INCARCERATED opposition party legislator Job Sikhala has been denied bail again on his charge of defeating the course of justice after a regional magistrate court found that there were no changed circumstances that warranted the granting of bail. This comes after Sikhala early this month once again applied for bail on the grounds of changed…
AT LEAST 150 teachers left the country for Rwanda yesterday after Zimbabwe last year signed a deal with the east African country to deploy more than 400 educators. Speaking during a send-off briefing in Harare, deputy minister of Public Service Lovemore Matuke, pictured, said teachers should exhibit their competences so that their two-year contracts would…
BY DIONNE KANYOWA THE HIGH Court has quashed attempts made by the Health Professions Authority of Zimbabwe (HPAZ) and Medical Laboratory and Clinical Scientists Council of Zimbabwe (MLCSCZ) to bar popular paternity test television show host, Tinashe Mugabe, from operating. The two boards had suspended Global DNA Zimbabwe’s (Mugabe’s company) operations after cancelling his registration…
THE Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe has announced the approval of the use of long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA) as a pre-exposure prophylaxis…
By Hazel Marimbiza THE Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) says it is currently in the process of building strategic partnerships with the government in mitigating the effects of climate change. Over the past years, rainfall patterns have become increasingly unpredictable and erratic and droughts have become more frequent. Climate change has hit hard, particularly the…
BY DIONNE KANYOWA THE High Court has provisionally reversed Agriculture minister Anxious Masuka’s controversial decision to issue Release Power Investments (Private) Limited (RPI) with a 99-year lease for a piece of land in Goromonzi. This comes after it emerged that Kennedy Godwin Mangenje also held a valid offer letter to the same property, known as…
FORMER Cabinet minister Petronella Kagonye’s freedom bid has flopped after the High Court dismissed an appeal to set aside her two-year custodial sentence for theft. In June this year, a magistrate’s court found Kagonye, pictured, guilty of expropriating 20 laptops that were meant to benefit schools in her then Goromonzi South constituency through an e-learning…
By Dionne Kanyowa AN ALLEGE armed robber who targeted “pirating” female taxi drivers under the guise of hiring their services was denied bail at the High Court. Kenneth Makoni, who is facing two counts of armed robbery, was denied bail pending appeal by Justice Lucy Mungwari on the grounds that he was “a danger to…
By Brandon Josphat THE Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (ZCPSTU), the umbrella body for civil service servants unions, says the introduction of competency-based bonuses in place of automatic bonuses is in contravention of the National Joint Negotiating Council (NJNC) agreement. The outcry by ZCPSTU, formerly called Apex Council, follows the recent announcement by…
By Dionne Kanyowa AWARD-WINNING author and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga and democracy activist Julie Barnes have approached the High Court seeking to quash their conviction of inciting public violence. The duo was recently sentenced to a three months jail term or alternatively a $70 000 fine for staging a peaceful demonstration in Borrowdale two years ago…
