A LOCAL company has filed a lawsuit at the High Court demanding US$4 million from the Communications and Allied Industries Pension Fund (CAIPF). Nutriveg, which is under judicial management, together with its assigned corporate rescue practitioner Hazvinei Mutonda, is claiming that CAIPF breached its care of duty and was responsible for the damages incurred to…
A ZUPCO bus conductor was gang-raped and robbed of her belongings while on her way to work in the wee hours of Tuesday morning in Bulawayo. The 23-year-old woman was waylaid by four perpetrators as she set off for work from her Emthunzini home in the city. Bulawayo Police spokesperson Abednico Ncube said the armed…
ZIMBABWE continues to make significant inroads in the fight against HIV/Aids with latest figures showing that the country’s mortality rate has declined by 71,9 percent. This comes as the National Aids Council (Nac) and the entire health delivery system have been implementing high impact geo-targeted interventions like the 90-90-90 and Prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT)…
THE Young Democrats of America (YDA), the youth wing of the US Democratic Party, recently completed a visit to the city of Dakhla, Western Sahara and have called on investors to tap into the region’s unexploited economic potential. The YDA delegation held talks with the General Director of the Regional Investment Center (CRI) to identify…
SANITARY Aid Zimbabwe Trust (SAZT) has called on the government to urgently provide funds for prisons to procure sanitary wear for inmates. This comes as a recent tour of Zimbabwe’s prisons revealed that female inmates were struggling to cope with their menstrual cycles as the facilities do not offer them any sanitary wear. The vote…
SIX human rights activists accused of receiving training on how to subvert President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government in the Maldives have sued Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe for a combined US$300 000. The six — Rita Nyampinga, Sitabile Dewa, Nyasha Mpahlo, Tatenda Mombeyarara, Gamuchirai Mukura and George Makoni — cited Kazembe and police commissioner-general Godwin Matanga…
Tamary Chikiwain BULAWAYO A BULAWAYO woman has appeared in court for assaulting her father’s girlfriend and damaging property worth $6 000. Sasha Zulu, 21, of Makokoba allegedly assaulted Agatha Gumede, 57, demanding money to buy diapers for her child. Zulu was charged with physical abuse and malicious damage to property when she appeared before the…
A SUSPECTED female drug dealer from Chitungwiza was recently arraigned before the courts after she was allegedly caught with crystal methamphetamine (mutoriro) worth $54 000. Tabeth Chakabveyo, 20, who was represented by lawyer Tapiwa Munodawafa, was charged with dealing in dangerous drugs and was remanded out of custody to April 6 on $10 000 bail…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will this week impose Covid-19 Easter and Independence holidays measures to curb the spread of the lethal coronavirus, Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa, pictured, said last night. This comes amid fears the holidays could become Covid-19 super spreaders if complacency is allowed to creep in. It also comes after the government has so…
A 63-YEAR-OLD man has been fined $40 000 for violating a High Court order issued in divorce proceedings with his ex-wife. Edwin Matinyarare, 63, reportedly took his wife’s property and placed it outside their home in violation of the court order which stated that the two should keep movable property in their possession. Failure to…
