© HARARE City Council (HCC) has bemoaned the slow pace at which road rehabilitation is taking, adding that the current biting economic situation in the country has hampered progress. In 2017, the city’s roads were marked as a national emergency after most of them were no longer trafficable due to potholes and lack of maintenance,…
© A SERIAL fraudster who duped a Harare couple of $110 000 using the names of high-profile politicians and businesspeople was yesterday slapped with an 18-year prison term. Leon Gomani was convicted on 18 counts of fraud by Harare regional magistrate Morgan Nemadire. Of the 18 years, five were suspended on condition of good behaviour….
© A GOKWE poacher is battling for his life at Mutare Provincial Hospital after he was shot in a gun fight with rangers in the Save Conservancy. Custon Mugejo of Copper Queen Resettlement Area, Nembudziya, Gokwe has been on the police wanted list for a similar offence after he absconded trial on November 14, 2016…
© PROSECUTOR-GENERAL Kumbirai Hodzi has dragged former Tourism minister Walter Mzembi to the High Court, seeking to seize four vehicles bought through donations to the ministry when Zimbabwe co-hosted the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) conference in 2013. [GoogleAd] In the application, former Tourism ministry permanent secretary Margret Mukahanana Sangarwe, Susanna Makombe Kuhudzayi, Mzembi,…
© FORMER Health deputy minister Edwin Muguti, pictured, and his wife Tapiwa Muguti (nee Mukandi), who are going through a divorce, are embroiled in a nasty fight over how their property which includes goats and cattle should be shared. Mukandi claimed in divorce papers that they co-own Builtfontein Farm as well as 40 cattle, 20 goats, a…
© THE High Court has ordered former first lady Grace Mugabe’s sister, Junior Shuvai Gumbochuma, to pay $136 000 to Zesa Holdings subsidiary ZETDC for electricity supplied to her. The court handed down the ruling after the parties signed a deed of settlement on the 11th of this month. [GoogleAd] In his ruling, High Court…
© FORMER Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) chief executive Frank Chitukutuku’s efforts to have his family name changed to Mandlamakhulu cost him bail yesterday after Harare magistrate Francis Mapfumo noted that he was trying to evade prosecution. [GoogleAd] Chitukutuku is being charged with criminal abuse of office and alternatively bribery after awarding a US$20 million…
© CONTROVERSIAL businessman Wicknell Chivayo has filed an urgent chamber application seeking to stop his trial, set for next Monday, pending the determination of his application for review lodged with the High Court. Chivayo approached the High Court for review after the Harare Magistrates’ Courts dismissed his application for exception to bribery charges emanating from…
© THE government has vowed to hold its anti-sanctions march today despite criticism from various stakeholders that the protest will not yield tangible results. Harare Metropolitan Provincial Affairs minister Oliver Chidawu told journalists yesterday that the government would go ahead with the march to call for the unconditional removal of the embargoes imposed on Zimbabwe…
© THE much-hyped MDC demonstration, which the party had vowed would go ahead yesterday despite a police ban, failed to take place, exposing the lack of a coherent strategy in Zimbabwe’s biggest opposition party. MDC deputy spokesperson Luke Tamborinyoka, who had over the past few days confirmed that they party would going ahead with the…
