HARARE – Former Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere — facing charges of criminal abuse of office and violation of the Procurement Act — has filed an application for exception arguing that the allegations put against him did not disclose an offence. The charge relates to the case of Shuvai Gumbochuma, sister to former first lady Grace…
HARARE – Former NetOne chief executive officer Reward Kangai was yesterday removed from remand in a case he is facing charges of criminal abuse of office. Kangai is being accused of allegedly flouting tender procedures and prejudicing the State-owned telecommunications giant of over $17,5 million. He faces twin charges of criminal abuse of duty as…
HARARE – A Chivi man allegedly broke into the Harare Magistrates’ Courts and stole seven complete dockets which were locked up in a public prosecutor’s office, a magistrate heard yesterday. Shakemore Mandanda allegedly gained entry using duplicate keys. Mandanda was arrested after he contacted one of the accused persons and demanded a $200 bribe for…
HARARE – Government assured motorists yesterday that there were no shortages of fuel and urged them not to engage in panic buying after long queues built up at filling stations. Lengthy fuel queues were reported by motorists across Zimbabwe, including in the second capital Bulawayo, the eastern city of Mutare and the capital, Harare. A…
MUTARE – Chiadzwa villagers remain disillusioned and without hope that proposed reforms in militarised diamond fields will come to fruition. Villagers drawn from wards 29 and 30, at the epicentre of Marange diamond fields, who gathered at Mukwada Clinic last Saturday for a Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) all-stakeholder security diamond conference feedback meeting organised…
HARARE – A Nyanga man has been slapped with a nine-year jail term after confessing to stealing a beast to raise money for his children’s school fees. Christopher Dzimano, 34, of Gondokondo Village in Nyanga was convicted on his own guilty plea by magistrate Anniah Ndiraya who handed him the minimum mandatory sentence. He was…
HARARE – The machete wars that have been going on for the past two years in the Midlands Province mining town of Kwekwe have so far killed 14 people and injured over 100 others so far, government has confirmed. Deputy Home Affairs minister Mike Madiro told Parliament yesterday that the deaths involved artisanal miners who…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Teachers Association (Zimta) has said its members will go on strike if they are not paid their salaries in US dollars this month. This is despite the country experiencing severe shortages of foreign currency which recently evoked memories of the hyperinflationary days of 2008 when panicking ordinary people engaged in panic…
HARARE – One of the four aircraft bought by government from Malaysia has reportedly been sold to Jet Midwest, a US-based leading global aviation parts provider, due to non-payment by Zimbabwe. Government had all along claimed it bought four Boeing 777 aircraft from Malaysia and an Embraer plane, with the planes set to be leased…
HWANGE – Hwange-based coal mining company Makomo Resources has denied grabbing Zambezi Gas’ land. This comes after Zambezi Gas appealed to the Temba Mliswa-led parliamentary panel to help get its land back allegedly grabbed by Makomo Resources, which is the largest privately-owned coal producer in Zimbabwe. Zambezi Gas shareholder and deputy managing director Linos Masimura…
