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Takudzwa Chitsiga Sports ReporterDAVID Matope won the Nomads golf society hole-in-one car prize at Wingate on Sunday. The 13-handicap player will get his car on Thursday. Matope struck at the 170-meters hole number six. The car is worth US$30 000. Alison de Klerk, the Autoworld general manager, said the event was a success.
Bank wins US$1m case against Gono
Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr Gideon Gono and his company, Lunar Chickens, have been ordered to pay Renaissance Merchant Bank US$1,2 million in settlement of a loan extended to the firm in 2010.
Dr Gono, a director with Lunar Chickens, was cited as a co-principal debtor and surety together with four other companies.
High Court judge Justice Chinembiri Bhunu ordered the execution of the six immovable properties that had been tendered as surety bond.
The following properties were declared executable:
- Stand 3434 Harare measuring 4 694 square metres
- Lot 4 of GA Hellensvale measuring 2, 0332 hectares
- Stand 6 Tara, Goromonzi measuring 6, 3314 hectares
- Stand 644 Ruwa measuring 2 000 square metres.
Justice Bhunu granted the order following an unopposed chamber application by RMB’s lawyers, Danzinger and Partners.
“Judgment is hereby entered against the defendants jointly and severally the one paying the others to be absolved in the sum of US$1 274 167,85 together with interest at the rate of 21 percent per annum from May 1 2012 to date of payment in full . . . ” read part of the order.
The other four companies that were cited as defendants together with Dr Gono and Lunar Chickens are Froglett Investments, Kimira Bonsai Nursery, Hanrob Investments and Wykeham Investments.
Facts of the matter are that on December 8 2010, RMB extended a credit facility of US$1 million to Lunar Chickens.
In the same deal, Dr Gono and the other four firms stood as surety and co-principal debtors for the due fulfillment of all the obligations of Lunar Chickens.
Froglett passed a surety bond of Stand Number 3434 Harare Township in favour of RMB while Kimira Bonsai Nursery bonded the Hellensvale property.
Prime Minister’s team storms Karimatsenga homestead
Tendai Mugabe Senior Reporter
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s emissaries yesterday reportedly stormed the Karimatsenga homestead in Christon Bank to deliver a divorce token to Locardia.
The team reportedly arrived at the homestead around 9am and allegedly jumped the gate to gain entry.
Ms Karimatsenga’s lawyer Everson Samukange yesterday confirmed that the PM’s emissaries “trespassed” into the Karimatsenga family homestead.
He said only a domestic worker was at home going about his duties when the team arrived.
“Yes, I can confirm that the PM’s emissaries went and jumped into the Karimatsenga homestead in Christon Bank.
“It is unthinkable that the PM’s emissaries exhibit such unlawful behaviour.
“There was no one at the premises, except for the gardener. The modern thing they could have done was to knock at the gate rather than to jump.
“We are actually wondering what their motive was.”
What the PM’s emissaries did, said Mr Samukange, constituted a criminal offence under the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act.
He said the PM’s lawyers, Mr Innocent Chagonda and Advocate Thabani Mpofu, last Friday approached him over the PM’s marriage to Ms Karimatsenga.
Mr Samukange said they intimated that they wanted to have an out-of-court settlement, which he agreed to, but the lawyers never came back to him. One of the said emissaries denied ever going to Christon Bank yesterday.
“I did not go there. I am actually in my office now.”
Last Wednesday, the emissaries reportedly went to Locardia’s aunt Ms Mafara’s house at Number 2 Charliecot Road in Borrowdale, Harare, where they left a letter in the letter box.
After dropping the letter, they proceeded to Locardia’s house at Number 2 Addmore Road in Greendale where they threw another letter over the
Calls for UN reforms grow louder
Caesar Zvayi at the UNITED NATIONS, New York
PRESIDENT Mugabe joined other Heads of State and Government — among them monarchs — at the grand debate of the 67th Session of the United Nations General Assembly that began here yesterday.
The debate started amid a pall of turmoil that put into question the UN’s relevance to the world’s geo-political challenges.
President Mugabe’s highly anticipated address is slated for tomorrow afternoon.
That the debate could open amid the possibility of an Israeli strike against Iran without even a whimper from the secretary-general called into question the practicality of the lofty ideals that permeate the UN Charter, among them the pledge to “save the world from the scourge of war”.
The increasing instability in North Africa brought about by the spread of rebels across the Sahel region in the wake of the Western-spawned instability in Libya, the continued victimisation of Iran over its civilian nuclear programme by countries with the biggest stockpiles of warheads in the world, the global riots in the Muslim world prompted by the Islamophobic tendencies of the West, and rising tensions in Asia over competing claims to small, potentially mineral-rich islands, all cast a shadow over the relevance of the world body as currently constituted.
All this is occurring under UN watch without any substantive solutions emerging from the UN headquarters which always seems to take a cue from Washington.
The UN’s readiness to follow Western dictates and failure to stamp authority on global affairs has heightened calls for UN reforms at best or the relegation of the world body to the dump where the League of Nations, that similarly failed to maintain world peace culminating in the second Anglo-Saxon war between 1939 and 1945, lies.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad raised the bar in his address to a high-level plenary on the rule of law yesterday as he called on world leaders to reform the structure of the UN to provide for “a democratic and fair framework” for other emerging nations among them the BRICS comprising Brazil, India, China and South Africa. “Effective steps must be taken toward reforming the structure of the UN in order to establish a
Six perish in kombi crash
Herald Reporters
Six people were killed while 12 others were injured yesterday morning when a
Residents shun tap water
Evelene Taadira Herald Reporter
Residents in most Harare suburbs are resorting to borehole water, shunning that from taps
St Augustine’s issue under control: Church
Peter Matambanadzo Senior Reporter
The Anglican Diocese of Manicaland is dealing with problems faced by St Augustine’s Mission School in an amicable manner because it is under its jurisdiction, the province’s head Bishop Elson Jakazi has said. “St Augustine’s is under my jurisdiction and I am the authority. I am dealing with the
Farmers slam Zesa power cuts
Senior Agriculture Reporter
Farmers’ organisations yesterday condemned Zesa Holdings over power cuts they say are affecting the planting of tobacco under irrigation.
Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers Union acting director Mr Shadreck Tsimba accused the power utility of reneging on its promise to supply uninterrupted
Council under fire over failure to man ranks
Municipal Reporter
Lack of co-ordination between Harare City departments is delaying the deployment of personnel to man city ranks following the ouster of marshals.
The failure has been met with tongue lashing by commuter omnibus operator organisations that are accusing the city of laxity and reluctance to
MDC-T senator for Chipinge collapses, dies
Mutare Bureau
MDC-T Senator for Chipinge Mr Josiah Rimbi collapsed and died in Mutare yesterday. The party’s provincial spokesperson Mr Pishayi Muchauraya confirmed Senator Rimbi’s death and said he died at the Murambi Gardens Clinic at around 11am. “Sen Rimbi had a history of hypertension and