GOVERNMENT wants all local authorities mayors and chairpersons to attend training at the Zanu PF Chitepo School of Ideology to be conducted this week in the capital. This comes as President Emmerson Mnangagwa last year launched the “Call to action, no compromise to service delivery” campaign to enhance accountability and service delivery in all 92…
POLICE have confirmed the arrest of a 20-year-old woman from Nyamandlovu, Matabeleland North Province, for recently strangling her 18-month-old son to death. In a statement yesterday, national police spokesperson Paul Nyathi said the suspect allegedly murdered her son after failing to silence him while he was crying. “On August 14 2024, police in Nyamandlovu arrested…
THE High Court has sentenced three Mt Darwin, Mashonaland Central, gold panners to a suspended two-month prison term each for fatally assaulting a fellow miner in 2022. Lovemore Masauki, Naison Masauki, and Ellin Joe were initially charged with murder before it was later turned to an assault charge. The three were accused of fatally assaulting…
ZIMBABWE-BORN Ameerh Naran knows the secrets of the super-rich. He knows what they are spending and where in the world they are…
Neville Mlambo, 65, a retired missionary, shakes his head. His United Church of Christ in Zimbabwe (UCCZ) church had educated some of…
FORMER Cabinet Minister Prisca Mupfumira was on Thursday removed from remand at the Harare Magistrates Court. Mupfumira, who was arrested in 2019, was jointly charged with former Public Service permanent secretary Ngoni Masoka for allegedly misappropriating a US$90 000 loan granted by the National Social Security Authority to acquire a ministerial vehicle, which was never…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) says it is seeking to restore order in the city through hiring more security personnel in a move aimed at curbing rising cases of lawlessness. Speaking during a residents meeting in the city yesterday, BCC representative Howard Sibanda said the council was worried over public buses operating from undesignated areas…
Yvonne Ncube in BULAWAYO BULAWAYO’s ward 22 Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) councillor, Mmeli Bruce Moyo, who was arrested early this month following allegations of incitement to commit public violence, has been further remanded in custody. He appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Beverly Casmila Madzikatire yesterday and remanded to August 30 after the State requested for…
SOUTHERN African women’s rights defenders have called on heads of state and government attending this year’s 44th Sadc Summit in Zimbabwe today to fulfil their commitments to the rights of women. In a statement yesterday, the Southern African Gender Protocol Alliance chair, Emma Kaliya, said that despite advocating for the adoption of a gender protocol,…
A 32-YEAR-OLD man from Kensington suburb, Bulawayo, has found himself in trouble after he allegedly ran over another man with his vehicle accusing him of snatching his girlfriend. Amhlophe Nkomo yesterday appeared before Bulawayo regional magistrate Joseph Mabeza facing a charge of attempted murder. He pleaded not guilty and was remanded in custody to August…
