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Church can't turn away the unvaccinated
CHURCHES yesterday questioned government's sincerity in al-lowing them to reopen for sit-in services at a time when only about 10% of the country's population has been vaccinated against COVID-19. ...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 06:54hrs | 1443 | by Staff reporter
Jailed ex-Zanu-PF legislator Kereke freed
The Supreme Court has granted $500 000 bail to jailed former Zanu-PF Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke pending his appeal against conviction and 14-year jail term for raping his then 11-year-ol...Published: 05 Aug 2021 at 06:19hrs | 1001 | by Staff reporter
Kereke set for release from prison
Former Bikita West MP and businessman Munyaradzi Kereke is set for release from prison after he was granted Z$500,000 bail by the Supreme Court pending appeal against conviction and 14-year prison sen...Published: 04 Aug 2021 at 20:51hrs | 564 | by Staff reporter
Kereke's appeal thrown out
AILED former Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke has no prospects of success on appeal against a 14-year jail term for raping his then 11-year-old relative at gunpoint, the High Court has ruled, ...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 06:16hrs | 936 | by Staff reporter
Kereke battles to occupy Mazoe farm
JAILED rapist Munyaradzi Kereke is fighting to have his family occupy a Mazoe farm he bought in August while in prison after illegal occupants who have lived there since 2002 refused to vacate the pro...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 19:24hrs | 1243 | by Staff reporter
Nasty legal showdown at Doves
DOVES Life Assurance Company (Doves) shareholders are embroiled in a nasty High Court battle after Farai Matsika allegedly tried to elbow out his partner Phibeon Busangabanye.Matsika and Busan...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:19hrs | 2702 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's permanent secretary flies family in private aircraft after beating Covid-19
Super-rich ministry finance permanent secretary George Guvamatanga has celebrated beating the coronavirus by hiring a private aircraft to fly his family to Victoria Falls.Guvamatanga was hospi...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 07:22hrs | 2976 | by Staff reporter
We have Epsteins and Ghislaine in homes: capital punishment is befitting to paedophiles!!
Last week, we saw how Virginia Giuffre-Roberts got her last laugh. At last the notorious Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested by the FBI for counts of perjury and recruiting under-aged girls for prostitutio...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 18:31hrs | 1145 | by Nomazulu Thata
Prisons boss to testify in fraud case
Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services Commissioner General Paradzai Zimondi is on Monday next week expected to testify against three former top prison officers at Chikurubi Maximum Prison, who ar...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 06:55hrs | 604 | by Staff reporter
Kereke in fresh freedom bid
JAILED former Zanu-PF legislator Munyaradzi Kereke has approached the High Court seeking to take his appeal against conviction and sentence to the Supreme Court for the second time.The former ...Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 07:55hrs | 1116 | by newzimbabwe
Hypocrisy and more power inspired hypocrisy
iN the centre of harare there is a world-famous building named Karigamombe which is Robert Mugabe's example of self-glorification at the expense of a man named Joshua Nkomo, who was considered by Muga...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:30hrs | 275 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Obert Gutu threatens to expel MDC MPs
Former MDC-T Vice President Obert Gutu has threatened to invoke Section 129 of the Zimbabwe Constitution to recall all members of parliament who will refuse to follow the dictates of the leadership of...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 07:40hrs | 2521 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Resident blocks Tagwirei from turning hospital into elite COVID-19 centre
A Harare resident on Saturday filed an urgent chamber application at the High Court seeking an order to stop businessman Kuda Tagwirei's Sakunda Holdings from renovating and upgrading an abandoned hos...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:21hrs | 967 | by newzimbabwe
Tagwirei upgrades 2 COVID-19 treatment centres
FUEL mogul Kudakwashe Tagwirei has embarked on a project to upgrade St Anne's Hospital and jailed rapist and businessman Munyaradzi Kereke's state-of-the-art Rock Foundation Medical Hospital in Harare...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:43hrs | 2052 | by Staff reporter
Tagwirei grabs Kereke upmarket clinic to set up coronavirus hospital for the elite
BUSINESSMAN Kudakwashe Tagwirei and his Sakunda Holdings have taken over jailed Zanu-PF ex-MP Munyaradzi Kereke's upmarket hospital in Harare's Mt Pleasant suburb with claims the facility will only ad...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:18hrs | 1500 | by newzimbabwe
Kereke's freedom bid flops
Former Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke's chamber application for leave to prosecute his appeal at the Supreme Court in a case in which he is challenging the conviction and 14 years in prison ...Published: 09 Mar 2020 at 05:25hrs | 850 | by Staff reporter
Self censorship: The bane of Zimbabwe journalism
