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ERRANT businesspeople operating in the rural Matabeleland region have been warned by the Consumer Protection Commission (CPC) after they were exposed for selling expired and sub-standard goods. This comes after the commission recently opened an office in Bulawayo manned by four inspectors deployed to cover the Matabeleland region as part of CPC’s decentralisation. Speaking to…

By Rutendo Ngara TWO South Africans and three Zimbabweans, who allegedly stole a Toyota Land Cruiser vehicle, from the neighbouring country before smuggling it into Zimbabwe, appeared at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts yesterday facing theft charges. The five, John Leseja Mkonto, 37, Raymond Tshabalala, 29, both from Johannesburg, South Africa, Sibusiso Mpofu, 44, Nwabi Maqhawe,…

ZANU PF Mazowe North MP Tsungai Makumbe appeared in court yesterday facing charges of allegedly raping his former wife at gunpoint before infecting her with HIV and a sexually transmitted disease (STI). He appeared before magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa facing rape charges and was remanded out of custody to October 3. According to the State led…

By Yvonne Ncube in BULAWAYO THREE men have appeared before a Bulawayo magistrate court facing seven counts of extortion, attempted extortion, robbery and impersonating President’s Department and Military Intelligence Department officials. They also extorted over US$57 000 from prominent lawyer, Dumisani Dube, a corporate rescuer for Fools Mine. Munyaradzi Charakupa, 48, of Burnside in Bulawayo,…

Yvonne Ncube in BULAWAYO A 43-YEAR-OLD man from Tsholotsho, Matabeleland South Province, has received a 20-year jail term following his conviction of raping an 11-year-old girl. Melusi Dungeni appeared before Bulawayo regional magistrate Dambudzo Malunga facing four counts of rape. He pleaded not guilty to the charges, but was convicted after full trial. He was…

BY RUTENDO NGARA THE trial of seven former Harare City Council’s finance’s committee members, including ex-Harare mayor Ian Makone, who are accused of illegally acquiring commercial stands, commenced yesterday at the Harare Magistrates Court. Appearing before magistrate Donald Ndirowei, Kennedy Chikandamina, a State witness, told the court that he received an order from town clerk…

By Masimba Makwembere makwemberemv@dailynews.co.zw SIX people perished in a road traffic accident yesterday morning when a Ford Ranger vehicle collided with a haulage truck along the Masvingo-Beitbridge Highway. In a statement, national police spokesperson Paul Nyathi said the police were investigating the accident. “The ZRP (Zimbabwe Republic Police) confirms a fatal road traffic accident which…

OVER 50 percent of women in rural areas who have experienced gender-based violence (GBV) were exposed during care-related work, a State of the Father Report shows. The study, which was launched by Sonke Gender Justice, Southern Africa HIV and AIDS Information Dissemination Service (SAfAIDS) in conjunction with the ministry of Women Affairs, further showed that…

THE HIGH court has sent a Mutoko man Farai Nyamurenje, who allegedly killed his two-year-old son by suffocating him in the sand in 2012, to Chikurubi psychiatric hospital for examination and treatment. According to the court papers, Nyamurenje came home on August 31, 2012 and he found his wife Estere Mutinyanya and their son Tatenda…