AN APPLICATION by a Zanu PF activist, who is seeking to have the Constitutional Court(Con-Court) overturn a High Court ruling on Chief Justice Luke Malaba’s continued stay in office, will go ahead after the Con-Court yesterday threw out an opposing application filed by Human Rights NGO Forum executive director, Musa Kika. This comes after Kika…
GOVERNMENT is urgently working towards renovating isolation centres in Matabeleland South province, amid a rising number in Covid-19 infections. Provincial Public Works…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa last night extended the current national coronavirus lockdown by a further two weeks. At the same time, Mnangagwa cautioned…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has awarded its employees a cost-of-living adjustment (Cola) in a bid to avert another strike following a January industrial action which paralysed service delivery in the city. The management committee effected the Cola after the workers’ union submitted a position paper on June 11, arguing that the employees’ salaries had…
A 29-YEAR-OLD Kadoma man ran amok last Friday and killed his father and aunt with an axe before raping a female neighbour…
THE government says the country’s porous borders are to blame for the surge in Covid-19 cases, as authorities are failing to control the movement of illegal cross-border traders. Education minister Cain Mathema, who is also the chairperson of the Matabaleland North Province Covid-19 taskforce, said illegal cross-borders were giving the government a headache. “We have…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, yesterday warned that the insurgency in Mozambique and rising tensions in neighbouring countries posed serious threats to security and peace within the Sadc bloc. Speaking in Harare yesterday at the burial of Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) commander Edzai Chimonyo and another former freedom fighter, Michael “Vhuu” Chakabva, at the National Heroes…
HARARE businessman Frederick Mutanda has filed a High Court lawsuit against President Emmerson Mnangagwa, challenging the recently enacted Statutory Instrument (SI) 127/21, which criminalises unscrupulous traders who sell their wares using black market foreign currency rates. The SI brought in force through the Presidential Powers (Temporary Measures) (Financial Laws Amendment) Regulations, amended two Acts of…
THE State has launched a fresh bid to have MDC Alliance youth leaders Joana Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova, accused of faking their abduction, brought to trial. The trial, which commenced in April, was stopped by the High Court after the trio through their lawyer Alec Muchadehama challenged the process, saying it had been…
A MEDICAL doctor at a fertilisation clinic in Harare is in trouble after he reportedly sexually abused one of his female patients while in the examination room. Tinovimba Mhlanga is facing aggravated indecent assault charges following his alleged conduct on a Harare woman who had approached his facility intending to donate an egg. He will…
