HARARE – A Lieutenant-colonel in the army appeared in court yesterday for allegedly raping a 19-year-old maid at his residence. Rangarirai Kembo, 45, appeared before Harare magistrate Josephine Sande charged with rape. He was advised to apply for bail at the High Court after he was remanded in custody to August 17 pending finalisation of…
HARARE – A police inspector based at Police General Headquarters (PGHQ) reportedly demanded a $125 bribe from a subordinate to facilitate her transfer to the national traffic section, a Harare court heard yesterday. Takawira Sigireta was released on $100 bail by Harare magistrate Josephine Sande. As part of bail conditions, Sigireta was ordered to continue…
HARARE – Police assistant commissioner Cosmas Mushore was hauled before the courts yesterday for allegedly raping his 17-year-old niece. Mushore, 49, stationed at ZRP Chikurubi Support Unit, was recorded by the niece during the sex romp on her mobile phone. He appeared before Harare magistrate Josephine Sande and was remanded in custody. He was advised…
HARARE – Former Cabinet minister and Zanu PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa, who admitted recently that he has hit hard times, is facing another predicament after his accounts were garnished by creditors. Mutasa, who turned 82 last month, is Zimbabwe’s first Speaker of the National Assembly, and was once President Robert Mugabe’s confidante. Early…
HARARE – Thousands of families arriving at the Tongogara Refugee Camp are being housed in small, substandard housing and half-built shelters donated by the United Nations. Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa said all refugees deserved to live in safe shelter. Mnangagwa told the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) country representative Robert Tibagwa during a familiarisation…
HARARE – Business tycoon Billy Rautenbach’s Macdom and Rating company owes the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) $2,5 million in unpaid water bills. The debt is for irrigation water Zinwa supplied to Macdom and Ratings’ huge sugarcane plantations in Chisumbanje and Middle Sabi areas. Macdom and Ratings Investments is in a joint venture with government’s…
HARARE – Government is considering amending the policy which prohibits doctors from advertising in the media, Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa has said. Chegutu East Zanu PF MP Webster Shamhu asked in the National Assembly what government’s policy was on the matter. This comes after doctors proposed to government sweeping amendments to the…
HARARE – MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai is in talks to settle a defamation lawsuit against Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko, who alleged the former prime minister was once involved in an assassination attempt on the late national icon Joshua Nkomo and was also behind the Gukurahundi atrocities. Mphoko told journalists after a closed-door meeting in February…
MARANGE — Over 3 000 people are virtually trapped in the high-security Chiadzwa diamond fields because the authorities are not allowing them to move freely in the fields as they await their relocation. From as far back as 2008, when the diamond rush broke out in Chiadzwa, the gem-rich zone has been classified as a…
HARARE – A senior Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) member has dragged director-general Happyton Bonyongwe and State Security minister Kembo Mohadi to the High Court demanding a promotion. In the application, Luke Hasha — through his lawyers from Matsikidze and Mucheche Legal Practitioners — told the court that he joined the spy agency in April 1995,…
