© 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…
© THERE was pandemonium in the National Assembly yesterday after Zanu PF MPs blocked MDC MP for Harare East Tendai Biti from debating an anti-sanctions motion, forcing the House to adjourn early. The chaos erupted after Biti rose to debate the motion. When he was about to speak, Zanu PF MPs demanded that he sit…
© OUTSPOKEN Ntabazinduna chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni has taken yet another dig at the government and Zanu PF exhorting Zimbabweans to turn tomorrow’s anti-sanctions march into a gathering to call for President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s resignation. [GoogleAd] This comes as Ndiweni is currently on bail pending appeal, after he was slapped with a one-and-a-half year prison…
© OTWITHSTANDING previous savage crackdowns on the party, the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC announced yesterday that it would go ahead with its planned protests in Harare today setting the stage for fresh ugly confrontations between supporters of the main opposition and authorities, who have vowed to once again crush the demon- stration, the Daily News reports. Political…
© ZIMBABWE currently lacks a sound strategy to manage climate change and its effects, Public Ser- vice, Labour and Social Welfare minister Sekai Nzenza has said. Nzenza made the revelation during a panel discussion on mitigating climate change and its effects held in Harare on Monday to mark the United Nations (UN) Week to spotlight…
