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  Nyasha Dube STAFF WRITER duben@dailynews.co.zw THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) has filed an urgent High Court application to nullify the recent increase in fines charged at roadblocks. In the application, ZimRights, together with Sheila Frances Jarvis, cited Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe and Parliament as…

TWO suspected armed robbers who allegedly pounced on a Chinese national’s house and stole gold and property worth US$50 000 appeared in court yesterday after they were captured on close circuit television at Chicken Inn Pomona where they had parked their gateway car. Gift Moffat, 34, and Brian Mubaiwa, 47, appeared before Harare provincial magistrate…

  ZANU PF chief whip Pupurai Togarepi,  has accused opposition MPs of sleeping on the job as they only raise issues to do with electoral reforms when elections are just around the corner or over. “The 9th Parliament came and may go without any motions for those so-called reforms. Then after losing the 2023 elections,…

  Tamary Chikiwa in BULAWAYO POLICE in Bulawayo arrested people who were holding a vuzu party in Emganwini suburb in the city at the weekend, the Daily News reports. National police spokesperson Paul Nyathi said officers on patrol in the suburb arrested 10 people holding a party and seized a cooler box and empty bottles…

  SAN communities in Tsholotsho and some parts of Plumtree are bitter that they are not receiving enough information on the Covid-19 vaccine rollout plans. The San have over the years complained of being overlooked in major government programmes, which has been attributed to their remoteness from urban areas. Last year, the Zimbabwe Human Rights…

  Tamary Chikiwa in BULAWAYO ZIMBABWE United Passenger Company (Zupco) buses in Bulawayo are losing business to pirate taxis who are charging less than the government subsidised fares. In the wake of the lockdown, the government banned private commuter buses from ferrying passengers locally and made Zupco the only mode of transport. Zupco had been…

  Nyasha Dube MDC youth leaders Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri are set to appear before High Court judge Justice Webster Chinamora today. Mamombe and Chimbiri submitted an appeal for bail at the High court on Friday after Harare regional magistrate Stanford Mambanje denied them bail. The two were arrested on February 1 and charged…

Nyasha Dube  STAFF WRITER duben@dailynews.co.zw   AN UNLICENSED driver, who was involved in a hit and run which left a nine-year-old child seriously injured, has approached the High Court appealing his one-year jail sentence. Afrika Sangaza was arrested last year after the vehicle he was driving veered off the road and hit and injured Dion…