By Nyasha Dube STAKEHOLDERS in the legal delivery system will next week hold their inaugural conference under the Judicial Conference Council (JCC) to interrogate the country’s current sentencing guidelines. The conference, organised by the Judiciary Service Commission (JSC), is coming at a time Zimbabwe is witnessing an upsurge in crime involving rape, murder, fraud, armed…
By Nyasha Dube SOUTH Africa-based Zimbabwean businessman Frank Buyanga will continue to languish in South African prison after High Court judge Justice Pisirayi Kwenda yesterday dismissed the magistrate court’s decision to cancel his international arrest warrant. This is despite the fact that the Supreme Court yesterday also granted Buyanga’s appeal which sought the recusal of…
By Almot Maqolo FOREIGN Affairs deputy minister David Musabayana says Zimbabwe’s re-engagement drive with the west has exceeded the government’s expectations as the southern African country thrives to become a lucrative investment destination. The government, has among other things, improved the ease of doing business and has upped its efforts to strengthen relations with the…
A BULAWAYO man has been sentenced to one year in prison for assaulting his wife for deleting pictures on his phone. Takaindisa Chirimo pleaded guilty to physical abuse charges when he appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Busani Sibanda. Chirimo is however lucky to be serving an effective six months, after the magistrate halved six months from…
By Regis Chingawo MASVINGO City Council has unveiled a US$23.6 million 2023 budget with the local residents crying foul and criticising the financial plan as “anti-poor and beyond their reach”. In a statement released yesterday, the council said US$17 million was expected from residents and other ratepayers while US$6 million would come from various sources….
By Nyasha Dube HARARE magistrate Tafadzwa Miti has dismissed an application for discharge at close of prosecution by a teacher who was arrested recently for complaining about poor salaries on social media. Edith Mupondi, who is charged with contravening section 88(b) of the Postal and Telecommunications Act, appeared before the magistrate yesterday. In her judgment,…
HARARE City Council (HCC) has issued a certificate of compliance for 140 residential stands at Pomona City phase 1A which means stand…
A HARARE man, Farai Chiweza, who was facing murder charges, was last week found not guilty of the murder of his friend after the High Court ruled that the State had failed to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt. Chiweza and his co-accused Osman Tsoka were arrested in 2015. The latter was acquitted after…
INDIA’S Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has arrested two Zimbabweans with 7.9 kg of heroin at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport,…
ENVIRONMENT and Tourism deputy minister Barbra Rwodzi has urged graduates to be patriotic in order to promote nation-building. Speaking at the 2022 graduation ceremony of 100 students from The School of Public Speaking at the Management Training Bureau in Harare at the weekend, the deputy minister said public speakers should use their skills to laud…
