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…
BULAWAYO – The 10th edition of the Sanganai/Hlanganani Tourism expo which kicked off this week and ends tomorrow has recorded a significant increase in the number of exhibitors and international buyers. This year’s event has attracted 22 foreign exhibitor stands from 12 countries among them South Africa, Ghana, Mozambique, Uganda and Rwanda. At least 150…
HARARE – Evan Mawarire’s lawyer Harrison Nkomo yesterday trashed the State case during cross examination of the first witness in a trial in which the cleric is charged with attempting to overthrow President Robert Mugabe’s government. Witness Edmore Muchineripi Runganga, who is the investigating officer in the case, had a torrid time justifying how Mawarire…
HARARE – Star FM deputy general manager, Piwayi Dzuda, has been dragged to the High Court by his wife Tichafara Dzuda (nee Matondo), who is seeking to end their 18-year marriage, claiming the veteran marketer had deserted their matrimonial home. Tichafara filed the court papers on Monday last week, claiming the marriage — solemnised on…
BULAWAYO – Government must atone for the Gukurahundi genocide and move forward with a plan to give reparations to the victims of the crackdown, in which the army’s North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade killed an estimated 20 000 people, most of them from the Matabeleland region, Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe (ACCZ) president archbishop Johannes Ndanga…
HARARE – MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai will be in the country to lead his party in celebrating its 18th anniversary after surviving a serious health scare that had taken him to South Africa for emergence treatment. It is during his party’s anniversary celebrations that Tsvangirai is expected to outline his plan to end Zanu PF’s…
