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Suspended sentence for urinating inside grave

Harare Bureau A 67-year-old woman who urinated inside one of the graves of six family members who were killed in accident near Mvuma last month has been sentenced to a suspended six months for public...

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Female duo up for stock theft

Nqobile Tshili Chronicle Correspondent POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested two women for allegedly stealing nine head of cattle in Tsholotsho. Sibusisiwe Tshabalala, 34, and Thembinkosi Sibanda, 36, were...

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Kombayi, councillors hearing deferred

Mashudu Netsianda Senior Court Reporter BULAWAYO High Court judge Justice Nokuthula Moyo yesterday postponed hearing in the matter of suspended Gweru mayor Hamutendi Kombayi and his 10 councillors to...

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Ex- Gwanda mayor De Necker quits MDC

Nduduzo Tshuma Political Editor FORMER Gwanda Mayor and MDC national executive member Lionel De Necker yesterday resigned from the troubled party in a damning letter that also called for Professor...

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Parly committee supports selling of CSC land

Auxilia Katongomara Chronicle Reporter THE Parliamentary Portfolio committee on Lands, Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development is backing the proposal by the ailing Cold Storage...

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Biti elected Renewal president amid chaos

Tendai Biti Talent Chimutambwi Harare Bureau THERE was chaos at the MDC Renewal congress yesterday as Manicaland province protested the party’s failure to include their representative in the national...

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Mlala raps Mutsvangwa for ignoring Byo war vets

Cde Christopher Mutsvangwa Pamela Shumba Senior Reporter A MEMBER of the war veterans’ council of elders Cde George Mlala has rapped the association’s leader Cde Chris Mutsvangwa for ignoring concerns...

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Women’s League distances self from Kasukuwere demo

Cde Nomthandazo Eunice Moyo Nqobile Tshili Chronicle Correspondent THE Zanu-PF Women’s League has distanced itself from alleged planned demonstrations to force the ouster of the party’s National...

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Mudenda calls for amendment of Indigenisation Act

Cde Jacob Mudenda Whinsley Masara Chronicle Reporter THE Speaker of the National Assembly, Cde Jacob Mudenda has said the country’s Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act needs to be urgently...

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New ministers vow to deliver

Harare Bureau— THE new ministers and deputy ministers sworn-in by President Robert Mugabe yesterday expressed happiness at the faith vested in them and pledged to deliver on their mandates in line...

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Woman busts paedophile husband

Faith Mabuto Midlands Reporter A 31-YEAR-OLD man raped his eight-year-old step daughter on three occasions before his wife caught him red-handed violating her for the fourth time, a court heard on...

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Cop ‘robs’ cop…$500 phone stolen in altercation with touts

Shamiso Dzingire Court Reporter A POLICE officer rescued a colleague from the clutches of an angry mob and later “robbed” him of his cellphone worth $500, a court heard on Friday. Misheck Kunyongana,...

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Late lands officer’s family, ‘girlfriend’ in farm wrangle

Mashudu Netsianda Senior Court Reporter THE family of late businessman and former Masvingo provincial chief lands officer, Aube Musanhu, is locked in a protracted legal battle with his ‘girlfriend’...

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Sikhanyiso Ndlovu still in hospital

Auxilia Katongomara Chronicle Reporter ZANU-PF Politburo member and former Cabinet Minister Cde Sikhanyiso Ndlovu’s condition has not changed and he is still admitted to Mater Dei Hospital’s Intensive...

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Zanu-PF wings distance selves from Kasukuwere demo

Harare Bureau WAR veterans, Zanu-PF youths and women’s leagues have dismissed reports that former freedom fighters are planning a demonstration against the party’s national political commissar Cde...

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Misihairabwi-Mushonga faces recall from Parliament

Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga Farirai Machivenyika and Masline Mavudzi Harare Bureau THE Professor Welshman Ncube-led MDC Matabeleland South proportional representation member Priscillah...

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Mudenda orders release of foreign girls from Chikurubi

Brighton Gumbo Chronicle Reporter THE Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda has ordered the release of two foreign girls aged 12 and 13 from Chikurubi Maximum Prison on the outskirts of Harare. The girls...

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Police give squatters ultimatum to relocate

Sukulwenkosi Dube Plumtree Correspondent POLICE in Plumtree have given squatters settled in mining areas in Mphoengs under Mangwe District an ultimatum to have relocated by tomorrow or face eviction....

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Prof Moyo sues Hwange over debt

Professor Jonathan Moyo Mashudu Netsianda Senior Court Reporter THE Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development, Professor Jonathan Moyo, has taken the Hwange Local...

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‘Govt geared to attract FDI’

Dr Misheck Sibanda Innocent Ruwende Harare Bureau— THE government is coming up with a cocktail of measures to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into the country, among them amending the Companies...

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