© BULAWAYO High Court judge Francis Bere has ordered the Home Affairs minister and the police to pay a transgender woman and activist Ricky Eugene Nathanson $400 000 as compensation following her unlawful arrest for using a ladies’ toilet at a city hotel in 2014. Nathanson was arrested and charged with criminal nuisance after being…
© THE High Court will on Tuesday hear the case involving 11 police officers contesting their transfers, which had been postponed following the respondents’ failure to file an opposing affidavit. [GoogleAd] Justice Pisirayi Kwenda will hear the case. The 11 — who are at the centre of an alleged ivory saga with a city businessman…
© A NYANGA man who had a marijuana plantation of over 3 800 plants measuring over a metre has appeared before a magistrate here. [GoogleAd] Obert Makwanya, 46, of Chigumira Village 36 under Chief Saunyama in Nyanga was remanded in custody to November 28 by magistrate Constance Marutya. He is being charged with illegal cultivation…
© UNPROCESSED mining applications have reached 5 500 owing to lack of resources, Mines and Mineral Development minister Winston Chitando has said. [GoogleAd] Chitando revealed this during the Daily News Business Breakfast Forum in Harare on Wednesday under the theme “Towards a US$12 billion sector: Mining industry perspectives.” “The ministry is currently dealing with a…
© RELIGIOUS leader Fidelis Mukonori, pictured, has launched his third book, which he says narrates the country’s untold history and enlightens Zimbabweans on who they are and where they come from. [GoogleAd] Mukonori said during the launch at Arupe Jesuit University on Thursday that his latest book Man in the Middle reveals how he played…
© TREATMENT costs for diabetic patients are set to go down as the World Health Organisation (WHO) is embarking on a programme to ensure that ordinary patients can afford insulin. [GoogleAd] This comes amid reports that Zimbabweans with type one diabetics can no longer afford insulin, whose prices have shot up, forcing them to risk…
© THE High Court on Friday ordered the Harare Institute of Technology (HIT) to lift the suspensions of Students Representative Council (SRC) president Leeroy Barnete and six others it had suspended for allegedly beating drums during a demonstration. [GoogleAd] Following the suspensions, the students filed an application with the High Court challenging the decision. “Our…
© LOCAL authorities will next year get $2,9 billion devolution funds set aside by government in the 2020 national budget in an effort to promote decentralisation. [GoogleAd] This comes amid complaints from civic organisations and local authorities that the government was taking forever to come up with a framework for devolution — which was launched…
© THE government will miss its audacious target of clearing the passport backlog by year end after it emerged that a combination of delays in shipping material and foreign currency was standing in its way. [GoogleAd] This comes as the registrar-general’s office is facing an unenviable task of clearing a backlog of 386 000 passports…
© HAVING almost lost his life for wanting to succeed Zimbabwe’s late former leader Robert Mugabe, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has initiated the process of handing over the reins of power to a younger successor one day, a senior government official has revealed. [GoogleAd] Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday in an exclusive interview, the…
