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SA court legalises private cannabis use
South Africa's Constitutional Court has ruled that the personal use of cannabis is not a criminal offence.Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo said the law banning marijuana use by adults was un...Published: 23 hrs ago | 1804 | by Staff Reporter
Grace Mugabe PhD: Lawyer dumps Nyagura
ADVOCATE Lewis Uriri yesterday recused himself from representing the suspended University of Zimbabwe Vice- Chancellor, Levi Nyagura in a case he is accused of criminal abuse of office for allegedly p...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:46hrs | 3714 | by Staff reporter
Cops launch countrywide roadblocks
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has launched a countrywide operation targeting unregistered vehicles and motorists who are flouting traffic regulations and endangering the lives of other road users...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:30hrs | 3842 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe PhD: Nyagura trial put on hold
The trial of suspended University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Levi Nyagura, who is accused of illegally awarding former First Lady Grace Mugabe a PhD, has been put on hold pending the determination of his applic...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:23hrs | 262 | by Staff reporter
Chombo's trial postponed
FORMER Finance minister Ignatius Chombo's fraud trial was last week postponed pending a High Court's decision on an application challenging his arrest.Through his lawyer, Chombo applied for a ...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 08:33hrs | 1215 | by Staff reporter
Govt to tighten import control regulations
GOVERNMENT is working on a number of pieces of legislation meant to monitor imports so as to protect citizens from substandard goods. Director for quality assurance in the Ministry of Industry...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 06:54hrs | 407 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers arrested
THREE armed robbers who were targeting pirate tax drivers along the Harare-Chirundu Highway and robbing them of vehicles, goods and money have been arrested. James Mbizi (32), Luckmore Mubaiwa...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 06:41hrs | 528 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's special graft team under siege
In May this year, President Emmerson Mnangagwa set up a team of lawyers and prosecutors to form the Special Anti-Corruption Unit as part of his pledge to deal with corruption.months later, the...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 13:34hrs | 1105 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo to drink sewage, face huge debt
Now that Bulawayo, the city that prides itself as the cleanest and well run metropolitan has fallen into the hands of those with the DNA of corruption, residents must brace for huge unpayable debt and...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 12:06hrs | 4143 | by Israel Dube
Zesa offers whistleblowers rewards for exposing the criminals
ZESA has invited whistleblowers to volunteer information that could lead to the arrest of culprits behind the vandalism and theft of electricity infrastructure. In a statement, Zesa said the i...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 07:14hrs | 579 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe's (Criminal) Record Check!
Chronicling abuses on women in Zimbabwe Dear Zimbabwean Women, It is high time we chronicled all abuses...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 06:53hrs | 2248 | by Nomazulu Thata
Cholera tsunami sweeps across Mashonaland again
STEWART Murambiwa's snow-white teeth appear too big for his mouth; his arms and limbs look like they belong to a little boy and not the 27-year-old man he is.Propped up on an iron bed in a ten...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 16:29hrs | 2365 | by Staff reporter
3 traffic cops who bashed motorist acquitted
Three traffic police officers based at Kwekwe Central Police station were acquitted of malicious damage of property and assaulting a motorist yesterday by Kwekwe provincial magistrate Mr Stories Rusha...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 14:22hrs | 1327 | by Simbarashe Sithole
CSOs hold government accountable for avoidable cholera deaths
THE Civil Society Health Emergency Response Coordinating Committee (CSHERCC) is saddened to learn of the unnecessary deaths of several people across the country, who have recently succumbed to the dev...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 13:56hrs | 466 | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe's former ministers under siege
FORMER Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa was yesterday arrested on charges of criminal abuse of office, the first high profile casualty of a crackdown by a Special Anti-Corruption Unit...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 06:27hrs | 3900 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's health minister caught in anti-corruption dragnet
Former Health and Child Care Minister David Parirenyatwa was yesterday arrested and appeared at Harare magistrates' courts on charges of criminal abuse of office. The arrest is seen as part of Governm...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 06:06hrs | 828 | by Staff reporter
Coffin dumped at homestead
A CHITAKATIRA man who allegedly obstructed the course of justice by aiding a fugitive to escape is regretting his actions after the suspect returned to haunt him by dumping a coffin containing a myste...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 06:02hrs | 1142 | by Staff reporter
