adminCall to improve prison conditions
Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter
PRISON conditions in Zimbabwe are appalling and there is need for stakeholders to collectively improve them, Justice and Legal Affairs Minister Patrick Chinamsa said yesterday. Receiving a donation of uniforms for prisoners worth US$10 000 from
Mortuary rape case dismissed
Tendai Rupapa Court Reporter
THE Parirenyatwa hospital nurse aide who claimed she was raped by a mortuary attendant in a mortuary willingly had sex with the man, but reported the issue as rape when a deal they entered into turned sour. Regional magistrate Ms Memory
Escalating load-shedding riles Government
Senior Agriculture Reporter
GOVERNMENT has expressed concern over escalating load-shedding by Zesa saying the development is denting efforts to
Boyfriend charged for lover’s murder
Lovemore Meya Court Reporter
A 24-YEAR-OLD Chitungwiza man, who reportedly fatally stabbed his girlfriend 15 times in the chest
Former ANZ editor awarded Z$15m
Labour Reporter
The Labour Court has ordered Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe to pay dismissed deputy editor, Tendai Nyakunu, Z$15 220 000 for loss of employment. ANZ was also ordered to pay Nyakunu Z$578 492 in accrued allowances. Both amounts will be
Chief Negomo contests PM ruling
Zvamaida Murwira Senior Reporter
CHIEF Negomo yesterday filed an appeal at the Supreme Court contesting a High Court decision that set aside his ruling that found Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai guilty of marrying in the scared month of November.
On Wednesday, High Court judge Justice Bharat Patel nullified Chief Negomo’s judgment that ordered PM Tsvangirai to pay two cattle, two sheep, a piece of white cloth and a ball of snuff as penalty for marrying Locadia Karimatsenga Tembo in November last year.
Chief Negomo is from Mashonaland Central Province.
The chief approached the superior court, seeking to have the High Court decision nullified.
PM Tsvangirai has since engaged Ms Elizabeth Macheka, daughter to Zanu-PF Central Committee member and former Chitungwiza executive mayor Cde Joseph Macheka.
In papers filed at the Supreme Court yesterday morning, the appellant is Morris Nyikadzino, who is said to be the ancestor of the Negomo
Africa must fix itself, says Sata
Bulawayo Bureau
AFRICAN companies need to be innovative and adapt to the changing business environment to compete on the global market, Zambian President Michael Sata has said.
Officially opening the 2012 Zimbabwe International Trade Fair here yesterday, President Sata said Africa needs to develop sustainable economies through value addition.
He told thousands of people at the ZITF grounds that there was need for local companies to develop entrepreneurship skills and value addition strategies to improve the quality of their products.
“The importance of trade fairs cannot be overemphasised as it is through such events that businesses interact and disseminate information on new business ideas.
“We need to explore ways of developing new technology and research. Allow me to challenge companies here to develop innovative ideas and adapt to the changing business environment in order to compete in the global market and achieve
Moyana land row takes new twist
Elita Chikwati Agriculture Reporter
FARMERS embroiled in a land row with the son of former Reserve Bank Governor Dr Kombo Moyana at Calgary Farm have had the sizes of their farms slashed to accommodate Kombo Junior and Ms Georgina Brown.
Kombo Junior got the lion’s share of the land taken from other farmers with an offer letter indicating his farm will be 312 hectares in size.
Other beneficiaries, who were settled in 2006 at the farm, had their farms reduced to an average of 66 hectares.
The farmers had initially rejected the new offer letters that were issued on Thursday in protest.
They said Lands, Land Reform and Rural Resettlement Minister Herbert Murerwa signed the new offer letters, which reduced their farm sizes.
The farmers said they had their farms reduced while one of them Mr Martin Sibindi
Dr Health: Exercise benefits HIV patients and all
Dr HealthResearch is now showing that basic levels of activity may not be enough to maintain health, prevent disease and live to your potential. A specific effort of exercise has to be a daily routine if we’re to overcome the effects of sitting at work and
7 killed in Nigerian newspaper office bombing
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ABUJA — A suicide bomber detonated a car loaded with explosives on Thursday at the office of a major Nigerian newspaper in the country’s capital and another man threw a bomb near another newspaper office in Kaduna, killing at least seven people in the attacks, witnesses said.