HARARE – The High Court has cleared cleric and #ThisFlag campaign leader Evan Mawarire of charges of attempting to overthrow the then president Robert Mugabe-led government. High Court judge Priscillah Chigumba yesterday acquitted Mawarire on both the main charge and the alternative charge of incitement to commit public violence. “There is no evidence that he…
HARARE – Former minister of State for Masvingo Province, Kudakwashe Bhasikiti, has dumped his allies Rugare Gumbo and Didymus Mutasa and is now pleading to rejoin Zanu PF. “I have always loved to work for my party and serve the people of Zimbabwe through the party’s original ideals,” said Bhasikiti in a letter to the…
HARARE – The High Court has ordered the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to register so-called aliens as prospective voters for the 2018 general elections during the on-going biometric voter registration exercise. High Court judge Justice Nyaradzo Munangati-Manongwa’s judgment allows aliens to vote provided that they provide their national identity documents endorsed alien, their birth certificate…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is not considered a least developed country (LDC), according to a report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). African Capacity Building Foundation’s knowledge expert, Barassou Diawara, said for a country not to be considered an LCD, its gross national income per capita must be $1 035 or more….
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Transport ministry is in the eye of a storm over the continued use of “informal tenders” to procure key road rehabilitation materials, which are above the $500 000 threshold for uncapped expenditures. A local company, Pushduck Enterprises (Private) Limited (Pushduck), has raised complaints about departmental practices, which might be prejudicial to the…
HARARE – Former Higher and Tertiary Education minister Olivia Muchena has demanded the High Court to dismiss an application filed by Parliament in which the National Assembly is seeking to recover $32 000 advanced to the former parliamentarian as a motor vehicle loan. Muchena is part of over 15 other legislators who were dragged to…
HARARE – Two Harare men appeared in court on Wednesday, facing charges of raping their respective daughters. They were denied bail when they appeared before Harare magistrate Josephine Sande. The fathers, whose identities cannot be revealed to protect the daughters, were both represented by Bothwell Ndlovu. [GoogleAd] They were remanded in custody to December 12…
HARARE – The family of the late former minister of Health Timothy Stamps who died on Sunday aged 81, has asked for privacy while they mourn their father. Stamps died of a lung infection at Borrowdale Trauma Centre in Harare, and was subsequently declared a national hero. Traditionally, national heroes have their funerals taken over…
HARARE – The corruption storm raging around former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo yesterday sucked in more victims who were denied bail by Harare magistrate Josephine Sande. The former Home Affairs minister is currently awaiting commencement of trial on December 8 while behind bars. Yesterday, Local Government, Public Works and National Housing deputy director valuations Rejoice…
HARARE – The inauguration of President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week has seen the costs of United States dollars on the parallel market tumbling down by 30 percent while banks have started disbursing the elusive greenback to depositors. A survey done yesterday revealed that US$100 now cost the equivalent of $130 in bond notes on the…
