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By Brandon Josphat PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday swore in four members of the Zimbabwe Independent Complaints Commission (ZICC) at State House. The commission will be chaired by retired High Court judge Justice Webster Chinamora with lawyer Elizabeth Rutsate, medical doctor Andrew Mataruse and former MP and police spokesperson Oliver Mandipaka as commissioners. The ZICC is…

By Yvonne Ncube  POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested a suspected bogus medical doctor, Prosper Mpofu, who was reportedly operating within the premises of Mpilo Central Hospital and attending to patients without a practicing licence.  Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Bulawayo provincial police spokesperson Abednico Ncube confirmed that the suspect was arrested on Tuesday evening…

By Rutendo Ngara  STAFF WRITER ngarar@dailynews.co.zw  A HARARE couple, facing $100 million fraud charges, yesterday told magistrate Stanford Mambanje that they were being persecuted by unnamed people with connections in government circles. Clark Makoni, 42, and his wife Beverly, are facing charges of allegedly changing ownership of Valley Lodge in Mutare and registering the property in…

By Rutendo Ngara  ngarar@dailynews.co.zw  A MARONDERA businessman, Francesco Marconati, 65, was yesterday sentenced to five years imprisonment at the Harare Magistrates Court after being convicted of two US$6,8 million fraud charges. However, trial magistrate Donald Ndirowei suspended three years on condition that he will not commit a similar offence. Marconati will serve an effective two years….

THE Bulawayo City Council has partnered with the Civil Protection Unit to enhance their response to fire incidents as the local authority seeks to save lives and property. Responding to criticism by residents that the local authority was not proactive to fire situations, the council chief fire officer, Mhlangano Moyo, said they were also working…

By Nyasha Kunyiswa kunyiswan@dailynews.co.zw SOME girls as young as 12 years in Mvurwi, a small farming town in Mashonaland Central Province, are turning to sex work as they battle to make ends meet, authorities in the area have confirmed. This was said by the National Aids Council (Nac) Mazowe district coordinator, Mercy Mudhombo, while speaking to…

THE High Court yesterday granted a US$500 bail to Harare City town clerk Hosiah Chisango following his arrest in July. Chisango allegedly participated in illegally awarding a US$9,2 million street light rehabilitation tender to Juluka Projects and Plant Hire, a company owned by Moses Mpofu and Mike Chimombe.  In his bail ruling, Justice Pisirayi Kwenda…

A MAN from Dzivaresekwa, Harare, who was allegedly high on drugs and tried to rape his mother, appeared before the magistrates court yesterday facing attempted rape and physical abuse charges. Rivaldo Whiskey, 23, appeared before magistrate Stanford Mambanje who remanded him in custody to this Friday for his bail consideration. According to the State led…

Masimba Makwembere STAFF WRITER makwemberemv@dailynews.com AMERICAN transformational leader and speaker, Myron Edmonds, will for the next seven days, headline the eagerly-anticipated men’s conference which gets underway at the Country Club (CC) in Harare this evening. Edmonds will be sharing the podium with local clerics — Blessing Nyahuma and Joshua Maponga — at the week-long event,…