3 held in $125 000 Nyanga heist
MUTARE - Two guns used in the $125 000 heist of a Fawcett Cash-In-Transit vehicle have been recovered near the crime scene, with three security guards still held by police. Police say the three are...
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Losing MPs reluctant to surrender cars
HARARE - Parliamentary candidates who contested the July 31 poll on a Zanu PF ticket have defied Didymus Mutasa, the party secretary for administration and Presidential Affairs minister’s order to...
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Madhuku's NCA courts Mutambara
HARARE - Lovemore Madhuku, National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) leader, is courting former Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara to join his party, in an effort to mount a strong opposition against...
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MDC councillors off the hook
HARARE - Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC has spared the axe on five rebellious councillors and two mayors suspended for defying the party directive and voting Zanu PF mayoral candidates. The party suspended...
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'You've failed us!'
HARARE - Parliamentarins yesterday tore into the Sports Recreational Commission (SRC), accusing the country’s supreme sports regulatory body of dragging the sector into a mess. The legislatures...
View ArticleWe await probe team findings
EDITOR — The residents of Chitungwiza are anxiously waiting for the publication of a report on findings and recommendations by the Joel Biggie Pasihomusha Matiza -led probe team which was looking at...
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Parliament bloated for nothing
EDITOR — In their wisdom or lack of it, the number of legislators have been increased from the initial 150 to the present 270 including the Senate. This, in a country with the lowest Gross Domestic...
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Transparency needed in diamonds revenue
HARARE - Zimbabwe will for the first time this week sell its diamonds in Belgium to a wide range of buyers and the country is expected to rake in no less than $37 million. The lifting of sanctions by...
View ArticleSalesman demoted to toilet cleaner
BULAWAYO - A salesman with a beleaguered Bulawayo company, Marvo Stationery Manufacturers, got the shock of his life after returning from leave to find that he has been demoted to a toilet cleaner....
View ArticleRobber uses toy gun
HARARE - A 20-year-old Norton man who threatened a taxi operator with a toy pistol in a hijack attempt has appeared in court. Valentine Gengo of Nhowe Phase 1, Norton appeared before Harare magistrate...
View ArticleFatal police chase: Kombi driver charged
HARARE - Twenty year-old kombi driver who ran over a war veteran during a police car chase in Harare’s central business district has been charged with culpable homicide. Takesure Musara yesterday...
View ArticleAnti-graft boss' trial deferred
HARARE - Harare regional magistrate Hosea Mujaya has deferred to December 10 judgment in a case in which Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) commissioner Emmanuel Chimwanda is accused of...
View ArticlePassenger stabbed over R5
BULAWAYO - A 22-year-old man has been hauled before the courts here facing allegations of stabbing a passenger on the back. Hebert Tshuma of Emganwini suburb is employed as a conductor by Luck Snare...
View ArticleChitungwiza mayor's case: State told to put house in order
HARARE - Chitungwiza magistrate Lazarus Murendo has advised the State to put its house in order in the case in which Phillip Mutoti, the town’s mayor and a local councillor are jointly accused of...
View ArticleInflux of SA imports stifling Bulawayo industries
BULAWAYO - Bulawayo industrialists have cried foul over Zimbabwe’s over reliance on imports, arguing that uncontrolled imports are driving the industry into deeper recession. Zimbabwe is a net...
View ArticleBulawayo South MP awaits trial
BULAWAYO - Bulawayo South MP, Eddie Cross who was arrested for insulting and accusing a man of being a thief, has been further remanded out of custody to December 16. Magistrate Gladmore Mushove...
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'Zim more polarised than before elections'
HARARE - Zimbabwe is more polarised now than it was before this year’s general elections, Zimbabwe’s Catholic bishops have said. “The political fault lines and their impact on all aspects of the...
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ZBH to retrench 500
HARARE - Zimbabwe Broadcast Holdings (ZBH) is set to retrench 500 workers and pay outstanding wages. Presenting oral evidence before the parliamentary portfolio committee on Media, Publicity,...
View ArticleGumbura's wives bare all
HARARE - Wives of Independent End Time Message founder Robert Martin Gumbura, currently facing multiple rape charges, claim they are one happy family and dispelled Satanism charges against their...
View ArticleMP collapses after heckling
HARARE - Melody Dziva, a Zanu PF MP, yesterday collapsed in the National Assembly after she was heckled while delivering her maiden speech. Dziva, a non-constituency legislator from Midlands...
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