A CRYPTOCURRENCY dealer who was arrested last week for allegedly stealing over US$400 000 from a local specialist doctor, has been denied bail by a Harare magistrate. Lloyd Chiyangwa initially appeared before the court on June 6, facing a charge of fraud and has been in custody pending the determination of his bail application. However,…
AN OFFICER with the Presidential Guard of the Zimbabwe National Army yesterday appeared before a Harare court for possessing three live rounds. Kudakwashe Zvobgwo, 32, was arraigned before magistrate Munashe Chibanda facing a charge of contravening a provision of the Firearms Act. He was released on $100 000 bail before being ordered to return to…
THE ninth suspect arrested in connection with Thabo Bester’s prison escape made a brief appearance in the Bloemfontein, South Africa, magistrate court…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has partnered with the government and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in refurbishing the small-to-medium enterprises centre. The partnership was entered into in a bid to establish safe trading markets for women and youth entrepreneurs in the country’s secondbiggest city. According to latest council minutes seen by the Daily News…
A SUSPECTED armed robber, who is believed to be one of the suspects who allegedly robbed a Chinese company of nearly $1.8 million in local currency in Aspindale, Harare, in 2018 has appeared in court. Christopher Asoni, 43, was arrested last Thursday after being on the run for nearly five years and appeared before Harare…
A MAN from Mvurwi will spend the next three years in prison after he was found guilty of assaulting his friend to death after the now-deceased joked about having an affair with his wife. Mike Foya, who was initially arraigned before the High Court facing a charge of murder, denied the charge, but pleaded guilty…
By Rutendo Ngara ZIMBABWE and Mozambique have established a tri-basin commission that will manage the Buzi, Pungwe and Save (Bupusa) river basins in an environmentally friendly manner. Exclusively shared by the two nations, the Bupusa river basins drain into the Indian Ocean. The three basins are situated in the Beira Corridor, a crucial commercial route…
A 73-YEAR-OLD self-styled traditional healer from Glen View, Harare, stands accused of sodomising a 12-year-old boy multiple times for nearly five years and giving him cash to remain silent. Paradzai Kausiyo Wambe was arraigned before magistrate Ethel Chichera over the weekend, facing a charge of aggravated indecent assault. He was released on a $20 000…
THE Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) is set to embark on national awareness campaigns to educate people on the Cyber and Data Protection Act. This comes as the institution recently said they were investigating how mobile phone users ended up receiving unsolicited campaign messages ahead of this year’s elections. In a statement…
THE country was plunged into mourning yesterday after 10 people perished while 15 others were seriously injured in two separate road traffic accidents over the weekend. This comes barely two months after 12 people have died after the bus they were travelling in crashed along the Chivhu-Murambinda Highway yesterday. In a statement yesterday national police…
