BULAWAYO – Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has said it is not going into an alliance with Thokozani Khupe’s MDC faction. This comes after a Khupe rally held at Amphitheatre here over the weekend, where national organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe introduced members of Mthwakazi, together with the Joice Mujuru-led PRC and Ansa led by Moses Mzila…
HARARE – Former minister of State Security Didymus Mutasa has turned down an invitation to join the newly-formed National Patriotic Front (NPF), saying it is nothing but a tribal party doing the bidding for deposed ex-president, Robert Mugabe. Read full story in today’s paper. [Adz]
HARARE – A “Russian” national accused of using fake documents to apply for a Zimbabwean passport is to be re-tried before the Harare Magistrates Court after the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) yesterday dismissed his application challenging the re-opening of the case. Steven Paul Sugden had approached the Con-Court seeking to stop the re-opening of the State…
HARARE – Police have been ordered to pay $17 075 in damages to pro-democracy activist Cynthia Manjoro, a victim of wrongful arrest, detention, torture and malicious prosecution, High Court judge Mary Zimba-Dube ruled yesterday. Police had contested the charges and refused to accept liability for any damages against plaintiff Manjoro, who was seeking financial damages,…
HARARE – Scores of travellers were left stranded at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport after an Air Zimbabwe flight destined for Johannesburg failed to take off yesterday morning. Air Zimbabwe’s marketing and planning manager Runesu Kwaramba confirmed the development to the Daily News, but said it was just a mere delay, as the plane…
HARARE – Civil Service Commission permanent secretary Francis Pedzana Gudyanga and ex-minister Walter Chidakwa will now be prosecuted jointly in a $29 000 corruption charge. Chidakwa and Gudyanga initially appeared in court separately until yesterday when prosecutor Sabastian Mutizirwa successfully applied for the cases to be merged. Chidakwa is being accused of appointing Gudyanga as…
HARARE – Government yesterday freed 3 000 inmates under an amnesty as prisons struggle to feed inmates due to lack of funding from the government. President Emmerson Mnangagwa granted the clemency that will benefit all convicted female prisoners, juveniles, those terminally ill and those serving at the open prison. Mnangagwa also freed inmates convicted to…
HARARE – Government yesterday attempted to coerce striking doctors to resume work by withholding salaries and allowances. Defiant doctors said they will not yield to the threats until government acceded to their demands for better pay and working conditions. In a circular to senior health officials copied to Health Services Board executive director Ruth Kaseke…
MUTARE – Timber companies here have a new problem to deal with — menacing troops of baboons — which have raised fresh fears of affecting the production of pine trees. A decade ago, the primates severely affected estates in the Eastern Highlands. Most plantations have been ravaged by illegal settlers who invaded large swathes of…
HARARE – Deputy Prosecutor-General Florence Ziyambi has been removed from the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) due to alleged bad blood between her and her superior, Ray Goba. She has been re-assigned to the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC), where she will be working as a government lawyer. Permanent secretary in the ministry of…
