© MEMBERS of Parliament have slammed the Health and Child Care ministry for failing to put to use the Mental Health Tribunal established to assess the continued incarceration of mentally-challenged patients in prisons. [GoogleAd] The nine-member Mental Health Review Tribunal, installed in December 2017, to assess the continued detention of both civilly committed and forensic…
© POLICE yesterday said they had arrested notorious members of gangs of armed robbers who have been terrorising residents of Harare, Gweru and Chinhoyi. At the same time, law enforcement agents also warned Zimbabweans that violent crime was on the rise in the country. This comes as the economic situation in the country is worsening,…
© Cambria Africa is suing the Bankers Association of Zimbabwe (Baz) for US$100 million in damages in the High Court for influencing its members not to pay its subsidiaries Payserv Africa and Paynet Zimbabwe for services rendered. [GoogleAd] This comes after the bulk payments service provider in June suspended its payment service to its bank…
EDITOR —The current price increases bedevilling the nation are unjustified and inflicting unbearable pain on the consumer. The increases have effectively eroded the people’s disposable income basically leaving the majority of the population living below the poverty datum line. Basic goods such as cooking oil, sugar, rice, meat, flour and milk are fetching between five…
© PROMINENT lawyer and deputy chairperson of the Law Development Commission, Joel Bigboy Zowa, will be buried today at Glen Forest Cemetery, on the outskirts of the capital, Harare. [GoogleAd] Zowa died on July 12 while on a business trip in New York, United States. His body was flown into the country on Tuesday. Yesterday,…
© ZIMBABWE Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) senior reporter Tendai Munengwa has said his Goromonzi farm is being seized and subdivided to an undeserving neighbouring farmer. [GoogleAd] The government is seizing huge swatches of the Goromonzi-based 3-hectare commercial farm, currently under chicken production, and redistributing it to his neighbour Hoga Ngoroma, who has not been utilising the…
© ASSOCIATED Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ) — the publishers of the Daily News and the Daily News on Sunday — have described as ridiculous a $10 million defamation lawsuit launched against it by BDO Zimbabwe boss Ngoni Kudenga. [GoogleAd] In its response to the businessman’s High Court application in which he is accusing the company,…
© THREE Southview Park men who allegedly meted instant justice on a suspected thief, resulting in his death, were hauled before the courts yesterday facing murder charges. [GoogleAd] Bruce Hodza, Paul Zima and Anesu Chivima allegedly assaulted the thief who had stolen a gas tank, a blanket and a pot. Hodza, Zima and Chivima appeared…
© ZIMBABWE Commercial Farmers Union (ZFCU) says it will wait for the High Court’s ruling to solve the leadership wrangle within the organisation. [GoogleAd] This comes after High Court judge Justice Mangota on June 5, ruled in favour of Mavepi Jiti in a judgment that suspended the election of ZFCU president and two vice presidents…
BREAKING NEWS!!! Tourism minister Prisca Mupfumira has been arrested on allegations of corruption. More details to follow.
