HARARE – A soldier appeared before a Harare magistrate on Wednesday for reportedly using a service pistol to threaten his wife during a domestic dispute. Conrad Magaiza, 37, who is attached to Josiah MagamaTongogara Army Headquarters, appeared before Harare magistrate, Milton Serima, charged with threats to commit murder. According to State papers, on July 15…
HARARE – The tenure of office for the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has been extended by six months following its expiry in June 2018. This was revealed by the Zimra board chair, Willia Bonyongwe, in a revenue performance report for the first half of the year ended June 30, 2018. “…The positive 2018 first half…
HARARE – The chairperson of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) Luke Malaba was yesterday asked to investigate Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) judge Priscilla Chigumba for allegedly behaving “most dishonourably and in an unworthy manner” over her “appalling” handling of the electoral process. A concerned citizen Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo has lodged a complaint with the commission,…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa snubbed an interface meeting of all presidential candidates convened by the civic society in Harare yesterday to foster peace ahead of the crunch July 30 elections. Both were conspicuous by their absence at the Jesuit-run, Arrupe College indaba, in Mt Pleasant. Chamisa ignored…
HARARE – Civic society groups and the main opposition coalition — the MDC Alliance — are protesting the presidential ballot paper outline, which has been designed in a manner that gives President Emmerson Mnangagwa a prime position ahead of his main rival. An unprecedented 23 candidates are running in the country’s historic election on July…
HARARE – Incacerated former Bikita West Member of Parliament Munyaradzi Kereke is helping the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) develop business proposals, ZPCS Commissioner-General Paradzai Zimondi has said. Kereke, a former advisor to then Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono, was jailed two years ago after being convicted of raping an 11-year-old girl…
HARARE – Civic society groups and the main opposition coalition — the MDC Alliance — are protesting the presidential ballot paper outline, which has been designed in a manner that gives President Emmerson Mnangagwa a prime position ahead of his main rival. [Adz]
HARARE – Harare City Council has forwarded the names of three candidates to be considered for the position of town clerk to the Local Government Board (LGB). Leading the trio is current acting town clerk Hosea Chisango, who scored 1 052 points followed by ex-Zimra finance director Robert Mangwiro with 903 points and University of…
HARARE – Cleopas Mugomba, an alleged husband to a High Court judge, has been arraigned before the Harare Magistrate’s Court facing charges of raping a house helper. The victim claims Mugomba is the husband to a judge (name withheld) who was her employer at the time the rape occurred, according to State papers. The 44-year-old…
HARARE – Harare magistrate Estere Chivasa has referred former Midlands minister of State Jaison Machaya to Gokwe Magistrates’ Court for a possible furnishing of a trial date on August 6. Machaya appeared before Chivasa yesterday facing charges of criminal abuse of office after he allegedly demanded 1 000 residential stands from Gokwe Town Council, which…
