HARARE – Businessman Jameson Rushwaya is facing prospects of doing prison time after the High Court ruled in favour of an application imploring the courts to imprison him for failing to pay $174 000 owed to Tetrad Investment Bank. High Court judge Owen Tagu granted Tetrad Investment Bank the order which placed Jameson and Annie…
HARARE – Deputy Finance minister Terence Mukupe, yesterday suffered the embarrassment of being ordered to settle fees arrears for his children by the High Court after he had failed to pay their school for nine months. Mukupe owes Harare International School nearly $30 000. Harare International School filed a High Court application demanding the controversial…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) will today wind up a two-day training for election agents for all political parties participating in Monday’s crucial national harmonised elections. In a statement Zec’s acting chief elections officer Utoile Silaigwana said those who will complete the training will form part of the observation teams for the polls….
HARARE – The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) has deployed a short-term election observer mission for next Monday’s harmonised elections. The advance party of the Comesa delegation arrived in Harare on Saturday. Ambassador Ashraf Gamal Rashed, a member of the Comesa Committee of Elders from Egypt, is leading the mission. He is…
HARARE – ZANU PF has dragged two erstwhile members contesting as parliamentary candidates in the forthcoming elections, seeking to bar them from using its slogans in their campaigns. In two separate urgent chamber applications, Zanu PF is suing Wilbert Mubaiwa and Oswell Ndumo Gwanzura, accusing them of using President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s picture on their T-shirts…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) said yesterday it welcomes the decision by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to review the positioning of voting booths ahead of next Monday’s harmonised elections by reverting back to the set-up in previous elections. The proposed positioning of the voting booths which would have seen voters casting…
HARARE – A bulletins manager at ZBC yesterday denied commissioning or airing news items that Zanu PF legislator and television personality Oscar Pambuka charged Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) $12 650 for. Maziwisa and Pambuka are answering to fraud charges before Harare magistrate Lazini Ncube. They allegedly charged ZPC $12 650 for facilitating to have the…
HARARE – Former Cabinet minister Walter Mzembi yesterday told the court that he was undergoing cancer treatment in South Africa when he missed a court hearing. Mzembi — who is facing a slew of corruption charges — was represented by Job Sikhala who tendered proof that his client was battling cancer, and had missed a…
HARARE – The wife of former deputy Finance minister and Zanu PF Mutoko South Member of Parliament (MP) David Chapfika has won a divorce settlement in the High Court. After a convoluted divorce battle, Abina Chapfika (nee Mutimusakwa) — his wife of over 32-years — won unlimited use of their motor vehicles, namely Toyota Vigo,…
HARARE – Plans by the MDC Alliance to demonstrate against the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) today were thrown into disarray yesterday after police refused to sanction the protests due to the “absence of manpower” — as many officers are said to be undergoing training ahead of next week’s national elections. At the same time tempers…
