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HARARE – President Robert Mugabe yesterday waded into the highly-emotive roadblocks saga when he warned traffic police officers against accepting bribes from motorists, a culture he said was militating against building and restoring confidence within the force. This comes as the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) collected $14 million from its unpopular roadblocks and arrested more…

HARARE – Mutare businessman Tendai Blessing Mangwiro, who is seeking to recover over $1,5 million confiscated by the police, has said that Home Affairs minister Ignatius Chombo is approaching the courts with dirty hands by seeking to be exonerated yet he has not yet complied with a court order to pay him his money. This…

BULAWAYO – Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko has been sucked into a dispute between Bulk Cash and Carry Wholesale (BCCW) and one of its employees who has made a report to the police, accusing the company of externalising foreign currency, the Daily News can report. The allegations, which constitute a serious crime in Zimbabwe under the…

BULAWAYO – The continued involvement of the Joint Operations Command (Joc) in the running of the country’s elections is likely to work against the fight for free, fair and credible polls, Zapu president, Dumiso Dabengwa, warned this week. The former Zipra intelligence supremo is adamant that Joc has been in charge of the country’s elections…

HARARE – The son of the late retired Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku — Tadzimirwa — yesterday appeared in court for allegedly fondling a married woman’s butt at a popular pub and grill in Harare on Sunday. Tadzimirwa Bernard Chidyausiku, 28, was bandaged on the forehead when he appeared before Harare magistrate Victoria Mashamba yesterday, charged…

HARARE – MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai is demanding an apology from Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko for his remarks that the former prime minister was once involved in an assassination attempt on the late national icon Joshua Nkomo and that he was also behind the Gukurahundi atrocities. Mphoko told journalists after a closed door meeting in…

HARARE – Zanu PF National Assembly members were yesterday ordered to pass the controversial Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 1) Bill when it was brought for the third reading amid fierce resistance from the opposition MDC. Members of Parliament from Zanu PF overwhelmingly backed the proposed Bill, which seeks to restore sweeping powers to the…

HARARE – Home Affairs minister Ignatius Chombo has filed an urgent chamber application seeking to stop his arrest on contempt of court charges after he failed to comply with an order directing him to facilitate the release of funds belonging to Mutare businessman, Tendai Blessing Mangwiro. In the application, Chombo cites the Sheriff for Zimbabwe,…