POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested three of the four armed robbery suspects who allegedly terrorised a Gwanda family before making off with US$8 000 and an FN 9mm pistol. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, Bulawayo police spokesperson Abednico Ncube said the law enforcers have since launched a manhunt for the fourth suspect,…
INFRASTRUCTURE group Exodus & Company (E&C) has signed a US$141 million Africa construction-works term sheet with the African ExportImport Bank (Afreximbank). The seven-year facility is not only for the benefit of its offshore projects, but downstream activities on the continent. “This strategic partnership with Afreximbank represents a significant milestone for E&C, confidence and support by…
AUTHORITIES says they will distribute food aid to all the districts in the country to supplement citizens with food amid fears of El Niño. This comes amid expectations that the country will be revisited by the El Niño weather phenomenon which causes floods, droughts and heatwaves. El Niño is a natural climate pattern occurring every…
BY YVONNE NCUBEIn BULAWAYO BULAWAYO Vendors and Traders Association (BVTA) is constructing a prototype demo bay for vendors in the city in its bid to provide safe working conditions for the informal sector. This comes as Bulawayo vendors are almost always involved in cat and mouse games with the city fathers for selling their wares…
FORMER Bikita West MP and Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe senior official Munyaradzi Kereke and suspended Harare Municipality Medical Aid Society (HMMAS) chief executive, Everisto Rukasha will spend the weekend in custody awaiting their bail application ruling on Monday. Appearing before Harare magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa yesterday, Kereke insisted that he had not been involved in the…
THERE was drama in the court yesterday as lawyers representing Mighty Warriors coach, Shadreck Mlauzi tried all kinds of tricks to try and have his trial postponed. Mlauzi is facing charges of indecent assault after allegedly trying to sexually assault the team’s fitness trainer, Brenda Chiora, on two separate occasions. When his trial kicked off…
CONVICTED Zimbabwe Miners Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya will spend a second weekend in remand custody after High Court judge, Justice Pisirayi Kwenda, postponed her mitigation hearing to next Tuesday. Rushwaya, 56, was arrested in 2020 by detectives from the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) after she was found with over 6 kilogrammes of gold in her…
Yvonne Ncube in BULAWAYO POLICE in Bulawayo have launched a manhunt for a 30-year-old man from Emganwini suburb who allegedly killed his friend on Tuesday, after he declined to offer him beer. Police spokesperson Abednico Ncube confirmed the incident to the Daily News yesterday. “We are appealing for information that may lead to the arrest…
FORMER Bikita West MP and senior Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) official Munyaradzi Kereke was yesterday remanded in custody after he was arrested for allegedly defrauding Harare Municipal Medical Aid Society (HMMAS) of US$137 000. He is jointly charged with suspended HMMAS chief executive Everisto Rukasha who was also remanded in custody. The two were…
THE sentencing of former Finance deputy minister Terence Mukupe, who was on Wednesday convicted at the High Court of smuggling fuel into the country worth over US$55 000, has been set for next Thursday. Prosecutors have asked the High Court to jail Mukupe and his accomplices, Same Kapisoriso, Ngonidzashe Mutsvene and Joseph Taderera, who were…
