HARARE – A Harare magistrate will on June 4 conduct an inspection in loco of the crime scene where jailed Independent End Time Message leader Martin Gumbura and other convicts were nabbed in a foiled prison break in 2015. Those who witnessed the incident, will point out the scene to Harare magistrate Francis Mapfumo where…
HARARE – Two self-styled prophets reportedly gang-raped a woman during a “cleansing ceremony” at Ruwa River, a Harare court heard yesterday. Blessing Chimbadzo, 28, and Wellington Kadzutu, 29, were charged with rape when they appeared before Harare magistrate Edwin Marecha. Marecha queried why the State papers did not reveal the date and name of the…
HARARE – Zimbabwe will go for polls on July 30, in what is promising to be the toughest test for the ruling Zanu PF party, which has been in power for 38 years. Yesterday, President Emmerson Mnangagwa ended months of anxiety when he proclaimed the polling date, and curiously set September 8, as a date…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa has uncovered a plot within his fractured Zanu PF party to impeach him in the event that he wins the presidential race in July this year, the Daily News heard yesterday. Speaking on the second day of a healing and reconciliation workshop held in Harare yesterday, the president said he…
HARARE – A senior executive at the Harare City Council (HCC) believes that sanity can only return to the capital city’s roads if the municipality gets assistance from the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) to tame wayward motorists. HCC’s director of works Zvenyika Chawatama told the Daily News that the traffic jungle that Harare’s central business…
HARARE – A 16-year-old girl claimed to have been kidnapped by music promoter/DJ Godfather Templeman had escaped from her sexually abusive father, a court heard. According to a defence outline compiled by Templeman, whose real name is Simbarashe Maphosa, the minor even threatened to commit suicide refusing to return to her father when police located…
HARARE – The MDC has been dragged to the High Court for failing to pay back $286 000, advanced to it by a local firm in 2016. According to court papers, sometime in 2016, the MDC borrowed $331 800 from Ishline Investments (Private) Limited) and undertook to repay the debt that same year. But having…
BULAWAYO – The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) offices in Bulawayo are currently being manned by police officers as lack of resources continue to hamper the operations of the anti-graft body. This, however according to observers, is likely to erode the confidence of the anti-graft body as they felt the move was tantamount to turning the…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is working round the clock to cleanse the voters’ roll of any ghost voters. As part of efforts to keep a clean voters’ roll, Zec has asked the Registrar General (RG)’s office to submit to the elections management body a list of dead people every month. “If the…
HARARE – MDC Youth Assembly vice president Shakespeare Mukoyi said he will not testify against party leader, Nelson Chamisa, in his battle against Thokozani Khupe for the control of the country’s biggest opposition party. Mukoyi told the Daily News yesterday that Khupe’s camp was lost to think he can turn against Chamisa in their bruising…