Gossiper beaten up, hospitalised
TWO HOB-HOUSE women who assaulted their neighbour for bad-mouthing as well as gossiping about them have been convicted and sentenced to 13 months imprisonment by a Mutare court. Precious Nheka...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 06:01hrs | 408 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans escape from SA prison
South African police have rearrested another Zimbabwean who recently escaped from Kutama Sinthumule Correctional Centre outside Makhado town in Limpopo Province.Raphael Nyota (30) had escaped ...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 14:06hrs | 2367 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's health Minister, David Parirenyatwa arrested
Former Heath and Child Care Minister David Parirenyatwa has appeared in court facing a charge of criminal abuse of office after his actions allegedly resulted in the State losing $30 000 paid to two m...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 13:14hrs | 11122 | by Staff reporter
'Flashy' armed robber found with 4 guns
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested a suspected "flashy" armed robber and recovered four guns after raiding his hideout in New Magwegwe suburb. Police arrested Ishmael Mutungiri (24) on Monday mo...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:21hrs | 906 | by Staff reporter
Villagers deprived of government food aid
Zimbabwe Peace Project has revealed that villagers were deprived of government sponsored food aid in the run up top elections.ZPP said these reprisals manifested through deprivation of governm...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 16:28hrs | 1256 | by Stephen Jakes
International community should intervene in Zimbabwe Gukurahundi genocide
What do we think of when we hear of which such names as Rohingya, Ndebele, Tutsi, Kazakh, Armenia, and Jew - especially, when they are all in one sentence?...most likely genocide and the Holoc...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 15:11hrs | 558 | by Peace Chiwara Marangwanda
Mnangagwa a coup leader who was illegimate to have even stood for July elections
As the nation of Zimbabwe grapples with the crucial debate over the validity of the 30 July presidential election results, we all seem to be missing one very critical matter - Emmerson Mnangagwa was i...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 12:50hrs | 1611 | by Peace Chiwara Marangwanda
Zimbabwe's 'enemy of the people' returns home
In our series of letters from Africa, Zimbabwean journalist Wilf Mbanga reflects on his return home after 15 years in exile - and 10 months after long-time leader Robert Mugabe was ousted from office....Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 10:43hrs | 3812 | by BBC News
Chidakwa's lawyer challenges Mnangagwa anti-graft team
Former Mines and Mining Development minister Walter Chidakwa's lawyer, Advocate Silvester Hashiti, yesterday filed a notice to challenge the special anti-corruption investigation unit, arguing that on...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:30hrs | 480 | by Staff reporter
Cops smash house & car breaking syndicate
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested one suspect while his accomplice is still at large for a spate of break-ins into houses and cars around the city. Criminal Investigation Department (CID) spoke...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:10hrs | 898 | by Staff reporter
To introduce or not to introduce domestic currency in the short run, that is the question!
By "To be or not to be" is the manner the literary genius William Shakespeare chose to employ as an opening of a soliloquy for Prince Hamlet in the play Hamlet. "To re-introduce or not to re-introduce...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 16:08hrs | 1702 | by Prosper Munyedza
New Zimbabwe transport management system to improve efficiency
Zimbabwe has signed an integrated transport management system, which seeks to bring together five key elements of road policing, efficient use of national infrastructure and coordination of informatio...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 13:25hrs | 949 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean wife beater jailed 7 year in Botswana
Molepolole Magistrate Michael Itumeleng this Tuesday sentenced Mike Graduate Mutizwa to seven years in jail for grievously assaulting his wife Cathrine Mutizwa.When the ruling was made, the co...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 07:31hrs | 1452 | by Staff Reporter
Officials tarnishing ED's name in Midlands, it is never in ED's service
With the birth of the New dispensation conduct of public and government officials, in the mining sector has been corrupt pathetic and disgusting. the offence of Abuse of Public Office is seeing a rena...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 07:24hrs | 1084 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Jonathan Moyo lays into Grace Mugabe
SELF-exiled G40 cabalist Professor Jonathan Moyo yesterday tore into former First Lady Mrs Grace Mugabe while revealing a nasty fall out between the two that led to the latter blocking him from all he...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 06:59hrs | 747 | by Staff reporter
Hunt on for new Prosecutor-General
Government has started hunting for a substantive Prosecutor-General following the publication of the resgination of Prosecutor-General Advocate Ray Goba in the Government Gazette on Friday, a senior G...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 06:27hrs | 195 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe reveals Mnangagwa 'deal'
