HARARE City town planner Priscila Charumbira, charged with criminal abuse of duty, has been granted $40 000 bail by a Harare magistrate. Charumbira, accused of supervising the planning and subdivision of three hectares of land at the corner of Boshoff Road and Seke Road from recreational to commercial without government approval, had initially suffered a…
CIVIL society leader and convenor of the Citizens Manifesto Briggs Bomba has called on Zimbabweans to participate in the forthcoming national citizens convention, saying only citizens could come up with sustainable solutions to end the country’s woes. Addressing journalists in Harare yesterday, Bomba said solutions to the country’s economic challenges and political conflicts could…
ZANU PF MP for Nkayi South Stars Mathe shocked legislators on Wednesday after she requested for an opportunity to wail over sanctions in the National Assembly in the middle of a debate, the Daily News reports. This comes as Zimbabwe and Sadc will on Sunday mark the Anti-Sanctions Day after a declaration by regional…
A SUSPECTED bogus doctor, who was arrested at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals where he posed as a medical doctor for the past six months, has appeared in court. Admire Chisi, 25, was not asked to plead to allegations of impersonating a public official and was remanded in custody to today for bail application. Allegations are…
A CHINHOYI man who decapitated his lover in 2009 and went around selling her private parts and fingers has been acquitted by the High Court after it was established that he was mentally unstable when he committed the murder. Judge Justice Joseph Musakwa cleared Elias Kurapxi after considering that he was insane when he…
Dakarai Mashava in GWERU THERE is an urgent need for policies that enable Zimbabwe to quickly recover from shocks like the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, Agriculture deputy minister Vangelis Haritatos, has said. Officiating at the Zimbabwe Farmers Union 80th congress yesterday, Haritatos said the government’s Agriculture and Food Systems Transformation Strategy, which seeks to attain…
A BID by Thokozani Khupe’s MDC to challenge the High Court’s jurisdiction in presiding over cases brought by recalled legislators was yesterday thrown out. Recalled MDC Alliance legislators Chalton Hwende, Prosper Mutseyami, Thabita Khumalo and Lilian Timveos approached the High Court after they were booted out of Parliament and their seats declared vacant. They cited…
TWO senior police officers accused of interfering with investigations into graft allegations involving suspended Criminal Investigation Department (CID) national director Commissioner Crispen Charumbira have been denied bail. Stephen Kuwaza, 42, the officer-in-charge of CID Theft From Car department and Alwis Shingirayi Chidziva, who is the superintendent administration at Mutare Minerals Unit, are facing allegations of…
ACTING Harare City planner Funny Machipisa was yesterday barred from the offices of the director of housing after he was released on $10 000 bail by the High Court. Machipisa, who was represented by Lovemore Madhuku, is facing criminal abuse of office charges relating to irregular parcelling out of residential stands worth US$210 000…
PARLIAMENT yesterday heard how Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister Ellen Gwaradzimba, single-handedly allocated a farm to her son, before misleading the late former Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri that the decision was above board, the Daily News reports. Gwaradzimba allocated the farmland in question to her son, Remembrance Mbudzana. This comes as the government is embarking on…
