By Stella Madzivanyika ICONIC shopping complex, Sam Levy’s Village in Harare’s leafy Borrowdale suburb, is up for sale for US$120 million. Real estate agents, Pam Golding Properties, are managing the sell of the family-owned centre built in 1990 by the late prominent Jewish businessman, Sam Rahamin Levy. A self-made tycoon, Levy, died in 2012 at…
By Rutendo Ngara ngarar@dailynews.co.zw BUSINESSMEN Mike Chimombe and Moses Mpofu have offered to cooperate with the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) in a case they are being probed for suspected money laundering. This comes after Zacc has opened a probe into the US$40 million deal awarded by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to businessman Wicknell Chivayo…
By Ketty Nyoni nyonik@dailynews.co.zw EIGHT St Bernard Mizeki pilgrims are suspected to have been burnt beyond recognition after the Pashonlink bus they were travelling in caught fire and burnt to ashes on Sunday night along Nyabadza-Gandanzara Road, Manicaland. They were returning from the St Bernard Mizeki annual commemorations in Marondera. National police spokesperson Paul Nyathi…
By Rutendo Ngara ngarar@dailynews.co.zw A HARARE woman Marvelous Mapfumo, 34, was yesterday convicted of US$107 000 theft by Harare magistrate Ethel Chichera. She pleaded guilty to theft charges and she was remanded in custody to today for sentencing. On May 30, Mapfumo connived with Herbet Chihwiza Kurebgwaseka and Paul Kondo to steal the cash from…
By Yvonne Ncube in BULAWAYO A BULAWAYO court has acquitted a 45-year-old woman from Cowdray Park on charges of stealing four Honda Fit vehicles. Ottilia Ncube was acquitted of all charges following a full trial before Bulawayo regional magistrate Joseph Mabeza. In his ruling, Mabeza said the State failed to establish a prima facie case…
By Rutendo Ngara ngarar@dailynews.co.zw A CONGOLESE ‘magician’ Jean-Piere Kingombe, 49, who is facing US$100 000 fraud charges was denied bail yesterday because he breached terms of his 2009 sentence for fraud. Kingombe is in custody because he allegedly duped Nyasha Masoka US$100 000 when he and his accomplices James Munetsi Kamupiro and one Issac, who…
By Brandon Josphat josphabl@dailynews.co.zw AFTER months of hogging the limelight for all sorts of reasons, things suddenly appear to be going South…
THE late football fanatic and life president of the Zimbabwe National Soccer Supporters Association (ZNSSA) Eddie ‘Mboma’ Nyatanga was laid to rest at Glen Forest cemetery in the capital yesterday. Scores of mourners from a cross section of the local football fraternity turned up to pay their last respects to the man who was also…
By Anesu Mirisawu and Progress Chaya IN a sizzling hot performance that left the packed 4500-seater Harare International Conference Centre (HICC) begging for more, music sensations Winky D and Jah Prayzah proved that even the chilliest of winter nights can’t stop the fire of Zimbabwean music. The event, Redifined Concert, was organised by Gateway Stream…
FORMER Public Service minister Prisca Mupfumira has been acquitted of US$95 million fraud allegations by Harare magistrate Ngoni Nduna. Mupfumira was facing allegations that before the 2018 general elections she unlawfully handpicked Drawcard Enterprises to undertake a housing project, Mzenya, in Gweru on behalf of the National Social Security Authority (Nssa). Nssa fell under her…
