HARARE – The High Court has reserved ruling in an application by pro-democracy activist Mfundo Mlilo, who is seeking an order to suspend the imposition of the two percent electronic transactions tax introduced by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube last year. Ncube introduced the tax in his Transitional Stabilisation Programme triggering a wave of price hikes…
HARARE – Businessman Wicknell Chivayo has been arraigned before the courts for allegedly bribing Zimbabwe Power Company’s (ZPC) ex-board chairperson with $10 000 to award him the Gwanda Solar Project deal. Chivayo appeared before Harare magistrate Rumbidzayi Mugwgwa yesterday represented by advocates Lewis Uriri and Sylvester Hashiti. [GoogleAd] Mugwagwa ruled that Chivayo would continue abiding…
HARARE – Norton MP, Temba Mliswa was yesterday ejected from the National Assembly after he accused Parliament of bias in dealing with his altercation with Zanu PF MP for Chegutu West Dexter Nduna. Nduna and Mliswa clashed on Monday after the latter accused the former, a chairperson of the parliamentary portfolio committee on Transport, of…
HARARE – Dexter Nduna, the Chegutu West Zanu PF MP, has filed a $10 million defamation lawsuit against Independent Norton MP Temba Mliswa for accusing him of being a thief and “intentionally damaging his reputation.” The lawsuit was filed in the High Court yesterday. [GoogleAd] This came after Mliswa accused the chairperson of the portfolio…
HARARE – In what could turn out to be the last nail on the coffin for Heritage Printing (Private) Limited, its liquidator is now disposing of the company’s assets. Heritage had been one of the major newspaper and book printing operators in Zimbabwe. [GoogleAd] For many years, the business found the going tough resulting in it…
HARARE – Former Health deputy minister Edwin Muguti has once again drawn the High Court whip as he is set to lose property in a case between him and African Century Limited. [GoogleAd] In a notice published yesterday, the Sheriff of the High Court has instructed Prolific Auctions to sell by public auction Muguti’s Mercedes Benz…
HARARE – The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Environment and Tourism will summon the minister of Environment Prisca Mupfumira over the continued destruction of wetlands in Harare. [GoogleAd] Committee chairperson Concillia Chinanzvavana said the minister should answer for some of the development projects that are leading to the water problems being experienced in Harare as a result…
HARARE – Zimbabwean students who are on the presidential scholarship scheme are finding it difficult to get by because government is struggling to fund their needs. Thousands of students are on the presidential scholarship programme, which caters for academically-gifted youths from vulnerable backgrounds such as orphans. [GoogleAd] At the moment, most of these students are studying…
HARARE – Harare lawyer Joshua Chirambwe has filed a Constitutional Court (Con-Court) application seeking the nullification of the appointment of Kumbirai Hodzi as the substantive Prosecutor General (PG). The application comes barely a fortnight after another Harare man made a similar request. [GoogleAd] According to both men’s lawyer Thabani Mpofu, the two applications remain extant before the…
BULAWAYO – Five armed robbers pounced on a South Africa-bound Brooklyn Bus from Bulawayo to Mussina on Monday evening and got away with valuables worth thousands of dollars. Thirty-six passengers were said to be on-board and they lost valuables that includes cash, cell-phones and passports. [GoogleAd] According to sources, the incident occurred on Monday around 11pm…
