INCARCERATED South Africa based Zimbabwean businessman Frank Buyanga, latest attempt at seeking bail has been postponed to next Tuesday at a Johannesburg magistrates’ court. Buyanga was arrested in South Africa last month by Interpol after an arrest warrant was issued against him on charges of child trafficking, immigration violations, forgery and contempt of court. He…
By Yvonne Ncubein BULAWAYO A ZESA foreman, who was in court facing charges of employing ghost workers at the power utility and receiving their salaries for personal gain, has been convicted and sentenced to 40 months’ imprisonment or to perform community service if he repays the fraudulently acquired money. The accused, 41-year-old Moses Sithole, was…
TESLA’S Powerwall units, installed at Econet Wireless Zimbabwe’s base station towers by Distributed Power Africa (DPA), are helping the country’s largest mobile telecommunications operator reduce the impact of the current national power shortages. A significant drop in electricity generation from Zimbabwe’s two main power stations, Kariba and Hwange, has led to load shedding of up…
THE parliamentary portfolio committee on Mines says it is conducting an inquiry into mine accidents following a rise in fatal incidents involving miners at their workplaces. Committee chairperson Edmund Mkaratigwa told the Daily News yesterday that the inquiry covers the whole country with more focus on small-scale mines where most incidents have so far been…
A HARARE magistrate has dismissed objections to the State’s charges filed by jailed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) MP Job Sikhala who is in court facing charges of interfering with police investigations. The Zengeza West MP was initially arrested last June with fellow opposition MP Godfrey Sithole and 14 other CCC activists on charges of…
By Yvonne Ncubein BULAWAYO TWO Bulawayo men have appeared in court facing attempted murder charges after they allegedly stabbed a 38-year-old man 15 times all over the body. Emmanuel Dube, 21, and Mxolisi Ndlovu, 42, yesterday pleaded guilty to the charge before Bulawayo magistrate Busani Sibanda. The court heard that on November 18, Dube and…
THE shortage of utility vehicles and equipment is severely impeding the Gweru City Council’s ability to provide services, forcing the city to borrow trucks and equipment from private businesses and people, acting town clerk Vakai Chikwekwe has said. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the town clerk, however, said plans were underway to increase the…
By Nyasha Dube TWO Centenary men, Tatenda Migeri and Cornius Kamutungo, who were arrested last year after fatally beating a thief, have each been given a one-year prison sentence by the High Court. Migeri and Kamutungo, both 23, were arrested on January 25, 2021, after they used a baton to assault Tatenda Ringson Anoki when…
By Nyasha Dube A CHITUNGWIZA magistrate Clever Tsikwa yesterday granted $50 000 bail to a Zengeza woman, Plaxedes Mahlahla, who was arrested last month on charges of culpable homicide. Mahlahla, better known as Mai Grant, was arrested after she was caught living with a decomposing body of her 80-year-old husband, who was reportedly last seen…
By Yvonne Ncubein BULAWAYO THREE-armed robbery suspects, who were part of a gang that got away with 12kg of gold worth US$675 000 and four guns in the How Mine robbery in Bulawayo last October, have been placed on further remand. Antony Mopo, 39, Winston Mutandwa, 24, and Ernest Mutandwa, 30, appeared yesterday before Tredgold…
