VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga’s wife, Marry, who is facing several allegations, will today be in court pending a doctor’s report to ascertain if she will be mentally capable to follow trial proceedings. She was last month remanded to yesterday after the State indicated that the docket for her other case in which she is accused of…
THE trial of five MDC-Alliance youth leaders accused of staging a demonstration in the capital opened yesterday after a series of hiccups with the crew distancing themselves from the offence. Makomborero Haruzivishe, Allan Moyo, Denford Ngadziore, Stanley Manasi Manyenga and Cecillia Revai Chimbiri are being charged with participating in a gathering with intent to promote…
OVER 250 000 of the targeted population in the second largest city have received their first Covid-19 vaccination dose, as the city itches towards reaching herd immunity. This comes as the government recently indicated that the vaccination rate among citizens was continuously slowing, a development that saw it admitting that the country’s target to reach…
ZANU PF has crafted a new electoral code to govern its chronically problematic internal polls, as the former liberation movement bids to end its worsening factional and tribal flames. The new charter was introduced by the party’s legal department to provide clarity and order to Zanu PF’s electoral processes. “In this code there are clear…
THE issue in which Doves Holdings Zimbabwe allegedly gave a Nyanga family an empty coffin and kept the corpse of the late Maxwell Chimwamurombe for six months, appears to be turning nastier. The leading funeral services company, through its lawyers, Mutamangira and Associates Legal Practitioners, has insinuated that efforts to resolve the matter were being frustrated…
SUSPECTS who allegedly stole guns from soldiers who were on guard at late national hero Vitalis Zvinavashe’s farm have appeared in court. Louis Munyamani, Tauya Nyanzou, Tozivepi Kuyangamara and Friday Tembo were not asked to plead to armed robbery charges when they appeared before Harare magistrate Denis Mangosi. They were also charged with unlawful possession of…
Melisa Chatikobo ZIMBABWE and Zambia have been urged to grow industrial hemp which is used to make a variety of high-value products such as health foods, organic body care, clothing, construction materials, biofuels and plastic composites. Speaking during a sensitisation workshop on the establishment and management of a common agro industrial park under the joint…
EIGHT ‘Prophets’ of the Johane Masowe eChishanu Jeandayi sect died in Rushinga on Saturday at a baptism ceremony. Mashonaland Central Acting Police Spokesperson Assistant Inspector Naison Dhliwayo confirmed the incident. The incident took place at around 2pm at the Hungumwe River which lies at the confluence of Mazowe Tsvinje river when 30 ‘prophets’ fell into…
AS PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, joins world leaders in Glasgow this week for a major global climate conference, the government has reiterated its commitment both to implementing needed reforms in the country and improving Harare’s relations with the West. This comes as the United Kingdom (UK) has reiterated its readiness to restore normal relations with Zimbabwe…
TRADITIONAL leaders in the country say they are undergoing excruciating pain because of the factional fires that are consuming Zanu PF—the party they say they belong to. Chief Fortune Charumbira, pictured’s remarks are in spite of the fact that in 2018 Justice Clement Phiri of the Harare High Court ordered Charumbira to withdraw public statements he…
