Tarisai Machakaire STAFF WRITER HARARE mayor Herbert Gomba was yesterday barred by the High Court from visiting his offices at Town House as part of conditions for his release on $10 000 bail. Gomba is facing allegations of converting State land into council land and parcelling it out to a housing cooperative in Mufakose at…
ZIMBABWE Electricity and Transmission Distribution Company (ZETDC) has been barred by the High Court from billing in foreign currency power bills at businessman Tawanda Nyambirai’s TN Gold Arcturus Mine (TN). This was after Nyambirai approached the apex court on appeal after being charged US$73 690, 95 in electricity arrears accrued since September 2019 to date….
FORMER Information Communication Technology (ICT) minister Supa Mandiwanzira, pictured, will now stand trial on allegations of criminal abuse of office after allegedly seconding his personal assistant Tawanda Chinembiri to the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe(Potraz) board without due process. Potraz fell under Mandiwanira’s purview as then ICT minister. Regional magistrate Bianca Makwande dismissed…
AN MDC Alliance member, who was allegedly assaulted by the police in Harare last year, has slapped Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe and police boss Godwin Matanga with a $300 000 lawsuit. Bernard Garapo cited Matanga and Kazembe as respondents in summons filed with the High Court and is demanding $100 000 for pain, suffering…
HARARE City Council human capital director Matthew Marara has been freed by the High Court on $10 000 bail. His lawyer Tsitsi Mazikana successfully sought his pre-trial freedom at the upper court with Judge Benjamin Chikowero ordering him to report to the police thrice weekly. Marara was also ordered to reside at his given address…
Jeffrey Muvundusi in BULAWAYO THE trial of six police officers who are facing charges of allegedly brutally assaulting two women from Cowdray Park suburb during the lockdown period has been halted following closure of business at the Western Commonage Court after one prosecutor tested positive for coronavirus. As a result, the trial has since been…
Vasco Chaya LIFESTYLE WRITER chayav@dailynews.co.zw TELEVISION programming at public broadcaster ZBC will be disrupted for an indefinite period following the shutting of its Pockets Hill headquarters after an employee tested positive to coronavirus (Covid-19). As a result, ZBC would focus more on contact tracing, massive testing of its employees and disinfection process among others to…
Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said his government is committed to compensating and working with white commercial farmers whose land was taken during the land reform programme, but will not reverse the controversial exercise. Mnangagwa said this during the signing ceremony of a compensation agreement between previous farm owners and…
Blessings Mashaya and Sindiso Mhlope SENIOR STAFF WRITERS LANDS, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement minister Perrance Shiri, pictured, died in the wee hours of yesterday, days after his driver succumbed to the lethal coronavirus that is fast getting out of control in the country. The Daily News understands that the stricken war veteran and former…
Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw AHEAD of tomorrow’s planned mass demonstrations, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned that security forces will deal robustly with all unsanctioned protests, the Daily News reports. This comes as Zanu PF has suspended politburo member Cleveria Chizema for allegedly being involved in organising the demos and trying to drive a…
