HARARE – A magistrate court has directed a Harare man to approach the Civil Court after discovering he and another man were paying maintenance for the same child. Kenias Chizema, 46, unearthed his ex-wife Stella Kwanisai’s alleged fraudulent misconduct after he had been summoned before Harare magistrate Tracy Muzondo over $3 538 maintenance arrears. Chizema…
HARARE – A cop based at Commercial Crimes Unit in Harare reportedly stole his workmate’s particulars and used them to purchase a smart phone from G-Tel on credit, a court heard yesterday. Edmore Mushaya, 29, was charged with fraud when he appeared before Harare magistrate Barbra Mateko on Saturday. He was granted $50 bail, ordered…
HARARE – A housemaid and a gardener allegedly stole $150 000 in cash from their employer and used the stolen cash to buy seven residential properties and seven vehicles, a Harare court has heard. The court heard that Graham Awudi – who used to keep up to $20 000 in cash in a drawer in…
HARARE – Government has set out to drill at least 840 boreholes at a cost of $4,5 million across the country within the next three months. Addressing journalists in Harare yesterday, Environment, Water and Climate minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri said the programme was aimed at improving sanitation and access to better water for Zimbabwean communities in…
HARARE – The Local Government Board (LGB) has refused to release the names of its members as the fight to appoint a Harare town clerk explodes. Harare mayor Bernard Manyenyeni has demanded to know who constitutes the LGB, but the board has refused to provide the information, instead directing his enquiries to the new Local…
HARARE – At least 52 passengers aboard a Citi Liner bus travelling from Johannesburg to Harare escaped narrowly after the vehicle caught fire yesterday morning. At the time of going to print, it could not be established how much goods had been consumed by the inferno. The incident happened at the 40 kilometre peg from…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) must extend voter registration for so-called aliens, independent election watchdog Zimbabwe Elections Support Network (Zesn) has said. This comes after the High Court two weeks ago ordered the Zec to register “aliens” as prospective voters for the 2018 general elections during the on-going biometric voter registration (BVR) exercise….
HARARE – Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa’s 2018 budget dramatically reshapes Constitutional commissions, requiring millions in cuts to mandatory programs to set them on a path for a major overhaul. The $5,1 billion budget rolls back financial allocations, paring back fiscal overheads programs and getting rid of some of the commissions’ top priorities. The five “independent…
HARARE – A Zanu PF MP is pushing a new programme through Parliament intended at helping those with criminal records gain employment. Fani Phiri, the Zanu PF MP for Kadoma Central, said government was making it tough for offenders to put their past behind them and the present policies left them vulnerable to discrimination by…
HARARE – Treasury has increased the vote allocation to President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s office by $56 million — in a development analysts say is partly geared towards taking care of the exit packages of deposed former leader Robert Mugabe and former vice president Phelekezela Mphoko. Mugabe is reportedly due for a $10 million windfall as part…
