FOUR people died in Gutu, Masvingo, on Saturday in a suspected case of food poisoning and police are on the ground to establish the food they ate. Gamuchirai Guta, 90, Eunice Gozhore, 69, Tawanda Murova, 34, and Jacob Ziracha, 18 died together with their two dogs. National police spokesperson Paul Nyathi told the Daily News yesterday that…
AN unlicenSed kombi driver has been jailed for four years after he ploughed into people at a bus terminus in Harare central business district, killing a nine-year-old child. Archford Chikoto, 18, was banned from driving and further slapped with a $10 000 fine for driving without a licence, while the four years in prison were…
FORMER University of Zimbabwe vice chancellor Levi Nyagura, who is accused of illegally awarding a doctorate degree to former first lady Grace Mugabe, has denied the allegations, arguing that the conferment was lawful. His trial opened last Thursday before chief magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi, with Nyagura, through his lawyers, telling the court the granting of the…
THE Government is using last year’s November to December budget surplus of $20 billion to procure Covid-19 vaccines, deputy Finance minister Clemence Chiduwa has said. Chiduwa told the National Assembly that the government had enough money to buy the required vaccines. “In November and December we made a surplus of $20 billion but this is…
FORMER Cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo, pictured, has approached the court challenging recent allegations levelled against him of grabbing State land, creating residential stands and fleecing home seekers in the process. Chombo was in court challenging his placement on remand arguing there is no nexus between him and the alleged offences. Allegations against Chombo are that…
FORMER Public Service minister Priscah Mupfumira, who is facing corruption charges, is seeking to be tried separately from her co-accused, the ministry’s then permanent secretary Ngoni Masoka, saying she wants him to be her defence witness. Through her lawyer Admire Rubaya, Mupfumira yesterday told the court that the State had crippled her right to execute…
MDC Alliance legislator Joana Mamombe and activist Cecilia Chimbiri, who are accused of violating Covid-19 regulations, have again been denied bail. The duo had made a new application for bail on changed circumstances but Harare magistrate Denis Mangosi ruled that nothing has changed to warrant granting them bail. Mamombe and Chimbiri were arrested in March…
INCARERATED Harare businessman Adam Hartnack has denied allegations that he swindled the government of over US$60 000 in a cloud seeding scam. Hartnack and his company Adamair are facing three counts of fraud and yesterday he told the Harare Magistrates’ Courts he had a backup aircraft after one of his planes went for mandatory maintenance…
A TRADITIONAL healer has been arrested on allegations of raping a teenager who had sought his help to cure her period pain. Steven Nyashanu Mabviregudo is alleged to have threatened the woman, 19, with blindness if she revealed the rape to anyone. Mabviregudo was not asked to plead to allegations of rape when he appeared…
MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora, says the opposition will receive a heavy electoral shellacking in 2023, unless it changes tack quickly and ditches confrontational politics. In addition, the MDC boss also wants the opposition to pursue dialogue more vigorously to avoid violence in the country’s fast approaching national elections. This comes as opposition bigwigs have warned…
