HARARE – Grain Marketing Board Pension Fund chief executive officer Taona Munzvandi is being charged with fraud after allegedly fleecing his employer of $1 million in a botched land sale deal. Munzvandi, 48, appeared before Harare magistrate Rumbidzayi Mugwagwa yesterday. He was released on $800 bail. As part of bail conditions, Munzvandi was ordered to…
HARARE – A cop attached to Avondale Police Traffic Section is answering to 104 counts of fraud and abuse of office after he reportedly cashed-in on motorists’ fines using a fake receipt book, a court heard. Claudius Mazvimba, 35, appeared before Harare magistrate Francis Mapfumo for trial but would not respond when questions were posed…
HARARE – The government has suspended Prosecutor-General (PG) Ray Goba — pending the outcome of a probe which could see him being sacked for the second time in less than a year. Goba confirmed his suspension to the Daily News yesterday, while declining to comment further. “Yes, I have been suspended,” he would only say….
HARARE – Popular Johane Masowe eChishanu Vadzidzi VaJesu Church founder Aaron Mhukuta Gomo, commonly known as Mudzidzi Wimbo, has died. He was 96. Announcing Wimbo’s death on his Facebook account yesterday, Zanu PF youth league political commissar Godfrey Tsenengamu — who is a member of the church — said God’s will has been done. “VaMudzidzi…
HARARE – Opposition parties yesterday came out guns blazing, accusing the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Priscilla Chigumba, of acting in bad faith after announcing that the printing of presidential ballot papers for the July 30 harmonised elections had been completed. Zec said on Wednesday that the printing of ballot papers had been completed and…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his main rival, Nelson Chamisa, have both shut the door on gay rights, saying same-sex marriage remains banned in Zimbabwe. This comes after Zimbabwe’s gays and lesbians said they have pleasantly welcomed a potential sharp turn by Mnangagwa’s ruling Zanu PF to embrace gay rights. Gays and Lesbians Association…
HARARE – Two of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s security aides who were injured last month when a bomb blast rocked an election campaign rally at White City Stadium in Bulawayo have been airlifted to South Africa for further treatment. The Daily News can exclusively reveal that the two aide-de-camps, whose condition was said to be critical,…
HARARE – Two of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s security aides who were injured last month when a bomb blast rocked an election campaign rally at White City Stadium in Bulawayo have been airlifted to South Africa for further treatment. [Adz]
HARARE – Zimbabwean opposition political parties and pro-democracy campaigners have applied to join court proceedings of a registered voter who is seeking to bar the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) from releasing a voters’ roll bearing prospective voters’ photographs as stipulated by the law citing privacy issues. In an urgent chamber application for a joinder to…
HARARE – Prosecutors dropped charges of political violence against expelled Zanu PF Harare political commissar Shadreck Mashayamombe who was accused of fomenting violence at the party headquarters to foil his ouster. Mashayamombe, 32, was jointly charged with Peckias Murindi, 27, Joseph Gakaka,31, Vengai Mutepaire,31, and Charles Ngwenya,26, when they appeared before Harare magistrate Francis Mapfumo….
