FORMER Miss Princess Zimbabwe, Mercy Mushaninga, who was recently convicted over a US$10 000 fraud charge, yesterday pleaded with the court to treat her with leniency. The convict was found guilty of duping five models of over US$10 000 in a botched Dubai modelling event. During her trial, the State, represented by Bornface Masvaire, proved…
POLICE have arrested a Harare man for illegally possessing two pieces of ivory weighing 22kg. In a statement yesterday, police national spokesperson Paul Nyathi said the police had acted on information from the public. “Detectives from Central Investigations Department Minerals, Flora and Fauna unit, Harare, acted on received information and arrested Godfrey Eliam, aged 22,…
A HARARE woman, 32, who was arrested in June for running a drug base in Glen View suburb, has been sentenced to five months in prison. Sharmaine Haiza pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of dangerous drugs when she appeared before Harare magistrate Evelyn Mashavakure. During the trial, the State proved that the convict was caught…
By Rutendo Ngara ACTING Auditor General (AG) Rheah Kujinga says inadequate funding is crippling the operations of the organisation, which is man dated to promote transparency in government ministries and para statals. Tabling her office’s expectations from the 2024 National Budget before Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) yesterday, Kujinga noted that they had been given…
SENGEZO Tshabangu, the purported interim secretary general of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), has dismissed a High Court appeal filed by opposition MPs who are contesting their recall from Parliament on the grounds that their request is ineffective. The CCC is neither an applicant nor a respondent in the application filed over a week…
ZIMBABWE authorities are targeting Harare car dealers selling smuggled luxury vehicles to unsuspecting motorists in the country in a bid to weed out the culprits evading paying duty for the vehicles. Through sophisticated cartels, several car dealers have smuggled in thousands of luxury vehicles into the country by manipulating various loopholes to ensure that the…
ANOTHER State security agent is facing fraud charges after he and his colleague allegedly tried to get State number plates from the Central Vehicle Registry (CVR) for a personal vehicle. George Madziva, 40, who is employed as a transport officer in the Office of the President and Cabinet and is stationed at Chaminuka Building in…
GOVERNMENT is addressing inputs and grain transportation challenges faced by most farmers and is in the process of purchasing new trucks for the Grain Marketing Board (GMB). Speaking in the National Assembly last week, Agriculture minister Anxious Masuka confirmed the development saying: “currently, we are in the midst of buying lorries for GMB. The first…
THE Harare City Council (HCC) is conducting a stands regularisation exercise in suburbs across the city and those unclaimed and lacking necessary documentation will not be regularised and will be repossessed. In a statement at the weekend, the HCC said the exercise would be done in Waterfalls, Hatfield, Chadcombe, Eastlea, Warren Park, Kuwadzana and Kambuzuma….
THE Four ZB bank heist suspects, who were recently acquit ted on charges of robbery, have appeared back in court on fresh charges of money laundering. Trymore Chapfika, Tozivirepi Chirara, Dennis Madondo and Tatenda Tadzikwa were arraigned before Harare Magis trate Donald Ndirowei on Friday. When they appeared in court, the four, through their respective…
