© HARARE City Council (HCC) has resolved to pay former town clerk Tendai Mahachi his terminal benefits amounting to more than $170 000. According to minutes of the city’s human resources committee, the amount is full settlement reached between Mahachi and former mayor Bernard Manyenyeni. [GoogleAd] Mahachi was retrenched in 2015 and replaced on an…
© THE High Court has freed former Zimbabwe Power Company chairperson Stanley Kazhanje on $1 000 bail pending appeal. [GoogleAd] Kazhanje was jailed for an effective one year last month after he was convicted of concealing a US$10 000 bribe he received from businessman Wicknell Chivayo’s Intratrek (Pvt) Ltd company to favour him with the…
© WORKERS and clients at Sakubva’s Green-market home industrial park were lucky to escape unhurt after an empty fuel tanker exploded on Sunday afternoon. The tanker was being welded in a backyard industrial hub. Although it was empty, residual fuel and pressure built up from the welding heat, resulting in the explosion. Manicaland assistant provincial…
© THERE will not be clarity on the exact death toll from Tropical Cyclone Idai — which is set to almost double to over 680 — until after a five-year administrative wait. [GoogleAd] Authorities have only been able to account for 341 people — less than half of all the people who disappeared in the…
© THREE workers from a farm in Chipinge were arrested for kidnapping and assaulting two security guards who had apprehended fellow employees’ relatives and handed them over to the police for trespassing. Johann Moyo, 52, and July Mpofu, 46, guards at Chipinge West Farm, reported their ordeal to Chipinge urban police on Monday, leading to…
© FORMER MDC legislator and senator David Antony Chimhini has sued Public Service minister Sekai Nzenza for not awarding him pension benefits entitled to him after serving two terms in Parliament. He has cited Nzenza and the Parliament of Zimbabwe as respondents in an application where he wants an order directing the pen- sions office…
© POLICE have urged the public to desist from tak- ing the law into their own hands following alarming numbers of dispute and rape-related murders recorded this month. In a statement, assistant police commissioner Paul Nyathi said this past month alone they have recorded worrying murder cases where the perpetrators tried to conceal their crimes….
© A KOMBI driver was yesterday sentenced to 54 months in jail for bedding a 15-year-old girl. Nickson Phiri, 27, was initially charged with rape, but was convicted of a less- er charge of having sexual intercourse with a minor after evidence deduced during trial showed that the two were in a relationship. [GoogleAd] Phiri,…
© PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has com- plained about the slow law-making processes in Parliament, adding there was need for urgency in the spirit of universal development. During the official opening of the second session of the 9th Parliament in Harare on Tuesday Mnangagwa said: “The law must be a universal instrument of development. [GoogleAd]…
© THE Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) has admitted that it is failing to meet demand in the second largest city, as transport woes continue to hit long-suffering Zimbabweans hard. This comes after it emerged this week that the city needs at least 250 buses to beef up the existing fleet of 81. [GoogleAd] “The…
