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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…

THE Public Account Committee (PAC) has summoned Parliament’s administration to explain the nearly US$2 million procurement scandal which rocked the august House last week. This comes as the government cancelled a tender in which Parliament was supposed to buy laptops and desktops at a cost of US$9 264 and US$3 076 per item respectively. In…

Rutendo NgaraSTAFF WRITERngarar@dailynews.co.zw VICE President and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga has urged medical aid companies to have mental health cover for the country to be able to reduce mental health cases. Speaking during the Association of Healthcare Funders (AHFoZ) conference in Victoria Falls over the weekend, Chiwenga said planswere underway to come up with a…

ZANU PF parliamentarian and businessman Justice Mayor Wadyajena, who was implicated in a US$5 million fraud scandal at the Cotton Company of Zimbabwe, is seeking to have the allegations dropped saying charges are contrived and designed to falsely implicate him and his company Mayor Logistics. Wadyajena is alleged to have acquired 25 trucks from alleged…

THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) has justified its continued dealings with Univern Enterprises notwithstanding Parliament’s recommendations to cancel software contracts with the system vendor. Univern Enterprises is a Zimbabwean-registered firm, which trades as Southern Region Trading Company (SRTC), it supplies Information Technologies (IT) systems, as well as various goods and services.Giving oral evidence to…