One of the major criticisms we get as Zimbabwean journalists is that we do not do enough to cover the big stories and major on the minors, a fair criticism but that sometimes is bereft of context....Published: 05 Mar 2020 at 05:52hrs | 260 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Bid to cover up Zimondi's role in Kereke prison saga exposed
TOP prisons official Senior Assistant Commissioner Phineas Chitekuteku was yesterday exposed in court after he tried to defend his boss Commissioner-General Paradzai Zimondi's involvement in jailed ra...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 06:20hrs | 1733 | by Staff reporter
Zimondi sucked into prisons poultry scam
ZIMBABWE Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) Commissioner-General Paradzai Zimondi has been sucked into a poultry scam after it was revealed in court yesterday that he allegedly recommended engag...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 13:16hrs | 1294 | by Staff reporter
Jailed Kereke appointed prisons adviser
HARARE court yesterday heard that Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) Commissioner-General Paradzai Zimondi facilitated the appointment of former Reserve Bank top official and convicted ...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 05:55hrs | 2468 | by Staff reporter
Convicted Kereke receiving special favours, prison boss claims
CONVICTED rapist Munyaradzi Kereke, serving a 10-year term for raping an 11-year-old girl, was receiving unusually favourable treatment in prison, being allowed home visits and enjoying conjugal right...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 05:40hrs | 877 | by Staff reporter
Kereke enjoyed weekend home visits
Shocking details of how the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) allowed jailed Munyaradzi Kereke to visit his home during weekends and enjoy conjugal rights while in jail emerged in cour...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 19:14hrs | 927 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa should drop Mnangagwa legitimacy issue'
BISHOPS from the Zimbabwe Indigenous Interdenominational Churches Council yesterday called on main opposition MDC leader Nelson Chamisa to accept the July 2018 election results and let the country mov...Published: 02 Feb 2020 at 20:36hrs | 1368 | by Staff reporter
Kereke denies role in prison chicken project
JAILED former advisor to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Munyaradzi Kereke has approached the High Court challenging claims by Prosecutor-General Kumbirai Hodzi that he was a trustee of a compan...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:40hrs | 843 | by Staff reporter
Gaddafi's 'son' set for Zimbabwe prison release
A LIBYAN man claiming to be slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's son is set for release and deportation after languishing at Harare Remand Prison since 2014.This was after his case was struck...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 10:23hrs | 1633 | by newzimbabwe.com
The day Cyclone Mthuli came to town
Well, this Mthuli Ncube guy is bad news.Witty and cunning are his attributes! He had an afternoon outing with journalists, last weekend, shared jokes and ideas, while he kept his joker to his ches...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 16:39hrs | 1744 | by Staff reporter
Kereke seeks audience with judge president
Jailed politician and businessman Munyaradzi Kereke has written an urgent petition seeking audience with judge president Justice George Chiweshe over the alleged criminal abuse of office by judicial o...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 17:29hrs | 904 | by Staff reporter
UZ students grill Prophet Magaya
UNIVERSITY of Zimbabwe students had an opportunity to grill Prophetic Healing and Deliverance founder, Prophet Walter Magaya in a question and answer session at the campus' Great Hall on Tuesday....Published: 02 May 2019 at 19:08hrs | 7276 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa takes Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi head on again
Norton MP Temba Mliswa has called upon Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi to clean himself from the allegations that he is behind the transfer of former Bikita MP Munyradzi Kereke.The matter sta...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 15:53hrs | 1187 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Kereke caught up in Parliament storm
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi was yesterday grilled in the National Assembly by Norton MP Temba Mliswa over reports that incarcerated former Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke was enjoying co...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 08:16hrs | 3106 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to decriminalise wilful HIV transmission
Government is set to repeal a legal provision that criminalises transmission of HIV/AIDS to a partner in order to keep abreast with international standards, Parliament heard yesterday. Justice...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 07:21hrs | 436 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa drags Ziyambi into Kereke jail sex storm
OUTSPOKEN Norton MP, Temba Mliswa has accused Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi of unlawfully giving orders to Chikurubi Maximum Prison officials to allow jailed former Zanu-PF MP Munyaradzi Kereke hav...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 07:17hrs | 1433 | by newzimbabwe
Government values human rights
Human rights are defined as freedoms to which all humans are considered to be entitled, and these often include the rights to life, liberty, equality, freedom of expression and many others.The...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 17:01hrs | 605 | by Peacemaker Zano
Kereke, prison bosses embroiled in chicken scandal
