ROGUE beef traders are making a killing by purchasing infected cattle from farmers at low prices and smuggling the meat into butcheries, putting consumers’ health at risk, according to veterinary services. Farmers in Zvishavane and Mberengwa districts have been losing cattle to the January disease, with authorities suspecting that infected cattle meat is making its…
BY YVONNE NCUBE TRANSPORT minister Felix Mhona, has urged boards under his purview to develop media engagement frameworks in order to improve transparency in all sectors of the economy. He made the remarks during the second edition of the line minister’s public entities’ corporate governance oversight meeting, which is intended to bring about a positive…
HARARE magistrate Tafadzwa Miti yesterday postponed the bail hearing of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Zengeza West MP Job Sikhala to next Monday, November 21 due to power cuts at the magistrates’ courts. He is facing charges of inciting public violence last June at the memorial service in Nyatsime, Chitungwiza of CCC activist Moreblessing Ali….
By Nyasha Dube THE High Court has put an end to a long running ownership wrangle of a gold mine in Mudzi district pitting Earthrow Investments and Pahasha Somalia Mining Syndicate, declaring the former to be the rightful owner of the mining claims. The two rival miners had been locked in an ownership dispute over…
By Nyasha Dube THE High Court has dismissed an application filed by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) where it was appealing against a Beitbridge Magistrate Court’s judgment that gave a local transport company, Trustus, the authority to repossess a truck that the revenue authority had impounded. According to court documents, in April last year, Zimra…
By Nyasha Dube A MAZOWE woman has approached the High Court seeking an order to bar her parents from interfering with her farming activities. Lovemore and Elinah Dzipange, who are the parents to Zuwa Damson, were the first to approach the High Court last October seeking a declaration and interdict against her. Justice Sylvia Chirawu-Mugomba…
FOUR men have appeared in court on charges of assaulting two Chiredzi district lands officers and accusing them of corruption. The men are allegedly part of a 10-man gang that impersonated officials from the Masvingo provincial land taskforce team. The accused are Elisha Chirove, Promise Mhlanga, George Bowa and Ruben Sithole all from Chiredzi. They…
By Regis Chingawo THE failure of the Zimbabwe Energy Workers (Zewu) to hold an elective congress in accordance with the organisation’s constitution has reportedly caused some schisms in the association, which represents over 4 000 workers in the country’s energy sector. According to information obtained by the Daily News, an elective congress was supposed to…
HIGH Court judge, Justice Owen Tagu, has confirmed that the Vice President Constantino Chiwenga’s family trust fund, Chawasarira Trust, be a joinder and second respondent in the top government official’s divorce trial with his former wife, Marry Mubaiwa. “At the last sitting Ms (Beatrice) Mtetwa indicated that there was an application for joinder of Chawasarira…
By Nyasha Dube HIGH Court judge, Justice Bongani Ndlovu, has ordered a Mutare-based car dealership to deliver four top-of-the-range Toyota Land Cruisers that it sold to Sakunda Holdings in 2016 or pay the remaining balance of US$633 257. Sakunda had approached the court accusing Mutare Toyota and its former executive director, Charles Nhamo Nyambuya, of…
