BY DIONNE KANYOWA THE High Court has provisionally reversed Agriculture minister Anxious Masuka’s controversial decision to issue Release Power Investments (Private) Limited (RPI) with a 99-year lease for a piece of land in Goromonzi. This comes after it emerged that Kennedy Godwin Mangenje also held a valid offer letter to the same property, known as…
By Hazel Marimbiza BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is working on expanding industrial sites in Cowdray Park amid calls for the suburb to be developed into a town due to its fast growing population. According to the 2022 Population Census preliminary results, Cowdray Park (Ward 28) has 75 070 people and is the second most populous…
By Ashley Moyo TOP mbira musicians will converge at Jason Mphepo Little Theatre (JMLT) in Harare this Sunday to celebrate the end of Pfumvudza (new shoots or season) in music. Themed Dandaro Remasvusvu epfumvudza, the gala will feature Nyamasvisva and his Maungira Enharira ensemble, Diana “Mangwenya” Samkange, Vee Mhofu and his Dziva Rembira outfit and…
ON Monday, Zimbabwe emotionally sent off six Tynwald High School pupils who perished in a horrific bus accident along the Rusape-Nyanga road last Friday. They were interred at Glen Forest Memorial Park in Harare. Though death is an immutable law of life, the demise of the learners was not only painful, but a jolt sad…
“ THE president listened.” This was the message from South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa’s spokesperson Vincent Magwenya on Monday when he announced…
MORE than seven tonnes of counterfeit Seed Co maize seed valued at US$20 000 was impounded in Avondale, Harare. Speaking during a press briefing in Mt Hampden, Mashonaland West, national police spokesperson Paul Nyathi said they have confiscated the seed since the beginning of the planting season in September. The seed, he said, was destroyed,…
FORMER Cabinet minister Petronella Kagonye’s freedom bid has flopped after the High Court dismissed an appeal to set aside her two-year custodial sentence for theft. In June this year, a magistrate’s court found Kagonye, pictured, guilty of expropriating 20 laptops that were meant to benefit schools in her then Goromonzi South constituency through an e-learning…
By Dionne Kanyowa AN ALLEGE armed robber who targeted “pirating” female taxi drivers under the guise of hiring their services was denied bail at the High Court. Kenneth Makoni, who is facing two counts of armed robbery, was denied bail pending appeal by Justice Lucy Mungwari on the grounds that he was “a danger to…
GOSPEL music sensation Michael Mahendere is on cloud nine following his latest and second nomination in the Africa SABC Crown Gospel Awards thanks to his song Mercy off the album Getting Personal With God 4. The awards ceremony, set for November 27 in Durban, South Africa, will see Mahendere competing for the Best of Africa gong with fellow…
CABINET yesterday said the government will continue to institute more measures aimed at bringing confidence and stability in the economy. Addressing a post-cabinet press conference in Harare last night, Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa, said among the measures, the government would ensure that available foreign currency “will continue to be auctioned, and all winning bids should…