Former first lady Grace Mugabe has revealed how she struck an agreement with her husband to bury the hatchet with President Emmerson Mnangagwa after a bitter fallout last year.Grace, who was a...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:53hrs | 7619 | by Staff reporter
The 'scania' operator who became a businessman
PHINIAS GOMBA hates the sport of soccer. FOR the first 20 years of his life, he had loved it like most young men in soccer mad Zimbabwe. This all changed one night after another heavyweight bout betwe...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:37hrs | 938 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo shocked
Former Information Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo said he was shocked that Zimbabwe had a "Stop List" which was being used by the Registrar General to refuse to issue passports to Zimbabwean citizen...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 20:50hrs | 22906 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa, residents fight re-ignites
The fight between Southlea Park Home Owners Association and businessman Philip Chiyangwa has resurfaced after the parties went back to the High Court on Thursday, seeking the court to make a determina...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 18:05hrs | 733 | by Staff reporter
84-yr-old granny arrested for tototo brewing
AN 84-YEAR-OLD woman has been arrested in Nyamandlovu for brewing an illicit beer popularly known as tototo. Alice Ngwenya of village 6B, under chief Deli, was found in possession of 60 litres...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 08:24hrs | 367 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mnangagwa lawyers join hand, fight in Wicknell's corner
INTRATREK Zimbabwe, founded by businessman Wicknell Chivayo, has filed a lawsuit at the High Court demanding $25 million from Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) in damages for alleged repudiation of a multi...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:22hrs | 10041 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe PhD: Nyagura ConCourt bid in limbo
HARARE magistrate Lazini Ncube yesterday dismissed a bid by suspended University of Zimbabwe (UZ) vice-chancellor Levi Nyagura to approach the Constitutional Court (ConCourt), challenging the legality...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:05hrs | 1092 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF lawyer guns for Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's lawyer in the just-concluded presidential election challenge, Advocate Lewis Uriri, yesterday challenged the Zanu-PF leader's authority to appoint a special anti-corrupt...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 07:04hrs | 7081 | by Staff reporter
Muchechetere in court for criminal abuse of duty
Sport and Recreation Committee (SRC) acting director-general Joseph Muchechetere yesterday appeared in court facing charges of misusing more than $2 million he received from sponsors.Muchechet...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 07:01hrs | 877 | by Staff reporter
Madiro scoffs at NPF’s poll petition
Zanu-PF Mutare North House of Assembly representative Michael Madiro has described losing National Patriotic Front (NPF) candidate, Mr Agrippa Bopela Masiyakurima's High Court petition challenging his...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 06:33hrs | 220 | by Staff reporter
Chidakwa, Gudyanga trial postponed to October 4
THE trial of former Mines minister Walter Chidakwa and his permanent secretary Francis Gudyanga on allegations of criminal abuse of office, failed to kick off at the Harare Magistrates' Court yesterda...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 06:59hrs | 151 | by Staff reporter
TelOne acts on cable thefts
STATE-OWNED telecoms operator, TelOne, has stepped up efforts to curb increased network vandalism and copper cable thefts by installing security alarms on the copper cable infrastructure.Of la...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 06:56hrs | 437 | by Staff reporter
Police tell schools to deposit monies in banks
POLICE in Bulawayo yesterday urged schools to deposit their money in banks, saying keeping it on their premises could result in the institutions being targeted by robbers. Schools opened for t...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 06:50hrs | 492 | by Staff reporter
Ex-NetOne boss Kangai’s freedom bid flops
A bid for freedom by former NetOne chief executive Reward Kangai, who is facing 21 counts of criminal abuse of office, yesterday hit a brick wall after his application for refusal of further remand wa...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 06:38hrs | 358 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe court sets free opposition legislator charged with public violence
A ZIMBABWEAN court has set free an opposition legislator who had been arrested for allegedly inciting his MDC Alliance party supporters to commit public violence ahead of the harmonised elections held...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 15:48hrs | 5535 | by ZLHR
Lessons from the Natural History of Nations
There is certainly no prize for predicting the reaction of the opposition alliance to the outcome of the elections, and of course the constitutional court challenge. After all, we have been made to be...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 12:39hrs | 420 | by Robert Sigauke
Cop sues Matanga over dismissal
A POLICE officer based in Bulawayo, who was dismissed for allegedly failing to arrest a motorist involved in a hit-and-run accident, but instead arrested the mechanic who was repairing the vehicle, ha...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 06:46hrs | 914 | by Staff reporter
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