A BEER drinker was heavily assaulted by three bouncers at a Harare nightclub after he drank alcohol there and failed to pay, a magistrate heard last week. The matter was brought to court after the employees of Holies Nightclub were arraigned before Harare magistrate Munashe Chibanda on an assault charge. The three, Benjamin Chaperuka, 43,…
By Brendon Josphat AN aspiring Zanu PF candidate for Gutu West, Mutonho Mutonho, who was barred from contesting in the party’s primaries for alleged indiscipline, has declared his intention to run as an independent in the upcoming elections. Mutonho was supposed to lock horns with the ruling party’s deputy youth secretary, John Paradza, in the…
ZIMBABWE’s second largest mobile network operator, NetOne served a treat to participants who won the ‘Father’s Day Digital Campaign’ that ran this…
PARLIAMENT has pleaded with Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe to allow people with temporary national identification cards to use them to apply for e-passports while their plastic discs are being processed. Speaking in the National Assembly on Thursday, Zanu PF MP for Chakari constituency Andrew Nkani said people in need of passports were being turned…
MUNYARADZI Mushawatu, an electrician in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, was both ecstatic and jittery after President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced recently that national elections would be…
A PREVIOUSLY convicted robber, facing a charge of housebreaking, surprised court officials and the public yesterday after he demanded the postponement of his bail application as he needed time to rest. Gift Machokoto Gandiwa, 34, appeared before Harare magistrate Munashe Chibanda, where he was supposed to file his bail application. However, before the State, represented…
By Rutendo Ngara ONE of the country’s leading platinum producers, Zimbabwe Platinum Mines (Zimplats), says it is working on an ambitious project that will revive a cheese manufacturing factory in Kadoma as the company diversifies its operations. The factory, which is owned by Dairibord, closed in 2009 due to low milk production. Its resuscitation would…
TWO police officers have been hauled before the courts after they allegedly extorted US$1 000 from a married woman by threatening to expose her extramarital affair. Gift Pfirwe, 36, Jonathan Taurai Dhokwani, 33, and their accomplice, Takesure Magunje, 50, were arraigned before Harare magistrate Munashe Chibanda yesterday facing extortion charges. They were granted $200 000…
POLICE in Maphisa, Matabeleland South Province, have launched a manhunt for five suspects who allegedly teamed up to murder a man they accused of being in a relationship with a woman they found him walking with. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Matabeleland South police spokesperson Thandolwenkosi Moyo said the victim died after being severely…
ZANU PF is set to elect its representatives to the provincial council this week ahead of the sitting of the Nomination Court next week as preparations for the August 23 general elections gather pace. Addressing the media in Harare yesterday, the party national political commissar Mike Bimha said the provincial councils which are provided for…
