© MANICALAND Provincial Affairs minister Ellen Gwaradzimba has been sucked into a farm invasion row in Mutare, which has seen the property owner approaching the High Court for recourse. The farmer, Phillip Valentine has cited Kibben Bvirindi, a police inspector Kadoro, who is the officer in charge for Odzi Police Station, Commissioner-General of Police Godwin…
© STRIPPED of their aura of omnipotence first, via the stunning military coup that ousted their patriarch Robert Mugabe from power in November 2017, and then more recently through his death ever more skeletons are tumbling out of his family’s closet. It has now been confirmed that Mugabe and his family grabbed a staggering 23…
© THE government says urban and rural councils in areas affected by a recent spate of lightning and hailstorms, that have claimed 19 lives, must immediately use devolution funds to assist affected communities. Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa told journalists during a post-Cabinet briefing in Harare yesterday that this year’s rainfall season kick-started with violent storms…
© FIFTY SEVEN senior doctors working in public health institutions are facing dismissal as the government continues to hold disciplinary hearings for all doctors who have withdrawn their services citing incapacitation. Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa told journalists during a post-Cabinet briefing in Harare on Tuesday that in addition to the 448 fired junior doctors, 57…
© A CHITUNGWIZA man left the court shell-shocked after he revealed he had masturbated and ejaculated on a female passenger, saying he could not control a strange sexual urge passed on to him by his late grandfather. Pleading for lenience, Tafadzwa Mutamiri, 27, told Harare magistrate Sharon Rakafa that he cannot control himself whenever he…
© HARARE’S water supply woes are set to worsen as the city’s Morton Jaffray Water Treatment Plant has shut down due to an electrical fault. Harare council’s principal communications officer Innocent Ruwende said the Zimbabwe Electricity Distribution Company’s (ZETDC) was working to fix the fault which occurred on Tuesday and called on residents to use…
© CHIEF Makumbe, Shepherd Chengeta, who is also a senator in Buhera, has warned politicians against blocking donors and development partners from operating in his area, saying this has caused untold suffering for his subjects. This comes after a number of non-governmental organisations have been blocked from entering parts of Buhera by politicians for various…
© CHILDREN welfare organisations say the worsening economic hardships in the country are creating a generation of youngsters tormented by stress. This emerged during a symposium on “The Impact of the Zimbabwean Economy on Child Protection” held in Harare yesterday by the Justice for Children (JCT). [GoogleAd] Paediatric Association of Zimbabwe Association (PAZ) representative Wadzanai…
© AN EX-soldier, who claimed he was abducted by military police soon after leaving remand prison last year, has approached the High Court seeking to be released from jail. In his application Kudakwashe Gumbeze, who cited the State as the respondent, told the court that he was being unlawfully detained at Harare Central Prison since…
© THE European Union (EU) has raised concerns over alleged partisan food distribution in the country. EU ambassador to Zimbabwe Timo Olkkonen said he raised the matter with the government in a re-engagement meeting last week. “It goes without saying that any politicisation of humanitarian aid would be incredibly bad news for efforts to mobilise…
