THE High Court has found Tapiwa Makore (senior) and Tafadzwa Shamba guilty of the gruesome murder and dismemberment of the former’s seven-year-old nephew and namesake in 2020. Tapiwa Makore (junior) was killed in a ritual murder by Shamba and Makore (snr) who mutilated the boy’s body so that they could sell its parts to a…
Brandon JosphatSTAFF WRITER THE High Court will hear the case of lawyer Lovedale Mangwana, who is seeking an order barring former Cabinet minister, Saviour Kasukuwere from contesting the August 23 presidential election, on July 7. Yesterday lawyers representing Mangwana and Kasukuwere appeared in Justice David Mangota’s chambers at the High Court in Harare for a…
GOLD trader Ewan Macmillan has “unreservedly apologised” to the government, key state institutions such as the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and his…
ZANU PF will not just chuck out all its members who are standing as independents in the August 23 elections, it’s also mulling laying criminal charges against some of the dissenters. The former liberation movement’s secretary for security in the politburo, Lovemore Matuke, confirmed to the Daily News yesterday that Zanu PF viewed these candidates…
By Brandon Josphat THE High Court will today decide the fate of presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere after a lawyer Lovedale Mangwana filed an application to stop him from participating in this year’s elections. In his application, Mangwana wants the High Court to compel the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to nullify Kasukuwere’s nomination as a presidential…
Brandon Josphat HARARE City Council has rejected two contractors who wanted to construct a modern infrastructure for informal traders at Mupedzanhamo flea market in Mbare. This comes as the local council shut down the flea market after violent clashes were reportedly being fuelled by Zanu PF and Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) ‘agents’ who solicited…
A NOTORIOUS armed robber, who allegedly connived with a former High Court prosecutor to be granted bail using forged papers, has been re-arrested. Cornwell Kasambarare, 31, who is believed to be part of the famous Musa Taj Abdul gang of armed robbers, was arrested on Tuesday and taken to Harare Central Police Station for further…
By Nyasha Kunyiswa THE ministry of Higher Education says 60 000 motor vehicle number plates have been produced in the first half of the year as the country’s education 5.0 begins to pay dividends. This comes after President Emmerson Mnangagwa launched the National TransTech Solutions Plant Vehicle Number Plate Production Plant at the University of…
THE Food Poverty Line (FPL) for one person shot by more than 130 percent during the month of June this year, whilst…
PRESIDENTIAL aspirant Saviour Kasukuwere has found himself in an early spot of bother, after a lawyer launched a court action in a bid to stop him from participating in this year’s elections. The lawyer, Lovedale Mangwana, wants the High Court to compel the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to nullify Kasukuwere’s nomination as a presidential candidate…
