WHILE gold and diamonds have created wealth for many countries and individuals across the world, this has not been the case in Zimbabwe, where these minerals have become a curse to ordinary citizens and other fortune seekers. Mining towns have been turned into war zones by machete gangs, popularly known as maShurugwi, who are terrorising…
A SUSPECTED robber, who was part of a five-member gang arrested in Harare’s Marimba suburb, succumbed to injuries he sustained during a shoot-out with the police, deputy police spokesperson Blessing Chishaka has confirmed. “Police in Harare have arrested Taurai Dzingai, 46, Godfrey Rufurwokuda, 44, Nabal Prosper Moyo, 25, Kenneth Madondo, 35 and Munyaradzi Chikarara, 35,…
AMID growing concerns over the killings of civilians and rivals by machete-wielding gangs across the country, the MDC says there are strong suggestions that the barbaric machete killers are controlled by powerful politicians. As a result, tough-talking MDC vice president Tendai Biti told the Daily News On Sunday in an exclusive interview yesterday that authorities…
© DEFENCE ministry procurement director Peter Muchakazi and an accountant, Mervyn Kunofiwa Madondo, were yesterday barred from entering Defence House after they appeared in court facing charges of criminal abuse. Muchakazi was released on $5 000 bail while Kunofiwa paid $3 000, and both were ordered to continue residing at their current addresses, report thrice…
© THE number of couples that filed for divorce at the Bulawayo High Court between January and December last year marginally declined to 674 compared to 820 the previous year. During the same period, 1 267 couples got married in terms of the Marriage Act Chapter 5:11 at the Bulawayo Magistrates’ Courts. Lawyers and religious…
© THE African Development Bank (AfDB) yesterday gave Zimbabwe a US$10,4 million grant to improve the country’s domestic resource mobilisation and public sector management systems. The government will provide an additional US$1,1 million to the grant. The grant, which would be released under the Tax and Accountability Enhancement Project (TAEP), will benefit the Zimbabwe Revenue…
© THE government yesterday received the first consignment of medicines and medical consumables under a US$20 million deal sealed between NatPharm and a Swiss-based firm. The arrival of the much-needed drugs and consumables comes as Zimbabwe is facing its worst crisis in over a decade which saw restive public sector workers — including junior and…
© THOUSANDS of children in rural areas are failing to attain secondary education due to poverty and economic challenges among other things, the 2019 Multiple Cluster Indicator Survey (MICS) results have shown. This comes as schools have hiked fees, with the government saying schools should justify their reasons for increasing fees and seek permission before…
© THE nightmare of unaffordably-high school fees has become a reality for stressed parents and their children, after the government yesterday gave public schools the green light to increase levies and boarding fees, the Daily News reports. This comes despite recent pronouncements by authorities that no school would be allowed to hike its fees by…
© FILABUSI resident magistrate Mzingaye Ephraim Moyo has been arraigned for replacing court fees and bail money that was paid in cash with electronic money. Moyo received $962 in judicial fines, court fees, bail re-imbursements which he was supposed to deposit into the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) bank accounts. He only deposited $531 into the…
