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FORMER Tourism and Hospitality minister Prisca Mupfumira and Public Service ministry permanent secretary Ngoni Masoka yesterday said further remands were plunging them into serious expenses, arguing it was unnecessary since there was an order for stay of proceedings from the High Court. Mupfumira and Masoka appeared before senior regional magistrate Hosea Mujaya and their lawyer…

A RUWA man is being charged for the death of his three-year-old son who accidentally shot himself to death while playing with his gun in an incident that occurred on Sunday. Admire Chafachaipa, 33, of Timire Park in Ruwa appeared before Harare magistrate Rumbidzayi Mugwagwa charged with culpable homicide and was not asked to plead…

A BULAWAYO magistrate has ordered the retrial of a local man who allegedly masqueraded as a top Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) officer and President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s close aide and duped Ingwebu Breweries of $1 200 and 375 litres of diesel. Henessy Dube, who was previously convicted for six months for masquerading as a doctor at…

HIGH Court judge David Mangota has said former Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere is entitled to get back the title deeds to his Nyanga property after the High Court quashed his charges last year. Mangota said this in a full judgment issued on Monday. The State had confiscated Kasukuwere’s property, which he had surrendered as…

THE High Court has upheld the conviction and sentence of former Midlands State University (MSU) bursar Mamelo Moyo and her husband Melusi for swindling the institution of more than US$150 000 in underhand dealings. Mamelo and Melusi, who is also the university’s former acting director of works, established a briefcase company supplying stationery and swindled…

PARLIAMENT has raised concern over several ministries that have been avoiding bringing parastatals audit reports under their purview to be debated in the house, the Daily News reports. The issue was raised by the chairperson of the parliamentary portfolio committee on Public Accounts, Tendai Biti, pictured, in the National Assembly yesterday. Biti said his committee had…