© A 20-YEAR-OLD Epworth man allegedly ganged up with his friends and murdered another man during a robbery, a court heard yesterday. Kudakwashe Mapinganjira, 20, was charged with murder and advised to apply for bail at the High Court because he committed a third schedule offence. He was remanded in custody to January 21. Prosecutor…
© TWO suspected impostors who duplicated various residential stands owners’ national identity cards before using them to defraud home-seekers have appeared in court. Victoria Taruvinga, 48, and Phillimon Machekecha, 53, were charged with fraud when they appeared before Harare magistrate Rumbidzayi Mugwagwa. They were arrested with more than five duplicated national identity cards bearing their…
© IN a move to avert a food crisis, private grain millers are importing 50 000 tonnes of maize from South Africa, complementing the government and international donors’ efforts, to save eight million people from starvation. This comes at a time when the World Food Programme (WFP) is seeking US$200 million in emergency aid to…
© VICE President Kembo Mohadi’s ex-wife, Tambudzani, has accused her former husband of abusing the court process through a High Court application he filed seeking to stop her from selling her share of the couple’s matrimonial property after their divorce. The two divorced in March last year after signing a consent paper relating to the…
© PANICKING authorities yesterday scrambled to avoid a mega strike planned for this month by the increasingly agitated civil servants when it invited them for further dialogue, the Daily News reports. This comes as the country is facing a myriad challenges — ranging from pressure to feed millions of people facing starvation — to stopping the…
© THE ruling Zanu PF yesterday came out guns blazing against the Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) — threatening it with unspecified action for warning that the country is on the brink of an uprising unless President Emmerson Mnangagwa holds much-needed dialogue with the opposition, the Daily News reports. At the same time, MDC leader…
© THREE machete-wielding gold panners pounced on a mine in Inyathi, Matabeleland North and got away with one-and-a-half tonnes of gold ore, a court heard yesterday. Tawanda Msipa, 21, Sithemba Ndlovu, 19, and Washington Phiri, 22, pounced on Impi East Mine where they attempted to hack employees with machetes. Fearing for their lives, the court…
© THE Office of the President and Cabinet has warned of conmen based in South Africa targeting senior government officials by offering non-existent agricultural equipment under a bogus programme. In a statement, chief secretary to the President and Cabinet Misheck Sibanda said there are individuals and entities of Zimbabwean extraction currently based in South Africa…
© THE Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) is worried that the country’s worsening political and economic rot may trigger deadly instability this year — unless President Emmerson Mnangagwa seriously engages the opposition to forestall the looming national chaos, the Daily News reports. This comes as there is a growing realisation by both Mnangagwa and opposition…
© ZANU PF politburo member and former Cabinet minister Tshinga Dube says President Emmerson Mnangagwa should engage opposition leader Nelson Chamisa and stop engaging unknown entities in the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad). In a rare rebuke of Mnangagwa, the forthright Dube questioned the credibility of the parties that Mnangagwa is engaging in Polad and also…
