BUSINESSMAN and Gokwe-Nembudziya MP, Mayor Justice Wadyajena, together with Cotton Company of Zimbabwe (Cottco) bosses — Pious Manamike, Maxmore Njani, Fortunate Molai and Chiedza Danha — is off the hook for now after the court granted the quintet’s application for refusal of further remand. This comes as the five accused had been facing fraud and…
THE United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) acting deputy executive director Sonja LeightonKone, jetted into the country yesterday and is expected to meet President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other senior government officials to discuss issues on climate change, waste and pollution. She will be in the country until Saturday. Leighton-Kone is accompanied by Frank Turyatunga, the regional…
PARLIAMENT has opposed a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) application filed by Zimbabwe Youth Action Platform chairperson Tonderai Chidawa, who is challenging the authenticity of the preliminary delimitation report that it received from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to analyse and make recommendations. Chidawa wants the ConCourt to nullify Parliament recommendations on the report, arguing that the…
THE Zimbabwe Schools Examinations Council (Zimsec) yesterday released Ordinary Level results of all candidates who wrote the examinations in November at Mukaro High School in Masvingo province, after initially withholding them last week. In an interview with the Daily News yesterday, Zimsec spokesperson Nicky Dhlamini confirmed that the examination board had withheld the boarding school’s…
A BATTLE for the control of a Gweru-based company, Greynut Investments, has escalated after the executor of the estate of the late owner Isaac Tichareva approached the High Court accusing the CEO, Tecklah Garira, of dissipating the company’s assets. Greynut Investments was owned by the late Isaiah Mudzengi. However, Tichareva is seeking the liquidation of…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s focus is on running the country, working to improve the lives of all Zimbabweans and preparing for this year’s crunch national elections rather than engaging Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa. So said presidential spokesperson George Charamba yesterday, after Chamisa recently wrote to Mnangagwa again seeking a face-to-face meeting between…
THOUSANDS of apostolic church members at the weekend gathered in Hopley, Harare, where their church leaders urged them to observe peace in their communities as the country gears for the 2023 general elections. Hopley, a sprawling informal settlement south of Harare, is a hotbed for political skirmishes during election campaigns. Addressing the apostolic members in…
HIGH Court judge, Justice Priscilla Munangati-Manongwa, has dismissed an application filed by the Harare City Council (HCC) in which it sought to retrieve a piece of land sold to a local company, Aqua-Jets, in 1992. According to court documents, HCC and Aqua-Jets entered into an agreement of sale for a piece of land measuring 14…
ENERGY minister Zhemu Soda says Zimbabwe is now importing 500 megawatts of electricity from neighbouring countries to mitigate the country’s never-ending power crisis. Speaking in the Senate last week, the minister said the government was, however, doing everything within its capacity to end the power crisis, which has resulted in industry, commerce and ordinary consumers…
HARARE regional magistrate Taurai Manwere has deferred ruling of an application by Gokwe-Nembudziya MP Mayor Justice Wadyajena to today where the legislator is challenging his placement on further remand. If his application is granted, it would mean that the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) can only summon him to court when his docket is complete and…
