HARARE – A Harare man reportedly duplicated a residential stand owner’s national identity card before using it to dupe prospective home seekers. Daison Zvomuuya, 58, was apprehended intending to pounce on his second target. He appeared before Harare magistrate Rumbidzayi Mugwagwa yesterday. Zvomuuya is being charged with fraud and was remanded in custody to today…
HARARE – Harare City Council chamber room was yesterday emptied by the Messenger of Court over a $3 900 debt. According to sources at Town House, the deputy sheriff pounced on council offices and took chairs and desks in the room. [GoogleAd] The property attachment comes amid escalating suits that saw pensioners a fortnight ago…
HARARE – Harare councillor Wilton Janjazi is demanding that the city reimburse him more than $12 000 in legal fees he accrued when he was fighting fraud accusations he has since been cleared of. Janjazi was last year suspended by council after he was allegedly involved in the awarding of a tender to Energy Resources…
HARARE – The High Court has barred Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister Monica Mutsvangwa from evicting former Zanu PF youth leader Kudzanai Chipanga from his Headlands farm. This comes after Chipanga through his lawyer Lovemore Madhuku filed an urgent chamber application accusing Mutsvangwa of grabbing his farm and illegally handing it over to a white farmer….
HARARE – Expelled Zanu PF Harare political commissar Shadreck Mashayamombe has been dragged to court after reportedly staging violence against erstwhile party supporters who backed 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. The…
HARARE – Home Affairs minister Obert Mpofu has suffered the indignity of having the land which he was leasing from the government being withdrawn because of non-production and the neglect of farm equipment. In its findings on the land utilisation and management of estates investigation, the parliamentary portfolio committee on Public Accounts said there was…
HARARE – The MDC Alliance yesterday gave its clearest hint to date that it would not participate in the watershed July 30 national elections unless the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) binds itself to running what the main opposition said would be “completely fair, transparent and credible elections”. This comes after Zec issued a statement on…
HARARE – Rural teachers have urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, to stop commandeering school children to his rallies. In a statement yesterday, the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) said educators were getting increasingly worried over continued reports of school children and their teachers seen at Zanu PF functions and in some cases seen…
HARARE – It has emerged that MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has rebuffed ousted former president Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace’s overtures for the trio to work together — as the former first family frantically attempts to derail President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s election bid in next month’s watershed polls, the Daily News can report.
HARARE – Harare City Council is yet to interview the 11 candidates shortlisted for the town clerk position. According to Harare mayor Bernard Manyenyeni, the interviews were supposed to be conducted last week. The position has not been substantively filled since Tendai Mahachi’s departure in 2015. “The interviews are yet to start and honestly, I…
