HARARE – Over 250 local civil servants will undergo training in India this year mostly under the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (Itec) Programme, the giant South Asian country’s ambassador to Zimbabwe Rungsung Masakui has said. Itec is a bilateral assistance programme run by the Indian government that seeks to address the needs of developing…
HARARE – Nhamo Zepheniah’s family is mourning their father, a victim of one of Zimbabwe’s worst police shootings, weeping over his coffin as residents expressed outrage at the unbecoming and reprehensible conduct of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP). Parents and friends sobbed in Avondale at the funeral of Zepheniah, a sales agent for the Associated…
HARARE – “Don’t party and tell,” might be the new Blue Roof motto. Organisers remained tight-lipped on a private 94th birthday party held at former president Robert Mugabe’s plush palace, dubbed “Blue Roof” in Harare’s Borrowdale suburb yesterday, with guests reportedly immersed in luxury, far away from the pain and suffering he left for ordinary…
HARARE – Hardly a day after apologising for the killings of innocent people during Thursday’s protests over the kombi ban and illegal vending in the city, police were yesterday back in the public spotlight after they were accused of severely assaulting and torturing suspects in their custody. Four men — accused of stoning Harare Central…
HARARE – The titanic MDC leadership battle now appears to be effectively over, bar the shouting, after the country’s main opposition alliance unanimously endorsed Nelson Chamisa as its presidential candidate for this year’s harmonised national elections. People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader, Tendai Biti — who is also a key figure in the MDC Alliance —…
HARARE – A Lebanese businessman who is locked in a $1,3 million diamond ring wrangle with former first lady Grace Mugabe has filed opposing papers in the High Court, claiming the ex-Zanu PF women’s league secretary was approaching the courts with dirty hands. Read full story in today’s paper. [GoogleAd]
HARARE – Harare City Council is set to looking to buy a new asphalt plant at an estimated cost of $250 000. The revelations were made in an Emergency Road Rehabilitation Program meeting held this week between council and the Zimbabwe National Roads Authority (Zinara). Harare has been repairing roads across the city following a…
HARARE – A robber has been handed a six year prison sentence for robbing and assaulting a taxi driver before fleeing with his vehicle. Stanely Stamba, 23, pleaded guilty to the offence. The victim, Learnmore Nyagwindi, 27, employed as a taxi driver, suffered serious injuries after he was assaulted by the convict just after entering…
HARARE – A Harare man appeared in court yesterday for allegedly murdering his wife in a “terrible and brutal” hammer attack after she asked him for a divorce. The husband, Prosper Mbingo, 34, immediately ingested rat poison after hammering his wife but was rescued by members of the public who rushed to the same…
HARARE – A bogus State security agent Guthry Chirodzero, aka Madzibaba Guthry, who allegedly breached President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s close security in December last year, will remain behind bars after the High Court dismissed his bail appeal yesterday. The 40-year-old was arrested in December last year after military police discovered that he had positioned himself close…
