© TWO armed robbers arrested following a shoot-out with police have each been slapped with an 18-year prison term. Cephas Ndoorwi, 35, and Rodin Gutsa, 34, were found guilty of armed robbery by Ha- rare regional magistrate Morgan Nemadire. Their accomplices, Kelvin Chasakara, 26, and George Manyanga, 38, were cleared by the court. Nemadire suspended…
© PRISONERS are living in squalid and poorly ventilated small rooms for 18 hours, with non-functional ablution facilities that are flushed once in the morning, it has been revealed. This was laid bare in a court application by a Cameroonian refugee, Frank Imani, who is locked up at Harare Remand Prison for flouting immigration laws. …
© FOUR suspected land barons who illegally sold land to over 120 people appeared in court yesterday. Ambrose Musarurwa, 50, Edward Maendani, 48, Richard Marambwa, 38, and Kelvin Chikombo, 34, were charged with fraud when they appeared before Harare magistrate Victoria Mashamba. [GoogleAd] They were remanded in custody to December 20 pending their bail application,…
© A 51-YEAR-OLD Harare man has been jailed nine years after he was found with five pieces of raw ivory. Tomson Fradric Jamu was convicted of contravening the Parks and Wildlife Act by Harare magistrate Learnmore Mapiye yesterday. Jamu failed to defend himself, leaving the court with no option but to sentence him to the…
© THE Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) is manned by 407 employees, including 34 “idle” permanent secretaries who are draining the country’s wafer-thin financial resources, Parliament has heard. The revelations about President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s bloated work force were made on Wednesday by opposition MDC MPs in the National Assembly as they took Finance…
© A HARARE man who reportedly extorted money from his wife’s lover after discovering the pair’s illicit affair appeared in court yesterday. Maxwell Mutandwa, 35, was released on free bail when he appeared before Harare magistrate Joy Chikodzore charged with extortion. The trial commences on January 6. The complainant is 43-year-old Wadzanai Manyika, who lived…
© PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said land barons implicated by the Commission of Inquiry into the Sale of State Land would be dealt with without “fear or favour.” Mnangagwa told journalists before a politburo meeting in Harare yesterday that the land barons would face the full wrath of the law. [GoogleAd] “Yesterday (Tuesday), I received…
© TREASURY is contemplating reducing budget allocations for ministries that fail to either account for the resources given to them by the government or underperform, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has said. Responding to Norton legislator Temba Mliswa’s question in the National Assembly on Wednesday on the wisdom of continuously giving money to underperforming ministries, Ncube…
FC Platinum…………………………(0) 1 Black Rhinos…………………………….0 © FC PLATINUM shot to the top of the Castle Lager Premiership table after a slender and nervy win over Black Rhinos at Mandava stadium yesterday. A second half goal from midfielder Devon Chafa was all the platinum miners needed to earn the three points that took them to the…
© HIGHERLIFE Foundation (HLF) yesterday launched the ‘Support our Hospitals Fund’ to raise money for retooling the country’s public hospitals which are in a dilapidated state. At the launch ceremony in Harare, the foundation pledged $10 million towards the fund and appealed to the public to contribute in order to resuscitate the hospitals, which have…
