Administrative Court judges were sworn in yesterday by chief justice Luke Malaba. This comes as the new judges were subjected to a rigorous selection process by the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) which lasted nearly two months. Speaking to the media after the swearing…
By Stella Madzivanyika ICONIC shopping complex, Sam Levy’s Village in Harare’s leafy Borrowdale suburb, is up for sale for US$120 million. Real estate agents, Pam Golding Properties, are managing the sell of the family-owned centre built in 1990 by the late prominent Jewish businessman, Sam Rahamin Levy. A self-made tycoon, Levy, died in 2012 at…
By Rutendo Ngara ngarar@dailynews.co.zw BUSINESSMEN Mike Chimombe and Moses Mpofu have offered to cooperate with the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) in a case they are being probed for suspected money laundering. This comes after Zacc has opened a probe into the US$40 million deal awarded by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to businessman Wicknell Chivayo…
By Ketty Nyoni nyonik@dailynews.co.zw EIGHT St Bernard Mizeki pilgrims are suspected to have been burnt beyond recognition after the Pashonlink bus they were travelling in caught fire and burnt to ashes on Sunday night along Nyabadza-Gandanzara Road, Manicaland. They were returning from the St Bernard Mizeki annual commemorations in Marondera. National police spokesperson Paul Nyathi…
By Rutendo Ngara ngarar@dailynews.co.zw A HARARE woman Marvelous Mapfumo, 34, was yesterday convicted of US$107 000 theft by Harare magistrate Ethel Chichera. She pleaded guilty to theft charges and she was remanded in custody to today for sentencing. On May 30, Mapfumo connived with Herbet Chihwiza Kurebgwaseka and Paul Kondo to steal the cash from…
By Rutendo Ngara ngarar@dailynews.co.zw A CONGOLESE ‘magician’ Jean-Piere Kingombe, 49, who is facing US$100 000 fraud charges was denied bail yesterday because he breached terms of his 2009 sentence for fraud. Kingombe is in custody because he allegedly duped Nyasha Masoka US$100 000 when he and his accomplices James Munetsi Kamupiro and one Issac, who…
By Yvonne Ncube in BULAWAYO A BULAWAYO court has acquitted a 45-year-old woman from Cowdray Park on charges of stealing four Honda Fit vehicles. Ottilia Ncube was acquitted of all charges following a full trial before Bulawayo regional magistrate Joseph Mabeza. In his ruling, Mabeza said the State failed to establish a prima facie case…
By Brandon Josphat josphabl@dailynews.co.zw AFTER months of hogging the limelight for all sorts of reasons, things suddenly appear to be going South…
