Four TM Supermarket employees have appeared in court for allegedly defrauding the supermarket of over $1 million. Taurai Madziwanzira, Silas Munyoro, Tafara Matanga and Talkmore Mutsago allegedly swindled a total amount of $1 107 050 which has not been recovered It is alleged that in 2018 the accused persons hatched a plan to defraud TM…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesperson yesterday said the leader of the mainstream opposition MDC Nelson Chamisa “risked missing the bus” if he failed to pitch up for talks. This comes as under-fire Mnangagwa is breaking new ground in his response to the worsening crisis in Zimbabwe by opening talks with opposition groups, as authorities begin to…
Frustrated church leaders yesterday rebuked President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition leader Nelson Chamisa for dithering around the country’s much-talked about national dialogue aimed at resolving Zimbabwe’s long-running political and economic crisis. The distinguished members of the clergy who gathered in Harare for a high profile meeting on the planned national talks said this was the more…
A local election lobby group has urged government to set up an inclusive multi-stakeholder taskforce to spearhead electoral and political reforms. The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) said while it notes the establishment of an inter-ministerial taskforce to address recommendations and issues raised by the various election observer missions and the Motlanthe Commission on the August…
FORMER Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges of criminal abuse of office. Parirenyatwa filed the plea in response to charges of interfering with and prejudicing the National Pharmaceutical Company of Zimbabwe (NatPharm) of $15 003. The State also alleges he acted contrary to his duties as a public…
A Harare court yesterday sentenced an HIV-positive maid to 25 years in prison for intentionally infecting a 12-year-old boy with the virus and a sexually transmitted infection. Memory Makore, a 40-year-old house help, allegedly coaxed the boy on two occasions, infecting him with the virus and genital warts. Makore pleaded guilty to two counts of…
THE Constitutional Court (Con-Court) has thrown out, with costs, an application by a Harare man Simbarashe Zuze who had challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s appointment of Kumbirai Hodzi as the country’s substantive prosecutor general. “It is ordered that: the request for an interim case management order, having been deemed abandoned in terms of Section 9 (6)…
JUDICIAL Service Commission (JSC) acting secretary Walter Chikwana has defended president Emmerson Mnangagwa’s appointment of Kumbirai Hodzi as the country’s substantive prosecutor general, following an application filed by a Harare man who is seeking to have the appointment nullified. This comes after an applicant, Simbarashe Zuze, filed a Constitutional Court application arguing Hodzi scored badly…
Fresh fissures have emerged in the ruling Zanu PF, with disgruntled members of its youth league passing a vote of no confidence on their leader Pupurai Togarepi and four other members of his executive, the Daily News can report. Togarepi and his lieutenants are under fire for “misconduct and for “letting down” President Emmerson Mnangagwa over…
A FRESH political crisis may be brewing in the country after opposition leader Nelson Chamisa snubbed President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s talks-about-talks gathering at State House yesterday, as authorities begin to show more urgency about ending Zimbabwe’s decades-long political and economic mess. Chamisa said he had rebuffed Mnangagwa’s meeting because he preferred the much-talked about national dialogue…
