By Dionne Kanyowa THE HIGH Court has dismissed veteran lawyer and author Petina Gappah’s request to appeal to the Supreme Court to challenge its decision to dismiss her exception application against fellow lawyer Fadzayi Mahere’s defamation lawsuit. Gappah, pictured, who is being sued by Mahere for US$1 million over alleged defamatory tweets, approached the court…
By Dionne Kanyowa FORMER commissioner for the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission and Zanu PF member Goodson Nguni has been joined as a party to a case in which fellow party member Sybeth Musengezi is challenging President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ascension to power as the party’s leader in 2017. Judge President Justice Mary Dube, who delivered her ruling…
By Hazel Marimbiza GWANDA residents have expressed concern over council’s takeover of the town’s water treatment plant, saying water challenges are worsening due to council’s inadequate preparation to run it. This comes after the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) recently handed over the Gwanda water treatment plant to the local authority in compliance with a…
THREE men accused of duping dealers of over US$750 000 on the guise that they would send them an amount equivalent in local currency want to be prosecuted separately as one of them is implicating others. Munir Kanrudin Kazi is jointly charged with Shingirai Levison Muringi and Andre Hoffman on fraud charges.Lawyers representing Kazi and…
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration has created a fully-fledged procurement management unit and risk and loss control departments as part of aligning the institution to good corporate governance practices, the organisation’s chairperson George Manyaya has said. Zinara created a procurement management unit in 2020 from which the institution is operating under Class A and most…
By Dionne Kanyowa AN INCARCERATED bar owner, who was convicted by the High Court of murdering a drunken customer by strangling him with a shoe lace over rowdy behaviour, has taken his freedom bid to the Supreme Court. Talent Nyamombe, who was sentenced to 15 years in jail in June by Justice Moses Foroma, maintains…
FLOOD victims in Zvishavane who were last year displaced by council in Mandava after their houses were destroyed have claimed that council has “forgotten” them. The residents claimed that the council had promised to renovate their houses but for over a year now they still live in squatter like areas.Contacted for a comment Zvishavane mayor…
POLICE in Gweru have banned the use of dangerous weapons in public for the second time this year amid reports that the crime rate in the city is on the rise. The banned weapons include machetes, knives, knobkerries, swords and catapults among others. Gweru chief superintendent Tambudzai Gumbo told the Daily News yesterday that the…
THE Public Account Committee (PAC) has summoned Parliament’s administration to explain the nearly US$2 million procurement scandal which rocked the august House last week. This comes as the government cancelled a tender in which Parliament was supposed to buy laptops and desktops at a cost of US$9 264 and US$3 076 per item respectively. In…
Rutendo NgaraSTAFF WRITERngarar@dailynews.co.zw VICE President and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga has urged medical aid companies to have mental health cover for the country to be able to reduce mental health cases. Speaking during the Association of Healthcare Funders (AHFoZ) conference in Victoria Falls over the weekend, Chiwenga said planswere underway to come up with a…
