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Blessing Masakadza STAFF WRITER masakadzab@dailynews.co.zw CHIEF magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi yesterday said magistrates across the country will undergo training to improve the quality of judicial output. He said they were looking at improving the decisions that come out of the magistrates’ courts such as judgments and sentences. Several judgments and sentences have been taken up for…

Tarisai Machakaire STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zw POLICE have separately arrested three suspected carjackers who recently attacked motorists before fleeing with their cars. The trio has been identified as Obedience Mombeyarara, Justice Mabiso and a 16-year-old juvenile. Mombeyarara has already appeared in court charged with one count of robbery of a motor vehicle and was remanded in…

Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw AUTHORITIES are considering lifting the current coronavirus curfew as the country records increasingly fewer infections and more recoveries from the lethal disease, the Daily News reports. However, medical experts — taking into account what the World Health Organisation (WHO) said earlier this week — have warned that it is…

Blessing Masakadza STAFF WRITER masakadzab@dailynews.co.zw MDC Alliance deputy national chairperson, Job “Wiwa” Sikhala, will spend more time in remand prison after he was denied bail yesterday. This follows the larger-than-life Zengeza West legislator’s arrest last month, during which police claimed that he had been found hiding in a ceiling at a house in Tynwald North…

Tarisai Machakaire STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zw HIGH Court judge, Justice Pisirai Kwenda, yesterday roasted the State for preferring a fraud case against businessman and CAPS United owner Farai Jere, saying there is a disconnection between allegations and the charge. Granting Jere $20 000 bail, Kwenda questioned prosecutor Edmore Makoto the basis of charging Jere for allegedly…

Blessing Masakadza STAFF WRITER masakadzab@dailynews.co.zw SUSPENDED Registrar-General Clemence Masango, who is facing theft charges involving fuel coupons worth $108 000, has been freed on $10 000 bail. The State had opposed his admission to bail and on Wednesday he, together with his alleged accomplices Arthur Mathews and Benjamin Makiwa, spent the night in remand prison….

Mugove Tafirenyika and Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITERS MANY Zimbabweans are warming up to the recent calls for national dialogue and an internal resolution of the country’s decades-long political and economic crises, while also imploring President Emmerson Mnangagwa to move with speed to hold the much-needed talks with all key stakeholders. Among the groups which…

Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw NEWLY-APPOINTED Lands and Agriculture minister, Anxious Masuka, said yesterday that the government’s decision to compensate and restore land titles to white former commercial farmers was not a reversal of the country’s land reform programme. This comes after the government recently signed a US$3,5 billion Global Compensation Agreement with the…

Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw ZIMBABWE is likely to experience tropical cyclones in the forthcoming rainfall season which will result in floods, violent storms and damages to homesteads due to La Nina weather patterns, Environment minister Mangaliso Ndhlovu has said. A La Nina is a weather pattern that normally results in more rainfall as…

Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw SOME members of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) have demanded the dissolution of the Christopher Mutsvangwa-led executive on account of neglecting them, the Daily News reports. Addressing the media in Harare yesterday, the former freedom fighters led by Ethan Mathibela, who was flanked by Ignatius Mutsinze,…