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SEVENTEEN residents have taken the Goromonzi Rural District Council (GRDC) to court challenging the local authority’s decision to evict them and demolish their homes.  In the lawsuit filed at the High Court, the residents, who are represented by Welcome Shumba, cited GRDC, National Housing minister Daniel Garwe, Vitadge Properties, Eastwinds Association and the Marondera Messenger…

AN MDC Alliance employee has dragged Hwange Central MP Daniel Molokele and the party’s Matabeleland North province secretary Dalumuzi Khumalo to court challenging a directive for him to vacate a party-owned house in the coal mining town. In court papers filed before the Hwange Magistrates’ Court yesterday, Cleopas Ngwenya, who is employed as a provincial…

MATOBO residents are in a fresh headache following the return by a mining syndicate that was last year evicted from Domboshaba village after invading a world heritage site to prospect for gold. In September last year, the mining firm, Mazinahue Syndicate, was engaged in running battles with locals, who argued that the company could not…

HARARE regional magistrate Stanford Mambanje has slapped a hawker based at Makombe Building with a 20-month prison term after convicting him of soliciting for bribes from desperate passport seekers. Nicholas Chogugudza pleaded guilty to bribery charges in a case in which he was jointly charged with an official from the registrar general’s office, Prisca Moyo,…

TWO Harare men have been arrested on attempted murder charges after they struck another man in the head with an iron bar following an argument over the FA Cup final between English clubs Leicester City and Chelsea.  Leicester won the match 1-0 and lifted their first FA Cup trophy in the club’s history following Youri…

ZIMBABWE is planning to introduce a law to punish people who are deemed “unpatriotic” because they criticise the country when abroad — and it has left activists feeling nervous. Constitutional lawyer and opposition politician Lovemore Madhuku calls the proposal “dangerous”, saying that “no State can define patriotism”. People seen as unpatriotic for allegedly undermining the…

THE Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) has received $1,7 billion from the government for the 2021 examinations, in a development set to ease the examination fees burden on guardians and parents. In a statement, Primary and Secondary Education minister, Cain Mathema said that the timely intervention by the government paves way for all eligible candidates…

Zanu PF legislator for Bikita East Johnson Madhuku also told the National Assembly that composite classes affected the learning process in most schools, as some learners are at times left unattended as teachers will be busy in other classes. “This is the reason why we are lamenting that such the situation should be revisited and…