HARARE – Zimbabwe was one of the worst-ranked countries in an annual World Justice Project (WJP) rule of law index list released yesterday. The southern African country ranked 108 out of 113 countries in all categories of constraints on government powers, absence of corruption, open government, fundamental rights, order and security, regulatory enforcement, civil justice,…
The SABC’s Foreign Editor Sophie Mokoena speaks to Jonathan Moyo, the former Higher Education minister under former president Robert Mugabe. Moyo fled the country during the military-backed takeover by now President Emmerson Mnangagwa in November 2017. Moyo has re-iterated his views that the new administration is the product of a coup and that Sadc and…
HARARE – A Mutare businessman seeking the return of his $1,5 million confiscated by the police in 2008 following his arrest on theft charges, has petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa to intervene in the long-running case. Tendai Blessing Mangwiro, who was acquitted in 2012, has been in and out of the courts in his quest to…
HARARE – Trasnsport minister Joram Gumbo yesterday vowed to fire Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) officials and blacklist driving schools undermining the integrity of the driver’s licence by corruptly issuing the documents. A miffed Gumbo turned his guns on VID driving examiners who are issuing certificates of competency and provisional driver’s licences corruptly. Corruption at VID,…
HARARE – The Constitutional Court (Con-Court) yesterday reserved judgment in an application filed by two MDC MPs Innocent Gonese and Fungayi Jessie Majome, who are challenging the passage of Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment Bill No. 1 in Parliament. Gonese is the MDC chief whip and MP for Mutare Central Constituency, while Majome is the MP…
HARARE – Former NetOne chief executive officer Reward Kangai — who is facing abuse of office charges — had his bail conditions relaxed when he appeared in court yesterday. Kangai is being accused of allegedly flouting tender procedures and prejudicing the State-owned telecommunications giant of over $17, 5 million. He faces twin charges of criminal…
HARARE – A self-confessed hit man who testified to the police alleging a senior government official issued him an assassination order to take out former Foreign Affairs minister Walter Mzembi has been arrested. Munyaradzi Mupazviripo — who had claimed in a police report lodged at Borrowdale Police Station that Tourism and Hospitality Industry permanent secretary…
HARARE – High Court Judge Priscilla Chigumba will be sworn in as the new Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson after her appointment yesterday. Chigumba was informed of her appointment yesterday through a letter signed by Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Misheck Sibanda. “His Excellency the president of Zimbabwe, having consulted with the Judicial…
HARARE – A lawyer representing Harare businessman Bigboy Pachirera, who is demanding $2,9 million from retired police commissioner-general Augustine Chihuri, has revealed how he was approached with a settlement plan to return some of the property allegedly forcibly taken by the ex-police boss. After 23 years of enforcing law and order as the country’s top…
HARARE – A lawyer representing Harare businessman Bigboy Pachirera, who is demanding $2,9 million from retired police commissioner-general Augustine Chihuri, has revealed how he was approached with a settlement plan to return some of the property allegedly forcibly taken by the ex-police boss. See today’s Daily News for more details. [Adz]
