© SOME businesspeople in the city have accused Zanu PF youths of demanding huge sums of money as donations for the party’s annual conference set for Goromonzi next week. [GoogleAd] The conference, to be attended by 7 000 delegates from throughout Zimbabwe, will run from December 10 to 15. A businessman who declined to be…
© THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has licensed Parvalue Energy (Private) Limited to set up a 50 megawatts solar plant in Bulawayo’s Westgate area. [GoogleAd] The solar power plant, which has been granted a 25-year licence, comes at a time the country is experiencing one of its worst power crises in decades that has…
© RESIDENTS in the capital have slammed the Harare City Council over heaps of uncollected garbage scattered across the central business district. [GoogleAd] Despite council workers playing their role by sweeping and placing the dirt in designated places, the municipality is failing to collect the refuse, thereby creating artificial dumpsites in the city. “Recently, the…
© THE Public Entities Corporate Governance Act could be the game changer that Zimbabwe needs to boost its economy, a top European Union (EU) official has said. [GoogleAd] Head of delegation of the EU to Zimbabwe Timo Olkkonen said this during the launch of the Act in Harare yesterday, in a partnership between the government,…
© AT LEAST 43 percent of Zimbabwean girls aged between 13 and 17 are subjected to forced sexual intercourse during their first encounter, United Nations Women (UN) has revealed. [GoogleAd] UN Women representative Maria Ribeiro made the remarks at the commissioning of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts…
© FIVE men have been arrested for criminal trespass after they invaded a local cemetery in Harare where they planted crops, the police have said. [GoogleAd] National police spokesperson Paul Nyathi said the five will appear in court soon. “Five men in Harare have been arrested for criminal trespass after they invaded private property in…
© A SUSPECTED Gwabalanda serial copper cable thief, Bakhani Ndlovu,23, who allegedly stole 850 metres of electricity overhead conductors worth an estimated US$5 000, appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Nomasiko Ndlovu facing five counts. [GoogleAd] Ndlovu, who was arrested after almost a year of evading the long arm of the law, was remanded in custody to…
© A KOMBI driver who ran over and killed a 12-year-old girl on Enterprise Road in July was yesterday slapped with a two-year prison term. [GoogleAd] Isaac Mutambariko, 33, was convicted of culpable homicide by Harare magistrate Yeukai Chigodora. Chigodora also cancelled Mutambariko’s driver’s licence. The magistrate suspended one year of the sentence on condition…
© POLICE have dismissed claims that a 13-year-old drowned in a slime dam in the Chiadzwa diamond mining concession on Sunday, expressing concern over a propensity to link all unfortunate incidents in Chief Marange’s jurisdiction to mining operations. [GoogleAd] Social media had been awash with reports of the teen having drowned in a slime dam,…
© A CHIPANGAYI mental patient is being sought by police over the robbery of a Grain Marketing Board (GMB) employee. [GoogleAd] Martha Mavanda, 33, of GMB Chipangayi lost her purse, cellphone and clothes after she was ambushed by the mentally-challenged vagrant on Tuesday. Manicaland provincial police spokesperson Tavhiringwa Kakohwa confirmed the incident. The mental patient…
