JAILED former public service minister Petronella Kagonye who is serving a 16-month sentence, will remain in prison after the High Court denied her application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court. Kagonye was sentenced early this year, facing charges of stealing 20 laptops in 2018 that were donated by the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory…
BY BRANDON JOSPHAT 4-H Zimbabwe has scooped the 2022 prestigious NGO of the year award sponsored by the peace and sport forum, at an event held in the Principality of Monaco on November 30. 4-H Zimbabwe is a youth-led organisation working with sport to promote peace and transform the lives of young people in Zimbabwe….
ZIMBABWE has no witness protection law, a top civil servant said recently, raising questions about the country’s commitment to addressing widespread corruption….
IT is early morning at a cemetery in Zimbabwe’s Warren Park, a few miles west of central Harare, and 19-year-old Lesly Madubeko…
BY BRANDON JOSPHAT FIVE councillors and some residents have written to the ministry of Local Government and the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) requesting that Ndumiso Mdlalose, the chief executive officer of the Hwange Local Board (HLB), be investigated for allegations of corruption and misconduct. In a letter dated October 19, 2022, addressed to Local Government…
HIGH Court judge, Justice Fatima Maxwell, has ordered Byron Ready to vacate, within seven days, from his father’s home in Braeside, Harare, as he was occupying the property illegally. Byron and his father, Phillip Ready, have been embroiled in a 20-year running battle over the ownership of the house, with the latter battling to evict…
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) says a study had shown the country’s judiciary was riddled with corruption, which threatened to undermine the…
By Ketty Nyoni OVER seven months after the 2022 population and housing census was conducted, some enumerators are yet to receive their payments, Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStats) top officials have revealed. Speaking before the parliamentary portfolio committee on budget, finance and economic development in Harare earlier this week, ZimStats finance and administration director Romana…
A GURUVE man, Jordan Chikazhe, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after the High Court found him guilty of murdering his girlfriend. Chikazhe was arrested in November last year after fatally striking and killing his then girlfriend Bethel Marara with a metal hoe. According to court documents, Chikazhe visited Marara at her home…
By Nyasha Dube THE High Court has acquitted a Murewa man, Jacob Maunde, who was arrested last year for allegedly killing an 18-year- old boy during a bar fight. Maunde was arrested together with his friends, Leonard Jambwa, Spencer Dube and Adrien Kugara, and were jointly charged with the murder of Clever Muduuri before Dube…
