HARARE – Stare-run monopolistic fixed line operator, TelOne, yesterday announced new phone codes for cities across the country as part of a national broadband project aimed at ensuring customers get more from landlines. TelOne has set new area codes for Harare from 04 to new code 024 prefixing number 2 (existing number), Bulawayo from 09…
HARARE – While the move to enact a Bill enforcing punitive mandatory sentencing for rapists and sexual abuse perpetrators has been widely embraced, legislators have raised concern over its inability to address the issue of the age of sexual consent, which stakeholders argue is crucial in curbing rising rape cases of minors. This comes as…
HARARE – Two Harare men have been dragged to court after they reportedly assaulted a suspected burglar severely before dragging his body to a roadside, leading to his death. The pair — 34-year-old Rangano Chenjerai and Tirivamwe Chenjerai, 37 — appeared before Harare magistrate Hosea Mujaya charged with culpable homicide, but they denied the charges….
HARARE – The case of a cop who was charged after he reportedly wrote a WhatsApp message saying national police spokesperson Charity Charamba is an “idiot” has been resuscitated and will be back in court on October 5. Police General Headquarters-based James Mabasa, 38, is being charged with contravening the Postal and Telecommunications Act by…
HARARE – For a woman in the eye of a storm, Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Rita Makarau’s calm and cheerful demeanour belies the raging tempest swirling around her. In a country where vote-rigging has been alleged in the past, her journey as the chief elections commissioner has been marred with accusations of tilting the…
HARARE – Poultry producer, Crest Breeders International (Crest), has applied for the exhumation of human remains at its Harare South’s Saturday Estates Retreat to pave way for the company’s expansion. The company, which supplies day-old chicks hatching eggs, made a notice in Friday’s government gazette, through Doves Funeral Services, advising of its intention to change…
HARARE – Opposition leader and former vice president Joice Mujuru is not pinning her hopes on the Coroner’s Office Bill to finally bring closure to the mysterious death of her husband, Solomon, who died in an inferno at their Beatrice farm in 2011. If anything, the former ruling Zanu PF stalwart — unceremoniously fired by…
HARARE – With President Robert Mugabe set to appoint a deputy chief justice (CJ) any time from now, legal experts say pending court applications challenging the passage of Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment Bill No. 1 will not block the process. In terms of the Constitution that came into effect in 2013, the CJ and his…
HARARE – In 1787 in Britain, news reporters were first officially welcomed into the proceedings of Parliament. And on the first occasion, Edmond Burke (1729 – 1797), an Irish statesman, writer and philosopher who, after moving to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the…
HARARE – Pre-trial detainees claim an acute shortage of anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) has hit the country’s prisons and correctional facilities, and is now threatening their survival. While tendering their mitigation factors, and as they appear in court for bail hearings or during sentencing, prisoners have of late relayed fears of having their lives cut short…