Three senior Zimbabwe Prison and Correctional Services (ZPCS) officers have been arrested on charges of engaging in a chicken project with jailed rapist and former senior Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe offi...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 11:03hrs | 1734 | by Staff reporter
Munyaradzi Kereke getting VIP treatment in prison
THREE top Zimbabwe Prison and Correctional Services (ZPCS) officials face criminal abuse of office charges for allegedly giving preferential treatment to former Zanu-PF MP Munyaradzi Kereke.Ke...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 10:57hrs | 3669 | by newzimbabwe
Jailed Kereke to lose hospital, house over $3,2m debt
INCARCERATED former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe adviser Munyaradzi Kereke, who is serving a 10-year jail sentence for rape, is set to lose his hospital and his Mount Pleasant property after CBZ Bank peti...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 08:45hrs | 1306 | by Staff reporter
Kereke to lose hospital over $3m debt
JAILED former Zanu-PF Bikita West MP Munyaradzi Kereke is set to lose his Mount Pleasant hospital to settle a $3 million debt owed to a local bank (name withheld), after the financial institution file...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 12:58hrs | 2513 | by Staff reporter
Neither a fly nor queen bee can land on Temba Mliswa's mouth
The attack of a defenseless prisoner Munyaradzi Kereke by Hon. Temba Mliswa for allegedly impregnating his wife (while in prison) is not only illegal/unethical but foolish/evil. Temba has proved himse...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 07:07hrs | 3466 | by Don Chigumba
Kereke demands apology from Mliswa
Jailed former Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke has petitioned parliament to censure Norton legislator Temba Mliswa for allegedly maliciously slandering him by accusing him of impregnating his ...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 14:59hrs | 3666 | by Staff reporter
Kereke impregnates wife from Prison?
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has sensationally claimed that jailed former ZANU PF MP Munyaradazi Kerekere has impregnated his younger while in prison.Said Mliswa, "In a conversatio...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 09:17hrs | 11055 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe Election 2018 Predictive Model-It's not even close!
In less than a week Zimbabweans vote in a watershed election. Not surprisingly the impending elections evoke a myriad of emotions for different reasons. Some are hyper-ventilating; some are quacking i...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 13:58hrs | 3882 | by George Chingarande
Ray Goba risks losing his job
PROSECUTOR-general Ray Goba risks losing his job after the Judiciary Service Commission (JSC) asked him to give reasons why a tribunal should not be set up to investigate his suitability to hold offic...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 08:47hrs | 961 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa showcases his lighter side
President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week was in one of his most jovial moods, dedicating the bulk of his speech at the St Noah College Stadium and Sports Centre ground-breaking ceremony to jokes that le...Published: 27 May 2018 at 10:05hrs | 532 | by Staff reporter
Followers abandon prophets' churches?
HAVING taken the gospel space by storm over five years ago, there is a feeling people are slowly abandoning the various churches led by prophets.Numbers at various churches have been dropping ...Published: 18 May 2018 at 16:11hrs | 3893 | by Staff reporter
Makamba going into self-imposed exile once again?
It never rains but it pours for businessman, James Makamba.Less than five months following his return to his motherland, analysts fear that Makamba could be contemplating going into self-impos...Published: 06 May 2018 at 12:14hrs | 4033 | by Staff reporter
Elias Musakwa tries his luck again
Serial loser for Bikita West, Elias Musakwa, has not lost hope for the seat as he will also battle it out with Tichaona Mandebvu, Everson Machaya, incumbent Beauty Chabaya, Norman Mashata and Daniel M...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 07:16hrs | 1046 | by Staff reporter
Kereke appeal judgement reserved
The High Court has reserved judgment in the case in which convicted rapist and former Bikita West Member of Parliament Munyaradzi Kereke is appealing against both conviction and the 10-year imprisonme...Published: 12 Apr 2018 at 06:57hrs | 517 | by Staff reporter
Kereke appeal court postponed indefinitely
The High Court has indefinitely postponed the case in which jailed rapist and former Bikita West Member of Parliament Munyaradzi Kereke is appealing against both conviction and the 10 year-sentence im...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 22:07hrs | 1166 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs fight over for their lives
Several Zanu-PF heavyweights who include Cabinet ministers could fall by the wayside in the party's forthcoming blood and thunder primary elections, with the youth league cranking up the heat on senio...Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 12:58hrs | 925 | by Staff reporter
Gumbura, Kereke miss out of Mnangagwa amnesty
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa released Wednesday a female prisoner jailed 20 years for killing a police inspector as part of a general amnesty which will benefit some 3,000 inmates, NewZimbabwe.co repo...Published: 22 Mar 2018 at 08:01hrs | 5184 | by Staff reporter
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