HARARE – Women activists yesterday marched to Parliament protesting against delays in the completion of a new constitution, as coalition partners continue fighting over issues in the draft. Over 200 women and men, all members of the Women Zimbabwe of Arise (Woza), which has been a vocal group on issues affecting women and their families,…
HARARE – Police commissioner-general Augustine Chihuri is seemingly washing his hands off a case in which a 13-year-old girl who claims she was raped by Munyaradzi Kereke, former advisor to Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono, is demanding justice. In his opposing affidavit to a High Court challenge filed by the girl’s lawyer Charles Warara of…
HARARE – Nominations for the 2011-12 Annual National Sports Awards (Ansa) will be unveiled at the National Sports Stadium in Harare today. The finalists will battle it out in 14 categories with the winners set to be announced at a ceremony in the capital on December 13. Chief sponsors Delta Beverages have handed over $50…
HARARE – Tourism and Hospitality minister Walter Mzembi has sensationally claimed listed miner RioZim Limited (RioZim) tried to bribe him with $100 000 in a bid to silence him on disturbances at its Renco Mine (Renco). The shocking allegations come as the issue of bribery and corruption is rife in Zanu PF, with President Robert…
HARARE – Lawyers representing 29 Glen View residents accused of killing a policeman in May 2011 are to apply for their clients’ acquittal after prosecutor Edmore Nyazamba closed the State case. Nyazamba wound the State case yesterday after hearing evidence from Gabriel Aguero Gonzalez, a Cuban pathologist who examined the policeman’s body. The pathologist’s absence…
HARARE – The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights has found the Zimbabwean government responsible for the torture and ill-treatment of Zimbabwean human rights advocate and lawyer Gabriel Shumba. The ruling was delivered at the Banjul-based ACHPR’s extra-ordinary session held from February 18 to 25 in the Gambia. This is the first time…
HARARE – While most people are of the view that committing a criminal offence is the only way that can land them in jail, civil lawsuits can also turn criminal if one fails to follow a court order. Imagine a scenario in which one approaches the courts demanding his or her money from another person…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Olympic Committee (Zoc) will host two interns from the National Olympic Committee (Noc) Lesotho, as part of an exchange programme that facilitates the exchange of knowledge and experience between Olympic Committees. Finance manager Moliehi Malokotsa-Ntjana and the acting project manager Pulumo Nchakha arrived in Harare on Sunday for the programme and…
JOHANNESBURG – South African authorities have charged 270 miners with murder in the killings of 34 fellow workers, even though police are believed to have fired the fatal shots. The workers were arrested after the deadly clash with police and were charged under a common-law provision that faults them for being involved in the clash….
HARARE – Zimbabwean top-flight clubs have agreed to join hands in curbing hooliganism as violence threatens to mar the upcoming new season. The 16 Castle Premiership clubs met for the league’s Annual General Meeting on Saturday and debated measures to discourage eradicate violence following the crowd trouble that marred last month’s Bob89 Challenge match between…
