CHILDLINE Zimbabwe has expressed concern over increasing cases of child abuse, saying the country is recording 20 000 cases every year across the country. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday during the unveiling of an expanded Childline call centre through the support of the Australian Embassy, Childline national director Precious Taru said it was unfortunate…
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi says after next year’s elections, the government will not repeat the 2018 scenario where they allowed foreign lawyers to represent candidates who disputed the outcome. In 2018, South African lawyers were part of the then MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa’s legal team which challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s victory in the Constitutional…
By Dionne Kanyowa THE HIGH Court has dismissed veteran lawyer and author Petina Gappah’s request to appeal to the Supreme Court to challenge its decision to dismiss her exception application against fellow lawyer Fadzayi Mahere’s defamation lawsuit. Gappah, pictured, who is being sued by Mahere for US$1 million over alleged defamatory tweets, approached the court…
By Dionne Kanyowa FORMER commissioner for the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission and Zanu PF member Goodson Nguni has been joined as a party to a case in which fellow party member Sybeth Musengezi is challenging President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ascension to power as the party’s leader in 2017. Judge President Justice Mary Dube, who delivered her ruling…
By Hazel Marimbiza GWANDA residents have expressed concern over council’s takeover of the town’s water treatment plant, saying water challenges are worsening due to council’s inadequate preparation to run it. This comes after the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) recently handed over the Gwanda water treatment plant to the local authority in compliance with a…
THREE men accused of duping dealers of over US$750 000 on the guise that they would send them an amount equivalent in local currency want to be prosecuted separately as one of them is implicating others. Munir Kanrudin Kazi is jointly charged with Shingirai Levison Muringi and Andre Hoffman on fraud charges.Lawyers representing Kazi and…
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration has created a fully-fledged procurement management unit and risk and loss control departments as part of aligning the institution to good corporate governance practices, the organisation’s chairperson George Manyaya has said. Zinara created a procurement management unit in 2020 from which the institution is operating under Class A and most…
By Dionne Kanyowa AN INCARCERATED bar owner, who was convicted by the High Court of murdering a drunken customer by strangling him with a shoe lace over rowdy behaviour, has taken his freedom bid to the Supreme Court. Talent Nyamombe, who was sentenced to 15 years in jail in June by Justice Moses Foroma, maintains…
FLOOD victims in Zvishavane who were last year displaced by council in Mandava after their houses were destroyed have claimed that council has “forgotten” them. The residents claimed that the council had promised to renovate their houses but for over a year now they still live in squatter like areas.Contacted for a comment Zvishavane mayor…
POLICE in Gweru have banned the use of dangerous weapons in public for the second time this year amid reports that the crime rate in the city is on the rise. The banned weapons include machetes, knives, knobkerries, swords and catapults among others. Gweru chief superintendent Tambudzai Gumbo told the Daily News yesterday that the…
