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PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced State-assisted burials for the 22 people who were killed in a road accident on Tuesday evening along the Bulawayo-Beitbridge Road. In a statement yesterday, Mnangagwa said authorities would avail funds to assist the bereaved families. “The government will weigh in by according the victims of this horrendous crash State-assisted burial….

FORMER Finance deputy minister Terrence Mukupe, and his accomplices, Same Kapisoriso, Ngonidzishe Mutsvene and Joseph Taderera, were yesterday sentenced to three years in prison each. They were also ordered to pay a fine of US$12 780 per individual. The four were convicted on November 8 after they were found guilty of smuggling a tanker containing…

THERE was no reprieve after all for the latest batch of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators who were recalled from the National Assembly last week. This shattering reality for the affected 13 CCC legislators was confirmed yesterday by a resolute Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Mudenda. Responding in the august House to Chipinge South MP…

ZIMBABWE Miners Federation (ZMF) president Henrietta Rushwaya was yesterday fined US$5 000 by High Court judge, Justice Pisirayi Kwenda, for attempting to smuggle 6kg of gold worth approximately US$333 000 to Dubai. Rushwaya has been in remand prison since her conviction on November 1. She was arrested in 2020 at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International…

By Brandon JosphatSENIOR STAFF WRITER UNITED Arab Emirates (UAE) Vice President and Prime Minister arrived in Zimbabwe yesterday for a two-day exchange programme, Information minister Jenfan Muswere has confirmed. The minister was speaking at a post-Cabinet press conference where he said the UAE delegation would meet with all government ministers and their permanent secretaries and…

Brandon JosphatSENIOR STAFF WRITERjosphatbl@dailynews.co.zw AUTHORITIES have promised to investigate allegations of abductions that the opposition Citizens Coalition Change (CCC) asserts were targeted at its members ahead of the December 9 by-elections. This comes as CCC youth quota MP Takudzwa Ngadziore and former Mabvuku MP James Chidhakwa were allegedly abducted and tortured by alleged State security…

SOME Bulawayo Council city fathers, angered by the prolonged delay in completing Bulawayo’s much anticipated US$60 million Egodini Mall, have moved a motion seeking to cancel a contract with the construction company, Terracotta. In a letter addressed to town clerk Christopher Dube yesterday and signed by six out of 29 councillors, ward 15 councillor Ashton…

By Yvonne Ncubein BULAWAYO  THE government says it is working on introducing a mandatory community service sentence for anyone found littering as a stern measure to combat the rampant waste problem across the country. In his statement on solid waste management yesterday, Environment Minister Nqobizitha Ndlovu said deterrent fines for public littering will be introduced…

CONVICTED Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) president Henrietta Rushwaya will know her fate today afternoon as High Court judge Justice Pisirayi Kwenda is set to deliver his ruling. Rushwaya has been in remand custody since her conviction on November 1, after she was found guilty of attempting to smuggle 6kg of gold to Dubai. She was…