FOUR Local Government ministry officials accused of recommending allocation of residential stands to their friends, who were not on the housing waiting list have been granted $20 000 bail each. Andrew Shawatu, who was the principal administration officer of the State lands section and Priscilla Mudzinge, who was the director of urban planning and commonage…
LOW cost airline Nu Aero (Private) Limited, trading as Fly Africa Zimbabwe (Fly Africa, and its directors, Cassidy Mugwagwa and Mekias Munyaradzi, have been dragged to the High Court by a local firm demanding US$300 000, which was part of an investment into the aeroplane business. In the application, Skyes Bond Holding Company (SBHC) told…
POLITICAL outfit Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP), which on Monday threatened to protest over transport woes in Bulawayo, has petitioned Transport minister Felix Mhona over Zupco’s continued monopoly as the country’s sole authorised public transporter. In the petition copied to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe, among other stakeholders, the party’s president, Mqondisi…
HIGH Court judge Esther Muremba has postponed Vice President Constatino Chiwenga’s divorce hearing to July 15 to allow the politician’s estranged wife, Marry, who is currently hospitalised, to attend the proceedings. Chiwenga’s lawyer Lewis Uriri yesterday consented to the application for postponement after establishing that Mubaiwa was indeed ill and admitted at a private hospital…
A HARARE man yesterday appeared in court after he was arrested on allegations of conniving with three Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) employees…
Tamary Chikiwain BULAWAYO THE Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Praz) has lost the battle to halt a joint elephant concession tender granted to Matupula Hunters by Tsholotsho Rural District Council (TRDC). Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Maxwell Takuva nullified Praz’s decision to cancel the tender on the basis that it was illegal. Praz is the…
THE Zimbabwe Platinum Mines Limited (Zimplats) has approached the High Court seeking eviction orders against seven ex-employees who are still occupying the company’s houses. In court papers filed by the platinum miner, Farai Mandimika, Maxwell Verenga, Triuona Makina, Rodwell Bhunu, Duplicate Ndoda, Liberty Dakarai and Bernard Mushanga were cited as respondents. The seven entered into…
THE government has launched a blitz against unregistered vehicles that are defying a ban on pirate operators by continuing to ferry passengers on roads across the country. At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in March last year, the government banned all private vehicles, including kombis, from operating unless they have been registered with the…
THE police on Monday recovered close to one kilogramme of cocaine stashed in a foreigner’s undergarments at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport after a tip off. The cocaine weighing 945g has a street value of $7 560 000. “The suspect had been placed under surveillance after reports that she was believed to have ingested…
THERE was drama in Parliament yesterday as legislators brawled after disagreeing on whether or not businessman Wicknell Chivayo should appear before a portfolio committee over a US$5 million solar tender he was awarded by Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC). Things came to a head when Independent Norton MP Temba Mliswa insisted that the parliamentary portfolio committee…
