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Court Reporter
A NIGERIAN who used two different names to marry two Harare women and obtained a driver’s licence using one of the names, appeared in court last Friday. Anayo Chukwu Olisa (41) reportedly married one of the women without her consent. Olisa, who
Lawyers want minister named in papers
Senior Court Reporter
CORE Mining director Lovemore Kurotwi and former Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation chief executive Dominic Mubaiwa’s lawyers in a case the two are being accused of defrauding Government of US$2 billion, yesterday said the State
Father, child reunited after 17 years — in police custody
SAO PAULO. – A father and son reunited after 17 years after they’re both arrested and brought to same police station They committed different crimes, in different parts of town, but a father and son were reunited when a savvy policeman noticed that
Any wonder Africa congealed into a question mark?
On Saturday I was at my rural home in Chikwaka communal lands for a funeral, Chigodora village to be specific. A mere 70km from the CBD if one takes the Shamva turnoff, just after Umwinsdale down to Musiyiwa Shopping Centre, or 75km, if one proceeds down Mutoko Road to Juru Growth Point (KwaBhora) before taking the left turn at Zvevatsunga Supermarket
Civil servants reject rural allowance: Matibenga
Zvamaida Murwira Senior Reporter
Civil servants leaders rejected the re-introduction of the rural allowance which would have benefited more than 60 percent of those in the service, Public Service Minister Lucia Matibenga said yesterday. The minister lashed out at the Apex Council for
Mermaids stopping Govt work: Sipepa Nkomo
Herald Reporter
WATER Resources Development and Management Minister Samuel Sipepa Nkomo had a Senate Committee on Gender and Development in stitches when he alleged that mermaids were preventing Government officials from installing water pumps at
280 students off to SA varsities
Herald Reporters
TWO hundred and eighty students who qualified for the Presidential Scholarship Programme left for South Africa yesterday to study at 10 South African universities. The students, drawn from disadvantaged families, but academically gifted, were seen off
New Era to meet Bwititi’s repatriation costs
Herald Reporter
New Era newspaper has pledged to pay for the repatriation of the body of veteran journalist Makuwerere Bwititi who died in Namibia on Sunday. Bwititi, a former editor of Chronicle, Manica Post and Southern Times, was now working for the Namibian
Ruling on Mujuru inquest deferred
Innocent Ruwende Senior Reporter
THE magistrate presiding over the inquest into the death of General Solomon Mujuru says he will only consider the family’s request to bring in a foreign pathologist after the local expert who first examined the remains testifies in court.
The Mujuru family last week asked the court to call in a South African forensic expert to question the local pathologist.
The family said should questions arise, it might apply for the exhumation of the remains to enable the South African expert to conduct another examination.
However, in his ruling on the 10th day of the inquest at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts yesterday, magistrate Mr Walter Chikwanha, said it was his prerogative to subpoena witnesses.
“In pursuance of this mandate, I have already subpoenaed all the witnesses who I think are relevant. These witnesses subpoenaed include a pathologist who examined the body at the scene and at One Commando Barracks and is yet to testify,” he said.
He said the Mujuru family lawyer, Mr Thakor Kewada, was seeking a second opinion before the pathologist had given evidence.
“While I would not refuse the calling of other witnesses other than the ones I have subpoenaed, they should add value to the
Vote for AU commission chief ends in deadlock
ADDIS ABABA – A vote by African leaders for the head of their bloc’s executive ended in deadlock yesterday. Gabon’s Jean Ping, who has headed the African Union Commission since 2008 and was seeking a new term, was challenged by South Africa’s Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.
Intense campaigns had preceded the vote and dominated the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, where leaders gathered to discuss broadening trade within Africa and tackle conflict hot spots.
“We went for an election and none of the two candidates emerged as a winner,” Zambian President Michael Sata said. “The next elections will be held in June.”
Deputy AU commission chief, Erastus Mwencha from Kenya, will step in until fresh polls are held during the next summit in Malawi.
Analysts say the vote for the AU agenda-setting position has exposed political fault lines between English-and French-speaking Africa, as well as between different geographic regions.
AU sources said the election was tight, with Ping holding a slender lead in three rounds of voting in which neither candidate obtained