HIGH Court judge Justice Jacob Manzunzu has berated businessman Ofer Sivan for lying to the court in order to get a favourable ruling. Sivan is currently involved in a legal fight with his partners, Gilab Shabtal and Munyaradzi Gonyora, over their mining company, Adlecraft Investments. He approached the High Court last year,seeking to be declared…
FOR most of the last nine years, Admire Munatsi has gone to his boss’s farmhouse in Beatrice, 65km south of Harare, at…
OFFICIALS from the Harare City Council (HCC) are upset that the Environmental Management Authority (Ema) has taken over the task of collecting the mounting garbage in the city. The government said the decision was made to clear growing piles of rubbish across the city and avert outbreaks of communicable diseases such as cholera and typhoid….
ZIMBABWE last week joined other 32 countries, including South Africa, and abstained from voting on a United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) resolution calling for an end to the one year Russia-Ukraine war. However, the majority of other countries voted in favour of the resolution calling for an end to the war. Since the start of…
THREE people were severely injured after Bulawayo City Council (BCC) municipality police officers fired rubber bullets to disperse Fifth Avenue informal traders on Thursday who were protesting against being removed from their vending sites. This comes after BCC raided the informal traders, leading to skirmishes between them and municipal police along Fifth Avenue. Riot police…
THE Civic Registry Department has announced that its offices in Bulawayo and Harare will no longer be open on Saturdays, with effect from next week. In a statement yesterday, the department also said people were now able to access electronic passports from some provincial and district offices in the country. “The Civil Registry Department would…
By Yvonne Ncube A 19-YEAR-OLD man from Mbethe village in Mbembesi, Matabeleland North province has appeared in court facing allegations of murdering his cousin at a birthday party. Zolile Babaza appeared before Bulawayo regional magistrate Collet Ncube this week, and he was not asked to plead and was remanded to March 10. It is the…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is set to cut off water supplies to all the residential suburbs in the second capital for an indefinite period due to power outages. In a statement yesterday, BCC town clerk, Christopher Dube, said the local authority would be forced to cut water supplies for the entire city, save for…
TWO Harare men, Elvis Borerwi and Tafadzwa Matoro, have appeared before a magistrate’s court facing assault charges after allegedly beating up a Johanne Masowe Chishanu leader, Lloyd Gwasira. Matoro, individually, is also being charged with possession of a firearm without a valid licence. It is alleged that Borerwi and Matoro assaulted Gwasira on Monday while…
THE Matopos Research Institute has embarked on a programme to produce dairy cross-breeds of 300 indigenous cows after artificially inseminating the herd in effort to close the country’s milk deficit gap. Rural farmers are expected to be the main beneficiaries of the project. The cross-breeding programme is part of the research institution, in partnership with…
