BULAWAYO – The trial of five minors arrested together with a gang of looters during the January fuel price hike riots in Bulawayo’s Emakhandeni suburb failed to kick off again yesterday. [GoogleAd] The minors aged between six and 13 years appeared before Bulawayo regional magistrate Joseph Mabeza facing theft charges. Caroline Matanga, representing the State, postponed the…
MUTARE – The late MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai’s estate executors have taken over a $50 000 lawsuit in the High Court in which a Harare man is demanding that principal amount from the late former trade unionist. [GoogleAd] The man is claiming $50 000 for the role he claimed he played in stitching up a coalition deal…
HARARE – A Harare magistrate reserved ruling yesterday on a request to have former Cabinet minister Supa Mandiwanzira’s graft case referred to the Constitutional Court (Con-Court). This was after Mandiwanzira’s lawyer Thembinkosi Magwaliba advised the court that an urgent chamber application had been set down for a hearing in the High Court which had a bearing on…
BULAWAYO – Tax authorities in South Africa have seized a crematorium machine from Japan headed for Bulawayo in a payment dispute, according to the city council. [GoogleAd] The machine is used in the disposal of a dead person’s body by burning it to ashes, typically after a funeral ceremony. The imported crematorium was supposed to complement…
HARARE – The new measures recently unveiled by Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya have been credited with stabilising prices — with youthful Gokwe-Nembudziya MP Justice Mayor Wadyajena — becoming the latest businessman to back them to succeed. [GoogleAd] This comes as manufacturers have reported significant improvement in sourcing their raw materials following the restoration…
HARARE – Harare City Council is now under pressure to rehabilitate its boreholes as the city starts instituting a strict water rationing regime that should see residents receiving water at least twice a week. [GoogleAd] According to the new water rationing schedule for March, only Mbare, Highfield, Sunnigdale, Mufakose, Graniteside, Willowvale, Ardbennie, Southerton Industrial area and the…
HARARE –President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s under pressure government has hired a top American reputation management firm — to spruce up Zimbabwe’s international image and to lobby President Donald Trump’s government in a bid to improve frosty relations between Harare and Washington. [GoogleAd] This comes after a disappointed Trump renewed America’s targeted sanctions against Zimbabwe for another year…
Some local consumer prices marginally fell this week for the first time in months as declining costs for foreign exchange offset rising prices after the central bank ditched the fanciful greenback bond note peg. [GoogleAd] This comes after Zimbabwe’s quasi currency known as bond notes was no longer deemed 1:1 with the trade-weighted US dollar, with…
Government will on Friday convene a meeting here to help cover damages suffered by business in Bulawayo during the fuel price hike riots, with the destruction caused by protesters described as a catastrophe for the economy. [GoogleAd] After surveying the damage in the second city last month, the inter-ministerial committee pledged a US$20 million relief…
ZANU PF bigwigs in Mashonaland West province are planning a clampdown on errant members of the youth league who have been accused of abusing social media to attack the party leadership. [GoogleAd] This comes as fresh divisions have emerged in former president Robert Mugabe’s province — raising fears among senior party officials that factionalism reminiscent…
