Thembinkosi Nyathi STAFF WRITER nyathit@dailynews.co.zw A SUSPECTED Harare armed robber, Ebelloy Chikemura, was yesterday denied bail by a High Court judge. According to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), the judge’s decision was based on the strength of the State case against the accused and that Chikemura was likely to abscond as the evidence linking him…
Hazel Marimbizain BULAWAYO THE government has opened a one-stop facility at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo to provide gender-based violence (GBV) victims with safe healing spaces. Speaking at the launch yesterday, minister of Women Affairs Monica Mutsvangwa, said more safe healing spaces were needed for GBV victims in the country.The safe space at Mpilo hospital…
Stella MadzivanyikaSTAFF WRITERmadzivanyikas@dailyne.co.zw HARARE City Council (HCC) law enforcement agents have impounded hundreds of unlicensed taxis and kombis, better known as mushikashikas, in a two-week blitz to bring sanity in the central business district (CBD). Acting HCC town clerk Phakamile Mabhena Moyo confirmed the blitz to the Daily News yesterday, saying it started on Monday…
STAFF WRITER A 77-YEAR-OLD woman from Kambuzuma, Harare, appeared in court yesterday for allegedly biting a three-year-old boy’s private parts while he was sitting on her lap. Gladys Sibanda appeared before magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa facing aggravated indecent assault charges before she was remanded out of custody on free bail. According to the State, the boy…
Brandon Josphat SENIOR STAFF WRITER josphatbl@dailynews.co.zw CIVIL servants are crying foul over the government’s failure to pay the ZiG component of their salaries saying they are now struggling to make ends meet. This comes as the government paid bonuses to some of its employees this month with the others set to get theirs next month….
Nyasha KunyiswaSENIOR STAFF WRITERkunyiswan@dailynews.co.zw THE Marange community in Mutare rural district, which is mainly made up of members of the apostolic sect, has embraced national HIV/Aids intervention programmes as the government moves to end new HIV infections by 2030. Addressing journalists recently during a National Aids Council (Nac) organised media tour of Manicaland Province, Mutare…
A NURSE stationed at Sally Mugabe Hospital in Harare was paid US$20 for inducing a girl, 16, to give birth before the health official also issued a fake death certificate. This emerged yesterday when Betty Sena appeared at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts facing allegations of contravening the Trafficking in Persons Act. She allegedly induced the…
RUTENDO NGARA A HARARE businessman Luka Ignatius Fabris, who was convicted at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts last June for defrauding a local businesswoman of US$1 million, has had his conviction and sentence quashed at the High Court. In June, a regional court found Fabris and his company, Spartan Security, guilty of fraud. Then, Fabris was…
RUTENDO NGARA A HARARE man, who allegedly duped a local transporter of US$37 000, yesterday appeared at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts facing fraud charges before he was granted US$200 bail. Kudzai Chingonya was arraigned before magistrate Apolonia Marutya who remanded him to January 21, 2025. Prosecutor Rufaro Chonzi told the court that between March and…
Brandon Josphat and Brighton Muronzereyi WHILE key Western countries want Zimbabwe to implement more political and economic reforms, they have welcomed the country’s recent efforts in this regard. Speaking in Harare earlier this week, ambassadors from the European Union (EU), the United States of America (USA) and Canada also said their countries would continue to…
