FORMER Harare City Council finance director Stanley Ndemera, who was recently sentenced to six years in prison, was yesterday brought before the courts facing more criminal abuse of office charges. In June this year, Ndemera and his accomplice, chamber secretary Charles Kandemiri, were found guilty of criminal abuse of office charges after they illegally sold…
THE Zimbabwe Association of Microfinance Institutions (Zamfi) executive director, Godfrey Chitambo, says the country should consider adopting Islamic banking and economics to lift ordinary people out of poverty. Islamic banking, Islamic finance, or Sharia-compliant finance is banking or financing activity that complies with Sharia (Islamic law) and its practical application through the development of Islamic…
THE fight between the 23 recalled Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) MPs and Sengezo Tshabangu, who asserts to be the opposition’s interim secretary general, continues to drag on as the High Court is set to hear another application today. The matter in which Tshabangu is seeking to block the 23 from using the party’s name…
MIGHTY Warriors coach Shadreck Mlauzi, who was a self-actor in his ongoing indecent assault trial, has found new legal representation. Mlauzi is being accused of sexually abusing the team’s fitness trainer, Brenda Chaora, while the team was in South Africa for the Cosafa women’s soccer tournament in September and October this year.The matter was supposed…
POLICE in Kwekwe have arrested four men who were seeking cleansing services at a traditional healer’s house after they allegedly stabbed their victim to death at a nightclub in Silobela, Midlands Province, recently. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, national police spokesperson Paul Nyathi confirmed the incident, saying the suspects were arrested in Mbizo, Kwekwe.“On…
A SUSPECTED highway robber has been charged with murder after allegedly killing a man during a robbery. Farayi Chikadzi, 31, was brought yesterday before Harare magistrate Dennis Mangosi, where he was charged with one count of murder, one count of armed robbery and one count of robbery.Mangosi remanded him in custody before advising him to…
THE United Nations (UN) has called on the government of Zimbabwe to mobilise more funding towards the fight against HIV/Aids and sexually transmitted infections. This comes as Finance minister Mthuli Ncube allocated $6,3 trillion to the ministry of Health when he announced a $58,2 trillion 2024 National Budget last week.Speaking during the launch of the…
FIVE people died and three others were seriously injured in two different accidents which occurred in the Midlands province at the weekend. Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Midlands spokesperson Emmanuel Mahoko confirmed the fatal road traffic accidents. Mahoko said on November 25 around 11.30pm, Nsingo Cephas (43) of Fortune Park, Mberengwa, was driving a Ford Ranger…
HIGH Court judge Justice Esther Muremba has found Pius ‘Jamba’ Mukandi guilty of the murder of Citizens Coalition for Change activist Moreblessing Ali. Mukandi, who has been on trial for the gruesome murder and mutilation of Ali, was arrested in June last year after Ali’s body, which had been cut into three pieces, was found…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has warned residents without weep holes on their precast perimeter walls, saying they risk having their property damaged by authorities who will forcibly open them if flash floods occur. A weep hole is a small opening that allows water to escape a building or structure.Speaking during a stakeholders meeting on…
