Tamary Chikiwain BULAWAYO THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) hopes the purchase of water pumps directly from manufacturers will help ease water woes that have been bedevilling the city. This comes as the city last week announced that their persistent water woes will continue for the foreseeable future with residents now enduring a punishing water…
GOEDE Hoop Farm proprietors have approached the High Court for a second time seeking to rescind offer letters for land granted to Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander Valerio Sibanda and police commissioner-general Godwin Matanga. In the court application, Andreas, Peter and Shaun Livaditakis cited Matanga, Sibanda, a provincial lands officer and the Lands ministry as respondents. …
THE High Court has ordered Zanu PF councillor Luckson Mawanga and his company to stop operations at Odzi Mine in Manicaland until the finalisation of an appeal at the Supreme Court. Businessman Anthony Mukandabvute, who runs Twin Castle Mining Company, had approached the High Court seeking to have Mawanga and his Paari Mining barred from…
A LOCAL church has approached the High Court seeking an eviction order against an individual who has occupied their residential stand in the name of a housing co-operative. In the court papers, Faith Ministries Church (FMC) has cited an individual by the name F Nhau, the Joseph Msika Housing Co-operative and Local Government minister July…
HARARE businessman Adam Hartnack has appeared in court on fraud allegations, accused of swindling the government of over US$60 000 in a cloud seeding deal. Hartnack and his company Adamair appeared before regional magistrate Stanford Mambanje facing three counts of fraud at the weekend. It is the State’s case that on December 31 2018, the…
BULAWAYO police have dismissed claims by some Hillside suburb residents alleging that there are vuzu parties taking place at Hillside Estate where the proprietors of a certain shop are selling alcohol and playing loud music at the premises. Vuzu parties are inhouse gatherings mostly by teenagers where they take alcohol and drugs while engaging in…
LEADING crop protection and seeds supplier, Syngenta, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Lands and Agriculture ministry which seeks to promote collaboration between the two parties. This comes as Zimbabwe is expecting a bumper harvest following good rains and adequate supply of inputs to farmers during the 2020-21 agriculture season. According to…
OVER 150 000 people across the country are still suffering from the ravaging effects of cyclones that hit Zimbabwe since 2019, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has revealed. This has been detailed in a Tropical Cyclone Response Baseline Assessment by the IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) for March 2021 which traces impact of…
MDC Alliance legislator for Budiriro Costa Machingauta has appeared in court accused of threatening a woman with a gun before raping her. He was not asked to plead to the allegations when he appeared before Harare magistrate Barbara Mateko yesterday. Machingauta was remanded in custody to April 23 and was advised to apply for bail…
POLICE in Bulawayo have launched a manhunt for a suspected robbery suspect, who escaped from the holding cells at Western Commonage Courts at the weekend. Provincial police spokesperson Abednico Ncube said they are appealing for information that would lead to the arrest of Mandlakayise Ncube. Mandlakayise allegedly made his escape with the help of…
