HARARE – A Harare man reportedly bashed two cops before stealing a bag with $65 in traffic fines. Piyano Simbarashe, 33, appeared before Harare magistrate Barbra Mateko charged with assaulting a peace officer and theft. He denied the charges and is currently out of custody pending finalisation of the case. The complainant is Priviledge Fadziso…
HARARE – Police ran riot in Harare yesterday as they indiscriminately shot at pedestrians and motorists after they ruthlessly descended on protesters who were demonstrating against the deteriorating economic situation that has triggered a wave of price increases and shortages of some basic commodities. Daring demonstrators had caught the law enforcement agents unawares and caused…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Red Cross Society (ZRCS) this week responded to a fire disaster which left 25 families homeless and destitute at Stapleford Farm, 2km along the Chinhoyi highway. The Red Cross response follows a call by the department of Civil Protection (CPU) for disaster relief. The humanitarian player availed non-food relief items among them…
HARARE – Harare residents’ pressure groups have slammed authorities for failing to deal with touting after the death of a passenger on Tuesday morning. Matthias Gore of Glen Norah C died after he was savagely manhandled by touts at RoadPort after he had refused to board a vehicle to Mutare. Harare Residents Trust (HRT) said…
HARARE – Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa is under pressure to deal with the current economic crisis, as legislators from both the Zanu PF and opposition MDC called for his arrest, accusing him of promoting the foreign currency parallel market. Speaking in the National Assembly after Chinamasa’s ministerial statement, MDC MP for Warren Park Elias Mudzuri…
HARARE – Government is sponsoring cartels that are in the business of grabbing farms whose owners would have died and selling them for a fee, Parliament heard this week. Zanu PF legislators complained in the National Assembly during Wednesday’s question without notice session that the cartels have all but taken over Douglas Mombeshora’s ministry of…
HARARE – The State has intensified investigations in a fraud case involving a Pakistan businessman, Majid Khan, 35, who reportedly duped his partner $131 000 in a botched sports equipment deal. Khan, who is based in Sialkot City, Pakistan appeared before magistrate Josephine Sande and was on Thursday remanded to October 11 after prosecutor Linda…
HARARE – The parliamentary portfolio committee on Environment, Water and Climate has set out to investigate the plunder of commercial timber and protected indigenous forests following a massive public outcry from environmentalists and the timber industry. Settlers and illegal miners have besieged commercial timber forests in Chimanimani and some gazetted natural forests such as Mapfungautsi…
HARARE – Legislators on Tuesday expressed shock over underage commercial sex work in Epworth, Hopley and Caledonia and called on the government to swoop on and arrest paedophiles who are targeting poverty-ravaged young girls, raping and sexually exploiting them. Presenting her motion in the National Assembly on sexual abuse of young girls Proportional Representation MP…
HARARE – Medical insurers have claimed there is nothing wrong with them operating medical facilities, as debate on conflict of interest looms. In a presentation made to the Health ministry on the Medical Aid Societies Bill the Association of Healthcare Funders Association said there was no justification of them making recommendations of service providers. “It…
