adminDealer found with US$500 000 worth of cigarettes
Beitbridge BureauA cigarette dealer, who was arrested in possession of contraband worth over US$500 000 here, has been fined R20 000. Langton Ribombo (27) was charged with illegal possession of 107 boxes of Remmington Gold cigarettes which he intended to smuggle into South Africa. Ribombo also risks
Man in trouble for killing impala
Court ReporterA BEATRICE man was last week ordered to perform 245 hours of community service for hunting and killing an impala without a permit. Simbarashe Chikowe (23) of Rusimbiro Farm in Beatrice admitted to contravening section 59 (2) of the Parks and Wildlife Act. The act stipulates that it is unlawful
Seven years for sodomist
Court ReporterA 24-YEAR-OLD Beatrice man has been jailed for seven years for sodomising his five-year-old half brother. The man denied charges of having sexually abused the boy when he appeared before Chitungwiza regional magistrate Ms Sandra Mupindu.He was, however, found guilty
Court throws out Air Zim workers’ application
Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Court ReporterAir Zimbabwe workers have failed to have the airline placed under provisional judicial management and be reconstructed. The workers’ lawyer Mr Caleb Mucheche said he would appeal against the High Court judgment since it was based on a technicality. Justice Lavender Makoni dismissed the
Cop murder case: Bail ruling today
Court ReporterThe High Court is expected to rule today on the bail applications of MDC-T party activists on trial for allegedly murdering a police inspector in Glen View last year. Two of the suspects, Youth Assembly chairman Solomon Madzore and Lovemore Taruvinga (alias Magaya) were last week granted
President gets the nod
Herald Reporters
Three more Zanu-PF provinces have endorsed President Mugabe’s candidature for next year’s presidential elections ahead of the party’s 12th Annual National People’s Conference to be held in Gweru early next month. Harare, Manicaland and Midlands were the latest provinces to endorse
Dynamos lift 19th league crown
Petros Kausiyo Deputy Sports Editor
DYNAMIC Dynamos sealed a record 19th title when they edged bitter rivals Highlanders to win a rivetting 2012 Castle Lager Premier Soccer League championship race with a draw against relegated Hardbody at Ascot in Gweru yesterday. The explosive battle was probably fittingly decided by
Anglican row: D-Day for Kunonga
Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter
THE Supreme Court is today scheduled to pass judgment in the dispute over ownership of Anglican Church property in the Harare Diocese. The head of the independent Anglican Province of Zimbabwe, Archbishop Nolbert Kunonga, and the Bishop of Harare in the Church of the Province of
National Budget: Repeating same old story over and over
With an expectant nation in tow, Finance Minister Tendai Biti took centre stage last Thursday afternoon and announced a US$3,8 billion Budget which he reminisced had the interests of all stakeholders. Admittedly, he was treading on a very tight rope with limited fiscal space, there was veryChunga’s Gunners sink
Grace Chingoma Sports ReporterGunners……………………………. (1) 2
Chicken Inn…………………………….0
FORMER champions Gunners became the fourth team to be relegated from the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League with Moses Chunga and his